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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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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask andromawfc" | |||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Morning comes, in Monarch. An eerie light permeates the room. Floyd | Floyd | It's been a hard night... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | |||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | |||
Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd ] So watch the old world melt away Floyd | Floyd ] A loss regrets could never mend Floyd | Floyd ] You'll never miss it till it's gone Floyd | Floyd ] So say goodbye Floyd | Floyd ] Say goodbye to seasons end. Floyd | Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd ] --Seasons End, Marillion Floyd | Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | |||
| chaudmin pushes the green 'space' button. | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | [First time players should type ABOUT or HELP for some important Floyd | stuff about Interactive Fiction and this game] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Andromeda Awakening - The Final Cut Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Marco Innocenti Floyd | Release 3 / Serial number 120121 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Andy's Apartment Floyd | A bed, a table, a bathroom. This is all that's left of your colleague, Floyd | Professor Re's. Some dust, an eerie atmosphere and just a memory. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "about" | |||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > Introduction to Andromeda Awakening - The Final Cut Floyd | Instructions for Play Floyd | The E-Pad Floyd | Special commands Floyd | Credits Floyd | More Credits | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "enter" | |||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > Introduction to Andromeda Awakening - The Final Cut Floyd | Instructions for Play Floyd | The E-Pad Floyd | Special commands Floyd | Credits Floyd | More Credits | chaudmin says, "how do I navigate this thing" | ||
| DavidW says, "To push the enter key, do 'push enter' in the toyshop." | |||
| chaudmin presses the yellow enter button. | |||
Floyd ] Introduction to Andromeda Awakening - The Final Cut Floyd | The most important discovery in history. And then, the whole world Floyd | goes crumbling down. The doomsday clock has begun ticking... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Andromeda Awakening was originally written for the IFComp2011. As the Floyd | first work of IF by the author, it placed 17th among 37 more Floyd | competitors. Its large scale world and the long story, in the opinion Floyd | of many, deserved a different approach and a wider gameplay Floyd | experience. So, Release 3 (the Final Cut) was designed. Floyd | Floyd | The most substantial changes are represented by a wider beginning Floyd | sequence, the implementation of a handful additional scenery and Floyd | trivia in the middle-game, a full new area in the end-game, along with Floyd | a slight polish of the writing and a few meta-commands to facilitate Floyd | the walkthrough. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | This is a sci-fi story. It is a tale about mortality, wisdom, Floyd | civilization and history, maybe. But, most of all, it's a story about Floyd | a guy who unintentionally finds himself with the cosmic steering-wheel Floyd | in his own hands. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | DavidW says, "And 'push space' in the toyshop presses a space." | ||
| chaudmin pushes the green 'space' button. | |||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > Introduction to Andromeda Awakening - The Final Cut Floyd | Instructions for Play Floyd | The E-Pad Floyd | Special commands Floyd | Credits Floyd | More Credits | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Introduction to Andromeda Awakening - The Final Cut Floyd | > Instructions for Play Floyd | The E-Pad Floyd | Special commands Floyd | Credits Floyd | More Credits | |||
| chaudmin presses the yellow enter button. | |||
Floyd ] Instructions for Play Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Last Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > About Interactive Fiction Floyd | What to do with > Floyd | Getting Started Floyd | Rooms and Travel Floyd | Objects Floyd | Controlling the Game Floyd | How the World is Assembled Floyd | If You Get Stuck | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "q" | |||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Introduction to Andromeda Awakening - The Final Cut Floyd | > Instructions for Play Floyd | The E-Pad Floyd | Special commands Floyd | Credits Floyd | More Credits | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Introduction to Andromeda Awakening - The Final Cut Floyd | Instructions for Play Floyd | > The E-Pad Floyd | Special commands Floyd | Credits Floyd | More Credits | |||
| chaudmin presses the yellow enter button. | |||
Floyd ] The E-Pad Floyd | As a scientist you don't come empty handed. The E-Pad in your Floyd | possession is a huge source of information. Any time you find Floyd | something in the story you can't quite know about, try consulting the Floyd | E-Pad about it. Type CONSULT E-PAD ABOUT for a brief wiki-like Floyd | experience. Floyd | Floyd | You can also READ ABOUT for the same outcome, as long as LOOK Floyd | UP , LOOK UP or RESEARCH . Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | |||
| chaudmin pushes the green 'space' button. | |||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Introduction to Andromeda Awakening - The Final Cut Floyd | Instructions for Play Floyd | > The E-Pad Floyd | Special commands Floyd | Credits Floyd | More Credits | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Introduction to Andromeda Awakening - The Final Cut Floyd | Instructions for Play Floyd | The E-Pad Floyd | > Special commands Floyd | Credits Floyd | More Credits | DavidW says, "huh. That E-Pad will be handy." | ||
| Draconis arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | |||
| chaudmin presses the yellow enter button. | |||
Floyd ] Special commands Floyd | This game accepts an easier traveling method than the regular Floyd | room-by-room walk. You can just GO TO a visited location to run there Floyd | at once (unless the path is not interrupted somehow). This will be Floyd | specifically useful in some parts of the game. Floyd | Floyd | Another sensible command is EXITS. It lists all the available exits in Floyd | a location at any given time. As soon as new routes are opened, they Floyd | are listed, also. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | |||
| chaudmin pushes the green 'space' button. | |||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Introduction to Andromeda Awakening - The Final Cut Floyd | Instructions for Play Floyd | The E-Pad Floyd | > Special commands Floyd | Credits Floyd | More Credits | chaudmin says, "ok that's everything important" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "q" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | Andy's Apartment Floyd | A bed, a table, a bathroom. This is all that's left of your colleague, Floyd | Professor Re's. Some dust, an eerie atmosphere and just a memory. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x dust" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > X DUST Floyd | Floyd | Light fills in from the blinded windows. Dust flies in the sunrays Floyd | like snow in a torment. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x memory" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > X MEMORY Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | Certainly, though, you can smell it and listen to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "smell memory" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL MEMORY Floyd | Floyd | Along with Andy, has gone his scent. All that remains is the noisy Floyd | pout-pourri of the exotic food he'd like to eat, along with the odor Floyd | of root beer and soda. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "listen to memory" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN TO MEMORY Floyd | Floyd | Silence is all that's left of Andy, and it's much more than anything Floyd | else. He was so mouthy, sometimes. Hell, he was mouthy every damn Floyd | minute, never closing that babbling gape, always inquiring about Floyd | something, always trying to inspire faith in the others. Faith in Floyd | science, that is. And faith in humanity as a worthy bunch. Floyd | Floyd | You hardly squeeze a smile. You will miss that gape. You will miss his Floyd | faith. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x atmosphere" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > X ATMOSPHERE Floyd | Floyd | Light fills in from the blinded windows. Dust flies in the sunrays Floyd | like snow in a torment. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "So -- who are we, then? We're not Andy, I assume." | ||
| chaudmin says, "just some guy, I suppose" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Getting fat. Getting old. Getting bald. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Getting fat. Getting old. Getting bald. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "ha" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You're carrying an expired railway ticket, a magnetic card and an Floyd | E-Pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x ticket" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > X TICKET Floyd | Floyd | A regular monthly railway ticket. The expiration date printed on it Floyd | bears the yesterday's date. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x card" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > X CARD Floyd | Floyd | A plastic card, with a black stripe on its back. On the front it bears Floyd | a picture of you and your generalities. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x picture" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > X PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | It is you, some time ago. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x generalities" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > X GENERALITIES Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh. Nice try." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x e-pad" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > X E-PAD Floyd | Floyd | A black slab, ten-by-twenty centimeters. A surface, the one you would Floyd | refer to as "the bottom", is made out of vibertron alloy. The "top" Floyd | side is a psychoglass vibertron that you can use to gather Floyd | information. The E-Pad is indeed the ultimate resource for any kind of Floyd | question: you can consult it about almost anything (that you have Floyd | previously uploaded into it, of course). Think to it as some kind of Floyd | Guide to the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "heh" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x bed" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > X BED Floyd | Floyd | That's where you've had your final sleep. The blankets are a mess, Floyd | even if you lied over them. A troublesome sleep, indeed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x top" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > X TOP Floyd | Floyd | It is a psychoglass you would use to gather information simply by Floyd | touching it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch top" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH TOP Floyd | Floyd | It took seven minutes to upload all your records on the Pad. It would Floyd | take several millennia just to browse through half of it. It's better Floyd | if you try and consult it about something. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BED Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x desk" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search blankets" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH BLANKETS Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take blankets" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BLANKETS Floyd | Floyd | You sincerely hope the night just passed is the last you'll have to Floyd | mess with this particular bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x table" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | This is where Andy passed his sleepless nights, always studying Floyd | something new, always focusing on pushing humanity forward. Floyd | Floyd | You can't but mourn at the loss this old world has suffered from his Floyd | departure. Floyd | Floyd | On the table, you glance a folder with some files inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "consult e-pad about andy" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > CONSULT E-PAD ABOUT ANDY Floyd | Floyd | You wave your hand on the vibertron, mentally igniting its interior Floyd | device. A blink of an eye later, the screen vibrates with a faint Floyd | purple light. Floyd | Floyd | User 5,834 of this device, bearing no significant difference Floyd | between all the other 5,833 before and the one after. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "consult e-pad about me" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > CONSULT E-PAD ABOUT ME Floyd | Floyd | You are user 5,835 of this device, bearing no significant Floyd | difference between all the other 5,834. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x folder" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > X FOLDER Floyd | Floyd | As you drop your eyes on the cerulean cover of the folder, your own Floyd | writing jumps out almost new, as if someone else has inscribed on it Floyd | the words: "Reports to the Council". Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "cerulean = sky blue" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "read folder" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > READ FOLDER Floyd | Floyd | You know these files by heart: A report on the state of the crust Floyd | substrates, and about the discoveries you've made there. Floyd | Floyd | Strolling through the pages, you fall deep into a sense of vertigo. Floyd | The whole world starts spinning. Floyd | Can you do it? Will you be able to go on with the plan, now that Andy Floyd | has gone? Now that he's been-- Floyd | A single tear runs through your left cheek, substantial, heavy. When Floyd | it dives from your skin you almost feel its burden leaving. A second Floyd | later -- or maybe a millennia -- it hits the ground with a sounding Floyd | boom. Floyd | Floyd | You can barely form his visage into your head, and he's been dead for Floyd | just ten hours. The impression printed in your forehead is that of a Floyd | pale face, no more anguish, no more tears. And that terrible wound, a Floyd | hole ripped in his chest like a mole's burrow. That's how it looks Floyd | when a bullet bangs out of you, taking skin, flesh and bones in a Floyd | bloody firework. They shot him. In the back, and he wasn't even Floyd | fleeing. The coroner said he may just have been walking unaware. Floyd | Floyd | Another tear jumps into the void. Another boom. Floyd | Floyd | They were looking for these, the Reports. Floyd | Floyd | One reason more to go and show the committee. One reason more to cry Floyd | the truth out loud. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Guest1 arrives, full of fun and funk. | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take folder" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE FOLDER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Guest1 has had its fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "go to bathroom" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO BATHROOM Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | [From here you can go west]. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x bathroom" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > X BATHROOM Floyd | Floyd | A sink and a toilet, stocked in the far corner of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x sink" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > X SINK Floyd | Floyd | A sink and a toilet, stocked in the far corner of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The bathroom is right here, I think." | ||
| chaudmin says, "guess the bathroom's not important" | |||
| DavidW says, "I dunno" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x toilet" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > X TOILET Floyd | Floyd | A sink and a toilet, stocked in the far corner of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open toilet" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN TOILET Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search toilet" | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH TOILET Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "okay, not important" | ||
| DavidW says, "No microfilm for the spies in the tank." | |||
| chaudmin says, "darn" | |||
| chaudmin says, "time to leave then" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Condominium Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You leave the tiny room. Floyd | Floyd | On the door's sill, you pause and send one last glance to Andy's Floyd | apartment. A new rush of tears threatens an escape and you barely Floyd | suffocate it. Floyd | Floyd | Andy, you promise. I will do it. I will do it for both of Floyd | us. Whatever it is they are trying to hide -- whoever they are -- I Floyd | will find out. And the whole of Monarch will know. This I vow. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | And, although you can't quite imagine it just now, no words will ever Floyd | be truer than those. Floyd | Floyd | Condominium Floyd | A foggy light comes from the grates on the top half of the stairwell. Floyd | You are standing just mere feet from Andy's house entrance, above the Floyd | first step going down. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Just some cerulean files." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "research monarch" | |||
Floyd ] Condominium Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH MONARCH Floyd | Floyd | Sixth planet in the trinary system, the biggest in size. Base of Floyd | the human activity in the Andromeda galaxy, is Capital World and Floyd | headquarters of the ASA Council of the Thirteen. Age: 1.2bill. Size: Floyd | magnitude 7.2 in Resson's scale. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "research council" | |||
Floyd ] Condominium Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH COUNCIL Floyd | Floyd | The government-above-the-government of the ASA Republican Worlds. Floyd | Made up of thirteen members, it is the source of the ASA codex and of Floyd | the 237 Bounds. Floyd | Floyd | You really think it's time to run to the Campus. You sight the exit, Floyd | down from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x grates" | |||
Floyd ] Condominium Floyd | > Floyd | > X GRATES Floyd | Floyd | Yes, you rather had a regular window, but this is what comes with Floyd | peripheral, low-cost buildings. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "the game wants us to go, so go we shall" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] The Exit Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Exit Floyd | The faint lights get fainter here. A sturdy door opens on the Avenues, Floyd | to the north. A flight of stairs moves up to the front door of Andy's Floyd | Apartment. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "sure" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Avenues Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You leave the satisfying safety of the house with but a sigh. The Floyd | massive vibertron door opens with no sound, and with no sound closes Floyd | after you. Floyd | Floyd | Avenues Floyd | The vivid pink of the Monarch sky paints an eternal dawn and washes Floyd | the street and the buildings in a somewhat romantic nuance. The door Floyd | to Andy's condominium lies south of here, reflecting the three suns Floyd | like a gigantic kaleidoscope. The Avenue runs out of sight in every Floyd | direction, finding outlets in a handful of other busy streets. The one Floyd | you need runs east, towards the train station. Floyd | Floyd | All these people, you think, watching the passers-by as they Floyd | crowd the streets in their random duties. If only they knew, Floyd | they'd scamper around like mad rats, biting at each other and feasting Floyd | on the corpses. Floyd | You hold more tightly to your Report files. Floyd | Floyd | The major sun -- Korhos -- seems to point its malevolent, cold finger Floyd | at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm not really clear on what truth we need to tell the council, but I suppose the game will let us know later." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x korhos" | |||
Floyd ] Avenues Floyd | > Floyd | > X KORHOS Floyd | Floyd | The fiery halo around the biggest of the suns of Monarch sends spires Floyd | of red spreading across space. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Avenues - East branch Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Avenues - East branch Floyd | Here the street forks in two different branches, one disappearing Floyd | southeast into the train station, the other going on to the east. To Floyd | the west lies Andy's house. The dark underground tunnel that leaves Floyd | the street to the first underground floor, where your train is Floyd | probably waiting, sends shivers down your spine. Floyd | Floyd | There. The big underground empire. The place where all human fears Floyd | gather. Floyd | Floyd | You pick up the Report files again, and look at their cover. Floyd | Floyd | What's the meaning of all this? What did you find down there that Floyd | grips around your throat like a deathly lace every time you think Floyd | about it? Is it the discovery itself, or maybe the fact that Andy was Floyd | killed to prevent its disclosure? You never imagined being a nerd of a Floyd | scientist would have given you so much anguish. Floyd | Floyd | You put back your burden and look up to the station's entrance. All Floyd | will come in place, you hopefully consider. All will come in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Draconis heads back home. | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x tunnel" | |||
Floyd ] Avenues - East branch Floyd | > Floyd | > X TUNNEL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] South Fork Station Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | South Fork Station Floyd | The cyanotic, vibrating light of the station stands as a formal Floyd | counterweight to the usual pink of the open air. People from all the Floyd | country crowd the hall, piling up like chickens in stocks. The loud Floyd | whistle of the incoming and departing trains dopplers through the Floyd | place and drills into your ears. The rails cut the earth in two, Floyd | further south, while a more breathable atmosphere breaks in through Floyd | the entrance, northwest from here. Floyd | Floyd | A steel gate stands between you and the trains. A ticket obliterator Floyd | blinks silently at its side. Floyd | Floyd | On the west wall is a ticket vending machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Bet we swipe our card in it." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x obliterator" | |||
Floyd ] South Fork Station Floyd | > Floyd | > X OBLITERATOR Floyd | Floyd | A tall figure, all in vibertron alloy, which is obviously there to Floyd | read and authenticate tickets. A red laser scans the air inside a slot Floyd | in its base. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x vending" | |||
Floyd ] South Fork Station Floyd | > Floyd | > X VENDING Floyd | Floyd | Cyanotic, like the rest of the enviroinment. It accommodates a Floyd | magnetic card reader and a pocket for ticket delivery. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Perhaps we have to obliterate our old ticket first before we can have a new one?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "perhaps" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put ticket in slot" | |||
Floyd ] South Fork Station Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT TICKET IN SLOT Floyd | Floyd | (the expired railway ticket in the obliterator) Floyd | The obliterator blinks tiredly. A red exclamation mark appears on its Floyd | glossy surface. You remove the ticket. Floyd | Floyd | With the corner of an eye, you catch a glimpse of yellow, shining Floyd | among the people. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin asks, "? did that do anything?" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x yellow" | |||
Floyd ] South Fork Station Floyd | > Floyd | > X YELLOW Floyd | Floyd | Ladies and gents from all around the trinary system crowd the tunnels Floyd | of the South Fork station. They seem resolute and sturdy, each intent Floyd | in finding the way into a new day. Floyd | Floyd | Among the rest of the unaware mob, you scout a single man, busy Floyd | reading the railway map pinned to the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Curious George is curious." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put card in card reader" | |||
Floyd ] South Fork Station Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT CARD IN CARD READER Floyd | Floyd | (the magnetic card in the magnetic card reader) Floyd | You push the card into the reader. A second later, a red exclamation Floyd | mark starts blinking on the vending machine and an unsympathetic, Floyd | metallic voice informs all the people present that your "credit is Floyd | exhausted". Floyd | You try and take the card back, but the machine swallows it whole. Floyd | Floyd | And at this point, it just feels like it's too much. Floyd | Floyd | You fall on your knees, like an empty jute sack. The head dives Floyd | between the shoulders, an empty face towards the ground beneath the Floyd | legs. And the tears you so hardly tried to keep inside the dam begin Floyd | rolling. Floyd | Floyd | There is just no exit, you realize, and a sense of doom Floyd | overcomes you. Floyd | There is no exit, no place to run to, no escape. The weight of the Floyd | world is upon you and you can do nothing about it. Andy has been Floyd | killed and he was the one with the wit and the strength to try and do Floyd | something. In cases like this, he would have been the one to stroke Floyd | your hair and spread hope. He would have been the one who said "Hey, Floyd | man. Just relax. I'll be doing this." Floyd | Floyd | You sense the star-shattering future as too much for you to handle and Floyd | give in, like a child who's been told his parents have just died. Floyd | Floyd | Then, something happens. Floyd | Floyd | A hand is dropped on your shoulder. An unfamiliar voice breathes in Floyd | your ear, and all of a sudden you feel awake. Floyd | You turn and face a man, one you never met before, and his Floyd | understanding eyes. It's just a hand, still it feels like an Floyd | invigorating shock. Floyd | Floyd | "It will be ok, man", he says. "Just relax". Floyd | Floyd | A second later, you are on your feet, your eyes following the stranger Floyd | as he passes through the gates and into the railways. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "wow, uh" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x man" | |||
Floyd ] South Fork Station Floyd | > Floyd | > X MAN Floyd | Floyd | You recognize the funny man as coming from the near Bom-Fong Satellite Floyd | facility: his darker skin tone and his thin eyes betray his Floyd | provenance. He wears a yellow coat that runs down to his feet. On his Floyd | shoulders, he's carrying a purple backpack, the sort of which you Floyd | usually see worn by the students at the University. Floyd | Floyd | From a pocket of the backpack you see poking a freshly printed ticket. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I hope we didn't just have a heart attack, die, and are now following the incarnation of death." | ||
| chaudmin says, "haha" | |||
| chaudmin says, "time to turn to pickpocketing" | |||
| DavidW says, "yes. Grab that ticket." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take ticket" | |||
Floyd ] South Fork Station Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE TICKET Floyd | Floyd | (the new railway ticket) Floyd | There's no way of getting it without startling its owner. You are not Floyd | that used to stealing to be subtle enough. Maybe you'd need a Floyd | diversion. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "hmmmm" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x map" | |||
Floyd ] South Fork Station Floyd | > Floyd | > X MAP Floyd | Floyd | A map depicting the maze of rails connecting all the various stations Floyd | in Monarch. With but a glance you find your route to the University. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] South Fork Station Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | South Fork Station Floyd | The cyanotic, vibrating light of the station stands as a formal Floyd | counterweight to the usual pink of the open air. People from all the Floyd | country crowd the hall, piling up like chickens in stocks. The loud Floyd | whistle of the incoming and departing trains dopplers through the Floyd | place and drills into your ears. The rails cut the earth in two, Floyd | further south, while a more breathable atmosphere breaks in through Floyd | the entrance, northwest from here. Floyd | Floyd | A man wearing a funny yellow coat is reading the railways map, Floyd | puzzled. Floyd | Floyd | A steel gate stands between you and the trains. A ticket obliterator Floyd | blinks silently at its side. Floyd | Floyd | On the west wall is a ticket vending machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x backpack" | |||
Floyd ] South Fork Station Floyd | > Floyd | > X BACKPACK Floyd | Floyd | A purple backpack, the sort of which you usually see worn by the Floyd | students at the University. Floyd | Floyd | From a pocket of the backpack you see poking a freshly printed ticket. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x gate" | |||
Floyd ] South Fork Station Floyd | > Floyd | > X GATE Floyd | Floyd | A maze of sturdy steel bars, which runs from the floor to the ceiling. Floyd | It looks very dense. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "exits" | |||
Floyd ] South Fork Station Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | [From here you can go northwest and south, beyond the steel Floyd | gate]. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] South Fork Station Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | The gate stands closed between you and the rails. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "And nw is the way we came" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x coat" | |||
Floyd ] South Fork Station Floyd | > Floyd | > X COAT Floyd | Floyd | You recognize the funny man as coming from the near Bom-Fong Satellite Floyd | facility: his darker skin tone and his thin eyes betray his Floyd | provenance. He wears a yellow coat that runs down to his feet. On his Floyd | shoulders, he's carrying a purple backpack, the sort of which you Floyd | usually see worn by the students at the University. Floyd | Floyd | From a pocket of the backpack you see poking a freshly printed ticket. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "research bom-fong" | |||
Floyd ] South Fork Station Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH BOM-FONG Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in the E-Pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "research bom-fong satellite" | |||
Floyd ] South Fork Station Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH BOM-FONG SATELLITE Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in the E-Pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "research university" | |||
Floyd ] South Fork Station Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH UNIVERSITY Floyd | Floyd | User 5,835 is chief researcher at the Radiations and Microwave Floyd | Survey in the Monarch State University. The University is located in Floyd | Brouguoise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "research diversion" | |||
Floyd ] South Fork Station Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH DIVERSION Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in the E-Pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "yell" | |||
Floyd ] South Fork Station Floyd | > Floyd | > YELL Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW >say "omigosh, is that Madonna over there?" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "talk to man" | |||
Floyd ] South Fork Station Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MAN Floyd | Floyd | "Need help?" Floyd | Floyd | The man turns to see you, a bit startled. "Uhm," he says, pointing at Floyd | the map, "I'm just looking for the next stop in this... erm... maze." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "talk to man" | |||
Floyd ] South Fork Station Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MAN Floyd | Floyd | "I know, it's always a nightmare the first time you try and read one Floyd | of those. Let me help." Floyd | Floyd | A fresh smile of relief paints his face, as the man moves a step to Floyd | the left to let you check the map. In the movement, unseen, the ticket Floyd | that was hanging from the open pocket of his backpack flies over the Floyd | edge, landing a mere step from your right foot. You notice it but Floyd | avoid dropping your sight to the ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "aha" | ||
| DavidW asks, "step on ticket?" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "step on ticket" | |||
Floyd ] South Fork Station Floyd | > Floyd | > STEP ON TICKET Floyd | Floyd | (the new railway ticket) Floyd | Ok, you are finally persuaded. He won't need this as much Floyd | as I -- or the whole of Monarch -- do. Floyd | Floyd | Subtly, you hide the fallen ticket under your foot, hoping to go Floyd | unnoticed. And it works. The man follows your instructions on the map Floyd | up to the last letter: Floyd | Floyd | "There, you know," you say, pointing at the map in the place where Floyd | Cardinal Park would be. "There is the station you might look at for Floyd | your departure, sir. South Fork is only southbound, and you have to go Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | "It's just a couple of kilometers," you grin, depicting in your mind Floyd | the Park, the farthest place in all Monarch to a railway. Floyd | Floyd | With a sigh, the man thanks you and heads out of the station. You grab Floyd | the ticket and pitch the old, useless one. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "success" | ||
| DavidW clears the save counter. | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf1" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] South Fork Station Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "congrats" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put ticket in slot" | |||
Floyd ] South Fork Station Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT TICKET IN SLOT Floyd | Floyd | (the new railway ticket in the obliterator) Floyd | The obliterator blinks vigorously. A green exclamation mark appears on Floyd | its glossy surface. The gate reacts with but a faint buzz. You remove Floyd | the ticket. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "it's called the obliterator but it doesn't actually obliterate your ticket" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Railways Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You pass through the gate which admits you, silently opening around Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | Railways Floyd | You are standing by the bay of the railways, where trains arrive and Floyd | depart. The light gets dimmer, here, but it is still strong enough to Floyd | let you see the nearest surroundings. It then fades away in the Floyd | intricate maze of the other platforms. A series of gates opens north Floyd | into the main hall of South Fork Station. Through the bars you can see Floyd | hundreds of people passing by, like ants in a sand castle. Floyd | Floyd | A deep sense of claustrophobia gets to your nerves as you stare at the Floyd | long tunnels winding everywhere from this place. The intricate maze Floyd | carves so deep and so far that now it could easily count more surface Floyd | than on the open air... Floyd | Floyd | It digs so deep that you are quite certain it opened entrances -- or Floyd | outages -- to things you'd better have seen left undisturbed. The Floyd | Report files in your hands, the ones you are going to explain to your Floyd | colleagues at the University, vibrate as if animate, trying to catch Floyd | your attention. Floyd | Floyd | Your train is not here, yet. This could be a chance to study them Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess no train until we read the files." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x files" | |||
Floyd ] Railways Floyd | > Floyd | > X FILES Floyd | Floyd | "Reports to the Council". Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "read files" | |||
Floyd ] Train Floyd | > Floyd | > READ FILES Floyd | Floyd | You open the files at random. Your eye is quickly caught by one of the Floyd | first reports: Floyd | Floyd | (...)The volcanic crust separating what was once the glacial layer Floyd | from the lower halls cannot possibly be thick enough to hold those Floyd | energies at bay. Nor can it be trusted to keep a region larger than Floyd | one third of Monarch's surface area hidden from whatever may be Floyd | resting down there. In my humble opinion, the chances that former Floyd | colonizations could have gotten in there before the glacial age Floyd | (trapped? self-defending?) are quite high, especially now that we have Floyd | discovered the Alpha Radiation. Floyd | Floyd | In the end, we know nothing about Monarch before the first Floyd | settlements from the outer galaxies came into Andromeda more than one Floyd | thousand years ago. Technology back then was not sufficient to dig as Floyd | far as we have recently. The glacial layer was only partially melted Floyd | and covered by the constructs. I suggest further investigation before Floyd | we start -- as we should -- to probe the source of the Floyd | radiation.(...) Floyd | Floyd | The thought of something ancient sleeping under your very feet is more Floyd | than your mortal brain can handle. Floyd | Floyd | Eventually, your train arrives. Floyd | Floyd | The doors open silently and you enter its bright intestines with but a Floyd | second thought, powerfully relieved by leaving the dark recesses of Floyd | the underground rails. Floyd | Floyd | Train Floyd | The wagon is enlightened by several fluorescent lamps, spanning along Floyd | all its roof. The yellow, vibrating light paints each surface with the Floyd | colors of death and decay. The train moves swiftly on its rails. Floyd | Floyd | A man sitting beside you is reading his newspaper. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x lights" | |||
Floyd ] Train Floyd | > Floyd | > X LIGHTS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x lamps" | |||
Floyd ] Train Floyd | > Floyd | > X LAMPS Floyd | Floyd | Tubes of light, inside tubes of glass. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm guessing there's a dragon under the glacier." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "research alpha radiation" | |||
Floyd ] Train Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH ALPHA RADIATION Floyd | Floyd | (Inserted by user 5,835 -- not present in general database) Floyd | Floyd | Radiation which pulsates from a specific point under Monarch's Floyd | capital. Discovered on 25th/3rd/9,855. Generator or source: unkn. Floyd | Z-position: unkn. Magnitude: feeble, but growing. ---- Warning: same Floyd | kind of the Event residues. ----. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x man" | |||
Floyd ] Train Floyd | > Floyd | > X MAN Floyd | Floyd | He must be your age, a small man that looks like the average white Floyd | collar worker from somewhere in the government. He's holding his Floyd | newspaper like it was the only thing valuable in the world. Floyd | Floyd | You realize with surprise it is the same man who had the nice words at Floyd | the vending machine, earlier. Floyd | Floyd | An unforeseen tremor shakes the train. You grab a handle before Floyd | falling. The man beside you grips his seat. Floyd | Floyd | "Woha!" he laughs. "That was something." Floyd | Floyd | You notice small bits of the tunnel walls crumbling as you pass them Floyd | by. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "uh-oh" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x newspaper" | |||
Floyd ] Train Floyd | > Floyd | > X NEWSPAPER Floyd | Floyd | The part you can see is about the weather and a few of other Floyd | unimportant things. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "read it" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > READ IT Floyd | Floyd | The part you can see is about the weather and a few of other Floyd | unimportant things. Floyd | Floyd | A second, much stronger quake shakes the train. You are bounced once Floyd | to the back, where you hit the doors with a faint sound, then forward. Floyd | This time you go swimming through the air like some sort of flying Floyd | fish. Floyd | Floyd | But it is not over. Floyd | Floyd | Another shock rocks the train to its core, sending it off the rails. Floyd | Cracks like razor wounds open the car one by one, ripping it apart Floyd | like a tube of crumpling paper. The windows shatter with a fierce Floyd | boom! that grinds into your ears like a thousand needles. The Floyd | next second, you are smashed against the end of the wagon, your head Floyd | trying its resilience against solid steel. Floyd | Floyd | The last thing you see, before your eyes are closed forever, is the Floyd | man who was reading his newspaper beside you being engulfed by a dark Floyd | abyss that has opened under your feet -- and below the collapsing Floyd | train -- like the maw of an ancient creature. | chaudmin says, "what" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push space" | |||
Floyd ] Wrecked Train Floyd | Darkness begins to dissipate. It seems you are not dead, yet. Opening Floyd | your eyes takes so much effort it feels like someone is sitting on Floyd | them. Floyd | Floyd | All hell has broken loose. Before you, the fiery gates await. Floyd | Floyd | Wrecked Train Floyd | The gaping maw of the unknown opens a mere three meters from your Floyd | face. Steel and iron are contorted everywhere, drawing a briar of Floyd | thorny, crunching hands. The flames rise around the train, devouring Floyd | everything. Cracks open in the walls of the wagon, now reduced to Floyd | debris and crying people. To the south, a wider fissure seems large Floyd | enough to let you pass, to safety. Floyd | Floyd | The man who was sitting beside you before the quake erupted is trapped Floyd | under the wreckage of the seats and of the floor. He is screaming in Floyd | pain. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'd ask for our money back, but we didn't buy this ticket." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x man" | |||
Floyd ] Wrecked Train Floyd | > Floyd | > X MAN Floyd | Floyd | He's trapped. There is no way of pulling him out of the wreckage. Floyd | Blood is pouring violently from a wound in his chest, where an iron Floyd | crank has opened a new way in. Floyd | Floyd | The train rattles and screams, slowly slipping further into the abyss Floyd | where it is being inexorably pulled. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Talk to man? Search him?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "I feel bad just leaving him..." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "talk to man" | |||
Floyd ] Wrecked Train Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MAN Floyd | Floyd | "You will be fine," you say. "Soon enough help will come. I will stay Floyd | here till then." Floyd | Floyd | You look out of the shattered glass of the train windows, hiding your Floyd | sore eyes to the man you lied to with your last words. Floyd | Floyd | Another rattle and the wagon is pulled further into oblivion. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "exits" | |||
Floyd ] Wrecked Train Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | [From here you can go nowhere]. Floyd | Floyd | The shrieking sound of metal against metal fills your ears as the last Floyd | part of the train sinks. Another meter. One more shake and all will Floyd | fall inside the open chasm. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | "Don't leave me," cries the trapped man. "Please!" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | One final, sinister noise shakes the wagon. Before you can understand Floyd | what's happening, the weight of the rest of the train causes it all to Floyd | fall into the enormous crack that opens below. Floyd | Floyd | You have just enough time to jump through the wide crack before it all Floyd | disappears into darkness, landing to safety on a hard ledge. Floyd | Floyd | In the end, you fail to turn your eyes from those -- praying, pleading Floyd | -- of the man trapped in the wreckage, his last goodbye a terrorized Floyd | wailing into the unknown. You gaze into the blackness, speechless. The Floyd | same words cycle into your forehead like a grinding echo: It will Floyd | be ok. Just relax. It will be ok. | |||
| chaudmin pushes the green 'space' button. | |||
Floyd ] Ledge Floyd | Floyd | Ledge Floyd | You are on a hard ledge, over a kilometers-deep chasm opening directly Floyd | in front of you. There are no visible ways out, except for a trail cut Floyd | in stone to the northwest. Now that the train has disappeared into Floyd | oblivion, you realize there is no light, anywhere, apart from the Floyd | orange glow coming up from the deep, like a disaster movie Floyd | scenography. The faint green light from the screen of your E-Pad Floyd | catches details for only a few meters around. Floyd | Floyd | What comes to your mind next sends a blow to your stomach. Floyd | Floyd | The Fatimah Initiative, you think in horror. No lights Floyd | means no energy. Floyd | Floyd | And no energy means the tides. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "research fatimah initiative" | |||
Floyd ] Ledge Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH FATIMAH INITIATIVE Floyd | Floyd | An underground net that provides an antigravitational field on Floyd | Monarch to counterweight the one caused by the approaching of the Floyd | orbiting star Fatimah. Every ten days, all non-emergency power sources Floyd | on the planet are redirected to the Initiative. The Initiative was the Floyd | Second Bound by the Interstellar Agreement and was signed by all the Floyd | thirteen members of the Council. Floyd | Floyd | If the Fatimah initiative is stopped, for any reason, the whole planet Floyd | would be submerged in water. This must be avoided at any cost. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Bounds were mentioned earlier, but I'm unclear what they are." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "research tides" | |||
Floyd ] Ledge Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH TIDES Floyd | Floyd | An underground net that provides an antigravitational field on Floyd | Monarch to counterweight the one caused by the approaching of the Floyd | orbiting star Fatimah. Every ten days, all non-emergency power sources Floyd | on the planet are redirected to the Initiative. The Initiative was the Floyd | Second Bound by the Interstellar Agreement and was signed by all the Floyd | thirteen members of the Council. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "research bounds" | |||
Floyd ] Ledge Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH BOUNDS Floyd | Floyd | The sum of the 237 rules by which the ASA Republican Worlds work. Floyd | They are divided into seven sections, each made up by at least 20 Floyd | so-called "initiatives". Only the first two Bounds contain just one Floyd | Initiative each. Those were written in the Ancient Days before the Floyd | reforming of the Republic. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "research bound 1" | |||
Floyd ] Ledge Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH BOUND 1 Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in the E-Pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "research ancient days" | |||
Floyd ] Ledge Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH ANCIENT DAYS Floyd | Floyd | The third age spanned between 3,000 and 8,140 (YotG). The first Floyd | two centuries after its end are called "the Ancient Days", as opposed Floyd | to the modern ones, lasting up to now. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "research first bound" | |||
Floyd ] Ledge Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH FIRST BOUND Floyd | Floyd | This unit was not allowed to download resources on the matter. Floyd | Sorry. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "research asa" | |||
Floyd ] Ledge Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH ASA Floyd | Floyd | Andromeda Solar-spatial Agreement. Floyd | Floyd | It is the set of rules which binds the interstellar space of the Floyd | Andromeda Galaxy. The whole library is held in the Monarch Manuscript, Floyd | under the Humanitas Mementos, closed from light and cryogenized at the Floyd | Terracentral station in Phelios. It can be fully accessed from any ASA Floyd | reports in the nearest Police station, Government hall or University. Floyd | Excerpts can be found under the topic "excerpts" in this device. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "research yotg" | |||
Floyd ] Ledge Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH YOTG Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in the E-Pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "research excerpts" | |||
Floyd ] Ledge Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH EXCERPTS Floyd | Floyd | The E-Pad prints at least 763 pages before stopping its listing of the Floyd | "excerpts". You think it's best to study them another time. Like Floyd | never, maybe. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "research phelios" | |||
Floyd ] Ledge Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH PHELIOS Floyd | Floyd | The small asteroid-satellite orbiting Monarch VII, Phelios, is Floyd | home to the Terracentral fortress, where the Quintessential Library Floyd | and the Humanitas mementos are stored. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Rails' End Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | With much effort, you manage to pull yourself over the ledge. Floyd | Floyd | Rails' End Floyd | These are the remains of the tunnel which would have taken you to the Floyd | University if the quake hadn't swallowed its walls. Cascades of dirty Floyd | water wash the sides of the black pit, flowing towards the giant Floyd | crack. The fiery curtains of orange smoke that originate a few meters Floyd | from you are the only light source for a span that goes on for Floyd | kilometers. A thick web of twisted rails cuts its way across the Floyd | darkness to the southwest. A small gap in the hulking walls of the Floyd | tunnel leads north towards the unknown. Then it's only concrete and Floyd | stone and a shattered world tangling together in every direction. Floyd | Floyd | What is the magnitude of this disaster? you ask yourself, Floyd | while trying to put together the pieces of the splintering ground Floyd | around you. What could have caused such a devastating Floyd | earthquake? Floyd | Floyd | In the darkness of Monarch's deepest recesses, only the thickest Floyd | silence stands as an answer. The rest is black. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x rails" | |||
Floyd ] Rails' End Floyd | > Floyd | > X RAILS Floyd | Floyd | The rails can be walked on, although with a certain care. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "If the planet is gonna be broken up and flooded, perhaps try to reach the satellite." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Molten Span Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Molten Span Floyd | The earth shattering event has done much more damage here than in the Floyd | near tunnel. A gigantic river of molten rocks and magma slowly cuts Floyd | its way in a wide crack running before your eyes. You stand Floyd | uncomfortably over a small stony step which looks like a building's Floyd | cornice and serves as the only walkway at the side of the underground Floyd | cliff, off to the east and west. Pieces of building sink into the Floyd | ground and pop out from the ceiling of the enormous cave, like steel Floyd | crosses in an abandoned cemetery. In the middle of the crack, to the Floyd | north, bathing in magma, rests the crippled half of one of the Floyd | Construct pillars, the remaining structure lost. Floyd | Floyd | A thin rain of small debris drops constantly from the crumbling sky. Floyd | You look upon the decay of the human last resort and close your eyes Floyd | in fear and torment. Floyd | Floyd | There it goes, you sink into sorrow. We are late. We Floyd | always have been late. Floyd | Floyd | You feel the weight of your E-Pad and remember downloading something Floyd | about the Constructs in it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "research constructs" | |||
Floyd ] Molten Span Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH CONSTRUCTS Floyd | Floyd | The foundations of Monarch's Republican World. Digging deep into Floyd | the earth where the glacial layer has been molten, pillars of steel Floyd | and concrete serve as supports for the above cities. In fact, the Floyd | Monarch nation is but a floating continent built by the first colonies Floyd | above the icy layer. Nowadays, a mere 10 percent of that layer is Floyd | still solid, the rest being transformed into vast oceans covering more Floyd | than half the world. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "well that's not good" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x pillar" | |||
Floyd ] Molten Span Floyd | > Floyd | > X PILLAR Floyd | Floyd | About fifteen meters wide, the pillar must have been torn in two by Floyd | the quake. The lower part still sinks into the ground, inside and Floyd | below the flowing magma, its alloy slowly surrendering to the heat. In Floyd | a few hours it will be consumed. Something shines on the oblique Floyd | surface of the pillar, in the spot where its has been cut in half. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "This is all very very bad, yes." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Molten Span Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | It is a jump of twenty meters. There is no way to reach the pillar Floyd | without falling into the fiery pit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x shine" | |||
Floyd ] Molten Span Floyd | > Floyd | > X SHINE Floyd | Floyd | You can't quite discern it from here. It is a metallic pole of sorts. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | |||
Floyd ] Molten Span Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | [From here you can go south, east and west]. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Hollow Grounds Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hollow Grounds Floyd | If it wasn't so dramatic, the view from here would be breathtaking. Floyd | The immense magma river flows below effortlessly, although slow and Floyd | patiently. The whole cave is lit by its fiery belly. From here you can Floyd | see the broken pillar rising from the flames like a finger pointing Floyd | the sky -- a sky made of crumbling rocks and metal -- and the stony Floyd | walls surrounding the sight like the steps of a giant arena. Below, Floyd | the thin cornice cuts a distinct line on the side of it, losing itself Floyd | in the distance inside a small passage to the west. The piece of Floyd | quartz you are standing on has resisted the quake's onslaught and is Floyd | now holding itself onto the rock like a cat on a tree trunk. Something Floyd | like steps rise from here to an alcove, up above and near the ceiling. Floyd | A faint cyanotic light pulsates inside it. You can reach it to the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "'cyanotic'? Like, 'cyan'?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "that word was mentioned before. I guess like cyan." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "exits" | |||
Floyd ] Hollow Grounds Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | [From here you can go northwest and west]. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I don't think cyanotic is a real word, is it?" | ||
| chaudmin shrugs. | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Cave Mouth Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cave Mouth Floyd | A grim mouth dug into the span's wall starts here and crawls inside Floyd | the earth, disappearing after a twist to the south. A bright blue Floyd | light pulsates there, faint. In front of you, the molten span is still Floyd | visible, although the curve of the collapsing ceiling covers your Floyd | sight. The cliff then dives deep into the roaring lava, debris Floyd | dropping from its edge now and then. You can reach the quartz Floyd | outcropping walking -- carefully -- southeast. Floyd | Floyd | A lesser tremor splinters the cliff, sending pieces into the fiery pit Floyd | below. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I vote we find out what the light is." | ||
| chaudmin says, "yup, bright blue light" | |||
| DavidW says, "With luck, it's a teleport watch." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "exits" | |||
Floyd ] Cave Mouth Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | [From here you can go south and southeast]. Floyd | Floyd | A small chunk of rock falls into the magma from the edge of the cliff. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Following the twisted passage for what seemed like an eternity, you Floyd | finally come to a vast area, and your eyes widen in awe. Floyd | Floyd | Hyerotrope Floyd | A dome of sorts has been carved in the earth, an inner sanctum of Floyd | inhumane proportions, spanning for hundreds of meters in all Floyd | directions. The wall's surface is smooth and shiny, cut into a dark Floyd | material that looks like obsidian. On the ground, a maze of carvings Floyd | draw perfect lines that intersect each other and run throughout the Floyd | floor; all are filled by an ethereal substance as thin as air that Floyd | glows in a faint blue. They seem to revolve around a single entity in Floyd | the center of the gargantuan structure, and sink under its base. Many Floyd | of these cuts then proceed over the structure, like an electric ivy Floyd | clinging to it. Light shimmers from nowhere in particular and from all Floyd | around at the same time, reverberating on the rock and on the steel Floyd | floor. A faint buzz is the only noise audible, the rest of the Floyd | universe swallowed in an uncomfortable, dark silence. Floyd | Floyd | A Hyerotrope, you realize, noting the perfect symmetries and Floyd | geometries that shape everything in here. This is what holds Floyd | Monarch together. You remember having files about it both in your Floyd | E-Pad library and in your Reports. Floyd | Floyd | The demi-spheric bunker, a perfect inside-out replica of the halls Floyd | around it, sits in the exact center of the room. It sinks into the Floyd | ground as if pushed into it by some great force, a gap a few Floyd | centimeters wide separating it from the floor. Its dark skin inflates Floyd | and exhales like an ancient heart. Floyd | Floyd | What looks like a door draws a perfect rectangle on this side of the Floyd | dome. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I don't know what a hyerotrope is. Do you?" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "research hyerotrope" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH HYEROTROPE Floyd | Floyd | The moving motor of the Tidal Initiative. Floyd | Floyd | Discovered during the Ancient Era, its meaning or purpose is yet Floyd | unknown. Apart from a huge power surge (all in the geo-gravitational Floyd | spectrum), a Hyerotrope seems utterly inactive. Its "breathing" has Floyd | been hypothesized as a remnant of a former energy outbreak, the likes Floyd | and size of which are not computable. Although "dead" in many ways, it Floyd | was soon discovered that its gravitational pull could be altered by Floyd | igniting it with an immense plasma shock. Thus far, the seventeen Floyd | Hyerotropes discovered have been used to counterweight Fatimah during Floyd | the tidal outbreaks. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "a giant motor, apparently" | ||
| DavidW says, "It sounds to me that it converts heat into gravity." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "research tidal initiative" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH TIDAL INITIATIVE Floyd | Floyd | An underground net that provides an antigravitational field on Floyd | Monarch to counterweight the one caused by the approaching of the Floyd | orbiting star Fatimah. Every ten days, all non-emergency power sources Floyd | on the planet are redirected to the Initiative. The Initiative was the Floyd | Second Bound by the Interstellar Agreement and was signed by all the Floyd | thirteen members of the Council. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x carvings" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > X CARVINGS Floyd | Floyd | They are one centimeter wide (and you could bet all you have it is Floyd | exactly one centimeter) and one deep. Inside it, an Floyd | unsubstantial essence flows like a river of light. Although twisty and Floyd | maze-like, they all wrap up at the base of the dome, some of them Floyd | continuing over its round surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x door" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | There is no way of telling how this "door" can be opened.. On it, four Floyd | small dots draw a perfect line, in its center. Floyd | Floyd | The dots look like tiny holes in the center of the "door", one above Floyd | the other in a linear sequence. Light pulsates inside four of them. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | There is no way of telling how this "door" can be opened.. On it, four Floyd | small dots draw a perfect line, in its center. Floyd | Floyd | The dots look like tiny holes in the center of the "door", one above Floyd | the other in a linear sequence. Light pulsates inside four of them. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x dots" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOTS Floyd | Floyd | The dots look like tiny holes in the center of the "door", one above Floyd | the other in a linear sequence. Light pulsates inside four of them. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x dome" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOME Floyd | Floyd | The dome is made of a substance that looks solid, but it is actually Floyd | pulsating like an human belly. It reflects almost no light, apart from Floyd | the thick web of luminescent cracks that cover its ancient skin. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch first dot" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH FIRST DOT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch dot" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH DOT Floyd | Floyd | They are cold. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push dots" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH DOTS Floyd | Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to door" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You can't really expect the door of the dome to answer. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > KNOCK ON DOOR Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You're carrying a new railway ticket, some Report files and an E-Pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "> 'open up. we're the police'" | ||
| DavidW says, "> 'candygram'" | |||
| DavidW says, "> 'you guys ordered a pizza?'" | |||
| chaudmin says, "ha. I don't think we can open it yet though" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "research door" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in the E-Pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "exits" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | [From here you can go north]. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, I bet on the WEST side of the cavern is something that'll help us here." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Cave Mouth Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cave Mouth Floyd | A stronger tremor opens a crack near the edge of the cliff. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Cave Mouth Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You approach the cliff's edge, ready to get back to the quartz Floyd | platform, when a sudden tremor stops you on your feet. Floyd | And it's a rather fortunate event, as your step ends up just a Floyd | centimeter from a sinister crack opening on the cliff itself. Floyd | Floyd | A second later, a more intense shock cuts the crack open and a large Floyd | section of the cliff face goes crumbling down right in front of you. Floyd | You had taken another half step you would have fallen into the fiery Floyd | pits below. Floyd | Floyd | You hold yourself to the cave walls, panting loudly, waiting for the Floyd | affright to vanish. Floyd | Floyd | A stronger tremor opens a crack near the edge of the cliff. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "exits" | |||
Floyd ] Cave Mouth Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | [From here you can go south and southeast]. Floyd | Floyd | A lesser tremor splinters the cliff, sending pieces into the fiery pit Floyd | below. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Hollow Grounds Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hollow Grounds Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Unless the hywhatever was takeable or pushable?" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Molten Span Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Molten Span Floyd | A bridge of sedimentary stone has fallen from above, and now rests in Floyd | a scarce equilibrium above the fiery canyon between here and the Floyd | pillar's broken surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "verbose" | |||
Floyd ] Molten Span Floyd | > Floyd | > VERBOSE Floyd | Floyd | Andromeda Awakening - The Final Cut is now in its "verbose" mode, Floyd | which always gives long descriptions of locations (even if you've been Floyd | there before). Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "I got the impression it was really big" | ||
| chaudmin says, "maybe I'm wrong though" | |||
| DavidW says, "me too, but I can never be quite sure with size in IF." | |||
| chaudmin says, "well, we'll be going back in any case" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Pillar Section Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You walk over the crumbled wall, finding your way to the Construct Floyd | pillar. The heat is almost unbearable. Floyd | Floyd | Pillar Section Floyd | The broken pillar seems sturdy enough to resist the flowing magma for Floyd | a long time. Were it not for the quake, it could have survived in the Floyd | molten rocks for ages. The alloy is sturdy and elastic at the same Floyd | time, its interiors glittering like a salt mine. At its center, a Floyd | hollow section opens into a net of tangled steel bars that worked as a Floyd | skeleton for the whole structure. Wires of every kind run deep inside, Floyd | like a circulatory system. You can't tell what kind of machinations Floyd | were designed for the Construct and what served what inside here. Floyd | Floyd | From the center of the pillar, where it has been torn in two by the Floyd | disaster, a steel bar pops out, loose from the others of its own Floyd | family. It looks like you can pull it out without much effort. Floyd | Floyd | You start fainting from the excessive heat. Your eyes are sore and you Floyd | can barely breathe. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "watson, a clew!" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take bar" | |||
Floyd ] Pillar Section Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BAR Floyd | Floyd | You pull the steel bar out of the tangle in which it rests. Floyd | Floyd | Everything around you is becoming red and black, like in a sort of Floyd | twisted nightmare. The intense heat is killing you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Molten Span Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Molten Span Floyd | A gigantic river of molten rocks and magma slowly cuts its way in a Floyd | wide crack running before your eyes. You stand uncomfortably over a Floyd | small stony step which looks like a building's cornice and serves as Floyd | the only walkway at the side of the underground cliff, off to the east Floyd | and west. Pieces of building sink into the ground and pop out from the Floyd | ceiling of the enormous cave, like steel crosses in an abandoned Floyd | cemetery. In the middle of the crack, to the north, bathing in magma, Floyd | rests the crippled half of one of the Construct pillars, the remaining Floyd | structure lost. Floyd | Floyd | A bridge of sedimentary stone has fallen from above, and now rests in Floyd | a scarce equilibrium above the fiery canyon between here and the Floyd | pillar's broken surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "I hope there weren't any other exits because I don't fancy going back" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x bar" | |||
Floyd ] Molten Span Floyd | > Floyd | > X BAR Floyd | Floyd | One meter and a half long, three centimeters wide. Enough to break a Floyd | man's skull with just one hit. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "A steel bar doesn't seem like much of a prize." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Are we do smash the door with it?" | |||
| DavidW says, "er to smash" | |||
| chaudmin says, "haha, maybe" | |||
| chaudmin says, "I somehow doubt it" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Pillar Section Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You walk over the crumbled wall, finding your way to the Construct Floyd | pillar. The heat is almost unbearable. Floyd | Floyd | Pillar Section Floyd | The broken pillar seems sturdy enough to resist the flowing magma for Floyd | a long time. Were it not for the quake, it could have survived in the Floyd | molten rocks for ages. The alloy is sturdy and elastic at the same Floyd | time, its interiors glittering like a salt mine. At its center, a Floyd | hollow section opens into a net of tangled steel bars that worked as a Floyd | skeleton for the whole structure. Wires of every kind run deep inside, Floyd | like a circulatory system. Floyd | Floyd | The fumes coming from the lava under the pillar are so hot you can Floyd | feel your skin burn. You must get out of here before you catch fire. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "exits" | |||
Floyd ] Pillar Section Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | [From here you can go south]. Floyd | Floyd | Everything around you is becoming red and black, like in a sort of Floyd | twisted nightmare. The intense heat is killing you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "well, what then? Pole vault over the magma?" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Molten Span Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Molten Span Floyd | A gigantic river of molten rocks and magma slowly cuts its way in a Floyd | wide crack running before your eyes. You stand uncomfortably over a Floyd | small stony step which looks like a building's cornice and serves as Floyd | the only walkway at the side of the underground cliff, off to the east Floyd | and west. Pieces of building sink into the ground and pop out from the Floyd | ceiling of the enormous cave, like steel crosses in an abandoned Floyd | cemetery. In the middle of the crack, to the north, bathing in magma, Floyd | rests the crippled half of one of the Construct pillars, the remaining Floyd | structure lost. Floyd | Floyd | A bridge of sedimentary stone has fallen from above, and now rests in Floyd | a scarce equilibrium above the fiery canyon between here and the Floyd | pillar's broken surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "break someone's skull, perhaps" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | The walk over the tiny ledge is painstaking. After several minutes, Floyd | you leave it for the first opening, a tight crack in the wall, large Floyd | enough to let a man pass through. Floyd | Floyd | Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | The wide room is lit only by the fiery pits opening east beyond the Floyd | crack in the wall. The rest is immersed in darkness. All you can Floyd | discern are piles and piles of boxes and stuff put together who knows Floyd | when and for who knows what. Glimmering in the reflections of your Floyd | E-Pad's green light, you discover a lonely hut, made from plastic Floyd | wreckage and held together by iron wires, its door sprung open to the Floyd | north. The warehouse goes on to the northwest, beyond more piles of Floyd | stock. Floyd | Floyd | A huge switch hides behind some dust in the west wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Only skull here is ours." | ||
| chaudmin says, "for the moment" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x switch" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > X SWITCH Floyd | Floyd | It is encrusted with rust, grinning like a sardonic smile made in Floyd | steel and plastics. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I stopped mapping to eat, and I'm a bit lost now." | ||
| chaudmin asks, "do you have the names of the places?" | |||
| DavidW says, "hm, no, nothing since the station." | |||
| chaudmin says, "well, the room we just came from was like a central area" | |||
| DavidW says, "but it's okay. You're doing fine so far, as far as I can tell." | |||
| chaudmin says, "the hyerotrope is over on the east side, and now we're on the west side" | |||
| DavidW says, "I know there was a w/s/e branch, and the dome thing was on the east side and we're now somewhere on the west." | |||
| chaudmin says, "yep" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x boxes" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOXES Floyd | Floyd | Piles and piles of once useful objects, now reduced to rubbish. The Floyd | plastic cans make them unopenable and unmovable. A pity. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hut" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > X HUT Floyd | Floyd | A lonely hut, made from plastic wreckage and held together by iron Floyd | wires, its door sprung open to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the hut Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside the hut Floyd | Darkness gets thicker in here. Shelves line up along the interior, but Floyd | they are all empty. An old wire dangles from the ceiling with no lamp Floyd | on it. The only exit is south, to the warehouse. Floyd | Floyd | A blade of light comes from the back of the hut, to the north, where Floyd | it penetrates a cut in the plastic casing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x cut" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the hut Floyd | > Floyd | > X CUT Floyd | Floyd | The plastic has been damaged -- by the quake? -- and lets some light Floyd | come in from beyond the hut's shoulders. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x wire" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the hut Floyd | > Floyd | > X WIRE Floyd | Floyd | It comes from a pre-plasmatron era. Better leave it alone. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pry cut with bar" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the hut Floyd | > Floyd | > PRY CUT WITH BAR Floyd | Floyd | You push the steel bar inside the crack and press all you weight Floyd | against it. After a while, the cut gives and a new, human-sized scar Floyd | now smiles in the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "oho." | ||
| DavidW says, "scar smiles? yikes" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Featureless Corridor Floyd | Pale walls run east-west in this blank passage. No doors or windows Floyd | open in the underground, but light fills the corridor, blown in Floyd | through the roof. A crack breaks the southern wall like a black scar. Floyd | Floyd | What kind of place is this, you mutter, looking around Floyd | puzzled. A subway service area? Floyd | Floyd | You remember having read something about this kind of structure. One Floyd | of your fellow teachers once called it an "underground settlement". Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "research underground settlement" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH UNDERGROUND SETTLEMENT Floyd | Floyd | During the era when the Constructs were built, a large underground Floyd | vault, known as the "settlement", was used for R&D and to store Floyd | artifacts and knowledge found while digging through the icy crust and Floyd | the upper layers. Aseptic walls run relentlessly for kilometers, along Floyd | with a vast number of laboratories and facilities. These places are a Floyd | sort of gigantic city-under-the-city, where the researchers and the Floyd | workers spent their time together in a closed environment. Due to the Floyd | extremely long times before resurfacing, many were captivated in the Floyd | settlements for months until their duty schedule expired. The Floyd | seclusion proved too much for the inhabitants of the settlements, who Floyd | started showing signs of paranoia and of claustrophobia. After only Floyd | three years since the first humans entered the vault, a fierce riot Floyd | took the pale halls, leaving more than three hundred civilians dead. Floyd | The settlements were closed and all the work was handed over to Floyd | automated machines and robots. Floyd | Floyd | Only a part of the endless maze that once was the settlements is Floyd | still visitable: the Museum of the Vaults, near the Central Station. Floyd | There, visitors can witness the "magic" of the white corridors Floyd | lighting system, some of the remaining labs (only a handful are still Floyd | functioning -- even if for mere demonstrational purposes) and the Floyd | thrilling experience of the disappearing walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "so, DisneyTechWorld is here. yay." | ||
| chaudmin asks, ""disappearing walls"?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "research disappearing walls" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH DISAPPEARING WALLS Floyd | Floyd | One of the best shows in the Museum of the Vaults. Floyd | Floyd | Properly stimulated (via an input device or by remote control), Floyd | what looks like a regular settlement wall blinks and disappears, Floyd | working as a door for hidden or particularly dangerous rooms. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ah, so there be secret doors." | ||
| chaudmin says, "great" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "exits" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | [From here you can go south, east and west]. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Featureless Corridor Floyd | Pale walls run west from here in this blank passage. No doors or Floyd | windows open in the underground, but light fills the corridor, blown Floyd | in through the roof. Floyd | Floyd | A darker spot seems to mark the north wall, almost in the exact Floyd | center. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x spot" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > X SPOT Floyd | Floyd | A darker spot marks a rectangular area. It looks like once it Floyd | hosted... a painting, maybe? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "point e-pad at spot" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT E-PAD AT SPOT Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "touch spot" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH SPOT Floyd | Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "research museum" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH MUSEUM Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in the E-Pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "research museum of the vaults" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH MUSEUM OF THE VAULTS Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in the E-Pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "exits" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | [From here you can go west]. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Featureless Corridor Floyd | Pale walls run east-west in this blank passage. No doors or windows Floyd | open in the underground, but light fills the corridor, blown in Floyd | through the roof. A crack breaks the southern wall like a black scar. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Featureless Corridor Floyd | Pale walls run east from here in this blank passage. No doors or Floyd | windows open in the underground, but light fills the corridor, blown Floyd | in through the roof. Floyd | Floyd | Whatever this is, it looks like a cul-de-sac. Floyd | Floyd | A darker spot seems to mark the west wall, almost in the exact center. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "If we find a remote, point it at this spot" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x spot" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > X SPOT Floyd | Floyd | A darker spot marks a rectangular area. It looks like once it Floyd | hosted... a painting, maybe? Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "okay, so two spots behind the hut." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put e-pad on spot" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT E-PAD ON SPOT Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on the darker spot would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "research spot" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH SPOT Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in the E-Pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x e-pad" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > X E-PAD Floyd | Floyd | A black slab, ten-by-twenty centimeters. A surface, the one you would Floyd | refer to as "the bottom", is made out of vibertron alloy. The "top" Floyd | side is a psychoglass vibertron that you can use to gather Floyd | information. The E-Pad is indeed the ultimate resource for any kind of Floyd | question: you can consult it about almost anything (that you have Floyd | previously uploaded into it, of course). Think to it as some kind of Floyd | Guide to the galaxy. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch top" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH TOP Floyd | Floyd | It took seven minutes to upload all your records on the Pad. It would Floyd | take several millennia just to browse through half of it. It's better Floyd | if you try and consult it about something. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x roof" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > X ROOF Floyd | Floyd | The plastic of the ceiling is glowing unnaturally. It doesn't look Floyd | like light shines from behind but rather from the very Floyd | surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch bottom" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH BOTTOM Floyd | Floyd | It is cut from a single piece of vibertron alloy. It is unopenable and Floyd | unbreakable. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "nothing much here then" | ||
| DavidW says, "maybe we need to push that switch we passed by" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Featureless Corridor Floyd | Pale walls run east-west in this blank passage. No doors or windows Floyd | open in the underground, but light fills the corridor, blown in Floyd | through the roof. A crack breaks the southern wall like a black scar. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the hut Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside the hut Floyd | Darkness gets thicker in here. Shelves line up along the interior, but Floyd | they are all empty. An old wire dangles from the ceiling with no lamp Floyd | on it. The only exit is south, to the warehouse. Floyd | Floyd | Where the light came in from a small cut in the wall, a wide crack Floyd | opens, revealing an escape route to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | The wide room is lit only by the fiery pits opening east beyond the Floyd | crack in the wall. The rest is immersed in darkness. All you can Floyd | discern are piles and piles of boxes and stuff put together who knows Floyd | when and for who knows what. Glimmering in the reflections of your Floyd | E-Pad's green light, a lonely hut, made from plastic wreckage and held Floyd | together by iron wires, its door sprung open to the north. The Floyd | warehouse goes on to the northwest, beyond more piles of stock. Floyd | Floyd | A huge switch hides behind some dust in the west wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "pull switch" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > PULL SWITCH Floyd | Floyd | As you lower the switch, a burst of energy breaks loose, exploding in Floyd | a loud pop! Fuses, wires and the very handle of the switch Floyd | are now melted together. Apart from this, there's no evident outcome. Floyd | You can only guess lights have been turned off somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oops" | ||
| chaudmin says, "that might have been the roof" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the hut Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside the hut Floyd | Darkness gets thicker in here. Shelves line up along the interior, but Floyd | they are all empty. An old wire dangles from the ceiling with no lamp Floyd | on it. The only exit is south, to the warehouse. Floyd | Floyd | Where the light came in from a small cut in the wall, a wide crack Floyd | opens, revealing an escape route to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Featureless Corridor Floyd | Pale walls run east-west in this blank passage. No doors or windows Floyd | open in the underground, but light fills the corridor, blown in Floyd | through the roof. A crack breaks the southern wall like a black scar. Floyd | Floyd | A faint crumbling sound breaks the silence of the place, somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "great, something else is crumbling" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Featureless Corridor Floyd | Pale walls run west from here in this blank passage. No doors or Floyd | windows open in the underground, but light fills the corridor, blown Floyd | in through the roof. Floyd | Floyd | A darker spot seems to mark the north wall, almost in the exact Floyd | center. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Can we take the wire from the hut?" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Featureless Corridor Floyd | Pale walls run east-west in this blank passage. No doors or windows Floyd | open in the underground, but light fills the corridor, blown in Floyd | through the roof. A crack breaks the southern wall like a black scar. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the hut Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside the hut Floyd | Darkness gets thicker in here. Shelves line up along the interior, but Floyd | they are all empty. An old wire dangles from the ceiling with no lamp Floyd | on it. The only exit is south, to the warehouse. Floyd | Floyd | Where the light came in from a small cut in the wall, a wide crack Floyd | opens, revealing an escape route to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take wire" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the hut Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE WIRE Floyd | Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "nah" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | The wide room is lit only by the fiery pits opening east beyond the Floyd | crack in the wall. The rest is immersed in darkness. All you can Floyd | discern are piles and piles of boxes and stuff put together who knows Floyd | when and for who knows what. Glimmering in the reflections of your Floyd | E-Pad's green light, a lonely hut, made from plastic wreckage and held Floyd | together by iron wires, its door sprung open to the north. The Floyd | warehouse goes on to the northwest, beyond more piles of stock. Floyd | Floyd | A huge switch hides behind some dust in the west wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull wire" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > PULL WIRE Floyd | Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "I think I tried pulling it and it just said not to touch it" | ||
| DavidW says, "there's more nw" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | The stocks are too tight together to let you pass. Some make a Floyd | climbing route to the ceiling, which unfortunately ends there with no Floyd | hope for trespassing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "yes, but that was before turning off the power with the switch, right?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "hmmm, yeah" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | The stocks are too tight together to let you pass. Some make a Floyd | climbing route to the ceiling, which unfortunately ends there with no Floyd | hope for trespassing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the hut Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside the hut Floyd | Darkness gets thicker in here. Shelves line up along the interior, but Floyd | they are all empty. An old wire dangles from the ceiling with no lamp Floyd | on it. The only exit is south, to the warehouse. Floyd | Floyd | Where the light came in from a small cut in the wall, a wide crack Floyd | opens, revealing an escape route to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "pull wire" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the hut Floyd | > Floyd | > PULL WIRE Floyd | Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb wire" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the hut Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB WIRE Floyd | Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take wire" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the hut Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE WIRE Floyd | Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shelves" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the hut Floyd | > Floyd | > X SHELVES Floyd | Floyd | Dust covers the shelves, a witness of decay. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hmph" | ||
| chaudmin says, "/:/" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | The wide room is lit only by the fiery pits opening east beyond the Floyd | crack in the wall. The rest is immersed in darkness. All you can Floyd | discern are piles and piles of boxes and stuff put together who knows Floyd | when and for who knows what. Glimmering in the reflections of your Floyd | E-Pad's green light, a lonely hut, made from plastic wreckage and held Floyd | together by iron wires, its door sprung open to the north. The Floyd | warehouse goes on to the northwest, beyond more piles of stock. Floyd | Floyd | A huge switch hides behind some dust in the west wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Can we go up in the warehouse, even if there's a roof in the way?" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | The stocks are too tight together to let you pass. Some make a Floyd | climbing route to the ceiling, which unfortunately ends there with no Floyd | hope for trespassing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "climb stocks" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB STOCKS Floyd | Floyd | You lift yourself up a few steps, just to surrender when you discover Floyd | there is no way further on. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x stocks" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > X STOCKS Floyd | Floyd | Piles and piles of once useful objects, now reduced to rubbish. The Floyd | plastic cans make them unopenable and unmovable. A pity. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > X CEILING Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x roof" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > X ROOF Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push stocks" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH STOCKS Floyd | Floyd | They are beyond the scalding river. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x river" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > X RIVER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You're carrying a steel bar, a new railway ticket, some Report files Floyd | and an E-Pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "hit stocks with bar" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT STOCKS WITH BAR Floyd | Floyd | They are beyond the scalding river. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin asks, "what river??" | ||
| DavidW says, "The magma, I guess." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | The wide room is lit only by the fiery pits opening east beyond the Floyd | crack in the wall. The rest is immersed in darkness. All you can Floyd | discern are piles and piles of boxes and stuff put together who knows Floyd | when and for who knows what. Glimmering in the reflections of your Floyd | E-Pad's green light, a lonely hut, made from plastic wreckage and held Floyd | together by iron wires, its door sprung open to the north. The Floyd | warehouse goes on to the northwest, beyond more piles of stock. Floyd | Floyd | A huge switch hides behind some dust in the west wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | [From here you can go north and east]. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "hit switch with bar" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT SWITCH WITH BAR Floyd | Floyd | It would probably ruin both the steel bar and the power switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move piles" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > MOVE PILES Floyd | Floyd | They are beyond the scalding river. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "jump over river" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP OVER RIVER Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to jump. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x west wall" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > X WEST WALL Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine west. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Did we see all of the featureless corridors?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "yeah, there's only one in each direction" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x switch" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > X SWITCH Floyd | Floyd | It is encrusted with rust, grinning like a sardonic smile made in Floyd | steel and plastics. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "well, maybe the switch changed something somewhere else" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Molten Span Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Molten Span Floyd | A gigantic river of molten rocks and magma slowly cuts its way in a Floyd | wide crack running before your eyes. You stand uncomfortably over a Floyd | small stony step which looks like a building's cornice and serves as Floyd | the only walkway at the side of the underground cliff, off to the east Floyd | and west. Pieces of building sink into the ground and pop out from the Floyd | ceiling of the enormous cave, like steel crosses in an abandoned Floyd | cemetery. In the middle of the crack, to the north, bathing in magma, Floyd | rests the crippled half of one of the Construct pillars, the remaining Floyd | structure lost. Floyd | Floyd | A bridge of sedimentary stone has fallen from above, and now rests in Floyd | a scarce equilibrium above the fiery canyon between here and the Floyd | pillar's broken surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Pillar Section Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You walk over the crumbled wall, finding your way to the Construct Floyd | pillar. The heat is almost unbearable. Floyd | Floyd | Pillar Section Floyd | The broken pillar seems sturdy enough to resist the flowing magma for Floyd | a long time. Were it not for the quake, it could have survived in the Floyd | molten rocks for ages. The alloy is sturdy and elastic at the same Floyd | time, its interiors glittering like a salt mine. At its center, a Floyd | hollow section opens into a net of tangled steel bars that worked as a Floyd | skeleton for the whole structure. Wires of every kind run deep inside, Floyd | like a circulatory system. Floyd | Floyd | The fumes coming from the lava under the pillar are so hot you can Floyd | feel your skin burn. You must get out of here before you catch fire. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I can't help but think that our e-pad must open up a wall somehow." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Molten Span Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Molten Span Floyd | A gigantic river of molten rocks and magma slowly cuts its way in a Floyd | wide crack running before your eyes. You stand uncomfortably over a Floyd | small stony step which looks like a building's cornice and serves as Floyd | the only walkway at the side of the underground cliff, off to the east Floyd | and west. Pieces of building sink into the ground and pop out from the Floyd | ceiling of the enormous cave, like steel crosses in an abandoned Floyd | cemetery. In the middle of the crack, to the north, bathing in magma, Floyd | rests the crippled half of one of the Construct pillars, the remaining Floyd | structure lost. Floyd | Floyd | A bridge of sedimentary stone has fallen from above, and now rests in Floyd | a scarce equilibrium above the fiery canyon between here and the Floyd | pillar's broken surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "maybe" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Hollow Grounds Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hollow Grounds Floyd | The immense magma river flows below effortlessly, although slow and Floyd | patiently. The whole cave is lit by its fiery belly. From here you can Floyd | see the broken pillar rising from the flames like a finger pointing Floyd | the sky -- a sky made of crumbling rocks and metal -- and the stony Floyd | walls surrounding the sight like the steps of a giant arena. Below, Floyd | the thin cornice cuts a distinct line on the side of it, losing itself Floyd | in the distance inside a small passage to the west. The piece of Floyd | quartz you are standing on has resisted the quake's onslaught and is Floyd | now holding itself onto the rock like a cat on a tree trunk. Something Floyd | like steps rise from here to an alcove, up above and near the ceiling. Floyd | A faint cyanotic light pulsates inside it. You can reach it to the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | Floyd | A large chunk of rock from the cave mouth, up above, has fallen into Floyd | the molten span and now looks like a bridge of sorts between it and Floyd | the Construct pillar. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Cave Mouth Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cave Mouth Floyd | A grim mouth dug into the span's wall starts here and crawls inside Floyd | the earth, disappearing after a twist to the south. A bright blue Floyd | light pulsates there, faint. In front of you, the molten span is still Floyd | visible, although the curve of the collapsing ceiling covers your Floyd | sight. The cliff then dives deep into the roaring lava, debris Floyd | dropping from its edge now and then. You can reach the quartz Floyd | outcropping walking -- carefully -- southeast. Floyd | Floyd | A small chunk of rock falls into the magma from the edge of the cliff. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "oh, that's new, isn't it?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "the bridge?" | |||
| chaudmin says, "yeah, that's how we got to the bar" | |||
| DavidW asks, "is it?" | |||
| chaudmin says, "yup" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hyerotrope Floyd | A dome of sorts has been carved in the earth, an inner sanctum of Floyd | inhumane proportions, spanning for hundreds of meters in all Floyd | directions. The wall's surface is smooth and shiny, cut into a dark Floyd | material that looks like obsidian. On the ground, a maze of carvings Floyd | draw perfect lines that intersect each other and run throughout the Floyd | floor; all are filled by an ethereal substance as thin as air that Floyd | glows in a faint blue. They seem to revolve around a single entity in Floyd | the center of the gargantuan structure, and sink under its base. Many Floyd | of these cuts then proceed over the structure, like an electric ivy Floyd | clinging to it. Light shimmers from nowhere in particular and from all Floyd | around at the same time, reverberating on the rock and on the steel Floyd | floor. A faint buzz is the only noise audible, the rest of the Floyd | universe swallowed in an uncomfortable, dark silence. Floyd | Floyd | The demi-spheric bunker, a perfect inside-out replica of the halls Floyd | around it, sits in the exact center of the room. It sinks into the Floyd | ground as if pushed into it by some great force, a gap a few Floyd | centimeters wide separating it from the floor. Its dark skin inflates Floyd | and exhales like an ancient heart. Floyd | Floyd | What looks like a door draws a perfect rectangle on this side of the Floyd | dome. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x door" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | There is no way of telling how this "door" can be opened.. On it, four Floyd | small dots draw a perfect line, in its center. Floyd | Floyd | The dots look like tiny holes in the center of the "door", one above Floyd | the other in a linear sequence. Light pulsates inside four of them. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "nothing changed here either" | ||
| chaudmin says, "I believe there's still one area we haven't seen" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Cave Mouth Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cave Mouth Floyd | A grim mouth dug into the span's wall starts here and crawls inside Floyd | the earth, disappearing after a twist to the south. A bright blue Floyd | light pulsates there, faint. In front of you, the molten span is still Floyd | visible, although the curve of the collapsing ceiling covers your Floyd | sight. The cliff then dives deep into the roaring lava, debris Floyd | dropping from its edge now and then. You can reach the quartz Floyd | outcropping walking -- carefully -- southeast. Floyd | Floyd | A stronger tremor opens a crack near the edge of the cliff. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x crack" | |||
Floyd ] Cave Mouth Floyd | > Floyd | > X CRACK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Hollow Grounds Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hollow Grounds Floyd | The immense magma river flows below effortlessly, although slow and Floyd | patiently. The whole cave is lit by its fiery belly. From here you can Floyd | see the broken pillar rising from the flames like a finger pointing Floyd | the sky -- a sky made of crumbling rocks and metal -- and the stony Floyd | walls surrounding the sight like the steps of a giant arena. Below, Floyd | the thin cornice cuts a distinct line on the side of it, losing itself Floyd | in the distance inside a small passage to the west. The piece of Floyd | quartz you are standing on has resisted the quake's onslaught and is Floyd | now holding itself onto the rock like a cat on a tree trunk. Something Floyd | like steps rise from here to an alcove, up above and near the ceiling. Floyd | A faint cyanotic light pulsates inside it. You can reach it to the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | Floyd | A large chunk of rock from the cave mouth, up above, has fallen into Floyd | the molten span and now looks like a bridge of sorts between it and Floyd | the Construct pillar. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Hollow Grounds Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Molten Span Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Molten Span Floyd | A gigantic river of molten rocks and magma slowly cuts its way in a Floyd | wide crack running before your eyes. You stand uncomfortably over a Floyd | small stony step which looks like a building's cornice and serves as Floyd | the only walkway at the side of the underground cliff, off to the east Floyd | and west. Pieces of building sink into the ground and pop out from the Floyd | ceiling of the enormous cave, like steel crosses in an abandoned Floyd | cemetery. In the middle of the crack, to the north, bathing in magma, Floyd | rests the crippled half of one of the Construct pillars, the remaining Floyd | structure lost. Floyd | Floyd | A bridge of sedimentary stone has fallen from above, and now rests in Floyd | a scarce equilibrium above the fiery canyon between here and the Floyd | pillar's broken surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Rails' End Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Rails' End Floyd | Cascades of dirty water wash the sides of the black pit, flowing Floyd | towards the giant crack. The fiery curtains of orange smoke that Floyd | originate a few meters from you are the only light source for a span Floyd | that goes on for kilometers. A thick web of twisted rails cuts its way Floyd | across the darkness to the southwest. A small gap in the hulking walls Floyd | of the tunnel leads north towards the lake of magma. Then it's only Floyd | concrete and stone and a shattered world tangling together in every Floyd | direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "here we are, southwest" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Last Steel Overlook Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Moving very carefully, you manage to put one step in front of the Floyd | other, above the deep, until you get to... Floyd | Floyd | Last Steel Overlook Floyd | The chasm is under you. Its teeth close on the rails like the mouth of Floyd | an all-devouring creature. You balance above nothing, an acrobat Floyd | clinging to his own life, the only reasonable exit awaiting to the Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A broken wagon is dangling from the last of the rails, to the west. Floyd | Light buzzes inside. Floyd | Floyd | A gust of smoke fills your nostrils, leaving you stunned. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x wagon" | |||
Floyd ] Last Steel Overlook Floyd | > Floyd | > X WAGON Floyd | Floyd | The wagon clings to the last straw of rails. It has been ripped in Floyd | half by the quake deflagration and now looks like the decaying body of Floyd | a dead pet. Sparks light its interiors. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Wagon Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | One step at a time. Very, very carefully. Floyd | Floyd | Broken Wagon Floyd | The crumpled floor rests inclined by forty degrees, making it very Floyd | hard to stay on foot. You hold on to a bench, its metal handles your Floyd | last resort against a fall. Light buzzes inside broken fluorescent Floyd | lamps and sparks ignite the emptiness with futile effort. You are Floyd | overwhelmed by... the gravity of the situation. Floyd | Floyd | There is no sign of life. All is fallen. Dead. Floyd | Floyd | A glimpse of light reflects on something, hidden under the last bench Floyd | before the chasm. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Do we want to enter the dangling wagon?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "too late" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "look under bench" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Wagon Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BENCH Floyd | Floyd | Something is holding itself over the chasm, above the last metal rung. Floyd | Floyd | Broken Wagon Floyd | The crumpled floor rests inclined by forty degrees, making it very Floyd | hard to stay on foot. You hold on to a bench, its metal handles your Floyd | last resort against a fall. Light buzzes inside broken fluorescent Floyd | lamps and sparks ignite the emptiness with futile effort. You are Floyd | overwhelmed by... the gravity of the situation. Floyd | Floyd | A black metal box pops out from under the last bench before the chasm. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "get the remote or whatever is under the bench" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x box" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Wagon Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOX Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the black box. Floyd | Floyd | A howling comes from the chasm, like a human crying. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take it" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Wagon Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE IT Floyd | Floyd | You pull yourself to your stretching limit, a hand grasping for the Floyd | box under the bench. As you catch it, debris -- and a square meter of Floyd | the wagon's floor -- fall into the void with a noise like the one of Floyd | nails on a blackboard. Floyd | Floyd | They disappear down under never hitting the bottom. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "open box" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Wagon Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN BOX Floyd | Floyd | You open the black box, revealing an Elektron and a metal weight. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x elektron" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Wagon Floyd | > Floyd | > X ELEKTRON Floyd | Floyd | A glossy side, a sticky side and no power. On the lower part of the Floyd | sticky side, a slot is open, revealing nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "perhaps examine it after we leave the wagon?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "yeah we should probably get out of the wagon" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Last Steel Overlook Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Last Steel Overlook Floyd | The chasm is under you. Its teeth close on the rails like the mouth of Floyd | an all-devouring creature. You balance above nothing, an acrobat Floyd | clinging to his own life, the only reasonable exit awaiting to the Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A broken wagon is dangling from the last of the rails, to the west. Floyd | Light buzzes inside. Floyd | Floyd | A howling comes from the chasm, like a human crying. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "research elektron" | |||
Floyd ] Last Steel Overlook Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH ELEKTRON Floyd | Floyd | A portable interface. It connects to a receiving surface and works Floyd | as an input device for commands and other tasks. Upon connection, it Floyd | analyses the target and gives out: a) a fast signature recap; and b) Floyd | the default commands to be executed (when provided). It usually needs Floyd | a resonating crystal as a power stabilizer. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "okay, this is our 'input device' for the walls." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x weight" | |||
Floyd ] Last Steel Overlook Floyd | > Floyd | > X WEIGHT Floyd | Floyd | A kilogram. Almost perfect. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "connect elektron to e-pad" | |||
Floyd ] Last Steel Overlook Floyd | > Floyd | > CONNECT ELEKTRON TO E-PAD Floyd | Floyd | The surface of the E-Pad is not good for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "no, we need a darn dilithium crystal." | ||
| DavidW says, "We must've seen a crystal deposit somewhere." | |||
| chaudmin says, "there was some quartz, I think" | |||
| DavidW says, "That might do." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Rails' End Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Rails' End Floyd | Cascades of dirty water wash the sides of the black pit, flowing Floyd | towards the giant crack. The fiery curtains of orange smoke that Floyd | originate a few meters from you are the only light source for a span Floyd | that goes on for kilometers. A thick web of twisted rails cuts its way Floyd | across the darkness to the southwest. A small gap in the hulking walls Floyd | of the tunnel leads north towards the lake of magma. Then it's only Floyd | concrete and stone and a shattered world tangling together in every Floyd | direction. Floyd | Floyd | A howling comes from the chasm, like a human crying. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Molten Span Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Molten Span Floyd | A gigantic river of molten rocks and magma slowly cuts its way in a Floyd | wide crack running before your eyes. You stand uncomfortably over a Floyd | small stony step which looks like a building's cornice and serves as Floyd | the only walkway at the side of the underground cliff, off to the east Floyd | and west. Pieces of building sink into the ground and pop out from the Floyd | ceiling of the enormous cave, like steel crosses in an abandoned Floyd | cemetery. In the middle of the crack, to the north, bathing in magma, Floyd | rests the crippled half of one of the Construct pillars, the remaining Floyd | structure lost. Floyd | Floyd | A bridge of sedimentary stone has fallen from above, and now rests in Floyd | a scarce equilibrium above the fiery canyon between here and the Floyd | pillar's broken surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Hollow Grounds Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hollow Grounds Floyd | The immense magma river flows below effortlessly, although slow and Floyd | patiently. The whole cave is lit by its fiery belly. From here you can Floyd | see the broken pillar rising from the flames like a finger pointing Floyd | the sky -- a sky made of crumbling rocks and metal -- and the stony Floyd | walls surrounding the sight like the steps of a giant arena. Below, Floyd | the thin cornice cuts a distinct line on the side of it, losing itself Floyd | in the distance inside a small passage to the west. The piece of Floyd | quartz you are standing on has resisted the quake's onslaught and is Floyd | now holding itself onto the rock like a cat on a tree trunk. Something Floyd | like steps rise from here to an alcove, up above and near the ceiling. Floyd | A faint cyanotic light pulsates inside it. You can reach it to the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | Floyd | A large chunk of rock from the cave mouth, up above, has fallen into Floyd | the molten span and now looks like a bridge of sorts between it and Floyd | the Construct pillar. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x quartz" | |||
Floyd ] Hollow Grounds Floyd | > Floyd | > X QUARTZ Floyd | Floyd | It shines and reflects the molten span below. Here and there, small Floyd | chunks popped off of the cracked crystal. Floyd | Floyd | A perfect splinter rests upon the others, waiting to be picked up. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "aha" | ||
| DavidW says, "yay!" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take splinter" | |||
Floyd ] Hollow Grounds Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SPLINTER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put splinter in elektron" | |||
Floyd ] Hollow Grounds Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT SPLINTER IN ELEKTRON Floyd | Floyd | The quartz perfectly fits the slot on the back of the Elektron. The Floyd | display comes to life, showing some text. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "put it in the elektron" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "read elektron" | |||
Floyd ] Hollow Grounds Floyd | > Floyd | > READ ELEKTRON Floyd | Floyd | It reads: No source. Expected link missing. Check status and Floyd | connection. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Molten Span Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Molten Span Floyd | A gigantic river of molten rocks and magma slowly cuts its way in a Floyd | wide crack running before your eyes. You stand uncomfortably over a Floyd | small stony step which looks like a building's cornice and serves as Floyd | the only walkway at the side of the underground cliff, off to the east Floyd | and west. Pieces of building sink into the ground and pop out from the Floyd | ceiling of the enormous cave, like steel crosses in an abandoned Floyd | cemetery. In the middle of the crack, to the north, bathing in magma, Floyd | rests the crippled half of one of the Construct pillars, the remaining Floyd | structure lost. Floyd | Floyd | A bridge of sedimentary stone has fallen from above, and now rests in Floyd | a scarce equilibrium above the fiery canyon between here and the Floyd | pillar's broken surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | The wide room is lit only by the fiery pits opening east beyond the Floyd | crack in the wall. The rest is immersed in darkness. All you can Floyd | discern are piles and piles of boxes and stuff put together who knows Floyd | when and for who knows what. Glimmering in the reflections of your Floyd | E-Pad's green light, a lonely hut, made from plastic wreckage and held Floyd | together by iron wires, its door sprung open to the north. The Floyd | warehouse goes on to the northwest, beyond more piles of stock. Floyd | Floyd | A huge switch hides behind some dust in the west wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the hut Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside the hut Floyd | Darkness gets thicker in here. Shelves line up along the interior, but Floyd | they are all empty. An old wire dangles from the ceiling with no lamp Floyd | on it. The only exit is south, to the warehouse. Floyd | Floyd | Where the light came in from a small cut in the wall, a wide crack Floyd | opens, revealing an escape route to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Featureless Corridor Floyd | Pale walls run east-west in this blank passage. No doors or windows Floyd | open in the underground, but light fills the corridor, blown in Floyd | through the roof. A crack breaks the southern wall like a black scar. Floyd | Floyd | The light from the ceiling vibrates randomly, then it calms down. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Featureless Corridor Floyd | Pale walls run west from here in this blank passage. No doors or Floyd | windows open in the underground, but light fills the corridor, blown Floyd | in through the roof. Floyd | Floyd | A darker spot seems to mark the north wall, almost in the exact Floyd | center. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put elektron on spot" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ELEKTRON ON SPOT Floyd | Floyd | You link the Elektron to the north wall. The display on the device Floyd | blinks twice: Some text appears on it. Floyd | Floyd | It reads: Gamma section port found. Tap display to open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "tap display" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > TAP DISPLAY Floyd | Floyd | The Elektron blinks twice, then the whole north wall blinks too. It Floyd | shines in a brilliant purple and seconds later it disappears, folding Floyd | into itself. A gap now opens where the wall stood. Floyd | Floyd | You take the Elektron and put it back among your belongings. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "wonderful!" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Recess Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You go into the gap. Floyd | Floyd | Dark Recess Floyd | Darkness falls. The faint, sterile light coming from the opening to Floyd | the south is devoured by the walls of this twisted tunnel, a cut in Floyd | the earth running diagonal and scattered in every direction. You can Floyd | find no exits: the E-Pad is not enough to shed a light on this obscure Floyd | womb. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hmm" | ||
| chaudmin says, "too dark" | |||
| chaudmin says, "I hope that switch didn't mess things up" | |||
| DavidW says, "If the other spot-area has no flashlight, try putting the elektron on the dome door." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Featureless Corridor Floyd | Pale walls run west from here in this blank passage. No doors or Floyd | windows open in the underground, but light fills the corridor, blown Floyd | in through the roof. Floyd | Floyd | A gap opens where the north wall once stood. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Featureless Corridor Floyd | Pale walls run east-west in this blank passage. No doors or windows Floyd | open in the underground, but light fills the corridor, blown in Floyd | through the roof. A crack breaks the southern wall like a black scar. Floyd | Floyd | The light from the ceiling vibrates randomly, then it calms down. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Featureless Corridor Floyd | Pale walls run east from here in this blank passage. No doors or Floyd | windows open in the underground, but light fills the corridor, blown Floyd | in through the roof. Floyd | Floyd | A darker spot seems to mark the west wall, almost in the exact center. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put elektron on spot" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ELEKTRON ON SPOT Floyd | Floyd | You link the Elektron to the west wall. The display on the device Floyd | blinks twice: Some text appears on it. Floyd | Floyd | It reads: Alpha section port found. Tap display to open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "tap display" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > TAP DISPLAY Floyd | Floyd | The Elektron blinks twice, then the whole west wall blinks too. It Floyd | shines in a brilliant purple and seconds later it disappears, folding Floyd | into itself. A gap now opens where the wall stood. Floyd | Floyd | You take the Elektron and put it back among your belongings. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Blinking Room Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You go into the gap. Floyd | Floyd | Blinking Room Floyd | The gap in the eastern wall opens into a narrow room. Light vibrates Floyd | and sends shimmering glances all over the place. The floor seems to be Floyd | made from plain, levigated rock. The walls are of the same plastic Floyd | material of the near corridor. To the west, a metal door bears the Floyd | sign "storeroom" while, to the north, stands a more relieving Floyd | vibertron portal. Floyd | Floyd | Light? You mutter to yourself. Where's the source? Maybe Floyd | there is power, somewhere, after all. Floyd | Floyd | A power strong enough to activate the Tidal Initiative, maybe? Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "yay" | ||
| DavidW says, "Storeroom sounds promising." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x portal" | |||
Floyd ] Blinking Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X PORTAL Floyd | Floyd | An automatic door. This means a power source must be near. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] The Storeroom Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the storeroom door) Floyd | Floyd | The Storeroom Floyd | Whatever power source lightens the near corridors, its is nowhere to Floyd | be found in here. The blank closet in which you stand, a bare Floyd | two-by-two meters with no furniture except for a decaying plastic Floyd | shelf in a corner, is covered in old and cracked tiles, the likes of Floyd | which you only remember having seen either in hospitals or in public Floyd | toilets. The acrid smell that fills the room points toward the latter. Floyd | Floyd | On the plastic shelf is a wax soap. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "oh boy, a soap" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x soap" | |||
Floyd ] The Storeroom Floyd | > Floyd | > X SOAP Floyd | Floyd | A remarkably old wax soap, one of the kind momma used to wash clothes Floyd | when you were but a child. A sort of relic these days. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take it" | |||
Floyd ] The Storeroom Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE IT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x shelf" | |||
Floyd ] The Storeroom Floyd | > Floyd | > X SHELF Floyd | Floyd | On the dusty shelf you can see nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Maybe turn it into a candle." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tiles" | |||
Floyd ] The Storeroom Floyd | > Floyd | > X TILES Floyd | Floyd | Old and cracked tiles, the likes of which you only remember having Floyd | seen either in hospitals or in public toilets. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "we'd need a wick or something" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "research wax" | |||
Floyd ] The Storeroom Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH WAX Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in the E-Pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Blinking Room Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Blinking Room Floyd | Light vibrates and sends shimmering glances all over the place. The Floyd | floor seems to be made from plain, levigated rock. The walls are of Floyd | the same plastic material of the near corridor. To the west, a metal Floyd | door bears the sign "storeroom" while, to the north, stands a more Floyd | relieving vibertron portal. Floyd | Floyd | A distant dripping sound echoes somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "research soap" | |||
Floyd ] Blinking Room Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH SOAP Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in the E-Pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You walk past the vibertron door, which silently opens around you. Floyd | Floyd | When the heavy door hides in the surrounding walls, the buzzing lights Floyd | of the corridor drop down to a mere spark. Whatever the power source Floyd | is, its is obviously not enough to feed both the lights and the door. Floyd | Floyd | Cold Pyramid Floyd | The door opens into another disaster scenario. Chunks of rock have Floyd | emerged from the broken floor, piercing through the roof. From there, Floyd | massive blocks of concrete and steel hang, remnants of the city above. Floyd | Floyd | The quake has indeed been tremendous and you wonder how much of the Floyd | surface is still standing. Floyd | Floyd | A tunnel cuts its way into the earth to the north, beyond reach. Floyd | Floyd | An ice spike the size of a bus has been thrusted into the room from Floyd | below. It shines, the light coming from a source underneath it, and it Floyd | is illuminating the area. The color and shape of the chunk betray the Floyd | ice as very, very old, the likes of which you studied from the Floyd | Monarch's glacial era. Floyd | Floyd | Above the spike, near the roof, sparkles fall down from a broken piece Floyd | of machinery. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x spike" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > X SPIKE Floyd | Floyd | Its surface is rough and cracked. Shards of light glow everywhere. It Floyd | looks sturdy enough to sustain your weight. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "stand on spike" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON SPIKE Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can stand on. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Climb it" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "climb spike" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB SPIKE Floyd | Floyd | You climb up the spike, finding enough grip to reach the roof. Floyd | Floyd | Cold Pyramid (on the ice spike) Floyd | Chunks of rock have emerged from the broken floor, piercing through Floyd | the roof. From there, massive blocks of concrete and steel hang, Floyd | remnants of the city above. Floyd | Floyd | A tunnel cuts its way into the earth to the north, beyond reach. Floyd | Floyd | Near the roof, sparkles fall down from a broken piece of machinery. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x machinery" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > X MACHINERY Floyd | Floyd | It seems the quake has exploded in here, sending all upwards, toward Floyd | the surface. The machinery (the likes of which you've never seen Floyd | before) has been pushed into the ceiling by a shattering force. Floyd | Floyd | Now that you are near, you can carefully analyze it. It is a sort of Floyd | metal cylinder, levigated beyond perfection by unknown forces. On it, Floyd | four dots identical to the ones on the door of the Hyerotrope blink Floyd | faintly. The exposed edge of the cylinder is a tangle of tiny cuts, Floyd | each twisted into the other in an unique pattern. A smooth, plain Floyd | surface is visible just a few centimeters near the dots. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "put the elektron on the plain surface" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put elektron on surface" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ELEKTRON ON SURFACE Floyd | Floyd | You link the Elektron to the machinery. The display on the device Floyd | blinks twice: Some text appears on it. Floyd | Floyd | It reads: Radio wave emissions. Geo-gravitational pull. Very low Floyd | response. Tap display to activate. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "tap display" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > TAP DISPLAY Floyd | Floyd | There is a powerful blink in the four dots, then it all returns to Floyd | normal. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "read elektron" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > READ ELEKTRON Floyd | Floyd | It reads: Radio wave emissions. Geo-gravitational pull. Very low Floyd | response. Tap display to activate. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "maybe it needs to be on the door" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take cylinder" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE CYLINDER Floyd | Floyd | It is firmly stuck in the stone. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm not sure." | ||
| chaudmin says, "\:/" | |||
| DavidW says, "The cylinder might be missing something it needs to work." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x cylinder" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > X CYLINDER Floyd | Floyd | It seems the quake has exploded in here, sending all upwards, toward Floyd | the surface. The machinery (the likes of which you've never seen Floyd | before) has been pushed into the ceiling by a shattering force. Floyd | Floyd | The Elektron is connected to the machinery. Floyd | Floyd | Now that you are near, you can carefully analyze it. It is a sort of Floyd | metal cylinder, levigated beyond perfection by unknown forces. On it, Floyd | four dots identical to the ones on the door of the Hyerotrope blink Floyd | faintly. The exposed edge of the cylinder is a tangle of tiny cuts, Floyd | each twisted into the other in an unique pattern. A smooth, plain Floyd | surface is visible just a few centimeters near the dots. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x cuts" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > X CUTS Floyd | Floyd | It seems the quake has exploded in here, sending all upwards, toward Floyd | the surface. The machinery (the likes of which you've never seen Floyd | before) has been pushed into the ceiling by a shattering force. Floyd | Floyd | The Elektron is connected to the machinery. Floyd | Floyd | Now that you are near, you can carefully analyze it. It is a sort of Floyd | metal cylinder, levigated beyond perfection by unknown forces. On it, Floyd | four dots identical to the ones on the door of the Hyerotrope blink Floyd | faintly. The exposed edge of the cylinder is a tangle of tiny cuts, Floyd | each twisted into the other in an unique pattern. A smooth, plain Floyd | surface is visible just a few centimeters near the dots. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x surface" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > X SURFACE Floyd | Floyd | It seems the quake has exploded in here, sending all upwards, toward Floyd | the surface. The machinery (the likes of which you've never seen Floyd | before) has been pushed into the ceiling by a shattering force. Floyd | Floyd | The Elektron is connected to the machinery. Floyd | Floyd | Now that you are near, you can carefully analyze it. It is a sort of Floyd | metal cylinder, levigated beyond perfection by unknown forces. On it, Floyd | four dots identical to the ones on the door of the Hyerotrope blink Floyd | faintly. The exposed edge of the cylinder is a tangle of tiny cuts, Floyd | each twisted into the other in an unique pattern. A smooth, plain Floyd | surface is visible just a few centimeters near the dots. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch dots" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH DOTS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pattern" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > X PATTERN Floyd | Floyd | It seems the quake has exploded in here, sending all upwards, toward Floyd | the surface. The machinery (the likes of which you've never seen Floyd | before) has been pushed into the ceiling by a shattering force. Floyd | Floyd | The Elektron is connected to the machinery. Floyd | Floyd | Now that you are near, you can carefully analyze it. It is a sort of Floyd | metal cylinder, levigated beyond perfection by unknown forces. On it, Floyd | four dots identical to the ones on the door of the Hyerotrope blink Floyd | faintly. The exposed edge of the cylinder is a tangle of tiny cuts, Floyd | each twisted into the other in an unique pattern. A smooth, plain Floyd | surface is visible just a few centimeters near the dots. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "tap display" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > TAP DISPLAY Floyd | Floyd | There is a powerful blink in the four dots, then it all returns to Floyd | normal. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "research cylinder" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH CYLINDER Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in the E-Pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Do we leave the elektron here when we go to the dome? Are they connected?" | ||
| DavidW says, "(I hope the walls don't return once we open them.)" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x elektron" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > X ELEKTRON Floyd | Floyd | A glossy side, a sticky side and some text on the display. On the Floyd | lower part of the sticky side, a slot welcomes a heart-shaped quartz, Floyd | now pulsating with life. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You're carrying a wax soap, a black box, a steel bar, a new railway Floyd | ticket, some Report files and an E-Pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "it is currently connected" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Where's the weight?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in box" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN BOX Floyd | Floyd | In the black box are an Elektron and a metal weight. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "uhhh" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x weight" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > X WEIGHT Floyd | Floyd | A kilogram. Almost perfect. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "you'd think the elektron would leave the box, haha" | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, that interior description might be a bug." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "attach weight to cylinder" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > ATTACH WEIGHT TO CYLINDER Floyd | Floyd | You would achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Any idea why the elektron and a weight would be together?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "nope." | |||
| chaudmin asks, "some kind of scale somewhere?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Must be, I suppose. There's supposed to be a lab somewhere." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | [From here you can go south]. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Before leaving, you remove the Elektron from the machinery. Floyd | Floyd | You get off the ice spike. Floyd | Floyd | Cold Pyramid Floyd | Chunks of rock have emerged from the broken floor, piercing through Floyd | the roof. From there, massive blocks of concrete and steel hang, Floyd | remnants of the city above. Floyd | Floyd | A tunnel cuts its way into the earth to the north, beyond reach. Floyd | Floyd | An ice spike the size of a bus has been thrusted into the room from Floyd | below. It shines, the light coming from a source underneath it, and it Floyd | is illuminating the area. The color and shape of the chunk betray the Floyd | ice as very, very old, the likes of which you studied from the Floyd | Monarch's glacial era. Floyd | Floyd | Above the spike, near the roof, sparkles fall down from a broken piece Floyd | of machinery. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, the top of the spike isn't a new room, I guess." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | The massive ice spike is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tunnel" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > X TUNNEL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x machinery" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > X MACHINERY Floyd | Floyd | It seems the quake has exploded in here, sending all upwards, toward Floyd | the surface. The machinery (the likes of which you've never seen Floyd | before, although it is hard to tell from here) has been pushed into Floyd | the ceiling by a shattering force. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x light" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > X LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x elektron" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > X ELEKTRON Floyd | Floyd | A glossy side, a sticky side and some text on the display. On the Floyd | lower part of the sticky side, a slot welcomes a heart-shaped quartz, Floyd | now pulsating with life. Floyd | Floyd | > | * GDorn has left the channel. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read text" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > READ TEXT Floyd | Floyd | It reads: No source. Expected link missing. Check status and Floyd | connection. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin sighs. | ||
| chaudmin says, "dangit, I actually need to leave" | |||
| chaudmin asks, "will you be alright on your own?" | |||
| DavidW says, "we can stop here" | |||
| DavidW asks, "We can continue later today, or tomorrow, perhaps?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf2" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "hmm. I should be back in a few hours. we could finish then." | ||
| DavidW says, "okay." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "save" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | chaudmin says, "see ya" | ||
| chaudmin sets location to elsewhere. | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cfaafc" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid
Floyd | > SAVEOk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > QUIT Floyd | Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit? | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | |||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?
Floyd | > YES
Floyd | cheapglulxe quit with exit status: 0
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| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | |||
| DavidW has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DavidW says, "Guess I'll leave Perry recording for now." | ||
| DavidW says, "(end of first half of session at 2:18pm Sun Jun 21, 2015)" | |||
| kpaquette arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | |||
| kpaquette has had her fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | kpaquette asks, "Is clubfloyd over?" | ||
| DavidW says, "We stopped at 2:18 because chaudmin had to go. We might restart when they return, but I don't know when that might be." | |||
| kpaquette asks (of davidW), "Okay. What if I forget my password again and Jacqueline is not here?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Password for what? And Jacqueline isn't here today." | |||
| kpaquette asks (of davidW), "How do I check all of my messages?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "you mean your mail?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Katie), "Don't forget your password. You can reset it yourself to something you can remember by typing @password = newpassword" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Katie), "But don't make your new password 'newpassword'. Make the password something you'll remember and others won't guess." | |||
| kpaquette says (to jacqueline), "I can't change my password. I want it to be barnabas. So I typed @password = barnabas" | |||
| kpaquette arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | |||
| kpaquette has had her fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | chaudmin says, "I have returned, no worse for wear" | ||
| kpaquette says, "Let's go to the toyshop then." | |||
| kpaquette arrives, full of fun and funk. | |||
| chaudmin arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | chaudmin asks (of DavidW), "are you available?" | ||
| kpaquette asks (of davidW), "Chaudmin is back. Are you available?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I was lying down." | |||
| DavidW arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | DavidW says, "(It's 4:36 now, if anyone cares.)" | ||
| DavidW says, "I've forgotten the terp name again." | |||
| DavidW says, "oh, sleepmask" | |||
| kpaquette says (to davidW), "I don't." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask andromawfc" | |||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Morning comes, in Monarch. An eerie light permeates the room. Floyd | Floyd | It's been a hard night... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | |||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | |||
Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd ] So watch the old world melt away Floyd | Floyd ] A loss regrets could never mend Floyd | Floyd ] You'll never miss it till it's gone Floyd | Floyd ] So say goodbye Floyd | Floyd ] Say goodbye to seasons end. Floyd | Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd ] --Seasons End, Marillion Floyd | Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | |||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | [First time players should type ABOUT or HELP for some important Floyd | stuff about Interactive Fiction and this game] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Andromeda Awakening - The Final Cut Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Marco Innocenti Floyd | Release 3 / Serial number 120121 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Andy's Apartment Floyd | A bed, a table, a bathroom. This is all that's left of your colleague, Floyd | Professor Re's. Some dust, an eerie atmosphere and just a memory. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf2" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "okay, it's back." | ||
| chaudmin says, "alright, so." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You're carrying a wax soap, a black box, a steel bar, a new railway Floyd | ticket, some Report files and an E-Pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I should've taken the downtime to make a map, but I didn't." | ||
| chaudmin says (to DavidW), "I still remember the general layout, I think" | |||
| chaudmin says, "we attached the elektron to the cylinder, but it did nothing" | |||
| DavidW says (to kpaquette), "Anyway, we're on a planet called Monarch, and it's in danger. We're underground, looking for anything that might help us save the planet." | |||
| kpaquette says, "Hmm." | |||
| chaudmin asks, "I can't remember the name of the dome thingy. hyerotrope?" | |||
| DavidW says (to chaudmin), "I think we should return to the dome, and see if it's changed." | |||
| chaudmin says, "right" | |||
| DavidW says (to chaudmin), "That sounds right. I just call it the dome." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "exits" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | [From here you can go south]. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Blinking Room Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Blinking Room Floyd | Light vibrates and sends shimmering glances all over the place. The Floyd | floor seems to be made from plain, levigated rock. The walls are of Floyd | the same plastic material of the near corridor. To the west, a metal Floyd | door bears the sign "storeroom" while, to the north, stands a more Floyd | relieving vibertron portal. Floyd | Floyd | A distant dripping sound echoes somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Featureless Corridor Floyd | Pale walls run east from here in this blank passage. No doors or Floyd | windows open in the underground, but light fills the corridor, blown Floyd | in through the roof. Floyd | Floyd | A gap opens where the west wall once stood. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Featureless Corridor Floyd | Pale walls run east-west in this blank passage. No doors or windows Floyd | open in the underground, but light fills the corridor, blown in Floyd | through the roof. A crack breaks the southern wall like a black scar. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the hut Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside the hut Floyd | Darkness gets thicker in here. Shelves line up along the interior, but Floyd | they are all empty. An old wire dangles from the ceiling with no lamp Floyd | on it. The only exit is south, to the warehouse. Floyd | Floyd | Where the light came in from a small cut in the wall, a wide crack Floyd | opens, revealing an escape route to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | The wide room is lit only by the fiery pits opening east beyond the Floyd | crack in the wall. The rest is immersed in darkness. All you can Floyd | discern are piles and piles of boxes and stuff put together who knows Floyd | when and for who knows what. Glimmering in the reflections of your Floyd | E-Pad's green light, a lonely hut, made from plastic wreckage and held Floyd | together by iron wires, its door sprung open to the north. The Floyd | warehouse goes on to the northwest, beyond more piles of stock. Floyd | Floyd | A huge switch hides behind some dust in the west wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Molten Span Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Molten Span Floyd | A gigantic river of molten rocks and magma slowly cuts its way in a Floyd | wide crack running before your eyes. You stand uncomfortably over a Floyd | small stony step which looks like a building's cornice and serves as Floyd | the only walkway at the side of the underground cliff, off to the east Floyd | and west. Pieces of building sink into the ground and pop out from the Floyd | ceiling of the enormous cave, like steel crosses in an abandoned Floyd | cemetery. In the middle of the crack, to the north, bathing in magma, Floyd | rests the crippled half of one of the Construct pillars, the remaining Floyd | structure lost. Floyd | Floyd | A bridge of sedimentary stone has fallen from above, and now rests in Floyd | a scarce equilibrium above the fiery canyon between here and the Floyd | pillar's broken surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Hollow Grounds Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hollow Grounds Floyd | The immense magma river flows below effortlessly, although slow and Floyd | patiently. The whole cave is lit by its fiery belly. From here you can Floyd | see the broken pillar rising from the flames like a finger pointing Floyd | the sky -- a sky made of crumbling rocks and metal -- and the stony Floyd | walls surrounding the sight like the steps of a giant arena. Below, Floyd | the thin cornice cuts a distinct line on the side of it, losing itself Floyd | in the distance inside a small passage to the west. The piece of Floyd | quartz you are standing on has resisted the quake's onslaught and is Floyd | now holding itself onto the rock like a cat on a tree trunk. Something Floyd | like steps rise from here to an alcove, up above and near the ceiling. Floyd | A faint cyanotic light pulsates inside it. You can reach it to the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | Floyd | A large chunk of rock from the cave mouth, up above, has fallen into Floyd | the molten span and now looks like a bridge of sorts between it and Floyd | the Construct pillar. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Hollow Grounds Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Cave Mouth Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cave Mouth Floyd | A grim mouth dug into the span's wall starts here and crawls inside Floyd | the earth, disappearing after a twist to the south. A bright blue Floyd | light pulsates there, faint. In front of you, the molten span is still Floyd | visible, although the curve of the collapsing ceiling covers your Floyd | sight. The cliff then dives deep into the roaring lava, debris Floyd | dropping from its edge now and then. You can reach the quartz Floyd | outcropping walking -- carefully -- southeast. Floyd | Floyd | A lesser tremor splinters the cliff, sending pieces into the fiery pit Floyd | below. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hyerotrope Floyd | A dome of sorts has been carved in the earth, an inner sanctum of Floyd | inhumane proportions, spanning for hundreds of meters in all Floyd | directions. The wall's surface is smooth and shiny, cut into a dark Floyd | material that looks like obsidian. On the ground, a maze of carvings Floyd | draw perfect lines that intersect each other and run throughout the Floyd | floor; all are filled by an ethereal substance as thin as air that Floyd | glows in a faint blue. They seem to revolve around a single entity in Floyd | the center of the gargantuan structure, and sink under its base. Many Floyd | of these cuts then proceed over the structure, like an electric ivy Floyd | clinging to it. Light shimmers from nowhere in particular and from all Floyd | around at the same time, reverberating on the rock and on the steel Floyd | floor. A faint buzz is the only noise audible, the rest of the Floyd | universe swallowed in an uncomfortable, dark silence. Floyd | Floyd | The demi-spheric bunker, a perfect inside-out replica of the halls Floyd | around it, sits in the exact center of the room. It sinks into the Floyd | ground as if pushed into it by some great force, a gap a few Floyd | centimeters wide separating it from the floor. Its dark skin inflates Floyd | and exhales like an ancient heart. Floyd | Floyd | What looks like a door draws a perfect rectangle on this side of the Floyd | dome. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x door" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | There is no way of telling how this "door" can be opened.. On it, four Floyd | small dots draw a perfect line, in its center. Floyd | Floyd | The dots look like tiny holes in the center of the "door", one above Floyd | the other in a linear sequence. Light pulsates inside four of them. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "attach elektron to door" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > ATTACH ELEKTRON TO DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You would achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put elektron on door" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ELEKTRON ON DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You link the Elektron to the door of the dome. The display on the Floyd | device blinks twice: Some text appears on it. Floyd | Floyd | It reads: Geo-gravitational pull. Alert. Peaks at 13.6x10^12 gamma Floyd | epsilon. Reading off scale. Process terminated. Floyd | Floyd | Wow. There must be a power source of gigantic proportions in there. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "that was marginally helpful" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | There is no evident way of doing that. There must be a trick of sorts Floyd | to open the door. If it is a door, of course. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm wondering if the elektron is more capable than we think it is. We should try putting it on anything, see if analyzes anything." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put elektron on e-pad" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ELEKTRON ON E-PAD Floyd | Floyd | The surface of the E-Pad is not good for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put elektron on carvings" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ELEKTRON ON CARVINGS Floyd | Floyd | The surface of the glowing cracks is not good for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put elektron on top" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ELEKTRON ON TOP Floyd | Floyd | The surface of E-Pad's top is not good for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put elektron on bottom" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ELEKTRON ON BOTTOM Floyd | Floyd | The surface of E-Pad's bottom is not good for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "okay, I guess it isn't so general after all." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "research elektron" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH ELEKTRON Floyd | Floyd | A portable interface. It connects to a receiving surface and works Floyd | as an input device for commands and other tasks. Upon connection, it Floyd | analyses the target and gives out: a) a fast signature recap; and b) Floyd | the default commands to be executed (when provided). It usually needs Floyd | a resonating crystal as a power stabilizer. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "there's just that dark room left" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, ok" | |||
| DavidW says, "But we still don't have a better light." | |||
| chaudmin says, "just a bar of soap" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Are we hoping that the soap glows in the dark? Like a lot?" | |||
| chaudmin says, "wouldn't that be nice" | |||
| chaudmin says, "you said something about melting it into a candle, maybe" | |||
| DavidW says, "yes, and you said we'd need a wick for that idea." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "light soap" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > LIGHT SOAP Floyd | Floyd | This dangerous act would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "melt soap" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > MELT SOAP Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "burn soap" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > BURN SOAP Floyd | Floyd | This dangerous act would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "wash me with soap" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > WASH ME WITH SOAP Floyd | Floyd | You achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "perhaps my idea was wrong." | ||
| chaudmin says, "well the soap must do *something*" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "eat soap" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT SOAP Floyd | Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "there's also that metal weight" | ||
| DavidW says, "I see no use for the weight." | |||
| chaudmin says, ">lift weight" | |||
| DavidW says, "hm. Perhaps we can try walking in the dark room anyway. Perhaps we'll find something by touch." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Cave Mouth Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Before leaving, you remove the Elektron from the door of the dome. Floyd | Floyd | Cave Mouth Floyd | A grim mouth dug into the span's wall starts here and crawls inside Floyd | the earth, disappearing after a twist to the south. A bright blue Floyd | light pulsates there, faint. In front of you, the molten span is still Floyd | visible, although the curve of the collapsing ceiling covers your Floyd | sight. The cliff then dives deep into the roaring lava, debris Floyd | dropping from its edge now and then. You can reach the quartz Floyd | outcropping walking -- carefully -- southeast. Floyd | Floyd | A small chunk of rock falls into the magma from the edge of the cliff. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Hollow Grounds Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hollow Grounds Floyd | The immense magma river flows below effortlessly, although slow and Floyd | patiently. The whole cave is lit by its fiery belly. From here you can Floyd | see the broken pillar rising from the flames like a finger pointing Floyd | the sky -- a sky made of crumbling rocks and metal -- and the stony Floyd | walls surrounding the sight like the steps of a giant arena. Below, Floyd | the thin cornice cuts a distinct line on the side of it, losing itself Floyd | in the distance inside a small passage to the west. The piece of Floyd | quartz you are standing on has resisted the quake's onslaught and is Floyd | now holding itself onto the rock like a cat on a tree trunk. Something Floyd | like steps rise from here to an alcove, up above and near the ceiling. Floyd | A faint cyanotic light pulsates inside it. You can reach it to the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | Floyd | A large chunk of rock from the cave mouth, up above, has fallen into Floyd | the molten span and now looks like a bridge of sorts between it and Floyd | the Construct pillar. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Or smell. Or by listening." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Molten Span Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Molten Span Floyd | A gigantic river of molten rocks and magma slowly cuts its way in a Floyd | wide crack running before your eyes. You stand uncomfortably over a Floyd | small stony step which looks like a building's cornice and serves as Floyd | the only walkway at the side of the underground cliff, off to the east Floyd | and west. Pieces of building sink into the ground and pop out from the Floyd | ceiling of the enormous cave, like steel crosses in an abandoned Floyd | cemetery. In the middle of the crack, to the north, bathing in magma, Floyd | rests the crippled half of one of the Construct pillars, the remaining Floyd | structure lost. Floyd | Floyd | A bridge of sedimentary stone has fallen from above, and now rests in Floyd | a scarce equilibrium above the fiery canyon between here and the Floyd | pillar's broken surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | The wide room is lit only by the fiery pits opening east beyond the Floyd | crack in the wall. The rest is immersed in darkness. All you can Floyd | discern are piles and piles of boxes and stuff put together who knows Floyd | when and for who knows what. Glimmering in the reflections of your Floyd | E-Pad's green light, a lonely hut, made from plastic wreckage and held Floyd | together by iron wires, its door sprung open to the north. The Floyd | warehouse goes on to the northwest, beyond more piles of stock. Floyd | Floyd | A huge switch hides behind some dust in the west wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the hut Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside the hut Floyd | Darkness gets thicker in here. Shelves line up along the interior, but Floyd | they are all empty. An old wire dangles from the ceiling with no lamp Floyd | on it. The only exit is south, to the warehouse. Floyd | Floyd | Where the light came in from a small cut in the wall, a wide crack Floyd | opens, revealing an escape route to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Featureless Corridor Floyd | Pale walls run east-west in this blank passage. No doors or windows Floyd | open in the underground, but light fills the corridor, blown in Floyd | through the roof. A crack breaks the southern wall like a black scar. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Featureless Corridor Floyd | Pale walls run west from here in this blank passage. No doors or Floyd | windows open in the underground, but light fills the corridor, blown Floyd | in through the roof. Floyd | Floyd | A gap opens where the north wall once stood. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Recess Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You go into the gap. Floyd | Floyd | Dark Recess Floyd | Darkness falls. The faint, sterile light coming from the opening to Floyd | the south is devoured by the walls of this twisted tunnel, a cut in Floyd | the earth running diagonal and scattered in every direction. You can Floyd | find no exits: the E-Pad is not enough to shed a light on this obscure Floyd | womb. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Recess Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL Floyd | Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Recess Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put elektron on wall" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Recess Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ELEKTRON ON WALL Floyd | Floyd | The surface of Walls_dark is not good for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x floor" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Recess Floyd | > Floyd | > X FLOOR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | By touching the walls, you discover an exit on the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | Dark Lab Floyd | Again, disaster struck. Floyd | Floyd | The walls of what once was a sort of laboratory are but piles of Floyd | debris and distorted laminas. The only passage large enough for your Floyd | shoulders is west, through broken rocks. To the south, darkness marks Floyd | the way to the corridors. Floyd | Floyd | The only surviving piece of equipment, amidst the crumbled universe Floyd | that is now this old planet, is a glass cabinet which batteries still Floyd | power. A fluorescent light shines on its pale interior. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yay me" | ||
| chaudmin says, "hooray" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x cabinet" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > X CABINET Floyd | Floyd | Inside the cabinet you can see a disc that someone labeled "Alpha" and Floyd | a disc labeled "Beta". Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x alpha" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > X ALPHA Floyd | Floyd | It has two plain surfaces. One is smooth and polished. The other is Floyd | marked by an astonishing number of protruding lines, like a maze of Floyd | sorts. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put elektron on alpha" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ELEKTRON ON ALPHA Floyd | Floyd | The surviving glass cabinet isn't open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CABINET Floyd | Floyd | You open the surviving glass cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put elektron on alpha" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ELEKTRON ON ALPHA Floyd | Floyd | The surface of the disc that someone labeled "Alpha" is not good for Floyd | that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x beta" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > X BETA Floyd | Floyd | It has two plain surfaces. One is smooth and polished. The other is Floyd | marked by an astonishing number of protruding lines, like a maze of Floyd | sorts. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think the discs are for the dome." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take alpha" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ALPHA Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take beta" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BETA Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Didn't the dome have a maze of lines too?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take batteries" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BATTERIES Floyd | Floyd | You can't tell where they are. And you don't really need them, after Floyd | all. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take light" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x debris" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > X DEBRIS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "This is the gamma section, though, isn't it?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "uhhh" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Alpha was west, gamma was east, so is Beta in the middle somehow?" | |||
| chaudmin says, "maybe" | |||
| chaudmin says, "I don't really recall" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Nail Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Nail Floyd | Another lab, where light is just a thick, yellow smoke at nose-height. Floyd | All seems in place: the cabinets, the tables, the displays. Even a Floyd | terminal, which sits on the northeast corner of the room, seems real Floyd | enough to push the thought it could actually be functional. But: Floyd | there's something more, something you couldn't have honestly Floyd | anticipated. Floyd | Floyd | Something like a talon has cut this room in two. Its three meter long, Floyd | shiny carapace is dripping with horror and malevolence. In from the Floyd | west wall, it has crushed everything and splintered stone and metal Floyd | together with no effort. You cannot fathom what -- or who -- it must Floyd | belong to. Floyd | Floyd | The nail seems nerveless. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The elektron mentioned it back when we opened the walls." | ||
| chaudmin says, "oh yeah, it did" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x nail" | |||
Floyd ] Nail Floyd | > Floyd | > X NAIL Floyd | Floyd | It looks metallic, although you are certain it must be a Floyd | beast's nail. It is still as a statue, but you are convinced Floyd | life still runs through it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "My idea that the planet woke up a dragon seems still possible. Dragons have talons." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "touch it" | |||
Floyd ] Nail Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH IT Floyd | Floyd | It is cold as ice. Still, you know warm blood must run in Floyd | there. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put elektron on nail" | |||
Floyd ] Nail Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ELEKTRON ON NAIL Floyd | Floyd | The surface of the talon is not good for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "research dragon" | |||
Floyd ] Nail Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH DRAGON Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in the E-Pad. Floyd | Floyd | The light from the ceiling vibrates randomly, then it calms down. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x terminal" | |||
Floyd ] Nail Floyd | > Floyd | > X TERMINAL Floyd | Floyd | A keyboard and a screen. It sits silently, seemingly turned off. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put elektron on terminal" | |||
Floyd ] Nail Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ELEKTRON ON TERMINAL Floyd | Floyd | The surface of the old terminal is not good for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "turn on terminal" | |||
Floyd ] Nail Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN ON TERMINAL Floyd | Floyd | The screen comes to life. What comes up appears to be a diagram of Floyd | sorts. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x screen" | |||
Floyd ] Nail Floyd | > Floyd | > X SCREEN Floyd | Floyd | (the old terminal) Floyd | The screen shows a diagram, indicating what seems to be a comparison Floyd | between energy spectrums, a kind of measurement you and Andy have been Floyd | doing a lot, lately. Infact, it takes you but a second to recognize Floyd | the waveforms and the patterns depicted. Floyd | Floyd | On the left, a vivid pink line indicates the remnants of the Event Floyd | onslaught, that waveform that still can be picked up well beyond the Floyd | Omega waves array. On the right, a similar (but much stronger) curve, Floyd | printed in light blue, almost replicates the first one. There are no Floyd | labels under the diagrams, still it's beyond any doubt the latter is Floyd | what you and Andy called the Alpha Radiation. Floyd | Floyd | Ironically, the two lines look like the output of a... quake Floyd | measurement device. Floyd | Floyd | The Event, you murmur. As a conditioned reflex, you find Floyd | yourself holding tight to the E-Pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "research event" | |||
Floyd ] Nail Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH EVENT Floyd | Floyd | "The Event" a.k.a. "Event Primeval" or "the Crunch". Floyd | Floyd | During the Third Age, around year 7,892 of the Galaxy, the Event Floyd | begun, spanning over 300 years as calculated from Korhos revolutionary Floyd | times. At first just a mere brilliance in the night sky, as Floyd | luminescent as any supernova effect, it was described as soon Floyd | "enlarging and becoming more and more intense". Records from the era Floyd | recount how something, inside the neighboring galaxy, grew so big that Floyd | it actually devoured 90 percent of the stars in it. In time, the Floyd | brilliance became less invasive, returning darkness to the night. In Floyd | the end, on the third day of the fourth month of the year 8,140, the Floyd | Event exploded, obliterating the sky on the southern hemisphere of Floyd | Monarch. The lesser sun of the trinary system KFS, Fatimah, was Floyd | actually involved in the deflagration. It was dislocated enough to Floyd | enter the Korhos gravitational orbit, thus becoming its bigger Floyd | satellite. The Event also wiped almost all life on the Andromeda Floyd | galaxy: just the more technologically advanced inhabitants of the Floyd | Monarch Republic survived the onslaught, by hiding underground and in Floyd | the Mechanosatellites. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "research mechanosatellites" | |||
Floyd ] Nail Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH MECHANOSATELLITES Floyd | Floyd | Structures orbiting Monarch at a very long range. Build as solid Floyd | space stations, they were meant to be used as bunkers against the Floyd | Event onslaught. Upon serving their purpose, they have been since left Floyd | abandoned. Floyd | Floyd | A distant dripping sound echoes somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "research alpha radiation" | |||
Floyd ] Nail Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH ALPHA RADIATION Floyd | Floyd | (Inserted by user 5,835 -- not present in general database) Floyd | Floyd | Radiation which pulsates from a specific point under Monarch's Floyd | capital. Discovered on 25th/3rd/9,855. Generator or source: unkn. Floyd | Z-position: unkn. Magnitude: feeble, but growing. ---- Warning: same Floyd | kind of the Event residues. ----. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Getting to a satellite still sounds like an idea, if we can get to one." | ||
| kpaquette says, "There's a switch back in the first or second room we visited." | |||
| DavidW says (to kpaquette), "Yes. We pushed it and sorta broke it. There were sparks and metal melting." | |||
| DavidW says, "We don't know what the switch did, but we can't do anything more with it." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Nail Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Nail Floyd | Another lab, where light is just a thick, yellow smoke at nose-height. Floyd | All seems in place: the cabinets, the tables, the displays. Even a Floyd | terminal, which sits on the northeast corner of the room, seems real Floyd | enough to push the thought it could actually be functional. But: Floyd | there's something more. Floyd | Floyd | Something like a talon has cut this room in two. Its three meter long, Floyd | shiny carapace is dripping with horror and malevolence. In from the Floyd | west wall, it has crushed everything and splintered stone and metal Floyd | together with no effort. You cannot fathom what -- or who -- it must Floyd | belong to. Floyd | Floyd | The nail seems nerveless. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "exits" | |||
Floyd ] Nail Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | [From here you can go east]. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "That was in the abandoned warehouse. Unless there was another switch...?" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x cabinets" | |||
Floyd ] Nail Floyd | > Floyd | > X CABINETS Floyd | Floyd | The furniture -- the part that isn't crushed under the talon's weight Floyd | -- is the regular lab outfit, all metal and grey plastic. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x displays" | |||
Floyd ] Nail Floyd | > Floyd | > X DISPLAYS Floyd | Floyd | The furniture -- the part that isn't crushed under the talon's weight Floyd | -- is the regular lab outfit, all metal and grey plastic. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take nail" | |||
Floyd ] Nail Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE NAIL Floyd | Floyd | That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | A distant dripping sound echoes somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "There could be more exits in the dark room. Also, I think the discs might help the dome." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dark Lab Floyd | The walls of what once was a sort of laboratory are but piles of Floyd | debris and distorted laminas. The only passage large enough for your Floyd | shoulders is west, through broken rocks. To the south, darkness marks Floyd | the way to the corridors. Floyd | Floyd | The only surviving piece of equipment, amidst the crumbled universe Floyd | that is now this old planet, is a glass cabinet which batteries still Floyd | power. A fluorescent light shines on its pale interior. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Recess Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dark Recess Floyd | Darkness falls. The faint, sterile light coming from the opening to Floyd | the south is devoured by the walls of this twisted tunnel, a cut in Floyd | the earth running diagonal and scattered in every direction. The only Floyd | exit you found is north, to the laboratory. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm gonna guess, though, we need 4 discs because there's 4 dots." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Recess Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Recess Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "touch wall" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH WALL Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dark Lab Floyd | The walls of what once was a sort of laboratory are but piles of Floyd | debris and distorted laminas. The only passage large enough for your Floyd | shoulders is west, through broken rocks. To the south, darkness marks Floyd | the way to the corridors. Floyd | Floyd | The only surviving piece of equipment, amidst the crumbled universe Floyd | that is now this old planet, is a glass cabinet which batteries still Floyd | power. A fluorescent light shines on its pale interior. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "huh" | ||
| DavidW says, "cute" | |||
| DavidW says, "I guess that means the Dark Lab is the only other exit from there." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Recess Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dark Recess Floyd | Darkness falls. The faint, sterile light coming from the opening to Floyd | the south is devoured by the walls of this twisted tunnel, a cut in Floyd | the earth running diagonal and scattered in every direction. The only Floyd | exit you found is north, to the laboratory. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Recess Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Recess Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Recess Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Recess Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "yup, guess that's it" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Featureless Corridor Floyd | Pale walls run west from here in this blank passage. No doors or Floyd | windows open in the underground, but light fills the corridor, blown Floyd | in through the roof. Floyd | Floyd | A gap opens where the north wall once stood. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Featureless Corridor Floyd | Pale walls run east-west in this blank passage. No doors or windows Floyd | open in the underground, but light fills the corridor, blown in Floyd | through the roof. A crack breaks the southern wall like a black scar. Floyd | Floyd | A distant dripping sound echoes somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the hut Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside the hut Floyd | Darkness gets thicker in here. Shelves line up along the interior, but Floyd | they are all empty. An old wire dangles from the ceiling with no lamp Floyd | on it. The only exit is south, to the warehouse. Floyd | Floyd | Where the light came in from a small cut in the wall, a wide crack Floyd | opens, revealing an escape route to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | The wide room is lit only by the fiery pits opening east beyond the Floyd | crack in the wall. The rest is immersed in darkness. All you can Floyd | discern are piles and piles of boxes and stuff put together who knows Floyd | when and for who knows what. Glimmering in the reflections of your Floyd | E-Pad's green light, a lonely hut, made from plastic wreckage and held Floyd | together by iron wires, its door sprung open to the north. The Floyd | warehouse goes on to the northwest, beyond more piles of stock. Floyd | Floyd | A huge switch hides behind some dust in the west wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "pull switch" | |||
Floyd ] Abandoned Warehouse Floyd | > Floyd | > PULL SWITCH Floyd | Floyd | That's already off. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin asks, "actually, maybe the disks go with the cylinder?" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the hut Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside the hut Floyd | Darkness gets thicker in here. Shelves line up along the interior, but Floyd | they are all empty. An old wire dangles from the ceiling with no lamp Floyd | on it. The only exit is south, to the warehouse. Floyd | Floyd | Where the light came in from a small cut in the wall, a wide crack Floyd | opens, revealing an escape route to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Featureless Corridor Floyd | Pale walls run east-west in this blank passage. No doors or windows Floyd | open in the underground, but light fills the corridor, blown in Floyd | through the roof. A crack breaks the southern wall like a black scar. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Featureless Corridor Floyd | Pale walls run east from here in this blank passage. No doors or Floyd | windows open in the underground, but light fills the corridor, blown Floyd | in through the roof. Floyd | Floyd | A gap opens where the west wall once stood. Floyd | Floyd | The light from the ceiling vibrates randomly, then it calms down. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Blinking Room Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You go into the gap. Floyd | Floyd | Blinking Room Floyd | Light vibrates and sends shimmering glances all over the place. The Floyd | floor seems to be made from plain, levigated rock. The walls are of Floyd | the same plastic material of the near corridor. To the west, a metal Floyd | door bears the sign "storeroom" while, to the north, stands a more Floyd | relieving vibertron portal. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You walk past the vibertron door, which silently opens around you. Floyd | Floyd | Cold Pyramid Floyd | Chunks of rock have emerged from the broken floor, piercing through Floyd | the roof. From there, massive blocks of concrete and steel hang, Floyd | remnants of the city above. Floyd | Floyd | A tunnel cuts its way into the earth to the north, beyond reach. Floyd | Floyd | An ice spike the size of a bus has been thrusted into the room from Floyd | below. It shines, the light coming from a source underneath it, and it Floyd | is illuminating the area. The color and shape of the chunk betray the Floyd | ice as very, very old, the likes of which you studied from the Floyd | Monarch's glacial era. Floyd | Floyd | Above the spike, near the roof, sparkles fall down from a broken piece Floyd | of machinery. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "climb spike" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB SPIKE Floyd | Floyd | You climb up the spike, finding enough grip to reach the roof. Floyd | Floyd | Cold Pyramid (on the ice spike) Floyd | Chunks of rock have emerged from the broken floor, piercing through Floyd | the roof. From there, massive blocks of concrete and steel hang, Floyd | remnants of the city above. Floyd | Floyd | A tunnel cuts its way into the earth to the north, beyond reach. Floyd | Floyd | Near the roof, sparkles fall down from a broken piece of machinery. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x cylinder" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > X CYLINDER Floyd | Floyd | It seems the quake has exploded in here, sending all upwards, toward Floyd | the surface. The machinery (the likes of which you've never seen Floyd | before) has been pushed into the ceiling by a shattering force. Floyd | Floyd | Now that you are near, you can carefully analyze it. It is a sort of Floyd | metal cylinder, levigated beyond perfection by unknown forces. On it, Floyd | four dots identical to the ones on the door of the Hyerotrope blink Floyd | faintly. The exposed edge of the cylinder is a tangle of tiny cuts, Floyd | each twisted into the other in an unique pattern. A smooth, plain Floyd | surface is visible just a few centimeters near the dots. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x alpha" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > X ALPHA Floyd | Floyd | It has two plain surfaces. One is smooth and polished. The other is Floyd | marked by an astonishing number of protruding lines, like a maze of Floyd | sorts. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Olly arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | |||
| Fido arrives. | |||
| Olly asks, "What up?" | DavidW asks, "gonna try putting the discs on the cylinder?" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put alpha on cylinder" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ALPHA ON CYLINDER Floyd | Floyd | You try the disc labeled "Alpha", but it doesn't fit the machinery Floyd | base. The lines and cuts don't match. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Olly), "ClubFloyd round 2" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put beta on cylinder" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT BETA ON CYLINDER Floyd | Floyd | You try the disk "Beta" on the machinery. It fits perfectly, the lines Floyd | protruding from it matching the cuts on the base. The four dots blink Floyd | twice, then start strobing and dancing to the rhythm of some unheard Floyd | music. Floyd | Floyd | It is so much fun. Floyd | Floyd | Then, it all comes crumbling down. The very earth trembles and drops Floyd | to pieces. A wave comes rushing inside from the south, devastating the Floyd | walls and the whole surroundings like a tsunami of stone. The ceiling Floyd | holds, but the ice spike on which you stand is swallowed by the Floyd | ground, that closes on it like curtains of doom. Floyd | Floyd | When the event comes to an end, the machinery has disappeared, lost Floyd | somewhere, and you get up, bruised but uncannily unharmed. Floyd | Floyd | What has just happened? you ask yourself, while removing dust Floyd | from your clothes. Floyd | Floyd | Cold Pyramid Floyd | Chunks of rock have emerged from the broken floor, piercing through Floyd | the roof. From there, massive blocks of concrete and steel hang, Floyd | remnants of the city above. Floyd | Floyd | A tunnel cuts its way into the earth to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | Olly says, "Oo." | ||
| chaudmin says, "well, that certainly did something" | |||
| DavidW says (to Olly), "We're playing Andromeda Awakening - The Final Cut." | |||
| DavidW says (to chaudmin), "Indeed yes." | |||
| Olly says, "Okee." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You're carrying a disc labeled "Alpha", a wax soap, a black box, a Floyd | steel bar, a new railway ticket, some Report files and an E-Pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ok, I'm now guessing that we need to find 2 more discs and 3 more cylinders. I bet that one dot on the dome is now off." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Quartz Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Quartz Tunnel Floyd | Crystal walls surround you, in every direction. To the south, they Floyd | open to a more comfortable rock cave while, on the opposite direction, Floyd | they separate in two different paths, to the northwest and east Floyd | respectively. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Quarantine Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Quarantine Floyd | The dark interiors of this hall, washed in a pale greenish dye, remind Floyd | you of a hospital. A few corridors exit the chamber to the east, north Floyd | and south, all marked by a red sign respectively to "the Wastes", "the Floyd | Cells" and "the Pentagon". A tunnel exits to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | Another spark ignites your brain as you recall having read something, Floyd | once, about a zone called the "Quarantine", where convicts of the Floyd | underground settlements -- and something far more valuable -- were Floyd | held... uhm, hostages. Floyd | Floyd | A seclusion area, you think. A place where things were Floyd | hidden. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't remember this room" | ||
| chaudmin says, "the spike was blocking the way north" | |||
| DavidW says, "oho" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "research quarantine" | |||
Floyd ] Quarantine Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH QUARANTINE Floyd | Floyd | The reclusion area of the Underground Settlements. Different zones Floyd | were used for storing artifacts found during excavations, storing Floyd | unvaluable waste and garbage, and jailing those that were held Floyd | responsible for acts of mischief during their duty. Floyd | Floyd | A non-conventional belief, by the way, is that the Quarantine was Floyd | used to recess "guests" not too fond of keeping secrets and -- as the Floyd | very name indicates -- to avoid unknown viruses from exiting the Floyd | underground environment. Floyd | Floyd | Ouch, you express loudly. Viruses? And to think that I Floyd | forgot my medkit at home. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "research wastes" | |||
Floyd ] Quarantine Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH WASTES Floyd | Floyd | A part of the Quarantine area, in the Settlements, was used as a Floyd | waste facility. In there ended up all the garbage and the disposable Floyd | utilities. Floyd | Floyd | A faint crumbling sound breaks the silence of the place, somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "research cells" | |||
Floyd ] Quarantine Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH CELLS Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in the E-Pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "research pentagon" | |||
Floyd ] Quarantine Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH PENTAGON Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in the E-Pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin exclaims, "to the Wastes!" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Wastes Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Wastes Floyd | A room as large as your condo opens before you. A set of metal stairs Floyd | descends into what seems to be the largest waste basket you've ever Floyd | seen. Walls are shiny in slime and other unpleasant sewages, Floyd | reflecting the stale light that comes from bioluminescent lamps Floyd | clinging to the ceiling. The overall sensation is that of a green Floyd | pudding, bubbling inside a green basin, bathing in a green atmosphere. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x lamps" | |||
Floyd ] Wastes Floyd | > Floyd | > X LAMPS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "So glad the pudding I just opened is orange." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x pudding" | |||
Floyd ] Wastes Floyd | > Floyd | > X PUDDING Floyd | Floyd | Everything that was rejected in the Settlements has been piled here. Floyd | This is a sort of trash compactor, now luckily inert. Bathing in this Floyd | sink is every kind of thing, much of it almost completely putrefied. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Waste Basket Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You climb down the ladder, every step uncomfortably sinking into Floyd | ancient garbage and the thick smell of human decay. Floyd | Floyd | Waste Basket Floyd | You are neck deep into a mass of old-decayed garbage. The only exit is Floyd | up, via a metal ladder. The rest is a green horizon of smelly Floyd | headaches. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "search pudding" | |||
Floyd ] Waste Basket Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH PUDDING Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search garbage" | |||
Floyd ] Waste Basket Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH GARBAGE Floyd | Floyd | You rake the garbage, holding your breath -- and not Floyd | figuratively. In the end, you come up with something unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | Waste Basket Floyd | You are neck deep into a mass of old-decayed garbage. The only exit is Floyd | up, via a metal ladder. The rest is a green horizon of smelly Floyd | headaches. Floyd | Floyd | A glass case swims over the garbage. Something is floating inside it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x case" | |||
Floyd ] Waste Basket Floyd | > Floyd | > X CASE Floyd | Floyd | In the glass case is a perfect machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Another glass case? Maybe it has more discs?" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x machine" | |||
Floyd ] Waste Basket Floyd | > Floyd | > X MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | A sort of metal cylinder, levigated beyond perfection by unknown Floyd | forces. On it, four dots identical to the ones on the door of the Floyd | Hyerotrope blink faintly. The bottom edge of the cylinder is a tangle Floyd | of tiny cuts, each twisted into the other in an unique pattern. A Floyd | smooth, plain surface is visible just a few centimeters near the dots. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Delta and Gamma, I hope?" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "open case" | |||
Floyd ] Waste Basket Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CASE Floyd | Floyd | There are no obvious openings. It looks like a cage. Whatever that Floyd | thing inside is is meant to stay there. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, another cylinder." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "hit case with bar" | |||
Floyd ] Waste Basket Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT CASE WITH BAR Floyd | Floyd | The glass case resists the blow. It has obviously been designed to Floyd | keep the cylinder trapped inside at any cost. You need to find Floyd | something even more adamant to break it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Like that talon." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take case" | |||
Floyd ] Waste Basket Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE CASE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "we'll come back to that, then" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Wastes Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Wastes Floyd | A room as large as your condo opens before you. A set of metal stairs Floyd | descends into what seems to be the largest waste basket you've ever Floyd | seen. Walls are shiny in slime and other unpleasant sewages, Floyd | reflecting the stale light that comes from bioluminescent lamps Floyd | clinging to the ceiling. The overall sensation is that of a green Floyd | pudding, bubbling inside a green basin, bathing in a green atmosphere. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Quarantine Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Quarantine Floyd | The dark interiors of this hall, washed in a pale greenish dye, remind Floyd | you of a hospital. A few corridors exit the chamber to the east, north Floyd | and south, all marked by a red sign respectively to "the Wastes", "the Floyd | Cells" and "the Pentagon". A tunnel exits to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "onward, to the Cells" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Cells Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cells Floyd | The polished look of this area shouldn't betray its soul. A wing of Floyd | containment rooms, each used for a specific purpose, as stated by the Floyd | signs appended to each of the doors in the corridor. Many are Floyd | storerooms for quarantined specimens, chambers armored against Floyd | radiation, explosions and other unpredictable events. But the rest, Floyd | lined in rows of hundreds, are just detention cells for human Floyd | convicts. Among the many, two are open, west of here and further Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | You think about the madness that once must have inhabited this hall. A Floyd | place where seclusion was the worst enemy, above danger, a scarce Floyd | economy and not many escape routes. A full population of no-hopers, Floyd | whom life on the surface was forbidden or set apart and that, Floyd | eventually, was driven insane by its own lifestyle. Floyd | Floyd | The ASA, in the end, proved above all the rest that "the end justifies Floyd | the means" is just another hollow statement, built up by politicians Floyd | to lay their plans with no opposition. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Control Room Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Control Room Floyd | A wall, covered in monitors. A table, unfurnished except for some Floyd | lined square buttons in the middle and a lonely terminal, sitting on a Floyd | corner. This is a sightseeing tour over the detention center. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "So we might have escaped convicts down here? Joy." | ||
| chaudmin says, "they're probably long gone" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x terminal" | |||
Floyd ] Control Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X TERMINAL Floyd | Floyd | A tap display and a vibertron surface. It is on, maybe self-powered. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "tap display" | |||
Floyd ] Control Room Floyd | > Floyd | > TAP DISPLAY Floyd | Floyd | (the functioning terminal) Floyd | There are three blank spaces and a virtual numeric keyboard on the Floyd | terminal. Maybe you have to enter a code on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x buttons" | |||
Floyd ] Control Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X BUTTONS Floyd | Floyd | Strangely, two of the buttons are lit. One bears the word "screens", Floyd | the other: "shock". Floyd | Floyd | The light from the ceiling vibrates randomly, then it calms down. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push screens" | |||
Floyd ] Control Room Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH SCREENS Floyd | Floyd | There's a burst in each of the monitors. One of them comes to life. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x monitor" | |||
Floyd ] Control Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X MONITOR Floyd | Floyd | One of the monitors is lit. It shows the blank interiors of a stale Floyd | cell. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| kpaquette goes home. | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push shock" | |||
Floyd ] Control Room Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH SHOCK Floyd | Floyd | You hear a fain buzz, somewhere, then a tremor rocks the place. Floyd | On the only lit monitor you witness something unexpected. A burst of Floyd | lightning fills the room. Doing so, it ignites an explosion, on its Floyd | far wall. A cloud of smoke plugs the visual for a minute. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "maybe undo that?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "or maybe not?" | |||
| chaudmin says, "I think we're supposed to do that" | |||
| DavidW says, "okay" | |||
| chaudmin says, "glad I pushed the screen button before the shock button" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x monitor" | |||
Floyd ] Control Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X MONITOR Floyd | Floyd | One of the monitors is lit. It shows the blank interiors of a stale Floyd | cell. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "if we need to shock something, we'll know to leave it in the cell, I guess." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Cells Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cells Floyd | The polished look of this area shouldn't betray its soul. A wing of Floyd | containment rooms, each used for a specific purpose, as stated by the Floyd | signs appended to each of the doors in the corridor. Many are Floyd | storerooms for quarantined specimens, chambers armored against Floyd | radiation, explosions and other unpredictable events. But the rest, Floyd | lined in rows of hundreds, are just detention cells for human Floyd | convicts. Among the many, two are open, west of here and further Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Inferno Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You walk in the only open cell to the north and gasp. Floyd | Floyd | Inferno Floyd | This is what hell must be. Floyd | Floyd | The walls of the tiny cell -- a mere two-by-two meters cubicle -- have Floyd | all been painted and writings cover most of the surface. Someone, the Floyd | inmate, has scratched every square centimeter of the concrete, leaving Floyd | parts of himself among the apocalyptic messages and drawings. Floyd | Floyd | It is indeed a work that took time, and a relentless resolution. Or a Floyd | madness without boundaries. Floyd | Floyd | And was the madness that took him to the confinement, you Floyd | wonder, looking at the scars that mark the soul of this very room, Floyd | or was it the other way around? Floyd | Floyd | The humming that fills this nightmare, as a moaning of a living being, Floyd | stands as an answer, when all that is sane has left the building. Floyd | Floyd | A cylinder rests on the ground of the cell, on the opposite side of a Floyd | hole dug into the wall where it must have been trapped before the Floyd | explosion. Floyd | Floyd | A round hole marks the wall where the cylinder once stood trapped. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "ah, there was a cylinder there" | ||
| DavidW says, "huzzah" | |||
| DavidW says, "My idea that there are 4 cylinders seems still possible." | |||
| chaudmin says, "it's very likely" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x wall" | |||
Floyd ] Inferno Floyd | > Floyd | > X WALL Floyd | Floyd | The writings have been scratched in blood. Nails and finger parts are Floyd | still clinging to the raped wall. Floyd | Floyd | This is the end this is the end Floyd | Lemme out Floyd | I found the way There is a way Floyd | Itch itch itch Floyd | Help me Floyd | Apocalypse comes from down under Floyd | They all speak in riddles They all speak to me I can hear Floyd | them Floyd | Floyd | Then, the single writing that catches your attention: Floyd | Floyd | The FIRST initiative. Their testament. I have seen it. This is all Floyd | going to end. Use the bounds use their number. Floyd | Floyd | The first initiative. The one secreted so many years ago. Floyd | Floyd | And that sentence: "Apocalypse comes from down under". Could it be Floyd | talking about the Alpha Radiation? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "research first initiative" | |||
Floyd ] Inferno Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH FIRST INITIATIVE Floyd | Floyd | This unit was not allowed to download resources on the matter. Floyd | Sorry. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "suspicious" | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, I tried to look that one up earlier. And yes, very suspicious." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x cylinder" | |||
Floyd ] Inferno Floyd | > Floyd | > X CYLINDER Floyd | Floyd | (the perfect cylinder) Floyd | A sort of metal cylinder, levigated beyond perfection by unknown Floyd | forces. On it, four dots identical to the ones on the door of the Floyd | Hyerotrope blink faintly. The bottom edge of the cylinder is a tangle Floyd | of tiny cuts, each twisted into the other in an unique pattern. A Floyd | smooth, plain surface is visible just a few centimeters near the dots. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in hole" | |||
Floyd ] Inferno Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN HOLE Floyd | Floyd | All you see is part of the next cell. Blank as a politician's speech. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Inferno Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You're carrying a glass case, a disc labeled "Alpha", a wax soap, a Floyd | black box, a steel bar, a new railway ticket, some Report files and an Floyd | E-Pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put alpha on cylinder" | |||
Floyd ] Inferno Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ALPHA ON CYLINDER Floyd | Floyd | (the perfect cylinder) Floyd | You try the disk "Alpha" on the perfect cylinder. It fits perfectly, Floyd | the lines protruding from it matching the cuts on the base. The four Floyd | dots blink twice, then start strobing and dancing to the rhythm of Floyd | some unheard music. The perfect machine flees from your hands and Floyd | start levitating in front of you. Then, shrieking like a wraith, it Floyd | flies away, jumping into the very ground and digging itself an escape. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "goodbye, cylinder" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Inferno Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Inferno Floyd | The walls of the tiny cell -- a mere two-by-two meters cubicle -- have Floyd | all been painted and writings cover most of the surface. Someone, the Floyd | inmate, has scratched every square centimeter of the concrete, leaving Floyd | parts of himself among the apocalyptic messages and drawings. Floyd | Floyd | A round hole marks the wall where the cylinder once stood trapped. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I wonder where they're going? The dome, maybe?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter hole" | |||
Floyd ] Inferno Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER HOLE Floyd | Floyd | It's ten centimeters wide. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | |||
Floyd ] Inferno Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh well. Continue." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Cells Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cells Floyd | The polished look of this area shouldn't betray its soul. A wing of Floyd | containment rooms, each used for a specific purpose, as stated by the Floyd | signs appended to each of the doors in the corridor. Many are Floyd | storerooms for quarantined specimens, chambers armored against Floyd | radiation, explosions and other unpredictable events. But the rest, Floyd | lined in rows of hundreds, are just detention cells for human Floyd | convicts. Among the many, two are open, west of here and further Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Quarantine Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Quarantine Floyd | The dark interiors of this hall, washed in a pale greenish dye, remind Floyd | you of a hospital. A few corridors exit the chamber to the east, north Floyd | and south, all marked by a red sign respectively to "the Wastes", "the Floyd | Cells" and "the Pentagon". A tunnel exits to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pentagon Floyd | A five-sided room, which the earthquake has just barely scratched. Floyd | Five exits run from here, each marked with a letter, except for the Floyd | one which stands blank on the north wall. To the northeast, a capital Floyd | "A" hangs over a grate, which seems stuck to the walls, unopenable. Floyd | Southeast, "B" rests over what remains of a tunnel that has caved in, Floyd | some of the rocks fallen inside the room. Northwest and southwest, Floyd | respectively, "C" and "D" sign two metal doors. Floyd | Floyd | A distant dripping sound echoes somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x grate" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > X GRATE Floyd | Floyd | Iron bars, the old style. Rust cover its surface. Beyond the grate Floyd | only darkness and a dripping sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rocks" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > X ROCKS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x c" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > X C Floyd | Floyd | Its massive vibertron structure is inert in this powerless Floyd | environment. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x d" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x b" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > X D Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > X B Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x d door" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > X D DOOR Floyd | Floyd | This door is different. It is not made from vibertron, but all in Floyd | solid steel. Its surface is marked by a yellow scar -- a logo of sorts Floyd | -- depicting a triangle with rays all around it. The words "CAUTION: Floyd | DANGER ZONE" are the only other detail. A knob rests on the right side Floyd | of the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Radiation hazard?" | ||
| DavidW says, "We might need a radiation suit." | |||
| chaudmin says, "save that one for later, then" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the barred gate) Floyd | (first unlocking the barred gate) Floyd | You lack a key that fits the barred gate. Floyd | Floyd | The earth shakes a little, maybe adjusting itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put elektron on d door" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ELEKTRON ON D DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The surface of southwest door is not good for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | (first opening northwest door) Floyd | (first unlocking northwest door) Floyd | You lack a key that fits northwest door. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "come on, man" | ||
| DavidW says, "It seems mean to have a 5-exit room where we can't go any direction but back the way we came." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x knob" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > X KNOB Floyd | Floyd | This door is different. It is not made from vibertron, but all in Floyd | solid steel. Its surface is marked by a yellow scar -- a logo of sorts Floyd | -- depicting a triangle with rays all around it. The words "CAUTION: Floyd | DANGER ZONE" are the only other detail. A knob rests on the right side Floyd | of the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "turn knob" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN KNOB Floyd | Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x b" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > X B Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf3" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "se is blocked, nw and ne are locked, sw is the DANGER ZONE" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Scanning Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | (first opening southwest door) Floyd | Floyd | Scanning Lab Floyd | It is now proven that the train derailed over the scientific area of Floyd | the Settlements. This is yet another lab. The walls are made of the Floyd | same old white plastic as the rest of the corridors that crowd the Floyd | place. As opposite to the rest of the environment, this large room Floyd | seems unscarred. The yellow floor is dotted by tracks in black-striped Floyd | adhesives, drawing lines around the structure that rests in the center Floyd | of the chamber. There is not much by the way of furniture, except for Floyd | a single, foreign machine. Floyd | Floyd | A cube, three meters wide, sleeps in the very center of the room. A Floyd | strong, tight bundle of wires moves from its bottom towards the Floyd | eastern wall, where it disappears in a plug. Two bays are open on the Floyd | machine's top. Something that looks like a laser cannon points at the Floyd | right bay. Floyd | Floyd | A faint crumbling sound breaks the silence of the place, somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "doesn't seem that dangerous" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x machine" | |||
Floyd ] Scanning Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > X MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | (the cubic device) Floyd | A cube, three meters wide, sleeps in the very center of the room. A Floyd | strong, tight bundle of wires moves from its bottom towards the Floyd | eastern wall, where it disappears in a plug. Two bays are open on the Floyd | machine's top. Something that looks like a laser cannon points at the Floyd | right bay. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x plug" | |||
Floyd ] Scanning Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > X PLUG Floyd | Floyd | You are certain the wires are the power source for the machinery. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bays" | |||
Floyd ] Scanning Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > X BAYS Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the left bay or the right bay? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x left bay" | |||
Floyd ] Scanning Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > X LEFT BAY Floyd | Floyd | The left bay is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x right bay" | |||
Floyd ] Scanning Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > X RIGHT BAY Floyd | Floyd | The right bay is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I was hoping for at least a shape." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x cannon" | |||
Floyd ] Scanning Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > X CANNON Floyd | Floyd | It looks like a plasma gun or a laser rifle. It is warm, indicating Floyd | that it is functional. On the back of the gun is a red button, marked Floyd | "FIRE". Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Square bays, circular bays, michael bays?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wall" | |||
Floyd ] Scanning Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > X WALL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "maybe the cannon opens up locked grates." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push button" | |||
Floyd ] Scanning Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | A blue ray scans the empty left bay. The laser beam charges and fires Floyd | once into the right bay, barely scratching its surface. There is Floyd | something missing, obviously. Floyd | Floyd | The earth shakes a little, maybe adjusting itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. We need things in the bays first." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put case in right bay" | |||
Floyd ] Scanning Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT CASE IN RIGHT BAY Floyd | Floyd | The glass case won't fit the bay. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Darned if I know what." | ||
| DavidW says, "I think we should use the talon, the nail, to open the case." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x wires" | |||
Floyd ] Scanning Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > X WIRES Floyd | Floyd | You are certain the wires are the power source for the machinery. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pentagon Floyd | A five-sided room, which the earthquake has just barely scratched. Floyd | Five exits run from here, each marked with a letter, except for the Floyd | one which stands blank on the north wall. To the northeast, a capital Floyd | "A" hangs over a grate, which seems stuck to the walls, unopenable. Floyd | Southeast, "B" rests over what remains of a tunnel that has caved in, Floyd | some of the rocks fallen inside the room. Northwest and southwest, Floyd | respectively, "C" and "D" sign two metal doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Quarantine Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Quarantine Floyd | The dark interiors of this hall, washed in a pale greenish dye, remind Floyd | you of a hospital. A few corridors exit the chamber to the east, north Floyd | and south, all marked by a red sign respectively to "the Wastes", "the Floyd | Cells" and "the Pentagon". A tunnel exits to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Quartz Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Quartz Tunnel Floyd | Crystal walls surround you, in every direction. To the south, they Floyd | open to a more comfortable rock cave while, on the opposite direction, Floyd | they separate in two different paths, to the northwest and east Floyd | respectively. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Glass Divide Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Glass Divide Floyd | Another lab. This time, the walls have resisted the quake onslaught Floyd | and just a few cracks depict their skin. A couple of chairs are poised Floyd | against a big screening window, beyond which you can barely see. A Floyd | thick layer of dust and smoke has painted it black. You can see the Floyd | quartz tunnel to the west. Floyd | Floyd | A faint crumbling sound breaks the silence of the place, somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x window" | |||
Floyd ] Glass Divide Floyd | > Floyd | > X WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | Although very dirty, the window can be seen through, due to the strong Floyd | light on the other side. The room seems empty. Only a parallelepipedon Floyd | stands in its center, and you can discern nothing else. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "I used to know what a parallelepiped was" | ||
| DavidW says, "gee, I haven't seen a parallelepipedon since So Far's music box." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x parallelepipedon" | |||
Floyd ] Glass Divide Floyd | > Floyd | > X PARALLELEPIPEDON Floyd | Floyd | Although very dirty, the window can be seen through, due to the strong Floyd | light on the other side. The room seems empty. Only a parallelepipedon Floyd | stands in its center, and you can discern nothing else. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x chairs" | |||
Floyd ] Glass Divide Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHAIRS Floyd | Floyd | Two chairs, rusted and broken. They must have been left here a long Floyd | time ago. Floyd | Floyd | A small, dusty object sits on one of the chairs. Floyd | Floyd | Glass Divide Floyd | Another lab. This time, the walls have resisted the quake onslaught Floyd | and just a few cracks depict their skin. A couple of chairs are poised Floyd | against a big screening window, beyond which you can barely see. A Floyd | thick layer of dust and smoke has painted it black. You can see the Floyd | quartz tunnel to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a disc labeled "Gamma" here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Sorta like a squashed or slanted box." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take gamma" | |||
Floyd ] Glass Divide Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE GAMMA Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yay" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "hit window with bar" | |||
Floyd ] Glass Divide Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT WINDOW WITH BAR Floyd | Floyd | The window seems sturdy enough to resist you attack. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Quartz Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Quartz Tunnel Floyd | Crystal walls surround you, in every direction. To the south, they Floyd | open to a more comfortable rock cave while, on the opposite direction, Floyd | they separate in two different paths, to the northwest and east Floyd | respectively. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open window" | |||
Floyd ] Quartz Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Glass Divide Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Glass Divide Floyd | Another lab. This time, the walls have resisted the quake onslaught Floyd | and just a few cracks depict their skin. A couple of chairs are poised Floyd | against a big screening window, beyond which you can barely see. A Floyd | thick layer of dust and smoke has painted it black. You can see the Floyd | quartz tunnel to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "open windwo" | |||
Floyd ] Glass Divide Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN WINDWO Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "open window" | |||
Floyd ] Glass Divide Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | You can't find a way of opening it. It has been designed to stay in Floyd | place. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "windwo" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Quartz Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Quartz Tunnel Floyd | Crystal walls surround you, in every direction. To the south, they Floyd | open to a more comfortable rock cave while, on the opposite direction, Floyd | they separate in two different paths, to the northwest and east Floyd | respectively. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh well" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cold Pyramid Floyd | Chunks of rock have emerged from the broken floor, piercing through Floyd | the roof. From there, massive blocks of concrete and steel hang, Floyd | remnants of the city above. Floyd | Floyd | A tunnel cuts its way into the earth to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | Olly says, "Opposite of windwere." | ||
| Olly disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | |||
| Fido departs. | DavidW says, "Was there ever as a story of more wo than the parallelapipedon behind its windwo." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "exits" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | [From here you can go north and south]. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Blinking Room Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Blinking Room Floyd | Light vibrates and sends shimmering glances all over the place. The Floyd | floor seems to be made from plain, levigated rock. The walls are of Floyd | the same plastic material of the near corridor. To the west, a metal Floyd | door bears the sign "storeroom" while, to the north, stands a more Floyd | relieving vibertron portal. Floyd | Floyd | A faint crumbling sound breaks the silence of the place, somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Featureless Corridor Floyd | Pale walls run east from here in this blank passage. No doors or Floyd | windows open in the underground, but light fills the corridor, blown Floyd | in through the roof. Floyd | Floyd | A gap opens where the west wall once stood. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Featureless Corridor Floyd | Pale walls run east-west in this blank passage. No doors or windows Floyd | open in the underground, but light fills the corridor, blown in Floyd | through the roof. A crack breaks the southern wall like a black scar. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Featureless Corridor Floyd | Pale walls run west from here in this blank passage. No doors or Floyd | windows open in the underground, but light fills the corridor, blown Floyd | in through the roof. Floyd | Floyd | A gap opens where the north wall once stood. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Recess Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You go into the gap. Floyd | Floyd | Dark Recess Floyd | Darkness falls. The faint, sterile light coming from the opening to Floyd | the south is devoured by the walls of this twisted tunnel, a cut in Floyd | the earth running diagonal and scattered in every direction. The only Floyd | exit you found is north, to the laboratory. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dark Lab Floyd | The walls of what once was a sort of laboratory are but piles of Floyd | debris and distorted laminas. The only passage large enough for your Floyd | shoulders is west, through broken rocks. To the south, darkness marks Floyd | the way to the corridors. Floyd | Floyd | The only surviving piece of equipment, amidst the crumbled universe Floyd | that is now this old planet, is a glass cabinet which batteries still Floyd | power. A fluorescent light shines on its pale interior. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Nail Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Nail Floyd | Another lab, where light is just a thick, yellow smoke at nose-height. Floyd | All seems in place: the cabinets, the tables, the displays. Even a Floyd | terminal, which sits on the northeast corner of the room, seems real Floyd | enough to push the thought it could actually be functional. But: Floyd | there's something more. Floyd | Floyd | Something like a talon has cut this room in two. Its three meter long, Floyd | shiny carapace is dripping with horror and malevolence. In from the Floyd | west wall, it has crushed everything and splintered stone and metal Floyd | together with no effort. You cannot fathom what -- or who -- it must Floyd | belong to. Floyd | Floyd | The nail seems nerveless. Floyd | Floyd | A faint crumbling sound breaks the silence of the place, somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "throw case at nail" | |||
Floyd ] Nail Floyd | > Floyd | > THROW CASE AT NAIL Floyd | Floyd | Not even an alien gigantic nail could open that glass case. It is not Floyd | sharp enough. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "dang" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x case" | |||
Floyd ] Nail Floyd | > Floyd | > X CASE Floyd | Floyd | In the glass case is a perfect machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "but ... it recognized the attempt." | ||
| chaudmin says, "something sharp" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take nail" | |||
Floyd ] Nail Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE NAIL Floyd | Floyd | That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "hit nail with bar" | |||
Floyd ] Nail Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT NAIL WITH BAR Floyd | Floyd | With the risk of waking it up? Never. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Nail Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You're carrying a disc labeled "Gamma", a glass case, a wax soap, a Floyd | black box, a steel bar, a new railway ticket, some Report files and an Floyd | E-Pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Olly arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | |||
| Fido arrives. | DavidW says, "Personally, I couldn't sleep with my fingernail stuck in a wall. Just sayin'." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put soap on case" | |||
Floyd ] Nail Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT SOAP ON CASE Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on the glass case would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | The light from the ceiling vibrates randomly, then it calms down. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Nail Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You're carrying a disc labeled "Gamma", a glass case, a wax soap, a Floyd | black box, a steel bar, a new railway ticket, some Report files and an Floyd | E-Pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The soap is probably to make something more frictionless, I'm now thinking." | ||
| DavidW asks, "The ol', ring is stuck on a finger, have you tried soap puzzle?" | |||
| chaudmin says, "well, I have no idea where to get something sharp" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Another possibility: The soap might help us make a wax impression of something, and maybe the danger cube laser replicates that impression in metal?" | |||
| chaudmin says, "hmmmm" | |||
| chaudmin says, "back to the danger cube" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dark Lab Floyd | The walls of what once was a sort of laboratory are but piles of Floyd | debris and distorted laminas. The only passage large enough for your Floyd | shoulders is west, through broken rocks. To the south, darkness marks Floyd | the way to the corridors. Floyd | Floyd | The only surviving piece of equipment, amidst the crumbled universe Floyd | that is now this old planet, is a glass cabinet which batteries still Floyd | power. A fluorescent light shines on its pale interior. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Dark Recess Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dark Recess Floyd | Darkness falls. The faint, sterile light coming from the opening to Floyd | the south is devoured by the walls of this twisted tunnel, a cut in Floyd | the earth running diagonal and scattered in every direction. The only Floyd | exit you found is north, to the laboratory. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Featureless Corridor Floyd | Pale walls run west from here in this blank passage. No doors or Floyd | windows open in the underground, but light fills the corridor, blown Floyd | in through the roof. Floyd | Floyd | A gap opens where the north wall once stood. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I don't know of any especially sharp things. Is quartz sharp?" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take splinter" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SPLINTER Floyd | Floyd | You carefully remove the quartz from the Elektron. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "cut case with splinter" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > CUT CASE WITH SPLINTER Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to cut the glass case. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "cut case" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > CUT CASE Floyd | Floyd | Cutting that up would achieve little. Floyd | Floyd | A faint crumbling sound breaks the silence of the place, somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "guess that's not it" | ||
| Olly says (to Floyd), "open case with splinter" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CASE WITH SPLINTER Floyd | Floyd | That doesn't seem to be something you can unlock. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "guess not" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Featureless Corridor Floyd | Pale walls run east-west in this blank passage. No doors or windows Floyd | open in the underground, but light fills the corridor, blown in Floyd | through the roof. A crack breaks the southern wall like a black scar. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Featureless Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Featureless Corridor Floyd | Pale walls run east from here in this blank passage. No doors or Floyd | windows open in the underground, but light fills the corridor, blown Floyd | in through the roof. Floyd | Floyd | A gap opens where the west wall once stood. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Blinking Room Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You go into the gap. Floyd | Floyd | Blinking Room Floyd | Light vibrates and sends shimmering glances all over the place. The Floyd | floor seems to be made from plain, levigated rock. The walls are of Floyd | the same plastic material of the near corridor. To the west, a metal Floyd | door bears the sign "storeroom" while, to the north, stands a more Floyd | relieving vibertron portal. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Cold Pyramid Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You walk past the vibertron door, which silently opens around you. Floyd | Floyd | Cold Pyramid Floyd | Chunks of rock have emerged from the broken floor, piercing through Floyd | the roof. From there, massive blocks of concrete and steel hang, Floyd | remnants of the city above. Floyd | Floyd | A tunnel cuts its way into the earth to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Quartz Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Quartz Tunnel Floyd | Crystal walls surround you, in every direction. To the south, they Floyd | open to a more comfortable rock cave while, on the opposite direction, Floyd | they separate in two different paths, to the northwest and east Floyd | respectively. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Quarantine Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Quarantine Floyd | The dark interiors of this hall, washed in a pale greenish dye, remind Floyd | you of a hospital. A few corridors exit the chamber to the east, north Floyd | and south, all marked by a red sign respectively to "the Wastes", "the Floyd | Cells" and "the Pentagon". A tunnel exits to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pentagon Floyd | A five-sided room, which the earthquake has just barely scratched. Floyd | Five exits run from here, each marked with a letter, except for the Floyd | one which stands blank on the north wall. To the northeast, a capital Floyd | "A" hangs over a grate, which seems stuck to the walls, unopenable. Floyd | Southeast, "B" rests over what remains of a tunnel that has caved in, Floyd | some of the rocks fallen inside the room. Northwest and southwest, Floyd | respectively, "C" and "D" sign two metal doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Scanning Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Scanning Lab Floyd | This is yet another lab. The walls are made of the same old white Floyd | plastic as the rest of the corridors that crowd the place. As opposite Floyd | to the rest of the environment, this large room seems unscarred. The Floyd | yellow floor is dotted by tracks in black-striped adhesives, drawing Floyd | lines around the structure that rests in the center of the chamber. Floyd | There is not much by the way of furniture, except for a single, Floyd | foreign machine. Floyd | Floyd | A cube, three meters wide, sleeps in the very center of the room. A Floyd | strong, tight bundle of wires moves from its bottom towards the Floyd | eastern wall, where it disappears in a plug. Two bays are open on the Floyd | machine's top. Something that looks like a laser cannon points at the Floyd | right bay. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put soap in right bay" | |||
Floyd ] Scanning Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT SOAP IN RIGHT BAY Floyd | Floyd | You put the wax soap into the right bay. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push button" | |||
Floyd ] Scanning Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | A blue ray scans the empty left bay. The laser beam charges but then Floyd | switches off. There is something missing, obviously. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "wrong bay, whoops" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take soap" | |||
Floyd ] Scanning Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SOAP Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The earth shakes a little, maybe adjusting itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think the wax should go in the left bay, to be scanned." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put soap in left bay" | |||
Floyd ] Scanning Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT SOAP IN LEFT BAY Floyd | Floyd | You put the wax soap into the left bay. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "And something to carve goes in the right one." | ||
| DavidW asks, "unless you want something carved of wax?" | |||
| chaudmin exclaims, "OH!" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put weight in right bay" | |||
Floyd ] Scanning Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT WEIGHT IN RIGHT BAY Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the metal weight) Floyd | Floyd | You put the metal weight into the right bay. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push button" | |||
Floyd ] Scanning Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | The laser beam cuts the metal weight, replicating the soap's surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin asks, "okay?" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x weight" | |||
Floyd ] Scanning Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > X WEIGHT Floyd | Floyd | A kilogram. Almost perfect. A replica of the wax soap has been Floyd | laser-cut onto it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. I didn't think of the weight for the 2nd bay." | ||
| DavidW says, "But we don't need a replica of the soap as it currently is." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "carve soap" | |||
Floyd ] Scanning Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > CARVE SOAP Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Olly says, "Must affect its kilogrammyness." | ||
| DavidW asks, "I think we melt the soap into something else?" | |||
| Olly says, "Kilogramminess." | |||
| chaudmin says, "a key perhaps" | |||
| chaudmin says, "soap key" | |||
| DavidW says, "so press the soap into a keyhole. Replicate the key here in metal." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take soap" | |||
Floyd ] Scanning Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SOAP Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Worth a try." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Pentagon Floyd | A five-sided room, which the earthquake has just barely scratched. Floyd | Five exits run from here, each marked with a letter, except for the Floyd | one which stands blank on the north wall. To the northeast, a capital Floyd | "A" hangs over a grate, which seems stuck to the walls, unopenable. Floyd | Southeast, "B" rests over what remains of a tunnel that has caved in, Floyd | some of the rocks fallen inside the room. Northwest and southwest, Floyd | respectively, "C" and "D" sign two metal doors. Floyd | Floyd | The earth shakes a little, maybe adjusting itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put soap in grate" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT SOAP IN GRATE Floyd | Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x keyhole" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > X KEYHOLE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x grate" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > X GRATE Floyd | Floyd | Iron bars, the old style. Rust cover its surface. Beyond the grate Floyd | only darkness and a dripping sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x c door" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > X C DOOR Floyd | Floyd | Its massive vibertron structure is inert in this powerless Floyd | environment. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. maybe not these doors/keyholes." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x a door" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > X A DOOR Floyd | Floyd | (southwest door) Floyd | This door is different. It is not made from vibertron, but all in Floyd | solid steel. Its surface is marked by a yellow scar -- a logo of sorts Floyd | -- depicting a triangle with rays all around it. The words "CAUTION: Floyd | DANGER ZONE" are the only other detail. A knob rests on the right side Floyd | of the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x knob" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > X KNOB Floyd | Floyd | This door is different. It is not made from vibertron, but all in Floyd | solid steel. Its surface is marked by a yellow scar -- a logo of sorts Floyd | -- depicting a triangle with rays all around it. The words "CAUTION: Floyd | DANGER ZONE" are the only other detail. A knob rests on the right side Floyd | of the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x ne door" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > X NE DOOR Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x ne" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > X NE Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | The light from the ceiling vibrates randomly, then it calms down. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x a door" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > X A DOOR Floyd | Floyd | (southwest door) Floyd | This door is different. It is not made from vibertron, but all in Floyd | solid steel. Its surface is marked by a yellow scar -- a logo of sorts Floyd | -- depicting a triangle with rays all around it. The words "CAUTION: Floyd | DANGER ZONE" are the only other detail. A knob rests on the right side Floyd | of the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ne door" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > X NE DOOR Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "argh" | ||
| Olly says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > NE | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x splinter" | |||
Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the barred gate) Floyd | (first unlocking the barred gate) Floyd | You lack a key that fits the barred gate. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > X SPLINTER Floyd | Floyd | It is vaguely heart shaped. Its crystal resonates to the colors of the Floyd | surroundings, shifting from pink to blue through all the spectrum. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "Er, Steamworld certainly is on Android" | ||
| Olly says (to Floyd), "x gate" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > X GATE Floyd | Floyd | Iron bars, the old style. Rust cover its surface. Beyond the grate Floyd | only darkness and a dripping sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "It's been in at least one Humble Mobile Bundle" | ||
| DavidW says, "We should put the splinter back in the elektron, I think." | |||
| McMartin says, "ILADC" | |||
| DavidW asks (of McM), "channel?" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put splinter in elektron" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT SPLINTER IN ELEKTRON Floyd | Floyd | The quartz perfectly fits the slot on the back of the Elektron. The Floyd | display comes to life, showing some text. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put elektron on knob" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ELEKTRON ON KNOB Floyd | Floyd | The surface of southwest door is not good for that. Floyd | Floyd | The earth shakes a little, maybe adjusting itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "make wax key" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > MAKE WAX KEY Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Olly says (to Floyd), "put soap in gate" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT SOAP IN GATE Floyd | Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "If there's no keyhole or lock mechanism explicitly mentioned here, it can't be manipulated this way." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "hit gate with bar" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT GATE WITH BAR Floyd | Floyd | It would probably ruin both the steel bar and the barred gate. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit gate with case" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT GATE WITH CASE Floyd | Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "break case with gate" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > BREAK CASE WITH GATE Floyd | Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x weight" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > X WEIGHT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "it's still in the bay" | ||
| DavidW says, "ah. ok." | |||
| DavidW says, "I think we're on the right track in theory. It's just not these doors." | |||
| chaudmin says, "I'm not sure what other things need keys" | |||
| DavidW says, "well, maybe it's not a key we'll be making. It could be a disc." | |||
| chaudmin says, "hmmm" | |||
| DavidW says, "We might have to make the delta disc instead of find it." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Quarantine Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Quarantine Floyd | The dark interiors of this hall, washed in a pale greenish dye, remind Floyd | you of a hospital. A few corridors exit the chamber to the east, north Floyd | and south, all marked by a red sign respectively to "the Wastes", "the Floyd | Cells" and "the Pentagon". A tunnel exits to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Did we see both cells? Or was one cell the control room?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "one was the control room" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Cells Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cells Floyd | The polished look of this area shouldn't betray its soul. A wing of Floyd | containment rooms, each used for a specific purpose, as stated by the Floyd | signs appended to each of the doors in the corridor. Many are Floyd | storerooms for quarantined specimens, chambers armored against Floyd | radiation, explosions and other unpredictable events. But the rest, Floyd | lined in rows of hundreds, are just detention cells for human Floyd | convicts. Among the many, two are open, west of here and further Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | A distant dripping sound echoes somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Control Room Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Control Room Floyd | A wall, covered in monitors. A table, unfurnished except for some Floyd | lined square buttons in the middle and a lonely terminal, sitting on a Floyd | corner. This is a sightseeing tour over the detention center. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push shock" | |||
Floyd ] Control Room Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH SHOCK Floyd | Floyd | You hear a faint buzz. Floyd | On the only lit monitor you see bursts of lightning filling the room. Floyd | Nothing else happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Cells Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cells Floyd | The polished look of this area shouldn't betray its soul. A wing of Floyd | containment rooms, each used for a specific purpose, as stated by the Floyd | signs appended to each of the doors in the corridor. Many are Floyd | storerooms for quarantined specimens, chambers armored against Floyd | radiation, explosions and other unpredictable events. But the rest, Floyd | lined in rows of hundreds, are just detention cells for human Floyd | convicts. Among the many, two are open, west of here and further Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Inferno Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inferno Floyd | The walls of the tiny cell -- a mere two-by-two meters cubicle -- have Floyd | all been painted and writings cover most of the surface. Someone, the Floyd | inmate, has scratched every square centimeter of the concrete, leaving Floyd | parts of himself among the apocalyptic messages and drawings. Floyd | Floyd | A round hole marks the wall where the cylinder once stood trapped. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put case in hole" | |||
Floyd ] Inferno Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT CASE IN HOLE Floyd | Floyd | Now, this is freudian. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We could search the wastes again in case more garbage is useful." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Cells Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cells Floyd | The polished look of this area shouldn't betray its soul. A wing of Floyd | containment rooms, each used for a specific purpose, as stated by the Floyd | signs appended to each of the doors in the corridor. Many are Floyd | storerooms for quarantined specimens, chambers armored against Floyd | radiation, explosions and other unpredictable events. But the rest, Floyd | lined in rows of hundreds, are just detention cells for human Floyd | convicts. Among the many, two are open, west of here and further Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | A distant dripping sound echoes somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Quarantine Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Quarantine Floyd | The dark interiors of this hall, washed in a pale greenish dye, remind Floyd | you of a hospital. A few corridors exit the chamber to the east, north Floyd | and south, all marked by a red sign respectively to "the Wastes", "the Floyd | Cells" and "the Pentagon". A tunnel exits to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Wastes Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Wastes Floyd | A room as large as your condo opens before you. A set of metal stairs Floyd | descends into what seems to be the largest waste basket you've ever Floyd | seen. Walls are shiny in slime and other unpleasant sewages, Floyd | reflecting the stale light that comes from bioluminescent lamps Floyd | clinging to the ceiling. The overall sensation is that of a green Floyd | pudding, bubbling inside a green basin, bathing in a green atmosphere. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Waste Basket Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You climb down the ladder, every step uncomfortably sinking into Floyd | ancient garbage and the thick smell of human decay. Floyd | Floyd | Waste Basket Floyd | You are neck deep into a mass of old-decayed garbage. The only exit is Floyd | up, via a metal ladder. The rest is a green horizon of smelly Floyd | headaches. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "search garbage" | |||
Floyd ] Waste Basket Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH GARBAGE Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "mmmmm" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Wastes Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Wastes Floyd | A room as large as your condo opens before you. A set of metal stairs Floyd | descends into what seems to be the largest waste basket you've ever Floyd | seen. Walls are shiny in slime and other unpleasant sewages, Floyd | reflecting the stale light that comes from bioluminescent lamps Floyd | clinging to the ceiling. The overall sensation is that of a green Floyd | pudding, bubbling inside a green basin, bathing in a green atmosphere. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Quarantine Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Quarantine Floyd | The dark interiors of this hall, washed in a pale greenish dye, remind Floyd | you of a hospital. A few corridors exit the chamber to the east, north Floyd | and south, all marked by a red sign respectively to "the Wastes", "the Floyd | Cells" and "the Pentagon". A tunnel exits to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | The earth shakes a little, maybe adjusting itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Olly disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | |||
| Fido departs. | DavidW says, "If we're very stuck, revisit the dome, in case the flying cylinders have decided to come dome appendages." | ||
| chaudmin says, "dome it is, then" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Quartz Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Quartz Tunnel Floyd | Crystal walls surround you, in every direction. To the south, they Floyd | open to a more comfortable rock cave while, on the opposite direction, Floyd | they separate in two different paths, to the northwest and east Floyd | respectively. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "go to hyerotrope" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO HYEROTROPE Floyd | Floyd | You go south to the cold pyramid, south again to the blinking room, Floyd | east to the featureless corridor, east again to the featureless Floyd | corridor, south to the inside the hut, south again to the abandoned Floyd | warehouse, east to the molten span, east again to the hollow grounds, Floyd | northwest to the cave mouth and south to the hyerotrope. Floyd | Floyd | Hyerotrope Floyd | A dome of sorts has been carved in the earth, an inner sanctum of Floyd | inhumane proportions, spanning for hundreds of meters in all Floyd | directions. The wall's surface is smooth and shiny, cut into a dark Floyd | material that looks like obsidian. On the ground, a maze of carvings Floyd | draw perfect lines that intersect each other and run throughout the Floyd | floor; all are filled by an ethereal substance as thin as air that Floyd | glows in a faint blue. They seem to revolve around a single entity in Floyd | the center of the gargantuan structure, and sink under its base. Many Floyd | of these cuts then proceed over the structure, like an electric ivy Floyd | clinging to it. Light shimmers from nowhere in particular and from all Floyd | around at the same time, reverberating on the rock and on the steel Floyd | floor. A faint buzz is the only noise audible, the rest of the Floyd | universe swallowed in an uncomfortable, dark silence. Floyd | Floyd | The demi-spheric bunker, a perfect inside-out replica of the halls Floyd | around it, sits in the exact center of the room. It sinks into the Floyd | ground as if pushed into it by some great force, a gap a few Floyd | centimeters wide separating it from the floor. Its dark skin inflates Floyd | and exhales like an ancient heart. Floyd | Floyd | What looks like a door draws a perfect rectangle on this side of the Floyd | dome. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "almost forgot about the go to command" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x door" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | There is no way of telling how this "door" can be opened.. On it, four Floyd | small dots draw a perfect line, in its center. Floyd | Floyd | The dots look like tiny holes in the center of the "door", one above Floyd | the other in a linear sequence. Light pulsates inside two of them. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dots" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOTS Floyd | Floyd | The dots look like tiny holes in the center of the "door", one above Floyd | the other in a linear sequence. Light pulsates inside two of them. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Two dots gone, two dots remain." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put wax on maze" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT WAX ON MAZE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put soap on dome" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT SOAP ON DOME Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on the dome would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put soap on carvings" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT SOAP ON CARVINGS Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on the glowing cracks would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put soap on maze" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT SOAP ON MAZE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You're carrying a wax soap, a disc labeled "Gamma", a glass case, a Floyd | black box, a steel bar, a new railway ticket, some Report files and an Floyd | E-Pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "research diamond" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH DIAMOND Floyd | Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in the E-Pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't see the missing cylinders here, unless they flew inside or underneath." | ||
| chaudmin says, "they probably flew right out of the game" | |||
| DavidW says, "very likely." | |||
| DavidW says, "But I wasn't sure." | |||
| chaudmin says, "...I'm not sure what to do now" | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm stumped at the moment. If I was playing alone, I'd make a lot of careful notes, doublechecking everything." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to wagon" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Wagon Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO WAGON Floyd | Floyd | Moving very carefully, you manage to put one step in front of the Floyd | other, above the deep, until you get to... Floyd | Floyd | One step at a time. Very, very carefully. Floyd | Floyd | You go north to the cave mouth, southeast to the hollow grounds, west Floyd | to the molten span, south to the rails' end, southwest to the last Floyd | steel overlook and west to the broken wagon. Floyd | Floyd | Broken Wagon Floyd | The crumpled floor rests inclined by forty degrees, making it very Floyd | hard to stay on foot. You hold on to a bench, its metal handles your Floyd | last resort against a fall. Light buzzes inside broken fluorescent Floyd | lamps and sparks ignite the emptiness with futile effort. You are Floyd | overwhelmed by... the gravity of the situation. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Could we have missed something here?" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x bench" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Wagon Floyd | > Floyd | > X BENCH Floyd | Floyd | Sparks crackle under the seat, in the safety of the alcove. Floyd | Floyd | The flames burst in a minor explosion, sending sparks all around the Floyd | place. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "not sure what" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bench" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Wagon Floyd | > Floyd | > X BENCH Floyd | Floyd | Sparks crackle under the seat, in the safety of the alcove. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under seat" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Wagon Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER SEAT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x alcove" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Wagon Floyd | > Floyd | > X ALCOVE Floyd | Floyd | Sparks crackle under the seat, in the safety of the alcove. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I dunno what's making those sparks." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Just wagon engine machinery?" | |||
| chaudmin says, "probably" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump" | |||
Floyd ] Broken Wagon Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP Floyd | Floyd | I'd be more polite with gravity, while balancing over a kilometer long Floyd | chasm. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Last Steel Overlook Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Last Steel Overlook Floyd | The chasm is under you. Its teeth close on the rails like the mouth of Floyd | an all-devouring creature. You balance above nothing, an acrobat Floyd | clinging to his own life, the only reasonable exit awaiting to the Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A broken wagon is dangling from the last of the rails, to the west. Floyd | Light buzzes inside. Floyd | Floyd | The flames burst in a minor explosion, sending sparks all around the Floyd | place. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under wagon" | |||
Floyd ] Last Steel Overlook Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER WAGON Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb wagon" | |||
Floyd ] Last Steel Overlook Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB WAGON Floyd | Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push wagon" | |||
Floyd ] Last Steel Overlook Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH WAGON Floyd | Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look down" | |||
Floyd ] Last Steel Overlook Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK DOWN Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | The flames burst in a minor explosion, sending sparks all around the Floyd | place. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x box" | |||
Floyd ] Last Steel Overlook Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOX Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the black box. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin shrugs. | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm getting tired too. I think I need a break." | |||
| DavidW asks, "Unless you can think of something?" | |||
| chaudmin says, "yeah, I'm gonna need to leave again soon" | |||
| chaudmin says, "might as well come back later" | |||
| DavidW says, "well, let's stop here. I'll try to make notes." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf4" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Last Steel Overlook Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin sets location to elsewhere. | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "save" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cfaafc" | |||
Floyd ] Last Steel Overlook
Floyd | > SAVEOk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > QUIT Floyd | Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit? | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | |||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?
Floyd | > YES
Floyd | cheapglulxe quit with exit status: 0
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| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | |||
| DavidW has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DavidW says, "(2nd session ended 6:39pm)" | ||
| Roger has disconnected. | |||
| Roger has connected. | |||
| Roger disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | chaudmin says, "so the only thing I've thought of is going to the room where we got the steel bar and seeing if the soap melts." | ||
| Firion arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | |||
| Firion has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | |||
| Doug arrives, full of fun and funk. | |||
| Doug has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | chaudmin says, "ok, I've been playing on my own and I've figured out how to open the glass case" | ||
| chaudmin says, "also found an info dump" | |||
| DavidW says, "I've been playing alone making notes but I haven't caught up to where we stopped." | |||
| DavidW says, "I did learn, though, that the switch in the warehouse turned off the power for the rails which lead to the broken wagon." | |||
| DavidW asks, "Should we go back to the toyshop?" | |||
| chaudmin says, "sure" | |||
| chaudmin arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | |||
| DavidW arrives, full of fun and funk. | DavidW says, "(it's 11:16pm, still Sunday)" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask andromawfc" | |||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Morning comes, in Monarch. An eerie light permeates the room. Floyd | Floyd | It's been a hard night... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | |||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | |||
Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd ] So watch the old world melt away Floyd | Floyd ] A loss regrets could never mend Floyd | Floyd ] You'll never miss it till it's gone Floyd | Floyd ] So say goodbye Floyd | Floyd ] Say goodbye to seasons end. Floyd | Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd ] --Seasons End, Marillion Floyd | Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | |||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | |||
Floyd ] Andy's Apartment Floyd | [First time players should type ABOUT or HELP for some important Floyd | stuff about Interactive Fiction and this game] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Andromeda Awakening - The Final Cut Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Marco Innocenti Floyd | Release 3 / Serial number 120121 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.32 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Andy's Apartment Floyd | A bed, a table, a bathroom. This is all that's left of your colleague, Floyd | Professor Re's. Some dust, an eerie atmosphere and just a memory. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf4" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: Floyd ] Last Steel Overlook Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Take it away." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "go to cells" | |||
Floyd ] Cells Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO CELLS Floyd | Floyd | You go into the gap. Floyd | Floyd | You walk past the vibertron door, which silently opens around you. Floyd | Floyd | You go northeast to the rails' end, north to the molten span, west to Floyd | the abandoned warehouse, north to the inside the hut, north again to Floyd | the featureless corridor, west to the featureless corridor, west again Floyd | to the blinking room, north to the cold pyramid, north again to the Floyd | quartz tunnel, northwest to Quarantine and north to the cells. Floyd | Floyd | Cells Floyd | The polished look of this area shouldn't betray its soul. A wing of Floyd | containment rooms, each used for a specific purpose, as stated by the Floyd | signs appended to each of the doors in the corridor. Many are Floyd | storerooms for quarantined specimens, chambers armored against Floyd | radiation, explosions and other unpredictable events. But the rest, Floyd | lined in rows of hundreds, are just detention cells for human Floyd | convicts. Among the many, two are open, west of here and further Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Inferno Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inferno Floyd | The walls of the tiny cell -- a mere two-by-two meters cubicle -- have Floyd | all been painted and writings cover most of the surface. Someone, the Floyd | inmate, has scratched every square centimeter of the concrete, leaving Floyd | parts of himself among the apocalyptic messages and drawings. Floyd | Floyd | A round hole marks the wall where the cylinder once stood trapped. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x wall" | |||
Floyd ] Inferno Floyd | > Floyd | > X WALL Floyd | Floyd | The writings have been scratched in blood. Nails and finger parts are Floyd | still clinging to the raped wall. Floyd | Floyd | This is the end this is the end Floyd | Lemme out Floyd | I found the way There is a way Floyd | Itch itch itch Floyd | Help me Floyd | Apocalypse comes from down under Floyd | They all speak in riddles They all speak to me I can hear Floyd | them Floyd | Floyd | Then, the single writing that catches your attention: Floyd | Floyd | The FIRST initiative. Their testament. I have seen it. This is all Floyd | going to end. Use the bounds use their number. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "scratch?" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "research bounds" | |||
Floyd ] Inferno Floyd | > Floyd | > RESEARCH BOUNDS Floyd | Floyd | The sum of the 237 rules by which the ASA Republican Worlds work. Floyd | They are divided into seven sections, each made up by at least 20 Floyd | so-called "initiatives". Only the first two Bounds contain just one Floyd | Initiative each. Those were written in the Ancient Days before the Floyd | reforming of the Republic. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "237. there was a terminal that needed a passcode" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Cells Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cells Floyd | The polished look of this area shouldn't betray its soul. A wing of Floyd | containment rooms, each used for a specific purpose, as stated by the Floyd | signs appended to each of the doors in the corridor. Many are Floyd | storerooms for quarantined specimens, chambers armored against Floyd | radiation, explosions and other unpredictable events. But the rest, Floyd | lined in rows of hundreds, are just detention cells for human Floyd | convicts. Among the many, two are open, west of here and further Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | The light from the ceiling vibrates randomly, then it calms down. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Control Room Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Control Room Floyd | A wall, covered in monitors. A table, unfurnished except for some Floyd | lined square buttons in the middle and a lonely terminal, sitting on a Floyd | corner. This is a sightseeing tour over the detention center. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh right, I forget where, though" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x terminal" | |||
Floyd ] Control Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X TERMINAL Floyd | Floyd | A tap display and a vibertron surface. It is on, maybe self-powered. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x display" | |||
Floyd ] Control Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X DISPLAY Floyd | Floyd | (the functioning terminal) Floyd | A tap display and a vibertron surface. It is on, maybe self-powered. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "so 237?" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "tap display" | |||
Floyd ] Control Room Floyd | > Floyd | > TAP DISPLAY Floyd | Floyd | (the functioning terminal) Floyd | There are three blank spaces and a virtual numeric keyboard on the Floyd | terminal. Maybe you have to enter a code on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "enter 237 on terminal" | |||
Floyd ] Control Room Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER 237 ON TERMINAL Floyd | Floyd | You type the number into terminal, and the screen wakes up. What Floyd | follows sends frigid whiplashes through your spine. Floyd | Floyd | Initiative One (or First initiative) Floyd | Floyd | All reunited, the Council of the Thirteen pledges eternal secrecy Floyd | upon this Initiative, which will not be traded, in any part, at any Floyd | cost. Floyd | Floyd | The icy mantle under Monarch (System KFS - Andromeda galaxy) has Floyd | been pierced. What the first human probes have found can only be Floyd | described as the remnants of a former civilization, the mortal spoils Floyd | of which can be trusted as ultimately lost. A series of globular Floyd | machines lays in a pattern (called the Hyeromatrix), hidden under the Floyd | very mantle of the earth. All forty-four of those machines (called the Floyd | Hyerotropes) are dormant but still present a form of "living" Floyd | electromagnetic and geo-gravitational power. Beyond this, an unknown Floyd | energy array seems to be pulsing inside them, out of the usual Floyd | spectrum. Whatever the structures are, there is indeed no way of Floyd | stating that they aren't alien in nature. Floyd | Floyd | Moreso, the radiance emitted by one of the bigger spheres is very Floyd | similar to the fast decaying fingerprints of the Event residue. This Floyd | MUST be noted as extremely important. Floyd | Floyd | As the coded memories recount, the Event Primeval was a Floyd | star-shattering event that devoured entirely our neighbor galaxy. An Floyd | energy pattern so similar could mean the Event can be replicated -- or Floyd | even controlled and slaved to one's benefit. Floyd | Floyd | The Andromeda colony came here from outer space many centuries Floyd | before the Event happened. We now have time to study and understand Floyd | how the Event started, to avoid this New Heaven being destroyed by Floyd | forces as of now uncontrollable. For this reason, a containment cage Floyd | will be closed around the forty-four Hyerotropes and investigative Floyd | labs will be built under the Monarch's crust. Floyd | Floyd | By order of the Council of the Thirteen, the cage will be named Floyd | "Construct" and the labs "the Settlements". For obvious secrecy Floyd | reasons, the real motives behind the two buildings will be concealed Floyd | from the population. Floyd | Monarch Bastion Satellite, 12/05/8199. Floyd | (signed by the thirteen members of the Council) Floyd | Floyd | You stand, shocked. Floyd | Floyd | So this is why they killed Andy. This is the secret they were Floyd | trying to keep. Floyd | This time, tears are held back by a forceful rage, contaminating you Floyd | like an alien virus. Floyd | Floyd | Then, something more sinister comes into stage. Floyd | Floyd | The Hyerotrope can replicate the Event. The whole of Andromeda Floyd | would be... Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "not really crucial, but a large textdump" | ||
| DavidW says, "hmmm" | |||
| chaudmin says, "and now for the case" | |||
| DavidW asks, "So it's possible we can blow up the galaxy?" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Cells Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cells Floyd | The polished look of this area shouldn't betray its soul. A wing of Floyd | containment rooms, each used for a specific purpose, as stated by the Floyd | signs appended to each of the doors in the corridor. Many are Floyd | storerooms for quarantined specimens, chambers armored against Floyd | radiation, explosions and other unpredictable events. But the rest, Floyd | lined in rows of hundreds, are just detention cells for human Floyd | convicts. Among the many, two are open, west of here and further Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | The light from the ceiling vibrates randomly, then it calms down. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Quarantine Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Quarantine Floyd | The dark interiors of this hall, washed in a pale greenish dye, remind Floyd | you of a hospital. A few corridors exit the chamber to the east, north Floyd | and south, all marked by a red sign respectively to "the Wastes", "the Floyd | Cells" and "the Pentagon". A tunnel exits to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Quartz Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Quartz Tunnel Floyd | Crystal walls surround you, in every direction. To the south, they Floyd | open to a more comfortable rock cave while, on the opposite direction, Floyd | they separate in two different paths, to the northwest and east Floyd | respectively. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Any sharp crystals here?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "plenty" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "throw case" | |||
Floyd ] Quartz Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > THROW CASE Floyd | Floyd | As the case hits the ground it shatters to pieces. The crystals made Floyd | their job. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "huh. yay" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all" | |||
Floyd ] Quartz Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | perfect machine: Taken. Floyd | Elektron: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Quartz Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You're carrying an Elektron, a perfect machine, a wax soap, a disc Floyd | labeled "Gamma", a black box, a steel bar, a new railway ticket, some Floyd | Report files and an E-Pad. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put gamma on cylinder" | |||
Floyd ] Quartz Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT GAMMA ON CYLINDER Floyd | Floyd | You try the disk "Gamma" on the perfect machine. It fits perfectly, Floyd | the lines protruding from it matching the cuts on the base. The four Floyd | dots blink twice, then start strobing and dancing to the rhythm of Floyd | some unheard music. The perfect machine flees from your hands and Floyd | start levitating in front of you. Then, shrieking like a wraith, it Floyd | flies away, jumping into the very ground and digging itself an escape. Floyd | A fierce quake shakes the room like a cocktail mixer. Something must Floyd | have occurred somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. ok. So that quake probably opened up something somewhere." | ||
| chaudmin says, "took me a bit to find it, but..." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "go to nail" | |||
Floyd ] Nail Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO NAIL Floyd | Floyd | You go into the gap. Floyd | Floyd | You go south to the cold pyramid, south again to the blinking room, Floyd | east to the featureless corridor, east again to the featureless Floyd | corridor, east again to the featureless corridor, north to the dark Floyd | recess, north again to the dark lab and west to the nail. Floyd | Floyd | Nail Floyd | Another lab, where light is just a thick, yellow smoke at nose-height. Floyd | All seems in place: the cabinets, the tables, the displays. Even a Floyd | terminal, which sits on the northeast corner of the room, seems real Floyd | enough to push the thought it could actually be functional. Floyd | Floyd | Where the enormous talon once stood, now is a black gap, opening on Floyd | the west wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. geez." | ||
| DavidW asks, "so west?" | |||
| chaudmin says, "yeah" | |||
| DavidW says, "go ahead" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Windowed Habitat Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You dare enter the black gap. Slowly proceeding, you find a way into Floyd | another section of the settlements. Floyd | Floyd | Windowed Habitat Floyd | You find yourself in an empty room, except for a large Floyd | parallelepipedon standing in its center. The walls are dusty and Floyd | black, the floor is mere concrete, coarse and unattended. A large Floyd | mirror dresses the west wall, almost completely. Its presence betrays Floyd | this room as an inspection laboratory, where dangerous things could be Floyd | tested in a relative safe place. The mirror is probably a one way Floyd | window for scientists to look through towards the outcome of their Floyd | effort. Floyd | Floyd | What is this, you mutter to yourself. What was examined Floyd | here? Floyd | Floyd | The Elektron beeps twice in your hands. Floyd | Floyd | The thing that you thought was an alien, enormous talon, now pops in Floyd | from the north wall, showing itself for what it is: a wheel. It was Floyd | part of a big machine, now it is torn in two and useless. Floyd | Floyd | Big idiot. Things are getting onto your nerves, isn't it? Floyd | Floyd | You breathe slowly and regain your calm after a few moments. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "oh. The other side of the window?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "yeah" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read elektron" | |||
Floyd ] Windowed Habitat Floyd | > Floyd | > READ ELEKTRON Floyd | Floyd | It reads: No source. Expected link missing. Check status and Floyd | connection. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "whoops, need to step away for a bit" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'll wait." | |||
| chaudmin says, "ok, back" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x parallelepiped" | |||
Floyd ] Windowed Habitat Floyd | > Floyd | > X PARALLELEPIPED Floyd | Floyd | It is simply a large piece of metal, closed onto something that Floyd | protrudes from its top. Maybe a detention machine for things to be Floyd | examined. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put elektron on parallelepiped" | |||
Floyd ] Windowed Habitat Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ELEKTRON ON PARALLELEPIPED Floyd | Floyd | You link the Elektron to the parallelepipedon. The display on the Floyd | device blinks twice: Some text appears on it. Floyd | Floyd | It reads: Alpha radiation discovered. Alert. Alpha radiation Floyd | discovered. Alert. Do not activate. Do not activate. Floyd | Floyd | Alpha radiation... we must be near the source. We must be near the Floyd | cave. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm wondering if the Elektron beeps when there's a new thing to put it on." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "tap display" | |||
Floyd ] Windowed Habitat Floyd | > Floyd | > TAP DISPLAY Floyd | Floyd | A shock rumbles through your arms, as you are crossed by a huge power Floyd | surge. You keep the balance by chance. Floyd | Floyd | The earth shakes a little, maybe adjusting itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x parallelepiped" | |||
Floyd ] Windowed Habitat Floyd | > Floyd | > X PARALLELEPIPED Floyd | Floyd | It is simply a large piece of metal, closed onto something that Floyd | protrudes from its top. Maybe a detention machine for things to be Floyd | examined. Floyd | Floyd | The Elektron is connected to the parallelepipedon. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Was it wise to turn on the parallelepiped?" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Windowed Habitat Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Windowed Habitat Floyd | You find yourself in an empty room, except for a large Floyd | parallelepipedon standing in its center. The walls are dusty and Floyd | black, the floor is mere concrete, coarse and unattended. A large Floyd | mirror dresses the west wall, almost completely. Floyd | Floyd | A round object protrudes from the parallelepipedon's top, a sort of Floyd | circular maze. It is the last part of something bigger, evidently Floyd | stuck inside the cage. Floyd | Floyd | The thing that you thought was an alien, enormous talon, now pops in Floyd | from the north wall, showing itself for what it is: a wheel. It was Floyd | part of a big machine, now it is torn in two and useless. Floyd | Floyd | The Elektron blinks faintly, connected to the parallelepipedon. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. Something was held by it." | ||
| chaudmin says, "maybe not, but it advanced the game" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x maze" | |||
Floyd ] Windowed Habitat Floyd | > Floyd | > X MAZE Floyd | Floyd | A sort of metal cylinder, half stuck in the caging parallelepipedon, Floyd | levigated beyond perfection by unknown forces. The exposed edge of the Floyd | circular object is a tangle of tiny cuts, each twisted into the other Floyd | in an unique pattern. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "and there's our last cylinder" | ||
| DavidW says, "So, I think my idea of creating the delta disc is correct." | |||
| chaudmin says, "yup" | |||
| DavidW asks, "oh, that's the cylinder, not the disc?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I spoke too soon." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wheel" | |||
Floyd ] Windowed Habitat Floyd | > Floyd | > X WHEEL Floyd | Floyd | It doesn't look like an alien talon anymore. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take cylinder" | |||
Floyd ] Windowed Habitat Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE CYLINDER Floyd | Floyd | It is stuck into the parallelepipedon. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm sure it'll unstick once we find a disc for it." | ||
| chaudmin says, "or make a disc" | |||
| chaudmin says, "put soap on cylinder" | |||
| DavidW says, "right." | |||
| DavidW says, "try." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put soap on cylinder" | |||
Floyd ] Windowed Habitat Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT SOAP ON CYLINDER Floyd | Floyd | You press the wax soap onto the circular maze. One of the sides is now Floyd | a perfect (reversed) replica of the circular maze itself. Floyd | Floyd | The light from the ceiling vibrates randomly, then it calms down. Floyd | Floyd | > | says, "(I meant to type that to floyd oops)" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take soap" | |||
Floyd ] Windowed Habitat Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SOAP Floyd | Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x soap" | |||
Floyd ] Windowed Habitat Floyd | > Floyd | > X SOAP Floyd | Floyd | A remarkably old wax soap, one of the kind momma used to wash clothes Floyd | when you were but a child. It now bears the impression of a circular Floyd | maze. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "so, what was the name of the room with the danger cube in it?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "ehh, I just remember the pentagon" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "go to pentagon" | |||
Floyd ] Pentagon Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO PENTAGON Floyd | Floyd | Before leaving, you remove the Elektron from the parallelepipedon. Floyd | Floyd | You go into the gap. Floyd | Floyd | You walk past the vibertron door, which silently opens around you. Floyd | Floyd | You go east to the nail, east again to the dark lab, south to the dark Floyd | recess, south again to the featureless corridor, west to the Floyd | featureless corridor, west again to the featureless corridor, west Floyd | again to the blinking room, north to the cold pyramid, north again to Floyd | the quartz tunnel, northwest to Quarantine and south to the pentagon. Floyd | Floyd | Pentagon Floyd | A five-sided room, which the earthquake has just barely scratched. Floyd | Five exits run from here, each marked with a letter, except for the Floyd | one which stands blank on the north wall. To the northeast, a capital Floyd | "A" hangs over a grate, which seems stuck to the walls, unopenable. Floyd | Southeast, "B" rests over what remains of a tunnel that has caved in, Floyd | some of the rocks fallen inside the room. Northwest and southwest, Floyd | respectively, "C" and "D" sign two metal doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Scanning Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Scanning Lab Floyd | This is yet another lab. The walls are made of the same old white Floyd | plastic as the rest of the corridors that crowd the place. As opposite Floyd | to the rest of the environment, this large room seems unscarred. The Floyd | yellow floor is dotted by tracks in black-striped adhesives, drawing Floyd | lines around the structure that rests in the center of the chamber. Floyd | There is not much by the way of furniture, except for a single, Floyd | foreign machine. Floyd | Floyd | A cube, three meters wide, sleeps in the very center of the room. A Floyd | strong, tight bundle of wires moves from its bottom towards the Floyd | eastern wall, where it disappears in a plug. Two bays are open on the Floyd | machine's top. Something that looks like a laser cannon points at the Floyd | right bay. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put soap in left bay" | |||
Floyd ] Scanning Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT SOAP IN LEFT BAY Floyd | Floyd | You put the wax soap (replicating a circular maze) into the left bay. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x right bay" | |||
Floyd ] Scanning Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > X RIGHT BAY Floyd | Floyd | In the right bay is a metal weight (cut to resemble a wax soap Floyd | (replicating a circular maze)). Floyd | Floyd | The light from the ceiling vibrates randomly, then it calms down. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "This should be fun." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push button" | |||
Floyd ] Scanning Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | The laser beam cuts the metal weight, replicating the soap's surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x weight" | |||
Floyd ] Scanning Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > X WEIGHT Floyd | Floyd | A kilogram. Almost perfect. A replica of the circular maze has been Floyd | laser-cut onto it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take it" | |||
Floyd ] Scanning Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE IT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "go to windowed habitat" | |||
Floyd ] Windowed Habitat Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO WINDOWED HABITAT Floyd | Floyd | You go into the gap. Floyd | Floyd | You find a way into another section of the settlements. Floyd | Floyd | You go northeast to the pentagon, north to Quarantine, southeast to Floyd | the quartz tunnel, south to the cold pyramid, south again to the Floyd | blinking room, east to the featureless corridor, east again to the Floyd | featureless corridor, east again to the featureless corridor, north to Floyd | the dark recess, north again to the dark lab, west to the nail and Floyd | west again to the windowed habitat. Floyd | Floyd | Windowed Habitat Floyd | You find yourself in an empty room, except for a large Floyd | parallelepipedon standing in its center. The walls are dusty and Floyd | black, the floor is mere concrete, coarse and unattended. A large Floyd | mirror dresses the west wall, almost completely. Floyd | Floyd | A round object protrudes from the parallelepipedon's top, a sort of Floyd | circular maze. It is the last part of something bigger, evidently Floyd | stuck inside the cage. Floyd | Floyd | The thing that you thought was an alien, enormous talon, now pops in Floyd | from the north wall, showing itself for what it is: a wheel. It was Floyd | part of a big machine, now it is torn in two and useless. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put weight on cylinder" | |||
Floyd ] Windowed Habitat Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT WEIGHT ON CYLINDER Floyd | Floyd | You try your mockup of an eventual disc on the circular maze. It fits Floyd | perfectly, the lines protruding from it matching the cuts on the base. Floyd | Lights from inside the parallelepipedon flash then start strobing and Floyd | dancing to the rhythm of some unheard music. Floyd | Floyd | All of a sudden, the very room starts trembling, as if another fierce Floyd | quake was shaking it around. The mirror vibrates but resists the Floyd | shock, while the parallelepipedon and the strange object trapped Floyd | inside it both sink in the ground, forever lost. The concrete shatters Floyd | and closes over the hole like a worm's mouth. Floyd | Floyd | The jolt sends you flying again. The walls begin crumbling down, in a Floyd | rehearsal of Doomsday. Something very big must have happened Floyd | somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "and now the hyerotrope should be open" | ||
| DavidW says, "I think so, yes." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "go to hyerotrope" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO HYEROTROPE Floyd | Floyd | You go east to the nail, east again to the dark lab, south to the dark Floyd | recess, south again to the featureless corridor, west to the Floyd | featureless corridor, south to the inside the hut, south again to the Floyd | abandoned warehouse, east to the molten span, east again to the hollow Floyd | grounds, northwest to the cave mouth and south to the hyerotrope. Floyd | Floyd | Hyerotrope Floyd | A dome of sorts has been carved in the earth, an inner sanctum of Floyd | inhumane proportions, spanning for hundreds of meters in all Floyd | directions. The wall's surface is smooth and shiny, cut into a dark Floyd | material that looks like obsidian. On the ground, a maze of carvings Floyd | draw perfect lines that intersect each other and run throughout the Floyd | floor; all are filled by an ethereal substance as thin as air that Floyd | glows in a faint blue. They seem to revolve around a single entity in Floyd | the center of the gargantuan structure, and sink under its base. Many Floyd | of these cuts then proceed over the structure, like an electric ivy Floyd | clinging to it. Light shimmers from nowhere in particular and from all Floyd | around at the same time, reverberating on the rock and on the steel Floyd | floor. A faint buzz is the only noise audible, the rest of the Floyd | universe swallowed in an uncomfortable, dark silence. Floyd | Floyd | The door in the Hyerotrope is now circled by an azure frame, as if Floyd | light is shining from inside it. Floyd | Floyd | The demi-spheric bunker, a perfect inside-out replica of the halls Floyd | around it, sits in the exact center of the room. It sinks into the Floyd | ground as if pushed into it by some great force, a gap a few Floyd | centimeters wide separating it from the floor. Its dark skin inflates Floyd | and exhales like an ancient heart. Floyd | Floyd | What looks like a door draws a perfect rectangle on this side of the Floyd | dome. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "azure flame" | ||
| chaudmin says, "and that's as far as I played" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x azure" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > X AZURE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We do love our blue colour words." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dots" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOTS Floyd | Floyd | The dots look like tiny holes in the center of the "door", one above Floyd | the other in a linear sequence. All the dots are currently off. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch door" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You push the frame. Now it vibrates with a greater charge. It trembles Floyd | a bit and then, smoothly and silently, slides and opens a real door on Floyd | the side of the dome. As you release your hands, it closes back with Floyd | no sound. You are confident it will let you in, now. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "enter" | |||
Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER Floyd | Floyd | You must supply a noun. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf5" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Hyerotrope Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "enter dome" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER DOME Floyd | Floyd | The door of the Hyerotrope opens and lets you in, finally. Floyd | Floyd | Upon entering, the Elektron bursts in flames, a power shock running Floyd | through it like a technological virus. You have to drop it and witness Floyd | how it is ultimately consumed. At the same time, the E-Pad in your Floyd | hand sends its final beep. Floyd | Floyd | Inside the Hyerotrope Floyd | A perfect sphere, cut in two by a substance that looks like glass and Floyd | stands as a floor for an eventual passenger: This is what the Floyd | Hyerotrope is. At the center of the stage, a cube rests like a sort of Floyd | solitary chair. There is no visible way out and, although you are Floyd | quite certain of where the door once was, it now has disappeared. Floyd | Floyd | The tides. They have come. Floyd | Floyd | You were not fast enough, and you realize it as splinters of the world Floyd | surrounding you start floating in the air and all of a sudden cracks Floyd | start opening everywhere. Without the Fatimah Initiative rolling, the Floyd | whole of Monarch will be flooded by the rising oceans. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "wow. We fried our electro-tools." | ||
| chaudmin says, "whoops" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x cube" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > X CUBE Floyd | Floyd | A faint light glows inside the cube. Something makes you believe it's Floyd | a sort of... uhm, pedestal. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I hope it doesn't matter; the tides are here." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Inside the Hyerotrope Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You're carrying a dead E-Pad, a black box, a steel bar, a new railway Floyd | ticket and some Report files. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "sit on cube" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SIT ON CUBE Floyd | Floyd | When the world around finally falls, you take your time just to climb Floyd | the glowing cube, and see what happens. Seconds later, the last fierce Floyd | earthquake devours the world in a single gulp. A light so dense it can Floyd | barely be endured fills the Hyerotrope and the dome starts breathing Floyd | as if it was alive. Floyd | Floyd | Then, you are caught by the sensation of being pulled downwards, like Floyd | a drunk man in an elevator... | DavidW says, "Enter the cube, I think." | ||
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | |||
Floyd ] Floyd | Report to the Council about the discoveries around the Alpha Floyd | Radiation Floyd | Floyd | by Ektor Mastiff & Andy Re's Floyd | Floyd | What we have here may be, thus far, the most important discovery Floyd | in human recent history, if not on a bigger scale. Upon scanning the Floyd | recently exposed areas underneath the University basement (after the Floyd | last minor quakes that interested the area) our team found a new kind Floyd | of radiation -- from now on called "Alpha Radiation" (AR) -- springing Floyd | from a single spot under the second and third layers of crust. That Floyd | means beyond the icy layer, too. Floyd | This radiation, the kind of which has never been measured before, Floyd | has been fast growing in the last few weeks, reaching a point where it Floyd | cannot be further ignored by the scientific committee. The latest of Floyd | our discoveries stated without any shadow of a doubt that something Floyd | enormous is at stake. Floyd | It was Dr. Re's that first linked the strange spectrum to the Floyd | residual fingerprint of the Event energy burst, that "background Floyd | noise" that still plagues the Andromeda dark matter gravitational Floyd | pull, with the one relative to the AR. As noted by the scientific Floyd | crew, the Event residue is what is forcing the galaxy to shrink, due Floyd | to its connection with potentials yet unknown which raise the mass of Floyd | the galaxy itself to the point where the universe's eternal expansion Floyd | is stopped and reversed. Now it looks like a similar energy is growing Floyd | under our city, less than three kilometers below the surface. Floyd | What we suggest is a deep scan -- and maybe a human driven probe Floyd | -- in the interested area in order to find out what's happening down Floyd | there. The volcanic crust separating what was once the glacial layer Floyd | from the lower halls cannot possibly be thick enough to hold those Floyd | energies at bay. Nor can it be trusted to keep a region larger than Floyd | one third of Monarch's surface hidden from whatever it is that rests Floyd | down there. In my humble opinion, the chances that former Floyd | colonizations could have gotten in there before the glacial age Floyd | (trapped? self-defending?) are quite high, especially now that we have Floyd | discovered the Alpha-radiation. Floyd | Floyd | In the end, we know nothing about Monarch before the first Floyd | settlements from the outer galaxies came into Andromeda more than one Floyd | thousand years ago. Technology back then was not sufficient to dig as Floyd | far as we have recently, and the glacial layer was only partially Floyd | melted and covered by the constructs. I suggest further investigation Floyd | before we start -- as we should -- to probe the source of the Floyd | radiation. The evidence of structures unknown to the humans is too Floyd | much to ignore. Floyd | An example could be the existence of the Hyerotropes. These were Floyd | more than once hinted at as some sort of alien machinery used for Floyd | unknown purposes. Floyd | A Hyerotrope -- or Gravitational Sphere -- is, indeed, an unknown Floyd | artifact. We can only suppose they landed on Monarch before the Floyd | glacial layer was made, as the seventeen specimens found all were Floyd | under the icy layer or half protruding from it. The magnetic spectrum Floyd | they emit is actually almost purely geo-gravitational, with small Floyd | sparks of radio waves, and this suggests they were a sort of "anchor" Floyd | for something bigger which needed to stop by the surface. Floyd | Ultimate considerations about the Hyerotropes cannot be made, as Floyd | no-one has yet succeeded in truly activating them. Whatever the power Floyd | source which keeps the Spheres "alive", it must still be there, and Floyd | this is confirmed by the scattered energy ghosts that flow around Floyd | their perfect structures. Floyd | Floyd | And then there is the Alpha Radiation. Floyd | Floyd | We cannot tell for sure if it started developing in the last Floyd | weeks. We can only suppose it was -NOT- there before Dr. Re's Floyd | and his scientific crew discovered it. And we can hope it is Floyd | nothing to worry about. Floyd | Still, hoping is not all we have to do. Floyd | Floyd | In the following chapters is a full report of how we came in Floyd | contact with the AR, what we think about its relation to the Floyd | Hyerotropes, and a full analysis of its spectrum and wavelength. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | -- The Monarch University Scientific Staff, Dr. Mastiff, Dr. Floyd | Re's | DavidW says, "we finally have a name: Dr. Ektor Mastiff." | ||
| DavidW says, "push enter when you're ready for the next textdump." | |||
| chaudmin presses the yellow enter button. | |||
Floyd ] Ravines Floyd | The Hyerotrope stops. A door opens and you get out, breathing hard. Floyd | Floyd | Ravines Floyd | The place is damp. You lift your eyes and what you see is -- again -- Floyd | breathtaking. Floyd | Floyd | You stand in the middle of a winding canyon, high several hundreds of Floyd | meters and long as much. Luminescent cracks open on the walls, Floyd | lighting up the place with a spectral voice. The ground seems to be Floyd | polished as if human-made. The ravine goes on forever to the south and Floyd | north of here. Floyd | Floyd | As you exit the Hyerotrope, the door closes behind you. Seconds later, Floyd | the sphere starts glowing and begins flying upwards, until it Floyd | disappears from where it came. Floyd | Floyd | You watch it speechlessly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf6" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Ravines Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "so it just drops us off in a ravine and leaves. rude." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x cracks" | |||
Floyd ] Ravines Floyd | > Floyd | > X CRACKS Floyd | Floyd | They are very similar to the thin cuts you saw crawling around the Floyd | Hyerotrope. This time, though, the seem more coincidental. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "And we didn't get to the mechanosatellites either." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] The Gate Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You travel the canyon for half an hour, until you come to... Floyd | Floyd | The Gate Floyd | The ravine ends here. A giant gate, bulky in its iron hinges, towers Floyd | in front of you. Cranks and gears seem to operate it, from above the Floyd | twelve meters tall columns at its sides. The canyon lurks away to the Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | A metal ladder on the left of the gate climbs towards a cabin clinging Floyd | steadily to the canyon's walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] The Gate Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You try and climb the ladder, not afraid of the missing rung. The Floyd | second and third creak sinisterly as you try and reach for them. You Floyd | need too much leverage to reach for the fourth peg. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x ladder" | |||
Floyd ] The Gate Floyd | > Floyd | > X LADDER Floyd | Floyd | Not the comfortable ladder you found in that waste basket. Here, rungs Floyd | are divided by a gap of fifty centimeters. The very first rung is Floyd | lost, a hole carving the left leg. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put bar in ladder" | |||
Floyd ] The Gate Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT BAR IN LADDER Floyd | Floyd | You try the bar, but it is too thick to fit. You need something Floyd | smaller but equally strong. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "nice thought." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Ravines Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ravines Floyd | You stand in the middle of a winding canyon, high several hundreds of Floyd | meters and long as much. Luminescent cracks open on the walls, Floyd | lighting up the place with a spectral voice. The ground seems to be Floyd | polished as if human-made. The ravine goes on forever to the south and Floyd | north of here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Dust to Dust Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dust to Dust Floyd | The canyon abruptly comes to an end. Although the unending ravine Floyd | crawls deeper to the south, something is blocking your steps. Floyd | Floyd | When you recognize it, you fall to your knees. Floyd | Floyd | The train on which you begun your journey is here, fallen like an evil Floyd | adumbration. Among it, several other wagons and a whole section of the Floyd | upper city. They must have traveled a long way: part of the disaster Floyd | is still clinging to the canyon's walls, ornaments of despair burning Floyd | in flames and fumes. Wreckages mix with concrete, concrete mixes with Floyd | the rests of the human race. Floyd | Floyd | A waterfall comes splashing down from a ledge a hundred meters above Floyd | you. It must be the first result of the tides devouring what's above. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh right, we went DOWN." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x train" | |||
Floyd ] Dust to Dust Floyd | > Floyd | > X TRAIN Floyd | Floyd | You are certain: This is the train you took in your futile trip to the Floyd | now sunk University Campus. The laths are so distorted it would look Floyd | like a crumpled ball of paper... if it was not for the black, charred Floyd | human parts littering its intestines. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "enter train" | |||
Floyd ] Dust to Dust Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER TRAIN Floyd | Floyd | That is no longer viable as a vehicle. It's just a mess of contorted Floyd | laminas. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "maybe we can find that guy we say 'it'll be okay' to." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "search train" | |||
Floyd ] Dust to Dust Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH TRAIN Floyd | Floyd | You know what you are looking for: something sturdy enough to sustain Floyd | your weight and thin enough to fit the hole in that ladder. Floyd | Floyd | You rummage through the debris and the human rests until you find what Floyd | you seek: a piece of a train's bench. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take bench" | |||
Floyd ] Dust to Dust Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BENCH Floyd | Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x bench" | |||
Floyd ] Dust to Dust Floyd | > Floyd | > X BENCH Floyd | Floyd | A sturdy, metallic pole, once part of a bench from the train. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x human parts" | |||
Floyd ] Dust to Dust Floyd | > Floyd | > X HUMAN PARTS Floyd | Floyd | You can't sustain the sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "head back to the ladder? Or is there more to find here?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "I'm thinking we have all we need" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x waterfall" | |||
Floyd ] Dust to Dust Floyd | > Floyd | > X WATERFALL Floyd | Floyd | The oceans are devouring Monarch. Soon, a lot of water will come down, Floyd | flooding this place. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "me too" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Ravines Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ravines Floyd | You stand in the middle of a winding canyon, high several hundreds of Floyd | meters and long as much. Luminescent cracks open on the walls, Floyd | lighting up the place with a spectral voice. The ground seems to be Floyd | polished as if human-made. The ravine goes on forever to the south and Floyd | north of here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] The Gate Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You travel the canyon for half an hour, until you come to... Floyd | Floyd | The Gate Floyd | The ravine ends here. A giant gate, bulky in its iron hinges, towers Floyd | in front of you. Cranks and gears operate it, from above the twelve Floyd | meters tall columns at its sides. The canyon lurks away to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A metal ladder on the left of the gate climbs towards a cabin clinging Floyd | steadily to the canyon's walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put bench in ladder" | |||
Floyd ] The Gate Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT BENCH IN LADDER Floyd | Floyd | The new 'rung' perfectly fits. You stick it in a side of the ladder Floyd | and force it into the other, and now it serves as a perfect anchorage. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Operator's Room Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | With the new rung in place, you find anchorage to climb inside the Floyd | cabin. Floyd | Floyd | Operator's Room Floyd | Dust is the main inhabitant, here, as one would have foreseen. It Floyd | covers the wooden desk and the big windows on the north wall, the Floyd | broken chair that now rests like a sleeping cat on the far corner of Floyd | the cabin, and the ancient computing devices dropped dead on the Floyd | table. Floyd | Floyd | The metal ladder descends to the south side of the gate. Floyd | Floyd | An old, battered diary rests on a corner of the wooden desk, its cover Floyd | bloated by time and water. It looks miraculously intact. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "wonder who put the gate and ladder here." | ||
| chaudmin asks, "ancient civilizations?" | |||
| DavidW says, "See if the diary is readable." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "read diary" | |||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > Third month, day eleven Floyd | Third month, day twenty-three Floyd | Third month, day twenty-four Floyd | Fifth month, day two Floyd | Fifth month, day seven Floyd | Sixth month, day eighteen | |||
| chaudmin presses the yellow enter button. | |||
Floyd ] Third month, day eleven Floyd | It is not the best job in the universe, but still... I have seen Floyd | worse. Marko has seen worse. They sent him to the digging facility. Floyd | You know what they say about those goddam machines. They Floyd | radiate. They give you the Big C. I know better than going Floyd | into there, that place. They call it the center of the earth. Floyd | No wonder it's the dampest place of all. Feels like sleepin in a Floyd | b***hole. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | chaudmin asks, "basshole?" | ||
| chaudmin pushes the green 'space' button. | |||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > Third month, day eleven Floyd | Third month, day twenty-three Floyd | Third month, day twenty-four Floyd | Fifth month, day two Floyd | Fifth month, day seven Floyd | Sixth month, day eighteen | DavidW says, "butthole" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Third month, day eleven Floyd | > Third month, day twenty-three Floyd | Third month, day twenty-four Floyd | Fifth month, day two Floyd | Fifth month, day seven Floyd | Sixth month, day eighteen | |||
| chaudmin presses the yellow enter button. | |||
Floyd ] Third month, day twenty-three Floyd | More of the military, today. I think I've opened the dam at least Floyd | seventy times. I've seen the tanks and the cannons they bring in Floyd | there. Can't tell for sure, but bet they are trying to open one of Floyd | those balls of metal. It's been a rumble all day. A bit tired. The Floyd | computers are off and I don't really like it here. It's getting boring Floyd | by the day. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | |||
| chaudmin pushes the green 'space' button. | |||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Third month, day eleven Floyd | > Third month, day twenty-three Floyd | Third month, day twenty-four Floyd | Fifth month, day two Floyd | Fifth month, day seven Floyd | Sixth month, day eighteen | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Third month, day eleven Floyd | Third month, day twenty-three Floyd | > Third month, day twenty-four Floyd | Fifth month, day two Floyd | Fifth month, day seven Floyd | Sixth month, day eighteen | |||
| chaudmin presses the yellow enter button. | |||
Floyd ] Third month, day twenty-four Floyd | Another day opening and closing and opening and closing. One of them Floyd | was the general. That Hickk'errs, guy. I've seen his eyes. Those are Floyd | blank eyes. He looks at you, but he's not really looking, you know? Floyd | It's like his mind is always somewhere else. I've heard them talk, Floyd | this morning. He and the professor. They said something about Floyd | the beacon. They knew I was listenin but didn't care. They Floyd | think I'm outta their league, that I dunno nothing. But I Floyd | know what they talkin about. The beacon is the thing that Floyd | drove us here, from our galaxy. We built it, sent it in space and Floyd | followed. I know what they talking about. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | |||
| chaudmin pushes the green 'space' button. | |||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Third month, day eleven Floyd | Third month, day twenty-three Floyd | > Third month, day twenty-four Floyd | Fifth month, day two Floyd | Fifth month, day seven Floyd | Sixth month, day eighteen | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Third month, day eleven Floyd | Third month, day twenty-three Floyd | Third month, day twenty-four Floyd | > Fifth month, day two Floyd | Fifth month, day seven Floyd | Sixth month, day eighteen | |||
| chaudmin presses the yellow enter button. | |||
Floyd ] Fifth month, day two Floyd | General said this morning a new set of experiments were going to be Floyd | launched. They said no civilians would stay here, no matter what. I'm Floyd | a civilian, too, in some way. I mean, I have the tags and all of that, Floyd | but I'm not in charge of the weapons. So they think about me as some Floyd | kind of white collar. They are going to do something dangerous down Floyd | there. In the b***hole. They are gonna fire things at the metal balls. Floyd | I'd like I was a civilian, for real. They are not lettin me go. They Floyd | want me here to operate the dam. In case something goes wrong. If Floyd | something goes wrong I wanna be in the other side of the universe, Floyd | that's for sure. Did I mention this is NOT the best job out there? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | |||
| chaudmin pushes the green 'space' button. | |||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Third month, day eleven Floyd | Third month, day twenty-three Floyd | Third month, day twenty-four Floyd | > Fifth month, day two Floyd | Fifth month, day seven Floyd | Sixth month, day eighteen | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Third month, day eleven Floyd | Third month, day twenty-three Floyd | Third month, day twenty-four Floyd | Fifth month, day two Floyd | > Fifth month, day seven Floyd | Sixth month, day eighteen | |||
| chaudmin presses the yellow enter button. | |||
Floyd ] Fifth month, day seven
Floyd | The world didn't end. I'm still here, opening and closing. Yesterday,
Floyd | tho, something occurred. There was a flash an then all the walls begun
Floyd | rumblin. It was not only the walls, but everything. The ceiling
Floyd | cracked and -- I swear -- a chunk of ice large like a tank
Floyd | came crushing down. It killed seven people. None I knew, fortunately.
Floyd | They were all so much in panic I thought the world was really gonna
Floyd | end. But then it all got normal and everything got back to quiet. No
Floyd | sign of the general, today. Guess he has to smell those things. He's
Floyd | never here when something occurs.
Floyd |
Floyd | I forgot to say something. During the tremors (it was not a quake,
Floyd | more of the ground adjusting, I've heard some say), something odd
Floyd | happened. The computers went suddenly on, just for ten seconds or so.
Floyd | The were all broken, you know. No signal for two months. But then they
Floyd | wake up and there's this white light. And all things begun moving
Floyd | towards that hole in the big chamber, the one just before the center
Floyd | of the earth. It looked like they were PULLED there by some sort of
Floyd | ghost.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| DavidW says, "I'm thinking the balls are like those eggs in the original Star Trek. Horta eggs." | ||
| chaudmin pushes the green 'space' button. | |||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Third month, day eleven Floyd | Third month, day twenty-three Floyd | Third month, day twenty-four Floyd | Fifth month, day two Floyd | > Fifth month, day seven Floyd | Sixth month, day eighteen | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Third month, day eleven Floyd | Third month, day twenty-three Floyd | Third month, day twenty-four Floyd | Fifth month, day two Floyd | Fifth month, day seven Floyd | > Sixth month, day eighteen | |||
| chaudmin presses the yellow enter button. | |||
Floyd ] Sixth month, day eighteen Floyd | It is over. I'm not sure I'm unhappy about it. They will send me back Floyd | to that satellite but, what the hell, better than here, even my Floyd | aunt's. The last days were horrible. More died on walls crumbling and Floyd | the earth cracked once, spilling lava and rocks everywhere. I heard Floyd | Marko is dead, too. They don't let anyone beyond the dam and I can't Floyd | tell for sure, but I heard some say he got devoured by one of those Floyd | spheres. "It has eaten him alive", they said. Poor Marko. I can't wait Floyd | for the gathering. I wanna go home. Even if it takes me another three Floyd | years like in the first trip. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | |||
| chaudmin pushes the green 'space' button. | |||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Third month, day eleven Floyd | Third month, day twenty-three Floyd | Third month, day twenty-four Floyd | Fifth month, day two Floyd | Fifth month, day seven Floyd | > Sixth month, day eighteen | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "q" | |||
Floyd ] Operator's Room Floyd | Operator's Room Floyd | Dust is the main inhabitant, here, as one would have foreseen. It Floyd | covers the wooden desk and the big windows on the north wall, the Floyd | broken chair that now rests like a sleeping cat on the far corner of Floyd | the cabin, and the ancient computing devices dropped dead on the Floyd | table. Floyd | Floyd | The metal ladder descends to the south side of the gate. Floyd | Floyd | An old, battered diary rests on a corner of the wooden desk, its cover Floyd | bloated by time and water. It looks miraculously intact. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x desk" | |||
Floyd ] Operator's Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | A slab of wood, fastened to the wall, with no legs. It is surmounted Floyd | by a console, rust biting at it with no pity. On the table are some Floyd | computers and several light bulbs, now broken and useless. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x chair" | |||
Floyd ] Operator's Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | It lays by your feet, a wasted amount of metal and a stiff cushion. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x computer" | |||
Floyd ] Operator's Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X COMPUTER Floyd | Floyd | Dust is more than a soft layer on these. It just has become Floyd | part of the old computers, like the shell for a nut. The Floyd | screens have been broken -- one from the inside, the other punched in Floyd | -- and there is no sign of a keyboard or a touch screen. The wires Floyd | have been removed by force, and now just a knotted bunch of cords Floyd | hangs loose and useless. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cushion" | |||
Floyd ] Operator's Room Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE CUSHION Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x cords" | |||
Floyd ] Operator's Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X CORDS Floyd | Floyd | Dust is more than a soft layer on these. It just has become Floyd | part of the old computers, like the shell for a nut. The Floyd | screens have been broken -- one from the inside, the other punched in Floyd | -- and there is no sign of a keyboard or a touch screen. The wires Floyd | have been removed by force, and now just a knotted bunch of cords Floyd | hangs loose and useless. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x console" | |||
Floyd ] Operator's Room Floyd | > Floyd | > X CONSOLE Floyd | Floyd | A set of rusted buttons and some light bulbs, blown or fused. The main Floyd | object on the console is a plastic lever. You can only suppose it was Floyd | used to open the big gate, downstairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | |||
Floyd ] Operator's Room Floyd | > Floyd | > PULL LEVER Floyd | Floyd | You maneuver the lever, but it doesn't budge. So, you decide to try Floyd | harder. As a result, the lever breaks and the longer part ends in your Floyd | hand, now useless. Floyd | Floyd | Won by discouragement, you yell a heartily yaaugh! and throw Floyd | the lever at the windows in front of you. The windows themselves, Floyd | battered by the cold winds of time, give with less effort and crash, Floyd | opening a new outlet on the north side of the cabin. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "wow" | ||
| DavidW says, "ha ha ha" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Mall Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You pass through the newly opened window, careful not to cut your Floyd | hands with the smashed glass, then descend to the floor with a leap. Floyd | Floyd | Mall Floyd | A river cuts this massive chamber in two. On the other side, its Floyd | filled with stocks of any kind and size. On this one, it looks like a Floyd | showcase of ancient war machinery, all lined up and packed for the Floyd | show. A human-sized cave mouth exits to the north. Around it, all Floyd | sorts of maze-like channels cut the earth and dive deep into the soil Floyd | and walls. Floyd | Floyd | The broken lever you threw at the window is here, on the ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We don' need no stinkin' gate. We got a window!" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take lever" | |||
Floyd ] Mall Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE LEVER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "There might be more things to hit." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x river" | |||
Floyd ] Mall Floyd | > Floyd | > X RIVER Floyd | Floyd | It is a bubbling river. It comes from a crack in the north Floyd | wall and dives into the earth a few meters below the gate walls. The Floyd | bed must fish deep enough to be scalded by the molten layer. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x machinery" | |||
Floyd ] Mall Floyd | > Floyd | > X MACHINERY Floyd | Floyd | This is military equipment. Tanks, cannons and so forth, all packed up Floyd | and lined like a showcase in a very odd underground mall. Floyd | Floyd | On one of the packings you notice a resume of sorts. A single typed Floyd | page, torn on one side, which title reads: "Essay on the Beacon, Floyd | closing notes". You pick it up. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "oh, and here's the 'stocks on the other side of the river', remember the weird warehouse message?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "that would be weird if we ended up in the same place" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "read resume" | |||
Floyd ] Mall Floyd | > Floyd | > READ RESUME Floyd | Floyd | The results of the tests on the Hyerotropes are still fuzzy. Floyd | Floyd | In the end, at least, we understood how could our 'beacon' reach Floyd | so far in such a relatively short time. Almost two millions parsecs in Floyd | less than 400 years. That would mean traveling at least 6,250 times Floyd | faster than light and, although certain velocities have been Floyd | hypothesized, nothing we ever witnessed reached them. Floyd | Floyd | The Hyeromatrix works as an attractor. The energy spectrum of the Floyd | whole matrix (as opposite to the single sphere's) is capable of Floyd | bending the structure of the Higgs Bosom's pattern, articulating a Floyd | fierce vacuum-like tunnel which can pull, evidently, from a very long Floyd | distance. The Hyeromatrix must have sensed the 'beacon' and decided to Floyd | make it its own. Floyd | Floyd | The single Hyerotropes have proven themselves 'thinking machines', Floyd | if that is what we want to call them, or even living beings. Floyd | Their scattered pattern in the underground of this cold planet is not Floyd | coincidental and, contrarily, the matrix has the purpose to actually Floyd | enhance the spheres' abilities and reach. They breathe, as a living Floyd | being, and as a living being the pollute the atmosphere when doing so: Floyd | The ethereal substance they grow is toxic to the surroundings as noted Floyd | by research Omega-33. Floyd | Ultimately, their presence indicates a superior meaning to the Floyd | whole universe, one which we never thought of -- at least Floyd | scientifically -- up to now. We can suppose the Hyerotropes being a Floyd | species on their own, breaking the walls of human research on the Floyd | matter quite abruptly. Or we can hypothesize an even more powerful Floyd | entity at work, somewhere, to operate those things. In both cases, Floyd | there is much about the evolution of the stars we can gather from the Floyd | discovery. Floyd | Floyd | --Prof. G.D., Monarch Research Facility. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Addendum// The Hyerotropes emit a very subtle but very strong Floyd | energy. It is something we almost overlooked, as it is so far out of Floyd | the usual spectrum that it is invisible if not searched for Floyd | purposefully. The energy has become radiating with more intensity in Floyd | the last few days. It seems a single beam has been directed towards Floyd | the very center of our galaxy. We decided to keep studying the Floyd | Hyerotropes, in the hope of finding answers about the recent Multiple Floyd | Supernovae Effect registered in [...] --- the page is torn here, Floyd | the rest of the text missing. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "Higgs Bosom" | ||
| DavidW says, "It's a very nice-ah bosom." | |||
| DavidW says, "The author's first language isn't English." | |||
| chaudmin says, "ah. I just thought it was a typo" | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x stocks" | |||
Floyd ] Mall Floyd | > Floyd | > X STOCKS Floyd | Floyd | Too far to distinguish. They look like scientific machines. No more to Floyd | be known. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "it is a typo" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm sure he meant boson." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "cross river" | |||
Floyd ] Mall Floyd | > Floyd | > CROSS RIVER Floyd | Floyd | There must be a better way to die, right? One less painful. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | |||
Floyd ] Mall Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | [From here you can go north]. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "swim" | |||
Floyd ] Mall Floyd | > Floyd | > SWIM Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Center of the earth Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Center of the earth Floyd | You are in the cave. This is the ancient alcove and you are the first Floyd | one to enter its vaults in a millennia. The cave opens in every Floyd | direction. To the north, a higher ceiling welcomes two apparently Floyd | abandoned objects. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "exits" | |||
Floyd ] Center of the earth Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | [From here you can go north and south]. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x objects" | |||
Floyd ] Center of the earth Floyd | > Floyd | > X OBJECTS Floyd | Floyd | A metallic form, barely discernible from this distance, and another Floyd | Hyerotrope. Although you are quite far, you judge it to be at least Floyd | two times bigger than the one you traveled into. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Memento Mori Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Memento Mori Floyd | The Hyerotrope is giving off light, a dense orange glow, and -- yes-- Floyd | it is bigger than the one you used as an elevator. At least five times Floyd | bigger. Four big dots flare on it, all lined together like soldiers in Floyd | formation. The whole cave, although gigantic, is lit by its energy. Floyd | Floyd | A strange object sits alongside the Hyerotrope, its rusty casing Floyd | decaying and rotten. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x object" | |||
Floyd ] Memento Mori Floyd | > Floyd | > X OBJECT Floyd | Floyd | Whatever it is, it must be alien in nature. You can't understand its Floyd | form -- an octagonal prism surmounted by broken steel poles -- but Floyd | surely recognize the solar panels that once must have powered it. A Floyd | set of metallic legs holds it standing. Floyd | Floyd | A metal sign was planted by someone near its base. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Hope we don't need the soap. It's still upstairs." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "read sign" | |||
Floyd ] It's full of Stars Floyd | > Floyd | > READ SIGN Floyd | Floyd | The last of the Ancestors. Floyd | Our beacon in this new world. Floyd | Floyd | - the First Colony. Floyd | Floyd | You read the plaque in loud voice. After you've pronounced the last Floyd | word, a flash of light cuts your sight. Floyd | Floyd | As you regain you senses, you notice a door which has opened on the Floyd | side of the gargantuan Hyerotrope. Before you can do anything, a Floyd | strong, invisible force pulls you into the sphere, dragging stones, Floyd | rock, fungi and the alien artifact along with you. Floyd | Floyd | Once inside, you lift your eyes to the ceiling, expecting the same Floyd | furniture as in your former experience. Floyd | Floyd | What you see, instead, is... Floyd | Floyd | It's full of Stars Floyd | You are nowhere and everywhere at the same time. Floyd | Floyd | Distances in here seem unbridgeable. Above, below, left, right, Floyd | everywhere is just the brilliant, shiny emptiness of the Universe. You Floyd | seem to float on the vacuum of space, only that you can breathe and Floyd | live -- and this not unimportant. Floyd | Floyd | Near you, the metallic form has been torn in two by the rapture, and Floyd | now rests on a side, open. A set of things bleeds from its interior. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x things" | |||
Floyd ] It's full of Stars Floyd | > Floyd | > X THINGS Floyd | Floyd | The belly of the beast is open. A rectangular thing, the likes of Floyd | which you are very familiar with, sits almost unscarred by the Floyd | remnants of a tight bird's nest of wires and circuitry. A golden Floyd | plate, inscribed with drawings that finally have a meaning, marks Floyd | another metallic slab. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Hyerotrope starts moving. Floyd | Floyd | You are flooded again by the sensation of being pushed around, this Floyd | time upwards. As you levitate, the surrounding stars slowly fade, Floyd | until they are substituted by the reality of it all. Floyd | Floyd | And you see the end of History for what it is. The lands devoured by Floyd | the quakes and the tides. Whole cities swallowed by the fierce Floyd | strength of Fatimah's gravitational pull. The rest of the human race Floyd | devoured. All while you are suspended mid air above the mayhem in the Floyd | Hyerotrope's womb. Floyd | After a while, another, smaller sphere starts climbing the sky, Floyd | stopping at your height. And then a second, and a third. And in Floyd | minutes they are dozens, levitating and rotating around the biggest Floyd | one, which you inhabit. Floyd | They begin wandering the cosmos, and your sphere does the same, slowly Floyd | but relentlessly. As you leave the planet, a strong, white light Floyd | begins pouring from the Hyerotropes and, finally, you understand. Floyd | Floyd | That's it, you mourn. History repeats herself. Floyd | Floyd | We came from another galaxy, this you know. We came here a millennia Floyd | ago following one of our probes, looking for what the ASA First Floyd | Council called "a New Heaven". We came here and barely survived a Floyd | cosmic event that annihilated an entire galaxy and decimated life in Floyd | those neighboring it. Floyd | Floyd | What was that Event and why did it occur no one will ever know. No one Floyd | but you. You still lack the motivation but indeed have found out what Floyd | it's like to be at the cyclone's eye. What can clear a galaxy off the Floyd | screen. Floyd | Floyd | The Hyerotropes. The plagues God sent upon the sinful mortals to Floyd | begin the end. And we thought we could be able to control them. Floyd | Floyd | As if one could control the Apocalypse. Floyd | Floyd | You get close to the rectangular player which fell off the ancient Floyd | stellar beacon that now rests below you and straighten it, finding a Floyd | perfect balance in the imploding universe. While everything that is is Floyd | swallowed by the final, white fire, you admire that drawing -- a man Floyd | and a woman, one alongside the other like twins in a child's sketch -- Floyd | and the hope it was infused with. Floyd | Then, you activate the recording. Floyd | Floyd | Andromeda finally awakens, in its swan-song, while the first notes Floyd | from the Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major start playing Floyd | for the last time. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You are among the stars *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command, know about the true nature of the BEACON, find what's WRONG Floyd | with the technical stuff or read some AFTERWORDS from the author? Floyd | > | chaudmin exclaims, "well then!" | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah" | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm now assuming the other games in this series must be prequels." | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "beacon" | |||
Floyd ] It's full of Stars Floyd | > Floyd | > BEACON Floyd | Floyd | The 'beacon' is a probe an old race sent into the void to gather Floyd | information about the universe. This is the only part in the game Floyd | which is not fictional. If you are comfortable with space-related Floyd | trivia, you may have recognized it: The golden laser disc, the male Floyd | and female sketched drawings, the mathematically-perfect song from Floyd | Bach. It is Voyager II. Our beacon in the sky. Floyd | Floyd | Yes, if you didn't get it, that's the sordid truth: Humanity in Floyd | Andromeda came from our galaxy. It was our beloved Milky Way which was Floyd | wiped off the radar by the Event. We are the Ancestors. Or, well... we Floyd | WERE. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command, know about the true nature of the BEACON, find what's WRONG Floyd | with the technical stuff or read some AFTERWORDS from the author? Floyd | > | |||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "wrong" | |||
Floyd ] It's full of Stars Floyd | > Floyd | > WRONG Floyd | Floyd | This game was not intended as a maniacally perfect scientific resource Floyd | for space travel. That said, the author put so much effort in trying Floyd | to make everything realistic. Apart from the obvious things that Floyd | couldn't be (i.e. a train falling for a kilometer doesn't only Floyd | crumple: it disintegrates) there is one which stood hidden until much Floyd | too late. Floyd | Floyd | The 'beacon' has been pulled through space by the Hyerotropes. They Floyd | made it fly at 6k times light-speed. If that's so... what about the Floyd | humans? How could the First Colonists reach Andromeda WITHOUT such Floyd | power and knowledge? Floyd | Floyd | Well, they couldn't. Floyd | Floyd | Given there is no Earth date in the game, one could argue that the Floyd | voyage took a really huge amount of time and that the Colony indeed Floyd | reached through space around -- what do you think? 10.000 a.D.? Floyd | 100.000? Well, nope: Andromeda is 2.5 MILLIONS lightyears from Earth. Floyd | At the speeds we can reach nowadays, the trip would have lasted around Floyd | 90 BILLIONS years. Floyd | Floyd | The one solution can be the use of a wormhole, a rip in the fabrics of Floyd | reality that creates a passage to distant places... but we all know Floyd | that would have been a deus ex machina. That's why it is not mentioned Floyd | ingame. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command, know about the true nature of the BEACON, find what's WRONG Floyd | with the technical stuff or read some AFTERWORDS from the author? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, I figured the Milky Way was destroyed by the Event. Even though that should've been known to the PC." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "afterwords" | |||
Floyd ] It's full of Stars Floyd | > Floyd | > AFTERWORDS Floyd | Floyd | I was in my car, early summer of 2011, driving my wife to our mountain Floyd | resort, when I started teasing her with some scientific trivia about Floyd | the galaxy of Andromeda. Kid was in the backseat, already dozed off, Floyd | the sun did shine and the birds were singing. I begun flapping my Floyd | never-stopping mouth about distances, dimensions, the sheer number of Floyd | stars involved, when she begun yawning. I got the message and shut up. Floyd | Floyd | But didn't shut up on the inside. Floyd | Floyd | That is how my first IF story had birth. I run to the house, turned on Floyd | my Macbook Air (freshly acquired, and just a week before the release Floyd | of the new one, ouch) and begun coding again, never fully realizing I Floyd | was going to complete the task, for the first time ever. Floyd | Floyd | I've first played and then tried to write IF in the mid-Eighties. I Floyd | was nearly a teen, the world was splendid and everything quite worked Floyd | for the best. The amount of time I could devote to my hobbies was Floyd | impressive. The Hobbit was always running and I was Floyd | struggling a lot trying to understand english and what to do with that Floyd | singing bastard Thorin the dwarf. More that a quarter of century has Floyd | passed, and I'm still here, messing with trolls and an english parser. Floyd | Meanwhile, almost ten -- or twenty, who can tell? -- adventure games Floyd | have danced on my screen waiting to be designed and coded. I never got Floyd | much beyond the few introductory rooms. Floyd | The occasion came when I stumbled upon the IFComp. Edition Floyd | 2011 was about to open and I had a game halfway to being finished that Floyd | could maybe, and just maybe, fit in. All I had to do was deciding how Floyd | the world of Monarch was going to be saved and how I could code that Floyd | damn soap-over-metal puzzle. Floyd | Floyd | Summer passed by in a whoosh, and by the end of September the game was Floyd | ready. Floyd | Floyd | Or so I thought. Floyd | Floyd | --- Floyd | Floyd | Coding a kind of game which is by far the most similar thing to a Floyd | novel that could exist in a language that is not one's own is a rather Floyd | terrific experience. Although I'm quite fluent in English and have Floyd | classes listening to me from all around the globe -- I'm a graphic Floyd | designer and expert on editorial design, which I teach in what you'd Floyd | call a Master School for Gifted Youngsters -- I soon discovered that Floyd | the river which spans between the speech and the writing is a very Floyd | wide and turbulent one. Fortunately, my first proofreaders did an Floyd | awesome job in putting straight my bulky texts (yeah: if you'd seen Floyd | Andromeda before their intervention, you'd think this one Floyd | was, like, Hemingway). Floyd | So, I entered the Comp. For one and a half months, I've been in awe. I Floyd | don't think I was exactly aware of what I've stepped into. Floyd | I'm willing to believe that, if I'd known, I'd rather go around naked Floyd | downtown than publish a game in so a renowned competition. Floyd | Floyd | And that was nice, 'cause I had the opportunity, otherwise precluded, Floyd | to step into a new, fascinating world. I had an audience. I had Floyd | critics. I had a chance. Floyd | Floyd | I wanted to be a writer all my life. Since when ten years old, I Floyd | filled notebooks with short tales and novels-wannabe. I actually did Floyd | write a novel, one that is trying to find a place in the horrible Floyd | italian fiction maelstrom, but I never had someone other than my wife Floyd | or friends read anything that's mine. Now it seems, looking at the Floyd | number in the online transcript of the first release of this game, Floyd | more than 600 people have tried my game. On IFDB (at the time this is Floyd | being written), Andromeda averages on 3 stars, with the Floyd | German scene gifting me with 4. Floyd | I don't really know how this second release will fare, out there. What Floyd | I know is that one of my strongest desires, the one I keep asking the Floyd | sky to make real whenever I see a falling star, has become solid Floyd | truth. And that's more than what one would sell his soul to hell for, Floyd | believe me. Floyd | Floyd | Now, only time will tell if I can be a writer or have to stick with Floyd | graphics. But if I die tomorrow, at least I won't go away saying Floyd | "nobody has ever read my work". Thank you all who participated. This Floyd | was a blast. Floyd | Floyd | --Marco Innocenti, Firenze (Italy), January 8, 2012. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command, know about the true nature of the BEACON, find what's WRONG Floyd | with the technical stuff or read some AFTERWORDS from the author? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I liked that game. Even though I was hoping for more salvation than destruction." | ||
| chaudmin says, "I liked it too" | |||
| chaudmin says, "even though it took a long time to play, haha" | |||
| DavidW says, "yes, it's now 12:24am here, very very early Monday." | |||
| chaudmin says, "same" | |||
| chaudmin says, "time for bed" | |||
| DavidW says, "Thanks so much for being here, several times." | |||
| DavidW says, "Have a good night." | |||
| chaudmin says, "no problem, only sorry I had to leave at all" | |||
| chaudmin says, "good night" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > QUIT Floyd | cheapglulxe quit with exit status: 0 | |||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | |||
| chaudmin sets location to elsewhere. | |||
| DavidW has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | |||
