  
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. ANOTHER WARNING! A lot (most!) of the transcripts contained on this site are, shall we say, family-friendly. This is not one of those family-friendly transcripts. Just so we're clear. |
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| Jacqueline says, "So, before we begin, I'd like to direct your attention to the bb post I made last week." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We are looking for more 2013 Xyzzy-eligibles that are playable on Floyd." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So, check out the list, kids, and send me your suggestions via mudmail." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Please. Please? Kthx." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So, on to today's game: Pinched." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask pinched" | ||
| Floyd >You ain't leaving, are you? ] Display Room | ||
Floyd | 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Display Room Floyd | The room's about as big as Serenity's dining area, and it's stacked Floyd | full of boxes. The boxes make an aisle from the front of the room to Floyd | the back, and on the back wall there're some heavy black curtains. Floyd | Floyd | "Wedding gifts?" asks Kaylee, her eyes lighting up real pretty. Thinks Floyd | we don't notice how her glance goes to Simon. Floyd | Floyd | "Bride price," says Inara. "All this came from the groom. It's on Floyd | display to show the public that the bride is being wed to someone of Floyd | 'appropriate standing.'" Floyd | Floyd | "Come now, 'Nara, don't be prickly," says Mal. "Sounds like the Floyd | bride's right sympathetic to your own line of work." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily arrives, full of fun and funk. | DavidW says, "I wonder what our line of work is." | |
| Taleslinger says, "I have four games on that list. Wow." | ||
| Doug asks, "ooh, fanfic?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Doug), "It would appear, yeah." | ||
| katie-paquette arrives, full of fun and funk. | Marvin says, "I can't believe I got to the end of that whole wodge of text and still took ten seconds to realise what I was reading." | |
| DavidW says, "I don't recognize the source." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DavidW), "I believe this is Firefly fanfic, yeah." | ||
| djfletch says, ">TAKE MY LOVE. TAKE MY LAND" | ||
| DavidW asks, "That's a TV show, right?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It's a short Joss Whedon series. Lasted only a single season." | ||
| Lionheart arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Display Room 1 Floyd | > Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | Hi! This game has been tested, but anonymously. Enjoy. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "hey it has a feelie" | |
| Jacqueline says, "To those who have shown up late, remember that you can @recap #toyshop" | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of djf), "It has a feelie?" | ||
| katie-paquette says, "I'm here." | ||
| djfletch | [LINK] | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Display Room 2 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | As fine a specimen of manhood as ever. Though I do miss my gun. Floyd | Floyd | "Fact is," Simon says, "the bridal settlement has a long tradition. It Floyd | was meant to insure that if a woman's husband died or divorced her, Floyd | she'd still have a little independence. I always thought it was nice." Floyd | Floyd | Kaylee is staring at him hard, so he adds on, "...though now I think Floyd | about it, it's antiquated and disrespects a woman's ability to look Floyd | after herself. Lots of differences about Earth-That-Was." Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "spotted it on the ifdb page" | |
| Doug asks, "so are we Jayne?" | ||
| Marvin says, "I think so." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Display Room 3 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I've got on me : Floyd | a ticket stub Floyd | Floyd | Inara ignores all the back and forth and goes to the curtain. "Might Floyd | as well see the center of the collection. Jayne, I think this will Floyd | open whole new worlds of art appreciation for you." Floyd | Floyd | She draws the curtain back, and I'm faced with the strangest painting Floyd | I ever saw. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x painting" | ||
Floyd ] Display Room 4 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | It looks to be real old. Real old porn, that is. There's two ladies Floyd | sitting naked in a bathtub, and one of them is reaching over and Floyd | pinching the other one's nipple, all dainty like she's picking up a Floyd | teacup. Floyd | Floyd | "...huh," Kaylee says. "That's not what I... huh." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x stub" | ||
Floyd ] Display Room 5 Floyd | > Floyd | > X STUB Floyd | Floyd | It grants access to the bridal display of this wedding-to-be. Stiff Floyd | purple square of paper with a lady drawn on it, and torn halfway Floyd | across. Floyd | Floyd | "A genuine oil painting from Earth-that-was, in this condition, of Floyd | this age, is worth more than this house and every other thing in it," Floyd | Inara says. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm guessing that's not the painting that's supposed to be there." | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask inara about painting" | ||
Floyd ] Display Room 6 Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK INARA ABOUT PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | I got three ways of conversin': ASK QUESTIONS, JOKE, and CAUSE A Floyd | RUCKUS. That last one's my favorite. Floyd | Floyd | "You'll have to give me some lessons in appreciating art, Inara," says Floyd | Mal. "Think there might be some significances to this piece that I'm Floyd | not grasping the sense of." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "joke" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > JOKE Floyd | Floyd | "Is it just me or is something wrong with the eyebrows on those Floyd | women?" Floyd | Floyd | "It's from the late 16th century," Simon says. "French. It depicts the Floyd | king's mistress -- see there, she's holding a ring that he gave her. Floyd | Her sister is in the bath too, and the nipple pinch is to show that Floyd | the mistress is pregnant." Floyd | Floyd | "Still seems like a strange thing to give someone when you're getting Floyd | married," Kaylee comments. Floyd | Floyd | "Job suits me," I say. "Be happy to store that in my bunk during the Floyd | ride--" Floyd | Floyd | Inara steps on my toe, hard. Floyd | Floyd | "Ai ya!" Floyd | Floyd | "I reckon we've admired this here bride price just about enough," says Floyd | Mal. "What do you think, Inara? Time to leave the viewing?" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Jacqueline says, "This is rather good." | |
| DavidW says, "oh wait. The title is a pun on the theft and what's in the picture." | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Street of New Reykjavik 7 Floyd | Floyd | Pinched Floyd | An interactive fanfiction by Anonymous Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 130116 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Street of New Reykjavik Floyd | New Reykjavik is right up to the north part of this planet, as there's Floyd | not much but water round the tropics. That being the case, it's Floyd | freezing cold here half the ruttin' year, and from what you can hear Floyd | told, mud the other half. This here is the freezing part. This street Floyd | is all snow and ice, but the buildings ain't bad. Floyd | Floyd | Kaylee, Mal, and Simon are along, loaded down with bags of this and Floyd | that -- clothes for the wedding ball, electronics parts for the heist, Floyd | groceries. Floyd | Floyd | "If it isn't Simon!" Floyd | Floyd | There's some little bit of a woman shouting from the other side of the Floyd | street. Simon doesn't even look up and we all figure it must be Floyd | someone else she's shouting at. But no. Floyd | Floyd | "Simon Tam!" Floyd | Floyd | She pushes her way out of the crowd on her side of the street and runs Floyd | towards us. She's one good-looking girl, too, if you like 'em bundled Floyd | up in a lot of furs and capes and with twinkly crap all over their Floyd | boots. Simon doesn't look too delighted to see her, but the next Floyd | minute she's hugging him and he kind of pats her shoulder. Floyd | Floyd | "Everyone, this is Lucy," he says. "She was in my year at medical Floyd | school; we were partners in neuroregeneration lab. Lucy, this is--" Floyd | Floyd | Mal frowns at him. Floyd | Floyd | "--this is everyone," says Simon. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to David), "Yep." | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x lucy" | ||
Floyd ] Street of New Reykjavik 8 Floyd | > Floyd | > X LUCY Floyd | Floyd | She's got long blonde hair and a narrow pointy little face. Tasty Floyd | enough, though not much like either Kaylee or Inara. Floyd | Floyd | "I haven't seen you in so long!" Lucy's not hugging him any more, but Floyd | she's still got his arm like she's fixing to take it home with her. Floyd | Floyd | "And I wasn't expecting to see anyone out here, either! I'm so far Floyd | from home, it's ridiculous how lonely I get! And the weather! Snow 13 Floyd | months of the year! Are you here for the Jonsdotter-Wilkes wedding? Floyd | Please say yes. You're the only person on this planet that's going to Floyd | know the same dances as me. Do you still tango?" Floyd | Floyd | Kaylee makes a little tiny noise I might not hear if she weren't right Floyd | next to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | katie-paquette says, "I guess not but kind of gross with the man and woman in a bathtub rubbing the woman's nipple." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I think it's two women, actually" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Anyway, what now?" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x kaylee" | ||
Floyd ] Street of New Reykjavik 9 Floyd | > Floyd | > X KAYLEE Floyd | Floyd | Kaylee's chin is sticking out and she's getting real busy checking out Floyd | something she's got stashed in her rucksack. Or possibly she's just Floyd | moving stuff around in there. Don't look like she's takin' anything Floyd | out. Floyd | Floyd | "I-- don't know," Simon is saying. "That is, yes. Yes, I was invited. Floyd | I'll be there. Sorry, it's just such a surprise to see you again, Floyd | Luce." Floyd | Floyd | Lucy pouts. "If you followed the alumni newswaves, you'd've known I Floyd | was living here now." Floyd | Floyd | "My mail has been very erotic lately," Simon says. Floyd | Floyd | > | Marvin says, "Ha." | |
| DavidW says, "We're still in prologue mode, I think." | ||
| Doug says, "for those who don't know Firefly: Jayne is a big galoot hired gun with questionable morals. Mal is the captain, Simon's a doctor, Kaylee's an engineer, Inara is a courtesan" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x simon" | ||
Floyd ] Street of New Reykjavik 10 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SIMON Floyd | Floyd | He's almost got an expression on. Though I ain't sure I could put a Floyd | name to it. Floyd | Floyd | "We'll have to catch up at the wedding," Lucy says. "I wish I could Floyd | stay and trade stories now, but I'm already late--" Floyd | Floyd | "--there's a first." Simon's smiling for real now. Didn't know his Floyd | face muscles stretched in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | "Don't be awful. I'll see you there. Save me one of your dippingest, Floyd | most Argentine dances." She kisses his cheek and then she's gone Floyd | again, and the air behind her smells like apples. Cold apples. The Floyd | snow hasn't gone anywhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "And who is the PC?" | |
| katie-paquette says, "Oops! I nant two women I'm sorry. But it's still grose." | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x mal" | ||
Floyd ] Street of New Reykjavik 11 Floyd | > Floyd | > X MAL Floyd | Floyd | He's dressed in his best suit, which makes me think he's going to Floyd | burst something. Floyd | Floyd | "Care to explain what that was about?" Mal asks. Floyd | Floyd | "What, Lucy?" Simon is still grinning a little, though it's starting Floyd | to fade. "She's an old friend of mine -- well, when I say friend, we Floyd | kind of -- that is, we were never actually -- but I think she wanted Floyd | -- if we hadn't been so busy we probably would have -- I mean I Floyd | thought about --" Floyd | Floyd | Mal interrupts. "She gonna turn you in? What with the price on your Floyd | head, and all. We didn't plan on people hereabout knowing your name." Floyd | Floyd | "Lucy? She wouldn't. Besides, it didn't seem like she knows about Floyd | that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Marvin says, "The PC is Jayne, the big galoot hired gun." | |
| katie-paquette says, "oops I meant to type meant in stead of nant" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask questions" | ||
Floyd ] Street of New Reykjavik 12 Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK QUESTIONS Floyd | Floyd | "Why-come you didn't see Lucy on the rutting guest list?" I demand. Floyd | "You and Inara said you checked everyone that was coming." Floyd | Floyd | "Wouldn't mind hearing the answer to that question my own self," says Floyd | Mal pointedly. Floyd | Floyd | "I don't-- she must have been added late," Simon says. "She wasn't on Floyd | the list when we looked." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "But we're a man? A man named Jayne?" | |
| djfletch says (to DavidW), "yup" | ||
| Gerynar says "bloop" and shrinks down into a little dot, then winks out...just like those old-fashioned B&w televisions. | ||
| Gerynar has disconnected. | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "joke" | ||
Floyd ] Street of New Reykjavik 13 Floyd | > Floyd | > JOKE Floyd | Floyd | "You and Inara got yourselves added late," I say. "Maybe Lucy's Floyd | stealing the painting too." Floyd | Floyd | "This is just dandy," Mal says. "Someone want to explain to me how the Floyd | plan is going to work now? We need me and Zoe on the pickup, and Wash Floyd | and Book got to stay with the ship, whilst now it appears that Simon Floyd | has to attend this party but not be of any use." Floyd | Floyd | Simon's jaw is working and he keeps kicking at the snow with the toe Floyd | of his boot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask questions" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK QUESTIONS Floyd | Floyd | "What about me?" I ask. Floyd | Floyd | Everyone turns to stare. Floyd | Floyd | "I could do it. Do the sneaking part better than Simon could." Floyd | Floyd | "We can't add you now," Simon says, annoyed. "Even if Inara could get Floyd | you an invitation, you'd need your own escort. And table manners." Floyd | Floyd | "I'll be Jayne's escort," says Kaylee. Guess she's pulled her head out Floyd | of her bag now. "Did a good enough job at that ball on Persephone, Floyd | didn't I? Still got the dress, even." Floyd | Floyd | "Kaylee, this won't be--" Mal says, while Simon says, louder: "With Floyd | Jayne?" Floyd | Floyd | Kaylee comes closer to me and holds my arm tight. "It's supposed to Floyd | look like this, right?" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | DavidW says, "I wonder if this is what Star Trek fanfic is like for people who've never watched the show." | |
| Doug says, "also, Kaylee has a crush on Simon" | ||
| Doug says, "and vice versa" | ||
| djfletch pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 14 Floyd | Floyd | Bunk Floyd | This is my bunk. Not that you could tell that, from the quantity of Floyd | gos-se thrown here and there. Piled up in here is every Floyd | garment we could find on the ship that looked like it might fit me and Floyd | do well enough for the wedding banquet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 15 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I've got on me : Floyd | a grey pair of faded underpants (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x garments" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 16 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GARMENTS Floyd | Floyd | Bunk Floyd | Place hardly looks like mine now. Floyd | Floyd | Book's suitcase is on the floor, spilling out a grey pair of Floyd | pinstriped pants, a grey scratchy shirt, and a white starchy shirt. Floyd | Floyd | I can also see a black pair of tight pants, a crimson pair of sharply Floyd | creased pants, a frilly white poet shirt, and some jackets (white, Floyd | trimmed crimson, and black sparkly) here. Floyd | Floyd | Thrown over the bed are a black silk shirt and a black cloak. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "how was this game published?" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "What do you mean?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "It was uploaded to the archive?" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "wear crimson pants" | Jacqueline says, "Oh, and there appears to be an account on IFDB called 'Anon'" | |
Floyd ] Bunk 17 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR CRIMSON PANTS Floyd | Floyd | (first I'm gonna take the crimson pair of sharply creased pants) Floyd | I try on the crimson pair of sharply creased pants. Floyd | Floyd | "Come out whenever you're done in there!" yells Zoe. Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, I'm dying to admire your sartorial splendor," says Wash. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "just wondering how this game was released. was it part of a comp or anything? or just someone randomly decided to upload it anonymously?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Just an indy release, middle of last January" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x frilly shirt" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 18 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FRILLY SHIRT Floyd | Floyd | Big flowy cuffs, and ruffles up the front on both sides. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x starchy shirt" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 19 Floyd | > Floyd | > X STARCHY SHIRT Floyd | Floyd | It's thick white cloth, very smooth. It doesn't so much wrinkle as Floyd | fold. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "Book is a preacher" | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x scratchy shirt" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 20 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SCRATCHY SHIRT Floyd | Floyd | Looks like the kind of thing the preacher would wear -- stiff cloth Floyd | and a plain color. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x black silk shirt" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 21 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BLACK SILK SHIRT Floyd | Floyd | Very plain-looking cut, but the cloth is thick and sort of shiny. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think I would try to avoid frilly and shiny for a theft." | |
| djfletch says, "hmm true" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "wear black silk shirt" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 22 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR BLACK SILK SHIRT Floyd | Floyd | (first I'm gonna take the black silk shirt) Floyd | I shrug myself into the black silk shirt. Floyd | Floyd | "Having a little trouble in there?" Simon shouts in. "Do you need help Floyd | putting on your pants?" Floyd | Floyd | "Sure! Send in Inara!" I shout back. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "But I'm not sure what else is in play. I don't know what's normal for the show or the character." | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "cause a ruckus" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 23 Floyd | > Floyd | > CAUSE A RUCKUS Floyd | Floyd | Don't think this here's the ideal time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 24 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Bunk Floyd | Place hardly looks like mine now. Floyd | Floyd | Book's suitcase is on the floor, spilling out a grey pair of Floyd | pinstriped pants, a grey scratchy shirt, and a white starchy shirt. Floyd | Floyd | I can also see a black pair of tight pants, a frilly white poet shirt, Floyd | and some jackets (white, trimmed crimson, and black sparkly) here. Floyd | Floyd | Thrown over the bed is a black cloak. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x sparkly" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 25 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SPARKLY Floyd | Floyd | The coat is made of a slightly fuzzy black cloth, very dark and Floyd | unreflective. Someone put little twinkly electroluminescent lights all Floyd | over it, which sparkle and blink. I think it's meant to be some kind Floyd | of star pattern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x white" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 25 Floyd | > Floyd | > X WHITE Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the frilly white poet shirt, the white funeral Floyd | coat, or the white starchy shirt? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x white coat" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 26 Floyd | > Floyd | > X WHITE COAT Floyd | Floyd | It goes to waist-length and it doesn't look like it's intended for a Floyd | man who likes to live large when it comes to eating. Or shooting. Or Floyd | doing anything messy. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "probably we just put on some stuff and the other people will tell us if it is wrong" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x crimson" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 27 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CRIMSON Floyd | Floyd | (the crimson pair of sharply creased pants) Floyd | There's a line running down the front of each leg. Don't see why. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x trimmer crimson" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 27 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TRIMMER CRIMSON Floyd | Floyd | I don't see nothin' like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x trimmed crimson" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 28 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TRIMMED CRIMSON Floyd | Floyd | It's a heavy coat with brass buttons and straight sleeves. Bright Floyd | crimson. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "do we want the jacket to match the pants or will that make it look like a uniform?" | |
| djfletch says, "not sure" | ||
| DavidW says, "I have no idea. We may have to wing it and see what happens." | ||
| djfletch says, "the brass buttons make this sound like an army uniform" | ||
| djfletch says, "let's just try it" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "wear crimson coat" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 29 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR CRIMSON COAT Floyd | Floyd | (first I'm gonna take the trimmed crimson coat with epaulettes) Floyd | I dress, finishing a complete outfit of the trimmed crimson coat with Floyd | epaulettes, the black silk shirt, and the crimson pair of sharply Floyd | creased pants. Matching, but not too matching. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x cloak" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 30 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CLOAK Floyd | Floyd | It's a long piece of heavy cloth with a pin to keep it shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "wear cloak" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 31 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR CLOAK Floyd | Floyd | (first taking off the trimmed crimson coat with epaulettes and Floyd | grabbing the black cloak) Floyd | I dress, finishing a complete outfit of the black cloak, the black Floyd | silk shirt, and the crimson pair of sharply creased pants. Matching, Floyd | but not too matching. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "I thought that might go on top but it doesn't" | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 32 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Bunk Floyd | Place hardly looks like mine now. Floyd | Floyd | Book's suitcase is on the floor, spilling out a grey pair of Floyd | pinstriped pants, a grey scratchy shirt, and a white starchy shirt. Floyd | Floyd | I can also see a black pair of tight pants, a frilly white poet shirt, Floyd | and some jackets (white and black sparkly) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 33 Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | I emerge dressed in a black cloak, a black silk shirt, and a crimson Floyd | pair of sharply creased pants. "Well?" Floyd | Floyd | "Very eighteenth century," says Wash approvingly. Floyd | Floyd | Simon just raises his eyebrows. "That thing around your shoulders Floyd | isn't a cape, Jayne," he says. "It wraps around your waist and pins in Floyd | place." Floyd | Floyd | "You mean it's a skirt?" I demand. Floyd | Floyd | "Skirtlike garments for men have a long history, especially for formal Floyd | occasions." I get the feeling he's enjoying this a little more than he Floyd | should. Floyd | Floyd | Bunk Floyd | Place hardly looks like mine now. Floyd | Floyd | Book's suitcase is on the floor, spilling out a grey pair of Floyd | pinstriped pants, a grey scratchy shirt, and a white starchy shirt. Floyd | Floyd | I can also see a black pair of tight pants, a frilly white poet shirt, Floyd | and some jackets (white and black sparkly) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "remove cloak" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 33 Floyd | > Floyd | > REMOVE CLOAK Floyd | Floyd | I don't see nothin' like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 34 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I've got on me : Floyd | a black kilt Floyd | a trimmed crimson coat with epaulettes Floyd | a black silk shirt (being worn) Floyd | a crimson pair of sharply creased pants (being worn) Floyd | a grey pair of faded underpants (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "remove kilt" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 35 Floyd | > Floyd | > REMOVE KILT Floyd | Floyd | But I'm not wearing the black kilt! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "drop kilt" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 36 Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP KILT Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "wear crimson coat" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 37 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR CRIMSON COAT Floyd | Floyd | I dress, finishing a complete outfit of the trimmed crimson coat with Floyd | epaulettes, the black silk shirt, and the crimson pair of sharply Floyd | creased pants. Matching, but not too matching. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 38 Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | "How about this?" I ask, coming out of the room in a trimmed crimson Floyd | coat with epaulettes, a black silk shirt, and a crimson pair of Floyd | sharply creased pants. Floyd | Floyd | "As a rule you want your shirt to be a lighter color than the jacket Floyd | or coat you're wearing over it," says Simon. "Give it another try." Floyd | Floyd | Bunk Floyd | Place hardly looks like mine now. Floyd | Floyd | Book's suitcase is on the floor, spilling out a grey pair of Floyd | pinstriped pants, a grey scratchy shirt, and a white starchy shirt. Floyd | Floyd | Also nearby: a black kilt, a black pair of tight pants, a frilly white Floyd | poet shirt, and some jackets (white and black sparkly). Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "haha" | |
| Doug says, "formal dress is always a hard puzzle" | ||
| djfletch says, "hmm can we wear a black jacket and black shirt" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "drop crimson coat" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 39 Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP CRIMSON COAT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking off the trimmed crimson coat with epaulettes) Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "wear black jacket" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 40 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR BLACK JACKET Floyd | Floyd | (first I'm gonna take the black twinkly coat) Floyd | I dress, finishing a complete outfit of the black twinkly coat, the Floyd | black silk shirt, and the crimson pair of sharply creased pants. Floyd | Matching, but not too matching. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 41 Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Wearing the black twinkly coat, the black silk shirt, and the crimson Floyd | pair of sharply creased pants, I walk out for the group to see. "What Floyd | do you think?" Floyd | Floyd | Simon shakes his head. "Your shirt and jacket can't be the same Floyd | color," he says. "It makes you look like you're in service. As a rule, Floyd | you want your bottom half to match one of the things you're wearing on Floyd | your top half, and then the other thing you're wearing provides some Floyd | color contrast. So you've got two colors total." Floyd | Floyd | Bunk Floyd | Place hardly looks like mine now. Floyd | Floyd | Book's suitcase is on the floor, spilling out a grey pair of Floyd | pinstriped pants, a grey scratchy shirt, and a white starchy shirt. Floyd | Floyd | Also nearby: a black kilt, a black pair of tight pants, a frilly white Floyd | poet shirt, and some jackets (trimmed crimson and white). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "wear gray shirt" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 42 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR GRAY SHIRT Floyd | Floyd | (first removing the black twinkly coat) Floyd | I take off the black twinkly coat and discard it. The lights flicker Floyd | when it hits the ground, then come back on. Floyd | Floyd | (first taking off the black silk shirt and grabbing the grey scratchy Floyd | shirt) Floyd | I shrug myself into the grey scratchy shirt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "wear black coat" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 43 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR BLACK COAT Floyd | Floyd | (first I'm gonna take the black twinkly coat) Floyd | I dress, finishing a complete outfit of the black twinkly coat, the Floyd | grey scratchy shirt, and the crimson pair of sharply creased pants. Floyd | Not that I put much store by Simon, but I expect he'll say this get-up Floyd | has too many colors. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "oh, I guess black & gray are different colors then?" | |
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||
| djfletch says, "it sounded like we have to wear the same pants and jacket" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "wear black pants" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 44 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR BLACK PANTS Floyd | Floyd | (first taking off the crimson pair of sharply creased pants and Floyd | grabbing the black pair of tight pants) Floyd | I put on the black pants, and they do zip all right, but soon as I go Floyd | to take a step they rip right up the back. Floyd | Floyd | So much for the fine craftsmanship of the planets nearer the Core. Floyd | You'd think with the high technology and all they'd work out how to Floyd | make pants that stay stuck together. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "whoops" | |
| djfletch says, "hurrah, slapstick" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 45 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Bunk Floyd | Place hardly looks like mine now. Floyd | Floyd | Book's suitcase is on the floor, spilling out a grey pair of Floyd | pinstriped pants and a white starchy shirt. Floyd | Floyd | I can also see some rags, a black kilt, a frilly white poet shirt, and Floyd | some jackets (trimmed crimson and white) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "is gray lighter than crimson?" | |
| DavidW says, "We're gonna end up with red jacket and pants with white frilly shirt at this rate." | ||
| Doug says, "or... yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Doug), "Depends on the grey, I suspect." | ||
| DavidW says, "We'll look like a popinjay." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "wear crimson pants" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 46 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR CRIMSON PANTS Floyd | Floyd | I dress, finishing a complete outfit of the black twinkly coat, the Floyd | grey scratchy shirt, and the crimson pair of sharply creased pants. Floyd | Not that I put much store by Simon, but I expect he'll say this get-up Floyd | has too many colors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "wear crimson jacket" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 47 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR CRIMSON JACKET Floyd | Floyd | (first taking off the black twinkly coat and grabbing the trimmed Floyd | crimson coat with epaulettes) Floyd | I take off the black twinkly coat and discard it. The lights flicker Floyd | when it hits the ground, then come back on. Floyd | Floyd | I dress, finishing a complete outfit of the trimmed crimson coat with Floyd | epaulettes, the grey scratchy shirt, and the crimson pair of sharply Floyd | creased pants. Matching, but not too matching. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 48 Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | I emerge dressed in a trimmed crimson coat with epaulettes, a grey Floyd | scratchy shirt, and a crimson pair of sharply creased pants. "Well?" Floyd | Floyd | "The red and the grey don't go together," says Zoe. "Bad color Floyd | combination." Floyd | Floyd | I give Simon a disbelieving look. "That one's an unofficial rule, but Floyd | she's right," he says. Floyd | Floyd | "Save us some time if you told me all the rules at once," I say. Floyd | Floyd | "But that wouldn't be funny!" protests Wash. Floyd | Floyd | "Can't," Simon says. "Half of them I don't remember until I see you Floyd | hideously mangling them." Floyd | Floyd | Bunk Floyd | Place hardly looks like mine now. Floyd | Floyd | Book's suitcase is on the floor, spilling out a grey pair of Floyd | pinstriped pants and a white starchy shirt. Floyd | Floyd | Also nearby: some rags, a black kilt, a frilly white poet shirt, and Floyd | some jackets (black sparkly and white). Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "haha" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "wear white shirt" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 49 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR WHITE SHIRT Floyd | Floyd | (the frilly white poet shirt) Floyd | (first removing the trimmed crimson coat with epaulettes) Floyd | (first taking off the grey scratchy shirt and grabbing the frilly Floyd | white poet shirt) Floyd | I pull on the poet shirt. I look like a gorram idiot. There ought to Floyd | be some other way. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I agree" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 50 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I've got on me : Floyd | a trimmed crimson coat with epaulettes Floyd | a crimson pair of sharply creased pants (being worn) Floyd | a grey pair of faded underpants (being worn) Floyd | some shirts (frilly white (being worn), grey, and black) Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "you agree there ought to be some other way?" | |
| djfletch says, "kilt with black jacket might be possible" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "drop all" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 51 Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP ALL Floyd | Floyd | trimmed crimson coat with epaulettes: Dropped. Floyd | grey scratchy shirt: Dropped. Floyd | black silk shirt: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 52 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Bunk Floyd | Place hardly looks like mine now. Floyd | Floyd | Book's suitcase is on the floor, spilling out a grey pair of Floyd | pinstriped pants and a white starchy shirt. Floyd | Floyd | Also nearby: some shirts (black and grey), some jackets (trimmed Floyd | crimson, black sparkly, and white), some rags, and a black kilt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily goes home. | ||
| Emily has disconnected. | DavidW says, "well, ... from a fashion perspective, yes, there ought to be something unhideous to wear." | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "wear kilt" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 53 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR KILT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking off the crimson pair of sharply creased pants and Floyd | grabbing the black kilt) Floyd | I try on the black kilt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "wear grey shirt" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 54 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR GREY SHIRT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking off the frilly white poet shirt and grabbing the grey Floyd | scratchy shirt) Floyd | I shrug myself into the grey scratchy shirt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "wear black jacket" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 55 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR BLACK JACKET Floyd | Floyd | (first I'm gonna take the black twinkly coat) Floyd | I dress, finishing a complete outfit of the black twinkly coat, the Floyd | grey scratchy shirt, and the black kilt. Matching, but not too Floyd | matching. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "how about gray shirt, gray pants, black jacket?" | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 56 Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | "How about this?" I ask, coming out of the room in a black twinkly Floyd | coat, a grey scratchy shirt, and a black kilt. Floyd | Floyd | "I like it," says Wash. Floyd | Floyd | "He's wearing a coat that lights up and flashes," Zoe says. "He's Floyd | going to get shot the minute he attempts stealth." Floyd | Floyd | Wash takes another bite of bao. "Like I said, it's a great look." Floyd | Floyd | "It's a fine jacket," Simon says to me, ignoring them. "If only it Floyd | would stop the blinking." Floyd | Floyd | Bunk Floyd | Place hardly looks like mine now. Floyd | Floyd | Book's suitcase is on the floor, spilling out a grey pair of Floyd | pinstriped pants and a white starchy shirt. Floyd | Floyd | I can also see a black silk shirt, some jackets (trimmed crimson and Floyd | white), and some rags here. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "ok so you were right about not wearing sparkly stuff" | |
| DavidW says, "that's the key. Make the twinkles stop." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search black coat" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 57 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH BLACK COAT Floyd | Floyd | I feel the whole thing over carefully and finally I find it, sewn into Floyd | the cuff: a little metal stud that can be pressed to turn the coat's Floyd | lights on and off. The other cuff has the battery sewn in. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "They stopped when we tossed it on the floor." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Momentarily, I mean." | ||
| Doug says, "aha" | ||
| Doug says, "DavidW wins" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yep" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn off black coat" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 58 Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN OFF BLACK COAT Floyd | Floyd | I press the stud and the lights on the jacket go dark. About time. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "now try" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l me" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 59 Floyd | > Floyd | > L ME Floyd | Floyd | As fine a specimen of manhood as ever. Floyd | Floyd | Currently I'm dressed in the black twinkly coat, the grey scratchy Floyd | shirt, and the black kilt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | I emerge dressed in a black twinkly coat, a grey scratchy shirt, and a Floyd | black kilt. "Well?" Floyd | Floyd | Simon blinks several times. "I-- yes, I suppose that works." Floyd | Floyd | "What's he supposed to be, a highlander at a wake?" Wash asks. Floyd | Floyd | "Keep your knees together when you sit. Those short skirts get Floyd | drafty," Zoe offers. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Jacqueline exclaims, "Well done!" | |
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Dining Area 60
Floyd |
Floyd | "How are we getting the painting out?" I ask.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You're not," Mal says. "You're going to leave it there."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "hee hee" | |
| Doug says, "wonder if the gray pinstriped pants would also have been acceptable" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, maybe." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "press space" | ||
| Emily arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||
Floyd ] Dining Area 60 Floyd | > Floyd | > PRESS SPACE Floyd | Floyd | I don't see nothin' like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Dining Area 60 Floyd | > Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | Come again? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask questions" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Area 61 Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK QUESTIONS Floyd | Floyd | "I know we've been moving towards a more user-friendly style of theft Floyd | lately, but next you'll be wanting to steal stuff by maybe dusting and Floyd | waxing it for the owner." Floyd | Floyd | "You don't wax paintings," says Mal, aside. Floyd | Floyd | Mal looks me in the eye. "You don't take anything out. There's too Floyd | much security in the way. All you do is get back into the Display Room Floyd | and tag the back of the painting with a micro-sized locator. That way Floyd | you don't have to shut down the whole security system, just the one Floyd | panel that senses if you take the painting off the wall. When you're Floyd | done tagging, you turn security back on and everything looks right and Floyd | shiny." Floyd | Floyd | Simon arrives from the passenger area. He's dressed real formally in Floyd | black suit and a white shirt I'm sure wasn't on him when I went Floyd | through his luggage that time him and River got taken by hill-folk. Floyd | Guess he's been doing some shopping. Floyd | Floyd | He's also putting on some kind of lipstick. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oops Jacq already did" | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "joke" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > JOKE Floyd | Floyd | "No one mentioned the menfolk wear lipstick on this planet." Floyd | Floyd | "It's not lipstick," says Simon, screwing up the tube. "It's just a Floyd | sealant." Floyd | Floyd | "Sure, good thought," says Mal. "Easy to get your whole face chapped, Floyd | this kind of weather." Floyd | Floyd | Book gives Simon a long funny look but says nothing. Floyd | Floyd | Mal goes on. "When the painting is moved for assessment and storage -- Floyd | which is scheduled to happen in the small hours of the morning -- Floyd | we'll be able to trace it. Doing the trace during the wedding means Floyd | there's the least chance for them to find the tag and take it off Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | "Simon and Inara scoped out this security team, worked out their Floyd | habits. They'll be using several decoy transports for a cargo this Floyd | valuable, but if we know which transport is the right one, we can lift Floyd | the painting from there." Floyd | Floyd | Inara and Kaylee arrive at last, both dressed up and glossy. "Good, Floyd | appears that the primping and fussin' is over," says Mal. Floyd | Floyd | "You both look very nice," says Book. Floyd | Floyd | "Ain't got all night," says Mal. And so we're off. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Doug pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Foyer 62 Floyd | Floyd | "Bad news," Kaylee says, coming to my elbow and talking low. "I had to Floyd | ditch the tool kit in the potted plant by the door." Floyd | Floyd | I've been this side of security for ten minutes already, and I'm Floyd | already wishing we were at a different party. Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | This room is where everyone goes after they come through security, Floyd | which is before you get to the real party. The fancier the party the Floyd | more rooms you need to go through to get to it, evidently. Personally Floyd | I like the kind that's held outdoors. Floyd | Floyd | Kaylee is standing close by. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily goes home. | ||
| Emily has disconnected. | Doug says, "probably too early to CAUSE RUCKUS" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I am looking forward to that bit." | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask questions" | ||
Floyd ] Foyer 63 Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK QUESTIONS Floyd | Floyd | "You-- what? How in the fay-fay duh pee-yen are we supposed Floyd | to do the job now?" Floyd | Floyd | "Fancy place like this, there's going to be something we can use to Floyd | jimmy the security system and reset the wires," she says. "We'll just Floyd | have to keep an eye open. But I didn't have a choice. Nearly got Floyd | caught with the tools on me -- I only realized at the end they were Floyd | running a full P-99 entry scan on the guests, and not just for weapons Floyd | neither." Floyd | Floyd | "That don't seem hardly polite." Floyd | Floyd | "No! It's a full-body scan -- whoever's running security sees right Floyd | through your clothes." Floyd | Floyd | "Everyone's?" Now that there's the kind of thing I ought to Floyd | be doing for a living. Floyd | Floyd | A man in a purple jacket approaches. He's carrying a tray, and on the Floyd | tray are a dozen or so full shotglasses. Stuck along the top of each Floyd | one there's a metal stick with a cube of something on it. Floyd | Floyd | "Ooh, tasties," Kaylee says, taking one eagerly and handing another to Floyd | me. The man bows and moves away. Floyd | Floyd | There's quite a pungent aroma rising from this thing. Floyd | Floyd | Kaylee pops hers in her mouth. "When you get it in your mouth," she Floyd | says, chewing awkwardly, "you can't smell it as much." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "drink" | ||
Floyd ] Foyer 63 Floyd | > Floyd | > DRINK Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to drink? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "shotglass" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOTGLASS Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Run-time problem P10: Since the shotglass is not allowed the Floyd | property "proper utensil", it is against the rules to try to use it. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Oh, that burns. All the way down. Can feel the lining of my stomach. Floyd | Floyd | This party is going to be good. Floyd | Floyd | Kaylee swallows. "I think that might have been fish. Once. In Floyd | another lifetime." She tips her shotglass up and takes a long drink. Floyd | Her eyes go wide again, but this time she's quieter about it. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Doug says, "wow, the drink is so strong it caused a bug" | |
| Jacqueline says, "ha" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't think it matters much." | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "push space" | ||
| djfletch pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 64 Floyd | Floyd | There's a few minutes of milling around with the shotglasses, and then Floyd | some men in purple uniforms tell us to go in to dinner. We've all got Floyd | assigned tables. Mine and Kaylee's has got a little old lady about Floyd | half the height of River, and her little old man husband who can't Floyd | hear. Floyd | Floyd | "Simon told us to copy the other people at our table for how to eat," Floyd | Kaylee whispers to me. "But these two don't even have food." Floyd | Floyd | "Not sure the old guy even has any teeth any more," I agree. Floyd | Floyd | "I'll copy you, then," says Kaylee. That's helpful. Floyd | Floyd | Garden Tables Floyd | You can tell this room's expensive, because it's got a glass roof in Floyd | this climate, but it's warm inside. Warm like one of those hot planet Floyd | beaches. There are trees scattered around the room and lights all Floyd | twinkling all over them, and fountains, just to show off how much Floyd | clean water this planet's got. Floyd | Floyd | The table in front of us is spread with gold-plated utensils Floyd | (clothespin spoon, laser knife, toy-sized fork, metal straw, Floyd | mini-mace, and flat spade) and a plate. Floyd | Floyd | Old Man Guest and Old Lady Guest in a purple dress are sitting on Floyd | their side of the table, smiling and nodding at us. They ain't eating Floyd | a thing. Kaylee's trying not to have to say too much. It's a real Floyd | sprightly party. Floyd | Floyd | The waiter serves some pea potato soup and a lavender sprig. Floyd | Floyd | "This is for the aroma," says the waiter, lifting the sprig with Floyd | gloved-up fingers. He tucks the lavender sprig into the clothespin of Floyd | the clothespin spoon, and goes away. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "a manners puzzle?" | |
| DavidW asks, "A table manners puzzle now?" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "smell sprig" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 65 Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL SPRIG Floyd | Floyd | It smells like grandma. Not mine. Someone else's. Floyd | Floyd | Old Man Guest turns to his wife. "Odd that we were fobbed off with Floyd | this table," he says too loudly. "I wonder who was in charge of the Floyd | seating arrangements. And whether they were revised badly at the last Floyd | minute." Floyd | Floyd | "I did think we were supposed to be at the Glitnirs' table," agrees Floyd | his wife. "But then we wouldn't have met these charming people." She Floyd | practically has to shout that last part for him to hear it. Floyd | Floyd | "I admire your good heart, my dear," he says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "joke" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 66 Floyd | > Floyd | > JOKE Floyd | Floyd | Mal made me swear not to say anything during the dinner course that I Floyd | didn't absolutely have to. Think he made Kaylee promise to tell on me, Floyd | too. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x old man" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 67 Floyd | > Floyd | > X OLD MAN Floyd | Floyd | Elderly fellow, very thin, dressed all in black. So much for all Floyd | Simon's dressing rules. I think the old fellow's a bit deaf. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put straw in soup" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 68 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT STRAW IN SOUP Floyd | Floyd | (first I'm gonna take the metal straw) Floyd | Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | "You sure are a cute couple," says Old Lady Guest to me and Kaylee. Floyd | "Where did you meet?" Floyd | Floyd | "Um, a different planet," says Kaylee. "We've known each other a long Floyd | time now." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Emily goes home. | ||
| Emily has disconnected. | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x old woman" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 69 Floyd | > Floyd | > X OLD WOMAN Floyd | Floyd | She's shrunk so short she's like half a person tall, and she's wearing Floyd | some kind of purple dress with tiny lights all around the neckline. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x soup" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 70 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SOUP Floyd | Floyd | It looks thick, white, and creamy. Doesn't look much different from Floyd | Blue Sun Cream of Wheat, to tell the truth, only there's a green swirl Floyd | of pureed peas to look decorative. Floyd | Floyd | > | katie-paquette asks, "I don't know what to do?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x spoon" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 71 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SPOON Floyd | Floyd | It looks like any other custom-made gold-plated spoon, except there's Floyd | a clothespin as part of the handle. Maybe so's you can take it home Floyd | and hang up washing afterward. As a souvenir. There's a lavender sprig Floyd | pinned onto the handle. Floyd | Floyd | "Did you see the bride gifts?" asks Old Lady Guest. "They're Floyd | extraordinary. That painting... such an exquisite piece of work. No Floyd | one makes things like that any more. The brushwork is so fine you can Floyd | barely see it." Floyd | Floyd | "You didn't think it was a little... strange?" Kaylee asks. "I mean, Floyd | the... pinching?" Floyd | Floyd | Old Lady Guest shrugs. "Manners change." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "eat soup" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 72 Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT SOUP Floyd | Floyd | (with my hands) Floyd | Had a cat once that would dip its paw in a glass of water and then Floyd | lick off the drops. Didn't seem sanitary. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get spoon" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 73 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET SPOON Floyd | Floyd | Got it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "eat soup" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 74 Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT SOUP Floyd | Floyd | (with my hands) Floyd | Had a cat once that would dip its paw in a glass of water and then Floyd | lick off the drops. Didn't seem sanitary. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "sigh" | |
| DavidW says, "maybe wave the spoon" | ||
| Doug says, "eat soup with spoon" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "hahaha - great bit about the cat" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "eat soup with spoon" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 75 Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT SOUP WITH SPOON Floyd | Floyd | I take a spoonful of the soup. By itself it tastes sort of ordinary, Floyd | but the smell of the lavender kind of perks it up. Kaylee takes a sip Floyd | of hers with her lavender-spoon and grins at me. Should've guessed Floyd | she'd like her soup with flowers on it. Floyd | Floyd | Once I've got the sense of what to do I eat nice and hearty. Or as Floyd | hearty as I can. They believe in small bowls on this planet. Floyd | Floyd | "Good to see that our hosts are ministering to the needs of the Floyd | deprived," remarks Old Man Guest. I think someone told me his name but Floyd | I forgot it. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, are they?" asks Kaylee. "That's nice of them." Floyd | Floyd | Old Lady Guest smiles. Floyd | Floyd | Seeing that I've finished with my previous course, the ever-hovering Floyd | waiters bring me a crab. Floyd | Floyd | "Do you plan to dance later?" asks Old Lady Guest of Kaylee. Floyd | Floyd | Kaylee looks at me, then says, "I don't know." Floyd | Floyd | I frown at her. No point in the girl getting ideas about making me Floyd | embarrass myself. This day's bad enough already. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x crab" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 76 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CRAB Floyd | Floyd | It's a whole crab, claws and eyes and everything. I'm relieved to say Floyd | that it is dead. Most likely there's some way into the shell, but I Floyd | don't know what that is. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oh great" | |
| DavidW says, "hee" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 77 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Garden Tables Floyd | You can tell this room's expensive, because it's got a glass roof in Floyd | this climate, but it's warm inside. Warm like one of those hot planet Floyd | beaches. There are trees scattered around the room and lights all Floyd | twinkling all over them, and fountains, just to show off how much Floyd | clean water this planet's got. Floyd | Floyd | Set at my place is a crab. Floyd | Floyd | Old Man Guest and Old Lady Guest in a purple dress are sitting on Floyd | their side of the table, smiling and nodding at us. They ain't eating Floyd | a thing. Kaylee's trying not to have to say too much. Floyd | Floyd | There are also gold-plated utensils (laser knife, itty-bitty fork, Floyd | mini-mace, and flat spade) on the table. Floyd | Floyd | "Wish I could still enjoy meals," says Old Lady Guest to the table at Floyd | large. "But I have intestinal problems. Do you know what Mayhare's Floyd | Disease does?" Floyd | Floyd | Kaylee shakes her head. Floyd | Floyd | "I hope," says Old Man Guest, taking her hand, "that you are not Floyd | regaling our dining companions with the intimate details of your bowel Floyd | situation." Floyd | Floyd | "Sorry," she says. "Sometimes I forget." Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "guess we can't watch them eat." | |
| DavidW says, "Mace or laser knife, I guess." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "crack crab" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 78 Floyd | > Floyd | > CRACK CRAB Floyd | Floyd | (with my fists) Floyd | I give the crab a good hard thump with my closed fist. It skids off Floyd | its plate and lettuce and lands on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | The waiter's eyes get very big. "Allow me to replace sir's crab," he Floyd | says. And sure enough right away he puts another one on my plate, even Floyd | uglier than before. Floyd | Floyd | "Lilija is such a beautiful bride," observes Old Lady Guest. Floyd | Floyd | We smile and nod at that. I think nodding is probably safe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "hit crab with mace" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 79 Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT CRAB WITH MACE Floyd | Floyd | (first I'm gonna take the mini-mace) Floyd | I hit the crab a couple times with the mini-mace, but all I manage to Floyd | do is speckle its shell with many tiny dents. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oops sorry" | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "cut crab with knife" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 80 Floyd | > Floyd | > CUT CRAB WITH KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | (first I'm gonna take the laser knife) Floyd | I revv up the laser knife and start in on the surgery. It works just Floyd | dandy on the shell and claws -- lays 'em right open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "I want one" | |
| DavidW says, "Let's keep this laser." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "eat crab" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 81 Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT CRAB Floyd | Floyd | (with my hands) Floyd | My fingers are too big to get into that shell and pick out the meat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "eat crab with mini-fork" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 81 Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT CRAB WITH MINI-FORK Floyd | Floyd | I don't see nothin' like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "eat crab with fork" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 82 Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT CRAB WITH FORK Floyd | Floyd | (first I'm gonna take the toy-sized fork) Floyd | I dig the toy-sized fork into the crab and manage to pull out a strip Floyd | of the meat, and then another. It's... actually very good. Kind of Floyd | sweet. Doesn't take long to fork out all the meat inside. Floyd | Floyd | Seeing that I've finished with my previous course, the ever-hovering Floyd | waiters bring me some carrot juice. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x juice" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 83 Floyd | > Floyd | > X JUICE Floyd | Floyd | It's liquid. And orange, like a carrot. I'm pretty sure it is a Floyd | carrot. In liquid form. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "juice is an entire course?" | |
| * Sharpe has left the channel. | ||
| DavidW asks, "drink it?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "drink juice" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 84 Floyd | > Floyd | > DRINK JUICE Floyd | Floyd | (with my hands) Floyd | The rim of the glass is perforated all the way around. To make it Floyd | harder to drink, I guess. I dribble a little on my grey scratchy Floyd | shirt, but the good thing is I think it won't show. Still, need to Floyd | find another way to drink the rest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "drink juice with straw" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 85 Floyd | > Floyd | > DRINK JUICE WITH STRAW Floyd | Floyd | Maybe the straw interfered in some fashion but what I'm tasting here Floyd | is carrots plus some kind of citrusy thing. Floyd | Floyd | Seeing that I've finished with my previous course, the ever-hovering Floyd | waiters bring me a green glass dome. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x dome" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 86 Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOME Floyd | Floyd | It's like a tiny dome over the food, only it's clear and glassy and Floyd | sort of looks like you're supposed to eat it. Floyd | Floyd | In the green glass dome is some chopped raw fish. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "joke" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 87 Floyd | > Floyd | > JOKE Floyd | Floyd | Mal made me swear not to say anything during the dinner course that I Floyd | didn't absolutely have to. Think he made Kaylee promise to tell on me, Floyd | too. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Should we care about that dribble on our jacket?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x jacket" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 88 Floyd | > Floyd | > X JACKET Floyd | Floyd | The coat is made of a slightly fuzzy black cloth, very dark and Floyd | unreflective. Someone put little twinkly electroluminescent lights all Floyd | over it, though they are mercifully switched off at the moment. I Floyd | think it's meant to be some kind of star pattern. Floyd | Floyd | There's a juiced battery and a control stud sewn in. Floyd | Floyd | There's a juiced battery and a control stud sewn in the cuffs. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Like, should we undo and then use the straw?" | |
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "I don't know." | ||
| DavidW says, "We're zipping through this a bit." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Enh, guess we'll see." | ||
| Doug says, "I don't see no stain" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Doug), "Well said." | ||
| Doug says, "let's eat the gorram sushi" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "eat dome with spade" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 89 Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT DOME WITH SPADE Floyd | Floyd | (first I'm gonna take the flat spade) Floyd | That looks a good bit too hard to just bite into. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "lift the dome?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "lift dome" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 89 Floyd | > Floyd | > LIFT DOME Floyd | Floyd | That first word, you get that from the Doctor? It don't mean anything Floyd | I know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get dome" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 90 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET DOME Floyd | Floyd | Got it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open dome" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 91 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DOME Floyd | Floyd | I give the dome a good sharp blow with the side of my hand, Floyd | martial-arts style. It goes skidding across the serving dish, but Floyd | doesn't get far on account of this dish has high walls. Almost like it Floyd | was meant to contain the blast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "hit dome with mace" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 92 Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT DOME WITH MACE Floyd | Floyd | One good whack with the miniature mace and the dome cracks open and Floyd | falls apart in a dozen or so curved shards. I could get used to the Floyd | smashing-things method of eating. Suits me. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ok" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "eat shard" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 93 Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT SHARD Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Run-time problem P10: Since the shards of culinary glass is not Floyd | allowed the property "proper utensil", it is against the rules to try Floyd | to use it. Floyd | Floyd | (with my hands) Floyd | I lift one of the shards to my tongue. It tastes kind of like candy. Floyd | Also kind of like hot hot burning all the way down my tongue and up my Floyd | nose. Ow. But tasty. A tasty ow. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "eat fish with fork?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x fish" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 94 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FISH Floyd | Floyd | It's a dark pink fish that hasn't been cooked at all, just chopped up Floyd | fine. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "maybe the shards are crystallized ginger or something" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "eat fish with fork" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 95 Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT FISH WITH FORK Floyd | Floyd | I try to get some of the fish to stay on the toy-sized fork, but it's Floyd | chopped so fine that I can't spear it, and the fork is so small that Floyd | it won't scoop up the fish bits. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, that's possible." | |
| DavidW says, "I guess the spade for this fish" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "eat fish with spade" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 96 Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT FISH WITH SPADE Floyd | Floyd | The flat spade is so wide that it don't maneuver in the deep plate. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "The spoon?" | |
| djfletch says, "the menu says tuna tartare under wasabi-ginger culinary glass" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "eat fish with spoon" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 97 Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT FISH WITH SPOON Floyd | Floyd | The overpowering scent of lavender combined with the chopped fish is Floyd | strongly unappetizing. Not to mention I think Old Man Guest is Floyd | laughing at me. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "there's a menu?" | |
| djfletch says, "menu at [LINK]" | ||
| DavidW says, "there's a feelie of the menu, yes." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "remove lavender" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 97 Floyd | > Floyd | > REMOVE LAVENDER Floyd | Floyd | (first I'm gonna take the lavender sprig) Floyd | I try stripping off the lavender sprig. Which you might think was the Floyd | kind of event that would liven a stuffy party like this right up, but Floyd | somehow it doesn't turn out to amuse them all very much. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** We have been thrown out *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | Doug says, "dang" | |
| Doug says, "sudden death" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 97 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Garden Tables Floyd | No, that ain't what happened. Let's back up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "gosh" | |
| DavidW says, "Sounds like remove means remove clothes." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open spoon" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 98 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN SPOON Floyd | Floyd | The clothespin spoon don't really open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open clothespin" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 99 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CLOTHESPIN Floyd | Floyd | The clothespin don't really open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take sprig" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 100 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SPRIG Floyd | Floyd | I tug the lavender sprig out of the clothespin. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says (to DavidW), "oh, huh." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat fish with spoon" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 101 Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT FISH WITH SPOON Floyd | Floyd | I spoon up the tuna. Pretty sure that wasn't how I was supposed to do Floyd | it, but don't much care. Floyd | Floyd | The next thing out is a cube of meat, just one not-very-big cube, Floyd | skewered on the end of a long wire thing that stands up from the Floyd | table. It's like food on an antenna. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Delicious" | |
| djfletch says, "maybe we should have put the fish on a shard" | ||
| Doug says, "looking at the menu, I guess we were supposed to eat the "hakarl" cube on the drink" | ||
| Doug says (to djfletch), "oh yeah, probably" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x cube" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 102 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CUBE Floyd | Floyd | Another cube of meat, this one a centimeter or two on the side. It's Floyd | glazed with brown goo and looks like it's got bits of tree sticking to Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "so now we have diddly-bopper meat?" | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get skewer" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 102 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET SKEWER Floyd | Floyd | I don't see nothin' like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get wire" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 102 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET WIRE Floyd | Floyd | I don't see nothin' like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get antenna" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 103 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ANTENNA Floyd | Floyd | I go to pick up the antenna, but one of the waiters leans over on my Floyd | right. "Sir, the antenna is already adjusted to its ideal height." Floyd | Floyd | That's good to know. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "smoked lamb, "served hands-free"" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "eat meat" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 104 Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT MEAT Floyd | Floyd | I lean in close and bite the meat right off its antenna. Now this Floyd | wouldn't be half bad if there were about fifty more of these little Floyd | cubes. As it is... you call that a dish? Wonder if I could get someone Floyd | else's cube too. Floyd | Floyd | Seeing that I've finished with my previous course, the ever-hovering Floyd | waiters bring me a cool white yogurt. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, we just eat it, perhaps. No utensils." | |
| Doug says, "this course is "salad"" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x yogurt" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 105 Floyd | > Floyd | > X YOGURT Floyd | Floyd | Cool white stuff, looks like yogurt, only there's green and Floyd | green-yellow and greenish-red powders layered in. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Spade time, perhaps" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "eat yogurt with spade" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 106 Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT YOGURT WITH SPADE Floyd | Floyd | With the flat spade I can just about manage to lift up a layer of the Floyd | white stuff with some of the powder. It keeps trying to slip off. When Floyd | I get it to my mouth it tastes like... lettuce. With creamy dressing. Floyd | Only the whole texture is creamy. Floyd | Floyd | The waiter brings, last, a chocolate sphere. It's all round and glossy Floyd | like a ball, until he pours some kind of hot sauce over it. Then it Floyd | melts partly away right there on the plate. He also gives me a plain Floyd | ordinary spoon like any old ordinary person might use. Don't see why Floyd | we couldn't have gotten one of those sooner. Floyd | Floyd | > | katie-paquette says, "hmm." | |
| Doug says, "haha" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x spoon" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 107 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SPOON Floyd | Floyd | (the clothespin spoon) Floyd | It looks like any other custom-made gold-plated spoon, except there's Floyd | a clothespin as part of the handle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x plain spoon" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 107 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PLAIN SPOON Floyd | Floyd | I don't see nothin' like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 108 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I've got on me : Floyd | a lavender sprig Floyd | gold-plated utensils (flat spade, itty-bitty fork, laser knife, Floyd | mini-mace, clothespin spoon, and metal straw) Floyd | a black twinkly coat (being worn) Floyd | a grey scratchy shirt (being worn) Floyd | a black kilt (being worn) Floyd | a grey pair of faded underpants (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 109 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Garden Tables Floyd | You can tell this room's expensive, because it's got a glass roof in Floyd | this climate, but it's warm inside. Warm like one of those hot planet Floyd | beaches. There are trees scattered around the room and lights all Floyd | twinkling all over them, and fountains, just to show off how much Floyd | clean water this planet's got. Floyd | Floyd | Currently stuck in front of me is a chocolate sphere. It is Floyd | accompanied by an ordinary spoon, a dining antenna, and some shards of Floyd | culinary glass. Floyd | Floyd | Old Man Guest and Old Lady Guest in a purple dress are sitting on Floyd | their side of the table, smiling and nodding at us. They ain't eating Floyd | a thing. Kaylee's trying not to have to say too much. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 110 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Garden Tables Floyd | You can tell this room's expensive, because it's got a glass roof in Floyd | this climate, but it's warm inside. Warm like one of those hot planet Floyd | beaches. There are trees scattered around the room and lights all Floyd | twinkling all over them, and fountains, just to show off how much Floyd | clean water this planet's got. Floyd | Floyd | The stuff I'm supposed to eat next is a chocolate sphere. It is Floyd | accompanied by an ordinary spoon, a dining antenna, and some shards of Floyd | culinary glass. Floyd | Floyd | Old Man Guest and Old Lady Guest in a purple dress are sitting on Floyd | their side of the table, smiling and nodding at us. They ain't eating Floyd | a thing. Kaylee's trying not to have to say too much. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x ordinary" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 111 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ORDINARY Floyd | Floyd | Compared with the other utensils it don't seem like it's hardly Floyd | trying. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "wonder if it's a trick" | |
| djfletch asks, "can we steal the antenna now?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "eat dessert with ordinary spoon?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "eat sphere with ordinary" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT SPHERE WITH ORDINARY Floyd | Floyd | (first I'm gonna take the ordinary spoon) Floyd | Gorram that's strong. There's chocolate, and some round red fruits I Floyd | don't think I ever saw before, but mostly a lot of hot alcohol. Floyd | Floyd | There's a bunch of fooferaw after that: dinner's over but they've got Floyd | speeches, and toasts, and some man with flowers on his hat gets up and Floyd | tells some stories about a dog he had, who is like the bride somehow. Floyd | Floyd | Kaylee gets all happy and misty about that, so it must've been a good Floyd | dog story. Don't much care about the things myself. Floyd | Floyd | After a good long time, though, we're allowed to leave the tables, and Floyd | then it's all guests circulating and some of them dancing. Which is Floyd | the time for me and Kaylee to make our move. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | DavidW says (to djf), "Perhaps" | |
| DavidW says, "Except Doug went first." | ||
| Doug asks, "sorry, want to undo?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes please" | ||
| Doug pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 112 Floyd | Floyd | We're headin' into the hallway toward the display room when Kaylee Floyd | gestures for me to hold still. Floyd | Floyd | I hear Lucy say, "So tell me, Simon Tam: what did you do to get the Floyd | Alliance chasing you and that price on your head?" Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This is a long, important-looking hallway. We were here before, during Floyd | the public viewing of the bride price. The display room is just off to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | Next to the doorway east, there's a security panel set into the wall. Floyd | Floyd | Lucy and Simon are a little way down the dim hall; Lucy has her back Floyd | to us, but I think Simon knows we're here. Kaylee is beside me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 111 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Garden Tables Floyd | Imagination ran away with me again. Let's retry. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We probably want to keep some of these utensils or other objects." | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get glass" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 112 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET GLASS Floyd | Floyd | Got it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get antenna" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 113 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ANTENNA Floyd | Floyd | I go to pick up the antenna, but one of the waiters leans over on my Floyd | right. "Sir, the antenna is already adjusted to its ideal height." Floyd | Floyd | That's good to know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 114 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Garden Tables Floyd | You can tell this room's expensive, because it's got a glass roof in Floyd | this climate, but it's warm inside. Warm like one of those hot planet Floyd | beaches. There are trees scattered around the room and lights all Floyd | twinkling all over them, and fountains, just to show off how much Floyd | clean water this planet's got. Floyd | Floyd | Currently stuck in front of me is a chocolate sphere. It is Floyd | accompanied by an ordinary spoon and a dining antenna. Floyd | Floyd | Old Man Guest and Old Lady Guest in a purple dress are sitting on Floyd | their side of the table, smiling and nodding at us. They ain't eating Floyd | a thing. Kaylee's trying not to have to say too much. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get ordinary spoon" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 115 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ORDINARY SPOON Floyd | Floyd | Got it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 116 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ALL Floyd | Floyd | plate: Got it. Floyd | chocolate sphere: Got it. Floyd | dining antenna: I go to pick up the antenna, but one of the waiters Floyd | leans over on my right. "Sir, the antenna is already adjusted to its Floyd | ideal height." Floyd | Floyd | That's good to know. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "oh, plate" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 117 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I've got on me : Floyd | a chocolate sphere Floyd | a plate Floyd | a dining antenna Floyd | some shards of culinary glass Floyd | a lavender sprig Floyd | a black twinkly coat (being worn) Floyd | a grey scratchy shirt (being worn) Floyd | a black kilt (being worn) Floyd | a grey pair of faded underpants (being worn) Floyd | gold-plated utensils (ordinary spoon, flat spade, teeny tiny fork, Floyd | laser knife, mini-mace, clothespin spoon, and metal straw) Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "are we pinching enough yet?" | |
| DavidW says, "I" | ||
| djfletch says, "looks like we got it all, carry on" | ||
| Roger asks, "earlier, did we try going regimental?" | ||
| Doug asks, "regimental?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I 'm wondering if we need to hide stuff somehow." | ||
| djfletch says, "I don't think we ever tried crimson jacket+pants with white shirt" | ||
| Roger says, "kilt and no underwear" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look under kilt" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 118 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER KILT Floyd | Floyd | I peek at the grey pair of faded underpants. Yup, still there. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "commando" | |
| DavidW says (to Roger), "ooh" | ||
| djfletch says, "nope" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "put plate under kilt" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 118 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT PLATE UNDER KILT Floyd | Floyd | I don't see nothin' like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "put knife in coat" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 119 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT KNIFE IN COAT Floyd | Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x coat" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 120 Floyd | > Floyd | > X COAT Floyd | Floyd | The coat is made of a slightly fuzzy black cloth, very dark and Floyd | unreflective. Someone put little twinkly electroluminescent lights all Floyd | over it, though they are mercifully switched off at the moment. I Floyd | think it's meant to be some kind of star pattern. Floyd | Floyd | There's a juiced battery and a control stud sewn in. Floyd | Floyd | There's a juiced battery and a control stud sewn in the cuffs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pocket" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 120 Floyd | > Floyd | > X POCKET Floyd | Floyd | I don't see nothin' like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pockets" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 120 Floyd | > Floyd | > X POCKETS Floyd | Floyd | I don't see nothin' like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. Well, maybe save and see what happens." | |
| Doug says, "might be overthinking it" | ||
| DavidW says, "But I imagine the waiters grab everything." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | Doug says, "oops, sorry, there's a save button isn't there" | |
Floyd | cheapglulxe quit with exit status: | ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | Jacqueline says, "I was afraid of that." | |
| Doug says, "ack, sorry" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Should have mentioned that save has been broken." | ||
| DavidW asks, "ack. What happened?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
| Floyd says (to Doug), "Floyd doesn't know that trick." | Jacqueline says, "Save broke three or so weeks ago." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I thought you knew, DW." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "vimes has not had time to look into it." | ||
| DavidW says, "No. Didn't know." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry, I should have said something." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I nearly saved earlier, then didin't." | ||
| Doug says, "no biggie as long as we can undo, I guess" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We can't. It's crashed." | ||
| Doug says, "well, aside from that." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| djfletch says, "I remember it was broken on Blighted Isle but I thought that was a tads thing" | ||
| djfletch says, "well, we can belt through it again from the start pretty quickly" | ||
| DavidW says, "How did save stop working? I don't understand." | ||
| Doug says, "we can try "regimental" this time if we want" | ||
| Doug asks (of DavidW), "bit rot? gremlins?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, when we were troubleshooting Blighted Isle we found something else that shouldn't happen, and in fixing that it all broke." | ||
| Doug says, "Debug the Isle and Die" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And vimes has a lot going on right now and can't look at it right away." | ||
| djfletch says, "oh well, not to worry" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So, first world problems - we have to operate without a net for another week or two." | ||
| Roger says, "With the puzzles solved it should be quick" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "You guys can power back to where you were easily enough." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "Yeah" | ||
| Doug says, "ok" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Just appoint a driver and go." | ||
| Doug says, "I nominate DavidW" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't know if I remember the conversation parts." | ||
| Doug says, "I have scrollback, I can do it" | ||
| DavidW says, "sure." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Doug), "Thanks. If you need me to post the transcript, I can do that as well." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask pinched" | ||
Floyd ] Display Room 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Display Room Floyd | The room's about as big as Serenity's dining area, and it's stacked Floyd | full of boxes. The boxes make an aisle from the front of the room to Floyd | the back, and on the back wall there're some heavy black curtains. Floyd | Floyd | "Wedding gifts?" asks Kaylee, her eyes lighting up real pretty. Thinks Floyd | we don't notice how her glance goes to Simon. Floyd | Floyd | "Bride price," says Inara. "All this came from the groom. It's on Floyd | display to show the public that the bride is being wed to someone of Floyd | 'appropriate standing.'" Floyd | Floyd | "Come now, 'Nara, don't be prickly," says Mal. "Sounds like the Floyd | bride's right sympathetic to your own line of work." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x inara" | ||
Floyd ] Display Room 2 Floyd | > Floyd | > X INARA Floyd | Floyd | She's not bad to look at, but I prefer more of an affordable model. Floyd | And one that isn't so interested in serving men tea. Floyd | Floyd | "Fact is," Simon says, "the bridal settlement has a long tradition. It Floyd | was meant to insure that if a woman's husband died or divorced her, Floyd | she'd still have a little independence. I always thought it was nice." Floyd | Floyd | Kaylee is staring at him hard, so he adds on, "...though now I think Floyd | about it, it's antiquated and disrespects a woman's ability to look Floyd | after herself. Lots of differences about Earth-That-Was." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x curtain" | ||
Floyd ] Display Room 3 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CURTAIN Floyd | Floyd | They're made of heavy black material. And closed. Floyd | Floyd | Inara ignores all the back and forth and goes to the curtain. "Might Floyd | as well see the center of the collection. Jayne, I think this will Floyd | open whole new worlds of art appreciation for you." Floyd | Floyd | She draws the curtain back, and I'm faced with the strangest painting Floyd | I ever saw. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x painting" | ||
Floyd ] Display Room 4 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | It looks to be real old. Real old porn, that is. There's two ladies Floyd | sitting naked in a bathtub, and one of them is reaching over and Floyd | pinching the other one's nipple, all dainty like she's picking up a Floyd | teacup. Floyd | Floyd | "...huh," Kaylee says. "That's not what I... huh." Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "I don't know if these bits needed you to ASK QUESTIONS or if it's just a fixed number of moves" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask questions" | ||
Floyd ] Display Room 5 Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK QUESTIONS Floyd | Floyd | "What is this anyhow?" Floyd | Floyd | "It's from the late 16th century," Simon says. "French. It depicts the Floyd | king's mistress -- see there, she's holding a ring that he gave her. Floyd | Her sister is in the bath too, and the nipple pinch is to show that Floyd | the mistress is pregnant." Floyd | Floyd | "Still seems like a strange thing to give someone when you're getting Floyd | married," Kaylee comments. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "joke" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > JOKE Floyd | Floyd | "What a shock, Simon likes the painting with the sister issues," I Floyd | say. Actually that wasn't so much of a joke. Floyd | Floyd | Simon just gets clenchy in the jaw region. Floyd | Floyd | "A genuine oil painting from Earth-that-was, in this condition, of Floyd | this age, is worth more than this house and every other thing in it," Floyd | Inara says. Floyd | Floyd | "Job suits me," I say. "Be happy to store that in my bunk during the Floyd | ride--" Floyd | Floyd | Mal steps on my toe, hard. Floyd | Floyd | "Ai ya!" Floyd | Floyd | "I reckon we've admired this here bride price just about enough," says Floyd | Mal. "What do you think, Inara? Time to leave the viewing?" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | DavidW says, "It's possible we can 'z' through some sections, I'd guess." | |
| Doug pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Street of New Reykjavik 6 Floyd | Floyd | Pinched Floyd | An interactive fanfiction by Anonymous Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 130116 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Street of New Reykjavik Floyd | New Reykjavik is right up to the north part of this planet, as there's Floyd | not much but water round the tropics. That being the case, it's Floyd | freezing cold here half the ruttin' year, and from what you can hear Floyd | told, mud the other half. This here is the freezing part. This street Floyd | is all snow and ice, but the buildings ain't bad. Floyd | Floyd | Kaylee, Mal, and Simon are along, loaded down with bags of this and Floyd | that -- clothes for the wedding ball, electronics parts for the heist, Floyd | groceries. Floyd | Floyd | "If it isn't Simon!" Floyd | Floyd | There's some little bit of a woman shouting from the other side of the Floyd | street. Simon doesn't even look up and we all figure it must be Floyd | someone else she's shouting at. But no. Floyd | Floyd | "Simon Tam!" Floyd | Floyd | She pushes her way out of the crowd on her side of the street and runs Floyd | towards us. She's one good-looking girl, too, if you like 'em bundled Floyd | up in a lot of furs and capes and with twinkly crap all over their Floyd | boots. Simon doesn't look too delighted to see her, but the next Floyd | minute she's hugging him and he kind of pats her shoulder. Floyd | Floyd | "Everyone, this is Lucy," he says. "She was in my year at medical Floyd | school; we were partners in neuroregeneration lab. Lucy, this is--" Floyd | Floyd | Mal frowns at him. Floyd | Floyd | "--this is everyone," says Simon. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "I figure we might as well try to see some new questions/jokes" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Well, I was thinking of editing the transcript, but if we do that I won't. Go for it." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask questions" | ||
Floyd ] Street of New Reykjavik 7 Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK QUESTIONS Floyd | Floyd | Can't rightly think of a thing to ask now. Floyd | Floyd | "I haven't seen you in so long!" Lucy's not hugging him any more, but Floyd | she's still got his arm like she's fixing to take it home with her. Floyd | Floyd | "And I wasn't expecting to see anyone out here, either! I'm so far Floyd | from home, it's ridiculous how lonely I get! And the weather! Snow 13 Floyd | months of the year! Are you here for the Jonsdotter-Wilkes wedding? Floyd | Please say yes. You're the only person on this planet that's going to Floyd | know the same dances as me. Do you still tango?" Floyd | Floyd | Kaylee makes a little tiny noise I might not hear if she weren't right Floyd | next to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "aw" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "joke" | ||
Floyd ] Street of New Reykjavik 8 Floyd | > Floyd | > JOKE Floyd | Floyd | "Is tango a word for 'be pompous and get in the way'?" But no one is Floyd | listening to me. Floyd | Floyd | "I-- don't know," Simon is saying. "That is, yes. Yes, I was invited. Floyd | I'll be there. Sorry, it's just such a surprise to see you again, Floyd | Luce." Floyd | Floyd | Lucy pouts. "If you followed the alumni newswaves, you'd've known I Floyd | was living here now." Floyd | Floyd | "My mail has been very erotic lately," Simon says. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "haha" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x simon" | ||
Floyd ] Street of New Reykjavik 9 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SIMON Floyd | Floyd | He's almost got an expression on. Though I ain't sure I could put a Floyd | name to it. Floyd | Floyd | "We'll have to catch up at the wedding," Lucy says. "I wish I could Floyd | stay and trade stories now, but I'm already late--" Floyd | Floyd | "--there's a first." Simon's smiling for real now. Didn't know his Floyd | face muscles stretched in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | "Don't be awful. I'll see you there. Save me one of your dippingest, Floyd | most Argentine dances." She kisses his cheek and then she's gone Floyd | again, and the air behind her smells like apples. Cold apples. The Floyd | snow hasn't gone anywhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "cause ruckus" | ||
Floyd ] Street of New Reykjavik 10 Floyd | > Floyd | > CAUSE RUCKUS Floyd | Floyd | "Can we get back to the ship now before we meet any more of Simon's Floyd | former friends?" But as usual they're not listening to me. Floyd | Floyd | "Care to explain what that was about?" Mal asks. Floyd | Floyd | "What, Lucy?" Simon is still grinning a little, though it's starting Floyd | to fade. "She's an old friend of mine -- well, when I say friend, we Floyd | kind of -- that is, we were never actually -- but I think she wanted Floyd | -- if we hadn't been so busy we probably would have -- I mean I Floyd | thought about --" Floyd | Floyd | Mal interrupts. "She gonna turn you in? What with the price on your Floyd | head, and all. We didn't plan on people hereabout knowing your name." Floyd | Floyd | "Lucy? She wouldn't. Besides, it didn't seem like she knows about Floyd | that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "joke" | ||
Floyd ] Street of New Reykjavik 11 Floyd | > Floyd | > JOKE Floyd | Floyd | "Stands to reason she'd warn you if she was planning to turn you over Floyd | to the feds." Floyd | Floyd | Mal gives me a very warning kind of look and I remember that might not Floyd | be the best topic of conversation to be raising at this particular Floyd | juncture. Floyd | Floyd | "That ain't our only concern," Mal says. "What I'm curious about is Floyd | why you and 'Nara told me you had this job scoped out, you neglected Floyd | to notice your old girlfriend on the guest list. And how you planned Floyd | on playing your part in this escapade when she's going to be limpeted Floyd | onto your side demanding another Argentine waltz every two minutes." Floyd | Floyd | "Tango," Simon mutters. "I promise you, Mal, we checked that list in Floyd | triple. She must have been added late." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask questions" | ||
Floyd ] Street of New Reykjavik 12 Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK QUESTIONS Floyd | Floyd | "What's a tango?" Floyd | Floyd | No answer. Floyd | Floyd | "This is just dandy," Mal says. "Someone want to explain to me how the Floyd | plan is going to work now? We need me and Zoe on the pickup, and Wash Floyd | and Book got to stay with the ship, whilst now it appears that Simon Floyd | has to attend this party but not be of any use." Floyd | Floyd | Simon's jaw is working and he keeps kicking at the snow with the toe Floyd | of his boot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "joke" | ||
Floyd ] Street of New Reykjavik 13 Floyd | > Floyd | > JOKE Floyd | Floyd | "Don't see how Simon being no use is any different from any other time Floyd | he's been along." Floyd | Floyd | "Jayne," Mal says. "You're going to get yourself up in fancy clothes Floyd | and you're going to go to this thing. Be better at the security part Floyd | than Simon anyhow." Floyd | Floyd | I get my ten percent for shooting things, not for dressing up like an Floyd | idiot and definitely not for covering for Simon. I open my mouth to Floyd | say that, but-- Floyd | Floyd | "You get Simon's cut, seeing as it turns out he has a social Floyd | engagement for the evening of the job and won't be able to work." Floyd | Floyd | Simon looks pasty and angry now. "He'll need an escort. And Floyd | table manners." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask questions" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK QUESTIONS Floyd | Floyd | "Simon can go alone, and Inara can come with me instead," I say. Floyd | "Wouldn't object to some free companioning." Floyd | Floyd | "Inara is already on the list as Simon's guest," says Mal. Floyd | "Arrangements don't allow for changing that." Floyd | Floyd | "I'll be Jayne's escort," says Kaylee. Guess she's pulled her head out Floyd | of her bag now. "Did a good enough job at that ball on Persephone, Floyd | didn't I? Still got the dress, even." Floyd | Floyd | "Kaylee, this won't be--" Mal says, while Simon says, louder: "With Floyd | Jayne?" Floyd | Floyd | Kaylee comes closer to me and holds my arm tight. "It's supposed to Floyd | look like this, right?" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Doug says, "not exactly a question" | |
| Jacqueline says, "No, but that other bit was new, wasn't it? Maybe not." | ||
| Doug pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 14 Floyd | Floyd | Bunk Floyd | This is my bunk. Not that you could tell that, from the quantity of Floyd | gos-se thrown here and there. Piled up in here is every Floyd | garment we could find on the ship that looked like it might fit me and Floyd | do well enough for the wedding banquet. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "yeah, the dialogue changed a fair bit." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "remove underpants" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 15 Floyd | > Floyd | > REMOVE UNDERPANTS Floyd | Floyd | Nah, no need. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "wear kilt" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 15 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR KILT Floyd | Floyd | I don't see nothin' like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "hm, I guess we have to wear it as a cloak first. or should we just skip it?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "wear pinstripe" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 16 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR PINSTRIPE Floyd | Floyd | (first I'm gonna take the grey pair of pinstriped pants) Floyd | I put on the grey pair of pinstriped pants one leg at a time. Floyd | Floyd | "Come out whenever you're done in there!" yells Zoe. Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, I'm dying to admire your sartorial splendor," says Wash. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "wear gray shirt" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 17 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR GRAY SHIRT Floyd | Floyd | (first I'm gonna take the grey scratchy shirt) Floyd | I shrug myself into the grey scratchy shirt. Floyd | Floyd | "Having a little trouble in there?" Simon shouts in. "Do you need help Floyd | putting on your pants?" Floyd | Floyd | "Sure! Send in Inara!" I shout back. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Can't you just wear what you ended up wearing so that we can get to the party?" | |
| Doug says, "yep" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "wear black jacket" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 18 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR BLACK JACKET Floyd | Floyd | (the black twinkly coat) Floyd | (first I'm gonna take the black twinkly coat) Floyd | I dress, finishing a complete outfit of the black twinkly coat, the Floyd | grey scratchy shirt, and the grey pair of pinstriped pants. Matching, Floyd | but not too matching. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "search it" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 19 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH IT Floyd | Floyd | I feel the whole thing over carefully and finally I find it, sewn into Floyd | the cuff: a little metal stud that can be pressed to turn the coat's Floyd | lights on and off. The other cuff has the battery sewn in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "turn lights off" | ||
Floyd ] Bunk 20 Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN LIGHTS OFF Floyd | Floyd | I press the stud and the lights on the jacket go dark. About time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | "How about this?" I ask, coming out of the room in a black twinkly Floyd | coat, a grey scratchy shirt, and a grey pair of pinstriped pants. Floyd | Floyd | "My little boy, all grown up. We should take pictures," says Wash. Floyd | Floyd | "It doesn't exactly look tailor-made, but it should do," Simon Floyd | concedes. "Now just don't say anything." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Doug pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Dining Area 21
Floyd |
Floyd | "How are we getting the painting out?" I ask.
Floyd |
Floyd | "You're not," Mal says. "You're going to leave it there."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Doug says (to Floyd), "cause ruckus" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Area 22 Floyd | > Floyd | > CAUSE RUCKUS Floyd | Floyd | "I thought Inara was on this boat to make you look Floyd | respectable, but seems to me she's making you be respectable. Floyd | And respectable's not what I can take a cut of." Floyd | Floyd | Mal looks me in the eye. "You don't take anything out. There's too Floyd | much security in the way. All you do is get back into the Display Room Floyd | and tag the back of the painting with a micro-sized locator. That way Floyd | you don't have to shut down the whole security system, just the one Floyd | panel that senses if you take the painting off the wall. When you're Floyd | done tagging, you turn security back on and everything looks right and Floyd | shiny." Floyd | Floyd | Simon arrives from the passenger area. He's dressed real formally in Floyd | black suit and a white shirt I'm sure wasn't on him when I went Floyd | through his luggage that time him and River got taken by hill-folk. Floyd | Guess he's been doing some shopping. Floyd | Floyd | He's also putting on some kind of lipstick. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| katie-paquette goes home. | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Might as well stay quiet and see what happens next. Floyd | Floyd | Mal goes on. "When the painting is moved for assessment and storage -- Floyd | which is scheduled to happen in the small hours of the morning -- Floyd | we'll be able to trace it. Doing the trace during the wedding means Floyd | there's the least chance for them to find the tag and take it off Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | "Simon and Inara scoped out this security team, worked out their Floyd | habits. They'll be using several decoy transports for a cargo this Floyd | valuable, but if we know which transport is the right one, we can lift Floyd | the painting from there." Floyd | Floyd | Inara and Kaylee arrive at last, both dressed up and glossy. "Good, Floyd | appears that the primping and fussin' is over," says Mal. Floyd | Floyd | "You both look very nice," says Book. Floyd | Floyd | "Ain't got all night," says Mal. And so we're off. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Doug pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Foyer 23 Floyd | Floyd | "Bad news," Kaylee says, coming to my elbow and talking low. "I had to Floyd | ditch the tool kit in the potted plant by the door." Floyd | Floyd | I've been this side of security for ten minutes already, and I'm Floyd | already wishing we were at a different party. Floyd | Floyd | Foyer Floyd | This room is where everyone goes after they come through security, Floyd | which is before you get to the real party. The fancier the party the Floyd | more rooms you need to go through to get to it, evidently. Personally Floyd | I like the kind that's held outdoors. Floyd | Floyd | Kaylee is standing close by. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "joke" | ||
Floyd ] Foyer 24 Floyd | > Floyd | > JOKE Floyd | Floyd | "Sounds like there's another thing the good doctor could have warned Floyd | us about, if he weren't busy romancing his old school friend." Floyd | Floyd | She frowns. "Don't be mean." Floyd | Floyd | "Why's he so interested in this job anyway?" Floyd | Floyd | "I don't know, I think he just wants to help the captain. And I think Floyd | it's nice that he does." She adjusts her big skirt with one hand. Floyd | "Fancy place like this, there's going to be something we can use to Floyd | jimmy the security system and reset the wires," she says. "We'll just Floyd | have to keep an eye open. But I didn't have a choice. Nearly got Floyd | caught with the tools on me -- I only realized at the end they were Floyd | running a full P-99 entry scan on the guests, and not just for weapons Floyd | neither." Floyd | Floyd | "That don't seem hardly polite." Floyd | Floyd | "No! It's a full-body scan -- whoever's running security sees right Floyd | through your clothes." Floyd | Floyd | "Everyone's?" Now that there's the kind of thing I ought to Floyd | be doing for a living. Floyd | Floyd | A man in a purple jacket approaches. He's carrying a tray, and on the Floyd | tray are a dozen or so full shotglasses. Stuck along the top of each Floyd | one there's a metal stick with a cube of something on it. Floyd | Floyd | "Ooh, tasties," Kaylee says, taking one eagerly and handing another to Floyd | me. The man bows and moves away. Floyd | Floyd | There's quite a pungent aroma rising from this thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Kaylee is the most adorable thing ever." | |
| Jacqueline says, "But we knew that." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "eat cube" | ||
Floyd ] Foyer 25 Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT CUBE Floyd | Floyd | It's sort of chewy and resistant and vinegary. Like pickled radish Floyd | only much nastier. Floyd | Floyd | Kaylee pops hers in her mouth. "When you get it in your mouth," she Floyd | says, chewing awkwardly, "you can't smell it as much." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "drink glass" | ||
Floyd ] Foyer 25 Floyd | > Floyd | > DRINK GLASS Floyd | Floyd | I don't see nothin' like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "drink shot" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > DRINK SHOT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Run-time problem P10: Since the shotglass is not allowed the Floyd | property "proper utensil", it is against the rules to try to use it. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Oh, that burns. All the way down. Can feel the lining of my stomach. Floyd | Floyd | This party is going to be good. Floyd | Floyd | Kaylee swallows. "I think that might have been fish. Once. In Floyd | another lifetime." She tips her shotglass up and takes a long drink. Floyd | Her eyes go wide again, but this time she's quieter about it. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Doug pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 26 Floyd | Floyd | There's a few minutes of milling around with the shotglasses, and then Floyd | some men in purple uniforms tell us to go in to dinner. We've all got Floyd | assigned tables. Mine and Kaylee's has got a little old lady about Floyd | half the height of River, and her little old man husband who can't Floyd | hear. Floyd | Floyd | "Simon told us to copy the other people at our table for how to eat," Floyd | Kaylee whispers to me. "But these two don't even have food." Floyd | Floyd | "Not sure the old guy even has any teeth any more," I agree. Floyd | Floyd | "I'll copy you, then," says Kaylee. That's helpful. Floyd | Floyd | Garden Tables Floyd | You can tell this room's expensive, because it's got a glass roof in Floyd | this climate, but it's warm inside. Warm like one of those hot planet Floyd | beaches. There are trees scattered around the room and lights all Floyd | twinkling all over them, and fountains, just to show off how much Floyd | clean water this planet's got. Floyd | Floyd | The table in front of us is spread with a clothespin spoon, a laser Floyd | knife, an teeny tiny fork, a metal straw, a mini-mace, a flat spade, Floyd | and a plate. Floyd | Floyd | Old Man Guest and Old Lady Guest in a purple dress are sitting on Floyd | their side of the table, smiling and nodding at us. They ain't eating Floyd | a thing. Kaylee's trying not to have to say too much. It's a real Floyd | sprightly party. Floyd | Floyd | The waiter serves some pea potato soup and a lavender sprig. Floyd | Floyd | "This is for the aroma," says the waiter, lifting the sprig with Floyd | gloved-up fingers. He tucks the lavender sprig into the clothespin of Floyd | the clothespin spoon, and goes away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "eat soup with spoon" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 27 Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT SOUP WITH SPOON Floyd | Floyd | (first I'm gonna take the clothespin spoon) Floyd | I take a spoonful of the soup. By itself it tastes sort of ordinary, Floyd | but the smell of the lavender kind of perks it up. Kaylee takes a sip Floyd | of hers with her lavender-spoon and grins at me. Should've guessed Floyd | she'd like her soup with flowers on it. Floyd | Floyd | Once I've got the sense of what to do I eat nice and hearty. Or as Floyd | hearty as I can. They believe in small bowls on this planet. Floyd | Floyd | "Good to see that our hosts are ministering to the needs of the Floyd | deprived," remarks Old Man Guest. I think someone told me his name but Floyd | I forgot it. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, are they?" asks Kaylee. "That's nice of them." Floyd | Floyd | Old Lady Guest smiles. Floyd | Floyd | Seeing that I've finished with my previous course, the ever-hovering Floyd | waiters bring me a crab. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "cut crab with knife" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 28 Floyd | > Floyd | > CUT CRAB WITH KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | (first I'm gonna take the laser knife) Floyd | I revv up the laser knife and start in on the surgery. It works just Floyd | dandy on the shell and claws -- lays 'em right open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "eat crab with fork" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 29 Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT CRAB WITH FORK Floyd | Floyd | (first I'm gonna take the itty-bitty fork) Floyd | I dig the teeny tiny fork into the crab and manage to pull out a strip Floyd | of the meat, and then another. It's... actually very good. Kind of Floyd | sweet. Doesn't take long to fork out all the meat inside. Floyd | Floyd | Seeing that I've finished with my previous course, the ever-hovering Floyd | waiters bring me some carrot juice. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "drink juice with straw" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 30 Floyd | > Floyd | > DRINK JUICE WITH STRAW Floyd | Floyd | (first I'm gonna take the metal straw) Floyd | Maybe the straw interfered in some fashion but what I'm tasting here Floyd | is carrots plus some kind of citrusy thing. Floyd | Floyd | Seeing that I've finished with my previous course, the ever-hovering Floyd | waiters bring me a green glass dome. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "hit dome with mace" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 31 Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT DOME WITH MACE Floyd | Floyd | (first I'm gonna take the mini-mace) Floyd | One good whack with the miniature mace and the dome cracks open and Floyd | falls apart in a dozen or so curved shards. I could get used to the Floyd | smashing-things method of eating. Suits me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "eat fish with shard" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 32 Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT FISH WITH SHARD Floyd | Floyd | (first I'm gonna take the shards of culinary glass) Floyd | The fish tastes a tiny bit metallic, and then the flavor of the glass Floyd | shard makes it all tangy and hot. Floyd | Floyd | The next thing out is a cube of meat, just one not-very-big cube, Floyd | skewered on the end of a long wire thing that stands up from the Floyd | table. It's like food on an antenna. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ah" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "eat cube" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 33 Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT CUBE Floyd | Floyd | I lean in close and bite the meat right off its antenna. Now this Floyd | wouldn't be half bad if there were about fifty more of these little Floyd | cubes. As it is... you call that a dish? Wonder if I could get someone Floyd | else's cube too. Floyd | Floyd | Seeing that I've finished with my previous course, the ever-hovering Floyd | waiters bring me a cool white yogurt. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger asks, "ooh, could we mace the crab?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "We tried." | ||
| Doug says (to Roger), "we tried that, didn't work" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "No." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We must LASER it" | ||
| DavidW says, "I think we tried and it just dented it." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "eat yogurt" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 34 Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT YOGURT Floyd | Floyd | (with my hands) Floyd | Had a cat once that would dip its paw in a glass of water and then Floyd | lick off the drops. Didn't seem sanitary. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "oh well" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "eat yogurt with spoon" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 35 Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT YOGURT WITH SPOON Floyd | Floyd | I spoon up the yogurt in the clothespin spoon. It tastes like a Floyd | confused combination of potato soup, cheese, and lettucey bits, plus Floyd | flowers. Think I was supposed to do this some other way, but I don't Floyd | much care. Floyd | Floyd | The waiter brings, last, a chocolate sphere. It's all round and glossy Floyd | like a ball, until he pours some kind of hot sauce over it. Then it Floyd | melts partly away right there on the plate. He also gives me a plain Floyd | ordinary spoon like any old ordinary person might use. Don't see why Floyd | we couldn't have gotten one of those sooner. Floyd | Floyd | Old Man Guest turns to his wife. "Odd that we were fobbed off with Floyd | this table," he says too loudly. "I wonder who was in charge of the Floyd | seating arrangements. And whether they were revised badly at the last Floyd | minute." Floyd | Floyd | "I did think we were supposed to be at the Glitnirs' table," agrees Floyd | his wife. "But then we wouldn't have met these charming people." She Floyd | practically has to shout that last part for him to hear it. Floyd | Floyd | "I admire your good heart, my dear," he says. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yogurt was with spade" | |
| Doug says, "yeah, but it sounded like not the optimal thing the last time. maybe we were supposed to take the lavender out again" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Tables 36 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ALL Floyd | Floyd | flat spade: Got it. Floyd | plate: Got it. Floyd | ordinary spoon: Got it. Floyd | chocolate sphere: Got it. Floyd | dining antenna: I go to pick up the antenna, but one of the waiters Floyd | leans over on my right. "Sir, the antenna is already adjusted to its Floyd | ideal height." Floyd | Floyd | That's good to know. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "ok, ready to finish the dessert for real this time?" | |
| djfletch says, "ok by me" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks for doing that, Doug." | ||
| Doug says, "sure" | ||
| DavidW says, "shame we can't save." | ||
| Doug says, "undo seems to work okay" | ||
| Doug says, "also I think this game is meant to be short" | ||
| DavidW says, "Continue" | ||
| Doug says, "I doubt we'd need to branch far enough for save to be useful" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "eat chocolate with ordinary spoon" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT CHOCOLATE WITH ORDINARY SPOON Floyd | Floyd | Gorram that's strong. There's chocolate, and some round red fruits I Floyd | don't think I ever saw before, but mostly a lot of hot alcohol. Floyd | Floyd | There's a bunch of fooferaw after that: dinner's over but they've got Floyd | speeches, and toasts, and some man with flowers on his hat gets up and Floyd | tells some stories about a dog he had, who is like the bride somehow. Floyd | Floyd | Kaylee gets all happy and misty about that, so it must've been a good Floyd | dog story. Don't much care about the things myself. Floyd | Floyd | After a good long time, though, we're allowed to leave the tables, and Floyd | then it's all guests circulating and some of them dancing. Which is Floyd | the time for me and Kaylee to make our move. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Doug pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 37 Floyd | Floyd | We're headin' into the hallway toward the display room when Kaylee Floyd | gestures for me to hold still. Floyd | Floyd | I hear Lucy say, "So tell me, Simon Tam: what did you do to get the Floyd | Alliance chasing you and that price on your head?" Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This is a long, important-looking hallway. We were here before, during Floyd | the public viewing of the bride price. The display room is just off to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | Next to the doorway east, there's a security panel set into the wall. Floyd | Floyd | Lucy and Simon are a little way down the dim hall; Lucy has her back Floyd | to us, but I think Simon knows we're here. Kaylee is beside me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "joke" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 38 Floyd | > Floyd | > JOKE Floyd | Floyd | Yeah, this whole situation is hi-larious. Floyd | Floyd | "I used to," Lucy says. "I carried you around in my heart for years." Floyd | Floyd | Simon says something under his breath, too low to hear over the music. Floyd | Floyd | "Not saying I was lonely for company," she replies. "But you were Floyd | always... the one that didn't happen. There's a glow in that." Floyd | Floyd | "If I told you, you'd be in danger," says Simon. "Trust me, this is Floyd | not something you want to be a part of." Floyd | Floyd | "That's the problem, Simon," she says. "My feelings aren't reliable, Floyd | and that's all I've got going for you." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x panel" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 39 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PANEL Floyd | Floyd | This is obviously the access controlling the security in the Display Floyd | Room. It's locked, but not very well. I should be able to jimmy it Floyd | open, given something long and thin. Floyd | Floyd | I'm really having to struggle to hear Lucy now, but she's still Floyd | talking: "Everything else -- logic, common sense -- say turn you in. Floyd | Let your trial sort it out if you're innocent." Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, yes: trust the system rather than a person you know. That always Floyd | works brilliantly." Floyd | Floyd | "I want to trust you," she says. Floyd | Floyd | Simon's looking down into her face very oddly. Fool boy looks like Floyd | he's about to kiss her. On the mouth. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "haha, maybe we did need the antenna." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 40 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I've got on me : Floyd | a dining antenna Floyd | a plate Floyd | some shards of culinary glass Floyd | a black twinkly coat (being worn) Floyd | a grey scratchy shirt (being worn) Floyd | a grey pair of pinstriped pants (being worn) Floyd | a grey pair of faded underpants (being worn) Floyd | gold-plated utensils (flat spade, toy-sized fork, clothespin spoon, Floyd | ordinary spoon, laser knife, mini-mace, and metal straw) Floyd | Floyd | Simon finishes bending down and kisses Lucy on the lips. Kaylee stands Floyd | next to me, speechless. Her mouth is moving with things she wants to Floyd | say, but nothing comes out. Floyd | Floyd | Then Lucy slumps to the ground. Simon glances up past her at us. He Floyd | looks embarrassed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oh, we do have it." | |
| DavidW says, "spade might work too." | ||
| Doug says, "ohh, that lipstick was poison" | ||
| Doug says, "that's why Book stared" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Which Bond film had the poison lipstick? Or was that a different series?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "jimmy panel with antenna" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 41 Floyd | > Floyd | > JIMMY PANEL WITH ANTENNA Floyd | Floyd | Might as well wait until the good doctor is out of the way. Floyd | Floyd | Kaylee turns to Simon. "This part of the job, we can do. You should be Floyd | out there looking pretty." Floyd | Floyd | "Yes," Simon says. "Because society is proving such a comfortable Floyd | place just now." Floyd | Floyd | "You could dance with Inara," I say. "Probably worth a hundred credits Floyd | a dance." Floyd | Floyd | "More, I imagine." He looks at Kaylee like he's got something else to Floyd | say to her. Floyd | Floyd | "Three of us back here are a lot harder to explain than two," she Floyd | says. "Me and Jayne, we might've just snuck back here for a romantic Floyd | moment. Seems to be popular." Floyd | Floyd | "Fine, I'm going." And he does -- after dragging his sleeping Floyd | ex-girlfriend into a side room. Then me and Kaylee have the hallway to Floyd | ourselves so we can do what we like. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "lotsa watching in this game. good thing the writing's good." | |
| djfletch says (to DavidW), "it's a reference to a Firefly episode" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "The writing is quite good, yes." | ||
| Doug says, "oh? huh" | ||
| Doug says, "I don't remember poison lipstick in Firefly but could be" | ||
| DavidW says, "I haven't seen any Firefly, but I know I've seen poison lipstick in something else." | ||
| djfletch says, "whatshername that pretends to marry Mal" | ||
| Doug | [LINK] | ||
| Doug asks, "Christina Hendricks?" | ||
| djfletch says, "yes" | ||
| Doug says, "Saffron" | ||
| Doug | Simon, the ship's doctor, explains that the drug is spread on a "seal on the lips" and that he frequently dealt with unconscious men being brought in on the night shift who had been drugged and robbed. | ||
| Doug says, "nice callback." | ||
| Doug says, "it was used on Gilligan's Island too, heh." | ||
| Doug says, "and Get Smart" | ||
| Doug says, "ok, sorry for the TV Tropes distraction..." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "jimmy panel with antenna" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 42 Floyd | > Floyd | > JIMMY PANEL WITH ANTENNA Floyd | Floyd | I bend the end of the antenna a little and then poke it into the lock Floyd | hole. It resists a bit, but with a bit of work I'm able to pop the Floyd | panel open. Floyd | Floyd | Inside there's a whole mess of wires. Floyd | Floyd | "We need to sever that wire." Kaylee points. It's too far up for her Floyd | to reach easy, or she'd probably insist on doing it herself. But I can Floyd | see what she means. Floyd | Floyd | "That's all?" Floyd | Floyd | "We'll have to reattach the ends again later so they don't notice the Floyd | security is humped. But we'll come back to that when we're done." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Laser knife?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "cut wire with knife" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 43 Floyd | > Floyd | > CUT WIRE WITH KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | The knife doesn't activate -- the battery must've run out of juice. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, snap." | |
| DavidW asks, "ooh, does the jacket battery power up the knife?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks, author." | ||
| Doug says, "maybe recharge it with our "juiced batter"" | ||
| Doug says, "+y" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "oh, good thought" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "recharge knife with battery" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 43 Floyd | > Floyd | > RECHARGE KNIFE WITH BATTERY Floyd | Floyd | That first word, you get that from the Doctor? It don't mean anything Floyd | I know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "charge knife" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 43 Floyd | > Floyd | > CHARGE KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | Again with the funny commands. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open knife" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 44 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | I unscrew the battery compartment at the end of the handle. There's a Floyd | depleted battery inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take depleted" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 45 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE DEPLETED Floyd | Floyd | Got it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "aha." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put juiced battery in knife" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 46 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT JUICED BATTERY IN KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | (first I'm gonna take the juiced battery) Floyd | Floyd | The battery's sewn in pretty good. I'd need something at least a Floyd | little bit poky to unpick the stitches. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "toy-fork?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut stitches with knife" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 47 Floyd | > Floyd | > CUT STITCHES WITH KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | I slip the pointiest part of the laser knife into the stitches and Floyd | pull them a bit loose. Then I give the battery a good hard tug and it Floyd | comes free from the coat. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh. Or that." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put juiced battery in knife" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 48 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT JUICED BATTERY IN KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close knife" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 49 Floyd | > Floyd | > CLOSE KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | I screw the battery compartment shut on the juiced battery. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut wire with laser" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 50 Floyd | > Floyd | > CUT WIRE WITH LASER Floyd | Floyd | Very very carefully, I slice through the right wire and cut away a Floyd | little of the shielding. Floyd | Floyd | There's a faint thunk from within the wall. Floyd | Floyd | "That should do it," Kaylee says. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yay" | |
| DavidW asks, "now what?" | ||
| Doug applauds | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 50 Floyd | > Floyd | > DANCE Floyd | Floyd | Again with the funny commands. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 51 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This is a long, important-looking hallway. We were here before, during Floyd | the public viewing of the bride price. The display room is just off to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | Next to the doorway east, there's a security panel set into the wall. Floyd | The security panel contains some wires. Floyd | Floyd | I can also see Kaylee here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "weren't we supposed to reattach something?" | |
| DavidW says, "I think we're supposed to tag the painting to the east." | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask questions" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 52 Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK QUESTIONS Floyd | Floyd | Can't rightly think of a thing to ask now. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oh, right, not until we do the marker" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "joke" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 53 Floyd | > Floyd | > JOKE Floyd | Floyd | Yeah, this whole situation is hi-larious. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We have to fix this wire later, but I don't know how yet." | |
| Doug says, "I guess it's hard to write jokes for every scene" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Display Room 54 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Kaylee comes along. Floyd | Floyd | Display Room Floyd | The room's about as big as Serenity's dining area, and it's stacked Floyd | full of boxes. The boxes make an aisle from the front of the room to Floyd | the back, and on the back wall is hanging that strange-ass painting. Floyd | Floyd | Also nearby: Kaylee. Floyd | Floyd | "We need this down from the wall," Kaylee says, lifting the painting Floyd | down and setting it so that we can get at the back of the frame. Floyd | Floyd | "We've got to put a little hole in the wood," she says. "We don't need Floyd | much, the tag's not but a couple of millimeters across. But we need to Floyd | bury it in organic material or it'll be easier for them to find, even Floyd | not knowing the frequency to wake it up." Floyd | Floyd | She gives me the tag. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Display Room 55 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I've got on me : Floyd | a tracking tag Floyd | a depleted battery Floyd | a dining antenna Floyd | a plate Floyd | some shards of culinary glass Floyd | a black twinkly coat (being worn) Floyd | a grey scratchy shirt (being worn) Floyd | a grey pair of pinstriped pants (being worn) Floyd | a grey pair of faded underpants (being worn) Floyd | gold-plated utensils (flat spade, itty-bitty fork, clothespin spoon, Floyd | ordinary spoon, laser knife, mini-mace, and metal straw) Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "were we supposed to keep the cube of meat?" | |
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "hit wood with mace" | ||
Floyd ] Display Room 56 Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT WOOD WITH MACE Floyd | Floyd | I hit the frame hard with the mini-mace. That suffices to put a neat Floyd | little pinhole in the wood. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "the only thing that's organic are the culinary shards" | |
| djfletch says, "I think it just means the wood" | ||
| Doug says, "ohh" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "put tag in hole" | Doug says, "okay then." | |
Floyd ] Display Room 57 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT TAG IN HOLE Floyd | Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | "We're done in here," says Kaylee. "Now we just need to fix the Floyd | security panel again, and we can go." She motions with her head Floyd | towards the exit. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I keep bouncing, so I may give up after one or two more. If I go silent, that'll be why." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "exit" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 58 Floyd | > Floyd | > EXIT Floyd | Floyd | "Here," says Kaylee, lifting the painting back into its place. "Now Floyd | it'll look like no one touched a thing." Floyd | Floyd | Kaylee comes along. Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | This is a long, important-looking hallway. We were here before, during Floyd | the public viewing of the bride price. The display room is just off to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | Next to the doorway east, there's a security panel set into the wall. Floyd | In the security panel are some wires. Floyd | Floyd | Also nearby: Kaylee. Floyd | Floyd | "If I hadn't had to leave my tools, I could patch this up real quick, Floyd | make it look like we were never even here," Kaylee says, looking Floyd | ruefully at the nest of severed wires. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Did we rehang the painting, Kaylee?" | |
| DavidW says, "ok, we did" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So now the wire?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, I dunno how to fix the wiring." | ||
| djfletch asks, "oh, clothespin, right?" | ||
| Doug asks, "metal straw?" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "put clothespin on wires" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 59 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT CLOTHESPIN ON WIRES Floyd | Floyd | (first removing the lavender sprig) Floyd | I'm not sure it's going to fit at first, but I manage to jam the Floyd | little clothespin spoon into the box and clip the wires together with Floyd | the clothespin. Kaylee's giggling. Floyd | Floyd | "Think it won't work?" Floyd | Floyd | "No, we've done worse patch jobs on Serenity," she says. "As long as Floyd | you can close the panel with the spoon in it." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "huh" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "close panel" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 60 Floyd | > Floyd | > CLOSE PANEL Floyd | Floyd | I push the security panel shut and it clicks in place. The spoon Floyd | doesn't jam it at all. Floyd | Floyd | "Lock it back up, and we'll be ready to go," Kaylee says. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "so, close panel?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "lock it back up" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 60 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOCK IT BACK UP Floyd | Floyd | I got you as far as saying we should lock the security panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "lock it" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > LOCK IT Floyd | Floyd | (with the dining antenna) Floyd | With the bent end of the antenna I refasten the lock on the security Floyd | panel. Floyd | Floyd | "That's it, then," says Kaylee. "All done." Floyd | Floyd | "Yup. Hope that painting's worth what the Doc says it is." Floyd | Floyd | "Now you're supposed to ask me to dance." Floyd | Floyd | Like that's happening. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| katie-paquette has arrived. | ||
| Doug pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Dining Area 61 Floyd | Floyd | "So now. Where do we meet the buyer?" Floyd | Floyd | Simon and Inara look at each other. Floyd | Floyd | "There's no buyer," Simon says softly. Floyd | Floyd | Dining Area Floyd | This here is where the crew has meals most nights, when River hasn't Floyd | thrown all the foodstuffs overboard. Floyd | Floyd | Also nearby: Zoe, Wash, Mal, Inara, Kaylee, Simon, and Shepherd Book. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ha ha" | |
| djfletch says, "ok NOW we cause a ruckus" | ||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "cause a ruckus" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "cause ruckus" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Area 62 Floyd | > Floyd | > CAUSE A RUCKUS Floyd | Floyd | "What the-- why'd we lift this thing if you don't have a buyer? Damn, Floyd | no one learn anything from the Lassiter job? This painting's not Floyd | 'xactly the kind of object you can just fence off on market day round Floyd | the next cattle town." Floyd | Floyd | "Now that is definitely true," says Mal. "Though we might be able to Floyd | get something for the frame -- what do you think?" Floyd | Floyd | Simon gives it a long look, then shrugs. "It's not in the best of Floyd | taste by today's standards. Maybe five, ten credits?" Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Dining Area 63 Floyd | > Floyd | > CAUSE RUCKUS Floyd | Floyd | "Nobody's selling nothing until someone tells me what is going on Floyd | here." Floyd | Floyd | "We've been paid," says Simon, still all calm. "Not perhaps on the Floyd | scale you were imagining, but quite a bit more than the average job Floyd | this bird pulls off. You can even keep the painting if you want. Put Floyd | it in your bunk. It's just a copy, though, I ought to warn you." Floyd | Floyd | > | katie-paquette says, "My braillenote was acting up again." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x painting" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Area 63 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PAINTING Floyd | Floyd | I don't see nothin' like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "joke" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Area 64 Floyd | > Floyd | > JOKE Floyd | Floyd | Yeah, this whole situation is hi-larious. Floyd | Floyd | "Actually," says Inara, "the whole job was by the bride's Floyd | arrangement." Floyd | Floyd | "Sensible thing if you ask me," says Zoe. "I wouldn't want that Floyd | creepy-ass scene hanging on my bedroom wall either." Floyd | Floyd | "You see," says Inara, "the bride and the groom are very much in love. Floyd | Unfortunately, the groom's family -- who live in a different system, Floyd | by the way -- they're not wealthy enough to offer the sort of price Floyd | the bride's family would approve of." Floyd | Floyd | "And that's where we come in," says Mal. "The groom's family sends a Floyd | fake valuable painting, the bride's family puts it on display, and Floyd | then after the ceremony--" Floyd | Floyd | "--but before anyone has time to get a second assessment done--" Simon Floyd | adds. Floyd | Floyd | "--it is mysteriously stolen. Everyone blames her family's security, Floyd | the bride and groom get to stay married." Floyd | Floyd | "Very romantic," says Wash. Floyd | Floyd | "It is at that," says Zoe. "Honey, how come you didn't buy me a nice Floyd | swindle for our wedding?" Floyd | Floyd | Well, wound up with 15% of something, at least. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ***I guess that went all right*** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Wait, what happened?" | |
| Doug says, "I guess that went all right" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, I see." | ||
| Doug says, "want to undo? not sure there's an alternate ending" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Not sure, yeah." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I mean, sure, iffin ya want to" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "amusing" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Area 64 Floyd | > Floyd | > AMUSING Floyd | Floyd | The options you got are the ones on the list. Don't go making stuff Floyd | up. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "haha" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Area 63 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Dining Area Floyd | No, that ain't what happened. Let's back up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask questions" | ||
Floyd ] Dining Area 63 Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK QUESTIONS Floyd | Floyd | "But -- who paid us? Someone got it in for the bride and groom?" Floyd | Floyd | "Actually," says Inara, "the whole job was by the bride's Floyd | arrangement." Floyd | Floyd | "Sensible thing if you ask me," says Zoe. "I wouldn't want that Floyd | creepy-ass scene hanging on my bedroom wall either." Floyd | Floyd | "You see," says Inara, "the bride and the groom are very much in love. Floyd | Unfortunately, the groom's family -- who live in a different system, Floyd | by the way -- they're not wealthy enough to offer the sort of price Floyd | the bride's family would approve of." Floyd | Floyd | "And that's where we come in," says Mal. "The groom's family sends a Floyd | fake valuable painting, the bride's family puts it on display, and Floyd | then after the ceremony--" Floyd | Floyd | "--but before anyone has time to get a second assessment done--" Simon Floyd | adds. Floyd | Floyd | "--it is mysteriously stolen. Everyone blames her family's security, Floyd | the bride and groom get to stay married." Floyd | Floyd | "Very romantic," says Wash. Floyd | Floyd | "It is at that," says Zoe. "Honey, how come you didn't buy me a nice Floyd | swindle for our wedding?" Floyd | Floyd | Well, wound up with 15% of something, at least. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ***I guess that went all right*** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I like the undo texts." | |
| Jacqueline says, "That was two hours, by the way." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Even short games are normal length on floyd. Though a broken save command helps." | ||
| DavidW says, "ok. I guess that's sufficient for one day." | ||
| dddddd exclaims, "This was very funny!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I've emailed vimes to ask when things'll lighten up for him... considering putting ClubFloyd on hiatus until he has a chance to fix it." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Unless we want to just play, knowing we can't save." | ||
| Doug says, "it woudl have been fine if we didn't try to save :)" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| djfletch says, "we could just play games that are Polite or whatever" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, thing is, we won't know." | ||
| Doug says, "although hm, not sure what happens if you don't pick up the antenna." | ||
| djfletch says, "yeah, I suppose they aren't all classified" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway, vimes and I'll chat and I'll post an update later this week." | ||
| djfletch says (to Doug), "maybe it lets you go back to the table" | ||
| Jacqueline wonders how Katie has been playing and saving her games. | ||
| djfletch says, "or use the fork instead if you had that" | ||
| Doug says, "yeah" | ||
| Doug says, "anyway, I enjoyed it, as a Firefly fan." | ||
| Doug says, "and well-done as a game, except for the few bug messages (which didn't actually break anything)" | ||
| djfletch says, "yeah, pretty good" | ||
| Doug asks, "Jacq, how did you discover it?" | ||
| Marvin has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | katie-paquette asks, "Can I quit or not?" | |
| Roger disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | maga says (to Doug), "she asked me to skim the XYZZY-eligible list for Floydable games that hadn't been Floyded" | |
| Jacqueline asks (of Doug), "The game?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "What maga said." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Are you all going to go back and check out other paths, or can Katie have Floyd?" | ||
| djfletch says, "I can't think of much else to try." | ||
| Doug says, "I think it's pretty linear, except for some alternate dialogue. No plans to play again" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, haha - [LINK]" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "There. There's your moment of zen." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And now I'll process the transcript." | ||
| Doug says, "I'm surprised at the high quality given it was published anonymously with no apparent fanfare" | ||
| djfletch says, "I thought it got the characters pretty well - the dialogue and incidental things you see people do." | ||
| djfletch says, "and voice of Jayne of course" | ||
| djfletch says, "needed some River beating people up, but you can't have everything" | ||
| Doug says, "yeah, it certainly felt like a real episode, with the twist ending and all" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It did, yeah." | ||
