AllThingsJacq.com - Interactive Fiction | ClubFloyd - November 23, 2014


ToyShop & Floyditorium		#ClubFloyd Discussion


Jacqueline hollers, "Reminder: the Sunday ClubFloyd hiatus ends in half an hour!"		DavidW says, "And yay, I don't have to think up a game to play."
		Jacqueline says, "But have you already played what I wanted to play today>"
		Jacqueline asks, "er, ?"
		DavidW says, "well, yes."
		Roger exclaims, "I haven't!"
		Jacqueline says, "That is my main concern. I guess we'll see who shows up."
		Jacqueline says, "Like maybe Roger will show up."
		Roger says, "That slacker skipped the whole comp! Slacker."
		oddgrue says, "so clubfloyd is on? assuming my kid managed to stay occupied i will be joining"
		Jacqueline says, "It is. Twenty minutes yet, though."
		DavidW says (to oddgrue), "yes, ClubFloyd is restarting today. And soon-ish."
oddgrue arrives, full of fun and funk.
DavidW arrives, full of funk, but no fun.
DavidW says (to oddgrue), "by the way, are you by any chance the author of Jacqueline, Jungle Queen! and Whitefield Academy of Witchcraft? (Because I loved those games.)"
oddgrue says (to davidw), "sadly no... despite YEARS of wanting to write a game, i've never managed to."
DavidW says, "ah. well. Perhaps we can help with that someday."		Jacqueline asks, "Ready? Okay! Who is here for the Clubbing and the Floyding?"
		says, "I am ready to Floyd."
		DavidW says, "I am ready to Club."
		Jacqueline asks, "Roger, are you in? oddgrue?"
JoshuaH arrives, full of fun, but no funk.		Jacqueline says, "My one fear is that because NightFloyd already played these (I think... I need to post NightFloyd transcripts from during the ClubFloyd hiatus) that everyone but me will have played these."
		Jacqueline says, "Everybody gathering to watch just me play a game would be kind of not the point (and probably pretty boring)"
		vimes asks, "what, nobody's here to Flub?"
		Jacqueline says (to vimes), "You can be."
		Jacqueline says (to vimes), "Also, I'm glad you're here. Will you be around later today? Want to talk about which other comp games we can get to run on Floyd."
		vimes says, "yeah, i'll be around"
		Jacqueline asks (of Joshua,), "have you played Hunger Daemon?"
oddgrue exclaims, "i'm in, but will be off and on... i have a six year old trying to get my attention!"
inky arrives, full of fun, but no funk.		JoshuaH says, "Yeah."
		oddgrue says, "oops - forgot to talk on channel... i'm in, but wlil be off and on"
		Jacqueline says (to oddgrue), "That's fine. Have you played the game Hunger Daemon? (Also, please speak on-channel by prefacing what you say with #clubfloyd)"
		JoshuaH says, "I think the only Inform ones I didn't finish were Fifteen Minutes and Transparent."
		Jacqueline says, "Timing"
		Jacqueline says, "Roger, I may actually need you."
		Jacqueline says, "Or we could play something else, but the author is here and it would be nice to play his game."
		Jacqueline says, "At least, I think MrPatient is the author."
		Jacqueline asks (of MrPatient), "Right?"
		JoshuaH says, "But Hunger is amusing to watch, so whatever is okay."
		MrPatient says, "Yep, that's me. But it's cool. Play whatever works"
		Roger says, "whahunh"
		Jacqueline says (to Roger), "Get in here. You and I are playing this."
		Jacqueline says, "It won a comp. I hear it is good."
		DavidW says, "All I played of Fifteen Minutes was one run-through where I did nothing but examine things and decided no way would I attempt to play it during comp conditions."
		Roger says, "Okay; if I'm mysteriously afk, blame the offspring"
		oddgrue says, "i've never played it"
		Roger says, "But I'll try to keep tuned in"
		inky says, "I'l play too"
		Jacqueline says, "Yay people. Yay actual game."
PaulS arrives, full of neither funk nor fun.		Jacqueline says, "So, it looks like those people who said they'd play are all here, so I shall begin."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask hungerdaemon"
Floyd >Are you sure you want to quit? Please answer yes or no.> Please
Floyd answer yes or no.> ]
Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| ...ilyaa nwagl geb tharanak r'luh hafh'drn kadishtu Hastur ftaghu Floyd \| nglui syha'hoth nilgh'ri f'phlegeth s'uhn, uln ooboshu gnaiih ftaghu Floyd \| f'ya bug kadishtu mnahn' shtunggliog shugg y'hah shugg chtenffnyth, Floyd \| nahafh'drn ep sgn'wahl llll navulgtlagln. Naflebunma hai nog uaaah Floyd \| nog naflsyha'h Azathoth nggeb uaaah shogg fm'latgh, ehye cshugg Floyd \| y'hah... Floyd \| Floyd \| That's your Uncle Stu chanting, getting some occasional vocal backup Floyd \| from the other guys. They've been going on for the better part of two Floyd \| hours now. Prep-work for the big show tonight.		Jacqueline asks, "How does one even pronounce llll?"
		Jacqueline asks, "Is it Welsh?"
		inky says, "yy, I think"
		Jacqueline says, "heh"
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd \| hours now. Prep-work for the big show tonight. Floyd \| ...sgn'wahl vulgtlagln stell'bsnaor syha'h gebyar nilgh'ri orr'e Floyd \| uaaah uln, throd fm'latghyar vulgtm tharanak kn'a mg uh'e nglui, Floyd \| fm'latgh Cthulhu nglui k'yarnak li'hee mnahn' uh'e chtenff. Athg y'hah Floyd \| lloig ep hlirgh 'fhalma hrii sll'ha, hupadgh wgah'nog shogg orr'e Floyd \| ebunma vulgtm ron, ebunma... Floyd \| Floyd \| There's really quite a bit of chanting at these things, and it can be Floyd \| a little repetitive. Some themes tend to recur pretty often. A lot Floyd \| of awakening and devouring, for starters.		DavidW says, "I read some credits saying the author used a Cthulhu-language generator."
		Jacqueline says, "Nice."
		MrPatient says, "Yeah, no way I was typing that crap up"
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd \| of awakening and devouring, for starters. Floyd \| ...wgah'n orr'e uaaah ron hafh'drn mg n'ghft shagg ooboshuog Floyd \| mnahn' r'luh naorr'e bug li'hee gnaiih Tsathoggua n'gha lw'nafh uh'e, Floyd \| n'ghftoth fm'latgh ckn'a hlirgh mnahn' uh'e ya goka. Li'hee naflshagg Floyd \| stell'bsna ilyaa y'hah, ph'ah li'heenyth f'geb... Floyd \| Floyd \| The thing of it is, he's drawing out every single goddamned syllable. Floyd \| That "wgah'n" -- that took eleven seconds. If he were just reading it Floyd \| straight, we'd have been out of here in forty-five minutes, and you'd Floyd \| have the rest of your day back. But instead, he's doing all these Floyd \| vibratos and ululations, going over the same phrase over and over. Floyd \| It's enough to drive you insane.
vala arrives, full of fun, but no funk.		DavidW says (to MrPatient), "oh hi. :)"
		inky asks, "wait, you mean this isn't really from the necronomicon?"
		Emily says, "yeah, that was sweet"
		MrPatient says (to DavidW), "Howdy"
		Jacqueline says (to inky), "Please don't leave."
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd \| It's enough to drive you insane. Floyd \| ...f'shugg s'uhn y-fhtagn gotha, ngthrod Shub-Niggurath y'hah Floyd \| hupadgh uln k'yarnak nguaaah lloig gluinyth 'fhalma h'gof'nn ah grah'n Floyd \| ngfhtagn nw, ngshtunggli shugg n'gha ngnog, ngooboshu nastell'bsna Floyd \| naflr'luh s'uhn. F'n'gha naflorr'e ron ngphlegeth h'bug 'fhalma ep Floyd \| li'hee shagg... Floyd \| Floyd \| There's a pause in the chanting. Suddenly, you hear a baleful Floyd \| gurgling, almost a roar, coming from deep below. It's your stomach. Floyd \| You missed breakfast, and now you're missing lunch, too. Azathoth's Floyd \| ample arse! How long is this ceremony going to take?
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 1 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd \| Floyd \| Hunger Daemon Floyd \| The Travails of a Cafeteria Cultist by Sean M. Shore Floyd \| Release 3 / Serial number 141014 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd \| 6/12N) Floyd \| Floyd \| Restaurant Basement Floyd \| You're in the basement of a defunct little bistro in the West 7th Floyd \| neighborhood of Saint Paul. This is where your cult does most of its Floyd \| culting, on account of how your Aunt Sandy doesn't want any sacrifices Floyd \| in the house, and well, fair enough. Uncle Stu owns the building, so Floyd \| you're not squatting or anything, but he's kept the place in a state Floyd \| of perpetual Coming Soonedness, so that you all can do your thing here Floyd \| with no interference. Floyd \| Floyd \| As I say, defunct bistro, so the restaurant-type stuff you'd Floyd \| normally find here is mostly gone. In their place there's a group of Floyd \| guys wearing hooded robes, facing an altar at one end of the chamber. Floyd \| Your Uncle Stu has a lectern in front of him, atop which is a decrepit Floyd \| leather-bound book from which he is chanting. There's a wooden stair Floyd \| leading to the pantry above and a winged horror slumped in a folding Floyd \| chair in the corner. Floyd \| Floyd \| [First-time players should type ABOUT. Those playing via web browser: Floyd \| use ESC and X to navigate the menus, or turn on screen reader mode.] Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline asks, "So, about?"
		DavidW says, "yes please"
		oddgrue says, "sure"
		Roger says, "Sure"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "about"
Floyd ] HELP MENU Floyd ] Press a number to choose an option or Floyd ] ESCAPE or X to exit. Floyd ] (Press M to turn Book Mode ON.) Floyd ] Floyd \| Floyd \| (If you're using a screen reader, press S to turn on Screen Reader Floyd \| mode. This message only appears on the front page of the menu system.) Floyd \| Floyd \| 1. About and Credits Floyd \| 2. Hints
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2"
Floyd ] Hints Floyd ] Press a number or letter to choose an option, Floyd ] ESCAPE to move back a menu, L to leap to the top menu or X to exit. Floyd ] (Press M to turn Book Mode ON.) Floyd ] Floyd \| Floyd \| (Hints) Floyd \| Floyd \| 1. How do I escape the service in the basement? Floyd \| 2. How do I free Jeff? Floyd \| 3. How do I enter Carver's Cave? Floyd \| 4. How do I open the office door? Floyd \| 5. How do I get the serpent's blood? Floyd \| 6. How do I get the blood safely out of the cave? Floyd \| 7. Where can I find an image of the young woman? Floyd \| 8. Where can I find one of her possessions? Floyd \| 9. How do I avoid ruining the spell? Floyd \| A. How do I get inside the sanctuary? Floyd \| B. I'm finally in. Where is she? Floyd \| C. I've found her. Now what?		Jacqueline says, "ACK"
		Jacqueline says, "I MEANT 1"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x"
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 1 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd \| Restaurant Basement Floyd \| You're in the basement of a defunct little bistro in the West 7th Floyd \| neighborhood of Saint Paul. The restaurant-type stuff you'd normally Floyd \| find here is mostly gone. In their place there's a group of guys Floyd \| wearing hooded robes, facing an altar at one end of the chamber. Your Floyd \| Uncle Stu has a lectern in front of him, atop which is a decrepit Floyd \| leather-bound book, from which he is chanting. There's a wooden stair Floyd \| leading to the pantry above and a winged horror slumped in a folding Floyd \| chair in the corner. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Roger says, "Hastur made her do it"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "about"
Floyd ] Hints Floyd ] Press a number to choose an option, Floyd ] ESCAPE to move back a menu, L to leap to the top menu or X to exit. Floyd ] (Press M to turn Book Mode ON.) Floyd ] Floyd \| Floyd \| () Floyd \| Floyd \| 1. About and Credits Floyd \| 2. Hints
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1"
Floyd ] About and Credits (page 1 of 1) Floyd ] Floyd ] Press ESCAPE to return to menu, L to leap to the top menu or X to Floyd \| exi Floyd ] t. (Press M to turn Book Mode ON.) Floyd ] Floyd \| ( - About and Credits) Floyd \| Floyd \| Hunger Daemon is an entry in the 2014 Interactive Fiction Floyd \| Competition. There are a couple of short timed sequences where it is Floyd \| possible to lock yourself out of victory for a move or two, but it Floyd \| will be very obvious when this happens, because the game will end. Floyd \| Outside of that, the various "winning" endings should always be Floyd \| available. Floyd \| Floyd \| To initiate a conversation with a character, you can TALK TO the Floyd \| character, or SAY HELLO TO her, or ASK her ABOUT or TELL her ABOUT Floyd \| something. Use TOPICS to display conversation topics. Occasionally a Floyd \| character might respond to something not in her topics list. Floyd \| Floyd \| You can use GO TO to return to places you've already been. There are Floyd \| also a few other nonstandard verbs. I hope that they're obvious in Floyd \| context. Note: you might find yourself needing to INFLATE or SQUEEZE Floyd \| or REMEMBER some things. Floyd \| Floyd \| Thanks to Graham Nelson and Emily Short for Inform 7, and to Eric Eve, Floyd \| David Fisher and Wade Clarke for very helpful extensions. All praise Floyd \| to my testers: Sam Kabo Ashwell, Neil Butters, Bob Reeves, Gráinne Floyd \| Ryan, Andrew Schultz, and Steven Westwood. Any remaining shortcomings Floyd \| or errors in this game are wholly my responsibility. Lovecraftian Floyd \| gibberish courtesy of the Cthuvian Ipsum Generator Floyd \| ([LINK]). The cover art is Floyd \| adapted from a photo by Knoell8504 on Wikimedia Commons Floyd \| ([LINK]). Floyd \| Floyd \| Apologies to Rabbi Spilker, who deserves better than to appear here. Floyd \| Floyd \| I can be reached at mister_patient@yahoo.com. Thanks for playing. Floyd \| Floyd \| ------------------------		DavidW says, "yay testers"
		MrPatient says, "Heroes, all of them"
		Jacqueline says, "It seems I'm always finding the need to inflate or squeeze or remember things."
inky says (to Floyd), "x"
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 1 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd \| Restaurant Basement Floyd \| You're in the basement of a defunct little bistro in the West 7th Floyd \| neighborhood of Saint Paul. The restaurant-type stuff you'd normally Floyd \| find here is mostly gone. In their place there's a group of guys Floyd \| wearing hooded robes, facing an altar at one end of the chamber. Your Floyd \| Uncle Stu has a lectern in front of him, atop which is a decrepit Floyd \| leather-bound book, from which he is chanting. There's a wooden stair Floyd \| leading to the pantry above and a winged horror slumped in a folding Floyd \| chair in the corner. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x horror"
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 2 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd \| Floyd \| > X HORROR Floyd \| Floyd \| It's a creature summoned from beyond the stars, beyond the depths of Floyd \| madness, to serve your uncle. It can scarcely even be described. To Floyd \| truly look upon it, to apprehend its features fully, would fracture Floyd \| one's mind. Floyd \| Floyd \| That said, it's a tall, lumpy, yellowish humanoid guy with black eyes Floyd \| and some tendrils around the mouth. It's just sitting there on the Floyd \| chair. Floyd \| Floyd \| ...r'luh lw'nafh gnaiih ee ep bug nglui, ilyaa geb lw'nafh... Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x book"
Floyd ] Restaurant Basement 3 Floyd ] Exits: UP Floyd \| Floyd \| > X BOOK Floyd \| Floyd \| It's the book that got your uncle started many years ago, when he came Floyd \| across it in a dig in Paraguay. It's at least a thousand pages long. Floyd \| A lot of the pages seem to have been inserted after the fact. You Floyd \| haven't spent a lot of time handling it, but when you have, the Floyd \| reddish leather on the cover has flaked off and stuck to your fingers. Floyd \| There's no title on it, and it's written in an ancient language that Floyd \| you still can't read, despite your uncle's best efforts. Floyd \| Floyd \| You lean over to have a peek at the section that Stu is reading from. Floyd \| Dagon's dingus! He's still on page 13! We're going to be here all Floyd \| day. Maybe you can slip out discreetly and get your lunch from the Floyd \| fridge upstairs. Floyd \| Floyd \| ...ah hriioth vulgtm uln mnahn' shogg n'ghft nglui zhro... Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline says, "IRTA It's a creature summoned from beyond the stars, beyond the depths of madness, to serve your lunch. Then I reread and was disappointed."
		Jacqueline says, "Possibly I am hungry."
		Roger says, "Apropos"
		Jacqueline says, "Yeah"
		DavidW says, "I try to start eating before ClubFloyd starts. Or have plenty to munch on during."
		Roger says, "Anyway, go ahead and do all the usual start-of-game stuff, if you like."
inky says (to Floyd), "up"
Floyd ] Pantry 4 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH down Floyd \| Floyd \| > UP Floyd \| Floyd \| You tiptoe over to the stairs as gingerly as you can. Some of the Floyd \| other cultists give you a look of mild disapproval, leavened with Floyd \| jealousy at your having the courage to slip out first. No one says Floyd \| anything, though, and your uncle continues his chanting. Floyd \| Floyd \| Pantry Floyd \| This is where all the food would be stored, if the bistro were open Floyd \| and functioning. There's a big fridge in the corner and many dusty Floyd \| shelves along the walls. A wooden stair leads down to the basement, Floyd \| and a doorway leads north to the kitchen. Floyd \| Floyd \| On the dusty shelves are some pizza boxes and some cans of near-food. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "open fridge"
Floyd ] Pantry 5 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH down Floyd \| Floyd \| > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd \| Floyd \| You open the fridge, revealing an unexpectedly empty Ziploc bag. The Floyd \| bag has the word "Barry" written on it with a black Sharpie, for all Floyd \| the good that did you. It used to enclose a sandwich. The sandwich Floyd \| is now presumably enclosed by Walter, who is the only one who's been Floyd \| up here. Where is that clown? Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "get bag"
Floyd ] Pantry 6 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH down Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET BAG Floyd \| Floyd \| Taken. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x pizza"
Floyd ] Pantry 7 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH down Floyd \| Floyd \| > X PIZZA Floyd \| Floyd \| They're from Papa Dimitri's on Hamline, from yesterday. They still Floyd \| smell faintly of pizza, which isn't helping you curb your hunger right Floyd \| now, even if the pizza wasn't all that great. The boxes are closed. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
maga arrives, full of fun, but no funk.
inky says (to Floyd), "open pizza"
Floyd ] Pantry 8 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH down Floyd \| Floyd \| > OPEN PIZZA Floyd \| Floyd \| Alas, all that remains are some greasy sheets of wax paper. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x near"
Floyd ] Pantry 9 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH down Floyd \| Floyd \| > X NEAR Floyd \| Floyd \| You turn them to read the labels and wipe away some dust. They're Floyd \| food, I guess, but none of them can be eaten individually, or in Floyd \| combination. There's coconut milk, a can of chipotles in adobo, Floyd \| horseradish, a bottle of fish sauce, and sundry other substances which Floyd \| might be described as food-adjacent. None of them will address your Floyd \| hunger. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "ha ha"
		inky says, "fucking chipotles in adobo"
		inky says, "you seem so useful in the grocery store"
		Jacqueline says, "hahaha"
		MrPatient says, "In our house, that's a can that never gets finished"
		Roger says, "Now we know why Allen gave this a 1"
		Emily says, "ha ha ha"
		DavidW says, "I've never seen chipotles for sale."
		inky says, ""why doesn't the PC just chug the bottle of fish sauce?" Allen asks"
		Jacqueline says, "I was belatedly laughing about how my sandwich is now enclosed by Walter, but this other stuff is funny, too."
		Roger says, "Yeah it shows a deft touch"
		Roger says, "He should call the PULP TACO guy"
inky says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] Kitchen 10 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > N Floyd \| Floyd \| You make sure the fridge and freezer doors are shut and then head out. Floyd \| Floyd \| Kitchen Floyd \| This is the bistro's cramped kitchen. With your eye for detail, you Floyd \| notice a couple of things subtly out of place. For one thing, Walter		Jacqueline says (to DW), "Oh, yeah. It comes in cans or fresh."
Floyd \| is laid out on the floor. Also, the Ark of, um, Whatever, which he Floyd \| was guarding, is open and empty. The oven appears to be intact, for Floyd \| what that's worth, which is probably very little. Floyd \| Floyd \| The door to the restaurant's office leads west, the pantry is to the Floyd \| south, and the dining room is to the north. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ] Kitchen 11 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > I Floyd \| Floyd \| You are carrying: Floyd \| a Ziploc bag (open but empty) Floyd \| a hooded robe (hood lowered) (being worn) Floyd \| Floyd \| >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd ] Kitchen 12 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > X ME Floyd \| Floyd \| You're Barry, just a regular guy in the service of the Great Old Ones. Floyd \| OK, "in the service of" might be a little strong. You haven't done Floyd \| much serving of late. You only show up for the high holidays and Floyd \| important rituals if you can help it. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x walter"
Floyd ] Kitchen 13 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > X WALTER Floyd \| Floyd \| He's a big dude -- a monster, really -- and a friend of your uncle's. Floyd \| He's supposed to be keeping watch. Instead, he's sprawled out on the Floyd \| floor, face down, sleeping peacefully. There's a faint chemical whiff Floyd \| coming off him, as opposed to the usual aquavit. You're not a Floyd \| physician per se -- a second-year vet student, actually -- but as far Floyd \| as you can tell, he's not dying or anything, just knocked out. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x ark"
Floyd \| > Floyd \| > X ARK Floyd \| Floyd \| The Ark of Whatever -- Mythos names give you a headache -- is a large, Floyd \| ornate box, covered in raised pictograms in some ancient tongue. It's Floyd \| clearly very old, and somewhat alien-looking, and too big to schlep Floyd \| downstairs. It contains the great Heart of Something or other, the Floyd \| crucial object needed for your uncle's transformation ritual that Floyd \| takes place tomorrow. Or it did: the ark is open and empty. Floyd \| Floyd \| You run your finger over the raised pictograms, wondering how the hell Floyd \| this could have happened. In order to even open the box, you'd need Floyd \| to have the combination, and press the symbols in the right --. Oh, Floyd \| Jesus. THIS IS YOUR FAULT. Floyd \| Floyd \| press any key		DavidW does wavey hands and woo-woo-woop flashback noises.
		Jacqueline asks, "How is this OUR fault?"
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ] A Month Ago at the State Fair, On Line for Bacon on a St14k Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd \| It's a hot, sweaty day at the state fair. You're here along with Floyd \| perhaps a hundred thousand of your fellow Minnesotans, having spent Floyd \| the day gawking at the prize rabbits, admiring the butter sculptures Floyd \| of the dairy princesses, checking out the reliably liberal crop art, Floyd \| and consuming 4000 calories, much of it in the form of soybean oil. Floyd \| Floyd \| A Month Ago at the State Fair, On Line for Bacon on a Stick Floyd \| You're at the head of the line at the Fat Bacon stand, ready for your Floyd \| opportunity to give $5 in exchange for a piece of bacon on a stick. Floyd \| This is what your day has been missing. Floyd \| Floyd \| Some teenagers are manning the booth. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		MrPatient asks, "Why does it say St14k? Or is my client being weird?"
		Jacqueline says, "Mine says that too"
		Jacqueline says, "Weird."
		oddgrue says, "sorry guys... gotta go. i think next week i'll get my husband on kid detail before"
		DavidW says, "I see it too. The terp is blending the turns count with the very long room name."
		inky says, "at first I thought it was "stick""
oddgrue goes home.		inky says, "then I thought it was "steak""
		PaulS says, "And mine. I assumed it was some special delicacy."
		JoshuaH says, "Leet."
		inky says, "then I thought it was st<fourteen characters>k"
		Roger says, "a turncount overwriting a too-wide location, perhaps"
		Jacqueline asks, "Oh, it's condensed due to the room name?"
		Jacqueline says, "Er, the turn count is in there. Just a weird Floydism."
		Roger says, "'On Line' is still weird"
		DavidW says, "Floyd's terp must have a narrow screen width."
		Jacqueline says, "Anyway, gosh, this game is making we want to move to Minnesota and become a cultist. Except not really. But it's fun."
inky says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ] A Month Ago at the State Fair, On Line for Bacon on a St15k Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd \| Floyd \| > I Floyd \| Floyd \| You are carrying: Floyd \| a five-dollar bill Floyd \| an all-important note that explains how to open the Ark of Gl'thub Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "read note"
Floyd ] A Month Ago at the State Fair, On Line for Bacon on a St16k Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd \| Floyd \| > READ NOTE Floyd \| Floyd \| It's the folded-up piece of paper on which is written the exact Floyd \| sequence of pictograms one presses to open the Ark of Gl'thub. It is Floyd \| not the only copy, thankfully. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		olethros says, "yeah, it's lovely"
inky says (to Floyd), "buy bacon"
Floyd \| > Floyd \| > BUY BACON Floyd \| Floyd \| You reach into your pocket, pull out the money, and hand it over to Floyd \| the girl. She hands you your bacon on a stick. It's not all that Floyd \| great. Meanwhile: Floyd \| Floyd \| the all-important note that explains how to open the Ark of Gl'thub: Floyd \| Dropped. Floyd \|
olethros arrives, full of fun and funk.
Floyd \| At least, this is your best guess as to what happened, since the money Floyd \| and the note were in the same pocket. But more to the point, who Floyd \| would even have picked it up, with all the garbage floating around the Floyd \| state fair? Who would have noticed it? There's no way that anyone Floyd \| could make sense of it. It's just scribbles on a piece of paper. No Floyd \| big deal. Stu has another copy, so we're all good. Floyd \| Floyd \| press any key		inky says, "I assume gl'thub -> github"
		MrPatient says, "Yes, this is a game about downloading Puppet modules, ultimately"
		Jacqueline says (to inky), "hee"
inky pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd \| press any key Floyd \| Floyd \| OK, maybe not. Crap. You need to make this right, like right now. Floyd \| Stu is going to eat you alive if he finds out that the Heart is gone, Floyd \| and that is literally. Oh man, oh man. Where to even start? Jeff! Floyd \| Jeff will know what to do. Better get over to the bookstore pronto, Floyd \| before Stu figures out what's happened. Floyd \| Floyd \| press any key		Jacqueline says, "So, possibly we gave it to the bacon-on-a-stick person when we paid. This has happened to me, though I was buying something else and the note I lost wasn't this important."
inky pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ] Kitchen 17 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| Kitchen Floyd \| This is a small professional kitchen. Although the pots and pans and Floyd \| smaller appliances are all gone, the oven is still functional, as long Floyd \| as your uncle keeps paying the gas bill. Also here, not part of the Floyd \| original decor, is the Ark of Whatever. Floyd \| Floyd \| The door to the restaurant's office leads west, the pantry is to the Floyd \| south, and the dining room is to the north. Floyd \| Floyd \| Walter is here, unconscious. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] Dining Room 18 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > N Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Dining Room Floyd \| The old bistro had ten tables and seated about forty. The chairs are Floyd \| propped up on the tables upside-down and covered in dust. Large Floyd \| windows look out onto the street, but they're soaped up so that the Floyd \| public can't see all the important renovation work going on in here, Floyd \| which is to say none. The kitchen is to the south, the bathroom is to Floyd \| the west, and you can walk out onto the street to the north. Floyd \| Floyd \| Hanging from the ceiling is a funky, thrift-store-looking chandelier. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x chandelier"
Floyd ] Dining Room 19 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > X CHANDELIER Floyd \| Floyd \| It's been painted white, which transforms it from "schlock" into Floyd \| "shabby chic." Floyd \| Floyd \| As you look at the chandelier, your eye is drawn to a security camera, Floyd \| facing toward the front door and bathroom. A tiny red light on the Floyd \| camera is illuminated. A wire leads from the camera along the ceiling Floyd \| to the south, towards the kitchen. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline says, "I am watching while I break my morning fast for a few. I may not comment, but I'm here."
		olethros says, "I dont think we can get to the camera without a key"
inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ] Kitchen 20 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > S Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Kitchen Floyd \| This is a small professional kitchen. Although the pots and pans and Floyd \| smaller appliances are all gone, the oven is still functional, as long Floyd \| as your uncle keeps paying the gas bill. Also here, not part of the Floyd \| original decor, is the Ark of Whatever. Floyd \| Floyd \| The cable from the security camera runs through here and into a small Floyd \| hole above the office door. Floyd \| Floyd \| The door to the restaurant's office leads west, the pantry is to the Floyd \| south, and the dining room is to the north. Floyd \| Floyd \| Walter is here, unconscious. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		olethros says, "so anyway, we follow the cable"
inky says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ] Kitchen 21 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > W Floyd \| Floyd \| (first opening the office door) Floyd \| (first unlocking the office door) Floyd \| It's locked, and Uncle Stu presumably has the key that must fit in its Floyd \| oversized keyhole. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "sure enough"
inky says (to Floyd), "look in keyhole"
Floyd ] Kitchen 22 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > LOOK IN KEYHOLE Floyd \| Floyd \| It's certainly big, but you can't see all the way through on account Floyd \| of the tumblers or whatever they're called. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky asks, "what, the key isn't in the lock, but on the other side?"
		olethros says, "ok, time to find jeff"
inky says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] Dining Room 23 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > N Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Dining Room Floyd \| The old bistro had ten tables and seated about forty. The chairs are Floyd \| propped up on the tables upside-down and covered in dust. Large Floyd \| windows look out onto the street, but they're soaped up so that the Floyd \| public can't see all the important renovation work going on in here, Floyd \| which is to say none. The kitchen is to the south, the bathroom is to Floyd \| the west, and you can walk out onto the street to the north. Floyd \| Floyd \| Hanging from the ceiling is a funky, thrift-store-looking chandelier. Floyd \| Floyd \| You can see a small security camera mounted in the corner of the Floyd \| ceiling, and a thin black wire running from it. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ] Bathroom 24 Floyd ] Exits: east WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > W Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Bathroom Floyd \| With all the guys spending a lot of time in the restaurant, this tends Floyd \| to get used a fair bit. It has the usual accoutrements: toilet, sink, Floyd \| and the like. You can return to the dining room to the east. Floyd \| Floyd \| There's a frosted window on the west wall, currently wide open. Floyd \| Floyd \| Strangely, there's a filthy pillow on the floor underneath the window. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		olethros says, "no, tumblers are the things that block the lock"
inky says (to Floyd), "x pillow"
Floyd ] Bathroom 25 Floyd ] Exits: east WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > X PILLOW Floyd \| Floyd \| It's a regular pillow that has had a rough time lately, it seems. Floyd \| It's yellowed from sweat, has black dirt all over it, and smells of Floyd \| garbage. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
maga whooped with Orlanth, and drank the Eight Known Drinks, so that his head would hurt during the ceremony.
inky says (to Floyd), "get pillow"		olethros says, "the key pushes through the tumblers"
Floyd ] Bathroom 26 Floyd ] Exits: east WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET PILLOW Floyd \| Floyd \| Taken. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
olethros says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd ] Alley 27 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd \| Floyd \| > OUT Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Alley Floyd \| This damp, quiet alley runs along the west side of the restaurant. Floyd \| It's littered with leaves and paved with gravel. Randolph Avenue is Floyd \| back to the northeast. Floyd \| Floyd \| A window leads back east into the building. Parked right alongside, Floyd \| in a little spot reserved for employees, is your Saturn. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "wait wait"
inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ] Bathroom 28 Floyd ] Exits: east west Floyd \| Floyd \| > E Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Bathroom Floyd \| With all the guys spending a lot of time in the restaurant, this tends Floyd \| to get used a fair bit. It has the usual accoutrements: toilet, sink, Floyd \| and the like. You can return to the dining room to the east. Floyd \| Floyd \| There's a frosted window on the west wall, currently wide open. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "flush toilet"
Floyd ] Bathroom 29 Floyd ] Exits: east west Floyd \| Floyd \| > FLUSH TOILET Floyd \| Floyd \| You flush the toilet. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "I give it a C+"
inky says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ] Alley 30 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd \| Floyd \| > W Floyd \| Floyd \| You climb out the window. Floyd \| Floyd \| Alley Floyd \| This damp, quiet alley runs along the west side of the restaurant. Floyd \| It's littered with leaves and paved with gravel. Randolph Avenue is Floyd \| back to the northeast. Floyd \| Floyd \| A window leads back east into the building. Parked right alongside, Floyd \| in a little spot reserved for employees, is your Saturn. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x leaves"
Floyd ] Alley 31 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd \| Floyd \| > X LEAVES Floyd \| Floyd \| It's early autumn. Leaves are everywhere. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
olethros says (to Floyd), "x car"
Floyd ] Alley 32 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd \| Floyd \| > X CAR Floyd \| Floyd \| It's a 2001 Saturn sedan. The color, as represented to you by the Floyd \| dealership, is "grey bronze." Others with less sophisticated tastes Floyd \| might call it "brown." The paint job is marred by the presence of Floyd \| muddy footprints on the roof. Also, the trunk is open, and you Floyd \| definitely didn't drive here with it like that. Someone must have Floyd \| broken the lock on -- no, wait. There's no sign of forced entry. Floyd \| Whoever it was simply opened the trunk from the inside of the car, Floyd \| which you failed to lock. Awesome. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "count leaves"
Floyd ] Alley 32 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd \| Floyd \| > COUNT LEAVES Floyd \| Floyd \| That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline says, "aw"
		olethros says, "ha ha"
olethros says (to Floyd), "x trunk"
Floyd ] Alley 33 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd \| Floyd \| > X TRUNK Floyd \| Floyd \| It's larger than it looks from the outside, one of the few aspects of Floyd \| the car that provides a pleasant surprise. It's open. Floyd \| Floyd \| In the trunk are a flashlight and some Breaking Bad DVDs. Floyd \| Floyd \| Not inside the trunk is your tire iron. It appears to have been Floyd \| stolen. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "look in trunk"
Floyd ] Alley 34 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd \| Floyd \| > LOOK IN TRUNK Floyd \| Floyd \| It's larger than it looks from the outside, one of the few aspects of Floyd \| the car that provides a pleasant surprise. It's open. Floyd \| Floyd \| In the trunk are a flashlight and some Breaking Bad DVDs. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "get flashlight"
Floyd ] Alley 35 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET FLASHLIGHT Floyd \| Floyd \| Taken. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x dvds"
Floyd ] Alley 36 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd \| Floyd \| > X DVDS Floyd \| Floyd \| They're Sam's, not yours, but you're in no mood to return them anytime Floyd \| soon. These are the very cool limited edition set, with the case Floyd \| shaped like a tank of methylamine. Thankfully the thief has left Floyd \| them. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		olethros says, "ok, inky drive"
inky says (to Floyd), "get dvds"
Floyd ] Alley 37 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET DVDS Floyd \| Floyd \| Taken. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "look in car"
Floyd ] Alley 38 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd \| Floyd \| > LOOK IN CAR Floyd \| Floyd \| The Saturn is empty. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "enter car"
Floyd ] Alley 39 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST east Floyd \| Floyd \| > ENTER CAR Floyd \| Floyd \| You close the trunk and hop in. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ] Randolph Avenue 40 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST south southwest WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > NE Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Randolph Avenue (in the Saturn) Floyd \| You're on Randolph Avenue, which stretches far to the west toward Floyd \| Highland Park and to the east towards the river. The part we're on Floyd \| here is firmly middle class, maybe on the low side. There are a lot Floyd \| of small close-set houses with minimally-tended lawns, pockmarked by Floyd \| the occasional commercial space, including your restaurant. Floyd \| Floyd \| Your cult's shop, Unspeakable Books and Gifts, is located a few miles Floyd \| to the west. Jeff should be there; you should head over, ASAP. Floyd \| Carver's Cave is to the northeast. That's where you guys originally Floyd \| obtained the Heart, and is probably worth checking out. There's also Floyd \| an alleyway to the southwest. The dining room is to the south. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x houses"
Floyd ] Randolph Avenue 41 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST south southwest WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > X HOUSES Floyd \| Floyd \| Most of them are one-and-a-half stories, built in the 1950s, with the Floyd \| sharply-slanted roofs that are necessary in Minnesota. Some are Floyd \| better-maintained than others, but none will be appearing in Floyd \| Architectural Digest anytime soon. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		MrPatient says, "GET HOUSES here might be fun. Not sure if I've tried from inside the car"
		inky says, "I feel like this is the first car implementation I'm played where it doesn't make me turn the key and stuff"
inky says (to Floyd), "get houses"
Floyd ] Randolph Avenue 42 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST south southwest WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET HOUSES Floyd \| Floyd \| In 2009, perhaps. Housing prices have rebounded, though, and you Floyd \| couldn't afford them all. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "ha ha"
inky says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ] Cleveland Avenue 43 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH east INSIDE Floyd \| Floyd \| > W Floyd \| Floyd \| You drive off towards Highland Park for a couple of miles. You arrive Floyd \| at your destination a few minutes later. Floyd \| Floyd \| Cleveland Avenue (in the Saturn) Floyd \| You're on Cleveland Avenue outside a magic shop affiliated with your Floyd \| cult, wedged between an insurance agent and a Subway. A faded sign Floyd \| above the nondescript entrance to the north reads "Unspeakable Books Floyd \| and Gifts." A placard indicates that the shop is closed, but you can Floyd \| see that the lights are on. The bistro and Randolph Avenue are back Floyd \| to the east. Floyd \| Floyd \| Standing out front is a sandwich board advertising an improbable and Floyd \| already completed Back to School sale. Or I should say, "B4ck to Scho Floyd \| l." Floyd \| Floyd \| A mostly-deflated red balloon hangs limply from the sandwich board. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd ] Cleveland Avenue 44 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH east INSIDE Floyd \| Floyd \| > OUT Floyd \| Floyd \| You get out of the Saturn. (Incidentally, you don't need to worry Floyd \| about closing or locking or unlocking the car. Just enter and exit. Floyd \| The locking and unlocking will be assumed. No one else will mess with Floyd \| your car, I promise). Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "get balloon"
Floyd ] Cleveland Avenue 45 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH east INSIDE Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET BALLOON Floyd \| Floyd \| Taken. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x it"
Floyd ] Cleveland Avenue 46 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH east INSIDE Floyd \| Floyd \| > X IT Floyd \| Floyd \| It's a plain red balloon. It's currently deflated. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 47 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > N Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Unspeakable Books and Gifts Floyd \| You find the shop unlocked, strangely enough. Floyd \| Floyd \| This is the front room of Unspeakable Books and Gifts. It's a "magic" Floyd \| shop for the pinks, the rubes who spell magick with a k. They come Floyd \| here to buy healing crystals and novelty Buffy-themed Tarot decks and Floyd \| books about UFOs and accessing their past lives. There's a long Floyd \| display case filled with various mystical knickknacks. There's also a Floyd \| large bookshelf crammed with hokey New Age titles. You can exit back Floyd \| onto the street to the south. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "inflate balloon"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 48 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > INFLATE BALLOON Floyd \| Floyd \| You inflate the balloon, carefully holding it closed with your fingers Floyd \| when you're done. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "squeeze balloon"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 49 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > SQUEEZE BALLOON Floyd \| Floyd \| You squeeze the inflated balloon, and the air rushes out of it. It Floyd \| would probably be more fun to inflate it and simply let it go. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x knickknacks"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 50 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > X KNICKKNACKS Floyd \| Floyd \| Pendants, crystals, amulets, "healing" magnets, and all manner of Floyd \| other crap. High profit margins, you're told. Floyd \| Floyd \| Lying on the ground behind the display case, bathed in a strange Floyd \| yellow light, is your friend Jeff. He's apparently frozen in place. Floyd \| You half-expect him to suddenly spring to life like one of those Floyd \| annoying street performers, but it doesn't look like that will happen. Floyd \| Frozen Jeff is holding a partially open box, emerging from which is an Floyd \| enormous, otherworldly, terrifying-looking beetle, also motionless. Floyd \| Next to the two of them is a small ceramic oval. It seems to be the Floyd \| source of the strange yellow light, which also envelops an old Floyd \| computer monitor that's stashed back here for some reason. I have to Floyd \| say, this doesn't make for a welcoming retail environment. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		MrPatient says, "'pinks' comes from Devo and/or the Church of the Sub-Genius, btw"
		inky says, "man, church of the subgenius"
		JoshuaH says, "That takes me back."
inky says (to Floyd), "x monitor"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 51 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > X MONITOR Floyd \| Floyd \| It's an old, clunky, heavy tube-based piece of crap. It's bathed in Floyd \| the same yellow light as Jeff and the beetle. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		DavidW says, "Bob"
inky says (to Floyd), "x beetle"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 52 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > X BEETLE Floyd \| Floyd \| It is huge, terrifying and probably deadly, covered in eyes and Floyd \| sporting oversized vicious mandibles. The box in which it was stored Floyd \| reads "Qua'ox" in tiny copper letters. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x oval"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 53 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > X OVAL Floyd \| Floyd \| It's a smooth little oval-shaped object, about the size of an ice Floyd \| cream sandwich. The terra cotta color suggests that it's ceramic, and Floyd \| therefore maybe fragile. There's a single rune on it, which might Floyd \| mean something if you had ever paid attention in Sunday school, but Floyd \| well, that could never happen. But you don't need a degree from Floyd \| Mythos Divinity School to realize that this thing is generating some Floyd \| kind of stasis field in which Jeff and the beetle are trapped. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "get beetle"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 54 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET BEETLE Floyd \| Floyd \| Looking at the beetle is as much as you want to do. In fact, you Floyd \| don't even want to do that. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "erase rune"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 54 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > ERASE RUNE Floyd \| Floyd \| That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "break oval"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 55 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > BREAK OVAL Floyd \| Floyd \| You smash the oval, and the yellow field dissolves. Jeff seems dazed Floyd \| for a moment as the magic releases him. The beetle, however, recovers Floyd \| very quickly. It senses your presence, and begins to leap towards Floyd \| your face! Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "jump"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 55 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > JUMP Floyd \| Floyd \| You jump on the spot, fruitlessly. And also pizzalessly. Christ, Floyd \| you're hungry. Floyd \| Floyd \| You throw your hands up to protect yourself, but it's no use. The Floyd \| beetle bears down on you, tearing at your face with its mandibles, Floyd \| until it reaches bone. And then it keeps going. Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| * You have died * Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd \| command? Floyd \| >		inky says, "aie"
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 55 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > UNDO Floyd \| Floyd \| Unspeakable Books and Gifts Floyd \| [Previous turn undone.] Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "duck"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 55 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > DUCK Floyd \| Floyd \| The beetle adjusts course to match. Floyd \| Floyd \| You throw your hands up to protect yourself, but it's no use. The Floyd \| beetle bears down on you, tearing at your face with its mandibles, Floyd \| until it reaches bone. And then it keeps going. Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| * You have died * Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd \| command? Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 55 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > UNDO Floyd \| Floyd \| Unspeakable Books and Gifts Floyd \| [Previous turn undone.] Floyd \| Floyd \| >		DavidW says, "Might undo a few"
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 54 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > UNDO Floyd \| Floyd \| Unspeakable Books and Gifts Floyd \| [Previous turn undone.] Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 54 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > UNDO Floyd \| Floyd \| Unspeakable Books and Gifts Floyd \| [Previous turn undone.] Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "inflate balloon"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 55 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > INFLATE BALLOON Floyd \| Floyd \| You inflate the balloon, carefully holding it closed with your fingers Floyd \| when you're done. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "break seal"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 55 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > BREAK SEAL Floyd \| Floyd \| You can't see any such thing. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "break oval"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 56 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > BREAK OVAL Floyd \| Floyd \| You smash the oval, and the yellow field dissolves. Jeff seems dazed Floyd \| for a moment as the magic releases him. The beetle, however, recovers Floyd \| very quickly. It senses your presence, and begins to leap towards Floyd \| your face! Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "drop balloon"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 56 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > DROP BALLOON Floyd \| Floyd \| You let go of the inflated balloon. It shoots wildly around the room Floyd \| as it deflates. The beetle's instincts kick in. It launches itself Floyd \| at the balloon, following it until it crashes into the bookshelf and Floyd \| lands on the floor. The beetle watches with interest, then returns Floyd \| its attention to you. Floyd \| Floyd \| You throw your hands up to protect yourself, but it's no use. The Floyd \| beetle bears down on you, tearing at your face with its mandibles, Floyd \| until it reaches bone. And then it keeps going. Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| * You have died * Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd \| command? Floyd \| >		PaulS says, "One of two insect-related sudden deaths in this year's comp. Sort of a minor theme."
		Jacqueline says, "Okay, I'm having a bit of trouble keeping up. But hahaha yay BEETLE IN YOUR FACE"
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 56 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > UNDO Floyd \| Floyd \| Unspeakable Books and Gifts Floyd \| [Previous turn undone.] Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 55 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > UNDO Floyd \| Floyd \| Unspeakable Books and Gifts Floyd \| [Previous turn undone.] Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 55 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > UNDO Floyd \| Floyd \| Unspeakable Books and Gifts Floyd \| [Previous turn undone.] Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 56 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > L Floyd \| Floyd \| Unspeakable Books and Gifts Floyd \| This is the front room of Unspeakable Books and Gifts. It's a "magic" Floyd \| shop for the pinks, the rubes who spell magick with a k. They come Floyd \| here to buy healing crystals and novelty Buffy-themed Tarot decks and Floyd \| books about UFOs and accessing their past lives. There's a long Floyd \| display case filled with various mystical knickknacks. There's also a Floyd \| large bookshelf crammed with hokey New Age titles. You can exit back Floyd \| onto the street to the south. Floyd \| Floyd \| Behind the counter, you can see Jeff and a nasty-looking beetle, Floyd \| motionless, bathed in a strange yellow light. A small terra cotta Floyd \| oval seems to be generating the light, which also encompasses a clunky Floyd \| old computer monitor. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		DavidW asks, "Perhaps save before the beetle is freed?"
inky clears the save counter.
inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
inky says (to Floyd), "cf1"
Floyd \| > Floyd \| > SAVE Floyd \| %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 56 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd \| Ok. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "I guess we can look downstairs first"
inky says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 57 Floyd ] Exits: south DOWN outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > D Floyd \| Floyd \| (first opening the large bookshelf) Floyd \| As you reach to open the large bookshelf, you lose your grip on the Floyd \| balloon, which shoots around wildly for a moment before dropping to Floyd \| the ground. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 58 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > D Floyd \| Floyd \| (first opening the large bookshelf) Floyd \| Floyd \| The Secret Chamber Floyd \| If there's a customer who really knows what he's talking about, Jeff Floyd \| brings him down here. He's got the place pimped out mad-scientist Floyd \| style, with beakers and tubes and the like. There's also a carved Floyd \| wooden bookshelf stuffed to capacity with tomes, grimoires, librams, Floyd \| and even the occasional "book." Stairs lead back up to the shop. Floyd \| Floyd \| Sitting among the beakers and tubes is a latex glove. Floyd \| Floyd \| On one end of the room, there's a shrine to the Chairman of the Board, Floyd \| the Big C himself, in all his tentacled glory. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline asks, "Can we put something over the beetle first?"
inky says (to Floyd), "get glove"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 59 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET GLOVE Floyd \| Floyd \| Taken. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "bookshelf"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 59 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > BOOKSHELF Floyd \| Floyd \| That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x shrine"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 60 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > X SHRINE Floyd \| Floyd \| It's a small-scale statuette of Great Cthulhu, waving his tentacles Floyd \| around in a threatening manner, with little people trampled under his Floyd \| feet. It's pretty sweet, even to a cafeteria cultist like yourself. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x bookshelf"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 61 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > X BOOKSHELF Floyd \| Floyd \| (the carved wooden bookshelf) Floyd \| It's a heavy wooden bookshelf, with a lot of grotesque flourishes Floyd \| carved in, groaning under the weight of the volumes it contains. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x tubes"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 62 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > X TUBES Floyd \| Floyd \| Typical Dr. Frankenstein or Herbert West stuff: bubbling flasks, Floyd \| wires, jars of strange fluids, and powders. You've got some lab Floyd \| experience, but you don't know what any of this stuff does. That's Floyd \| Jeff's department. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x beakers"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 63 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > X BEAKERS Floyd \| Floyd \| Typical Dr. Frankenstein or Herbert West stuff: bubbling flasks, Floyd \| wires, jars of strange fluids, and powders. You've got some lab Floyd \| experience, but you don't know what any of this stuff does. That's Floyd \| Jeff's department. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky asks, "hmm, anything else good down here?"
inky says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 64 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > L Floyd \| Floyd \| The Secret Chamber Floyd \| If there's a customer who really knows what he's talking about, Jeff Floyd \| brings him down here. He's got the place pimped out mad-scientist Floyd \| style, with beakers and tubes and the like. There's also a carved Floyd \| wooden bookshelf stuffed to capacity with tomes, grimoires, librams, Floyd \| and even the occasional "book." Stairs lead back up to the shop. Floyd \| Floyd \| On one end of the room, there's a shrine to the Chairman of the Board, Floyd \| the Big C himself, in all his tentacled glory. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "up"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 65 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > UP Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Unspeakable Books and Gifts Floyd \| This is the front room of Unspeakable Books and Gifts. It's a "magic" Floyd \| shop for the pinks, the rubes who spell magick with a k. They come Floyd \| here to buy healing crystals and novelty Buffy-themed Tarot decks and Floyd \| books about UFOs and accessing their past lives. There's a long Floyd \| display case filled with various mystical knickknacks. There's also a Floyd \| large bookshelf crammed with hokey New Age titles. You can exit back Floyd \| onto the street to the south. Floyd \| Floyd \| Behind the counter, you can see Jeff and a nasty-looking beetle, Floyd \| motionless, bathed in a strange yellow light. A small terra cotta Floyd \| oval seems to be generating the light, which also encompasses a clunky Floyd \| old computer monitor. Floyd \| Floyd \| You can also see a balloon here. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "put glove on beetle"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 66 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > PUT GLOVE ON BEETLE Floyd \| Floyd \| Putting things on the beetle would achieve nothing. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "get monitor"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 67 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET MONITOR Floyd \| Floyd \| You reach for the monitor, but receive a mild electric shock when you Floyd \| come in contact with the yellow light. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		DavidW asks, "Is there anything on the monitor?"
maga arrives, ready to play with the toys.		DavidW asks, "maybe read it?"
inky says (to Floyd), "read monitor"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 68 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > READ MONITOR Floyd \| Floyd \| It's an old, clunky, heavy tube-based piece of crap. It's bathed in Floyd \| the same yellow light as Jeff and the beetle. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "I can't tell if it's attached to a computer"
inky says (to Floyd), "get balloon"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 69 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET BALLOON Floyd \| Floyd \| Taken. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "possibly now that the bookshelf is open the beetle will fall down"
inky says (to Floyd), "inflate balloon"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 70 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > INFLATE BALLOON Floyd \| Floyd \| You inflate the balloon, carefully holding it closed with your fingers Floyd \| when you're done. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "break seal"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 70 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > BREAK SEAL Floyd \| Floyd \| You can't see any such thing. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "break oval"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 71 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > BREAK OVAL Floyd \| Floyd \| You smash the oval, and the yellow field dissolves. Jeff seems dazed Floyd \| for a moment as the magic releases him. The beetle, however, recovers Floyd \| very quickly. It senses your presence, and begins to leap towards Floyd \| your face! Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "drop balloon"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 72 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > DROP BALLOON Floyd \| Floyd \| You let go of the inflated balloon. It shoots wildly around the room Floyd \| as it deflates. The beetle's instincts kick in. It launches itself Floyd \| at the balloon, following it through the open bookcase and down the Floyd \| stairs! Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "close bookcase"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 73 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > CLOSE BOOKCASE Floyd \| Floyd \| You push on the bookcase and the door clicks shut. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline says, "Wait."
		inky says, "now it will trash the lab"
		Jacqueline asks, "Wasn't the beetle emerging from a box?"
		inky says, "yeah"
		Jacqueline asks, "Can't we just put it back in the box?"
		inky says, "hmm, good question"
inky says (to Floyd), "x box"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 73 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > X BOX Floyd \| Floyd \| You can't see any such thing. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x jeff"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 74 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > X JEFF Floyd \| Floyd \| Jeff's a fellow cultist, mid 40s, has an age-inappropriate hipster Floyd \| handlebar mustache. He's a bit more religious than you are, but this Floyd \| mostly takes the form of wanting to melt things and summoning Floyd \| creatures from the Outer Realms to help him move furniture into a new Floyd \| apartment. He's OK. Floyd \| Floyd \| Jeff appears from behind the counter, rubbing his eyes. "Man, am I Floyd \| glad to see you," he says, as he surveys the scene. He holds out a Floyd \| fist expectantly. "Iä, dude! Great work!" Floyd \| Floyd \| >		MrPatient says, "That is Ia"
		Jacqueline says, "Oh, but Jeff is okay."
		DavidW says, "oh. Now I see what was meant yesterday."
		inky says, "oh, I thought it was some techie-cultist lingo"
		DavidW says, "I didn't clue in."
inky says (to Floyd), "dap jeff"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 74 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > DAP JEFF Floyd \| Floyd \| That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		DavidW says, "fistbump or brohoof"
inky says (to Floyd), "knock fists"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 74 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > KNOCK FISTS Floyd \| Floyd \| You can't see any such thing. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "bro-fist jeff"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 74 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > BRO-FIST JEFF Floyd \| Floyd \| That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		MrPatient asks, "dap? I gotta make another synonym?"
		inky says, "this is a complicated guess-the-verb puzzle"
inky says (to Floyd), "knuck jeff"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 74 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > KNUCK JEFF Floyd \| Floyd \| That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "knucks jeff"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 74 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > KNUCKS JEFF Floyd \| Floyd \| That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline says, "It's becoming more difficult to know all the verbs that an IF author should implement."
		MrPatient says, "Evidently."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "brohoof jeff"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 74 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > BROHOOF JEFF Floyd \| Floyd \| That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		PaulS says (to Jacqueline), "But I doubt that "dap" is one of them, in general."
		olethros asks, "so > FIST doesn't work?"
		MrPatient says, "I never heard brohoof either. This is an education"
		MrPatient says (to olethros), "You are thinking of Hunger Reamin'"
		Jacqueline says (to MrPatient), "You can make your Thank You check payable to ClubFloyd."
		DavidW says, "Brohoof is the Friendship is Magic variant."
		* vala has joined the channel.
		Jacqueline says (to MrPatient), "Except don't, because ClubFloyd doesn't have a bank account."
		Jacqueline says, "Oh, hi. vala."
		vala says, "hey"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "fistbump jeff"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 75 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > FISTBUMP JEFF Floyd \| Floyd \| You bump Jeff's fist, giving him an Iä in return. Floyd \| Floyd \| (You could ask him about how he ended up in stasis or the beetle.) Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline asks (of vala), "Have you played Hunger Daemon?"
		vala says, "Yes, so I'll be quiet! :)"
		Jacqueline says, "There is also a channel called #cfspoilers where you can speak with others who are watching but who have also already played."
		vala exclaims, "thanks!"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask jeff about beetle"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 76 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > ASK JEFF ABOUT BEETLE Floyd \| Floyd \| You ask Jeff about the beetle, and explain about its current location. Floyd \| Floyd \| "Oh, man, that sucked pretty bad. Thanks again. I had the box up Floyd \| here because I was gonna mail-order it out to some brothers in Eau Floyd \| Claire. Nice work, dude. I can wrangle it with this," he says, Floyd \| producing a small whistle from his pocket. He puts it to his lips, Floyd \| and carefully opens the secret door once again. The beetle, Floyd \| apparently waiting right behind it, leaps out right at Jeff's face. Floyd \| He blows the whistle. You hear nothing, but the beetle drops to the Floyd \| ground, legs up, motionless. Jeff scoops it up and puts it in an Floyd \| unbroken box. "Alright, we got that taken care of." Floyd \| Floyd \| You could ask him about how he ended up in stasis. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline asks, "hm?"
		Jacqueline says, "Oh, crap. I need to mute cfspoilers."
Roger goes home.
Roger has disconnected.		Jacqueline says, "Ignore my hm."
		Jacqueline exclaims, "Roger!"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask jeff about stasis"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 77 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > ASK JEFF ABOUT STASIS Floyd \| Floyd \| "I'm a dumbass, basically," says Jeff. "This girl comes in. I've Floyd \| never seen her before, so I figure she's a pink who's here to realign Floyd \| her aura or something. But she starts talking about Carver's Cave Floyd \| with some authority, so I'm wondering if maybe she's on the team but Floyd \| just from out of town. Then she produces the piece of paper you lost Floyd \| with the code to open the Ark of Gl'thub and asks for help in Floyd \| translating the symbols. And I'm like, dude. This can't be Floyd \| right. So I tell her to hold on for a sec while I get something. I'm Floyd \| going to sic the Qua'ox on her, but she's too fast, and pushes me Floyd \| down. Next thing I know, she produces a Gothaullog stone and I'm Floyd \| frozen." Floyd \| Floyd \| You could ask him about the young woman or the small oval. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline says, "huh. This is definitely our fault. This is what bacon on a stick gets you."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "a woman"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 78 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > A WOMAN Floyd \| Floyd \| You ask Jeff to describe the young woman. Floyd \| Floyd \| "Well, she was young, maybe early twenties. Dark frizzy hair, Floyd \| shoulder-length. Wore a sort of trench coat or something." Floyd \| Floyd \| You could ask him about the small oval; or tell him about the Heart of Floyd \| Something. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "a oval"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 79 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > A OVAL Floyd \| Floyd \| "Oh yeah," he says. "That's a Gothaullog stone. Puts you in stasis, Floyd \| but I guess you figured that part out. She must have been digging Floyd \| into our stuff for a while now, to figure out how to make or find one Floyd \| of those." Floyd \| Floyd \| You could tell him about the Heart of Something. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline exclaims, "I really don't want to tell him about the Heart of Something, because he is going to be all !!!!"
		inky says, "yeah, but we have to tell somebody"
		Jacqueline says, "But then maybe he will help us advance the plot, so."
		Jacqueline says (to inky), "Yeah. True."
		inky says, "plus he owes us for screwing up himself"
		Jacqueline says, "Fair enough. Let's hope he thinks that."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "t heart of something"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 80 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > T HEART OF SOMETHING Floyd \| Floyd \| You mention to Jeff that you are pretty sure that his young woman Floyd \| snuck into the bistro, knocked out Walter, and made off with the Heart Floyd \| of Something. Floyd \| Floyd \| "Holy crap!" he says. "She has the Heart of Unktahe? Does anyone Floyd \| else know?" You reply in the negative. "Alright, man, we've got to Floyd \| get that thing back, like, ASAP. Otherwise, we're both gonna end up Floyd \| on the slab. I've got a spell we can use to try to track her down. Floyd \| We'll need two things: some personal object of hers, and an image of Floyd \| some sort. See if you can get that stuff and bring it to me. I'll Floyd \| make preparations here." Floyd \| Floyd \| You could ask him about Carver's Cave, the spell or Uncle Stu. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "also, ti seems like in some sense all cthulhu cultists are working together - it's not like anyone is going to get special treatment"
		Jacqueline asks, "I'm guessing the broken oval won't work as a thing of hers?"
inky says (to Floyd), "x oval"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 80 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > X OVAL Floyd \| Floyd \| You can't see any such thing. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline says, "Oh"
		MrPatient says, "Should have thought of that"
		MrPatient says, "It's off-stage forever"
		Jacqueline nods.
inky says (to Floyd), "a cave"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 81 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > A CAVE Floyd \| Floyd \| You ask Jeff about Carver's Cave. Floyd \| Floyd \| "Yeah, well, she seems to know what she's doing, so I wouldn't be Floyd \| shocked if she's visited it. Might be worth checking out, if you Floyd \| haven't already been there," he replies. Floyd \| Floyd \| You could ask him about the spell or Uncle Stu.		Jacqueline asks, "Well, poo. We know nothing about her, except that she likes or sells bacons-on-sticks. Where to start?"
Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "a spell"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 82 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > A SPELL Floyd \| Floyd \| "It's just your basic locator spell. We'll need an image of her, and Floyd \| something belonging to her. Get those, and we can give it a shot." Floyd \| Floyd \| You could ask him about Uncle Stu. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "a stu"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 83 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > A STU Floyd \| Floyd \| "Dude, your uncle is going to be pissed if he gets to the end Floyd \| of that ritual and there's no Heart for him to eat." Floyd \| Floyd \| You have nothing specific in mind to discuss with Jeff right now. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "well, we can go to the cave"
		Jacqueline says, "Yeah"
		inky asks, "anything else to do here?"
		Jacqueline says, "I guess that is all we have really. I like caves."
		inky says, "I can't actually tell what benefit she got from coming hee"
		MrPatient says, "There are a lot of fun replies downstairs, if you're interested"
		inky says, "maybe she looked through his stuff while he was frozen"
inky says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 84 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > D Floyd \| Floyd \| (first opening the large bookshelf) Floyd \| Floyd \| The Secret Chamber Floyd \| If there's a customer who really knows what he's talking about, Jeff Floyd \| brings him down here. He's got the place pimped out mad-scientist Floyd \| style, with beakers and tubes and the like. There's also a carved Floyd \| wooden bookshelf stuffed to capacity with tomes, grimoires, librams, Floyd \| and even the occasional "book." Stairs lead back up to the shop. Floyd \| Floyd \| On one end of the room, there's a shrine to the Chairman of the Board, Floyd \| the Big C himself, in all his tentacled glory. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "read libram"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 84 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > READ LIBRAM Floyd \| Floyd \| You can't see any such thing. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x librams"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 85 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > X LIBRAMS Floyd \| Floyd \| There are hundreds of books here on all manner of occult topics. Only Floyd \| a few have titles on the spines. Most are bound in some sort of Floyd \| leather, the source of which you don't want to know. Others have Floyd \| ostentatious locks or other hardware to impress upon the reader how Floyd \| badass they (and by extension you) are. Naturally, old warhorses like Floyd \| the Necronomicon are represented, along with some rarer Floyd \| stuff. You could CONSULT TOMES ABOUT something. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "consult tomes about heart"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 86 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > CONSULT TOMES ABOUT HEART Floyd \| Floyd \| You flip through the tomes and eventually find reference to Unktahe. Floyd \| It is the great serpent-like creature revered in antiquity by local Floyd \| Native American groups as the Great Spirit of the Mississippi River. Floyd \| There are details here for summoning it -- yeah, yeah, been there, Floyd \| killed that -- and then a brief discussion of the properties of the Floyd \| creature. Its blood is highly acidic, burning through metal, wood and Floyd \| flesh with equal rapidity. The heart of Unktahe is a source of great Floyd \| power for anyone who might consume it. After the appropriate Floyd \| super-long and tedious ritual, one can eat it and assume the status of Floyd \| Vessel of the Old Ones. Which would be happening right now, if you Floyd \| weren't such a crap cultist. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline asks, "And this is a Cthulhuian adventure, so what's the worst that could happen in visiting a dark cave, really?"
		JoshuaH asks, "Isn't the bug downstairs?"
		Jacqueline says (to Josh), "Not anymore."
		inky says, "Jeff zapped it"
		DavidW says (to JoshuaH), "Jeff has a magic whistle."
inky says (to Floyd), "consult tomes about stu"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 87 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > CONSULT TOMES ABOUT STU Floyd \| Floyd \| The tomes wouldn't have anything on anyone currently alive. If Floyd \| there's anything Mythosy you want to look up, though, they might have Floyd \| something. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "consult tomes about cthulhu"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 88 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > CONSULT TOMES ABOUT CTHULHU Floyd \| Floyd \| Big dude, octopus head, wings, kind of gooey, sleeps a lot, not fond Floyd \| of yachts. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "consult tomes about azazoth"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 89 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > CONSULT TOMES ABOUT AZAZOTH Floyd \| Floyd \| You flip through the tomes, but don't find anything about azazoth. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "consult tomes about beetle"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 90 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > CONSULT TOMES ABOUT BEETLE Floyd \| Floyd \| You search the tomes, hoping that you can find something useful about Floyd \| this creature. Ah, here: it's Van der Wurff's Compendium of Floyd \| Otherworldly Fauna. And it's written in Yuggothic. Awesome. You had Floyd \| to learn that for your binding (essentially your cult mitzvah), but Floyd \| you've read approximately zero Yuggothic since then. Pressing on, you Floyd \| flip around the book until you find a picture of what you're looking Floyd \| for, then translate, painfully: "The Qua'ox is a beetle-like creature Floyd \| from..." blah blah blah, yeah, yeah, how do we defeat it? Oh, there Floyd \| we go: "The Qua'ox, like many predators, is particularly drawn by Floyd \| rapid, irregular movement, like that of potential prey. It is also Floyd \| attracted by the color red." Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "oops"
inky says (to Floyd), "consult tomes about azathoth"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 91 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > CONSULT TOMES ABOUT AZATHOTH Floyd \| Floyd \| The books tell you what you remember from Sunday school: Azathoth is a Floyd \| blind idiot god at the center of the universe. Seems like the sort of Floyd \| thing you'd want to worship. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "consult tomes about oval"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 92 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > CONSULT TOMES ABOUT OVAL Floyd \| Floyd \| The Joy of Culting explains that it's a special stone used to Floyd \| immobilize things or people. Once activated, you need only break it Floyd \| to dispel the effect. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "consult tomes about cave"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 93 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > CONSULT TOMES ABOUT CAVE Floyd \| Floyd \| Carver's Cave, as you already know, is a natural fissure underneath Floyd \| Saint Paul. The Lakota call it Wakan Tipi, or the House of Floyd \| the Great Spirit. It's the Heart of the Great Spirit, Unktahe, which Floyd \| was stolen from the Ark. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "consult tomes about ark"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 94 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > CONSULT TOMES ABOUT ARK Floyd \| Floyd \| You already know about the Ark of Gl'thub, but consult the books Floyd \| anyway. The Ark, you read, is a sort of mystical puzzle-box, useful Floyd \| as a vault or container for objects of great value, especially those Floyd \| that aren't exactly shelf-stable. To open the Ark, one must press the Floyd \| raised symbols on its surface in a very specific order, corresponding Floyd \| to the procession of the stars on the old Kadathian calendar. In Floyd \| theory, one must be well versed in Mythos cosmology to comprehend this Floyd \| sequence, but in practice, you really just need to visit the Minnesota Floyd \| State Fair at the right time and wait for a dumbass to drop the code. Floyd \| It doesn't actually say that last part. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "ha ha"
		inky asks, "ok, anything else?"
		MrPatient says, "Try Arkham"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "consult tomes about hastur"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 95 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > CONSULT TOMES ABOUT HASTUR Floyd \| Floyd \| Like Candyman: you're not supposed to say the name, but you've done it Floyd \| plenty of times in the past. I don't think he cares. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
JoshuaH says (to Floyd), "consult tomes about Antarctica"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 96 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > CONSULT TOMES ABOUT ANTARCTICA Floyd \| Floyd \| You flip through the tomes, but don't find anything about Antarctica. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "consult tomes about arkham"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 97 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > CONSULT TOMES ABOUT ARKHAM Floyd \| Floyd \| The Mecca of the Mythos; also home to a famous asylum for Floyd \| supervillains. Your group did a retreat there a couple of years ago. Floyd \| You went mainly for the clambake, and to meet cult women from around Floyd \| the world. "Crazy in the head, crazy in the bed" is the saying, but Floyd \| in practice it turns out to be "Crazy in the head, really violent and Floyd \| dangerous." From now on you're going to stick with normals. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline says (to MrPatient), "Well done on the writing and consitency of tone in this."
		MrPatient says, "Thanks"
		inky says, "ok let's cave it up"
inky says (to Floyd), "up"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 98 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > UP Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Unspeakable Books and Gifts Floyd \| This is the front room of Unspeakable Books and Gifts. It's a "magic" Floyd \| shop for the pinks, the rubes who spell magick with a k. They come Floyd \| here to buy healing crystals and novelty Buffy-themed Tarot decks and Floyd \| books about UFOs and accessing their past lives. There's a long Floyd \| display case filled with various mystical knickknacks. There's also a Floyd \| large bookshelf crammed with hokey New Age titles. You can exit back Floyd \| onto the street to the south. Floyd \| Floyd \| You can see a clunky old computer monitor and Jeff here. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "ask jeff about monitor"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 99 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > ASK JEFF ABOUT MONITOR Floyd \| Floyd \| "Oh yeah," he says. "That's from the bistro. It was busted, so I Floyd \| tried fixing it. I think it's working now. You could bring it over Floyd \| if you're heading that way." Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "get monitor"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 100 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET MONITOR Floyd \| Floyd \| Taken. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ] Cleveland Avenue 101 Floyd ] Exits: north east inside Floyd \| Floyd \| > S Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Cleveland Avenue Floyd \| You're on Cleveland Avenue outside a magic shop affiliated with your Floyd \| cult, wedged between an insurance agent and a Subway. A faded sign Floyd \| above the nondescript entrance to the north reads "Unspeakable Books Floyd \| and Gifts." A placard indicates that the shop is closed, but you can Floyd \| see that the lights are on. The bistro and Randolph Avenue are back Floyd \| to the east. Floyd \| Floyd \| Your Saturn is parked here. Floyd \| Floyd \| Standing out front is a sandwich board advertising an improbable and Floyd \| already completed Back to School sale. Or I should say, "B4ck to Scho Floyd \| l." Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline says, "I'm scared, but so far this game has been mostly fun and only a little gruesome deathy, so yeah, let's cave it up."
inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ] Cleveland Avenue 102 Floyd ] Exits: north east inside Floyd \| Floyd \| > E Floyd \| Floyd \| You think about hoofing it all the way to Randolph Avenue, but realize Floyd \| that it will take too much time. You'd better drive there. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "in"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 103 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > IN Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Unspeakable Books and Gifts Floyd \| This is the front room of Unspeakable Books and Gifts. It's a "magic" Floyd \| shop for the pinks, the rubes who spell magick with a k. They come Floyd \| here to buy healing crystals and novelty Buffy-themed Tarot decks and Floyd \| books about UFOs and accessing their past lives. There's a long Floyd \| display case filled with various mystical knickknacks. There's also a Floyd \| large bookshelf crammed with hokey New Age titles. You can exit back Floyd \| onto the street to the south. Floyd \| Floyd \| You can see Jeff here. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Cleveland Avenue 102 Floyd ] Exits: north east inside Floyd \| Floyd \| > UNDO Floyd \| Floyd \| Cleveland Avenue Floyd \| [Previous turn undone.] Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ] Cleveland Avenue 103 Floyd ] Exits: north east inside Floyd \| Floyd \| > E Floyd \| Floyd \| You think about hoofing it all the way to Randolph Avenue, but realize Floyd \| that it will take too much time. You'd better drive there. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "enter car"
Floyd ] Cleveland Avenue 104 Floyd ] Exits: north east inside Floyd \| Floyd \| > ENTER CAR Floyd \| Floyd \| You get into the Saturn. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ] Randolph Avenue 105 Floyd ] Exits: NORTHEAST south southwest west Floyd \| Floyd \| > E Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Randolph Avenue (in the Saturn) Floyd \| You're on Randolph Avenue, which stretches far to the west toward Floyd \| Highland Park and to the east towards the river. The part we're on Floyd \| here is firmly middle class, maybe on the low side. There are a lot Floyd \| of small close-set houses with minimally-tended lawns, pockmarked by Floyd \| the occasional commercial space, including your restaurant. Floyd \| Floyd \| Your cult's shop, Unspeakable Books and Gifts, is located a few miles Floyd \| to the west. Carver's Cave is to the northeast. That's where you Floyd \| guys originally obtained the Heart, and is probably worth checking Floyd \| out. There's also an alleyway to the southwest. The dining room is Floyd \| to the south. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd ] Mounds Boulevard 106 Floyd ] Exits: southwest DOWN Floyd \| Floyd \| > NE Floyd \| Floyd \| You take West 7th into downtown, and from there, follow Mounds Floyd \| Boulevard along the river until you reach the edges of Indian Mounds Floyd \| Park. Floyd \| Floyd \| Mounds Boulevard (in the Saturn) Floyd \| You're on Mounds Boulevard at Cherry Street, a little east of Floyd \| downtown. "Mounds," because some Native American burial mounds are Floyd \| just down the road. It's a pretty nice fall tableau here: lots of Floyd \| colorful leaves, the Mississippi River below, acorns everywhere. You Floyd \| hate to think that whatever Stu has planned is going to ruin this. Floyd \| The super-secret entrance to Carver's Cave is down the bluff towards Floyd \| the river, and Randolph Avenue is southwest. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x leaves"
Floyd ] Mounds Boulevard 107 Floyd ] Exits: southwest DOWN Floyd \| Floyd \| > X LEAVES Floyd \| Floyd \| When the leaves change here, it's really quite nice, but it's a very Floyd \| short window. When they're gone, the Cities are gray, brown and white Floyd \| until mid-April at least. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline says, "Once we're there, we should save"
inky says (to Floyd), "x acorns"
Floyd ] Mounds Boulevard 108 Floyd ] Exits: southwest DOWN Floyd \| Floyd \| > X ACORNS Floyd \| Floyd \| When the leaves change here, it's really quite nice, but it's a very Floyd \| short window. When they're gone, the Cities are gray, brown and white Floyd \| until mid-April at least. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd ] Mounds Boulevard 109 Floyd ] Exits: southwest DOWN Floyd \| Floyd \| > OUT Floyd \| Floyd \| You get out of the Saturn. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 110 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH up DOWN INSIDE Floyd \| Floyd \| > D Floyd \| Floyd \| Making sure that no one is watching, you hop the railing and scramble Floyd \| down the bluff side as carefully as you can. Floyd \| Floyd \| Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave Floyd \| You're much of the way down the bluff here. The mouth of Carver's Floyd \| Cave has long since been barricaded and then covered naturally with Floyd \| rocks and sediment, but your cult, like Gollum, knows the secret ways. Floyd \| Only the followers of the Old Ones can penetrate the mysteries of -- Floyd \| well, goddammit. The shrub that normally covers up the secret Floyd \| entrance is gone. Wait, not gone: crushed. A jagged boulder is in Floyd \| its place. There's only a narrow crack leading into the bluff side Floyd \| now. You can also head further up and down the bluff. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
inky says (to Floyd), "cf2"
Floyd \| > Floyd \| > SAVE Floyd \| %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 110 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH up DOWN INSIDE Floyd \| Ok. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x boulder"
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 111 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH up DOWN INSIDE Floyd \| Floyd \| > X BOULDER Floyd \| Floyd \| It's a fairly large hunk of sandstone that looks like it tumbled down Floyd \| the bluff and landed here on top of the unfortunate shrub. Instead of Floyd \| the shrub concealing the entrance, now you have the boulder mostly Floyd \| blocking it. If you had to guess, you'd say Walter's assailant Floyd \| probably had something to do with this. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "push boulder"
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 112 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH up DOWN INSIDE Floyd \| Floyd \| > PUSH BOULDER Floyd \| Floyd \| It's too heavy to move. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "in"
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 113 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH up DOWN INSIDE Floyd \| Floyd \| > IN Floyd \| Floyd \| You try wedging yourself into the crack. You suck in your chest, Floyd \| twist your torso, turn your head, but it's no good. You rub up Floyd \| against the sides of the boulder and the rock wall, and can make no Floyd \| progress. Damn you, friction! Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "maybe this puzzle will involve greasing ourselves"
inky says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 114 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > D Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Base of the Bluff Floyd \| You're at the bottom of the bluff now, with the river directly before Floyd \| you. Protruding from the bluff is a small pipe. A stream of water Floyd \| emerges and drips into the river. Floyd \| Floyd \| The entrance to the cave is above you. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x pipe"
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 115 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > X PIPE Floyd \| Floyd \| Small is a relative term, I guess. But you couldn't fit in it, let's Floyd \| put it that way. Water trickles out of it into the river. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "drink water"
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 116 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > DRINK WATER Floyd \| Floyd \| Yeesh. Not unless you were dying of thirst. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline says (to inky), "I know you're a fan of those sorts of games, but I'm not sure this is one of those."
inky says (to Floyd), "x water"
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 117 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > X WATER Floyd \| Floyd \| A steady but unspectacular stream of water emerges from the pipe and Floyd \| drains into the river. It's probably outflow from the cave. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "hee hee"
inky says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 118 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > I Floyd \| Floyd \| You are carrying: Floyd \| a clunky old computer monitor Floyd \| a latex glove Floyd \| some Breaking Bad DVDs Floyd \| a flashlight Floyd \| a filthy pillow Floyd \| a Ziploc bag (open but empty) Floyd \| a hooded robe (hood lowered) (being worn) Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "put glvove on pipe"
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 118 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > PUT GLVOVE ON PIPE Floyd \| Floyd \| You can't see any such thing. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky asks, "ha ha, we've been driivng around wearing our hood?"
inky says (to Floyd), "put glove on pipe"
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 119 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > PUT GLOVE ON PIPE Floyd \| Floyd \| While it might be fun to block the flow for a little while, ultimately Floyd \| it's not a good use of your time. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline says, "Yes"
		MrPatient says, "'lowered' in this case means around your shoulders"
		Jacqueline says, "Oh."
		inky says, "oh, I see"
inky says (to Floyd), "raise hood"
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 120 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > RAISE HOOD Floyd \| Floyd \| You lift your hood, covering your features and making you look quite Floyd \| sinister. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "laught"
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 120 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > LAUGHT Floyd \| Floyd \| That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "laugh"
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 120 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > LAUGH Floyd \| Floyd \| That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "cackle"
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 120 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > CACKLE Floyd \| Floyd \| That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "lower hood"
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 121 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > LOWER HOOD Floyd \| Floyd \| You lower the hood, revealing your features once more. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "look in pipe"
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 122 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > LOOK IN PIPE Floyd \| Floyd \| The small pipe is empty. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 123 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > L Floyd \| Floyd \| Base of the Bluff Floyd \| You're at the bottom of the bluff now, with the river directly before Floyd \| you. Protruding from the bluff is a small pipe. A stream of water Floyd \| emerges and drips into the river. Floyd \| Floyd \| The entrance to the cave is above you. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x river"
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 124 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > X RIVER Floyd \| Floyd \| The banks -- at least those parts that are not given over to docks -- Floyd \| are lined with trees in the process of losing their leaves. Up here, Floyd \| the river is not nearly so impressively wide as it is in, say, St. Floyd \| Louis. On the other hand, it is cleaner. Well, cleanish. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "search river"
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 125 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > SEARCH RIVER Floyd \| Floyd \| You find nothing of interest. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "look in river"
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 126 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > LOOK IN RIVER Floyd \| Floyd \| You find nothing of interest. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline asks, "We are lugging around a CRT monitor?"
		inky says, "totally"
inky says (to Floyd), "up"
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 127 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH up down INSIDE Floyd \| Floyd \| > UP Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave Floyd \| You're much of the way down the bluff here. The shrub that normally Floyd \| covers up the secret entrance is gone. A jagged boulder is in its Floyd \| place. There's only a narrow crack leading into the bluff side now. Floyd \| You can also head further up and down the bluff. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		DavidW says, "yes, and it's delightful."
		inky says, "I intend to use it for a takedown move later"
		Jacqueline says, "hee"
inky says (to Floyd), "look in crack"
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 128 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH up down INSIDE Floyd \| Floyd \| > LOOK IN CRACK Floyd \| Floyd \| You find nothing of interest. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "put glove in crack"
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 129 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH up down INSIDE Floyd \| Floyd \| > PUT GLOVE IN CRACK Floyd \| Floyd \| You think it'll be safer to just hold on to the latex glove for now. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 130 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH up down INSIDE Floyd \| Floyd \| > N Floyd \| Floyd \| You try wedging yourself into the crack. You suck in your chest, Floyd \| twist your torso, turn your head, but it's no good. You rub up Floyd \| against the sides of the boulder and the rock wall, and can make no Floyd \| progress. Damn you, friction! Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "ok, any ideas? otherwise we can head back to the bistro again"
		Jacqueline says, "Maybe there's grease at the bistro."
		Jacqueline says, "Kidding. Sort of."
		MrPatient says, "You can use GO TO, incidentally. Save some typing."
		inky says, "oh yeah, so it said"
inky says (to Floyd), "go to bistro"
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 130 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH up down INSIDE Floyd \| Floyd \| > GO TO BISTRO Floyd \| Floyd \| That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		MrPatient exclaims, "Doh!"
inky says (to Floyd), "go to kitchen"
Floyd ] Kitchen 131 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > GO TO KITCHEN Floyd \| Floyd \| You head on over, leaving your car parked on Randolph Ave. Floyd \| Floyd \| Kitchen Floyd \| This is a small professional kitchen. Although the pots and pans and Floyd \| smaller appliances are all gone, the oven is still functional, as long Floyd \| as your uncle keeps paying the gas bill. Also here, not part of the Floyd \| original decor, is the Ark of Whatever. Floyd \| Floyd \| The door to the restaurant's office leads west, the pantry is to the Floyd \| south, and the dining room is to the north. Floyd \| Floyd \| The cable from the security camera runs through here and into a small Floyd \| hole above the office door. Floyd \| Floyd \| Walter is here, unconscious. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "search walter"
Floyd ] Kitchen 132 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > SEARCH WALTER Floyd \| Floyd \| He's got nothing on him. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x oven"
Floyd ] Kitchen 133 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > X OVEN Floyd \| Floyd \| It's a nice brushed-metal model and has been kept tidy. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "open oven"
Floyd ] Kitchen 134 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > OPEN OVEN Floyd \| Floyd \| You open the oven. Perhaps there's a turkey roasting inside? That Floyd \| would be very helpful right now. Yeah, not so much. It's scrubbed Floyd \| clean and empty. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline asks, "Pantry?"
inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ] Pantry 135 Floyd ] Exits: north down Floyd \| Floyd \| > S Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Pantry Floyd \| This is where all the food would be stored, if the bistro were open Floyd \| and functioning. There's a big fridge in the corner and many dusty Floyd \| shelves along the walls. A wooden stair leads down to the basement, Floyd \| and a doorway leads north to the kitchen. Floyd \| Floyd \| On the dusty shelves are some pizza boxes (in which are some greasy Floyd \| sheets of wax paper) and some cans of near-food. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "aHA"
inky says (to Floyd), "get wax paper"
Floyd ] Pantry 136 Floyd ] Exits: north down Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET WAX PAPER Floyd \| Floyd \| You take the sheets of wax paper. They're still quite slick and Floyd \| slippery. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "rub wax paper n me"
Floyd ] Pantry 136 Floyd ] Exits: north down Floyd \| Floyd \| > RUB WAX PAPER N ME Floyd \| Floyd \| I only understood you as far as wanting to rub the greasy sheets of Floyd \| wax paper. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "rub wax paper on me"
Floyd ] Pantry 137 Floyd ] Exits: north down Floyd \| Floyd \| > RUB WAX PAPER ON ME Floyd \| Floyd \| Applying grease while you're still wearing your robe is not going to Floyd \| produce the desired result. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "ha ha ha"
		inky says, "this is totally the solution, awesome"
		Jacqueline exclaims (at inky), "This totally IS your sort of game. Hooray!"
		DavidW says, "hee"
inky says (to Floyd), "go to crack"
Floyd ] Pantry 137 Floyd ] Exits: north down Floyd \| Floyd \| > GO TO CRACK Floyd \| Floyd \| That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "go to cave"
Floyd ] Pantry 138 Floyd ] Exits: north down Floyd \| Floyd \| > GO TO CAVE Floyd \| Floyd \| You know how to get there, but you would be better off exploring Floyd \| first, searching for clues, that sort of thing. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "ha ha"
inky says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] Kitchen 139 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > N Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Kitchen Floyd \| This is a small professional kitchen. Although the pots and pans and Floyd \| smaller appliances are all gone, the oven is still functional, as long Floyd \| as your uncle keeps paying the gas bill. Also here, not part of the Floyd \| original decor, is the Ark of Whatever. Floyd \| Floyd \| The door to the restaurant's office leads west, the pantry is to the Floyd \| south, and the dining room is to the north. Floyd \| Floyd \| The cable from the security camera runs through here and into a small Floyd \| hole above the office door. Floyd \| Floyd \| Walter is here, unconscious. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "go to cave"
Floyd ] Kitchen 140 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > GO TO CAVE Floyd \| Floyd \| You know how to get there, but you would be better off exploring Floyd \| first, searching for clues, that sort of thing. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "c'mon man"
		MrPatient says, "It think you're going inside"
inky says (to Floyd), "go to river"
Floyd ] Kitchen 140 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > GO TO RIVER Floyd \| Floyd \| That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		MrPatient says, "try mounds"
inky says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] Dining Room 141 Floyd ] Exits: north south west Floyd \| Floyd \| > N Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Dining Room Floyd \| The old bistro had ten tables and seated about forty. The chairs are Floyd \| propped up on the tables upside-down and covered in dust. Large Floyd \| windows look out onto the street, but they're soaped up so that the Floyd \| public can't see all the important renovation work going on in here, Floyd \| which is to say none. The kitchen is to the south, the bathroom is to Floyd \| the west, and you can walk out onto the street to the north. Floyd \| Floyd \| Hanging from the ceiling is a funky, thrift-store-looking chandelier. Floyd \| Floyd \| You can see a small security camera mounted in the corner of the Floyd \| ceiling, and a thin black wire running from it. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "go to mounds"
Floyd ] Mounds Boulevard 142 Floyd ] Exits: southwest down Floyd \| Floyd \| > GO TO MOUNDS Floyd \| Floyd \| You head on over, leaving your car parked on Mounds Boulevard. Floyd \| Floyd \| Mounds Boulevard Floyd \| You're on Mounds Boulevard at Cherry Street, a little east of Floyd \| downtown. "Mounds," because some Native American burial mounds are Floyd \| just down the road. It's a pretty nice fall tableau here: lots of Floyd \| colorful leaves, the Mississippi River below, acorns everywhere. You Floyd \| hate to think that whatever Stu has planned is going to ruin this. Floyd \| The super-secret entrance to Carver's Cave is down the bluff towards Floyd \| the river, and Randolph Avenue is southwest. Floyd \| Floyd \| Your Saturn is parked here. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "hubba hubba"
inky says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 143 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH up down INSIDE Floyd \| Floyd \| > D Floyd \| Floyd \| Making sure that no one is watching, you hop the railing and scramble Floyd \| down the bluff side as carefully as you can. Floyd \| Floyd \| Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave Floyd \| You're much of the way down the bluff here. The shrub that normally Floyd \| covers up the secret entrance is gone. A jagged boulder is in its Floyd \| place. There's only a narrow crack leading into the bluff side now. Floyd \| You can also head further up and down the bluff. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "remove robe"
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 144 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH up down INSIDE Floyd \| Floyd \| > REMOVE ROBE Floyd \| Floyd \| You take off the hooded robe. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "rub wax paper on me"
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 145 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH up down INSIDE Floyd \| Floyd \| > RUB WAX PAPER ON ME Floyd \| Floyd \| Wincing a little at the inherent grossness of this activity, you rub Floyd \| the greasy wax paper on your skin. You now smell vaguely like an old Floyd \| pizza, and you are noticeably oranger. On the plus side, you should Floyd \| have an easier time sliding through that narrow crevice. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "in"
Floyd ] Darkness 146 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > IN Floyd \| Floyd \| The grease from the pizza is just enough to enable you to contort your Floyd \| way in. Floyd \| Floyd \| Darkness Floyd \| It is pitch dark, and you can't see a thing. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "oops, didn't think about that part"
inky says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ] Darkness 147 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > I Floyd \| Floyd \| You are carrying: Floyd \| some greasy sheets of wax paper Floyd \| a clunky old computer monitor Floyd \| a latex glove Floyd \| some Breaking Bad DVDs Floyd \| a flashlight Floyd \| a filthy pillow Floyd \| a Ziploc bag (open but empty) Floyd \| a hooded robe Floyd \| Floyd \| And you're all greased up. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "turn on flashlight"
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 148 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > TURN ON FLASHLIGHT Floyd \| Floyd \| You crank up the flashlight a little, and then switch it on. Floyd \| Floyd \| Carver's Cave Floyd \| You're in Carver's Cave, a small natural fissure underneath Saint Floyd \| Paul. The Lakota called this place Wakan Tipi, the House of Floyd \| the Great Spirit. It used to be accessible, a tourist attraction Floyd \| even. Every so often, the entrance would be lost in a rockslide, and Floyd \| the city would open it back up again, until finally they chose to Floyd \| block it off entirely. Floyd \| Floyd \| There's a beach of sorts, and beyond that, a calm, dark pool extending Floyd \| into the blackness. Water laps gently near your feet, and there's an Floyd \| audible trickle from somewhere deep in the darkness. It's otherwise Floyd \| deathly quiet, and very chilly. You can leave to the south. Floyd \| Floyd \| Lying on the beach is the hacked-up corpse of a giant serpent, Floyd \| marinating in a puddle of purplish blood. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline asks, "Should we have saved?"
inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
inky says (to Floyd), "cf3"
Floyd \| > Floyd \| > SAVE Floyd \| %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Carver's Cave 148 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd \| Ok. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "I saved before solving the greasing puzzle"
		Jacqueline says, "Oh"
		Jacqueline says, "Okay, missed that. Cool."
		inky says, "this seems like the sort of game where you can't get in too much trouble, but I guess we'll see"
		MrPatient says, "The game is merciful, so no worries"
inky says (to Floyd), "x corpse"
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 149 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > X CORPSE Floyd \| Floyd \| It's the body of the Great Spirit, or one such Great Spirit, that your Floyd \| uncle summoned in order to kill and cut out its heart. That was Floyd \| another super-boring hours-long ceremony, but got pretty good at the Floyd \| end when it turned into some hardcore LARPing. Your buddy Jake got in Floyd \| the final blow with a replica Glamdring from the SkyMall catalog. The Floyd \| bad news is that the serpent's blood burned right through the sword. Floyd \| Anyway, your uncle then cut out the still-beating heart and put it in Floyd \| the Ark, where you assumed it was safe and secure, which it was, Floyd \| before your dumb ass got involved. Floyd \| Floyd \| The serpent's purplish blood is pooled in and around the corpse. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline says, "Also, us being naked and covered in pizza grease isn't nearly as sexy as we were making it out to be beforehand."
		inky says, "yeah, pizza makes few things sexier"
inky says (to Floyd), "get blood"
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 150 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET BLOOD Floyd \| Floyd \| You try to scoop up some of the blood with your bare hands, but the Floyd \| acidic goo burns you, and you abandon the attempt. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "hmm"
inky says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 151 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > I Floyd \| Floyd \| You are carrying: Floyd \| some greasy sheets of wax paper Floyd \| a clunky old computer monitor Floyd \| a latex glove Floyd \| some Breaking Bad DVDs Floyd \| a flashlight (providing light) Floyd \| a filthy pillow Floyd \| a Ziploc bag (open but empty) Floyd \| a hooded robe Floyd \| Floyd \| And you're all greased up. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "put blood in bag"
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 152 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > PUT BLOOD IN BAG Floyd \| Floyd \| (first taking the puddle of purplish blood) Floyd \| Floyd \| You try to scoop up some of the blood with your bare hands, but the Floyd \| acidic goo burns you, and you abandon the attempt. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "wear glove"
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 153 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > WEAR GLOVE Floyd \| Floyd \| You put on the latex glove. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "get blood"
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 154 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET BLOOD Floyd \| Floyd \| With your gloved hand, you carefully scoop some ichor into the Ziploc Floyd \| bag. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "sure, why not"
		DavidW says, "goo times"
		inky says, "ichor is powerless against plastic and rubber, well-known fact"
		inky says, "hee hee"
		Jacqueline says, "Because acid doesn't -- yeah"
inky says (to Floyd), "x water"
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 155 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > X WATER Floyd \| Floyd \| Calm, but not entirely still. There's a definite current flowing Floyd \| towards the south. The cave presumably drains in that direction. Floyd \| Floyd \| A wrapper from a Baby Ruth bar floating just below the surface of the Floyd \| pool emerges from the darkness to the north, at the back of the cave. Floyd \| The current carries it to the south and out of view. Oh man, a Baby Floyd \| Ruth would be awesome right now. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "get wrapper"
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 155 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET WRAPPER Floyd \| Floyd \| You can't see any such thing. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		MrPatient says, "I envisioned it as like an ochre jelly or something"
		Jacqueline says, "Also, we greased up and squeezed through and stil have the CRT monitor."
		inky says, "ha ha"
		MrPatient exclaims, "Ha!"
		inky says, "the crt monitor was also greased"
		Jacqueline says, "Clearly"
		MrPatient says, "Yes, that must be it"
inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 156 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > S Floyd \| Floyd \| You once again try to twist your way through the gap. As you contort Floyd \| yourself in, though, you notice that the Ziploc bag of ichor is caught Floyd \| on a particularly sharp edge of the rock. If you go any further, the Floyd \| bag will almost certainly tear in catastrophic fashion. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "put bag in river"
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 156 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > PUT BAG IN RIVER Floyd \| Floyd \| You can't see any such thing. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "put bag in water"
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 157 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > PUT BAG IN WATER Floyd \| Floyd \| You place the bag in the frigid water. It seems to be Floyd \| neutrally-buoyant, suspended a few inches under the surface. The Floyd \| current catches it, and it begins to drift towards the south wall of Floyd \| the cave. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline says, "Nice"
		inky says, "maybe it'll get stuck in the pipe, that would be a bummer"
		Jacqueline says, "Now we squeeze back out..."
inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 158 Floyd ] Exits: north up down inside Floyd \| Floyd \| > S Floyd \| Floyd \| With the pizza grease slathered on, and some creative shoulder Floyd \| movements and breathing, you manage to push your way through the Floyd \| crevice. Floyd \| Floyd \| Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave Floyd \| You're much of the way down the bluff here. The shrub that normally Floyd \| covers up the secret entrance is gone. A jagged boulder is in its Floyd \| place. There's only a narrow crack leading into the bluff side now. Floyd \| You can also head further up and down the bluff. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 159 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > D Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Base of the Bluff Floyd \| You're at the bottom of the bluff now, with the river directly before Floyd \| you. Protruding from the bluff is a small pipe. A stream of water Floyd \| emerges and drips into the river. Floyd \| Floyd \| The entrance to the cave is above you. Floyd \| Floyd \| Deposited here underneath the pipe is that Baby Ruth wrapper you saw Floyd \| earlier. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "get wrapper"
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 160 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET WRAPPER Floyd \| Floyd \| Taken. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "look in pipe"
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 161 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > LOOK IN PIPE Floyd \| Floyd \| The Ziploc bag has washed down here and clings to a rusty burr on the Floyd \| inside of the pipe. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "get bag"
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 162 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET BAG Floyd \| Floyd \| As you grasp the open bag, you realize that it is now empty, or Floyd \| emptyish; there's a thin film of purple goo still clinging to the Floyd \| interior, but that's about it. Apparently the ichor is water-soluble. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline says, "oh"
		inky says, "whoops"
inky says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 163 Floyd ] Exits: north up down inside Floyd \| Floyd \| > U Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave Floyd \| You're much of the way down the bluff here. The shrub that normally Floyd \| covers up the secret entrance is gone. A jagged boulder is in its Floyd \| place. There's only a narrow crack leading into the bluff side now. Floyd \| You can also head further up and down the bluff. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "in"
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 164 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > IN Floyd \| Floyd \| The grease from the pizza is just enough to enable you to contort your Floyd \| way in. Floyd \| Floyd \| Carver's Cave Floyd \| You're in Carver's Cave, a small natural fissure underneath Saint Floyd \| Paul. There's a beach of sorts, and beyond that, a calm, dark pool Floyd \| extending into the blackness. Water laps gently near your feet, and Floyd \| there's an audible trickle from somewhere deep in the darkness. It's Floyd \| otherwise deathly quiet, and very chilly. You can leave to the south. Floyd \| Floyd \| Lying on the beach is the hacked-up corpse of a giant serpent, Floyd \| marinating in a puddle of purplish blood. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		DavidW asks, "Perhaps you didn't close the bag?"
inky says (to Floyd), "get ichor"
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 165 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET ICHOR Floyd \| Floyd \| With your gloved hand, you carefully scoop some ichor into the Ziploc Floyd \| bag. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline says, "The course of true culting never did run smooth."
inky says (to Floyd), "close bag"
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 166 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > CLOSE BAG Floyd \| Floyd \| You close the Ziploc bag. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "put bag in water"
Floyd ] Carver's Cave 167 Floyd ] Exits: south outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > PUT BAG IN WATER Floyd \| Floyd \| You place the bag in the frigid water. It seems to be Floyd \| neutrally-buoyant, suspended a few inches under the surface. The Floyd \| current catches it, and it begins to drift towards the south wall of Floyd \| the cave. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 168 Floyd ] Exits: north up down inside Floyd \| Floyd \| > S Floyd \| Floyd \| With the pizza grease slathered on, and some creative shoulder Floyd \| movements and breathing, you manage to push your way through the Floyd \| crevice. Floyd \| Floyd \| Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave Floyd \| You're much of the way down the bluff here. The shrub that normally Floyd \| covers up the secret entrance is gone. A jagged boulder is in its Floyd \| place. There's only a narrow crack leading into the bluff side now. Floyd \| You can also head further up and down the bluff. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 169 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > D Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Base of the Bluff Floyd \| You're at the bottom of the bluff now, with the river directly before Floyd \| you. Protruding from the bluff is a small pipe. A stream of water Floyd \| emerges and drips into the river. Floyd \| Floyd \| The entrance to the cave is above you. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "get bag"
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 170 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET BAG Floyd \| Floyd \| As you grasp the bag, it snags ever-so-slightly on a jagged edge of Floyd \| the pipe, but comes loose. There's now a tiny tear in the corner. Floyd \| It's not enough to cause any serious leakage, but you'll have to be Floyd \| careful. If you were to squeeze the bag, the blood would extrude, Floyd \| like frosting from a pastry bag. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "now we're talkin'"
inky says (to Floyd), "x wrapper"
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 171 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > X WRAPPER Floyd \| Floyd \| Probably your favorite candy bar, but you rarely ever eat one. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 172 Floyd ] Exits: north up down inside Floyd \| Floyd \| > U Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave Floyd \| You're much of the way down the bluff here. The shrub that normally Floyd \| covers up the secret entrance is gone. A jagged boulder is in its Floyd \| place. There's only a narrow crack leading into the bluff side now. Floyd \| You can also head further up and down the bluff. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline says, "So, wait."
		MrPatient says, "EAT WRAPPER is fun"
		Jacqueline asks, "What was the point of this?"
inky says (to Floyd), "eat wrapper"
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 173 Floyd ] Exits: north up down inside Floyd \| Floyd \| > EAT WRAPPER Floyd \| Floyd \| Desperate for empty calories, you start to eat the wrapper, praying to Floyd \| Great Nyarlathotep that some speck of caramel remains. Then you Floyd \| recall that the wrapper came here by way of a sewer. You put the Floyd \| wrapper down. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline says, "I thought the point was to get something of hers."
		inky says, "well, I thought it was to find a personal item -- yeah"
		Jacqueline says, "Not some gooey acidic blood."
		DavidW asks, "Perhaps the wrapper is hers?"
		inky says, "btu I assume we can use the ichor to open the lock"
		Jacqueline says (to DW), "That is possible."
		DavidW says, "Although, a wrapper isn't that personal."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get wrapper"
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 174 Floyd ] Exits: north up down inside Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET WRAPPER Floyd \| Floyd \| You already have that. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "go to kitchen"
Floyd ] Kitchen 175 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > GO TO KITCHEN Floyd \| Floyd \| You head on over, leaving your car parked on Randolph Ave. Floyd \| Floyd \| Kitchen Floyd \| This is a small professional kitchen. Although the pots and pans and Floyd \| smaller appliances are all gone, the oven is still functional, as long Floyd \| as your uncle keeps paying the gas bill. Also here, not part of the Floyd \| original decor, is the Ark of Whatever. Floyd \| Floyd \| The door to the restaurant's office leads west, the pantry is to the Floyd \| south, and the dining room is to the north. Floyd \| Floyd \| The cable from the security camera runs through here and into a small Floyd \| hole above the office door. Floyd \| Floyd \| Walter is here, unconscious. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "put ichor in door"
Floyd ] Kitchen 176 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > PUT ICHOR IN DOOR Floyd \| Floyd \| (the office door) Floyd \| The Ziploc bag isn't open. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "squeeze bag"
Floyd ] Kitchen 177 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > SQUEEZE BAG Floyd \| Floyd \| You squeeze the bag, and some acidic goo extrudes from the torn tip, Floyd \| rather like a pastry bag. A tiny bit drips at your feet and sizzles. Floyd \| You probably want to make sure you're putting the goo somewhere Floyd \| useful. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "put ichor in lock"
Floyd ] Kitchen 178 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > PUT ICHOR IN LOCK Floyd \| Floyd \| The Ziploc bag isn't open. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "put bag in lock"
Floyd ] Kitchen 179 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > PUT BAG IN LOCK Floyd \| Floyd \| You manage to put the corner of the Ziploc bag into the keyhole. It's Floyd \| in fairly deep. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "squeeze bag"
Floyd ] Kitchen 180 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > SQUEEZE BAG Floyd \| Floyd \| You inject some of the purple goo directly into the office door lock. Floyd \| Immediately, an acrid smoke begins to waft from the door. You can Floyd \| hear the lock mechanism sizzling as it corrodes. When you withdraw
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "squeeze ichor on lock"
Floyd \| the bag, there's a jagged hole where the lock used to be. The bag Floyd \| itself becomes snagged in the molten metal and rips apart, so you Floyd \| throw it away. Floyd \| Floyd \| > Floyd ] Kitchen 180 Floyd ] Exits: north south WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > SQUEEZE ICHOR ON LOCK Floyd \| Floyd \| You can't see any such thing. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		MrPatient says, "Nicely done."
inky says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ] Office 181 Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd \| Floyd \| > W Floyd \| Floyd \| (first opening the office door) Floyd \| Floyd \| Office Floyd \| This is one of those miserable windowless back rooms you find in a Floyd \| restaurant or retail shop. You can imagine the kind of boss who might Floyd \| lair here. He's got a mustache, maybe a hairpiece too, and wears a Floyd \| wide, earth-toned tie. He smokes, probably cheap cigars. He's loud Floyd \| and abusive to his employees. As the place is not in use, he's not Floyd \| actually here, but his presence lingers nonetheless. Floyd \| Floyd \| The office door leads back out east into the kitchen. Floyd \| Floyd \| Sitting on a desk is a small, boxy security system. It seems to be Floyd \| lacking a monitor; in its place is a post-it note. A thin wire leads Floyd \| out of it and up through a hole near the ceiling. There's also a Floyd \| printer attached. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x note"
Floyd ] Office 182 Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd \| Floyd \| > X NOTE Floyd \| Floyd \| It reads: "Fixing the monitor. Sorry! -- Jeff". Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "hmm, I guess this ensures we talk to Jeff even if we went to the cave first"
		MrPatient says, "Precisely"
inky says (to Floyd), "put monitor on system"
Floyd ] Office 183 Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd \| Floyd \| > PUT MONITOR ON SYSTEM Floyd \| Floyd \| You hook up the monitor to the security system and power it on. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "use system"
Floyd ] Office 183 Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd \| Floyd \| > USE SYSTEM Floyd \| Floyd \| That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x monitor"
Floyd ] Office 184 Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd \| Floyd \| > X MONITOR Floyd \| Floyd \| The system is composed of a central unit, probably some sort of Floyd \| internal storage for the feed. There are also several controls, the Floyd \| most interesting of which are the rewind button and the print button. Floyd \| There's also an ancient printer attached. The display is small and Floyd \| not exactly crisp. It's currently showing the empty and static dining Floyd \| room. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "push rewind"
Floyd ] Office 185 Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd \| Floyd \| > PUSH REWIND Floyd \| Floyd \| You rewind the feed. It's impossible to tell that anything is Floyd \| happening, as there is no activity on the screen whatsoever. Then all Floyd \| of a sudden, someone emerges from the bathroom, walking backwards with Floyd \| her back to you. Oh, right, rewinding. It's a young woman, wearing a Floyd \| crazily oversized coat with all manner of crap protruding from the Floyd \| pockets, to the point where it's a wonder that she can even move. In Floyd \| one hand she has the Heart of Something; in the other she has a Floyd \| sandwich. Oh. Sorry, Walter. Floyd \| Floyd \| The reverse feed continues, with nothing happening for a minute or Floyd \| two. Then you see the young woman once again. She holds a rag in one Floyd \| hand, and tiptoes backward towards the bathroom, this time with her Floyd \| face to the camera. You pause the image. She's got medium-length Floyd \| dark hair, a little frizzy. Freckles, maybe. Looks a little like Floyd \| Alia Shawkat. It's obviously not really her, but still. Floyd \| Floyd \| Wait, this woman is totally familiar. Who is she? You've definitely Floyd \| seen her. Think, man, think! Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline says, "haha"
		inky says, "ha ha"
		inky says, "good callback"
inky says (to Floyd), "think"
Floyd ] Office 186 Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd \| Floyd \| > THINK Floyd \| Floyd \| You focus on the young woman. Who is she? Did you go to school with Floyd \| her, maybe? Meet her at a party? You close your eyes for a moment. Floyd \| You see her, next to you, somewhere. You try to visualize talking to Floyd \| her, but can't. A-ha! She was eating at the goddamned bacon booth at Floyd \| the state fair, with you and Sam. Sam knew her. In fact, she gave Floyd \| something to Sam: a hairclip or something. Finally, a lucky break! Floyd \| All you have to do now is ask your ex-girlfriend, with whom you had a Floyd \| messy breakup, to help you. That should work out great. Sam lives to Floyd \| the north of the restaurant. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "push print"
Floyd ] Office 187 Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd \| Floyd \| > PUSH PRINT Floyd \| Floyd \| The printer fires up with a grating whirr. After an interminable Floyd \| staccato dance of feeding and adjusting, it begins printing, and spits Floyd \| out an image of the young woman. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		DavidW says, "She took our sandwich? She must PAY."
		MrPatient says, "Try putting the DVDS in the computer"
inky says (to Floyd), "get image"
Floyd ] Office 188 Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET IMAGE Floyd \| Floyd \| Taken. Floyd \| Floyd \| The charge on the flashlight gives out. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "put dvds in computer"
Floyd ] Office 189 Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd \| Floyd \| > PUT DVDS IN COMPUTER Floyd \| Floyd \| You pop a disc into the security system at random. "Yeah, bitch! Floyd \| Magnets!" enthuses Jesse. Floyd \| Floyd \| Oh wait, this thing has no input for a DVD. And it was manufactured Floyd \| in like 1985. Forget that happened. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "put dvds in computer"
Floyd ] Office 190 Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd \| Floyd \| > PUT DVDS IN COMPUTER Floyd \| Floyd \| You pop a disc into the security system at random. You laugh as Huell Floyd \| and Kuby lie down on an enormous pile of money. Floyd \| Floyd \| Oh wait, this thing has no input for a DVD. And it was manufactured Floyd \| in like 1985. Forget that happened. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		MrPatient says, "Aschultz recommended this"
		inky says, "ha ha"
		inky says, "delightful"
inky says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ] Office 191 Floyd ] Exits: east Floyd \| Floyd \| > L Floyd \| Floyd \| Office Floyd \| This is one of those miserable windowless back rooms you find in a Floyd \| restaurant or retail shop. You can imagine the kind of boss who might Floyd \| lair here. He's got a mustache, maybe a hairpiece too, and wears a Floyd \| wide, earth-toned tie. He smokes, probably cheap cigars. He's loud Floyd \| and abusive to his employees. As the place is not in use, he's not Floyd \| actually here, but his presence lingers nonetheless. Floyd \| Floyd \| The office door leads back out east into the kitchen. Floyd \| Floyd \| Sitting on a desk is a small, boxy security system. It displays the Floyd \| dining room in blurry black and white. A thin wire leads out of it Floyd \| and up through a hole near the ceiling. There's also a printer Floyd \| attached. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ] Kitchen 192 Floyd ] Exits: north south west Floyd \| Floyd \| > E Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Kitchen Floyd \| This is a small professional kitchen. Although the pots and pans and Floyd \| smaller appliances are all gone, the oven is still functional, as long Floyd \| as your uncle keeps paying the gas bill. Also here, not part of the Floyd \| original decor, is the Ark of Whatever. Floyd \| Floyd \| The door to the restaurant's office leads west, the pantry is to the Floyd \| south, and the dining room is to the north. Floyd \| Floyd \| The cable from the security camera runs through here and into a small Floyd \| hole above the office door. Floyd \| Floyd \| Walter is here, unconscious. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] Dining Room 193 Floyd ] Exits: north south west Floyd \| Floyd \| > N Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Dining Room Floyd \| The old bistro had ten tables and seated about forty. The chairs are Floyd \| propped up on the tables upside-down and covered in dust. Large Floyd \| windows look out onto the street, but they're soaped up so that the Floyd \| public can't see all the important renovation work going on in here, Floyd \| which is to say none. The kitchen is to the south, the bathroom is to Floyd \| the west, and you can walk out onto the street to the north. Floyd \| Floyd \| Hanging from the ceiling is a funky, thrift-store-looking chandelier. Floyd \| Floyd \| You can see a small security camera mounted in the corner of the Floyd \| ceiling, and a thin black wire running from it. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] Randolph Avenue 194 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH northeast south southwest west Floyd \| Floyd \| > N Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Randolph Avenue Floyd \| You're on Randolph Avenue, which stretches far to the west toward Floyd \| Highland Park and to the east towards the river. Your cult's Floyd \| bookstore is located a few miles to the west, Carver's Cave is to the Floyd \| northeast, and there's an alleyway to the southwest. Floyd \| Floyd \| Sam's place is to the north, and the dining room is south. Floyd \| Floyd \| Your Saturn is parked here. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "enter saturn"
Floyd ] Randolph Avenue 195 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH northeast south southwest west Floyd \| Floyd \| > ENTER SATURN Floyd \| Floyd \| You get into the Saturn. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 196 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd \| Floyd \| > N Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Hague Avenue (in the Saturn)		Jacqueline says, "This should go well"
Floyd \| You're outside your ex-girlfriend's place. She lives on a quiet, Floyd \| leafy side street, in a ground-floor apartment. You haven't been here Floyd \| or talked to her since the breakup a few weeks ago. You can head back Floyd \| to the bistro to the south, or the bookshop to the southwest. Floyd \| Floyd \| To the north is Sam's front door. There's a prominent doorbell next Floyd \| to it. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 197 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd \| Floyd \| > OUT Floyd \| Floyd \| You get out of the Saturn. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf4"
Floyd \| > Floyd \| > SAVE Floyd \| %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Hague Avenue 197 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd \| Ok. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "ring doorbell"
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 198 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd \| Floyd \| > RING DOORBELL Floyd \| Floyd \| You ring the bell. You hear footsteps, and then she appears at the Floyd \| door: Samiira Abdi, your girlfriend up until a few weeks ago. She was Floyd \| a really great catch, you recall with a sigh. Tall and lanky, smart, Floyd \| pretty with a distinctive East African nose, and for a couple of Floyd \| years, she skated with the Minnesota RollerGirls under the name Somali Floyd \| Hatchet, which is just impossibly sexy. Right now, she's sporting a Floyd \| look you've never seen outside of old family photos: a hijab. She Floyd \| doesn't seem all that thrilled to see you. Floyd \| Floyd \| "Hi, Barry," she says, affectlessly. "What are you doing here?" -- Floyd \| she stops and sniffs for a moment -- "Besides wearing a pizza?" Floyd \| Floyd \| (You could ask her about how she's doing or the hijab.) Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "good idea"
		MrPatient says, "maga tells me he has a vendetta against the MN RollerGirls"
		MrPatient says, "For beating the Seattle team recently"
		maga says, "more of a passing grudge than a vendetta"
		Jacqueline asks, "haha, oh right. We're greased up. Did we not put our robes back on?"
		maga says, "the Oly Rollers, that is a vendetta"
		MrPatient says (to maga,), "Oh hi, didn't know you were here"
		Jacqueline says, "He's a lurker"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 199 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd \| Floyd \| > X ME Floyd \| Floyd \| You're Barry, just a regular guy in the service of the Great Old Ones. Floyd \| OK, "in the service of" might be a little strong. You haven't done Floyd \| much serving of late. You only show up for the high holidays and Floyd \| important rituals if you can help it. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		maga says, "on the threshold"
		Jacqueline says, "Apropos"
		maga says, "letting in eldritch drafts"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "a her"
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 200 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd \| Floyd \| > A HER Floyd \| Floyd \| You pause awkwardly. "So, how have you been?" Floyd \| Floyd \| "I'm OK. Work's been decent." Another pause. "I'm seeing someone, Floyd \| you know." Floyd \| Floyd \| You could ask her about the hijab or seeing someone. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "seeing someone"
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 200 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd \| Floyd \| > SEEING SOMEONE Floyd \| Floyd \| That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "a seeing someone"
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 201 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd \| Floyd \| > A SEEING SOMEONE Floyd \| Floyd \| "Already?" you say. "That was pretty qui-- oh God, it isn't the same Floyd \| guy from your office party?" Floyd \| Floyd \| She looks down for a second. "Yes, him. Charles. Is his name." Floyd \| Floyd \| You already knew his name. A few weeks ago, you arrived unannounced Floyd \| at Sam's office party. You found her in a supply room, drunk, blouse Floyd \| unbuttoned, with this Charles person. That was the beginning of the Floyd \| end. Floyd \| Floyd \| No, that was the end of the end. The beginning of the end was when Floyd \| you did the same thing to her a couple of months before. You are a Floyd \| giant idiot. Floyd \| Floyd \| You could ask her about the hijab, the young woman or Uma. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "a hijab"
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 202 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd \| Floyd \| > A HIJAB Floyd \| Floyd \| You point to the hijab. "So what's the deal with --" Floyd \| Floyd \| "My father is coming over later," she says, her accent suddenly Floyd \| growing stronger. "I thought maybe you were him. I mean, he knows I Floyd \| don't wear it all the time, or ever, I guess, but it makes things Floyd \| easier when he's around." Floyd \| Floyd \| You could ask her about the young woman or Uma. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "a young woman"
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 203 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd \| Floyd \| > A YOUNG WOMAN Floyd \| Floyd \| "Look, Sam, I'm sorry to ask you like this, but it's super-important: Floyd \| do you remember at the state fair, there was this one woman you were Floyd \| talking to when we were at the bacon booth? Someone you worked with, Floyd \| maybe? She gave you something, like a hairclip. Do you still have Floyd \| it, you think? I am really sorry to be bugging you about this, but Floyd \| believe me when I say it's a matter of life and death." Floyd \| Floyd \| Sam thinks for a moment. "Her name was Leah Weinstein or Weinberg or Floyd \| something. She worked at the office for a couple of days then quit. Floyd \| She offered me the hairclip when I said we were going on the Crazy Floyd \| Mouse and my hair kept getting in my face. She must have forgotten Floyd \| about it, and so did I. Why do you need it?" Floyd \| Floyd \| You could tell her about some cockamamie story or the spell. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "ha ha"
inky says (to Floyd), "a cockamamie"
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 204 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd \| Floyd \| > A COCKAMAMIE Floyd \| Floyd \| Quick, come up with something! "Um, yeah, Leah works at the Floyd \| restaurant now. Or she will, you know, when it opens. So she needs Floyd \| her hairclip back." Sam stares at you, her arms crossed. I don't Floyd \| think she's buying it. Floyd \| Floyd \| You could tell her about the spell. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "a spell"
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 205 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd \| Floyd \| > A SPELL Floyd \| Floyd \| "OK," -- you clear your throat -- "I need to track her down because Floyd \| she stole a valuable relic that is going to prevent my cult from Floyd \| channeling an Old One's essence into my uncle. Personally, I don't Floyd \| care, but I guess it's an important religious thing, and he's going to Floyd \| be pissed if we don't get it back. The hairclip is a component in a Floyd \| magic spell to find her." Floyd \| Floyd \| She smirks. "Yeah, OK, that sounds perfectly reasonable. Is there a Floyd \| voodoo doll involved?" Floyd \| Floyd \| "No, just a picture. Do you have the clip?" Floyd \| Floyd \| "Maybe. Wait here," she says, and heads inside. She returns a few Floyd \| moments later with a small tortoise-shell-colored hairclip. "I think Floyd \| this is it," she says, and starts to hand it to you. Then she quickly Floyd \| withdraws it. "You really need this? What, are you dating this girl Floyd \| now?" Floyd \| Floyd \| "Yeah, I really do, and no, I am not. I never met her." Floyd \| Floyd \| She's about to give you the clip when she pauses again. "Hey, you Floyd \| still have my Breaking Bad DVDs, don't you? I think before you Floyd \| destroy the world you ought to give me back my discs." Floyd \| Floyd \| You could ask her about the Breaking Bad DVDs. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "a uma"
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 206 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd \| Floyd \| > A UMA Floyd \| Floyd \| You try to lighten the mood. "Hey, how's Uma's leg doing? She still Floyd \| hobbling around?" Floyd \| Floyd \| Uma is Sam's cat, and the reason you two got together. Sam brought Floyd \| her in one night with physalopterosis on one of your first shifts Floyd \| assisting at the U Clinic, and you got to talking. Floyd \| Floyd \| "Oh my God, that dummy is killing me," she says. "Every five Floyd \| minutes she cries to have me lift her up on the bed, and then three Floyd \| seconds later she is crying to get back down." You shake your head in Floyd \| sympathy. Cats. Floyd \| Floyd \| You could ask her about the Breaking Bad DVDs. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "give dvds to sam"
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 207 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd \| Floyd \| > GIVE DVDS TO SAM Floyd \| Floyd \| She takes custody of the discs and finally relents, handing over the Floyd \| clip. "Have fun drowning the world in blood. It was good to see you, Floyd \| Barry." With that, she retreats into her apartment and closes the Floyd \| door. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		DavidW says, "I like her."
		maga says, "everyone likes her"
		DavidW says, "It's nice to see an ex who isn't evil."
inky says (to Floyd), "go to jeff"
Floyd ] Hague Avenue 207 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH south southwest east Floyd \| Floyd \| > GO TO JEFF Floyd \| Floyd \| That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "go to store"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 208 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > GO TO STORE Floyd \| Floyd \| You head on over, leaving your car parked on Cleveland Ave. Floyd \| Floyd \| Unspeakable Books and Gifts Floyd \| This is the front room of Unspeakable Books and Gifts. It's a "magic" Floyd \| shop for the pinks, the rubes who spell magick with a k. They come Floyd \| here to buy healing crystals and novelty Buffy-themed Tarot decks and Floyd \| books about UFOs and accessing their past lives. There's a long Floyd \| display case filled with various mystical knickknacks. There's also a Floyd \| large bookshelf crammed with hokey New Age titles. You can exit back Floyd \| onto the street to the south. Floyd \| Floyd \| You can see Jeff here. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		MrPatient says, "Rooms only, sorry"
inky says (to Floyd), "give image to jeff"
Floyd ] Unspeakable Books and Gifts 209 Floyd ] Exits: south down outside Floyd \| Floyd \| > GIVE IMAGE TO JEFF Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| You hand it over. "Excellent. OK, now we just need to find something Floyd \| of hers." Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "give hairclip to jeff"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 210 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > GIVE HAIRCLIP TO JEFF Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| "Sweet!" says Jeff. "Alright, dude. Showtime." He gathers up some Floyd \| crap from behind the counter and leads you downstairs, to the shrine Floyd \| of Great Cthulhu, peace be upon him. Jeff starts by drawing a Floyd \| trapezoid on the wood floor with a piece of chalk. "Hey, better get Floyd \| your robe on," he says. "Make this all official-like. I think the Floyd \| big guys like it when we're dressed for the part." Seems reasonable, Floyd \| so you comply. "Sit on this side," he says, pointing to the wide end; Floyd \| he himself sits at the narrow end. OK, yeah, this is starting to come Floyd \| back to you now. He scrawls out an Elder Sign in the middle, and then Floyd \| lights a candle on either side of you. He dips into a bag of, well, Floyd \| it looks like red sand, but is probably something like granulated Floyd \| Shoggoth nightmares. Wait, no -- the bag is from Petco. Anyway, he Floyd \| sprinkles that around a bit, then places the printout of the woman and Floyd \| her hairclip in the center, on top of the sign. He grabs your hands Floyd \| and closes his eyes. Floyd \| Floyd \| "OK, so now repeat after me: Ehye f'geb Tsathoggua wgah'n Floyd \| k'yarnak gof'nn..." Floyd \| Floyd \| "I forget Tsathoggua vogon kayak golfing..." Floyd \| Floyd \| This goes on for much longer than you were hoping. Finally Jeff Floyd \| yells, "Iä! Iä!" The sand begins to swirl around until it resolves Floyd \| into the form of a street map. Wow, this is pretty bitchin'. You can Floyd \| feel power flowing through you. Floyd \| Floyd \| "Barry, get ready! Watch for the spark!" At this, the image and the Floyd \| hairclip are consumed in brilliant green flames, accompanied by thick Floyd \| smoke. The fumes begin to sting your eyes and nose. You're tearing Floyd \| up, and you feel an insistent itch in your nasal passages. A sneeze Floyd \| is coming on. Hastur's hot hole, not now! Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "pinch nose"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 210 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > PINCH NOSE Floyd \| Floyd \| That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "hold nose"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 210 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > HOLD NOSE Floyd \| Floyd \| Mindful of the sand in front of you (not to mention Jeff, right in the Floyd \| line of fire), you let go of Jeff's hand and quickly cover your nose. Floyd \| Floyd \| You can't suppress it any longer. Your head rears back involuntarily, Floyd \| brushing up against your lowered hood, and then propels forward. A Floyd \| one-hundred-mile-per-hour blast of air and snot launches itself from Floyd \| your nostrils. You manage to deflect the worst of it with your hands; Floyd \| the sand is still more or less intact. The bad news is that by Floyd \| breaking your connection with Jeff, you've interrupted the spell. The Floyd \| green flames from the image and hairclip die out in an instant. Floyd \| Whatever spark Jeff was talking about doesn't happen. Floyd \| Floyd \| Jeff shakes his head. Well, that's that, I guess. You're never going Floyd \| to find another item of hers to use in the spell, at least not in Floyd \| time. But on the bright side, you'll get to the meet the Old Ones, Floyd \| after Stu gets a hold of you. Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| * It's not the end of the world, despite your best Floyd \| efforts * Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd \| command? Floyd \| >		MrPatient says, "I hate this puzzle"
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 210 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > UNDO Floyd \| Floyd \| The Secret Chamber Floyd \| [Previous turn undone.] Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 210 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > UNDO Floyd \| Floyd \| The Secret Chamber Floyd \| [Previous turn undone.] Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 210 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > I Floyd \| Floyd \| You are carrying: Floyd \| a Baby Ruth wrapper Floyd \| some greasy sheets of wax paper Floyd \| a latex glove (being worn) Floyd \| a flashlight Floyd \| a filthy pillow Floyd \| a hooded robe (hood lowered) (being worn) Floyd \| Floyd \| And you're all greased up. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		DavidW says, "I tend to press above my upper lip to suppress a sneeze."
inky says (to Floyd), "give f smell pillow"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 210 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > GIVE F SMELL PILLOW Floyd \| Floyd \| You can't see any such thing. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "smell pillow"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 210 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > SMELL PILLOW Floyd \| Floyd \| Garbage, for sure. Floyd \| Floyd \| You can't suppress it any longer. Your head rears back involuntarily, Floyd \| brushing up against your lowered hood, and then propels forward. A Floyd \| one-hundred-mile-per-hour blast of air and snot launches itself from Floyd \| your nostrils. With nothing to stop it, or even blunt it, the sneeze Floyd \| scatters the colored sand everywhere. A tiny spark from the green Floyd \| flames shoots like a meteor and lands on the now-bare floor. Floyd \| Floyd \| Jeff shakes his head. Well, that's that, I guess. You're never going Floyd \| to find another item of hers to use in the spell, at least not in Floyd \| time. But on the bright side, you'll get to the meet the Old Ones, Floyd \| after Stu gets a hold of you. Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| * It's not the end of the world, despite your best Floyd \| efforts * Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd \| command? Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 210 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > UNDO Floyd \| Floyd \| The Secret Chamber Floyd \| [Previous turn undone.] Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "touch nose divot"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 210 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > TOUCH NOSE DIVOT Floyd \| Floyd \| You can't see any such thing. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline asks (of MrPatient), "Why do you hate it?"
inky says (to Floyd), "touch upper lip"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 210 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > TOUCH UPPER LIP Floyd \| Floyd \| You can't see any such thing. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		MrPatient says, "I don't think it's very clever"
		Jacqueline says, "Also, this time, let's just sneeze. Let the snot flow."
inky says (to Floyd), "sneeze"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 210 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > SNEEZE Floyd \| Floyd \| That's what you're trying to avoid. Floyd \| Floyd \| You can't suppress it any longer. Your head rears back involuntarily, Floyd \| brushing up against your lowered hood, and then propels forward. A Floyd \| one-hundred-mile-per-hour blast of air and snot launches itself from Floyd \| your nostrils. With nothing to stop it, or even blunt it, the sneeze Floyd \| scatters the colored sand everywhere. A tiny spark from the green Floyd \| flames shoots like a meteor and lands on the now-bare floor. Floyd \| Floyd \| Jeff shakes his head. Well, that's that, I guess. You're never going Floyd \| to find another item of hers to use in the spell, at least not in Floyd \| time. But on the bright side, you'll get to the meet the Old Ones, Floyd \| after Stu gets a hold of you. Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| * It's not the end of the world, despite your best Floyd \| efforts * Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd \| command? Floyd \| >		Jacqueline says, "Just to see."
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] The Secret Chamber 210 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > UNDO Floyd \| Floyd \| The Secret Chamber Floyd \| [Previous turn undone.] Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "raise hood"
Floyd \| > Floyd \| > RAISE HOOD Floyd \| Floyd \| With your hands unavailable, you grab an edge of the hood with your Floyd \| teeth and make an exaggerated jerking motion with your head. The hood Floyd \| flops up over your face. Good enough. Floyd \| Floyd \| You can't suppress it any longer. Your head rears back involuntarily, Floyd \| and then propels forward. A one-hundred-mile-per-hour blast of air Floyd \| and snot launches itself from your nostrils. Fortunately, the droopy Floyd \| oversized hood catches most of the impact. The sand is still more or Floyd \| less intact, and you've miraculously managed to keep hold of Jeff's Floyd \| hands as well. A tiny spark from the green flame shoots like a meteor Floyd \| and lands on the sand-map. Jeff, wiping a little snot from his face, Floyd \| peers closely at it. The spark is on the south side of Summit Avenue, Floyd \| between Hamline and Syndicate. That's where she is. Her house, Floyd \| maybe? Is she super-rich or something? Floyd \| Floyd \| press any key		MrPatient says, "Well done"
		inky says, "so that's why cultists wear robes!"
		Jacqueline says, "Nice"
		maga says, "the hamline, the point on a mountain above which no ham can grow"
		DavidW says, "No ham? So sad."
		MrPatient says, "The whole game is about hamlessness, really"
		Jacqueline says (to maga), "This reminds me of the time that we went to the Creationist petrified rock museum and saw the 'Rock that Resembles a Ham'"
		maga says, "alt title : Mostly Hamless"
		DavidW says, "It has stew and berry."
inky pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 211 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH southeast EAST Floyd \| Floyd \| Summit and Syndicate Floyd \| OK, so this is what's at Summit and Syndicate. You're Floyd \| standing outside Mt. Zion Temple, which you've probably driven by Floyd \| eight thousand times, but never really noticed. It's a synagogue, I Floyd \| guess? It's certainly Jewish. There's a sign outside, with a blue Floyd \| Star of David, since faded to purple. The temple itself is a low, Floyd \| orange-brick mid-century modernist structure. Kowalski's supermarket Floyd \| is to the east, and the entrance to the temple is south. The Floyd \| restaurant is a drive to the southeast. Floyd \| Floyd \| Your Saturn is parked here. Floyd \| Floyd \| Streams of people approach the synagogue from all directions. They're Floyd \| dressed all fancy-like for the most part. Some carry brown grocery Floyd \| bags. Those with the bags are handing them to a volunteer standing Floyd \| outside a van parked out front. Floyd \| Floyd \| There are several St. Paul police officers posted around the building. Floyd \| That's odd. I guess something important must be going on. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		PaulS says, "Hamlet without the ham."
		inky asks, "wait, the synagogue is called mt zion temple? what is this, a baptist synagogue?"
inky says (to Floyd), "x officer"
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 212 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH southeast EAST Floyd \| Floyd \| > X OFFICER Floyd \| Floyd \| They seem to be just standing there, occasionally smiling and saying Floyd \| hello to people as they walk in. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 213 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH southeast EAST Floyd \| Floyd \| > E Floyd \| Floyd \| Every indication is that this Leah person is inside the synagogue. Floyd \| You should start there. You can go to the supermarket and get some Floyd \| Ho-Hos after Stu has become chaos incarnate. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "ha ha"
inky says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 214 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH southeast EAST Floyd \| Floyd \| > N Floyd \| Floyd \| Saint Paul's a smallish city, but too big for you to just wander Floyd \| around in, especially today. From here, your best bets are south, Floyd \| southeast and east. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ] Foyer 215 Floyd ] Exits: north WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > S Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Foyer Floyd \| This is the main entrance of the synagogue. Directly in front of you, Floyd \| blocking access to what appears to be a fairly cushy lounge area, is a Floyd \| long folding table. Mounted on the wall to your right you can see a Floyd \| small wooden bin and a large wooden rack. The main sanctuary appears Floyd \| to be to the west, and you can exit to the north. Floyd \| Floyd \| Sitting behind the table is an elderly woman. She seems to be taking Floyd \| tickets from people. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x bin"
Floyd ] Foyer 216 Floyd ] Exits: north WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > X BIN Floyd \| Floyd \| It's a small box mounted on the wall, which contains dozens of little Floyd \| black cloth circles. Ohhhhh. These are the, whatchacallit, beanies Floyd \| that Jews wear. Most people seem to have brought their own, but every Floyd \| so often someone picks one out of the box and puts it on. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "I hope this game is about a cultist learning the true meaning of yom kippur"
inky says (to Floyd), "get yarmulke"
Floyd ] Foyer 217 Floyd ] Exits: north WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET YARMULKE Floyd \| Floyd \| You grab a circle and put it on your head. You're feeling more Jewish Floyd \| already. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline says (to inky), "yay"
inky says (to Floyd), "x rack"
Floyd ] Foyer 218 Floyd ] Exits: north WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > X RACK Floyd \| Floyd \| It looks vaguely like a towel rack, and in fact, there are things that Floyd \| look vaguely like towels hanging from it. OK, not really towels: Floyd \| they're clearly of a thin, smooth and not very absorbent material. Floyd \| Each one has lots of little tassels or fringes on the ends, and Floyd \| there's some Hebrew writing on one of the long sides. They are Floyd \| however, roughly towel-shaped, and have blue stripes in a very Floyd \| towelish pattern. I suppose "shawls" is more appropriate. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 219 Floyd ] Exits: south southeast EAST Floyd \| Floyd \| > N Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Summit and Syndicate Floyd \| You're standing outside Mt. Zion Temple, which you've probably driven Floyd \| by eight thousand times, but never really noticed. It's a synagogue, Floyd \| I guess? It's certainly Jewish. There's a sign outside, with a blue Floyd \| Star of David, since faded to purple. The temple itself is a low, Floyd \| orange-brick mid-century modernist structure. Kowalski's supermarket Floyd \| is to the east, and the entrance to the temple is south. The Floyd \| restaurant is a drive to the southeast. Floyd \| Floyd \| Your Saturn is parked here. Floyd \| Floyd \| Streams of people approach the synagogue from all directions. They're Floyd \| dressed all fancy-like for the most part. Some carry brown grocery Floyd \| bags. Those with the bags are handing them to a volunteer standing Floyd \| outside a van parked out front. Floyd \| Floyd \| There are several St. Paul police officers posted around the building. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Foyer 218 Floyd ] Exits: north WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > UNDO Floyd \| Floyd \| Foyer Floyd \| [Previous turn undone.] Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ] Foyer 219 Floyd ] Exits: north WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > W Floyd \| Floyd \| The woman behind the table clears her throat. "Excuse me," she says. Floyd \| "Excuse me! Do you have a ticket?" Floyd \| Floyd \| Wait, what? Ticket? You have to pay to worship? "Um, how much are Floyd \| they?" Floyd \| Floyd \| "They're not for sale. They're sent out to members of the synagogue. Floyd \| Space is at a premium during the High Holy Days, you know." Floyd \| Floyd \| "Oh, yeah, sure. I'm actually a member; I just forgot my ticket. Floyd \| I'll go get it." Floyd \| Floyd \| Great. With all the police around, breaking or sneaking in does not Floyd \| seem an option. Better find a ticket somehow. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 220 Floyd ] Exits: south southeast EAST Floyd \| Floyd \| > N Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Summit and Syndicate Floyd \| You're standing outside Mt. Zion Temple, which you've probably driven Floyd \| by eight thousand times, but never really noticed. It's a synagogue, Floyd \| I guess? It's certainly Jewish. There's a sign outside, with a blue Floyd \| Star of David, since faded to purple. The temple itself is a low, Floyd \| orange-brick mid-century modernist structure. Kowalski's supermarket Floyd \| is to the east, and the entrance to the temple is south. The Floyd \| restaurant is a drive to the southeast. Floyd \| Floyd \| Your Saturn is parked here. Floyd \| Floyd \| Streams of people approach the synagogue from all directions. They're Floyd \| dressed all fancy-like for the most part. Some carry brown grocery Floyd \| bags. Those with the bags are handing them to a volunteer standing Floyd \| outside a van parked out front. Floyd \| Floyd \| There are several St. Paul police officers posted around the building. Floyd \| Floyd \| Sitting in the van amongst the bags is a wadded-up jacket. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x volunteer"
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 221 Floyd ] Exits: south southeast EAST Floyd \| Floyd \| > X VOLUNTEER Floyd \| Floyd \| She's wearing a blue vest, designating her as an official person of Floyd \| some kind. From time to time, you can see people walk up and hand her Floyd \| a brown grocery bag full of canned goods. Floyd \| Floyd \| You hear a clunk and a "D'oh!" Someone's bag has ripped, and cans of Floyd \| food are rolling down the sidewalk. The unfortunate person and the Floyd \| volunteer scramble to catch them and toss them into other Floyd \| not-quite-as-full bags sitting in the van. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "get food"
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 221 Floyd ] Exits: south southeast EAST Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET FOOD Floyd \| Floyd \| You can't see any such thing. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ] Parking Lot 222 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTHEAST west Floyd \| Floyd \| > E Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Parking Lot Floyd \| This is the narrow, inadequate parking lot for Kowalski's supermarket. Floyd \| It's filled to capacity, as usual. The entrance to the supermarket is Floyd \| southeast, and the synagogue is back to the west. Floyd \| Floyd \| There's a puddle of dirty water here. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x puddle"
Floyd ] Parking Lot 223 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTHEAST west Floyd \| Floyd \| > X PUDDLE Floyd \| Floyd \| It's not Superfund-dirty, but it's nothing you want to drink. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd ] Kowalski's Supermarket 224 Floyd ] Exits: northwest Floyd \| Floyd \| > SE Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Kowalski's Supermarket Floyd \| This is Kowalski's, a Twin Cities chain of high-falutin supermarkets. Floyd \| Everywhere you look, there is food stacked floor to ceiling, and all Floyd \| of it looks good. You're near the produce, which is attractively lit Floyd \| with special tinted lights, so that the greens and reds are deeper and Floyd \| more alluring. There's a display of doughnuts in front of you, and by Floyd \| the registers you can see racks of candy bars, chips, cookies, and all Floyd \| sorts of horrible/delicious snacks. You desperately want them all. Floyd \| Fortunately for you, the bakery and deli sections are on the far end Floyd \| of the store, so that you can't smell them from here. You can exit to Floyd \| the northwest. Floyd \| Floyd \| Each register has a stack of paper bags. You can probably take one Floyd \| without opposition. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "get bag"
Floyd ] Kowalski's Supermarket 225 Floyd ] Exits: northwest Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET BAG Floyd \| Floyd \| You take a bag, and and you didn't even purchase anything! You're now Floyd \| part of the criminal element, I guess. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "eat doughnut"
Floyd ] Kowalski's Supermarket 226 Floyd ] Exits: northwest Floyd \| Floyd \| > EAT DOUGHNUT Floyd \| Floyd \| Great and powerful Aqua Buddha, you are hungry. But you have no money Floyd \| and no time. You can eat later. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline says, "I am going to have to remember the phrase 'superfund-dirty'"
inky says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd ] Parking Lot 227 Floyd ] Exits: southeast west Floyd \| Floyd \| > NW Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Parking Lot Floyd \| This is the narrow, inadequate parking lot for Kowalski's supermarket. Floyd \| It's filled to capacity, as usual. The entrance to the supermarket is Floyd \| southeast, and the synagogue is back to the west. Floyd \| Floyd \| There's a puddle of dirty water here. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ] Parking Lot 228 Floyd ] Exits: southeast west Floyd \| Floyd \| > I Floyd \| Floyd \| You are carrying: Floyd \| a Kowalski's bag Floyd \| a kippah (being worn) Floyd \| a Baby Ruth wrapper Floyd \| a latex glove (being worn) Floyd \| a flashlight Floyd \| a filthy pillow Floyd \| a hooded robe (hood lowered) (being worn) Floyd \| Floyd \| And you're all greased up. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "put pillow in bag"
Floyd ] Parking Lot 229 Floyd ] Exits: southeast west Floyd \| Floyd \| > PUT PILLOW IN BAG Floyd \| Floyd \| You put the filthy pillow into the Kowalski's bag. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Zach says, "oh my"
inky says (to Floyd), "put baby ruth wrapper in bag"
Floyd ] Parking Lot 230 Floyd ] Exits: southeast west Floyd \| Floyd \| > PUT BABY RUTH WRAPPER IN BAG Floyd \| Floyd \| You put the Baby Ruth wrapper into the Kowalski's bag. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 231 Floyd ] Exits: south southeast east Floyd \| Floyd \| > W Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Summit and Syndicate Floyd \| You're standing outside Mt. Zion Temple, which you've probably driven Floyd \| by eight thousand times, but never really noticed. It's a synagogue, Floyd \| I guess? It's certainly Jewish. There's a sign outside, with a blue Floyd \| Star of David, since faded to purple. The temple itself is a low, Floyd \| orange-brick mid-century modernist structure. Kowalski's supermarket Floyd \| is to the east, and the entrance to the temple is south. The Floyd \| restaurant is a drive to the southeast. Floyd \| Floyd \| Your Saturn is parked here. Floyd \| Floyd \| Streams of people approach the synagogue from all directions. They're Floyd \| dressed all fancy-like for the most part. Some carry brown grocery Floyd \| bags. Those with the bags are handing them to a volunteer standing Floyd \| outside a van parked out front. Floyd \| Floyd \| There are several St. Paul police officers posted around the building. Floyd \| Floyd \| Sitting in the van amongst the bags is a wadded-up jacket. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x jacket"
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 232 Floyd ] Exits: south southeast east Floyd \| Floyd \| > X JACKET Floyd \| Floyd \| It's a dark green jacket, probably belonging to the volunteer. It Floyd \| looks like a small piece of paper is poking out of a pocket. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "get paper"
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 233 Floyd ] Exits: south southeast east Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET PAPER Floyd \| Floyd \| The volunteer is standing right there. Maybe if she were distracted, Floyd \| and you were quick enough, you might be able to snag it, but not now. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd ] Parking Lot 234 Floyd ] Exits: southeast west Floyd \| Floyd \| > E Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Parking Lot Floyd \| This is the narrow, inadequate parking lot for Kowalski's supermarket. Floyd \| It's filled to capacity, as usual. The entrance to the supermarket is Floyd \| southeast, and the synagogue is back to the west. Floyd \| Floyd \| There's a puddle of dirty water here. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "put bag in puddle"
Floyd ] Parking Lot 235 Floyd ] Exits: southeast west Floyd \| Floyd \| > PUT BAG IN PUDDLE Floyd \| Floyd \| You dip the bag into the puddle. It's now somewhat weakened, so you Floyd \| hold it from the bottom, to keep it from falling apart completely. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 236 Floyd ] Exits: south southeast east Floyd \| Floyd \| > W Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Summit and Syndicate Floyd \| You're standing outside Mt. Zion Temple, which you've probably driven Floyd \| by eight thousand times, but never really noticed. It's a synagogue, Floyd \| I guess? It's certainly Jewish. There's a sign outside, with a blue Floyd \| Star of David, since faded to purple. The temple itself is a low, Floyd \| orange-brick mid-century modernist structure. Kowalski's supermarket Floyd \| is to the east, and the entrance to the temple is south. The Floyd \| restaurant is a drive to the southeast. Floyd \| Floyd \| Your Saturn is parked here. Floyd \| Floyd \| Streams of people approach the synagogue from all directions. They're Floyd \| dressed all fancy-like for the most part. Some carry brown grocery Floyd \| bags. Those with the bags are handing them to a volunteer standing Floyd \| outside a van parked out front. Floyd \| Floyd \| There are several St. Paul police officers posted around the building. Floyd \| Floyd \| Sitting in the van amongst the bags is a wadded-up jacket. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "give bag to volunteer"
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 237 Floyd ] Exits: south southeast east Floyd \| Floyd \| > GIVE BAG TO VOLUNTEER Floyd \| Floyd \| You approach the volunteer and she looks up at you. Floyd \| Floyd \| "You might be misunderstanding the idea here. There needs to be Floyd \| shelf-stable food in it," she says. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 238 Floyd ] Exits: south southeast east Floyd \| Floyd \| > I Floyd \| Floyd \| You are carrying: Floyd \| a Kowalski's bag (weakened) Floyd \| a Baby Ruth wrapper Floyd \| a filthy pillow Floyd \| a kippah (being worn) Floyd \| a latex glove (being worn) Floyd \| a flashlight Floyd \| a hooded robe (hood lowered) (being worn) Floyd \| Floyd \| And you're all greased up. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline says, "I hope the @YouAreCarrying twitter account gets updated with modern works like this one."
inky says (to Floyd), "go to kitchen"
Floyd ] Kitchen 239 Floyd ] Exits: north south west Floyd \| Floyd \| > GO TO KITCHEN Floyd \| Floyd \| You head on over, leaving your car parked on Randolph Ave. Floyd \| Floyd \| Kitchen Floyd \| This is a small professional kitchen. Although the pots and pans and Floyd \| smaller appliances are all gone, the oven is still functional, as long Floyd \| as your uncle keeps paying the gas bill. Also here, not part of the Floyd \| original decor, is the Ark of Whatever. Floyd \| Floyd \| The door to the restaurant's office leads west, the pantry is to the Floyd \| south, and the dining room is to the north. Floyd \| Floyd \| The cable from the security camera runs through here and into a small Floyd \| hole above the office door. Floyd \| Floyd \| Walter is here, unconscious. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "get cans"
Floyd ] Kitchen 239 Floyd ] Exits: north south west Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET CANS Floyd \| Floyd \| You can't see any such thing. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ] Pantry 240 Floyd ] Exits: north down Floyd \| Floyd \| > S Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Pantry Floyd \| This is where all the food would be stored, if the bistro were open Floyd \| and functioning. There's a big fridge in the corner and many dusty Floyd \| shelves along the walls. A wooden stair leads down to the basement, Floyd \| and a doorway leads north to the kitchen. Floyd \| Floyd \| On the dusty shelves are some pizza boxes and some cans of near-food. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "get cans"
Floyd ] Pantry 241 Floyd ] Exits: north down Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET CANS Floyd \| Floyd \| Taken. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "put cans in bag"
Floyd ] Pantry 242 Floyd ] Exits: north down Floyd \| Floyd \| > PUT CANS IN BAG Floyd \| Floyd \| You put the cans of near-food into the Kowalski's bag. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "get pillow"
Floyd ] Pantry 243 Floyd ] Exits: north down Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET PILLOW Floyd \| Floyd \| Taken. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "go to parking lot"
Floyd ] Parking Lot 244 Floyd ] Exits: southeast west Floyd \| Floyd \| > GO TO PARKING LOT Floyd \| Floyd \| You head on over, leaving your car parked on Summit Ave. Floyd \| Floyd \| Parking Lot Floyd \| This is the narrow, inadequate parking lot for Kowalski's supermarket. Floyd \| It's filled to capacity, as usual. The entrance to the supermarket is Floyd \| southeast, and the synagogue is back to the west. Floyd \| Floyd \| There's a puddle of dirty water here. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 245 Floyd ] Exits: south southeast east Floyd \| Floyd \| > W Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Summit and Syndicate Floyd \| You're standing outside Mt. Zion Temple, which you've probably driven Floyd \| by eight thousand times, but never really noticed. It's a synagogue, Floyd \| I guess? It's certainly Jewish. There's a sign outside, with a blue Floyd \| Star of David, since faded to purple. The temple itself is a low, Floyd \| orange-brick mid-century modernist structure. Kowalski's supermarket Floyd \| is to the east, and the entrance to the temple is south. The Floyd \| restaurant is a drive to the southeast. Floyd \| Floyd \| Your Saturn is parked here. Floyd \| Floyd \| Streams of people approach the synagogue from all directions. They're Floyd \| dressed all fancy-like for the most part. Some carry brown grocery Floyd \| bags. Those with the bags are handing them to a volunteer standing Floyd \| outside a van parked out front. Floyd \| Floyd \| There are several St. Paul police officers posted around the building. Floyd \| Floyd \| Sitting in the van amongst the bags is a wadded-up jacket. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "give bag to volunteer"
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 246 Floyd ] Exits: south southeast east Floyd \| Floyd \| > GIVE BAG TO VOLUNTEER Floyd \| Floyd \| You hand the bag over to the volunteer. She grabs it by the handles Floyd \| and turns around, when suddenly, but not unexpectedly, the bottom Floyd \| falls out. Cans spill out and begin rolling down the sidewalk. She Floyd \| starts chasing after them. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "get ticket"
Floyd ] Summit and Syndicate 247 Floyd ] Exits: south southeast east Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET TICKET Floyd \| Floyd \| With the volunteer scrambling around grabbing cans, you deftly lift Floyd \| the ticket from her jacket. You start to feel bad about this, but Floyd \| then comfort yourself with the thought that she's probably been to a Floyd \| zillion of these before. And she's wearing the blue vest, which is Floyd \| probably a Get Into Yom Kippur Free card anyway. Floyd \| Floyd \| You make a show of tracking down a can or two, then hand them to her. Floyd \| "Thanks!" she chirps, then resumes her duties. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ] Foyer 248 Floyd ] Exits: north WEST Floyd \| Floyd \| > S Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Foyer Floyd \| This is the main entrance of the synagogue. Directly in front of you, Floyd \| blocking access to what appears to be a fairly cushy lounge area, is a Floyd \| long folding table. Mounted on the wall to your right you can see a Floyd \| small wooden bin and a large wooden rack. The main sanctuary appears Floyd \| to be to the west, and you can exit to the north. Floyd \| Floyd \| Sitting behind the table is an elderly woman. She seems to be taking Floyd \| tickets from people. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "give ticket to lady"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 249 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > GIVE TICKET TO LADY Floyd \| Floyd \| You hand your ticket to the woman, and she smiles. "L'shana Floyd \| tovah," she says, whatever that means. The flow of the crowd Floyd \| whisks you into the sanctuary to the west. Floyd \| Floyd \| Sanctuary Floyd \| This is the main sanctuary of the synagogue, decorated in soothing Floyd \| pastels. The business end is to the south: there's a raised area, Floyd \| with a podium, and behind that, there's a small flame burning adjacent Floyd \| to a small pair of doors set into the south wall. In front of the Floyd \| raised area there are rows of seats to accommodate the sizable crowd. Floyd \| You came in from the east, and it looks like maybe there's a way out Floyd \| to the south as well. Floyd \| Floyd \| Leah must be somewhere in this crowd. Floyd \| Floyd \| Standing behind the podium is a goateed man wearing white robes, Floyd \| chanting something. The rabbi, presumably. Next to him is what Floyd \| appears to be an animal horn. Floyd \| Floyd \| ...Ba-ruch a-tah A-do-nai... Floyd \| Floyd \| >		MrPatient says, "This rabbi bat-mitzvahed my daughter last week"
		DavidW says, "might want to save"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf5"
Floyd \| > Floyd \| > SAVE Floyd \| %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Sanctuary 249 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Ok. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "also, there is an old joke that could totally have been reprised here, where the guy talks the ticket-taker into letting him in without a ticket"
		inky says, ""but don't let me catch you praying!""
		MrPatient says, "Heh"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x crowd"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 250 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > X CROWD Floyd \| Floyd \| You survey the assembled congregants. Lots of people of all ages, Floyd \| sizes, and unexpectedly, colors. Many of the boys are wearing the Floyd \| same sad uniform: a button-down shirt, khakis, and sneakers. Don't Floyd \| kids have suits anymore? Never mind that. Focus! Where is this Leah Floyd \| person? Better keep searching the crowd. Floyd \| Floyd \| ...E-lo-hei-nu, Vei-lo-hei a-vo-tei-nu, v'imo-tei-nu... Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x bima"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 250 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > X BIMA Floyd \| Floyd \| You can't see any such thing. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search crowd"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 251 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > SEARCH CROWD Floyd \| Floyd \| You continue scanning the crowd for signs of the intrepid pain in the Floyd \| ass who took the Heart. You don't see her, but you do see a kid Floyd \| reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows instead of his Floyd \| prayer book. You can only silently salute his forethought. Floyd \| Floyd \| ...E-lo-hei Av-ra-ham, E-lo-hei Yitz-chak, Vei-lo-hei Floyd \| Ya-a-kov... Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x shofar"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 252 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > X SHOFAR Floyd \| Floyd \| It's maybe a foot long, dark brown or black, and it's got a pronounced Floyd \| curve. Looks like a free-range organic version of the horn Boromir Floyd \| used to gather the Fellowship as he was getting shot all full of Floyd \| arrows. Floyd \| Floyd \| ...E-lo-hei Sa-rah, Eh-lo-hei Riv-kah, Eh-lo-hei Racheil, Floyd \| vei-lo-hei Lei-ah... Floyd \| Floyd \| >		MrPatient says, "I spelled it bimah"
inky says (to Floyd), "x bimah"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 253 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > X BIMAH Floyd \| Floyd \| It's not particularly noteworthy. Floyd \| Floyd \| ...Ha-eil Ha-Ga-dol Ha-Gi-bor v'Ha-No-rah Eil Eil-yon... Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "fair enough"
inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 254 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > S Floyd \| Floyd \| You need to find Leah and get the Heart first. Floyd \| Floyd \| ...go-meil cha-sa-dim to-vim... Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x crowd"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 255 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > X CROWD Floyd \| Floyd \| Dammit, where is she? Then, at last, you spot her: she's up very Floyd \| close to the front, near the interior aisle, right in front of Floyd \| everybody. Of course she is. As unsuspiciously as you can manage, Floyd \| you thread your way through the crowd to arrive at an open seat just Floyd \| behind hers. It's her alright -- same height, same build, same Floyd \| freckles, same frizzy hair that you saw on the security system. You Floyd \| know, in person, she might be kind of cute. Focus! Anyway, she looks Floyd \| a little bored with the proceedings, truth to tell. She's checking Floyd \| her phone from time to time. She's no longer wearing the enormous Floyd \| many-pocketed trench coat. She does have a big canvas satchel with Floyd \| her, though. Floyd \| Floyd \| ...v'ko-nei ha-kol... Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "x satchel"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 256 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > X SATCHEL Floyd \| Floyd \| It's a big grayish tote bag which reads "Mojo Monkey" on the side. Oh Floyd \| my God, the apple fritters at Mojo Monkey. When all this is done, you Floyd \| absolutely need to get over to Mojo's and -- Cthulhu's cthornhole! Floyd \| Stay on target! Floyd \| Floyd \| As you peer into the bag, you see what you can only assume is the Floyd \| Heart. There's a parcel, about the size of a Chicago softball, Floyd \| wrapped in newspaper, with visible streaks of blood. It's here with Floyd \| her! She hasn't had to time to stow it safely anywhere. Hell, she Floyd \| probably knows that that we're searching for it, and thinks that it's Floyd \| safer with her. Oh, this is seriously lucky. Now, perhaps you can Floyd \| ever-so-carefully take it out of the bag without her noticing... Floyd \| Floyd \| ...v'zo-cheir chas-dei a-vot v'im-a-hot... Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 257 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > I Floyd \| Floyd \| You are carrying: Floyd \| a filthy pillow Floyd \| a kippah (being worn) Floyd \| a latex glove (being worn) Floyd \| a flashlight Floyd \| a hooded robe (hood lowered) (being worn) Floyd \| Floyd \| And you're all greased up. Floyd \| Floyd \| ...u'mei-vi ge-u-lah liv-nei v'nei-hem... Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "put pillow in bag"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 258 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > PUT PILLOW IN BAG Floyd \| Floyd \| You probably want to take something out of the bag, not put something Floyd \| in. Floyd \| Floyd \| ...l'ma-an sh'mo b'a-ha-vah,... Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "get heart"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 259 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET HEART Floyd \| Floyd \| You bend down to pretend to tie your shoes, and checking that the Floyd \| coast is clear, you reach into the bag. Blindly, you paw around until Floyd \| you can feel the newspaper. Great Nyarlathotep, it's almost within Floyd \| your grasp. Just another inch and... Floyd \| Floyd \| Suddenly, there's a scream from the entrance to the sanctuary. A Floyd \| policeman enters, takes a step, and falls over face-first. Striding Floyd \| in over him is your Uncle Stu. Oh no. He must've found Jeff, who Floyd \| must've spilled the beans. The rabbi stops his chanting, and everyone Floyd \| turns to Stu in shock and puzzlement. Stu is changed, and not subtly. Floyd \| He's grown considerably, and his skin, which seems thicker and tougher Floyd \| somehow, is an ashen gray. The ritual is almost complete. All he Floyd \| needs now is to consume the Heart. He raises his meaty fist; in it, Floyd \| you can see a blue crystal. He intones some words that you can't make Floyd \| out from here. Floyd \| Floyd \| You hear, and then feel, a high-pitched hum: a wave of sickening Floyd \| energy, penetrating your skin, into your bones, into your skull. Floyd \| People all around you begin convulsing in pain. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline says, "golly"
inky says (to Floyd), "get heart"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 260 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET HEART Floyd \| Floyd \| With Leah crumpled and bleeding, you reach into the bag and grab the Floyd \| Heart. The wrapping falls off, and you're left with the cool, bloody Floyd \| mass in your hands. Although it is undeniably gross, it has the fine Floyd \| marbling of an aged, premium steak. Floyd \| Floyd \| Leah doubles over in agony, along with almost everyone in the crowd. Floyd \| Damn, Stu is not the forgiving type. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		inky says, "whoops, slight ordering issue"
		Jacqueline asks, "Give it to him? Or eat it yourself?"
		MrPatient says, "Yeah, oops"
inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE"
inky says (to Floyd), "cf6"
Floyd \| > Floyd \| > SAVE Floyd \| %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Sanctuary 260 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Ok. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "give heart to stu"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 260 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > GIVE HEART TO STU Floyd \| Floyd \| You make a choice: you are a cultist, dammit. It's time to show these Floyd \| pinks what's what. Triumphantly, you hand over the Heart to Uncle Floyd \| Stu. He's completed every step of the ritual but the last one, and Floyd \| now his journey is complete. He puts a hand on your shoulder, gives Floyd \| you an exaggerated wink, and tears into the Heart with his Floyd \| suddenly-sharp teeth. With the first bite, he begins to grow more Floyd \| massive. His jaw unhinges like a great serpent's, and he swallows the Floyd \| rest of the Heart in one gulp. Tentacles emerge from his torso, and Floyd \| he bursts through the ceiling with a primeval roar. It is glorious, Floyd \| and you have made it possible. Iä! Iä! Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| * You have found religion * Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd \| command? Floyd \| >		DavidW says, "There's at least two other endings."
inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE"
inky says (to Floyd), "cf6"
Floyd \| > Floyd \| > RESTORE Floyd \| %% Enter a save filename to read: Floyd ] Sanctuary 260 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Ok. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "eat heart"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 260 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > EAT HEART Floyd \| Floyd \| You seize upon an idea: the power can be yours, instead of Stu's. You Floyd \| take a tentative bite of the Heart, then another. The blood trickles Floyd \| down your throat, and instantly, you can feel your gnawing hunger Floyd \| abate. Power courses through you. As Leah and the other congregants Floyd \| crumple to the floor, you begin to thrum with otherworldly energy. Floyd \| Stu looks up and sees you, sees that you've eaten the Heart. "No!" he Floyd \| hisses, and leaps toward you in desperation. You've ascended far Floyd \| beyond the likes of him, though. You snap his neck with your Floyd \| outstretched talons as easily as you would a breadstick. You feel an Floyd \| overwhelming surge as your form bursts through the ceiling of the Floyd \| synagogue, and your mind encompasses the stars and the ocean floor. Floyd \| Then a thought occurs to you: wasn't there supposed to be some sort of Floyd \| ritual to prepare for this? The explosion that tears through you Floyd \| demolishes much of Summit Avenue. Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| * Your hunger is sated * Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd \| command? Floyd \| >		Jacqueline says (to MrPatient), "If you ever do an update, I also just found a typo: 'probably knows that that we're searching for it' (double that)"
		MrPatient says, "Ah, thanks"
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 260 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > UNDO Floyd \| Floyd \| Sanctuary Floyd \| [Previous turn undone.] Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 260 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > S Floyd \| Floyd \| You choose to flee with the Heart. Stu won't get it, and neither will Floyd \| anyone else! You scramble over the fallen figures littering the Floyd \| sanctuary, and head south through the doorway. Somehow you find your Floyd \| way through a maze of corridors until you're outside. A cement truck Floyd \| lumbers down the street. Perfect! You take hold of the Heart, cock Floyd \| your arm and prepare to destroy the thing. Then Stu arrives, with a Floyd \| squad of police chasing close behind. "I'll take that," he growls, as Floyd \| he wrests the Heart away from you. With the first bite, he begins to Floyd \| grow even more massive. His jaw unhinges like a great serpent's, and Floyd \| he swallows the rest of the Heart in one gulp. Tentacles emerge from Floyd \| his torso, and he soon towers over the nearby buildings. It's pretty Floyd \| cool. Then he grabs you. Oh, right. Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| * You are among the first to be eaten * Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd \| command? Floyd \| >		DavidW says, "Not the ending I was thinking of."
		inky says, "so there's at least four endings"
		MrPatient says, "Five, I think"
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 260 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > UNDO Floyd \| Floyd \| Sanctuary Floyd \| [Previous turn undone.] Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "give pillow to stu"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 261 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > GIVE PILLOW TO STU Floyd \| Floyd \| Uncle Stu declines the offer. Floyd \| Floyd \| Blood begins to drip from the rabbi's ears as your uncle invokes the Floyd \| power of the crystal. You see figures all around the sanctuary		DavidW says, "Five? huh."
Floyd \| dropping to the floor. "Make it stop," Leah pleads, almost inaudibly Floyd \| over the infernal hum. She collapses to the ground, twitching, tears Floyd \| and blood streaking down her face. She looks up and recognizes you. Floyd \| Clearly terrified, she curls up into a tighter ball. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 262 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > I Floyd \| Floyd \| You are carrying: Floyd \| the Heart of Something Floyd \| a filthy pillow Floyd \| a kippah (being worn) Floyd \| a latex glove (being worn) Floyd \| a flashlight Floyd \| a hooded robe (hood lowered) (being worn) Floyd \| Floyd \| And you're all greased up. Floyd \| Floyd \| Almost everyone in the sanctuary, except for you and your uncle, is on Floyd \| the floor writhing, or worse, completely still. Leah quivers Floyd \| involuntarily, her hands clutched around her ears, her eyes closed Floyd \| tight. She whispers, perhaps to no one in particular, "Help me!" Floyd \| Alright, Stu, you think. Point made. Let's skedaddle. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline says, "'And you're all greased up' may be my new 'You can smell the cheese'"
		inky says, "hmm, I feel like there should be a way to give him a fake heart"
inky says (to Floyd), "put kippah on heart"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 262 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > PUT KIPPAH ON HEART Floyd \| Floyd \| Putting things on the Heart of Something would achieve nothing. Floyd \| Floyd \| You stare, dumbstruck, as the last surviving members of the Floyd \| congregation quiver their last. Stu strides over their bodies Floyd \| triumphantly. Mission accomplished, I guess? You didn't expect him Floyd \| to take it all the way, but Stu has been waiting for this moment for Floyd \| quite a while. He's fired up and ready to roll. Glancing at you Floyd \| dismissively, he snatches the Heart and tears into it with his Floyd \| suddenly-sharp teeth. With the first bite, he begins to grow more Floyd \| massive. His jaw unhinges like a great serpent's, and he swallows the Floyd \| rest of the Heart in one gulp. Tentacles emerge from his torso, and Floyd \| he bursts through the ceiling with a primeval roar. It is glorious. Floyd \| Even though you lost the Heart to begin with, you did at least make an Floyd \| effort to retrieve it, and Stu is feeling magnanimous. You serve at Floyd \| his right tentacle for a brief while until the mood passes, and you Floyd \| are consumed. Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| * You are among the last to be eaten * Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd \| command? Floyd \| >		MrPatient says, "OK, so there are six endings"
		inky says, "ha ha"
		DavidW says, "ha ha"
		inky asks, "so we're still down two?"
		Jacqueline says, "hahah"
		DavidW asks, "What if Leah eats it?"
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 262 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > UNDO Floyd \| Floyd \| Sanctuary Floyd \| [Previous turn undone.] Floyd \| Floyd \| >		maga says (to Jacq), "it'll always be 'this is the new you-can-smell-the-cheese', though, like how 'purple is the new black' doesn't ever mean that next time you say 'orange is the new purple'"
inky says (to Floyd), "give heart to leah"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 262 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > GIVE HEART TO LEAH Floyd \| Floyd \| Leah is too busy dying to accept the Heart. Floyd \| Floyd \| You stare, dumbstruck, as the last surviving members of the Floyd \| congregation quiver their last. Stu strides over their bodies Floyd \| triumphantly. Mission accomplished, I guess? You didn't expect him Floyd \| to take it all the way, but Stu has been waiting for this moment for Floyd \| quite a while. He's fired up and ready to roll. Glancing at you Floyd \| dismissively, he snatches the Heart and tears into it with his Floyd \| suddenly-sharp teeth. With the first bite, he begins to grow more Floyd \| massive. His jaw unhinges like a great serpent's, and he swallows the Floyd \| rest of the Heart in one gulp. Tentacles emerge from his torso, and Floyd \| he bursts through the ceiling with a primeval roar. It is glorious. Floyd \| Even though you lost the Heart to begin with, you did at least make an Floyd \| effort to retrieve it, and Stu is feeling magnanimous. You serve at Floyd \| his right tentacle for a brief while until the mood passes, and you Floyd \| are consumed. Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| * You are among the last to be eaten * Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd \| command? Floyd \| >		Jacqueline says, "Oh dear."
inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE"
inky says (to Floyd), "cf6"
Floyd \| > Floyd \| > RESTORE Floyd \| %% Enter a save filename to read: Floyd ] Sanctuary 260 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Ok. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		DavidW says, "oh, okay, not that."
inky says (to Floyd), "give heart to leah"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 261 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > GIVE HEART TO LEAH Floyd \| Floyd \| Leah is too busy dying to accept the Heart. Floyd \| Floyd \| Blood begins to drip from the rabbi's ears as your uncle invokes the Floyd \| power of the crystal. You see figures all around the sanctuary Floyd \| dropping to the floor. "Make it stop," Leah pleads, almost inaudibly Floyd \| over the infernal hum. She collapses to the ground, twitching, tears Floyd \| and blood streaking down her face. She looks up and recognizes you. Floyd \| Clearly terrified, she curls up into a tighter ball. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "ask leah about heart"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 262 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > ASK LEAH ABOUT HEART Floyd \| Floyd \| You couldn't have a conversation in this mayhem. Floyd \| Floyd \| Almost everyone in the sanctuary, except for you and your uncle, is on Floyd \| the floor writhing, or worse, completely still. Leah quivers Floyd \| involuntarily, her hands clutched around her ears, her eyes closed Floyd \| tight. She whispers, perhaps to no one in particular, "Help me!" Floyd \| Alright, Stu, you think. Point made. Let's skedaddle. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		DavidW asks, "Destroy the heart?"
inky says (to Floyd), "destroy heart"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 262 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > DESTROY HEART Floyd \| Floyd \| Filled with disgust at what you're seeing, you have an idea: perhaps Floyd \| you can destroy the Heart before Stu can get hold of it. You put it Floyd \| on the floor and stomp on it as hard as you can. It's squished a Floyd \| little, but surely still edible, for certain values of "edible." So Floyd \| much for that. You pick it back up. Floyd \| Floyd \| You stare, dumbstruck, as the last surviving members of the Floyd \| congregation quiver their last. Stu strides over their bodies Floyd \| triumphantly. Mission accomplished, I guess? You didn't expect him Floyd \| to take it all the way, but Stu has been waiting for this moment for Floyd \| quite a while. He's fired up and ready to roll. Glancing at you Floyd \| dismissively, he snatches the Heart and tears into it with his Floyd \| suddenly-sharp teeth. With the first bite, he begins to grow more Floyd \| massive. His jaw unhinges like a great serpent's, and he swallows the Floyd \| rest of the Heart in one gulp. Tentacles emerge from his torso, and Floyd \| he bursts through the ceiling with a primeval roar. It is glorious. Floyd \| Even though you lost the Heart to begin with, you did at least make an Floyd \| effort to retrieve it, and Stu is feeling magnanimous. You serve at Floyd \| his right tentacle for a brief while until the mood passes, and you Floyd \| are consumed. Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| * You are among the last to be eaten * Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd \| command? Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 262 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > UNDO Floyd \| Floyd \| Sanctuary Floyd \| [Previous turn undone.] Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "burn heart"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 262 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > BURN HEART Floyd \| Floyd \| You have an idea: perhaps you can burn the Heart! You rush the stage, Floyd \| and place the Heart over the open flame. The Heart begins to warm up Floyd \| a little, but you can see at this pace that it won't burn up in any Floyd \| reasonable amount of time. Hell, if anything, you're just making it Floyd \| more appetizing for Stu. Floyd \| Floyd \| You stare, dumbstruck, as the last surviving members of the Floyd \| congregation quiver their last. Stu strides over their bodies Floyd \| triumphantly. Mission accomplished, I guess? You didn't expect him Floyd \| to take it all the way, but Stu has been waiting for this moment for Floyd \| quite a while. He's fired up and ready to roll. Glancing at you Floyd \| dismissively, he snatches the Heart and tears into it with his Floyd \| suddenly-sharp teeth. With the first bite, he begins to grow more Floyd \| massive. His jaw unhinges like a great serpent's, and he swallows the Floyd \| rest of the Heart in one gulp. Tentacles emerge from his torso, and Floyd \| he bursts through the ceiling with a primeval roar. It is glorious. Floyd \| Even though you lost the Heart to begin with, you did at least make an Floyd \| effort to retrieve it, and Stu is feeling magnanimous. You serve at Floyd \| his right tentacle for a brief while until the mood passes, and you Floyd \| are consumed. Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| * You are among the last to be eaten * Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd \| command? Floyd \| >		DavidW says, "hm, nope"
		inky says, "ha ha"
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 262 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > UNDO Floyd \| Floyd \| Sanctuary Floyd \| [Previous turn undone.] Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "blow shofar"
Floyd \| > Floyd \| > BLOW SHOFAR Floyd \| Floyd \| (first taking the shofar) Floyd \| You leap over to the podium and grab the horn. Seized by a sudden Floyd \| flash of insight and pity, you inhale until you're full to bursting, Floyd \| and put the horn to your lips. You sound a massive, deep blast that Floyd \| reverberates against the walls of the sanctuary. You keep the blast Floyd \| going, a single piercing note, forcing the air from your lungs until Floyd \| they begin to ache. You look up, and see the congregation recovering. Floyd \| The horn's blast is drowning out the crystal! Leah slowly uncurls Floyd \| herself, opens her eyes, and sees you sounding the horn. She seems Floyd \| oddly calm now, and starts to crawl away. Floyd \| Floyd \| Still you blow, your face turning red, then purple, the same note Floyd \| sounding, shaking the very walls of the temple. You close your eyes Floyd \| as you expel the last bit of air. Finally, there's a cracking sound, Floyd \| and a pulse of white light. The crystal shatters. Floyd \| Floyd \| The rabbi stands, a trickle of blood running along his jawline and Floyd \| down his chin. "Tekiah gedolah!" he shouts, as the other Floyd \| congregants snap out of their fugues. Suddenly, there's another Floyd \| crack, and your dumbstruck uncle crumples to the ground. Standing Floyd \| over him is Leah, clutching a Torah in both hands. Her face is caked Floyd \| with blood, her dress dirty and wrinkled, her mascara running in thick Floyd \| black streaks down her face. She looks up at you and smiles. She's Floyd \| the most beautiful woman you've ever seen. Three Saint Paul policemen Floyd \| burst in with tasers and handcuffs, but frankly, their job has been Floyd \| done for them. Floyd \| Floyd \| "I knew you couldn't be all bad," Leah says, between strained breaths. Floyd \| "You were so gentle with my roommate's beagle when we brought her in Floyd \| with a scratched eye last winter. It was really sweet." At this, she Floyd \| throws up. Still, it's a nice moment. Floyd \| Floyd \| press any key		DavidW says, "This is my favourite ending of the endings I know."
		inky says, "it does seem like the good ending"
inky pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ] Como Park 263 Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd \| Floyd \| Como Park Floyd \| One year later. You stand under the chuppah on a warm summer day in Floyd \| Como Park. Sailboats and canoes dot the lake in front of you. The Floyd \| air is filled with bird songs and the scent of flowers. Leah stands Floyd \| to your right, beaming and crying. Behind you are several dozen Floyd \| guests. On her side: her parents, family, and friends. On yours: Floyd \| Sandy, Jeff, and some of the other guys from the cult. Yeah, the cult Floyd \| is still operating, but it's pretty mellow now. Fewer human Floyd \| sacrifices, more pancake breakfasts. Mostly now it's just a way to Floyd \| feel like you're part of something. Floyd \| Floyd \| The rabbi places his hands upon your heads and intones a final prayer. Floyd \| At your feet is a glass, wrapped in a napkin. The rabbi points to it Floyd \| and nods. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "break glass"
Floyd ] Como Park 263 Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd \| Floyd \| > BREAK GLASS Floyd \| Floyd \| You break the glass (on the second try) and kiss your bride. The Floyd \| assembled crowd claps and hollers in approval. Even the winged horror Floyd \| gives a celebratory screech. Floyd \| Floyd \| Let's get to the reception; you're starving. Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| * Mazel tov * Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions Floyd \| for AMUSING things to do, QUIT or UNDO the last command? Floyd \| >		MrPatient says, "It took me two tries to break the glass at my own wedding"
		DavidW says, "I love that ending."
		Jacqueline says, "That... is a very good ending that I did not think could possibly exist."
		PaulS says, "I am especially glad the winged horror gets to attend. I feel he has a dreary life."
		MrPatient says, "Aw, thanks"
		inky asks, "did you literally use a glass?"
		MrPatient says, "Yeah"
		Jacqueline says, "Also, wow. A game we actually finished in under two hours."
		inky says, "I think we had a light bulb"
		DavidW says (to inky), "I didn't know one could do that."
		inky says, "supposedly it makes a better noise, too"
		Jacqueline says (to inky), "The illusion is ruined for me now."
		inky says, "hee hee"
		maga says, "presumably not everyone wants to wear steel-toed boots at their wedding"
		DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "so it's a symbol of a symbol."
		Jacqueline says, "Sure, sure."
		jenrexrode says, "better safe than sorry."
		Jacqueline says, "Anyway, this was pretty awesome. Thank you for creating this, Sean."
inky says (to Floyd), "amusing"
Floyd ] Como Park 263 Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd \| Floyd \| > AMUSING Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Have you tried: Floyd \| Floyd \| Consulting the tomes about Arkham, or Cthulhu, or Yuggoth, or Floyd \| Miskatonic U., or other Lovecrafty stuff? Floyd \| Licking the wax paper? The Baby Ruth wrapper? Floyd \| Kissing Walter? Floyd \| Putting Walter in the oven? Floyd \| Putting the Ziploc bag on Walter? Floyd \| Putting the Breaking Bad DVDs in the security system? Floyd \| Taking Sam's nose? Floyd \| Taking Leah's satchel? Floyd \| Burning anything? Floyd \| Touching the ichor with your bare hand more than once? Floyd \| Wearing the hairclip? Floyd \| Singing while in the synagogue? Floyd \| Greasing someone else? Floyd \| Taking the houses on Randolph Avenue? Floyd \| Filling the glove with water? Floyd \| Swimming in the Mississippi River? Floyd \| Taking the ark of the Torah? Floyd \| Floyd \| Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions Floyd \| for AMUSING things to do, QUIT or UNDO the last command? Floyd \| >		MrPatient says, "Thanks, you guys! It was great writing it and playing it with you."
		inky says, "yeah, that was fun"
		PaulS says, "It's a very good game, really fun."
		MrPatient says, "Taking the ark is worth your time, if you have a sec"
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Como Park 263 Floyd ] Exits: None Floyd \| Floyd \| > UNDO Floyd \| Floyd \| Como Park Floyd \| [Previous turn undone.] Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 262 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > UNDO Floyd \| Floyd \| Sanctuary Floyd \| [Previous turn undone.] Floyd \| Floyd \| >
inky says (to Floyd), "get torah"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 262 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > GET TORAH Floyd \| Floyd \| You box up the ark of the Torah and ship it to a giant warehouse Floyd \| amidst thousands of similar crates. Top men will be assigned to study Floyd \| it. Top. Men. Floyd \| Floyd \| Awakened from this momentary reverie, you recall that the ark is just Floyd \| a cupboard built into the wall of the sanctuary, and cannot be taken. Floyd \| Floyd \| You stare, dumbstruck, as the last surviving members of the Floyd \| congregation quiver their last. Stu strides over their bodies Floyd \| triumphantly. Mission accomplished, I guess? You didn't expect him Floyd \| to take it all the way, but Stu has been waiting for this moment for Floyd \| quite a while. He's fired up and ready to roll. Glancing at you Floyd \| dismissively, he snatches the Heart and tears into it with his Floyd \| suddenly-sharp teeth. With the first bite, he begins to grow more Floyd \| massive. His jaw unhinges like a great serpent's, and he swallows the Floyd \| rest of the Heart in one gulp. Tentacles emerge from his torso, and Floyd \| he bursts through the ceiling with a primeval roar. It is glorious. Floyd \| Even though you lost the Heart to begin with, you did at least make an Floyd \| effort to retrieve it, and Stu is feeling magnanimous. You serve at Floyd \| his right tentacle for a brief while until the mood passes, and you Floyd \| are consumed. Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| * You are among the last to be eaten * Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd \| command? Floyd \| >		inky says, "hooray"
		DavidW says, "ha ha"
		Jacqueline says (to inky), "So, for next week it's a Choice Script game. I'll email Lynnea Glasser and Dan Fabulous and you to see if we can get it put on Floyd."
		Jacqueline says, "Also, yay. Top. Men."
		inky says, "sounds good"
		MrPatient says, "Thanks again, everyone. This was great. And you did a superlative job with the puzzles."
		Jacqueline says, "Are we still poking around? Like, are we going for a swim in the Mississippi river? Because when we're done poking around I have another general ClubFloyd logistics question."
		inky says, "I'm done poking but someone else can feel free to take over"
		inky says, "(cf2 is right there, I think"
		Jacqueline asks, "...at the river?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load cf2"
Floyd ] Sanctuary 262 Floyd ] Exits: SOUTH east Floyd \| Floyd \| > LOAD CF2 Floyd \| Floyd \| Please give one of the answers above. Floyd \| Floyd \| Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd \| command? Floyd \| >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore"
Floyd \| > Floyd \| > RESTORE Floyd \| %% Enter a save filename to read:
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf2"
Floyd ] Super-Secret Entrance to Carver's Cave 110 Floyd ] Exits: NORTH up DOWN INSIDE Floyd \| Ok. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 111 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > D Floyd \| Floyd \| Floyd \| Base of the Bluff Floyd \| You're at the bottom of the bluff now, with the river directly before Floyd \| you. Protruding from the bluff is a small pipe. A stream of water Floyd \| emerges and drips into the river. Floyd \| Floyd \| The entrance to the cave is above you. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "swim"
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 112 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > SWIM Floyd \| Floyd \| The headline in tomorrow's Pioneer Press: Area Man, Unable to Floyd \| Drop Heavy Robe for Some Reason, Drowns. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "remove robe"
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 113 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > REMOVE ROBE Floyd \| Floyd \| You take off the hooded robe. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		DavidW says, "fwiw, for Quest, I found this forum thread: [LINK]"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "swim"
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 114 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > SWIM Floyd \| Floyd \| The headline in tomorrow's Pioneer Press: Area Man, Unable to Floyd \| Drop Heavy Robe for Some Reason, Drowns. Floyd \| Floyd \| >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drop robe"
Floyd ] Base of the Bluff 115 Floyd ] Exits: up Floyd \| Floyd \| > DROP ROBE Floyd \| Floyd \| You probably want to hang onto it. You can't be a proper cultist Floyd \| without it. Floyd \| Floyd \| >		Jacqueline says, "Aw"
		inky says, "ha ha"
		Jacqueline says (to DW), "Thanks. I was going to ask vimes if he could maybe get the Quest game running."
		DavidW says, "well, it doesn't look likely. Something about a 'QuestConsole project in the source code' that's 'not pretty' and 'not had any attention for a whie'."
		Jacqueline says, "But my other question was whether or not people had ideas for the liveplay of 4 & 5. David, I know you're on a pretty slow connection, but I keep getting asked if we can do a hangout or twitch or something."
		Jacqueline asks (of DW), "I thought we got older Quest stuff to run on Floyd?"
		DavidW says, "I don't remember, but newer Quest stuff almost certainly won't work."
		Jacqueline says, "I'm torn over whether or not to do some sort of non-Floyd play of games in Quest or Twine and still call it ClubFloyd."
		DavidW says, "If you can think of a way to do it, sure."
		Jacqueline says, "Well, I'm mostly worried that you, a regular, wouldn't be able to attend due to bandwidth issues."
		Jacqueline says, "I can probably do AlethiCorp as brutal cut and paste, because I hear the images are few and not that important."
		DavidW says, "Central library branch is open on Sundays now, but doesn't open until 1pm."
		Jacqueline says, "But With Those We Love Alive, there's serious multimedia that would need a different approach."
		DavidW says, "I didn't play AlethiCorp."
		Jacqueline says (to DW), "Well, I'm okay with starting later."
		DavidW says, "Or WTWLA."
		Jacqueline says, "I think we can do the next three without anything too special."
		Jacqueline says, "I could cut & paste Jacqueline if I have to."
		DavidW says, "WTWLA was at WordPlay, but I didn't get a chance to get to it."
		DavidW says, "Jacqueline has some cute graphics; non-essential, but still. And does some nifty in-game mappings."
		MrPatient says, "I have to go. Thanks again, and Happy Thanksgiving to any USians."
		Jacqueline says, "Anyway, next week we'll do Creatures Such as We, and I'll try to figure out what/if we can do for the others."
		DavidW says, "Thanks, MrPatient!"
		Jacqueline exclaims "Thanks, MrPatient!"