  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd
is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play a game of
interactive fiction. |
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd
is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play a game of
interactive fiction. |
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load guiltybastards" | |||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
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Floyd | Guilty Bastards
Floyd | Copyright (c) 1998 by Kent Tessman
Floyd |
Floyd | Release 2.09 02-09-00
Floyd | Written using the Hugo Compiler v2.5
Floyd | (New players should type "help".)
Floyd |
Floyd | Your hotel room
Floyd | Morning sunlight filters through the gauzy drapes. Old wooden night
Floyd | table, fan overhead, the usual trappings. The door leads out into the
Floyd | hallway. The neatly made bed looks exactly the same as it did when you
Floyd | saw it this morning--from where you woke up slumped in the chair in the
Floyd | corner.
Floyd | The desk clerk must've slipped an envelope under the door sometime
Floyd | early this morning.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "hm. I do see that GB was a finalist for Best NPCs in its year. That's a good sign." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take envelope" | |||
Floyd | You scoop the envelope up off the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||
Floyd | Looking good.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd | You are carrying an envelope.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x envelope" | |||
Floyd | It's addressed to you in handwriting. Plain white envelope, no return
Floyd | address, no postmark.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read envelope" | |||
Floyd | It's addressed to you in handwriting. Plain white envelope, no return
Floyd | address, no postmark.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open it" | |||
Floyd | (Assuming you mean the envelope.)
Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the envelope are a small note and a studio pass.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "read envelope" | ||
| DavidW says, "open envelope. read letter." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read note" | |||
Floyd | Handwritten, again, but this time on Rocket Pictures stationery.
Floyd |
Floyd | "8:30 at the studio.
Floyd |
Floyd | --MW"
Floyd |
Floyd | (which of course stands for Milt Walker)
Floyd |
Floyd | (Footnote 1)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "heh footnotes" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "fn" | |||
Floyd | You can't use the word "fn".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "" | |||
Floyd | What?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "footnote" | |||
Floyd | Try "footnote (number)".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "footnote 1" | |||
Floyd | Milt Walker, the head of Rocket Pictures, is one of those people you've
Floyd | met in passing (since you don't exactly run in the same social circles)
Floyd | and under somewhat shady circumstances. It was a couple years ago and
Floyd | involved Milt's son and a boatload of South American marijuana. Grass,
Floyd | he kept calling it. You remember finding it vaguely funny sitting
Floyd | across a table from this austere-looking studio head in a seedy Los
Floyd | Angeles bar while he speculated in a low voice about how he was going
Floyd | to "get rid of that much grass." How he did get his son out of that
Floyd | jam and what part you played in the whole imbroglio you swore never to
Floyd | reveal, not even here.
Floyd |
Floyd | (Footnote 2)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "try f or note as an abbrev for footnote" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "imbroglio" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "f 2" | |||
Floyd | You can't use the word "f".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "footnote 2" | |||
Floyd | Yes, it's true: the author heisted the idea for these footnotes from
Floyd | the Infocom game "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". But they are
Floyd | a pretty nifty idea.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x pass" | |||
Floyd | It's a drive-on parking pass for the Rocket Pictures Studios lot dated
Floyd | today.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "time" | |||
Floyd | Better start with a verb.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline asks, "Hrm. Wanna lay bets on whether or not the time is in the status bar that we can't see?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm pretty much 100% certain that sleepmask doesn't work with Hugo games, but it may be worth me checking." | |||
| JoshuaH says, "There is." | |||
| DavidW says, "oh, yeah, better check that." | |||
| DavidW says, "there might also be a 'time' command." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I just tried 'time'" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | |||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit (YES or NO)? | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | |||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask guiltybastards" | |||
Floyd | %% Critical error. Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file. Floyd ] Your hotel room Floyd ] 8:00 a.m. Floyd | Guilty Bastards Floyd | Copyright (c) 1998 by Kent Tessman Floyd | Floyd | Release 2.09 02-09-00 Floyd | Written using the Hugo Compiler v2.5 Floyd | (New players should type "help".) Floyd | Floyd | Your hotel room Floyd | Morning sunlight filters through the gauzy drapes. Old wooden night Floyd | table, fan overhead, the usual trappings. The door leads out into the Floyd | hallway. The neatly made bed looks exactly the same as it did when Floyd | you saw it this morning--from where you woke up slumped in the chair Floyd | in the corner. Floyd | The desk clerk must've slipped an envelope under the door sometime Floyd | early this morning. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Huh." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "The 'critical error' is a bit concerning, but it seems to be marking stuff up." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "And running, which I didn't expect." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take envelope" | |||
Floyd ] Your hotel room Floyd ] 8:01 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | You scoop the envelope up off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yep. There's the time." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We don't have much time to get to the studio, it would seem." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open it" | |||
Floyd ] Your hotel room Floyd ] 8:02 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | (Assuming you mean the envelope.) Floyd | Opened. Floyd | Floyd | Inside the envelope are a small note and a studio pass. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read note" | |||
Floyd ] Your hotel room Floyd ] 8:03 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > READ NOTE Floyd | Floyd | Handwritten, again, but this time on Rocket Pictures stationery. Floyd | Floyd | "8:30 at the studio. Floyd | Floyd | --MW" Floyd | Floyd | (which of course stands for Milt Walker) Floyd | Floyd | (Footnote 1) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "fn 1" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > FN 1 Floyd | Floyd | You can't use the word "fn". Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "footnote 1" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > FOOTNOTE 1 Floyd | Floyd | Milt Walker, the head of Rocket Pictures, is one of those people Floyd | you've met in passing (since you don't exactly run in the same social Floyd | circles) and under somewhat shady circumstances. It was a couple Floyd | years ago and involved Milt's son and a boatload of South American Floyd | marijuana. Grass, he kept calling it. You remember finding it Floyd | vaguely funny sitting across a table from this austere-looking studio Floyd | head in a seedy Los Angeles bar while he speculated in a low voice Floyd | about how he was going to "get rid of that much grass." How he did Floyd | get his son out of that jam and what part you played in the whole Floyd | imbroglio you swore never to reveal, not even here. Floyd | Floyd | (Footnote 2) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "footnote 2" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > FOOTNOTE 2 Floyd | Floyd | Yes, it's true: the author heisted the idea for these footnotes from Floyd | the Infocom game "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". But they are Floyd | a pretty nifty idea. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "mm. See if there's a status line with the next command." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "There will be. It's just the footnotes." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Pelican Hotel Floyd ] 8:04 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You open the door and leave, closing the door behind you, then head Floyd | down the stairs and outside to the street. Floyd | Floyd | Pelican Hotel Floyd | The exterior of the Pelican has been painted so many times that its Floyd | peeling shell is probably suitable protection against radioactive Floyd | fallout. Warm Los Angeles sunlight glows through the hazy blue-gray Floyd | of the summer sky. The rather quiet street outside the hotel runs Floyd | south toward Sunset Blvd. Floyd | Your cousin's Volvo is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hrm. I guess possible there were other things in the room, but it seems unlikely." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Still, the rule is we agree before we move on." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Your hotel room Floyd ] 8:03 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your hotel room Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yes, I'm still lagging. An entire page of text showed up all at once." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x table" | |||
Floyd ] Your hotel room Floyd ] 8:04 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | The night table is off to the left of the door, set along the wall. Floyd | Sitting on the night table are your cousin's car keys. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "aha" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take keys" | |||
Floyd ] Your hotel room Floyd ] 8:05 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE KEYS Floyd | Floyd | You grab the keys off the night table. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x bed" | |||
Floyd ] Your hotel room Floyd ] 8:06 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > X BED Floyd | Floyd | There's nothing too remarkable about the bed. It's comfortable Floyd | enough, from what you remember. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x chair" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | You don't need to refer to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, I think that's it. Anything else before we head out?]" | ||
| DavidW says, "I told Dropbox to pause; that might help" | |||
| DavidW says, "Considering that we need to be at the studio soon, I wouldn't do the usual exhaustive search in the room." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "That's what I was thinking." | |||
| DavidW says, "so yes, we should go." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Pelican Hotel Floyd ] 8:07 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You open the door and leave, closing the door behind you, then head Floyd | down the stairs and outside to the street. Floyd | Floyd | Pelican Hotel Floyd | The exterior of the Pelican has been painted so many times that its Floyd | peeling shell is probably suitable protection against radioactive Floyd | fallout. Warm Los Angeles sunlight glows through the hazy blue-gray Floyd | of the summer sky. The rather quiet street outside the hotel runs Floyd | south toward Sunset Blvd. Floyd | Your cousin's Volvo is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in volvo" | |||
Floyd ] Pelican Hotel Floyd ] 8:08 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IN VOLVO Floyd | Floyd | You climb into the Volvo. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drive to studio" | |||
Floyd ] Studio gate Floyd ] 8:14 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > DRIVE TO STUDIO Floyd | Floyd | You drive midtown to the main gate of Rocket Pictures Studios and park Floyd | in Visitor Parking. Floyd | Floyd | Studio gate, in your cousin's Volvo Floyd | Welcome to Rocket Pictures Studios. It's everything a Hollywood Floyd | studio should be: it has a bold, impressive gate; the grounds of the Floyd | lot extending to the north are lined with rows of pale hangar-like Floyd | soundstage buildings and ceramic-roofed bungalows; there's a Floyd | staggering abundance of motorhomes; it has its own watertower; and Floyd | it's not actually in Hollywood at all. Floyd | (This last is demonstrated by the fact that there are one- and Floyd | two-story shopping plazas and office buildings stretching as far as Floyd | the eye can see instead of souvenir shops and T-shirt stands.) Floyd | Floyd | (Footnote 8) Floyd | Floyd | > | JoshuaH asks, "8?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. They're not autonumbered." | |||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "MINIGAME: Find all the footnotes!" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "footnote 8" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > FOOTNOTE 8 Floyd | Floyd | Let's face it: Maybe Hollywood never was what it used to be. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get out" | |||
Floyd ] Studio gate Floyd ] 8:15 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > GET OUT Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the Volvo. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open gate" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN GATE Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that with the studio gate. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Studio gate Floyd ] 8:14 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Studio gate, in your cousin's Volvo Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So, like, is there a thing to stick our pass in to open this gate or something?" | ||
| DavidW says, "just 'n', I think. Or examine gate, if there's a call button." | |||
| JoshuaH says, "We've already parked." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm. You'd think it'd be called Studio Parking or something." | |||
| Jacqueline shrugs. | |||
| DavidW says, "also, when you did 'undo', I think you got back into the car." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes, I did. On purpose." | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm still lagging a bit." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "But I guess if you all think we're here, we can get out." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get out" | |||
Floyd ] Studio gate Floyd ] 8:15 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > GET OUT Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the Volvo. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Studio gate Floyd ] 8:16 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Studio gate Floyd | Welcome to Rocket Pictures Studios. It's everything a Hollywood Floyd | studio should be: it has a bold, impressive gate; the grounds of the Floyd | lot extending to the north are lined with rows of pale hangar-like Floyd | soundstage buildings and ceramic-roofed bungalows; there's a Floyd | staggering abundance of motorhomes; it has its own watertower; and Floyd | it's not actually in Hollywood at all. Floyd | Your cousin's Volvo is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So, um." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Try random directions? Or..." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter studio" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER STUDIO Floyd | Floyd | You can't enter the studio gate. Floyd | Floyd | > | JoshuaH says, "Maybe N." | ||
| DavidW says, "I said try 'north' or examine the gate." | |||
| DavidW says, "The gate might not be coded as a door object." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Studio backlot Floyd ] 8:17 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Studio backlot Floyd | It wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to get lost back here Floyd | among the soundstages, each of them nearly identical to the next Floyd | except for the identifying number stenciled on it in faded white Floyd | paint. If you keep going straight to the north, eventually you'll get Floyd | to the main building. Or you could turn around and head back to the Floyd | parking lot. More buildings of an administrative flavor are over to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "(and I really hate lagging like this. I type a reply and wait a minute or more for it to show up.)" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "It's fine. Gives me a chance to poke at other things while we go slowly for your lag. :)" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "So, more N, then." | |||
| DavidW says, "I guess. The note wasn't specific where to meet Milt." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Main building Floyd ] 8:18 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Main building Floyd | You're just in front of the main administrative building. Somewhere Floyd | behind these walls are the executive offices of Rocket Pictures: a Floyd | motley assemblage of manic creative near-genius, mediocre posturing, Floyd | epidemic insecurity, monumental bravado, white-knuckle risk-taking, Floyd | milquetoast acquiescence, stark paranoia, and great leather furniture. Floyd | Milt Walker is here, standing outside the building. Floyd | Floyd | Milt speaks in a fairly low voice, straight and to the point, looking Floyd | around, careful not to be overheard. "Maybe you already guessed this, Floyd | but I asked you here to talk about Cindy Painter's death. I don't Floyd | know if there's anything that you can find out that the cops haven't Floyd | or won't, but I'm willing to give you twelve hours to see what you can Floyd | do." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Wow. That is some writing, that is." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hrm. Witness." | |||
| DavidW says, "I suppose we should ask Milt about Cindy, since I, for one, haven't even heard of her before." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. We haven't. Good place to start." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask Milt about Cindy" | |||
Floyd ] Main building Floyd ] 8:19 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MILT ABOUT CINDY Floyd | Floyd | "It's such a goddamned tragedy," Milt says, pulling his glasses down Floyd | and rubbing his eyes. "I've known her for years, since long before Floyd | she came here, tried to break in. Knew her father, her parents are in Floyd | Detroit. She was just on the verge; she was making a picture for Floyd | us--Stuart Fina was the executive on it." He points over toward the Floyd | side building. Floyd | Floyd | "Here," Milt says. He hands you a report marked "LAPD Homicide Floyd | Report". "A contact of mine at the Police Department managed to Floyd | procure this. I don't know if it will be of any help." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "After we grill Milt, either go into the main building, or check out what the admin bldg knows." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Probably go speak to the exec, but let's read the report first." | |||
| DavidW says, "oh, read that report, of course." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read report" | |||
Floyd ] Main building Floyd ] 8:20 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > READ REPORT Floyd | Floyd | The report is titled "LAPD HOMICIDE REPORT". It describes how on May Floyd | 23, Cindy Painter, a twenty-four year-old actress, was found strangled Floyd | in her apartment on National Boulevard. Forensics suggest that she Floyd | opened the door to have the intruder burst in on her. The body was Floyd | found in the bedroom; there were no signs of assault other than Floyd | strangulation. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "That is a very short report." | ||
| DavidW says, "ask Milt about Fina" | |||
| Lionheart arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | DavidW says, "also note that when he mentioned Stuart Fina, he pointed to a side building." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask milt about fina" | |||
Floyd ] Main building Floyd ] 8:21 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MILT ABOUT FINA Floyd | Floyd | "He's a pretty sharp kid," he says. "Been with us about a year, Floyd | worked on a couple of medium-sized pictures. This picture Cindy was Floyd | doing--Hugs and Kisses--was his first as Executive in Charge Floyd | of Production. Sounds like he's done a good job on it." Floyd | Floyd | "You might want to go to her apartment--I don't know if the police are Floyd | still there or not. Maybe you can find something they're missing." Floyd | He hands you a single apartment key. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Sure, my boss has the key to my apartment." | ||
| JoshuaH says, "I was about to say." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I mean, I guess he's a family friend, but still. Ca-reepy." | |||
| DavidW says, "ask him about police. Maybe we can get a donut too." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask him about police" | |||
Floyd ] Main building Floyd ] 8:22 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK HIM ABOUT POLICE Floyd | Floyd | (Assuming you mean Milt.) Floyd | Milt doesn't seem to know anything about the police. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm going to be in and out today--I've still got a damned studio to Floyd | run, even with all this mess going on. I'll try to keep checking back Floyd | out here for you after an hour or so." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask milt about suspects" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MILT ABOUT SUSPECTS Floyd | Floyd | You can't use the word "suspects". Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask milt about witnesses" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MILT ABOUT WITNESSES Floyd | Floyd | You can't use the word "witnesses". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline frowns. | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't think we have much else to ask Milt about at this time." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Studio backlot Floyd ] 8:23 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Studio backlot Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "verbose" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > VERBOSE Floyd | Floyd | Verbose descriptions. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Studio backlot Floyd ] 8:24 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Studio backlot Floyd | It wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to get lost back here Floyd | among the soundstages, each of them nearly identical to the next Floyd | except for the identifying number stenciled on it in faded white Floyd | paint. If you keep going straight to the north, eventually you'll get Floyd | to the main building. Or you could turn around and head back to the Floyd | parking lot. More buildings of an administrative flavor are over to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Side building Floyd ] 8:25 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Side building Floyd | The people who work in this building are the people who all hope Floyd | that one day they'll end up working in the other building. Not that Floyd | this building is bad--not that it's a fire hazard or anything like Floyd | that--although the budget allocated for repairs to the roof probably Floyd | went into new oak paneling inside the main building. And maybe this Floyd | place someone like you could at least get into. Probably just by Floyd | leaving the shade of this tree and climbing up the set of three stairs Floyd | that leads to the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "also, if time is critical, we shouldn't dillydally." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd | %% Critical error. Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file. Floyd ] Reception area Floyd ] 8:26 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Reception area Floyd | You could plunk yourself down in one of the two comfy-looking Floyd | high-backed chairs while waiting for someone. The minty-blue hospital Floyd | tint to the walls could take some getting used to, though. A hallway Floyd | of office doors extends to the west, or you can go back outside to the Floyd | south. Floyd | The building's receptionist is sitting at her desk. Her nameplate Floyd | says her name is Anne. Floyd | Floyd | The phone rings. Anne answers it and takes down a message. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask anne about fina" | |||
Floyd ] Reception area Floyd ] 8:27 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK ANNE ABOUT FINA Floyd | Floyd | "Who shall I say is here?" Anne asks, looking you up and down. Floyd | "Um...forget it. I'll just buzz him." She punches a couple of Floyd | buttons on her phone and speaks very briefly into it before hanging Floyd | up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Since we're on a clock, I hate to wait. Just go w?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I dunno." | |||
| DavidW says, "Try, see if Anne stops us." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Reception area Floyd ] 8:28 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Now, seeing as you don't know your way around here, the best you can Floyd | hope for is to wind up wandering the halls and maybe getting security Floyd | called on you. Better to wait here if there's someone you need to Floyd | see. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "There we go then." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask anne about cindy" | |||
Floyd ] Reception area Floyd ] 8:29 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK ANNE ABOUT CINDY Floyd | Floyd | "I think it's horrible what happened to her! I was so upset when I Floyd | heard--I didn't know her, though." Anne looks at you. "What do you Floyd | have to do with it? Is that why you're here?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "say yes" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAY YES Floyd | Floyd | That doesn't make any sense. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "yes" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | That was a rhetorical question. (Although you sound rather positive.) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask anne about fina" | |||
Floyd ] Reception area Floyd ] 8:30 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK ANNE ABOUT FINA Floyd | Floyd | "I just called him for you." She seems a little annoyed with your Floyd | impatience. "You're welcome to have a seat." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hrm" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask anne about anne" | |||
Floyd ] Reception area Floyd ] 8:31 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK ANNE ABOUT ANNE Floyd | Floyd | Anne looks at you in a way that says, hey, I'm just the Floyd | receptionist--I'm not bothering you, am I? Floyd | Floyd | Stuart Fina appears from somewhere down the hallway. He obviously Floyd | doesn't recognize you, but he manages to greet you with one of those Floyd | practised smiles that suggests you're the best thing that's happened Floyd | to him all day. "Hi there. Stuart Fina." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "so, sit on on chair as the room description suggests." | ||
| DavidW says, "er sit on THE chair" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Ask Fina about Cindy, I guess?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I doubt >INTRODUCE ME is a thing" | |||
| JoshuaH says, "Ya." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask fina about cindy" | |||
Floyd ] Reception area Floyd ] 8:32 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FINA ABOUT CINDY Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, well, geez..." Stuart trails off, shaking his head. "God, I Floyd | really don't know what to say...I mean it's terrible, absolutely Floyd | terrible. She had such a bright future. She was going to be a huge Floyd | star. Her picture, the one she was doing with us--it's going to be a Floyd | hit. A huge hit. When people see it they're going to think Floyd | about James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and all wonder 'What if...?'" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yes, ask Fina about Cindy, movie, Milt." | ||
| DavidW says, "and about Fina himself, of course." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "What if, eh? So her death might be good for publicity for the film, but that seems a bit much." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask fina about fina" | |||
Floyd ] Reception area Floyd ] 8:33 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FINA ABOUT FINA Floyd | Floyd | Stuart would probably rather not talk about himself. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "Well, Stuart will just have to get over that!" | ||
| JoshuaH exclaims, "As if!" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask fina about movie" | |||
Floyd ] Reception area Floyd ] 8:34 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FINA ABOUT MOVIE Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, it's going to be a big, big hit. It's testing through the Floyd | roof--test audiences are just loving it. Cindy's perfect in it: this Floyd | sweet, adorable girl plotting all these terrible ways to kill her Floyd | cheating lover." Stuart sighs heavily. "It just makes what happens Floyd | to Cindy that much sadder...that much more of a tragedy." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "maybe ask him about alibi." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask fina about milt" | |||
Floyd ] Reception area Floyd ] 8:35 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FINA ABOUT MILT Floyd | Floyd | "Milt? I idolize Milt," Stuart says. "You know what he is in this Floyd | business? The godfather. The king. Milt talks and people don't even Floyd | question it. If there's one guy you don't want to look like an idiot Floyd | in front of it's Milt Walker." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask fina about alibi" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FINA ABOUT ALIBI Floyd | Floyd | You can't use the word "alibi". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "!" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask fina about actors" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FINA ABOUT ACTORS Floyd | Floyd | You can't use the word "actors". Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask fina about actor" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FINA ABOUT ACTOR Floyd | Floyd | You can't use the word "actor". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Was curious about co-stars." | ||
| DavidW says, "I think it's time to visit her apartment." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "..Joshua?]" | |||
| JoshuaH says, "Sure." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Side building Floyd ] 8:36 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Side building Floyd | The people who work in this building are the people who all hope Floyd | that one day they'll end up working in the other building. Not that Floyd | this building is bad--not that it's a fire hazard or anything like Floyd | that--although the budget allocated for repairs to the roof probably Floyd | went into new oak paneling inside the main building. And maybe this Floyd | place someone like you could at least get into. Probably just by Floyd | leaving the shade of this tree and climbing up the set of three stairs Floyd | that leads to the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "We didn't get much of anything from him, did we?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Not really, no." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Wait, which way back to the car?" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "I'm always losing my car!" | |||
| JoshuaH asks, "E then S?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Ah, yeah. We're in a nook, aren't we?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e'" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > E' Floyd | Floyd | You can't use the word "e'". Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Studio backlot Floyd ] 8:37 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Studio backlot Floyd | It wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to get lost back here Floyd | among the soundstages, each of them nearly identical to the next Floyd | except for the identifying number stenciled on it in faded white Floyd | paint. If you keep going straight to the north, eventually you'll get Floyd | to the main building. Or you could turn around and head back to the Floyd | parking lot. More buildings of an administrative flavor are over to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Studio gate Floyd ] 8:38 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Studio gate Floyd | Welcome to Rocket Pictures Studios. It's everything a Hollywood Floyd | studio should be: it has a bold, impressive gate; the grounds of the Floyd | lot extending to the north are lined with rows of pale hangar-like Floyd | soundstage buildings and ceramic-roofed bungalows; there's a Floyd | staggering abundance of motorhomes; it has its own watertower; and Floyd | it's not actually in Hollywood at all. Floyd | Your cousin's Volvo is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in volvo" | |||
Floyd ] Studio gate Floyd ] 8:39 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IN VOLVO Floyd | Floyd | You climb into the Volvo. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drive to apartment" | |||
Floyd | %% Critical error. Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file. Floyd ] National Boulevard Floyd ] 8:50 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > DRIVE TO APARTMENT Floyd | Floyd | You drive south to National Blvd. and pull over to the curb next to Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building. Floyd | Floyd | National Boulevard, in your cousin's Volvo Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street to Cindy Painter's Floyd | building, which is a three-story apartment complex. Maybe it's not Floyd | Beverly Hills, but you know, it's not bad. National extends to the Floyd | east, and also to the west before curving away to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get out" | |||
Floyd ] National Boulevard Floyd ] 8:51 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > GET OUT Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the Volvo. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd ] 8:52 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the Floyd | stairs leading up. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Apartment stairs Floyd ] 8:53 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Apartment stairs Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's Floyd | apartment. At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is Floyd | closed. The doors to the other apartments are closed, too. You can Floyd | go back down to the ground from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So what does that mean, precisely? POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS? It means we unlock the door and enter, right?" | ||
| DavidW says, "if you see any trash receptacles, dumpsters, please check 'em out." | |||
| Jacqueline nods. | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter apartment" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room Floyd ] 8:54 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER APARTMENT Floyd | Floyd | You unlock the door and go in, ducking under the tape and closing the Floyd | door quietly behind you. Floyd | Floyd | (Now keep in mind that this is a crime scene, and you may want to be Floyd | fairly judicious about what you disturb--or at least leave disturbed.) Floyd | Floyd | Cindy Painter's living room Floyd | Rather sparsely decorated: a fairly new sofa sitting in the middle Floyd | of the hardwood floor commands your attention. There's a television Floyd | in the corner. The sole bedroom is to the north. East takes you into Floyd | the kitchen, or you can go back out into the stairwell. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x sofa" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room Floyd ] 8:55 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > X SOFA Floyd | Floyd | The sofa is cloth-covered, off-white, relatively new, low almost to Floyd | the floor, and not the cheapest you could possibly find. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "search sofa. Anything could be in the cushions. Also look under it and behind it." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It commands our attention because it is There." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay. There was a warning about disturbing stuff, but..." | |||
| Jacqueline shrugs. | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search sofa" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room Floyd ] 8:56 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH SOFA Floyd | Floyd | You don't find anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look under sofa" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room Floyd ] 8:57 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER SOFA Floyd | Floyd | A cassette tape is half-sticking out from under the sofa, probably Floyd | overlooked by the police. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oho" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Those slackers." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get tape" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room Floyd ] 8:58 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > GET TAPE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | JoshuaH says, "I remember cassettes." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| DavidW says, "Few policepeople play IF, I guess." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "I did when I was a policepeople." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x tape" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room Floyd ] 8:59 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > X TAPE Floyd | Floyd | Handwritten on the cassette label is "New Songs - May 15". If the the Floyd | tape player in the Volvo worked, you'd even be able to give it a Floyd | listen. The contact address on the tape is in Santa Monica. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks (of Joshua), "oh, make me feel old, why don't you?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "If it's any consolation, I remember a car we had that had an 8-track in it." | |||
| Roger says, "Our pickup did" | |||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "yes, that helps." | |||
| Roger says, "Clunk clunk goes the buttons" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "You're welcome. It was a '78 convertible Super Beatle." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I think it was a '78, anyway. One of the last years." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "So... bedroom?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Look behind sofa" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, right." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I got the impression it was in the center of the room, but perhaps not." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look behind sofa" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room Floyd ] 9:00 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND SOFA Floyd | Floyd | You don't find anything behind the sofa. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Examine television; there could be a sticker or doodad on it." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x television" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room Floyd ] 9:01 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > X TELEVISION Floyd | Floyd | The fairly expensive television is sitting on the floor in the way in Floyd | of a fairly expensive television just purchased by someone who has yet Floyd | to buy a nice wall-unit for it. The TV is turned off. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ok, leave the tv alone. Bedroom next, please." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah. A TV that doesn't mount to the wall. It's like a time machine, this game." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room Floyd ] 9:02 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Not a good idea: everything in the bedroom has been covered with Floyd | plastic--presumably to protect the crime scene from contamination--so Floyd | you'd be best not to go tromping around all over it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "PEOPLE" | ||
| DavidW says, "Kitchen, then." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "How are we s'posed to investimagate?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd ] 9:03 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Refrigerator, stove, sink, kitchen window. An empty carton of Floyd | grapefruit juice sitting on the counter. The living room is back out Floyd | to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "fridge" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | That doesn't make any sense. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x fridge" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd ] 9:04 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > X FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | Done in the same style and color as the stove: part of a matching Floyd | set. The fridge is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd ] 9:05 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | Opened. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look in fridge" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd ] 9:06 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | The refrigerator is curiously empty of anything edible. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "close fridge" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd ] 9:07 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > CLOSE FRIDGE Floyd | Floyd | Closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look through window" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd ] 9:08 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK THROUGH WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | Through the window you can see behind the building, where a narrow Floyd | alley plays host to a garbage dumpster. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "DUMPSTER" | ||
| DavidW says, "It's possible the tape is the *only* thing we're to find here." | |||
| DavidW says, "The window seems significant to me." | |||
| DavidW says, "aka trash receptacle." | |||
| DavidW says, "We must get to it." | |||
| DavidW says, "god I hate lagging. I mentioned the window before you looked through it." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I lived in Alaska on dialup once, DW. I recall the pain." | |||
| DavidW says, "ow" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Should we just run right for the dumpster, or is there more we'd like to do here?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Make sure you close the fridge. Look in oven and close it. ExamineCheck the juice container" | |||
| JoshuaH says, "Probably not anything in the sink." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x sink" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd ] 9:09 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > X SINK Floyd | Floyd | It's pretty much your average stainless-steel kitchen sink and faucet Floyd | combo. Entirely appropriate for washing dishes or rinsing vegetables Floyd | or anything like that. The boring tangle of plumbing is likely Floyd | concealed in the cupboard beneath the sink. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ooh, cupboard" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search cupboard" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd ] 9:10 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH CUPBOARD Floyd | Floyd | The cupboard is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open cupboard" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd ] 9:11 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CUPBOARD Floyd | Floyd | Opened. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the kitchen sink's plumbing in the cupboard. Floyd | Various cleaning supplies--rags, cleansers, disinfectants, etc.--are Floyd | tucked away in the cupboard in the space around and behind the Floyd | plumbing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search cupboard" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd ] 9:12 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH CUPBOARD Floyd | Floyd | You can see the kitchen sink's plumbing in the cupboard. Floyd | Various cleaning supplies--rags, cleansers, disinfectants, etc.--are Floyd | tucked away in the cupboard in the space around and behind the Floyd | plumbing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Really? That took a minute to give me no new info?" | ||
| DavidW says, "search the rags" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd ] 9:11 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Refrigerator, stove, sink, kitchen window. An empty carton of Floyd | grapefruit juice sitting on the counter. The living room is back out Floyd | to the west. Floyd | You can see the kitchen sink's plumbing in the open cupboard. Floyd | Various cleaning supplies--rags, cleansers, disinfectants, etc.--are Floyd | tucked away in the cupboard in the space around and behind the Floyd | plumbing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search rags" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd ] 9:12 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH RAGS Floyd | Floyd | You find a box of garbage bags tucked away behind the pipes. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "take those" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd ] 9:13 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying an envelope, your cousin's car keys, a police report, Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment key, and a cassette tape. Inside the Floyd | envelope are a small note and a studio pass. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "But... but... crime scene" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Fine." | |||
| DavidW says, "the garbage bags, I mean" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I guess we already took the tape." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yeah, I realize." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take bags" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd ] 9:14 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BAGS Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open stove" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd ] 9:15 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN STOVE Floyd | Floyd | You're either hungry or you've suddenly been struck by the urge to Floyd | cook. Neither is really what you should be thinking about right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Maybe I wanted to search the oven for someone's head." | ||
| DavidW says, "Some IF ovens have dismembered heads." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Totally." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "It's as if ovens are made for the purpose in IF." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "So, how do we get to that dumpster? We don't climb through this window." | |||
| DavidW says, "timing" | |||
| inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DavidW says, "(it's kinda eerie that heads in ovens is a minor trope)" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Did you close the fridge?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I think we can probably reach the dumpster from outside. I don't think going through the window is a good idea unless we have no choice." | |||
| JoshuaH says, "sidewalk outside goes S" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I did close the fridge, but not the cupboard." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "close cupboard" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd ] 9:16 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > CLOSE CUPBOARD Floyd | Floyd | Closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room Floyd ] 9:17 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cindy Painter's living room Floyd | Rather sparsely decorated: a fairly new sofa sitting in the middle Floyd | of the hardwood floor commands your attention. There's a television Floyd | in the corner. The sole bedroom is to the north. East takes you into Floyd | the kitchen, or you can go back out into the stairwell. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Apartment stairs Floyd ] 9:18 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You go out, ducking under the police tape before closing and locking Floyd | the door behind you again. Floyd | Floyd | Apartment stairs Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's Floyd | apartment. At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is Floyd | closed. The doors to the other apartments are closed, too. You can Floyd | go back down to the ground from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd ] 9:19 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the Floyd | stairs leading up. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Apartment stairs Floyd ] 9:20 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Apartment stairs Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's Floyd | apartment. At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is Floyd | closed. The doors to the other apartments are closed, too. You can Floyd | go back down to the ground from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks (of JoshuaH), "To an alley, maybe?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Wait." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd ] 9:19 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the Floyd | stairs leading up. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Apartment stairs Floyd ] 9:18 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Apartment stairs Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's Floyd | apartment. At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is Floyd | closed. The doors to the other apartments are closed, too. You can Floyd | go back down to the ground from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd ] 9:19 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the Floyd | stairs leading up. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] National Boulevard Floyd ] 9:20 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | National Boulevard Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street to Cindy Painter's Floyd | building, which is a three-story apartment complex. Maybe it's not Floyd | Beverly Hills, but you know, it's not bad. National extends to the Floyd | east, and also to the west before curving away to the north. Floyd | Your cousin's Volvo is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | > | JoshuaH says, "Ah. I didn't fully read. Sorry." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Are you going to lock the apartment door?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Where did you see the alley?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "No, but I didn't *un*lock, it either." | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm guessing there's an alley." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I can go back and try, though." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd ] 9:19 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the Floyd | stairs leading up. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Apartment stairs Floyd ] 9:18 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Apartment stairs Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's Floyd | apartment. At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is Floyd | closed. The doors to the other apartments are closed, too. You can Floyd | go back down to the ground from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "lock apartment" | |||
Floyd ] Apartment stairs Floyd ] 9:19 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > LOCK APARTMENT Floyd | Floyd | It's already locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So, which way?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Can we reach that overhang?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Is anything in the greenery?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "What command do you want me to try?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search greenery" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH GREENERY Floyd | Floyd | You don't see that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Apartment stairs Floyd ] 9:18 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Apartment stairs Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's Floyd | apartment. At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is Floyd | closed. The doors to the other apartments are closed, too. You can Floyd | go back down to the ground from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd ] 9:19 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the Floyd | stairs leading up. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search greenery" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd ] 9:20 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH GREENERY Floyd | Floyd | You don't find anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd ] 9:19 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the Floyd | stairs leading up. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "(You moved before I could react.)" | ||
| DavidW says, "Not outside the apartment door. Outside the building." | |||
| DavidW says, "argh. Lagging really badly now." | |||
| DavidW says, "Outside the building there" | |||
| DavidW says, "Outside the building there's an overhang and greenery." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. I went there and searched the greenery. Not sure about the overhang, though." | |||
| DavidW says, "Maybe we can climb up there? But the dumpster has to be ground accessible, logically." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "climb overhand" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB OVERHAND Floyd | Floyd | You can't use the word "overhand". Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "climb overhang" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB OVERHANG Floyd | Floyd | You can't use the word "overhang". Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I didn't see you search the greenery here." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh wait, I see you did" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "So. The dumpster." | |||
| JoshuaH says, "Maybe it's E from National, but other than that or through the window, I'm stumped." | |||
| DavidW asks, "yeah. If you can't find it by walking around the building, go through the window. But really, how to expect to go from dumpster to window?" | |||
| JoshuaH says, "The desc also mentioned other apartments' doors." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Apartment stairs Floyd ] 9:20 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Apartment stairs Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's Floyd | apartment. At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is Floyd | closed. The doors to the other apartments are closed, too. You can Floyd | go back down to the ground from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oops" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room Floyd ] 9:21 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You unlock the door and go in, ducking under the tape and closing the Floyd | door quietly behind you. Floyd | Floyd | Cindy Painter's living room Floyd | Rather sparsely decorated: a fairly new sofa sitting in the middle Floyd | of the hardwood floor commands your attention. There's a television Floyd | in the corner. The sole bedroom is to the north. East takes you into Floyd | the kitchen, or you can go back out into the stairwell. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Wait. Undoing a bit." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Apartment stairs Floyd ] 9:20 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Apartment stairs Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's Floyd | apartment. At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is Floyd | closed. The doors to the other apartments are closed, too. You can Floyd | go back down to the ground from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd ] 9:19 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the Floyd | stairs leading up. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd ] 9:19 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the Floyd | stairs leading up. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Apartment stairs Floyd ] 9:18 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Apartment stairs Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's Floyd | apartment. At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is Floyd | closed. The doors to the other apartments are closed, too. You can Floyd | go back down to the ground from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room Floyd ] 9:17 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cindy Painter's living room Floyd | Rather sparsely decorated: a fairly new sofa sitting in the middle Floyd | of the hardwood floor commands your attention. There's a television Floyd | in the corner. The sole bedroom is to the north. East takes you into Floyd | the kitchen, or you can go back out into the stairwell. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Unable to undo. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Apartment stairs Floyd ] 9:18 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You go out, ducking under the police tape before closing and locking Floyd | the door behind you again. Floyd | Floyd | Apartment stairs Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's Floyd | apartment. At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is Floyd | closed. The doors to the other apartments are closed, too. You can Floyd | go back down to the ground from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd ] 9:19 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the Floyd | stairs leading up. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] National Boulevard Floyd ] 9:20 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | National Boulevard Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street to Cindy Painter's Floyd | building, which is a three-story apartment complex. Maybe it's not Floyd | Beverly Hills, but you know, it's not bad. National extends to the Floyd | east, and also to the west before curving away to the north. Floyd | Your cousin's Volvo is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] National Boulevard Floyd ] 9:21 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Going east will just get you further away from your car and where you Floyd | want to be. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hrm." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Gosh, maybe the window?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] National Boulevard Floyd ] 9:22 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Going west will just take you past the back of the building to the Floyd | south, away from your car and where you want to be. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I haven't been mapping, so I can't suggest directions explicitly." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'll undo until we're back in her livingroom." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] National Boulevard Floyd ] 9:21 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | National Boulevard Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street to Cindy Painter's Floyd | building, which is a three-story apartment complex. Maybe it's not Floyd | Beverly Hills, but you know, it's not bad. National extends to the Floyd | east, and also to the west before curving away to the north. Floyd | Your cousin's Volvo is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] National Boulevard Floyd ] 9:20 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | National Boulevard Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street to Cindy Painter's Floyd | building, which is a three-story apartment complex. Maybe it's not Floyd | Beverly Hills, but you know, it's not bad. National extends to the Floyd | east, and also to the west before curving away to the north. Floyd | Your cousin's Volvo is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd ] 9:19 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the Floyd | stairs leading up. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Apartment stairs Floyd ] 9:18 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Apartment stairs Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's Floyd | apartment. At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is Floyd | closed. The doors to the other apartments are closed, too. You can Floyd | go back down to the ground from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room Floyd ] 9:17 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cindy Painter's living room Floyd | Rather sparsely decorated: a fairly new sofa sitting in the middle Floyd | of the hardwood floor commands your attention. There's a television Floyd | in the corner. The sole bedroom is to the north. East takes you into Floyd | the kitchen, or you can go back out into the stairwell. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen Floyd ] 9:18 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Refrigerator, stove, sink, kitchen window. An empty carton of Floyd | grapefruit juice sitting on the counter. The living room is back out Floyd | to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open window" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that with the kitchen window. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline glares at the kitchen window. | ||
| Jacqueline sighs, grabs a pen. | |||
| DavidW says, "seriously, the dumpster must be accessible from outside." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. It will be. The only clue we have is 'behind the building,' so it's odd that we're not allowed to go wandering. Perhaps I should wander from the base of the stairs, not from our car." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room Floyd ] 9:17 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cindy Painter's living room Floyd | Rather sparsely decorated: a fairly new sofa sitting in the middle Floyd | of the hardwood floor commands your attention. There's a television Floyd | in the corner. The sole bedroom is to the north. East takes you into Floyd | the kitchen, or you can go back out into the stairwell. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Apartment stairs Floyd ] 9:18 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You go out, ducking under the police tape before closing and locking Floyd | the door behind you again. Floyd | Floyd | Apartment stairs Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's Floyd | apartment. At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is Floyd | closed. The doors to the other apartments are closed, too. You can Floyd | go back down to the ground from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd ] 9:19 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the Floyd | stairs leading up. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Is this a mythical dumpster?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "A taunt?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Or wander the hallway; there might be a backstairs." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Apartment stairs Floyd ] 9:20 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Apartment stairs Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's Floyd | apartment. At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is Floyd | closed. The doors to the other apartments are closed, too. You can Floyd | go back down to the ground from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room Floyd ] 9:21 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You unlock the door and go in, ducking under the tape and closing the Floyd | door quietly behind you. Floyd | Floyd | Cindy Painter's living room Floyd | Rather sparsely decorated: a fairly new sofa sitting in the middle Floyd | of the hardwood floor commands your attention. There's a television Floyd | in the corner. The sole bedroom is to the north. East takes you into Floyd | the kitchen, or you can go back out into the stairwell. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Apartment stairs Floyd ] 9:20 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Apartment stairs Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's Floyd | apartment. At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is Floyd | closed. The doors to the other apartments are closed, too. You can Floyd | go back down to the ground from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Apartment stairs Floyd ] 9:21 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Seeing as none of the other doors belongs to you, you'll probably have Floyd | a hard time doing that without getting arrested. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, like a mountain painted on a backdrop? That would be evil. I suppose it's possible, but ick if so." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. Exactly like a mountain painted on a backdrop." | |||
| DavidW says, "If you're giving up on the dumpster, try to play the tape or go to the Santa Monica address on the tape." | |||
| DavidW says, "oh, also open the box of garbage cans and VERIFY that only bags are in there." | |||
| DavidW says, "er box of bags" | |||
| Jacqueline gets bored and wanders off to the Toyshop. | |||
| Jacqueline arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Jacqueline says, "Sorry about that. Back." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open bags" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN BAGS Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that with the box of garbage bags. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x bags" | |||
Floyd ] Apartment stairs Floyd ] 9:22 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > X BAGS Floyd | Floyd | The garbage bags are stretchy plastic and dull orange in color. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "I don't think we have a tape player, do we?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Maybe we're down to the address in SM?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I wasn't sure if we had a player or not." | |||
| JoshuaH says, "Just the broken one in the car." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "There wasn't one mentioned in the apartment." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Possibly there was a Walkman(TM) on the body." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Apartment stairs Floyd ] 9:22 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Apartment stairs Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's Floyd | apartment. At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is Floyd | closed. The doors to the other apartments are closed, too. You can Floyd | go back down to the ground from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd ] 9:23 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the Floyd | stairs leading up. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] National Boulevard Floyd ] 9:24 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | National Boulevard Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street to Cindy Painter's Floyd | building, which is a three-story apartment complex. Maybe it's not Floyd | Beverly Hills, but you know, it's not bad. National extends to the Floyd | east, and also to the west before curving away to the north. Floyd | Your cousin's Volvo is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in car" | |||
Floyd ] National Boulevard Floyd ] 9:25 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IN CAR Floyd | Floyd | You climb into the Volvo. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drive to santa monica" | |||
Floyd | %% Critical error. Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file. Floyd ] Santa Monica Floyd ] 9:40 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > DRIVE TO SANTA MONICA Floyd | Floyd | You drive to Santa Monica and park along Ocean Avenue. Floyd | Floyd | Santa Monica, in your cousin's Volvo Floyd | This is about as far west as you can get on the mainland United Floyd | States and not be driving on the sand. Ocean Avenue extends north and Floyd | south, lined with palm trees and brightly colored, Santa Monica-ish Floyd | buildings. You can get a better view of the beach to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "or a walkman in the dumpster. :)" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I hate when people call it 'continental US' or 'mainland US'" | |||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at DW), "Taunt me no more with your mythical dumpster!" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read cassette" | |||
Floyd ] Santa Monica Floyd ] 9:41 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > READ CASSETTE Floyd | Floyd | Handwritten on the cassette label is "New Songs - May 15". If the the Floyd | tape player in the Volvo worked, you'd even be able to give it a Floyd | listen. The contact address on the tape is in Santa Monica. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So, the contact address is SM, and now here we are in SM, at the beach. Um." | ||
| DavidW says, "'Taunting Dumpster': the new rad game that everyone's talking about!" | |||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "ClubFloyd were told there was a dumpster to find. You won't believe what happens next!" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Might there be surfer dudes and dudettes? Frankie and Annette?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Man. Frankie and Annette? You were worried about dating yourself?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Santa Monica Floyd ] 9:42 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | To get anywhere by driving, try something along the lines of "drive to Floyd | my hotel". (Or, if you plan to walk, you'll have to get out of the Floyd | car.) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in car" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IN CAR Floyd | Floyd | A bit redundant, don't you think? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh oh oh. Still in the car." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Santa Monica Floyd ] 9:42 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Santa Monica, in your cousin's Volvo Floyd | This is about as far west as you can get on the mainland United Floyd | States and not be driving on the sand. Ocean Avenue extends north and Floyd | south, lined with palm trees and brightly colored, Santa Monica-ish Floyd | buildings. You can get a better view of the beach to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drive to address" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > DRIVE TO ADDRESS Floyd | Floyd | You can't use the word "address". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Meh" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get out" | |||
Floyd ] Santa Monica Floyd ] 9:43 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > GET OUT Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the Volvo. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Overlooking the beach Floyd ] 9:44 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Overlooking the beach Floyd | From here you can see the hazy mist hanging over the Pacific Ocean Floyd | and the long curve of the coastline north past Malibu. A cement Floyd | stairway descends to the beach from here, or you can go back east to Floyd | where the Volvo is parked. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Well, let's just go because it's there, shall we?" | ||
| JoshuaH says, "Sure." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd | %% Critical error. Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file. Floyd ] Beach Floyd ] 9:45 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You climb down the cement steps to the sandy beach below. Floyd | Floyd | Beach Floyd | You're facing south on a walking/running/rollerblading/whatever path Floyd | that parallels the beach north-south along the ocean. Quite a few Floyd | people are involved in beach-ish activities. You could follow the Floyd | coastline further to the south, or go back up to the higher ground Floyd | overlooking the beach. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The address was 'Surfing USA'." | ||
| JoshuaH says, "Hrm." | |||
| Roger says, "Heh" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Well, continuing in the 'because it is there' theme, S?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm guessing the critical errors are failures to display an image." | |||
| DavidW says, "yes, explore the beach, please." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "That was my thought, too." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house Floyd ] 9:46 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Billy Van Earl's house Floyd | The house is archetypically tall and thin--the norm for houses along Floyd | this row on the Santa Monica beach. A balcony looks out from the Floyd | second story--you can hear music from above. There's a doorbell here Floyd | at path level. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well of course we just stumbled upon the musician's house.'" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Of course we did." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ring bell" | |||
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house Floyd ] 9:47 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > RING BELL Floyd | Floyd | You push the doorbell and hear a muffled ring indoors. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, ">ask billy about the myth of the dumpster" | ||
| DavidW says, "I guess wait a turn and hope Billy isn't dead." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "haha" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "GOOD PLAN" | |||
| Jacqueline hopes Billy isn't dead. | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house Floyd ] 9:48 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | After a minute or so, Billy Van Earl comes ambling down from somewhere Floyd | upstairs. "Hey," he says, squinting. He obviously doesn't know you. Floyd | Floyd | Do you want to keep waiting (YES or NO)? | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | |||
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house Floyd ] 9:50 a.m. Floyd | Do you want to keep waiting (YES or NO)? Floyd | > Y Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hrm" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to billy" | |||
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house Floyd ] 9:51 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO BILLY Floyd | Floyd | Billy is listening. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Y'know, strangled and with a cassette player playing beside his cooling body." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask billy about cindy" | |||
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house Floyd ] 9:52 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK BILLY ABOUT CINDY Floyd | Floyd | Billy raises his eyebrows. "Geez...I never heard of her, you know? Floyd | Wish I could help you out." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "OH REALLY" | ||
| Jacqueline is doubtful. | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Can I scream, J'ACCUSE! yet?" | |||
| JoshuaH asks, "ask about cassette?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, okay. Fine." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask Billy about cassette" | |||
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house Floyd ] 9:53 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK BILLY ABOUT CASSETTE Floyd | Floyd | Billy shrugs. "It's just a tape of some of our songs. We make, like, Floyd | dozens of 'em, give 'em out all over the place. Who knows where that Floyd | one came from?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ask him about cindy, fina, movie, cassette, milt, apartment." | ||
| DavidW says, "show him the cassette too, if necessary" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Why would you put your address on cassettes you randomly hand out to strangers, hm? HM?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask billy about fina" | |||
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house Floyd ] 9:54 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK BILLY ABOUT FINA Floyd | Floyd | "Never heard of the guy." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "This was before Google." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask billy about movie" | |||
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house Floyd ] 9:55 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK BILLY ABOUT MOVIE Floyd | Floyd | "I've never heard of that." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask billy about milt" | |||
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house Floyd ] 9:56 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK BILLY ABOUT MILT Floyd | Floyd | "Should I know who that is?" Billy asks. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask billy about apartment" | |||
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house Floyd ] 9:57 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK BILLY ABOUT APARTMENT Floyd | Floyd | Billy doesn't seem to know anything about Cindy Painter's door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask billy about billy" | |||
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house Floyd ] 9:58 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK BILLY ABOUT BILLY Floyd | Floyd | Billy would probably rather not talk about himself. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask billy about music" | |||
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house Floyd ] 9:59 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK BILLY ABOUT MUSIC Floyd | Floyd | "That's my band, Funkzilla. It's our new CD." Floyd | Floyd | > | JoshuaH says, "Oh god." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask billy about funkzilla" | |||
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house Floyd ] 10:00 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK BILLY ABOUT FUNKZILLA Floyd | Floyd | "Funkzilla's my band. We just put out a new CD: El Thump." Floyd | Floyd | > | JoshuaH says, "Oh GAWD." | ||
| DavidW says, "what about Cindy? You haven't asked about Cindy yet." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Gosh, now I am suddenly not wishing that this game had a soundtrack." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "I did." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "First thing. Claims not to have heard of her." | |||
| DavidW says, "oh. hm." | |||
| DavidW asks, "This is looking like a dead end. Maybe return to Milt with the tape?" | |||
| Roger says, "what there are CDs now" | |||
| Roger says, "I thought we were trapped in the past" | |||
| Jacqueline shrugs. "I guess. He said he'd be back in an hour. | |||
| JoshuaH says, "Sounds good." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "CDs were a thing you published, but you didn't really burn music to them on your computer at this point, I think, so mix tapes were also a thing." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd | %% Critical error. Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file. Floyd ] Beach Floyd ] 10:01 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Beach Floyd | You're facing south on a walking/running/rollerblading/whatever path Floyd | that parallels the beach north-south along the ocean. Quite a few Floyd | people are involved in beach-ish activities. You could follow the Floyd | coastline further to the south, or go back up to the higher ground Floyd | overlooking the beach. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Overlooking the beach Floyd ] 10:02 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Overlooking the beach Floyd | From here you can see the hazy mist hanging over the Pacific Ocean Floyd | and the long curve of the coastline north past Malibu. A cement Floyd | stairway descends to the beach from here, or you can go back east to Floyd | where the Volvo is parked. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in car" | |||
Floyd ] Overlooking the beach Floyd ] 10:03 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IN CAR Floyd | Floyd | There's no car here to get in. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh. Oops." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Overlooking the beach Floyd ] 10:02 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Overlooking the beach Floyd | From here you can see the hazy mist hanging over the Pacific Ocean Floyd | and the long curve of the coastline north past Malibu. A cement Floyd | stairway descends to the beach from here, or you can go back east to Floyd | where the Volvo is parked. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Santa Monica Floyd ] 10:03 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Santa Monica Floyd | This is about as far west as you can get on the mainland United Floyd | States and not be driving on the sand. Ocean Avenue extends north and Floyd | south, lined with palm trees and brightly colored, Santa Monica-ish Floyd | buildings. You can get a better view of the beach to the west. Floyd | Your cousin's Volvo is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in car" | |||
Floyd ] Santa Monica Floyd ] 10:04 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IN CAR Floyd | Floyd | You climb into the Volvo. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drive to studio" | |||
Floyd | %% Critical error. Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file. Floyd | %% Critical error. Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file. Floyd ] Studio gate Floyd ] 10:09 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > DRIVE TO STUDIO Floyd | Floyd | You drive midtown to the main gate of Rocket Pictures Studios and park Floyd | in Visitor Parking. Floyd | Floyd | Studio gate, in your cousin's Volvo Floyd | Welcome to Rocket Pictures Studios. It's everything a Hollywood Floyd | studio should be: it has a bold, impressive gate; the grounds of the Floyd | lot extending to the north are lined with rows of pale hangar-like Floyd | soundstage buildings and ceramic-roofed bungalows; there's a Floyd | staggering abundance of motorhomes; it has its own watertower; and Floyd | it's not actually in Hollywood at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get out" | |||
Floyd ] Studio gate Floyd ] 10:10 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > GET OUT Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the Volvo. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Assuming Milt is still there." | ||
| DavidW says, "Or ask more about the CD and Funkzilla." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Studio backlot Floyd ] 10:11 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Studio backlot Floyd | It wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to get lost back here Floyd | among the soundstages, each of them nearly identical to the next Floyd | except for the identifying number stenciled on it in faded white Floyd | paint. If you keep going straight to the north, eventually you'll get Floyd | to the main building. Or you could turn around and head back to the Floyd | parking lot. More buildings of an administrative flavor are over to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Johnny LaFleure, French-Canadian movie star, is outside one of the Floyd | soundstages having a smoke. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "zomg It's Johnny LaFleure?!" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x lafleure" | |||
Floyd ] Studio backlot Floyd ] 10:12 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > X LAFLEURE Floyd | Floyd | Johnny LaFleure, French-Canadian movie star, looks at you over the top Floyd | of his sunglasses and a fresh Players Light. His demeanor both puts Floyd | you at ease and creeps you out: it seems to say both "Hey, how you Floyd | doing?" and "Hey, got any younger sisters?" at the same time in that Floyd | smooth Quebecoise accent. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline backs away slowly. | ||
| DavidW says, "We could also try turning on the tv and hope a random news story fits into our story somehow." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I guess we should ask creepy Canadian about Cindy." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "I did consider that earlier, but given the time it takes to get there, let's not do that unless we're out of options." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask lafleure about cindy" | |||
Floyd ] Studio backlot Floyd ] 10:13 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK LAFLEURE ABOUT CINDY Floyd | Floyd | "It is sad what happened to her," Johnny said. "I would be very upset Floyd | if that happened to me." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "HAHAHA" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That is awesome." | |||
| Roger asks, "heh. Is this guy the NPC-award-winner?" | |||
| DavidW says, "oh, he's a keeper, he is." | |||
| DavidW says, "(hoping that subsequent drawls don't make my comment come out wrong.)" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask lafleure about milt" | |||
Floyd ] Studio backlot Floyd ] 10:14 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK LAFLEURE ABOUT MILT Floyd | Floyd | "I like Milt Walker," Johnny tells you, nodding. "When I was down a Floyd | little, when my movies weren't doing so good, Milt he didn't give up Floyd | on me. And now look at me I'm a star again! You believe me, it's Floyd | good to be me." Floyd | Floyd | > | JoshuaH says, "ask lafluere about 90 alterna-funk bands" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask lafleure about funkzilla" | |||
Floyd ] Studio backlot Floyd ] 10:15 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK LAFLEURE ABOUT FUNKZILLA Floyd | Floyd | Johnny LaFleure doesn't seem to know anything about Funkzilla. Floyd | Floyd | Johnny drops the butt of his cigarette onto the ground and flattens it Floyd | under his toe. "Back to work," he says, and disappears back into the Floyd | soundstage. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Ask him about poutine" | ||
| JoshuaH says, "(90's, whatever)" | |||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Wait, LaFleure! Come le back!" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Studio backlot Floyd ] 10:14 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Studio backlot Floyd | It wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to get lost back here Floyd | among the soundstages, each of them nearly identical to the next Floyd | except for the identifying number stenciled on it in faded white Floyd | paint. If you keep going straight to the north, eventually you'll get Floyd | to the main building. Or you could turn around and head back to the Floyd | parking lot. More buildings of an administrative flavor are over to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Johnny LaFleure, French-Canadian movie star, is outside one of the Floyd | soundstages having a smoke. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "I bet we find a crushed cigarette butt at or near the crimescene, perhaps under the mythical dumpster" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "hm. Possibly, yeah." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Though we've been to the crime scene and found no such thing." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask johnny about johnny" | |||
Floyd ] Studio backlot Floyd ] 10:15 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK JOHNNY ABOUT JOHNNY Floyd | Floyd | Johnny LaFleure would probably rather not talk about himself. Floyd | Floyd | Johnny drops the butt of his cigarette onto the ground and flattens it Floyd | under his toe. "Back to work," he says, and disappears back into the Floyd | soundstage. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "I'm prepared to lose this bet" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I think Johnny LaFleure would simply ADORE to talk about himself, game." | |||
| DavidW says (to Roger), "Best NPCs in general, not any one in particular." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Do y'all want me to undo again to ask him something?" | |||
| Roger says, "Oh I see" | |||
| Roger says, "Ennhh that kinda feels like cheating in a game like this" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "We have been undoscumming a lot, actually." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Because the game is kind of cruel with its time." | |||
| DavidW says, "Also, finalist, not winner." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "But this one is straight-forward." | |||
| Roger says, "Alright" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "What next? Milt?" | |||
| JoshuaH says, "Milt." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, ever since living in Alaska, I can't understand why anyone would go by 'Milt,' but I digress." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Main building Floyd ] 10:16 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Main building Floyd | You're just in front of the main administrative building. Somewhere Floyd | behind these walls are the executive offices of Rocket Pictures: a Floyd | motley assemblage of manic creative near-genius, mediocre posturing, Floyd | epidemic insecurity, monumental bravado, white-knuckle risk-taking, Floyd | milquetoast acquiescence, stark paranoia, and great leather furniture. Floyd | Milt Walker is here, standing outside the building. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask milt about cassette" | |||
Floyd ] Main building Floyd ] 10:17 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MILT ABOUT CASSETTE Floyd | Floyd | Milt doesn't seem to know anything about the cassette tape. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Did you take the butt?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Take the cigarette butt -- it might be a clueeee" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, true." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Main building Floyd ] 10:16 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Main building Floyd | You're just in front of the main administrative building. Somewhere Floyd | behind these walls are the executive offices of Rocket Pictures: a Floyd | motley assemblage of manic creative near-genius, mediocre posturing, Floyd | epidemic insecurity, monumental bravado, white-knuckle risk-taking, Floyd | milquetoast acquiescence, stark paranoia, and great leather furniture. Floyd | Milt Walker is here, standing outside the building. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Studio backlot Floyd ] 10:15 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Studio backlot Floyd | It wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to get lost back here Floyd | among the soundstages, each of them nearly identical to the next Floyd | except for the identifying number stenciled on it in faded white Floyd | paint. If you keep going straight to the north, eventually you'll get Floyd | to the main building. Or you could turn around and head back to the Floyd | parking lot. More buildings of an administrative flavor are over to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Studio backlot Floyd ] 10:14 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Studio backlot Floyd | It wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to get lost back here Floyd | among the soundstages, each of them nearly identical to the next Floyd | except for the identifying number stenciled on it in faded white Floyd | paint. If you keep going straight to the north, eventually you'll get Floyd | to the main building. Or you could turn around and head back to the Floyd | parking lot. More buildings of an administrative flavor are over to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Johnny LaFleure, French-Canadian movie star, is outside one of the Floyd | soundstages having a smoke. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask johnny about movie" | |||
Floyd ] Studio backlot Floyd ] 10:15 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK JOHNNY ABOUT MOVIE Floyd | Floyd | "Well, I've heard good things and I've heard bad things. There's no Floyd | sure things, you know?" Floyd | Floyd | Johnny drops the butt of his cigarette onto the ground and flattens it Floyd | under his toe. "Back to work," he says, and disappears back into the Floyd | soundstage. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take butt" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BUTT Floyd | Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take cigarette" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE CIGARETTE Floyd | Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Sorry. No go." | ||
| DavidW says, "okay" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Main building Floyd ] 10:16 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Main building Floyd | You're just in front of the main administrative building. Somewhere Floyd | behind these walls are the executive offices of Rocket Pictures: a Floyd | motley assemblage of manic creative near-genius, mediocre posturing, Floyd | epidemic insecurity, monumental bravado, white-knuckle risk-taking, Floyd | milquetoast acquiescence, stark paranoia, and great leather furniture. Floyd | Milt Walker is here, standing outside the building. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask milt about funkzilla" | |||
Floyd ] Main building Floyd ] 10:17 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MILT ABOUT FUNKZILLA Floyd | Floyd | Milt doesn't seem to know anything about Funkzilla. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, ">ASK MILT ABOUT RED HERRINGS" | ||
| Jacqueline says, ">ALSO ASK MILT ABOUT MYTHICAL DUMPSTERS" | |||
| DavidW says, "At least we verified that Funkzilla is a valid topic." | |||
| DavidW says, "also, try asking about dumpster -- it seems this game understands game objects as topics." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask milt about dumpster" | |||
Floyd ] Main building Floyd ] 10:18 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MILT ABOUT DUMPSTER Floyd | Floyd | Milt doesn't seem to know anything about the dumpster. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "aha. The dumpster is a real object." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask milt about kdfjldjf" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MILT ABOUT KDFJLDJF Floyd | Floyd | You can't use the word "kdfjldjf". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm. Okay. Dumpster exists." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Dammit" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "So, we really must find that damn thing." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, we can turn on the TV while we're there" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Anything else before we head back to the apartment?" | |||
| DavidW says, "NOT mythical." | |||
| DavidW says, "Yes, do the happy dumpster dance." | |||
| JoshuaH asks, "milt about lafluere" | JoshuaH says, "ask milt about lafluere" | ||
| JoshuaH says, "? or the musician" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask milt about billy" | |||
Floyd ] Main building Floyd ] 10:19 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MILT ABOUT BILLY Floyd | Floyd | Milt shakes his head, frowning slightly. "I may have heard of Floyd | him--he's, what, in some kind of band? I don't see what that has to Floyd | do with Cindy's death." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask milt about johnny" | |||
Floyd ] Main building Floyd ] 10:20 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MILT ABOUT JOHNNY Floyd | Floyd | "That's a tough one," Milt says. "I mean, I like Johnny--he's a star Floyd | and I think despite making some terribly shitty movies he's a good Floyd | actor--but he can be tough to handle, to say the least. Especially Floyd | where other people's wives are involved and such." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show cassette to milt" | |||
Floyd ] Main building Floyd ] 10:21 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW CASSETTE TO MILT Floyd | Floyd | Milt doesn't seem too interested in the cassette tape. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to JoshuaH), "f ask milt about lafluere" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Anything else before we go for a drive>" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Maybe ask Anne about Lafluere too?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "?" | |||
| DavidW says, "If Lafluere is a creep around women, let's ask Anne about him." | |||
| JoshuaH says, "Te receptionist." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "hm. ya think? Okay" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask milt about anne" | |||
Floyd ] Main building Floyd ] 10:22 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MILT ABOUT ANNE Floyd | Floyd | "That girl who works over in the other building? She's the niece of Floyd | one of our shareholders." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "(also Lafluere is our top suspect, on almost no evidence whatsoever.)" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Studio backlot Floyd ] 10:23 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Studio backlot Floyd | It wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to get lost back here Floyd | among the soundstages, each of them nearly identical to the next Floyd | except for the identifying number stenciled on it in faded white Floyd | paint. If you keep going straight to the north, eventually you'll get Floyd | to the main building. Or you could turn around and head back to the Floyd | parking lot. More buildings of an administrative flavor are over to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Studio gate Floyd ] 10:24 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Studio gate Floyd | Welcome to Rocket Pictures Studios. It's everything a Hollywood Floyd | studio should be: it has a bold, impressive gate; the grounds of the Floyd | lot extending to the north are lined with rows of pale hangar-like Floyd | soundstage buildings and ceramic-roofed bungalows; there's a Floyd | staggering abundance of motorhomes; it has its own watertower; and Floyd | it's not actually in Hollywood at all. Floyd | Your cousin's Volvo is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in car" | |||
Floyd ] Studio gate Floyd ] 10:25 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IN CAR Floyd | Floyd | You climb into the Volvo. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drive to apartment" | |||
Floyd | %% Critical error. Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file. Floyd ] National Boulevard Floyd ] 10:36 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > DRIVE TO APARTMENT Floyd | Floyd | You drive south to National Blvd. and pull over to the curb next to Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building. Floyd | Floyd | National Boulevard, in your cousin's Volvo Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street to Cindy Painter's Floyd | building, which is a three-story apartment complex. Maybe it's not Floyd | Beverly Hills, but you know, it's not bad. National extends to the Floyd | east, and also to the west before curving away to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get out" | |||
Floyd ] National Boulevard Floyd ] 10:37 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > GET OUT Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the Volvo. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] National Boulevard Floyd ] 10:38 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Sure, you could go for a stroll now, but what would that Floyd | accomplish? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] National Boulevard Floyd ] 10:37 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | National Boulevard Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street to Cindy Painter's Floyd | building, which is a three-story apartment complex. Maybe it's not Floyd | Beverly Hills, but you know, it's not bad. National extends to the Floyd | east, and also to the west before curving away to the north. Floyd | Your cousin's Volvo is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd ] 10:38 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the Floyd | stairs leading up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "See, I even made a map of this bit, but I prefer brute-force wandering." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Apartment stairs Floyd ] 10:39 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Apartment stairs Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's Floyd | apartment. At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is Floyd | closed. The doors to the other apartments are closed, too. You can Floyd | go back down to the ground from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER Floyd | Floyd | Be a little more specific about what you'd like to enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | JoshuaH says, "I'm curious about how a studio mogul knows about a lame unsigned funk-metal band. But, like, whatevs." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "enter apartment" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room Floyd ] 10:40 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER APARTMENT Floyd | Floyd | You unlock the door and go in, ducking under the tape and closing the Floyd | door quietly behind you. Floyd | Floyd | Cindy Painter's living room Floyd | Rather sparsely decorated: a fairly new sofa sitting in the middle Floyd | of the hardwood floor commands your attention. There's a television Floyd | in the corner. The sole bedroom is to the north. East takes you into Floyd | the kitchen, or you can go back out into the stairwell. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn on tv" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room Floyd ] 10:41 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN ON TV Floyd | Floyd | You turn the television on. The local L.A. news is on the current Floyd | channel. There's a brief mention of Cindy Painter's death, with no Floyd | details other than that police are investigating. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "watch tv" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > WATCH TV Floyd | Floyd | Better start with a verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room Floyd ] 10:44 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room Floyd ] 10:41 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cindy Painter's living room Floyd | Rather sparsely decorated: a fairly new sofa sitting in the middle Floyd | of the hardwood floor commands your attention. There's a television Floyd | in the corner. The sole bedroom is to the north. East takes you into Floyd | the kitchen, or you can go back out into the stairwell. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn off tv" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's living room Floyd ] 10:42 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN OFF TV Floyd | Floyd | Switched off. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So, ideas on the dumpster... ?" | ||
| JoshuaH asks, "drive to alley?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Wear the garbage bags. Enter the bedroom." | |||
| DavidW says, "(god, that took me ages to think of)" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wear bag" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR BAG Floyd | Floyd | You can't wear garbage bag. Floyd | Floyd | > | JoshuaH says, "Haha." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Apartment stairs Floyd ] 10:43 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You go out, ducking under the police tape before closing and locking Floyd | the door behind you again. Floyd | Floyd | Apartment stairs Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's Floyd | apartment. At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is Floyd | closed. The doors to the other apartments are closed, too. You can Floyd | go back down to the ground from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd ] 10:44 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the Floyd | stairs leading up. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Apartment stairs Floyd ] 10:45 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Apartment stairs Floyd | You stand on the cool cement steps outside Cindy Painter's Floyd | apartment. At least you assume it's hers on account of all the yellow Floyd | "POLICE LINE--DO NOT CROSS" tape crisscrossing the door, which is Floyd | closed. The doors to the other apartments are closed, too. You can Floyd | go back down to the ground from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd ] 10:44 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the Floyd | stairs leading up. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] National Boulevard Floyd ] 10:45 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | National Boulevard Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street to Cindy Painter's Floyd | building, which is a three-story apartment complex. Maybe it's not Floyd | Beverly Hills, but you know, it's not bad. National extends to the Floyd | east, and also to the west before curving away to the north. Floyd | Your cousin's Volvo is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IN Floyd | Floyd | Be a little more specific about where you'd like you to get. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in car" | |||
Floyd ] National Boulevard Floyd ] 10:46 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IN CAR Floyd | Floyd | You climb into the Volvo. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drive to alley" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > DRIVE TO ALLEY Floyd | Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh but we have." | ||
| DavidW says, "We won't contaminate the bedroom if we're plastic wrapped." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay. I looked at a walkthrough. Sorry. Just for this, though. Immediately shut the window." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "We would never have gotten this otherwise." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get out of car" | |||
Floyd ] National Boulevard Floyd ] 10:47 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > GET OUT OF CAR Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the Volvo. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd ] 10:48 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cindy Painter's apartment building Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street and under the thick Floyd | greenery hanging lazily from a concrete overhang to the base of the Floyd | stairs leading up. Floyd | Floyd | > | JoshuaH says, "Oh. I thought you meant disguise ourselves as a bag of garbage and wait for the garbagemen to pick us up and throw us in the dumpster." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "go behind building" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > GO BEHIND BUILDING Floyd | Floyd | You don't see that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Josh), "hahah" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] National Boulevard Floyd ] 10:47 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | National Boulevard Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street to Cindy Painter's Floyd | building, which is a three-story apartment complex. Maybe it's not Floyd | Beverly Hills, but you know, it's not bad. National extends to the Floyd | east, and also to the west before curving away to the north. Floyd | Your cousin's Volvo is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "go behind building" | |||
Floyd ] Back alley Floyd ] 10:48 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > GO BEHIND BUILDING Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Back alley Floyd | A narrow sliver of pavement between two buildings, one of them being Floyd | Cindy Painter's. The kind of narrow sliver that would be hell trying Floyd | to maneuver through for parking, not to mention the miracle that the Floyd | guys driving the garbage truck to get that dumpster must have to Floyd | perform. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x dumpster" | |||
Floyd ] Back alley Floyd ] 10:49 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > X DUMPSTER Floyd | Floyd | Dented and beaten-up and closed at the moment. Scattered on the Floyd | ground around the dumpster are sundry bits and traces of garbage. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search garbage" | |||
Floyd ] Back alley Floyd ] 10:50 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH GARBAGE Floyd | Floyd | You don't find anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search dumpster" | |||
Floyd ] Back alley Floyd ] 10:51 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH DUMPSTER Floyd | Floyd | The dumpster is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open dumpster" | |||
Floyd ] Back alley Floyd ] 10:52 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DUMPSTER Floyd | Floyd | With a bit of effort you manage to force the lid of the dumpster open. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Is the window scene described as an 'alley'? Also, don't forget diagonal directions." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search dumpster" | |||
Floyd ] Back alley Floyd ] 10:53 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH DUMPSTER Floyd | Floyd | The dumpster contains, well, a lot of garbage, including an ordinary Floyd | green garbage bag, a bright green garbage bag, a bright red garbage Floyd | bag, a black garbage bag, a dark gray garbage bag, a bright yellow Floyd | garbage bag, a reddish brown garbage bag, a white garbage bag, a light Floyd | gray garbage bag, a bright orange garbage bag, a olive garbage bag, a Floyd | dull orange garbage bag, a dark brown garbage bag, a light brown Floyd | garbage bag, a bluish-green garbage bag, a yellowy brown garbage bag, Floyd | a charcoal-colored garbage bag, a maroon garbage bag, a dark blue Floyd | garbage bag, and an ordinary red garbage bag. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "omg. srsly?" | ||
| JoshuaH says, "Holy moly." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Is this a clue that we need another clue before we do this?" | |||
| Roger says, "Haha" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Or heck, do we just search each one?" | |||
| DavidW says, "wow. 'GO BEHIND BUILDING'. Seriously, wow." | |||
| JoshuaH says, "examine our bags to see what color they are" | |||
| DavidW says, "Choose the one that matches the one we found. Dull orange, I think it was." | |||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Oh, right!" | |||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Of course!" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Ours were dull orange?" | |||
| JoshuaH says, "I think so." | |||
| DavidW says, "I think so. Examine it again if you have to." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search dull orange garbage bag" | |||
Floyd ] Back alley Floyd ] 10:54 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH DULL ORANGE GARBAGE BAG Floyd | Floyd | The dull orange garbage bag is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "examine box" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That was anticlimactic" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open dull orange garbage bag" | |||
Floyd ] Back alley Floyd ] 10:55 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DULL ORANGE GARBAGE BAG Floyd | Floyd | Opened. Floyd | Floyd | Inside the dull orange garbage bag are a birthday card and a torn Floyd | business card. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oho" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Polic, what did you do while you were here, eh?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Police, even." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read card" | |||
Floyd ] Back alley Floyd ] 10:56 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > READ CARD Floyd | Floyd | More like the tattered corner of what used to be a business card. The Floyd | only word you can really make out is "...Bixby". Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take business card" | |||
Floyd ] Back alley Floyd ] 10:57 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BUSINESS CARD Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read birthday card" | |||
Floyd ] Back alley Floyd ] 10:58 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > READ BIRTHDAY CARD Floyd | Floyd | A birthday card with bright cartoon balloons drawn all over the front. Floyd | Inside: Floyd | Floyd | "Cindy Baby, Floyd | Floyd | Happy birthday, baby! You're a real inspiration for me and my Floyd | music and the whole band. Me and Funkzilla wouldn't be the same Floyd | without you. Floyd | Floyd | Billy xoxo" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "aHA" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "J'ACCUSE AGAIN" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take birthday card" | |||
Floyd ] Back alley Floyd ] 10:59 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BIRTHDAY CARD Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So, go confront Mr. Billy Lyingpants?" | ||
| DavidW says, "huh. He said he didn't even know her." | |||
| Roger says, "CASE CLOSED" | |||
| DavidW says, "read the business card" | |||
| DavidW says, "and take the card" | |||
| DavidW says, "er take the business card" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "We did take the biz card. It is just a corner. Mentions a new thing: Bixby." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe she was dating Bill Bixby and made him mad and he turned green and strangled her." | |||
| DavidW says, "oh wait, that was in the scroll back. Sometimes I miss stuff when the screen jumps more than a screenful of text" | |||
| DavidW says, "I suppose ask Milt about Bixby." | |||
| DavidW says, "Or revisit Billy. Or both." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, back to Milt, then back to Mr Lyingpants?" | |||
| Roger says, "Ask Jean, maybe" | |||
| DavidW asks, "who's Jean?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "I don't care which you visit next." | Jacqueline says (to DW), "I think he means Johnny." | ||
| JoshuaH says, "Milt seems like an info giver, so maybe talk to him first." | |||
| DavidW says, "It'll be interesting enough to see how you leave the alley." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "go to car" | |||
Floyd ] Back alley Floyd ] 11:00 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO CAR Floyd | Floyd | There's no car here to get in. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "'go around building'? 'leave alley'? 'go to front of building'?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "'go back'?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "'out'?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] National Boulevard Floyd ] 11:01 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | National Boulevard Floyd | The sidewalk leads south from the street to Cindy Painter's Floyd | building, which is a three-story apartment complex. Maybe it's not Floyd | Beverly Hills, but you know, it's not bad. National extends to the Floyd | east, and also to the west before curving away to the north. Floyd | Your cousin's Volvo is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "yay" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in car" | |||
Floyd ] National Boulevard Floyd ] 11:02 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IN CAR Floyd | Floyd | You climb into the Volvo. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "go to studio" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO STUDIO Floyd | Floyd | You can't enter the studio pass. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drive to studio" | |||
Floyd | %% Critical error. Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file. Floyd ] Studio gate Floyd ] 11:13 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > DRIVE TO STUDIO Floyd | Floyd | You drive midtown to the main gate of Rocket Pictures Studios and park Floyd | in Visitor Parking. Floyd | Floyd | Studio gate, in your cousin's Volvo Floyd | Welcome to Rocket Pictures Studios. It's everything a Hollywood Floyd | studio should be: it has a bold, impressive gate; the grounds of the Floyd | lot extending to the north are lined with rows of pale hangar-like Floyd | soundstage buildings and ceramic-roofed bungalows; there's a Floyd | staggering abundance of motorhomes; it has its own watertower; and Floyd | it's not actually in Hollywood at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get out" | |||
Floyd ] Studio gate Floyd ] 11:14 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > GET OUT Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the Volvo. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I wonder where the commisary is." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Studio backlot Floyd ] 11:15 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Studio backlot Floyd | It wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to get lost back here Floyd | among the soundstages, each of them nearly identical to the next Floyd | except for the identifying number stenciled on it in faded white Floyd | paint. If you keep going straight to the north, eventually you'll get Floyd | to the main building. Or you could turn around and head back to the Floyd | parking lot. More buildings of an administrative flavor are over to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Johnny LaFleure, French-Canadian movie star, is outside one of the Floyd | soundstages having a smoke. Floyd | Floyd | Johnny drops the butt of his cigarette onto the ground and flattens it Floyd | under his toe. "Back to work," he says, and disappears back into the Floyd | soundstage. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Main building Floyd ] 11:16 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Main building Floyd | You're just in front of the main administrative building. Somewhere Floyd | behind these walls are the executive offices of Rocket Pictures: a Floyd | motley assemblage of manic creative near-genius, mediocre posturing, Floyd | epidemic insecurity, monumental bravado, white-knuckle risk-taking, Floyd | milquetoast acquiescence, stark paranoia, and great leather furniture. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "He's not here now?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Urh" | |||
| DavidW says, "Johnny's job is to smoke cigs all day." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "At least when Johnny dies, the cause will be more clear." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Main building Floyd ] 11:19 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Main building Floyd ] 11:22 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Main building Floyd ] 11:19 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Main building Floyd | You're just in front of the main administrative building. Somewhere Floyd | behind these walls are the executive offices of Rocket Pictures: a Floyd | motley assemblage of manic creative near-genius, mediocre posturing, Floyd | epidemic insecurity, monumental bravado, white-knuckle risk-taking, Floyd | milquetoast acquiescence, stark paranoia, and great leather furniture. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Main building Floyd ] 11:16 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Main building Floyd | You're just in front of the main administrative building. Somewhere Floyd | behind these walls are the executive offices of Rocket Pictures: a Floyd | motley assemblage of manic creative near-genius, mediocre posturing, Floyd | epidemic insecurity, monumental bravado, white-knuckle risk-taking, Floyd | milquetoast acquiescence, stark paranoia, and great leather furniture. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, wait." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nm" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > NM Floyd | Floyd | You can't use the word "nm". Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Main building Floyd ] 11:17 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | It's by trying to get into the main building that you learn--if you Floyd | didn't know already--that trying to get into an office on a studio lot Floyd | is like a maximum security jailbreak in reverse. The Pentagon would Floyd | be easier to get into. Especially looking like a potential wannabe Floyd | filmmaker, starved of sleep and cash the way you are. Milt Walker's Floyd | assistant has never heard of you, and the friendly yet stern gentleman Floyd | behind the security desk suggests you get yourself on an appointment Floyd | list. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Johnny LeFeure" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Studio backlot Floyd ] 11:18 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Studio backlot Floyd | It wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to get lost back here Floyd | among the soundstages, each of them nearly identical to the next Floyd | except for the identifying number stenciled on it in faded white Floyd | paint. If you keep going straight to the north, eventually you'll get Floyd | to the main building. Or you could turn around and head back to the Floyd | parking lot. More buildings of an administrative flavor are over to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | JoshuaH says, "Maybe he'll be back in an hour like before." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "He left, too, though." | |||
| JoshuaH says, "(Milt)" | |||
| DavidW says, "(I was punning on his name, or trying to. Isn't feure the French word for smoke or fire?)" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "No, it's Johnny The Flower" | |||
| Roger says, "yup" | |||
| DavidW says, "I *know* but he smokes cigs and so I made a pun or tried to. My comments were split up by lag." | |||
| Roger says, "I think he's a mashup of Guy LaFleure and Johnny LaRue, but possibly only in my own continuum" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "You may be confusing him with Johnny LafFufFaFumée" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Er, LaFumée" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Weird paste to get the accent, there." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "(On a keyboard with no numpad)" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I saw we go confront Mr. Lyingpants, then return." | |||
| DavidW says, "'feu' is fire; I verified that, at least." | |||
| Roger says, "Sounds bonne to me" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah, yes. Feu is fire, fumée is smoke" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Studio gate Floyd ] 11:19 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Studio gate Floyd | Welcome to Rocket Pictures Studios. It's everything a Hollywood Floyd | studio should be: it has a bold, impressive gate; the grounds of the Floyd | lot extending to the north are lined with rows of pale hangar-like Floyd | soundstage buildings and ceramic-roofed bungalows; there's a Floyd | staggering abundance of motorhomes; it has its own watertower; and Floyd | it's not actually in Hollywood at all. Floyd | Your cousin's Volvo is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in car" | |||
Floyd ] Studio gate Floyd ] 11:20 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IN CAR Floyd | Floyd | You climb into the Volvo. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "okay, thanks." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drive to santa monica" | |||
Floyd | %% Critical error. Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file. Floyd ] Santa Monica Floyd ] 11:25 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > DRIVE TO SANTA MONICA Floyd | Floyd | You drive to Santa Monica and park along Ocean Avenue. Floyd | Floyd | Santa Monica, in your cousin's Volvo Floyd | This is about as far west as you can get on the mainland United Floyd | States and not be driving on the sand. Ocean Avenue extends north and Floyd | south, lined with palm trees and brightly colored, Santa Monica-ish Floyd | buildings. You can get a better view of the beach to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get out" | |||
Floyd ] Santa Monica Floyd ] 11:26 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > GET OUT Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the Volvo. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Overlooking the beach Floyd ] 11:27 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Overlooking the beach Floyd | From here you can see the hazy mist hanging over the Pacific Ocean Floyd | and the long curve of the coastline north past Malibu. A cement Floyd | stairway descends to the beach from here, or you can go back east to Floyd | where the Volvo is parked. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd | %% Critical error. Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file. Floyd ] Beach Floyd ] 11:28 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You climb down the cement steps to the sandy beach below. Floyd | Floyd | Beach Floyd | You're facing south on a walking/running/rollerblading/whatever path Floyd | that parallels the beach north-south along the ocean. Quite a few Floyd | people are involved in beach-ish activities. You could follow the Floyd | coastline further to the south, or go back up to the higher ground Floyd | overlooking the beach. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house Floyd ] 11:29 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Billy Van Earl's house Floyd | The house is archetypically tall and thin--the norm for houses along Floyd | this row on the Santa Monica beach. A balcony looks out from the Floyd | second story--you can hear music from above. There's a doorbell here Floyd | at path level. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ring bell" | |||
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house Floyd ] 11:30 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > RING BELL Floyd | Floyd | You push the doorbell and hear a muffled ring indoors. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house Floyd ] 11:31 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | After a minute or so, Billy Van Earl comes ambling down from somewhere Floyd | upstairs. "Hey," he says, squinting. Floyd | Floyd | Do you want to keep waiting (YES or NO)? | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | |||
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house Floyd ] 11:33 a.m. Floyd | Do you want to keep waiting (YES or NO)? Floyd | > Y Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask him about birthday card" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK HIM ABOUT BIRTHDAY CARD Floyd | Floyd | (Assuming you mean Johnny LaFleure.) Floyd | Johnny LaFleure isn't here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask billy about birthday card" | |||
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house Floyd ] 11:34 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK BILLY ABOUT BIRTHDAY CARD Floyd | Floyd | "What am I supposed to know about somebody's birthday card?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show card to billy" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW CARD TO BILLY Floyd | Floyd | Which card do you mean, the birthday card or the torn business card? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "AAAAAAAH" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show birthday card to billy" | |||
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house Floyd ] 11:35 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW BIRTHDAY CARD TO BILLY Floyd | Floyd | Billy looks at the card, surprised. Then not-so-surprised. Then he Floyd | swallows. "Well, that could be any Billy, right?" He reconsiders. Floyd | Deep breath. "Well...okay, so I did know her. Look, can you blame Floyd | me? For lying, I mean? I'm pretty freaked out here." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask him about cindy" | |||
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house Floyd ] 11:36 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK HIM ABOUT CINDY Floyd | Floyd | (Assuming you mean Billy.) Floyd | "Look, man," Billy says, "You don't think I'm broken up over what Floyd | happened? Maybe I even, like, loved her, you know? You think I don't Floyd | miss Holly? Well I do." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "...Holly?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask him about holly" | |||
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house Floyd ] 11:37 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK HIM ABOUT HOLLY Floyd | Floyd | (Assuming you mean Billy.) Floyd | Billy's eyes widen. "What? Holly--? Did I say Holly? You Floyd | mean...well, um. God...damn..." He blows his breath out. You caught Floyd | him. Floyd | Floyd | "Aw, geez, man..." Billy begins. "Yeah, right--it sounds Floyd | great to have all these chicks, right? But it's a nightmare, you Floyd | know? I'm lying to Cindy, I'm making up excuses for where I've been, Floyd | where I'm going, I'm sitting there in Malibu listening to Holly bitch Floyd | and whine--and God, she can bitch and whine--all the time thinking Floyd | 'Cindy's gonna kill me...Cindy's gonna kill me...'" Really trying his Floyd | best to get your sympathy. "But what was I supposed to do? Dump Floyd | Holly? She's Holly Golden, man." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask him about johnny" | |||
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house Floyd ] 11:38 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK HIM ABOUT JOHNNY Floyd | Floyd | (Assuming you mean Billy.) Floyd | Billy doesn't seem to know anything about Johnny LaFleure. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask him about milt" | |||
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house Floyd ] 11:39 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK HIM ABOUT MILT Floyd | Floyd | (Assuming you mean Billy.) Floyd | "Exactly! Milt Walker, man!" Billy says excitedly. "If you want to Floyd | find out what happened to Cindy, that's one dude you should talk Floyd | to--Milt Walker's one of those guys who knows everything and Floyd | everybody." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask him about murder" | |||
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house Floyd ] 11:40 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK HIM ABOUT MURDER Floyd | Floyd | (Assuming you mean Billy.) Floyd | Billy looks perplexed. "Well, I don't know who killed her. Floyd | I didn't have anything to do with it." Then he suddenly clues in that Floyd | maybe that's not the first thing on anyone's mind. "You know, not Floyd | that anybody'd even think I did, right?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask him about alibi" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK HIM ABOUT ALIBI Floyd | Floyd | You can't use the word "alibi". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I have to go in an hour. It'd be cool to figure this out. I feel like we're far alongish." | ||
| JoshuaH says, "Yeah. I note that Billy has a totally different response to asking about Milt this time." | |||
| DavidW says, "We got a new lead: Holly Golden." | |||
| JoshuaH says, "Before, he was like "Should I know who that is?"" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Did you ask about Bixby?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, no." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask billy about bixby" | |||
Floyd ] Billy Van Earl's house Floyd ] 11:41 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK BILLY ABOUT BIXBY Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, I know who you're talking about," Billy says, "but I don't know Floyd | much about him. Other than he was Cindy's agent and she talked about Floyd | him once in a while. I think he may've liked her, too. In a way Floyd | that's more than just her agent, you know? Like, she said something Floyd | once about how he said something that made her uncomfortable. I don't Floyd | really remember, though..." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "She did tear up the business card, to be fair." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe Billy McLyingPantaloons really is just scared." | |||
| DavidW says, "Or someone did." | |||
| DavidW says, "I wouldn't assume that Cindy threw out that bag." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Fair enough." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "So... Milt?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I think we go to Anne (and Milt, if he's there, or Johnny) ask about Bixby and Holly." | |||
| DavidW says, "If Milt isn't there, try to talk to Fina again," | |||
| Jacqueline says, "mmkay" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd | %% Critical error. Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file. Floyd ] Beach Floyd ] 11:42 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Beach Floyd | You're facing south on a walking/running/rollerblading/whatever path Floyd | that parallels the beach north-south along the ocean. Quite a few Floyd | people are involved in beach-ish activities. You could follow the Floyd | coastline further to the south, or go back up to the higher ground Floyd | overlooking the beach. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Overlooking the beach Floyd ] 11:43 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Overlooking the beach Floyd | From here you can see the hazy mist hanging over the Pacific Ocean Floyd | and the long curve of the coastline north past Malibu. A cement Floyd | stairway descends to the beach from here, or you can go back east to Floyd | where the Volvo is parked. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Santa Monica Floyd ] 11:44 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Santa Monica Floyd | This is about as far west as you can get on the mainland United Floyd | States and not be driving on the sand. Ocean Avenue extends north and Floyd | south, lined with palm trees and brightly colored, Santa Monica-ish Floyd | buildings. You can get a better view of the beach to the west. Floyd | Your cousin's Volvo is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in car" | |||
Floyd ] Santa Monica Floyd ] 11:45 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IN CAR Floyd | Floyd | You climb into the Volvo. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drive to studio" | |||
Floyd | %% Critical error. Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file. Floyd ] Studio gate Floyd ] 11:50 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > DRIVE TO STUDIO Floyd | Floyd | You drive midtown to the main gate of Rocket Pictures Studios and park Floyd | in Visitor Parking. Floyd | Floyd | Studio gate, in your cousin's Volvo Floyd | Welcome to Rocket Pictures Studios. It's everything a Hollywood Floyd | studio should be: it has a bold, impressive gate; the grounds of the Floyd | lot extending to the north are lined with rows of pale hangar-like Floyd | soundstage buildings and ceramic-roofed bungalows; there's a Floyd | staggering abundance of motorhomes; it has its own watertower; and Floyd | it's not actually in Hollywood at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get out" | |||
Floyd ] Studio gate Floyd ] 11:51 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > GET OUT Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the Volvo. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Studio backlot Floyd ] 11:52 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Studio backlot Floyd | It wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to get lost back here Floyd | among the soundstages, each of them nearly identical to the next Floyd | except for the identifying number stenciled on it in faded white Floyd | paint. If you keep going straight to the north, eventually you'll get Floyd | to the main building. Or you could turn around and head back to the Floyd | parking lot. More buildings of an administrative flavor are over to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Side building Floyd ] 11:53 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Side building Floyd | The people who work in this building are the people who all hope Floyd | that one day they'll end up working in the other building. Not that Floyd | this building is bad--not that it's a fire hazard or anything like Floyd | that--although the budget allocated for repairs to the roof probably Floyd | went into new oak paneling inside the main building. And maybe this Floyd | place someone like you could at least get into. Probably just by Floyd | leaving the shade of this tree and climbing up the set of three stairs Floyd | that leads to the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Reception area Floyd ] 11:54 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Reception area Floyd | You could plunk yourself down in one of the two comfy-looking Floyd | high-backed chairs while waiting for someone. The minty-blue hospital Floyd | tint to the walls could take some getting used to, though. A hallway Floyd | of office doors extends to the west, or you can go back outside to the Floyd | south. Floyd | Anne, the building's receptionist, is sitting at her desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask anne about lafleur" | |||
Floyd ] Reception area Floyd ] 11:55 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK ANNE ABOUT LAFLEUR Floyd | Floyd | Anne looks at you in a way that says, hey, I'm just the Floyd | receptionist--I'm not bothering you, am I? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask anne about bixby" | |||
Floyd ] Reception area Floyd ] 11:56 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK ANNE ABOUT BIXBY Floyd | Floyd | Anne looks at you in a way that says, hey, I'm just the Floyd | receptionist--I'm not bothering you, am I? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask anne about fina" | |||
Floyd ] Reception area Floyd ] 11:57 a.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK ANNE ABOUT FINA Floyd | Floyd | "Again? Okay," she says, and calls Stuart Fina in his office. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Reception area Floyd ] 12:00 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Reception area Floyd ] 12:01 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | Stuart Fina appears from somewhere down the hallway. He smiles a Floyd | "You, again" smile. "Oh, you again," he says. Floyd | Floyd | Do you want to keep waiting (YES or NO)? | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | |||
Floyd ] Reception area Floyd ] 12:03 p.m. Floyd | Do you want to keep waiting (YES or NO)? Floyd | > Y Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask fina about holly" | |||
Floyd ] Reception area Floyd ] 12:04 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FINA ABOUT HOLLY Floyd | Floyd | "Holly Golden was the hot thing for quite a while," Stuart tells you. Floyd | "But, you know, people always want a new hot thing. She even tried Floyd | for the role in Hugs and Kisses, but we went with Cindy Floyd | Painter." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline makes a note. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask fina about johnny" | |||
Floyd ] Reception area Floyd ] 12:05 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FINA ABOUT JOHNNY Floyd | Floyd | Stuart doesn't seem to know anything about Johnny LaFleure. Floyd | Floyd | > | JoshuaH says, "Ooh." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask fina about billy" | |||
Floyd ] Reception area Floyd ] 12:06 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FINA ABOUT BILLY Floyd | Floyd | "I don't know anything about him." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "and Bixby" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask fina about bixby" | |||
Floyd ] Reception area Floyd ] 12:07 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FINA ABOUT BIXBY Floyd | Floyd | "He's Cindy's agent. He was, I mean. I never really had any dealings Floyd | with him." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. Might need Milt for more on Bixby, and maybe Johnny for more on Holly.," | ||
| Gerynar arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Jacqueline says, "I wonder if we can just hop in the ol' volvo and drive to bixby" | ||
| DavidW says, "I dunno." | |||
| DavidW says, "Holly is looking like the suspect now." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, to recap thus far: Billy is/was shagging both Holly & Cindy, Bixby was maybe into Cindy but she wasn't into him per se, and Holly competed for the role Cindy got in the movie?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Anything else?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I think that's what we know so far. I bet Holly and Johnny might be dating now, though, as a wild guess." | |||
| Gerynar asks, "whatcha all playin'?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Gerynar), "Guilty Bastards." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "I would not be surprised, given what we heard about Johnny." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Perhaps this game is called Guilty Bastards because all of them are guilty." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Side building Floyd ] 12:08 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Side building Floyd | The people who work in this building are the people who all hope Floyd | that one day they'll end up working in the other building. Not that Floyd | this building is bad--not that it's a fire hazard or anything like Floyd | that--although the budget allocated for repairs to the roof probably Floyd | went into new oak paneling inside the main building. And maybe this Floyd | place someone like you could at least get into. Probably just by Floyd | leaving the shade of this tree and climbing up the set of three stairs Floyd | that leads to the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Studio backlot Floyd ] 12:09 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Studio backlot Floyd | It wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to get lost back here Floyd | among the soundstages, each of them nearly identical to the next Floyd | except for the identifying number stenciled on it in faded white Floyd | paint. If you keep going straight to the north, eventually you'll get Floyd | to the main building. Or you could turn around and head back to the Floyd | parking lot. More buildings of an administrative flavor are over to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Johnny LaFleure, French-Canadian movie star, is outside one of the Floyd | soundstages having a smoke. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, Hollywood is a long shag carpet." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask johnny about holly" | |||
Floyd ] Studio backlot Floyd ] 12:10 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK JOHNNY ABOUT HOLLY Floyd | Floyd | "A sexy peach!" Johnny exclaims. "Yes, I was her man not too long Floyd | ago, but, you know, things did not work out. My career got back on Floyd | track and suddenly there were lots of other girls around and that was Floyd | a cause of stress." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, crap. I took a bite of soup just after typing that command, but before reading LaFleur's reply." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That was a close one for my keyboard." | |||
| DavidW says, "heh heh" | |||
| JoshuaH says, "Heh. Poor, poor LaFleure." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask johnny about bixby" | |||
Floyd ] Studio backlot Floyd ] 12:11 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK JOHNNY ABOUT BIXBY Floyd | Floyd | "That guy is a bastard," Johnny says. "He punched me in the eye once. Floyd | In the eye! And when I was talking to him to be my agent! What do Floyd | you think about that, then? I don't want to do business with no Floyd | character like that." Floyd | Floyd | > | JoshuaH says, "Hulk smash." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "In the film that will be made of this, Johnny shall be played by (a young) Gérard Depardieu. That is how I am imagining this, and it is not helping." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "So... go find salmon sperm? Um, I mean... Milt?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I worry that we may be missing info because you seem to expect only one response to a topic. You never attempt to reask a topic for more detail." | |||
| DavidW says, "ask about bixby. Bixby might be Johnny's agent, for all we know." | |||
| DavidW says, "(grr lag)" | DavidW asks, "So Bixby is a bastard.. but is he a *guilty* bastard?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "hee" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Main building Floyd ] 12:12 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Main building Floyd | You're just in front of the main administrative building. Somewhere Floyd | behind these walls are the executive offices of Rocket Pictures: a Floyd | motley assemblage of manic creative near-genius, mediocre posturing, Floyd | epidemic insecurity, monumental bravado, white-knuckle risk-taking, Floyd | milquetoast acquiescence, stark paranoia, and great leather furniture. Floyd | Milt Walker is here, standing outside the building. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "sure, find Milt." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "YAY MILT" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask milt about bixby" | |||
Floyd ] Main building Floyd ] 12:13 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MILT ABOUT BIXBY Floyd | Floyd | "He's been Cindy's agent since she came out here," Milt says. "But Floyd | he's what you'd call small time. Cindy was starting to break out. We Floyd | talked about if, after her movie opened, she should be thinking about Floyd | moving up to a bigger agent." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline adds 'Cindy was going to fire Bixby' to the list. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask milt about holly" | |||
Floyd ] Main building Floyd ] 12:14 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MILT ABOUT HOLLY Floyd | Floyd | "She's a famous actress. She's been in some pictures for us. A bit Floyd | of a prima donna, too, for what it's worth. I don't know what else to Floyd | tell you." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show birthday card to milt" | |||
Floyd ] Main building Floyd ] 12:15 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW BIRTHDAY CARD TO MILT Floyd | Floyd | Milt nods. "Van Earl must've given that to her. Good for her for Floyd | throwing it out." Floyd | Floyd | Milt sighs. "All right. I should have told you--I knew that Cindy Floyd | was seeing this...this Billy Van Earl. But he's not capable of Floyd | murder. What he is is a goddamned deadbeat, and I just Floyd | wanted to...show some respect for Cindy and not have this kind of Floyd | thing get out. He's not capable of murder." Milt pauses. "Or do you Floyd | think he is?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline slow claps and says, "Way to help our investigation, Milt." | ||
| DavidW says, "show business card to milt" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show business card to milt" | |||
Floyd ] Main building Floyd ] 12:16 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW BUSINESS CARD TO MILT Floyd | Floyd | Milt looks at the card for a second. "Might be Chuck Bixby. He was Floyd | Cindy's agent. Got an office out on Wilshire." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "WILSHIRE! Yay, thank you, Milt." | ||
| JoshuaH says, "Yay location." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Anything else before we follow that lead?" | |||
| JoshuaH says, "I'm good." | |||
| DavidW says, "yay, an address." | |||
| DavidW says, "drive to Wilshire!!" | |||
| DavidW says, "Thanks, Milt! You're a sexy peach!" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Studio backlot Floyd ] 12:17 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Studio backlot Floyd | It wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to get lost back here Floyd | among the soundstages, each of them nearly identical to the next Floyd | except for the identifying number stenciled on it in faded white Floyd | paint. If you keep going straight to the north, eventually you'll get Floyd | to the main building. Or you could turn around and head back to the Floyd | parking lot. More buildings of an administrative flavor are over to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Studio gate Floyd ] 12:18 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Studio gate Floyd | Welcome to Rocket Pictures Studios. It's everything a Hollywood Floyd | studio should be: it has a bold, impressive gate; the grounds of the Floyd | lot extending to the north are lined with rows of pale hangar-like Floyd | soundstage buildings and ceramic-roofed bungalows; there's a Floyd | staggering abundance of motorhomes; it has its own watertower; and Floyd | it's not actually in Hollywood at all. Floyd | Your cousin's Volvo is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get in car" | |||
Floyd ] Studio gate Floyd ] 12:19 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IN CAR Floyd | Floyd | You climb into the Volvo. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drive to wiltshire" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > DRIVE TO WILTSHIRE Floyd | Floyd | You can't use the word "wiltshire". Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "drive to wilshire" | |||
Floyd ] Just off Wilshire Blvd. Floyd ] 12:30 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > DRIVE TO WILSHIRE Floyd | Floyd | You drive east along Wilshire, away from Beverly Hills and toward Floyd | downtown. You pull off onto a quiet side street and park. Floyd | Floyd | Just off Wilshire Blvd., in your cousin's Volvo Floyd | This quiet, palm-tree-lined street runs south toward Wilshire Blvd. Floyd | and the old office building at the corner. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get out" | |||
Floyd ] Just off Wilshire Blvd. Floyd ] 12:31 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > GET OUT Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the Volvo. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Wilshire Blvd. building lobby Floyd ] 12:32 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Wilshire Blvd. building lobby Floyd | You're standing right in the entrance to an old sunwashed stone Floyd | office building at the corner of Wilshire and, well, somewhere just Floyd | west of La Brea. The lobby is about what you'd expect to find: Floyd | office directory on one wall, small maintenance closet, fire alarm, Floyd | ventilation grill. Actually, of some interest but little use is the Floyd | out-of-commission movie theater here on the ground level. Other than Floyd | that, you can go up and in to the offices. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I say we just go upstairs, but this isn't real life, it's IF, so we should probably toss the place." | ||
| DavidW says, "hm. Lots of details. At least read the directory first." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read directory" | |||
Floyd ] Wilshire Blvd. building lobby Floyd ] 12:33 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > READ DIRECTORY Floyd | Floyd | The directory is made up of those plastic letters stuck in a grooved Floyd | backing mounted on the wall. It looks like the listings haven't been Floyd | updated since the mid-1980s or so, and a few of the letters are Floyd | missing so the names are a little bastardized: Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Emile Johns n - Br ast Enla gment Floyd | Greenhorn & Smi h - I migration Law ers Floyd | Floyd | (and the one you're looking for:) Floyd | Floyd | Ch ck Bixby - Talent Agent Floyd | Floyd | (Footnote 20) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It'd be in-ter-es-ting if more than one of our suspects lives or works in the same building." | ||
| DavidW says, "The closet might have rubber gloves." | |||
| DavidW says, "or a flashlight." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh right. Footnotes." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "footnote 20" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > FOOTNOTE 20 Floyd | Floyd | If you're thinking, "Golly, that's an odd cross-section," think again. Floyd | This is Hollywood. Those are probably the top three essential Floyd | services. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search closet" | |||
Floyd ] Wilshire Blvd. building lobby Floyd ] 12:34 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH CLOSET Floyd | Floyd | You don't find anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open closet" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CLOSET Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that with the maintenance closet. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x grill" | |||
Floyd ] Wilshire Blvd. building lobby Floyd ] 12:35 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > X GRILL Floyd | Floyd | Angled rows of metal shutters form a grating that you can't see Floyd | through, but through which you can definitely feel a draft. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office Floyd ] 12:36 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You climb the stairs until you find the door to "Chuck Bixby - Talent Floyd | Agent". Floyd | Floyd | Chuck Bixby's office Floyd | The office is fairly bright--lots of windows. The most notable Floyd | thing in it is a big wooden desk on which, along with a bunch of other Floyd | stuff, sits a computer. The other most notable thing is a small, Floyd | solid-looking safe visible under one side of the desk--notable in that Floyd | "Hey, there's a safe here" sort of way. Floyd | Chuck Bixby is sitting at his desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x bixby" | |||
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office Floyd ] 12:37 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > X BIXBY Floyd | Floyd | Chuck is in his late thirties, graying hair clipped short, hanging Floyd | onto cool for as long as he can. He regards you for the most part Floyd | with a bemused raised eyebrow--but then you get the impression he Floyd | regards pretty much everyone this way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask bixby about bixby" | |||
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office Floyd ] 12:38 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT BIXBY Floyd | Floyd | Chuck would probably rather not talk about himself. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Hey, there's a safe here." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask bixby about safe" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT SAFE Floyd | Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x safe" | |||
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office Floyd ] 12:39 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > X SAFE Floyd | Floyd | It's a solid-looking gray safe sitting on the floor by Chuck's desk. Floyd | The safe is closed and has a dial to open the combination lock on the Floyd | front. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask bixby about safe" | |||
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office Floyd ] 12:40 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT SAFE Floyd | Floyd | "That's a good safe," Chuck tells you. "Paid top dollar for it." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask bixby about Cindy" | |||
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office Floyd ] 12:41 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT CINDY Floyd | Floyd | "Cindy? I thought the world of her," Chuck says. "I still do. I was Floyd | as proud of her as of anybody I've ever represented. She was going to Floyd | go far--and she was such a good person, too." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask bixby about having the hots for Cindy and how she was going to fire his ass" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT HAVING THE HOTS FOR CINDY AND HOW SHE WAS GOING TO Floyd | FIRE HIS ASS Floyd | Floyd | You can't use the word "having". Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask bixby about job" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT JOB Floyd | Floyd | You can't use the word "job". Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask bixby about movie" | |||
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office Floyd ] 12:42 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT MOVIE Floyd | Floyd | "Well, I've never seen it--not even a test screening," Chuck says. Floyd | "The studio's really, really close-lipped about it. What, do I think Floyd | she would've moved on, got a new agent? Maybe." Chuck shrugs. Floyd | "These things happen. You lose clients, you get new clients. You Floyd | can't let it really affect you one way or the other." A beat. Floyd | "Waitasec--you weren't really asking about me, were you?" Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask bixby about billy" | |||
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office Floyd ] 12:43 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT BILLY Floyd | Floyd | "Look," he says, "I never really thought that much of him, not that it Floyd | matters at all." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask bixby about holly" | |||
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office Floyd ] 12:44 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT HOLLY Floyd | Floyd | Chuck shrugs. "She's a movie star. I don't know her. I probably Floyd | don't know much more than you." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask bixby about fina" | |||
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office Floyd ] 12:45 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT FINA Floyd | Floyd | "He was the studio guy in charge of Cindy's movie, but I've really Floyd | only talked to him a couple of times," Chuck tells you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "In a surprise twist clickbait ending, it turns out Milt is guilty as sin." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask bixby about Milt" | |||
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office Floyd ] 12:46 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT MILT Floyd | Floyd | "Milt Walker is a tough guy, a good guy, an honest guy, a bastard of a Floyd | tough negotiator," Chuck tells you. "You ask around this town, you'll Floyd | get all sorts of opinions on what people think of Milt Walker." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show business card to milt" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW BUSINESS CARD TO MILT Floyd | Floyd | Milt isn't here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "er" | ||
| DavidW says, "Don't forget to ask about Holly, Billy, Johnny, and Fina." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show business card to bixby" | |||
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office Floyd ] 12:47 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW BUSINESS CARD TO BIXBY Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, that's mine." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask bixby about johnny" | |||
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office Floyd ] 12:48 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT JOHNNY Floyd | Floyd | "I was almost his agent once," Chuck tells you. "A few years ago, Floyd | he'd done about nine lousy movies in a row and no one in town would Floyd | even talk to him. So we went out to dinner and he tried to sleep with Floyd | my wife and I ended up punching him in the eye and, hey, today I'm not Floyd | his agent." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "haha" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "This game definitely has its moments." | |||
| DavidW asks, "hm. Ask Bixby about wife?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask bixby about wife" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT WIFE Floyd | Floyd | You can't use the word "wife". Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. When we decide to leave, try listening to the vent." | ||
| DavidW says, "Ask about the band, I forget the name." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask bixby about funkzilla" | |||
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office Floyd ] 12:49 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT FUNKZILLA Floyd | Floyd | Chuck doesn't seem to know anything about Funkzilla. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "Ask Bixby about LaFleure" | |||
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office Floyd ] 12:50 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK BIXBY ABOUT LAFLEURE Floyd | Floyd | "I was almost his agent once," Chuck tells you. "A few years ago, Floyd | he'd done about nine lousy movies in a row and no one in town would Floyd | even talk to him. So we went out to dinner and he tried to sleep with Floyd | my wife and I ended up punching him in the eye and, hey, today I'm not Floyd | his agent." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office Floyd ] 12:49 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Chuck Bixby's office Floyd | The office is fairly bright--lots of windows. The most notable Floyd | thing in it is a big wooden desk on which, along with a bunch of other Floyd | stuff, sits a computer. The other most notable thing is a small, Floyd | solid-looking safe visible under one side of the desk--notable in that Floyd | "Hey, there's a safe here" sort of way. Floyd | Chuck Bixby is sitting at his desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "examine computer?" | ||
| JoshuaH says, "I wish I didn't know anything about Funkzilla, either." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "hee" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x computer" | |||
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office Floyd ] 12:50 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > X COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | The computer is turned on and currently running some sort of Windows Floyd | scheduler program showing Bixby's appointments--you don't recognize Floyd | any of the names. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I feel like we need to come back here tonight, once Bixby's gone, and crack that safe." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And that thought annoys me." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read appointments" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > READ APPOINTMENTS Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that with the computer. Floyd | Floyd | > | JoshuaH says, "Well, we've only got 7 1/2 hours left or so." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I shall have to duck out in a bit, but you all should continue when that time comes if you want to." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Because next week we have New Years games." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "What now?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure where to go from here." | |||
| JoshuaH says, "show birthday card? He seems nonplussed about Billy, but the card opened more dialog earlier." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show birthday card to bixby" | |||
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office Floyd ] 12:51 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW BIRTHDAY CARD TO BIXBY Floyd | Floyd | Chuck doesn't seem too interested in the birthday card. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "show tape to bixby?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show cassette to bixby" | |||
Floyd ] Chuck Bixby's office Floyd ] 12:52 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW CASSETTE TO BIXBY Floyd | Floyd | Chuck doesn't seem too interested in the cassette tape. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Did we ask about Milt?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | |||
| Jacqueline | "Milt Walker is a tough guy, a good guy, an honest guy, a bastard of a tough negotiator," Chuck tells you. "You ask around this town, you'll get all sorts of opinions on what people think of Milt Walker." | |||
| DavidW says, "right. Milt is a .... bastard." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I wonder where Holly lives." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "And if anyone had their breasts augmented." | |||
| DavidW asks, "hm. I suppose we search this building as much as we can, and maybe the beach?" | |||
| DavidW says, "and yeah, I really want to know how to find Holly." | |||
| Gerynar checks his chest and sighs in relief, still the same | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Wilshire Blvd. building lobby Floyd ] 12:53 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Wilshire Blvd. building lobby Floyd | You're standing right in the entrance to an old sunwashed stone Floyd | office building at the corner of Wilshire and, well, somewhere just Floyd | west of La Brea. The lobby is about what you'd expect to find: Floyd | office directory on one wall, small maintenance closet, fire alarm, Floyd | ventilation grill. Actually, of some interest but little use is the Floyd | out-of-commission movie theater here on the ground level. Other than Floyd | that, you can go up and in to the offices. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open grate" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN GRATE Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that with the ventilation grill. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Listen to grate, I suggested." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "hm. Set off a fire alarm to get into his safe?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "listen to grate" | |||
Floyd ] Wilshire Blvd. building lobby Floyd ] 12:54 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN TO GRATE Floyd | Floyd | The ventilation grill is not making a sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We might overhear something." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x alarm" | |||
Floyd ] Wilshire Blvd. building lobby Floyd ] 12:55 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > X ALARM Floyd | Floyd | A little red fire alarm mounted on the wall, with a handle to pull in Floyd | case of fire. Floyd | Floyd | (Footnote 19) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "save" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | JoshuaH says, "Nice." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "alarm" | |||
Floyd | > SAVESaved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "footnote 18" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > FOOTNOTE 18 Floyd | Floyd | Jake Duffy is the younger brother of Sergeant Duffy, who ably assisted Floyd | the player in Infocom's mystery games Deadline and The Witness, and Floyd | was quick to slap the cuffs on him or her in Suspect. (In other Floyd | words, this is another case where the author has borrowed cheerfully Floyd | from an interactive-fiction classic.) Sergeant Duffy's key trait was Floyd | his ability to appear instantly whenever needed, never overstaying his Floyd | welcome, and subsequently disappearing just as instantly without a Floyd | trace. Now, Jake Duffy may not exactly be a cop like his big brother, Floyd | but in a rare gesture of generosity toward the player's plight, at Floyd | least that curious ability has here been made hereditary. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ACK" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "DON'T READ DON'T READ TYPO" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "footnote 19" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > FOOTNOTE 19 Floyd | Floyd | It is, of course, an offense to pull a fire alarm if there's no fire. Floyd | Just in case you were thinking of doing anything of the sort. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline does not read it. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pull alarm" | |||
Floyd | %% Critical error. Floyd | %% Message: stream_open_file: unable to open file. Floyd ] Just off Wilshire Blvd. Floyd ] 12:56 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > PULL ALARM Floyd | Floyd | You reach up, give the fire alarm a tug, and it starts ringing. Floyd | Building security (actually just one old guy in a shabby navy blazer) Floyd | arrives shortly and--after giving you a suspicious once-over--escorts Floyd | you and everyone else across the street. Floyd | Floyd | Just off Wilshire Blvd. Floyd | This quiet, palm-tree-lined street runs south toward Wilshire Blvd. Floyd | and the old office building at the corner. Floyd | Your cousin's Volvo is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | The building empties out as the fire department arrives, sirens Floyd | wailing, lights flashing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, you're not pulling that." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I am" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I have" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "And I'd DO IT AGAIN" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Now, how do we get to that safe?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I went through this in RL yesterday. It's not fun,." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "hahaha aw" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Just off Wilshire Blvd. Floyd ] 12:56 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Just off Wilshire Blvd. Floyd | This quiet, palm-tree-lined street runs south toward Wilshire Blvd. Floyd | and the old office building at the corner. Floyd | Chuck Bixby is standing around, like everyone else, waiting for the Floyd | fire alarm to stop ringing. Floyd | A crowd of people--some from the building, some who have just Floyd | stopped on the street--watches the spectacle of fire trucks and Floyd | firefighters. Floyd | Your cousin's Volvo is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Just off Wilshire Blvd. Floyd ] 12:56 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Just off Wilshire Blvd. Floyd | This quiet, palm-tree-lined street runs south toward Wilshire Blvd. Floyd | and the old office building at the corner. Floyd | Chuck Bixby is standing around, like everyone else, waiting for the Floyd | fire alarm to stop ringing. Floyd | A crowd of people--some from the building, some who have just Floyd | stopped on the street--watches the spectacle of fire trucks and Floyd | firefighters. Floyd | Your cousin's Volvo is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Just off Wilshire Blvd. Floyd ] 12:56 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Just off Wilshire Blvd. Floyd | This quiet, palm-tree-lined street runs south toward Wilshire Blvd. Floyd | and the old office building at the corner. Floyd | Chuck Bixby is standing around, like everyone else, waiting for the Floyd | fire alarm to stop ringing. Floyd | A crowd of people--some from the building, some who have just Floyd | stopped on the street--watches the spectacle of fire trucks and Floyd | firefighters. Floyd | Your cousin's Volvo is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Just off Wilshire Blvd. Floyd ] 12:57 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | The fire department is making everyone stay across the street from the Floyd | building while the alarm is going off. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "go behind building" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > GO BEHIND BUILDING Floyd | Floyd | You don't see that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Should I have not pulled it? It kinda seemed like it was there to be pulled." | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't think we can open the safe in these circumstances." | |||
| DavidW says, "We don't know the combo or have a stethoscope or touch-sensitive gloves or anything." | |||
| JoshuaH says, "Hmm. I'd say pull the alarm then hide in the duct, but..." | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Just off Wilshire Blvd. Floyd ] 12:58 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Just off Wilshire Blvd. Floyd | This quiet, palm-tree-lined street runs south toward Wilshire Blvd. Floyd | and the old office building at the corner. Floyd | Chuck Bixby is standing around, like everyone else, waiting for the Floyd | fire alarm to stop ringing. Floyd | A crowd of people--some from the building, some who have just Floyd | stopped on the street--watches the spectacle of fire trucks and Floyd | firefighters. Floyd | Your cousin's Volvo is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think you need to pick a better time to pull the alarm." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It is admittedly hard to use a sphygmomanometer when there's a fire alarm going off." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Gerynar), "We have a driver because we are on a timer, fyi." | |||
| Gerynar says, "sorry" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "And it's a brutal timer. Looking is a move. Going the wrong direction is a move." | |||
| Gerynar says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Just off Wilshire Blvd. Floyd ] 12:57 p.m. Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Just off Wilshire Blvd. Floyd | This quiet, palm-tree-lined street runs south toward Wilshire Blvd. Floyd | and the old office building at the corner. Floyd | Chuck Bixby is standing around, like everyone else, waiting for the Floyd | fire alarm to stop ringing. Floyd | A crowd of people--some from the building, some who have just Floyd | stopped on the street--watches the spectacle of fire trucks and Floyd | firefighters. Floyd | Your cousin's Volvo is parked here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Gerynar), "No worries, you were late to the party, so I was just letting you know." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, IJLTS sphygmomanometer" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "And it's in my paste buffer now, so sphygmomanometer" | |||
| Gerynar says, "that makes me think of an episode of Big Bang Theory" | |||
| DavidW says, "well, you saved before pulling the fire alarm." | |||
| DavidW says, "Like, you can, I suppose, see if you can visit Chuck's office and find the combo in a desk drawer." | |||
| DavidW says, "ugh. I hate this lag. hate it." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "The mean old firemen won't let me enter the building, though." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm, actually, Gerynar. We *do* need a new driver." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I have to go volunteer soon. I should get ready." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Although perhaps DW should drive so that things keep up with his lag." | |||
| Gerynar says, "can't really do it...I remember a bit about studying the source when I was learning HUGO" | |||
| DavidW says, "Climb a palm tree? I'm sure no one would notice." | |||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Can you drive?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm afraid I'm out of here in a bit, for three+ hours." | |||
| DavidW says, "I don't think I can drive. Sorry. I should lie down soon." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Gosh. Cindy's murder may go unsolved." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, we could just table it until after New Year's games." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Shall we do that?" | |||
| JoshuaH says, "Sounds good to me." | |||
| DavidW says, "It's an interesting game, though, to be sure." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I just saved. The save is called 'alarm'" | |||
| DavidW says, "yeah, I'm okay with tabling it." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, folks. Thanks for playing. See you next week for New Year's games." | |||
| Not a valid command. Try typing 'help'. | |||
| You click your ruby slippers together three times and disappear, safe in the knowledge that there's no place like home... | |||
| Seeya later. | |||
