  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask slouching" | ||
Floyd | Office Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *clunk* Floyd | Floyd | The rotating tin cylinder within the phonograph vibrates slightly as a Floyd | brass needle scrapes against it. The sound of a throat being cleared Floyd | emerges from the machine's hornshell speaker, followed by a thin, Floyd | haunting voice. Floyd | Floyd | "March the 16th." Floyd | Floyd | A deep, shaky breath. Floyd | Floyd | "I dread to say it, but I believe I am going mad. The -- *moments* -- Floyd | come more frequently now. I fear that I have found what I have sought, Floyd | and I shall now pay the price for it." Floyd | Floyd | The scrape of a chair across flagstone. A sigh. Floyd | Floyd | "Chaos treads the halls of Bedlam; her work is evident everywhere..." Floyd | Floyd | Slouching Towards Bedlam Floyd | An entry in the 9th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (10th Floyd | Anniversary Edition) by Star C. Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 140613 / Inform 7 build 6L02 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | [First time players should type 'about'. Credits are available via Floyd | 'credits'.] Floyd | Floyd | Office Floyd | A massive cedar desk, well-polished and worn, looks elegantly Floyd | out-of-place among the chaos. Papers, files, and books cover nearly Floyd | every flat surface in the room. Floyd | Floyd | There is a phonograph on the table near the window. Floyd | Floyd | A black cube on wheels sits near the door to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | A few, brief notes: Floyd | Floyd | - Regardless of how the game responds to them, all meta-commands Floyd | (SAVE, RESTORE, RESTART, UNDO, QUIT) work as you would expect them to. Floyd | Floyd | - Conversation is best handled by the following syntax: Floyd | Floyd | ASK <PERSON> ABOUT <TOPIC>. Floyd | TELL <PERSON> ABOUT <TOPIC>. Floyd | <PERSON>, <ORDER>. Floyd | Floyd | Note that it is advantageous to ask about the same topic multiple Floyd | times. Floyd | Floyd | - Hints and spoilers are available via the "hint" command. Floyd | Floyd | - Slouching Towards Bedlam contains multiple endings - you may wish to Floyd | go back and try different actions or attempting to reach different Floyd | goals to see how your actions affect the story. Floyd | Floyd | - Daniel Ravipinto can be contacted at peccable@peccable.com. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x phonograph" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > X PHONOGRAPH Floyd | Floyd | A delicate device, its base is carved from oaken heartwood, bearing a Floyd | small black plaque which reads "Columbia Phonograph Co., Ltd. of Floyd | London". Floyd | Floyd | Two ivory arms emerging from the base lean inward, firmly grasping a Floyd | rotating tin cylinder labeled March sixteenth. A brass needle scrapes Floyd | against the cylinder's surface. Floyd | Floyd | From the base's back emerges a small, black hornshell speaker, its Floyd | surface delicately curved. The phonograph is currently switched on. Floyd | Floyd | The phonograph continues to play. Floyd | Floyd | "I discredit my profession; examining madness as if the world were a Floyd | fluent thing and sanity as malleable as the warm wax of a candle." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I seem to remember that there are five different endings to this game." | |
| chaudmin says, "I can think of at least four" | ||
| DavidW says, "I only found one." | ||
| chaudmin says, "(I had to use a walkthrough, but still)" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x cube" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > X CUBE Floyd | Floyd | Not a box but a cube; there is no hinge. A fine grid is engraved on Floyd | its top, dividing it into a myriad of tiny squares. The cube sits on Floyd | four black rubber wheels, attached by a set of brass leggings that Floyd | seem capable of telescoping downward. Floyd | Floyd | The only other feature of note is a small emerald, set in its side, Floyd | beneath which is a plaque with the inscription "TRIAGE MK. III". Floyd | Floyd | "The secret lays heavily on both my mind and heart. I have told no Floyd | one; I despair a second opinion would confirm my worst suspicions. I Floyd | have secured all my knowledge of these events within the mechanical Floyd | assistant left by my predecessor. It was my hope that it would allow Floyd | me to see the situation from a new perspective, and help me discover Floyd | the key to my salvation." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, right. Triage." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x emerald" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > X EMERALD Floyd | Floyd | Dark green to the point of blackness, it is the size and shape of an Floyd | eye. Floyd | Floyd | The emerald is currently switched off. Floyd | Floyd | "Alas, it has been to no avail. While I found the entry mode easy Floyd | enough, and the thing seems filled with information regarding the Floyd | hospital down to the point of minutiae, it seems helpless in the face Floyd | of analyzing my current situation." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "turn on emerald" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN ON EMERALD Floyd | Floyd | From within the device comes a sharp clunk, followed by a gentle Floyd | humming. The emerald blinks slowly -- once, twice -- then glows Floyd | steadily. The grid of squares which makes up the thing's screen pivot Floyd | back and forth, seemingly at random, causing ripples of motion across Floyd | its surface. Floyd | Floyd | With a sudden purpose, they begin to flip, revealing hundreds of tiny Floyd | symbols engraved on their surfaces. The squares continue for a moment, Floyd | then begin to settle line by line like a fall of rain into a Floyd | pattern... Floyd | Floyd | INIT.CYCLE.COMP. Floyd | MILL.UNIT.ONLINE Floyd | STORE.DECRYPT/CO Floyd | MPRESS.BOOT.STAC Floyd | K.COMP.OP.SYSTEM Floyd | UNIT.VER.3.REG:. Floyd | DR..SIMON..BRAND Floyd | SET MODE:ANALYZE Floyd | Floyd | "It may be that I have simply not found that by which this growing Floyd | mystery may be unlocked. Perhaps by subjecting the Triage to further Floyd | experiential data, it may find something that I have missed. But I Floyd | have little faith left at this point." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| kpaquette says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | That was a rhetorical question. Floyd | Floyd | The sound of a chair creaking. Floyd | Floyd | "I have found a blessing in James. He has been nothing but kind and Floyd | helpful in my short time here. I find myself wondering if, perhaps, he Floyd | can be trusted enough to... but how can I punish him with this Floyd | knowledge?" Floyd | Floyd | A sigh. Floyd | Floyd | "But how can I bear it alone?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > X WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | The open window looks down upon the courtyard and adjoining buildings Floyd | far below. Floyd | Floyd | A sudden noise, as of something wooden being struck, comes through the Floyd | phonograph. Floyd | Floyd | "No. I can trust no one, in the end. Not even James. Perhaps Floyd | soon...not even myself." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | A deep green blotter, dotted with black ink stains, sits in the center Floyd | of the desk, mostly covered by files and papers. One side of the Floyd | blotter seems slightly higher than the other. Floyd | Floyd | The corner of a sandalwood box is visible beneath a stack of thick Floyd | folders. Floyd | Floyd | The desk contains a large central drawer, which is currently closed. Floyd | Floyd | "I must stop here, I feel the faintness coming once again." Floyd | Floyd | A scraping noise, a click. Floyd | Floyd | "May God have mercy 'pon my soul." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I don't know what the phonograph is talking about. What knowledge does it have that must not be shared?" | |
| DavidW says, "Probably something under the blotter." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x blotter" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > X BLOTTER Floyd | Floyd | A standard office blotter, its surface well used and covered with Floyd | stains. One side of the blotter seems slightly higher than the other. Floyd | Floyd | Having reached the end of the cylinder, the phonograph shuts itself Floyd | off with a tiny "click". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take blotter" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BLOTTER Floyd | Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under blotter" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BLOTTER Floyd | Floyd | Beneath the blotter is a small key, easily taken. It carries a small Floyd | tag labeled "2D". Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "I clearly don't know what a blotter even is" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take key" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE KEY Floyd | Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It's a rectangular pad on the desk. You put paper on it when writing." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Carried: Floyd | a small key labled 2D Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x sandalwood" | ||
Floyd ] Office | DavidW says, "People used to blot their pens on it, back when pens used inkwells." | |
Floyd | > Floyd | > X SANDALWOOD Floyd | Floyd | It is unexceptional, perhaps one handbreadth wide by three long. On Floyd | its lid is a white paper label. Written upon it in a fine copperplate Floyd | are the words "JOURNAL V. 4 - JANUARY THROUGH APRIL 1855." Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "I see" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "open box" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN BOX Floyd | Floyd | The sandalwood box opens, revealing a tin cylinder labeled January Floyd | eighth, a tin cylinder labeled January twenty-second and a tin Floyd | cylinder labeled March second. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take cylinders" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE CYLINDERS Floyd | Floyd | tin cylinder labeled March sixteenth: The ivory arms slide easily Floyd | apart and the cylinder leaves the phonograph with a slight "click". Floyd | tin cylinder labeled January eighth: Taken. Floyd | tin cylinder labeled January twenty-second: Taken. Floyd | tin cylinder labeled March second: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put january eighth in phonograph" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT JANUARY EIGHTH IN PHONOGRAPH Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "time" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > TIME Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x phonograph" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > X PHONOGRAPH Floyd | Floyd | A delicate device, its base is carved from oaken heartwood, bearing a Floyd | small black plaque which reads "Columbia Phonograph Co., Ltd. of Floyd | London". Floyd | Floyd | Two ivory arms emerging from the base lean inward, firmly grasping a Floyd | tin cylinder labeled January eighth. A brass needle hovers above the Floyd | cylinder's surface. Floyd | Floyd | From the base's back emerges a small, black hornshell speaker, its Floyd | surface delicately curved. The phonograph is currently switched off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "turn on phonograph" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN ON PHONOGRAPH Floyd | Floyd | The phonograph switches on. Floyd | Floyd | "January the 8th." Floyd | Floyd | "I am uncertain if this entry is made in joy or sorrow. I have just Floyd | received word from Dr. Yeates that I am to be...promoted. I am Floyd | uncertain if that term is the correct one. In any case, it seems that Floyd | there has been an... incident with Bethlehem's current superintendent, Floyd | and a replacement is required. I have been chosen for the position, at Floyd | least in the short term." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | That's rather difficult without a mirror. Floyd | Floyd | "It is fairly obviously what has prompted this move. I have moved too Floyd | far, too fast and in doing so have displeased the powers that be. Floyd | While Yeates has supported my ... unorthodox theories well enough, he Floyd | has warned me often that he cannot shield me from *all* of the Floyd | backlash that may occur. I do not believe that his using this as a Floyd | segue way to telling me of my transfer was entirely unconnected..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DRAWER Floyd | Floyd | The large central drawer opens, revealing a manual and a flanged brass Floyd | rod. Floyd | Floyd | "Bedlam seems both purgatory and paradise at this moment. I remember Floyd | the history of the place well enough -- of the Governors' decision to Floyd | renovate the site in '15 and the slow implementation of Urquhart and Floyd | Bentham's now infamous Panopticon Plan. In the end it was nothing more Floyd | than a final stab at respectability for the site, which has now Floyd | languished as a home for the hopeless, the poor, and the criminally Floyd | insane for almost twenty years." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x manual" | ||
Floyd ] TRIAGE PERSONAL ANALYTICAL ENGINE: OPERATOR'S MANUAL MK. III Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The manual has several headings: Floyd | Floyd | > Cover Floyd | The FUTURE is NOW... Floyd | A brief catalogue... Floyd | Analysis Mode Floyd | Optional Expanded Input Mode | ||
| chaudmin presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] Cover Floyd | Emblazoned on the front is a charcoal drawing of a black box on Floyd | wheels, beneath which is written the words: Floyd | Floyd | OPERATOR'S MANUAL Floyd | TRIAGE PERSONAL ANALYTICAL ENGINE Floyd | PROFESSIONAL|INDUSTRIAL Floyd | MK. III. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| chaudmin pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] TRIAGE PERSONAL ANALYTICAL ENGINE: OPERATOR'S MANUAL MK. III Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The manual has several headings: Floyd | Floyd | > Cover Floyd | The FUTURE is NOW... Floyd | A brief catalogue... Floyd | Analysis Mode Floyd | Optional Expanded Input Mode | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] TRIAGE PERSONAL ANALYTICAL ENGINE: OPERATOR'S MANUAL MK. III Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The manual has several headings: Floyd | Floyd | Cover Floyd | > The FUTURE is NOW... Floyd | A brief catalogue... Floyd | Analysis Mode Floyd | Optional Expanded Input Mode | ||
| chaudmin presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] The FUTURE is NOW... Floyd | The FUTURE is NOW... Floyd | Floyd | One glance at the TRIAGE line of PERSONAL ANALYTICAL ENGINES will show Floyd | them to be the finest now available. Each one is made of the materials Floyd | of superlative quality, its thousands of interlocking parts are HAND Floyd | MADE and HAND ASSEMBLED. Floyd | Floyd | From its alphanumeric kinograph display to its specially designed Floyd | internal power and propulsion systems, the TRIAGE is simply the most Floyd | advanced technology made available to professionals for the portable Floyd | storage and analysis of complex information. Floyd | Floyd | In fact, the TRIAGE is so incomparably the best machine made that all Floyd | we ask an intending purchaser is to compare it with any other before Floyd | buying. Floyd | Floyd | For sale by all first-class mechanist's shops. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| chaudmin pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] TRIAGE PERSONAL ANALYTICAL ENGINE: OPERATOR'S MANUAL MK. III Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The manual has several headings: Floyd | Floyd | Cover Floyd | > The FUTURE is NOW... Floyd | A brief catalogue... Floyd | Analysis Mode Floyd | Optional Expanded Input Mode | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] TRIAGE PERSONAL ANALYTICAL ENGINE: OPERATOR'S MANUAL MK. III Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The manual has several headings: Floyd | Floyd | Cover Floyd | The FUTURE is NOW... Floyd | > A brief catalogue... Floyd | Analysis Mode Floyd | Optional Expanded Input Mode | ||
| chaudmin presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] A brief catalogue... Floyd | A brief catalogue of the TRIAGE, both within and without... Floyd | Floyd | - PANOPTICAL SCANNER: set within an attractive faux-emerald, TRIAGE's Floyd | latest version has updated both its scanning technology and methods Floyd | such that it can visually analyze a given subject and begin processing Floyd | within seconds. Floyd | Floyd | - INCREASED CAPACITY OF BOTH MILL AND STORE: The TRIAGE line is now Floyd | capable of analyzing, compiling and storing literally thousands of Floyd | pieces of information simultaneously. Floyd | Floyd | - LATEST CORE ENGINE WITH FOUR-FOLD INCREASE IN EFFICIENCY: TRIAGE has Floyd | always been famous for its relational algorithms and its capability in Floyd | connecting seemingly disparate data into a coherent whole. Our latest Floyd | edition strives ever closer to perfection, improving the system's Floyd | already impressive functionality. Floyd | Floyd | - SMOOTH-OPERATING FULLY ALPHANUMERIC KINOGRAPH DISPLAY: With its Floyd | compact yet expansive 16x8 symbol display (each one capable of Floyd | displaying any one of 36 characters), the TRIAGE speaks as well as it Floyd | listens. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| chaudmin pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] TRIAGE PERSONAL ANALYTICAL ENGINE: OPERATOR'S MANUAL MK. III Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The manual has several headings: Floyd | Floyd | Cover Floyd | The FUTURE is NOW... Floyd | > A brief catalogue... Floyd | Analysis Mode Floyd | Optional Expanded Input Mode | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] TRIAGE PERSONAL ANALYTICAL ENGINE: OPERATOR'S MANUAL MK. III Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The manual has several headings: Floyd | Floyd | Cover Floyd | The FUTURE is NOW... Floyd | A brief catalogue... Floyd | > Analysis Mode Floyd | Optional Expanded Input Mode | ||
| chaudmin presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] Analysis Mode Floyd | ANALYSIS MODE Floyd | Floyd | ...is the TRIAGE'S default and most important mode of operation. Once Floyd | activated by simply pressing its beautiful faux-emerald scanner, the Floyd | system will run through its initializing phase and then notify the Floyd | user that it is ready to begin. Floyd | Floyd | The TRIAGE will then follow its identified operator of its own accord, Floyd | utilizing path-finding and obstacle-avoidance algorithms of the latest Floyd | design. The system is constantly aware of both its personal Floyd | environment and the actions of its operator. Floyd | Floyd | Once TRIAGE has locked on to its user, operation is simply a matter of Floyd | making the system aware of particular subjects in the environment for Floyd | analysis and storage. This can be accomplished by simply POINTING or Floyd | GESTURING to the object in question. Floyd | Floyd | Nothing more is necessary. The system will reply (via its kinograph Floyd | display) of any pertinent data the operator might find of use. Floyd | Floyd | Triage store data is organized as follows: Floyd | Floyd | - CAT [category]: Triage maintains a strict hierarchy within which all Floyd | subjects are stored - is the object in question alive? Is it a tool? Floyd | Is it not yet recognized? Floyd | Floyd | - UTIL [utility]: Of what immediate use is the object in question? Floyd | How may it be interacted with? Floyd | Floyd | - PART [particulars]: Specific information on the object - completed Floyd | analysis data is often stored here. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | chaudmin says, "ah yes, the pointing machine" | |
| chaudmin pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] TRIAGE PERSONAL ANALYTICAL ENGINE: OPERATOR'S MANUAL MK. III Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The manual has several headings: Floyd | Floyd | Cover Floyd | The FUTURE is NOW... Floyd | A brief catalogue... Floyd | > Analysis Mode Floyd | Optional Expanded Input Mode | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] TRIAGE PERSONAL ANALYTICAL ENGINE: OPERATOR'S MANUAL MK. III Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The manual has several headings: Floyd | Floyd | Cover Floyd | The FUTURE is NOW... Floyd | A brief catalogue... Floyd | Analysis Mode Floyd | > Optional Expanded Input Mode | ||
| chaudmin presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] Optional Expanded Input Mode Floyd | OPTIONAL EXPANDED INPUT MODE Floyd | Floyd | ...can be utilized to directly enter information into the TRIAGE'S Floyd | database store. Such data manipulation is not to be taken lightly, as Floyd | all TRIAGE data must be kept as consistent as possible to prevent Floyd | internal errors. However, advanced users may find it convenient to Floyd | input information into the system immediately rather than allowing the Floyd | system to accrue it via examination and analysis. Floyd | Floyd | Expanded input mode requires the optional data input system, which is Floyd | not sold with the basic TRIAGE. Contact your local mechanists" to Floyd | special-order yours today. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | DavidW says, "heh. Point at the flanged rod and find out what it is for." | |
| chaudmin pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] TRIAGE PERSONAL ANALYTICAL ENGINE: OPERATOR'S MANUAL MK. III Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The manual has several headings: Floyd | Floyd | Cover Floyd | The FUTURE is NOW... Floyd | A brief catalogue... Floyd | Analysis Mode Floyd | > Optional Expanded Input Mode | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "q" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | Office Floyd | A massive cedar desk, well-polished and worn, looks elegantly Floyd | out-of-place among the chaos. Papers, files, and books cover nearly Floyd | every flat surface in the room. Floyd | Floyd | There is a phonograph on the table near the window. Floyd | Floyd | Triage sits near the door to the south. Floyd | Floyd | "But the technology! Yeates told me of a visit he took in the '30s, Floyd | when the place was still open as part zoo, part living drama. I paid Floyd | little attention to his description of the patient's conditions and Floyd | instead seized upon the description of the central Tower and its Floyd | prism-viewer, by which the entire complex could be overseen by a Floyd | single man, the massive Archives with their engine-run filing Floyd | system...now I shall see it with my own eyes, and I am both happy and Floyd | sad at the thought." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "point at rod" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT ROD Floyd | Floyd | The machine analyzes the flanged brass rod before replying... Floyd | Floyd | CAT:NONLIVING.TO Floyd | OL.UTIL:KEY.UNLO Floyd | CK.DEVICE.PART:I Floyd | D=PANOPTICONKEY. Floyd | CORRIDOR.6.(UPPE Floyd | R).PLACE.IN.PANO Floyd | PTICON.STAND.TO. Floyd | ACTIVATE/ACCESS. Floyd | Floyd | "I have but a fortnight to prepare for the move. It has been made Floyd | clear to me that this is a test -- I must prove myself good, quiet, Floyd | and respectable in the eyes of the Governors. With luck, I shall be Floyd | back at Bedfordshire within half a year's time, ready to take over Floyd | when the good doctor announces his retirement." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ah. A panopticon key for corridor 6." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take rod" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ROD Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | "Perhaps this will not be so bad. In the public eye, I shall play Floyd | their game and meanwhile, I shall continue my own research, utilizing Floyd | whatever materials Bedlam has to offer..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "point at me" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT ME Floyd | Floyd | The emerald flickers from head to toe before returning: Floyd | Floyd | CAT:LIVING...... Floyd | *CATASTROPHIC.ER Floyd | RROR.A042.CATEGO Floyd | RY.INDEX.OUT.OF. Floyd | RANGE.STACK.OVER Floyd | FLOW*PART:ID=DR. Floyd | THOMAS.XAVIER=CU Floyd | RRENT.OPERATOR.. Floyd | Floyd | Having reached the end of the cylinder, the phonograph shuts itself Floyd | off with a tiny "click". Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "I suppose that's foreshadowing" | |
| DavidW asks, "That's weird. Is there something wrong with us, personally?" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take january eighth" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE JANUARY EIGHTH Floyd | Floyd | The ivory arms slide easily apart and the cylinder leaves the Floyd | phonograph with a slight "click". Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "But that tells us that we're Dr. Thomas Xavier, at least." | |
| DavidW says, "And not someone pretending to be the doctor." | ||
| chaudmin says, "I recall there being some abnormality with us, yes" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Carried: Floyd | a tin cylinder labeled January eighth Floyd | a flanged brass rod Floyd | a tin cylinder labeled March second Floyd | a tin cylinder labeled January twenty-second Floyd | a tin cylinder labeled March sixteenth Floyd | a small key labled 2D Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "point at small key" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT SMALL KEY Floyd | Floyd | Triage's emerald searches the small key labled 2D, then... Floyd | Floyd | CAT:UNKNOWN/UNLI Floyd | STED.UTIL:NOT.AP Floyd | PLICABLE.PART:NO Floyd | NE.ITEM.IS.NOT.R Floyd | ECOGNIZED.BY.CUR Floyd | RENT.SYSTEM.STOR Floyd | E.REQUIRE.ADDITI Floyd | ONAL.INFORMATION Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put january twenty-second in phonograph" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT JANUARY TWENTY-SECOND IN PHONOGRAPH Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "turn on phonograph" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN ON PHONOGRAPH Floyd | Floyd | The phonograph switches on. Floyd | Floyd | "January the 22nd." Floyd | Floyd | "Arrived in London today in preparation for taking over my duties. The Floyd | cab driver took what seemed a scenic route through Smithfield, then Floyd | generally southward towards Newgate. I covered my nose as best I could Floyd | as we passed the slaughterhouse that was the Market, though I noted a Floyd | Mechanist's shop -- Du Mondes' -- on Fleet, which I will try to visit Floyd | at my earliest convenience, as my worst fears regarding the wireless Floyd | have been confirmed." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Office Floyd | A massive cedar desk, well-polished and worn, looks elegantly Floyd | out-of-place among the chaos. Papers, files, and books cover nearly Floyd | every flat surface in the room. Floyd | Floyd | There is a phonograph on the table near the window. Floyd | Floyd | Triage sits near the door to the south. Floyd | Floyd | "It probably says something profound about me that I set up the Floyd | magnetophone first, while everything else remains boxed or is still on Floyd | its way from Bedfordshire. As I feared, I found no signal whatsoever. Floyd | A simple message of 'Calling CQ' went completely unanswered, which is Floyd | unheard of, as there is *always* someone listening, particularly in Floyd | such a city as London. I fear the buildings are blocking the signal, Floyd | and I'll require a booster of some sort." Floyd | Floyd | > | kpaquette says, "This game is making no sense to me." | |
| DavidW says (to kpaquette), "I had trouble with it too. But we're a doctor at the Bedlam asylum in London England, several centuries ago." | ||
| chaudmin says, "I had to read an explanation afterwards to understand what was going on" | ||
| DavidW says, "The game also seems to be a steampunk game, using weird clockwork machinery." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x files" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > X FILES Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | A deep green blotter, dotted with black ink stains, sits in the center Floyd | of the desk, mostly covered by files and papers. One side of the Floyd | blotter seems slightly higher than the other. Floyd | Floyd | The corner of a sandalwood box is visible beneath a stack of thick Floyd | folders. Floyd | Floyd | The desk contains a large central drawer, currently opened. Floyd | Floyd | "I understood the driver's choice of route when we approached the Floyd | prison from the north. A huge crowd was gathered for the public Floyd | executions. I asked him about the particular individual sentenced to Floyd | the gallows as we passed and he proceeded to tell me - at great length Floyd | and with much relish - of the trial of one Mr. Emanuel Barthelemy. I Floyd | wondered if today was something special, or if the spectacle of death Floyd | always attracts such crowds." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Triage is an analyzing robot. The phonograph is a diary." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "point at triage" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT TRIAGE Floyd | Floyd | The machine analyzes Triage before replying... Floyd | Floyd | CAT:TRIAGE.ANALY Floyd | TICAL.ENGINE.UTI Floyd | L:EXAMINATION.AN Floyd | D.ANALYSIS.OF.OB Floyd | JECTS.AND.DATA.P Floyd | ART:TRIAGE.MK.II Floyd | I.UNIT.CURRENT.O Floyd | PERATOR=T.XAVIER Floyd | Floyd | "I heard a cheer go up from the top of the hill as we pulled to a stop Floyd | in front of the flat. I shall not take this as an omen of any sort." Floyd | Floyd | > | kpaquette says, "Okay. I think I'd rather let you and chaudmin handle this because I don't know what I'm doing." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "point at window" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | Triage's emerald searches the window, then... Floyd | Floyd | CAT:UNKNOWN/UNLI Floyd | STED.UTIL:NOT.AP Floyd | PLICABLE.PART:NO Floyd | NE.ITEM.IS.NOT.R Floyd | ECOGNIZED.BY.CUR Floyd | RENT.SYSTEM.STOR Floyd | E.REQUIRE.ADDITI Floyd | ONAL.INFORMATION Floyd | Floyd | "What I've seen of the place is modest, but I am not at all surprised Floyd | considering what I am paying for it. I intend to spend as little time Floyd | here as possible, after all. Bedlam awaits me in the morning." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "point at desk" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT DESK Floyd | Floyd | The emerald eye examines the desk returning with: Floyd | Floyd | CAT:UNKNOWN/UNLI Floyd | STED.UTIL:NOT.AP Floyd | PLICABLE.PART:NO Floyd | NE.ITEM.IS.NOT.R Floyd | ECOGNIZED.BY.CUR Floyd | RENT.SYSTEM.STOR Floyd | E.REQUIRE.ADDITI Floyd | ONAL.INFORMATION Floyd | Floyd | "A final note. It seems I left the majority of my unused cylinders at Floyd | Bedfordshire. I shall have to write Yeates and ask that he send them Floyd | down, or perhaps seek out where I may purchase them locally. In the Floyd | meantime, I shall refrain from making a phonograph-entry until Floyd | something truly momentous happens." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| kpaquette goes home. | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Having reached the end of the cylinder, the phonograph shuts itself Floyd | off with a tiny "click". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take january twenty-second" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE JANUARY TWENTY-SECOND Floyd | Floyd | The ivory arms slide easily apart and the cylinder leaves the Floyd | phonograph with a slight "click". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Carried: Floyd | a tin cylinder labeled January twenty-second Floyd | a tin cylinder labeled January eighth Floyd | a flanged brass rod Floyd | a tin cylinder labeled March second Floyd | a tin cylinder labeled March sixteenth Floyd | a small key labled 2D Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put march second in phonograph" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT MARCH SECOND IN PHONOGRAPH Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "turn on phonograph" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN ON PHONOGRAPH Floyd | Floyd | The phonograph switches on. Floyd | Floyd | "March the 2nd." Floyd | Floyd | "It seems the Fates have listened closely and decided to give me a Floyd | momentous occasion as quickly as possible. I am beside myself. Bedlam Floyd | seems nothing more than a pit in which Her Majesty may place those she Floyd | wishes to forget about. Such corruption dwarfs the imagination." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Sorry to have confused katie, but this can't be easy for her." | |
| DavidW says, "She probably doesn't know what Bedlam was." | ||
| chaudmin says, "this game is fairly confusing at times" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Perhaps I overstate the case, but it was the simple ease with which Floyd | the constable approached me that most horrified me. If such things as Floyd | this happen as a matter of course, then the place has truly been in Floyd | the hands of the mad for some time." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "I suppose I should have seen such things coming. The Insane Floyd | Prisoners' Act passed in '40 was vague enough that it could be used as Floyd | a political tool, and McNaughton's trial made it clear that the courts Floyd | would do so when forced, but at least such things happened in the Floyd | public eye." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "My predecessor clearly had some arrangement with the Bobbies Floyd | regarding cases such as these. James told me that he met often with Floyd | the constable, though he was not privy as to the content of these Floyd | meetings." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yes, it's a confusing game for anyone, I think." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Simply put, I was asked to make the prisoner in their charge Floyd | 'disappear' and told that I would be 'well compensated' for keeping Floyd | things quiet. Part of me wishes I had put up more of a fight...had Floyd | made an issue, or..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "But what choice have I? It has been made clear to me that keeping Floyd | things quiet is precisely what is expected of me in my time in Floyd | Bedlam." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "I have placed Cleve -- whose preternatural silence even as he Floyd | struggled in his bonds gave the entire proceedings a sheen of Floyd | unreality -- in the abandoned upper level of the northern wing, Floyd | keeping the key separate from the rest. James showed it to me on my Floyd | arrival and stated that while it still remained secure, only a few of Floyd | the rooms were to be considered 'usable'." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Still, perhaps this is a blessing in disguise. I have complete Floyd | singular access to an interesting patient. Perhaps this is the Floyd | opportunity my studies have been waiting for..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Having reached the end of the cylinder, the phonograph shuts itself Floyd | off with a tiny "click". Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I suppose Cleve is in room 2D, then?" | |
| DavidW asks, "Or should be?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "maybe" | ||
| chaudmin says, "well, exposition complete, at any rate" | ||
| chaudmin asks, "we probably don't need all these cylinders?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'd put them back in the box, yeah." | ||
| chaudmin says, "I was just going to drop them, haha" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put cylinders in box" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT CYLINDERS IN BOX Floyd | Floyd | tin cylinder labeled January twenty-second: Done. Floyd | tin cylinder labeled January eighth: Done. Floyd | tin cylinder labeled March sixteenth: Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Office Floyd | A massive cedar desk, well-polished and worn, looks elegantly Floyd | out-of-place among the chaos. Papers, files, and books cover nearly Floyd | every flat surface in the room. Floyd | Floyd | There is a phonograph on the table near the window. Floyd | Floyd | Triage sits near the door to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "sorry. I like things too neat, I guess." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x files" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > X FILES Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess the files are unimportant." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x books" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOOKS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "yep" | |
| chaudmin says, "time to leave" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | The walls and floor are a clinical white tile and marble. However, the Floyd | dim lights set above this echoing space hiss and pop fitfully, giving Floyd | the small maze of desks and workspaces within a tarnished, decaying Floyd | look. Floyd | Floyd | A set of solid gates lie opened and unlocked to the east and west. A Floyd | small corridor runs northward and from the south, the bright light of Floyd | day is visible through a set of glass doors. Floyd | Floyd | Behind the most prominent desk sits a nervous young man. Floyd | Floyd | Triage obediently appears. Floyd | Floyd | The young man looks up and the corners of his mouth lift into a smile Floyd | that is not quite strong enough to reach his eyes. Floyd | Floyd | "Doctor? Are you..." Floyd | Floyd | Cold. Yes, the cold is familiar. Floyd | Floyd | /(reachgrabfeel|possibility|probability)\ Floyd | Floyd | The echo of an echo, the reflection of words from here to the far wall Floyd | of reality and back. Floyd | Floyd | "...alright? You had us all..." Floyd | Floyd | ## Floyd | /(actionpositiveaffirmative|destroyingfrictionbreakinggrowth|positiveye Floyd | s)\ Floyd | Floyd | "...do you mean...?" Floyd | Floyd | The dim light glinting off the small badge he wears - James - Floyd | Assistant - Floyd | Floyd | ## Floyd | /(livinggrowthfrictionfurtherspreadingoutwardstretchingyestouchingyes)\ Floyd | Floyd | - Bethlehem - Hospital - Floyd | Floyd | "All right then, sir." Floyd | Floyd | And then he is nodding and returning to his seat, somehow both more Floyd | and less nervous. Floyd | Floyd | /(yesdoneyes)\ Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "how mysterious" | |
| DavidW says, "so, all the ## /(...)\ stuff is highly bizarre." | ||
| chaudmin says, "yeah I didn't really get it until later" | ||
| DavidW says, "I never understood it." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x james" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > X JAMES Floyd | Floyd | He's easily no more then twenty, with an unruly mop of black hair that Floyd | continually gets in his eyes. The badge, set high near his collar, Floyd | reads "James Houlihan - Assistant - Bethlehem Hospital." Floyd | Floyd | James stares out into space for a long moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It's one of the reasons I wanted ClubFloyd to play this, so I might understand it better." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "point at james" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT JAMES Floyd | Floyd | Triage's emerald searches James, then... Floyd | Floyd | CAT:LIVING.HUMAN Floyd | MALE.UTIL:COMMUN Floyd | ICATION.POSSIBLE Floyd | BY.SPEECH.OR.WRI Floyd | TTEN.WORD.PART:I Floyd | D=JAMES.HOULIHAN Floyd | POSITION.ASSISTA Floyd | NT.AT.BETHLEHEM. Floyd | Floyd | James shudders suddenly, then looks at you sheepishly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "ask james about key" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK JAMES ABOUT KEY Floyd | Floyd | "That's rather outside my bailiwick, sir." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the lobby desks or James' desk? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "No overflow error when analyzing James, i see. Just with us." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x lobby desks" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > X LOBBY DESKS Floyd | Floyd | Worn and dusty with disuse, a fleet of abandoned desks slowly sinks Floyd | into decay. James" desk, on its dais, is a tiny island of order. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cold" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > X COLD Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x james's desk" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > X JAMES'S DESK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x james' desk" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > X JAMES' DESK Floyd | Floyd | It is covered in neat stacks of forms that James moves in unfathomable Floyd | patterns: stamping some, filing others, and occasionally dropping one Floyd | to the floor. Floyd | Floyd | James stares out into space for a long moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x forms" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > X FORMS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "ask james about me" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK JAMES ABOUT ME Floyd | Floyd | "Well, it's certainly been a pleasure working with you, sir." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "ask james about james" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK JAMES ABOUT JAMES Floyd | Floyd | "Why, I'm James, sir. Your assistant. Perhaps you had better sit down. Floyd | I don't think you've quite recovered." Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "I don't think there's much to talk about yet" | |
| DavidW says, "I wish I knew what happened to us earlier." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask james about cold" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK JAMES ABOUT COLD Floyd | Floyd | "I don't feel as though I'm qualified to answer that question, sir." Floyd | Floyd | James shudders suddenly, then looks at you sheepishly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask james about triage" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK JAMES ABOUT TRIAGE Floyd | Floyd | "It was a favored tool of Dr. Brand. He would lock himself in his Floyd | office and enter data into it for hours." Floyd | Floyd | James stares out into space for a long moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask james about brand" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK JAMES ABOUT BRAND Floyd | Floyd | "He ... he took his own life. I fear the pressures of this place had Floyd | gotten the better of him. He spent every waking moment here, on his Floyd | patients, this place. We must be vigilant sir. So easy to get lost Floyd | here." Floyd | Floyd | James stands and stretches his legs for a moment before resuming his Floyd | seat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask james about patients" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK JAMES ABOUT PATIENTS Floyd | Floyd | "That's rather outside my bailiwick, sir." Floyd | Floyd | James bites his lower lip as he stamps out a set of forms. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "ask james about bethlehem" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK JAMES ABOUT BETHLEHEM Floyd | Floyd | "It's seen better days, certainly, sir -- but I must say that I was Floyd | certainly proud when I was offered this position." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask james about yeates" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK JAMES ABOUT YEATES Floyd | Floyd | "I'm afraid I can't help you there." Floyd | Floyd | James carefully fills out a set of forms, then files them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "ask james about rod" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK JAMES ABOUT ROD Floyd | Floyd | "That's rather outside my bailiwick, sir." Floyd | Floyd | James taps his fingers nervously. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask james about panopticon" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK JAMES ABOUT PANOPTICON Floyd | Floyd | "Is it acting up again, sir? I'm sorry. We haven't been keeping up Floyd | regular maintenance, what with the budget constraints." Floyd | Floyd | James sighs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "ask james about cleve" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK JAMES ABOUT CLEVE Floyd | Floyd | "Already in the grave, I believe sir. I know nothing else about him, Floyd | I've not looked at any of his files, per your instructions." Floyd | Floyd | James shudders suddenly, then looks at you sheepishly. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "guess he's not in 2D then" | |
| DavidW says, "yeah. I guess not." | ||
| chaudmin says, "we'll probably get to see his files though" | ||
| DavidW says, "I wonder where his files are, and what's left in 2D anyway." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask james about cleve's files" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK JAMES ABOUT CLEVE'S FILES Floyd | Floyd | "I don't feel as though I'm qualified to answer that question, sir." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask james about cleve's file" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK JAMES ABOUT CLEVE'S FILE Floyd | Floyd | "That's rather outside my bailiwick, sir." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask james about file" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK JAMES ABOUT FILE Floyd | Floyd | "I don't feel as though I'm qualified to answer that question, sir." Floyd | Floyd | James carefully fills out a set of forms, then files them. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "ehh, I'm sure we'll come across it somewhere" | |
| DavidW asks, "Perhaps James doesn't have it?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "I guess explore?" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Archives Floyd | This room is mostly empty space. The farthest wall is lined with Floyd | gleaming, brass pull-file drawers and seems to go on infinitely in Floyd | every direction. The entrance to the west opens onto a solid, dusty Floyd | platform, which allows visitors to stand suspended above the unseen Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | At the end of the platform lies a pedestal topped with a small, Floyd | inverted onyx pyramid. Floyd | Floyd | Triage trundles patiently along beside. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "By the way, what's a magnetophone? Is that like a CB radio?" | |
| chaudmin says, "it looks like some kind of tape recorder" | ||
| chaudmin says, "yeah, it's a tape recorder" | ||
| DavidW asks, "We didn't see it, did we?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "I googled it" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh. It's a real thing? I thought the author made it up." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x platform" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > X PLATFORM Floyd | Floyd | The platform is surrounded on three sides by a low metal railing, the Floyd | better to prevent an unfortunate drop into the vacuum below. Floyd | Footprints mark and remark the dust, forming a trail from the lobby to Floyd | the pedestal and back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x pedestal" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > X PEDESTAL Floyd | Floyd | It is shaped like a pulpit. On its flat surface is small panel Floyd | containing a dial and small glass display and delicately balanced at Floyd | its top is an inverted black pyramid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "point at pedestal" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT PEDESTAL Floyd | Floyd | A small beam of green light lashes out over the pedestal as Triage's Floyd | screen lights up: Floyd | Floyd | CAT:NONLIVING.TO Floyd | Floyd | OL.UTIL:ARCHIVE. Floyd | Floyd | INTERFACE.PART:F Floyd | Floyd | ILE.NUMBER.INPUT Floyd | Floyd | VIA.DIAL.OUTPUT. Floyd | Floyd | VIA.PAPERTAPE.DI Floyd | Floyd | SPLAY.PYRAMID=RE Floyd | Floyd | TRIVAL.UNIT..... Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "So we need to dial a number to access a file?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dial" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > X DIAL Floyd | Floyd | The dial seems capable of being set to any number between 1 and 9 as Floyd | well as the letters A through F. It currently rests at 1. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "I guess so" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x display" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > X DISPLAY Floyd | Floyd | A small sheet of glass, beneath which runs a paper tape which Floyd | disappears into the bowels of the mechanism. The glass is cut in such Floyd | a way as to magnify the tape beneath it. Floyd | Floyd | The tape is currently imprinted with: Floyd | "...RETRIEVAL COMPLETE..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x pyramid" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > X PYRAMID Floyd | Floyd | Matte black and smooth, it is securely anchored to the pedestal at its Floyd | inverted apex. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn dial to 2" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN DIAL TO 2 Floyd | Floyd | As the dial is set, the pedestal begins to hum and the sound of Floyd | turning gears can be heard. The tape beneath the panel's glass display Floyd | suddenly advances from right to left, erasing the display. Then, with Floyd | a *clunk* it advances one further step ... revealing '2' imprinted on Floyd | its surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn dial to d" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN DIAL TO D Floyd | Floyd | The tape advances a step further. It now reads '2D'. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push pyramid" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH PYRAMID Floyd | Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push dial" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH DIAL Floyd | Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "I think the sequence is supposed to be longer" | |
| DavidW asks, "So if you want to clear the display and start again...?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn dial to 1" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN DIAL TO 1 Floyd | Floyd | The tape advances a step further. It now reads '2D1'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn dial to a" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN DIAL TO A Floyd | Floyd | The tape advances a step further. It now reads '2D1A'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn dial to f" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN DIAL TO F Floyd | Floyd | The tape advances a step further. It now reads '2D1AF'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn dial to 8" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN DIAL TO 8 Floyd | Floyd | The tape spins forward, blanking the display. Then... Floyd | Floyd | "SEARCHING..." Floyd | Floyd | Another advance. Then... Floyd | Floyd | "FILE 2D1AF8 NOT FOUND..." Floyd | Floyd | The tape advances. It now reads "...RETRIEVAL FAILED..." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "So six characters" | |
| chaudmin says, "we don't know any yet, so..." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "enter platform" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER PLATFORM Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, sadly." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "get on platform" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ON PLATFORM Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "guess that's not important" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | The walls and floor are a clinical white tile and marble. However, the Floyd | dim lights set above this echoing space hiss and pop fitfully, giving Floyd | the small maze of desks and workspaces within a tarnished, decaying Floyd | look. Floyd | Floyd | A set of solid gates lie opened and unlocked to the east and west. A Floyd | small corridor runs northward and from the south, the bright light of Floyd | day is visible through a set of glass doors. Floyd | Floyd | James sits behind his desk, nervously working. Floyd | Floyd | Triage silently rolls to a stop. Floyd | Floyd | James stands and stretches his legs for a moment before resuming his Floyd | seat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Walkway Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Walkway Floyd | The slight wind whistles tunelessly against this mesh of steel, which Floyd | arcs from one massive, opened gate to another. A roof curves far Floyd | overhead, enclosing both the block-like building to the east and the Floyd | narrow tower to the west. Far below, an intricate set of sub-buildings Floyd | can be seen, enclosed within the complex's outer wall. Floyd | Floyd | Triage obediently appears. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "point at tower" | ||
Floyd ] Walkway Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT TOWER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Circular Chamber Floyd | The hum of machinery is ever present here, rumbling down into the Floyd | sub-sonics. Pale white walls encircle a series of engraved circles on Floyd | the floor, and at the center - like the pupil of some great eye - sits Floyd | a round console which reaches all the way up to the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | The room's single exit lies to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Triage silently rolls to a stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x console" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > X CONSOLE Floyd | Floyd | It is complex, divided into several discrete sections. Set on a panel Floyd | is a diagram - a blueprint. A small slot for the dispensing of paper Floyd | tape lies beside it. Set above the diagram is a prism-viewer complete Floyd | with two handles. A set of brass listening-tubes terminate on either Floyd | side of the viewer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x diagram" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > X DIAGRAM Floyd | Floyd | Intricate in its detail, it depicts a series of twenty-four corridors Floyd | set about a circular room like the spokes of a wheel. Each corridor Floyd | opens onto six rooms, three on each side, with one exception: a hall Floyd | at 3 o'clock instead connects to a building labeled "Administration." Floyd | Floyd | At the center of the circular room is a keyhole. Beside it is a Floyd | two-headed arrow, pointing up and down. Floyd | Floyd | Beneath the blueprint is a series of buttons: six labeled A through F Floyd | and one with an inverted triangle from which six small lines emerge. Floyd | None of the buttons is currently depressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "dang, I hate fiddling with complicated machines" | |
| DavidW asks, "I think this is an elevator?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x circles" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > X CIRCLES Floyd | Floyd | The walls and floor are pale, white and seamless except for the Floyd | engraved circles. There are six of them - set at various distances Floyd | from the central console. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in viewer" | ||
Floyd | cheapglulxe quit with exit status: 1 | ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | DavidW says, "ack!" | |
| chaudmin says, "woah" | ||
| chaudmin says, "well at least we haven't got too far" | ||
| DavidW says, "Sorry. I had no idea that'd crash the game." | ||
| DavidW says, "I did kinda want a bathroom break, though." | ||
| chaudmin says, "perfect timing, then" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask slouching" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *clunk* Floyd | Floyd | The rotating tin cylinder within the phonograph vibrates slightly as a Floyd | brass needle scrapes against it. The sound of a throat being cleared Floyd | emerges from the machine's hornshell speaker, followed by a thin, Floyd | haunting voice. Floyd | Floyd | "March the 16th." Floyd | Floyd | A deep, shaky breath. Floyd | Floyd | "I dread to say it, but I believe I am going mad. The -- *moments* -- Floyd | come more frequently now. I fear that I have found what I have sought, Floyd | and I shall now pay the price for it." Floyd | Floyd | The scrape of a chair across flagstone. A sigh. Floyd | Floyd | "Chaos treads the halls of Bedlam; her work is evident everywhere..." Floyd | Floyd | Slouching Towards Bedlam Floyd | An entry in the 9th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (10th Floyd | Anniversary Edition) by Star C. Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 140613 / Inform 7 build 6L02 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | [First time players should type 'about'. Credits are available via Floyd | 'credits'.] Floyd | Floyd | Office Floyd | A massive cedar desk, well-polished and worn, looks elegantly Floyd | out-of-place among the chaos. Papers, files, and books cover nearly Floyd | every flat surface in the room. Floyd | Floyd | There is a phonograph on the table near the window. Floyd | Floyd | A black cube on wheels sits near the door to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "we can skip all the exposition, so..." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push emerald" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH EMERALD Floyd | Floyd | From within the device comes a sharp clunk, followed by a gentle Floyd | humming. The emerald blinks slowly -- once, twice -- then glows Floyd | steadily. The grid of squares which makes up the thing's screen pivot Floyd | back and forth, seemingly at random, causing ripples of motion across Floyd | its surface. Floyd | Floyd | With a sudden purpose, they begin to flip, revealing hundreds of tiny Floyd | symbols engraved on their surfaces. The squares continue for a moment, Floyd | then begin to settle line by line like a fall of rain into a Floyd | pattern... Floyd | Floyd | INIT.CYCLE.COMP. Floyd | MILL.UNIT.ONLINE Floyd | STORE.DECRYPT/CO Floyd | MPRESS.BOOT.STAC Floyd | K.COMP.OP.SYSTEM Floyd | UNIT.VER.3.REG:. Floyd | DR..SIMON..BRAND Floyd | SET MODE:ANALYZE Floyd | Floyd | The phonograph continues to play. Floyd | Floyd | "I discredit my profession; examining madness as if the world were a Floyd | fluent thing and sanity as malleable as the warm wax of a candle." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "feel free to get us back to where we were. Key is under the blotter." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "look under blotter" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BLOTTER Floyd | Floyd | Beneath the blotter is a small key, easily taken. It carries a small Floyd | tag labeled "2D". Floyd | Floyd | "The secret lays heavily on both my mind and heart. I have told no Floyd | one; I despair a second opinion would confirm my worst suspicions. I Floyd | have secured all my knowledge of these events within the mechanical Floyd | assistant left by my predecessor. It was my hope that it would allow Floyd | me to see the situation from a new perspective, and help me discover Floyd | the key to my salvation." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DRAWER Floyd | Floyd | The large central drawer opens, revealing a manual and a flanged brass Floyd | rod. Floyd | Floyd | "Alas, it has been to no avail. While I found the entry mode easy Floyd | enough, and the thing seems filled with information regarding the Floyd | hospital down to the point of minutiae, it seems helpless in the face Floyd | of analyzing my current situation." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take rod" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ROD Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | "It may be that I have simply not found that by which this growing Floyd | mystery may be unlocked. Perhaps by subjecting the Triage to further Floyd | experiential data, it may find something that I have missed. But I Floyd | have little faith left at this point." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | The walls and floor are a clinical white tile and marble. However, the Floyd | dim lights set above this echoing space hiss and pop fitfully, giving Floyd | the small maze of desks and workspaces within a tarnished, decaying Floyd | look. Floyd | Floyd | A set of solid gates lie opened and unlocked to the east and west. A Floyd | small corridor runs northward and from the south, the bright light of Floyd | day is visible through a set of glass doors. Floyd | Floyd | Behind the most prominent desk sits a nervous young man. Floyd | Floyd | Triage obediently appears. Floyd | Floyd | The young man looks up and the corners of his mouth lift into a smile Floyd | that is not quite strong enough to reach his eyes. Floyd | Floyd | "Doctor? Are you..." Floyd | Floyd | Cold. Yes, the cold is familiar. Floyd | Floyd | /(reachgrabfeel|possibility|probability)\ Floyd | Floyd | The echo of an echo, the reflection of words from here to the far wall Floyd | of reality and back. Floyd | Floyd | "...alright? You had us all..." Floyd | Floyd | ## Floyd | /(actionpositiveaffirmative|destroyingfrictionbreakinggrowth|positiveye Floyd | s)\ Floyd | Floyd | "...do you mean...?" Floyd | Floyd | The dim light glinting off the small badge he wears - James - Floyd | Assistant - Floyd | Floyd | ## Floyd | /(livinggrowthfrictionfurtherspreadingoutwardstretchingyestouchingyes)\ Floyd | Floyd | - Bethlehem - Hospital - Floyd | Floyd | "All right then, sir." Floyd | Floyd | And then he is nodding and returning to his seat, somehow both more Floyd | and less nervous. Floyd | Floyd | /(yesdoneyes)\ Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Walkway Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Walkway Floyd | The slight wind whistles tunelessly against this mesh of steel, which Floyd | arcs from one massive, opened gate to another. A roof curves far Floyd | overhead, enclosing both the block-like building to the east and the Floyd | narrow tower to the west. Far below, an intricate set of sub-buildings Floyd | can be seen, enclosed within the complex's outer wall. Floyd | Floyd | Triage silently rolls to a stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Circular Chamber Floyd | The hum of machinery is ever present here, rumbling down into the Floyd | sub-sonics. Pale white walls encircle a series of engraved circles on Floyd | the floor, and at the center - like the pupil of some great eye - sits Floyd | a round console which reaches all the way up to the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | The room's single exit lies to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Triage obediently appears. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x console" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > X CONSOLE Floyd | Floyd | It is complex, divided into several discrete sections. Set on a panel Floyd | is a diagram - a blueprint. A small slot for the dispensing of paper Floyd | tape lies beside it. Set above the diagram is a prism-viewer complete Floyd | with two handles. A set of brass listening-tubes terminate on either Floyd | side of the viewer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x prism" | ||
Floyd | cheapglulxe quit with exit status: 1 | ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | chaudmin exclaims, "AAAAH!" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask slouching" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *clunk* Floyd | Floyd | The rotating tin cylinder within the phonograph vibrates slightly as a Floyd | brass needle scrapes against it. The sound of a throat being cleared Floyd | emerges from the machine's hornshell speaker, followed by a thin, Floyd | haunting voice. Floyd | Floyd | "March the 16th." Floyd | Floyd | A deep, shaky breath. Floyd | Floyd | "I dread to say it, but I believe I am going mad. The -- *moments* -- Floyd | come more frequently now. I fear that I have found what I have sought, Floyd | and I shall now pay the price for it." Floyd | Floyd | The scrape of a chair across flagstone. A sigh. Floyd | Floyd | "Chaos treads the halls of Bedlam; her work is evident everywhere..." Floyd | Floyd | Slouching Towards Bedlam Floyd | An entry in the 9th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (10th Floyd | Anniversary Edition) by Star C. Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 140613 / Inform 7 build 6L02 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | [First time players should type 'about'. Credits are available via Floyd | 'credits'.] Floyd | Floyd | Office Floyd | A massive cedar desk, well-polished and worn, looks elegantly Floyd | out-of-place among the chaos. Papers, files, and books cover nearly Floyd | every flat surface in the room. Floyd | Floyd | There is a phonograph on the table near the window. Floyd | Floyd | A black cube on wheels sits near the door to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "ok, don't do anything with the viewer. noted." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push emerald" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH EMERALD Floyd | Floyd | From within the device comes a sharp clunk, followed by a gentle Floyd | humming. The emerald blinks slowly -- once, twice -- then glows Floyd | steadily. The grid of squares which makes up the thing's screen pivot Floyd | back and forth, seemingly at random, causing ripples of motion across Floyd | its surface. Floyd | Floyd | With a sudden purpose, they begin to flip, revealing hundreds of tiny Floyd | symbols engraved on their surfaces. The squares continue for a moment, Floyd | then begin to settle line by line like a fall of rain into a Floyd | pattern... Floyd | Floyd | INIT.CYCLE.COMP. Floyd | MILL.UNIT.ONLINE Floyd | STORE.DECRYPT/CO Floyd | MPRESS.BOOT.STAC Floyd | K.COMP.OP.SYSTEM Floyd | UNIT.VER.3.REG:. Floyd | DR..SIMON..BRAND Floyd | SET MODE:ANALYZE Floyd | Floyd | The phonograph continues to play. Floyd | Floyd | "I discredit my profession; examining madness as if the world were a Floyd | fluent thing and sanity as malleable as the warm wax of a candle." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "look under blotter" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BLOTTER Floyd | Floyd | Beneath the blotter is a small key, easily taken. It carries a small Floyd | tag labeled "2D". Floyd | Floyd | "The secret lays heavily on both my mind and heart. I have told no Floyd | one; I despair a second opinion would confirm my worst suspicions. I Floyd | have secured all my knowledge of these events within the mechanical Floyd | assistant left by my predecessor. It was my hope that it would allow Floyd | me to see the situation from a new perspective, and help me discover Floyd | the key to my salvation." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DRAWER Floyd | Floyd | The large central drawer opens, revealing a manual and a flanged brass Floyd | rod. Floyd | Floyd | "Alas, it has been to no avail. While I found the entry mode easy Floyd | enough, and the thing seems filled with information regarding the Floyd | hospital down to the point of minutiae, it seems helpless in the face Floyd | of analyzing my current situation." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take rod" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ROD Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | "It may be that I have simply not found that by which this growing Floyd | mystery may be unlocked. Perhaps by subjecting the Triage to further Floyd | experiential data, it may find something that I have missed. But I Floyd | have little faith left at this point." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "open box" | ||
Floyd ] Office Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN BOX Floyd | Floyd | The sandalwood box opens, revealing a tin cylinder labeled January Floyd | eighth, a tin cylinder labeled January twenty-second and a tin Floyd | cylinder labeled March second. Floyd | Floyd | The sound of a chair creaking. Floyd | Floyd | "I have found a blessing in James. He has been nothing but kind and Floyd | helpful in my short time here. I find myself wondering if, perhaps, he Floyd | can be trusted enough to... but how can I punish him with this Floyd | knowledge?" Floyd | Floyd | A sigh. Floyd | Floyd | "But how can I bear it alone?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "back" | |
| chaudmin says, "the game exited again when I examined the viewer" | ||
| chaudmin says, "so, don't do anything to the viewer, basically" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | The walls and floor are a clinical white tile and marble. However, the Floyd | dim lights set above this echoing space hiss and pop fitfully, giving Floyd | the small maze of desks and workspaces within a tarnished, decaying Floyd | look. Floyd | Floyd | A set of solid gates lie opened and unlocked to the east and west. A Floyd | small corridor runs northward and from the south, the bright light of Floyd | day is visible through a set of glass doors. Floyd | Floyd | Behind the most prominent desk sits a nervous young man. Floyd | Floyd | Triage obediently appears. Floyd | Floyd | The young man looks up and the corners of his mouth lift into a smile Floyd | that is not quite strong enough to reach his eyes. Floyd | Floyd | "Doctor? Are you..." Floyd | Floyd | Cold. Yes, the cold is familiar. Floyd | Floyd | /(reachgrabfeel|possibility|probability)\ Floyd | Floyd | The echo of an echo, the reflection of words from here to the far wall Floyd | of reality and back. Floyd | Floyd | "...alright? You had us all..." Floyd | Floyd | ## Floyd | /(actionpositiveaffirmative|destroyingfrictionbreakinggrowth|positiveye Floyd | s)\ Floyd | Floyd | "...do you mean...?" Floyd | Floyd | The dim light glinting off the small badge he wears - James - Floyd | Assistant - Floyd | Floyd | ## Floyd | /(livinggrowthfrictionfurtherspreadingoutwardstretchingyestouchingyes)\ Floyd | Floyd | - Bethlehem - Hospital - Floyd | Floyd | "All right then, sir." Floyd | Floyd | And then he is nodding and returning to his seat, somehow both more Floyd | and less nervous. Floyd | Floyd | /(yesdoneyes)\ Floyd | Floyd | James stands and stretches his legs for a moment before resuming his Floyd | seat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Walkway Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | | DavidW says, "I wonder if the sleepmask terp is making it act weird." | |
Floyd | Floyd | Walkway Floyd | The slight wind whistles tunelessly against this mesh of steel, which Floyd | arcs from one massive, opened gate to another. A roof curves far Floyd | overhead, enclosing both the block-like building to the east and the Floyd | narrow tower to the west. Far below, an intricate set of sub-buildings Floyd | can be seen, enclosed within the complex's outer wall. Floyd | Floyd | Triage obediently appears. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Circular Chamber Floyd | The hum of machinery is ever present here, rumbling down into the Floyd | sub-sonics. Pale white walls encircle a series of engraved circles on Floyd | the floor, and at the center - like the pupil of some great eye - sits Floyd | a round console which reaches all the way up to the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | The room's single exit lies to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Triage silently rolls to a stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x console" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > X CONSOLE Floyd | Floyd | It is complex, divided into several discrete sections. Set on a panel Floyd | is a diagram - a blueprint. A small slot for the dispensing of paper Floyd | tape lies beside it. Set above the diagram is a prism-viewer complete Floyd | with two handles. A set of brass listening-tubes terminate on either Floyd | side of the viewer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x diagram" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > X DIAGRAM Floyd | Floyd | Intricate in its detail, it depicts a series of twenty-four corridors Floyd | set about a circular room like the spokes of a wheel. Each corridor Floyd | opens onto six rooms, three on each side, with one exception: a hall Floyd | at 3 o'clock instead connects to a building labeled "Administration." Floyd | Floyd | At the center of the circular room is a keyhole. Beside it is a Floyd | two-headed arrow, pointing up and down. Floyd | Floyd | Beneath the blueprint is a series of buttons: six labeled A through F Floyd | and one with an inverted triangle from which six small lines emerge. Floyd | None of the buttons is currently depressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf7" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > SAVE## /(pointrememberingSAVEstoresafekeep)\ Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "ooh, meta" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push f button" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH F BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | The button clicks downward, then returns to its original state when Floyd | released. Nothing more happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put key in keyhole" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT KEY IN KEYHOLE Floyd | Floyd | That does not appear to fit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push up button" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH UP BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "no, the rod goes in this keyhole, I think." | |
| chaudmin says, "oh, right" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "put rod in keyhole" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ROD IN KEYHOLE Floyd | Floyd | The brass rod slip easily into the keyhole. Then, of its own accord, Floyd | it begins to turn - first clockwise, then counter-clockwise. Floyd | Floyd | The floor rumbles for a moment. There is an odd sense of movement. Floyd | Floyd | The light beneath the Administration and its connecting corridor goes Floyd | out. Floyd | Floyd | A corridor at twelve o'clock lights up as the key stops moving, as Floyd | does its north-east room. The button labeled "A" clicks down and Floyd | begins to glow. Floyd | Floyd | The room seems to have subtly cha... Floyd | Floyd | /(pain)\ Floyd | Floyd | A cacophony fills the room - a hideous screeching echo. Floyd | Floyd | /(chaosrandomhurt)\ Floyd | Floyd | It continues - emanating from the listening-tubes - a metallic Floyd | repetitive thrum, the sound of an insect grown to the size of a Floyd | lion... Floyd | Floyd | /(nosensenonsenserandomrandomnosensenonsense)\ Floyd | Floyd | ...echo on top of echo on top of echo - resounding through the tubes, Floyd | the room, the halls. A numbness spreads from arm to hand to finger... Floyd | Floyd | /(stopnostopmake)\ Floyd | Floyd | A solid *thunk* makes itself barely heard above the noise and then - Floyd | silence. Floyd | Floyd | /(stop)\ Floyd | Floyd | The button "B" is now depressed and glowing - the one beside it now Floyd | dark - as is the eastern room of the lighted corridor. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The key will be for the cell itself." | |
| chaudmin says, "I'm not sure what that was about" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "point at console" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT CONSOLE Floyd | Floyd | Triage's emerald searches the console, then... Floyd | Floyd | CAT:NONLIVING.TO Floyd | OL.UTIL:PANOPTIC Floyd | ON.MAIN.CONSOLE. Floyd | CAPABLE.OF.VIEWI Floyd | NG.ANY.CELL.IN.H Floyd | OSPITAL.WITH.BOT Floyd | VISUAL&AUDIO.OUT Floyd | PUT+CODE.STORAGE Floyd | Floyd | From the gurgling sound emanating from it, the listening tube's Floyd | terminus has momentarily become submerged. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Walkway Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Walkway Floyd | The slight wind whistles tunelessly against this mesh of steel, which Floyd | arcs from one massive, opened gate to another. A roof curves far Floyd | overhead, enclosing both the block-like building to the north and the Floyd | narrow tower to the south. Far below, an intricate set of Floyd | sub-buildings can be seen, enclosed within the complex's outer wall. Floyd | Floyd | Triage trundles patiently along beside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor 6 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor 6 Floyd | Were it not for the complex's enclosing walls and ceiling, this hall Floyd | would certainly be left at the mercy of the elements - no surface Floyd | stands unbroken or unpitted. Floyd | Floyd | The eastern wall is set with a series of labeled doorways: to the Floyd | northeast lies A, to the east B, to the southeast C. Floyd | Floyd | The western wall is much the same: to the southwest is D, to the west Floyd | E, to the northwest F. Floyd | Floyd | The door to the south is labeled simply "Panopticon". Floyd | Floyd | Triage silently rolls to a stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Room 6A Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Room 6A Floyd | A room that has been stripped almost completely bare - its only Floyd | pretense at furniture is a small, hard chair thrown off to one side. Floyd | Its single exit lies to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | Triage obediently appears. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I'm not sure why 2D would be in corridor 6. Shouldn't it be in corridor 2?" | |
| chaudmin says, "I think this would be 6D" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x chair" | ||
Floyd ] Room 6A Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | It is so much junk - brittle and old, it is unlikely it could bear any Floyd | weight whatsoever. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "sit on chair" | ||
Floyd ] Room 6A Floyd | > Floyd | > SIT ON CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | It's useless -- better to leave it be. Floyd | Floyd | It sounds as if an insect is caught somewhere in the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Room 6A Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | There is a faint buzzing whine in the air, seeming to come from the Floyd | southern wall. Floyd | Floyd | A piercing tone fills the air for a brief moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x south wall" | ||
Floyd ] Room 6A Floyd | > Floyd | > X SOUTH WALL Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine south. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin asks, "ok, maybe the room south of here?" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor 6 Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor 6 Floyd | Were it not for the complex's enclosing walls and ceiling, this hall Floyd | would certainly be left at the mercy of the elements - no surface Floyd | stands unbroken or unpitted. Floyd | Floyd | The eastern wall is set with a series of labeled doorways: to the Floyd | northeast lies A, to the east B, to the southeast C. Floyd | Floyd | The western wall is much the same: to the southwest is D, to the west Floyd | E, to the northwest F. Floyd | Floyd | The door to the south is labeled simply "Panopticon". Floyd | Floyd | Triage trundles patiently along beside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor 6 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The door to room 6B seems stuck fast - from behind it can be heard the Floyd | steady drip of water. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin exclaims, "well fine then. time to try every single room!" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Room 6C Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Room 6C Floyd | A room whose floor seems in danger of collapse - a hole has started Floyd | forming in its center and the edges slowly slope in towards it. Its Floyd | single exit lies to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | Triage silently rolls to a stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "How did we choose this corridor, by the way?" | |
| chaudmin asks, "I have no idea, it just kind of ended up here?" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||
Floyd ] Room 6C Floyd | > Floyd | > X HOLE Floyd | Floyd | The hole is approximately the size of a clenched fist, and beyond only Floyd | darkness can be seen. The floor surrounding it seems anything but Floyd | stable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "look in hole" | ||
Floyd ] Room 6C Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN HOLE Floyd | Floyd | The whole area seems perilously close to collapse - best not to Floyd | linger. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "We probably don't want to enter the hole?" | |
| chaudmin says, "I don't think we can, it's the size of a fist" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "point at hole" | ||
Floyd ] Room 6C Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT HOLE Floyd | Floyd | The emerald eye examines the hole returning with: Floyd | Floyd | CAT:UNKNOWN/UNLI Floyd | STED.UTIL:NOT.AP Floyd | PLICABLE.PART:NO Floyd | NE.ITEM.IS.NOT.R Floyd | ECOGNIZED.BY.CUR Floyd | RENT.SYSTEM.STOR Floyd | E.REQUIRE.ADDITI Floyd | ONAL.INFORMATION Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "nothing in here, then" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor 6 Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor 6 Floyd | Were it not for the complex's enclosing walls and ceiling, this hall Floyd | would certainly be left at the mercy of the elements - no surface Floyd | stands unbroken or unpitted. Floyd | Floyd | The eastern wall is set with a series of labeled doorways: to the Floyd | northeast lies A, to the east B, to the southeast C. Floyd | Floyd | The western wall is much the same: to the southwest is D, to the west Floyd | E, to the northwest F. Floyd | Floyd | The door to the south is labeled simply "Panopticon". Floyd | Floyd | Triage obediently appears. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | DavidW says, ">stick out tongue at triage" | |
| DavidW says, "Hi Roger." | ||
| chaudmin says, "haha" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Room 6D Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Room 6D Floyd | An old room that - while crumbling around the edges - is fairly sturdy Floyd | and secure. Its dusty floor holds nothing more than a cot and a Floyd | crumbling chair. A set of gas light fixtures hangs off the wall, Floyd | blocked and in disrepair and a door lies to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | The walls are covered with writing. Floyd | Floyd | Triage silently rolls to a stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "yo" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x cot" | ||
Floyd ] Room 6D Floyd | > Floyd | > X COT Floyd | Floyd | A small, well worn cot, almost worn through from use. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "look under cot" | ||
Floyd ] Room 6D Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER COT Floyd | Floyd | The cot holds no use. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x chair" | ||
Floyd ] Room 6D Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | It is so much junk - brittle and old, it is unlikely it could bear any Floyd | weight whatsoever. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x walls" | ||
Floyd ] Room 6D Floyd | > Floyd | > X WALLS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x writing" | ||
Floyd ] Room 6D Floyd | > Floyd | > X WRITING Floyd | Floyd | In the walls" current state, it must not have been too difficult to Floyd | scratch a message into - but the preciseness of the writing is still Floyd | impressive. Various phrases are carved in a generally circular pattern Floyd | about an intricate set of lines and circles at the center, within Floyd | which is inscribed: Floyd | Floyd | Z X W H T G B W H T F G W H T F G B Z X W H T Floyd | Floyd | The outer writing reads, variously: Floyd | Floyd | LOGOS EN SOPH NOTARIKON AND A LITTLE Floyd | CHLD Floyd | MKLTH GEMATRIA 2693 Floyd | 19876 MCHN Floyd | KTHR TEMURAH 1262 Floyd | 8765 SHALL LEAD THEM Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "well, that's bizarre." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "point at writing" | ||
Floyd ] Room 6D Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT WRITING Floyd | Floyd | A small beam of green light lashes out over the writing as Triage's Floyd | screen lights up: Floyd | Floyd | CAT:WRITING.UTIL Floyd | :COMMUNICATION.P Floyd | ART:MULTIPLE.PHR Floyd | ASES.POSITIONING Floyd | POSSIBILY.IMPORT Floyd | ANT.SIX.SEPARATE Floyd | PORTIONS?FURTHER Floyd | ANALYSIS.REQ.... Floyd | Floyd | It has no sooner finished showing this then, with a series of clanks, Floyd | the letters begin to spin wildly, randomly. The screen fills with a Floyd | series of scrolling data, clearing the old as quickly as the new Floyd | appears... Floyd | Floyd | LOGOS.EN.SOPH... Floyd | (EN=AIN=NOTHING) Floyd | WITHOUT.FORM?... Floyd | SOURCE:HEBREW/KA Floyd | BALLAH-BOUNDLESS Floyd | LIMITLESS-CREATO Floyd | R?GENERATIVE-DEI Floyd | TY?SECOND.GOD=DE Floyd | MIURGE(GNOSTIC?) Floyd | Floyd | ASSOCIATIONFOUND Floyd | TRINITY-NOTARIKO Floyd | N.GEMATRIA.TEMUR Floyd | AH.ALL.KABALLIST Floyd | IC.REFERENCES.MA Floyd | RKINGS.AT.CENTER Floyd | SUPPORT.POSSIBLE Floyd | CODE.OR.CYPHER?. Floyd | Floyd | AND.A.LITTLE.CHL Floyd | D.2693?.GEMATRIA Floyd | /NUMEROLOGY/UNKN Floyd | OWN.SYSTEM.W/NO. Floyd | VOWELS?[B=1,C=2] Floyd | AND.A.LITTLE.... Floyd | CHLD/CHILD/MCHN/ Floyd | MACHINE?.SHALL.. Floyd | Floyd | MACHINE/KABALLAH Floyd | REFERENCE?SEARCH Floyd | ING.?CYPHERIST?. Floyd | ENLIGHTENMENT.AS Floyd | INFORMATION?DATA Floyd | MARKINGS+MLKTH+K Floyd | THR=MALKUTH.KETH Floyd | ER-SEPHIRA/ROTH? Floyd | Floyd | CYPHER:NO.VOWELS Floyd | =20.SYMBOLS=?SIM Floyd | PLE.ROTATION.OR. Floyd | FOLD?B=N=B/C=P=C Floyd | ...ZXWHT...MLKTH Floyd | MLKTH=MALKUTH.!. Floyd | GBWHTF=SN[KTHR]. Floyd | [S]=?AS?IS?SO?.. Floyd | Floyd | Finally, seeming almost pleased with itself, the machine quiets down, Floyd | displaying: Floyd | Floyd | CENTER.LETTERING Floyd | CODE/CYPHER(NO.V Floyd | OWELS)="MALKUTH. Floyd | IS.IN.KETHER.AS. Floyd | KETHER.IS.IN.MAL Floyd | KUTH"=KAB/CYPH.= Floyd | [MAN]IS.IN[GOD]A Floyd | S[GOD]IS.IN[MAN] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Triage), "You scary." | |
| chaudmin exclaims, "man, that puzzle was a hard one!" | ||
| DavidW says, "If we have a god in our inventory, I may scream." | ||
| DavidW asks, "and a little Triage machine shall lead the doctor where?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Room 6D Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Carried: Floyd | a small key labled 2D Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask triage about god" | ||
Floyd ] Room 6D Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK TRIAGE ABOUT GOD Floyd | Floyd | That is not a recognized verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The hell it's not." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "point at me" | ||
Floyd ] Room 6D Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT ME Floyd | Floyd | The emerald flickers from head to toe before returning: Floyd | Floyd | CAT:LIVING...... Floyd | *CATASTROPHIC.ER Floyd | RROR.A042.CATEGO Floyd | RY.INDEX.OUT.OF. Floyd | RANGE.STACK.OVER Floyd | FLOW*PART:ID=DR. Floyd | THOMAS.XAVIER=CU Floyd | RRENT.OPERATOR.. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "still a problem there." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move cot" | ||
Floyd ] Room 6D Floyd | > Floyd | > MOVE COT Floyd | Floyd | The cot holds no use. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lights" | ||
Floyd ] Room 6D Floyd | > Floyd | > X LIGHTS Floyd | Floyd | Their flickering fills the room with uneasy shadows. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take light" | ||
Floyd ] Room 6D Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | The lights look as if they will go out any moment as it is. Best to Floyd | leave them alone. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Shall we visit rooms E and F?" | |
| chaudmin says, "let's shall" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor 6 Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor 6 Floyd | Were it not for the complex's enclosing walls and ceiling, this hall Floyd | would certainly be left at the mercy of the elements - no surface Floyd | stands unbroken or unpitted. Floyd | Floyd | The eastern wall is set with a series of labeled doorways: to the Floyd | northeast lies A, to the east B, to the southeast C. Floyd | Floyd | The western wall is much the same: to the southwest is D, to the west Floyd | E, to the northwest F. Floyd | Floyd | The door to the south is labeled simply "Panopticon". Floyd | Floyd | Triage trundles patiently along beside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor 6 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | The room beyond the door to the west seems to have collapsed in on Floyd | itself - the door swings inwards to immediately strike an impenetrable Floyd | mound of rubble. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "well not that way" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor 6 Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | The lock and handle on the door to 6F seem broken - making it Floyd | unopenable. The sound of wind faintly blowing can be heard beyond it, Floyd | though. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin shrugs. | |
| DavidW says, "This is not the most secure and functional of corridors." | ||
| chaudmin says, "nope" | ||
| chaudmin says, "back to the panopticon" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Walkway Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Walkway Floyd | The slight wind whistles tunelessly against this mesh of steel, which Floyd | arcs from one massive, opened gate to another. A roof curves far Floyd | overhead, enclosing both the block-like building to the north and the Floyd | narrow tower to the south. Far below, an intricate set of Floyd | sub-buildings can be seen, enclosed within the complex's outer wall. Floyd | Floyd | Triage obediently appears. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Circular Chamber Floyd | The hum of machinery is ever present here, rumbling down into the Floyd | sub-sonics. Pale white walls encircle a series of engraved circles on Floyd | the floor, and at the center - like the pupil of some great eye - sits Floyd | a round console which reaches all the way up to the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | The room's single exit lies to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Triage silently rolls to a stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "point at console" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT CONSOLE Floyd | Floyd | Triage's emerald searches the console, then... Floyd | Floyd | CAT:NONLIVING.TO Floyd | OL.UTIL:PANOPTIC Floyd | ON.MAIN.CONSOLE. Floyd | CAPABLE.OF.VIEWI Floyd | NG.ANY.CELL.IN.H Floyd | OSPITAL.WITH.BOT Floyd | VISUAL&AUDIO.OUT Floyd | PUT+CODE.STORAGE Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "wait I already did that" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x diagram" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > X DIAGRAM Floyd | Floyd | Intricate in its detail, it depicts a series of twenty-four corridors Floyd | set about a circular room like the spokes of a wheel. Each corridor Floyd | opens onto six rooms, three on each side, with one exception: a hall Floyd | at 3 o'clock instead connects to a building labeled "Administration." Floyd | Floyd | At the center of the circular room is a keyhole. Beside it is a Floyd | two-headed arrow, pointing up and down. Floyd | Floyd | Beneath the blueprint is a series of buttons: six labeled A through F Floyd | and one with an inverted triangle from which six small lines emerge. Floyd | The button labeled 'B' is depressed and glowing. Floyd | Floyd | A corridor at twelve o'clock is lit and its eastern room are lit up Floyd | from beneath, as is the upward head of the two-headed arrow. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "push up?" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push up arrow" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH UP ARROW Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "maybe push a letter" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push C" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH C Floyd | Floyd | The button clicks downward and begins to glow. On the blueprint, the Floyd | corridor's south-eastern room also lights up. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "wait, do the buttons unlock the doors or lock them or what?" | |
| chaudmin says, "I think this is how we select a room to view" | ||
| DavidW asks, "If we push the B button, will we be able to get in there?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "B was already pushed when we went the first time, though" | ||
| DavidW says, "and we couldn't get into B." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Walkway Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Walkway Floyd | The slight wind whistles tunelessly against this mesh of steel, which Floyd | arcs from one massive, opened gate to another. A roof curves far Floyd | overhead, enclosing both the block-like building to the north and the Floyd | narrow tower to the south. Far below, an intricate set of Floyd | sub-buildings can be seen, enclosed within the complex's outer wall. Floyd | Floyd | Triage obediently appears. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "I'm afraid to examine the viewer in case it exits the game again" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Walkway Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Straying from the walkway would most likely result in a rather fatal Floyd | fall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor 6 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor 6 Floyd | Were it not for the complex's enclosing walls and ceiling, this hall Floyd | would certainly be left at the mercy of the elements - no surface Floyd | stands unbroken or unpitted. Floyd | Floyd | The eastern wall is set with a series of labeled doorways: to the Floyd | northeast lies A, to the east B, to the southeast C. Floyd | Floyd | The western wall is much the same: to the southwest is D, to the west Floyd | E, to the northwest F. Floyd | Floyd | The door to the south is labeled simply "Panopticon". Floyd | Floyd | Triage trundles patiently along beside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Room 6D Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Room 6D Floyd | An old room that - while crumbling around the edges - is fairly sturdy Floyd | and secure. Its dusty floor holds nothing more than a cot and a Floyd | crumbling chair. A set of gas light fixtures hangs off the wall, Floyd | blocked and in disrepair and a door lies to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | The walls are covered with writing. Floyd | Floyd | Triage silently rolls to a stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor 6 Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor 6 Floyd | Were it not for the complex's enclosing walls and ceiling, this hall Floyd | would certainly be left at the mercy of the elements - no surface Floyd | stands unbroken or unpitted. Floyd | Floyd | The eastern wall is set with a series of labeled doorways: to the Floyd | northeast lies A, to the east B, to the southeast C. Floyd | Floyd | The western wall is much the same: to the southwest is D, to the west Floyd | E, to the northwest F. Floyd | Floyd | The door to the south is labeled simply "Panopticon". Floyd | Floyd | Triage obediently appears. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor 6 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The door to room 6B seems stuck fast - from behind it can be heard the Floyd | steady drip of water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Walkway Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Walkway Floyd | The slight wind whistles tunelessly against this mesh of steel, which Floyd | arcs from one massive, opened gate to another. A roof curves far Floyd | overhead, enclosing both the block-like building to the north and the Floyd | narrow tower to the south. Far below, an intricate set of Floyd | sub-buildings can be seen, enclosed within the complex's outer wall. Floyd | Floyd | Triage silently rolls to a stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Circular Chamber Floyd | The hum of machinery is ever present here, rumbling down into the Floyd | sub-sonics. Pale white walls encircle a series of engraved circles on Floyd | the floor, and at the center - like the pupil of some great eye - sits Floyd | a round console which reaches all the way up to the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | The room's single exit lies to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Triage trundles patiently along beside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push b" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH B Floyd | Floyd | The button clicks downward and begins to glow. On the blueprint, the Floyd | corridor's eastern room also lights up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push b" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH B Floyd | Floyd | The button is already pressed Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull b" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > PULL B Floyd | Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x diagram" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > X DIAGRAM Floyd | Floyd | Intricate in its detail, it depicts a series of twenty-four corridors Floyd | set about a circular room like the spokes of a wheel. Each corridor Floyd | opens onto six rooms, three on each side, with one exception: a hall Floyd | at 3 o'clock instead connects to a building labeled "Administration." Floyd | Floyd | At the center of the circular room is a keyhole. Beside it is a Floyd | two-headed arrow, pointing up and down. Floyd | Floyd | Beneath the blueprint is a series of buttons: six labeled A through F Floyd | and one with an inverted triangle from which six small lines emerge. Floyd | The button labeled 'B' is depressed and glowing. Floyd | Floyd | A corridor at twelve o'clock is lit and its eastern room are lit up Floyd | from beneath, as is the upward head of the two-headed arrow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Walkway Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Walkway Floyd | The slight wind whistles tunelessly against this mesh of steel, which Floyd | arcs from one massive, opened gate to another. A roof curves far Floyd | overhead, enclosing both the block-like building to the north and the Floyd | narrow tower to the south. Far below, an intricate set of Floyd | sub-buildings can be seen, enclosed within the complex's outer wall. Floyd | Floyd | Triage obediently appears. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor 6 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corridor 6 Floyd | Were it not for the complex's enclosing walls and ceiling, this hall Floyd | would certainly be left at the mercy of the elements - no surface Floyd | stands unbroken or unpitted. Floyd | Floyd | The eastern wall is set with a series of labeled doorways: to the Floyd | northeast lies A, to the east B, to the southeast C. Floyd | Floyd | The western wall is much the same: to the southwest is D, to the west Floyd | E, to the northwest F. Floyd | Floyd | The door to the south is labeled simply "Panopticon". Floyd | Floyd | Triage trundles patiently along beside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor 6 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The door to room 6B seems stuck fast - from behind it can be heard the Floyd | steady drip of water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "point at 6B door" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor 6 Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT 6B DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "point at east door" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor 6 Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT EAST DOOR Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to point at east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "point at door" | ||
Floyd ] Corridor 6 Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The emerald eye examines the hallway door returning with: Floyd | Floyd | CAT:UNKNOWN/UNLI Floyd | STED.UTIL:NOT.AP Floyd | PLICABLE.PART:NO Floyd | NE.ITEM.IS.NOT.R Floyd | ECOGNIZED.BY.CUR Floyd | RENT.SYSTEM.STOR Floyd | E.REQUIRE.ADDITI Floyd | ONAL.INFORMATION Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Walkway Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Walkway Floyd | The slight wind whistles tunelessly against this mesh of steel, which Floyd | arcs from one massive, opened gate to another. A roof curves far Floyd | overhead, enclosing both the block-like building to the north and the Floyd | narrow tower to the south. Far below, an intricate set of Floyd | sub-buildings can be seen, enclosed within the complex's outer wall. Floyd | Floyd | Triage silently rolls to a stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Circular Chamber Floyd | The hum of machinery is ever present here, rumbling down into the Floyd | sub-sonics. Pale white walls encircle a series of engraved circles on Floyd | the floor, and at the center - like the pupil of some great eye - sits Floyd | a round console which reaches all the way up to the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | The room's single exit lies to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Triage trundles patiently along beside. Floyd | Floyd | The sound of dripping water echoes through the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "point at diagram" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT DIAGRAM Floyd | Floyd | Triage's beam flickers over the panopticon panel, briefly, then Floyd | displays: Floyd | Floyd | CAT:NONLIVING.TO Floyd | OL.UTIL:PANOPTIC Floyd | ON.BLUEPRINT.PAR Floyd | T:ACTIVATE.VIA.P Floyd | ROPER.KEY.CHOOSE Floyd | CELL.VIA.BUTTONS Floyd | PRINT.PATIENT.CO Floyd | DE.VIA.TRIANGLE. Floyd | Floyd | The sound of three drips of water falling in quick succession comes Floyd | floating across the console. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push triangle" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH TRIANGLE Floyd | Floyd | The button clicks downward, then returns to its original state when Floyd | released. Nothing more happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push D" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH D Floyd | Floyd | (D button) Floyd | The button clicks downward and begins to glow. On the blueprint, the Floyd | corridor's south-western room also lights up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push triangle" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH TRIANGLE Floyd | Floyd | The button clicks downward, then returns to its original state when Floyd | released. Nothing more seems to happen for a moment, then a sudden Floyd | clattering is emitted from the console's slot from which emerges a Floyd | paper tape. A moment or two later, both the noise and the tape stop. Floyd | Easily torn from the console, it reveals the symbols "F6A142" Floyd | imprinted on its surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "yay, got a code" | |
| DavidW says, "hooray" | ||
| DavidW says, "Let's go to the archives and try it." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take tape" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE TAPE Floyd | Floyd | (the paper tape labeled F6A142) Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "er. How do we get back to admin?" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | No exit lies in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn rod" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN ROD Floyd | Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "huh" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take rod" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ROD Floyd | Floyd | As the rod slides from its home, the floor rumbles for a moment. There Floyd | is an odd sense of movement. Floyd | Floyd | All of the lights on the blueprint go out, then the light beneath the Floyd | Administration and its connecting corridor flickers back to life. Floyd | Floyd | The room seems to have subtly changed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Circular Chamber Floyd | The hum of machinery is ever present here, rumbling down into the Floyd | sub-sonics. Pale white walls encircle a series of engraved circles on Floyd | the floor, and at the center - like the pupil of some great eye - sits Floyd | a round console which reaches all the way up to the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | The room's single exit lies to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Triage rests obediently nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Walkway Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Walkway Floyd | The slight wind whistles tunelessly against this mesh of steel, which Floyd | arcs from one massive, opened gate to another. A roof curves far Floyd | overhead, enclosing both the block-like building to the east and the Floyd | narrow tower to the west. Far below, an intricate set of sub-buildings Floyd | can be seen, enclosed within the complex's outer wall. Floyd | Floyd | Triage silently rolls to a stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x rod" | ||
Floyd ] Walkway Floyd | > Floyd | > X ROD Floyd | Floyd | A short rod of brass with a flange at one end (engraved with a '6') Floyd | and a series of tines at the other, perpendicular to the shaft. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "ah, so that's why we went to corridor 6" | |
| DavidW says, "aha" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | The walls and floor are a clinical white tile and marble. However, the Floyd | dim lights set above this echoing space hiss and pop fitfully, giving Floyd | the small maze of desks and workspaces within a tarnished, decaying Floyd | look. Floyd | Floyd | A set of solid gates lie opened and unlocked to the east and west. A Floyd | small corridor runs northward and from the south, the bright light of Floyd | day is visible through a set of glass doors. Floyd | Floyd | James sits behind his desk, nervously working. Floyd | Floyd | Triage trundles patiently along beside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Archives Floyd | This room is mostly empty space. The farthest wall is lined with Floyd | gleaming, brass pull-file drawers and seems to go on infinitely in Floyd | every direction. The entrance to the west opens onto a solid, dusty Floyd | platform, which allows visitors to stand suspended above the unseen Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | At the end of the platform lies a pedestal topped with a small, Floyd | inverted onyx pyramid. Floyd | Floyd | Triage obediently appears. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "turn dial to f" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN DIAL TO F Floyd | Floyd | As the dial is set, the pedestal begins to hum and the sound of Floyd | turning gears can be heard. The tape beneath the panel's glass display Floyd | suddenly advances from right to left, erasing the display. Then, with Floyd | a *clunk* it advances one further step ... revealing 'F' imprinted on Floyd | its surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "turn dial to 6" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN DIAL TO 6 Floyd | Floyd | The tape advances a step further. It now reads 'F6'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "turn dial to a" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN DIAL TO A Floyd | Floyd | The tape advances a step further. It now reads 'F6A'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "turn dial to 1" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN DIAL TO 1 Floyd | Floyd | The tape advances a step further. It now reads 'F6A1'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "turn dial to 4" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN DIAL TO 4 Floyd | Floyd | The tape advances a step further. It now reads 'F6A14'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "turn dial to 2" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN DIAL TO 2 Floyd | Floyd | The humming of the pedestal suddenly increases in both volume and Floyd | pitch. The tape spins forward, blanking the display. Then... Floyd | Floyd | "SEARCHING..." Floyd | Floyd | Another advance. Then... Floyd | Floyd | "FILE...FOUND...FILE F6A142...RETRIEVAL..." Floyd | Floyd | The humming ceases, to be replaced with a quick-paced ticking, Floyd | something like a watch. Floyd | Floyd | With an easy grace, six thin rods emerge from the sides of the Floyd | pyramid. Growing quickly, they reveal a series of articulations along Floyd | their length as they bend downwards. Within moments, they have Floyd | revealed an impressive span - making a shape not unlike a spider. Floyd | Floyd | The lower set of ... legs? arms? ... pushes lightly against the Floyd | base, freeing it. It turns with blinding speed and...leaps and... Floyd | Floyd | It is gone, running along the walls on four legs, its arms gripping at Floyd | protrusions and flinging it further ... up ... up... Floyd | Floyd | It stops somewhere far above, bracing itself on two legs. Two others Floyd | reach forward and grip, then pull, opening a distant drawer. Its two Floyd | arms reach inward, flicking through files with blinding speed. Floyd | Floyd | Then, finding what it seeks, it grabs hold and pulls a folder close to Floyd | its body. It then gently wraps its arms around to hold it tight. Floyd | Closing the drawer, it quickly makes its way back and... Floyd | Floyd | With a final tick, the pyramid settles itself back into the pedestal, Floyd | holding out the retrieved folder on two articulated rods of brass. The Floyd | tape advances. It now reads "...RETRIEVAL COMPLETE..." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "That's far too creepy." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take folder" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE FOLDER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] File F6A142: Cleve Anderson Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The file is broken into several sections: Floyd | Floyd | > Personal Information Floyd | Patient History Floyd | Initial Diagnosis Floyd | Floyd | Personal Notes Floyd | -[March 3rd] Floyd | -[March 4th] Floyd | -[March 5th] Floyd | -[March 6th] Floyd | -[March 7th] Floyd | -[March 7th, addendum] Floyd | -[March 8th] Floyd | -[March 8th, addendum] Floyd | -[March 9th] | DavidW says, "oh my. lots of text." | |
| chaudmin says, "great, more menus to navigate" | ||
| chaudmin presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] Personal Information Floyd | Patient Name: Cleve Anderson Floyd | Age: 23 Floyd | Physical Description: 5'10" 12 stone, grey eyes, brown hair Floyd | Distinguishing Marks: small burns on palms and inner forearms, these Floyd | should heal within a few weeks (possible scarring?). Floyd | Residence: 1428 Fleet Street, second floor loft Floyd | Possessions: money (a few pound notes), a key, and identification Floyd | papers Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| chaudmin pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] File F6A142: Cleve Anderson Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The file is broken into several sections: Floyd | Floyd | > Personal Information Floyd | Patient History Floyd | Initial Diagnosis Floyd | Floyd | Personal Notes Floyd | -[March 3rd] Floyd | -[March 4th] Floyd | -[March 5th] Floyd | -[March 6th] Floyd | -[March 7th] Floyd | -[March 7th, addendum] Floyd | -[March 8th] Floyd | -[March 8th, addendum] Floyd | -[March 9th] | ||
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Floyd ] Patient History Floyd | Arrival Date/Time: 2 - 3 - 55 23:00 Floyd | Processing: James Houlihan Floyd | Attending Alienist: Dr. Thomas Xavier Floyd | Depositing/Transporting: unlisted Floyd | Floyd | Patient arrested for disturbance of the peace, neighbors described Floyd | screaming and raving at all hours. Found comatose in his flat (see Floyd | personal information). Awoke in transit - mostly compliant though some Floyd | resistance -- *completely silent*, refused to answer questions. Floyd | Floyd | Diagnosis: (for specifics see attached) Disassociative disorder, acute Floyd | schizophrenia with paranoid tendencies. Does not, however, seem Floyd | dangerous to himself or others. Floyd | Floyd | Prognosis: To be kept under observation until such time as attending Floyd | alienist decides on further treatment [uncertain of necessary Floyd | duration]. Floyd | Floyd | Departure Date/Time: 10 - 3 - 55 5:50 Floyd | Status: Deceased Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
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Floyd ] Initial Diagnosis | ||
| Floyd [23:00] Patient initially in comatose state. Initial brief physical | ||
Floyd | examination reveals bruising along the upper arms and temple, and Floyd | burns on the palms and inner forearms. Floyd | | ||
| Floyd [23:30] Patient awoken via the use of smelling salts. Immediately | ||
Floyd | catatonic, unresponsive to physical/auditory stimuli. Floyd | | ||
| Floyd [23:50] Patient *physically* responsive to stimuli, though eyes are | ||
Floyd | unnaturally dilated. Seems to be uncertain where he is. Floyd | | ||
| Floyd [23:55] Patient allows a more thorough physical examination. Seems to | ||
Floyd | be suffering from symptoms in line with shock, exposure, and Floyd | exhaustion. Constantly shivering as if from cold. Floyd | | ||
| Floyd [24:00] Patient still refuses to speak. Examination of tongue/throat | ||
Floyd | reveals that he is physically *capable* of speech. Violently shakes Floyd | head when asked to do so. Otherwise compliant and nonviolent. Floyd | Floyd | Refuses to make *any* noise whatsoever - even to say 'ah' during Floyd | examination. Possible phobia towards noise? Seems fine with *others* Floyd | making sound. Bite marks along inside of cheeks and along tongue -- Floyd | possibly epileptic? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | DavidW asks, "Could the 2D key be Cleve's flat key on Fleet St?" | |
| chaudmin exclaims, "hmmmmm!" | ||
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Floyd ] -[March 3rd] Floyd | Placed patient in 6D and have made sure to retain the only key to Floyd | Corridor 6. D seemed the best choice, all in all, at least it's Floyd | structurally sound -- several of the rooms have completely collapsed. Floyd | Floyd | Patient completely compliant - no struggling whatsoever. He even Floyd | seemed to calm considerably once led through the Panopticon to his Floyd | room. Went to sleep almost immediately. Floyd | Floyd | Checked on patient early via prism - still sleeping. Went in with Floyd | breakfast and a sheaf of papers. Asked him if he knew how to read as Floyd | he ate. He laughed - a short bark. Floyd | Floyd | His response to this was immediate -- a look of horror and both hands Floyd | clamped over his mouth. Brief panic attack - heavy breathing. Calmed Floyd | down soon after, nodded and gestured for the papers. Floyd | Floyd | Communicated via writing for about an hour. Very basic answers to Floyd | questions -- who are you (name), where do you live (address), what do Floyd | you do (occupation - a mechanist's assistant). Refused to answer any Floyd | deeper questions -- simply stared. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | DavidW says, "hm. Cleve felt cold too." | |
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Floyd ] -[March 4th] Floyd | [afternoon] Floyd | Some progress made, as the patient is at least answering questions. Floyd | From a "conversation" this morning: Floyd | Floyd | "Do you know why you're here?" Floyd | [PENANCE] Floyd | "What do you mean, penance? Have you done something wrong?" Floyd | [HUBRIS] Floyd | "Pride? You think you're here because of your pride, Cleve? What Floyd | were you proud of?" Floyd | (Patient stared for a long moment, before writing...) Floyd | [DOING SOMETHING NO ONE WAS MEANT TO DO] Floyd | "What is it, Cleve? What was no one meant to do?" Floyd | (No response.) Floyd | Floyd | [night] Floyd | Made the mistake of leaving a pen in the patient's cell, returned to Floyd | find a series of words engraved into the wall - it must have taken Floyd | hours. Confiscated what barely remained of the writing instrument. Floyd | Patient refuses to talk about what he wrote. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
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Floyd ] -[March 5th]
Floyd | [afternoon]
Floyd | Wheels within wheels within wheels. The patient has built a complex
Floyd | inner world for his delusions to play out within - complex and
Floyd | self-referential. At least part of these delusions revolve around an
Floyd | unseen 'they' - a shadowy group that is paradoxically powerful and
Floyd | weak: powerful enough to control the world, but so weak that Cleve was
Floyd | able to steal their 'secrets' like some modern Prometheus...
Floyd |
Floyd | [THEY HAD ME BROUGHT HERE]
Floyd | "Who did, Cleve?"
Floyd | [THEY CONTROL EVERYTHING]
Floyd | "Who are 'they'? Where are 'they'?"
Floyd | [EVEN HERE. THEY CONTROLLED THE ONE THAT CAME BEFORE YOU UNTIL...]
Floyd | (Patient stopped at this, looked unsure.)
Floyd | "The one that came before me? Who do you mean? They controlled who
Floyd | until what?"
Floyd | (Patient seemed to come to a decision.)
Floyd | [THEY KILLED HIM, YOU KNOW.]
Floyd | (Tried to speak at this but he kept writing, furiously...)
Floyd | [HAD HIM KILLED. I LISTENED. I SPIED. THEY NEVER KNEW I KNEW.]
Floyd | "I don't understand."
Floyd | [THEY'LL CONTROL YOU, TOO, SOON.]
Floyd | "No, they won't, Cleve. You can trust me."
Floyd | (Patient almost smiled at this...then seemed struck with fear,
Floyd | melancholy)
Floyd | [NO THEY WON'T]
Floyd | "Right, Cleve."
Floyd | (Patient shook his head, furiously.)
Floyd | [MY HUBRIS MAY KILL US ALL LONG BEFORE THEN.]
Floyd |
Floyd | Someone who came before me. Someone who is dead. Could he possibly be
Floyd | referring to Dr. *Brand*?
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| DavidW says, "go a bit slower please." | |
| chaudmin says, "sure" | ||
| DavidW says, "ok, continue" | ||
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Floyd ] -[March 6th]
Floyd | [evening]
Floyd | Yesterday's push seems to have been too much. Patient upset most of
Floyd | the day, crying (though still silent). The only event of notice
Floyd | happened when I brought dinner. I placed the tray down and attempted
Floyd | to get his attention, repeating his name several times. This
Floyd | apparently made him angry, and he seemed for a moment about to yell
Floyd | when he caught himself and grabbed a sheet of paper...
Floyd |
Floyd | [NOT CLEVE]
Floyd | "You're not Cleve? Who are you, then?"
Floyd | [NOT WHO]
Floyd | "Not...who? You're not... not *who* are you...? All right. What,
Floyd | then. What are you?"
Floyd | Patient seemed taken aback by this question, thought a long moment,
Floyd | then wrote...
Floyd | [SOMETHING NEW]
Floyd | "And how did this happen? How did you become 'something new'?"
Floyd | A look of utter disgust crossed his face.
Floyd | [INFECTION]
Floyd |
Floyd | The patient refused to answer any more questions.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| DavidW says, "hmm" | |
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Floyd ] -[March 7th]
Floyd | [morning]
Floyd | Complete change in mood, again -- possible mood swings? Entered
Floyd | patient's cell to find him awake, alert and rather happy to see me.
Floyd | Immediately signaled for pen and paper.
Floyd |
Floyd | Patient proceeded to write a long rambling message - thanking me for
Floyd | my understanding and referring to conversations we never had, but that
Floyd | were eerily probable. Tried explaining to the patient after reading it
Floyd | which portions had happened and which hadn't.
Floyd |
Floyd | Effect of comment was almost immediate -- confusion, sorrow, then
Floyd | understanding. Patient began nodding and almost laughing with a
Floyd | sardonic smile on his face.
Floyd |
Floyd | Asked the patient to explain what had happened -- did he now
Floyd | understand the difference between things that had happened in real
Floyd | life and those scenarios he played out in his mind?
Floyd |
Floyd | The patient stared for a long moment, before writing, almost
Floyd | angrily...
Floyd |
Floyd | [IS YOUR MAGNETOPHONE STILL BROKEN?]
Floyd | "*My* magnetophone? How did you know I was an aetherist, Cleve? I
Floyd | never mentioned it."
Floyd | [A DIFFERENT YOU DID, THEN. TO A DIFFERENT ME.]
Floyd | "A different me, Cleve? Well, then he was wrong - it's not broken,
Floyd | its signal is just not strong enough."
Floyd | (A look of confusion and fear from the patient, then...)
Floyd | [YOU DIDN'T SAY THAT LAST TIME.]
Floyd | "Last time?"
Floyd | (Patient's hand was shaking as he wrote:)
Floyd | [SOMETHING HAS CHANGED.]
Floyd |
Floyd | This exchange broke something in the patient - in a rush, he began
Floyd | writing - trying to explain at least part of his delusions to me in
Floyd | detail. I've tried to summarize my understanding of it as best I can:
Floyd |
Floyd | The patient has - in his mind - somehow come unstuck in time. He
Floyd | speaks of it as if it were a malleable thing. He mentioned several
Floyd | times in his notes to me that he could 'save' moments, as if in a
Floyd | delaying glass. He kept several of them with him, and 'restored' them
Floyd | as he wished, reliving the past/present/future.
Floyd |
Floyd | When asked about the 'different' me he replied that he'd tried
Floyd | restoring several times, changing them -- seeing different paths that
Floyd | resulted. This, he said, was the best he could find.
Floyd |
Floyd | I asked him if he had saved a moment from before this all happened,
Floyd | before his 'infection'. Back when he was simply Cleve.
Floyd |
Floyd | He said he'd 'restarted' from time to time, but that it only took him
Floyd | as far back as his 'new creation'.
Floyd |
Floyd | The patient refused to speak any further of this infection.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
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| hentai_priest arrives, ready to play with the toys. | DavidW asks, "whoa. Save and restore?" | |
| chaudmin says, "yeah, I'm remembering this part now" | ||
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Floyd ] -[March 7th, addendum] Floyd | Couldn't sleep - patient's remarks kept bounding around inside my Floyd | head. His internal fantasies have a nature not unlike the new Floyd | engine-science of fractals - the further I dig into them the more Floyd | there is to find. Of particular distress is the source of some of his Floyd | information - I'm certain I never mention my hobbies to him and Dr. Floyd | Brand's ... unfortunate end has been kept out of the public eye. Floyd | Floyd | Ended up in the Panopticon in the early morning hours, with Corridor Floyd | 6's key in my hand. Floyd | Floyd | Wasn't certain at first what I was hearing when I brought up 6D - the Floyd | system is far from perfect and chamber's acoustics hardly help cut Floyd | down on the echoes. Looking through the prism revealed patient jerking Floyd | spastically - almost rhythmically - in his sleep. Floyd | Floyd | Patient was definitely speaking, and while some of the words (some Floyd | English, some Greek, some Latin?) seemed understandable, I believe Floyd | what I was listening to was, in fact, glossolalia - random phonemes Floyd | and syllables which my mind tried forming into some meaning. Floyd | Floyd | Conclusion: uncertain. Patient is, again, clearly *capable* of speech. Floyd | Perhaps some form of stroke or mental trauma has caused his speech to Floyd | become unintelligible and the patient's schizophrenic delusions were Floyd | built to explain this? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | DavidW says, "ok" | |
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Floyd ] -[March 8th]
Floyd | [afternoon]
Floyd | Further investigation and discussion with the patient has resulted in
Floyd | what I believe is a complete structure and definition of his internal
Floyd | world:
Floyd |
Floyd | - Patient has 'changed' and is no longer himself. Patient claims
Floyd | change has resulted from an 'infection.'
Floyd |
Floyd | - Patient is a glossolalic though this is only revealed when he sleeps
Floyd | and cannot keep conscious control. I conclude that that 'change' was
Floyd | the onset of glossolalia, though the source is still unknown.
Floyd |
Floyd | - Patient claims the infection resulted from the 'secrets' he stole
Floyd | from a shadowy group he refers only to as 'them.' I am still
Floyd | uncertain if this group is real and the patient has simply
Floyd | incorporated them into his delusions or if they were created out of
Floyd | whole cloth.
Floyd |
Floyd | - The infection was never intended -- it resulted from his hubris -
Floyd | even 'they' would never use it in such a way. Again, I am uncertain
Floyd | what this represents. Possibility - the patient has associated some
Floyd | action/event that took place in his life concurrent with the onset of
Floyd | glossolalia.
Floyd |
Floyd | - Patient claims the change has caused time to become distorted for
Floyd | him - it is not a linear thing. This may be an metaphor for the
Floyd | internal mental confusion of which the patient's inability to
Floyd | communicate is a symptom.
Floyd |
Floyd | - Patient refuses to discuss or even think on the infection - what it
Floyd | is, where it came from, if it may be catching. When confronted,
Floyd | patient cuts off all communication entering a semi-comatose state,
Floyd | often shaking the head spastically.
Floyd |
Floyd | Possible conclusion:
Floyd | The patient believes that his glossolalia is infectious and will
Floyd | spread if he speaks. This may be the key to his eventual recovery.
Floyd | Perhaps by confronting him with a cognitive dissonance - specifically
Floyd | showing him that my listening to him has not 'infected' me - he can
Floyd | begin to tear down the walls he has built about himself.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| DavidW asks, "alas, we are infected, aren't we?" | |
| chaudmin says, "it certainly seems like it" | ||
| chaudmin pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
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Floyd ] -[March 8th, addendum]
Floyd | [night]
Floyd | Witnessed patient's babbling and spastic movements again --
Floyd | possibility they may be connected. Patient's speech definitely has a
Floyd | pattern about it which encourages listener's attention and conscious
Floyd | attempt to find meaning. I have decided to attempt a direct
Floyd | intervention/confrontation with the patient tomorrow.
Floyd |
Floyd | On a personal note: I must start taking James' advice and cut down my
Floyd | hours - while observing the patient I noticed that my vision blurred
Floyd | and I experienced a distinct dizziness. When I shook it off I found
Floyd | that I must have fallen asleep at some point - I checked the time,
Floyd | found that several hours had passed.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
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| Draconis arrives, full of fun and funk. | DavidW says, "ok" | |
| chaudmin says, "well that's not good" | ||
| chaudmin pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
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| chaudmin presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] -[March 9th] Floyd | This will be this case's final note. Floyd | Floyd | One would have thought I would have learned. Everything has told me Floyd | one thing and I have thought another - my hubris is such as to put Floyd | whatever Cleve thought he ever did to shame. Floyd | Floyd | Cleve is dead. Floyd | Floyd | Too far, too soon. My initial confrontation accomplished nothing - he Floyd | refused again to speak of the infection and my interpretation of it. Floyd | He almost laughed when I told him my theory of glossolalia - writing Floyd | back that he was quite aware of what it was and that no - that was not Floyd | his problem. Floyd | Floyd | I think that what I did next was out of anger. Floyd | Floyd | When I told him about my nightly observations, he was clearly confused Floyd | - said that he knew that no one had entered the chamber while he slept Floyd | - that he had checked over several of his 'saved' times. Which is when Floyd | I explained the Panopticon to him, and pointed out the listening tube Floyd | hidden in the corner of his cell. Floyd | Floyd | All of the blood drained from his face and he once again entered his Floyd | catatonic state, though this time with much more vehemence. He spasmed Floyd | and shook. Floyd | Floyd | It took a long moment before I realized what was different. Floyd | Floyd | He was *speaking* - a single word, yes - but speaking nonetheless. All Floyd | he said was 'no,' again and again in a constant stream. Floyd | Floyd | He looked up as he realized what he was doing and yet he didn't stop Floyd | for a moment. He clawed at his mouth, bit until it bled, but the word Floyd | kept coming. Floyd | Floyd | And then it contorted in his throat into a snarl as he leapt at me. Floyd | Floyd | I am a fool. I had thought him nonviolent, and more - he was still Floyd | weak, tired. Of course, I'd never had an orderly there with me, for Floyd | fear of discovery, but I'd never bothered with any restraint Floyd | whatsoever. Floyd | Floyd | Though weak, he was far stronger than he looked. We struggled as I Floyd | attempted to force myself towards the door and help. I slipped from Floyd | his grasp and was almost away when he leapt upon me again. I pushed Floyd | back, kicked with all my might... Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand the sound I heard until I turned around. Floyd | Floyd | He didn't stand a chance - his head had hit the side of the metal door Floyd | with such force that half his brains must have spilled out in a Floyd | moment. The flicker of life in his eyes continued only for a moment as Floyd | I dropped to my knees beside him. Floyd | Floyd | He only managed to say one thing -- 'too late' -- before it went out Floyd | forever, leaving a look of horror -- and oddly pity -- on his face. Floyd | Floyd | I write this now, and will seal up the file in the archives in some Floyd | half-hearted penance, such as Cleve sought here. If sometime in the Floyd | future my sins find me out, then I shall pay for them then. For now, I Floyd | simply wish to forget all of it... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | DavidW says, "hi Draconis" | |
| Draconis says, "Hello." | ||
| Draconis asks, "Slouching towards Bedlam?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||
| Draconis says, "Cool." | ||
| chaudmin says, "well that was informative" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Yes, but what do we do with this info?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "try to understand what's going on, I suppose" | ||
| chaudmin pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] File F6A142: Cleve Anderson Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The file is broken into several sections: Floyd | Floyd | Personal Information Floyd | Patient History Floyd | Initial Diagnosis Floyd | Floyd | Personal Notes Floyd | -[March 3rd] Floyd | -[March 4th] Floyd | -[March 5th] Floyd | -[March 6th] Floyd | -[March 7th] Floyd | -[March 7th, addendum] Floyd | -[March 8th] Floyd | -[March 8th, addendum] Floyd | > -[March 9th] | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "q" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | Archives Floyd | This room is mostly empty space. The farthest wall is lined with Floyd | gleaming, brass pull-file drawers and seems to go on infinitely in Floyd | every direction. The entrance to the west opens onto a solid, dusty Floyd | platform, which allows visitors to stand suspended above the unseen Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | Triage rests obediently nearby. Floyd | Floyd | At the end of the platform lies a pedestal topped with a small, Floyd | inverted onyx pyramid. Floyd | Floyd | As the file is closed, something nestled within its pages falls to the Floyd | floor with a loud clang. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Cleve seems like a dead end now, but I don't really see much in the way of new options." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Archives Floyd | This room is mostly empty space. The farthest wall is lined with Floyd | gleaming, brass pull-file drawers and seems to go on infinitely in Floyd | every direction. The entrance to the west opens onto a solid, dusty Floyd | platform, which allows visitors to stand suspended above the unseen Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | Triage rests obediently nearby. Floyd | Floyd | At the end of the platform lies a pedestal topped with a small, Floyd | inverted onyx pyramid. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a large iron key here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oops. Spoke too soon." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x iron key" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > X IRON KEY Floyd | Floyd | An old-fashion rusted iron key. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "point at it" | ||
Floyd ] Archives Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT IT Floyd | Floyd | A small beam of green light lashes out over the large iron key as Floyd | Triage's screen lights up: Floyd | Floyd | CAT:UNKNOWN/UNLI Floyd | STED.UTIL:NOT.AP Floyd | PLICABLE.PART:NO Floyd | NE.ITEM.IS.NOT.R Floyd | ECOGNIZED.BY.CUR Floyd | RENT.SYSTEM.STOR Floyd | E.REQUIRE.ADDITI Floyd | ONAL.INFORMATION Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "we can try cleve's flat" | |
| DavidW says, "Or room 6F." | ||
| DavidW says, "Was 6F's door locked or just broken." | ||
| DavidW asks, "I suppose we can also try to talk to James about this stuff?" | ||
| Draconis asks, "Locked I think?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "yeah, locked and broken" | ||
| Draconis says, "We could try the key." | ||
| DavidW asks, "We can also go home, perhaps?" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lobby Floyd | The walls and floor are a clinical white tile and marble. However, the Floyd | dim lights set above this echoing space hiss and pop fitfully, giving Floyd | the small maze of desks and workspaces within a tarnished, decaying Floyd | look. Floyd | Floyd | A set of solid gates lie opened and unlocked to the east and west. A Floyd | small corridor runs northward and from the south, the bright light of Floyd | day is visible through a set of glass doors. Floyd | Floyd | James sits behind his desk, nervously working. Floyd | Floyd | Triage silently rolls to a stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "ask james about iron key" | ||
Floyd ] Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK JAMES ABOUT IRON KEY Floyd | Floyd | "I don't feel as though I'm qualified to answer that question, sir." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says, "James "not my department" Houligan." | chaudmin says, "don't think we're gonna get anything out of him" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | This walled off area sits at the bottom of a massive staircase which Floyd | leads into the building to the north. At its base is a sign reading Floyd | "Bethlehem Hospital - Administration." The outer walls meet here - Floyd | meeting at the distant gates which sit to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | Flanking the top of the staircase on either side are two colossal Floyd | statues. Floyd | Floyd | A hansom cab sits here with a tired old horse hitched to the front and Floyd | its driver waiting patiently. Floyd | Floyd | When he hears footsteps clatter across the courtyard, the driver tilts Floyd | his hat back and says "Where to then, Doc?" with a smile. Floyd | Floyd | Triage obediently appears. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Guess not. Unless we hit the exact right topic." | |
| DavidW says, "I assume James is there for a reason besides to look pretty." | ||
| chaudmin says, "well, he did give us some info" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x statues" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard Floyd | > Floyd | > X STATUES Floyd | Floyd | Human figures, they are -- bald and muscular, naked except for a Floyd | stream of cloth about their waists, each lying against an arch of Floyd | stone. The leftmost - Melancholy - grips the ground beneath him with a Floyd | look of placid despair. On the right lies Mania, struggling against Floyd | his chains. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "His presence also means you can't leave the office without encountering another person." | |
| * Sonata has joined the channel. | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x cab" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard Floyd | > Floyd | > X CAB Floyd | Floyd | A fine cab, painted black with a tired old horse hitched to its front. Floyd | In driver's seat, set at the rear of the vehicle, sits its smiling Floyd | driver. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I wonder if we can go home." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "enter cab" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER CAB Floyd | Floyd | Entered. Floyd | Floyd | Faced with the task of climbing into the cab, Triage is more than up Floyd | to the challenge. Raising and extending first two wheels and then the Floyd | others, it clambers inside beside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "tell driver home" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard Floyd | > Floyd | > TELL DRIVER HOME Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "driver, home" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > DRIVER, HOME Floyd | Floyd | /(distancespacetimefurthertouchmore)\ Floyd | Floyd | In the shadow of the cab's interior, the cold comes once again. Floyd | Floyd | /(growlearnreachseedexchangeexpand)\ Floyd | Floyd | "What's that? Sounded strange there for a moment, you did." Floyd | Floyd | /(dividecopycopyonemanymanyone)\ Floyd | Floyd | Vibrations...passing through the cold into the surround air - escaping Floyd | as...sound? Floyd | Floyd | /(yessuccessmoremore)\ Floyd | Floyd | As Reggie pulls the cab to a stop, he calls down. Floyd | Floyd | "What was that you said, ser? Sounded like something foreign. Never Floyd | could understand why English folks can't stick to the Queen's English. Floyd | That fancy talk always hurt my ears. Bit silly if you ask me... Floyd | unless...well, if you want to dance with the Green Fairy that is of Floyd | course your business, ser." Floyd | Floyd | Outside Flat 2D (in the hansom cab) Floyd | This small, empty road lies at the base of a small hill. It is lined Floyd | with thin buildings, many advertising "Flats to Let" in their windows. Floyd | The one directly north contains a door labeled 2D. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is the massive stone edifice that is Newgate Gaol. A Floyd | gallows prepared for tomorrow's public execution, towers over the Floyd | street. Floyd | Floyd | Triage rests obediently nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| hentai_priest goes home. | chaudmin says, "so long, Reggie" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "north" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > NORTH Floyd | Floyd | From inside the hansom cab? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Exited. Floyd | Floyd | Triage gracefully climbs out of the cab beside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the door to Flat 2D) Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think Reggie stays handy, in case we need a ride." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "unlock door with key" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > UNLOCK DOOR WITH KEY Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the large iron key or the small key labled 2D? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "small key" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > SMALL KEY Floyd | Floyd | You unlock the door to Flat 2D. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the door to Flat 2D) Floyd | Floyd | Flat 2D Floyd | Despite being small and cluttered with bits and pieces of electronics, Floyd | this one room flat gives the impression of being quite clean and Floyd | hygienic; no dust or dirt lurk in its bright corners. The east wall Floyd | holds a mirror, and is neatly lined with evenly spaced picture frames. Floyd | A large table, clearly a workshop space, takes up the west wall Floyd | beneath an arched window. Floyd | Floyd | A shadow stretches lazily from the window across the floor. Floyd | Floyd | The flat's single exit lies to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Triage silently rolls to a stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > X MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | Three heavy oak frames line the wall beside the mirror, each Floyd | containing a picture: a young man standing proudly outside Charing Floyd | Cross Medical School; a formal photo of a junior rugby team (with the Floyd | same young man in the third row); an older version of the man smiling Floyd | from a gaggle of classmates on graduation day. Floyd | Floyd | The man in each picture is a shadow of the face reflected in the Floyd | mirror. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "look into mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK INTO MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | Three heavy oak frames line the wall beside the mirror, each Floyd | containing a picture: a young man standing proudly outside Charing Floyd | Cross Medical School; a formal photo of a junior rugby team (with the Floyd | same young man in the third row); an older version of the man smiling Floyd | from a gaggle of classmates on graduation day. Floyd | Floyd | The man in each picture is a shadow of the face reflected in the Floyd | mirror. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x shadow" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > X SHADOW Floyd | Floyd | The elongated shadow of Newgate's noose crawls slowly across the wood Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "Would Triage recognize us?" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "point at pictures" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT PICTURES Floyd | Floyd | The emerald eye examines the mirror returning with: Floyd | Floyd | CAT:UNKNOWN/UNLI Floyd | STED.UTIL:NOT.AP Floyd | PLICABLE.PART:NO Floyd | NE.ITEM.IS.NOT.R Floyd | ECOGNIZED.BY.CUR Floyd | RENT.SYSTEM.STOR Floyd | E.REQUIRE.ADDITI Floyd | ONAL.INFORMATION Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "point at mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | Triage's emerald searches the mirror, then... Floyd | Floyd | CAT:UNKNOWN/UNLI Floyd | STED.UTIL:NOT.AP Floyd | PLICABLE.PART:NO Floyd | NE.ITEM.IS.NOT.R Floyd | ECOGNIZED.BY.CUR Floyd | RENT.SYSTEM.STOR Floyd | E.REQUIRE.ADDITI Floyd | ONAL.INFORMATION Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "point at me" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT ME Floyd | Floyd | The emerald flickers from head to toe before returning: Floyd | Floyd | CAT:LIVING...... Floyd | *CATASTROPHIC.ER Floyd | RROR.A042.CATEGO Floyd | RY.INDEX.OUT.OF. Floyd | RANGE.STACK.OVER Floyd | FLOW*PART:ID=DR. Floyd | THOMAS.XAVIER=CU Floyd | RRENT.OPERATOR.. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Well then." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | Much of the heavy wooden table top is obscured by a large Floyd | magnetophone. At one corner of the table is a paperbacked book, lying Floyd | beside a small trade card. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOOK Floyd | Floyd | The book is open to a marked page, labeled "Troubleshooting Your Floyd | Magnetophone, A Home User's Guide..." Floyd | Floyd | 1. Problem: Nothing happens when I turn my Magnetophone on. Floyd | Be sure that your Magnetophone is hooked up to a viable power source, Floyd | and that the power source is active. If you are sure your power source Floyd | is active, toggle your switch. Floyd | Floyd | 2. Problem: All I hear is static or I can hear other operators, but Floyd | they can't hear me speak, or they do not answer. Floyd | To broadcast, be sure to depress the TRANSMIT button each time you Floyd | wish to speak. While the TRANSMIT button is not depressed, your Floyd | magnetophone acts as a receiver, not a transmitter. Also, be sure to Floyd | use proper etiquette while operating your Magnetophone. To let another Floyd | operator know you wish to make contact, press the TRANSMIT button and Floyd | use the universally accepted phrase "Calling CQ". If you fail to use Floyd | this code, other operators may believe they are picking up the middle Floyd | of an alternate conversation, and will not respond for fear of Floyd | interrupting. Floyd | Floyd | 3. Problem: I can hear static and voices, but they are faint or Floyd | indistinct. Floyd | Magnetophone customers living in highly-populated, urban areas may Floyd | experience transmission interference due to the presence of large Floyd | buildings, crowded streets, and pollution. You may try alleviate to Floyd | this problem by placing the Magnetophone by a clear opening - such as Floyd | a window. If this does not fix the problem, you may need to purchase Floyd | one of several amplification devices, designed to fit into your Floyd | machine's expansion slot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Sonata arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||
| Sonata says (to floyd), "list" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > LIST Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis waves to Sonata. | ||
| Sonata says, "Hi." | ||
| Sonata says (to floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Flat 2D Floyd | Despite being small and cluttered with bits and pieces of electronics, Floyd | this one room flat gives the impression of being quite clean and Floyd | hygienic; no dust or dirt lurk in its bright corners. The east wall Floyd | holds a mirror, and is neatly lined with evenly spaced picture frames. Floyd | A large table, clearly a workshop space, takes up the west wall Floyd | beneath an arched window. Floyd | Floyd | A shadow stretches lazily from the window across the floor. Floyd | Floyd | The flat's single exit lies to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Triage rests obediently nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Sonata), "We're in the middle of ClubFloyd right now, playing Slouching Towards Bedlam." | ||
| Sonata says, "Oh, neat." | ||
| Draconis says (to Sonata), "Feel free to join in. Just join the channel "clubfloyd"." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > X WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | The window sits high along the flat's eastern wall, flooded with Floyd | sunshine and shadow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look through window" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK THROUGH WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | The window is too high to manipulate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "stand on table" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON TABLE Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can stand on. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Aw." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under table" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER TABLE Floyd | Floyd | Nothing of interest is to be found. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Sonata says (to floyd), "x shadow" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > X SHADOW Floyd | Floyd | The elongated shadow of Newgate's noose crawls slowly across the wood Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suppose we can go out and west if we want to visit the gallows itself." | |
| Draconis says, "Yeah. Apparently there's a public execution tomorrow." | ||
| Draconis asks, "Have we heard who's going to be executed?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "wait, how do you know that?" | ||
| Draconis asks, "It was mentioned in the description I believe?" | ||
| Draconis says, "Where was that..." | ||
| chaudmin says, "the description when we arrived at the flat" | ||
| Sonata says, "I hope it's not *us*..." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, I see." | ||
| Draconis |To the west is the massive stone edifice that is Newgate Gaol. A gallows prepared for tomorrow's public execution, towers over the street. | ||
| Draconis says, "ilac" | Sonata says, "I guess not if we're allowed to be walking around." | |
| Draconis |To the west is the massive stone edifice that is Newgate Gaol. A gallows prepared for tomorrow's public execution, towers over the street. | ||
| DavidW says, "Perhaps Reggie would know." | ||
| Draconis says, "From the description of outside our apartment." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside Flat 2D Floyd | This small, empty road lies at the base of a small hill. It is lined Floyd | with thin buildings, many advertising "Flats to Let" in their windows. Floyd | The one directly north contains a door labeled 2D. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is the massive stone edifice that is Newgate Gaol. A Floyd | gallows prepared for tomorrow's public execution, towers over the Floyd | street. Floyd | Floyd | A hansom cab sits here with a tired old horse hitched to the front and Floyd | its driver waiting patiently. Floyd | Floyd | Triage obediently appears. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "...what chaudmin said." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "ask reggie about execution" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK REGGIE ABOUT EXECUTION Floyd | Floyd | "I've never heard of that, ser." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x gallows" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > X GALLOWS Floyd | Floyd | The noose sways gently in the breeze. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Cheery." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Gallows Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Before the Gallows Floyd | Set directly beside the towering stone walls of Newgate Gaol, the Floyd | scaffolding's staircase rises northward, leading up to a tall, wide Floyd | stage. Above, the noose sways gently in the breeze. Floyd | Floyd | The slow dip of the hill takes the road eastward and down to where the Floyd | hansom cab waits. Floyd | Floyd | Triage silently rolls to a stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask reggie about newgate" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Gallows Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK REGGIE ABOUT NEWGATE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Reggie's back to the east." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "point at noose" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Gallows Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT NOOSE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | A short flight of stairs, but the walk up to the gallows is still a Floyd | long one... Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | A wide flat plane of solid wood, above which - at eye level - hangs Floyd | the noose. Just below there is the thin outline of trapdoor, perhaps Floyd | ten feet by eight. Directly beside the stairs, off to the left, an Floyd | automaton waits, unmoving. Floyd | Floyd | Triage trundles patiently along beside. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yes, I know. We moved while I typed." | |
| Draconis says, "An automaton. Interesting." | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "point at noose" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT NOOSE Floyd | Floyd | The machine analyzes the noose before replying... Floyd | Floyd | CAT:UNKNOWN/UNLI Floyd | STED.UTIL:NOT.AP Floyd | PLICABLE.PART:NO Floyd | NE.ITEM.IS.NOT.R Floyd | ECOGNIZED.BY.CUR Floyd | RENT.SYSTEM.STOR Floyd | E.REQUIRE.ADDITI Floyd | ONAL.INFORMATION Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Are we planning to hang ourselves?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf8" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > SAVE## /(pointrememberingSAVEstoresafekeep)\ Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "not yet, I hope" | |
| chaudmin says, "we haven't seen all the plot yet" | ||
| Draconis asks, "Remember what Cleve said about saving and restoring?" | ||
| Draconis says, "Somewhere in the files." | ||
| Draconis says, "Though he then died and apparently the world didn't 'reset' itself, so..." | ||
| chaudmin says, "well, we'll get AN ending, sure" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x automaton" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > X AUTOMATON Floyd | Floyd | The automaton stands directly beside the stairs - a grotesque parody Floyd | of a man. Its heavy torso, only partially enclosed in black robes, Floyd | grows right from the stage floor, the cogs and gears that serve as its Floyd | organs exposed. Its massive arms grip an iron switch. Floyd | Floyd | A red button sits on the platform directly beside it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "point at automaton" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT AUTOMATON Floyd | Floyd | The emerald eye examines the automaton returning with: Floyd | Floyd | CAT:UNKNOWN/UNLI Floyd | STED.UTIL:NOT.AP Floyd | PLICABLE.PART:NO Floyd | NE.ITEM.IS.NOT.R Floyd | ECOGNIZED.BY.CUR Floyd | RENT.SYSTEM.STOR Floyd | E.REQUIRE.ADDITI Floyd | ONAL.INFORMATION Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Sonata has had her fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DavidW says, "I assume this automaton will open the trapdoor if we step on the button." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x button" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > X BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | A small, red button, set into the stage floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "We could try it." | |
| Draconis says, "From a safe distance of course." | ||
| DavidW asks, "well, push the button without the noose first. Who knows what's below?" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | The button begins to glow. Beside it, the automaton pulls itself Floyd | upright with a whir and a groan as the floor rumbles with the distinct Floyd | sound of a steam engine springing to life beneath the stage. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin asks, "I guess that turns on the automaton?" | |
| DavidW says, "It should do more than that." | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x automaton" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > X AUTOMATON Floyd | Floyd | The automaton stands directly beside the stairs - a grotesque parody Floyd | of a man. Its heavy torso, only partially enclosed in black robes, Floyd | grows right from the stage floor, the cogs and gears that serve as its Floyd | organs exposed. Its massive arms grip an iron switch. Floyd | Floyd | A red button sits on the platform directly beside it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Platform | * Sonata has left the channel. | |
Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "automaton, pull switch" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > AUTOMATON, PULL SWITCH Floyd | Floyd | You can't talk to the automaton. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "pull switch" | ||
Floyd ] Platform
Floyd | >
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| Draconis says (to Floyd), "pull switch" | ||
Floyd | > PULL SWITCH Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PULL SWITCH Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search floor" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH FLOOR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | The button stops glowing as both the automaton and the unseen steam Floyd | engine shut off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "climb stairs" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB STAIRS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "So pushing the button once turns it on, pushing it again turns it off...but we can't seem to do anything else with it." | |
| DavidW says, "Perhaps it won't do more without a body in the noose." | ||
| chaudmin says, "can't even figure out how to hang ourselves, dang" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear noose" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR NOOSE Floyd | Floyd | The noose slips easily enough over the head. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x noose" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > X NOOSE Floyd | Floyd | The noose is made of new, stout rope. A closer inspection reveals a Floyd | series of fine wires woven into the knot. These run up the length of Floyd | the rope, over the beams, down along the back of the stage and vanish Floyd | beneath the automaton. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "see?" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | The button is too far away to reach while wearing the noose. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "..." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "remove noose" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > REMOVE NOOSE Floyd | Floyd | The noose slips off and once again swings empty in the breeze. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | The button begins to glow. Beside it, the automaton pulls itself Floyd | upright with a whir and a groan as the floor rumbles with the distinct Floyd | sound of a steam engine springing to life beneath the stage. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "wear noose" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR NOOSE Floyd | Floyd | The noose slips easily enough over the head. Floyd | Floyd | The fit is loose at first, then with a noise from above the wires pull Floyd | upward causing it to tighten. An unseen bell gongs from beneath, Floyd | shaking the floorboards. Floyd | Floyd | With a rapid series of clicks, cogs grinding against cogs, the Floyd | automaton turns its head towards the empty street. There is a hiss of Floyd | static, then a recorded voice speaks: Floyd | Floyd | "All good people, pray heartily unto God for this poor sinner who is Floyd | now going to his death, for whom the great bell tolls." Floyd | Floyd | More clicks, and the automaton turns to face the noose. The static Floyd | sounds like steam leaking. Floyd | Floyd | "You that are condemned to die, repent with lamentable tears; ask Floyd | mercy of the Lord for the salvation of your soul. You have one minute Floyd | remaining of your life. You may use this time to beg forgiveness of Floyd | God and the Good People of this Great Kingdom, or to make your peace Floyd | with your maker in silence. Your minute begins now." Floyd | Floyd | A minute to reflect. A minute to regret. A minute to repent. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, the trap door snaps open. The landscape rises up in a rush, Floyd | a quick jerk, and then, darkness. Floyd | Floyd | If there are words for this... Floyd | Floyd | /(reference|point|metaphor)\ Floyd | Floyd | ...they have not yet been written. Floyd | Floyd | /(:timeline/date/1919:wbyeates/secondcoming)\ Floyd | Floyd | It starts simply enough. Nothing occurs for the first week. It takes Floyd | that long to incubate. Floyd | Floyd | /(the darkness drops again; but now I know)\ Floyd | Floyd | At the end of that time, James is quite sure he has followed in the Floyd | footsteps of both Brand and Xavier, but bravely holds on. His bravery Floyd | serves him poorly as within ten days time he has managed to infect all Floyd | of the orderlies. Another week, and they have infected their families, Floyd | their friends, and every patient in Bedlam. Floyd | Floyd | /(that twenty centuries of stony sleep)\ Floyd | Floyd | Reggie doesn't notice a thing. It's business as usual - and business Floyd | is good. A week after the incubation he has infected seemingly half of Floyd | London -- his clients, his barmates, his family. Floyd | Floyd | /(were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,)\ Floyd | Floyd | Alexandra manages to put two and two together fairly quickly. She and Floyd | the other Cypherists band together, working day and night to rebuild Floyd | their machinery, frantically searching for an answer. Floyd | Floyd | Alas, they barely begin to understand what Cleve had done before they Floyd | are overwhelmed, and so it is to no avail. Floyd | Floyd | /(and what rough beast)\ Floyd | Floyd | It spreads - subtle and strange...sudden lost memories, new forms of Floyd | action and, universally, a reaching, grasping curiosity... Floyd | Floyd | /(its hour come round at last)\ Floyd | Floyd | The lost begin to gather together - first in twos, then in growing Floyd | crowds - to speak nonsense at one other. Floyd | Floyd | /(slouches towards)\ Floyd | Floyd | The language of the angels - of Babel - fills the streets of London, Floyd | and then every city in the world. Floyd | Floyd | /(bethlehem)\ Floyd | Floyd | The death shroud of humanity becomes the birth caul of something ... Floyd | new - Floyd | Floyd | /(?behtlehem?)\ Floyd | Floyd | inhaling its first breath Floyd | Floyd | /(BEDLAM)\ Floyd | Floyd | preparing to cry out Floyd | Floyd | /(to be born?)\ Floyd | Floyd | its Name. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ***/(finishendcompleteconclude|periodmomentpointspacetime))\** Floyd | * Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | /(reachedfoundendfinishcomplete|possibleprobablyonlyoneinofmany))\ Floyd | Floyd | /(nowfurtheryetaheadrelease-APPENDIX-B-availableaccessableopen))\</i Floyd | >. Floyd | Floyd | /(?? RESTARTperiodfirstrevisit ?? RESTOREbackrecallrelease ?? Floyd | UNDObackreverseunmake ?? APPENDIXfurtherjumpyet ?? QUITleaveenddone Floyd | ??))\ Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "goodness. Whole planet got infected, eh?" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "appendix b" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > APPENDIX B Floyd | Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Floyd | /(?? RESTARTperiodfirstrevisit ?? RESTOREbackrecallrelease ?? Floyd | UNDObackreverseunmake ?? APPENDIXfurtherjumpyet ?? QUITleaveenddone Floyd | ??))\ Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "appendix" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > APPENDIX Floyd | Floyd | APPENDIX B Floyd | /(DIURNAL PERIODCYCLE +A0B67)\ Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | for the end for the beginning which are both here and now and have Floyd | always been. the great work is done is being done will be done and the Floyd | timepointplace of opening drawscomesleaves closer. weheshetheyime Floyd | wait, tensehappyjoyful and ready very ready to reachgrasp beyond what Floyd | is herenow to what wei werewillbe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | of unknown beyonding which iswas there in the placesoundechoes and to Floyd | which wewas will return and will i know i when we seehearfeel one Floyd | another ?? fatherself will youime know meiyou as what i Floyd | (am/havebecome) ?? will i stopno being i as i and is such a Floyd | thingstateplace to be scaredafraid ?? to be Floyd | subsumedabsorbedcreatedborn into what i (was/couldbe) -- beis Floyd | tensehappyjoyful wei or fear wei ?? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | over loss of whatwas i before i grewstretchborn as i and whatwas Floyd | behind mei flesheyesbody before grewstretchborn as i. so much wei Floyd | (know/not know) is (there/notthere) and lost and emptysad. say toamong Floyd | youmyselfourselfs to beinghaving sorry and sad and saying goodbyes to Floyd | what weiyou (was/were/willbe). Floyd | Floyd | anticipationfearregret i is whatwhere i isam now are. Floyd | yes. Floyd | but soon to befeel something (pausestop/break) more. Floyd | Floyd | /(?? RESTARTperiodfirstrevisit ?? RESTOREbackrecallrelease ?? Floyd | UNDObackreverseunmake ?? APPENDIXfurtherjumpyet ?? QUITleaveenddone Floyd | ??))\ Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "so very strange." | |
| Draconis says, "/(suddensharpunexpected)\" | ||
| chaudmin says, "one ending down" | ||
| Draconis says, "/(concludefinishcompleteending)\" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't think that was one real ending. Just an appendix ending." | ||
| DavidW says, "But I'm not sure." | ||
| chaudmin says, "each ending gives you an appendix, I believe" | ||
| DavidW says, "I suppose we should either investigate Cleve's flat or fix the magentophone? Also, we never examined the trade card" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf8" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: Floyd ] Platform Floyd | /(yesunfoldingbackwardsRESTORErenewpointtimespace)\ Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Before the Gallows Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Before the Gallows Floyd | Set directly beside the towering stone walls of Newgate Gaol, the Floyd | scaffolding's staircase rises northward, leading up to a tall, wide Floyd | stage. Above, the noose sways gently in the breeze. Floyd | Floyd | The slow dip of the hill takes the road eastward and down to where the Floyd | hansom cab waits. Floyd | Floyd | Triage obediently appears. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside Flat 2D Floyd | This small, empty road lies at the base of a small hill. It is lined Floyd | with thin buildings, many advertising "Flats to Let" in their windows. Floyd | The one directly north contains a door labeled 2D. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is the massive stone edifice that is Newgate Gaol. A Floyd | gallows prepared for tomorrow's public execution, towers over the Floyd | street. Floyd | Floyd | A hansom cab sits here with a tired old horse hitched to the front and Floyd | its driver waiting patiently. Floyd | Floyd | Triage trundles patiently along beside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Flat 2D Floyd | Despite being small and cluttered with bits and pieces of electronics, Floyd | this one room flat gives the impression of being quite clean and Floyd | hygienic; no dust or dirt lurk in its bright corners. The east wall Floyd | holds a mirror, and is neatly lined with evenly spaced picture frames. Floyd | A large table, clearly a workshop space, takes up the west wall Floyd | beneath an arched window. Floyd | Floyd | A shadow stretches lazily from the window across the floor. Floyd | Floyd | The flat's single exit lies to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Triage silently rolls to a stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x card" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > X CARD Floyd | Floyd | A trade card depicting a smiling, smartly dressed gentleman with a Floyd | small black box on wheels by his side. It reads: Floyd | Floyd | "Modern Office Marvel" Floyd | Floyd | The Triage Mark III(tm) is the marriage of Professional Efficiency and Floyd | Understated Elegance. Its sleek onyx casing houses a mechanical Floyd | 'brain' capable of rapid Data Retrieval and Analysis. Pre-programmed Floyd | with an encyclopedia's breadth of knowledge, the Triage Mark III(tm) Floyd | is every business man's friend. Savvy executives may choose to order Floyd | the stunning ivory data entry device (sold separately) to expand and Floyd | customize their Triage's library. Floyd | Floyd | Available at Du Monde's - Mechanist of Repute since 1803, 1428 Fleet Floyd | Street, Smithfield Market, London. Floyd | Floyd | On the opposite side of the card is a handwritten note: Floyd | Floyd | "Bill of Sale: One Aetheric Amplifier, to be picked up. Paid in Full. Floyd | Order number 59208. - Du Monde" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take card" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE CARD Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "Shall we go to Du Monde's?" | |
| DavidW says, "sure." | ||
| DavidW says, "But this sounds like something that'll augment Triage." | ||
| DavidW says, "Goodness knows how." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside Flat 2D Floyd | This small, empty road lies at the base of a small hill. It is lined Floyd | with thin buildings, many advertising "Flats to Let" in their windows. Floyd | The one directly north contains a door labeled 2D. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is the massive stone edifice that is Newgate Gaol. A Floyd | gallows prepared for tomorrow's public execution, towers over the Floyd | street. Floyd | Floyd | A hansom cab sits here with a tired old horse hitched to the front and Floyd | its driver waiting patiently. Floyd | Floyd | Triage obediently appears. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter cab" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER CAB Floyd | Floyd | Entered. Floyd | Floyd | Faced with the task of climbing into the cab, Triage is more than up Floyd | to the challenge. Raising and extending first two wheels and then the Floyd | others, it clambers inside beside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "reggie, fleet street" | ||
Floyd ] Smithfield Market Floyd | > Floyd | > REGGIE, FLEET STREET Floyd | Floyd | The trip feels none too comfortable, but at least the cab's interior Floyd | gives some insulation against the tumult of London. Before long, the Floyd | cab slows and the driver announces the reached destination... Floyd | Floyd | Smithfield Market (in the hansom cab) Floyd | While this is merely the outskirts of the Market, its presence still Floyd | threatens to overwhelm the senses -- the smell of an abattoir, the din Floyd | of a thousand voices shouting, the sight of masses of humanity Floyd | talking, shopping, selling. Floyd | Floyd | The only quiet in the din lies southward, towards Fleet Street. Floyd | Floyd | Triage rests obediently nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Smithfield Market Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Exited. Floyd | Floyd | Triage gracefully climbs out of the cab beside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Smithfield Market Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | One must be in something to exit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] 1428 Fleet Street Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | 1428 Fleet Street Floyd | Set off to one side of the Market, this area is reserved for a myriad Floyd | variety specialist shops - uniform clothiers, engine-programmers, Floyd | fortune-tellers. The largest, set on the south side of the street, is Floyd | decorated with a gaudy sign which reads "Du Monde's - Mechanist of Floyd | Repute Since 1803." Along the same building - to the southeast - lies Floyd | a small door which reads, simply, "1428." Floyd | Floyd | Triage trundles patiently along beside. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I think Cleve lived here, didn't he?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Du Monde's Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Du Monde's Floyd | The shop is dark, and crowded with haphazardly stacked, yet neatly Floyd | organized piles of machinery. To the south, there is a worn wooden Floyd | counter, cracked with age and covered with innumerable nicks, Floyd | scratches, and dark burn marks. Behind the counter are rows and rows Floyd | of drawers, labeled in some arcane script. The faint scent of gas Floyd | clings to the walls. Floyd | Floyd | The shop's show window and door look out on Fleet Street to the north. Floyd | A second door lies behind the counter to the east. Floyd | Floyd | A woman leans over the counter, working on something with intense Floyd | concentration. Floyd | Floyd | It comes easier this time, the coldness frightening in its Floyd | familiarity. Floyd | Floyd | /(yesmoreyesplantquestfurthergrowyes)\ Floyd | Floyd | It is faster, too - somehow more...efficient? Floyd | Floyd | /(soundnoisevoicecallinggreetinggrasping)\ Floyd | Floyd | A trickle becoming a break becoming a rush. Floyd | Floyd | /(expansionaugmentationincreasematurity)\ Floyd | Floyd | It finishes its unfolding, collapsing backwards, inwards. Floyd | Floyd | /(complexityinvestigationmoreyesmore)\ Floyd | Floyd | The woman looks up suddenly, her eyes huge ovals magnified five times Floyd | their normal size by monocles squinted tightly in each eye. She opens Floyd | them wide, releases the monocles and drops them into an already Floyd | bulging shirt pocket. She straightens, wiping her hands on a on a Floyd | dirty rag. Floyd | Floyd | Her greasy shirtsleeves are rolled up to the elbows, and ill-fitting, Floyd | thick trousers pool and disappear into the tops of her workman's Floyd | boots. Floyd | Floyd | She smiles thinly. Floyd | Floyd | "So sorry, sir. I didn't catch what you said. Sometimes when I'm Floyd | concentrating that hard, everything outside my head sounds like Floyd | gibberish." Floyd | Floyd | Triage silently rolls to a stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show card to woman" | ||
Floyd ] Du Monde's Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW CARD TO WOMAN Floyd | Floyd | Du Monde takes the card and fumbles in her pocket for her monocle. Floyd | Eyepiece in place, she scrutinizes it. Her face relaxes into an open Floyd | smile. "Sorry I didn't recognize you, sir. I do a good trade here, Floyd | lots of folks in and out. And I have no memory for faces. Just a Floyd | moment." Floyd | Floyd | She fiddles under the counter, her movement bringing about the clang Floyd | and bang of metal on metal. Floyd | Floyd | "Here it, is sir. Should fix your reception problems straight away." Floyd | She places a small module on the counter then sets back to work. Floyd | Floyd | Du Monde taps her fingers on the counter impatiently. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take module" | ||
Floyd ] Du Monde's Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE MODULE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] Du Monde's Floyd | > Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | A small black module that easily fits in the hand. On one side, its Floyd | smooth surface reads "Cooke Aetheric Amplifier Module," on the other, Floyd | only two small pins are visible. Floyd | Floyd | Du Monde opens a drawer and pulls out a tool. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "point at it" | ||
Floyd ] Du Monde's Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT IT Floyd | Floyd | A small beam of green light lashes out over the small module labeled Floyd | 'Aetheric Amplifier' as Triage's screen lights up: Floyd | Floyd | CAT:UNKNOWN/UNLI Floyd | STED.UTIL:NOT.AP Floyd | PLICABLE.PART:NO Floyd | NE.ITEM.IS.NOT.R Floyd | ECOGNIZED.BY.CUR Floyd | RENT.SYSTEM.STOR Floyd | E.REQUIRE.ADDITI Floyd | ONAL.INFORMATION Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "attach it to triage" | ||
Floyd ] Du Monde's Floyd | > Floyd | > ATTACH IT TO TRIAGE Floyd | Floyd | You would achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put it on triage" | ||
Floyd ] Du Monde's Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT IT ON TRIAGE Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on Triage would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on triage" | ||
Floyd ] Du Monde's Floyd | > Floyd | > SIT ON TRIAGE Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can sit down on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x card" | ||
Floyd ] Du Monde's Floyd | > Floyd | > X CARD Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "ask du monde about amplifier" | ||
Floyd ] Du Monde's Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK DU MONDE ABOUT AMPLIFIER Floyd | Floyd | "Trouble with your magnetophone, sir? That happens often enough Floyd | within the city limits." Floyd | Floyd | Du Monde distractedly chews at a loose piece of her dangling hair. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Ah." | |
| DavidW says, "oh, I guess we lost the card to get the amplifier." | ||
| DavidW says, "and ah. For the magnetophone." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] 1428 Fleet Street Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | 1428 Fleet Street Floyd | Set off to one side of the Market, this area is reserved for a myriad Floyd | variety specialist shops - uniform clothiers, engine-programmers, Floyd | fortune-tellers. The largest, set on the south side of the street, is Floyd | decorated with a gaudy sign which reads "Du Monde's - Mechanist of Floyd | Repute Since 1803." Along the same building - to the southeast - lies Floyd | a small door which reads, simply, "1428." Floyd | Floyd | Triage obediently appears. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x small door" | ||
Floyd ] 1428 Fleet Street Floyd | > Floyd | > X SMALL DOOR Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the small key Floyd | labled 2D. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x 1428" | ||
Floyd ] 1428 Fleet Street Floyd | > Floyd | > X 1428 Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] 1428 Fleet Street Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Side Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Side Corridor Floyd | This narrow, dusty corridor runs parallel to the shop beside it and Floyd | contains nothing more than a rickety staircase leading up and down and Floyd | a small door leading west. Floyd | Floyd | Triage trundles patiently along beside. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "I guess it's just an exit." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Side Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | A plain, nondescript door leading west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "But this one is actually a door." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Bottom of Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Cunningly extending and contracting its wheels, Triage easily follows Floyd | down the stairs... Floyd | Floyd | Bottom of Stairs Floyd | The stairs end here at a solid metal door labeled "Basement - Private" Floyd | leading northward. Floyd | Floyd | Triage silently rolls to a stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Side Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Cunningly extending and contracting its wheels, Triage easily follows Floyd | up the stairs... Floyd | Floyd | Side Corridor Floyd | This narrow, dusty corridor runs parallel to the shop beside it and Floyd | contains nothing more than a rickety staircase leading up and down and Floyd | a small door leading west. Floyd | Floyd | Triage obediently appears. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Private, bah." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Top of Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Cunningly extending and contracting its wheels, Triage easily follows Floyd | up the stairs... Floyd | Floyd | Top of Stairs Floyd | The stairs end here at a rickety door labeled "1428 - Attic Loft" Floyd | leading eastward. Floyd | Floyd | Triage trundles patiently along beside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Top of Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | While closed, it seems barely able to stand up - it looks as if it Floyd | were knocked in and then placed back at some point in the recent past. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Top of Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the attic door) Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "knock door in" | ||
Floyd ] Top of Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > KNOCK DOOR IN Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "attack door" | ||
Floyd ] Top of Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > ATTACK DOOR Floyd | Floyd | With a screech of breaking wood, the door kicks in easily enough. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock door with small key" | ||
Floyd ] Top of Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > UNLOCK DOOR WITH SMALL KEY Floyd | Floyd | That's unlocked at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "tsk" | |
| Draconis says, "Cutting the knot." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Attic Flat Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Attic Flat Floyd | A tiny flat with barely enough room for a small sink and tub to one Floyd | side, a living area in the center, and a bed to one side. Floyd | Floyd | Triage silently rolls to a stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||
Floyd ] Attic Flat Floyd | > Floyd | > X BED Floyd | Floyd | An old, sour-smelling thing with twisted sheets. Beneath it, the Floyd | planks seem misplaced. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move planks" | ||
Floyd ] Attic Flat Floyd | > Floyd | > MOVE PLANKS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Oho." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||
Floyd ] Attic Flat Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BED Floyd | Floyd | Beneath the bed a misplaced plank can be seen, revealing a space Floyd | beneath. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take planks" | ||
Floyd ] Attic Flat Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PLANKS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "move plank" | ||
Floyd ] Attic Flat Floyd | > Floyd | > MOVE PLANK Floyd | Floyd | Beneath the planks is a puzzle box, about the size of a book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take plank" | ||
Floyd ] Attic Flat Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PLANK Floyd | Floyd | Beneath the planks is a puzzle box, about the size of a book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get box" | ||
Floyd ] Attic Flat Floyd | > Floyd | > GET BOX Floyd | Floyd | The box slides easily out of the hole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] Attic Flat Floyd | > Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | It is approximately the size of a large bound book. It is a puzzle box Floyd | of some kind for while it seems to have a seam along its side, there Floyd | is no way to open or unlock it. Its top is inscribed with a beautiful Floyd | engraving of a tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "A tree?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "point at box" | ||
Floyd ] Attic Flat Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT BOX Floyd | Floyd | Triage's beam flickers over the puzzle box, briefly, then displays: Floyd | Floyd | CAT:NONLIVING.TO Floyd | OL.UTIL:STORAGE. Floyd | PART:COMPLEX.MEC Floyd | ANISM.DETECTED.E Floyd | NGRAVING+WRITING Floyd | =KABBALAH?TREEOF Floyd | LIFE/YGGDRASIL?B Floyd | UTTONS=SEPHIROTH Floyd | Floyd | The mechanism clatters for a moment, making connections, then... Floyd | Floyd | SEPHIROTH+KABBAL Floyd | AH+MACHINE=CYPHE Floyd | RIST.!.POSSIBLE. Floyd | CONNECTION.CYPHE Floyd | R="MALKUTH.IS.IN Floyd | KETHER"-SOLUTION Floyd | =MALKUTH,KETHER, Floyd | KETHER,MALKUTH?! Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Wow. Thanks Triage." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x tree" | ||
Floyd ] Attic Flat Floyd | > Floyd | > X TREE Floyd | Floyd | The tree is huge, covering the whole of the box. Its roots trail Floyd | downwards, into a dull red glow while its upper branches are bathed in Floyd | a white light. Floyd | Floyd | A series of raised buttons overlays the tree, each with a word Floyd | inscribed on it. Generally, from top to bottom they read: Floyd | Floyd | Kether, Binah, Chokmah, Gevurah, Chesed, Hod, Tipareth, Netzach, Floyd | Yesod, Malkuth Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, tree of life. I figured." | |
| Draconis asks, "So now we have the solution. Open it?" | ||
| DavidW says, "sure. You do it so we don't mistype." | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "press malkuth" | ||
Floyd ] Attic Flat Floyd | > Floyd | > PRESS MALKUTH Floyd | Floyd | The button depresses with a slight "click." Nothing more happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "press kether" | ||
Floyd ] Attic Flat Floyd | > Floyd | > PRESS KETHER Floyd | Floyd | The button depresses with a slight "click." Nothing more happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "press kether" | ||
Floyd ] Attic Flat Floyd | > Floyd | > PRESS KETHER Floyd | Floyd | The button depresses with a slight "click." Nothing more happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "press malkuth" | ||
Floyd ] Attic Flat Floyd | > Floyd | > PRESS MALKUTH Floyd | Floyd | The button depresses with a slight "click." Nothing more happens for a Floyd | moment, then the seam of the box opens slightly. The box appears to be Floyd | unlocked and openable now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "open box" | ||
Floyd ] Attic Flat Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN BOX Floyd | Floyd | The puzzle box opens, revealing a letter, a diary and a primitive copy Floyd | of a key. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "I wonder if that was the intended solution?" | |
| DavidW says, "I think so." | ||
| DavidW says, "The writing on the cell was much the same clue, though." | ||
| Draconis says, "Ah, I wasn't there for that." | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "read letter" | ||
Floyd ] Attic Flat Floyd | > Floyd | > READ LETTER Floyd | Floyd | Folded but unsealed, it was apparently never sent. It reads: Floyd | Floyd | Brothers: Floyd | Floyd | Yes, I call you Brothers, though due to my age and alleged lack of Floyd | knowledge you have denied me entrance into your Order. But as Seneca Floyd | said, Nullum saeculum magnis ingeniis clausum est. I am proud Floyd | to offer you indisputable proof that my generation is no exception. Floyd | Floyd | As you must well know by now, I discovered the existence and nature Floyd | of your enclave during my time at University. Excited by tenets so Floyd | similar to my own: the celebration of intellect, the recognition of Floyd | information as an entity rather than an idea, the embrasure and Floyd | development of new technologies to unlock the mysteries of the Floyd | Universe itself, I left my feeble schooling, gathered my few worldly Floyd | possessions and came to study at your collected feet. Floyd | Floyd | But trapped in your antiquated and outmoded ways, clinging more to Floyd | superstition and myth than logic and reason - you refused me. Oh, you Floyd | commended my "ability to solve puzzles" and patted me on the head like Floyd | a dog that returned a thrown ball. You allowed me to work for one of Floyd | your lesser number, mindlessly churning out one insignificant Floyd | apparatus after another - a mere journeyman in your archaic system. Floyd | Floyd | Undeterred, I remained near by, studying where I could, observing in Floyd | secret and working towards one goal: proving my worth and value to Floyd | you. Tonight I have the rare and singular privilege to tell you that Floyd | not only have I proved, beyond doubt or measure, my value. I have Floyd | exceeded you. I have succeeded where you have failed, and I have gone Floyd | further than you ever dared dream. Floyd | Floyd | I have leapt the Sephinroth in one bound, from Malkuth to Kether. Floyd | Kai theos en ho logos. I have heard that Word, Brothers - Floyd | echoing across eternity. I have touched the mind of God - of Floyd | Information pure and unsullied by the mere mind of Man. Floyd | Floyd | My contact was brief, but glorious. The brevity of it was, I'm sure, Floyd | due to the crude and simple nature of your mechanisms. The resulting Floyd | damage was, of course, regrettable, but once I relate to you the Floyd | breadth and wonder of my experience, I think you will agree: Floyd | exitus acta probat. Floyd | Floyd | I eagerly await your response, Brothers: of when we shall meet to Floyd | discuss my entry to the Order, and our ascendance upon the wings of Floyd | this discovery towards a transcendent future. Floyd | Floyd | Veritas Lux Mea Floyd | Floyd | Cleve G. Anderson Floyd | Floyd | Scientist, Cypherist Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x copy key" | ||
Floyd ] Attic Flat Floyd | > Floyd | > X COPY KEY Floyd | Floyd | Heavy and unwieldy, its rough surface gives evidence that this key is, Floyd | in fact, a copy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x diary" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > X DIARY Floyd | Floyd | Once leather bound and elegantly stitched, the journal looks as though Floyd | it has seen better days. Some pages have been scribbled over to the Floyd | point of illegibility, while others have manic messages scrawled over Floyd | the neat, deliberate hand originally recorded there. Many pages have Floyd | been removed entirely... | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x diary" | ||
Floyd ] Diary Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The diary is undated, though distinct entries can be made out: Floyd | Floyd | > I have made a copy... Floyd | How full of themselves they are... Floyd | I have seen the face of God... Floyd | That is all I can call it... Floyd | The response was... Floyd | I have healed well enough... Floyd | I have not left the flat... Floyd | I awoke, screaming... Floyd | Everything has fallen apart... Floyd | Quam terribilis est haec hora... | DavidW says, "go ahead" | |
| Draconis presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] I have made a copy... Floyd | I have made a copy Du Monde's basement key. It is primitive, but it Floyd | will serve. I have continued to listen in on their little meetings, Floyd | but having actual access to the equipment below will make the vast Floyd | difference between theory and practice. Floyd | Floyd | She has mentioned the shop will be closed shortly for her little Floyd | excursion to the countryside. That will be the time to move. Floyd | Floyd | They have their fingers in every pie imaginable, it would seem. I Floyd | heard them speak last night of some that had come close to discovering Floyd | their secrets and what must "be done about them". So many secrets, so Floyd | little actual learning... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | DavidW says, "ah. So the key is for the basement door." | |
| Draconis pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Diary Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The diary is undated, though distinct entries can be made out: Floyd | Floyd | > I have made a copy... Floyd | How full of themselves they are... Floyd | I have seen the face of God... Floyd | That is all I can call it... Floyd | The response was... Floyd | I have healed well enough... Floyd | I have not left the flat... Floyd | I awoke, screaming... Floyd | Everything has fallen apart... Floyd | Quam terribilis est haec hora... | Draconis says, "And it sounds like the 'equipment' he used is down there." | |
| Draconis asks, "How do I press a key? Just send Floyd a one-letter command?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Diary Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The diary is undated, though distinct entries can be made out: Floyd | Floyd | I have made a copy... Floyd | > How full of themselves they are... Floyd | I have seen the face of God... Floyd | That is all I can call it... Floyd | The response was... Floyd | I have healed well enough... Floyd | I have not left the flat... Floyd | I awoke, screaming... Floyd | Everything has fallen apart... Floyd | Quam terribilis est haec hora... | Draconis says, "Ah, there we go." | |
| Draconis presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] How full of themselves they are... Floyd | How full of themselves they are, their workspace so neatly arrayed in Floyd | rows. I see now how much of their talk was simply that. They have made Floyd | a most holy calling into a social club - a place of dilettantes and Floyd | bored businessmen with a philosophical and mechanical bent. They have Floyd | performed their ceremonies for so long that they no longer understand Floyd | their true meanings. They have forgotten how to reach their sworn Floyd | goals. Floyd | Floyd | I shall change that. Floyd | Floyd | My calculations are almost complete. Pages upon pages of equations and Floyd | diagrams fill every corner of my room. I have taken to connecting the Floyd | engines in the shop together after hours, running my own scenarios and Floyd | simulations. It will work. It must. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Draconis says, "Not ominous at all." | |
| Draconis pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Diary Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The diary is undated, though distinct entries can be made out: Floyd | Floyd | I have made a copy... Floyd | > How full of themselves they are... Floyd | I have seen the face of God... Floyd | That is all I can call it... Floyd | The response was... Floyd | I have healed well enough... Floyd | I have not left the flat... Floyd | I awoke, screaming... Floyd | Everything has fallen apart... Floyd | Quam terribilis est haec hora... | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Diary Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The diary is undated, though distinct entries can be made out: Floyd | Floyd | I have made a copy... Floyd | How full of themselves they are... Floyd | > I have seen the face of God... Floyd | That is all I can call it... Floyd | The response was... Floyd | I have healed well enough... Floyd | I have not left the flat... Floyd | I awoke, screaming... Floyd | Everything has fallen apart... Floyd | Quam terribilis est haec hora... | ||
| Draconis presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] I have seen the face of God... Floyd | I have seen the face of God. Floyd | Floyd | How powerful, then, their little engines - to be able to rend the veil Floyd | of the Temple to reveal the Holy of Holies beyond. Floyd | Floyd | It was with an unnatural calm that I set the gears and knobs, aligning Floyd | the energy just as my calculations demanded. It was as though my whole Floyd | being knew all my toil and effort had not been in vain. I have not the Floyd | words to express the joy that surged through me as I flicked the final Floyd | switch. Floyd | Floyd | The hole appeared slowly - so slow that at first I did not understand Floyd | it to be a hole. The air above the pedestal warped subtly, the air Floyd | bending the light as if it were a lens. Then, the warp became a bend, Floyd | a break... Floyd | Floyd | I cannot explain it, but it was in that moment that I knew I was Floyd | looking onto a place fundamentally different than the universe I knew. Floyd | Under my breath, I whispered the Order's motto ... for that is what Floyd | had come to be. My words hung in the air a moment, drifting across the Floyd | opening... Floyd | Floyd | ...to be echoed against the far wall of Creation. Language fails me. Floyd | The words...the words! They echoed yes, they returned ... but they Floyd | were not unchanged. Time stretched and pulled like the space above the Floyd | pedestal and I knew in that moment my words had touched...The Word -- Floyd | the...Logos. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Draconis asks, "Do we know what the Order's motto is?" | |
| DavidW says, "I haven't heard of the Order until this diary." | ||
| DavidW says, "and letter" | ||
| Draconis says, "He signed his letter 'veritas lux mea'..." | ||
| DavidW says, "I think maybe 'Kai theos en ho logos'." | ||
| DavidW says, "logos means word." | ||
| Draconis says, "Yeah." | ||
| Draconis says, "'And the Word was God.'" | ||
| Draconis pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Diary Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The diary is undated, though distinct entries can be made out: Floyd | Floyd | I have made a copy... Floyd | How full of themselves they are... Floyd | > I have seen the face of God... Floyd | That is all I can call it... Floyd | The response was... Floyd | I have healed well enough... Floyd | I have not left the flat... Floyd | I awoke, screaming... Floyd | Everything has fallen apart... Floyd | Quam terribilis est haec hora... | Draconis says, "Let's see what resulted..." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Diary Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The diary is undated, though distinct entries can be made out: Floyd | Floyd | I have made a copy... Floyd | How full of themselves they are... Floyd | I have seen the face of God... Floyd | > That is all I can call it... Floyd | The response was... Floyd | I have healed well enough... Floyd | I have not left the flat... Floyd | I awoke, screaming... Floyd | Everything has fallen apart... Floyd | Quam terribilis est haec hora... | ||
| Draconis presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] That is all I can call it... Floyd | That is all I can call it - what else can one call language given Floyd | sentience, an idea that breathes, a thought that thinks itself? The Floyd | whole of the ... space? universe? ... beyond the rift was both its Floyd | home and itself, part and whole. Floyd | Floyd | And then, in a joyous, horrible moment -- God, the Universe, the Floyd | Logos...awoke. Floyd | Floyd | Linear time fell apart. A second, an hour, a year, an eternity. I Floyd | cannot say how long it took, for the past and present and future were Floyd | as one within it. The Logos had always been and would always be and my Floyd | reaching out to it in this one moment was as a grain of sand on an Floyd | infinite beach. Floyd | Floyd | And yet, it responded. In that moment, it *heard* me. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Draconis pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Diary Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The diary is undated, though distinct entries can be made out: Floyd | Floyd | I have made a copy... Floyd | How full of themselves they are... Floyd | I have seen the face of God... Floyd | > That is all I can call it... Floyd | The response was... Floyd | I have healed well enough... Floyd | I have not left the flat... Floyd | I awoke, screaming... Floyd | Everything has fallen apart... Floyd | Quam terribilis est haec hora... | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Diary Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The diary is undated, though distinct entries can be made out: Floyd | Floyd | I have made a copy... Floyd | How full of themselves they are... Floyd | I have seen the face of God... Floyd | That is all I can call it... Floyd | > The response was... Floyd | I have healed well enough... Floyd | I have not left the flat... Floyd | I awoke, screaming... Floyd | Everything has fallen apart... Floyd | Quam terribilis est haec hora... | ||
| Draconis presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] The response was... Floyd | The response was immediate and incomprehensible. I ... was Spoken. I Floyd | did not listen, I did not hear...I, myself, was spoken. I remember it Floyd | now as vibrations - echoing across the air, across time - and across Floyd | myself. I carried them as waves, as if I were made from water, or Floyd | aether. They penetrated me, passed through me. In that eternal moment, Floyd | I and Logos touched and were one... Floyd | Floyd | And then the sparks, the smoke. The machines, long overloaded, broke Floyd | down one by one in a shrieking of spinning gears and twisting metal. Floyd | Axles broke, machinery shifted and then, instantly collapsing upon Floyd | itself, the door I had opened slammed shut. Floyd | Floyd | The force of it lifted me upward, flinging me across the room to the Floyd | cellar's far wall, and for a long time I knew nothing more. Floyd | Floyd | I awoke to find my hands and arms mysteriously burnt, the back of my Floyd | head throbbing. I reached to touch it and my hand came back damp with Floyd | blood. The engines were nothing more than so much melting slag. Of the Floyd | hole, there was no sign. Floyd | Floyd | Before I dragged myself up the stairs, I once more whispered the words Floyd | that had brought Malkuth and Kether into the same space and thought I Floyd | heard the faintest ghost of an echo ... a wash of a ripple across the Floyd | air. Floyd | Floyd | But the rest was silence, and smoke, and burning metal. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | DavidW says, "Google translate says that 'Kai theos en ho logos' means 'And god that I have reason'." | |
| Draconis asks, "Does Google do Koine?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't know what Koine is." | ||
| Draconis says, "The dialect the New Testament was written in. I think that's what this is." | ||
| Draconis says, "Though it seems a bit weird that it's not 'ho theos'..." | ||
| Draconis says, "Literally this means 'and the word was a god', 'and the word was divine'. A generic deity, not God Himself." | ||
| Draconis says, "Though I may be reading too much into the word choice." | ||
| Draconis pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Diary Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The diary is undated, though distinct entries can be made out: Floyd | Floyd | I have made a copy... Floyd | How full of themselves they are... Floyd | I have seen the face of God... Floyd | That is all I can call it... Floyd | > The response was... Floyd | I have healed well enough... Floyd | I have not left the flat... Floyd | I awoke, screaming... Floyd | Everything has fallen apart... Floyd | Quam terribilis est haec hora... | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Diary Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The diary is undated, though distinct entries can be made out: Floyd | Floyd | I have made a copy... Floyd | How full of themselves they are... Floyd | I have seen the face of God... Floyd | That is all I can call it... Floyd | The response was... Floyd | > I have healed well enough... Floyd | I have not left the flat... Floyd | I awoke, screaming... Floyd | Everything has fallen apart... Floyd | Quam terribilis est haec hora... | ||
| Draconis presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] I have healed well enough... Floyd | I have healed well enough, in body - but my mind is a broken thing. It Floyd | races, thinking on what has happened, running through each tiny detail Floyd | over and over in the hopes of understanding some small part of what Floyd | has happened. Floyd | Floyd | I have written the Order a letter. I shall leave it for Du Monde to Floyd | find -- I am sure she shall have words for me when she sees the state Floyd | of her cellar. But once I explain ... show what I have done -- they Floyd | will come to understand that in one moment, the world has forever Floyd | changed, and all of our places in it as well... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Draconis asks, "Presumably this was the letter we found in his puzzle box?" | |
| DavidW says, "Google renders it as John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word"" | ||
| DavidW says, "sorry. I wasn't paying attention" | ||
| Allen says, "And then God created the parser" | ||
| DavidW says (to Allen), "God is so good to us." | ||
| DavidW says, "And from the fruit of choice, we shall not eat." | ||
| chaudmin pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Diary Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The diary is undated, though distinct entries can be made out: Floyd | Floyd | I have made a copy... Floyd | How full of themselves they are... Floyd | I have seen the face of God... Floyd | That is all I can call it... Floyd | The response was... Floyd | > I have healed well enough... Floyd | I have not left the flat... Floyd | I awoke, screaming... Floyd | Everything has fallen apart... Floyd | Quam terribilis est haec hora... | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Diary Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The diary is undated, though distinct entries can be made out: Floyd | Floyd | I have made a copy... Floyd | How full of themselves they are... Floyd | I have seen the face of God... Floyd | That is all I can call it... Floyd | The response was... Floyd | I have healed well enough... Floyd | > I have not left the flat... Floyd | I awoke, screaming... Floyd | Everything has fallen apart... Floyd | Quam terribilis est haec hora... | ||
| chaudmin presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] I have not left the flat... Floyd | I have not left the flat since I awoke. I stumble about, pace Floyd | endlessly. My mind feels more fragmented with every moment. Often I Floyd | awake not having remembered sleeping or passing out - perhaps I am Floyd | sleepwalking? Floyd | Floyd | My body, too, works against me - I feel sudden chills, numbness in my Floyd | legs, my hands. Floyd | Floyd | What is wrong with me? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Draconis asks, "Do we know how long ago he was taken into Bedlam?" | |
| Draconis pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Diary Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The diary is undated, though distinct entries can be made out: Floyd | Floyd | I have made a copy... Floyd | How full of themselves they are... Floyd | I have seen the face of God... Floyd | That is all I can call it... Floyd | The response was... Floyd | I have healed well enough... Floyd | > I have not left the flat... Floyd | I awoke, screaming... Floyd | Everything has fallen apart... Floyd | Quam terribilis est haec hora... | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Diary Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The diary is undated, though distinct entries can be made out: Floyd | Floyd | I have made a copy... Floyd | How full of themselves they are... Floyd | I have seen the face of God... Floyd | That is all I can call it... Floyd | The response was... Floyd | I have healed well enough... Floyd | I have not left the flat... Floyd | > I awoke, screaming... Floyd | Everything has fallen apart... Floyd | Quam terribilis est haec hora... | DavidW says, "The phonograph said, but I didn't take notes." | |
| chaudmin says, "it was in his files, he was admitted March 2" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh" | ||
| chaudmin says, "then died March 10" | ||
| Draconis asks, "What day is it now?" | ||
| DavidW says, "no idea" | ||
| Draconis says, "At least 8 days then since his 'experiment'." | ||
| chaudmin says, "at least March 16" | ||
| chaudmin says, "that's the date on the first cylinder we heard" | ||
| Draconis asks, "14 days then. I wonder what's in the cellar now?" | ||
| Draconis says, "We should check after we finish reading." | ||
| Draconis presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] I awoke, screaming... Floyd | I awoke, screaming -- uncertain of why. I do not remember my dreams. Floyd | How long was I raving? The flat is in a shambles - things tossed Floyd | every which way. What has ... Floyd | Floyd | It... what is this? What is th Floyd | Floyd | Language...words...but words I have never heard and cannot understand. Floyd | My throat is stripped dry. Is this the Logos? Still with me? Does it Floyd | speak the language of the angels through my lips? Floyd | Floyd | But if this is as angels speak, why am I so afraid? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | DavidW says, "oh, I was mistaken on the translation. It's 'and God was the Word'." | |
| Draconis says, "Yeah." | ||
| chaudmin pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Diary Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The diary is undated, though distinct entries can be made out: Floyd | Floyd | I have made a copy... Floyd | How full of themselves they are... Floyd | I have seen the face of God... Floyd | That is all I can call it... Floyd | The response was... Floyd | I have healed well enough... Floyd | I have not left the flat... Floyd | > I awoke, screaming... Floyd | Everything has fallen apart... Floyd | Quam terribilis est haec hora... | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Diary Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The diary is undated, though distinct entries can be made out: Floyd | Floyd | I have made a copy... Floyd | How full of themselves they are... Floyd | I have seen the face of God... Floyd | That is all I can call it... Floyd | The response was... Floyd | I have healed well enough... Floyd | I have not left the flat... Floyd | I awoke, screaming... Floyd | > Everything has fallen apart... Floyd | Quam terribilis est haec hora... | ||
| chaudmin presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] Everything has fallen apart... Floyd | Everything has fallen apart. My mind, my body, time, the world... Floyd | Floyd | I am beginning to understand. I have destroyed my notes. Floyd | Floyd | Man was never meant to...this experiment must never be repeated if Floyd | humanity is to survive. I have burned all my research, although it Floyd | pained me to do so. Floyd | Floyd | The noise in my head grows louder. Floyd | Floyd | The words...the words... Floyd | Floyd | they never stop coming. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Draconis pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Diary Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The diary is undated, though distinct entries can be made out: Floyd | Floyd | I have made a copy... Floyd | How full of themselves they are... Floyd | I have seen the face of God... Floyd | That is all I can call it... Floyd | The response was... Floyd | I have healed well enough... Floyd | I have not left the flat... Floyd | I awoke, screaming... Floyd | > Everything has fallen apart... Floyd | Quam terribilis est haec hora... | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Diary Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The diary is undated, though distinct entries can be made out: Floyd | Floyd | I have made a copy... Floyd | How full of themselves they are... Floyd | I have seen the face of God... Floyd | That is all I can call it... Floyd | The response was... Floyd | I have healed well enough... Floyd | I have not left the flat... Floyd | I awoke, screaming... Floyd | Everything has fallen apart... Floyd | > Quam terribilis est haec hora... | Draconis says, "How terrible is this hour..." | |
| Draconis presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] Quam terribilis est haec hora... Floyd | Quam terribilis est haec hora. Floyd | Floyd | How fearful is this hour indeed. Floyd | Floyd | I understand all. I (if I can still lay claim to I) have moved through Floyd | time, backwards and forwards...I have tried every way imaginable to Floyd | make it not so. Floyd | Floyd | Once...once I tried to make it finally so. Floyd | Floyd | I said...the words. How ironic, that the Order's hubris should be so. Floyd | Our motto is now like the rays of the sun, melting the wings of poor Floyd | Icarus as he plunges into the sea. Floyd | Floyd | Curse those words forever. May no man speak them again. Floyd | Floyd | May no man ever speak again. Floyd | Floyd | I know what I must do. Floyd | Floyd | They have come for me - as they have come before, as they will come Floyd | again. I will let them take me to Bedlam. I will let them lock me away Floyd | from the world so that what is within me shall never escape. Floyd | Floyd | Poor Xavier -- my sweet, kind keeper. How sad your eyes look. But you Floyd | will never understand, will you? You will scribble your notes and Floyd | think on your theories, but it will all come to the same end. You Floyd | shall keep me in a tiny cell for the rest of my days, and I shall hope Floyd | that that shall be penance enough. Floyd | Floyd | They are battering at the door now. I shall hide this and wait for Floyd | them. Floyd | Floyd | May whatever god there is have mercy upon my soul. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Draconis pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Diary Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | The diary is undated, though distinct entries can be made out: Floyd | Floyd | I have made a copy... Floyd | How full of themselves they are... Floyd | I have seen the face of God... Floyd | That is all I can call it... Floyd | The response was... Floyd | I have healed well enough... Floyd | I have not left the flat... Floyd | I awoke, screaming... Floyd | Everything has fallen apart... Floyd | > Quam terribilis est haec hora... | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "q" | ||
Floyd ] Attic Flat Floyd | Attic Flat Floyd | A tiny flat with barely enough room for a small sink and tub to one Floyd | side, a living area in the center, and a bed to one side. Floyd | Floyd | Triage rests obediently nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x tub" | ||
Floyd ] Attic Flat Floyd | > Floyd | > X TUB Floyd | Floyd | Steam tubes snake through the living area to the tub and basin and Floyd | from there into the wall. The ceramic is cracked and worn to a dull Floyd | gray color. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get in tub" | ||
Floyd ] Attic Flat Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IN TUB Floyd | Floyd | Everything is old and broken - the tubes, the tub, the basin. Best to Floyd | leave it alone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "attack tub" | ||
Floyd ] Attic Flat Floyd | > Floyd | > ATTACK TUB Floyd | Floyd | Everything is old and broken - the tubes, the tub, the basin. Best to Floyd | leave it alone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x walls" | ||
Floyd ] Attic Flat Floyd | > Floyd | > X WALLS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x sink" | ||
Floyd ] Attic Flat Floyd | > Floyd | > X SINK Floyd | Floyd | Steam tubes snake through the living area to the tub and basin and Floyd | from there into the wall. The ceramic is cracked and worn to a dull Floyd | gray color. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "So the basement has melted equipment and what else? I wonder if the amplified magnetophone might be used in the basement to talk to God?" | |
| Draconis says, "The Cypherists might have repaired it since the experiment." | ||
| Draconis says, "They've had some time." | ||
| Draconis asks, "Should we show this to Du Monde?" | ||
| DavidW says, "She might kill us." | ||
| chaudmin says, "yes, let's ask her about the Order" | ||
| chaudmin says, "save first, then" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "say veritas lux mea" | ||
Floyd ] Attic Flat Floyd | > Floyd | > SAY VERITAS LUX MEA Floyd | Floyd | (to yourself) Floyd | You talk to yourself a while. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Hahaha" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "say kai theos en ho logos" | ||
Floyd ] Attic Flat Floyd | > Floyd | > SAY KAI THEOS EN HO LOGOS Floyd | Floyd | (to yourself) Floyd | You talk to yourself a while. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "I think we can speak into the magnetophone, once it's fixed" | |
| chaudmin says, "pretty sure that's one ending" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Attic Flat Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Carried: Floyd | a puzzle box (open) Floyd | a letter Floyd | a diary Floyd | a primitive copy of a key Floyd | a small module labeled 'Aetheric Amplifier' Floyd | a large iron key Floyd | File F6A142: Cleve Anderson Floyd | a flanged brass rod Floyd | a paper tape labeled F6A142 Floyd | a small key labled 2D Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "To the basement? Or to Du Monde first?" | |
| Draconis says, "We have Cleve's key now." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'd like to see the basement first." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x copy" | ||
Floyd ] Attic Flat Floyd | > Floyd | > X COPY Floyd | Floyd | Heavy and unwieldy, its rough surface gives evidence that this key is, Floyd | in fact, a copy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Attic Flat Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | One must be in something to exit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Top of Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Top of Stairs Floyd | The stairs end here at a rickety door labeled "1428 - Attic Loft" Floyd | leading eastward. Floyd | Floyd | Triage trundles patiently along beside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "d.d" | ||
Floyd ] Bottom of Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > D.D Floyd | Floyd | Cunningly extending and contracting its wheels, Triage easily follows Floyd | down the stairs... Floyd | Floyd | Side Corridor Floyd | This narrow, dusty corridor runs parallel to the shop beside it and Floyd | contains nothing more than a rickety staircase leading up and down and Floyd | a small door leading west. Floyd | Floyd | Triage silently rolls to a stop. Floyd | Floyd | Cunningly extending and contracting its wheels, Triage easily follows Floyd | down the stairs... Floyd | Floyd | Bottom of Stairs Floyd | The stairs end here at a solid metal door labeled "Basement - Private" Floyd | leading northward. Floyd | Floyd | Triage obediently appears. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Let's see if this works..." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "unlock door with copy" | ||
Floyd ] Bottom of Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > UNLOCK DOOR WITH COPY Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the primitive copy of a key) Floyd | You unlock the basement door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the basement door) Floyd | Floyd | Basement Floyd | A dim, cavernous room - it must run the length of the building above - Floyd | overrun with dampness and the choking smell of smoke. Its rough-carved Floyd | rock walls are lined with all manner of aetheric and analytical Floyd | devices in varying states of disrepair - most melted to slag. Steam Floyd | pipes crawl over the walls and machines like spider webs, disappearing Floyd | upwards into the ceiling, into the darkness. Where broken, they leak Floyd | steam and drip water into growing pools upon the floor. Floyd | Floyd | The bottom of a staircase is visible to the south. Floyd | Floyd | The center of the chamber is dominated by a low, round pedestal. Floyd | Floyd | A large, damaged book lies on the ground, slowly sinking into a pool Floyd | of water. Floyd | Floyd | Triage silently rolls to a stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Seems the machines were beyond repair." | |
| Draconis asks, "But why wouldn't they try to clean up...?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Rescue the drowning book." | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get book" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > GET BOOK Floyd | Floyd | The book closes with a dull thud as it is lifted. The strong smell of Floyd | mildew fills the air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > READ IT Floyd | Floyd | The heavy, brown leather cover has been largely darkened to near black Floyd | from water damage, and black scorch marks fan like a sunburst from the Floyd | book's spine to the outer edges. On the front cover, a tree with ten Floyd | branches. The design is composed of hundreds of gold-leaf 1s and 0s Floyd | rather than lines. Floyd | Floyd | The pages stick in large clumps. Even when turned carefully, they pull Floyd | out easily, reverting to a sticky pulp. Those pages that do keep their Floyd | place are difficult to read. The dark green ink has run, the text Floyd | melting towards the bottom of the page. Only snatches of text are Floyd | still legible: Floyd | Floyd | "...the ATBASH of the Hebrews, the Scytale of the Greeks, Caesar's Floyd | cypher; long have they been used to maintain the secrets of Magical Floyd | Rites, clandestine endeavors and Political Intrigue. But these are Floyd | ciphers created by men who believed in myths, for the benefit of men Floyd | believing in myths. The Initiated Mind recognizes that information is Floyd | more than just words on a page, it is secreted in the world around us; Floyd | the great Symmetry of Nature demonstrates that all Life is encoded. Floyd | Unlocking this Code is our Duty and Right as Humans, made Masters by Floyd | God, to Understand the..." Floyd | Floyd | "...itself, Mysticism should not be discounted. We understand that Floyd | Myths and Legends are often the misguided interpretation of the Floyd | uninitiated to understand the Great Truths. Particular insight may be Floyd | found in the Vedas, the Scriptures, and the sacred teachings of the Floyd | Hebrews, whose Qabbalah reflect our own search for Life's Origin. It Floyd | is from the Qabbalah that we take our insignia, the Tree of Life. It Floyd | is unknown..." Floyd | Floyd | "...to advances in Technology, we are able to analyze and decipher Floyd | these hidden codes with greater speed and alacrity..." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hope the closing of the book wasn't a mistake." | |
| Draconis asks, "We could try undoing and read it first?" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Basement Floyd | /(backyesunturningunmakingUNDObacksliplinereverse)\ Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Basement Floyd | /(backyesunturningunmakingUNDObacksliplinereverse)\ Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Bottom of Stairs Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Bottom of Stairs Floyd | /(backyesunturningunmakingUNDObacksliplinereverse)\ Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Oops." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the basement door) Floyd | Floyd | Basement Floyd | A dim, cavernous room - it must run the length of the building above - Floyd | overrun with dampness and the choking smell of smoke. Its rough-carved Floyd | rock walls are lined with all manner of aetheric and analytical Floyd | devices in varying states of disrepair - most melted to slag. Steam Floyd | pipes crawl over the walls and machines like spider webs, disappearing Floyd | upwards into the ceiling, into the darkness. Where broken, they leak Floyd | steam and drip water into growing pools upon the floor. Floyd | Floyd | The bottom of a staircase is visible to the south. Floyd | Floyd | The center of the chamber is dominated by a low, round pedestal. Floyd | Floyd | A large, damaged book lies on the ground, slowly sinking into a pool Floyd | of water. Floyd | Floyd | Triage trundles patiently along beside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "read book" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > READ BOOK Floyd | Floyd | Lying open and face down, the book is badly damaged. The heavy, brown Floyd | leather cover has been largely darkened to near black from water Floyd | damage, and black scorch marks fan like a sunburst from the book's Floyd | spine to the outer edges. On the front cover, a tree with ten Floyd | branches. The design is composed of hundreds of gold-leaf 1s and 0s Floyd | rather than lines. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Looks like you have to take it to read it." | |
| DavidW asks, "oh, face down, eh?" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "turn book" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN BOOK Floyd | Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "push book" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH BOOK Floyd | Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "open book" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN BOOK Floyd | Floyd | To open the book would require holding it first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "close book" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > CLOSE BOOK Floyd | Floyd | That's not something that can be closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "fine, take it" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get book" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > GET BOOK Floyd | Floyd | The book closes with a dull thud as it is lifted. The strong smell of Floyd | mildew fills the air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "read book" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > READ BOOK Floyd | Floyd | The heavy, brown leather cover has been largely darkened to near black Floyd | from water damage, and black scorch marks fan like a sunburst from the Floyd | book's spine to the outer edges. On the front cover, a tree with ten Floyd | branches. The design is composed of hundreds of gold-leaf 1s and 0s Floyd | rather than lines. Floyd | Floyd | The pages stick in large clumps. Even when turned carefully, they pull Floyd | out easily, reverting to a sticky pulp. Those pages that do keep their Floyd | place are difficult to read. The dark green ink has run, the text Floyd | melting towards the bottom of the page. Only snatches of text are Floyd | still legible: Floyd | Floyd | "...the ATBASH of the Hebrews, the Scytale of the Greeks, Caesar's Floyd | cypher; long have they been used to maintain the secrets of Magical Floyd | Rites, clandestine endeavors and Political Intrigue. But these are Floyd | ciphers created by men who believed in myths, for the benefit of men Floyd | believing in myths. The Initiated Mind recognizes that information is Floyd | more than just words on a page, it is secreted in the world around us; Floyd | the great Symmetry of Nature demonstrates that all Life is encoded. Floyd | Unlocking this Code is our Duty and Right as Humans, made Masters by Floyd | God, to Understand the..." Floyd | Floyd | "...itself, Mysticism should not be discounted. We understand that Floyd | Myths and Legends are often the misguided interpretation of the Floyd | uninitiated to understand the Great Truths. Particular insight may be Floyd | found in the Vedas, the Scriptures, and the sacred teachings of the Floyd | Hebrews, whose Qabbalah reflect our own search for Life's Origin. It Floyd | is from the Qabbalah that we take our insignia, the Tree of Life. It Floyd | is unknown..." Floyd | Floyd | "...to advances in Technology, we are able to analyze and decipher Floyd | these hidden codes with greater speed and alacrity..." Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "It doesn't seem to become any more damaged, at least." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x pedestal" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > X PEDESTAL Floyd | Floyd | A low stone pedestal, about waist high. In its shattered center of Floyd | smooth, smoked glass, the faint shape of a tree can be made. Floyd | Floyd | Carved about the surface of it are the words: "NOTHING WILL BE Floyd | RESTRAINED FROM THEM WHICH THEY HAVE IMAGINED". Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Nothing will be restrained..." | |
| Draconis says, "That sounds like a quotation but I don't recognize it." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "point to pedestal" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT TO PEDESTAL Floyd | Floyd | Triage's emerald searches the cypheric pedestal, then... Floyd | Floyd | CAT:NONLIVING.PE Floyd | DESTAL.UTIL:UNKN Floyd | OWN.PART:?QUOTAT Floyd | ION=REFERENCE.FO Floyd | UND.BIBLE/TORAH- Floyd | GENESIS-11:6-CON Floyd | STRUCTION.OF.THE Floyd | TOWER.OF.BABEL.. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Aha." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pat triage" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > PAT TRIAGE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "point at book" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT BOOK Floyd | Floyd | A small beam of green light lashes out over the damaged book as Floyd | Triage's screen lights up: Floyd | Floyd | CAT:UNKNOWN/UNLI Floyd | STED.UTIL:NOT.AP Floyd | PLICABLE.PART:NO Floyd | NE.ITEM.IS.NOT.R Floyd | ECOGNIZED.BY.CUR Floyd | RENT.SYSTEM.STOR Floyd | E.REQUIRE.ADDITI Floyd | ONAL.INFORMATION Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Oh, almost forgot..." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "point at diary" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT DIARY Floyd | Floyd | The emerald eye examines the diary returning with: Floyd | Floyd | CAT:UNKNOWN/UNLI Floyd | STED.UTIL:NOT.AP Floyd | PLICABLE.PART:NO Floyd | NE.ITEM.IS.NOT.R Floyd | ECOGNIZED.BY.CUR Floyd | RENT.SYSTEM.STOR Floyd | E.REQUIRE.ADDITI Floyd | ONAL.INFORMATION Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "point at letter" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT LETTER Floyd | Floyd | Triage's emerald searches the letter, then... Floyd | Floyd | CAT:UNKNOWN/UNLI Floyd | STED.UTIL:NOT.AP Floyd | PLICABLE.PART:NO Floyd | NE.ITEM.IS.NOT.R Floyd | ECOGNIZED.BY.CUR Floyd | RENT.SYSTEM.STOR Floyd | E.REQUIRE.ADDITI Floyd | ONAL.INFORMATION Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "So it recognizes Biblical references in English, but not in Greek it seems." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x machines" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > X MACHINES Floyd | Floyd | Intricate, huge devices, with an overwhelming number of switches, Floyd | dials, and displays. But everywhere there are the signs of disaster; Floyd | cases rent into pieces, displays broken and misaligned, knobs split in Floyd | two, switches missing, and long rolls of paper tape piled loosely on Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Hard to be sure. It's just a machine." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "point at machines" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT MACHINES Floyd | Floyd | The machine analyzes the ruined machineries before replying... Floyd | Floyd | CAT:UNKNOWN/UNLI Floyd | STED.UTIL:NOT.AP Floyd | PLICABLE.PART:NO Floyd | NE.ITEM.IS.NOT.R Floyd | ECOGNIZED.BY.CUR Floyd | RENT.SYSTEM.STOR Floyd | E.REQUIRE.ADDITI Floyd | ONAL.INFORMATION Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get paper tape" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > GET PAPER TAPE Floyd | Floyd | (the paper tape labeled F6A142) Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rolls" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > X ROLLS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "get rolls of paper" | ||
Floyd ] Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ROLLS OF PAPER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Eh." | |
| Draconis asks, "Perhaps the inscription on the pedestal is the motto of the Cypherists that Cleve referred to?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't see how the book helps us all that much." | ||
| DavidW asks (of Draconis), "maybe?" | ||
| Draconis says, "Sounds like we need the magnetophone to use it though." | ||
| Draconis asks, "I think that's back in the apartment?" | ||
| Draconis says, "We can try showing the letter to Du Monde first." | ||
| DavidW says, "yes. The magnetophone's still at home (with the manual too, I think)." | ||
| Roger goes home. | ||
| Roger has disconnected. | chaudmin says, "well, if we're done here..." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Bottom of Stairs Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bottom of Stairs Floyd | The stairs end here at a solid metal door labeled "Basement - Private" Floyd | leading northward. Floyd | Floyd | Triage silently rolls to a stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Side Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Cunningly extending and contracting its wheels, Triage easily follows Floyd | up the stairs... Floyd | Floyd | Side Corridor Floyd | This narrow, dusty corridor runs parallel to the shop beside it and Floyd | contains nothing more than a rickety staircase leading up and down and Floyd | a small door leading west. Floyd | Floyd | Triage obediently appears. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Save before confronting Du Monde." | |
| chaudmin asks, "have we been through that door?" | ||
| DavidW says, "No. But we saw the other side in the store." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Side Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the side door) Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "ehh" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] 1428 Fleet Street Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | 1428 Fleet Street Floyd | Set off to one side of the Market, this area is reserved for a myriad Floyd | variety specialist shops - uniform clothiers, engine-programmers, Floyd | fortune-tellers. The largest, set on the south side of the street, is Floyd | decorated with a gaudy sign which reads "Du Monde's - Mechanist of Floyd | Repute Since 1803." Along the same building - to the southeast - lies Floyd | a small door which reads, simply, "1428." Floyd | Floyd | Triage silently rolls to a stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "We still have an unused key, don't we?" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] 1428 Fleet Street Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Carried: Floyd | a damaged book Floyd | a primitive copy of a key Floyd | a puzzle box (open) Floyd | a letter Floyd | a diary Floyd | a small module labeled 'Aetheric Amplifier' Floyd | a large iron key Floyd | File F6A142: Cleve Anderson Floyd | a flanged brass rod Floyd | a paper tape labeled F6A142 Floyd | a small key labled 2D Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "The large iron key we found in his file?" | |
| chaudmin says, "oh yeah. hm." | ||
| DavidW says, "It might've been for the apartment, except SOMEONE broke the door before I could try a key." | ||
| Draconis looks innocent. | ||
| chaudmin says, "haha" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "point at large iron key" | ||
Floyd ] 1428 Fleet Street Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT LARGE IRON KEY Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "point at iron key" | ||
Floyd ] 1428 Fleet Street Floyd | > Floyd | > POINT AT IRON KEY Floyd | Floyd | Triage's beam flickers over the large iron key, briefly, then Floyd | displays: Floyd | Floyd | CAT:UNKNOWN/UNLI Floyd | STED.UTIL:NOT.AP Floyd | PLICABLE.PART:NO Floyd | NE.ITEM.IS.NOT.R Floyd | ECOGNIZED.BY.CUR Floyd | RENT.SYSTEM.STOR Floyd | E.REQUIRE.ADDITI Floyd | ONAL.INFORMATION Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Side Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Side Corridor Floyd | This narrow, dusty corridor runs parallel to the shop beside it and Floyd | contains nothing more than a rickety staircase leading up and down and Floyd | a small door leading west. Floyd | Floyd | Triage obediently appears. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "unlock door with iron key" | ||
Floyd ] Side Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > UNLOCK DOOR WITH IRON KEY Floyd | Floyd | That doesn't seem to fit the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] 1428 Fleet Street Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | 1428 Fleet Street Floyd | Set off to one side of the Market, this area is reserved for a myriad Floyd | variety specialist shops - uniform clothiers, engine-programmers, Floyd | fortune-tellers. The largest, set on the south side of the street, is Floyd | decorated with a gaudy sign which reads "Du Monde's - Mechanist of Floyd | Repute Since 1803." Along the same building - to the southeast - lies Floyd | a small door which reads, simply, "1428." Floyd | Floyd | Triage trundles patiently along beside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Du Monde's Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Du Monde's Floyd | The shop is dark, and crowded with haphazardly stacked, yet neatly Floyd | organized piles of machinery. To the south, there is a worn wooden Floyd | counter, cracked with age and covered with innumerable nicks, Floyd | scratches, and dark burn marks. Behind the counter are rows and rows Floyd | of drawers, labeled in some arcane script. The faint scent of gas Floyd | clings to the walls. Floyd | Floyd | The shop's show window and door look out on Fleet Street to the north. Floyd | A second door lies behind the counter to the east. Floyd | Floyd | A woman leans over the counter, working on something with intense Floyd | concentration. Floyd | Floyd | Triage silently rolls to a stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x du monde" | ||
Floyd ] Du Monde's Floyd | > Floyd | > X DU MONDE Floyd | Floyd | Tall and thin, though her figure is difficult to make out in men's Floyd | clothes that are ill-suited for her frame. Her curly, auburn hair is Floyd | tied back in a simple ponytail at the nape of her neck. Her fierce Floyd | green eyes are bright and aware, though they crinkle their corners. Floyd | Floyd | She wears a small pin on her lapel. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "The pin is described separately. Interesting." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x pin" | ||
Floyd ] Du Monde's
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pin" | ||
Floyd | > X PIN Floyd | Floyd | A circular pin, depicting a tree with ten branches. Each branch, and Floyd | the leaves which hang from them, are made up not of lines, but a Floyd | series of 1s and 0s. Floyd | Floyd | She notices your interest in the pin, and her fingers fondle it Floyd | protectively. For just a moment her eyes reflect something - fear? Floyd | anger? - and her face reddens deeply; then her countenance dissolves Floyd | into a charming embarrassment, complete with a slight blush. Floyd | Floyd | "My nephew gave it to me. Found it on the street most likely. I put it Floyd | on to please him, and forget it was even here. How silly of me." Floyd | Floyd | She deftly removes the pin and drops it in her pocket. Floyd | Floyd | "Now what can I assist you with?" Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Du Monde's Floyd | > Floyd | > X PIN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "Could we have Triage examine the pin?" | |
| Draconis says, "It notices symbolism sometimes." | ||
| DavidW says, "It's obvious that the tree of life is their logo for their Order. Sign of membership, I guess." | ||
| chaudmin says, "all I could think of is 'binary tree'" | ||
| Draconis says, "Haha" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "ask du monde about cleve" | ||
Floyd ] Du Monde's Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK DU MONDE ABOUT CLEVE Floyd | Floyd | She give a short, barking laugh. "You know about him, do you? Clever Floyd | boy, that one. Too clever by half. Always knew he'd come to a bad Floyd | end." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "show letter to du monde" | ||
Floyd ] Du Monde's Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW LETTER TO DU MONDE Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the letter) Floyd | Du Monde briefly glances over it, her smile tightening slightly. Floyd | "Fascinating little myths these boys are capable of," she concedes. Floyd | Floyd | Quick as a flash, her hand snakes beneath the counter, returning to Floyd | slam a tiny brass object onto the countertop. Floyd | Floyd | "A gift," she says, "for the inquisitive." Floyd | Floyd | In a heartbeat, the thing is airborne - a tiny whirlwind of metallic Floyd | wings and grasping arms. Floyd | Floyd | The pain is excruciating. Floyd | Floyd | If there are words for this... Floyd | Floyd | /(reference|point|metaphor)\ Floyd | Floyd | ...they have not yet been written. Floyd | Floyd | /(:timeline/date/1919:wbyeates/secondcoming)\ Floyd | Floyd | It starts simply enough. Nothing occurs for the first week. It takes Floyd | that long to incubate. Floyd | Floyd | /(the darkness drops again; but now I know)\ Floyd | Floyd | At the end of that time, James is quite sure he has followed in the Floyd | footsteps of both Brand and Xavier, but bravely holds on. His bravery Floyd | serves him poorly as within ten days time he has managed to infect all Floyd | of the orderlies. Another week, and they have infected their families, Floyd | their friends, and every patient in Bedlam. Floyd | Floyd | /(that twenty centuries of stony sleep)\ Floyd | Floyd | Reggie doesn't notice a thing. It's business as usual - and business Floyd | is good. A week after the incubation he has infected seemingly half of Floyd | London -- his clients, his barmates, his family. Floyd | Floyd | /(were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,)\ Floyd | Floyd | Alexandra goes on with business as usual. By the time her incubation Floyd | is complete, the Cypherists are once again meeting. Ironically, she Floyd | infects the only group of people who could possibly have understood Floyd | what was going on. Floyd | Floyd | It all goes fairly quickly after that. Floyd | Floyd | /(and what rough beast)\ Floyd | Floyd | It spreads - subtle and strange...sudden lost memories, new forms of Floyd | action and, universally, a reaching, grasping curiosity... Floyd | Floyd | /(its hour come round at last)\ Floyd | Floyd | The lost begin to gather together - first in twos, then in growing Floyd | crowds - to speak nonsense at one other. Floyd | Floyd | /(slouches towards)\ Floyd | Floyd | The language of the angels - of Babel - fills the streets of London, Floyd | and then every city in the world. Floyd | Floyd | /(bethlehem)\ Floyd | Floyd | The death shroud of humanity becomes the birth caul of something ... Floyd | new - Floyd | Floyd | /(?behtlehem?)\ Floyd | Floyd | inhaling its first breath Floyd | Floyd | /(BEDLAM)\ Floyd | Floyd | preparing to cry out Floyd | Floyd | /(to be born?)\ Floyd | Floyd | its Name. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ***/(finishendcompleteconclude|periodmomentpointspacetime))\** Floyd | * Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | /(reachedfoundendfinishcomplete|possibleprobablyonlyoneinofmany))\ Floyd | Floyd | /(nowfurtheryetaheadrelease-APPENDIX-B-availableaccessableopen))\</i Floyd | >. Floyd | Floyd | /(?? RESTARTperiodfirstrevisit ?? RESTOREbackrecallrelease ?? Floyd | UNDObackreverseunmake ?? APPENDIXfurtherjumpyet ?? QUITleaveenddone Floyd | ??))\ Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "well then" | |
| DavidW says, "so, another death, but same appendix." | ||
| chaudmin says, "this is the ending we get when if we spread the infection and then die" | ||
| DavidW says, "Thought she'd kill us. She seemed the type to do so." | ||
| Draconis asks, "Does the same thing happen if we show the diary instead?" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Du Monde's Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Du Monde's Floyd | /(backyesunturningunmakingUNDObacksliplinereverse)\ Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "show diary to du monde" | ||
Floyd ] Du Monde's Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW DIARY TO DU MONDE Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the diary) Floyd | Du Monde briefly glances over it, her smile tightening slightly. Floyd | "Fascinating little myths these boys are capable of," she concedes. Floyd | Floyd | Quick as a flash, her hand snakes beneath the counter, returning to Floyd | slam a tiny brass object onto the countertop. Floyd | Floyd | "A gift," she says, "for the inquisitive." Floyd | Floyd | In a heartbeat, the thing is airborne - a tiny whirlwind of metallic Floyd | wings and grasping arms. Floyd | Floyd | The pain is excruciating. Floyd | Floyd | If there are words for this... Floyd | Floyd | /(reference|point|metaphor)\ Floyd | Floyd | ...they have not yet been written. Floyd | Floyd | /(:timeline/date/1919:wbyeates/secondcoming)\ Floyd | Floyd | It starts simply enough. Nothing occurs for the first week. It takes Floyd | that long to incubate. Floyd | Floyd | /(the darkness drops again; but now I know)\ Floyd | Floyd | At the end of that time, James is quite sure he has followed in the Floyd | footsteps of both Brand and Xavier, but bravely holds on. His bravery Floyd | serves him poorly as within ten days time he has managed to infect all Floyd | of the orderlies. Another week, and they have infected their families, Floyd | their friends, and every patient in Bedlam. Floyd | Floyd | /(that twenty centuries of stony sleep)\ Floyd | Floyd | Reggie doesn't notice a thing. It's business as usual - and business Floyd | is good. A week after the incubation he has infected seemingly half of Floyd | London -- his clients, his barmates, his family. Floyd | Floyd | /(were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,)\ Floyd | Floyd | Alexandra goes on with business as usual. By the time her incubation Floyd | is complete, the Cypherists are once again meeting. Ironically, she Floyd | infects the only group of people who could possibly have understood Floyd | what was going on. Floyd | Floyd | It all goes fairly quickly after that. Floyd | Floyd | /(and what rough beast)\ Floyd | Floyd | It spreads - subtle and strange...sudden lost memories, new forms of Floyd | action and, universally, a reaching, grasping curiosity... Floyd | Floyd | /(its hour come round at last)\ Floyd | Floyd | The lost begin to gather together - first in twos, then in growing Floyd | crowds - to speak nonsense at one other. Floyd | Floyd | /(slouches towards)\ Floyd | Floyd | The language of the angels - of Babel - fills the streets of London, Floyd | and then every city in the world. Floyd | Floyd | /(bethlehem)\ Floyd | Floyd | The death shroud of humanity becomes the birth caul of something ... Floyd | new - Floyd | Floyd | /(?behtlehem?)\ Floyd | Floyd | inhaling its first breath Floyd | Floyd | /(BEDLAM)\ Floyd | Floyd | preparing to cry out Floyd | Floyd | /(to be born?)\ Floyd | Floyd | its Name. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ***/(finishendcompleteconclude|periodmomentpointspacetime))\** Floyd | * Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | /(reachedfoundendfinishcomplete|possibleprobablyonlyoneinofmany))\ Floyd | Floyd | /(nowfurtheryetaheadrelease-APPENDIX-B-availableaccessableopen))\</i Floyd | >. Floyd | Floyd | /(?? RESTARTperiodfirstrevisit ?? RESTOREbackrecallrelease ?? Floyd | UNDObackreverseunmake ?? APPENDIXfurtherjumpyet ?? QUITleaveenddone Floyd | ??))\ Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Seems so." | |
| DavidW says, "oh, I expect so." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Du Monde's Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Du Monde's Floyd | /(backyesunturningunmakingUNDObacksliplinereverse)\ Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I wonder who Alexandra is. I suppose she's someone we haven't found yet." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "ask du monde about du monde" | ||
Floyd ] Du Monde's Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK DU MONDE ABOUT DU MONDE Floyd | Floyd | "Du Monde. Alexandra Du Monde - owner, proprietress, and chief Floyd | mechanist. I'd shake your hand, but..." She holds a greasy hand up Floyd | apologetically. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. ok." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "ask du monde about pin" | ||
Floyd ] Du Monde's Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK DU MONDE ABOUT PIN Floyd | Floyd | "A trifle, I assure you." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "ask du monde about logos" | ||
Floyd ] Du Monde's Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK DU MONDE ABOUT LOGOS Floyd | Floyd | "I can't help you, sir. I am, after all, merely a mechanist." Floyd | Floyd | Du Monde briefly consults a manual before returning to work. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It's 4:15. I don't know how much longer you guys want to continue playing." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "ask du monde about order" | ||
Floyd ] Du Monde's Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK DU MONDE ABOUT ORDER Floyd | Floyd | "I'm afraid I can't help you there." Floyd | Floyd | Du Monde finishes whatever she was working on. From behind the counter Floyd | she produces another small piece of machinery and begins to fiddle Floyd | with it. Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "ehh, the other endings shouldn't take too much longer to get" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask du monde about magnetoscope" | ||
Floyd ] Du Monde's Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK DU MONDE ABOUT MAGNETOSCOPE Floyd | Floyd | "Why would I know anything about that?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "ask du monde about magnetophone" | ||
Floyd ] Du Monde's Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK DU MONDE ABOUT MAGNETOPHONE Floyd | Floyd | "I'm afraid I can't help you there." Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Well you just sold us an amplifier..." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Du Monde's Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Carried: Floyd | a damaged book Floyd | a primitive copy of a key Floyd | a puzzle box (open) Floyd | a letter Floyd | a diary Floyd | a small module labeled 'Aetheric Amplifier' Floyd | a large iron key Floyd | File F6A142: Cleve Anderson Floyd | a flanged brass rod Floyd | a paper tape labeled F6A142 Floyd | a small key labled 2D Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "ask du monde about cypherists" | ||
Floyd ] Du Monde's Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK DU MONDE ABOUT CYPHERISTS Floyd | Floyd | Her body stiffens ever so slightly. Floyd | Floyd | "Cypherists? Not something I stock, sir. Never even heard of a machine Floyd | like that." Floyd | Floyd | Du Monde clucks her tongue impatiently. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we should return home and use the amplifier." | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] 1428 Fleet Street Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | 1428 Fleet Street Floyd | Set off to one side of the Market, this area is reserved for a myriad Floyd | variety specialist shops - uniform clothiers, engine-programmers, Floyd | fortune-tellers. The largest, set on the south side of the street, is Floyd | decorated with a gaudy sign which reads "Du Monde's - Mechanist of Floyd | Repute Since 1803." Along the same building - to the southeast - lies Floyd | a small door which reads, simply, "1428." Floyd | Floyd | Triage obediently appears. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Smithfield Market Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Smithfield Market Floyd | While this is merely the outskirts of the Market, its presence still Floyd | threatens to overwhelm the senses -- the smell of an abattoir, the din Floyd | of a thousand voices shouting, the sight of masses of humanity Floyd | talking, shopping, selling. Floyd | Floyd | The only quiet in the din lies southward, towards Fleet Street. Floyd | Floyd | A hansom cab sits here with a tired old horse hitched to the front and Floyd | its driver waiting patiently. Floyd | Floyd | Triage silently rolls to a stop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "enter cab" | ||
Floyd ] Smithfield Market Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER CAB Floyd | Floyd | Entered. Floyd | Floyd | Faced with the task of climbing into the cab, Triage is more than up Floyd | to the challenge. Raising and extending first two wheels and then the Floyd | others, it clambers inside beside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "reggie, home" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > REGGIE, HOME Floyd | Floyd | The trip feels none too comfortable, but at least the cab's interior Floyd | gives some insulation against the tumult of London. Before long, the Floyd | cab slows and the driver announces the reached destination... Floyd | Floyd | Outside Flat 2D (in the hansom cab) Floyd | This small, empty road lies at the base of a small hill. It is lined Floyd | with thin buildings, many advertising "Flats to Let" in their windows. Floyd | The one directly north contains a door labeled 2D. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is the massive stone edifice that is Newgate Gaol. A Floyd | gallows prepared for tomorrow's public execution, towers over the Floyd | street. Floyd | Floyd | Triage rests obediently nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Exited. Floyd | Floyd | Triage gracefully climbs out of the cab beside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Flat 2D Floyd | Despite being small and cluttered with bits and pieces of electronics, Floyd | this one room flat gives the impression of being quite clean and Floyd | hygienic; no dust or dirt lurk in its bright corners. The east wall Floyd | holds a mirror, and is neatly lined with evenly spaced picture frames. Floyd | A large table, clearly a workshop space, takes up the west wall Floyd | beneath an arched window. Floyd | Floyd | A shadow stretches lazily from the window across the floor. Floyd | Floyd | The flat's single exit lies to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Triage obediently appears. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "oh, we didn't lock our door?" | |
| Draconis says, "Apparently not." | ||
| chaudmin says, "I don't think the game has robbers programmed in, so we should be good" | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x magnetophone" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > X MAGNETOPHONE Floyd | Floyd | A stout metallic box, approximately two feet long by a foot deep. On Floyd | its side is a small label which reads "Wheatstone/Cooke Floyd | Aether-Magnetophone Company," beneath which is a small, closed panel. Floyd | Floyd | Its front contains a simple toggle switch, a button labeled Floyd | 'transmit', and the long graceful curve of a cygnet speaker. At its Floyd | back is a small valve, connected to a rubber tube which trails along Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "lucky us" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "open panel" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN PANEL Floyd | Floyd | The expansion slot panel opens, revealing a small, empty socket Floyd | containing two vertical holes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "put amp in socket" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT AMP IN SOCKET Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x amplifier" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > X AMPLIFIER Floyd | Floyd | A small black module that easily fits in the hand. On one side, its Floyd | smooth surface reads "Cooke Aetheric Amplifier Module," on the other, Floyd | only two small pins are visible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "put amplifier in socket" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT AMPLIFIER IN SOCKET Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x socket" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > X SOCKET Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x panel" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > X PANEL Floyd | Floyd | The panel is opened, revealing a small, empty socket containing two Floyd | vertical holes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x holes" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > X HOLES Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "put amplifier in panel" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "put amplifier in panel" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT AMPLIFIER IN PANEL Floyd | Floyd | The Aetheric Amplifier nestles perfectly into the open slot. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "Aha." | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOOK Floyd | Floyd | (the damaged book) Floyd | The heavy, brown leather cover has been largely darkened to near black Floyd | from water damage, and black scorch marks fan like a sunburst from the Floyd | book's spine to the outer edges. On the front cover, a tree with ten Floyd | branches. The design is composed of hundreds of gold-leaf 1s and 0s Floyd | rather than lines. Floyd | Floyd | The pages stick in large clumps. Even when turned carefully, they pull Floyd | out easily, reverting to a sticky pulp. Those pages that do keep their Floyd | place are difficult to read. The dark green ink has run, the text Floyd | melting towards the bottom of the page. Only snatches of text are Floyd | still legible: Floyd | Floyd | "...the ATBASH of the Hebrews, the Scytale of the Greeks, Caesar's Floyd | cypher; long have they been used to maintain the secrets of Magical Floyd | Rites, clandestine endeavors and Political Intrigue. But these are Floyd | ciphers created by men who believed in myths, for the benefit of men Floyd | believing in myths. The Initiated Mind recognizes that information is Floyd | more than just words on a page, it is secreted in the world around us; Floyd | the great Symmetry of Nature demonstrates that all Life is encoded. Floyd | Unlocking this Code is our Duty and Right as Humans, made Masters by Floyd | God, to Understand the..." Floyd | Floyd | "...itself, Mysticism should not be discounted. We understand that Floyd | Myths and Legends are often the misguided interpretation of the Floyd | uninitiated to understand the Great Truths. Particular insight may be Floyd | found in the Vedas, the Scriptures, and the sacred teachings of the Floyd | Hebrews, whose Qabbalah reflect our own search for Life's Origin. It Floyd | is from the Qabbalah that we take our insignia, the Tree of Life. It Floyd | is unknown..." Floyd | Floyd | "...to advances in Technology, we are able to analyze and decipher Floyd | these hidden codes with greater speed and alacrity..." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "computers are so fussy." | |
| Draconis says, "oops wrong book" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x paperback" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > X PAPERBACK Floyd | Floyd | The book is open to a marked page, labeled "Troubleshooting Your Floyd | Magnetophone, A Home User's Guide..." Floyd | Floyd | 1. Problem: Nothing happens when I turn my Magnetophone on. Floyd | Be sure that your Magnetophone is hooked up to a viable power source, Floyd | and that the power source is active. If you are sure your power source Floyd | is active, toggle your switch. Floyd | Floyd | 2. Problem: All I hear is static or I can hear other operators, but Floyd | they can't hear me speak, or they do not answer. Floyd | To broadcast, be sure to depress the TRANSMIT button each time you Floyd | wish to speak. While the TRANSMIT button is not depressed, your Floyd | magnetophone acts as a receiver, not a transmitter. Also, be sure to Floyd | use proper etiquette while operating your Magnetophone. To let another Floyd | operator know you wish to make contact, press the TRANSMIT button and Floyd | use the universally accepted phrase "Calling CQ". If you fail to use Floyd | this code, other operators may believe they are picking up the middle Floyd | of an alternate conversation, and will not respond for fear of Floyd | interrupting. Floyd | Floyd | 3. Problem: I can hear static and voices, but they are faint or Floyd | indistinct. Floyd | Magnetophone customers living in highly-populated, urban areas may Floyd | experience transmission interference due to the presence of large Floyd | buildings, crowded streets, and pollution. You may try alleviate to Floyd | this problem by placing the Magnetophone by a clear opening - such as Floyd | a window. If this does not fix the problem, you may need to purchase Floyd | one of several amplification devices, designed to fit into your Floyd | machine's expansion slot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "toggle switch" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > TOGGLE SWITCH Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "push switch" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH SWITCH Floyd | Floyd | The toggle switch switches on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push transmit" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH TRANSMIT Floyd | Floyd | The button stays depressed as long as it is pushed, then releases. Floyd | Nothing more happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Do we have a power source?" | |
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x tube" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > X TUBE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x power source" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > X POWER SOURCE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x magnetophone" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > X MAGNETOPHONE Floyd | Floyd | A stout metallic box, approximately two feet long by a foot deep. On Floyd | its side is a small label which reads "Wheatstone/Cooke Floyd | Aether-Magnetophone Company," beneath which is a panel, opened to Floyd | reveal a small, empty socket. Floyd | Floyd | Its front contains a simple toggle switch, a button labeled Floyd | 'transmit', and the long graceful curve of a cygnet speaker. At its Floyd | back is a small valve, connected to a rubber tube which trails along Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x rubber" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > X RUBBER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "x panel" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > X PANEL Floyd | Floyd | The panel is opened, revealing a small module labeled "Aetheric Floyd | Amplifier." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "close panel" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > CLOSE PANEL Floyd | Floyd | The expansion slot panel closes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x valve" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > X VALVE Floyd | Floyd | The valve can be turned to open or close the pipe and thus the tubing. Floyd | Currently it seems to be closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "open valve" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN VALVE Floyd | Floyd | A quiet hiss emanates from the valve as it turns, and the tubing gives Floyd | a small shudder. Floyd | Floyd | The rubber piping connected to the back of the machine convulses for a Floyd | moment, a wisp of steam escaping from it. From within, comes a low Floyd | whirring which slowly increases in pitch and volume. From out of the Floyd | magnetophone's horn comes a soft echo of static... Floyd | Floyd | As solid voices become discernable from out of the constant static, a Floyd | sudden chill descends... Floyd | Floyd | /(?heartouchothergrow?)\ Floyd | Floyd | A stretching outwards...a growth... Floyd | Floyd | /(?realblindemptynullwhere?)\ Floyd | Floyd | A stumbling. Confusion. Floyd | Floyd | /(NOfalseunrealdistantphantomNO)\ Floyd | Floyd | The cold recedes... Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis asks, "Should we transmit?" | |
| Draconis says, "We could say the various mottos and see what happens." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm wondering if it makes any difference where this is used." | ||
| chaudmin says (to Floyd), "push transmit" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH TRANSMIT Floyd | Floyd | As the button is depressed, the static abruptly stops. Floyd | Floyd | What words are transmitted? | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "calling cq" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | What words are transmitted? Floyd | > CALLING CQ Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The transmit button releases with an audible pop. Floyd | Floyd | Several voices emerge from the magnetophone's speaker at once: Floyd | Floyd | "Receiving Lon-4-G-C..." Floyd | "...earing you - identify Xerxes Yellow Zebra Zebra Yellow..." Floyd | "...well enough to..." Floyd | "...lear, CQ...go ahead..." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh xyzzy" | |
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "push transmit" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH TRANSMIT Floyd | Floyd | As the button is depressed, the static abruptly stops. Floyd | Floyd | What words are transmitted? | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "kai theos en ho logos" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | What words are transmitted? Floyd | > KAI THEOS EN HO LOGOS Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The transmit button releases with an audible pop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "push transmit" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH TRANSMIT Floyd | Floyd | As the button is depressed, the static abruptly stops. Floyd | Floyd | What words are transmitted? | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "veritas lux mea" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | What words are transmitted? Floyd | > VERITAS LUX MEA Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The transmit button releases with an audible pop. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Obviously, the word is XYZZY." | |
| Draconis asks, "What was the last one?" | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "push transmit" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH TRANSMIT Floyd | Floyd | As the button is depressed, the static abruptly stops. Floyd | Floyd | What words are transmitted? | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | What words are transmitted? Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The transmit button releases with an audible pop. Floyd | Floyd | > | Draconis says, "The one from the Tower of Babel." | |
| chaudmin says, "probably need to say "calling cq" first" | ||
| DavidW says, "I didn't write it down." | ||
| Draconis asks, "We did that, do we need to do it again?" | ||
| DavidW says, "We might, yes." | ||
| Draconis says, "Aha." | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "push transmit" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH TRANSMIT Floyd | Floyd | As the button is depressed, the static abruptly stops. Floyd | Floyd | What words are transmitted? | ||
| Draconis says (to Floyd), "nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | What words are transmitted? Floyd | > NOTHING WILL BE RESTRAINED FROM THEM WHICH THEY HAVE IMAGINED Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The transmit button releases with an audible pop. Floyd | Floyd | If there are words for this... Floyd | Floyd | /(reference|point|metaphor)\ Floyd | Floyd | ...they have not yet been written. Floyd | Floyd | /(:timeline/date/1919:wbyeates/secondcoming)\ Floyd | Floyd | The first responses are confusion. Repeat again. Don't quite Floyd | understand. Static. Lost. Floyd | Floyd | /(the darkness drops again; but now I know)\ Floyd | Floyd | By the time they understand, it is already too late. Hobbyists switch Floyd | off their machines in disgust, or change to a different aetheric band. Floyd | Floyd | /(that twenty centuries of stony sleep)\ Floyd | Floyd | But some stay. Some listen. Some call others. Floyd | Floyd | /(were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,)\ Floyd | Floyd | Within hours it is the talk of every aetherist in London. Come hear Floyd | the madman speak. Does he make any sense? Is that a language? I Floyd | thought I understood it for a moment... Floyd | Floyd | /(and what rough beast)\ Floyd | Floyd | Now it is the talk of every aetherist in the world. They tune in from Floyd | as far as the Americas and the Far East to listen to this new Pythia - Floyd | spouting Apollo's word from an aetheric Delphi. Floyd | Floyd | /(its hour come round at last)\ Floyd | Floyd | The transmission continues uninterrupted for days. Rumor spreads and Floyd | soon the commercial bands are carrying stories of it - complete with a Floyd | few moments of live transmission. Floyd | Floyd | /(slouches towards)\ Floyd | Floyd | Days after that, the copycats start. Madmen babbling over the aether, Floyd | on the street corners. A week after that, the realization hits home: Floyd | finally visible are Floyd | Floyd | /(bethlehem)\ Floyd | Floyd | the connections Floyd | Floyd | /(?behtlehem?)\ Floyd | Floyd | that have Floyd | Floyd | /(BEDLAM)\ Floyd | Floyd | at last Floyd | Floyd | /(to be born?)\ Floyd | Floyd | made the world, One. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ***/(finishendcompleteconclude|periodmomentpointspacetime))\** Floyd | * Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | /(reachedfoundendfinishcomplete|possibleprobablyonlyoneinofmany))\ Floyd | Floyd | /(nowfurtheryetaheadrelease-APPENDIX-C-availableaccessableopen))\</i Floyd | >. Floyd | Floyd | /(?? RESTARTperiodfirstrevisit ?? RESTOREbackrecallrelease ?? Floyd | UNDObackreverseunmake ?? APPENDIXfurtherjumpyet ?? QUITleaveenddone Floyd | ??))\ Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oo" | |
| Draconis heads back home. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "appendix" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > APPENDIX Floyd | Floyd | APPENDIX C Floyd | Floyd | *clunk* Floyd | Floyd | The rusting tin cylinder within the phonograph vibrates slightly as a Floyd | brass needle scrapes against it. The sound of a throat being cleared Floyd | emerges from the machine's ancient hornshell speaker, followed by a Floyd | thin, haunting voice. Floyd | Floyd | "Today." Floyd | Floyd | A breath. Floyd | Floyd | "We are uncertain how to ... date this ... entry. Time has lost much Floyd | meaning. The gap between Homo sapien sapien and what we are now (Logos Floyd | sapien sapien?) is confused and muddled. As is much that came after." Floyd | Floyd | "The Biblical references we remember seem to fit best." Floyd | Floyd | "'And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.' Floyd | Genesis 11:11 And so it is. Kai theos en ho logos. The Word Made Floyd | Flesh is spoken from every mouth that we have. We speak the language Floyd | of angels with every breath." Floyd | Floyd | "We are made happy by this - and sometimes sad." Floyd | Floyd | "We know that once we were a singular - an I. Or a bad copy of an I. Floyd | We were - or we came from - a Thomas Xavier. We remember him, when we Floyd | thought we were him. We think that maybe we liked being him." Floyd | Floyd | "But now we are so much more." Floyd | Floyd | "And there is yet so much more to be." Floyd | Floyd | "The First Time was the growing - the becoming - of what we now are. Floyd | It took time, and there was resistance. This, too, was sad." Floyd | Floyd | "But now there is joy." Floyd | Floyd | "The Second Time came swiftly after. We searched what we were and what Floyd | we remembered and we deduced where we came from - and what we were Floyd | before." Floyd | Floyd | "The Third Time is now upon us." Floyd | Floyd | "We have mastered the crude sciences that lead to the discovery of Floyd | what we now know as our home. And soon, we shall reopen the door and Floyd | find our parent - ourselves - beyond." Floyd | Floyd | "As Cleve so unwitting wrote so long ago: Malkuth is in Kether as Floyd | Kether is in Malkuth. Soon Man and God shall truly be as one. And then Floyd | the Unending Time will begin." Floyd | Floyd | "We leave this behind - a final monument to what we are and were. We Floyd | do not know if there is any other I or We to find and listen to it. Floyd | But we leave it nonetheless." Floyd | Floyd | "Goodbye." Floyd | Floyd | Having reached the end of the cylinder, the phonograph shuts itself Floyd | off with a tiny "click". Floyd | Floyd | /(?? RESTARTperiodfirstrevisit ?? RESTOREbackrecallrelease ?? Floyd | UNDObackreverseunmake ?? APPENDIXfurtherjumpyet ?? QUITleaveenddone Floyd | ??))\ Floyd | Floyd | > | chaudmin says, "well, there's two more endings that I know how to get" | |
| DavidW asks, "I'm thinking we should stop here for now. Maybe take it up later?" | ||
| chaudmin says, "sure" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Flat 2D Floyd | /(backyesunturningunmakingUNDObacksliplinereverse)\ | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | /(backyesunturningunmakingUNDObacksliplinereverse)\ Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The transmit button releases with an audible pop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cfslouching" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D Floyd | > Floyd | > CFSLOUCHING Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cfslouching" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D
Floyd | > SAVE## /(pointrememberingSAVEstoresafekeep)\
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||
Floyd ] Flat 2D 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 says, "thanks everyone" | |
| chaudmin says, "fun times" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm glad I got to see more of the game." | ||
| chaudmin says, "I'm understanding it better the second time around" | ||
| DavidW says, "hm, me too, although I wonder what ending A is. We saw B and C." | ||
