ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load allalone" | ||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd | tadsr - A text-only TADS 2.5.10 Interpreter.
Floyd | Copyright (c) 1993, 2006 by Michael J. Roberts.
Floyd |
Floyd | You're all alone tonight.
Floyd |
Floyd | Of course, you've gotten used to that since you moved in with Harvey.
Floyd | He works the late shift at the delicatessen every Tuesday and Thursday.
Floyd | He'll be back before too long. That man works so hard.
Floyd |
Floyd | You slip into your toasty flannel pajamas because there's a cold winter
Floyd | rain coming down outside and the heat in Harvey's sub-basement
Floyd | apartment really needs looking at. You settle down into the oversized
Floyd | couch in the living room and snap on the TV. Tonight you're just going
Floyd | to relax.
Floyd |
Floyd | all alone.
Floyd | by ian finley
Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | The living room is small; the big couch takes up almost all the
Floyd | floorspace. Not that you're complaining. It's the best Harvey can
Floyd | afford right now and until your drawings really start to sell you
Floyd | aren't contributing much financially. Some of your sketches hang on
Floyd | the walls above the TV and the squat cinder-block-and-boards bookshelf.
Floyd | Through a wide arch in the northwest corner you can see most of the
Floyd | kitchen and to the northeast is the bedroom. The door to the
Floyd | cement-floored outside hall is to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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DavidW says (to Floyd), "x drawings" | ||
Floyd | The pictures are sketches, originals of your work. One is of a young
Floyd | man walking into a high school; another is a little girl boarding a
Floyd | plane. Your teacher is arranging to get some of your works on display
Floyd | downtown.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear the news starting on the TV.
Floyd |
Floyd | Rain taps on the little square windows.
Floyd |
Floyd | it's coming
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| chaudmin says, "that's not ominous at all" | |
Jacqueline says, "No. Not at all." | ||
Roger says, "GABBO" | ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd | You're wearing your flannel Mickey Mouse pajamas.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV announces, "Tragedy and horror strike again as another victim of
Floyd | the so-called 'Slicer Killer' is found in her west side apartment."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "I'm sure that's completely unrelated." | |
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | You have a set of pajamas (being worn).
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "This is the fourth slaying of this kind to occur in
Floyd | the past three weeks. . . "
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "It'll never happen to us." | |
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x couch" | ||
Floyd | The couch is a huge, overstuffed thing that Harvey picked up at some
Floyd | flea market. Its all orange and yellow, pretty obnoxious.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, ". . .and police are focusing as much on quelling
Floyd | the growing panic in the city as on catching the killer. "
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x bookshelf" | ||
Floyd | The homemade bookshelf is basically a pile of paperbacks and big
Floyd | anatomy textbooks barely supported by cement blocks and sagging boards.
Floyd | There is a little candle burning on top that just screams "fire
Floyd | hazard."
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "We have been asked not to broadcast the images we
Floyd | have of the crime scene, but the killer has left his usual macabre
Floyd | calling cards."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "Most victims of murder know their victims. So I'm sure it won't be us next." | |
DavidW says, "I don't think I've ever played this game before, so I have no idea what to expect." | ||
Jacqueline exclaims, "Unless... what if Harvey isn't really working late at the delicatessen?!" | ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x candle" | ||
Floyd | The candle is white and held in a little blue glass cup. It's lit, not
Floyd | that it helps much.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "The young woman's internal organs had been removed,
Floyd | and several thin strips of skin shaved from the body."
Floyd |
Floyd | The storm is gathering force outside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Zach arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take candle" | ||
Floyd | You can't reach that from the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Lionheart exclaims, "Ooh, and I always assumed his keen interest in the cutting power of knives was professional!" | |
Roger says, "Thanks, FOX NEWS" | ||
DavidW says, "Let's make sure the front door is locked." | ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | You're not going anywhere until you get out of the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "While not wishing to encourage the unreasonable fear
Floyd | spreading through the city, the police do encourage women living alone
Floyd | to keep all curtains closed and make sure their doors are securely
Floyd | locked."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "(Let's hope the Slicer Killer isn't Harvey.)" | |
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "get off couch" | ||
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "In a related story, Mayor Anderson has significantly
Floyd | increased active police presence on the streets and has proposed
Floyd | another raise in pay."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Roger says, "Curtains, the silent defence" | |
Jacqueline says, "I'm betting that's our SURPRISE PLOT TWIST, actually." | ||
Roger says, "My money's on us being the killer" | ||
Jacqueline says, "See? There's more cops. We'll be fine." | ||
Jacqueline says (to Roger), "Ooh. That'd be good." | ||
Jacqueline says, "Like in that other IF game." | ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||
Floyd | Rain drizzles down the dark windows. They're small and placed high up
Floyd | since this is a basement apartment.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "These raises come at a crucial time, as work related
Floyd | stress causes growing numbers of investigators resign every week."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Lionheart asks, "What part of that fear is 'unreasonable'?" | |
DavidW says, "Not immediately. They have to slash art funding first. Those drawings will never be sold." | ||
Jacqueline says (to Lh), "A valid question." | ||
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "change channel" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "change".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "blow out candle" | ||
Floyd | You blow out the candle.
Floyd |
Floyd | For a moment the TV is blurred by loud static. Damn antennas.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "We really should lock the door, y'know." | |
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "lock door" | ||
Floyd | Which door do you mean, the outside door, or the bedroom door?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "outside door" | ||
Floyd | The door is already locked, two deadbolts and a latch.
Floyd |
Floyd | The static clears and picks up with the anchorman saying, ". .
Floyd | .continued threats of chemical warfare."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Lionheart says, "Yeah, the TV said so" | |
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "lock bedroom door" | ||
Floyd | It's too far away.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "In further world news--" and is cut short by low
Floyd | static.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, wait. We'd prolly want to be *inside* the bedroom before we lock it." | |
Roger says, "Let's lock ourselves in the fridge for maximum safeness" | ||
Lionheart says, "That's your typical TV news priorities. if it bleeds, it leads." | ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | The kitchen is deep and narrow, with sink and stove and refrigerator
Floyd | jutting out at awkward angles. It's not that the place is really
Floyd | dirty, but your mother wouldn't be able to stand it. The tile counters
Floyd | are washed-out yellow, slightly grimy, and the sink is more than half
Floyd | filled with this week's dishes. You can see about half the living room
Floyd | through the arch to the southeast, light from the TV flickering on the
Floyd | far wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | The television growls with hushed static.
Floyd |
Floyd | RING
Floyd | The phone's ringing, in the bedroom.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Zach says, "huh "slicer killer"" | |
Lionheart asks, "What, there's only one phone in the house?" | ||
Zach says, "So much hate against deli workers" | ||
Jacqueline says, "While he flays small strips of your skin he asks if you'd like the pastrami on rye or wheat or pumpernickel." | ||
Roger says, "I think we're stuck in the 80s" | ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x fridge" | ||
Floyd | The refrigerator is a massive, humming block, probably left over from
Floyd | when this old building was first divided up into apartments.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues to hum.
Floyd |
Floyd | RING
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says (to Lionheart), "This was written a while back." | |
Roger asks, "Can a TV even make static any more?" | ||
Jacqueline says (to Roger), "Hm. I think they just go black." | ||
Zach says, "There's a channel for that now" | ||
Lionheart says, "Oh, I had not picked up on that time period cue, yeah." | ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | ||
Floyd | There is cold bread and meat in the refrigerator.
Floyd |
Floyd | The static on the TV gives out to total silence.
Floyd |
Floyd | RING
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take meat" | ||
Floyd | Which meat do you mean, the canned food, or the bread and meat?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take bread and meat" | ||
Floyd | Which meat do you mean, the canned food, or the bread and meat?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| chaudmin says, "gah" | |
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take canned food" | ||
Floyd | There's no reason to carry that around.
Floyd |
Floyd | RING
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Roger says, "Oh, this old TADS thing. hmmm." | |
Jacqueline asks, "So, the phone is ringing. ...Have you checked the children?" | ||
Roger says (to floyd), "take first meat" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "first".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Roger says (to floyd), "take a meat" | ||
Floyd | Which meat do you mean, the canned food, or the bread and meat?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Lionheart says, ""It's 8pm, do you know where your children are" | |
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take bread" | ||
Floyd | You don't want to carry that around.
Floyd |
Floyd | The sound on the TV suddenly comes back in, loud.
Floyd |
Floyd | Annoyed by the ringing, you finally dash into the bedroom and grab the
Floyd | receiver. "Hello?" No answer. You ask again and hear heavy breathing
Floyd | on the other end, panting. You stand there for a moment, trying to
Floyd | think of some response, something biting and clever, but you can't, and
Floyd | the harsh wheezing continues. You hang up the phone and stand there
Floyd | for a moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "OH MY GOD THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE APARTMENT" | |
Jacqueline says, "We seem really not stressed at all about that weird phone call." | ||
Lionheart says, "The parser's getting fed up with our refusal to advance the plot" | ||
Zach says, "But we didn't want to answer the phone!" | ||
chaudmin exclaims, "you idiot, you're not supposed to answer the phone! now they know you're there!" | ||
Zach says (to Floyd), "x phone" | ||
Floyd | The old phone is on the floor, half buried by a pile of socks.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV announces, "And now we go to Tom Markus for the weather. Tom?"
Floyd |
Floyd | it's near
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Zach says (to Floyd), "x socks" | ||
Floyd | The old phone is on the floor, half buried by a pile of socks.
Floyd |
Floyd | A hyperactive TV weatherman blurts out, "Well folks, tonight doesn't
Floyd | look too good."
Floyd |
Floyd | A fat cockroach scurries over your bare left foot. Without thinking
Floyd | you jerk away and smash it with the ball of your right foot and it
Floyd | crunches under your skin. You quickly wipe the guts off your sole onto
Floyd | the floor and shudder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "You guys are awesome." | |
Zach says, "That's why we should have been *wearing* the socks" | ||
Zach says (to Floyd), "take socks" | ||
Floyd | The phone isn't ringing.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "This storm is gonna continue right up until tomorrow
Floyd | morning, and it is one monster of a storm."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline | Floyd | it's near | |
Jacqueline | Floyd | | ||
Jacqueline | Floyd | > | ||
| Zach says (to Floyd), "x socks" | ||
Jacqueline says, "As one does, when it's near." | ||
Zach says, "The socks were ringing!" | ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd | The bedroom is really much too small for everything in it. It was
Floyd | ok when it was just Harvey's big waterbed and his dresser, but when you
Floyd | brought in your drafting desk with its lamps and everything, the room
Floyd | just got too crowded. You have to practically crawl over the desk to
Floyd | get to the closet to the east and the door to the bathroom to the west
Floyd | is almost as blocked. Piles of Harvey's socks and clothes crouch on
Floyd | the floor. He's been used to being a bachelor for so long. You can
Floyd | see the living room through the arch to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "Winds up to seventy-two miles per hour have been
Floyd | reported, and the rain just keeps coming down."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Zach says (to Floyd), "wear socks" | ||
Floyd | You can't wear the phone.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "It's like the end of the world out there."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Lionheart says, "Well, one always wants to know where one's socks are." | |
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd | Your drafting table is the one serious piece of furniture you took from
Floyd | your parents' house when you moved in here. It's covered with
Floyd | half-finished sketches, charcoals and cups of pencils. The bulbs in
Floyd | the two lamps that are attached to it have burnt out.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a sudden clap of thunder outside and the wind starts picking
Floyd | up. The transmission on the TV starts to fade.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Lionheart says, "Incidentally, I'm thinking the PC's excellent roach-stomping reflexes bode well for us." | |
Zach says (to Floyd), "x sketches" | ||
Floyd | The table has several open sketch pads, all with drawings in various
Floyd | stages of completion. Several pairs of cold, unseeing eyes stare at
Floyd | you from underneath scattered sheets, daring you to complete their
Floyd | bodies. You ignore them.
Floyd |
Floyd | The sound on the TV fades in and out. You hear snatches of words and
Floyd | phrases.
Floyd |
Floyd | Lightning flashes brightly for a moment, lighting up the whole
Floyd | apartment. The thunder comes almost at once.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||
Floyd | The water bed is this squelching monster of a thing really low to the
Floyd | floor and covered with neon green sheets. The pillows are the same
Floyd | whacked color. It's comfy though.
Floyd |
Floyd | From the TV you hear, "Buy Fleischmann's. . .static, garble. . .
Floyd | it slices, it dices, it. . . static, garble. . . "
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Zach says (to Floyd), "complete bodies" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "complete".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "So, I know we're being all nonchalant about the fact that we're either about to die or be killed, but this really is building the anticiaption well." | |
Zach says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||
Floyd | clothing: You slip quickly out of your pajamas and into some jeans and
Floyd | a shirt that are on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | From the TV you hear, "In our last story. . .garble. . .Good-night
Floyd | from. . .static. . . "
Floyd |
Floyd | RING
Floyd | The phone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "The socks are ringing again." | |
Zach says (to Floyd), "answer socks" | ||
Floyd | Frustrated, you grab the receiver, but don't say anything. The man on
Floyd | the other end is whispering. You can't make out exactly what he's
Floyd | saying. It sounds like, "You're not thinking of going anywhere are
Floyd | you?" You don't reply. "Didn't want to go out in your pajamas did
Floyd | you?" You glance quickly towards the window.The blinds are open. You
Floyd | can't see anything through the dark and rain."I just wouldn't go
Floyd | outside, ok, sweetie?" You slam down the receiver.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | From the TV you hear, "Stay in. . .static. . .if you need. .
Floyd | .static. . .to go out. . ." and then complete silence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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chaudmin says (to Floyd), "close blinds" | ||
Floyd | You unfold the blinds and cover the windows.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "I'm sure that will help." | |
Jacqueline says, "I say we change clothes and get out of here." | ||
DavidW says, "Should've done that earlier, I suppose." | ||
Zach says, "I feel like going for a walk" | ||
Jacqueline says, "Go to a neighbor's house." | ||
Zach says (to Jacq), "We did change clothes" | ||
Jacqueline asks, "Wait! Can we call Harvey?" | ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "call harvey" | ||
Floyd | You punch in Harvey's work number. Old man Luttfisk answers. You hate
Floyd | his voice. It sounds slimy.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Luttfisk's Delicatessen. We're closin' up here--"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yes, Mr. Luttfisk, I know, I was just wondering if Harvey was there."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Harvey?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yes, Harvey, your assistant, if he's there--"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Oh he left a long time ago. Had to pick up supplies. Yeah. He left
Floyd | a long time ago. Good night." Click. Buzz. You hang up the phone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says (to Z), "We did? I missed that." | |
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd | You're wearing pants and a shirt, nothing special.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "Oh." | |
Zach says, "In response to "take all"" | ||
Roger says, "good thinkin" | ||
Lionheart says, "Ah, a touchtone phone, another time period cue" | ||
Jacqueline says (to Z), "Ah" | ||
chaudmin says, "gonna check out the closet" | ||
Jacqueline asks (of Lh), "As opposed to a smart phone or VOIP?" | ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | Closet
Floyd | The closet is tiny and dark, barely enough room for you to stand in.
Floyd | A few of your clothes are hanging on the one bar but most of them are
Floyd | still in a big box on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | The sound on the TV jumps back in with raucous peals of laughter, some
Floyd | stupid sitcom or something.
Floyd |
Floyd | The storm is getting even worse, the rain drowning out any other sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "I mean, touch tone phones still exist... I think." | |
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "open box" | ||
Floyd | The box is already open, you can see it's contents. For that matter,
Floyd | you don't think it ever had a lid to start with.
Floyd |
Floyd | The tone of the TV changes and you hear, "We interrupt your regularly
Floyd | scheduled programming to bring you this important message."
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd | From the kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "Of course they do." | |
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||
Floyd | The box is a big cardboard thing that says "Rothschild's Vodka" on the
Floyd | side. The liquor store always has extra cardboard boxes, which you
Floyd | needed when you moved. The box is filled with most of your clothes,
Floyd | the stuff you haven't had time to unpack yet.
Floyd |
Floyd | The news announcer is back. You hear him say, "Police officials are
Floyd | mortified to find that the 'Slicer Killer' has struck for the second
Floyd | time this evening."
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "OH GOD IT'S BEEPING" | |
Jacqueline asks, "Wait. What's beeping?" | ||
Lionheart says, "Dial phones still exist too, for that matter" | ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | As you start to leave the closet you hear sounds coming from the living
Floyd | room. CLICK. CLICK. The locks on the front door. Harvey must be
Floyd | home, finally. You call out to him, "Hi, honey," but there's no reply.
Floyd | CLICK. You hear the door swinging open, slowly and quietly. "Honey?"
Floyd | you call. No answer. Quiet feet in the living room.
Floyd |
Floyd | The announcer continues, rapidly, "Another single woman has been found
Floyd | brutally mutilated in her west side home."
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "Sadly, party lines are dead." | |
Roger says, "'honey', eh" | ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "close door" | ||
Floyd | You quietly close the door and wait, holding your breath. Quiet.
Floyd | Suddenly there's knock on the door, two loud raps. The handle turns.
Floyd | Then turns back. You hear footsteps receding and the front door
Floyd | closing, locking. CLICK. CLICK. CLICK.
Floyd |
Floyd | The announcer continues, "The locks on her front door appear to have
Floyd | been forced, but by a skilled hand."
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, we seem to be Harvey's partner, as implied by the idea that we're sharing the bedroom." | |
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "get in box" | ||
Floyd | I don't know how to get on the box of clothes.
Floyd |
Floyd | The announcer continues, "Police are cautioning against panic."
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Zach says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | You have a unlit candle and some clothes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Static on the TV.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Lionheart says, "But TV reporters are having none of it" | |
Jacqueline says, "See, the police are cautioning aganist panic, but if we're not going to go proactively kill any non-Harvey persons in the living room, then I think it's time to panic." | ||
Zach says (to Floyd), "kill" | ||
Floyd | What do you want to attack?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| chaudmin says, "I'd like to know what's beeping, but I'm also pretty sure it's a bad idea to leave the closet" | |
Jacqueline says, "I mean, unless Harvey seems to want to kill us. If he does, then he can be offed." | ||
DavidW says, "We don't have even a butter knife to defend ourselves with." | ||
Jacqueline says, "Yeah. We can stay put." | ||
Lionheart says, "Maybe we can give the killer a paper cut with this cardboard box." | ||
Jacqueline asks, "Why did we call out? For the same reason we autmagically answered the phone?" | ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "lock door" | ||
Floyd | There's no way to lock the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | Static on the TV.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "Roadrunner." | |
Jacqueline says, "hee" | ||
DavidW says, "The roadrunner's after you." | ||
DavidW says, "Roadrunner." | ||
Lionheart says, "If he catches you, you're through" | ||
DavidW says, "If he catches you, you're through." | ||
Roger says, "DW, you have the honours of leading us out of the closet" | ||
Jacqueline says, "No no no" | ||
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | There's another whip of lightning and the TV shuts down completely.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Jacqueline clears the save counter. | ||
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd | File to save game in >
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||
Floyd | No one is going to help you.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW asks, "We never saw the bathroom, did we?" | |
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pray" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "pray".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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chaudmin says (to Floyd), "hide" | ||
Floyd | There's no place for you to hide.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | Closet
Floyd | The closet is tiny and dark, barely enough room for you to stand in.
Floyd | A few of your clothes are hanging on the one bar but most of them are
Floyd | still in a big box on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Lionheart says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd | Rain and thunder. The creaks of an old building.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take box" | ||
Floyd | You don't wanna haul your clothes around.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "move box" | ||
Floyd | You can't move the box of clothes.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Roger says, "hiding in your closet in real time" | |
Jacqueline asks (of Roger), "Wait, aren't we all playing on laptops in our closets right now because we're so scared?" | ||
Jacqueline says, "So, maybe nothing will happen (like, at all) if we stay here." | ||
DavidW says, "I can't enter my closet. It's full." | ||
Jacqueline says, "Maybe we need to leave to advance the plot." | ||
Roger says, "someone told me not to panic" | ||
Jacqueline says, "And won't you all feel silly when it's just Harvey." | ||
Jacqueline says, "And he says, 'Hi, sweetie. Get any drawing done?'" | ||
Jacqueline says, "And we'll just snuggle up and it'll all be fine." | ||
Lionheart says, "Until we notice the blood on his shoes." | ||
Jacqueline exclaims (at Lionheart), "That's from the roast beef at work!" | ||
Jacqueline exclaims, "It's just a little rare!" | ||
chaudmin asks, "well I guess we should leave then?" | ||
Lionheart says, "Well, a smart serial killer probably wouldn't kill someone he lives with, when he'd be the prime suspect." | ||
Roger says, "BEEP BEEP" | ||
Jacqueline says, "We just saved. So, yeah." | ||
Jacqueline says (to Roger), "STOP THAT" | ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | You open the closet door and step out into the bedroom. No one there.
Floyd | You listen carefully but you can't hear anything in the apartment.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd | The bedroom is too small for everything in it. You have to
Floyd | practically crawl over the desk to get to the closet and the door to
Floyd | the bathroom is almost as blocked. Piles of Harvey's dirty clothes
Floyd | crouch on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says (to Lh), "Good point." | |
Lionheart exclaims, "Unless all the other killings are meant to give plausible deniability!" | ||
Jacqueline says, "Check the front door locks on the way to the kitchen." | ||
Jacqueline says, "I'm sure it's just the microwave, angry that the power blipped and reset its clock to 00:00" | ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | Bathroom
Floyd | This is the darkest room in the apartment. The toilet works and the
Floyd | sink and shower aren't too dirty, but whenever you put on makeup you
Floyd | have to do it on your desk where there's more light instead of using
Floyd | the mirror in here.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "Assuming there were microwaves when this game was made." | |
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | ||
Floyd | The mirror is one of those medicine cabinet things, into which you've
Floyd | crammed all your necessary toiletries. It's closed right now.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||
Floyd | You open the cabinet.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "We had a microwave all through the 80s." | |
Jacqueline says, "Though it did not have a clock, it must be said." | ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "look in cabinet" | ||
Floyd | Inside the open medicine cabinet is a ton of random bathroom junk.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take junk" | ||
Floyd | There no reason to deal with any of that right now.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "search junk" | ||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| chaudmin says, "so the bathroom is completely useless" | |
Lionheart says, "We can't arm ourselves with nail clippers? Surely the TSA confiscates those because tyhey're deadlier than they seem" | ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "get in shower" | ||
Floyd | I don't know how to get on the shower.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline asks (of chaudmin), "Isn't every IF bathroom?" | |
DavidW says, "Some IF bathrooms are useful!" | ||
Jacqueline says, "Oh, I know." | ||
Jacqueline says, "I was just generalizing." | ||
DavidW says, "You were." | ||
Jacqueline says, "I get snarky when I'm about to be killed." | ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x sink" | ||
Floyd | The sink is one of those tiny things on a tall free-standing pedestal.
Floyd | Harvey says it's Victorian, but you think it's just plain annoying cuz
Floyd | there's nowhere to put anything on it or even any space under it for
Floyd | cabinets.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "oh. ok. Pls no killed." | |
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "get razor" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "razor".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get giant and sharp hair cutting scissors with the pointy tips" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "giant".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Lionheart says, "Thanks for being forthcoming, parser" | |
DavidW says, "At this rate, we might have to settle for a sharp pencil." | ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd | The bedroom is too small for everything in it. You have to
Floyd | practically crawl over the desk to get to the closet and the door to
Floyd | the bathroom is almost as blocked. Piles of Harvey's dirty clothes
Floyd | crouch on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "We are an illustrator. Did we see a pencil? We could go for the eyes." | |
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd | Your drafting table is the one serious piece of furniture you took from
Floyd | your parents' house when you moved in here. It's covered with
Floyd | half-finished sketches, charcoals and cups of pencils. The bulbs in
Floyd | the two lamps that are attached to it have burnt out.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Roger says, "for an nra-sponsored game, it's pretty good" | |
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take pencil" | ||
Floyd | You grab one of the pencils.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Lionheart says, "Wow, you might actually be right" | |
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "weild pencil" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "weild".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pencil" | ||
Floyd | It's a plain, number 2 graphite pencil with a little green eraser.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "heh" | |
Lionheart says, "Good call" | ||
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sharpen pencil" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "sharpen".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
DavidW says (to Floyd), "draw" | ||
Floyd | You sit down at the desk and grab a fresh piece of paper. You start
Floyd | moving your pencil over the smooth surface, letting it form whatever
Floyd | shapes it wants. A long dark gash on the paper resolves into a man's
Floyd | shadow. Diagonal lines mist into the slashing rain. Details, a long
Floyd | coat, a suitcase, a knife. . . You stop drawing and crumple up the
Floyd | paper. Another time.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "ACK" | |
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "open desk" | ||
Floyd | I don't know how to open the drafting table.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, Ian Finley." | |
DavidW says, "yeah, he wrote several well-received games, but somehow I missed playing this one." | ||
Jacqueline says, "Let's do this, folks" | ||
DavidW says, "I suspect the plot won't advance until we investigate the BEEP BEEP-ing." | ||
Jacqueline says, "Let's leave the bedroom before we wet out pants." | ||
Lionheart says, "If we need the toilet it's back there" | ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "leave bedroom" | ||
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | Closet
Floyd | The closet is tiny and dark, barely enough room for you to stand in.
Floyd | A few of your clothes are hanging on the one bar but most of them are
Floyd | still in a big box on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd | The bedroom is too small for everything in it. You have to
Floyd | practically crawl over the desk to get to the closet and the door to
Floyd | the bathroom is almost as blocked. Piles of Harvey's dirty clothes
Floyd | crouch on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | Bathroom
Floyd | This is the darkest room in the apartment. The toilet works and the
Floyd | sink and shower aren't too dirty, but whenever you put on makeup you
Floyd | have to do it on your desk where there's more light instead of using
Floyd | the mirror in here.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd | The bedroom is too small for everything in it. You have to
Floyd | practically crawl over the desk to get to the closet and the door to
Floyd | the bathroom is almost as blocked. Piles of Harvey's dirty clothes
Floyd | crouch on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "exit is sw, I think." | |
Jacqueline says, "I'm flailing, clearly." | ||
Roger says, "From now on, if I think we're heel-dragging in clubfloyd, I'm going to say beep beep" | ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "heehee" | |
DavidW says (to Roger), "yay" | ||
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | The living room is small, the couch takes up all the space. Some of
Floyd | your sketches hang on the walls above the TV and the
Floyd | cinder-block-and-boards bookshelf. You can see the kitchen to the
Floyd | northwest and the bedroom door to the northeast. The door to the
Floyd | outside hall is to the west.
Floyd | Sitting on the floor is a Polaroid picture.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline exclaims, "!!" | |
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take picture" | ||
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "uh-oh. New item!" | |
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x picture" | ||
Floyd | Which picture do you mean, the Polaroid picture, or the sketches?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x polaroid" | ||
Floyd | It takes you a minute to figure out what the blurry, close-up picture
Floyd | is of. When you realize, your stomach knots, the bile rises in your
Floyd | throat. You fight down the nausea.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x polaroid" | ||
Floyd | It takes you a minute to figure out what the blurry, close-up picture
Floyd | is of. When you realize, your stomach knots, the bile rises in your
Floyd | throat. You fight down the nausea.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Roger says (to floyd), "shake polaroid" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "shake".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | The kitchen is narrow, with sink and stove and refrigerator jutting
Floyd | out at odd angles. The tile counters are washed-out yellow, and the
Floyd | sink is half filled with dishes. You can see about half the living
Floyd | room to the southeast.
Floyd | The refrigerator seems to contain some bread and meat.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd | The timer on the stove
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn off timer" | ||
Floyd | You twist the timer knob and turn off the bell. You'd forgotten about
Floyd | the lasagna you put in to cook an hour ago. Harvey brought it home
Floyd | from the deli last night. You take it out of the oven and put it on
Floyd | the counter, still steaming.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "NOT a microwave." | |
Jacqueline says, "So I see." | ||
chaudmin says, "well that lasagna's probably totally overcooked by now" | ||
Jacqueline says, "I say we try to use this steaming hot lasagne as a weapon." | ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x lasagna" | ||
Floyd | The lasagna is in its own disposable pan right from the deli.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "Worked for Edith Bunker." | |
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take lasagna" | ||
Floyd | It's too hot to just carry around.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Lionheart says, "Well, if we see any gore, now we can console ourselves that it's just tomato sauce" | |
DavidW says (to parser), "That's the point." | ||
Jacqueline asks, "Oh! How about we dial 911?" | ||
Roger says, "Now I kinda want an IF version of Garfield Without Garfield" | ||
Roger says, "Draw introspective drawing of steaming lasagna" | ||
DavidW asks (of Roger), "like, IF with *less* NPCs?" | ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x sink" | ||
Floyd | The stainless steel sink is practically brimming with unwashed dishes.
Floyd | You really need to get a dishwasher, but there'd be no room for it.
Floyd | Among all the dishes you see the shine of a large knife blade.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Lionheart says, "Bet the phones went out too but" | |
Zach has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Lionheart says, "Oh hey now" | |
chaudmin says, "ah" | ||
Roger says, "yay dirty knife" | ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "take knife" | ||
Floyd | The pick up the knife.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "cut lasagna with knife" | ||
Floyd | You cut the top layer of the casserole, releasing a cloud of hot,
Floyd | foul-smelling steam.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW asks, "cut lasagna?" | |
chaudmin asks, "foul-smelling??" | ||
DavidW asks, "foul-smelling?" | ||
Lionheart says, "It's our own fault the lasagna got burned." | ||
chaudmin says, "haha" | ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "x lasagna" | ||
Floyd | The lasagna is in its own disposable pan right from the deli.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a white hot flash of lightning outside the window and something
Floyd | that sounds like an explosion. The apartment goes completely dark.
Floyd | The power's out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Roger says (to floyd), "slice lasagna" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "slice".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Lionheart says, "We were hiding in a closet for like a half hour" | |
DavidW says, "We have no matches for our candle, I bet." | ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "light candle" | ||
Floyd | You have nothing to light it with.
Floyd |
Floyd | it's here
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Lionheart says, "Why did we blow out that candle" | |
Jacqueline says, "We had a candle, but I blew it out." | ||
Jacqueline exclaims, "They foreshadowed that it was a fire hazard!" | ||
Roger says, "It was a fire hazard! Safety first, people." | ||
Jacqueline exclaims, "What what I supposed to do?!" | ||
Jacqueline says (to Roger), "Exactly. Thank you." | ||
Roger says, "At night, a pencil's sharper than a knife" | ||
Lionheart says, "Ah well. Eldritch voices are warning us that it's here now. We're gonna be eaten by a grue" | ||
Jacqueline says, "I feel like we're all alone." | ||
Roger says, "All alone with our lasagna" | ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "eat lasagna" | Lionheart says, "And Mr. Stabby" | |
Floyd | You fish a semi-clean fork out of the sink and dig into the lasagna.
Floyd | It's from the deli; they usually have great stuff. But something
Floyd | tastes wrong about it. There's something rancid about the sausage.
Floyd | You put the fork down and almost gag.
Floyd |
Floyd | RING
Floyd | The phone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline exclaims, "The phone still works!" | |
Lionheart says, "By which I mean our friend the knife, n ot the Slicer" | ||
Jacqueline asks, "..hooray?" | ||
Roger says, "Phones generally still do work during power outages" | ||
Jacqueline says, "I'm guessing we're going to answer this phone no matter what." | ||
DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell lasagna" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "smell".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "Yeah" | |
Lionheart says, "Clearly this lasagna needs some mustard." | ||
Jacqueline says, "It's lasagna made from the meat of his last victim." | ||
chaudmin says, "that's also the impression I'm getting" | ||
Jacqueline says, "Which I'm pretty sure would smell just like any other meat, to be honest." | ||
DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "ewwww" | ||
Jacqueline says, "Expecially since he just killed two people this evening." | ||
Jacqueline says (to DW), "I'm just saying, I don't think it would smell rancid just because it was human." | ||
Lionheart says, "I had the impression that long pig was called so because it tasted like pork somehow" | ||
DavidW says, "Now I'm thinking it's possible that *is* why the lasagna is bad." | ||
Lionheart says, "No, I think meat's turning rancid because some supernatural horror is rotting flesh here" | ||
Jacqueline says (to DW), "Oh, I'm totally serious that that's why the lasagne is bad." | ||
Jacqueline says, "I mean, human meat is not helped by letting it overcook while one cowers in the closet, to be fair." | ||
DavidW asks, "So, it's invisible wabbit season? We're hunting Harveys?" | ||
Lionheart asks, "How long can we not answer the phone before the parser makes us do it again?" | ||
Jacqueline says (to DW), "heh. I see what you did there." | ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | The kitchen is almost pitch black. You feel your way around. The
Floyd | ceiling seems lower.
Floyd |
Floyd | RING
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Draconis arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "add salt to human lasagne" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "add".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Lionheart says, "That's odd." | |
Jacqueline says, "Maybe it just needs seasoning." | ||
Jacqueline asks (of Lh), "What is? The ceiling?" | ||
Lionheart says, "I rarely feel the ceiling when I'm feeling my way around" | ||
DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch ceiling" | ||
Floyd | The ceiling is covered with the same cracked plaster as the walls.
Floyd |
Floyd | RING
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe this is all part of our freaky dreamm." | |
Jacqueline says, "er, -m" | ||
Jacqueline says (to Lh), "Well, we're in a crappy basement apartment, so maybe the ceiling is really now." | ||
Jacqueline says, "er, low" | ||
Jacqueline says (to Draconis), "You may wish to play this one on your own. We've all kind of been built up with anticipation that you have not yet enjoyed." | ||
Roger says, "Maybe we should call the policia" | ||
Jacqueline says (to Roger), "I agree. But the phone is engaged." | ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | You can't see your own hands. You can feel the presence of the big
Floyd | couch but everything else is lost in the darkness.
Floyd |
Floyd | RING
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Draconis asks (of Jacqueline), "Ah, what game is it?" | |
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd | You're disoriented in the total darkness. You can guess roughly
Floyd | where the bed and the table are, but you're not sure.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ringing is driving you crazy. You stumble through the dark before
Floyd | your hands find the phone. You snatch up the receiver.
Floyd |
Floyd | "What the fuck do you want?" you growl. There's silence for a moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | "That's not very nice language sweetie. I don't want to have to punish
Floyd | you more." You don't reply. "Is my pretty sweetie mad at me? Well
Floyd | don't you worry, I'll take care of that. You just stay right there."
Floyd | click. You drop the receiver.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says (to Draconis), "all alone" | |
Draconis says, "I do not know of that one, so I shall explore it later." | ||
Draconis heads back home. | ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "call 911" | ||
Floyd | You pick up the receiver and punch 9, then 1. . . Then you pause.
Floyd | Nothing's really happened, why are you so panicky? You take a deep
Floyd | breath and hang up the phone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Roger says, "Sentenced to mediocre lasagna" | |
Jacqueline says, "WHAT THE HELL" | ||
Jacqueline says, "THINGS HAVE TOTALLY HAPPENED" | ||
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "call 911" | ||
Floyd | You dial 911 and wait. Ring. Ring.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hello, 911, is this an emergency?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Um. Yes, kinda. I've had some unusual phone calls--"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Let me patch you through to the police, and may I remind you that this
Floyd | number is for emergencies only." There's a sharp click, a pause, and
Floyd | then faint jazz and a voice telling you you're on hold. You slam down
Floyd | the receiver.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "That is not actually what happens when you call 911." | |
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "call 911" | ||
Floyd | You dial 911 and wait. Ring. Ring.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hello, 911, is this an emergency?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Um. Yes, kinda. I've had some unusual phone calls--"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Let me patch you through to the police, and may I remind you that this
Floyd | number is for emergencies only." There's a sharp click, a pause, and
Floyd | then faint jazz and a voice telling you you're on hold. You slam down
Floyd | the receiver.
Floyd |
Floyd | From the darkness of the living room you hear noises. Rattling, at the
Floyd | door. Two sharp clicks. A loud pop. The door creaking open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | You have a unlit candle, some clothes, a single pencil, a Polaroid
Floyd | picture, and a knife.
Floyd |
Floyd | Someone's in the apartment, moving around in the darkness of the living
Floyd | room. "Look, I made it sweetie. . ."
Floyd |
Floyd | You take a step back. Something wriggles and crunches beneath your
Floyd | foot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline asks, "..wriggles?" | |
Lionheart says, "Darn roaches" | ||
DavidW says, "yeah, a roach." | ||
Roger says, "This game needs a cat" | ||
Jacqueline says, "Man, I'm sick of waiting. Let's just go get murdered already." | ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | You can't see your own hands. You can feel the presence of the big
Floyd | couch but everything else is lost in the darkness.
Floyd |
Floyd | Someone is there. The beam of a flashlight shines in your face and
Floyd | you're blinded, stars flickering around you in the darkness. "Oh, you
Floyd | look good enough to. . ." The figure moves towards you. Hands on
Floyd | your mouth and waist. Wet cloth with something chemical and sickening.
Floyd |
Floyd | Darkness. Men's voices. Wet.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | It's light. The rain has stopped. You're on the couch. The
Floyd | apartment's quiet and cold. You seem all right. You shiver.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Roger says, "BOOOOOoooooo" | |
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | You have some clothes. Floyd | Floyd | The cardboard box from your closet is sitting in front of the open Floyd | door. A dark stain is seeping out from the black cardboard onto the Floyd | carpet. You move towards it shaky, bruised. There are things lying Floyd | among your clothes in the box. A pair of glasses. A finger. A Floyd | Zip-Loc bag of something viscous. A piece of scalp. Somehow you Floyd | recognize it. Harvey finally made it home. Floyd | Floyd | the end Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, or quit. Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, or QUIT: > | Jacqueline asks, "Wait, what?" | |
Roger says, "Ian was feeling oblique that day, apparently" | ||
Jacqueline asks, "So, we survived because we called 911? And then someone dropped off Harvey but the police left before we became conscious?" | ||
Roger says, "I think that's Harvey in the box" | ||
Jacqueline says, "That is my best theory, and it's pretty screwed up. Surely I'm missing something." | ||
Jacqueline says (to Roger), "Yeah, that part i get." | ||
Roger says, "I think the implication is everything else was a dream sequence" | ||
Lionheart asks, "Then why are we bruised?" | ||
Jacqueline says, "Ah." | ||
Jacqueline says, "So it was all part of our freaky dream after all." | ||
DavidW says, "strange" | ||
Jacqueline says, "restore" | ||
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd | File to restore > | ||
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd | Closet
Floyd | The closet is tiny and dark, barely enough room for you to stand in.
Floyd | A few of your clothes are hanging on the one bar but most of them are
Floyd | still in a big box on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | You open the closet door and step out into the bedroom. No one there. Floyd | You listen carefully but you can't hear anything in the apartment. Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom | Lionheart asks, "Did you save after you blew out the candle?" | |
Floyd | The bedroom is too small for everything in it. You have to
Floyd | practically crawl over the desk to get to the closet and the door to
Floyd | the bathroom is almost as blocked. Piles of Harvey's dirty clothes
Floyd | crouch on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | The living room is small, the couch takes up all the space. Some of
Floyd | your sketches hang on the walls above the TV and the
Floyd | cinder-block-and-boards bookshelf. You can see the kitchen to the
Floyd | northwest and the bedroom door to the northeast. The door to the
Floyd | outside hall is to the west.
Floyd | Sitting on the floor is a Polaroid picture.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | You think about the Polaroid. There is someone out there. Not in the
Floyd | apartment, there wouldn't be anyplace to hide. But if you left, even
Floyd | to get to the other apartments in the building, you'd have to go out
Floyd | alone, down the unlit outside hall, and then around the hole length of
Floyd | the building in the dark and rain. Harvey has to be almost home.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Roger says (to LH), "Yeah I think so" | |
Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
Jacqueline says, "I blew it out pretty early. We could restart." | ||
Jacqueline says, "I'm wanting to try to leave, which it's not going to let me do from the save anyway." | ||
Roger says, "Maybe see if we can abort the lasagna early" | ||
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to start over? (YES or NO) > | ||
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd | You're all alone tonight.
Floyd |
Floyd | Of course, you've gotten used to that since you moved in with Harvey.
Floyd | He works the late shift at the delicatessen every Tuesday and Thursday.
Floyd | He'll be back before too long. That man works so hard.
Floyd |
Floyd | You slip into your toasty flannel pajamas because there's a cold winter
Floyd | rain coming down outside and the heat in Harvey's sub-basement
Floyd | apartment really needs looking at. You settle down into the oversized
Floyd | couch in the living room and snap on the TV. Tonight you're just going
Floyd | to relax.
Floyd |
Floyd | all alone.
Floyd | by ian finley
Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | The living room is small; the big couch takes up almost all the
Floyd | floorspace. Not that you're complaining. It's the best Harvey can
Floyd | afford right now and until your drawings really start to sell you
Floyd | aren't contributing much financially. Some of your sketches hang on
Floyd | the walls above the TV and the squat cinder-block-and-boards bookshelf.
Floyd | Through a wide arch in the northwest corner you can see most of the
Floyd | kitchen and to the northeast is the bedroom. The door to the
Floyd | cement-floored outside hall is to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd | You're not going anywhere until you get out of the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear the news starting on the TV.
Floyd |
Floyd | Rain taps on the little square windows.
Floyd |
Floyd | it's coming
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x oven" | ||
Floyd | I don't see any oven here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x stove" | ||
Floyd | I don't see any stove here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | Living Room, on the couch
Floyd | The living room is small; the big couch takes up almost all the
Floyd | floorspace. Not that you're complaining. It's the best Harvey can
Floyd | afford right now and until your drawings really start to sell you
Floyd | aren't contributing much financially. Some of your sketches hang on
Floyd | the walls above the TV and the squat cinder-block-and-boards bookshelf.
Floyd | Through a wide arch in the northwest corner you can see most of the
Floyd | kitchen and to the northeast is the bedroom. The door to the
Floyd | cement-floored outside hall is to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV announces, "Tragedy and horror strike again as another victim of
Floyd | the so-called 'Slicer Killer' is found in her west side apartment."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Roger says, "Get off couch" | |
Jacqueline says, "Oh, sorry, thought it had switched rooms." | ||
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get up" | ||
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "This is the fourth slaying of this kind to occur in
Floyd | the past three weeks. . . "
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd | The bedroom is really much too small for everything in it. It was
Floyd | ok when it was just Harvey's big waterbed and his dresser, but when you
Floyd | brought in your drafting desk with its lamps and everything, the room
Floyd | just got too crowded. You have to practically crawl over the desk to
Floyd | get to the closet to the east and the door to the bathroom to the west
Floyd | is almost as blocked. Piles of Harvey's socks and clothes cover the
Floyd | floor. He's been used to being a bachelor for so long. You can hear
Floyd | the TV to the southwest over the pouring rain.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, ". . .and police are focusing as much on quelling
Floyd | the growing panic in the city as on catching the killer. "
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "Ack" | |
Jacqueline says, "Read wrong" | ||
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | The living room is small; the big couch takes up almost all the
Floyd | floorspace. Not that you're complaining. It's the best Harvey can
Floyd | afford right now and until your drawings really start to sell you
Floyd | aren't contributing much financially. Some of your sketches hang on
Floyd | the walls above the TV and the squat cinder-block-and-boards bookshelf.
Floyd | Through a wide arch in the northwest corner you can see most of the
Floyd | kitchen and to the northeast is the bedroom. The door to the
Floyd | cement-floored outside hall is to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd | The bedroom is really much too small for everything in it. It was
Floyd | ok when it was just Harvey's big waterbed and his dresser, but when you
Floyd | brought in your drafting desk with its lamps and everything, the room
Floyd | just got too crowded. You have to practically crawl over the desk to
Floyd | get to the closet to the east and the door to the bathroom to the west
Floyd | is almost as blocked. Piles of Harvey's socks and clothes cover the
Floyd | floor. He's been used to being a bachelor for so long. You can hear
Floyd | the TV to the southwest over the pouring rain.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, ". . .and police are focusing as much on quelling
Floyd | the growing panic in the city as on catching the killer. "
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "Ah." | |
Roger says (to Jacq), "Don't panic" | ||
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd | (Undoing one command)
Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | The living room is small; the big couch takes up almost all the
Floyd | floorspace. Not that you're complaining. It's the best Harvey can
Floyd | afford right now and until your drawings really start to sell you
Floyd | aren't contributing much financially. Some of your sketches hang on
Floyd | the walls above the TV and the squat cinder-block-and-boards bookshelf.
Floyd | Through a wide arch in the northwest corner you can see most of the
Floyd | kitchen and to the northeast is the bedroom. The door to the
Floyd | cement-floored outside hall is to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "AHHHHH" | |
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | The kitchen is deep and narrow, with sink and stove and refrigerator
Floyd | jutting out at awkward angles. It's not that the place is really
Floyd | dirty, but your mother wouldn't be able to stand it. The tile counters
Floyd | are washed-out yellow, slightly grimy, and the sink is more than half
Floyd | filled with this week's dishes. You can see about half the living room
Floyd | through the arch to the southeast, light from the TV flickering on the
Floyd | far wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, ". . .and police are focusing as much on quelling
Floyd | the growing panic in the city as on catching the killer. "
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search sink" | ||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "We have been asked not to broadcast the images we
Floyd | have of the crime scene, but the killer has left his usual macabre
Floyd | calling cards."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x oven" | ||
Floyd | The oven is nothing special, just a big metal box stuck next to the
Floyd | wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "The young woman's internal organs had been removed,
Floyd | and several thin strips of skin shaved from the body."
Floyd |
Floyd | The storm is gathering force outside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x stove" | ||
Floyd | The oven is nothing special, just a big metal box stuck next to the
Floyd | wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "While not wishing to encourage the unreasonable fear
Floyd | spreading through the city, the police do encourage women living alone
Floyd | to keep all curtains closed and make sure their doors are securely
Floyd | locked."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open oven" | ||
Floyd | There's no reason to do that.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "In a related story, Mayor Anderson has significantly
Floyd | increased active police presence on the streets and has proposed
Floyd | another raise in pay."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x sink" | ||
Floyd | The stainless steel sink is practically brimming with unwashed dishes.
Floyd | You really need to get a dishwasher, but there'd be no room for it.
Floyd | Among all the dishes you see the shine of a large knife blade.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "These raises come at a crucial time, as work related
Floyd | stress causes growing numbers of investigators resign every week."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "Search didn't find the knife but examine does? Meh" | |
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take knife" | ||
Floyd | The pick up the knife.
Floyd |
Floyd | For a moment the TV is blurred by loud static. Damn antennas.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | The living room is small; the big couch takes up almost all the
Floyd | floorspace. Not that you're complaining. It's the best Harvey can
Floyd | afford right now and until your drawings really start to sell you
Floyd | aren't contributing much financially. Some of your sketches hang on
Floyd | the walls above the TV and the squat cinder-block-and-boards bookshelf.
Floyd | Through a wide arch in the northwest corner you can see most of the
Floyd | kitchen and to the northeast is the bedroom. The door to the
Floyd | cement-floored outside hall is to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | The static clears and picks up with the anchorman saying, ". .
Floyd | .continued threats of chemical warfare."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "wash knife" | ||
Floyd | The knife looks a bit cleaner now.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "In further world news--" and is cut short by low
Floyd | static.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd | The bedroom is really much too small for everything in it. It was
Floyd | ok when it was just Harvey's big waterbed and his dresser, but when you
Floyd | brought in your drafting desk with its lamps and everything, the room
Floyd | just got too crowded. You have to practically crawl over the desk to
Floyd | get to the closet to the east and the door to the bathroom to the west
Floyd | is almost as blocked. Piles of Harvey's socks and clothes crouch on
Floyd | the floor. He's been used to being a bachelor for so long. You can
Floyd | see the living room through the arch to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | The television growls with hushed static.
Floyd |
Floyd | RING
Floyd | The phone is ringing, across the room under a pile of socks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "change clothes" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "change".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||
Floyd | clothing: You slip quickly out of your pajamas and into some jeans and
Floyd | a shirt that are on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues to hum.
Floyd |
Floyd | RING
Floyd |
Floyd | RING
Floyd | The phone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | The static on the TV gives out to total silence.
Floyd |
Floyd | RING
Floyd |
Floyd | RING
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd | The phone is ringing, it might be important.
Floyd |
Floyd | RING
Floyd |
Floyd | RING
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
chaudmin says (to Floyd), "close blinds" | ||
Floyd | You unfold the blinds and cover the windows.
Floyd |
Floyd | The sound on the TV suddenly comes back in, loud.
Floyd |
Floyd | Annoyed by the ringing, you grab the receiver. "Hello?" No answer.
Floyd | You ask again and hear heavy breathing on the other end, panting. You
Floyd | stand there for a moment, trying to think of some response, something
Floyd | biting and clever, but you can't, and the harsh wheezing continues.
Floyd | You hang up the phone and stand there for a moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | RING
Floyd | Frustrated, you grab the receiver, but don't say anything. The man on
Floyd | the other end is whispering. You can't make out exactly what he's
Floyd | saying. It sounds like, "You're not thinking of going anywhere are
Floyd | you?" You don't reply. "Didn't want to go out in your pajamas did
Floyd | you?" You glance quickly towards the window. The blinds are down.
Floyd | What's going on? "I just wouldn't go outside, ok, sweetie?" You slam
Floyd | down the receiver.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "LET ME LEAVE" | |
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV announces, "And now we go to Tom Markus for the weather. Tom?"
Floyd |
Floyd | it's near
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | The living room is small, the couch takes up all the space. Some of
Floyd | your sketches hang on the walls above the TV and the
Floyd | cinder-block-and-boards bookshelf. You can see the kitchen to the
Floyd | northwest and the bedroom door to the northeast. The door to the
Floyd | outside hall is to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | A hyperactive TV weatherman blurts out, "Well folks, tonight doesn't
Floyd | look too good."
Floyd |
Floyd | A fat cockroach scurries over your bare left foot. Without thinking
Floyd | you jerk away and smash it with the ball of your right foot and it
Floyd | crunches under your skin. You quickly wipe the guts off your sole onto
Floyd | the floor and shudder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | You reach out towards the door, then you think about the phone call.
Floyd | Even to get to the other apartments in the building you'd have to go
Floyd | out alone, down the unlit outside hall, and then around the whole
Floyd | length of the building in the dark and the rain. It would be safer
Floyd | just to stay locked in here. Harvey should already be on his way home.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "This storm is gonna continue right up until tomorrow
Floyd | morning, and it is one monster of a storm."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | You reach out towards the door, then you think about the phone call.
Floyd | Even to get to the other apartments in the building you'd have to go
Floyd | out alone, down the unlit outside hall, and then around the whole
Floyd | length of the building in the dark and the rain. It would be safer
Floyd | just to stay locked in here. Harvey should already be on his way home.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "Winds up to seventy-two miles per hour have been
Floyd | reported, and the rain just keeps coming down."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | You reach out towards the door, then you think about the phone call.
Floyd | Even to get to the other apartments in the building you'd have to go
Floyd | out alone, down the unlit outside hall, and then around the whole
Floyd | length of the building in the dark and the rain. It would be safer
Floyd | just to stay locked in here. Harvey should already be on his way home.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "It's like the end of the world out there."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, okay. Fine." | |
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "think" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "think".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway, we have a not blown-out candle. Someone else drive, since I clearly fail and typing this morning." | |
Roger says (to floyd), "wake up" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "wake".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "call harvey" | ||
Floyd | The phone is in the bedroom.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a sudden clap of thunder outside and the wind starts picking
Floyd | up. The transmission on the TV starts to fade.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart has had Lionheart's fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
Lionheart arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd | The bedroom is too small for everything in it. You have to
Floyd | practically crawl over the desk to get to the closet and the door to
Floyd | the bathroom is almost as blocked. Piles of Harvey's dirty clothes
Floyd | crouch on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | The sound on the TV fades in and out. You hear snatches of words and
Floyd | phrases.
Floyd |
Floyd | Lightning flashes brightly for a moment, lighting up the whole
Floyd | apartment. The thunder comes almost at once.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "call harvey" | ||
Floyd | You punch in Harvey's work number. Old man Luttfisk answers. You hate
Floyd | his voice. It sounds slimy.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Luttfisk's Delicatessen. We're closin' up here--"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yes, Mr. Luttfisk, I know, I was just wondering if Harvey was there."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Harvey?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yes, Harvey, your assistant, if he's there--"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Oh he left a long time ago. Had to pick up supplies. Yeah. He left
Floyd | a long time ago. Good night." Click. Buzz. You hang up the phone.
Floyd |
Floyd | From the TV you hear, "Buy Fleischmann's. . .static, garble. . .
Floyd | it slices, it dices, it. . . static, garble. . . "
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Lionheart asks, "Wasn't Fleischmann's a vodka?" | |
Lionheart asks, "From the box?" | ||
Jacqueline says, "Mr. Luttfisk is a good name for a delicatessen." | ||
Jacqueline says (to Lh), "I think so." | ||
Lionheart exclaims, "It makes Julienne fries!" | ||
Lionheart says, "I guess we went from a vodka ad to a Veg-O-Matic commercial" | ||
Lionheart asks, "So that would suggest more late 60s then, right?" | ||
Roger says, "I feel like we've squeezed the juices out of this one" | ||
Jacqueline narrows her eyes at Roger. | ||
Jacqueline says (to Lh), "How so? Slicing and dicing commercials were still happening at least into the 80s" | ||
Roger says, "But fiddle with it more if one likes" | ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "call harvey" | ||
Floyd | You dial the delicatessen. Ring. Ring. Nothing. Ring. You keep
Floyd | waiting. Ring. Ring. You hang up.
Floyd |
Floyd | From the TV you hear, "In our last story. . .garble. . .Good-night
Floyd | from. . .static. . . "
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Lionheart says (to Floyd), "call landlord" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "landlord".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
DavidW says (to Floyd), "call mom" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "mom".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "hee" | |
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "call power company" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "company".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
DavidW says (to Floyd), "call author" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "author".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "get pencil" | ||
Floyd | You grab one of the pencils.
Floyd |
Floyd | From the TV you hear, "Stay in. . .static. . .if you need. .
Floyd | .static. . .to go out. . ." and then complete silence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Lionheart says, "I wonder if we can get Candle Cove on that TV" | |
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | The living room is small, the couch takes up all the space. Some of
Floyd | your sketches hang on the walls above the TV and the
Floyd | cinder-block-and-boards bookshelf. You can see the kitchen to the
Floyd | northwest and the bedroom door to the northeast. The door to the
Floyd | outside hall is to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x bookshelf" | ||
Floyd | The homemade bookshelf is basically a pile of paperbacks and big
Floyd | anatomy textbooks barely supported by cement blocks and sagging boards.
Floyd | There is a little candle burning on top that just screams "fire
Floyd | hazard."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "get candle" | ||
Floyd | You pick up the candle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x textbooks" | ||
Floyd | The five or so big books on human anatomy are a lot more interesting
Floyd | than Harvey's other selections. You've actually used them once or
Floyd | twice as references for your sketches.
Floyd |
Floyd | The sound on the TV jumps back in with raucous peals of laughter, some
Floyd | stupid sitcom or something.
Floyd |
Floyd | The storm is getting even worse, the rain drowning out any other sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read anatomy" | ||
Floyd | You flip through one of the big books and find a set of transparencies. Floyd | First the skeleton, then the veins over that, then the bright organs, Floyd | then the muscles, and finally the skin. Floyd | | ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x paperbacks" | ||
Floyd | The tone of the TV changes and you hear, "We interrupt your regularly Floyd | scheduled programming to bring you this important message." Floyd | Floyd | BEEP BEEP Floyd | From the kitchen Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | There are a lot of books here, mostly cheap science fiction novels. Floyd | Harvey's choice in literature, not yours. Floyd | Floyd | The news announcer is back. You hear him say, "Police officials are Floyd | mortified to find that the 'Slicer Killer' has struck for the second Floyd | time this evening." Floyd | Floyd | BEEP BEEP Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "They're really trying to set Harvey up as the killer, but he's not." | |
Lionheart says, "Oh, the transparencies are a nice touch." | ||
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read science fiction" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "science".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | The kitchen is narrow, with sink and stove and refrigerator jutting
Floyd | out at odd angles. The tile counters are washed-out yellow, and the
Floyd | sink is half filled with dishes. You can see about half the living
Floyd | room to the southeast.
Floyd |
Floyd | The announcer continues, rapidly, "Another single woman has been found
Floyd | brutally mutilated in her west side home."
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd | The timer on the stove
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "turn off stove" | ||
Floyd | You twist the timer knob and turn off the bell. You'd forgotten about
Floyd | the lasagna you put in to cook an hour ago. Harvey brought it home
Floyd | from the deli last night. You take it out of the oven and put it on
Floyd | the counter, still steaming.
Floyd |
Floyd | The announcer continues, "The locks on her front door appear to have
Floyd | been forced, but by a skilled hand."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "slice lasagna" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "slice".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "eat lasagna" | ||
Floyd | You fish a semi-clean fork out of the sink and dig into the lasagna.
Floyd | It's from the deli; they usually have great stuff. But something
Floyd | tastes wrong about it. There's something rancid about the sausage.
Floyd | You put the fork down and almost gag.
Floyd |
Floyd | The announcer continues, "Police are cautioning against panic."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "Kind of ironic that this game doesn't know the word 'slice'" | |
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "throw out lasagna" | ||
Floyd | I don't see any out lasagna here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | The kitchen is narrow, with sink and stove and refrigerator jutting
Floyd | out at odd angles. The tile counters are washed-out yellow, and the
Floyd | sink is half filled with dishes. You can see about half the living
Floyd | room to the southeast.
Floyd | Sitting on the counter is a lasagna.
Floyd |
Floyd | Static on the TV.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Lionheart says (to Floyd), "smell lasagna" | ||
Floyd | I don't know the word "smell".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Lionheart says (to Floyd), "wash dishes" | ||
Floyd | You turn on the water and try to wash some of the dishes but you don't
Floyd | seem to make any headway -- you don't even know where Harvey keeps the
Floyd | dish soap -- and you give up on it almost immediately.
Floyd |
Floyd | Static on the TV.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Lionheart says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | ||
Floyd | There is cold bread and meat in the refrigerator.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's another whip of lightning and the TV shuts down completely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Lionheart says (to Floyd), "eat bread" | ||
Floyd | You nibble some red salami and some other tid-bits, but you don't have
Floyd | much of an appetite.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Lionheart says (to Floyd), "get bread" | ||
Floyd | You don't want to carry that around.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a white hot flash of lightning outside the window and something
Floyd | that sounds like an explosion. The apartment goes completely dark.
Floyd | The power's out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Lionheart says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | The kitchen is almost pitch black. You feel your way around. The
Floyd | ceiling seems lower.
Floyd |
Floyd | it's here
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline asks, "So the candle isn't helping, I guess?" | |
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | The single candle in your hand is next to worthless. Everything
Floyd | beyond your little circle is invisible. You don't know where the doors
Floyd | are.
Floyd |
Floyd | RING
Floyd | The phone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe go to the living room." | |
Jacqueline says, "Timing" | ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | RING
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Lionheart says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | You reach out, your hand an inch away from the top lock, when it turns
Floyd | by itself. CLICK. Then the next one. CLICK. The door rattles. POP.
Floyd | The last lock bursts out of the flimsy wood frame. The door swings
Floyd | open an inch.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door opens. Someone is there. The beam of a flashlight shines in
Floyd | your face and you're blinded, stars flickering around you in the
Floyd | darkness. "Look, I made it sweetie. . ." The figure moves towards
Floyd | you. Hands on your mouth and waist. Wet cloth with something chemical
Floyd | and sickening.
Floyd |
Floyd | Darkness. Men's voices. Wet.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | It's light. The rain has stopped. You're on the couch. The
Floyd | apartment's quiet and cold. You seem all right. You shiver.
Floyd |
Floyd | RING
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Lionheart says, "Is the phone supposed to sitll be rining" | |
Lionheart says, "I guess that's an error" | ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "answer phone" | ||
Floyd | I don't see any phone here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Lionheart says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd | You stand up and head towards the door, shivering. You look over Floyd | should shoulder. Oh, no wonder it's so cold. The front door is wide Floyd | open. Floyd | Floyd | The cardboard box from your closet is sitting in front of the open Floyd | door. A dark stain is seeping out from the black cardboard onto the Floyd | carpet. You move towards it shaky, bruised. There are things lying Floyd | among your clothes in the box. A pair of glasses. A finger. A Floyd | Zip-Loc bag of something viscous. A piece of scalp. Somehow you Floyd | recognize it. Harvey finally made it home. Floyd | Floyd | the end Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, or quit. Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, or QUIT: > | Jacqueline says, "Okay." | |
Jacqueline says, "I have a theory." | ||
Lionheart says, "Well, I broke the game" | ||
Jacqueline says, "Which maybe won't change things, but... let's not take the knife and see if Harvey ends up dead." | ||
Jacqueline says, "Don't take the pencil either." | ||
Lionheart says, "Sure why not" | ||
DavidW asks, "The theory is that we killed Harvey?" | ||
Jacqueline says, "That's my theory, yeah" | ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd | You're all alone tonight.
Floyd |
Floyd | Of course, you've gotten used to that since you moved in with Harvey.
Floyd | He works the late shift at the delicatessen every Tuesday and Thursday.
Floyd | He'll be back before too long. That man works so hard.
Floyd |
Floyd | You slip into your toasty flannel pajamas because there's a cold winter
Floyd | rain coming down outside and the heat in Harvey's sub-basement
Floyd | apartment really needs looking at. You settle down into the oversized
Floyd | couch in the living room and snap on the TV. Tonight you're just going
Floyd | to relax.
Floyd |
Floyd | all alone.
Floyd | by ian finley
Floyd |
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | The living room is small; the big couch takes up almost all the
Floyd | floorspace. Not that you're complaining. It's the best Harvey can
Floyd | afford right now and until your drawings really start to sell you
Floyd | aren't contributing much financially. Some of your sketches hang on
Floyd | the walls above the TV and the squat cinder-block-and-boards bookshelf.
Floyd | Through a wide arch in the northwest corner you can see most of the
Floyd | kitchen and to the northeast is the bedroom. The door to the
Floyd | cement-floored outside hall is to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Lionheart says (to Floyd), "get up" | ||
Floyd | Okay, you're no longer on the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | The news is on TV right now. The grinning anchorman fills the screen.
Floyd |
Floyd | Rain taps on the little square windows.
Floyd |
Floyd | it's coming
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x bookshelf" | ||
Floyd | The homemade bookshelf is basically a pile of paperbacks and big
Floyd | anatomy textbooks barely supported by cement blocks and sagging boards.
Floyd | There is a little candle burning on top that just screams "fire
Floyd | hazard."
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV announces, "Tragedy and horror strike again as another victim of
Floyd | the so-called 'Slicer Killer' is found in her west side apartment."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Lionheart says (to Floyd), "get candle" | ||
Floyd | You pick up the candle.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "This is the fourth slaying of this kind to occur in
Floyd | the past three weeks. . . "
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Lionheart says (to Floyd), "adjust antenna" | ||
Floyd | Wierd static rises and falls as you move the delicate rods.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, ". . .and police are focusing as much on quelling
Floyd | the growing panic in the city as on catching the killer. "
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Lionheart says, "Oh wow it knew that" | |
Jacqueline says, "huh" | ||
Jacqueline says, "Nice" | ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "turn dial" | ||
Floyd | You twist the dial but the selection isn't that wide, Harvey doesn't
Floyd | have cable. You flick through a few news programs, some documentary
Floyd | about carnivorous plants or something and end up on the same station
Floyd | you began.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "We have been asked not to broadcast the images we
Floyd | have of the crime scene, but the killer has left his usual macabre
Floyd | calling cards."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Lionheart says (to Floyd), "look in couch" | ||
Floyd | There's nothing in the couch.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "The young woman's internal organs had been removed,
Floyd | and several thin strips of skin shaved from the body."
Floyd |
Floyd | The storm is gathering force outside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Lionheart says (to Floyd), "read textbooks" | ||
Floyd | You flip through one of the big books and find a set of transparencies.
Floyd | First the skeleton, then the veins over that, then the bright organs,
Floyd | then the muscles, and finally the skin.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "While not wishing to encourage the unreasonable fear
Floyd | spreading through the city, the police do encourage women living alone
Floyd | to keep all curtains closed and make sure their doors are securely
Floyd | locked."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "In a related story, Mayor Anderson has significantly
Floyd | increased active police presence on the streets and has proposed
Floyd | another raise in pay."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | Going out in the pouring rain in the middle of the night wearing only
Floyd | your Mickey Mouse pajamas would be ridiculous. You'd wanted to just
Floyd | spend a quiet night at home.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "These raises come at a crucial time, as work related
Floyd | stress causes growing numbers of investigators resign every week."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "I wonder if those 'thin strips' are the lasagna noodles." | |
Lionheart says, "Ew." | ||
Jacqueline says, "yay" | ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | The kitchen is deep and narrow, with sink and stove and refrigerator
Floyd | jutting out at awkward angles. It's not that the place is really
Floyd | dirty, but your mother wouldn't be able to stand it. The tile counters
Floyd | are washed-out yellow, slightly grimy, and the sink is more than half
Floyd | filled with this week's dishes. You can see about half the living room
Floyd | through the arch to the southeast, light from the TV flickering on the
Floyd | far wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | For a moment the TV is blurred by loud static. Damn antennas.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Lionheart says (to Floyd), "draw" | ||
Floyd | Your materials are in the bedroom.
Floyd |
Floyd | The static clears and picks up with the anchorman saying, ". .
Floyd | .continued threats of chemical warfare."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "open fridge" | ||
Floyd | There is cold bread and meat in the refrigerator.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "In further world news--" and is cut short by low
Floyd | static.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "eat bread" | ||
Floyd | You nibble some red salami and some other tid-bits, but you don't have
Floyd | much of an appetite.
Floyd |
Floyd | The television growls with hushed static.
Floyd |
Floyd | RING
Floyd | The phone's ringing, in the bedroom.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "answer phone" | ||
Floyd | I don't see any phone here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | The living room is small, the couch takes up all the space. Some of
Floyd | your sketches hang on the walls above the TV and the
Floyd | cinder-block-and-boards bookshelf. You can see the kitchen to the
Floyd | northwest and the bedroom door to the northeast. The door to the
Floyd | outside hall is to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues to hum.
Floyd |
Floyd | RING
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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Lionheart says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd | The bedroom is really much too small for everything in it. It was
Floyd | ok when it was just Harvey's big waterbed and his dresser, but when you
Floyd | brought in your drafting desk with its lamps and everything, the room
Floyd | just got too crowded. You have to practically crawl over the desk to
Floyd | get to the closet to the east and the door to the bathroom to the west
Floyd | is almost as blocked. Piles of Harvey's socks and clothes crouch on
Floyd | the floor. He's been used to being a bachelor for so long. You can
Floyd | see the living room through the arch to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | The static on the TV gives out to total silence.
Floyd |
Floyd | RING
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "answer phone" | ||
Floyd | You grab the receiver. "Hello?" No answer. You ask again and hear
Floyd | heavy breathing on the other end, panting. You stand there for a
Floyd | moment, trying to think of some response, something biting and clever,
Floyd | but you can't, and the harsh wheezing continues. You hang up the phone
Floyd | and stand there for a moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | it's near
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "This is actually a really good game, fwiw. Much as I'm making fun. Glad we played this." | |
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "draw" | ||
Floyd | You sit down at the desk and grab a fresh piece of paper. You start
Floyd | moving your pencil over the smooth surface, letting it form whatever
Floyd | shapes it wants. A long dark gash on the paper resolves into a man's
Floyd | shadow. Diagonal lines mist into the slashing rain. Details, a long
Floyd | coat, a suitcase, a knife. . . You stop drawing and crumple up the
Floyd | paper. Another time.
Floyd |
Floyd | The sound on the TV suddenly comes back in, loud.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fat cockroach scurries over your bare left foot. Without thinking
Floyd | you jerk away and smash it with the ball of your right foot and it
Floyd | crunches under your skin. You quickly wipe the guts off your sole onto
Floyd | the floor and shudder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Lionheart says, "So our hair trigger roach stomping ability would be foreshadowing then" | |
Jacqueline says, "I think it was probably made signifcantly more fun by playing it as a group, though." | ||
Jacqueline exclaims (at Lh), "Exactly!" | ||
Jacqueline says, "Harvey comes in, he's all hey look at you I want to smooch you, and we put him in the cardboard box." | ||
Jacqueline says, "Or it's left intentionally ambiguous. There's that." | ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "draw harvey" | ||
Floyd | I don't know how to draw the .
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV announces, "And now we go to Tom Markus for the weather. Tom?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "draw me" | ||
Floyd | I don't know how to draw yourself.
Floyd |
Floyd | A hyperactive TV weatherman blurts out, "Well folks, tonight doesn't
Floyd | look too good."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart has had Lionheart's fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
Lionheart arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | Closet
Floyd | The closet is tiny and dark, barely enough room for you to stand in.
Floyd | A few of your clothes are hanging on the one bar but most of them are
Floyd | still in a big box on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "This storm is gonna continue right up until tomorrow
Floyd | morning, and it is one monster of a storm."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x bar" | ||
Floyd | It's a plain metal pipe fitted into the walls. A few of your nice
Floyd | dresses are hanging from it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "Winds up to seventy-two miles per hour have been
Floyd | reported, and the rain just keeps coming down."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x dresses" | ||
Floyd | These are some of your nice clothes, the ones that you didn't want to
Floyd | just leave bunched up in the box.
Floyd |
Floyd | The TV continues, "It's like the end of the world out there."
Floyd |
Floyd | Lightning flashes brightly for a moment, lighting up the whole
Floyd | apartment. The thunder comes almost at once.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||
Floyd | The box is a big cardboard thing that says "Rothschild's Vodka" on the
Floyd | side. The liquor store always has extra cardboard boxes, which you
Floyd | needed when you moved. The box is filled with most of your clothes,
Floyd | the stuff you haven't had time to unpack yet.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a sudden clap of thunder outside and the wind starts picking
Floyd | up. The transmission on the TV starts to fade.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | As you start to leave the closet you hear sounds coming from the living
Floyd | room. CLICK. CLICK. The locks on the front door. Harvey must be
Floyd | home, finally. You call out to him, "Hi, honey," but there's no reply.
Floyd | CLICK. You hear the door swinging open, slowly and quietly. "Honey?"
Floyd | you call. No answer. Quiet feet in the living room.
Floyd |
Floyd | The sound on the TV fades in and out. You hear snatches of words and
Floyd | phrases.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | From the TV you hear, "Buy Fleischmann's. . .static, garble. . .
Floyd | it slices, it dices, it. . . static, garble. . . "
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | From the TV you hear, "In our last story. . .garble. . .Good-night
Floyd | from. . .static. . . "
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Lionheart says, "Oh still in closet" | |
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | From the TV you hear, "Stay in. . .static. . .if you need. .
Floyd | .static. . .to go out. . ." and then complete silence.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | You step out into the bedroom and look around. No one. You listen
Floyd | carefully but you can't hear anything but the TV.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd | The bedroom is too small for everything in it. You have to
Floyd | practically crawl over the desk to get to the closet and the door to
Floyd | the bathroom is almost as blocked. Piles of Harvey's dirty clothes
Floyd | crouch on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | The living room is small, the couch takes up all the space. Some of
Floyd | your sketches hang on the walls above the TV and the
Floyd | cinder-block-and-boards bookshelf. You can see the kitchen to the
Floyd | northwest and the bedroom door to the northeast. The door to the
Floyd | outside hall is to the west.
Floyd | Sitting on the floor is a Polaroid picture.
Floyd |
Floyd | The storm is getting even worse, the rain drowning out any other sound.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x polaroid" | ||
Floyd | It takes you a minute to figure out what the blurry, close-up picture
Floyd | is of. When you realize, your stomach knots, the bile rises in your
Floyd | throat. You fight down the nausea.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd | From the kitchen
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd | The kitchen is narrow, with sink and stove and refrigerator jutting
Floyd | out at odd angles. The tile counters are washed-out yellow, and the
Floyd | sink is half filled with dishes. You can see about half the living
Floyd | room to the southeast.
Floyd | The refrigerator seems to contain some bread and meat.
Floyd |
Floyd | The sound on the TV jumps back in with raucous peals of laughter, some
Floyd | stupid sitcom or something.
Floyd |
Floyd | BEEP BEEP
Floyd | The timer on the stove
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "turn off stove" | ||
Floyd | You twist the timer knob and turn off the bell. You'd forgotten about
Floyd | the lasagna you put in to cook an hour ago. Harvey brought it home
Floyd | from the deli last night. You take it out of the oven and put it on
Floyd | the counter, still steaming.
Floyd |
Floyd | The tone of the TV changes and you hear, "We interrupt your regularly
Floyd | scheduled programming to bring you this important message."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "cut lasagna" | ||
Floyd | What do you want to attack it with?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "eat lasagna" | ||
Floyd | You fish a semi-clean fork out of the sink and dig into the lasagna.
Floyd | It's from the deli; they usually have great stuff. But something
Floyd | tastes wrong about it. There's something rancid about the sausage.
Floyd | You put the fork down and almost gag.
Floyd |
Floyd | The news announcer is back. You hear him say, "Police officials are
Floyd | mortified to find that the 'Slicer Killer' has struck for the second
Floyd | time this evening."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | You have a set of pajamas (being worn) and a lit candle.
Floyd |
Floyd | The announcer continues, rapidly, "Another single woman has been found
Floyd | brutally mutilated in her west side home."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | The announcer continues, "The locks on her front door appear to have
Floyd | been forced, but by a skilled hand."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | The living room is small, the couch takes up all the space. Some of
Floyd | your sketches hang on the walls above the TV and the
Floyd | cinder-block-and-boards bookshelf. You can see the kitchen to the
Floyd | northwest and the bedroom door to the northeast. The door to the
Floyd | outside hall is to the west.
Floyd | Sitting on the floor is a Polaroid picture.
Floyd |
Floyd | The announcer continues, "Police are cautioning against panic."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | You think about the Polaroid. There is someone out there. Not in the
Floyd | apartment, there wouldn't be anyplace to hide. But if you left, even
Floyd | to get to the other apartments in the building, you'd have to go out
Floyd | alone, down the unlit outside hall, and then around the hole length of
Floyd | the building in the dark and rain. Harvey has to be almost home.
Floyd |
Floyd | Static on the TV.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "close door" | ||
Floyd | It's too far away.
Floyd |
Floyd | Static on the TV.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a white hot flash of lightning outside the window and something
Floyd | that sounds like an explosion. The apartment goes completely dark.
Floyd | The power's out.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | You think about the Polaroid. There is someone out there. Not in the
Floyd | apartment, there wouldn't be anyplace to hide. But if you left, even
Floyd | to get to the other apartments in the building, you'd have to go out
Floyd | alone, down the unlit outside hall, and then around the hole length of
Floyd | the building in the dark and rain. Harvey has to be almost home.
Floyd |
Floyd | it's here
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "get photo" | ||
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | RING
Floyd | The phone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd | Bedroom
Floyd | You're disoriented in the total darkness. You can guess roughly
Floyd | where the bed and the table are, but you're not sure.
Floyd |
Floyd | RING
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "answer phone" | ||
Floyd | The ringing is driving you crazy. You search the darkness desperately
Floyd | before your hands land on the phone and you snatch up the receiver.
Floyd |
Floyd | "What the fuck do you want?" you growl. There's silence for a moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | "That's not very nice language sweetie. I don't want to have to punish
Floyd | you more." You don't reply. "Is my pretty sweetie mad at me? Well
Floyd | don't you worry, I'll take care of that. You just stay right there."
Floyd | click. You drop the receiver.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "call 911" | ||
Floyd | You pick up the receiver and punch 9, then 1. . . Then you pause.
Floyd | Nothing's really happened, why are you so panicky? You take a deep
Floyd | breath and hang up the phone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "call 911" | ||
Floyd | You dial 911 and wait. Ring. Ring.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hello, 911, is this an emergency?"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Um. Yes, kinda. I've had some unusual phone calls--"
Floyd |
Floyd | "Let me patch you through to the police, and may I remind you that this
Floyd | number is for emergencies only." There's a sharp click, a pause, and
Floyd | then faint jazz and a voice telling you you're on hold. You slam down
Floyd | the receiver.
Floyd |
Floyd | From the darkness of the living room you hear noises. Rattling, at the
Floyd | door. Two sharp clicks. A loud pop. The door creaking open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd | Living Room
Floyd | The single candle in your hand is next to worthless. Everything
Floyd | beyond your little circle is invisible. You don't know where the doors
Floyd | are.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door opens. Someone is there. The beam of a flashlight shines in
Floyd | your face and you're blinded, stars flickering around you in the
Floyd | darkness. "Look, I made it sweetie. . ." The figure moves towards
Floyd | you. Hands on your mouth and waist. Wet cloth with something chemical
Floyd | and sickening.
Floyd |
Floyd | Darkness. Men's voices. Wet.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | It's light. The rain has stopped. You're on the couch. The
Floyd | apartment's quiet and cold. You seem all right. You shiver.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "Hm." | |
Jacqueline says, "See, I think it's just left intentionally vague." | ||
Lionheart says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | You have a set of pajamas (being worn). Floyd | Floyd | The cardboard box from your closet is sitting in front of the open Floyd | door. A dark stain is seeping out from the black cardboard onto the Floyd | carpet. You move towards it shaky, bruised. There are things lying Floyd | among your clothes in the box. A pair of glasses. A finger. A Floyd | Zip-Loc bag of something viscous. A piece of scalp. Somehow you Floyd | recognize it. Harvey finally made it home. Floyd | Floyd | the end Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, or quit. Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, or QUIT: > | ||
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, or QUIT: > | Lionheart says, "So the photo is gone" | |
Jacqueline says, "Clearly someone was screwing with us. The bit about 'punishing us' for instance" | ||
Jacqueline says, "Well, thanks, all. This was great." | ||
Roger says, "My vote's still on dream sequence" | ||
Jacqueline asks, "That someone else did it and we just dreamed it all?" | ||
DavidW says, "I'm still not sure exactly what happened, but it was a good game." | ||
Roger says, "I think we're the killer but we fell asleep on the couch" | ||
Lionheart says, "I think getting chloroformed by the killer, but then Harvey saves the day - for you but not for him, makes more sense." | ||
DavidW asks, "What's with 'Men's voices', plural?" | ||
Lionheart says, "The rancid lasagna would just be a red herring, and the low ceiling panic-induced claustrophobia" | ||
DavidW asks, "Was that merely the tv?" | ||
Lionheart says, "Or Harvey talking to the killer" | ||
DavidW says, "ah." | ||
Lionheart says, "No doubt it's very ambiguous on purpose, though." | ||
Jacqueline says, "You'd think we'd identify Harvey's voice distinct from others, but perhaps not." | ||
Jacqueline says (to Lh), "Yeah" | ||
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Jacqueline says, "That is ... creepy timing." | ||
Jacqueline exclaims, "OMG It was DavidW! He was here in the Toyshop with us all along!" | ||
DavidW says, "Posted 2 hrs ago... when we started playing." | ||
Jacqueline says, "..." | ||
Lionheart says, "I like an atmospheric puzzleless IF once in a while." | ||
Jacqueline says, "I like it most of the time, myself." | ||
Lionheart asks, "Oh, this game had sound?" | ||
DavidW has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Lionheart says, "Anyhow, I'm pretty sure that further replays aren't going to make everything clearer nor provide a different ending." | |