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Like ClubFloyd, the idea behind NightFloyd is that a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction. |
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
Like ClubFloyd, the idea behind NightFloyd is that a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction. |
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| Ghogg asks, "up for spinning ifdb on random?" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "Sure" | ||
| Ghogg says, "ok, I'm going to hit the random and pick the first one that works on floyd" | ||
| Ghogg says, "looks like ... till death make a monk-fish out of me" | ||
| Ghogg says, "which oddly, I have not played, but most others may have so ..." | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I think NF played that, albeit a few years ago." | ||
| Ghogg says, "nothing else looks like it works. I can hit the button again if you like" | ||
| Zach says, "I haven't played it" | ||
| Ghogg says, "let's see, it was 2009" | ||
| Ghogg asks, "you up for a clubfloyd repeat?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm pretty sure I've played Monk-Fish." | ||
| Zach says, "According to ifwiki, it's in the exciting Building genre" | ||
| genericgeekgirl says, "I'm not really playing, so I'm happy with whatever." | ||
| DavidW says, "(and geez, really lagging)" | ||
| You say (to floyd), "load tildeath" | ||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd | tadsr - A text-only TADS 2.5.10 Interpreter.
Floyd | Copyright (c) 1993, 2006 by Michael J. Roberts.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | "After you, Professor," Zak says, holding open the door. "Think - if
Floyd | this works you'll be standing on the surface in no time!"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yes, Zak, I know."
Floyd |
Floyd | TILL DEATH MAKES A MONK-FISH OUT OF ME
Floyd | Interactive Fiction
Floyd | Copyright (c) 2002, 2003 by Michael J. Sousa and Jon Ingold.
Floyd | (First-time players should type HELP)
Floyd | Release 1.1 / Serial number 021103 / TADS 2.56
Floyd |
Floyd | Machine Room
Floyd | The floor is a tangle of cables running from the bank of heavy
Floyd | machinery to the man-sized glass cylinder in the corner; it's like a
Floyd | blender plugged into a car-battery in a giant's world. The whole
Floyd | arrangement looks suspiciously haphazard.
Floyd |
Floyd | Dr. Kurner is already here, looking like he only just got out of bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | The others enter behind you. "All set, Professor?" asks Zak, clapping
Floyd | you on the back. Taking your arm he helps you into the glass tube.
Floyd | You don't need help, but this is a Momentous Occasion.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "I probably should just watch anyway." | |
| Ghogg says, "I dunno why I never got round to this one" | ||
| You say (to floyd), "x tube" | ||
Floyd | I don't see any tube here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| [questionablecontent] inky says, "in most families claire would be the most awkward siblinf" | ||
| You say (to floyd), "x cables" | ||
Floyd | The cables connect the various components to your machine.
Floyd |
Floyd | The glass door slides quickly shut. Your view of the scientists is
Floyd | somewhat obscured by a note, taped to the inside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "oh, this bit is clever" | |
| DavidW says, "at the beginning" | ||
| DavidW says, "Actually, there are several clever bits in this game." | ||
| You say (to floyd), "x note" | ||
Floyd | (first taking the note)
Floyd | "Well, Professor. I suspect that from now on you will not prove a
Floyd | problem in my life any more. Your machine is under my control. Shall
Floyd | we say: if you are reading this, you are already dead."
Floyd |
Floyd | "FIVE," booms the automated countdown voice.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Zach says, "noooo" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd | The glass cover is locked; but your eyes fall to the release switch on
Floyd | the side.
Floyd |
Floyd | Outside all the scientists gather around the machinery, intent; tapping
Floyd | gauges and nodding seriously. All except Dr. Kurner, that is, who
Floyd | stands off to one side, leaning heavily on a counter, staring at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | "FOUR." There's a slight snigger sound just at the end; you remember
Floyd | laughing when you recorded that last week.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| You say (to floyd), "pull switch" | ||
Floyd | It's a push switch.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hey - do you suppose it should be sparking like that?" Zak pipes up.
Floyd | The others tut and mutter.
Floyd |
Floyd | "THREE." Power begins to build.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Ghogg says, "of course it is" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "push switch" | ||
Floyd | You push the release. Nothing results but a grating noise. It's
Floyd | broken!
Floyd |
Floyd | "And then there's quite a bit of smoke too, isn't there?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "TWO." The cables on the floor wriggle like a squid.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | ||
Floyd | You smack the glass heavily. Zak turns and gives you a cheery wave,
Floyd | then turns back.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Maybe we should open it up and take a look?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Dr. Kurner's attention is taken briefly by a school of fish passing by
Floyd | the window. No dedication, that man.
Floyd |
Floyd | "ONE." The coils at the top of the cylinder make a searing noise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "die" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "die".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "dan ce" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "dan".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "dance".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| You say (to floyd), "yell" | ||
Floyd | Your words are muffled by the glass; which steams up as you shout. You
Floyd | could probably write in the condensation with a fingertip, though.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Anyone got a screwdriver?" A few pat their pockets, and shrug.
Floyd |
Floyd | "ZER-OH!" The machine blasts a spurt of searing white light, as though
Floyd | your head has come off. The scientists outside barely seem to notice
Floyd | as they hunt around for a coin to use in the screw-head. Just as
Floyd | everything fades fuzzily to black, you see Kurner stumble himself; then
Floyd | the world slides away...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Consciousness projection. They'd not said it couldn't be done, but
Floyd | they had said it was pretty unlikely. They'd not said you were mad,
Floyd | but they had said you were a little unusual, especially in your taste
Floyd | for sushi. But you knew, if anyone down in AtlantisLab needs anything,
Floyd | it's a holiday on the surface. Preferably a holiday as a
Floyd | twenty-two-year-old beach dweller.
Floyd |
Floyd | Which is where you should be right now. It feels colder than Hawaii
Floyd | should this time of year. You have a slight headache. It's dark - so
Floyd | you open your eyes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Ghogg says (to Zach), "go ahead" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | You have nothing, absolutely nothing. And you're cold as a
Floyd | consequence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd | Well, you seem to be naked. This isn't your body either. So
Floyd | everything's gone to plan; except this doesn't look a lot like Hawaii.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tied around your toe is a tag. It reads "John Doe." Well, at least
Floyd | you know what name you should answer to.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Zach says, "Hooray" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd | You stand up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | In a drawer, standing up
Floyd | You are standing up in a long metal drawer, halfway up a large wall
Floyd | of metal drawers. Most of the others are closed; yours is open. Below
Floyd | - about ten feet or so - is the floor of an unfamiliar room, with a
Floyd | door at the far end. The main features seem to be metal: metal
Floyd | ceiling, metal walls, metal piping along one side. Coupled with the
Floyd | dim lighting, this is definitely not Waikiki Beach, by any stretch of
Floyd | the imagination.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| You say (to floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | The ground is too far to jump!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| You say (to floyd), "x drawers" | ||
Floyd | Your drawer is empty bar you, without even a sheet, and is labelled
Floyd | "John Doe" at the front. Looking around the others you see they're all
Floyd | labelled too - there's Jeremy Doe off to one side; Jack Doe a few
Floyd | levels up, and the lowest down you can read is Ms. Jenny Doe; who's
Floyd | about halfway to the ground. The surrounding drawers are all closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||
Floyd | Your drawer is already open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| says (to floyd), "open jeremy doe" | |
| You say (to floyd), "open jeremy doe" | ||
Floyd | I don't see any jeremy doe here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| You say (to floyd), "open jeremy doe drawer" | ||
Floyd | I don't see any jeremy doe drawer here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "climb down" | ||
Floyd | What do you want to climb down?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "climb down drawers" | ||
Floyd | The ground is too far to jump! Floyd | | Ghogg says, "hmm" | |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "x pipe" | ||
Floyd | The room is designed in smooth, sparse fashion.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Emily goes home. | ||
| Emily has disconnected. | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd | You're not tired.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||
Floyd | You're a scientist, not an idiot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| You say (to floyd), "yell" | ||
Floyd | You resist the urge.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Ghogg says, "out of ideas, unless our drawer syntax is wrong" | |
| DavidW asks, "I know the other drawers are openable. Perhaps try 'open jeremy's drawer'?" | ||
| You say (to floyd), "open jeremy's drawer" | ||
Floyd | You slide open Jeremy's drawer. He's inside, asleep. He seems to have
Floyd | a peg-leg.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "enter jeremy's drawer" | ||
Floyd | You try to haul yourself, but his drawer starts to wobble alarmingly as
Floyd | you tug on it, and you wouldn't want to wake him. Besides, you're
Floyd | headed downwards, surely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| You say (to floyd), "get peg-leg" | ||
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Zach says, "eek" | |
| You say (to floyd), "open jack's drawer" | ||
Floyd | You stand up, and can easily reach Jack's drawer to slide it open.
Floyd | Jack is inside, but he appears to be asleep.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| You say (to floyd), "x jack" | ||
Floyd | You can only really make out his feet from down here, but they're very
Floyd | still, so he must be fast asleep.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "wake jack" | ||
Floyd | Don't wake him. He looks like he's sleeping real deeply.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "enter jack's drawer" | ||
Floyd | You try to haul yourself, but his drawer starts to wobble alarmingly as
Floyd | you tug on it, and you wouldn't want to wake him. Besides, you're
Floyd | headed downwards, surely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| You say (to floyd), "open jenny's drAWER" | ||
Floyd | (with the peg-leg)
Floyd | Hooking the drawer with Jeremy's leg, you slide it open. Poor old
Floyd | Jenny rolls into view. She looks positively knackered.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| You say (to floyd), "enter jenny's drawer" | ||
Floyd | The peg is far too cumbersome for this manoeuvre, so you first give it
Floyd | back to good old Jeremy next door.
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a fair way down - so first you get a solid grip on the edge of
Floyd | your pallet, and then very gradually you slide off it. There's a
Floyd | moment of flailing before one toe meets her drawer. Slight kick in the
Floyd | ribs - you freeze - but she hasn't noticed. Lucky. Next foot, you
Floyd | can't see where it's going - oops, that felt like her head; you feel
Floyd | certain her eyes must open any second, you'll hear a complaint... no,
Floyd | no, somehow you get away with it. The next time you put it down it's
Floyd | more or less onto a clear space - bar some hair.
Floyd |
Floyd | You let go of your drawer, now firmly astride Jenny's, and rub your
Floyd | hands. There's a deep shadowed groove in either palm from holding up
Floyd | your weight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Ghogg says (to Zach), "save? dunno how deadly this game is" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "cf9" | ||
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Ghogg says, "oh no I am confused which is it" | |
| You say (to floyd), "x jenny" | ||
Floyd | Jenny is a red-head, and a good-looking one too.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "wake jenny" | ||
Floyd | That might make for quite an embarrassing scene, don't you think? You
Floyd | have broken into her drawer uninvited.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| You say (to floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd | You make the final fall to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bottom of ramp
Floyd | This is a thin room then, between the wall of square drawers like a
Floyd | tiling and another side of sheer metal, east and west respectively.
Floyd | The floor is split-level; from where you stand a ramp leads up and
Floyd | northward, and light from a window there tumbles back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | The drawers stop about five feet from ground-level; below are four
Floyd | compartments.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a smooth hatch set into the south wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| You say (to floyd), "open compartment" | ||
Floyd | Which compartment do you mean, Rosalind's compartment, Kathleen's
Floyd | compartment, Victoria's compartment, or Charlotte's compartment?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| You say (to floyd), "rosalind's" | ||
Floyd | Inside the compartment is an empty trolley.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "open all compartments" | ||
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Which compartment do you mean, Rosalind's compartment, Kathleen's Floyd | compartment, Victoria's compartment, or Charlotte's compartment? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "rosalind's" | ||
Floyd | Inside the compartment is an empty trolley.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "open all compartments" | ||
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "open kathleen's compartment" | ||
Floyd | You slide open the compartment. Inside is a trolley on which lies what
Floyd | is clearly a corpse. A transparent sheet covers face down to ankles,
Floyd | like it was wrapped in cling-film. Only the feet protrude - no tag. A
Floyd | little horrified, you slam the compartment closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Ghogg says (to floyd), "open victoria's compartment" | ||
Floyd | You quickly slide it open and shut -- same story as the other
Floyd | compartment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "open Charlotte's compartment" | ||
Floyd | You quickly slide it open and shut -- same story as the other
Floyd | compartment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Ghogg says (to floyd), "get trolley" | ||
Floyd | You can't reach it from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Zach says, "Eek, this means Rosalind is a zombie" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x toe" | ||
Floyd | "John Doe."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "x hatch" | ||
Floyd | The hatch is about three foot square and flush with the floor. Just by
Floyd | it is a circular recess in the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "open hatch" | ||
Floyd | The hatchway will not open, will not budge and will not slide either.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Lionheart says, "Oh, now the scientist recognizes corpses." | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x recess" | ||
Floyd | It's roughly ten centimeters wide and deep, and is barely a meter off
Floyd | the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | Bottom of ramp
Floyd | This is a thin room then, between the wall of square drawers like a
Floyd | tiling and another side of sheer metal, east and west respectively.
Floyd | The floor is split-level; from where you stand a ramp leads up and
Floyd | northward, and light from a window there tumbles back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | The drawers stop about five feet from ground-level; below are four
Floyd | compartments.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a smooth hatch set into the south wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||
Floyd | You can't see much from here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Ghogg says (to floyd), "enter rosalind's compartment" | ||
Floyd | You enter Rosalind's compartment.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside Rosalind's compartment
Floyd | A metal box, seven foot by four foot by five, arranged such that you
Floyd | could lie down spread-eagled but stoop when you stand. The west wall
Floyd | is missing. In the middle of the floor is a low flat trolley.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Ghogg says (to floyd), "get trolley" | ||
Floyd | It's too heavy to lift.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Ghogg says (to floyd), "push trolley west" | ||
Floyd | You push the trolley west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bottom of ramp
Floyd | This is a thin room then, between the wall of square drawers like a
Floyd | tiling and another side of sheer metal, east and west respectively.
Floyd | The floor is split-level; from where you stand a ramp leads up and
Floyd | northward, and light from a window there tumbles back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | The drawers stop about five feet from ground-level; below are four
Floyd | compartments.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a smooth hatch set into the south wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Ghogg says (to floyd), "x hatch" | ||
Floyd | The hatch is about three foot square and flush with the floor. Just by
Floyd | it is a circular recess in the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Ghogg says (to floyd), "x recess" | ||
Floyd | It's roughly ten centimeters wide and deep, and is barely a meter off
Floyd | the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Ghogg asks, "I guess up is an exit?" | |
| Zach asks, "Up?" | ||
| Zach says, "Yeah" | ||
| Ghogg says, "it's a little ambiguous as written" | ||
| Ghogg says, "go for it" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | Top of ramp
Floyd | This is a small stage, facing the stalls below down a ramp to the
Floyd | south, with the royal boxes on the wall above, reserved it seems for
Floyd | the Doe family. You could take your bow, lit by the spotlight-glow
Floyd | through the window, or slip offstage through the door just beside it.
Floyd | Just left of the door is a small device.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "bow" | ||
Floyd | Anything for a little credit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Ghogg says (to floyd), "x device" | ||
Floyd | It's rectangular in shape and the words
Floyd |
Floyd | ** ERROR - Reset Required **
Floyd |
Floyd | are printed on the tiny display. Near the display is a button.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "x button" | ||
Floyd | It's a single black button.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Ghogg says (to floyd), "push button" | ||
Floyd | The display is cleared.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "x wubdiw" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "wubdiw".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||
Floyd | Across the glass in arcing letters is emblazoned: "YRAUTROM" (though
Floyd | the R's are a little strange). Which is - you're quite sure - a place
Floyd | in Jordan; and not a place in Hawaii.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is bright in the corridor beyond, which smarts your eyes a little.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the bottom of the ramp, a robot appears through the hatch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Ghogg says, "oho" | |
| Zach says, "omg guys" | ||
| Zach says, "The PC isn't too bright" | ||
| Ghogg asks (of Zach), "totally did *not* see that coming am I right?" | ||
| Zach says, "So right" | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "x robot" | ||
Floyd | The orange robot is shaped like a square coffee-table resting on one
Floyd | side. The two legs - or rather, arms - at the top each boast a shining
Floyd | disc, like eyes; though only one is a camera lens and the other is a
Floyd | stubby protrusion like a hockey puck. The two bottom prongs are run
Floyd | with caterpillar tracks. Slung between them is brown hexagonal tube.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is a Hearse-o-Matic, a Hansome. Printed along one side is the
Floyd | robot's name: Charlotte.
Floyd |
Floyd | Charlotte positions its hexagonal tube by the trolley base with a
Floyd | muffled clang. It then powers toward you up the ramp, pushing the
Floyd | trolley ahead of it.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "I knew from the toe tag." | |
| Lionheart says, "I suppose we should cut the PC some slack, he needs some braaaaains." | ||
| Ghogg asks, "are there any other exits?" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "exits".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | Top of ramp
Floyd | This is a small stage, facing the stalls below down a ramp to the
Floyd | south, with the royal boxes on the wall above, reserved it seems for
Floyd | the Doe family. You could take your bow, lit by the spotlight-glow
Floyd | through the window, or slip offstage through the door just beside it.
Floyd | In the middle of the floor is a low flat trolley. Just left of the
Floyd | door is a small device.
Floyd |
Floyd | The robot extends its hockey puck to an absurd length, reaching over
Floyd | the trolley in front, to clip into the recess by the door. The
Floyd | entrance slides open, and the robot and trolley both disappear through
Floyd | the door. Then the door slams shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Ghogg asks, "er, did we just lose? I guess we needed to be in the trolley?" | |
| Zach has disconnected. | ||
| Zach has connected. | Zach says, "Hmm" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd | It is locked, it seems. By the side, at shoulder height, is a black
Floyd | glass palm-scanner. Three feet below is a circular recess and to the
Floyd | left is a small device.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Zach asks, "Unless there's another trolley?" | |
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd | Bottom of ramp
Floyd | This is a thin room then, between the wall of square drawers like a
Floyd | tiling and another side of sheer metal, east and west respectively.
Floyd | The floor is split-level; from where you stand a ramp leads up and
Floyd | northward, and light from a window there tumbles back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | The drawers stop about five feet from ground-level; below are four
Floyd | compartments.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a smooth hatch set into the south wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Ghogg says (to floyd), "x compartments" | ||
Floyd | The names read: Kathleen, Victoria, Charlotte and Rosalind.
Floyd |
Floyd | The hatch slides open long enough to spit out an orange robot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "open charlotte's compartment" | ||
Floyd | You quickly slide it open and shut -- same story as the other
Floyd | compartment.
Floyd |
Floyd | The robot - whose name appears to be Kathleen - rumbles up the ramp.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach says (to Floyd), "open kathleen's compartment" | ||
Floyd | You open the compartment - there is a trolley inside, pallet to a
Floyd | paleface, conveyance for a cadaver, station for a stiff. You let it
Floyd | rest in peace, and close the compartment once more.
Floyd |
Floyd | At the top of the ramp, the robot does something to make the door open,
Floyd | and slips through. Then the door slams shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Ghogg says, "hmm" | |
| Zach asks, "So, zombie robots?" | ||
| Ghogg asks, "probably a way to tag a ride on the robot then?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I think the game is still playable and winnable." | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Ghogg says (to floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | The hatch slides open long enough to spit out an orange robot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "get on robot" | ||
Floyd | There's no surface to clamber on.
Floyd |
Floyd | The robot - whose name appears to be Victoria - rumbles up the ramp.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Ghogg says, "hum" | |
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Bottom of ramp
Floyd | This is a thin room then, between the wall of square drawers like a
Floyd | tiling and another side of sheer metal, east and west respectively.
Floyd | The floor is split-level; from where you stand a ramp leads up and
Floyd | northward, and light from a window there tumbles back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | The drawers stop about five feet from ground-level; below are four
Floyd | compartments.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a smooth hatch set into the south wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd | Top of ramp
Floyd | This is a small stage, facing the stalls below down a ramp to the
Floyd | south, with the royal boxes on the wall above, reserved it seems for
Floyd | the Doe family. You could take your bow, lit by the spotlight-glow
Floyd | through the window, or slip offstage through the door just beside it.
Floyd | Just left of the door is a small device.
Floyd |
Floyd | The robot - whose name appears to be Victoria - rumbles up the ramp.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "follow robot" | ||
Floyd | But Victoria is right here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The robot inserts its hockey puck into the circular recess and opens
Floyd | the door long enough for it to power through. Then the door slams
Floyd | shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Ghogg asks, "I guess we need to nab the puck?" | |
| Zach says, "Hmm, sure" | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Top of ramp
Floyd | This is a small stage, facing the stalls below down a ramp to the
Floyd | south, with the royal boxes on the wall above, reserved it seems for
Floyd | the Doe family. You could take your bow, lit by the spotlight-glow
Floyd | through the window, or slip offstage through the door just beside it.
Floyd | Just left of the door is a small device.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "get puck" | ||
Floyd | I don't see any puck here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "get robot" | ||
Floyd | The days when you could pick up something so large, bulky and just
Floyd | plain heavy are long past.
Floyd |
Floyd | The robot inserts its hockey puck into the circular recess and opens
Floyd | the door long enough for it to power through. Then the door slams
Floyd | shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Top of ramp
Floyd | This is a small stage, facing the stalls below down a ramp to the
Floyd | south, with the royal boxes on the wall above, reserved it seems for
Floyd | the Doe family. You could take your bow, lit by the spotlight-glow
Floyd | through the window, or slip offstage through the door just beside it.
Floyd | Just left of the door is a small device.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Ghogg says (to Zach), "try noodling a bt" | |
| Zach asks, "Mind if I try restoring?" | ||
| Ghogg says, "yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | Ghogg says, "maybe restore, get out the trolley again, push trolly to next to button, push button, jump in" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "cf9" | ||
Floyd | File to restore game from >
Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | In Jenny's drawer
Floyd | You are standing precariously at the end of Jenny Doe's drawer.
Floyd | Yours is open some way above, and the ground in within jumping
Floyd | distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | Jenny seems blissfully unaware of your presence. Though when she
Floyd | wakes, she's going to wonder about the bruise across her stomach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd | You make the final fall to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bottom of ramp
Floyd | This is a thin room then, between the wall of square drawers like a
Floyd | tiling and another side of sheer metal, east and west respectively.
Floyd | The floor is split-level; from where you stand a ramp leads up and
Floyd | northward, and light from a window there tumbles back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | The drawers stop about five feet from ground-level; below are four
Floyd | compartments.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a smooth hatch set into the south wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open rosalind's" | ||
Floyd | Inside the compartment is an empty trolley.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "push trolley" | ||
Floyd | The trolley's inside the compartment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "push trolley west" | ||
Floyd | You can't seem to do that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "enter rosalind's" | ||
Floyd | You enter Rosalind's compartment.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside Rosalind's compartment
Floyd | A metal box, seven foot by four foot by five, arranged such that you
Floyd | could lie down spread-eagled but stoop when you stand. The west wall
Floyd | is missing. In the middle of the floor is a low flat trolley.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "push trolley west" | ||
Floyd | You push the trolley west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bottom of ramp
Floyd | This is a thin room then, between the wall of square drawers like a
Floyd | tiling and another side of sheer metal, east and west respectively.
Floyd | The floor is split-level; from where you stand a ramp leads up and
Floyd | northward, and light from a window there tumbles back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | The drawers stop about five feet from ground-level; below are four
Floyd | compartments.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a smooth hatch set into the south wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd | Top of ramp
Floyd | This is a small stage, facing the stalls below down a ramp to the
Floyd | south, with the royal boxes on the wall above, reserved it seems for
Floyd | the Doe family. You could take your bow, lit by the spotlight-glow
Floyd | through the window, or slip offstage through the door just beside it.
Floyd | Just left of the door is a small device.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd | Bottom of ramp
Floyd | This is a thin room then, between the wall of square drawers like a
Floyd | tiling and another side of sheer metal, east and west respectively.
Floyd | The floor is split-level; from where you stand a ramp leads up and
Floyd | northward, and light from a window there tumbles back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | The drawers stop about five feet from ground-level; below are four
Floyd | compartments.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a smooth hatch set into the south wall. In the middle of the
Floyd | floor is a low flat trolley.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "push trolley up" | ||
Floyd | You start pushing, but with the trolley so heavy it rolls back, and
Floyd | with it so low it's hard to get more weight behind. In the end, you
Floyd | give up.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Gerynar arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | Top of ramp
Floyd | This is a small stage, facing the stalls below down a ramp to the
Floyd | south, with the royal boxes on the wall above, reserved it seems for
Floyd | the Doe family. You could take your bow, lit by the spotlight-glow
Floyd | through the window, or slip offstage through the door just beside it.
Floyd | Just left of the door is a small device.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||
Floyd | The display is cleared.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd | Bottom of ramp
Floyd | This is a thin room then, between the wall of square drawers like a
Floyd | tiling and another side of sheer metal, east and west respectively.
Floyd | The floor is split-level; from where you stand a ramp leads up and
Floyd | northward, and light from a window there tumbles back down.
Floyd |
Floyd | The drawers stop about five feet from ground-level; below are four
Floyd | compartments.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a smooth hatch set into the south wall. In the middle of the
Floyd | floor is a low flat trolley.
Floyd |
Floyd | The hatch slides open long enough to spit out an orange robot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "get on trolley" | ||
Floyd | You lie on the trolley. It's cold.
Floyd |
Floyd | The robot positions its hexagonal tube by the trolley base with a
Floyd | muffled clang. It then powers away up the ramp, taking you with it.
Floyd |
Floyd | Top of ramp, on on the trolley
Floyd | This is a small stage, facing the stalls below down a ramp to the
Floyd | south, with the royal boxes on the wall above, reserved it seems for
Floyd | the Doe family. Above you is a circular recess which is attached to a
Floyd | door. Just left of the door is a small device.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Ghogg crosses his fingers | |
| Zach says, "Hooray" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | The robot extends its hockey puck to an absurd length, reaching over
Floyd | the trolley in front, to clip into the recess by the door. The
Floyd | entrance slides open, and it passes through, taking you with it.
Floyd |
Floyd | Once in the corridor outside, you leap from the trolley before it, and
Floyd | the robot, power away.
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor curves southeast to southwest, smooth metal walls low
Floyd | and merging over your head. Portholes splatter the north side like
Floyd | bullet-holes. A neon striplight runs the length of the corridor,
Floyd | lighting round the bends on either hand, but right now your eyes are
Floyd | elsewhere - drawn to the window of the room you have just left.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "cf10" | ||
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "x portholes" | ||
Floyd | Through the portholes swim a variety of underwater fish, lit in the
Floyd | half-glow leaking from this dome.
Floyd |
Floyd | The robot pushes the trolley through the hatch in the southwest wall
Floyd | and disappears.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "x window" | ||
Floyd | Here it is light, and there it is dark, and the glass acts as a mirror
Floyd | over which your haggard face looms. Only it is not your face. It is
Floyd | the face of Dr. Kurner. A moment of staring is not enough, and you
Floyd | stare some more. His nose is your nose, his eyes, wet and squinting,
Floyd | are your eyes, they move as you look over them. You feel the tightness
Floyd | of his skin around your mouth and cheekbones. And worse: his face is
Floyd | framed, like an advert for a circus clown, by an arcing title in large
Floyd | letters:
Floyd |
Floyd | MORTUARY
Floyd |
Floyd | Dead! Ridiculous! You're not dead! You're standing upright. Indeed,
Floyd | you're breathing! Aren't you? There - you blow a long breath onto the
Floyd | glass, and a pool of condensation smokes it over. Alive. You're
Floyd | alive. And the sooner you can get back to your machine and get
Floyd | yourself back into your own skin, the better.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| inky says, "oh, I'd fingered him as the villain" | |
| Zach says, "He is" | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd | The robot's hatch is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | The condensation on the window evaporates away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd | The airlock is closed. And it doesn't look in good repair, either.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Zach says, "He stole our body!" | |
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "x airlock" | ||
Floyd | The airlock is circular, and damaged, with loose wiring hanging from
Floyd | the frame. Set in the centre is the access mechanism, above is a small
Floyd | square spyhole. The sight beyond it is not good - you can make out
Floyd | twisted metal, bent panels and wiring dripping from the ceiling like
Floyd | thick seaweed. It appears not to have been breached, though, as there
Floyd | is no water. Something moves about within: something large and orange.
Floyd |
Floyd | Through the door appears Kathleen.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "x kathleen" | ||
Floyd | The orange robot is shaped like a square coffee-table resting on one
Floyd | side. The two legs - or rather, arms - at the top each boast a shining
Floyd | disc, like eyes; though only one is a camera lens and the other is a
Floyd | stubby protrusion like a hockey puck. The two bottom prongs are run
Floyd | with caterpillar tracks. Slung between them is brown hexagonal tube.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is a Hearse-o-Matic, a Hansome. Printed along one side is the
Floyd | robot's name: Kathleen.
Floyd |
Floyd | The robot opens the hatch and rumbles through.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| says (to floyd), "se" | |
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd | The airlock is closed. And it doesn't look in good repair, either.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "x wires" | ||
Floyd | Two wires, crudely torn. They spark occasionally - and are quite
Floyd | possibly live!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "cf11" | ||
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "touch wire" | ||
Floyd | Of course! If you electrocute yourself - if you die - then your
Floyd | consciousness will flip back to your original body! It's bound to,
Floyd | after all! And then your problem is solved! ... Though you'll still
Floyd | have to help Dr. Kurner, somehow, wherever he is. Excellent idea.
Floyd |
Floyd | You steel your courage, raise your hand... and have a moment of doubt.
Floyd | Are you sure you want to do this?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd | You close your eyes, and close your hand around the two ends of the
Floyd | wires. There is a terrible sparking as electricity leaps between them,
Floyd | flowing blue lightning between your fingers, along your skin, down your
Floyd | palm!
Floyd |
Floyd | However, due to Dr. Kurner's plastic prosthetic wrist replacement, it
Floyd | doesn't get much further than that. Your hand comes away, a little
Floyd | blackened.
Floyd |
Floyd | The airlock door slides open.
Floyd |
Floyd | Through the door appears Victoria.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Zach says, "boo" | |
| Ghogg says, "har" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "lick wire" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "lick".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Ghogg says, "well, this might be a little like In the End" | |
| Ghogg says, "but less dark" | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd | You slip through the airlock, into a mangle of metal.
Floyd |
Floyd | Collapsed Corridor
Floyd | This was the eastern quadrant of the dome, but something has fallen
Floyd | away and it is now a mangle of sheets of metal, intersecting skew-like.
Floyd | About halfway along, the roof is so low to the floor as to admit a mere
Floyd | few centimeters of space between. Wiring hangs from the neon light,
Floyd | but only the first segment is still lit. Where the corridor is most
Floyd | crumpled, one of the panels underfoot is loose, rippling out from the
Floyd | floor. A large orange robot is whirring back and forth here. It is
Floyd | Rosalind.
Floyd |
Floyd | From the corridor outside you hear the swish-snap of the robot hatch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "get panel" | ||
Floyd | The panel is heavy, and one end is stuck in a pinch of metal, but this
Floyd | acts neatly as a hinge. You prop it with a clang against the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | Beyond is a dark hole in the flooring. Who knows how far a drop it
Floyd | might be, how long one might tumble before finally crunching to certain
Floyd | death on the floor?
Floyd |
Floyd | Rosalind whirrs slowly across the corridor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd | You cross yourself once. This is it - a long jump - air whipped from
Floyd | your mouth - certain death on a solid flooring, who knows how far down.
Floyd | You can see nothing in there, it is black. Will they ever find this
Floyd | body? Who can say? You close your eyes and leap into the dark.
Floyd |
Floyd | And land, an instant later, in a waist-deep hole.
Floyd |
Floyd | In a Hole
Floyd | You are waist-high in a hole in the floor, in the middle of a
Floyd | corridor of mangled metal walls.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear Rosalind's trudging footsteps. With a loud rumble, the robot
Floyd | looms over your head, filling your vision the way a cloud can blot out
Floyd | the sun. You cower, raising your arms instinctively over your eyes, as
Floyd | Rosalind pitches forward into the hole...
Floyd |
Floyd | But it seems the centre of those robots is just a sheet of orange
Floyd | paper, as it rips easily when it hits your head. A crash-smash later,
Floyd | you are standing in the debris of shattered robot, half filling the
Floyd | pit.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | In a Hole
Floyd | You are waist-high in a hole in the floor, in the middle of a
Floyd | corridor of mangled metal walls. It's filled with the mangled rubble
Floyd | of robot parts, all a lurid orange.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "search rubble" | ||
Floyd | Amongst the orange parts you find the robot's hockey-puck arm, which
Floyd | you take.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd | You scramble out of the hole.
Floyd |
Floyd | Collapsed Corridor
Floyd | This was the eastern quadrant of the dome, but something has fallen
Floyd | away and it is now a mangle of sheets of metal, intersecting skew-like.
Floyd | About halfway along, the roof is so low to the floor as to admit a mere
Floyd | few centimeters of space between. Wiring hangs from the neon light,
Floyd | but only the first segment is still lit. The loose panel is propped
Floyd | against the wall, revealing a promising, deep hole into the bowels of
Floyd | the dome.
Floyd |
Floyd | From the corridor outside you hear the swish-snap of the robot hatch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "exits".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Ghogg says, "aw" | |
| Zach says, "Poor Rosalind" | ||
| Ghogg says, "if I was playing alone usually I test all the directions just in case but that'd be spammy" | ||
| Ghogg asks, "I think nw then sw though?" | ||
| Zach says, "Go for it" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd | The only exit is west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor curves southeast to southwest, smooth metal walls low
Floyd | and merging over your head. Portholes splatter the north side like
Floyd | bullet-holes. A neon striplight runs the length of the corridor, light
Floyd | leaking round the bends until it is cut on the west side by a
Floyd | robot-hatch, and on the east by an airlock door, which is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the south is the door back to the mortuary, a black glass panel by
Floyd | its side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | The robot's hatch is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x hatch" | ||
Floyd | The hatch is about three foot square and flush with the floor. Just by
Floyd | it is a circular recess in the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | Through the door appears Kathleen.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "put puck in recess" | ||
Floyd | The hatch slides open for a brief moment, then slams shut. You put the
Floyd | arm in once more, and this time, slip through.
Floyd |
Floyd | Curving Corridor
Floyd | The western side of the dome, and an area not designed for human
Floyd | personnel. Robot hatches stand secure at the north and southern ends,
Floyd | the latter a little dented, perhaps in the same explosion that damaged
Floyd | the east side. Portholes peer out in the dark, their ring broken by a
Floyd | passage to the west, opposite an open archway to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | Kathleen emerges from the northern hatch and heads south. With a
Floyd | swish-snap, the southern hatch opens and she lumbers through.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| says (to floyd), "s" | |
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd | That hatch is sealed to you, and likely to remain so.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | By Airlock
Floyd | This is just a short vestibule, from the airlock to the west to the
Floyd | main corridor back east. The airlock door is sealed, but looking
Floyd | through its panel, you can see a long corridor, leading off into the
Floyd | distance. This must be the umbilical to the rest of the lab.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | The airlock door is shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd | The door is sealed shut. You can make out the opening mechanism - on
Floyd | this door it's near the top, out of reach for stumpy Dr. Kurner and
Floyd | probably your old self too. Set into the centre of the door is a
Floyd | viewing panel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "x panel" | ||
Floyd | You can see a long corridor, leading off into the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | You spot a robot trudging along the curving corridor, disappearing
Floyd | through the southern hatch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Ghogg asks, "any ideas?" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | The vestibule runs east to west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | Curving Corridor
Floyd | The western side of the dome, and an area not designed for human
Floyd | personnel. Robot hatches stand secure at the north and southern ends,
Floyd | the latter a little dented, perhaps in the same explosion that damaged
Floyd | the east side. Portholes peer out in the dark, their ring broken by a
Floyd | passage to the west, opposite an open archway to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | The hatch is shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open north hatch" | ||
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x north hatch" | ||
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x hatch" | ||
Floyd | Which hatch do you mean, the southern hatch, or the northern hatch?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Zach says, "Ahhh" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x northern hatch" | ||
Floyd | The hatch is about three foot square and flush with the floor. Just by
Floyd | it is a circular recess in the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "put puck in northern recess" | ||
Floyd | I don't see any northern recess here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "put puck in recess" | ||
Floyd | Which recess do you mean, the dented recess, or the circular recess?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "put puck in circular recess" | ||
Floyd | The hatch opens; you dart through.
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor curves southeast to southwest, smooth metal walls low
Floyd | and merging over your head. Portholes splatter the north side like
Floyd | bullet-holes. A neon striplight runs the length of the corridor, light
Floyd | leaking round the bends until it is cut on the west side by a
Floyd | robot-hatch, and on the east by an airlock door, which is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the south is the door back to the mortuary, a black glass panel by
Floyd | its side.
Floyd |
Floyd | An orange robot is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The robot opens the hatch and rumbles through.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Zach says, "Argh, confusing directions" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | The robot's hatch is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "put puck in recess" | ||
Floyd | The hatch opens; you dart through.
Floyd |
Floyd | Curving Corridor
Floyd | The western side of the dome, and an area not designed for human
Floyd | personnel. Robot hatches stand secure at the north and southern ends,
Floyd | the latter a little dented, perhaps in the same explosion that damaged
Floyd | the east side. Portholes peer out in the dark, their ring broken by a
Floyd | passage to the west, opposite an open archway to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "put puck in dented recess" | ||
Floyd | There is a dull click. It seems not to want to work. There could be a
Floyd | hundred finicky mechanical reasons why.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | Computer Core And Coffin Room
Floyd | This appears to be the hub of the Hansome's world. Along one wall
Floyd | runs a large computer bank, over which soft lights play in colours
Floyd | tailored for electric eyes. The far corner of the room contains a
Floyd | large glass cylinder that disappears through the ceiling; it is open at
Floyd | the bottom, where a coffin waits. The centre of the floor is taken up
Floyd | by a circular hatch marked "Waste Disposal". The juxtaposition is
Floyd | quite unpleasant, and if too much so, you could leave back west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "cylinder" | ||
Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "x cylinder" | ||
Floyd | It's glass, and stretches upwards. During a funeral, the base seals,
Floyd | it fills with water and coffins are flushed out to be found and buried
Floyd | on land. You'd seen it before on the designs for this place, but never
Floyd | realised they'd been so heartless as to actually build the thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | From the corridor outside you hear the swish-snap of the robot hatch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "x hatch" | ||
Floyd | Ah, the eco-friendly waste system. A hatch, with a short tunnel,
Floyd | another hatch, and then the sea. Waste goes into through one door and
Floyd | is ejected into the water. Simple, effective, and self-cleaning. The
Floyd | waste disposal hatch is closed, and there is no immediately obvious
Floyd | control to change that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x coffin" | ||
Floyd | The coffin is a smart black number of regular height. It is unmarked,
Floyd | open, and waiting with a depressing certitude.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | File to save game in > | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "cf12" | ||
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| says (to floyd), "enter coffin" | |
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "enter coffin" | ||
Floyd | You made that mistake when you joined AtlantisLab. You're not doing it
Floyd | again.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Ghogg says, "grr" | |
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | Computer Core And Coffin Room
Floyd | This appears to be the hub of the Hansome's world. Along one wall
Floyd | runs a large computer bank, over which soft lights play in colours
Floyd | tailored for electric eyes. The far corner of the room contains a
Floyd | large glass cylinder that disappears through the ceiling; it is open at
Floyd | the bottom, where a coffin waits. The centre of the floor is taken up
Floyd | by a circular hatch marked "Waste Disposal". The juxtaposition is
Floyd | quite unpleasant, and if too much so, you could leave back west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "computer" | ||
Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "x computer" | ||
Floyd | The computer has one main screen, a circular recess to serve as a
Floyd | monodigital keyboard, and a flat black palm scanner. However, your
Floyd | gaze is taken by one larger switch, marked with beautiful portent:
Floyd | PERSONAL DETONATION DISPENSEMENT.
Floyd |
Floyd | From the corridor outside you hear the swish-snap of the robot hatch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "push switch" | ||
Floyd | You tug the switch. It sticks halfway, and a message appears on the
Floyd | screen: DISPENSEMENT SET. PROCEED VIA PERSONAL SETTING.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "touch scanner" | ||
Floyd | Of course, it probably won't be happy with your print. But you put
Floyd | your palm on the glass anyway.
Floyd |
Floyd | The computer heaves and splats. You barely notice a squat oblong fire
Floyd | out from its base, because of a searing pain that shoots across your
Floyd | palm. You pull back your hand, to find you have been branded!
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x brand" | ||
Floyd | The brand is a small black button - a tattoo just left of your
Floyd | lifeline. Beneath it is inscribed "Press for detonation."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Zach O | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "press button" | ||
Floyd | Your finger hovers over the contact. Eyes to palm, eyes to bomb. You
Floyd | can't help feeling it's a slightly extreme way to go. But you press
Floyd | the button anyway.
Floyd |
Floyd | "!ERROR - PERSONAL WITHIN BLAST RADIUS!" screams a siren from just
Floyd | above your wrist.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Ghogg says, "aww" | |
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "x keyboard" | ||
Floyd | Much like the others you've seen. Around the circumference are marked
Floyd | small lines.
Floyd |
Floyd | From the corridor, you hear the sound of the robot hatch opening and
Floyd | closing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "x lines" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "lines".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "x screen" | ||
Floyd | The screen is blank.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Ghogg asks, "hmm, have we exhausted our places except for the broken thing?" | |
| Zach and his life partner Soupy once built an ark with all same-sex animals when the ice caps melted. | ||
| Zach has disconnected. | ||
| Zach arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||
| Gerynar says "bloop" and shrinks down into a little dot, then winks out...just like those old-fashioned B&w televisions. | ||
| Gerynar has disconnected. | Ghogg asks (of Zach), "you ok?" | |
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | The only exit is west, back to the corridor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | Curving Corridor
Floyd | The western side of the dome, and an area not designed for human
Floyd | personnel. Robot hatches stand secure at the north and southern ends,
Floyd | the latter a little dented, perhaps in the same explosion that damaged
Floyd | the east side. Portholes peer out in the dark, their ring broken by a
Floyd | passage to the west, opposite an open archway to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd | That hatch is sealed to you, and likely to remain so.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | The hatch is shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | The norhern hatch flips open and out pops Kathleen. She slowly lumbers
Floyd | southward, disappearing through the southern hatch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Zach says, "Yeah, sorry, internet disconnected" | |
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "x northern hatch" | ||
Floyd | The hatch is about three foot square and flush with the floor. Just by
Floyd | it is a circular recess in the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Zach says, "And brain is sleepy" | |
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "put puck in recess" | ||
Floyd | The hatch opens; you dart through.
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor curves southeast to southwest, smooth metal walls low
Floyd | and merging over your head. Portholes splatter the north side like
Floyd | bullet-holes. A neon striplight runs the length of the corridor, light
Floyd | leaking round the bends until it is cut on the west side by a
Floyd | robot-hatch, and on the east by an airlock door, which is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the south is the door back to the mortuary, a black glass panel by
Floyd | its side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "push button" | ||
Floyd | You press the small black button.
Floyd |
Floyd | "!ERROR - PERSONAL WITHIN BLAST RADIUS!" screams a siren from just
Floyd | above your wrist.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Ghogg says, "hum hum" | |
| Ghogg says, "drive for a little" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "put puck in recess" | ||
Floyd | The hatch opens; you dart through.
Floyd |
Floyd | Curving Corridor
Floyd | The western side of the dome, and an area not designed for human
Floyd | personnel. Robot hatches stand secure at the north and southern ends,
Floyd | the latter a little dented, perhaps in the same explosion that damaged
Floyd | the east side. Portholes peer out in the dark, their ring broken by a
Floyd | passage to the west, opposite an open archway to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | By Airlock
Floyd | This is just a short vestibule, from the airlock to the west to the
Floyd | main corridor back east. The airlock door is sealed, but you recall
Floyd | that a long corridor leads off into the distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | You spot a robot trudging along the curving corridor, disappearing
Floyd | through the southern hatch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | The airlock door is shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd | The vestibule runs east to west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "open hatch" | ||
Floyd | I don't see any hatch here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Zach says, "Lies" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x recess" | ||
Floyd | I don't see any recess here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x airlock" | ||
Floyd | The door is sealed shut. You can make out the opening mechanism - on
Floyd | this door it's near the top, out of reach for stumpy Dr. Kurner and
Floyd | probably your old self too. Set into the centre of the door is a
Floyd | viewing panel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x mechanism" | ||
Floyd | Nothing fancy, just a large button that you'd need to jab. You just
Floyd | can't reach it, that's all.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | A robot enters the corridor to the east and with a twist of her arm,
Floyd | darts through the southern hatch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | Curving Corridor
Floyd | The western side of the dome, and an area not designed for human
Floyd | personnel. Robot hatches stand secure at the north and southern ends,
Floyd | the latter a little dented, perhaps in the same explosion that damaged
Floyd | the east side. Portholes peer out in the dark, their ring broken by a
Floyd | passage to the west, opposite an open archway to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | The hatch is shut.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "put puck in circular" | ||
Floyd | The hatch opens; you dart through.
Floyd |
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor curves southeast to southwest, smooth metal walls low
Floyd | and merging over your head. Portholes splatter the north side like
Floyd | bullet-holes. A neon striplight runs the length of the corridor, light
Floyd | leaking round the bends until it is cut on the west side by a
Floyd | robot-hatch, and on the east by an airlock door, which is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the south is the door back to the mortuary, a black glass panel by
Floyd | its side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd | The door is closed and locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | Through the door appears Kathleen.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x panel" | ||
Floyd | Flat black glass, a panel that uses all manner of fancy beams to read
Floyd | over your palm-print and check you are who you think you are.
Floyd | Unfortunately, it's not clever enough to realise you now think you are
Floyd | someone that you actually aren't. Or you think you are someone who
Floyd | you're not, but really are. Or something like that. Anyway, it's a
Floyd | pig-ignorant machine.
Floyd |
Floyd | The robot opens the hatch and rumbles through.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Ghogg says, "I'm really confused" | |
| Zach says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd | The door is closed and locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Zach says, "The room connections curve around" | |
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "put hand on panel" | ||
Floyd | It bleeps red, displaying "PATTERN NOT IN DATABANK".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Zach says, "I was thinking to try and get the peg leg again" | |
| Zach says, "To press the airlock mechanism" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x striplight" | ||
Floyd | The neon striplight illuminates the corridor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor curves southeast to southwest, smooth metal walls low
Floyd | and merging over your head. Portholes splatter the north side like
Floyd | bullet-holes. A neon striplight runs the length of the corridor, light
Floyd | leaking round the bends until it is cut on the west side by a
Floyd | robot-hatch, and on the east by an airlock door, which is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the south is the door back to the mortuary, a black glass panel by
Floyd | its side.
Floyd |
Floyd | Through the door appears Victoria.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | You slip through the airlock, into a mangle of metal.
Floyd |
Floyd | Collapsed Corridor
Floyd | This was the eastern quadrant of the dome, but something has fallen
Floyd | away and it is now a mangle of sheets of metal, intersecting skew-like.
Floyd | About halfway along, the roof is so low to the floor as to admit a mere
Floyd | few centimeters of space between. Wiring hangs from the neon light,
Floyd | but only the first segment is still lit. The loose panel is propped
Floyd | against the wall, revealing a promising, deep hole into the bowels of
Floyd | the dome.
Floyd |
Floyd | From the corridor outside you hear the swish-snap of the robot hatch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | The only exit is west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor curves southeast to southwest, smooth metal walls low
Floyd | and merging over your head. Portholes splatter the north side like
Floyd | bullet-holes. A neon striplight runs the length of the corridor, light
Floyd | leaking round the bends until it is cut on the west side by a
Floyd | robot-hatch, and on the east by an airlock door, which is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the south is the door back to the mortuary, a black glass panel by
Floyd | its side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd | It is locked, it seems. By the side, at shoulder height, is a black
Floyd | glass palm-scanner.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Ghogg says, "I'd jump in but I really have no idea what to do" | |
| Ghogg says, "I feel like we're missing a place/item" | ||
| Zach says, "Yeah" | ||
| Lionheart says, "Maybe something in the other drawers in the morgue? What else besides a peg leg might there be in there" | ||
| inky asks, "can you use the peg leg to push the button?" | ||
| Ghogg says, "I seem to remember we had to set the pegleg down to jump down" | ||
| Zach says, "Yeah" | ||
| Zach asks, "Can we get back in?" | ||
| Ghogg says, "lemme just wander for a sec" | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | You slip through the airlock, into a mangle of metal.
Floyd |
Floyd | Collapsed Corridor
Floyd | This was the eastern quadrant of the dome, but something has fallen
Floyd | away and it is now a mangle of sheets of metal, intersecting skew-like.
Floyd | About halfway along, the roof is so low to the floor as to admit a mere
Floyd | few centimeters of space between. Wiring hangs from the neon light,
Floyd | but only the first segment is still lit. The loose panel is propped
Floyd | against the wall, revealing a promising, deep hole into the bowels of
Floyd | the dome.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear the rumbling sound of another robot in the corridor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | The only exit is west.
Floyd |
Floyd | From the corridor outside you hear the swish-snap of the robot hatch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | The only exit is west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "x panel" | ||
Floyd | The panel has been lifted back and leans against a wall. A hole nows
Floyd | fills the south end of the corridor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd | You can go no further, as the ceiling pinches together. Only a rat
Floyd | could get through.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floydx), "wiring" | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "x wiring" | ||
Floyd | The wiring is dark and dead, like the hair of a drowned mermaid.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear the rumbling sound of another robot in the corridor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor curves southeast to southwest, smooth metal walls low
Floyd | and merging over your head. Portholes splatter the north side like
Floyd | bullet-holes. A neon striplight runs the length of the corridor, light
Floyd | leaking round the bends until it is cut on the west side by a
Floyd | robot-hatch, and on the east by an airlock door, which is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the south is the door back to the mortuary, a black glass panel by
Floyd | its side.
Floyd |
Floyd | An orange robot is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The robot opens the hatch and rumbles through.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd | The door is closed and locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd | You slip through the airlock, into a mangle of metal.
Floyd |
Floyd | Collapsed Corridor
Floyd | This was the eastern quadrant of the dome, but something has fallen
Floyd | away and it is now a mangle of sheets of metal, intersecting skew-like.
Floyd | About halfway along, the roof is so low to the floor as to admit a mere
Floyd | few centimeters of space between. Wiring hangs from the neon light,
Floyd | but only the first segment is still lit. The loose panel is propped
Floyd | against the wall, revealing a promising, deep hole into the bowels of
Floyd | the dome.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor curves southeast to southwest, smooth metal walls low
Floyd | and merging over your head. Portholes splatter the north side like
Floyd | bullet-holes. A neon striplight runs the length of the corridor, light
Floyd | leaking round the bends until it is cut on the west side by a
Floyd | robot-hatch, and on the east by an airlock door, which is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the south is the door back to the mortuary, a black glass panel by
Floyd | its side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | You slip through the airlock, into a mangle of metal.
Floyd |
Floyd | Collapsed Corridor
Floyd | This was the eastern quadrant of the dome, but something has fallen
Floyd | away and it is now a mangle of sheets of metal, intersecting skew-like.
Floyd | About halfway along, the roof is so low to the floor as to admit a mere
Floyd | few centimeters of space between. Wiring hangs from the neon light,
Floyd | but only the first segment is still lit. The loose panel is propped
Floyd | against the wall, revealing a promising, deep hole into the bowels of
Floyd | the dome.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear the rumbling sound of another robot in the corridor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Ghogg says, "guh" | |
| Ghogg asks, "e and se are the same?" | ||
| Ghogg says, "it describes the corridor as curving southeast but the airlock door to the east" | ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor curves southeast to southwest, smooth metal walls low
Floyd | and merging over your head. Portholes splatter the north side like
Floyd | bullet-holes. A neon striplight runs the length of the corridor, light
Floyd | leaking round the bends until it is cut on the west side by a
Floyd | robot-hatch, and on the east by an airlock door, which is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the south is the door back to the mortuary, a black glass panel by
Floyd | its side.
Floyd |
Floyd | An orange robot is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The robot opens the hatch and rumbles through.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd | The door is closed and locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd | The robot's hatch is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | The robot's hatch is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | Through the door appears Charlotte.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | The robot opens the hatch and rumbles through.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Ghogg says (to floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Ghogg says, "yeah, I dunno" | |
| Ghogg says, "I'm gonna have cookies, you can keep trying if you want" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "cf12" | ||
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Zach asks, "I think I'm done for the night. Anyone else?" | |
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | You have a robot arm.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your left palm has been branded with a button.
Floyd |
Floyd | Through the door appears Kathleen.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor curves southeast to southwest, smooth metal walls low
Floyd | and merging over your head. Portholes splatter the north side like
Floyd | bullet-holes. A neon striplight runs the length of the corridor, light
Floyd | leaking round the bends until it is cut on the west side by a
Floyd | robot-hatch, and on the east by an airlock door, which is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the south is the door back to the mortuary, a black glass panel by
Floyd | its side.
Floyd |
Floyd | An orange robot is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | The robot opens the hatch and rumbles through.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x striplight" | ||
Floyd | The neon striplight illuminates the corridor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "touch panel" | ||
Floyd | It bleeps red, displaying "PATTERN NOT IN DATABANK".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "touch panel with arm" | ||
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "touch panel with disc" | ||
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "touch panel with puck" | ||
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "put puck on panel" | ||
Floyd | Nothing happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | Through the door appears Victoria.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "get on victoria" | ||
Floyd | There's no surface to clamber on.
Floyd |
Floyd | The robot opens the hatch and rumbles through.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "enter hatch" | ||
Floyd | The hatchway will not open, will not budge and will not slide either.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor curves southeast to southwest, smooth metal walls low
Floyd | and merging over your head. Portholes splatter the north side like
Floyd | bullet-holes. A neon striplight runs the length of the corridor, light
Floyd | leaking round the bends until it is cut on the west side by a
Floyd | robot-hatch, and on the east by an airlock door, which is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the south is the door back to the mortuary, a black glass panel by
Floyd | its side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "open porthole" | ||
Floyd | Oh, brilliant idea.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "break porthole" | ||
Floyd | Oh, brilliant idea.
Floyd |
Floyd | Through the door appears Charlotte.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd | You slip through the airlock, into a mangle of metal.
Floyd |
Floyd | Collapsed Corridor
Floyd | This was the eastern quadrant of the dome, but something has fallen
Floyd | away and it is now a mangle of sheets of metal, intersecting skew-like.
Floyd | About halfway along, the roof is so low to the floor as to admit a mere
Floyd | few centimeters of space between. Wiring hangs from the neon light,
Floyd | but only the first segment is still lit. The loose panel is propped
Floyd | against the wall, revealing a promising, deep hole into the bowels of
Floyd | the dome.
Floyd |
Floyd | From the corridor outside you hear the swish-snap of the robot hatch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "lick wire" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "lick".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "get wire" | ||
Floyd | The wires slip through your hands.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "touch wires" | ||
Floyd | The wires slip through your hands.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Zach has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||
Floyd | It's dark down there, you can't make anything out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd | You leap into the dark and land, an instant later, in a waist-deep
Floyd | hole.
Floyd |
Floyd | In a Hole
Floyd | You are waist-high in a hole in the floor, in the middle of a
Floyd | corridor of mangled metal walls. It's filled with the mangled rubble
Floyd | of robot parts, all a lurid orange.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "search rubble" | ||
Floyd | There's nothing more there, but for her mangled remains.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "get rubble" | ||
Floyd | Oh, why don't you just walk off with a corpse instead? Besides, it's a
Floyd | bunch of heavy orange metal plates, which aren't exactly portable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd | You scramble out of the hole.
Floyd |
Floyd | Collapsed Corridor
Floyd | This was the eastern quadrant of the dome, but something has fallen
Floyd | away and it is now a mangle of sheets of metal, intersecting skew-like.
Floyd | About halfway along, the roof is so low to the floor as to admit a mere
Floyd | few centimeters of space between. Wiring hangs from the neon light,
Floyd | but only the first segment is still lit. The loose panel is propped
Floyd | against the wall, revealing a promising, deep hole into the bowels of
Floyd | the dome.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | The only exit is west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor curves southeast to southwest, smooth metal walls low
Floyd | and merging over your head. Portholes splatter the north side like
Floyd | bullet-holes. A neon striplight runs the length of the corridor, light
Floyd | leaking round the bends until it is cut on the west side by a
Floyd | robot-hatch, and on the east by an airlock door, which is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the south is the door back to the mortuary, a black glass panel by
Floyd | its side.
Floyd |
Floyd | Through the door appears Victoria.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | The robot opens the hatch and rumbles through.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | You slip through the airlock, into a mangle of metal.
Floyd |
Floyd | Collapsed Corridor
Floyd | This was the eastern quadrant of the dome, but something has fallen
Floyd | away and it is now a mangle of sheets of metal, intersecting skew-like.
Floyd | About halfway along, the roof is so low to the floor as to admit a mere
Floyd | few centimeters of space between. Wiring hangs from the neon light,
Floyd | but only the first segment is still lit. The loose panel is propped
Floyd | against the wall, revealing a promising, deep hole into the bowels of
Floyd | the dome.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x panel" | ||
Floyd | The panel has been lifted back and leans against a wall. A hole nows
Floyd | fills the south end of the corridor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor curves southeast to southwest, smooth metal walls low
Floyd | and merging over your head. Portholes splatter the north side like
Floyd | bullet-holes. A neon striplight runs the length of the corridor, light
Floyd | leaking round the bends until it is cut on the west side by a
Floyd | robot-hatch, and on the east by an airlock door, which is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the south is the door back to the mortuary, a black glass panel by
Floyd | its side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | The robot's hatch is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | Through the door appears Charlotte.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x charlotte" | ||
Floyd | The orange robot is shaped like a square coffee-table resting on one
Floyd | side. The two legs - or rather, arms - at the top each boast a shining
Floyd | disc, like eyes; though only one is a camera lens and the other is a
Floyd | stubby protrusion like a hockey puck. The two bottom prongs are run
Floyd | with caterpillar tracks. Slung between them is brown hexagonal tube.
Floyd |
Floyd | It is a Hearse-o-Matic, a Hansome. Printed along one side is the
Floyd | robot's name: Charlotte.
Floyd |
Floyd | The robot opens the hatch and rumbles through.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd | You slip through the airlock, into a mangle of metal.
Floyd |
Floyd | Collapsed Corridor
Floyd | This was the eastern quadrant of the dome, but something has fallen
Floyd | away and it is now a mangle of sheets of metal, intersecting skew-like.
Floyd | About halfway along, the roof is so low to the floor as to admit a mere
Floyd | few centimeters of space between. Wiring hangs from the neon light,
Floyd | but only the first segment is still lit. The loose panel is propped
Floyd | against the wall, revealing a promising, deep hole into the bowels of
Floyd | the dome.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear the rumbling sound of another robot in the corridor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd | You can go no further, as the ceiling pinches together. Only a rat
Floyd | could get through.
Floyd |
Floyd | From the corridor outside you hear the swish-snap of the robot hatch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd | Corridor
Floyd | The corridor curves southeast to southwest, smooth metal walls low
Floyd | and merging over your head. Portholes splatter the north side like
Floyd | bullet-holes. A neon striplight runs the length of the corridor, light
Floyd | leaking round the bends until it is cut on the west side by a
Floyd | robot-hatch, and on the east by an airlock door, which is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | To the south is the door back to the mortuary, a black glass panel by
Floyd | its side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd | The robot's hatch is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x robot arm" | ||
Floyd | It's a two-inch long black cylinder, as wide as your prosthetic wrist.
Floyd | One end is marked with concentric ridges - that's the end that fits the
Floyd | hatch-locks. It must be telescopic, somehow, but you can't see a
Floyd | mechanism.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd | You are Dr. Kurner. You shudder at that realisation.
Floyd |
Floyd | Through the door appears Victoria.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "extend robot arm" | ||
Floyd | You waggle and flip the cylinder, but it refuses to extend to its full
Floyd | length.
Floyd |
Floyd | The robot opens the hatch and rumbles through.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "shake robot arm" | ||
Floyd | You waggle and flip the cylinder, but it refuses to extend to its full
Floyd | length.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "pull robot arm" | ||
Floyd | You waggle and flip the cylinder, but it refuses to extend to its full
Floyd | length.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | You have a robot arm.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your left palm has been branded with a button.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Lionheart asks, "Can we get a button on our right, prosthetic, palm?" | |
| Ghogg says, "sounds like it is worth a try" | ||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x palm" | ||
Floyd | Your palm contains a brand. Beneath it is inscribed "Press for
Floyd | detonation."
Floyd |
Floyd | Through the door appears Charlotte.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x right palm" | ||
Floyd | I don't see any right palm here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x right hand" | ||
Floyd | I don't see any right hand here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x hands" | ||
Floyd | Your palm contains a brand. Beneath it is inscribed "Press for
Floyd | detonation."
Floyd |
Floyd | The robot opens the hatch and rumbles through.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Ghogg says, "need to sneak to bed" | ||
| Ghogg goes home. | * Rob has joined the channel. | |
| inky made a fortune in the lucrative pasta business in revolutionary France. | ||
| inky has disconnected. | ||
| Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. | ||
| Ellison has disconnected. | ||
| DavidW has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||
Floyd | Do you really want to quit? (YES or NO) > | ||
| genericgeekgirl says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Bye, thanks for playing! | ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||
| genericgeekgirl disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | ||
| AWatt arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||
| AWatt chooses rock. RPS Bot 3000 chooses paper. Winner: RPS Bot 3000. | ||
| AWatt chooses paper. RPS Bot 3000 chooses scissors. Winner: RPS Bot 3000. | ||
| AWatt chooses paper. RPS Bot 3000 chooses scissors. Winner: RPS Bot 3000. | ||
| AWatt chooses scissors. RPS Bot 3000 chooses scissors. Winner: Tie. | * AWatt has joined the channel. | |
| AWatt disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | ||
