  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd
is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play a game of
interactive fiction. |
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd
is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play a game of
interactive fiction. |
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask makegood" | |||
Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] MAKE IT GOOD Floyd ] Floyd ] -- By Jon Ingold (c) 2000 - 2008 Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ## Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Word is: if you don't crack this one, you're Floyd | out of a job." Floyd | Floyd | -- First-time players should read the help menu. Floyd | -- This game features some graphics settings which can be Floyd | configured. Floyd | -- Text-mode is provided for those using palm-tops or screen Floyd | reading programs. Floyd | Floyd | Display Help Menu : M Floyd | Configure Graphics : C Floyd | Start Game - in default mode : [SPACE] Floyd | - in text-only mode : T Floyd | - from saved : R Floyd | Exit Game : Q | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "m" | |||
Floyd ] MAKE IT GOOD Floyd ] N = next subject P = previous Floyd ] RETURN = read subject Q = resume game Floyd ] Floyd ] Please select a topic: Floyd ] Floyd ] > About and Instructions Floyd ] Technical Documentation Floyd ] Configuration Settings Floyd ] Credits and Acknowledgements Floyd ] Return to the Game Floyd ] Floyd | | |||
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | |||
Floyd ] MAKE IT GOOD - About the Game Floyd ] N = next subject P = previous | |||
| Fang presses the yellow enter button. | |||
Floyd ] RETURN = read subject Q = previous menu Floyd ] Floyd ] About the Game: Floyd ] Floyd ] > Introduction Floyd ] About the Author Floyd ] Guide for Beginners Floyd ] A Note about Characters Floyd ] Unusual Commands Floyd ] I'm stuck! Floyd ] Return to Main Menu Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd ] Introduction Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | MAKE IT GOOD is a detective game. A murder has been committed Floyd | at No 15 Brokentop Boulevard. A man lies dead, and unfortunately, they Floyd | called you. Now either you can get the evidence together to make a Floyd | conviction - or you'll be out for good. Floyd | Floyd | MAKE IT GOOD is dedicated to one of the best Infocom titles Floyd | ever written: Stu Galley's Witness. A tightly-focused game it Floyd | was smart enough to use a few characters with interesting lives rather Floyd | than several characters with nothing at all, and told its story in a Floyd | series of gripping set-pieces. Floyd | Floyd | MAKE IT GOOD was begun in order to settle an argument over the Floyd | merits of text gaming over graphical adventures. Intended as quick Floyd | demo project in 2000 it took seven years to reach the THE END text, Floyd | and another year to finish filling the spaces in-between. He hopes you Floyd | will finish it more easily, and find the inevitable lapses of Floyd | consistency in the narrative voice are compensated for by the Floyd | extensive testing the first six moves have received. Floyd | Floyd | Should you find any bugs - and there will be bugs - please send Floyd | details to the author at jon.ingold@gmail.com. Floyd | Floyd | [Please press SPACE.] | DavidW says, "We will want the text mode setting." | ||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | |||
Floyd ] MAKE IT GOOD - About the Game Floyd ] N = next subject P = previous Floyd ] RETURN = read subject Q = previous menu Floyd ] Floyd ] About the Game: Floyd ] Floyd ] > Introduction Floyd ] About the Author Floyd ] Guide for Beginners Floyd ] A Note about Characters Floyd ] Unusual Commands Floyd ] I'm stuck! Floyd ] Return to Main Menu Floyd ] Floyd | | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "q" | |||
Floyd ] MAKE IT GOOD Floyd ] N = next subject P = previous Floyd ] RETURN = read subject Q = resume game Floyd ] Floyd ] Please select a topic: Floyd ] Floyd ] > About and Instructions Floyd ] Technical Documentation Floyd ] Configuration Settings Floyd ] Credits and Acknowledgements Floyd ] Return to the Game Floyd ] Floyd | | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "q" | |||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The call comes through. Of all the dicks; you get the call, sitting in Floyd | the front seat of your car, hands shaking on the steering wheel. An Floyd | urgent call; but all you were thinking of was the bottle in the liquor Floyd | store and so that's where you went first. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Now you're pulled up outside the house. The rear mirror's showing two Floyd | steely eyes. You adjust your hat, stiffen up your collar and grab your Floyd | badge off the dash. Here goes. You've one last chance to... Floyd | Floyd | * * * * * | |||
| Roger arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Fang says, "er" | ||
| DavidW says, "ack" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "restart" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 2:26 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy Floyd ] [For a closer description of something, EXAMINE it.] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | MAKE IT GOOD Floyd | By Jon Ingold Floyd | Floyd | -- Release 1 / Serial number 090413 / Inform v6.21 Library 6/10 Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 (in the black chevy) Floyd | The boulevard through the windscreen is lined with ash trees, thick Floyd | trunks casting shadows and gnarled roots mangling up the sidewalk. Floyd | You're sat in your car, parked too high up the kerb; just outside the Floyd | gate to No. 15. Just an ordinary house. With a body inside. Floyd | Floyd | "Homicide. One Jack Draginam, accountant. Married, no kids. Floyd | Stabbed. Yadda yadda, blah blah. We got the call from the maid - geez, Floyd | who has a maid? Apparently she wanted to stress there's a lot of Floyd | blood." Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, Inspector. Word is, if you don't crack this one, you're out Floyd | of a job." Floyd | Floyd | The glove compartment is closed. Sat on the passenger seat is a Floyd | whiskey bottle. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "restart" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 2:26 pm
Floyd ] - in the black chevy
Floyd ] [For a closer description of something, EXAMINE it.]
Floyd |
Floyd | > RESTART
Floyd |
Floyd | -- Are you sure you want to restart?
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| Fang says (to Floyd), "y" | |||
Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] MAKE IT GOOD Floyd ] Floyd ] -- By Jon Ingold (c) 2000 - 2008 Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ## Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Word is: if you don't crack this one, you're Floyd | out of a job." Floyd | Floyd | -- First-time players should read the help menu. Floyd | -- This game features some graphics settings which can be Floyd | configured. Floyd | -- Text-mode is provided for those using palm-tops or screen Floyd | reading programs. Floyd | Floyd | Display Help Menu : M Floyd | Configure Graphics : C Floyd | Start Game - in default mode : [SPACE] Floyd | - in text-only mode : T Floyd | - from saved : R Floyd | Exit Game : Q | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "T" | |||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The call comes through. Of all the dicks; you get the call, sitting in Floyd | the front seat of your car, hands shaking on the steering wheel. An Floyd | urgent call; but all you were thinking of was the bottle in the liquor Floyd | store and so that's where you went first. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Now you're pulled up outside the house. The rear mirror's showing two Floyd | steely eyes. You adjust your hat, stiffen up your collar and grab your Floyd | badge off the dash. Here goes. You've one last chance to... Floyd | Floyd | * * * * * | Fang says, "okay" | ||
| DavidW says, "thanks" | |||
| DavidW says, "I would like to see the unusual commands that Help mentioned." | |||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 2:26 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | MAKE IT GOOD Floyd | By Jon Ingold Floyd | Floyd | -- Release 1 / Serial number 090413 / Inform v6.21 Library 6/10 Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 (in the black chevy) Floyd | The boulevard through the windscreen is lined with ash trees, thick Floyd | trunks casting shadows and gnarled roots mangling up the sidewalk. Floyd | You're sat in your car, parked too high up the kerb; just outside the Floyd | gate to No. 15. Just an ordinary house. With a body inside. Floyd | Floyd | "Homicide. One Jack Draginam, accountant. Married, no kids. Floyd | Stabbed. Yadda yadda, blah blah. We got the call from the maid - geez, Floyd | who has a maid? Apparently she wanted to stress there's a lot of Floyd | blood." Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, Inspector. Word is, if you don't crack this one, you're out Floyd | of a job." Floyd | Floyd | The glove compartment is closed. Sat on the passenger seat is a Floyd | whiskey bottle. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "well, be my guest" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "help" | |||
Floyd ] MAKE IT GOOD Floyd ] N = next subject P = previous | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "help" | |||
Floyd ] RETURN = read subject Q = resume game Floyd ] Floyd ] Please select a topic: Floyd ] Floyd ] > About and Instructions Floyd ] Technical Documentation Floyd ] Configuration Settings Floyd ] Credits and Acknowledgements Floyd ] Return to the Game Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd ] MAKE IT GOOD Floyd ] N = next subject P = previous Floyd ] RETURN = read subject Q = resume game Floyd ] Floyd ] Please select a topic: Floyd ] Floyd ] > About and Instructions Floyd ] Technical Documentation Floyd ] Configuration Settings Floyd ] Credits and Acknowledgements Floyd ] Return to the Game Floyd ] | |||
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | |||
Floyd ] MAKE IT GOOD - About the Game Floyd ] N = next subject P = previous Floyd ] RETURN = read subject Q = previous menu Floyd ] Floyd ] About the Game: Floyd ] Floyd ] > Introduction Floyd ] About the Author Floyd ] Guide for Beginners Floyd ] A Note about Characters Floyd ] Unusual Commands Floyd ] I'm stuck! Floyd ] Return to Main Menu Floyd ] Floyd | | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] MAKE IT GOOD - About the Game Floyd ] N = next subject P = previous Floyd ] RETURN = read subject Q = previous menu Floyd ] Floyd ] About the Game: Floyd ] Floyd ] Introduction Floyd ] > About the Author Floyd ] Guide for Beginners Floyd ] A Note about Characters Floyd ] Unusual Commands Floyd ] I'm stuck! Floyd ] Return to Main Menu Floyd ] | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] MAKE IT GOOD - About the Game Floyd ] N = next subject P = previous Floyd ] RETURN = read subject Q = previous menu Floyd ] Floyd ] About the Game: Floyd ] Floyd ] Introduction Floyd ] About the Author Floyd ] > Guide for Beginners Floyd ] A Note about Characters Floyd ] Unusual Commands Floyd ] I'm stuck! Floyd ] Return to Main Menu Floyd ] | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] MAKE IT GOOD - About the Game Floyd ] N = next subject P = previous Floyd ] RETURN = read subject Q = previous menu Floyd ] Floyd ] About the Game: Floyd ] Floyd ] Introduction Floyd ] About the Author Floyd ] Guide for Beginners Floyd ] > A Note about Characters Floyd ] Unusual Commands Floyd ] I'm stuck! Floyd ] Return to Main Menu Floyd ] | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] MAKE IT GOOD - About the Game Floyd ] N = next subject P = previous Floyd ] RETURN = read subject Q = previous menu Floyd ] Floyd ] About the Game: Floyd ] Floyd ] Introduction Floyd ] About the Author Floyd ] Guide for Beginners Floyd ] A Note about Characters Floyd ] > Unusual Commands Floyd ] I'm stuck! Floyd ] Return to Main Menu Floyd ] | |||
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | |||
Floyd ] Unusual Commands Floyd | Floyd | The following commands are used by MAKE IT GOOD but are Floyd | unusual, or of unusual importance, to the game. Floyd | Floyd | ACCUSE -- To accuse someone directly. Floyd | Floyd | ARREST -- To make an arrest. You must have your policeman Floyd | in the house. You'll need this one to complete the game! Floyd | Floyd | ANALYSE -- Get your policeman to take an item to the lab Floyd | for analysis and detailed information. Floyd | Floyd | CONFIGURE -- Set up display options. Floyd | Floyd | GO TO -- Navigate directly towards a room or Floyd | landmark. (To continue walking, type AGAIN or G.) Floyd | Floyd | HINTS ON/OFF -- Turn on or off the hint text in the status Floyd | bar (top right of the screen). Floyd | Floyd | SEARCH -- Search through a drawer, pile of papers, a Floyd | corpse's pockets, and so forth. Floyd | Floyd | TOPICS FOR -- Suggest conversation topics for somebody. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Please press SPACE.] | DavidW says, "that looks useful." | ||
| JimKaplan says, "INteresting." | |||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | |||
Floyd ] MAKE IT GOOD - About the Game Floyd ] N = next subject P = previous Floyd ] RETURN = read subject Q = previous menu Floyd ] Floyd ] About the Game: Floyd ] Floyd ] Introduction Floyd ] About the Author Floyd ] Guide for Beginners Floyd ] A Note about Characters Floyd ] > Unusual Commands Floyd ] I'm stuck! Floyd ] Return to Main Menu Floyd ] Floyd | | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "q" | |||
Floyd ] MAKE IT GOOD Floyd ] N = next subject P = previous Floyd ] RETURN = read subject Q = resume game Floyd ] Floyd ] Please select a topic: Floyd ] Floyd ] > About and Instructions Floyd ] Technical Documentation Floyd ] Configuration Settings Floyd ] Credits and Acknowledgements Floyd ] Return to the Game Floyd ] Floyd | | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "q" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 2:26 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 (in the black chevy) Floyd | The boulevard through the windscreen is lined with ash trees, thick Floyd | trunks casting shadows and gnarled roots mangling up the sidewalk. Floyd | You're sat in your car, parked too high up the kerb; just outside the Floyd | gate to No. 15. Just an ordinary house. With a body inside. Floyd | Floyd | The glove compartment is closed. Sat on the passenger seat is a Floyd | whiskey bottle. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open glove" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 2:26 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN GLOVE Floyd | Floyd | (unlocking it first - with the car key) Floyd | You pull open the compartment, and it catches after only opening a Floyd | tiny crack. Stupid thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open glove" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 2:27 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN GLOVE Floyd | Floyd | The catch is pretty firmly stuck. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 2:27 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | In your trenchcoat pockets are your badge and a car key, and in your Floyd | hands you hold some black leather gloves. Floyd | Floyd | In addition to your trenchcoat, you are wearing your wide-brimmed hat Floyd | and your scuffed black shoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "hit glove" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 2:28 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > HIT GLOVE Floyd | Floyd | Leaning up in the seat, you give the thing a smack with both feet and Floyd | it clicks shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open glove" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 2:28 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN GLOVE Floyd | Floyd | (unlocking it first - with the car key) Floyd | You pull open the compartment, and it catches again. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. I dislike games with running clocks." | ||
| Fang says, "hmm" | |||
| DavidW says, "I think we'll need a prying tool from elsewhere." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x bottle" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 2:29 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | "Uncle Stan's Golden Malt"; yeah, it's bargain bin liquor at 80% proof Floyd | and 80% off. Your body's crying out for it. To slip back, let the Floyd | whole goddamn world ride all the way to the glass at the bottom. Oh Floyd | yeah. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suggest leaving the bottle alone, although it's weird that it's there in the first place." | ||
| Fang says, "I hope this isn't a timed bottle" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take bottle" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 2:29 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | Your fingers shiver on the glass as you lift it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "maybe it can come in handy" | ||
| JimKaplan says, "Showing up to an investigation with a bottle may arouse suspicion" | |||
| DavidW says, "exactly why I didn't want to take it." | |||
| Fang exclaims, "we can pour out some for the poor maid!" | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "Can the trenchcoat contain things, maybe?" | |||
| DavidW says, "yes, since it mentions the pockets." | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "Maybe put the bottle in the coat?" | |||
| Fang asks, "bah, what are they gonna do, arrest us?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gloves" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 2:30 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X GLOVES Floyd | Floyd | You've had them all your years in the force; though you're always Floyd | forgetting to use them. For example, this morning you left them on the Floyd | table back home; had to stop off for them just before you took this Floyd | call, right after you bought the booze. Priorities all straight, oh Floyd | yeah. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, we've put our fingerprints on the glass already, I bet." | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "drink whiskey" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 2:30 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > DRINK WHISKEY Floyd | Floyd | The bottle's not open. You can suck the cap all you like, it won't do Floyd | you no good. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says (to DavidW), "We should accuse ourselves" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh well. There's always restart if it's a problem." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear gloves" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 2:31 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy, with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR GLOVES Floyd | Floyd | You pull the gloves onto your hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x badge" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 2:31 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy, with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X BADGE Floyd | Floyd | Your police badge - oh yeah, this proves you're an upstanding, honest, Floyd | officer of the goddamn law. It has a small pin on the back. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "pin might be helpful for picking a simple lock, perhaps." | ||
| JimKaplan says, "True." | |||
| DavidW asks, "shall we get out of the car and view the body? Or do you guys really want to drink the booze?" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Probably best saved for later" | |||
| Fang says, "we can drink after" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 2:32 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on | JimKaplan says, "Perhaps we can pour drinks for someone to warm them up" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | (opening the black chevy first) Floyd | You open the car door. Floyd | You clamber out of the driving seat. Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Floyd | The boulevard is lined with ash trees, thick trunks casting shadows Floyd | and gnarled roots mangling up the sidewalk. Your car is parked too Floyd | high up the kerb; just outside the gate to No. 15. Just an ordinary Floyd | house. With a body inside. Floyd | Floyd | There'd better be some faces too: you need the slam. What did the peep Floyd | at the station say? Inspector, the only case you cracked open last Floyd | year was the Michaelmas liquor. He has a point. If you come up Floyd | blank (or facedown in a gutter) you'll be off the payroll. And then Floyd | you'd really have a problem. Floyd | Floyd | Down the street there's a dog, running about. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to Floyd), "x dog" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 2:32 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X DOG Floyd | Floyd | The dog's somewhere else down the road. You can hear its damn yapping. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a loud barking in the distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan asks, "Barking AND yapping. Two dogs?" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to 15" | |||
Floyd ] Front Porch Time: 2:33 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO 15 Floyd | Floyd | (opening the front gate first) Floyd | The gate swings creakily. Floyd | Floyd | You step into the porch. Floyd | Floyd | Front Porch Floyd | A tasteful little porch; white painted wood strapped onto red-brick Floyd | building. The front door is north, and through a small diamond of Floyd | frosted glass you can make out nothing of the wood-panelled hallway Floyd | inside. Your neck is sweating; sunlight hides behind the trees to the Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | A hanging basket with a couple of petunias in is attached just to the Floyd | left of the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x basket" | |||
Floyd ] Front Porch Time: 2:33 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X BASKET Floyd | Floyd | The basket is small and wicker, and hangs on a rough twine from a Floyd | screw in the ceiling, just out of the sunlight from the door. It's Floyd | about as high up as your head. Inside the basket a couple of petunias Floyd | are growing limp in the shade. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to Floyd), "search basket" | |||
Floyd ] Front Porch Time: 2:34 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH BASKET Floyd | Floyd | The hanging basket has got some petunias in it. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Well now I just feel dumb" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | |||
Floyd ] Front Porch Time: 2:34 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You should maybe DROP the bottle before knocking.] Floyd | Floyd | > KNOCK ON DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You knock a smart rap on the door. Floyd | Floyd | After a short wait the door opens, Angela's face appears, then the Floyd | rest of her. She looks just like she should considering, no time to do Floyd | her face. "Yes, hello? Oh - " and you follow her eyes, which have Floyd | noticed the whiskey bottle in your grubby paws. "I've no time for Floyd | drunks now. Goodbye." The door is slammed. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Well, there we go." | ||
| DavidW says, "uh-huh" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "drop bottle" | |||
Floyd ] Front Porch Time: 2:35 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could KNOCK on the front door.] Floyd | Floyd | > DROP BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | You set the bottle down carefully. Don't want to break it now. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | |||
Floyd ] Front Porch Time: 2:35 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could KNOCK on the front door.] Floyd | Floyd | > KNOCK ON DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You knock a smart rap on the door. Perhaps a face appears behind the Floyd | red glass, but there's no answer. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | |||
Floyd ] Front Porch Time: 2:36 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could KNOCK on the front door.] Floyd | Floyd | > KNOCK ON DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You knock a smart rap on the door. Perhaps a face appears behind the Floyd | red glass, but there's no answer. Somehow, it seems like you've Floyd | managed to screw up the entire investigation before even starting. Floyd | Impressive. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Maybe the bottle needs to be out of sight." | ||
| JimKaplan says, "Like back in the car or in a coat pocket" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "kick door" | |||
Floyd ] Front Porch Time: 2:36 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could KNOCK on the front door.] Floyd | Floyd | > KICK DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The door's such a hard-wood that even trying to kick it down comes out Floyd | as nothing but a smart little knock. Perhaps a face appears behind the Floyd | red glass, but there's no answer. Somehow, it seems like you've Floyd | managed to screw up the entire investigation before even starting. Floyd | Impressive. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "show badge to face" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show badge to door" | |||
Floyd ] Front Porch Time: 2:37 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could KNOCK on the front door.] Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW BADGE TO DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Inanimate. Give up. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show badge to face" | |||
Floyd ] Front Porch Time: 2:37 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show badge to face" | |||
Floyd ] [You could KNOCK on the front door.] Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW BADGE TO FACE Floyd | Floyd | -- You referred to something that can't be interacted with at present. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Front Porch Time: 2:37 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could KNOCK on the front door.] Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW BADGE TO FACE Floyd | Floyd | -- You referred to something that can't be interacted with at present. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to Floyd), "show badge to woman" | |||
Floyd ] Front Porch Time: 2:37 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could KNOCK on the front door.] Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW BADGE TO WOMAN Floyd | Floyd | -- You referred to something that can't be interacted with at present. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | |||
Floyd ] Front Porch Time: 2:37 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could KNOCK on the front door.] Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The front door is closed and locked, green, kind of cheery in a Floyd | backwater way. Screwed into the front are two brass numbers. They say Floyd | "15". Set into it is a diamond of red-frosted glass. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "well, restart?" | ||
| JimKaplan says, "The door's being very uncooperative. We could accuse the door." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "accuse bottle" | |||
Floyd ] Front Porch Time: 2:38 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could KNOCK on the front door.] Floyd | Floyd | > ACCUSE BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | That doesn't seem to have impressed it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yeah, I think we need to restart." | |||
Floyd ] Front Porch Time: 2:38 pm
Floyd ] - with gloves on
Floyd ] [You could KNOCK on the front door.]
Floyd |
Floyd | > YEAH, I THINK WE NEED TO RESTART.
Floyd |
Floyd | You reckon?
Floyd | -- I only got as far as wanting to inventory.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Fang says (to Floyd), "restart" | |||
Floyd ] Front Porch Time: 2:38 pm
Floyd ] - with gloves on
Floyd ] [You could KNOCK on the front door.]
Floyd |
Floyd | > RESTART
Floyd |
Floyd | -- Are you sure you want to restart?
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| Fang says (to Floyd), "y" | |||
Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] MAKE IT GOOD Floyd ] Floyd ] -- By Jon Ingold (c) 2000 - 2008 Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ## Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Word is: if you don't crack this one, you're Floyd | out of a job." Floyd | Floyd | -- First-time players should read the help menu. Floyd | -- This game features some graphics settings which can be Floyd | configured. Floyd | -- Text-mode is provided for those using palm-tops or screen Floyd | reading programs. Floyd | Floyd | Display Help Menu : M Floyd | Configure Graphics : C Floyd | Start Game - in default mode : [SPACE] Floyd | - in text-only mode : T Floyd | - from saved : R Floyd | Exit Game : Q | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "t" | |||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The call comes through. Of all the dicks; you get the call, sitting in Floyd | the front seat of your car, hands shaking on the steering wheel. An Floyd | urgent call; but all you were thinking of was the bottle in the liquor Floyd | store and so that's where you went first. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Now you're pulled up outside the house. The rear mirror's showing two Floyd | steely eyes. You adjust your hat, stiffen up your collar and grab your Floyd | badge off the dash. Here goes. You've one last chance so... Floyd | Floyd | * * * * * | Fang says, "so lesson one... don't be too noire" | ||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 2:26 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | MAKE IT GOOD Floyd | By Jon Ingold Floyd | Floyd | -- Release 1 / Serial number 090413 / Inform v6.21 Library 6/10 Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 (in the black chevy) Floyd | The boulevard through the windscreen is lined with ash trees, thick Floyd | trunks casting shadows and gnarled roots mangling up the sidewalk. Floyd | You're sat in your car, parked too high up the kerb; just outside the Floyd | gate to No. 15. Just an ordinary house. With a body inside. Floyd | Floyd | "Homicide. One Jack Draginam, accountant. Married, no kids. Floyd | Stabbed. Yadda yadda, blah blah. We got the call from the maid - geez, Floyd | who has a maid? Apparently she wanted to stress there's a lot of Floyd | blood." Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, Inspector. Word is, if you don't crack this one, you're out Floyd | of a job." Floyd | Floyd | The glove compartment is closed. Sat on the passenger seat is a Floyd | whiskey bottle. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear gloves" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 2:26 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy, with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR GLOVES Floyd | Floyd | You pull the gloves onto your hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 2:27 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | (opening the black chevy first) Floyd | You open the car door. Floyd | You clamber out of the driving seat. Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Floyd | The boulevard is lined with ash trees, thick trunks casting shadows Floyd | and gnarled roots mangling up the sidewalk. Your car is parked too Floyd | high up the kerb; just outside the gate to No. 15. Just an ordinary Floyd | house. With a body inside. Floyd | Floyd | There'd better be some faces too: you need the slam. What did the peep Floyd | at the station say? Inspector, the only case you cracked open last Floyd | year was the Michaelmas liquor. He has a point. If you come up Floyd | blank (or facedown in a gutter) you'll be off the payroll. And then Floyd | you'd really have a problem. Floyd | Floyd | Down the street there's a dog, running about. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to 15" | |||
Floyd ] Front Porch Time: 2:27 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO 15 Floyd | Floyd | (opening the front gate first) Floyd | The gate swings creakily. Floyd | Floyd | You step into the porch. Floyd | Floyd | Front Porch Floyd | A tasteful little porch; white painted wood strapped onto red-brick Floyd | building. The front door is north, and through a small diamond of Floyd | frosted glass you can make out nothing of the wood-panelled hallway Floyd | inside. Your neck is sweating; sunlight hides behind the trees to the Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | A hanging basket with a couple of petunias in is attached just to the Floyd | left of the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | |||
Floyd ] Front Porch Time: 2:28 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To see what you're carrying, type INVENTORY (or I for short).] Floyd | Floyd | > KNOCK ON DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You knock a smart rap on the door. Floyd | Floyd | After a short wait the door opens, Angela's face appears, then the Floyd | rest of her. She looks just like she should considering, no time to do Floyd | her face. "Yes? What do you want?" she says uncertainly. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "show badge to angela" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x angela" | |||
Floyd ] Front Porch Time: 2:28 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could SHOW Angela something to convince her.] Floyd | Floyd | > X ANGELA Floyd | Floyd | Thirty-something, maybe forty on a bad day; Angela is housewife Floyd | through and through. From her thick black ball of hair down through Floyd | her one piece long dress, she's sophistication via mail-order. Sure, Floyd | maybe she could be pretty, if you'd lost all your teeth and were three Floyd | notches out in the belt, and she wasn't pinched and blotchy, like she Floyd | is today. Yeah, today is not a day to be sizing her up, that's true Floyd | enough. Floyd | Floyd | "Can I help you?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to Floyd), "show badge to angela" | |||
Floyd ] Hallway Time: 2:29 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could answer ANGELA, NO, or GIVE her your hat] Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW BADGE TO ANGELA Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, Inspector! I'm sorry.. do come in, I'm glad you came so quickly." Floyd | You follow her into the house. It has a smell you recognise, all Floyd | right. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | A wood-panelled hallway, with the front door to the south next to Floyd | which is a dark polished roll-top desk. Stairs in the northeast corner Floyd | of the room lead to the upstairs landing where the bedrooms are, and a Floyd | passage northwest runs through to the kitchen and blue wallpapered Floyd | living room, which you can't quite see from here. Floyd | Floyd | In the lefthand corner is a hat stand. Hanging off the stand is Jack's Floyd | hat. Floyd | Floyd | Mrs. Draginam closes the door shut behind you. Floyd | Floyd | "The man on the phone told me to make sure nothing was touched. They Floyd | told me you were coming, but they said there'd be more of you." She Floyd | fusses a little. "Shall I take your hat?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "yes" | |||
Floyd ] Hallway Time: 2:29 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To interview Angela Draginam, ASK her about something.] Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | You remove your hat, and Angela hangs it on the stand. Floyd | Floyd | "And your coat, Inspector?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask angela about jack" | |||
Floyd ] Hallway Time: 2:30 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To inform Angela Draginam of something, TELL her about it.] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ANGELA ABOUT JACK Floyd | Floyd | "In the bedroom," she replies. "That's where it happened. I was Floyd | downstairs and... oh." She raises one hand to her mouth. "Maybe you Floyd | should just see." Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan asks, "Did we check if there was something in the coat?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Inventory said that our car keys and badge are in the pocket, but we never examined or searched it directly." | |||
| Fang says, "let's not give her our coat" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to Fang), "I agree." | |||
| DavidW says, "I don't think we should've given our hat either, to be honest." | |||
| Fang says (to DW), "that's just politeness" | |||
| DavidW says, "Jack's hat is there, in case you didn't notice. Could be a clue." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "A coat is more useful than a hat and also more likely to be used against us." | |||
| Fang says, "let's look at the body first" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Agreed." | |||
| DavidW says, "sure" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to bedroom" | |||
Floyd ] Hallway Time: 2:30 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To inform Angela Draginam of something, TELL her about it.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO BEDROOM Floyd | Floyd | -- What do you want to go: the Maid's Bedroom, the Guest Bedroom or Floyd | the Master Bedroom? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to master bedroom" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, North End Time: 2:30 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could OPEN the master bedroom door.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO MASTER BEDROOM Floyd | Floyd | You make your way upstairs around the curve of the staircase. Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, North End Floyd | A neat little corridor, running with the stairwell to the east down Floyd | the length of the house. The carpet is a worn-down brown pattern; the Floyd | wallpaper a lurid yellow colour, like flowers stuck in another guy's Floyd | wedding cake. The closed doorway to the bedroom lies north of here, Floyd | another door is open to the west; by the look of it a guest bedroom. Floyd | Floyd | "Through there, Inspector," Angela says to you, pointing to the north Floyd | door; hanging back herself though. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to Floyd), "x north door" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, North End Time: 2:31 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could OPEN the master bedroom door.] Floyd | Floyd | > X NORTH DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The master bedroom door is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to master bedroom" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:31 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To search the crime scene for clues, EXAMINE things.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO MASTER BEDROOM Floyd | Floyd | (opening the master bedroom door first) Floyd | You open the door. And catch a glimpse of the corpse - a crumpled heap Floyd | of dead human, nothing but the knife wounds in its back between him Floyd | and you. Stabbed in the back - oh yeah, stabbed in the back. Floyd | Floyd | Angela follows you in, and looks uncertainly at the body, her eyes a Floyd | little cold. "I'll be in the living room if you want to ask me any Floyd | questions, Inspector," she say thickly, before stepping out the room Floyd | and closing the door. Floyd | Floyd | Master Bedroom Floyd | The master bedroom is relatively tasteful, and dominated by the bed Floyd | sticking out of the east wall. Opposite is a mirrored dresser shoved Floyd | in the corner at an angle, just by the large windows overlooking the Floyd | garden. These are shut tight like normal. The closed door is in the Floyd | southwest - in fact, lying on the bed you could probably see it in the Floyd | reflection. The carpet's beige-with-dried-bloodstain, and there's more Floyd | rancid wallpapering. Between the window and the bed is a little yucca Floyd | tree in a pot. Floyd | Floyd | Sprawled in a messy heap, pining for attention, is Jack's corpse. Floyd | Floyd | On the dresser is a green-shaded table lamp. Floyd | Floyd | "Then you can meet the others," Angela calls. "There's the maid, and Floyd | William Matheston, outside, in the shed. Good. Well, all right then." Floyd | You hear Angela's footsteps move off, but they don't go downstairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "I recommend just starting with the body." | ||
| DavidW says, "sure." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:32 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To search the crime scene for clues, EXAMINE things.] Floyd | Floyd | > X MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | That's one beat-up gentleman, that is. Floyd | Floyd | There is a loud thump, of something falling, from somewhere nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "uhoh" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, North End Time: 2:32 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To see what you're carrying, type INVENTORY (or I for short).] Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | (opening the master bedroom door first) Floyd | You open the master bedroom door. Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, North End Floyd | Corridor, south; guest bedroom, west; murder, north. Stairs, down. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a slight click through the door to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Is Angela bye-bye" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 2:33 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To inform Angela Draginam of something, TELL her about it.] Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | (opening the guest bedroom door first) Floyd | You open the guest bedroom door. Floyd | Floyd | Guest Bedroom Floyd | Heh. That you thought this was a guest bedroom says something - from Floyd | the photo on the nightstand by the bed, this is Angela's bedroom. It's Floyd | pretty spartan, no dresser or table, just a wicker chair for Floyd | furniture. The door lies to the east, a little window in the north Floyd | wall has a view into the garden. The carpet's blue; so's the owner. Floyd | Floyd | There's a flurry of movement as you enter. Angela is sitting on the Floyd | wicker chair. She looks a little flustered. Floyd | Floyd | On the nightstand is a silver frame framing a photo. Floyd | Floyd | A tall teak wardrobe leans against one wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan asks, "ask Angela about noise?" | ||
| ParserGirl arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | DavidW asks, "I guess?" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open wardrobe" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 2:33 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To pick up the wicker chair, TAKE it.] Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN WARDROBE Floyd | Floyd | You open the wardrobe doors, and take a peek inside. Pretty empty, Floyd | just a few shelves and a clothes rail, with not much on them. On the Floyd | rail are a few coathangers. The shelves have got Angela's shoes on Floyd | them. Floyd | Floyd | "I'll be in the living room, Inspector," she says, her voice a little Floyd | shaky, then goes out the door and downstairs like her tail was on Floyd | fire. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "hm" | ||
| JimKaplan says (to Floyd), "x shoes" | DavidW says, "We're being very unsystematic here, loosing opportunities." | ||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 2:33 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To pick up the wicker chair, TAKE it.] Floyd | Floyd | > X SHOES Floyd | Floyd | -- What do you want to examine: Angela's shoes or your scuffed black Floyd | shoes? Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "do you think she just hid something?" | ||
| DavidW says, "er losing" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I think she just took something." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "But in any case, prioritizing the body still makes more sense to me." | |||
| DavidW says, "yes" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Tampering with the direct scene of the crime is going to be more detrimental to the case." | |||
| DavidW says, "Let's try to get some facts first." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "So I suggest taking this as a hint that Angela's up to something and going back to the master bedroom for now." | |||
| Fang says, "okay" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to Floyd), "go to master bedroom" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, North End Time: 2:34 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To see what you're carrying, type INVENTORY (or I for short).] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO MASTER BEDROOM Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, North End Floyd | Corridor, south; guest bedroom, west; murder, north. Stairs, down. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:34 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To search the crime scene for clues, EXAMINE things.] Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Master Bedroom Floyd | Bed, mirrored dresser, window. Door. Yucca. Dead guy. Floyd | Floyd | On the dresser is a green-shaded table lamp. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| ParserGirl has had her fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | |||
| JimKaplan says (to Floyd), "x corpse" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:35 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could WAIT here, or GO DOWNSTAIRS.] Floyd | Floyd | > X CORPSE Floyd | Floyd | The corpse looks peaceful, like he just tripped and stayed there. Floyd | Except for his face: two gashes, not deep, but running from temples to Floyd | cheekbones. The stab wounds in his back are deep, as long as the blade Floyd | used, thin. There are about seven of them. He'd been turning for the Floyd | door when he was struck. That's how he lies now, reaching out. Floyd | Floyd | It's bled messily over the carpet. Floyd | Floyd | Someone knocks on the front door below. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan asks, "Could we look out the window, perhaps?" | ||
| JimKaplan says, "My guess is it's the witnesses arriving." | |||
| DavidW says, "The window won't show who just arrived. Concentrate on the main task, please." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Fair enough." | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "Searching the body is called for, I suppose?" | |||
| DavidW says, "This bedroom's on the north side of the house; the front door is on the south side." | |||
| DavidW says, "yes, search the body." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Good point." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to Floyd), "search corpse" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:35 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To see what you're carrying, type INVENTORY (or I for short).] Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH CORPSE Floyd | Floyd | You rifle the corpse; find a key in his pocket. A dirty Yale key. Floyd | Floyd | There are footsteps in the hall; and the maid's voice: "Yes? How can I Floyd | - oh." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "take key" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:35 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To see what you're carrying, type INVENTORY (or I for short).] Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE KEY Floyd | Floyd | -- What do you want to take: the dirty house key or the car key? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "take dirty house key" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:36 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To see what you're carrying, type INVENTORY (or I for short).] Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE DIRTY HOUSE KEY Floyd | Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | From the hallway: "Is the Inspector here?" There is a pause. "I'll go Floyd | and find him, then." Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Ok then." | ||
| JimKaplan says, "There's, what else, the dresser, the mirror, the potted plant, and a sw (closet?) door." | |||
| Fang says, "maybe we should think why the victim was in this room" | |||
| DavidW says, "Too much is happening at once for my liking, but examine all. I think the door connects to the guest bedroom." | |||
| Roger goes home. | |||
| Roger has disconnected. | JimKaplan says, "OK, then." | ||
| Fang says, "standing with his back to the door" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to Floyd), "x dresser" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:36 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could answer by saying JOE,YES or JOE, NO.] Floyd | Floyd | > X DRESSER Floyd | Floyd | The dresser has no drawers, just a surface and a mirror. The Floyd | reflection is not flattering, it looks both like you need the bottle Floyd | and you've been at it for too long. It's like the faces you see in the Floyd | cells in the morning; after the kissers have been through with them. Floyd | Floyd | From the hallway, you hear the front door close. Floyd | Floyd | There are footsteps on the stairs, and a policeman appears huffing Floyd | like a steam train. He comes in and shuts the door. Only then does his Floyd | jowly smile drop into a scowl. "Inspector. Sorry you made it. I hoped Floyd | you wouldn't." He comes closer, then reels, waving one hand in front Floyd | of his nose. "You've been drinking. Maybe not recently. But Floyd | generally." A fat fist grabs you by the collar. "I need you to get Floyd | this one right. I'm not getting stuck on another one of your Floyd | blow-out cases. Okay?" Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Isn't he nice." | ||
| Fang says, "I feel like the key is a red herring" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to Floyd), "yes" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:37 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To inform the policeman of something, TELL him about it.] Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | The policeman sneers a smile. Floyd | Floyd | "I don't think you can. The Chief doesn't think you can. Don't think Floyd | he doesn't know all about you. This is your last chance, Inspector. If Floyd | you muss this one up you're out on your ear and then you're just Floyd | little people again. You'll find yourself in the drunk block quicker Floyd | than I can take your badge. Understand?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "if it's relevant to the case, the killer would have searched the body and removed it" | ||
| JimKaplan says, "I feel like saying no, just to irritate him." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to Fang), "incompetence is a wonderful thing" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to Fang), "if we're going by Christie logic, it may have been planted for some reason as well" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "yes" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:38 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To inform the policeman of something, TELL him about it.] Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | "You'd better." Floyd | Floyd | The policeman lessens his gaze a bit, drags a hand through short, Floyd | slicked back black hair. He's a real grease monkey, one of these Floyd | modern kids. "Okay, Inspector. Get started. Do the body first, then Floyd | when you're finished with the body, tell me and we'll get it away from Floyd | here. Though I'll take it myself around four, when the coroner closes Floyd | up. Otherwise, if you want something analysing at the lab you let me Floyd | know. And if you want to make an arrest, you tell me. Now get on with Floyd | it." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think it's dangerous to overthink this too early. We hardly know anything yet." | ||
| JimKaplan says, "I agree." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "OK, so the dresser doesn't have drawers." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "analyse door" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:39 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To inform the policeman of something, TELL him about it.] Floyd | Floyd | > ANALYSE DOOR Floyd | Floyd | "Stop wasting your time," he replies. "My time." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | JimKaplan asks, "'Analyse' means he takes it away to the lab, right?" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "tell policeman about body" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:39 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To see what you're carrying, type INVENTORY (or I for short).] Floyd | Floyd | > TELL POLICEMAN ABOUT BODY Floyd | Floyd | "There's nothing on him back at the station," Joe informs you. Floyd | "Accountant, married. Nothing you couldn't detect just looking around Floyd | at this place. Not much else going on. No obvious reason for someone Floyd | to do that to him, anyhow." Joe wrinkles his nose. "Are you finished Floyd | with him yet, Inspector? Shall I take him away?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Itax arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | JimKaplan says, "I suppose we are finished with the body itself" | ||
| Fang says, "maybe they can look into the wounds" | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure. Search him again." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "search corpse" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:40 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To see what you're carrying, type INVENTORY (or I for short).] Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH CORPSE Floyd | Floyd | Nothing. Well, nothing of any worth to you. A handkerchief but you Floyd | don't feel like crying. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x handkerchief" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:40 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To see what you're carrying, type INVENTORY (or I for short).] Floyd | Floyd | > X HANDKERCHIEF Floyd | Floyd | -- "handkerchief" isn't a word I know. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:40 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | In your trenchcoat pockets are your badge and two keys: the dirty Floyd | house key and the car key, and in your gloved hands you hold nothing. Floyd | Floyd | In addition to your trenchcoat and gloves, you are wearing your Floyd | scuffed black shoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Zach arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | JimKaplan says, "That seems fairly definitive." | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "tell police about body" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:41 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > TELL POLICE ABOUT BODY Floyd | Floyd | (the policeman about that) Floyd | "What's more to say?" Joe wrinkles his nose. "Are you finished with Floyd | him yet, Inspector? Shall I take him away?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "yes" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:41 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | "Okay," the policeman says to you, and disappears downstairs. A few Floyd | minutes later the coroner's van pulls up, and you watch Floyd | dispassionately as Joe, and the coroner, and a long flat guy called Floyd | Jack wander out to the taxi. There's no fuss or big deal, just a Floyd | sheet. Angela watches pale-faced from a window or something, who Floyd | knows. Floyd | Floyd | If we're being honest, no-one seems to miss the guy and he's only two Floyd | hours gone. Joe returns to the room. "I'll stick around if you need Floyd | anything analysed, Inspector. I'll go sit and read a paper in the Floyd | living room or something." You nod and he leaves. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| inky arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | JimKaplan says, ""or something, who knows..." Cute." | ||
| DavidW says, "I can't help but feel we've screwed up already." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "We have the bed and the potted plant remaining, I believe." | |||
| DavidW says, "sure" | |||
| Fang says (to DW), "didn't drink the whiskey" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to DavidW), "If we have, then this is probably one of those games that requires re-playing" | |||
| Fang says, "tut tut" | |||
| DavidW says (to Jim), "I'm sure of that, at least." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to DavidW), "So either way, we're probably within the parameters the game has set for us." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:42 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Master Bedroom Floyd | The master bedroom is relatively tasteful, and dominated by the bed Floyd | sticking out of the east wall. Opposite is a mirrored dresser shoved Floyd | in the corner at an angle, just by the large windows overlooking the Floyd | garden. These are shut tight like normal. The open door is in the Floyd | southwest - in fact, lying on the bed you could probably see it in the Floyd | reflection. The carpet's beige-with-dried-bloodstain, and there's more Floyd | rancid wallpapering. Between the window and the bed is a little yucca Floyd | tree in a pot. Floyd | Floyd | On the dresser is a green-shaded table lamp. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:42 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BED Floyd | Floyd | It's too dark to see anything under the bed. Not that there'll be Floyd | anything there, of course. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Of course my caboose, Inspector" | ||
| DavidW says, "geezus. Our flashlight is probably in the glove compartment." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "pull bed" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:43 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > PULL BED Floyd | Floyd | You are unable to. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "get under bed" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:43 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > GET UNDER BED Floyd | Floyd | You've no reason to hide. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "search dresser" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:44 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH DRESSER Floyd | Floyd | The dresser has got a green-shaded table lamp on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x lamp" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:44 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could SWITCH ONthe green-shaded table lamp.] Floyd | Floyd | > X LAMP Floyd | Floyd | A bent brass spine leads up from the thick discus base to the long Floyd | thin green shade. Inside is a short neon bulb which is dark. The glass Floyd | is a little scratched; the brass colouring flecking off the metal in Floyd | places. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I wonder if we can pry open the unlocked glove compartment with our car key or the badge." | ||
| JimKaplan says, "Doubt it." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "switch on lamp" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:45 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > SWITCH ON LAMP Floyd | Floyd | You turn on the lamp. Floyd | Floyd | The light glints off the surface of the dresser, picking out marks in Floyd | the varnish. Letters and words etched in. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Ooh." | ||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "read marks" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:45 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > READ MARKS Floyd | Floyd | You can't make much out, because the light only picks out certain Floyd | bits; just letters here and there. Certainly not enough to make sense Floyd | of it; apart from the last two letters: "J.D." Familiar? Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "he wrote a note?" | ||
| DavidW says, "seems like it." | |||
| Fang says, "if we can get some paper and a pencil..." | |||
| DavidW says, "yeah, that's a plan." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Jack Draginam's initials" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x window" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:46 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | (the large window) Floyd | Large windows, with painted green frames, the paint on which looks a Floyd | little ragged. They're closed. Floyd | Floyd | They offer a good vista of the poky little garden, which is damp from Floyd | the recent rain. A thick clump of climbing roses comes up the wall to Floyd | the sill. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "A pencil rubbing of the dresser might reveal what he wrote." | ||
| JimKaplan says, "Good thought." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I think the game is hinting at us to open the window" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open window" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:46 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | (the large window) Floyd | You open the window that opens: the others are painted shut and would Floyd | require a lot of tugging. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "look out window" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:47 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK OUT WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | (the large window) Floyd | They offer a good vista of the poky little garden, which is damp from Floyd | the recent rain. A thick clump of climbing roses comes up the wall to Floyd | the sill. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "You think there's a climbable trellis out there?" | ||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x climbing roses" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:47 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X CLIMBING ROSES Floyd | Floyd | A webbing of thick thorny branches and a few buds that mangles over Floyd | the side of the building. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, North End Time: 2:48 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, North End Floyd | Corridor, south; guest bedroom, west; murder, north. Stairs, down. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:47 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Master Bedroom Floyd | -- Previous turn undone. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says (to DW), "yeah" | ||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x sill" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:48 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > X SILL Floyd | Floyd | The paint is thick, and dark green, perhaps the third layer the frame Floyd | has seen. Along the hinged seam, the paint has flaked away, revealing Floyd | a white undercoat colour underneath. A few flecks of green paint are Floyd | visible on the carpet just below the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:48 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Master Bedroom Floyd | The master bedroom is relatively tasteful, and dominated by the bed Floyd | sticking out of the east wall. Opposite is a mirrored dresser shoved Floyd | in the corner at an angle, just by the large windows overlooking the Floyd | garden. These are wide open, letting in the bite of cold air. The open Floyd | door is in the southwest - in fact, lying on the bed you could Floyd | probably see it in the reflection. The carpet's Floyd | beige-with-dried-bloodstain, and there's more rancid wallpapering. Floyd | Between the window and the bed is a little yucca tree in a pot. Floyd | Floyd | On the dresser is a green-shaded table lamp with bulb lit. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Ok, so some green paint has been scraped in" | ||
| Fang says, "hmm, so maybe someone came through the window" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Which could just be normal wear" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "But - yes, that too" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "We've got the pot, I suppose." | |||
| DavidW says, "You could analyse the paint, perhaps." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x pot" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:49 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could SEARCH the small pot plant to see what's inside.] Floyd | Floyd | > X POT Floyd | Floyd | A stubby little tree, leaves green like the beer from that hole on Floyd | 12th Street, and sprouting thicker than a ex-con's beard, so much so Floyd | that the rim of the ceramic pot is shrouded from view. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "search plant" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:49 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH PLANT Floyd | Floyd | You spread the leaves back, to reveal a short stake pushed deep into Floyd | the soil of the plant. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x stake" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:50 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X STAKE Floyd | Floyd | It's about two inches of metal, hidden in the leaves, which seems to Floyd | carry on down into the soil. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take it" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:50 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE IT Floyd | Floyd | You draw out the short stake, which becomes the hilt of the carved Floyd | steel letter opener, its blade sticky with blood. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "murder weapon?" | ||
| JimKaplan says, "Oho." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "That'll want analysing" | |||
| DavidW says, "yes, analyse that for sure." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "though we should x it first probably" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x stake" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:51 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could have Joe ANALYSE the steel letter opener.] Floyd | Floyd | > X STAKE Floyd | Floyd | A short stubby handle and a long carved blade. Soil coats the metal; Floyd | stuck down with some substance you know well. It's blood. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "analyse stake" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:51 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ANALYSE STAKE Floyd | Floyd | After a moment, Joe steps in through the open master bedroom door. Floyd | Floyd | Joe has seen the blood-soaked steel letter opener. "Is that our Floyd | possible murder weapon?" he asks. Floyd | Floyd | "Anyway, you called for me." He slicks his hair back. "So, what have Floyd | you got?" You show him the steel letter opener. "It'd be difficult to Floyd | get that much blood out of a bunch of tax-returns," he remarks. "If Floyd | there's fingerprints on this, that'd make this the most careless Floyd | murder ever. But still, it's worth a shot." Wearing gloves he takes Floyd | the letter opener from you and drops it into a bag. Floyd | Floyd | The policeman leaves through the master bedroom door. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan exclaims, "Accuse the stake!" | ||
| JimKaplan says, "We could analyse those flakes of paint as well." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Although actually I don't see much point in that." | |||
| Fang says, "don't see what that'll achievve" | |||
| Fang says, "except to confirm it came from the sill" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Yeah." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x carpet" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:52 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X CARPET Floyd | Floyd | A beige, wall-to-wall carpet. In the middle of it is a large Floyd | bloodstain; and by one window you observe some flecks of green paint. Floyd | Otherwise it's quite clean, and not very dusty. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "unless there's something we can't see on those flakes." | ||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x bloodstain" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:52 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > X BLOODSTAIN Floyd | Floyd | Quite a wide patch of carpet is soaked in blood, maybe two feet in Floyd | diameter. The red on cream effect is quite compelling, like a pavlova. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "what if there's shoe poiish on one of them?" | ||
| JimKaplan says, "I was going to ask of Jon Ingold was British" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "But I've just seen that he is" | |||
| DavidW says, "yes, he is" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to DavidW), "I doubt there'd be shoe polish." | |||
| DavidW says, "but we don't know" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "If it's from a boot or shoe, it would have been the shoe's polish-less underside scraping the paint off, surely" | |||
| DavidW says, "I still want the paint checked out." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "But sure. If we assume that it doesn't hurt to have things analysed, then we can try it for anything." | |||
| Fang says (to DW), "try then" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "analyse paint" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:53 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ANALYSE PAINT Floyd | Floyd | Right now Joe's off analysing the steel letter opener. You'll have to Floyd | wait for him to come back. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Ah." | ||
| Roger disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | JimKaplan asks, "Hence the timing, I guess?" | ||
| JimKaplan says, "So if there's a time limit, it actually might hurt to have too many things analysed." | |||
| Fang asks, "we're done with this room?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I guess. I still want the paint checked, though. Feel free to find better clues." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "In any case, unless we wanna check out the wallpaper, I recommend moving on to the guest room." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to DavidW), "I guess we'll know when Officer Angryface is ready to analyse more stuff." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x wallpaper" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 2:53 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on | DavidW says, "hm. Several ways we could go. Guest room wouldn't be my choice, but better than nothing." | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X WALLPAPER Floyd | Floyd | It's just wallpaper. It doesn't do anything; except spin on the Floyd | ceiling every other night of the week. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan asks, "Was the sw door the guest room?" | ||
| JimKaplan asks, "Or the closet?" | |||
| DavidW says, "We haven't checked that yet." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "That door's what I'd go for, then." | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "Any other ideas?" | |||
| DavidW says, "questioning the people in the house, obviously." | |||
| DavidW asks, "We're told that Jack was married; where's the wife?" | |||
| JimKaplan asks (of DavidW), "Yes. Did Angela say where they'd be waiting, besides downstairs?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Living room, I think. If Angela's the wife, who's the maid?" | |||
| Fang says (to DW), "angela is the wife" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "After we question them, they might scatter, and that could be inconvenient for us." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "It might be better to search the upstairs while we know no one's interfering here." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I doubt they'll go anywhere if we take a while." | |||
| DavidW says, "They might scatter anyway." | |||
| Fang says, "search the guest room, we need to know what angela was doing in there" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Could be, if no one's keeping an eye on them." | |||
| DavidW says, "I'd also like another try at opening the glove compartment." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "On balance, I'm still in favor of at least checking out the sw door first." | |||
| DavidW says, "of course" | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "If no one objects, then?" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, North End Time: 2:54 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, North End Floyd | Corridor, south; guest bedroom, west; murder, north. Stairs, down. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan asks, "Did I misunderstand the geography there?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "hm. North: in, Southwest: out?" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Looks like it." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Well, in that case I'm for the guest bedroom." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 2:54 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Guest Bedroom Floyd | Bed, nightstand, wicker chair. Door to the corridor. Floyd | Floyd | On the nightstand is a silver frame framing a photo. Floyd | Floyd | A tall teak wardrobe leans against one wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x photo" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 2:55 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X PHOTO Floyd | Floyd | Sickening picture of happier times; Angela and Jack, arm in arm, Floyd | outside a registrar office. But even here not everything's good - Floyd | there's another couple in the background carrying open umbrellas. Floyd | Angela is arm in arm with Jack who is arm in arm with Angela's sister. Floyd | Sweet touch. There's a strange, flat bulge under one corner of the Floyd | photo. Floyd | Floyd | The photo is in a charming silver frame. Could be worth something. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "open frame" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 2:55 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRAME Floyd | Floyd | The clasp needs to be clipped out but like the straps on the girls Floyd | they pull in from Chinatown. It's far too small for your fat shaky Floyd | fingers. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DavidW says, "open frame with pin" | ||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "open frame with pin" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 2:56 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FRAME WITH PIN Floyd | Floyd | Using the pin on the back you flip open the clasp of the frame. The Floyd | cover swings open and the photo slides out and wafts to the floor. A Floyd | flimsy key which was hidden behind it also falls out. You pick it up. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Good one." | ||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x back of photo" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 2:56 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X BACK OF PHOTO Floyd | Floyd | -- I only got as far as wanting to examine the silver frame. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x frame" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 2:56 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could SEARCH the silver frame to see what's inside.] Floyd | Floyd | > X FRAME Floyd | Floyd | The frame is all twirly and flowery, you know, flowers like you get Floyd | near gravestones. It has a little clasp on the side and the silver Floyd | front hangs open on a hinge from the back. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan asks, "Did I phrase that poorly?" | ||
| JimKaplan says, "Perhaps it's irrelevant." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x photo" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 2:57 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > X PHOTO Floyd | Floyd | Sickening picture of happier times; Angela and Jack, arm in arm, Floyd | outside a registrar office. But even here not everything's good - Floyd | there's another couple in the background carrying open umbrellas. Floyd | Angela is arm in arm with Jack who is arm in arm with Angela's sister. Floyd | Sweet touch. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "'back of photo' is an unlikely object to be implemented, yes." | ||
| JimKaplan says, "OK." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x flimsy key" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 2:57 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X FLIMSY KEY Floyd | Floyd | A small flimsy key, like the key to a diary. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "We more or less checked the wardrobe, so we've got the nightstand, the chair, the bed." | ||
| Fang says, "diary, eh" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x nightstand" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 2:58 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X NIGHTSTAND Floyd | Floyd | A little bedside table, pretty empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Probably under the bed." | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "search it" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 2:58 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH IT Floyd | Floyd | The nightstand has got a silver frame on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "search bed" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 2:59 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH BED Floyd | Floyd | There is nothing on the single bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "no drawer, I take it." | ||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "look under bed" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 2:59 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BED Floyd | Floyd | Just by the foot of the bed is a small red spot on the carpet. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang exclaims, "hm!" | ||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x spot" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:00 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > X SPOT Floyd | Floyd | Just a small spot of drying blood. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Well now." | ||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "search nightstand" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:00 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH NIGHTSTAND Floyd | Floyd | The nightstand has got a silver frame on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x chair" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:01 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | A rickety old chair, made of little bits of wood like the bones of an Floyd | old guy. It's over by the bed. Just next to the legs, but not quite Floyd | under, are four circular dents in the carpet. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Ah, we did that." | ||
| JimKaplan says, "So the chair's been moved." | |||
| DavidW asks, "we did what?" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "searched the nightstand." | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "Here's a thought. If she stood on the chair, maybe she got to something on the wardrobe?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Possible, sure." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "stand on chair" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:01 pm Floyd ] - on the wicker chair, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could GET OFF the wicker chair.] Floyd | Floyd | > STAND ON CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | You get onto the wicker chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x wardrobe" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:02 pm Floyd ] - on the wicker chair, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could SEARCH the tall teak wardrobe to see what's inside.] Floyd | Floyd | > X WARDROBE Floyd | Floyd | A tall wardrobe made of teak, with cocky brass handles on the doors. Floyd | It's got nasty little carved flourishes between base and carpet, and Floyd | same up top, so you can't easily see under it or over it. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "maybe if we push it against the wardrobe." | ||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "get off chair" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:02 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for a room description.] Floyd | Floyd | > GET OFF CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | You get off the wicker chair. Floyd | Floyd | Guest Bedroom Floyd | Bed, nightstand, wicker chair. Door to the corridor. Floyd | Floyd | On the nightstand is a silver frame. Floyd | Floyd | A tall teak wardrobe leans against one wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a wedding photo here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x flourish" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:02 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X FLOURISH Floyd | Floyd | -- "flourish" isn't a word I know. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "push chair against wardrobe" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:02 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for a room description.] Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH CHAIR AGAINST WARDROBE Floyd | Floyd | -- You referred to something that can't be interacted with at present. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "down" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, North End Time: 3:03 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, North End Floyd | Corridor, south; guest bedroom, west; murder, north. Stairs, down. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:02 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Guest Bedroom Floyd | -- Previous turn undone. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Interesting direction." | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "push wardrobe" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:03 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH WARDROBE Floyd | Floyd | Don't start picking on things bigger than you, you barely manage the Floyd | current way round. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan asks, "maybe just a simple "push chair"?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push chair to wardrobe" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:03 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH CHAIR TO WARDROBE Floyd | Floyd | You move the chair over to the tall teak wardrobe. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "ah, better." | ||
| DavidW says, "there we go" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "up" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:04 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | The only door is east. You can't even jump out of the window in this Floyd | room, as there's nowhere to jump to. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "I was thinking of Anchorhead." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on chair" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:04 pm Floyd ] - on the wicker chair, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could GET OFF the wicker chair.] Floyd | Floyd | > STAND ON CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | You get onto the wicker chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wardrobe" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:05 pm Floyd ] - on the wicker chair, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could SEARCH the tall teak wardrobe to see what's inside.] Floyd | Floyd | > X WARDROBE Floyd | Floyd | A tall wardrobe made of teak, with cocky brass handles on the doors. Floyd | It's got nasty little carved flourishes between base and carpet, and Floyd | same up top, so you can't easily see under it. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan asks, "x the top?" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "f search wardrobe" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:05 pm Floyd ] - on the wicker chair, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could SEARCH the tall teak wardrobe to see what's inside.] Floyd | Floyd | > F SEARCH WARDROBE Floyd | Floyd | (--> d search wardrobe) Floyd | -- I only got as far as wanting to d. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "search wardrobe" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:05 pm Floyd ] - on the wicker chair, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could GET OFF the wicker chair.] Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH WARDROBE Floyd | Floyd | Pretty empty, just a few shelves and a clothes rail, with not much on Floyd | them. On the rail are a few coathangers. The shelves have got Angela's Floyd | shoes on them. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "reach top" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:05 pm Floyd ] - on the wicker chair, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could GET OFF the wicker chair.] Floyd | Floyd | > REACH TOP Floyd | Floyd | -- You're not making any sense to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "look over wardobe" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:06 pm Floyd ] - on the wicker chair, with gloves on | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search top" | |||
Floyd ] [You could GET OFF the wicker chair.] Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK OVER WARDOBE Floyd | Floyd | (--> look over wardrobe) Floyd | Ah-ha! There's an ugly pink suitcase hidden on top of the wardrobe! Floyd | You pull it out - it's heavy - and drop it noisily to the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:06 pm Floyd ] - on the wicker chair, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could GET OFF the wicker chair.] Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH TOP Floyd | Floyd | -- You referred to something that can't be interacted with at present. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Huzzah." | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "get off chair" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:06 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for a room description.] Floyd | Floyd | > GET OFF CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | You get off the wicker chair. Floyd | Floyd | Guest Bedroom Floyd | Bed, nightstand, wicker chair. Door to the corridor. Floyd | Floyd | On the nightstand is a silver frame. Floyd | Floyd | A tall teak wardrobe leans against one wall. Floyd | Floyd | The wicker chair is over by the wardrobe. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a closed pink suitcase, its lock clicked down, and a Floyd | wedding photo here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock suitcase with flimsy" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:07 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > UNLOCK SUITCASE WITH FLIMSY Floyd | Floyd | You unlock the pink suitcase. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open it" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:07 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | You open the pink suitcase, revealing Angela's clothes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "search clothes" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:08 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH CLOTHES Floyd | Floyd | (Angela's clothes) Floyd | You rummage around in the clothing, unearthing a novel, a toiletry Floyd | bag, passport documents, which you lay out to one side. But even more Floyd | interesting - a highly valuable black and white photograph is Floyd | revealed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x photograph" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:08 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X PHOTOGRAPH Floyd | Floyd | -- What do you want to examine: the black and white incriminating Floyd | photograph, the passport photo or the wedding photo? Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "angela was about to skip town?" | ||
| Fang says, "'incriminating, eh'" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "incriminating" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:08 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "black and white" | |||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > INCRIMINATING Floyd | Floyd | Well. It's quite an image, neatly framed by the green-painted window Floyd | frame. The sun was in just the right place for this shot it seems, it Floyd | doesn't reflect on the glass, you can see straight through to the Floyd | couple getting jitty on the bed. There's an odd number of legs on view Floyd | here; oh yeah. You can see it all - you can see their faces. Jack Floyd | looks like a fat nightmare teddy-bear. Emilia looks like she's eating Floyd | a wasp, but then what tart looks pretty? Floyd | Floyd | The photo is defaced by a few splatters of blood. Floyd | Floyd | Joe steps in through the open guest bedroom door. Floyd | Floyd | Joe nods at the photograph, before picking it up to examine it more Floyd | closely. "My, my," he whistles, "The plot thickens." He hands the Floyd | photograph to you. "I suppose you found this? I wonder who knew?" Floyd | Floyd | He hands back the letter opener. "On this; no good, Inspector. The Floyd | only fingerprints we got were yours and the deceased - you must have Floyd | handled it without gloves on. However, the blood is the deceased Floyd | alright." Floyd | Floyd | The policeman leaves through the guest bedroom door. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "not enough info yet" | ||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:08 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For help on playing, type HELP.] Floyd | Floyd | > BLACK AND WHITE Floyd | Floyd | -- "black" isn't a recognised verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan exclaims, "Wait a minute, we were wearing gloves!" | ||
| JimKaplan asks, "Did someone plant those prints?" | |||
| Fang says, "hmm" | |||
| DavidW says, "I don't understand how our prints could be on it." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Yes, we were definitely wearing gloves." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Unless Officer Angryface is in on it." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Crooked cop in a noir story? Maybe he wants to boost his career by incriminating us...or it could be a bug." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "We could analyse the photo, and/or x the other items in the suitcase." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x novel" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:09 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > X NOVEL Floyd | Floyd | "The Complete Adventures of Slick Gurner." Pocket sized. Bin sized. Floyd | Floyd | On the back flap, in blue ink, are the numbers 43 and 41. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "why do we all know these people's names?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't know." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I was wondering about Emilia, yeah." | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "Are those page numbers, perhaps?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I assume Emilia is Angela's sister." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "turn to page 43" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:09 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > TURN TO PAGE 43 Floyd | Floyd | (in the trashy novel) Floyd | You find the page, and read: Floyd | Floyd | ...with another double four. Just how much luck could one man Floyd | have? Floyd | "You're cheating," Sam exclaimed, standing from the table and Floyd | throwing her cards at him. They missed of course, landing short just Floyd | by Slick's left hand. "You're a dirty pig, and I hate you!" Floyd | But that strike was ineffectual - Slick caught her slim wrist Floyd | as it flicked across the air to connect with the regal stubble of the Floyd | Gurner family jaw. "Lady," he replied, purring. "Sit down, and finish Floyd | the game." Floyd | "Best out of four?" Sam replied, ruefully, making no effort to Floyd | free her arm. Floyd | "Okey," Slick replied, and Sam strutted out, sending the next Floyd | girl in. But this girl was different, and Slick knew it by the Floyd | tingling under his coat; just below his third rib where his heart was. Floyd | It was Clarissa. Floyd | "Clarissa!" he hissed, ever concious of the two thousand-strong Floyd | audience in hushed silence around him. "What are you doing here?" Floyd | "Same as you, Slick," she whispered in reply, whilst shaking his Floyd | hand formally to convince the onlookers it was just a friendly Floyd | greeting. "Trying to diffuse the bomb." Floyd | Slick nodded grimly. This was his kind of girl. "Maybe," he Floyd | said, and then: "I have an idea. If we work together..." Floyd | "We can force a draw! Then it won't detonate!" Clarissa Floyd | continued, her eyes sparkling as she slid with cat-like grace, learned Floyd | through years of air-hostessing, into her electronic PlaymoChair. Floyd | "What's the game?" Floyd | Slick looked across at the list, and his face fell. "Some Ruskie Floyd | invention. A bit like Tic-Tac-Toe." Floyd | Clarissa's face lit up in excitement. "Tic Tac Toe? Slick! I Floyd | think ... I think we've got a chance!" Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Probably." | ||
| JimKaplan says, "Diffusing a bomb is unlikely to render it inert." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "But what do we have here? Possible hints at: cheating (which we know was happening), and an accomplice." | |||
| DavidW says, "I haven't a clue." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "turn to page 41" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:10 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > TURN TO PAGE 41 Floyd | Floyd | (in the trashy novel) Floyd | You find the page, and read: Floyd | Floyd | ...and would fail. He gazed at her levelly, and adjusted his hat. Floyd | Floyd | "If that's the way you want to play it, lady," Slick purred, Floyd | "Then I guess I'll just play along. I'll wrap to your tune." Floyd | Krissie smiled back, a plan forming in her mind. Stretching Floyd | forward a hand, long thin fingers reached out and grasped. Slick Floyd | blinked - a hotel. On Mayfair. Floyd | "It's at times like this," Krissie purred back, in a similar Floyd | tone to that of Slick's, only slightly higher pitched because she was Floyd | a broad, "I just love to be a woman." Floyd | Slick nodded. "I know what you mean," he replied. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "turn to page 42" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:10 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > TURN TO PAGE 42 Floyd | Floyd | (in the trashy novel) Floyd | You find the page, and read: Floyd | Floyd | Just more of the same old pulp. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "OK, so the page numbers are significant." | ||
| JimKaplan says, "But their meaning is as of yet cryptic." | |||
| Fang says, "I wonder if there's some kind of code involved" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "could be, but we don't have the info to decipher it yet, I don't think" | |||
| DavidW says, "Or there's invisible ink circling relevant words." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "We could find a heat source at some point." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x toiletries" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:10 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for a room description.] Floyd | Floyd | > X TOILETRIES Floyd | Floyd | -- You referred to something that can't be interacted with at present. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "or ultraviolet light" | ||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x toiletry bag" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:11 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could OPEN the toiletry bag to see what's inside.] Floyd | Floyd | > X TOILETRY BAG Floyd | Floyd | A black plasticky toiletry bag, with a zip along the top, which is Floyd | closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "open bag" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:11 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN BAG Floyd | Floyd | You pull the zip across. Floyd | Floyd | The toiletry bag has got some assorted toiletries in it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "maybe this is an address" | ||
| DavidW says, "if it's the invisible ink that works with heat, it doesn't disappear when it's revealed." | |||
| Fang asks, "mayfair, 44?" | |||
| Fang asks, "like if Angela was skipping town, maybe she intends to meet someone, at some point?" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "search toiletries" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:12 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH TOILETRIES Floyd | Floyd | They're not of any interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks (of Fang), "awk Seven?" | ||
| Fang asks (of DW), "?" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x toiletries" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:12 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X TOILETRIES Floyd | Floyd | The usual sort of stuff - toothbrush, perfume, nothing interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x passport" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:13 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X PASSPORT Floyd | Floyd | (Angela's passport) Floyd | The date of issue is recent - just over a month ago - but the Floyd | photograph looks a few years old. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Fang), "I have no idea what on earth you mean by 'mayfair, 44'." | ||
| Itax goes home. | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "turn to page 44" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:13 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > TURN TO PAGE 44 Floyd | Floyd | (in the trashy novel) Floyd | You find the page, and read: Floyd | Floyd | Just more of the same old pulp. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says (to DavidW), "the two pages refer to a hotel in mayfair" | ||
| JimKaplan says, "OK, so the passport was recently issued." | |||
| Fang says, "then also the other passage starts with mention of 'double fours'" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Which does imply a desire to leave the country soon." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to Fang), "It's not something we can do anything with yet, though. Short of taking the novel. I think." | |||
| Fang says, "yes" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "At this point, I would suggest having the photo analysed. If I'm not mistaken it had blood on it." | |||
| Fang says, "there's also the paint" | |||
| DavidW says, "And I'm surprised you guys didn't analyze something right away when Joe came back." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "We can try having them both done at the same time, but if that doesn't work I'd prioritize the photo blood." | |||
| Fang says (to JimKaplan), "not sure what that'd tell us too" | |||
| Fang says, "I think we should keep the photo" | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "If the blood matches the victim's?" | |||
| Fang says, "we can confront angela with it" | |||
| Fang says, "get some answers" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "We may be able to just tell Angela about the photo." | |||
| Fang says, "we can always analyse after we confront her" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "You have a point, I think. Analysing it could remove it from play, and that might complicate things." | |||
| Fang asks, "should we search the maid's room?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Or Angela could grab it and remove it from play." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to DavidW), "I doubt it. It's evidence in a murder investigation. She can't just keep it." | |||
| Fang asks (of DW), "impeding an investigation? In front of a police man?" | |||
| Fang says, "instant arrest" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Well, I don't think there's anything left in this room, in any case." | |||
| DavidW says, "There's the blood spot that could be analysed." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "OK, let's try that." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "analyse spot" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:14 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ANALYSE SPOT Floyd | Floyd | After a moment, Joe steps in through the open guest bedroom door. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, what did you want doing?" he asks, and you indicate the red Floyd | spot. He shakes his head. "Well, we can guess who's it is, but it's Floyd | too small. I mean, I can't get a sample from that to take the lab. Floyd | Sorry, Inspector. You'll have to wing this one." Floyd | Floyd | The policeman leaves through the guest bedroom door. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan asks, "So maybe the photo also has too little?" | ||
| Fang asks, "wanna do the paint?" | |||
| DavidW says, "The photo is at least portable. The floor isn't." | |||
| Fang says, "even though I think it's pointless" | |||
| DavidW says, "Yes, try the paint." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "OK." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "go to master bedroom" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, North End Time: 3:14 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO MASTER BEDROOM Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, North End Floyd | Corridor, south; guest bedroom, west; murder, north. Stairs, down. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 3:15 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Master Bedroom Floyd | Bed, mirrored dresser, window. Door. Yucca. Blood, lots of it. Floyd | Floyd | On the dresser is a green-shaded table lamp with bulb lit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "analyse paint" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 3:15 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ANALYSE PAINT Floyd | Floyd | After a moment, Joe steps in through the open master bedroom door. Floyd | Floyd | "Well?" You direct his attention to the green paint flecks. "You Floyd | expect to learn a lot from those, do you?" Joe smarts back. "Some Floyd | cretin you are." Floyd | Floyd | The policeman leaves through the master bedroom door. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "bah" | ||
| JimKaplan says, "Well screw you, Joe" | |||
| Fang says (to DW), "some cretin you are :)" | |||
| DavidW says, "bah to you too" | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "Did he actually take the paint?" | |||
| Fang says, "no" | |||
| DavidW says, "no, he refused." | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "OK. How about trying the photo?" | |||
| Fang says, "I think we should use it on angela first" | |||
| Fang says, "we can dangle the threat of having it analysed in front of her, too" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I recommend trying it to see if it can at least be done. We could always undo, unless we have a thing about undoing." | |||
| DavidW says, "hm. I guess it's worth more as a tool vs Angela at this stage." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "If you're both OK with not analysing it, then so am I." | |||
| DavidW says, "We don't have a thing against undoing, but it's not worth it yet when we're still feeling out the game's status quo." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Fine by me." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "finger fang" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "blech, stupid semicolon" | |||
| Fang asks, "?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Search another room or question people or pry open the glove compartment." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I'm still memorizing names." | |||
| Fang says, "let's search the maids' room" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I recommend searching another room." | |||
| Fang says, "then we'll be done with this floor" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to Fang), "I second that." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, North End Time: 3:16 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, North End Floyd | Corridor, south; guest bedroom, west; murder, north. Stairs, down. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, South End Time: 3:16 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, South End Floyd | The long hallway ends here with the door to the south into the study; Floyd | and another bedroom, unfamiliar except for the sofa just visible from Floyd | here, lies east. The bathroom lies opposite, a sweet porcelain number. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a stumpy rubber tree in a brown pot. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x rubber tree" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, South End Time: 3:17 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X RUBBER TREE Floyd | Floyd | It's the height of a doubled-up guy on his knees and its leaves flop Floyd | like his head might. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x pot" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, South End Time: 3:17 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X POT Floyd | Floyd | It's the height of a doubled-up guy on his knees and its leaves flop Floyd | like his head might. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "I vote bedroom." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search leaves" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, South End Time: 3:18 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH LEAVES Floyd | Floyd | You don't find anything interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ok" | ||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:18 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maid's Bedroom Floyd | A nice little room - petite, sure, but that probably suits its owner Floyd | down to the ground. The bed is a single and next to the head is a low Floyd | chest being used as a bedside table. The centre of the room is taken Floyd | up by a slightly threadbare sofa. A couple of paintings hang on the Floyd | wall, nothing famous. There's a tall room lamp by the door, back west, Floyd | and a thin wardrobe in the corner. Floyd | Floyd | By the crummy-view window is screwed a small silver hook. Hanging from Floyd | the hook is a silver key. Floyd | Floyd | On the low chest is a jar of face-cream. Floyd | Floyd | Thrown in one corner of the sofa is a pile of men's clothing: someone Floyd | changing in a hurry and flinging what they had on away. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "which man's clothing, I wonder" | ||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x clothing" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:19 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could SEARCH the shirts to see what's inside.] Floyd | Floyd | > X CLOTHING Floyd | Floyd | Definitely men's shirts; they might be the maid's boyfriend's, they Floyd | might be Jack's waiting to be ironed. Picking one at random, it has Floyd | the letters ADC stitched into the back of the collar. In the Floyd | breast-pocket of one you find a scrap of pink paper. Otherwise... Floyd | Nothing but clothes. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "well, Jack's, I suppose. His laundry?" | ||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "search shirts" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:19 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH SHIRTS Floyd | Floyd | Nothing but clothes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x pink paper" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:20 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X PINK PAPER Floyd | Floyd | A small square of pink notepaper, folded twice, and scrumpled: it's Floyd | been through the wash; this is one bit of paper you empathise with. Floyd | Written on it is: Floyd | Floyd | 1488 Floyd | J xx Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pink paper" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:20 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X PINK PAPER Floyd | Floyd | A small square of pink notepaper, folded twice, and scrumpled: it's Floyd | been through the wash; this is one bit of paper you empathise with. Floyd | Written on it is: Floyd | Floyd | 1488 Floyd | J xx Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "A year or a street/room number, maybe." | ||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x sofa" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:21 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > X SOFA Floyd | Floyd | An old red sofa, the stuffing all beaten out and the armrests covered Floyd | in tea rings. Presumably the household got it on the cheap to make the Floyd | maid feel more at home. Maybe they made her get it herself. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "look under sofa" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:21 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER SOFA Floyd | Floyd | You run your hand under the thin crack between sofa and carpet, and Floyd | unearth a quarter. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "'ADC' doesn't seem to match anything we know of yet." | ||
| JimKaplan says, "Yeah, doesn't ring a bell for me either." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x quarter" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:22 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X QUARTER Floyd | Floyd | On closer inspection it's not a quarter, it's not even currency. It's Floyd | a French franc, dated seven years ago. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan asks, "So what exactly is...The French Connection?" | ||
| DavidW says, "perhaps Emelia is the maid, not Angela's sister." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Possibly. She hasn't been mentioned before that photo, I'm sure of that." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "We've got the chest, the bed, paintings, room lamp, wardrobe, silver key, and face cream left." | |||
| DavidW says, "well, the key might unlock the chest or wardrobe, if either is locked." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "take silver key" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:22 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SILVER KEY Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x face cream" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:23 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X FACE CREAM Floyd | Floyd | A small jar of stuff with a label in French. The picture shows a tide Floyd | smoothing down sand. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Yes, the maid's probably French." | ||
| JimKaplan says (to x), "floyd smell cream" | DavidW says, "seems like it." | ||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "smell cream" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:23 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL CREAM Floyd | Floyd | You want to smell the jar of face-cream? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "y" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:24 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > Y Floyd | Floyd | Sure. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Well, gee, that was helpful." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open cream" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:24 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CREAM Floyd | Floyd | The jar's about half-full. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell cream" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:25 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL CREAM Floyd | Floyd | You want to smell the jar of face-cream? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search cream" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:25 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH CREAM Floyd | Floyd | You poke around, but there's nothing in the jar but cream. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close jar" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:26 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE JAR Floyd | Floyd | You close the jar of face-cream. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan asks, "Should we take the jar?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gloves" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:26 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X GLOVES Floyd | Floyd | You've had them all your years in the force; though you're always Floyd | forgetting to use them. For example, this morning you left them on the Floyd | table back home; had to stop off for them just before you took this Floyd | call, right after you bought the booze. Priorities all straight, oh Floyd | yeah. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "not sure, to be honest." | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:27 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maid's Bedroom Floyd | A nice little room - petite, sure, but that probably suits its owner Floyd | down to the ground. The bed is a single and next to the head is a low Floyd | chest being used as a bedside table. The centre of the room is taken Floyd | up by a slightly threadbare sofa. A couple of paintings hang on the Floyd | wall, nothing famous. There's a tall room lamp by the door, back west, Floyd | and a thin wardrobe in the corner. Floyd | Floyd | By the crummy-view window is screwed a small silver hook. Floyd | Floyd | On the low chest is a jar of face-cream. Floyd | Floyd | Thrown in one corner of the sofa is a pile of men's clothing: someone Floyd | changing in a hurry and flinging what they had on away. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "What would we potentially use it for?" | ||
| JimKaplan says (to DavidW), "Not sure. I was hoping smelling it would be useful for identifying someone, but other than that..." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "search clothes" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:27 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH CLOTHES Floyd | Floyd | Nothing but clothes. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "we searched the clothes already" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open chest" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:28 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CHEST Floyd | Floyd | The metal chest is locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "unlock chest with silver key" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:28 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > UNLOCK CHEST WITH SILVER KEY Floyd | Floyd | That doesn't fit the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "unlock chest with dirty key" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:29 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > UNLOCK CHEST WITH DIRTY KEY Floyd | Floyd | That doesn't fit the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm" | ||
| Fang says, "hm" | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "what's the third key?" | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "the one we got from the frame?" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Ah, but that's for the suitcase anyway" | |||
| DavidW says, "The flimsy key unlocked the suitcase." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "search paintings" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:29 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH PAINTINGS Floyd | Floyd | You don't find anything interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open wardrobe" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:30 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN WARDROBE Floyd | Floyd | You open the tall thin wardrobe, revealing some dresses and stuff. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "search dresses" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:30 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on | JimKaplan says, "We could look behind the paintings, incidentally." | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH DRESSES Floyd | Floyd | You don't find anything interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "you know, we should have checked angela's shoes" | ||
| Fang says, "in her room" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I think we did." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take paintings" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:31 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PAINTINGS Floyd | Floyd | They're not portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:31 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maid's Bedroom Floyd | A nice little room - petite, sure, but that probably suits its owner Floyd | down to the ground. The bed is a single and next to the head is a low Floyd | chest being used as a bedside table. The centre of the room is taken Floyd | up by a slightly threadbare sofa. A couple of paintings hang on the Floyd | wall, nothing famous. There's a tall room lamp by the door, back west, Floyd | and a thin wardrobe in the corner. Floyd | Floyd | By the crummy-view window is screwed a small silver hook. Floyd | Floyd | On the low chest is a jar of face-cream. Floyd | Floyd | Thrown in one corner of the sofa is a pile of men's clothing: someone Floyd | changing in a hurry and flinging what they had on away. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "oh, I just checked; we didn't." | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:32 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BED Floyd | Floyd | There's nothing under the bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "it asked for clarification and then we did something else" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "turn on lamp" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:32 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON LAMP Floyd | Floyd | You flip the switch under the base of the lampshade. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "we could get back to that." | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x lamp" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:33 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could SWITCH OFFthe tall room lamp.] Floyd | Floyd | > X LAMP Floyd | Floyd | Six foot high lamp, the only lighting in the room if you don't count Floyd | the windows. Right now it's on. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x windows" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:33 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could SWITCH OFFthe tall room lamp.] Floyd | Floyd | > X WINDOWS Floyd | Floyd | -- You referred to something that can't be interacted with at present. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x window" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:33 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | Through the window is the brick-side of Number 17 Broken Top Floyd | Boulevard. It's like the final view of a crash-test dummy. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan asks, "That's sort of most everything, isn't it?" | ||
| Fang asks, "why does the hints want us to turn off the lamp?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "turn off lamp" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:34 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > TURN OFF LAMP Floyd | Floyd | You flip the switch under the base of the lampshade. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "It could just be a beginner thing." | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 3:34 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Maid's Bedroom Floyd | A nice little room - petite, sure, but that probably suits its owner Floyd | down to the ground. The bed is a single and next to the head is a low Floyd | chest being used as a bedside table. The centre of the room is taken Floyd | up by a slightly threadbare sofa. A couple of paintings hang on the Floyd | wall, nothing famous. There's a tall room lamp by the door, back west, Floyd | and a thin wardrobe in the corner. Floyd | Floyd | By the crummy-view window is screwed a small silver hook. Floyd | Floyd | On the low chest is a jar of face-cream. Floyd | Floyd | Thrown in one corner of the sofa is a pile of men's clothing: someone Floyd | changing in a hurry and flinging what they had on away. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't think there's more in here until we get a key for the chest." | ||
| Fang says, "okay, let's check the guest bedroom again" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I agree." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, South End Time: 3:35 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, South End Floyd | Corridor back north. Maid's bedroom to the east. Bathroom opposite, Floyd | handy. South is the study. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a stumpy rubber tree in a brown pot. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "search pot" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, South End Time: 3:35 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH POT Floyd | Floyd | You don't find anything interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to guest" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, North End Time: 3:36 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO GUEST Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, North End Floyd | Corridor, south; guest bedroom, west; murder, north. Stairs, down. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move pot" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, North End Time: 3:36 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE POT Floyd | Floyd | -- You referred to something that can't be interacted with at present. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to guest" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:36 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO GUEST Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Guest Bedroom Floyd | Bed, nightstand, wicker chair. Door to the corridor. Floyd | Floyd | On the nightstand is a silver frame. Floyd | Floyd | A tall teak wardrobe leans against one wall. Floyd | Floyd | The wicker chair is over by the wardrobe. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Angela's passport, a toiletry bag, a trashy novel, a Floyd | wide open pink suitcase and a wedding photo here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take novel" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:37 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE NOVEL Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take passport" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:37 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PASSPORT Floyd | Floyd | (Angela's passport) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open wardrobe" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:38 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN WARDROBE Floyd | Floyd | That's already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "search shoes" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:38 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH SHOES Floyd | Floyd | -- What do you want to search: Angela's shoes or your scuffed black Floyd | shoes? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "search angela's shoes" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:38 pm
Floyd ] - with gloves on
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH ANGELA'S SHOES
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't find anything interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Fang says (to Floyd), "x angela's shoes" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:39 pm
Floyd ] - with gloves on
Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.]
Floyd |
Floyd | > X ANGELA'S SHOES
Floyd |
Floyd | Prussy tight little black numbers, slip on slip off; perfect for a
Floyd | little black dress and a limp. Yeah, they look even more uncomfortable
Floyd | than you feel in this damn coat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Fang says (to Floyd), "x my shoes" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 3:39 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X MY SHOES Floyd | Floyd | Your shoes. They could do with a polish; the soles could do with a Floyd | scrape - too many damn dogs in the neighbourhood. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, North End Time: 3:40 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, North End Floyd | Corridor, south; guest bedroom, west; murder, north. Stairs, down. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "study?" | ||
| JimKaplan says, "Yep." | |||
| DavidW says, "I missed that there is a study" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "turn to page 14" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, North End Time: 3:40 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > TURN TO PAGE 14 Floyd | Floyd | (in the trashy novel) Floyd | You find the page, and read: Floyd | Floyd | The streetlight fell dark, and Slick stepped back into the shadow Floyd | like Orson Welles in that great black and white film. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "turn to page 88" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, North End Time: 3:41 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > TURN TO PAGE 88 Floyd | Floyd | (in the trashy novel) Floyd | You find the page, and read: Floyd | Floyd | Just more of the same old pulp. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "It's at the south end of the hallway." | ||
| Fang says, "oh hmmm" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Interesting." | |||
| Fang asks, "that's referring to the Maltese Falcon, right?" | |||
| Fang says, "oh wait" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Orson Welles is in a few great black and white films." | |||
| Fang says, "The Third Man" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Could be." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I don't think that's a clue in and of itself, though." | |||
| Fang asks, "that's set in switzerland, isn't it?" | |||
| Fang says, "maybe this is just a wild theory" | |||
| Tale says, "Austria" | |||
| Tale says, "It only references Switzerland (falsely) as the birthplace of the cuckooclock" | |||
| Fang asks, "well, is this referring to that scene?" | |||
| JimKaplan asks (of Fang), "were you going to suggest the maid is Swiss?" | |||
| Fang says, "I'm suggesting this, with the book, is setting up a rendezvous to go to switzerland" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to Fang), "I think the reference is too obscure for the casual player to constitute a legitimate gameplay clue." | |||
| DavidW says, "I think the dog barking is a clue to get on with it." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to study#" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, South End Time: 3:41 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO STUDY# Floyd | Floyd | (--> go to study) Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, South End Floyd | Corridor back north. Maid's bedroom to the east. Bathroom opposite, Floyd | handy. South is the study. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a stumpy rubber tree in a brown pot. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I can't believe the overanalysing going on." | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to study" | |||
Floyd ] Study Time: 3:42 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO STUDY Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | This room is long and thin, like a jailhouse corridor, from the Floyd | doorway in the northeast corner to the large bay window opposite which Floyd | stretches the length of the room, overlooking the street outside. The Floyd | colours are your eyes on a Sunday; red like blood, red like the Floyd | leather of the over-stuffed chair, which sits a cheap trophy by the Floyd | main desk. A bookshelf fills the east wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the mahogany desk are a pencil, a wooden block and a telephone. Floyd | Floyd | Leaning against the side of the desk is Jack's briefcase. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take pencil" | |||
Floyd ] Study Time: 3:42 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PENCIL Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x block" | |||
Floyd ] Study Time: 3:43 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could SEARCH the wooden block to see what's inside.] Floyd | Floyd | > X BLOCK Floyd | Floyd | A square wooden block, carved with the odd flourish, with one slot in Floyd | the top, about an inch long and as as thin as a playing card - maybe a Floyd | little thicker. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yay pencil for pencil rubbing" | ||
| JimKaplan says, "That block is puzzling me though." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "search block" | |||
Floyd ] Study Time: 3:43 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH BLOCK Floyd | Floyd | The wooden block is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "tissue dispenser?" | ||
| DavidW says, "It might be to hold the letter opener." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to DavidW), "That sounds right." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x telephone" | |||
Floyd ] Study Time: 3:44 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X TELEPHONE Floyd | Floyd | (the telephone) Floyd | A squat little black telephone, with a receiver and a dial. You should Floyd | recognise it, you're allowed to use it once every time you're kept in. Floyd | On the front is a sticker with the number: 3734. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "dial 1488" | |||
Floyd ] Study Time: 3:44 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > DIAL 1488 Floyd | Floyd | (on the telephone) Floyd | You lift the receiver and dial. The phone rings seven times - maybe Floyd | twenty-three - and finally a woman answers: "Hello?" Floyd | Floyd | In the background you hear a man's voice, all growling, whining-like, Floyd | a puppy nursing his bone: "Who's that, Jenny? Come back here." Floyd | Floyd | "Hello?" Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan asks, "Ask her about Jack?" | ||
| Fang says, "hmmm" | |||
| DavidW says, "hang up" | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "Jenny is, I assume, "J xx"?" | |||
| Fang says, "let's find out who this is, first" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "topics" | |||
Floyd ] Study Time: 3:44 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > TOPICS Floyd | Floyd | (talking to the woman's voice) Floyd | -- You could try talking to the woman's voice about: the silver key, Floyd | the scrap of pink paper, the black and white incriminating photograph, Floyd | the trashy novel, the steel letter opener or yourself. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "pink paper?" | ||
| JimKaplan says, "Pink paper, I think." | |||
| DavidW says, "sure" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask woman about pink paper" | |||
Floyd ] Study Time: 3:45 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK WOMAN ABOUT PINK PAPER Floyd | Floyd | "I'm sorry, I think you've got a wrong number," she says quickly. The Floyd | phone clicks dead. You hang up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "damn" | ||
| JimKaplan says, "Well, I think we can guess who she was." | |||
| Fang says, "a 'Jenny'" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Jack fooled around, and more than once." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open briefcase" | |||
Floyd ] Study Time: 3:45 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN BRIEFCASE Floyd | Floyd | You open the briefcase. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in it" | |||
Floyd ] Study Time: 3:46 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN IT Floyd | Floyd | The briefcase is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "hm" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Study Time: 3:46 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | This room is long and thin, like a jailhouse corridor, from the Floyd | doorway in the northeast corner to the large bay window opposite which Floyd | stretches the length of the room, overlooking the street outside. The Floyd | colours are your eyes on a Sunday; red like blood, red like the Floyd | leather of the over-stuffed chair, which sits a cheap trophy by the Floyd | main desk. A bookshelf fills the east wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the mahogany desk are a wooden block and a telephone. Floyd | Floyd | Leaning against the side of the desk is Jack's briefcase. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "search desk" | |||
Floyd ] Study Time: 3:47 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH DESK Floyd | Floyd | The mahogany desk has got a wooden block and a telephone on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan asks, "Right. It didn't have drawers?" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "search bookshelf" | |||
Floyd ] Study Time: 3:47 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH BOOKSHELF Floyd | Floyd | What, all of them? Are you hoping to get a qualification or something? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x bookshelf" | |||
Floyd ] Study Time: 3:48 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOKSHELF Floyd | Floyd | There's perhaps a hundred volumes here, ranging from academic texts on Floyd | the subject of accountancy through trashy novels with pictures of Floyd | women and airplanes and the like on the cover. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "bathroom?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I suppose if we knew the title of a book to look for." | |||
| Fang says, "might be some toilet paper there" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x trophy" | |||
Floyd ] Study Time: 3:48 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > X TROPHY Floyd | Floyd | -- "trophy" isn't a word I know. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x chair" | |||
Floyd ] Study Time: 3:48 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | The damn thing's still warm. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "warm, hmm" | ||
| JimKaplan says, "Someone left it running." | |||
| DavidW says, "oh 'trophy' was a simile." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Yeah." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x window" | DavidW says, "sorry, misread the text" | ||
Floyd ] Study Time: 3:49 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | The window has a nice view of the garden path and then out over the Floyd | street; a picturesque little suburban vista marred only by your car, Floyd | halfway up the pavement like it had been dropped there. That's okay - Floyd | someone'll probably clear it up in a bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "I think we can move on to the bathroom." | ||
| DavidW says, "ok" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to bathroom" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, South End Time: 3:49 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO BATHROOM Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, South End Floyd | Corridor back north. Maid's bedroom to the east. Bathroom opposite, Floyd | handy. South is the study. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a stumpy rubber tree in a brown pot. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to bathroom" | |||
Floyd ] Bathroom Time: 3:50 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO BATHROOM Floyd | Floyd | (opening the bathroom door first) Floyd | You open the bathroom door. Floyd | Floyd | Bathroom Floyd | The usual fittings, in a slightly sullen white. Blue and yellow tiling Floyd | checkers the wall by the shower head, the rest is cream wallpaper like Floyd | the faces in the drunk tank on Tuesday morning. The door is east, back Floyd | to the hallway. Floyd | Floyd | Above the sink is an open cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | |||
Floyd ] Bathroom Time: 3:50 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CABINET Floyd | Floyd | That's already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "look in it" | |||
Floyd ] Bathroom Time: 3:51 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN IT Floyd | Floyd | The mirrored cabinet has got some assorted toiletries and a medicine Floyd | tube in it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "open cabinet is open" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x medicine" | |||
Floyd ] Bathroom Time: 3:51 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could OPEN the medicine tube to see what's inside.] Floyd | Floyd | > X MEDICINE Floyd | Floyd | A small brown medicine tube. The label reads: "CERESTEX: Mr A Floyd | Carpenter. Dose - maximum one tablet every four hours. Do not exceed Floyd | four tablets in 24 hours." Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "...ADC." | ||
| JimKaplan asks, "Right?" | |||
| Fang says, "interesting" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take cerestex" | |||
Floyd ] Bathroom Time: 3:52 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CERESTEX Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yes, maybe." | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x toiletries" | |||
Floyd ] Bathroom Time: 3:52 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > X TOILETRIES Floyd | Floyd | A whole bunch of ordinary stuff. Toothbrush, toothpaste, that sort of Floyd | thing. There are two razors here; you notice one has a slight mark of Floyd | dried blood on the handle. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "hmm" | ||
| Fang asks, "someone cut themselves? Or a second murder weapon?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x razor" | |||
Floyd ] Bathroom Time: 3:53 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on | JimKaplan says, "I'mma go out on a limb and say a razor with a slight mark of dried blood is not particularly out-of-place" | ||
Floyd ] [You could have Joe ANALYSE the razors.] Floyd | Floyd | > X RAZOR Floyd | Floyd | The handles are white with old soap and the blades red with dried Floyd | blood. It's the same in your place. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't know. Analyse it, maybe." | ||
| Fang says, "I think it's worth analysing" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "The hint appears to be telling us to." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "analyse razors" | |||
Floyd ] Bathroom Time: 3:53 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ANALYSE RAZORS Floyd | Floyd | After a moment, Joe steps in through the open bathroom door. Floyd | Floyd | "Well?" You direct his attention to the razors. Joe takes one look. Floyd | "You might want to learn how to use one of those," he remarks acidly. Floyd | Floyd | The policeman leaves through the bathroom door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "thanks, joe" | ||
| DavidW says, "geez, he's a price." | |||
| DavidW says, "er prick" | |||
| Fang says, "I thought you meant prince" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I can tell why our work morale is so high." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x sink" | |||
Floyd ] Bathroom Time: 3:54 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could SEARCH the washbasin to see what's inside.] Floyd | Floyd | > X SINK Floyd | Floyd | The washbasin is crisp white. Except for a few dried up flecks of Floyd | blood at the bottom of the sink. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "search washbasin" | |||
Floyd ] Bathroom Time: 3:54 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH WASHBASIN Floyd | Floyd | The washbasin is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "It's like Iwo Jima in here" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x blood" | |||
Floyd ] Bathroom Time: 3:55 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could have Joe ANALYSE the specks of blood.] Floyd | Floyd | > X BLOOD Floyd | Floyd | (the specks of blood) Floyd | Just a few spots in a rough line from plug hole to under the hot tap. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "someone washed their hands?" | ||
| Roger arrives, full of fun and funk. | DavidW says, "It is sink." | ||
| JimKaplan says, "We'll have to wait for Joe to come back if he's to analyse the specks." | |||
| DavidW says, "er a sink" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "analyse blood" | |||
Floyd ] Bathroom Time: 3:55 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > ANALYSE BLOOD Floyd | Floyd | (the specks of blood) Floyd | After a moment, Joe steps in through the open bathroom door. Floyd | Floyd | "Well?" You direct his attention to the specks of blood. "Some blood? Floyd | Well - it could be anybody's, couldn't it? But my money's on it Floyd | belonging to the stiff, okay?" Joe snarls, before producing a swab and Floyd | a bag and soaking up a little of the blood, which he places in a bag. Floyd | Floyd | The policeman leaves through the bathroom door. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Or not. Hmm." | ||
| JimKaplan says, "Jeez, Joe." | |||
| Fang says (to JimKaplan), "he didn't take the razors" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Right." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I feel a second murder coming on." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take toilet paper" | |||
Floyd ] Bathroom Time: 3:55 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for a room description.] Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE TOILET PAPER Floyd | Floyd | -- You referred to something that can't be interacted with at present. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Bathroom Time: 3:56 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bathroom Floyd | The usual fittings, in a slightly sullen white. Blue and yellow tiling Floyd | checkers the wall by the shower head, the rest is cream wallpaper like Floyd | the faces in the drunk tank on Tuesday morning. The door is east, back Floyd | to the hallway. Floyd | Floyd | Above the sink is an open cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x shower" | |||
Floyd ] Bathroom Time: 3:56 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X SHOWER Floyd | Floyd | -- "shower" isn't a word I know. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "look under sink" | |||
Floyd ] Bathroom Time: 3:56 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER SINK Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x shower head" | |||
Floyd ] Bathroom Time: 3:56 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X SHOWER HEAD Floyd | Floyd | -- "shower" isn't a word I know. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "we can do the pencil rubbing thing with the pink note, maybe" | ||
| JimKaplan says, "Perhaps." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to master bedroom" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, South End Time: 3:57 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO MASTER BEDROOM Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, South End Floyd | Corridor back north. Maid's bedroom to the east. Bathroom opposite, Floyd | handy. South is the study. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a stumpy rubber tree in a brown pot. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "And the shower is clogged with dried blood, so no shower for you." | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "g" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, North End Time: 3:57 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, North End Floyd | Corridor, south; guest bedroom, west; murder, north. Stairs, down. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "g" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 3:58 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Master Bedroom Floyd | Bed, mirrored dresser, window. Door. Yucca. Blood, lots of it. Floyd | Floyd | On the dresser is a green-shaded table lamp with bulb lit. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "I don't think it would be a great idea, though, given that the scrap is itself evidence." | ||
| DavidW says, "gah, lag" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "g" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, North End Time: 3:58 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, North End Floyd | Corridor, south; guest bedroom, west; murder, north. Stairs, down. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "g" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 3:59 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Master Bedroom Floyd | Bed, mirrored dresser, window. Door. Yucca. Blood, lots of it. Floyd | Floyd | On the dresser is a green-shaded table lamp with bulb lit. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "a zillion lines zipped by" | ||
| Fang says, "evidence smevidence" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 3:59 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | In your trenchcoat pockets are a medicine tube, closed, with eight Floyd | tablets inside, a pencil, Angela's passport, a trashy novel, a Franc, Floyd | a black and white incriminating photograph, your badge and four keys: Floyd | the silver key, the flimsy key, the dirty house key and the car key, Floyd | and in your gloved hands you hold a scrap of pink paper and a steel Floyd | letter opener. Floyd | Floyd | In addition to your trenchcoat and gloves, you are wearing your Floyd | scuffed black shoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x franc" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 4:00 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > X FRANC Floyd | Floyd | On closer inspection it's not a quarter, it's not even currency. It's Floyd | a French franc, dated seven years ago. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Shouldn't we use a blank page or paper to do the pencil rubbing?" | ||
| Fang says (to DW), "I can't find one" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Maybe downstairs." | |||
| DavidW says, "well, you've hardly seen more than the upstairs." | |||
| Fang asks (of DW), "wanna drive then?" | |||
| DavidW says, "no. The interruptions would kill me." | |||
| DavidW says, "Since you're here now, you might as well try. Learn the correct syntax at least." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put note on table" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 4:00 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for a room description.] Floyd | Floyd | > PUT NOTE ON TABLE Floyd | Floyd | -- You referred to something that can't be interacted with at present. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 4:00 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Master Bedroom Floyd | The master bedroom is relatively tasteful, and dominated by the bed Floyd | sticking out of the east wall. Opposite is a mirrored dresser shoved Floyd | in the corner at an angle, just by the large windows overlooking the Floyd | garden. These are wide open, letting in the bite of cold air. The open Floyd | door is in the southwest - in fact, lying on the bed you could Floyd | probably see it in the reflection. The carpet's Floyd | beige-with-dried-bloodstain, and there's more rancid wallpapering. Floyd | Between the window and the bed is a little yucca tree in a pot. Floyd | Floyd | On the dresser is a green-shaded table lamp with bulb lit. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "dresser, not table" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put note on dresser" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 4:00 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for a room description.] Floyd | Floyd | > PUT NOTE ON DRESSER Floyd | Floyd | -- You referred to something that can't be interacted with at present. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "and I think scrap, not note." | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put scrap on dresser" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 4:01 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > PUT SCRAP ON DRESSER Floyd | Floyd | You put the scrap of pink paper on the marks in the varnish. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "rub pencil on scrap" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 4:01 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > RUB PENCIL ON SCRAP Floyd | Floyd | The paper's not clean enough for the rubbing to be clear. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan asks, "erase paper?" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "erase scrap" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 4:02 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ERASE SCRAP Floyd | Floyd | There's nothing written on the paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take scrap" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 4:02 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SCRAP Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "okay" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, North End Time: 4:03 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, North End Floyd | Corridor, south; guest bedroom, west; murder, north. Stairs, down. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We did confirm that a pencil rubbing is expected." | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Hallway Time: 4:03 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You descend the half-circle of the stairs, into the hallway. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | Stairs up, passage northwest, front door behind. Desk one side, Floyd | hat-stand on the other. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Yes." | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Hallway Time: 4:04 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | A wood-panelled hallway, with the front door to the south next to Floyd | which is a dark polished roll-top desk. Stairs in the northeast corner Floyd | of the room lead to the upstairs landing where the bedrooms are, and a Floyd | passage northwest runs through to the kitchen and blue wallpapered Floyd | living room, which you can't quite see from here. Floyd | Floyd | In the lefthand corner is a hat stand. Hanging off the stand are your Floyd | wide-brimmed hat and Jack's hat. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x desk" | |||
Floyd ] Hallway Time: 4:04 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could OPEN the roll-top desk to see what's inside.] Floyd | Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | No doubt an antique or something, that'd explain why it's missing a Floyd | handle on one drawer and the varnish on top is scratched and covered Floyd | in coffee-rings. Probably worth a few bucks; that would fit with the Floyd | household just right. The lid is rollback like a bread-bin. Floyd | Floyd | Currently the lid is shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open lid" | |||
Floyd ] Hallway Time: 4:05 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN LID Floyd | Floyd | You open the roll-top desk, revealing the closet key and a blank sheet Floyd | of paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "woot" | ||
| Fang says, "woo" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take paper" | |||
Floyd ] Hallway Time: 4:05 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PAPER Floyd | Floyd | (the blank sheet of paper) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hello paper" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take key" | |||
Floyd ] Hallway Time: 4:06 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE KEY Floyd | Floyd | (the closet key) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "search desk" | |||
Floyd ] Hallway Time: 4:06 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH DESK Floyd | Floyd | There's nothing of note inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x jack's hat" | |||
Floyd ] Hallway Time: 4:07 pm
Floyd ] - with gloves on
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > X JACK'S HAT
Floyd |
Floyd | It's Jack's hat, he only had the one, a light brown number. Kind he'd
Floyd | wear to parties but remember not to leave on.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Fang says (to Floyd), "search hat" | |||
Floyd ] Hallway Time: 4:07 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH HAT Floyd | Floyd | -- What do you want to search: your wide-brimmed hat or Jack's hat? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I guess that's those narrative lapses mentioned earlier" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "search jack's hat" | |||
Floyd ] Hallway Time: 4:07 pm
Floyd ] - with gloves on
Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.]
Floyd |
Floyd | > SEARCH JACK'S HAT
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't find anything interesting.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Fang says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, North End Time: 4:08 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way upstairs around the curve of the staircase. Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, North End Floyd | Corridor, south; guest bedroom, west; murder, north. Stairs, down. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to master" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 4:08 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO MASTER Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Master Bedroom Floyd | Bed, mirrored dresser, window. Door. Yucca. Blood, lots of it. Floyd | Floyd | On the dresser is a green-shaded table lamp with bulb lit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put blank paper on dresser" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 4:09 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BLANK PAPER ON DRESSER Floyd | Floyd | You put the blank sheet of paper on the marks in the varnish. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "rub pencil on paper" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 4:09 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > RUB PENCIL ON PAPER Floyd | Floyd | (the scrap of pink paper) Floyd | Don't go scribbling over that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "rub pencil on blank paper" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 4:10 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > RUB PENCIL ON BLANK PAPER Floyd | Floyd | You start rubbing at the surface but can't get any detail - the Floyd | dresser top is covered with some sticky stuff that makes the surface Floyd | rough and uneven. You pick the paper back up to see what it is. You Floyd | pick at it with a fingernail, but you could do with something to help Floyd | clean it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, the face cream might help now." | ||
| JimKaplan asks, "Clean it with face-cream? Whisky?" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Ninja'd" | |||
| Fang says, "I'd have thought whisky" | |||
| Fang says, "80% proof after all" | |||
| DavidW says, "perhaps there's two solutions." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "let's try the cream for now, it's closer" | |||
| Roger says (to DW), "Heh" | |||
| Fang says, "okay, go ahead" | |||
| DavidW says, "I guess we shoulda grabbed it at the time." | |||
| DavidW says, "But I couldn't think of any use for it." | |||
| DavidW asks, "so, s.s.e. ??" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "yeah" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s.s.e" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 4:11 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > S.S.E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, North End Floyd | Corridor, south; guest bedroom, west; murder, north. Stairs, down. Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, South End Floyd | Corridor back north. Maid's bedroom to the east. Bathroom opposite, Floyd | handy. South is the study. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a stumpy rubber tree in a brown pot. Floyd | Floyd | Maid's Bedroom Floyd | Maid's room. Sofa, wardrobe, standing lamp, bed. Door to the corridor. Floyd | Floyd | By the crummy-view window is screwed a small silver hook. Floyd | Floyd | On the low chest is a jar of face-cream. Floyd | Floyd | Thrown in one corner of the sofa is a pile of men's clothing: someone Floyd | changing in a hurry and flinging what they had on away. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cream" | |||
Floyd ] Maid's Bedroom Time: 4:12 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CREAM Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w.n.n" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 4:13 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > W.N.N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, South End Floyd | Corridor back north. Maid's bedroom to the east. Bathroom opposite, Floyd | handy. South is the study. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a stumpy rubber tree in a brown pot. Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, North End Floyd | Corridor, south; guest bedroom, west; murder, north. Stairs, down. Floyd | Floyd | Master Bedroom Floyd | Bed, mirrored dresser, window. Door. Yucca. Blood, lots of it. Floyd | Floyd | On the dresser is a green-shaded table lamp with bulb lit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open jar" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 4:14 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN JAR Floyd | Floyd | The jar's about half-full. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "optimistic" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "clean dresser with cream" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 4:14 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > CLEAN DRESSER WITH CREAM Floyd | Floyd | The jar of face-cream wouldn't help much to get that stuff off. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "okay" | ||
| DavidW says, "darn." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close jar" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 4:15 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE JAR Floyd | Floyd | You close the jar of face-cream. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "whiskey time" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to car.g.g.g" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 4:17 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO CAR.G.G.G Floyd | Floyd | (the black chevy door) Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, North End Floyd | Corridor, south; guest bedroom, west; murder, north. Stairs, down. Floyd | Floyd | Joe appears from downstairs. "I'm sorry I took so long. But it's not Floyd | from the dead guy. So I checked the blood type with some people; local Floyd | doctors, the hospital, that sort of thing. It matches someone in the Floyd | household, though. One Anthony Carpenter; the maid's boyfriend? And Floyd | he's still not come back yet?" Joe raises an eyebrow, hands you the Floyd | blood test report. Floyd | Floyd | The policeman heads off downstairs. Floyd | (the black chevy) Floyd | You descend the half-circle of the stairs, into the hallway. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | Stairs up, passage northwest, front door behind. Desk one side, Floyd | hat-stand on the other. Floyd | (the black chevy) Floyd | (drawing back the latch first and opening the door) Floyd | Floyd | Front Porch Floyd | Front door, front gate. Small diamond of glass in the door. Floyd | Floyd | A hanging basket with a couple of petunias in is attached just to the Floyd | left of the door. Floyd | (the black chevy) Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Floyd | Your car. Front gate, leading up to the porch of the house. Floyd | Floyd | A police squad car is parked outside No. 11, a little to the west of Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "it's *always* whiskey time" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "in" | |||
Floyd ] Front Porch Time: 4:17 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for a room description.] Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You step into the porch. Floyd | Floyd | Front Porch Floyd | Front door, front gate. Small diamond of glass in the door. Floyd | Floyd | A hanging basket with a couple of petunias in is attached just to the Floyd | left of the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to car.g" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 4:18 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could GET OUT of the black chevy.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO CAR.G Floyd | Floyd | (the black chevy) Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Floyd | Your car. Front gate, leading up to the porch of the house. Floyd | Floyd | A police squad car is parked outside No. 11, a little to the west of Floyd | here. Floyd | (the black chevy) Floyd | You slide into the front seat. Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 (in the black chevy) Floyd | The boulevard through the windscreen is lined with ash trees, thick Floyd | trunks casting shadows and gnarled roots mangling up the sidewalk. Floyd | You're sat in your car, parked too high up the kerb; just outside the Floyd | gate to No. 15. Just an ordinary house. Floyd | Floyd | The glove compartment is closed. Sat on the passenger seat is a Floyd | whiskey bottle. Floyd | Floyd | A police squad car is parked outside No. 11, a little to the west of Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take bottle" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 4:19 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could GET OUT of the black chevy.] Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | Your fingers shiver on the glass as you lift it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "if you want to try prying the glove compartment again, be my guest" | ||
| DavidW says, "bet you still can't get the whiskey inside." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open bottle" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 4:19 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could GET OUT of the black chevy door.] Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | Shaky fingers unscrew the cap. Oh, yeah. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open glove compartment with badge" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 4:20 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could GET OUT of the black chevy door.] Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN GLOVE COMPARTMENT WITH BADGE Floyd | Floyd | That doesn't fit the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "pry glove compartment" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 4:20 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could GET OUT of the black chevy door.] Floyd | Floyd | > PRY GLOVE COMPARTMENT Floyd | Floyd | (--> pray glove compartment) Floyd | -- I only got as far as wanting to pray. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "open glove" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 4:20 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could GET OUT of the black chevy door.] Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN GLOVE Floyd | Floyd | (unlocking it first - with the car key) Floyd | You pull open the compartment, and it catches after only opening a Floyd | tiny crack. Stupid thing. Floyd | Floyd | Up the road, a dog drifts in and out from between the trees. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock glove compartment with car key" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 4:21 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could GET OUT of the black chevy door.] Floyd | Floyd | > UNLOCK GLOVE COMPARTMENT WITH CAR KEY Floyd | Floyd | No, the great thing is, when it catches, the barrel for the key can't Floyd | turn either. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "hit glove" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 4:21 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could GET OUT of the black chevy.] Floyd | Floyd | > HIT GLOVE Floyd | Floyd | Leaning up in the seat, you give the thing a smack with both feet and Floyd | it clicks shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "unlock glove with car key" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 4:22 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could GET OUT of the black chevy door.] Floyd | Floyd | > UNLOCK GLOVE WITH CAR KEY Floyd | Floyd | You unlock the glove compartment. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "goddamit one at afreakin time" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open glove" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 4:22 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could GET OUT of the black chevy door.] Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN GLOVE Floyd | Floyd | You pull open the compartment, and it catches again. Floyd | Floyd | Sunlight gleams through the windshield. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "I don't think this is openable" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pry compartment with badge" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 4:22 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could GET OUT of the black chevy door.] Floyd | Floyd | > PRY COMPARTMENT WITH BADGE Floyd | Floyd | (--> pray compartment with badge) Floyd | -- I only got as far as wanting to pray. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan asks, "maybe lubricate it with the face cream?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jimmy compartment with badge" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 4:22 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy, with gloves on Floyd ] [For help on playing, type HELP.] Floyd | Floyd | > JIMMY COMPARTMENT WITH BADGE Floyd | Floyd | -- "jimmy" isn't a recognised verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "prise compartment with badge" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 4:22 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy, with gloves on Floyd ] [For help on playing, type HELP.] Floyd | Floyd | > PRISE COMPARTMENT WITH BADGE Floyd | Floyd | -- "prise" isn't a recognised verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "I'm not even sure what we want to get out of this thing" | ||
| JimKaplan asks, "put badge in crack?" | |||
| Fang asks, "a gun?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put cream on compartment" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 4:23 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could GET OUT of the black chevy.] Floyd | Floyd | > PUT CREAM ON COMPARTMENT Floyd | Floyd | The glove compartment isn't exactly wrinkled. Floyd | Floyd | From the high street comes the rumble of cars. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crack" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 4:23 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could OPEN the glove compartment to see what's inside.] Floyd | Floyd | > X CRACK Floyd | Floyd | The glove compartment is built under the dashboard and has a lock on Floyd | it. It's open a crack, the damn thing's caught again. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put badge in crack" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 4:24 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could GET OUT of the black chevy.] Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BADGE IN CRACK Floyd | Floyd | You drop the badge through the crack into the glove compartment. Nice Floyd | going. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "damn." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 4:23 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could OPEN the glove compartment to see what's inside.] Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Floyd | -- Previous turn undone. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "That letter opener would help now, wouldn't it?" | ||
| JimKaplan says, "I think we may still be under-equipped for this task" | |||
| DavidW says, "yeah, perhaps" | |||
| Fang says, "we have the letter opener" | |||
| JimKaplan asks (of Fang), "Do we?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "we do?" | |||
| Fang says, "joe gave it back to us" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to Fang), "Did he now? I'd have thought the lab would have kept it." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open compartment with opener" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 4:24 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could GET OUT of the black chevy door.] Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN COMPARTMENT WITH OPENER Floyd | Floyd | You flip the catch with the blade and the whole thing flaps open. The Floyd | glove compartment has got a handwritten note in it. Floyd | Floyd | Some little mutt is yammering away in the distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "oh" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read handwritten" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 4:24 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could GET OUT of the black chevy.] Floyd | Floyd | > READ HANDWRITTEN Floyd | Floyd | The note you received, what, yesterday? Crabby handwriting, like the Floyd | skink was scared or something. It reads: Floyd | Floyd | Dear "Colin", Floyd | Floyd | Let's get straight to business, shall we? I know who you Floyd | are, I know your name, so I'm not going to mess around with Floyd | this stupid arrangement of yours any more. I've already paid Floyd | you far too much. Floyd | Let me dictate terms for once: if we can't finish this for Floyd | good then I'm going to tell her. I'm going to tell Floyd | her that Floyd | you know, and that you've been blackmailing me. I may as Floyd | well; I don't have anything to lose. You do, as it's that - or Floyd | Floyd | one final payment and I get photos and negatives and you Floyd | disappear from my life and Angela never knows. Floyd | It's time we spoke face to face and stopped all this silly Floyd | business with notes-under-doors. Meet me, here, tomorrow. Floyd | Tuesday. I will leave a key to the front door in the petunia Floyd | basket. Floyd | Floyd | J. D. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "what the f" | ||
| JimKaplan says, "whoah." | |||
| Fang says, "so" | |||
| Johnny asks, "Ah, y'all just "got it"?" | |||
| Fang says, ">accuse me" | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "The prints on the letter opener...was that an actual thing? Are we in a Roger Ackroyd Situation?" | |||
| Fang says, "this explains also how we knew everyone so well" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Hell yeah." | |||
| DavidW says, "so, uh, are we the murderer then? sh*t." | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "So what's the story now? Do we drive away, destroy evidence?" | |||
| DavidW says, "That kinda changes our plans, I think. We need to plant evidence to point to someone else." | |||
| Fang says, "we should have wiped the letter opener for prints" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Joe didn't see us pick up the opener, so he doesn't know we were wearing gloves." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "We could explain that away pretty easily." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "We need to get rid of blood." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Possibly." | |||
| Fang asks, "what about our shoes?" | |||
| DavidW says, "a bit late to get rid of the blood." | |||
| DavidW asks (of Fang), "I dunno. Wear Angela's?" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I mean, if there's any of ours hanging around." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x colin" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 4:25 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could GET OUT of the black chevy.] Floyd | Floyd | > X COLIN Floyd | Floyd | (--> x coin) Floyd | On closer inspection it's not a quarter, it's not even currency. It's Floyd | a French franc, dated seven years ago. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Oh. Long shot." | ||
| Fang says (to DavidW), "I mean, there's dog poop on them, maybe we left prints" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to Fang), "Unless we came in through the window, I don't think that's an issue." | |||
| DavidW says, "if we came in the window, there could be prints at the base of the roses." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "But we do have enough info to convict Angela." | |||
| Fang says, "I think we left through the window, potentially" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Well, maybe not convict." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "But we already have a lot of circumstantial evidence against her." | |||
| Fang says, "I think there's the marks on the dresser" | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm still not fully sure what happened or should happen." | |||
| Fang says, "that might be the note he wrote to us" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I'm wondering what would happen at this point if we just up and accused Angela." | |||
| Fang asks, "and use the photo on her?" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Well, possibly. Maybe accusation summarizes the available evidence automatically or something." | |||
| Fang says, "I think we need to destroy the marks on the dresser" | |||
| Fang says, "somehow" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "That seems difficult." | |||
| DavidW says, "Joe's not exactly on our side. Our evidence needs to be as solid as we can make it." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Ok." | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "We probably can't get Angela's prints on the opener, can we?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Can the whiskey clean the dresser?" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Actually, no point, it was already analysed." | |||
| Fang says (to DW), "probably" | |||
| Fang says (to JimKaplan), "too late new" | |||
| Fang says, "*now" | |||
| DavidW says, "Fortunately, Joe's willing to believe we have sloppy technique" | |||
| Fang says (to DW), "I assume one ending would just be to come clean to Joe now" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Sure" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "But I think we're implicitly being given the option to frame someone here." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "If so, we should clean the dresser and then look around downstairs." | |||
| DavidW says, "We're still unclear on all the players." | |||
| DavidW asks, "Like, who is 'ADC' aka 'Mr A Carpenter'?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Did Jack have a double life?" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "read badge" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 4:25 pm Floyd ] - in the black chevy, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could GET OUT of the black chevy.] Floyd | Floyd | > READ BADGE Floyd | Floyd | Your police badge - oh yeah, this proves you're an upstanding, honest, Floyd | officer of the goddamn law. It has a small pin on the back. Floyd | Floyd | Sunlight gleams through the windshield. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "My instinct is that we need to know as much as we can about the details of the house/crime before we get within view of any of the witnesses/suspects/characters." | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, I think that's wise." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Hence, dresser, then downstairs." | |||
| DavidW says, "And out around the outside, if possible." | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "Yeah. Shall we?" | |||
| DavidW says, "yeah, someone take the wheel" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "go to master" | |||
Floyd ] Front Porch Time: 4:26 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO MASTER Floyd | Floyd | You clamber out of the driving seat. Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Floyd | The boulevard is lined with ash trees, thick trunks casting shadows Floyd | and gnarled roots mangling up the sidewalk. Your car is parked too Floyd | high up the kerb; just outside the gate to No. 15. Just an ordinary Floyd | house. Floyd | Floyd | A police squad car is parked outside No. 11, a little to the west of Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | You step into the porch. Floyd | Floyd | Front Porch Floyd | Front door, front gate. Small diamond of glass in the door. Floyd | Floyd | A hanging basket with a couple of petunias in is attached just to the Floyd | left of the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "g" | |||
Floyd ] Hallway Time: 4:26 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | Stairs up, passage northwest, front door behind. Desk one side, Floyd | hat-stand on the other. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "g.g" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, North End Time: 4:27 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > G.G Floyd | Floyd | You make your way upstairs around the curve of the staircase. Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, North End Floyd | Corridor, south; guest bedroom, west; murder, north. Stairs, down. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "g" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 4:27 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Master Bedroom Floyd | Bed, mirrored dresser, window. Door. Yucca. Blood, lots of it. Floyd | Floyd | On the dresser is a green-shaded table lamp with bulb lit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "open bottle" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 4:28 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | That's already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "clean dresser with whiskey" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 4:28 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > CLEAN DRESSER WITH WHISKEY Floyd | Floyd | You carefully splash a drop - just a drop - of the fine, fine whiskey Floyd | over the top of the dresser. Another splash and the stuff starts to Floyd | wipe away nicely. You use your sleeve to mop it up. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "put blank paper on dresser" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 4:29 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BLANK PAPER ON DRESSER Floyd | Floyd | You put the blank sheet of paper on the marks in the varnish. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "nice" | ||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "rub pencil on blank paper" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 4:29 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > RUB PENCIL ON BLANK PAPER Floyd | Floyd | You shade over the paper with the pencil, and the remains of a note Floyd | emerge. The fragments of the letter are patchy, some full words, some Floyd | you can work out without too much staring. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | De Floyd | Floyd | L t str busine know who you Floyd | are, ow your nam Floyd | stupid arr em t ny more already paid Floyd | you far ch. Floyd | Le e d ta r s for onc e can't finish this for Floyd | od then I'm going to tell her. I'm goi o tell her that Floyd | you know, ou've be ing me. I may as Floyd | well; I don't ything to lose. You do Floyd | fi ment and an ou Floyd | p rom my life. Floyd | 's time we spoke fa face an ll thi Floyd | ith notes-under- ors. M , h omor Floyd | esd ll le to th do r he p t ia Floyd | et. Floyd | Floyd | J. D. Floyd | Floyd | No names, which makes it nicely suggestive, right? More useful that Floyd | way. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Hahaha" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh geez" | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "This is getting overt, isn't it?" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I think we need to destroy the note." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 4:30 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | As good-looking as ever. Eyes red, chin unshaved, cheek bruised. Your Floyd | whole body aches like a bombsite. Oh yeah, the finest in the state. Floyd | Floyd | You're wearing your trenchcoat, and your scuffed black shoes. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Perhaps the game knows to change the tone once we've read the handwritten note." | ||
| Fang says, "maybe we are ADC" | |||
| Fang asks, "?" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x carpenter" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 4:30 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for a room description.] Floyd | Floyd | > X CARPENTER Floyd | Floyd | -- You referred to something that can't be interacted with at present. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x colin" | |||
Floyd ] Master Bedroom Time: 4:30 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X COLIN Floyd | Floyd | (--> x coin) Floyd | On closer inspection it's not a quarter, it's not even currency. It's Floyd | a French franc, dated seven years ago. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "I tried that." | ||
| DavidW asks, "What does cerestex do, anyway? What condition does it treat?" | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "Maybe if we look at the pills?" | |||
| Fang says, "we could have it analysed" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to Fang), "If we're Carpenter, that would be a very bad idea" | |||
| DavidW says, "I'd rather look it up in a medical book if the bookcase has one." | |||
| Fang says, "good point" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "OK" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "go to study" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, North End Time: 4:31 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to study.g.g" | |||
Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO STUDY Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, North End Floyd | Corridor, south; guest bedroom, west; murder, north. Stairs, down. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, South End Time: 4:32 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO STUDY.G.G Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, South End Floyd | Corridor back north. Maid's bedroom to the east. Bathroom opposite, Floyd | handy. South is the study. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a stumpy rubber tree in a brown pot. Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | Long and thin. Big window, big bookcase, big desk, very big chair. Floyd | Door to the north. Floyd | Floyd | On the mahogany desk are a wooden block and a telephone. Floyd | Floyd | Leaning against the side of the desk is Jack's briefcase. Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, South End Floyd | Corridor back north. Maid's bedroom to the east. Bathroom opposite, Floyd | handy. South is the study. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a stumpy rubber tree in a brown pot. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "g" | |||
Floyd ] Study Time: 4:33 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | Long and thin. Big window, big bookcase, big desk, very big chair. Floyd | Door to the north. Floyd | Floyd | On the mahogany desk are a wooden block and a telephone. Floyd | Floyd | Leaning against the side of the desk is Jack's briefcase. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "look up ceretex in bookcase" | |||
Floyd ] Study Time: 4:33 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP CERETEX IN BOOKCASE Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in the bookshelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "look up cerestex in bookcase" | |||
Floyd ] Study Time: 4:34 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP CERESTEX IN BOOKCASE Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in the bookshelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up medicine in bookcase" | |||
Floyd ] Study Time: 4:34 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP MEDICINE IN BOOKCASE Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in the bookshelves. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Actually, yeah." | ||
| JimKaplan says, "Though apparently not that either." | |||
| DavidW says, "it's a bit of a longshot without titles." | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "Could we try wearing the shirts?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "dial 1488" | |||
Floyd ] Study Time: 4:35 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > DIAL 1488 Floyd | Floyd | (on the telephone) Floyd | You lift the receiver and dial. The phone rings, and rings, and rings, Floyd | and eventually the company cuts it off for you. The phone goes dead. Floyd | You replace the handset. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x phone" | |||
Floyd ] Study Time: 4:35 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X PHONE Floyd | Floyd | (the telephone) Floyd | A squat little black telephone, with a receiver and a dial. You should Floyd | recognise it, you're allowed to use it once every time you're kept in. Floyd | On the front is a sticker with the number: 3734. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You knew Jenny wouldn't answer again." | ||
| JimKaplan says, "If we tried wearing the shirts, we might get some useful passing comment." | |||
| Fang says, "Jenny didn't recognise us" | |||
| DavidW asks, "We were kept in where?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "dial 3734" | |||
Floyd ] Study Time: 4:36 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > DIAL 3734 Floyd | Floyd | (on the telephone) Floyd | You lift the receiver and dial. Engaged. You replace the handset. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "I think that means the hypothetical jail inhabitant." | ||
| Fang says, "wait" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x book" | |||
Floyd ] Study Time: 4:36 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOK Floyd | Floyd | "The Complete Adventures of Slick Gurner." Pocket sized. Bin sized. Floyd | Floyd | On the back flap, in blue ink, are the numbers 43 and 41. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Or us, if we're arrested a lot." | ||
| DavidW says, "I thought it meant we used this phone before." | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "Dial 4341?" | |||
| Fang says, "we could try that" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "dial 4341" | |||
Floyd ] Study Time: 4:37 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > DIAL 4341 Floyd | Floyd | (on the telephone) Floyd | You lift the receiver and dial. There is no answer, unsurprisingly. Floyd | You replace the handset. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "dial 4143" | |||
Floyd ] Study Time: 4:37 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > DIAL 4143 Floyd | Floyd | (on the telephone) Floyd | You lift the receiver and dial. The phone goes dead. You replace the Floyd | handset. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "goes dead?" | ||
| JimKaplan says, "Yeah, that surprised me too." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "dial 0" | |||
Floyd ] Study Time: 4:38 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > DIAL 0 Floyd | Floyd | (on the telephone) Floyd | You lift the receiver and dial. The phone goes dead. You replace the Floyd | handset. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Oh, oh." | ||
| Fang says, "wait" | |||
| DavidW says, "A quaint Britishism, perhaps." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "There is no answer - unsurprisingly..." | |||
| Fang says, "'unsurprisingly?'" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "...because *we're* not there." | |||
| Fang says, "yes" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "That's our number." | |||
| Fang says, "that's possible" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I'd bet money on that." | |||
| Fang says, "okay, possibly angela *knows*" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "What if..." | |||
| JimKaplan What if we're working *with* Angela... | Fang says, "unlikely" | ||
| Fang says, "oh shit" | |||
| Fang says, "think about it, angela, when she answered the door, was unhappy there was only one of us" | |||
| DavidW asks, "so?" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Look at this from when we met her:" | |||
| Fang says, "like, if she suspects us of being the killer, she needs to something to help her arrest us" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "After a short wait the door opens, Angela's face appears, then the rest of her. She looks just like she should considering, no time to do her face." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "No time, because she was in the house when we killed Jack." | |||
| Fang says, "I don't buy it" | |||
| Fang says, "no way she'd have turned us away if we had the bottle" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "It's flimsy, I'll admit." | |||
| Fang says, "if she's with us" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "And in fairness we did have to show her the bage." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "er, badge." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "OK, nvm that I guess." | |||
| DavidW says, "I don't think Angela knows us." | |||
| DavidW says, "previously, I mean" | |||
| Fang says, "she might know of 'Colin' though" | |||
| Fang asks, "so how do we want to play this?" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "OK. Angela doesn't know us...but a number which may well be our own is in a novel in her suitcase." | |||
| DavidW says, "Investigate more of the house, I think" | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "Do we get rid of the novel?" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to DavidW), "I think I agree" | |||
| Fang says, "okay, we need to check the back garden at least" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to garden" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, South End Time: 4:38 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO GARDEN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, South End Floyd | Corridor back north. Maid's bedroom to the east. Bathroom opposite, Floyd | handy. South is the study. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is a stumpy rubber tree in a brown pot. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to garden" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, North End Time: 4:39 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO GARDEN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, North End Floyd | Corridor, south; guest bedroom, west; murder, north. Stairs, down. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to garden" | |||
Floyd ] Hallway Time: 4:39 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO GARDEN Floyd | Floyd | You descend the half-circle of the stairs, into the hallway. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | Stairs up, passage northwest, front door behind. Desk one side, Floyd | hat-stand on the other. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The gardener, if that's who William is, ought to be neutral." | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to garden" | |||
Floyd ] Passage from Hallway Time: 4:40 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO GARDEN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Passage from Hallway Floyd | This passage runs from the hallway southeast to the kitchen at the far Floyd | north end of the house. There's not much here but the closed door Floyd | westwards to the frost-bite blue living room, and a small cupboard set Floyd | into the east wall. With no real natural light here the ambient Floyd | dinginess of the house comes through like stain. Floyd | Floyd | The cupboard is closed and locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says (to DW), "I doubt he's neutral about murder" | ||
| JimKaplan says, "YYEEEEEAAHHHHHHHH" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open cupboard" | |||
Floyd ] Passage from Hallway Time: 4:40 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CUPBOARD Floyd | Floyd | (unlocking it first - with the closet key) Floyd | You open the small cupboard, revealing a black box and a shoe rack. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Cue CSI Miami titles" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x black box" | |||
Floyd ] Passage from Hallway Time: 4:41 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could OPEN the black box to see what's inside.] Floyd | Floyd | > X BLACK BOX Floyd | Floyd | A black metal box with a small brass lock; the kind people who can't Floyd | afford a safe use to store their cheque books. Back home, you use a Floyd | shoe-box. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open box" | |||
Floyd ] Passage from Hallway Time: 4:41 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN BOX Floyd | Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "unlock box with dirty key" | |||
Floyd ] Passage from Hallway Time: 4:42 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > UNLOCK BOX WITH DIRTY KEY Floyd | Floyd | That doesn't fit the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh dear. Receipts to us might be in there." | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x shoe rack" | |||
Floyd ] Passage from Hallway Time: 4:42 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X SHOE RACK Floyd | Floyd | It's a rack, made from a few bits of wire in a sort of bent mesh, on Floyd | which you put shoes. As if the corner of the room wasn't good enough. Floyd | Floyd | The shoe rack has got Jack's shoes and Emilia's shoes on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x emilia's shoes" | |||
Floyd ] Passage from Hallway Time: 4:43 pm
Floyd ] - with gloves on
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > X EMILIA'S SHOES
Floyd |
Floyd | One of many pairs no doubt; these are functional - flat soled, soft
Floyd | white leather. The only decoration are slight frills to the seams,
Floyd | totally pointless, virtually invisible.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Fang says (to Floyd), "x jack" | |||
Floyd ] Passage from Hallway Time: 4:43 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for a room description.] Floyd | Floyd | > X JACK Floyd | Floyd | -- You referred to something that can't be interacted with at present. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x jack's shoes" | |||
Floyd ] Passage from Hallway Time: 4:43 pm
Floyd ] - with gloves on
Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.]
Floyd |
Floyd | > X JACK'S SHOES
Floyd |
Floyd | These have got to be Jack's shoes - they're spit polished; they look
Floyd | like they haven't seen a days use but for the thin, worn down soles.
Floyd | The laces are an even length out of the eyelets. Got to be.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Fang says (to Floyd), "take box" | |||
Floyd ] Passage from Hallway Time: 4:44 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BOX Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to garden" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Time: 4:44 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO GARDEN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | A plush little kitchen, with a kitchenette area full of drawers and Floyd | cookers and a sink, and one long table filling the rest of the room, Floyd | where they eat. A flapping swing door leads north onto the garden, and Floyd | lets in a little air. The passage back to the hallway is opposite, Floyd | above that door is a cheerful round clock. To the east is a pantry. Floyd | Floyd | There's a young dark-haired girl here. She must be the maid who phoned Floyd | the station. Floyd | Floyd | On the worktop are a closed biscuit barrel and a ceramic water-jug. Floyd | Floyd | The girl looks up and notices you, and leaps to her feet, flustered. Floyd | She begins speaking hurriedly. "You are from the police? You are a Floyd | policeman? It is terrible, quite terrible." She has traces of a French Floyd | accent, a stain like day-old mascara. "We were all here, when it Floyd | happened, all of us. Like some kind of joke... I have not said who I Floyd | am. Emilia Jordane. The maid, here." A useless curtsey, then she sits Floyd | back down at the table and waits to get done. Floyd | Floyd | The maid shrieks! She has seen the knife. Floyd | Floyd | Emilia's eyes are on the whiskey bottle in your hand. "We do not have Floyd | whiskey in the house, Inspector, not since Anthony started to live Floyd | here. It is not good for him. He - used to drink a lot, Inspector." Floyd | Her face darkens a little. "So did Jack." Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "OK, so we're not Carpenter." | ||
| DavidW asks, "why, because we dont drink?" | |||
| Fang says, "anthony, huh" | |||
| Fang asks, "ADC. Anthony Carpenter?" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to DW), "No, because she referred to him in the third person (I assume it's Anthony)." | |||
| Fang says, "so Jack was sleeping with the maid" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x maid" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Time: 4:45 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > X MAID Floyd | Floyd | French by blood, you can see that around the soft lines of her face Floyd | and the redness of the lips. She's pretty - sure, she's a real young Floyd | flower, with long black hair tied back, and a look of quiet respect Floyd | that takes little getting used to, you'd reckon. She's wearing Floyd | comfortable casual clothes, so you'd hardly pin her as a maid except Floyd | for the dishcloth and her hands neatly folded in her lap; and that Floyd | subservient look that fills her rich brown eyes. Floyd | Floyd | The maid tries not to look at the knife. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "well, what if we wore a disguise as Anthony?" | ||
| JimKaplan says, "Maybe, but if we were living here I think she'd know his face well enough to recognize us." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I think we should ask her about Carpenter, I still don't know how he fits into this story." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask maid about anthony" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Time: 4:45 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAID ABOUT ANTHONY Floyd | Floyd | She smiles. "Anthony is my boyfriend. We met last year. He is Floyd | wonderful, Inspector. He has had some problems in the past, Inspector. Floyd | He was an alcoholic when I met him, it was terrible. But he is through Floyd | that now, and I am very proud of him. He is staying here, with me, at Floyd | the moment - you will meet him when he comes back, I suppose, Floyd | Inspector. This will all be a great shock to him when he returns. Floyd | Floyd | "I suppose we will be leaving now, we will get a place of our own. It Floyd | is not so bad, I suppose." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh." | ||
| JimKaplan says, "Although we do know her name..." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask maid about carpenter" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Time: 4:46 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAID ABOUT CARPENTER Floyd | Floyd | "He's a wonderful man. He is very kind to me. I do not think Mrs. Floyd | Draginam likes to have him stay, but Mr. Draginam allows it. I think Floyd | they get - got - on well, Anthony and Jack. He has had some problems Floyd | in the past, Inspector. He was an alcoholic when I met him, it was Floyd | terrible. But he is through that now, and I am very proud of him. He Floyd | went out just after lunch, at about half past one. He went swimming. Floyd | He'll probably be back quite soon." Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "so anthony carpenter is the maid's boyfriend" | ||
| Fang says, "except the maid is also sleeping with Jack" | |||
| DavidW says, "ask maid about cerestex" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Mm, yes." | |||
| Fang says, "which means Anthony has motive" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "ask maid about cerestex" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Time: 4:46 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAID ABOUT CERESTEX Floyd | Floyd | "Those are Anthony's painkillers, Inspector. He has sprained his Floyd | ankle." Floyd | Floyd | The maid avoids the letter-opener with her eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask maid about jenny" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Time: 4:47 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAID ABOUT JENNY Floyd | Floyd | Emilia has no idea who you're talking about. "Is there someone at the Floyd | library like that?" she asks. You shake your head. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan asks, "How about Colin?" | ||
| Fang says, "risky" | |||
| DavidW asks, "library?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask maid about library" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Time: 4:47 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAID ABOUT LIBRARY Floyd | Floyd | -- "library" isn't a word you can use. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says (to DW), "The library is probably where the others are." | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask maid about jack" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Time: 4:47 pm Floyd ] - on the chair, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could GET OFF the chair.] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAID ABOUT JACK Floyd | Floyd | "I should tell you what happened, yes? Please, sit down." They don't Floyd | often ask, so you go ahead. Floyd | Floyd | "It was a little before 2pm. I was here clearing up the things from Floyd | lunch. Mrs. Draginam was in the living room with her friend Mr. Floyd | Matheston, I think. Anyway - I was singing to myself and I didn't know Floyd | anything until there was this most awful scream. I thought Mrs. Floyd | Draginam, she must have dropped something, so I went upstairs with my Floyd | dustpan. And the bedroom door, it was open - I could see blood Floyd | already, from the stairs I could see it. Angela was there also, with Floyd | her back to me, by the window. She was closing it. She told me to call Floyd | the police. She didn't turn around - she was shaking. Such a shock. Floyd | Floyd | "So I called the police. You. That is what happened." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh" | ||
| JimKaplan says, "I shouldn't think asking about Colin is risky" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Unless that's our real name, I suppose" | |||
| Fang says, "okay, we left via the window" | |||
| Fang says (to JimKaplan), "I don't think we want anyone to think there's another suspect" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "OK." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask maid about jack" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Time: 4:48 pm Floyd ] - on the chair, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could GET OFF the chair.] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAID ABOUT JACK Floyd | Floyd | "He was a good employer, I suppose, Inspector. He paid my wages on Floyd | time. They were good wages. And he kept me on - I know Mrs. Draginam Floyd | did not think I was needed any more. Jack insisted." Floyd | Floyd | The maid's eyes stay fixed on you. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan asks, "Could we show the photo to the maid?" | ||
| Fang says, "nooo" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "whyyy" | |||
| Fang says, "she'll realise that Jack was being blackmailed" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "They'll realize it anyway" | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "The desk, remember?" | |||
| Fang says (to JimKaplan), "the note was incomplete" | |||
| Fang says, "no mention of the word blackmail" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Blackmail notes rarely do mention the word" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "It's a very suggestive note, though" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I guess it wouldn't hurt to continue searching the house for now, she isn't going anywhere" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Time: 4:48 pm Floyd ] - on the chair, with gloves on Floyd ] [You could GET OFF the chair.] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen (on the chair) Floyd | A plush little kitchen, with a kitchenette area full of drawers and Floyd | cookers and a sink, and one long table filling the rest of the room, Floyd | where they eat. A flapping swing door leads north onto the garden, and Floyd | lets in a little air. The passage back to the hallway is opposite, Floyd | above that door is a cheerful round clock. To the east is a pantry. Floyd | Floyd | The maid is sitting at the table, trying to look all mournful and Floyd | European. Floyd | Floyd | On the worktop are a closed biscuit barrel and a ceramic water-jug. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Back Garden Time: 4:49 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You stand. Floyd | Floyd | Back Garden Floyd | A small square garden, borded on three sides by a high privet hedge Floyd | and on the fourth by the house. The swing door south to the kitchen Floyd | flaps lazily in the light breeze. The garden is in shade, the Floyd | afternoon sun not yet pushing over the chimney stack, and it's all Floyd | lawn, but for the beat-up shed in the northwest corner. Floyd | Floyd | A thick net of dog roses covers the wall of the house. Floyd | Floyd | There's a sweet smell coming from the roses. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x roses" | |||
Floyd ] Back Garden Time: 4:49 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > X ROSES Floyd | Floyd | A thick bush of thorny roses, which grips the wall of the house up Floyd | towards one of the windows, growing out of a muddy flowerbed. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "and blood?" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x flowerbed" | |||
Floyd ] Back Garden Time: 4:50 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X FLOWERBED Floyd | Floyd | A thick bush of roses grows from the flowerbed up the side of the Floyd | house. Floyd | Floyd | In the soil there are some footprints, clear as mud. Floyd | Floyd | There's a sweet smell coming from the roses. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Oho." | ||
| Fang says, "we're a pretty crappy murderer" | |||
| JimKaplan exclaims, "We can afford to be, we get first crack at the crime scene!" | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "We can fake footprints, can't we? If we get someone else's shoes?" | |||
| Fang says, "maybe" | |||
| DavidW says, "and I bet we can change those footprints to Jack's, or Angela's or Emelie's." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "erase footprints" | |||
Floyd ] Back Garden Time: 4:50 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ERASE FOOTPRINTS Floyd | Floyd | You muss all over the footprints already there, pretty much obscuring Floyd | them. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Yeah, this is starting to take shape I think" | ||
| DavidW asks, "you didn't want to examine them first?" | |||
| Fang says (to DW), "or anthony's" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Just to be certain it was ours?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Back Garden Time: 4:50 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Back Garden Floyd | -- Previous turn undone. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x footprints" | |||
Floyd ] Back Garden Time: 4:50 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You can ANALYSE the footprints to collect it as evidence.] Floyd | Floyd | > X FOOTPRINTS Floyd | Floyd | The footprints are quite clear, and right at the base of the roses. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "We can analyse footprints for an early grave :D" | ||
| Fang says, "I really doubt analysing them is a good idea" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "erase footprints" | |||
Floyd ] Back Garden Time: 4:51 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > ERASE FOOTPRINTS Floyd | Floyd | You muss all over the footprints already there, pretty much obscuring Floyd | them. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "OK, so there's a snag with framing Angela." | ||
| JimKaplan says, "The maid says Angela was downstairs with Matheson, and no one will disagree on that." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "She couldn't have been downstairs and causing Jack's scream at the same time." | |||
| Fang says, "but angela was also the first on the scene of the crime" | |||
| DavidW says, "hm." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "But Matheston will corroborate that Angela wasn't there when the scream was heard." | |||
| Fang says, "I think the question is whether matheson can provide her with an alibi or not" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Yeah." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Back Garden Time: 4:51 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Back Garden Floyd | A small square garden, borded on three sides by a high privet hedge Floyd | and on the fourth by the house. The swing door south to the kitchen Floyd | flaps lazily in the light breeze. The garden is in shade, the Floyd | afternoon sun not yet pushing over the chimney stack, and it's all Floyd | lawn, but for the beat-up shed in the northwest corner. Floyd | Floyd | A thick net of dog roses covers the wall of the house. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan asks, "D'you think it would be safe to ask them before proceeding?" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x roses" | |||
Floyd ] Back Garden Time: 4:52 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X ROSES Floyd | Floyd | A thick bush of thorny roses, which grips the wall of the house up Floyd | towards one of the windows, growing out of a muddy flowerbed. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "William's supposed to be in the shed here." | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x hedge" | |||
Floyd ] Back Garden Time: 4:52 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > X HEDGE Floyd | Floyd | A thick privet hedge, about five foot high, bordering the garden on Floyd | three sides. On the east side there's a medium size hole, a gap Floyd | between branches. Large enough for a cat, or a desperate man. Floyd | Floyd | There's a sweet smell coming from the roses. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x hole" | |||
Floyd ] Back Garden Time: 4:53 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X HOLE Floyd | Floyd | A thick privet hedge, about five foot high, bordering the garden on Floyd | three sides. On the east side there's a medium size hole, a gap Floyd | between branches. Large enough for a cat, or a desperate man. Floyd | Floyd | There's a sweet smell coming from the roses. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] No. 17's Back Garden Time: 4:53 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | No. 17's Back Garden Floyd | Well-mown grass covers the garden of No. 17 which stands to the south. Floyd | Luckily the place seems pretty empty. The garden is bordered on the Floyd | east side by a low stone wall, and on the other by a privet hedge. Floyd | Floyd | The coloured back door of the house is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x wall" | |||
Floyd ] No. 17's Back Garden Time: 4:54 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > X WALL Floyd | Floyd | A low wall of cement-topped bricks, that you could scramble over. It Floyd | borders the garden to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] No. 19's Back Garden Time: 4:54 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | There's a face in a window - you wait for it to go before crossing the Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | No. 19's Back Garden Floyd | Floyd | The door to the house is shut. Floyd | Floyd | At the back of the garden is a clapped-out shed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x shed" | |||
Floyd ] No. 19's Back Garden Time: 4:55 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X SHED Floyd | Floyd | It's a beat-up, join-the-dots shed. It's what husbands buy when they Floyd | want somewhere cheap to bang the mistress. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "well" | ||
| Fang says, "is that what sheds are for" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open shed" | |||
Floyd ] No. 19's Back Garden Time: 4:55 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN SHED Floyd | Floyd | Let them be. You can take up gardens when you lose your badge. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x door" | |||
Floyd ] No. 19's Back Garden Time: 4:56 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the back door of house. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open it" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 19 Time: 4:56 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for a room description.] Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | The door seems pretty firmly closed. Floyd | Floyd | But all your fiddling has attracted attention - the door opens and a Floyd | frail old gent appears, giving you an earful, for being scruffy and Floyd | for being unauthorised in a back garden. Floyd | Floyd | Still, the job's got its perks - one flash of the badge and your Floyd | treated with the utmost courtesy; offered tea, spoken to demurely, and Floyd | led carefully - so as not to see anything they didn't want you to, you Floyd | guess - to the front door; and finally booted out into the street like Floyd | the stray you are. Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 19 Floyd | Nice houses. Your car, to the west. Down the street, some yammering Floyd | dog. Floyd | Floyd | A police squad car is parked outside No. 11, a little to the west of Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] No. 19's Back Garden Time: 4:56 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | No. 19's Back Garden Floyd | -- Previous turn undone. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] No. 21's Back Garden Time: 4:56 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You scrape your hand on the top of the wall as you pull yourself up. Floyd | Floyd | No. 21's Back Garden Floyd | Floyd | The bright painted door to the house is closed. Floyd | Floyd | There is a greenhouse is one corner of the garden. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "what on earth are we up to?" | ||
| JimKaplan says, "I sort of lost track, myself" | |||
| Fang says (to DW), "I'm recreating our escape" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "OK" | |||
| Fang says, "in case we left more traces of ourselves en route" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Are we gonna find Anthony's body?" | |||
| Fang asks, "Anthony's dead?" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to Fang), "Could be." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x greenhouse" | |||
Floyd ] No. 21's Back Garden Time: 4:57 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > X GREENHOUSE Floyd | Floyd | The greenhouse has a few soggy plants in it, a load of muck on the Floyd | floor and some broken pots. Yeah, it's a real labour of love. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I have no idea. Last i heard, he was swimming." | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] No. 23's Back Garden Time: 4:57 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You take a running jump, but basically fall over the hedge. Floyd | Floyd | No. 23's Back Garden Floyd | Floyd | On the ground is a stick. Floyd | Floyd | A cat prowls the grass, stalking the world. Floyd | Floyd | The coloured back door of the house is closed. Floyd | Floyd | The cat sniffs the air and pricks its tail. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x stick" | |||
Floyd ] No. 23's Back Garden Time: 4:58 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X STICK Floyd | Floyd | It's a stick. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Maybe we gotta kill the dog" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take stick" | |||
Floyd ] No. 23's Back Garden Time: 4:58 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE STICK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The cat mews a little and chases a beetle. And catches it, and crushes Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "f e" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] No. 25's Back Garden Time: 4:59 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | There's a face in a window - you wait for it to go before crossing the Floyd | wall. Floyd | Floyd | No. 25's Back Garden Floyd | Floyd | The bright painted door to the house is closed. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a garden here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] No. 27's Back Garden Time: 4:59 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | A branch scratches your face as you scramble across. Floyd | Floyd | No. 27's Back Garden Floyd | Floyd | The door to the south is closed. Floyd | Floyd | There is a greenhouse is one corner of the garden. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] No. 25's Back Garden Time: 4:59 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | No. 25's Back Garden Floyd | -- Previous turn undone. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x garden" | |||
Floyd ] No. 25's Back Garden Time: 4:59 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X GARDEN Floyd | Floyd | (the garden) Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "I'm wondering if there's a way out to the street at some point" | ||
| Fang says, "this is kinda getting silly though" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] No. 27's Back Garden Time: 5:00 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | A branch scratches your face as you scramble across. Floyd | Floyd | No. 27's Back Garden Floyd | Floyd | The door to the south is closed. Floyd | Floyd | There is a greenhouse is one corner of the garden. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] No. 29's Back Garden Time: 5:00 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | There's a hole in the hedge here, which you squirm through. Floyd | Floyd | No. 29's Back Garden Floyd | Floyd | The door to the house is shut. Floyd | Floyd | Nasty mouldy garden furniture is laid out of the lawn. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "It really is" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] No. 31's Back Garden Time: 5:01 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You hop up onto the wall, and step down into the next garden. Floyd | Floyd | No. 31's Back Garden Floyd | Floyd | The mesh door to the house is shut. Floyd | Floyd | At the back of the garden is a clapped-out shed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] No. 33's Back Garden Time: 5:01 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You take a running jump, but basically fall over the hedge. Floyd | Floyd | No. 33's Back Garden Floyd | Floyd | The door to the south is closed. Floyd | Floyd | There is a greenhouse is one corner of the garden. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "I think we're meant to find the number (if any) from another source." | ||
| Fang says, "these seem randomly generated" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to Fang), "and even if not, it'll take forever to search all of them." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "climb greenhouse" | |||
Floyd ] No. 33's Back Garden Time: 5:02 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > CLIMB GREENHOUSE Floyd | Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] No. 33's Back Garden Time: 5:02 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | The door is solidly locked. Luckily the house seems pretty empty - Floyd | no-one notices your rattling. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] No. 31's Back Garden Time: 5:03 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Your coat snags but you make it over. Floyd | Floyd | No. 31's Back Garden Floyd | Floyd | The mesh door to the house is shut. Floyd | Floyd | At the back of the garden is a clapped-out shed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 31 Time: 5:03 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | The door seems pretty firmly closed. Floyd | Floyd | But all your fiddling has attracted attention - the door opens and a Floyd | fat sweaty guy appears, giving you an earful, for being scruffy and Floyd | for being unauthorised in a back garden. Floyd | Floyd | Still, the job's got its perks - one flash of the badge and your Floyd | treated with the utmost courtesy; offered tea, spoken to demurely, and Floyd | led carefully - so as not to see anything they didn't want you to, you Floyd | guess - to the front door; and finally booted out into the street like Floyd | the stray you are. Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 31 Floyd | Nice houses. Your car, to the west. Down the street, some yammering Floyd | dog. Floyd | Floyd | A police squad car is parked outside No. 11, a little to the west of Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x dog" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 31 Time: 5:04 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X DOG Floyd | Floyd | The dog's somewhere else down the road. You can hear its damn yapping. Floyd | Floyd | How many bodies have you seen by now? How many empty houses? How many Floyd | wasted lives? Not enough to save your own, it would seem. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan asks, "Throw the stick, attract the dog, kill it?" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to dog" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 31 Time: 5:04 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO DOG Floyd | Floyd | The dog's somewhere else to the west along the road. You can hear its Floyd | damn yapping. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 29 Time: 5:05 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 29 Floyd | Nice houses. Your car, to the west. Down the street, some yammering Floyd | dog. Floyd | Floyd | A police squad car is parked outside No. 11, a little to the west of Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 27 Time: 5:05 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 27 Floyd | Nice houses. Your car, to the west. Down the street, some yammering Floyd | dog. Floyd | Floyd | A police squad car is parked outside No. 11, a little to the west of Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 25 Time: 5:06 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 25 Floyd | Nice houses. Your car, to the west. Down the street, some yammering Floyd | dog. Floyd | Floyd | You're standing right by a streetlight, on the edge of the kerb. Floyd | Floyd | A police squad car is parked outside No. 11, a little to the west of Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 23 Time: 5:06 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 23 Floyd | Nice houses. Your car, to the west. Down the street, some yammering Floyd | dog. Floyd | Floyd | A police squad car is parked outside No. 11, a little to the west of Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 21 Time: 5:07 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 21 Floyd | Nice houses. Your car, to the west. Down the street, some yammering Floyd | dog. Floyd | Floyd | A police squad car is parked outside No. 11, a little to the west of Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | From the high street comes the distant rumble of cars. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 19 Time: 5:07 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 19 Floyd | Nice houses. Your car, to the west. Down the street, some yammering Floyd | dog. Floyd | Floyd | You're standing right by a streetlight, on the edge of the kerb. Floyd | Floyd | A police squad car is parked outside No. 11, a little to the west of Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 17 Time: 5:08 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 17 Floyd | Nice houses. Your car, to the west. Down the street, some yammering Floyd | dog. Floyd | Floyd | A police squad car is parked outside No. 11, a little to the west of Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | A light breeze tickles your face and makes it itch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 5:08 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Floyd | Your car. Front gate, leading up to the porch of the house. Floyd | Floyd | A police squad car is parked outside No. 11, a little to the west of Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "okay, that was a waste of time" | ||
| Fang says, "sorry" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "No, it's OK" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to garden" | |||
Floyd ] Front Porch Time: 5:09 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO GARDEN Floyd | Floyd | You step into the porch. Floyd | Floyd | Front Porch Floyd | Front door, front gate. Small diamond of glass in the door. Floyd | Floyd | A hanging basket with a couple of petunias in is attached just to the Floyd | left of the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "We learned something anyway." | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to garden" | |||
Floyd ] Hallway Time: 5:09 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO GARDEN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | Stairs up, passage northwest, front door behind. Desk one side, Floyd | hat-stand on the other. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to garden" | |||
Floyd ] Passage from Hallway Time: 5:10 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO GARDEN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Passage from Hallway Floyd | Southeast to the hallway, north to the kitchen. Closet. Door to the Floyd | living room. Floyd | Floyd | The cupboard is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It's weird that it let us do all that." | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to garden" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Time: 5:10 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO GARDEN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Sink, drawers. Cooker. Table, chairs. Swing door to the garden. Clock. Floyd | Pantry. Passage to the south. Floyd | Floyd | The maid is at the table. Floyd | Floyd | On the worktop are a closed biscuit barrel and a ceramic water-jug. Floyd | Floyd | The maid tries not to look at the knife. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang asks, "maid about garden" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask maid about garden" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Time: 5:11 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAID ABOUT GARDEN Floyd | Floyd | "I love the garden, Inspector! It's only small, but I enjoy tending Floyd | it. You should see it in summer, not now, when all the flowers have Floyd | bloomed. Jack - Mr. Draginam - used to watch me pruning the roses from Floyd | the study window. Said I distracted him." Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Ooh la la" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask maid about shed" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Time: 5:11 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAID ABOUT SHED Floyd | Floyd | "Well, we keep gardening tools there," the maid says. "And Mr Floyd | Matheston, he likes the quiet I suppose." Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan asks, "Shall we ask about Matheston?" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask maid about matheson" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Time: 5:11 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAID ABOUT MATHESON Floyd | Floyd | -- "matheson" isn't a word you can use. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask maid about matheston" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Time: 5:12 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAID ABOUT MATHESTON Floyd | Floyd | "Mr Matheston is a good friend of Mrs Draginam. He's from the church. Floyd | They often spend time talking together, many hours. He's a very nice Floyd | man. I'm sure he couldn't be anything to do with... this. I think he Floyd | was in the living room when it happened. Now he's in the shed. For Floyd | whatever reason I do not know, but he likes to sit there sometimes." Floyd | Floyd | The maid avoids the letter-opener with her eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask maid about letter opener" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Time: 5:12 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAID ABOUT LETTER OPENER Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, I know the one. Jack - Mr. Daginham - kept it on his desk in the Floyd | study. It was for his business mail. He got so many letters every day Floyd | it said it hurt his fingers to tear them all." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask maid about phone" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Time: 5:12 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAID ABOUT PHONE Floyd | Floyd | -- Be more specific about what you want to ask Emilia the maid about. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "topics" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Time: 5:12 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > TOPICS Floyd | Floyd | (talking to Emilia the maid) Floyd | -- You could try talking to Emilia the maid about: Jack Draginam, the Floyd | whiskey bottle, the medicine tube, the silver key, the jar of Floyd | face-cream or the scrap of pink paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask maid about silver key" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Time: 5:13 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAID ABOUT SILVER KEY Floyd | Floyd | "Every woman has her secrets," she blushes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "... ooh lala" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask maid about face cream" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Time: 5:13 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAID ABOUT FACE CREAM Floyd | Floyd | "Every woman has her secrets," she blushes. Floyd | Floyd | The maid's eyes stay fixed on you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to garden" | |||
Floyd ] Back Garden Time: 5:14 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO GARDEN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Back Garden Floyd | Swing door. Flower-bed. Roses climbing up the house. A shed. A hedge. Floyd | Floyd | A thick net of dog roses covers the wall of the house. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x shed" | |||
Floyd ] Back Garden Time: 5:14 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X SHED Floyd | Floyd | Beaten-up. Dilapidated. If this shed were a bum you would have hauled Floyd | its ass down G-block so many times you'd recognise it by smell. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "knock on shed" | |||
Floyd ] Back Garden Time: 5:15 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > KNOCK ON SHED Floyd | Floyd | No answer here. Floyd | Floyd | There's a sweet smell coming from the roses. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "enter shed" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:15 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER SHED Floyd | Floyd | (opening the beaten-up shed door first) Floyd | You open the beaten-up shed door. Floyd | Floyd | Inside the Shed Floyd | The shed smells musty, like long-lost confessions - four rickety pine Floyd | walls filled with gardening tools, and a lawnmower, but still with Floyd | plenty of space for the terminally rich to potter around in. One small Floyd | dirty window has a view over the garden outside and the back of the Floyd | house. Floyd | Floyd | A chess set has been set up on an upturned wheelbarrow and laid out Floyd | mid-game. Floyd | Floyd | Angela had mentioned someone called William Matheston who was in the Floyd | shed: this old guy reclining in the deckchair must be him. Floyd | Floyd | Matheston looks up and makes eye contact. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan asks, "ask him about Angela?" | ||
| Fang says, "yes" | |||
| DavidW asks, "show badge first, no?" | |||
| Fang says, "sure" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show badge to matheston" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:16 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW BADGE TO MATHESTON Floyd | Floyd | William Matheston is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | "There you are again," Matheston says, rising to his feet to shake Floyd | your hand, though if you've ever seen his mush before it didn't stick. Floyd | Floyd | "My name is Reverend William Matheston." He must think you're part of Floyd | his flock. "Have you spoken to Angela already? Tell me, is she holding Floyd | up?" Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan asks, "Again?" | ||
| JimKaplan asks, "Do we need to be silencing the Reverend?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I dunno what he means by 'again'." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "We may as well tell about Angela, I think." | |||
| DavidW says, "I wouldn't tell anything if we can help it." | |||
| DavidW asks, "who's driving?" | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "We should at least learn where they were during the murder, right?" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I mean, they'll tell the cops that eventually." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask rev about himself" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:16 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for a room description.] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK REV ABOUT HIMSELF Floyd | Floyd | (--> ask red about himself) Floyd | -- You referred to something that can't be interacted with at present. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask wm about himself" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:16 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for a room description.] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK WM ABOUT HIMSELF Floyd | Floyd | (--> ask am about himself) Floyd | -- You referred to something that can't be interacted with at present. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "ask reverend about reverend" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:16 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK REVEREND ABOUT REVEREND Floyd | Floyd | -- "reverend" isn't a word I know. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask matheston about himself" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:16 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for a room description.] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MATHESTON ABOUT HIMSELF Floyd | Floyd | -- You referred to something that can't be interacted with at present. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "ask matheston about matheston" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:16 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for a room description.] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MATHESTON ABOUT MATHESTON Floyd | Floyd | -- You referred to something that can't be interacted with at present. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Hmm." | ||
| Fang says, "this game isn't very good about synonyms" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "topics" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:16 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > TOPICS Floyd | Floyd | (talking to William Matheston) Floyd | -- You could try talking to William Matheston about: Jack Draginam, Floyd | Angela Draginam, the whiskey bottle, the medicine tube, the silver key Floyd | or the jar of face-cream. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "a jack" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:16 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for a room description.] Floyd | Floyd | > A JACK Floyd | Floyd | -- You referred to something that can't be interacted with at present. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask matheston about jack" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:16 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for a room description.] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MATHESTON ABOUT JACK Floyd | Floyd | -- You referred to something that can't be interacted with at present. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask william about jack" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:16 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK WILLIAM ABOUT JACK Floyd | Floyd | "I'm sorry, Inspector. I don't believe I can help you there." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask william about william" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:17 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK WILLIAM ABOUT WILLIAM Floyd | Floyd | "I'm a vicar, at the local church. I've known Angela ever since they Floyd | moved to the area, about three and a half years ago. She was very Floyd | distraught on account of losing the baby. I helped her through that. Floyd | Helped her to reconcile it with God. And we became firm friends - all Floyd | three of us, her, God and myself." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask william about angela" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:17 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK WILLIAM ABOUT ANGELA Floyd | Floyd | "She's an excellent woman, Inspector. One of the most devoted members Floyd | of my congregation. Strong at heart too, though she wouldn't let you Floyd | see it. We've been firm friends for many years." Floyd | Floyd | "Well," Matheston adds, mostly to himself. "Maybe Angela is only as Floyd | well as could be expected." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask william about angela" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:18 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK WILLIAM ABOUT ANGELA Floyd | Floyd | "She's an excellent woman, Inspector. One of the most devoted members Floyd | of my congregation. Strong at heart too, though she wouldn't let you Floyd | see it. We've been firm friends for many years." Floyd | Floyd | Matheston considers the board carefully. "Do you play chess, Floyd | Inspector?" he asks. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chess" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:18 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X CHESS Floyd | Floyd | (the chess board) Floyd | The chess board is kinda thin: white has a few pawns as backup and two Floyd | rooks roaming free. Black has an assortment: a knight, a queen, a Floyd | pawn, and one of those guys that looks like an asparagus hiding off in Floyd | a corner. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "chess?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, I dunno what's up with this at all." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "say yes, I suppose" | |||
| Fang says, "no" | |||
| Fang says, "if we played chess we'd know what an aparagus is" | |||
| Fang asks, "I assume the king?" | |||
| DavidW says, "bishop, I think" | |||
| JimKaplan says, ""white has a few pawns as backup and two rooks roaming free" sounds a tad knowledgeable to me though." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "yes" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:20 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | "I'm glad. Excellent game. Full of subtleties. Things you don't see Floyd | that tie together into something by the end." He shakes his head. "If Floyd | life were a little more like chess, I think people would find it Floyd | easier." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask william about chess" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:20 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK WILLIAM ABOUT CHESS Floyd | Floyd | "It's an interesting position," William says. "Black is on the move. Floyd | Two rooks can't attack directly but they do create deadly alignments. Floyd | Traps. As for white, it's spread very thin. The queen is in retreat. Floyd | That bishop there is watching the long diagonal but doesn't look at Floyd | all ready to come into play. I think the problem centres on the knight Floyd | and the pawn. It's white to play, by the way." Floyd | Floyd | William considers the board in front of him carefully. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "this seems rather metaphorical" | ||
| DavidW says, "metaphor for the house situation, yeah" | |||
| Fang asks, "the pawn is Emilia?" | |||
| Fang asks, "the knight's anthony?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "maybe?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask william about chess" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:21 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK WILLIAM ABOUT CHESS Floyd | Floyd | "I think it's about pressure, on the knight, to force a sacrifice of Floyd | the pawn. But that does leave open what part the other pieces play." Floyd | Floyd | "I see you're the kind of man who takes his work very seriously," Floyd | Matheston observes, quite out of the blue. "I'm the same. It's what I Floyd | recognise in you, I think, that dedication." Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "And we can't attack directly, but we can create deadly alignments of evidence" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask william about chess" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:21 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK WILLIAM ABOUT CHESS Floyd | Floyd | "I think it's about pressure, on the knight, to force a sacrifice of Floyd | the pawn. But that does leave open what part the other pieces play." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask william about dedication" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:21 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK WILLIAM ABOUT DEDICATION Floyd | Floyd | -- "dedication" isn't a word you can use. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask william about murder" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:22 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "ask william about bishop" | |||
Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK WILLIAM ABOUT MURDER Floyd | Floyd | "I suppose you want to hear my version of events? Well - Mrs. Draginam Floyd | and I were sat in the living room, talking. To my knowledge Emilia the Floyd | maid was in the kitchen - we couldn't hear her, though, due to our Floyd | conversation and the television on in the background. However, at some Floyd | point, around 2pm maybe, perhaps earlier, there was a heavy 'thump' Floyd | from upstairs - like a large dictionary falling from a shelf. Floyd | Floyd | "Angela stood and went to the doorway, to see if she could see Floyd | anything. We expected Jack to shout something, you would - but there Floyd | wasn't anything. So she went upstairs and into the bedroom. A few Floyd | moments later she gave a terrible shriek - I rose to go and see, and Floyd | Emilia streaked past me, up the stairs and into the room. I waited at Floyd | the foot. Then the maid came back and went to call the police. I went Floyd | to comfort Angela - I found her in her bedroom, sat on the bed. That's Floyd | about it, I think." Floyd | Floyd | The vicar is deep in thought. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:22 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK WILLIAM ABOUT BISHOP Floyd | Floyd | -- I didn't recognise that as a topic of conversation. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Ah, OK." | ||
| JimKaplan says, "So no one saw Angela at the time of the scream." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Framing her becomes more straightforward." | |||
| Fang says, "the thump was the actual murder, I guess" | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "What I'm wondering, though, is that passport and suitcase - why was she intending to travel if she didn't kill him? Was she going to move out as part of a divorce?" | |||
| DavidW says, "maybe" | |||
| Fang says, "maybe" | |||
| Fang says, "maybe this is why Jack sent us the note" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask william about emilia" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:22 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK WILLIAM ABOUT EMILIA Floyd | Floyd | "The maid, Inspector? That sweet young thing, she couldn't be anything Floyd | to do with this, I'm sure." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask william about anthony" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:23 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK WILLIAM ABOUT ANTHONY Floyd | Floyd | "The maid has a young man called Anthony, I think. I'm not sure I've Floyd | ever spoken to him beyond a simple hello. I know Mrs. Draginam Floyd | despairs slightly of the kind of man he is, but she can hardly see her Floyd | way to preventing the maid from having something pleasant around, Floyd | considering." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't understand how we got messed up with this in the first place." | ||
| Fang asks, "william about me" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask william about me" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:23 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK WILLIAM ABOUT ME Floyd | Floyd | "I'm sorry, Inspector. I don't believe I can help you there." Floyd | Floyd | William is counting through moves on his fingers. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask william about william" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:24 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK WILLIAM ABOUT WILLIAM Floyd | Floyd | "As I said, I'm the vicar here." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask william about baby" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:24 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK WILLIAM ABOUT BABY Floyd | Floyd | "It was a terrible, terrible loss. I don't think Angela ever quite got Floyd | over it. And Jack, of course, had no sympathy in him whatsoever." Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "I think we weren't sleeping with anyone. We found out that Jack was fooling around and attempted to blackmail him. He tried to end it, and we killed him." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask william about shed" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:25 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK WILLIAM ABOUT SHED Floyd | Floyd | "This is my little part of the house," he replies. "It's not much." No Floyd | buts there. Floyd | Floyd | Matheston looks up from the board to look straight at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "yes" | ||
| JimKaplan says, "How we found out is not something I know, though." | |||
| DavidW asks, "But how did we find out Jack was doing anything? Do we climb roses at random with a camera?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask william about whiskey" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:25 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK WILLIAM ABOUT WHISKEY Floyd | Floyd | "I'm sorry, Inspector. I don't believe I can help you there." Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Funnily enough, our own involvement seems to be the biggest mystery at the moment." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask william about angela's sister" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:25 pm
Floyd ] - with gloves on
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > ASK WILLIAM ABOUT ANGELA'S SISTER
Floyd |
Floyd | -- "sister" isn't a word you can use.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| JimKaplan says, "I'm not sure the sister is relevant anymore." | ||
| JimKaplan says, "At least at this point in time." | |||
| DavidW says, "I guess not." | |||
| Nitku leaves. | JimKaplan says, "What worries me about framing Angela at the moment is the footprint thing." | ||
| Fang says, "maybe Jack just blabbed at some point" | |||
| Fang says, "we know he's an alcoholic" | |||
| Fang says, "so are we" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "It feels like we're supposed to fake footprints in the flowerbed, but there's no reason Angela would go through there." | |||
| Fang says, "we see him in a bar, he talks about Emilia" | |||
| Fang says, "we collect evidence" | |||
| Fang says, "boom" | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "Once we destroy the note and the footprints (and maybe the novel), there's nothing really tying us to the scene, right?" | |||
| Fang says, "there's still the sealed box" | |||
| DavidW says, "The box" | |||
| Fang says, "and also whether Angela has put any pieces together re the novel" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "This is far-fetched...but maybe she just picked a novel out at random, and it happened to be the one containing our phone number." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "There were other trashy romance novels in the study." | |||
| Fang says (to JimKaplan), "implausible" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Yeah, I'm inclined to think so too." | |||
| Fang says, "she also stashed it with the photo" | |||
| Fang says, "I can only assume we left the photo and book at the scene" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "OK, let's put it this way:" | |||
| DavidW says, "We found the pink note in Anthony's shirt, yes? Anthony is sleeping with Jenny, then, perhaps." | |||
| Fang asks, "so angela put it in the suitcase... to hide it from us?" | |||
| Fang says (to DW), "maybe, or maybe their connection is innocent" | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "We have Angela being first at the scene, we have evidence she was packing to leave the country, a bloody photo...what else could we plant to make her look guilty?" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "If the answer is 'nothing', then we just need a way to get into that box and then we've done most everything we need to do." | |||
| Fang says, "okayyy" | |||
| Fang says, "but Matheston seems to be hinting to go after Anthony" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "read handwritten note" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:26 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > READ HANDWRITTEN NOTE Floyd | Floyd | (in the trashy novel) Floyd | You can't find that chapter. The chapters are listed in the contents Floyd | at the front. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "That's assuming Anthony is the "knight", which I'm not sure he is." | ||
| DavidW says, "I dunno. The dresser note wasn't written to Angela, so framing Angela alone isn't going to explain the note at all." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "hang on." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read contents" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:26 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > READ CONTENTS Floyd | Floyd | (in the trashy novel) Floyd | THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF SLICK GURNER Floyd | -- as serialised in "Woman's Weekly" Floyd | Floyd | Chapter one .... "Something in the Water? - Slick's First Mission" -- Floyd | Page 2 Floyd | Chapter two .... "Essential Fish Oils - Slick Gurner in Love" -- Floyd | Page 23 Floyd | Chapter three .. "Carpentry is Easy - Slick Teaches a Lesson" -- Floyd | Page 64 Floyd | Chapter four ... "Amethysts Have Feelings Too - Slick Goes Too Far" Floyd | -- Page 83 Floyd | Chapter five ... "Whose Traffic Cone Is That, Comrade? - Gurner in Floyd | Russia" -- Page 105 Floyd | Chapter six .... "Try Next Door, Mister - Gurner has Amnesia!" -- Floyd | Page 123 Floyd | Chapter seven .. "Every Dog Has His Viola - Gurner's Last Bow" -- Floyd | Page 144 Floyd | Floyd | William moves a pawn one space forwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "It's a hint guide, isn't it?" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask william about chess" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:27 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK WILLIAM ABOUT CHESS Floyd | Floyd | "I think it's about pressure, on the knight, to force a sacrifice of Floyd | the pawn. But that does leave open what part the other pieces play." Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "So our problem seems to be: we need to frame someone to look like they were blackmailing Jack...but the easiest person to frame, Angela, is the least plausible blackmailer." | ||
| Fang says, "maybe, we've wasted too many turns, but" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cf11" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Inside the Shed Time: 5:27 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | -- Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "go and try framing angela if you want" | ||
| DavidW says, "I think Anthony ought to be framed as the blackmailer. If he's really screwing Jenny instead of swimming, he has no abili for this afternoon." | |||
| Fang says, "at least we'll see what that fail state is" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "OK, so how about this:" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "We put Anthony's prints in the flowerbed, leave the rest as is." | |||
| Fang says, "we should ask emelia about the box, also. She might know where the key is" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to emilia" | |||
Floyd ] Back Garden Time: 5:27 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO EMILIA Floyd | Floyd | The kitchen's the place to find her. Floyd | Floyd | Back Garden Floyd | Swing door. Flower-bed. Roses climbing up the house. A shed. A hedge. Floyd | Floyd | A thick net of dog roses covers the wall of the house. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "It looks like Angela was colluding with Anthony" | ||
| DavidW says, "But we don't have Anthony's shoes." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to emilia" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Time: 5:28 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO EMILIA Floyd | Floyd | The kitchen's the place to find her. Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Sink, drawers. Cooker. Table, chairs. Swing door to the garden. Clock. Floyd | Pantry. Passage to the south. Floyd | Floyd | The maid is at the table. Floyd | Floyd | On the worktop are a closed biscuit barrel and a ceramic water-jug. Floyd | Floyd | The maid tries not to look at the knife. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask maid about box" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Time: 5:28 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK MAID ABOUT BOX Floyd | Floyd | -- I didn't recognise that as a topic of conversation. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says (to DavidW), "we could find them somewhere, surely." | ||
| DavidW says, "I dunno. We haven;t seen them." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I guess. And if he's out...then, yeah." | |||
| Fang says, "I think putting angela's shoes in the mud don't make sense" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to Fang), "I agree, it doesn't." | |||
| Fang says, "I think anthony, or maybe emilia" | |||
| Fang says, "are the only ones it makes sense for" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I can't think what else we could do to tie Anthony to the crime scene. Just a lack of alibi." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I'm a sufficiently non-rigorous player that I'd be willing to just go accuse Angela and see how it works out." | |||
| Fang says, "I think we might have fucked up already, because we should have talked more carefully when we called ADC" | |||
| Fang says (to JimKaplan), "okay then" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "If that's OK with everyone, though" | |||
| Fang says, "yeah do it" | |||
| JimKaplan asks (of DW), "Any concerns?" | |||
| DavidW says, "well, they were drinking buddies. Anthony's pills in a whiskey bottle with Jack's fingerprints on it might be enough to suggest some connection." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Put pills in the whiskey...we can try that." | |||
| Fang asks (of DW), "why do we need to connect Anthony with Jack?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure." | |||
| DavidW says, "I don't feel confident yet without more facts." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "It's still a bit vague." | |||
| Fang says, "okay, let's accuse angela" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I'm willing to accuse Angela so that at least we'll have some idea of how the process works." | |||
| Fang says, "I'll be afk for a while, so go ahead" | |||
| DavidW says, "My eyes are getting tired, btw. I feel I have to lie down to rest them soon." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "We can of course continue this another time." | |||
| DavidW says, "I guess this game is longer than I expected." | |||
| Fang says, "I think we're talking too much" | |||
| Fang says, "between each move" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to Fang), "It's that sort of game, though" | |||
| DavidW asks, "do we really want to accuse Angela without even talking to her first?" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Fair point, I guess" | |||
| Fang says, "ask her about her sequence of events" | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "So talk to Angela and decide what to do from there?" | |||
| Fang says, "like a proper policeman" | |||
| DavidW says, "yeah" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "ok" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "go to angela" | |||
Floyd ] Passage from Hallway Time: 5:28 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO ANGELA Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Passage from Hallway Floyd | Southeast to the hallway, north to the kitchen. Closet. Door to the Floyd | living room. Floyd | Floyd | The cupboard is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "go to angela" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:29 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO ANGELA Floyd | Floyd | (opening the living room door first) Floyd | You open the living room door. Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | The living room is bright blue, the wallpaper shines out like the Floyd | flashing siren of an ambulance, and isn't helped by a light green sofa Floyd | and a wide window, south-facing, overlooking the sun-drenched street. Floyd | Opposite the open door in the east wall is a small cabinet, and next Floyd | to that is a television set. Floyd | Floyd | Joe is sat on the sofa, reading a newspaper. Floyd | Floyd | Mrs. Draginam looks up as you enter. Floyd | Floyd | On top of the set is a magazine. Floyd | Floyd | "That'd better be a gift for the bereaved," he snarls, nodding at the Floyd | whiskey bottle in your hand. Floyd | Floyd | Angela's eyes are fixed on the photograph, though from there she can't Floyd | see what's on it. But then as soon as she notices that you're looking, Floyd | she looks away. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "ask angela about photograph" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:29 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ANGELA ABOUT PHOTOGRAPH Floyd | Floyd | She sighs, and turns to stare out of the window as she speaks. Floyd | Floyd | "I found it, there on the desk. When I came in, the mirror was tilted, Floyd | I saw it in the reflection. I raced over to the window, and snatched Floyd | it, I stepped right over his body... and just then Emilia came rushing Floyd | in. I couldn't... I couldn't... I turned my back, I pretended I was Floyd | just closing the window, you see. And then when she'd gone I left it Floyd | in my room. I was going to hide it, but I didn't get a chance - all Floyd | those policeman - until you arrived, Inspector. There. That's my Floyd | confession." Floyd | Floyd | Joe looks at her sternly. "So you lied in your statement? That's a Floyd | serious offence." Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, I know," she replies brusquely. The policeman looks up at you Floyd | and raises a brow. He takes the photo from you for a closer look then Floyd | hands it back, Angela watching him do so with disdain. Floyd | Floyd | Angela gasps as she sees the steel letter opener. "That's Jacks? From Floyd | his study. Was he.. it.. oh, my, that's awful.." With horror, Angela Floyd | recoils. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Oh, whoops." | ||
| JimKaplan says, "I thought she was looking at another photograph." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "topics" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:29 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > TOPICS Floyd | Floyd | -- Please be specific who you want to talk to. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "topics angela" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:29 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > TOPICS ANGELA Floyd | Floyd | -- You could try talking to Angela Draginam about: Jack Draginam, Floyd | herself, William Matheston, the whiskey bottle, the medicine tube or Floyd | the silver key. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan asks, "herself?" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask angela about the silver key" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:30 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ANGELA ABOUT THE SILVER KEY Floyd | Floyd | "I think those are the tablets Emilia's boyfriend has been taking for Floyd | his sprain." Floyd | Floyd | Angela notices the bottle in your hand. "One of my husband's, I Floyd | suppose. Nice to see it's not empty." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask angela about silver key" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:30 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ANGELA ABOUT SILVER KEY Floyd | Floyd | Angela takes the key and peers at it. "Front door," she says finally. Floyd | "Is that the maid's copy? We only have three. Emilia has one, I have Floyd | one," she pats a pocket, "and Jack had one, of course. Emilia lends Floyd | hers to her boyfriend when he stays too, I think." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "ask angela about herself" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:31 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ANGELA ABOUT HERSELF Floyd | Floyd | "What's there to say Inspector? I'm just another housewife. Jack and I Floyd | were married for twelve years. We never had any children because of Floyd | his work, we live here because of his work. I don't see that any of Floyd | it's interesting to you." Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "lies" | ||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "ask angela about jack" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:31 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ANGELA ABOUT JACK Floyd | Floyd | "You've had a good look around up there? Good. Well," she straightens Floyd | down her skirts with one hand, methodically. "I suppose you want to Floyd | know what happened?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "yes" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:31 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | [Please specifiy whom you want to say that to using PERSON, YES.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "angela, yes" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:32 pm
Floyd ] - with gloves on
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | > ANGELA, YES
Floyd |
Floyd | "Well. I was sat here, in the living room, talking to William - I
Floyd | suppose you'll have to talk to William too, won't you? He's outside in
Floyd | the garden right now, I think. Anyway, there was this loud thump, from
Floyd | upstairs. I expected - well, you know, to hear Jack call downstairs,
Floyd | or curse or something. When I didn't hear anything, I thought I ought
Floyd | to check. I thought maybe he'd slipped and hit his head. I went
Floyd | upstairs to see... and there he was, lying in a pool of blood." She
Floyd | raises a hand to her mouth. She is staring down at the floor as she
Floyd | speaks. "It was horrible!
Floyd |
Floyd | "I must have screamed, I don't remember. Anyway, Emilia came running
Floyd | up the stairs to see what the matter was."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| JimKaplan says, "That's new." | ||
| JimKaplan says, "ask angela about whiskey? She already noticed it." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "ask angela about whiskey" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:32 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ANGELA ABOUT WHISKEY Floyd | Floyd | "Jack liked to drink, a little. We used to both, I suppose. These days Floyd | we keep the alcohol hidden. Anthony's little problem." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask angela about anthony" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:33 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ANGELA ABOUT ANTHONY Floyd | Floyd | "The maid's boyfriend? I barely know him. When he stays - well, he Floyd | keeps himself to himself as much as he can. He works quite a lot too. Floyd | Used to have a problem with drink but he's much better now. But Emilia Floyd | seems happy enough. He's out - he left right before it happened. Went Floyd | swimming. The only sport he can do with that sprain of his." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "this is the thing, though, that the alcohol we brought could be interpreted as either Jack's or Anthony's." | ||
| Fang says, "hmm, forgot about the spraing" | |||
| Fang says, "sprain" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "The sprain may make Anthony a less plausible climber of roses" | |||
| Fang says, "this means the footprint, if we want to plant one, can only be emilia's, maybe" | |||
| DavidW says, "I'd like to know if cerestex is really a painkiller or not or if Anthony just told everyone that and it's really for something else." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I think it's fictional." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask joe about cerestex" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:33 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JOE ABOUT CERESTEX Floyd | Floyd | "You're a waste of space, Inspector, you know that?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I mean, in the game world, what is it really." | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask angela about cerestex" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:34 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ANGELA ABOUT CERESTEX Floyd | Floyd | "I think those are the tablets Emilia's boyfriend has been taking for Floyd | his sprain." Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Wow, screw you, Joe" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes, Angela already said that." | |||
| Fang says, "maybe there could be something more" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I'm in favor of losing if it means we can kill Joe" | |||
| Fang says, "Joe's kinda justified in hating us" | |||
| Fang asks, "shall we accuse?" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I feel very scattered in terms of what I feel we need to be doing" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Accusing, even if it backfires, may help clarify that" | |||
| DavidW says, "perhaps" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to DavidW), "It's your choice." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "If you feel strongly about it, we can try other stuff." | |||
| DavidW says, "it's not my idea!" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "accuse angela" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:34 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ACCUSE ANGELA Floyd | Floyd | "That's not funny, Inspector. We were having problems, sure, but Floyd | nothing new, nothing major... But if you don't believe me you can ask Floyd | William. I was with him when it happened. You can ask him." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "accuse angela" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:35 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ACCUSE ANGELA Floyd | Floyd | "That's not funny, Inspector. We were having problems, sure, but Floyd | nothing new, nothing major... But if you don't believe me you can ask Floyd | William. I was with him when it happened. You can ask him." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "arrest angela" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:35 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > ARREST ANGELA Floyd | Floyd | You keep your voice down so that no-one overhears. "Mrs. Draginam? Floyd | Well, I suppose it's usually the wives in cases like this, and I've no Floyd | doubt that Mr. Draginam did a hundred things wrong every minute and Floyd | maybe some of them was real bad too. But we can't arrest a woman on Floyd | nothing, even if she did close the window in the crime scene. Get a Floyd | motive sorted, and maybe we can give this a shot." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show photograph to joe" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:36 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW PHOTOGRAPH TO JOE Floyd | Floyd | (the black and white incriminating photograph to the policeman) Floyd | He grins. "Good, isn't it?" is his excited reply, and then like a Floyd | five-star idiot he notices Angela and becomes suddenly very timid. "Do Floyd | you want that analysing?" Joe asks. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "analyse photo" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:36 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ANALYSE PHOTO Floyd | Floyd | (the black and white incriminating photograph) Floyd | "Let's see - I'll run an analysis on the blood, but I think we can Floyd | guess. I'll pass it by the fake-spotters, get blow-ups of the faces - Floyd | hell, I'll get copies made for Christmas. Good going, Inspector." Floyd | Floyd | The policeman leaves through the living room door. Floyd | Floyd | He's left his newspaper on the sofa. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x newspaper" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:37 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > X NEWSPAPER Floyd | Floyd | The main story on the front of the paper is the bank heist down on Floyd | fourth last night. It seems the robbers managed to escape the cops Floyd | with $10,000 - a pretty meagre horde, but they'd been stupid enough to Floyd | strike right after the cash van had come. Oh, and for once the paper Floyd | can't be blamed though for getting facts wrong; they aren't to know Floyd | the robbers only have $9,000 of the loot. Floyd | Floyd | Other stories are the old lady who won the lottery, the kids from some Floyd | school who got hit by a truck, nothing big. There's a crossword on the Floyd | back page, with some baseball results. Floyd | Floyd | Angela stares with blank eyes at the blank TV. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Well." | ||
| Fang asks, "did we help with the bank heist?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "I-- maybe?" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I think it's false information" | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "Y'know, how the police do sometimes with papers?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Or we robbed the robbers." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Could be." | |||
| JimKaplan says, ";But in any case...this had less catastrophic results than I'd expected." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask angela about novel" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:38 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ANGELA ABOUT NOVEL Floyd | Floyd | "So you just want to insult my taste in books? Fine. Yes, I read Slick Floyd | Gurner books," she snaps irritably. "Those are page numbers on the Floyd | back flap, by the way," she adds quickly. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Or we got $1000 from the robbers for our help in helping them get away." | ||
| JimKaplan says, "I wonder if accusing ourselves is an actual option" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Also...Yeah, she definitely knows about the phone number" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask angela about novel" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:39 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ANGELA ABOUT NOVEL Floyd | Floyd | "So you just want to insult my taste in books? Fine. Yes, I read Slick Floyd | Gurner books," she snaps irritably. "Those are page numbers on the Floyd | back flap, by the way," she adds quickly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask angela about numbers" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:39 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ANGELA ABOUT NUMBERS Floyd | Floyd | -- I didn't recognise that as a topic of conversation. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crossword" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:39 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > X CROSSWORD Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Floyd | |1 |2 | | |3 | |4 E Floyd | |#####|5 |#####| Floyd | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Floyd | |#####| |#####|#####| |#####| X Floyd | |#####| |#####| Floyd | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Floyd | |6 H | |7 | | | | Floyd | A | | | | Floyd | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Floyd | | A |#####| |#####| |#####| Floyd | M |#####| |#####| Floyd | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Floyd | | L |#####| |#####|8 |9 | Floyd | S |10 | |11 | Floyd | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Floyd | |12 F |13 | |14 | | |#####| Floyd | |#####| | Floyd | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Floyd | |#####| |#####| |#####| |#####| |#####| | Floyd | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Floyd | |15 I | N | C Floyd | | R | E | A Floyd | | S | I |16 N Floyd | | G | Floyd | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Floyd | |#####| |#####| |#####| |#####|#####| |#####| Floyd | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Floyd | |#####| |#####|17 | | | | | | | Floyd | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Floyd | Floyd | Angela glares at you like all this was your fault. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Uh, wow." | ||
| DavidW says, "That looks like a big mess on my screen." | |||
| Fang says, "I hope this crossword isn't relevant" | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "Jesus, how complicated *is* this game?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x clues" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:40 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X CLUES Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Floyd | |1 |2 | | |3 | |4 E Floyd | |#####|5 |#####| Floyd | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Floyd | |#####| |#####|#####| |#####| X Floyd | |#####| |#####| Floyd | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Floyd | |6 H | |7 | | | | Floyd | A | | | | Floyd | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Floyd | | A |#####| |#####| |#####| Floyd | M |#####| |#####| Floyd | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Floyd | | L |#####| |#####|8 |9 | Floyd | S |10 | |11 | Floyd | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Floyd | |12 F |13 | |14 | | |#####| Floyd | |#####| | Floyd | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Floyd | |#####| |#####| |#####| |#####| |#####| | Floyd | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Floyd | |15 I | N | C Floyd | | R | E | A Floyd | | S | I |16 N Floyd | | G | Floyd | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Floyd | |#####| |#####| |#####| |#####|#####| |#####| Floyd | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Floyd | |#####| |#####|17 | | | | | | | Floyd | +-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+ Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Yowza" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x baseball" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:40 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X BASEBALL Floyd | Floyd | -- "baseball" isn't a word I know. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Yeah, it looks like a textual car crash to me as well" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "topics" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:40 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > TOPICS Floyd | Floyd | (talking to Angela Draginam) Floyd | -- You could try talking to Angela Draginam about: Jack Draginam, the Floyd | whiskey bottle, the medicine tube, the silver key, the jar of Floyd | face-cream or the scrap of pink paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask angela about face cream" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:40 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ANGELA ABOUT FACE CREAM Floyd | Floyd | "Her face-cream?" Angela looks surprised. "I've borrowed it once or Floyd | twice, maybe. It's a good brand." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The sleepmask didn't help with the crossword." | ||
| JimKaplan asks, "Could we get the passport and show it to her/ask her about it?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask angela about pink paper" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:41 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ANGELA ABOUT PINK PAPER Floyd | Floyd | "I don't recognise it." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask angela about passport" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:41 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ANGELA ABOUT PASSPORT Floyd | Floyd | -- Be more specific about what you want to ask Angela Draginam about. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask angela about suitcase" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:41 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ANGELA ABOUT SUITCASE Floyd | Floyd | She doesn't even flinch. "It's no crime to have a packed suitcase, is Floyd | it? I was about to go on holiday." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask angela about holiday" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:42 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ANGELA ABOUT HOLIDAY Floyd | Floyd | "Just a holiday. William was taking me upstate to where his parents Floyd | live. Jack didn't mind, of course. Church trip. Not something he would Floyd | have cared for himself." Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "you don't need a passport to go upstate, right?" | ||
| JimKaplan says, "Not at all." | |||
| DavidW says, "no" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I think we may need to physically show the passport to her." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "go to guest bedroom" | |||
Floyd ] Passage from Hallway Time: 5:42 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO GUEST BEDROOM Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Passage from Hallway Floyd | Southeast to the hallway, north to the kitchen. Closet. Door to the Floyd | living room. Floyd | Floyd | The cupboard is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "'upstate' implies we're in the States instead of England." | ||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "go to guest bedroom" | |||
Floyd ] Hallway Time: 5:43 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO GUEST BEDROOM Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | Stairs up, passage northwest, front door behind. Desk one side, Floyd | hat-stand on the other. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "go to guest bedroom" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, North End Time: 5:43 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO GUEST BEDROOM Floyd | Floyd | You make your way upstairs around the curve of the staircase. Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, North End Floyd | Corridor, south; guest bedroom, west; murder, north. Stairs, down. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "go to guest bedroom" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 5:44 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO GUEST BEDROOM Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Guest Bedroom Floyd | Bed, nightstand, wicker chair. Door to the corridor. Floyd | Floyd | On the nightstand is a silver frame. Floyd | Floyd | A tall teak wardrobe leans against one wall. Floyd | Floyd | The wicker chair is over by the wardrobe. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a toiletry bag, a wide open pink suitcase and a Floyd | wedding photo here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "take passport" | |||
Floyd ] Guest Bedroom Time: 5:44 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PASSPORT Floyd | Floyd | (Angela's passport) Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Well now I feel like an idiot" | ||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "go to angela" | |||
Floyd ] Upstairs Hallway, North End Time: 5:45 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO ANGELA Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Hallway, North End Floyd | Corridor, south; guest bedroom, west; murder, north. Stairs, down. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "g.g.g" | |||
Floyd ] Hallway Time: 5:45 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > G.G.G Floyd | Floyd | You descend the half-circle of the stairs, into the hallway. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | Stairs up, passage northwest, front door behind. Desk one side, Floyd | hat-stand on the other. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "we're all getting tired" | ||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "g" | |||
Floyd ] Passage from Hallway Time: 5:46 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Passage from Hallway Floyd | Southeast to the hallway, north to the kitchen. Closet. Door to the Floyd | living room. Floyd | Floyd | The cupboard is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "g" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:46 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | Two armchairs, a door. Small cabinet for drinks, another that's a TV. Floyd | Floyd | Mrs. Draginam glares at you as you approach. Floyd | Floyd | On top of the set is a magazine. Floyd | Floyd | Angela picks up the glossy magazine and flicks it open. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Yeah, I'm a little fatigued as well" | ||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "show passport to angela" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:47 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > SHOW PASSPORT TO ANGELA Floyd | Floyd | (Angela's passport to Angela Draginam) Floyd | Angela Draginam is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Well gee, Angela, I didn't show it to impress you" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "winnable" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:47 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To talk directly, try: ANGELA, COMMENT.] Floyd | Floyd | > WINNABLE Floyd | Floyd | -- "winnable" isn't a recognised verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Unfortunately, parsers aren't good enough to do >ASK ANGELA WHY SHE PACKED HER PASSPORT WHEN SHE'S ONLY GOING UPSTATE." | ||
| JimKaplan asks (of Fang), "do some games actually have that as a command?" | |||
| DavidW says, "winnable? yes, some games do. It's rare, though." | |||
| DavidW says, "'winnable' tests if the game is still winnable or not." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I figured." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | |||
Floyd ] Living Room Time: 5:47 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To talk directly, try: ANGELA, COMMENT.] Floyd | Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | -- "xyzzy" isn't a recognised verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "I'm trying to find out if the game is considered cruel or not" | ||
| JimKaplan says, "Emily said it needs to be played repeatedly to be solved, which bodes ill for our current efforts" | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm not even sure if we've seen the whole house yet. I was too tired to attempt mapping the ground floor with all those 'go to's making the layout vague." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Same." | |||
| DavidW says, "We haven't looked at the pantry, iirc." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Sure." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "go to pantry" | |||
Floyd ] Passage from Hallway Time: 5:47 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO PANTRY Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Passage from Hallway Floyd | Southeast to the hallway, north to the kitchen. Closet. Door to the Floyd | living room. Floyd | Floyd | The cupboard is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "go to pantry" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Time: 5:48 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO PANTRY Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Sink, drawers. Cooker. Table, chairs. Swing door to the garden. Clock. Floyd | Pantry. Passage to the south. Floyd | Floyd | The maid is at the table. Floyd | Floyd | On the worktop are a closed biscuit barrel and a ceramic water-jug. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "go to pantry" | |||
Floyd ] Pantry Time: 5:48 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO PANTRY Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pantry Floyd | The pantry's well-stocked, with cans they bought because they had Floyd | nothing else to spend the money on. A few bags of potatoes fill one Floyd | shelf, below that a fruit basket, some hams and bacon. There's a door Floyd | west when you've finished eyeing up their food. Floyd | Floyd | Sat on a shelf is a dustpan. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a broken plate here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x dustpan" | |||
Floyd ] Pantry Time: 5:49 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X DUSTPAN Floyd | Floyd | It's a piece of technology way beyond you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "search dustpan" | |||
Floyd ] Pantry Time: 5:49 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH DUSTPAN Floyd | Floyd | It's a piece of technology way beyond you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x plate" | |||
Floyd ] Pantry Time: 5:50 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > X PLATE Floyd | Floyd | A white dinner plate, with a deep crack running three-quarters of its Floyd | length. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "geez. Like Joe isn't insulting enough." | ||
| JimKaplan says, "No wonder he's a homicidal alcoholic." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x potato bag" | |||
Floyd ] Pantry Time: 5:50 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X POTATO BAG Floyd | Floyd | (--> x potatoes bag) Floyd | What, are you training for your new job in the burger bar? Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan says, "Jesus." | ||
| DavidW says, "I can't see any use for a broken plate." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I do wonder why it's here." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x basket" | |||
Floyd ] Pantry Time: 5:51 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X BASKET Floyd | Floyd | What, are you training for your new job in the burger bar? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Emilia might hide something in here." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under plate" | |||
Floyd ] Pantry Time: 5:51 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER PLATE Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x hams" | |||
Floyd ] Pantry Time: 5:52 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X HAMS Floyd | Floyd | (--> x ham) Floyd | What, are you training for your new job in the burger bar? Floyd | Floyd | Joe appears from out again. He returns the photograph to your sweaty Floyd | little hands. "Well, the blood belongs to you-know-who. Where did you Floyd | find it? In the room? Anyway. The boys in the lab were happy to give Floyd | it some close study. It's no fake." Of course it's not a fake. You Floyd | can't fake high art like this. Floyd | Floyd | The policeman heads off out again. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan asks, "OK, so maybe we can arrest her now?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I dunno." | |||
| DavidW says, "It still seems very flimsy evidence." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "True enough." | |||
Floyd ] Pantry Time: 5:52 pm
Floyd ] - with gloves on
Floyd ] [For help on playing, type HELP.]
Floyd |
Floyd | > TRUE ENOUGH.
Floyd |
Floyd | (--> tree enough.)
Floyd | -- "tree" isn't a recognised verb.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| JimKaplan says, "Whoops." | ||
| JimKaplan asks, "Anyway, I'm not sure there's anything else to find here. Is there a room we haven't searched?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "The attic? The cellar? The doghouse for yapping dog out west?" | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "There's an attic?" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "go to basement" | |||
Floyd ] Pantry Time: 5:52 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO BASEMENT Floyd | Floyd | -- "basement" isn't a word I know. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "go to cellar" | |||
Floyd ] Pantry Time: 5:52 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO CELLAR Floyd | Floyd | -- "cellar" isn't a word I know. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "go to attic" | |||
Floyd ] Pantry Time: 5:52 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO ATTIC Floyd | Floyd | -- "attic" isn't a word I know. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I didn't see one, but my point is that my understanding of the house layout is still vague." | ||
| JimKaplan says, "Mm, yeah." | |||
| JimKaplan asks, "Shall we try and map the house, or are you guys too tired?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm tired. I wouldn't mind seeing the dog, though, find out what's up with it." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I'm a little worn out as well, but yeah, we may as well check out the dog." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "go to car" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Time: 5:52 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO CAR Floyd | Floyd | (the black chevy) Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Sink, drawers. Cooker. Table, chairs. Swing door to the garden. Clock. Floyd | Pantry. Passage to the south. Floyd | Floyd | The maid is at the table. Floyd | Floyd | On the worktop are a closed biscuit barrel and a ceramic water-jug. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "go to car" | |||
Floyd ] Passage from Hallway Time: 5:53 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO CAR Floyd | Floyd | (the black chevy) Floyd | Floyd | Passage from Hallway Floyd | Southeast to the hallway, north to the kitchen. Closet. Door to the Floyd | living room. Floyd | Floyd | The cupboard is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "go to car" | |||
Floyd ] Hallway Time: 5:53 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO CAR Floyd | Floyd | (the black chevy) Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | Stairs up, passage northwest, front door behind. Desk one side, Floyd | hat-stand on the other. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "go to car" | |||
Floyd ] Front Porch Time: 5:54 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO CAR Floyd | Floyd | (the black chevy) Floyd | Floyd | Front Porch Floyd | Front door, front gate. Small diamond of glass in the door. Floyd | Floyd | A hanging basket with a couple of petunias in is attached just to the Floyd | left of the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "go to car" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 5:54 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO CAR Floyd | Floyd | (the black chevy) Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Floyd | Your car. Front gate, leading up to the porch of the house. Floyd | Floyd | A police squad car is parked outside No. 11, a little to the west of Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "listen" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 15 Time: 5:55 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere to the west a dog is yapping. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 13 Time: 5:55 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 13 Floyd | Nice houses. Your car, to the east. Down the street, some yammering Floyd | dog. Floyd | Floyd | You're standing right by a streetlight, on the edge of the kerb. Floyd | Floyd | A police squad car is parked outside No. 11, a little to the west of Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 11 Time: 5:56 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 11 Floyd | Nice houses. Your car, to the east. Down the street, some yammering Floyd | dog. Floyd | Floyd | A police squad car is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "listen" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 11 Time: 5:56 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere to the west a dog is yapping. Floyd | Floyd | Sunlight trickles through the trees; your neck itches under the heavy Floyd | coat. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 9 Time: 5:57 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 9 Floyd | Nice houses. Your car, to the east. Down the street, some yammering Floyd | dog. Floyd | Floyd | A police squad car is parked outside No. 11, a little to the east of Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 7 Time: 5:57 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could THROW the stick, or THROW it in a particular direction.] Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 7 Floyd | Nice houses. Your car, to the east. Down the street, some yammering Floyd | dog. Floyd | Floyd | You're standing right by a streetlight, on the edge of the kerb. Floyd | Floyd | A police squad car is parked outside No. 11, a little to the east of Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | A small dog runs up to you from the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "x dog" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 7 Time: 5:58 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X DOG Floyd | Floyd | A small, sleek white mutt mongrel thing, with a voice he seems sure Floyd | proud of. No doubt the pride and joy of some old dear on the street. Floyd | If you had the energy you'd hit him with your car. Floyd | Floyd | The dog scampers away to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 9 Time: 5:58 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 9 Floyd | Nice houses. Your car, to the east. Floyd | Floyd | A police squad car is parked outside No. 11, a little to the east of Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | There is a small dog here, running round in circles. Floyd | Floyd | The dog scampers away to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "We can throw the stick, it suggested?" | ||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "Throw stick" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 9 Time: 5:59 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [For more help, type HELP for the menu.] Floyd | Floyd | > THROW STICK Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | Up the road, a dog drifts in and out from between the trees. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I wonder why we'd want to." | ||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "take stick" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 9 Time: 5:59 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE STICK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | A light breeze tickles your face and makes it itch. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "no, when the dog is here." | ||
| JimKaplan says, "yeah." | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 7 Time: 6:00 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 7 Floyd | Nice houses. Your car, to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You're standing right by a streetlight, on the edge of the kerb. Floyd | Floyd | A police squad car is parked outside No. 11, a little to the east of Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | There is a small dog here, running round in circles. Floyd | Floyd | The dog scampers away to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 5 Time: 6:00 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [Type LOOK for more detail.] Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 5 Floyd | Nice houses. Your car, to the east. Floyd | Floyd | A police squad car is parked outside No. 11, a little to the east of Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | There is a small dog here, running round in circles. Floyd | Floyd | The dog scampers away to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 7 Time: 6:01 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [You could THROW the stick, or THROW it in a particular direction.] Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 7 Floyd | Nice houses. Your car, to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You're standing right by a streetlight, on the edge of the kerb. Floyd | Floyd | A police squad car is parked outside No. 11, a little to the east of Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | There is a small dog here, running round in circles. Floyd | Floyd | > | JimKaplan asks, "Should I just throw it, or in a specific direction?" | ||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "throw stick" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 7 Time: 6:01 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > THROW STICK Floyd | Floyd | You lob the stick down the street. The dog wastes no time in going off Floyd | in pursuit. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "well, it seems that we might be able to get the dog to a particular location. Why -- I haven't a clue." | ||
| JimKaplan says, "Yeah." | |||
| DavidW asks, "like, do we want to introduce the dog to the cat?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "and if so, why? ???" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "This is among the more mind-boggling mysteries I've ever encountered" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Maybe the dog was sleeping with Jenny or something" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I don't even know anymore" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I dunno about you, but my brain is kind of running on empty at the moment" | |||
| DavidW says, "I really do need to rest my eyes." | |||
| DavidW asks, "should we even bother to save?" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I don't think we accomplished anything since that last save" | |||
| DavidW says, "ok" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Besides analysing the photo, which wasn't hard" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "So I think we're fine" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Live to fight another day, I guess" | |||
| DavidW says, "yeah. Thanks for playing today." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Thanks for having me. It was a lot of fun." | |||
| DavidW says, "hopefully the transcript will make the crossword appear sane." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Hopefully it won't be 15% game and 85% us speculating, though my hopes aren't high on that score" | |||
| DavidW says, "ha ha" | |||
| DavidW asks, "We were all over the map in speculation, weren't we?" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "Yeah" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I mean, it does make for engaging gameplay" | |||
| JimKaplan says, "At least until you realize you have no idea what your goals are exactly" | |||
| Fang asks, "are there hints?" | |||
| JimKaplan says (to floyd), "help" | |||
Floyd ] MAKE IT GOOD Floyd ] N = next subject P = previous Floyd ] RETURN = read subject Q = resume game Floyd ] Floyd ] Please select a topic: Floyd ] Floyd ] > About and Instructions Floyd ] Technical Documentation Floyd ] Configuration Settings Floyd ] Credits and Acknowledgements Floyd ] Return to the Game Floyd ] Floyd | | DavidW says, "I think there might be, yes. We didn't look at all the help." | ||
| JimKaplan pushes the green 'space' button. | |||
Floyd ] MAKE IT GOOD Floyd ] N = next subject P = previous Floyd ] RETURN = read subject Q = resume game Floyd ] Floyd ] Please select a topic: Floyd ] Floyd ] > About and Instructions Floyd ] Technical Documentation Floyd ] Configuration Settings Floyd ] Credits and Acknowledgements Floyd ] Return to the Game Floyd ] | |||
| Fang presses the yellow enter button. | |||
Floyd ] MAKE IT GOOD - About the Game Floyd ] N = next subject P = previous Floyd ] RETURN = read subject Q = previous menu Floyd ] Floyd ] About the Game: Floyd ] Floyd ] > Introduction Floyd ] About the Author Floyd ] Guide for Beginners Floyd ] A Note about Characters Floyd ] Unusual Commands Floyd ] I'm stuck! Floyd ] Return to Main Menu Floyd ] Floyd | | Fang says, "I guess I'm struck! might be it" | ||
| JimKaplan says, "Probably" | |||
| Fang says, "unless that goes 'suck it up, noob'" | |||
| Fang says, "*stuck" | |||
| DavidW says, "But I don't wanna see 'I'm stuck!' yet." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "I just tried accusing myself on the IFDB version. Didn't work." | |||
| JimKaplan says, "But it would have been kind of a game-breaker if it did; someone would do it to get a snarky response and spoil 80% of the game." | |||
| Fang says, "maybe you can only self-accuse after finding the note" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "q" | |||
Floyd ] MAKE IT GOOD Floyd ] N = next subject P = previous Floyd ] RETURN = read subject Q = resume game Floyd ] Floyd ] Please select a topic: Floyd ] Floyd ] > About and Instructions Floyd ] Technical Documentation Floyd ] Configuration Settings Floyd ] Credits and Acknowledgements Floyd ] Return to the Game Floyd ] Floyd | | JimKaplan says, "possibly" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "q" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 7 Time: 6:01 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 7 Floyd | The boulevard is lined with ash trees, thick trunks casting shadows Floyd | and gnarled roots mangling up the sidewalk. Your car is parked too Floyd | high up the kerb; just outside the gate to No. 15. You're further Floyd | along to the east, standing outside No. 7. Floyd | Floyd | You're standing right by a streetlight, on the edge of the kerb. Floyd | Floyd | A police squad car is parked outside No. 11, a little to the east of Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "accuse me" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Top Boulevard, Outside No. 7 Time: 6:02 pm Floyd ] - with gloves on Floyd ] [To turn these hint messages off, type HINTS OFF.] Floyd | Floyd | > ACCUSE ME Floyd | Floyd | You're guilty of enough - spending a whole month's advance on tequila, Floyd | beating to death that Indian kid in the cell in January, being a Floyd | crummy cop and not solving a single case for a good long while. You Floyd | don't need accusations, you've got a string of them. You need to sort Floyd | it out. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "or I guess you can just show Joe the note" | ||
| JimKaplan says, "exactly." | |||
| Fang says, "if you want a suicide by cop" | |||
| Fang disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | |||
| DavidW has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | |||
| JimKaplan has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DavidW says, "I'm gonna lie down for at least 15 minutes but probably somewhat longer. I don't think I can guess how much time I need." | ||
| JimKaplan says, "It's getting pretty late over here for me; I'll prolly be out longer." | |||
| *** AFTER A LENGTHY BREAK... *** | |||
| DavidW says, "I did have one idea after we stopped playing, but I doubt it's helpful, that of leading the dog to the cat." | |||
| Fang says, "I genuinely don't think that the cat and dogs are relevant" | |||
| Fang says, "but then again I didn't think the glove compartment was relevant either" | |||
| DavidW says, "True, but there might be a fun response just the same." | |||
| DavidW says, "I seriously expected a flashlight to be in the glove compartment." | |||
| Fang says, "I thought it was just scenery to show how down and out we were" | |||
| Fang says, "that even our car is this crappy, and we didn't have our gun with us because it's stuck in there" | |||
| DavidW says, "oh. hm. I didn't think to wonder where our gun might be." | |||
| Fang says, "then again, I guess this might be set in the UK" | |||
| Fang says, "so no one has guns" | |||
| *** END TRANSCRIPT *** | |||
