  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd
is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play a game of
interactive fiction. |
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd
is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play a game of
interactive fiction. |
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| Jacqueline says, "Good morning, folks." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So, there were four games that tied for votes." | ||
| Fang asks, "which four?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Personally, I think people just like games that begin with S: Sparkle, Shade, Slouching, and Savoir-Faire." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm, I was thinking Shade, but I think instead we should probably target Sparkle." | ||
| Fang says, "I haven't actually played savoir-faire for some reason" | ||
| DavidW says, "I haven't heard of Sparkle." | ||
| Fang says, "so if I am the tie-breaker..." | ||
| DavidW says, "(and I'm not really here)" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sparkle is from ShuffleComp. Nitku is really wanting us to play it for a post-comp release." | ||
| Fang asks, "is Nitku around?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "No, but that doesn't matter." | ||
| Nitku says, "I'm here" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh! Yay." | ||
| Fang says, "okay, then Sparkle" | ||
| Taleslinger says, "Sparkle is a cool game." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I was going to say, though, that the transcript is what matters. :)" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, one sec." | ||
| Taleslinger says, "it's funnier to neg the author when they're here." | ||
| Nitku says, "If you can wait a moment I can send you the latest version" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, okay. Sure." | ||
| Fang says (to Tale), "pretty much" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Caught me just in time. Will not use the copy I downloaded." | ||
| Deesix says, "Sparkle lacks description on [LINK]" | ||
| Marvin says, "Well, it's fairly new." | ||
| Fang says, "neither seems greatly associated with bats" | ||
| Fang says, "ilac" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask sparkle" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH EAST Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Several weeks of travel have brought me to Mount Shanshan. The last Floyd | ride I was able to get was a goods truck to a small village at the Floyd | base of the mountain. Then it was a long hike up the mountain along Floyd | badly maintained roads and footpaths. Floyd | Floyd | The road ends here at an abandoned cable car platform. The cableway Floyd | leads directly to my destination. I must get it running, somehow. Floyd | Floyd | Sparkle Floyd | A quest for enlightenment by Juhana Leinonen Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 140608 / Inform 7 build 6L02 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | ABOUT for more information Floyd | Floyd | Cable car platform Floyd | A rickety wooden platform is built on the edge of a cliff to serve as Floyd | an station for a cable car ride up to the mountain. It overlooks a Floyd | beautiful waterfall rumbling below. Floyd | Floyd | The road leads back east and the cableway's engine is in a shack just Floyd | to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A cable car is docked to the platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "What was your pseudonym, originally?" | |
| Nitku says, "Karly Di Caprio" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Fancy" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH EAST Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I am carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH EAST Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | I am weary from the travel, but my goal is so close there's no time to Floyd | rest now. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "well it was either that or "Goat Goat Goat Goat Goat esq."" | |
| Nitku says, "(there were others too)" | ||
| Jacqueline okay then | ||
| Jacqueline says, "er, okay then" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x cable car" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH EAST Floyd | Floyd | > X CABLE CAR Floyd | Floyd | The cable car is large enough to comfortably fit about four Floyd | passengers. The red paint coating is peeling away in large flakes and Floyd | rust is corroding the body. Floyd | Floyd | It's hard to see through the dirty windows but it seems like there's a Floyd | simple control panel inside. Floyd | Floyd | A iron bar attaches the car to the platform and at the same time locks Floyd | the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH EAST Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The iron bar blocks the door from opening. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "move bar" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH EAST Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE BAR Floyd | Floyd | It's attached with large bolts. It can't be removed without tools. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "remember destination" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH EAST Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER DESTINATION Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to remember. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Was just curious where we were headed." | |
| Nitku arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||
| Marvin has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x platform" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH EAST Floyd | Floyd | > X PLATFORM Floyd | Floyd | The wooden platform serves as a docking and embarkment area for the Floyd | cable car. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x waterfall" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH EAST Floyd | Floyd | > X WATERFALL Floyd | Floyd | The waterfall rumbles down the mountainside and raises a cloud of mist Floyd | where it hits the water. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "S?" | |
| maga arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Jacqueline says, "Am I playing this alone? Possibly I am." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Engine room Floyd | The wooden shack houses a large diesel generator that moves the Floyd | cableway. The shack's walls are rotten and patchy. The exit leads back Floyd | out to the north. Floyd | Floyd | The diesel generator looks like it hasn't been used in quite some Floyd | while. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x generator" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > X GENERATOR Floyd | Floyd | The diesel generator is currently switched off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn on generator" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON GENERATOR Floyd | Floyd | The engine coughs a few times but refuses to start. A quick Floyd | troubleshooting indicates that the cylinders are so dirty that the Floyd | engine can't run. They need to be cleaned first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "clean cylinders" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > CLEAN CYLINDERS Floyd | Floyd | (with the shack walls) Floyd | The shack walls isn't suitable for cleaning the cylinders with. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| Fang arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||
| Fang has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Jacqueline says, "I wonder if there's a way to have it look for something more reasonable in scope and, finding nothing, say something about how you don't have anything appropriate at hand or some such." | |
| Fang arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x cylinders" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > X CYLINDERS Floyd | Floyd | The diesel generator is currently switched off. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "yeah" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Hrm. So where are the tools and rags and stuff..." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look behind generator" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND GENERATOR Floyd | Floyd | I can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south EAST Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cable car platform Floyd | A rickety wooden platform is built on the edge of a cliff to serve as Floyd | an station for a cable car ride up to the mountain. It overlooks a Floyd | beautiful waterfall rumbling below. Floyd | Floyd | The road leads back east and the cableway's engine is in a shack just Floyd | to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A cable car is docked to the platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel gates Floyd ] Exits: NORTH EAST west Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | I walk the road back to an old hotel I passed on the way here. Floyd | Floyd | Hotel gates Floyd | I am at the gates of an old country-style mansion that has at some Floyd | point served as a hotel. At the moment there are no signs of it being Floyd | in use. The garden has overgrown, there are no cars about and the Floyd | building itself is in a dilapidated state. Floyd | Floyd | The hotel gates are to the north, the cable car platform to the west, Floyd | and the hiking path leading back down the mountain is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | An angry dog is barking at me behind the gate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x dog" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel gates Floyd ] Exits: NORTH EAST west Floyd | Floyd | > X DOG Floyd | Floyd | The dog is big and menacing, a mutt or perhaps even a Chongqing. He's Floyd | barking viciously behind the gates. His short fur is filthy and Floyd | largely covered in dirt. Floyd | Floyd | There must be a way. Floyd | Floyd | (Find a quiet place to MEDITATE.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "..." | |
| Jacqueline says, "huh" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Go back west for a second and meditate?" | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cable car platform Floyd | A rickety wooden platform is built on the edge of a cliff to serve as Floyd | an station for a cable car ride up to the mountain. It overlooks a Floyd | beautiful waterfall rumbling below. Floyd | Floyd | The road leads back east and the cableway's engine is in a shack just Floyd | to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A cable car is docked to the platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "And if the waterfall isn't soothing, go inside the generator shack?" | |
| Fang says (to Floyd), "meditate" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > MEDITATE Floyd | Floyd | The rumbling of the waterfall makes it impossible to meditate here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Engine room Floyd | The wooden shack houses a large diesel generator that moves the Floyd | cableway. The shack's walls are rotten and patchy. The exit leads back Floyd | out to the north. Floyd | Floyd | The diesel generator looks like it hasn't been used in quite some Floyd | while. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "meditate" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > MEDITATE Floyd | Floyd | The noise from the waterfall is somewhat muffled here, but it's still Floyd | too loud to meditate. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Was afraid of that." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "On down the road?" | ||
| Fang says, "this guy is really picky" | ||
| Fang says, "sure" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "The person just isn't very practiced at meditation yet, that's all." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't think we have a gender yet." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cable car platform Floyd | A rickety wooden platform is built on the edge of a cliff to serve as Floyd | an station for a cable car ride up to the mountain. It overlooks a Floyd | beautiful waterfall rumbling below. Floyd | Floyd | The road leads back east and the cableway's engine is in a shack just Floyd | to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A cable car is docked to the platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel gates Floyd ] Exits: NORTH EAST west Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hotel gates Floyd | I am at the gates of an old country-style mansion that has at some Floyd | point served as a hotel. At the moment there are no signs of it being Floyd | in use. The garden has overgrown, there are no cars about and the Floyd | building itself is in a dilapidated state. Floyd | Floyd | The hotel gates are to the north, the cable car platform to the west, Floyd | and the hiking path leading back down the mountain is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | An angry dog is barking at me behind the gate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hiking path Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hiking path Floyd | A scenic hiking path leads back down the mountain. I know it all too Floyd | well, having walked it up here in the first place. The way back to the Floyd | hotel is to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Two small stone statues depicting a lion and a dragon are greeting Floyd | visitors on both sides of the path. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x lion" | ||
Floyd ] Hiking path Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > X LION Floyd | Floyd | The statue is not very tall and is carved from solid black stone. It's Floyd | set here by the path as a decoration for passersby. This one depicts a Floyd | lion. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x dragon" | ||
Floyd ] Hiking path Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > X DRAGON Floyd | Floyd | The statue is not very tall and is carved from solid black stone. It's Floyd | set here by the path as a decoration for passersby. This one depicts a Floyd | dragon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Hawk says (to f), "meditate" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "meditate" | ||
Floyd | cheapglulxe quit with exit status: 1 | ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | Jacqueline says, "Um." | |
| Fang exclaims, "we have reached nirvana!" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Well, that wasn't the ending I was expecting!" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Fang), "I know. That was awesome." | ||
| Nitku says, "it's very meta" | ||
| Hawk says, "oops" | Jacqueline says, "Forget what I said about the person not being an accomplished meditator." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "So, what do you think happened, Nitku?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Should we start over?" | ||
| Nitku says, "No idea. It doesn't do anything special (code-wise) at that point." | ||
| Nitku says, "you could try again sure" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask sparkle" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH EAST Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Several weeks of travel have brought me to Mount Shanshan. The last Floyd | ride I was able to get was a goods truck to a small village at the Floyd | base of the mountain. Then it was a long hike up the mountain along Floyd | badly maintained roads and footpaths. Floyd | Floyd | The road ends here at an abandoned cable car platform. The cableway Floyd | leads directly to my destination. I must get it running, somehow. Floyd | Floyd | Sparkle Floyd | A quest for enlightenment by Juhana Leinonen Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 140608 / Inform 7 build 6L02 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | ABOUT for more information Floyd | Floyd | Cable car platform Floyd | A rickety wooden platform is built on the edge of a cliff to serve as Floyd | an station for a cable car ride up to the mountain. It overlooks a Floyd | beautiful waterfall rumbling below. Floyd | Floyd | The road leads back east and the cableway's engine is in a shack just Floyd | to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A cable car is docked to the platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Engine room Floyd | The wooden shack houses a large diesel generator that moves the Floyd | cableway. The shack's walls are rotten and patchy. The exit leads back Floyd | out to the north. Floyd | Floyd | The diesel generator looks like it hasn't been used in quite some Floyd | while. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oops." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south EAST Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cable car platform Floyd | A rickety wooden platform is built on the edge of a cliff to serve as Floyd | an station for a cable car ride up to the mountain. It overlooks a Floyd | beautiful waterfall rumbling below. Floyd | Floyd | The road leads back east and the cableway's engine is in a shack just Floyd | to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A cable car is docked to the platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel gates Floyd ] Exits: NORTH EAST west Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | I walk the road back to an old hotel I passed on the way here. Floyd | Floyd | Hotel gates Floyd | I am at the gates of an old country-style mansion that has at some Floyd | point served as a hotel. At the moment there are no signs of it being Floyd | in use. The garden has overgrown, there are no cars about and the Floyd | building itself is in a dilapidated state. Floyd | Floyd | The hotel gates are to the north, the cable car platform to the west, Floyd | and the hiking path leading back down the mountain is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | An angry dog is barking at me behind the gate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hiking path Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hiking path Floyd | A scenic hiking path leads back down the mountain. I know it all too Floyd | well, having walked it up here in the first place. The way back to the Floyd | hotel is to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Two small stone statues depicting a lion and a dragon are greeting Floyd | visitors on both sides of the path. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "meditate" | ||
Floyd ] Hiking path Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > MEDITATE Floyd | Floyd | "What do you seek?" Floyd | Floyd | "I seek the truth, shifu." Floyd | Floyd | She hit me on the fingers with the head of her cane, like many Floyd | times before. Floyd | Floyd | "You say you seek the truth, but only lies come out your own Floyd | mouth. What do you seek?" Floyd | Floyd | The memory fades and the mind is silent. Floyd | Floyd | Meditation revealed the following truth: Floyd | Floyd | dog equals flute Floyd | Floyd | (With this information you can CHANGE things INTO their Floyd | counterpart identities. You can also THINK to recall previously Floyd | learned information.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "hooray" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel gates Floyd ] Exits: NORTH east west Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hotel gates Floyd | I am at the gates of an old country-style mansion that has at some Floyd | point served as a hotel. At the moment there are no signs of it being Floyd | in use. The garden has overgrown, there are no cars about and the Floyd | building itself is in a dilapidated state. Floyd | Floyd | The hotel gates are to the north, the cable car platform to the west, Floyd | and the hiking path leading back down the mountain is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | An angry dog is barking at me behind the gate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "change dog into flute" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel gates Floyd ] Exits: NORTH east west Floyd | Floyd | > CHANGE DOG INTO FLUTE Floyd | Floyd | I clear my mind and concentrate on the dog, imagining its counterpart Floyd | nature. The truth becomes obvious -- a dog is a flute, and a flute is Floyd | a dog, and there is no difference between the two. Sparkles start Floyd | flying from all over the dog as the Universe bends to accept the Floyd | reality I have discovered. Floyd | Floyd | The sparkling stops and where the dog used to stand, there's a small Floyd | koudi flute lying on the grass. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Damn. All these years of hating barking dogs, when the fact of the matter is that I could have turned them into flutes." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I love flutes." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Thank you, Nitku. This game has changed my life." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take flute" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel gates Floyd ] Exits: NORTH east west Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE FLUTE Floyd | Floyd | The flute is in the garden behind the gate, beyond my reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open gate" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel gates Floyd ] Exits: NORTH east west Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN GATE Floyd | Floyd | I open the gate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Garden Floyd | Weeds have taken over the garden, which seems to have been designed in Floyd | a distinctly Japanese style. It must have been very beautiful in its Floyd | heyday. Floyd | Floyd | The hotel entrance is to the north and the gates to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A flute lies on the grass near the gate. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the garden is a murky pond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take flute" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE FLUTE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x pond" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south Floyd | Floyd | > X POND Floyd | Floyd | The pond is full of muddy water, but I can see a fish, probably a koi, Floyd | swimming around in it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x koi" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south Floyd | Floyd | > X KOI Floyd | Floyd | The koi swims around in the pond, looking a bit lonely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "play flute" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY FLUTE Floyd | Floyd | The flute is so dirty that I don't want to play it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wash flute in pond" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south Floyd | Floyd | > WASH FLUTE IN POND Floyd | Floyd | I clean the flute the best I can using the water from the pond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "play flute" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY FLUTE Floyd | Floyd | Remembering what it used to be, I reluctantly put the flute on my lips Floyd | and blow. The air escapes through the fingerholes. There must be a Floyd | blockage inside the flute somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look in flute" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN FLUTE Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Anybody mind if we go inside to the north?" | |
| pollux says, "No." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south EAST UP Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hotel lobby Floyd | The view in the hotel lobby confirms that the establishment has been Floyd | deserted for a long time. The lobby has an abandoned reception desk, Floyd | some sofas and dead house plants. There's a layer of dust everywhere. Floyd | Floyd | There's a staircase to the north leading up and a closed door leading Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | A large wardrobe for coats has fallen over near the entrance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x plants" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south EAST UP Floyd | Floyd | > X PLANTS Floyd | Floyd | The leaves have fallen off the plants and are now only dead branches. Floyd | They're beyond resuscitation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take branch" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south EAST UP Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BRANCH Floyd | Floyd | The plants are not important. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I was actually hoping to find something to root around inside the flute." | |
| Jacqueline says, "So I was actually pleased to see the plants." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh well." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look in wardrobe" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south EAST UP Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN WARDROBE Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open wardrobe" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south EAST UP Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN WARDROBE Floyd | Floyd | It's fallen over on its door. I can't open it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "push wardrobe" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south EAST UP Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH WARDROBE Floyd | Floyd | That's way too big to move. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south EAST UP Floyd | Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | There's no-one behind the desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search desk" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south EAST UP Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH DESK Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x sofa" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south EAST UP Floyd | Floyd | > X SOFA Floyd | Floyd | The sofas weren't fashionable to begin with, but now they look doubly Floyd | sad with a thick layer of dust on them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search sofa" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south EAST UP Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH SOFA Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "huh" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "So, E or U?" | ||
| Deesix asks, "This place is quiet, maybe meditate again?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm. Sure." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "meditate" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south EAST UP Floyd | Floyd | > MEDITATE Floyd | Floyd | "What do you seek?" Floyd | Floyd | "I seek power, shifu." Floyd | Floyd | There is no slap on the fingers this time. Floyd | Floyd | The memory fades and I am ready to learn. Floyd | Floyd | Meditation revealed the following truths: Floyd | Floyd | fish equals tornado Floyd | doorknob equals umbrella Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "golly" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Slightly afraid of the fish now." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, what are the moral implications of turning sentient beings into inanimate objects? This game is pretty deep." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs corridor Floyd ] Exits: down INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs corridor Floyd | This is the corridor where the hotel's guest rooms are. There are Floyd | seven doors in total. To the south the staircase leads back down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x doors" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs corridor Floyd ] Exits: down INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > X DOORS Floyd | Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "inside" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs corridor Floyd ] Exits: down INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | I need to choose a door to enter, or go down back to the lobby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open first door" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs corridor Floyd ] Exits: down INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN FIRST DOOR Floyd | Floyd | I can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs corridor Floyd ] Exits: down INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, door 101, door 102, door 103, door 104, door 105, Floyd | door 106 or door 107? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Ah. There we go." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Maybe note that they're numbered 101-107 in the room description?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open 101" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs corridor Floyd ] Exits: down INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN 101 Floyd | Floyd | The door seems to be locked. Brief testing confirms that the same is Floyd | true for every door here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "change doorknob into umbrella" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs corridor Floyd ] Exits: down INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > CHANGE DOORKNOB INTO UMBRELLA Floyd | Floyd | The doors here have handles, not knobs. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "PSYCH" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Nicely caught." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, poo." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "go d" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south EAST up Floyd | Floyd | > GO D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hotel lobby Floyd | The lobby has an abandoned reception desk, some sofas and dead house Floyd | plants. There's a layer of dust everywhere. Floyd | Floyd | There's a staircase to the north leading up and a closed door leading Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | A large wardrobe for coats has fallen over near the entrance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south EAST up Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the door) Floyd | I try the doorknob, but the door is locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "change doorknob into umbrella" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south EAST up Floyd | Floyd | > CHANGE DOORKNOB INTO UMBRELLA Floyd | Floyd | The doorknob sparkles and turns into an umbrella. The umbrella is now Floyd | sticking out the door where the knob used to be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the door) Floyd | I pull on the umbrella, but it comes loose. Floyd | Floyd | The door's lock mechanism has nothing to support it anymore and falls Floyd | apart. The door should be unlocked now. Floyd | Floyd | Dining hall Floyd | A large dining hall full of empty tables is a sad sight. Some rays of Floyd | light filter in through the dirty windows. Floyd | Floyd | There's a pair of dumbwaiters on the farthest wall and a hand crank in Floyd | the space between them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x dumbwaiter" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > X DUMBWAITER Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the left dumbwaiter or the right dumbwaiter? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x left dumbwaiter" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > X LEFT DUMBWAITER Floyd | Floyd | The dumbwaiters are an old elevator system for lifting food from the Floyd | kitchen and then lowering dirty dishes back. They are small wooden Floyd | compartments running inside the wall and supported by a rope. Floyd | Floyd | The single crank on the wall suggests that they are connected with a Floyd | common rope and pulley system and lowering one will raise the other. Floyd | Floyd | In the left dumbwaiter is a chopstick. Floyd | Floyd | There's a closed grid door in front of the compartment. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "yay" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take chopstick" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CHOPSTICK Floyd | Floyd | I put a finger through one of the holes in the grid door, manage to Floyd | reach the chopstick and pull it out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "clean flute with chopstick" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > CLEAN FLUTE WITH CHOPSTICK Floyd | Floyd | The flute is clean enough already. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put chopstick in flute" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > PUT CHOPSTICK IN FLUTE Floyd | Floyd | (clearing the flute with the chopstick) Floyd | Using the chopstick, the wad of dirt that was blocking the flute pops Floyd | cleanly out. That must be a relief to the dog as well. Floyd | Floyd | [Achievement unlocked: Veterinarian] Floyd | Floyd | (Command ACHIEVEMENTS to see a list of your achievements.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Jacqueline says, "hahaha" | |
| Jacqueline exclaims, "The dog can cancel that appointment it had with the gastroenterologist!" | ||
| Nitku says, "it turns out the crash earlier was caused by an Inform bug" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh, huh. How do you know?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "What triggered it?" | ||
| Nitku says, "an empty row in a table" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah." | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Hooray we found a bug for you!" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | (the grid door) Floyd | The door is rusted stuck. It's unlikely that I can get it open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "Specifically examining the dog before meditating shows the (you should meditate) hint, clears it from the hints table and when you meditate reads the table again" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Ah." | ||
| Nitku says, "there's discussion on the intfiction forums about the bug" | ||
| Jacqueline nods. | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So, I don't think I can do much more with the dumbwaiters if they can't be opened." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "remember" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER Floyd | Floyd | Meditation has revealed the following truths: Floyd | Floyd | dog equals flute Floyd | fish equals tornado Floyd | doorknob equals umbrella Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, what the heck." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Knowledge is power. I'm scared of this much power, but that's what save is for." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south east up Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hotel lobby Floyd | The lobby has an abandoned reception desk, some sofas and dead house Floyd | plants. There's a layer of dust everywhere. Floyd | Floyd | There's a staircase to the north leading up and a door leading east to Floyd | the dining hall. Floyd | Floyd | A large wardrobe for coats has fallen over near the entrance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dining hall Floyd | A large dining hall full of empty tables is a sad sight. Some rays of Floyd | light filter in through the dirty windows. Floyd | Floyd | There's a pair of dumbwaiters on the farthest wall and a hand crank in Floyd | the space between them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south east up Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hotel lobby Floyd | The lobby has an abandoned reception desk, some sofas and dead house Floyd | plants. There's a layer of dust everywhere. Floyd | Floyd | There's a staircase to the north leading up and a door leading east to Floyd | the dining hall. Floyd | Floyd | A large wardrobe for coats has fallen over near the entrance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Floyd ] Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Garden Floyd | Weeds have taken over the garden, which seems to have been designed in Floyd | a distinctly Japanese style. It must have been very beautiful in its Floyd | heyday. Floyd | Floyd | The hotel entrance is to the north and the gates to the south. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the garden is a murky pond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf54" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Garden Floyd ] Exits: north south Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "change koi into tornado" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Floyd ] Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > CHANGE KOI INTO TORNADO Floyd | Floyd | The fish starts to sparkle under the water. It soon disappears and a Floyd | tall water spout forms in its place. The spout makes it out of the Floyd | pond and manages to travel a meter or two before dissipating and Floyd | releasing the water as a rain on the garden, getting my clothes wet. Floyd | Floyd | I look in the now almost empty pond and see a glint of metal. There Floyd | seems to be a key stuck in the mud. Some hotel guest must have dropped Floyd | it there by accident. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oho" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "meditate on the sadness of killing the koi" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Floyd ] Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > MEDITATE ON THE SADNESS OF KILLING THE KOI Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to meditate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take key" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Floyd ] Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE KEY Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south east up Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hotel lobby Floyd | The lobby has an abandoned reception desk, some sofas and dead house Floyd | plants. There's a layer of dust everywhere. Floyd | Floyd | There's a staircase to the north leading up and a door leading east to Floyd | the dining hall. Floyd | Floyd | A large wardrobe for coats has fallen over near the entrance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs corridor Floyd ] Exits: down INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs corridor Floyd | This is the corridor where the hotel's guest rooms are. There are Floyd | seven doors in total. To the south the staircase leads back down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "unlock 101" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs corridor Floyd ] Exits: down INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > UNLOCK 101 Floyd | Floyd | (with the room key) Floyd | That doesn't seem to fit the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "unlock 102" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs corridor Floyd ] Exits: down INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > UNLOCK 102 Floyd | Floyd | (with the room key) Floyd | I unlock door 102. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "unlock 103" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs corridor Floyd ] Exits: down INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > UNLOCK 103 Floyd | Floyd | (with the room key) Floyd | That doesn't seem to fit the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "unlock 104" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs corridor Floyd ] Exits: down INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > UNLOCK 104 Floyd | Floyd | (with the room key) Floyd | That doesn't seem to fit the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "unlock 105" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs corridor Floyd ] Exits: down INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > UNLOCK 105 Floyd | Floyd | (with the room key) Floyd | That doesn't seem to fit the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "unlock 106" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs corridor Floyd ] Exits: down INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > UNLOCK 106 Floyd | Floyd | (with the room key) Floyd | That doesn't seem to fit the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "unlock 107" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs corridor Floyd ] Exits: down INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > UNLOCK 107 Floyd | Floyd | (with the room key) Floyd | That doesn't seem to fit the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Seems like there'd be a way to make that not be seven commands, but perhaps not." | |
| Nitku says, "there is" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh?" | ||
| Nitku says, "the room number is written on the key" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "oh, um, yeah. Gosh." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "See, they don't do that anymore (at least over here) for security reasons." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So I never thought to look at it." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Maybe have it autoexamine when you pick it up?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x key" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs corridor Floyd ] Exits: down INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > X KEY Floyd | Floyd | A wooden key fob is attached to the key. Water has turned it almost Floyd | illegible but I can still make out the number "102". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I also completely missed that it actually *had* unlocked 102." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open 102" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs corridor Floyd ] Exits: down INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN 102 Floyd | Floyd | I open door 102. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "inside" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel room Floyd ] Exits: outside Floyd | Floyd | > INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hotel room Floyd | The hotel room is spartan, with only the most necessary furniture. The Floyd | scene through the window is beautiful, though. There's a direct view Floyd | to the waterfall I saw earlier. Floyd | Floyd | I can see a bedside table (on which are a sanitary napkin and a tube Floyd | of lipstick) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel room Floyd ] Exits: outside Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | sanitary napkin: Taken. Floyd | lipstick: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "meditate" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel room Floyd ] Exits: outside Floyd | Floyd | > MEDITATE Floyd | Floyd | "The Universe has shown you some of its secrets," she says, Floyd | casually turning a flower into a guitar, as if to underline a point. Floyd | "But the key to true enlightenment is to observe the Pattern and to Floyd | understand it." Floyd | Floyd | Finally I push aside the distracting memories. Floyd | Floyd | Meditation revealed the following truth: Floyd | Floyd | sanitary napkin equals monkey wrench Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "yikes" | |
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Of course a sanitary napkin equals a monkey wrench. Everyone knows that!" | ||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "Did you not know that? I guess you didn't. Sorry to poke fun at you." | ||
| inky says, "well, this quote implies there's an underlying pattern" | ||
| inky says, "it's not just an anagram, though" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I am also thinking that the napkin may have multiple purposes." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Can we change things back to what they once were? Except for the fish, that is, as I'm pretty sure it's evaporated." | ||
| DavidW says, "(yay, I get a break to peek in)" | ||
| inky asks, "what is the known list of transformations?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "remember" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel room Floyd ] Exits: outside Floyd | Floyd | > REMEMBER Floyd | Floyd | Meditation has revealed the following truths: Floyd | Floyd | dog equals flute Floyd | fish equals tornado Floyd | doorknob equals umbrella Floyd | sanitary napkin equals monkey wrench Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Scrollback shows they turned a koi into a tornado?" | |
| DavidW says, "How very odd." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel room Floyd ] Exits: outside Floyd | Floyd | > X BED Floyd | Floyd | The bed is made and a layer of dust is on the covers. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hm, it doesn't maintain letter count exactly" | |
| inky says, "but it seems like there's a rough connection" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't see any underlying pattern." | ||
| Deesix says, "Maybe later... is "A quest for enlightenment", and now we have a tool." | ||
| inky says, "oh, and flower = guitar" | ||
| DavidW says, ">judge bed by its dust cover" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Yeah. Anyway, can I go check out a couple of ideas?" | ||
| inky says, "please" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs corridor Floyd ] Exits: down inside Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs corridor Floyd | This is the corridor where the hotel's guest rooms are. There are Floyd | seven doors in total, of which I've unlocked door 102. To the south Floyd | the staircase leads back down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south east up Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hotel lobby Floyd | The lobby has an abandoned reception desk, some sofas and dead house Floyd | plants. There's a layer of dust everywhere. Floyd | Floyd | There's a staircase to the north leading up and a door leading east to Floyd | the dining hall. Floyd | Floyd | A large wardrobe for coats has fallen over near the entrance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Floyd ] Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Garden Floyd | Weeds have taken over the garden, which seems to have been designed in Floyd | a distinctly Japanese style. It must have been very beautiful in its Floyd | heyday. Floyd | Floyd | The hotel entrance is to the north and the gates to the south. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the garden is a murky pond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel gates Floyd ] Exits: north east west Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hotel gates Floyd | I am at the gates of an old country-style mansion that has at some Floyd | point served as a hotel. At the moment there are no signs of it being Floyd | in use. The garden has overgrown, there are no cars about and the Floyd | building itself is in a dilapidated state. Floyd | Floyd | The hotel gates are to the north, the cable car platform to the west, Floyd | and the hiking path leading back down the mountain is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Actually..." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Floyd ] Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Garden Floyd | Weeds have taken over the garden, which seems to have been designed in Floyd | a distinctly Japanese style. It must have been very beautiful in its Floyd | heyday. Floyd | Floyd | The hotel entrance is to the north and the gates to the south. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the garden is a murky pond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "play flute'" | ||
Floyd ] Garden
Floyd ] Exits: north south
Floyd |
Floyd | > PLAY FLUTE'
Floyd |
Floyd | I can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "play flute" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Floyd ] Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY FLUTE Floyd | Floyd | The flute has a low, dark sound to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drop flute" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Floyd ] Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > DROP FLUTE Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel gates Floyd ] Exits: north east west Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hotel gates Floyd | I am at the gates of an old country-style mansion that has at some Floyd | point served as a hotel. At the moment there are no signs of it being Floyd | in use. The garden has overgrown, there are no cars about and the Floyd | building itself is in a dilapidated state. Floyd | Floyd | The hotel gates are to the north, the cable car platform to the west, Floyd | and the hiking path leading back down the mountain is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "close gate" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel gates Floyd ] Exits: north east west Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE GATE Floyd | Floyd | I close the gate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn flute into dog" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel gates Floyd ] Exits: north east west Floyd | Floyd | > TURN FLUTE INTO DOG Floyd | Floyd | The flute sparkles and is soon changed back into the dog, who resumes Floyd | barking after noticing me. Floyd | Floyd | [Achievement unlocked: Clean Dog] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, not sure why, but at least we know we can switch stuff back and forth." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hiking path Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hiking path Floyd | A scenic hiking path leads back down the mountain. I know it all too Floyd | well, having walked it up here in the first place. The way back to the Floyd | hotel is to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Two small stone statues depicting a lion and a dragon are greeting Floyd | visitors on both sides of the path. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hiking path Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | It is a lovely route, but my goal is in another direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel gates Floyd ] Exits: north east west Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hotel gates Floyd | I am at the gates of an old country-style mansion that has at some Floyd | point served as a hotel. At the moment there are no signs of it being Floyd | in use. The garden has overgrown, there are no cars about and the Floyd | building itself is in a dilapidated state. Floyd | Floyd | The hotel gates are to the north, the cable car platform to the west, Floyd | and the hiking path leading back down the mountain is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | An angry dog is barking at me behind the gate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cable car platform Floyd | A rickety wooden platform is built on the edge of a cliff to serve as Floyd | an station for a cable car ride up to the mountain. It overlooks a Floyd | beautiful waterfall rumbling below. Floyd | Floyd | The road leads back east and the cableway's engine is in a shack just Floyd | to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A cable car is docked to the platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x car" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > X CAR Floyd | Floyd | The cable car is large enough to comfortably fit about four Floyd | passengers. The red paint coating is peeling away in large flakes and Floyd | rust is corroding the body. Floyd | Floyd | It's hard to see through the dirty windows but it seems like there's a Floyd | simple control panel inside. Floyd | Floyd | A iron bar attaches the car to the platform and at the same time locks Floyd | the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "clean windows with sanitary napkin" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > CLEAN WINDOWS WITH SANITARY NAPKIN Floyd | Floyd | There's not much to be gained by cleaning the cable car. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x pad" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > X PAD Floyd | Floyd | The sanitary napkin is, thankfully, unused. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "bleh" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn pad into wrench" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > TURN PAD INTO WRENCH Floyd | Floyd | The sanitary napkin sparkles for a brief moment before changing into a Floyd | monkey wrench. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "remove bar" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > REMOVE BAR Floyd | Floyd | The iron bar is attached to the cable car and to the platform with Floyd | large bolts. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn bolts with wrench" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > TURN BOLTS WITH WRENCH Floyd | Floyd | I put the monkey wrench on a bolt, adjust it to fit and turn. The bolt Floyd | snaps with a cloud of rust flakes and starts to turn free. The nut on Floyd | the other side turns with the bolt. I try to hold the nut still but Floyd | can't get a good grip; I need a glove or something. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I am carrying: Floyd | a monkey wrench (which equals sanitary napkin) Floyd | a tube of lipstick Floyd | a room key Floyd | a chopstick Floyd | an umbrella (which equals doorknob) Floyd | Floyd | I have some information about the nature of the universe. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "So there could be other transformations to learn about?" | |
| inky says, "it seems reasonable to posit that sanitary = monkey and napkin = wrench" | ||
| Gerynar arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | Jacqueline says, "I did notice that they were both two words, yeah." | |
| inky says, "it's interesting that doorknob and umbrella both have double letters" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "And 'dog' and 'flute' both have a single vowel?" | ||
| inky says, "well, flute has two, but yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But it's not some simple letter exchange." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, yeah, nevermind." | ||
| Gerynar says "bloop" and shrinks down into a little dot, then winks out...just like those old-fashioned B&w televisions. | ||
| Gerynar has disconnected. | Jacqueline says, "Also, it's not syllable based." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Engine room Floyd | The wooden shack houses a large diesel generator that moves the Floyd | cableway. The shack's walls are rotten and patchy. The exit leads back Floyd | out to the north. Floyd | Floyd | The diesel generator looks like it hasn't been used in quite some Floyd | while. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn wrench into pad" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > TURN WRENCH INTO PAD Floyd | Floyd | The monkey wrench sparkles for a brief moment before changing into a Floyd | sanitary napkin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "clean generator with pad" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > CLEAN GENERATOR WITH PAD Floyd | Floyd | The sanitary napkin would be perfect for cleaning the cylinders, but Floyd | the grit is too sturdily stuck. I need something to soften it first. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I learned in Hints from Heloise that lipstick can be used to soften grit in an engine." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, not really." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "hrm" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Any unexplored locations?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, wait." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cable car platform Floyd | A rickety wooden platform is built on the edge of a cliff to serve as Floyd | an station for a cable car ride up to the mountain. It overlooks a Floyd | beautiful waterfall rumbling below. Floyd | Floyd | The road leads back east and the cableway's engine is in a shack just Floyd | to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A cable car is docked to the platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x waterfall" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > X WATERFALL Floyd | Floyd | The waterfall rumbles down the mountainside and raises a cloud of mist Floyd | where it hits the water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | There is no exit in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wet pad" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > WET PAD Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to wet the sanitary napkin with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "waterfall" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > WATERFALL Floyd | Floyd | The waterfall is too far away. Floyd | Floyd | > | pollux asks, "Try the *pond*?" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "So, no water left in the pond, is there?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe there is some." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | There is no exit in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel gates Floyd ] Exits: north east west Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hotel gates Floyd | I am at the gates of an old country-style mansion that has at some Floyd | point served as a hotel. At the moment there are no signs of it being Floyd | in use. The garden has overgrown, there are no cars about and the Floyd | building itself is in a dilapidated state. Floyd | Floyd | The hotel gates are to the north, the cable car platform to the west, Floyd | and the hiking path leading back down the mountain is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | An angry dog is barking at me behind the gate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn dog into flute" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel gates Floyd ] Exits: north east west Floyd | Floyd | > TURN DOG INTO FLUTE Floyd | Floyd | The dog sparkles for a brief moment before changing into a flute. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open gate" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel gates Floyd ] Exits: north east west Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN GATE Floyd | Floyd | I open the gate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take flute" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel gates Floyd ] Exits: north east west Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE FLUTE Floyd | Floyd | I have to go closer, into the garden to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Floyd ] Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Garden Floyd | Weeds have taken over the garden, which seems to have been designed in Floyd | a distinctly Japanese style. It must have been very beautiful in its Floyd | heyday. Floyd | Floyd | The hotel entrance is to the north and the gates to the south. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the garden is a murky pond. Floyd | Floyd | I can also see a flute here. Floyd | Floyd | > | pollux says, "I think it only said that there wasn't much left." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take flute" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Floyd ] Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE FLUTE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ah" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wet pad with water" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Floyd ] Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > WET PAD WITH WATER Floyd | Floyd | There's still enough water in the pond to wet the sanitary napkin. Floyd | It's now soaked with muddy pond water. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "lovely" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel gates Floyd ] Exits: north east west Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hotel gates Floyd | I am at the gates of an old country-style mansion that has at some Floyd | point served as a hotel. At the moment there are no signs of it being Floyd | in use. The garden has overgrown, there are no cars about and the Floyd | building itself is in a dilapidated state. Floyd | Floyd | The hotel gates are to the north, the cable car platform to the west, Floyd | and the hiking path leading back down the mountain is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cable car platform Floyd | A rickety wooden platform is built on the edge of a cliff to serve as Floyd | an station for a cable car ride up to the mountain. It overlooks a Floyd | beautiful waterfall rumbling below. Floyd | Floyd | The road leads back east and the cableway's engine is in a shack just Floyd | to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A cable car is docked to the platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Engine room Floyd | The wooden shack houses a large diesel generator that moves the Floyd | cableway. The shack's walls are rotten and patchy. The exit leads back Floyd | out to the north. Floyd | Floyd | The diesel generator looks like it hasn't been used in quite some Floyd | while. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "clean generator with pad" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > CLEAN GENERATOR WITH PAD Floyd | Floyd | The dirt is stuck to the parts too hard. I need something stronger Floyd | than water to clean it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hrm. I have an idea." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Mind if I go back to see if there's anything in the other dumbwaiter?" | ||
| pollux says, "Fine with me." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cable car platform Floyd | A rickety wooden platform is built on the edge of a cliff to serve as Floyd | an station for a cable car ride up to the mountain. It overlooks a Floyd | beautiful waterfall rumbling below. Floyd | Floyd | The road leads back east and the cableway's engine is in a shack just Floyd | to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A cable car is docked to the platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel gates Floyd ] Exits: north east west Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hotel gates Floyd | I am at the gates of an old country-style mansion that has at some Floyd | point served as a hotel. At the moment there are no signs of it being Floyd | in use. The garden has overgrown, there are no cars about and the Floyd | building itself is in a dilapidated state. Floyd | Floyd | The hotel gates are to the north, the cable car platform to the west, Floyd | and the hiking path leading back down the mountain is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Floyd ] Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Garden Floyd | Weeds have taken over the garden, which seems to have been designed in Floyd | a distinctly Japanese style. It must have been very beautiful in its Floyd | heyday. Floyd | Floyd | The hotel entrance is to the north and the gates to the south. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the garden is a murky pond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south east up Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hotel lobby Floyd | The lobby has an abandoned reception desk, some sofas and dead house Floyd | plants. There's a layer of dust everywhere. Floyd | Floyd | There's a staircase to the north leading up and a door leading east to Floyd | the dining hall. Floyd | Floyd | A large wardrobe for coats has fallen over near the entrance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dining hall Floyd | A large dining hall full of empty tables is a sad sight. Some rays of Floyd | light filter in through the dirty windows. Floyd | Floyd | There's a pair of dumbwaiters on the farthest wall and a hand crank in Floyd | the space between them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pull rope" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > PULL ROPE Floyd | Floyd | I try to raise the dumbwaiter by pulling on the rope, but I just can't Floyd | get enough force into it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline grumbles. | |
| pollux asks, "Did we try the crank before?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "oh right" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x crank" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > X CRANK Floyd | Floyd | The crank is placed so that it's evidently used to raise and lower the Floyd | dumbwaiters. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Just was rereading the room description and saw that just as you said it." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn crank" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > TURN CRANK Floyd | Floyd | The crank seems to be stuck and after applying some more force it Floyd | snaps off into my hand. I place it down and curse my bad luck. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "man" | |
| pollux says, "Let's just try to meditate further. Maybe we're missing some essential knowledge." | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x crank" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > X CRANK Floyd | Floyd | The crank was apparently used to raise and lower dumbwaiters in the Floyd | dining hall. Now it's broken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| pollux says (to floyd), "meditate" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > MEDITATE Floyd | Floyd | Mediation reveals no additional information about the nature of Floyd | existence. Floyd | Floyd | > | pollux says, "... well, I'm out of ideas." | |
| inky says, "I assume the crank can turn into something" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Meditation revealed nothing, but it might be useful on its own." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take crank" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CRANK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | There are none at all available! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "That is a default of which I am not overly fond." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south east up Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hotel lobby Floyd | The lobby has an abandoned reception desk, some sofas and dead house Floyd | plants. There's a layer of dust everywhere. Floyd | Floyd | There's a staircase to the north leading up and a door leading east to Floyd | the dining hall. Floyd | Floyd | A large wardrobe for coats has fallen over near the entrance. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "yeah, the wording is a bit strange" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs corridor Floyd ] Exits: down inside Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs corridor Floyd | This is the corridor where the hotel's guest rooms are. There are Floyd | seven doors in total, of which I've unlocked door 102. To the south Floyd | the staircase leads back down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "inside" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel room Floyd ] Exits: outside Floyd | Floyd | > INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hotel room Floyd | The hotel room is spartan, with only the most necessary furniture. The Floyd | scene through the window is beautiful, though. There's a direct view Floyd | to the waterfall I saw earlier. Floyd | Floyd | I can see a bedside table here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in bed" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel room Floyd ] Exits: outside Floyd | Floyd | > GET IN BED Floyd | Floyd | There's no time to sleep now. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "I was hoping to have a life-changing dream!" | |
| inky says (to Floyd), "x waterfall" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel room Floyd ] Exits: outside Floyd | Floyd | > X WATERFALL Floyd | Floyd | The waterfall rumbles down the mountainside and raises a cloud of mist Floyd | where it hits the water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x mist" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel room Floyd ] Exits: outside Floyd | Floyd | > X MIST Floyd | Floyd | The waterfall rumbles down the mountainside and raises a cloud of mist Floyd | where it hits the water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel room Floyd ] Exits: outside Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BED Floyd | Floyd | There's no need to spend time looking under things. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It doesn't even know 'search,' which I think is a first." | |
| inky asks, "what kinda IF gam is this?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search bed" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel room Floyd ] Exits: outside Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH BED Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline) inky says, "man, this game" | |
| Ellison arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | Jacqueline says, "hrm" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel room Floyd ] Exits: outside Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I am carrying: Floyd | a crank Floyd | a flute (which equals dog) Floyd | a sanitary napkin (which equals monkey wrench) Floyd | a tube of lipstick Floyd | a room key Floyd | a chopstick Floyd | an umbrella (which equals doorknob) Floyd | Floyd | I have some information about the nature of the universe. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Does meditation work in different quiet and peaceful rooms, one meditation per such location? Is that how it works?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "meditate" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel room Floyd ] Exits: outside Floyd | Floyd | > MEDITATE Floyd | Floyd | Mediation reveals no additional information about the nature of Floyd | existence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Not sure." | |
| inky says, "this game is making me paranoid about k's in words" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Because things with Ks in them can't be made into other things?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Good point. I may change my name to Jackueline. Okay, not really." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "You're safe, though, inky." | ||
| inky says, "I dunno, it feels like there are a disproportionate amount" | ||
| inky says, "hee hee" | ||
| pollux says, "Am I the only one who finds that typo funny? "Mediation reveals no additional information..."" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Actually, I hadn't caught it!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And here we are, beta testing for Nitku." | ||
| Roger says, "konfirmation bias" | ||
| Nitku says, "yay" | ||
| Nitku says, "It's funny how some obvious things stay unnoticed even after multiple people have looked at it" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. That's always the way it is, sadly. Good catch, pollux." | ||
| Zach arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Nitku says, "For a long time the upstairs corridor description said there were 8 doors even when there are only 7 before someone noticed" | |
| Zach asks, "Hey mud, watcha playin'?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Why do I feel like the universe isn't going to tell us anything else and we're supposed to just figure it out..." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Zach), "Sparkle" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "play flute" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel room Floyd ] Exits: outside Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY FLUTE Floyd | Floyd | The flute has a low, dark sound to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "it seems like we must be able to solve more puzzles" | |
| inky says, "or if we have to understand the transformation system better, it must be more obvious than I'm thinking it is" | ||
| DavidW says, "I wish my connection was better. I'm eager to find out if the chopstick is equal to a bridge. Or a claw machine. Or a claw machine with a bridge in it." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Hawk says, "Hmm, don't know if this is useful, but dog and flute, tornado and koi have an odd number of letters; guitar and flower, sanitary napkin and monkey wrench, umbrella and doorknob have an even number of letters...if I'm not wrong anyway..." | ||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||
| Roger says, "If there's a machine that produces Klaws then I am outta here" | ||
| inky says, "I assumed the mapping was fish -> tornado, but koi->tornado seems reasonable too" | ||
| pollux says (to floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel room Floyd ] Exits: outside Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Hotel room Floyd | The hotel room is spartan, with only the most necessary furniture. The Floyd | scene through the window is beautiful, though. There's a direct view Floyd | to the waterfall I saw earlier. Floyd | Floyd | I can see a bedside table here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| pollux says (to floyd), "x window" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel room Floyd ] Exits: outside Floyd | Floyd | > X WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | There's a view of the waterfall through the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| pollux says (to floyd), "x view" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel room Floyd ] Exits: outside Floyd | Floyd | > X VIEW Floyd | Floyd | The waterfall rumbles down the mountainside and raises a cloud of mist Floyd | where it hits the water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Hawk says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel room Floyd ] Exits: outside Floyd | Floyd | > X BED Floyd | Floyd | The bed is made and a layer of dust is on the covers. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So, we've expored all the available locations, right?" | |
| pollux says, "I'm not sure." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take cover" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel room Floyd ] Exits: outside Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE COVER Floyd | Floyd | That's way too big to move. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "We need some sort of cloth." | |
| Hawk says (to Floyd), "x dust" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel room Floyd ] Exits: outside Floyd | Floyd | > X DUST Floyd | Floyd | There's a layer of dust on every surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | pollux asks, "We do?" | |
| pollux says (to floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel room Floyd ] Exits: outside Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I am carrying: Floyd | a crank Floyd | a flute (which equals dog) Floyd | a sanitary napkin (which equals monkey wrench) Floyd | a tube of lipstick Floyd | a room key Floyd | a chopstick Floyd | an umbrella (which equals doorknob) Floyd | Floyd | I have some information about the nature of the universe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| pollux says (to floyd), "x lipstick" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel room Floyd ] Exits: outside Floyd | Floyd | > X LIPSTICK Floyd | Floyd | It's a tube of red lipstick, a bit too bright shade for my tastes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, it said a glove, but cloth of any sort would probably work for turning the bolt." | |
| inky asks, "the napkin?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "hrm. Possibly, or possibly it's too squidgy." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That's a technical word. You can look it up." | ||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||
| inky says, "I guess it's also possible this isn't a linguistic transformation at all" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "outside" | ||
Floyd ] Upstairs corridor Floyd ] Exits: down inside Floyd | Floyd | > OUTSIDE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs corridor Floyd | This is the corridor where the hotel's guest rooms are. There are Floyd | seven doors in total, of which I've unlocked door 102. To the south Floyd | the staircase leads back down. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "and is related to (say) where stuff is on the map" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south east up Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hotel lobby Floyd | The lobby has an abandoned reception desk, some sofas and dead house Floyd | plants. There's a layer of dust everywhere. Floyd | Floyd | There's a staircase to the north leading up and a door leading east to Floyd | the dining hall. Floyd | Floyd | A large wardrobe for coats has fallen over near the entrance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| pollux says (to floyd), "x wardrobe" | Jacqueline asks, "Is the wardrobe just scenery for the setting?" | |
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south east up Floyd | Floyd | > X WARDROBE Floyd | Floyd | A wardrobe, presumably meant for storing casual visitors' coats, has Floyd | fallen over. Floyd | Floyd | A single leather glove has been pinned under the top corner of the Floyd | wardrobe. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "OHO" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take glove" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south east up Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE GLOVE Floyd | Floyd | The glove is pinned under the wardrobe. I can't get it loose. Floyd | Floyd | > | pollux says, "You know, I wondered about that wardrobe before but assumed someone must have checked it out when I wasn't paying enough attention." | |
| Jacqueline says, "So, too heavy to move;" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "push wardrobe" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south east up Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH WARDROBE Floyd | Floyd | That's way too big to move. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pull on glove" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south east up Floyd | Floyd | > PULL ON GLOVE Floyd | Floyd | I can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Hawk asks, "meditate?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pull glove" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south east up Floyd | Floyd | > PULL GLOVE Floyd | Floyd | I give the glove a couple of good yanks but the wardrobe is too heavy Floyd | and the glove doesn't move at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "meditate" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south east up Floyd | Floyd | > MEDITATE Floyd | Floyd | Meditation revealed the following truth: Floyd | Floyd | glove equals cantaloupe Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Ah. We hadn't noticed it yet last time we meditated." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "change glove into cantaloupe" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south east up Floyd | Floyd | > CHANGE GLOVE INTO CANTALOUPE Floyd | Floyd | I concentrate and focus on changing the glove. There's more resistance Floyd | than usual, but finally the glove gives in. A cantaloupe appears in Floyd | its place and half of it is immediately squashed under the wardrobe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south east up Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | cantaloupe: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "change cantaloupe into glove" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south east up Floyd | Floyd | > CHANGE CANTALOUPE INTO GLOVE Floyd | Floyd | The cantaloupe sparkles for a brief moment before changing into a Floyd | glove. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x glove" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south east up Floyd | Floyd | > X GLOVE Floyd | Floyd | A part of the glove is cut off, but most of it is still intact. Floyd | Wearing it won't be very fashionable, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Floyd ] Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Garden Floyd | Weeds have taken over the garden, which seems to have been designed in Floyd | a distinctly Japanese style. It must have been very beautiful in its Floyd | heyday. Floyd | Floyd | The hotel entrance is to the north and the gates to the south. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the garden is a murky pond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel gates Floyd ] Exits: north east west Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hotel gates Floyd | I am at the gates of an old country-style mansion that has at some Floyd | point served as a hotel. At the moment there are no signs of it being Floyd | in use. The garden has overgrown, there are no cars about and the Floyd | building itself is in a dilapidated state. Floyd | Floyd | The hotel gates are to the north, the cable car platform to the west, Floyd | and the hiking path leading back down the mountain is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cable car platform Floyd | A rickety wooden platform is built on the edge of a cliff to serve as Floyd | an station for a cable car ride up to the mountain. It overlooks a Floyd | beautiful waterfall rumbling below. Floyd | Floyd | The road leads back east and the cableway's engine is in a shack just Floyd | to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A cable car is docked to the platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wear glove" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR GLOVE Floyd | Floyd | I put on the glove. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Taleslinger falls beyond time and memory. | ||
| Taleslinger has disconnected. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn bolt with wrench" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > TURN BOLT WITH WRENCH Floyd | Floyd | I can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x bolt" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > X BOLT Floyd | Floyd | Large bolts attach the iron bar to the platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn bolt" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > TURN BOLT Floyd | Floyd | I need a proper tool to loosen the bolts. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| pollux says (to floyd), "change napkin into wrrench. turn bolt with wrench" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform
Floyd ] Exits: south east
Floyd |
Floyd | > CHANGE NAPKIN INTO WRRENCH. TURN BOLT WITH WRENCH
Floyd |
Floyd | That is not the true nature of the sanitary napkin.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| pollux says (to floyd), "change napkin into wrench. turn bolt with wrench" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform
Floyd ] Exits: south east
Floyd |
Floyd | > CHANGE NAPKIN INTO WRENCH. TURN BOLT WITH WRENCH
Floyd |
Floyd | The sanitary napkin sparkles for a brief moment before changing into a
Floyd | monkey wrench.
Floyd |
Floyd | With the gloved hand holding the nuts opposite the bolts in place I am
Floyd | able to unscrew the bolts and free the car.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "oh, we have the pad again." | |
| pollux says, "beg pardon" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "forgot" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn bolt" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > TURN BOLT Floyd | Floyd | I can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "oh, and you did that." | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform
Floyd ] Exits: south east
Floyd |
Floyd | > OH, AND YOU DID THAT.
Floyd |
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "oh, and you did that." | |
| Jacqueline says, "We tend to do commands one at a time in this for the transcript." | ||
| Roger says, "But is a sanitary wrench equal to a monkey napkin" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open bar" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN BAR Floyd | Floyd | I can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x bar" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > X BAR Floyd | Floyd | I can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x car" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > X CAR Floyd | Floyd | The cable car is large enough to comfortably fit about four Floyd | passengers. The red paint coating is peeling away in large flakes and Floyd | rust is corroding the body. Floyd | Floyd | It's hard to see through the dirty windows but it seems like there's a Floyd | simple control panel inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | I open the cable car. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, I thought it had a bar across it." | |
| Jacqueline says, "anyway" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter car" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER CAR Floyd | Floyd | I get into the cable car. Floyd | Floyd | A control panel has been set to the wall opposite the door. It has a Floyd | lever that most likely gets the thing moving. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "We still have to fix the generator, though." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x panel" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > X PANEL Floyd | Floyd | A control panel has been set to the wall opposite the door. It has a Floyd | lever that most likely gets the thing moving. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > PULL LEVER Floyd | Floyd | Nothing happens. I must get the engine that moves the cableway running Floyd | first. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So, no Break Free or WD-40 in here, huh?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Something to get the crud out of the cylinder..." | ||
| pollux says, "We *could* try the lipstick. It's presumably grease-like." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Hrm. Sure. Why not?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | I get out of the cable car. Floyd | Floyd | Cable car platform Floyd | A rickety wooden platform is built on the edge of a cliff to serve as Floyd | an station for a cable car ride up to the mountain. It overlooks a Floyd | beautiful waterfall rumbling below. Floyd | Floyd | The road leads back east and the cableway's engine is in a shack just Floyd | to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A cable car is docked to the platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Engine room Floyd | The wooden shack houses a large diesel generator that moves the Floyd | cableway. The shack's walls are rotten and patchy. The exit leads back Floyd | out to the north. Floyd | Floyd | The diesel generator looks like it hasn't been used in quite some Floyd | while. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x generator" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > X GENERATOR Floyd | Floyd | The diesel generator is currently switched off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "clean cylinder with lipstick" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > CLEAN CYLINDER WITH LIPSTICK Floyd | Floyd | The lipstick isn't suitable for cleaning the cylinders with. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "clean cylinder with pad" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > CLEAN CYLINDER WITH PAD Floyd | Floyd | I can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh right" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn wrench into pad" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > TURN WRENCH INTO PAD Floyd | Floyd | The monkey wrench sparkles for a brief moment before changing into a Floyd | sanitary napkin. Floyd | Floyd | > | pollux says, "I'm not sure the pad will still be wet." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "clean cylinder with pad" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > CLEAN CYLINDER WITH PAD Floyd | Floyd | The dirt is stuck to the parts too hard. I need something stronger Floyd | than water to clean it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| pollux says (to floyd), "put lipstick on pad" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > PUT LIPSTICK ON PAD Floyd | Floyd | (applying the lipstick to the sanitary napkin) Floyd | There's no real reason to smear the lipstick on the sanitary napkin. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Was just trying to get the phrasing again in case it helped." | |
| Roger asks, "Stronger... or thicker?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of Roger), "What were you thinking?" | ||
| Roger says, "Terrible, terrible thoughts" | ||
| inky says, "well, the lipstick is red" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I was thinking that. But let's just not pursue that line of discussion any further." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "change lipstick to glove" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > CHANGE LIPSTICK TO GLOVE Floyd | Floyd | A glove is not the true nature of the lipstick. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "anyway, I assume cantaloupes (or fruits in general) haven't appeared in the game before now?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "No." | ||
| DavidW says, "was thinking body coverings" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh, acid?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Not that cantaloupe is very acidic." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn glove into cantaloupe" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > TURN GLOVE INTO CANTALOUPE Floyd | Floyd | The glove sparkles for a brief moment before changing into a Floyd | cantaloupe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cantaloupe" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > X CANTALOUPE Floyd | Floyd | The other half of the cantaloupe has been crushed by a wardrobe, after Floyd | it had already been toppled. Deep. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "smear cantaloupe on pad" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > SMEAR CANTALOUPE ON PAD Floyd | Floyd | I can't apply it to anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "clean cylinder with cantaloupe" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > CLEAN CYLINDER WITH CANTALOUPE Floyd | Floyd | The cantaloupe isn't suitable for cleaning the cylinders with. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It didn't seem ridiculous at the time." | |
| Hawk asks, "visit the place where the wardrobe was? maybe it has some cantaloupe juice left there?" | ||
| Jacqueline shrugs. "I think this would have worked, but lacking other ideas, let's go back to the wardrobe, sure." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cable car platform Floyd | A rickety wooden platform is built on the edge of a cliff to serve as Floyd | an station for a cable car ride up to the mountain. It overlooks a Floyd | beautiful waterfall rumbling below. Floyd | Floyd | The road leads back east and the cableway's engine is in a shack just Floyd | to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A cable car is docked to the platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel gates Floyd ] Exits: north east west Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hotel gates Floyd | I am at the gates of an old country-style mansion that has at some Floyd | point served as a hotel. At the moment there are no signs of it being Floyd | in use. The garden has overgrown, there are no cars about and the Floyd | building itself is in a dilapidated state. Floyd | Floyd | The hotel gates are to the north, the cable car platform to the west, Floyd | and the hiking path leading back down the mountain is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Floyd ] Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Garden Floyd | Weeds have taken over the garden, which seems to have been designed in Floyd | a distinctly Japanese style. It must have been very beautiful in its Floyd | heyday. Floyd | Floyd | The hotel entrance is to the north and the gates to the south. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the garden is a murky pond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south east up Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hotel lobby Floyd | The lobby has an abandoned reception desk, some sofas and dead house Floyd | plants. There's a layer of dust everywhere. Floyd | Floyd | There's a staircase to the north leading up and a door leading east to Floyd | the dining hall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x wardrobe" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south east up Floyd | Floyd | > X WARDROBE Floyd | Floyd | A wardrobe, presumably meant for storing casual visitors' coats, has Floyd | fallen over. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Also, we have an umbrella." | |
| Roger asks, "Did we try dusting, perhaps with napkin?" | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in wardrobe" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south east up Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN WARDROBE Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open wardrobe" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south east up Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN WARDROBE Floyd | Floyd | It's fallen over on its door. I can't open it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Hawk asks, "x floor?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x floor" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south east up Floyd | Floyd | > X FLOOR Floyd | Floyd | I can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | pollux says, "I think we should mess with the dumbwaiters further." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dining hall Floyd | A large dining hall full of empty tables is a sad sight. Some rays of Floyd | light filter in through the dirty windows. Floyd | Floyd | There's a pair of dumbwaiters on the farthest wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x dumbwaiters" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > X DUMBWAITERS Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the left dumbwaiter or the right dumbwaiter? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x right dumbwaiter" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > X RIGHT DUMBWAITER Floyd | Floyd | The dumbwaiters are an old elevator system for lifting food from the Floyd | kitchen and then lowering dirty dishes back. They are small wooden Floyd | compartments running inside the wall and supported by a rope. Floyd | Floyd | The single crank on the wall suggested that they are connected with a Floyd | common rope and pulley system and lowering one will raise the other. Floyd | Floyd | The right dumbwaiter is lowered beyond reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x crank" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > X CRANK Floyd | Floyd | The crank was apparently used to raise and lower dumbwaiters in the Floyd | dining hall. Now it's broken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "fix crank" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > FIX CRANK Floyd | Floyd | The crank is beyond repair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Nitku has been discontinued. | DavidW says, "I guess we can lift the wardrobe once we know jack." | |
| Roger says, "'single crank suggested' should probably be present tense, I think" | ||
| pollux asks, "Do we have anything heavy to put in the left side?" | ||
| pollux says (to Roger), "I think it's in the past tense because the crank is not there anymore." | ||
| Nitku arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Jacqueline says (to Roger), "Yeah, it used to, but doesn't anymore." | |
| pollux says (to floyd), "x left dumbwaiter" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > X LEFT DUMBWAITER Floyd | Floyd | The dumbwaiters are an old elevator system for lifting food from the Floyd | kitchen and then lowering dirty dishes back. They are small wooden Floyd | compartments running inside the wall and supported by a rope. Floyd | Floyd | The single crank on the wall suggested that they are connected with a Floyd | common rope and pulley system and lowering one will raise the other. Floyd | Floyd | The left dumbwaiter is empty. Floyd | Floyd | There's a closed grid door in front of the compartment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| pollux says (to floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I am carrying: Floyd | a cantaloupe (which equals glove) Floyd | a sanitary napkin (which equals monkey wrench) Floyd | a crank Floyd | a flute (which equals dog) Floyd | a tube of lipstick Floyd | a room key Floyd | a chopstick Floyd | an umbrella (which equals doorknob) Floyd | Floyd | I have some information about the nature of the universe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| pollux says (to floyd), "put flute in left dumbwaiter" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > PUT FLUTE IN LEFT DUMBWAITER Floyd | Floyd | I put the flute into the left dumbwaiter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| pollux says (to floyd), "change flute into dog" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > CHANGE FLUTE INTO DOG Floyd | Floyd | The flute sparkles and turns back into the dog. The dog seems a bit Floyd | confused, but before he can orient himself his weight pushes the Floyd | dumbwaiter down and the right dumbwaiter rises. There's a sausage on a Floyd | plate and a bottle in the revealed compartment. Floyd | Floyd | I can hear the dog barking somewhere below. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "YAY" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | bottle of gin: Taken. Floyd | plate: Taken. Floyd | sausage: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to pollux), "Nice work." | |
| inky says, "nice!" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x gin" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > X GIN Floyd | Floyd | There's still some gin left in the bottom of the bottle. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Gin may work on the cylinder." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x plate" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > X PLATE Floyd | Floyd | The plate is tastefully decorated with a flower theme. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x sausage" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | | ||
| inky says (to Floyd), "meditate" | ||
Floyd | > X SAUSAGE Floyd | Floyd | It's some kind of long salami-style sausage. Salt has preserved it Floyd | comparably well, but it's still rancid enough to not be edible. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > MEDITATE Floyd | Floyd | The barking of the dog makes it impossible to meditate here. Floyd | Floyd | > | pollux says, "Now, I think we are supposed to be able to get the dog back." | |
| pollux says (to floyd), "change dog into flute" | ||
Floyd ] Dining hall Floyd ] Exits: west Floyd | Floyd | > CHANGE DOG INTO FLUTE Floyd | Floyd | The dog is in the left dumbwaiter, which is out of my reach at the Floyd | moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | pollux says, "(I thought it might work since we can *hear* it.)" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Can we go clean the cylinder now?" | ||
| pollux says, "Sure." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel lobby Floyd ] Exits: south east up Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hotel lobby Floyd | The lobby has an abandoned reception desk, some sofas and dead house Floyd | plants. There's a layer of dust everywhere. Floyd | Floyd | There's a staircase to the north leading up and a door leading east to Floyd | the dining hall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Garden Floyd ] Exits: north south Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Garden Floyd | Weeds have taken over the garden, which seems to have been designed in Floyd | a distinctly Japanese style. It must have been very beautiful in its Floyd | heyday. Floyd | Floyd | The hotel entrance is to the north and the gates to the south. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the garden is a murky pond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Hotel gates Floyd ] Exits: north east west Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hotel gates Floyd | I am at the gates of an old country-style mansion that has at some Floyd | point served as a hotel. At the moment there are no signs of it being Floyd | in use. The garden has overgrown, there are no cars about and the Floyd | building itself is in a dilapidated state. Floyd | Floyd | The hotel gates are to the north, the cable car platform to the west, Floyd | and the hiking path leading back down the mountain is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cable car platform Floyd | A rickety wooden platform is built on the edge of a cliff to serve as Floyd | an station for a cable car ride up to the mountain. It overlooks a Floyd | beautiful waterfall rumbling below. Floyd | Floyd | The road leads back east and the cableway's engine is in a shack just Floyd | to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A cable car is docked to the platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | There is no exit in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Engine room Floyd | The wooden shack houses a large diesel generator that moves the Floyd | cableway. The shack's walls are rotten and patchy. The exit leads back Floyd | out to the north. Floyd | Floyd | The diesel generator looks like it hasn't been used in quite some Floyd | while. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | I am carrying: Floyd | a sausage Floyd | a plate Floyd | a bottle of gin Floyd | a cantaloupe (which equals glove) Floyd | a sanitary napkin (which equals monkey wrench) Floyd | a crank Floyd | a tube of lipstick Floyd | a room key Floyd | a chopstick Floyd | an umbrella (which equals doorknob) Floyd | Floyd | I have some information about the nature of the universe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pour gin on pad" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > POUR GIN ON PAD Floyd | Floyd | I squeeze the water out of the sanitary napkin and pour what's left of Floyd | the gin on it. It soaks it all up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "clean cylinder with pad" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > CLEAN CYLINDER WITH PAD Floyd | Floyd | Cleaning the generator is hard work, but after a while the moving Floyd | parts look clean enough. After spending some considerable amount of Floyd | additional tinkering the generator starts to look like it could work Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn on generator" | ||
Floyd ] Engine room Floyd ] Exits: north Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON GENERATOR Floyd | Floyd | The generator makes some suspicious noises but then comes to life. The Floyd | cableway starts moving again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cable car platform Floyd | A rickety wooden platform is built on the edge of a cliff to serve as Floyd | an station for a cable car ride up to the mountain. It overlooks a Floyd | beautiful waterfall rumbling below. The cableway is moving. Floyd | Floyd | The road leads back east and the cableway's engine is in a shack just Floyd | to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A cable car is docked to the platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Cable car platform Floyd ] Exits: south east Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | (inside the cable car) Floyd | I get into the cable car. Floyd | Floyd | A control panel has been set to the wall opposite the door. It has a Floyd | lever that most likely gets the thing moving. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | ||
Floyd ] Mountain top Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > PULL LEVER Floyd | Floyd | The mechanism on top of the car latches on to the cableway and the car Floyd | jolts on moving. Floyd | Floyd | After a brief but scenic ride the car stops. Floyd | Floyd | Mountain top (in the cable car) Floyd | The cable car has reached its destination. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "can we have a guitar themed plate?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Mountain top Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the cable car door) Floyd | I step out the cable car and see the shrine a short way from the Floyd | platform. To my surprise the Master is sitting cross-legged in front Floyd | of the shrine. Floyd | Floyd | "Shifu," I greet and bow deep. Floyd | Floyd | "Welcome, apprentice," she says. "Have you learned the Pattern?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) Everything has both good and evil in them Floyd | 2) Things can be turned into their exact opposites Floyd | 3) Reality is an illusion Floyd | 4) There is no pattern Floyd | 5) I don't know the answer Floyd | Floyd | ? | Jacqueline says, "hrm" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I like 3 or 4 or 5" | ||
| pollux says, "Five seems like the appropriately zen answer." | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of inky), "?" | ||
| inky says, "3 is technically true since this is a game" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "deep" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Wish I'd saved." | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "?" | ||
| inky asks, "you can %undo or whatveer, can't you?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Prolly." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Mountain top Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | She swings her cane faster than I can react and hits me hard on my Floyd | left shin. Floyd | Floyd | "Did that feel like an illusion? What is the Pattern?" Floyd | Floyd | 1) Everything has both good and evil in them Floyd | 2) Things can be turned into their exact opposites Floyd | 3) Reality is an illusion Floyd | 4) There is no pattern Floyd | 5) I don't know the answer Floyd | Floyd | ? | DavidW says, "I don't know the answer" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I think we should get a new master." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "One that doesn't abuse us." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] Mountain top Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | "I really don't know," I say. "I turned a dog into a flute, and a fish Floyd | into a tornado, and a sanitary pad into a monkey wrench, and I just Floyd | can't see what the pattern is. There's nothing that connects them, Floyd | it's as if it's all completely random. Anything can be changed into Floyd | anything and..." Floyd | Floyd | The Master closes her eyes and nods. Floyd | Floyd | Understanding comes to me. "Anything can be changed into anything." Floyd | Floyd | At that moment I am enlightened. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You unlocked 2 achievements out of 10. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command or list your ACHIEVEMENTS? Floyd | > | Roger says, "Can't we turn her into a sanitary dog or something" | |
| inky says, "we need a system of enlightenment with an HR department" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "hee" | ||
| inky says, "boo" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, wow. 2 of 10." | ||
| pollux says (to floyd), "achievements" | ||
Floyd ] Mountain top Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > ACHIEVEMENTS Floyd | Floyd | You have unlocked the following achievements: Floyd | Floyd | Clean Dog: Washed the dog. Floyd | Veterinarian: Cured the dog. Floyd | Floyd | These achievements are still unlocked: Floyd | Floyd | - Animal Rescue Floyd | - Art Collector Floyd | - Clown Dog Floyd | - First Guess Floyd | - Full Belly Floyd | - Not a Drop Floyd | - Ride with a Friend Floyd | - Wet Dog Floyd | Floyd | Unlock all achievements for a bonus extended ending. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command or list your ACHIEVEMENTS? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, I suddenly have a terrible intermittent lag." | |
| inky says, "still unlocked!" | ||
| pollux says, "You know, I suspected we could put the lipstick on the flute." | ||
| pollux says, "I'm guessing that's Clown Dog." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And that is probably okay, since I have to prepare for some company this afternoon. You all contiue to tinker if you'd like to get those other achievements." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And then get the bonus extended ending." | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of Nitku), "That means 'still locked,' not 'still unlocked,' right?" | ||
| Nitku says, "oops yeah" | ||
| Nitku says, "another one everyone missed" | ||
| Nitku says, "Thanks for playing! It was very helpful." | ||
| Nitku says, "I'll prepare a proper post-comp release with some special extras" | ||
| Zach has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
| Hawk disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | ||
| inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
| pollux has had its fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
| pollux arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | pollux asks, "So, uh, nobody is interested in further exploration?" | |
| Fang tries to cover up the situation, which leads to disaster on his busiest day of the year: Bikini Snow Day. | DavidW says, "I'm interested, but I can't really do it. My connection is too poor." | |
| pollux says (to floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Mountain top Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Mountain top Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | ? | DavidW says, "And I'm only taking a break from packing anyway." | |
| pollux says (to floyd), "enter car" | ||
Floyd ] Mountain top Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER CAR Floyd | Floyd | [Please answer with a number between 1 and 5] Floyd | Floyd | ? | ||
| pollux says (to floyd), "5" | ||
Floyd ] Mountain top Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > 5 Floyd | Floyd | She closes her eyes. "You do know the answer. Try again." Floyd | Floyd | 1) Everything has both good and evil in them Floyd | 2) Things can be turned into their exact opposites Floyd | 3) Reality is an illusion Floyd | 4) There is no pattern Floyd | 5) I don't know the answer Floyd | Floyd | ? | ||
| pollux says (to floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] Mountain top Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd | Floyd | > 4 Floyd | Floyd | "I really don't know," I say. "I turned a dog into a flute, and a fish Floyd | into a tornado, and a sanitary pad into a monkey wrench, and I just Floyd | can't see what the pattern is. There's nothing that connects them, Floyd | it's as if it's all completely random. Anything can be changed into Floyd | anything and..." Floyd | Floyd | The Master closes her eyes and nods. Floyd | Floyd | Understanding comes to me. "Anything can be changed into anything." Floyd | Floyd | At that moment I am enlightened. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You unlocked 2 achievements out of 10. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command or list your ACHIEVEMENTS? Floyd | > | pollux says, "Perhaps some other time." | |
| pollux says (to floyd), "quit" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > QUIT Floyd | cheapglulxe quit with exit status: 0 | ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||
| pollux has had its fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
| Deesix disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | ||
| Nitku has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
| Emily goes home. | ||
| Emily has disconnected. | ||
| Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. | ||
| Ellison has disconnected. | ||
| DavidW has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
| maga simplified the complex behavioral dynamics of each human mosher to that of a simple soft-bodied particle. | ||
| Roger goes home. | ||
| Roger has disconnected. | Doug says, "huh, Club Floyd unlocked fewer achievements than I did!" | |
