  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask ic15beyonddivision" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | May 27th, 2011 Floyd | Floyd | So, I'm glad you picked me as your study buddy for the final. I'd Floyd | just like to warn you first that my methods of studying Latin are not Floyd | what you would call normal. But I at least would call them effective, Floyd | and that's what counts in the end. Now, to get started, let's imagine Floyd | you are a wolf living in Siberia... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Near the Fallen Pine A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | And that would be enough solid travel for tonight. You still have the Floyd | energy to get a drink and a bite to eat around here, though, so it Floyd | isn't yet time for sleep. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Near the Fallen Pine Floyd | The key landmark of this area is a pine whose span is decidedly more Floyd | horizontal than those that surround it. No creatures have been around Floyd | here: the only tracks are your own pawprints. You could go in any Floyd | direction from here, but in terms of what is actually interesting you Floyd | smell a stream not far to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Snowish precipitation is slowly falling from the night sky. Floyd | Floyd | Type ABOUT for further information about this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select
Floyd | > Introduction to Beyond Division
Floyd | Regular Parser IF Instructions
Floyd | Instructions Specifically for this Game
Floyd | Difficulty
Floyd | Credits
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| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] Introduction to Beyond Division Floyd | Welcome to Beyond Division. Floyd | Floyd | If you are unfamiliar with how to play parser-based Interactive Floyd | Fiction, read 'Regular Parser IF Instructions' in the menu. If you are Floyd | unfamiliar with playing Beyond Division in particular, read Floyd | 'Instructions Specifically for this Game.' Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select
Floyd | > Introduction to Beyond Division
Floyd | Regular Parser IF Instructions
Floyd | Instructions Specifically for this Game
Floyd | Difficulty
Floyd | Credits
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select
Floyd | Introduction to Beyond Division
Floyd | > Regular Parser IF Instructions
Floyd | Instructions Specifically for this Game
Floyd | Difficulty
Floyd | Credits
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select
Floyd | Introduction to Beyond Division
Floyd | Regular Parser IF Instructions
Floyd | > Instructions Specifically for this Game
Floyd | Difficulty
Floyd | Credits
| ||
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Specifically for this Game Floyd | Conversation in this game works by keywords. When you see some text in Floyd | the story that isn't a room name bolded, like apples or Floyd | house, that likely means that it is a conversation topic. To Floyd | talk about said topic, simply type in the topic with no verb. All Floyd | currently available topics will also be shown below the command line Floyd | if you are in conversation. You may also want to answer yes or no Floyd | questions asked by other characters by simply typing YES or NO. TALK Floyd | TO (PERSON) can be used to setup a conversation if one is not already Floyd | going on. Floyd | Floyd | You will switch between different characters in this game: to see what Floyd | character you are currently playing as, check the top right of the Floyd | screen. Examining yourself (X ME) can give further information about Floyd | who you are currently playing as. Also, not all characters are Floyd | primarily reliant on sight for information, but even if they aren't Floyd | LOOK and LOOK AT will retain their usual roles for the sake of Floyd | gameplay. Floyd | Floyd | There will also be several footnotes in this game, observed by numbers | ||
| Floyd in brackets like [1] in the middle of the prose, which can be referred | ||
Floyd | to via FOOTNOTE #, where # is the number of the footnote. Commands in Floyd | this game that are not part of standard IF games for the most part Floyd | should be able to be inferred by context or by attributes of the Floyd | current player character. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Instructions
Floyd ]
Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu
Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select
Floyd | Introduction to Beyond Division
Floyd | Regular Parser IF Instructions
Floyd | > Instructions Specifically for this Game
Floyd | Difficulty
Floyd | Credits
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "q" | ||
Floyd ] Near the Fallen Pine A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | Near the Fallen Pine Floyd | The key landmark of this area is a pine whose span is decidedly more Floyd | horizontal than those that surround it. No creatures have been around Floyd | here: the only tracks are your own pawprints. You could go in any Floyd | direction from here, but in terms of what is actually interesting you Floyd | smell a stream not far to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suppose we won't be chatting much as a wolf." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||
Floyd ] Near the Fallen Pine A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL Floyd | Floyd | Near the Fallen Pine Floyd | The key landmark of this area is a pine whose span is decidedly more Floyd | horizontal than those that surround it. No creatures have been around Floyd | here: the only tracks are your own pawprints. You could go in any Floyd | direction from here, but in terms of what is actually interesting you Floyd | smell a stream not far to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tracks" | ||
Floyd ] Near the Fallen Pine A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > X TRACKS Floyd | Floyd | You smell nothing special about the pawprints. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] West Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You make your way towards the stream. Floyd | Floyd | West Streamside Floyd | You are on the west side of a somewhat shallow stream that continues Floyd | as far as you can sense to the north and south. On the other side of Floyd | the stream there is an unfamiliar structure. The fallen pine should be Floyd | back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | A reindeer carcass lies near the stream, far too old to consume. Floyd | Floyd | A sniff around confirms that the river creature responsible for your Floyd | scars has not been here anytime recently and most certainly isn't here Floyd | now. Floyd | Floyd | You hear the hooting of an owl break the silence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm. So if the topics are list *below* the command line, I guess we won't see them... unless we use that special command vimes put in that I can't recall what it is maybe." | |
| Roger says, "I'm feeling the Latin soak right in" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I was just going to comment on that, too." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "hoot" | ||
Floyd ] West Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > HOOT Floyd | Floyd | That's neither a recognized verb nor a current topic of conversation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x deer" | ||
Floyd ] West Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > X DEER Floyd | Floyd | You can't smell any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x reindeer" | ||
Floyd ] West Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > X REINDEER Floyd | Floyd | The reindeer carcass is the work of a lynx long since gone. Floyd | Unfortunately it would not be a good idea to eat this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x reindeer" | ||
Floyd ] West Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > X REINDEER Floyd | Floyd | The reindeer carcass is the work of a lynx long since gone. Floyd | Unfortunately it would not be a good idea to eat this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x pine" | ||
Floyd ] West Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > X PINE Floyd | Floyd | Tall trees with tops full of the remnants of unobtainable varmints are Floyd | scattered all around. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] West Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing in your mouth. Floyd | Floyd | A bit of sleet gets in your eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x structure" | ||
Floyd ] West Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > X STRUCTURE Floyd | Floyd | You've never sensed anything like this before: it's a structure you Floyd | could go inside that blocks precipitation. A human has been inside and Floyd | around it in the past, but it is safe at this moment. There's nothing Floyd | inside, though, so there's no real point in entering. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "memento vivere" | ||
Floyd ] West Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > MEMENTO VIVERE Floyd | Floyd | That's neither a recognized verb nor a current topic of conversation. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Let's enter it anyway?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stream" | ||
Floyd ] West Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > X STREAM Floyd | Floyd | The stream is fresh and safe to drink. It also should be crossable Floyd | without trouble. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, I wanna enter it." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] East Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You cross the stream, getting slightly wet in the process. Floyd | Floyd | East Streamside Floyd | You are on the east side of a somewhat shallow stream that continues Floyd | as far as you can sense to the north and south. A reindeer carcass is Floyd | on the other side of the stream. The forest on this side of the river Floyd | and whatever lives in it are now readily accessible eastward. Floyd | Floyd | There is an unfamiliar structure slightly bigger than you on this side Floyd | of the stream. A human was around it for long periods of time in the Floyd | past. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] East Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | You feel a slight pain from one of your slash scars. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "eep" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x scars" | ||
Floyd ] East Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > X SCARS Floyd | Floyd | The slash scars from that river creature tilt your posture towards the Floyd | right. Not enough to be a real issue, though. Floyd | Floyd | Looking back at them, you notice that they are exactly the same. Floyd | Injuries don't normally work that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] East Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Your speed and stamina make up for your relatively weak bite. You Floyd | should be able to get by, even without company and with those slash Floyd | scars on your left side, assuming that river creature doesn't lay Floyd | another tentacle on you [1]. Floyd | Floyd | To read footnotes, use FOOTNOTE followed by the number of said Floyd | footnote. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "footnote 1" | ||
Floyd ] East Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > FOOTNOTE 1 Floyd | Floyd | By the way, if you want to know what the character you're playing Floyd | as looks like, you should check out Mrs. Linoz's biology room. She has Floyd | a lot of pictures of wolves on the front wall, and one of them—black Floyd | on top, white on bottom, sitting like a sphinx with most of its body Floyd | to the right of the photo—looks like the wolf you currently are. Floyd | Except you have light blue eyes and, at least right now, those slash Floyd | scars on your right side. Although the right side of the wolf in the Floyd | picture isn't visible so, in theory... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter structure" | ||
Floyd ] East Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER STRUCTURE Floyd | Floyd | You enter the structure, but after rummaging around you don't find Floyd | anything interesting and you walk out. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "well, I guess we could keep going east until we find a bakery or Mrs Linoz's biology room or a tentacle monster or Santa?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay" | ||
| DavidW says, "I have no idea where this is going." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Clearing A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | After a short walk you find yourself at a clearing. Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | You have arrived in a part of the forest suspiciously lacking in Floyd | trees. There's more snow on the ground and in the air here, and the Floyd | sky is more visible. Should none of this be of relevance, the trees on Floyd | the edge of the clearing to the north form a cluster of evergreens, Floyd | and the ground grows uneven towards the south. The stream should be Floyd | back west. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a scent of hare in the air. It's coming from the evergreens Floyd | to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Go sniff?" | |
| DavidW asks, "snow, evergreens, reindeer.. could be Santa?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sniff" | ||
Floyd ] Clearing A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > SNIFF Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | You have arrived in a part of the forest suspiciously lacking in Floyd | trees. There's more snow on the ground and in the air here, and the Floyd | sky is more visible. Should none of this be of relevance, the trees on Floyd | the edge of the clearing to the north form a cluster of evergreens, Floyd | and the ground grows uneven towards the south. The stream should be Floyd | back west. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "smell = look, when a wolf." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Prolly" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Er, yes" | ||
| DavidW asks, "North to the hare scent?" | ||
| Roger says, "Can we pee on something please" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Evergreen Cluster (hiding from the hare) A Floyd | Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You sneak into the evergreen cluster. Floyd | Floyd | Evergreen Cluster (hiding from the hare) Floyd | This is a place in the taiga where the trees keep most of their leaves Floyd | even now in winter. You lie in the shadows at the moment, focused on Floyd | your quarry. Floyd | Floyd | The hare is hopping a bit in the center of the cluster. Hopefully this Floyd | will be an easy catch. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Roger), "Please keep coming to ClubFloyd. We'd really lose something critical without your contributions and suggestions." | |
| Jacqueline says, ">CATCH HARE(?)" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm thinking wait." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "For the right moment? OKay." | ||
| Roger says, "It's appropriate in character this time! Unlike most of my urination suggestions" | ||
| DavidW says, "well, I dunno how this game rolls yet." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "hee" | ||
| DavidW clears the save counter. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Evergreen Cluster (hiding from the hare) A Floyd | Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd ] Evergreen Cluster (hiding from the hare) A Floyd | Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | As you wait, you find yourself craving some refreshing water. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. Maybe we should just catch it" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "catch hare" | ||
Floyd ] Evergreen Cluster (hiding from the hare) A Floyd | Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > CATCH HARE Floyd | Floyd | Before going for that hare, it's best to really consider about what Floyd | you're doing. You think that it's best to... Floyd | Floyd | 1) chase the hare towards the stream. Floyd | 2) chase the hare towards the uneven ground south of the clearing. Floyd | 3) go for a very quick spring to end it all quickly. Floyd | 4) explore around a bit more before going for the hare. Floyd | Floyd | (Type the number of your choice) >> | Jacqueline says, "Huh. Cool." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "What do people want?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm thinking 3." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I kind of like 3, because I think we'll get outrun or outsmarted the other ways." | ||
| Roger says, "sure" | ||
| DavidW says, "Even though I suspect 3 won't work, I want to try 3." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd | (Type the number of your choice) >>
Floyd | > 3
Floyd |
Floyd | You spring straight for the hare...
| Jacqueline exclaims, "I don't think any of them will work, but let's see!" | |
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Evergreen Cluster A Flaukulla Wolf
Floyd | You spring straight for the hare...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | ...but just as you reach the hare's location with a sprint and a jump,
Floyd | you wind up grasping only snow with your jaws: the hare was quicker
Floyd | than you thought. By the time you finally get yourself back together
Floyd | and shake off the snow your quarry has already made its getaway.
Floyd | There's not really a hope of catching up at this point.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Roger says, "we have puma envy" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Save scum?" | ||
| DavidW asks (of Jacqueline), "what does that mean?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Where you save, try a thing, fail, restore, try a thing, fail, restore, try a thing, fail, restoretry a thing, fail, restore..." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It's a phrase from playing roguelikes, which are supposed to be permadeath." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh. Well, I'd like to restore and try another tactic, yes." | ||
| DavidW says, "Or we could restore and explore more." | ||
| Roger says, "do we have the undo" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I would try 1 next." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Evergreen Cluster (hiding from the hare) A Floyd | Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | Evergreen Cluster (hiding from the hare) Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | (Type the number of your choice) >> | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] East Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | (Type the number of your choice) >> Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | You sneak east and with quick movement spook the hare towards running Floyd | southwest. You give chase and arrive back near the stream. Floyd | Floyd | East Streamside Floyd | You are on the east side of a somewhat shallow stream that continues Floyd | as far as you can sense to the north and south. A reindeer carcass is Floyd | on the other side of the stream. The clearing is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | There is an unfamiliar structure slightly bigger than you on this side Floyd | of the stream. A human was around it for long periods of time in the Floyd | past. Floyd | Floyd | The hare is trying to escape you by crossing the stream. You aren't Floyd | close enough for the kill yet, but the stream should slow it down more Floyd | than you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "west?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "okay" | ||
| Jacqueline crosses fingers. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] West Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You cross the stream, getting slightly more wet in the process. Floyd | Floyd | West Streamside Floyd | You are on the west side of a somewhat shallow stream that continues Floyd | as far as you can sense to the north and south. On the other side of Floyd | the stream there is an unfamiliar structure. The fallen pine should be Floyd | back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | A reindeer carcass lies near the stream, far too old to consume. Floyd | Floyd | You hear some movement up in the treetops. Floyd | Floyd | While you were crossing the stream, it appears that the hare managed Floyd | to make a getaway to the southwest far faster than you could ever hope Floyd | to catch up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "meh" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Anyway, what's up in the tree?" | ||
| DavidW says, "owl, I think" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up" | ||
Floyd ] West Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP Floyd | Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tree" | ||
Floyd ] West Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > X TREE Floyd | Floyd | Tall trees with tops full of the remnants of unobtainable varmints are Floyd | scattered all around. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "yeah" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "So, is this just exploration and no actual plot or Latin?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "now what? sw, following the hare? Back across the river and explore more there?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drink water" | ||
Floyd ] West Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > DRINK WATER Floyd | Floyd | You bend your head down towards the stream, noticing your reflection, Floyd | and then proceed to lap the water. You find yourself taking a bit Floyd | longer than usual, and not for lack of speed but for a desire for more Floyd | and more. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Either" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] West Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You have already satiated your thirst. The stream is merely an Floyd | obstacle now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pee on reindeer" | ||
Floyd ] West Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > PEE ON REINDEER Floyd | Floyd | You don't need to use up time marking every last locale when you Floyd | aren't going to be here long. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| Roger asks, "Is that a symptom of rabies?" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Yay that it was anticipated!" | ||
| Roger says, "Thank you Jacq" | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of Roger), "What, the thirst?" | ||
| Roger says, "Yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline | Symptoms include fever, headache, excess salivation, muscle spasms, paralysis, and mental confusion | ||
| Jacqueline | Also common: brain death, coma, difficulty swallowing, dilated pupil, drooling, excess salivation, headache, mental confusion, muscle pain, pins and needles, restlessness, seizures, sensitivity to light, stiff neck, or vomiting | ||
| Jacqueline says, "One would think all of that salivating would lead to thirst, but it's not actually listed as such." | ||
| Roger says, "Okay just a random thought" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm inclined to recross the stream and explore the east side more than I want to explore the west side." | ||
| Roger says, "mmhmm" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "'kay" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] East Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You cross the stream, getting slightly more wet in the process. Floyd | Floyd | East Streamside Floyd | You are on the east side of a somewhat shallow stream that continues Floyd | as far as you can sense to the north and south. A reindeer carcass is Floyd | on the other side of the stream. The clearing is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | There is an unfamiliar structure slightly bigger than you on this side Floyd | of the stream. A human was around it for long periods of time in the Floyd | past. Floyd | Floyd | A particularly speedy falling pellet of snow attracts your attention Floyd | briefly before you realize it isn't prey. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x snow" | ||
Floyd ] East Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > X SNOW Floyd | Floyd | The amount of snow is such that the entire forest floor is covered, Floyd | yet it isn't hard to walk through. Nothing could hide in this snow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] East Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You head south, but find nothing but more stream nearby and soon make Floyd | your way back to the bizarre structure. Floyd | Floyd | East Streamside Floyd | You are on the east side of a somewhat shallow stream that continues Floyd | as far as you can sense to the north and south. A reindeer carcass is Floyd | on the other side of the stream. The clearing is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | There is an unfamiliar structure slightly bigger than you on this side Floyd | of the stream. A human was around it for long periods of time in the Floyd | past. Floyd | Floyd | You feel a slight pain from one of your slash scars. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Clearing A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | After a short walk you find yourself at the clearing. Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | You have arrived in a part of the forest suspiciously lacking in Floyd | trees. There's more snow on the ground and in the air here, and the Floyd | sky is more visible. Should none of this be of relevance, the trees on Floyd | the edge of the clearing to the north form a cluster of evergreens, Floyd | and the ground grows uneven towards the south. The stream should be Floyd | back west. Floyd | Floyd | It occurs to you that the forest has suddenly become quiet, except a Floyd | rumbling of sorts to the southeast heading towards the clearing. Once Floyd | it arrives all at once, it becomes quite clear indeed what it is. You Floyd | are now in the midst of a blizzard, complete with shaking trees, lost Floyd | visibility, and the extra sleet in your scars. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Been there." | |
| Jacqueline says, ">HUNKER DOWN" | ||
| DavidW asks, "so much for exploring. Back to the only shelter we've seen, the structure?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "If we don't get lost. Sure." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] East Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You make your way back towards the stream. Floyd | Floyd | East Streamside Floyd | You are on the east side of a somewhat shallow stream that continues Floyd | as far as you can sense to the north and south. A reindeer carcass is Floyd | on the other side of the stream. The clearing is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The structure has collapsed in the face of the blizzard. Floyd | Floyd | A sheet of snow falls off from a nearby tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, for..." | |
| Jacqueline says, "oops" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, be thankful we weren't in there." | ||
| DavidW says, "You'd think humans would build to code." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Can we get inside the fallen pine?" | ||
| DavidW says, "That was our initial location? I didn't examine the pine there, but sure, we can look." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] West Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You cross the stream, getting slightly more wet in the process. Floyd | Floyd | West Streamside Floyd | You are on the west side of a somewhat shallow stream that continues Floyd | as far as you can sense to the north and south. On the other side of Floyd | the stream there is an unfamiliar structure. The fallen pine should be Floyd | back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | A reindeer carcass lies near the stream, far too old to consume. Floyd | Floyd | A lot of sleet gets in your eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Near the Fallen Pine A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You find your way back to the pine. Floyd | Floyd | Near the Fallen Pine Floyd | The key landmark of this area is a pine whose span is decidedly more Floyd | horizontal than those that surround it. No creatures have been around Floyd | here: the only tracks are your own pawprints. You could go in any Floyd | direction from here, but in terms of what is actually interesting the Floyd | stream is not far to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You feel quite some pain from one of your slash scars. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pine" | ||
Floyd ] Near the Fallen Pine A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > X PINE Floyd | Floyd | (the fallen pine) Floyd | The tree has lost almost all of its distinguishing characteristics: Floyd | the leaves are either gone or wilted, and the flying squirrels haven't Floyd | been on it. Floyd | Floyd | Oh, and let's not forget to mention that no other wolves have Floyd | suggested that this place is important to their territory. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter fallen pine" | ||
Floyd ] Near the Fallen Pine A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER FALLEN PINE Floyd | Floyd | You climb up the fallen pine. Floyd | Floyd | Near the Fallen Pine (on the fallen pine) Floyd | The key landmark of this area is a pine whose span is decidedly more Floyd | horizontal than those that surround it. No creatures have been around Floyd | here: the only tracks are your own pawprints. You could go in any Floyd | direction from here, but in terms of what is actually interesting the Floyd | stream is not far to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You feel quite some snow buffeting your side. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We go on top of it, not in it." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Also, it implies we might want to mark this." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pee on fallen pine" | ||
Floyd ] Near the Fallen Pine A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > PEE ON FALLEN PINE Floyd | Floyd | You are not going to be here long, but there isn't really anything Floyd | wrong with marking your territory. So you lift your leg near the Floyd | fallen pine and establish your domain. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Sniff my domain, ye mortals, and despair." | |
| DavidW says, "Achievement Unlocked: Log Claimant." | ||
| [LINK] | ||
| Jacqueline says, "(Sorry, DW, I know you have bandwidth issues.)" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "(It's not worth your bandwidth - it's just the Log commercial from Ren & Stimply)" | ||
| DavidW says, "anyway, we'd better find shelter." | ||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "ok, I won't click." | ||
| Roger says, "Maybe we need to tauntaun up in that deer" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hey, yeah" | ||
| DavidW says (to Roger), "I don't know that word." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] West Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You make your way back towards the stream. Floyd | Floyd | West Streamside Floyd | You are on the west side of a somewhat shallow stream that continues Floyd | as far as you can sense to the north and south. On the other side of Floyd | the stream there is an unfamiliar structure. The fallen pine should be Floyd | back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | A reindeer carcass lies near the stream, far too old to consume. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter reindeer" | ||
Floyd ] West Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER REINDEER Floyd | Floyd | It's too old for that to be effective. Floyd | Floyd | Your legs quiver. If you don't get out of this blizzard you may be in Floyd | trouble. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "The hare went sw from here, yes?" | |
| Roger asks, "How hard did we try to get into the structure?" | ||
| DavidW says, "We didn't try to enter the fallen version." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hrm. Perhaps instead of 'memento vivere' I should have said 'memento mori.'" | ||
| Roger says, "memento urinati" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "I've finally learned some Latin!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Wait." | ||
| Roger says, "I came, I saw, I peed on some things" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Turns out 'urinati' is actually Italian." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I thought it was just a secretive club of strange people who conspire to pee on things." | ||
| Roger says, "Oh I was just pulling that out of my butt" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "maga says we can get out of the storm." | ||
| Roger says, "Anyhoo, let's get on with getting on" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "That's not how the urinary tract works, man." | ||
| Jacqueline draws Roger a diagram. | ||
| DavidW says, "Of course there must shelter, but we haven't found any." | ||
| Roger says, "Cloaca is Latin! I think." | ||
| DavidW says, "Which way? I think sw." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, he gave a spoiler, and you're right, we haven't fully explored." | ||
| DavidW says, "We probably lost our chance to explore casually when we tried to eat the hare." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Because we didn't take the last option? Possibly, yeah. We could restart." | ||
| DavidW says, "no, I want to see if we can find shelter like this. We can restart when we're dead." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Near the Fallen Pine A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You find your way back to the pine. Floyd | Floyd | Near the Fallen Pine Floyd | The key landmark of this area is a pine whose span is decidedly more Floyd | horizontal than those that surround it. No creatures have been around Floyd | here: the only tracks are your own pawprints. You could go in any Floyd | direction from here, but in terms of what is actually interesting the Floyd | stream is not far to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline nods. | |
| DavidW says, "oh drat" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] West Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You make your way back towards the stream. Floyd | Floyd | West Streamside Floyd | You are on the west side of a somewhat shallow stream that continues Floyd | as far as you can sense to the north and south. On the other side of Floyd | the stream there is an unfamiliar structure. The fallen pine should be Floyd | back to the west. Floyd | Floyd | A reindeer carcass lies near the stream, far too old to consume. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] East Streamside A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You cross the stream, getting slightly more wet in the process. Floyd | Floyd | East Streamside Floyd | You are on the east side of a somewhat shallow stream that continues Floyd | as far as you can sense to the north and south. A reindeer carcass is Floyd | on the other side of the stream. The clearing is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The structure has collapsed in the face of the blizzard. Floyd | Floyd | You hear some fast movement up in the treetops. Floyd | Floyd | A cool waft of air reminds you that time is running out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Clearing A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | After a short walk you find yourself at the clearing. Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | You have arrived in a part of the forest suspiciously lacking in Floyd | trees. There's more snow on the ground and in the air here, and the Floyd | full extent of the blizzard is clear. Should none of this be of Floyd | relevance, the trees on the edge of the clearing to the north form a Floyd | cluster of evergreens, and the ground grows uneven towards the south. Floyd | The stream should be back west. Floyd | Floyd | A sheet of snow falls off from a nearby tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Cave Entrance A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You head into the uneven ground. Floyd | Floyd | Cave Entrance Floyd | The protruding rocks and sporadic holes turn into a complete descent Floyd | the further south they go, providing entrance into a maw underneath Floyd | the southern forest floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Here we go." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You enter the cave, taking shelter from the blizzard. Floyd | Floyd | Cavern Floyd | Many passageways are around this cavern, the biggest one being the one Floyd | to the west, which leads into a strange room with a bizarre glow. Floyd | Floyd | You are distracted by a glow to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x glow" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > X GLOW Floyd | Floyd | Very peculiar. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I sense a possible end to an intro coming." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Near the Circle A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Near the Circle Floyd | This cavern's shape is peculiar: the floor and the south, west, and Floyd | north walls are all flat, while the way out back to the east retains Floyd | the regular cave structure. Floyd | Floyd | Pure power is emanating all around the cavern from a glowing circle on Floyd | the west cave wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x circle" | ||
Floyd ] Near the Circle A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > X CIRCLE Floyd | Floyd | The closer you are to the glowing circle, the more wise you feel. Floyd | There are markings on the circle, which you understand are there to Floyd | retain information for the future. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read circle" | ||
Floyd ] Near the Circle A Flaukulla Wolf Floyd | > Floyd | > READ CIRCLE Floyd | Floyd | The closer you are to the glowing circle, the more wise you feel. Floyd | There are markings on the circle, which you understand are there to Floyd | retain information for the future. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch circle" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH CIRCLE Floyd | Floyd | As you put your paw on the circle, darkened lightning fires from the Floyd | circle into you! | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | circle into you! Floyd | New thoughts flash before you. Dots upon dots connected by lines, Floyd | split into two territories. Humans, in a great city (where, when Floyd | did you learn what that a city is?), and then the entire world at Floyd | once, with lines connecting at a landmass that looks like a leg in the Floyd | sea... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Jacqueline says, "LATIN" | |
| Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Blank Hallway Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | You remember the summer day that The Tide came very well: first the Floyd | flood reports, then the reports of walking black cephalopod creatures Floyd | laying waste to all in their path, then the redundant confirmation Floyd | that said creatures weren't really cephalopods. And now, five months Floyd | later, the naval powers of the world are down for the count, the Floyd | coasts of the Americas and Europe are miles inland from where they Floyd | used to be, and the showdown of the underdog militias versus the alien Floyd | invaders is simply not going the way it does in the movies. Floyd | Floyd | There's really only one hope that remains: communication. From their Floyd | strategic groupings to the biological weapons they use with their Floyd | tentacles, it's clear that the creatures are intelligent. But, despite Floyd | all the work you've been involved with, there hasn't been the Floyd | slightest improvement in bridging the gap. Floyd | Floyd | Now, however, a dispatch has informed you that you were selected to Floyd | join a secret government project that has been said to be the best Floyd | hope yet. The details weren't given out, but, now that you are in the Floyd | facility, you will soon be familiarized with the new plan. Floyd | Floyd | You've wanted to communicate across species as long as you can Floyd | remember, and now you may just get your chance. Floyd | Floyd | Beyond Division Floyd | An Interactive 9th Grade Daydream by Joseph Geipel Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 150731 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Blank Hallway Floyd | A featureless west-east hallway located somewhere underneath Nebraska, Floyd | ending to the west in a doorway marked 11-14-09. Floyd | Floyd | The man opens up the west doorway, revealing a viewing room of some Floyd | sort beyond, and beckons you inside. "I trust that you understand that Floyd | what you are about to see is highly classified." Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger asks, "Was this the winner?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "It was." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Blank Hallway Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Huncel Clark, young, apparently bright geneticist. Bright enough Floyd | that you were invited to be involved with this project. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Blank Hallway Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Huncel Clark, young, apparently bright geneticist. Bright enough Floyd | that you were invited to be involved with this project. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW) BugsBunny asks, "Huncel? .... Huncel?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, wait." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Blank Hallway Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "go west, young Huncel." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | Topics: wolf Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | The man closes the door behind you. Floyd | Floyd | Viewing Room Floyd | You survey the room around you. There are several desks with new (for Floyd | once) computers on top, set up so that those using the computers would Floyd | be able to make glances at the viewing window on the west end of the Floyd | room, where noted ethologist Miranda Heather currently stands. Floyd | Floyd | You glance into the cell beyond the viewing window. You spy a Floyd | wolf, curled up, facing the back wall of its prison. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x man" | ||
Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > X MAN Floyd | Floyd | The man with you is one of those people who you are supposed to never Floyd | talk to anyone about. You don't even know his name even with your Floyd | newfound security clearance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wolf" | ||
Floyd | Topics: none Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > WOLF Floyd | Floyd | "What is this wolf here for?" Floyd | Floyd | Miranda Heather is the first to respond: "You wouldn't believe me if I Floyd | told you. Try knocking on the window." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "knock on window" | ||
Floyd | Topics: yes or no Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > KNOCK ON WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | You give a few solid knocks on the barrier that separates you and the Floyd | wolf, but, aside from the predictable slight ear movement, it doesn't Floyd | react. Floyd | Floyd | However, you do experience sudden feelings of apathy for no apparent Floyd | reason at all. It's as if some incorporeal person is nagging you to Floyd | pay attention to a topic you don't care about in the slightest. Floyd | Floyd | "Did you feel that?" Miranda asks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd | Topics: telepathy Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | "The apathy?" Floyd | Floyd | "That would be the wolf's feeling. He has the astonishing ability to Floyd | broadcast his thoughts and feelings to other beings. Unless we want to Floyd | sound more refined than science fiction and parapsychology, I do dare Floyd | say that telepathy is the term to use." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "telepathy" | ||
Floyd | Topics: commune and new to us Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > TELEPATHY Floyd | Floyd | "Telepathy? What sort of mechanism could cause such a concept? Why Floyd | hasn't anything like this been observed before?" Floyd | Floyd | "Such questions are amongst those we're seeking answers for: he's Floyd | still very new to us, a week or so. He has been dubbed 'The Floyd | Ambassador' since we hope his abilities could lead us to a way to Floyd | commune with The Tide. He doesn't like The Tide, much like us, Floyd | but he's our option." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "new to us" | ||
Floyd | Topics: mind and commune Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > NEW TO US Floyd | Floyd | "Where and how was he found?" Floyd | Floyd | "He was found in Siberia during the search for a missing hiker named Floyd | Clarence Pankov. Mr. Pankov was found wounded and out of his Floyd | mind, as told on the news. What wasn't reported was that this Floyd | wolf was only a kilometer away." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "He's our Ambassador? Oh, cool. So let's put him in a research cage and break his spirit!" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "mind" | ||
Floyd | Topics: overload and commune Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > MIND Floyd | Floyd | "And I assume The Ambassador is the culprit in Clarence's insanity?" Floyd | Floyd | "Almost certainly. He's known to telepathically overload Floyd | others, leaving them quite a mess for some time. This appears to be Floyd | very taxing on the body, for he is tired or even swoons shortly Floyd | afterwards." Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "I hope the cover art for this game is Three Wolf Moon" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "overload" | ||
Floyd | Topics: commune Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > OVERLOAD Floyd | Floyd | "Is there still-" Floyd | Floyd | "-a risk of being overloaded? We hope not." She smiles. "He's been Floyd | conditioned to understand that overloading humans means no treats." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "commune" | ||
Floyd | Topics: none Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > COMMUNE Floyd | Floyd | "Do you know if his telepathy works with Tide creatures?" Floyd | Floyd | "It doesn't at the moment. His telepathy works especially well with Floyd | humans and probably other wolves in his rare subspecies Canis Floyd | lupus flaukulla [2], judging by his weakened telepathy with dogs. Floyd | If there's a way for him to communicate with humans, I think we have a Floyd | shot at extending it all the way to The Tide." Floyd | Floyd | The man interrupts. "Now that the extent of The Ambassador's abilities Floyd | have been established, I think it is time that Dr. Clark try a Floyd | conversation with The Ambassador. He should open up the channel after Floyd | another knock [3]." Floyd | Floyd | > | escapecage says, "Have the ambassador blow up the wolf's head, then search the remains for the secrets to psychic pwoers." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "footnote" | ||
Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > FOOTNOTE Floyd | Floyd | After my mom watched the movie Up in the Air she got the Floyd | soundtrack and started playing it a lot on the way to school and in Floyd | other trips. One of the songs she played the most is called "Help Floyd | Yourself." I was thinking about the first meeting of The Floyd | Ambassador and Huncel at about the same time, and rather quickly I Floyd | noticed the thematic similarities between the song's lyrics and their Floyd | meeting. Whenever I heard the song I would bend the lyrics in my head Floyd | to better correspond to the scene. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So that's writer's commentary?" | |
| DavidW asks (of escapecage), "Isn't the *wolf* the Ambassador?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "It is, yeah" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "footnote 3" | ||
Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > FOOTNOTE 3 Floyd | Floyd | After my mom watched the movie Up in the Air she got the Floyd | soundtrack and started playing it a lot on the way to school and in Floyd | other trips. One of the songs she played the most is called "Help Floyd | Yourself." I was thinking about the first meeting of The Floyd | Ambassador and Huncel at about the same time, and rather quickly I Floyd | noticed the thematic similarities between the song's lyrics and their Floyd | meeting. Whenever I heard the song I would bend the lyrics in my head Floyd | to better correspond to the scene. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "footnote 2" | ||
Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > FOOTNOTE 2 Floyd | Floyd | And there's some Latin via scientific naming! Canis, canis, Floyd | masculine, meaning dog, and lupus, lupi, masculine, meaning wolf. Floyd | Flaukulla (flaw-cola) is a word I made up—supposedly the surname of a Floyd | fictional 19th-century naturalist, but that's not too relevant. What's Floyd | also not too relevant but is pretty interesting is that when I was Floyd | first thinking of all this back last year in 8th grade I had never Floyd | written or typed the word Flaukulla down anywhere, so I just sort of Floyd | imagined what it looked like typed out, and it turned out to look Floyd | nothing like I imagined even though I knew the spelling. Interesting Floyd | psychological effect, eh? Floyd | Floyd | Anyways, the serious Latin and Roman culture has yet to come. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wolf" | ||
Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > X WOLF Floyd | Floyd | Black on top, white on bottom, with three slash scars on his side. He Floyd | seems very bored and disinterested with his surroundings. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x miranda" | ||
Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > X MIRANDA Floyd | Floyd | It is certainly unusual for a 'pop' scientist to be involved with Floyd | something like this, but between her wisdom of age and her expertise Floyd | there's no denying that she's qualified. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "panel" | ||
Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > PANEL Floyd | Floyd | That's neither a recognized verb nor a current topic of conversation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Viewing Room Floyd | A room with several desks with computers on top, set up so that those Floyd | using the computers would be able to make glances at the viewing Floyd | window on the west end of the room, where Miranda Heather currently Floyd | stands along with the man. Floyd | Floyd | The Ambassador continues to stare at nothing with his back to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x computers" | ||
Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > X COMPUTERS Floyd | Floyd | Completely blank: not even screensavers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "knock on window" | ||
Floyd | Topics: greeting, curiosity, and amazement Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > KNOCK ON WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | You knock on the glass once more. This time, you feel more than just Floyd | an emotion: you feel a sudden new ability to put your thoughts into a Floyd | different channel, one that leads away from your mind. Clearly The Floyd | Ambassador is allowing you to send information to him. What to send, Floyd | though? Thoughts of curiosity, amazement, or maybe you Floyd | could work out some sort of interspecies greeting? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Huh. Back last year in eighth grade ... is this the writer, or is this meta?" | |
| Roger says, "I might guess the writer" | ||
| DavidW says, "I assumed the writer" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So this was written by a freshman in high school?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "perhaps?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It's well-written regardless, but that makes it even more impressive. (I hate that, no matter how I tried to phrase this, it sounded condescending, which it's not meant to be at all.)" | ||
| DavidW says, "I think I want to try curiosity first." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "curiosity" | ||
Floyd | Topics: feed, hunger, etiquette, and Floyd | amazement Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > CURIOSITY Floyd | Floyd | What better emotion to open up with than the foundation of scientific Floyd | inquiry? Floyd | Floyd | You broadcast questions about how and why, questions both about his Floyd | abilities and more classical lupine life. He ignores the former and Floyd | responds to the latter with a request for some tasty reindeer. Or Floyd | perhaps he just wants reindeer. Either way, he still is curled up and Floyd | not facing you. They may have convinced him to not overload anyone, Floyd | but it seems human communication etiquette has yet to be worked in. Floyd | Floyd | You think (to yourself, you hope and suspect) of some ways to go Floyd | further. You could invoke his desire for reindeer, either by asking Floyd | the man to feed him or asking The Ambassador about Floyd | hunger. Suggesting he obey proper etiquette might make Floyd | everything easier if he complies, or, lastly, you could try to see if Floyd | your amazement at him can lead somewhere interesting. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline shrugs. | |
| Jacqueline says, "I like any of thoes." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "er, those" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "feed" | ||
Floyd | Topics: health, hunger, etiquette, and Floyd | amazement Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > FEED Floyd | Floyd | You turn to the man. "He's asking for some reindeer. Can you comply?" Floyd | Floyd | "Unfortunately I cannot. Although the vet did say that The Ambassador Floyd | appears to require more sustenance than is normal for a wolf of his Floyd | size and age, we have already taken that into account. He seems to Floyd | have other health issues too, so we don't want to take any Floyd | chances." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "health" | ||
Floyd | Topics: hunger, etiquette, and amazement Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > HEALTH Floyd | Floyd | "He has health issues of what sort?" Floyd | Floyd | The man takes a paper and clipboard from one of the desks and hands it Floyd | to you. "Here, read the vet's notes when you have time." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x notes" | ||
Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > X NOTES Floyd | Floyd | A quick skim suggests The Ambassador requires more food, drink, and Floyd | sleep than is considered healthy, has periods of intense fatigue right Floyd | next to periods of hyperactivity, and is injured across his right side Floyd | (presumably the slash scars you see before you). His telepathic powers Floyd | are then listed in the same space as everything else as if they were a Floyd | health problem too, which they may very well be depending on your Floyd | definitions. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "etiquette" | ||
Floyd | Topics: dominance, humanity, and amazement Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > ETIQUETTE Floyd | Floyd | Let's see if he complies. Floyd | Floyd | You insist to The Ambassador that he face you because then you might Floyd | have a better chance at understanding him. To establish the idea Floyd | further in both of your heads, you cite some of your own socializing Floyd | problems from your childhood. In the midst of all, though, The Floyd | Ambassador abruptly fills your mind with thoughts along the human Floyd | lines of "You don't control me." Floyd | Floyd | Possible ways to respond to this new conversational twist would be to Floyd | talk about the problems of dominance in conversation and Floyd | elsewhere, or maybe you could tell him all about some of the greatness Floyd | of humanity. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Humanity: builders of structures that fall down in a blizzard." | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm not liking this twist." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "topics" | ||
Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > TOPICS Floyd | Floyd | That's neither a recognized verb nor a current topic of conversation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dominance" | ||
Floyd | Topics: Tide, humanity, and amazement Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > DOMINANCE Floyd | Floyd | You try to visualize that sort of communication-feedback loop you'd Floyd | find in a textbook in your mind and explain how proper communication Floyd | works and why proper communication is important. You then apologize Floyd | for trying to force etiquette into him so early. The Ambassador Floyd | abruptly decides to speak about how much he hates a quite familiar Floyd | kind of creature that he encountered that is responsible for his Floyd | distinctive scars. Floyd | Floyd | Ah, so you both have troubles with The Tide. That's another Floyd | possible topic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tide" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TIDE Floyd | Floyd | The moment your mind makes the slightest reference to The Tide, The Floyd | Ambassador turns around to face you, and for the first time you notice Floyd | his snout and his light blue eyes... | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Topics: displeasure Floyd ] Cell (trapped) The Floyd | Ambassador Floyd | his snout and his light blue eyes...Cell (trapped) Floyd | A room with nothing of interest for you at the moment (sometimes Floyd | there's delicious food and water). There is another inaccessible room Floyd | to the east, which has a few humans in it, one of whom you don't know Floyd | yet. Floyd | Floyd | You get up on your legs. Feelings of displeasure towards The Floyd | Tide are about, both from you and the new human. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "huh. We're the wolf again." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "displeasure" | ||
Floyd | Topics: decrease and increase Floyd ] Cell (trapped) The Floyd | Ambassador Floyd | > Floyd | > DISPLEASURE Floyd | Floyd | You voice your displeasure towards The Tide to the new human. Floyd | Strangely, he seems bizarrely disturbed by your desire, even though he Floyd | is an enemy of The Tide too. You could increase the intensity Floyd | (always pleasurable) or decrease the intensity (more likely to Floyd | get a treat). Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | |
| DavidW says, "I suppose increase might cause Huncel to overload. Probably should avoid that." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "decrease" | ||
Floyd | Topics: increase Floyd ] Cell (trapped) The Floyd | Ambassador Floyd | > Floyd | > DECREASE Floyd | Floyd | The Tide's obliteration is far more important than treats. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Might be fun just to see. There's always undo." | |
| DavidW says, "or not" | ||
| DavidW says, "Increase is our only option. Decrease was a no-op." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "increase" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > INCREASE Floyd | Floyd | You ignore the human's lack of comfort with your feeling and just Floyd | continue the onslaught. He starts to panic, and the other humans rush Floyd | to him. But he isn't The Tide's ally: why would he be panicked? Floyd | Floyd | The other humans give a look towards you, the look they give when they Floyd | don't give you anything. You've had your delicious fill of anger for Floyd | now, so now it's probably time to avoid losing delicious food. Since Floyd | closing the channel on a newbie also makes you lose food, the best Floyd | idea is probably to strike up some other topic... | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Topics: yes or no Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | idea is probably to strike up some other topic...## Viewing Room Floyd | Your focus is only on the man, Miranda, and The Ambassador. Floyd | Floyd | "He 'doesn't like' The Tide? You mean, he'd kill us all just to do the Floyd | slightest bit of damage to it?" Floyd | Floyd | The man tries to calm you down. "Relax, Huncel, relax. The Tide is the Floyd | greatest threat to civil society that has ever appeared in all of Floyd | history. Shouldn't we share his anger?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Tricky. We don't know the Tide's motives at all yet." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "remember tide" | ||
Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > REMEMBER TIDE Floyd | Floyd | That's neither a recognized verb nor a current topic of conversation. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "But I suppose sharing anger now might lead to at least human-wolf cooperation? A first step?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "This is a surprisingly long IntroComp entry." | ||
| DavidW says, "Our choices are yes or no." | ||
| DavidW says, "I think we should say yes." | ||
| DavidW says, "Especially since a no might also get us in trouble with unnamed man here." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd | Topics: job Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | "I suppose." Floyd | Floyd | The Ambassador continues the conversation. He is now wondering what Floyd | your job is. It appears he has been taught a bit about human Floyd | society, then. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "job" | ||
Floyd | Topics: relatives Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > JOB Floyd | Floyd | It feels like you are getting more used to telepathic conversation. Floyd | Floyd | "Ambassador, I'm someone who studies inheritance. Why you share Floyd | traits with your parents, and why your progeny would share traits with Floyd | you. That's my job." Floyd | Floyd | He doesn't seem to know how to respond properly, which you infer from Floyd | his thoughts rather than out of telepathic silence. Progress! Maybe Floyd | more talk about his relatives is warranted. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "relatives" | ||
Floyd | Topics: hatred and reach Floyd ] Viewing Room Dr. Huncel Clark Floyd | > Floyd | > RELATIVES Floyd | Floyd | "What do you remember about your parents?" Floyd | Floyd | "They cared for me a long time ago. My mother died shortly before Floyd | I left the pack." The voice in your mind sounds a bit like a Floyd | teenage voice to you, maybe because that's the sort of voice you'd Floyd | imagine saying something along those lines. You also infer that his Floyd | mother's death was natural and unrelated to The Tide. Floyd | Floyd | Well, now feels like a good time to talk about the mighty reach Floyd | of humanity. Then again, the reach of humanity is being torn down by Floyd | The Tide, so maybe you should focus the conversation towards his Floyd | hatred of The Tide again, assuming you are less squeamish. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm thinking the wolf has more reason to hate the Tide than like humans in particular." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hatred" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > HATRED Floyd | Floyd | "Ambassador, although I'm not sure you should hate The Tide at the Floyd | level you do, it is a grave threat to both our livelihoods. We are Floyd | having troubles fighting The Tide directly: perhaps with your help we Floyd | can understand The Tide and convince it to leave us alone. You are our Floyd | hope, and we will make sure that your livelihood is far beyond what Floyd | you would previously dream of." Floyd | Floyd | You sense some happiness and contentment from The Ambassador, but then Floyd | he starts to send some fatigue. Soon, you feel the telepathic channel Floyd | closing, and your mind snaps back fully into conventional reality, Floyd | where you notice The Ambassador starting to lie down once more. Floyd | Floyd | "Seems The Ambassador is taking a nap. Is that scheduled?" Floyd | Floyd | The man looks down at his watch quickly and then says, "About right. Floyd | Remember that everything that happened in this room is classified. Not Floyd | that anyone would believe you, anyway..." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Sleeping Cell The Ambassador Floyd | The wilderness vanishes again as you awaken. Floyd | Floyd | Sleeping Cell (on the sleeping cushion) Floyd | This is the cell where you sleep. Really, you'll sleep wherever the Floyd | cushion is, but the humans insist that you should do tasks in the Floyd | rooms designated for them. Floyd | Floyd | A bell cord is hanging from the door out to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can also smell a chew toy here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Nice attention to detail." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x toy" | ||
Floyd ] Sleeping Cell The Ambassador Floyd | > Floyd | > X TOY Floyd | Floyd | The chew toy smells a bit like reindeer hide but is shaped like a Floyd | bone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cord" | ||
Floyd ] Sleeping Cell The Ambassador Floyd | > Floyd | > X CORD Floyd | Floyd | Pulling the bell cord will ring the bell on the other side of the door Floyd | which will summon Huncel who will open the door which will allow you Floyd | to walk into the main room where Huncel will run some 'experiments' on Floyd | you which will result in you getting treats. Floyd | Floyd | Huncel throws out a bunch of human names like 'Pavlov' and 'Goldberg' Floyd | in his absent-minded telepathic mumblings describing the process. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cushion" | ||
Floyd ] Sleeping Cell The Ambassador Floyd | > Floyd | > X CUSHION Floyd | Floyd | You smell nothing special about the sleeping cushion. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yawn" | ||
Floyd ] Sleeping Cell The Ambassador Floyd | > Floyd | > YAWN Floyd | Floyd | That's neither a recognized verb nor a current topic of conversation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "chew toy" | ||
Floyd ] Sleeping Cell The Ambassador Floyd | > Floyd | > CHEW TOY Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the chew toy) Floyd | It's just not the same without the Tide scent that Huncel put on the Floyd | prior chew toys before you destroyed them. You chew a bit anyways, Floyd | though the center of your attention is the bell cord. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Pull the cord?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd ] Sleeping Cell The Ambassador Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the sleeping cushion. Floyd | Floyd | Sleeping Cell Floyd | This is the cell where you sleep. Really, you'll sleep wherever the Floyd | cushion is, but the humans insist that you should do tasks in the Floyd | rooms designated for them. Floyd | Floyd | Your sleeping cushion occupies the center of the room. Floyd | Floyd | A bell cord is hanging from the door out to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Sure" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop toy" | ||
Floyd ] Sleeping Cell The Ambassador Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP TOY Floyd | Floyd | You open your mouth a little and the chew toy falls to the ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Sleeping Cell The Ambassador Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the facility door) Floyd | Only Huncel is able to open this door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull cord" | ||
Floyd ] Sleeping Cell The Ambassador Floyd | > Floyd | > PULL CORD Floyd | Floyd | You pull the cord as far as it goes and hear the bell ringing. Next up Floyd | is Huncel's arrival. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x huncel" | ||
Floyd ] Sleeping Cell The Ambassador Floyd | > Floyd | > X HUNCEL Floyd | Floyd | You can't smell any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Sleeping Cell The Ambassador Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Sleeping Cell The Ambassador Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Sleeping Cell Floyd | This is the cell where you sleep. Really, you'll sleep wherever the Floyd | cushion is, but the humans insist that you should do tasks in the Floyd | rooms designated for them. Floyd | Floyd | Your sleeping cushion occupies the center of the room. Floyd | Floyd | A bell cord is hanging from the door out to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can also smell a chew toy here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Sleeping Cell The Ambassador Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the facility door) Floyd | Only Huncel is able to open this door. Floyd | Floyd | You hear Huncel's footsteps from the other side of the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Sleeping Cell The Ambassador Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "The door opens. Huncel [4], clearly tired and a bit clumsy, walks Floyd | through it and activates the light. You open the telepathic channel Floyd | shortly after he pets you around the ears. Floyd | Floyd | "Good dusk, Ambassador! Everything is ready in the main room. I'm Floyd | sure you are ready to walk in!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "footnote 4" | ||
Floyd ] Sleeping Cell The Ambassador Floyd | > Floyd | > FOOTNOTE 4 Floyd | Floyd | Back in November 2009 in Social Studies everyone in my class did a Floyd | report on an important figure in early 19th century American history. Floyd | We all found a quote and made a trinket concerning our chosen person. Floyd | I ended up doing a report on William Clark, with his legendary Floyd | misspelled journal entry "Ocian in view! O! The Joy!" and a simple Floyd | cardboard telescope. I was focused enough on the report that I Floyd | suddenly started calling that as-of-yet-unnamed scientist in that Floyd | as-of-yet-unnamed story I was making "Dr. Clark." Floyd | Floyd | Then, in late April 2010, I had a bizarre dream that gave me Dr. Floyd | Clark's first name: the unusual name of Huncel (Hon-cell, with hon as Floyd | in honey). I believe I came up with the name of Beyond Floyd | Division at about the same time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | Topics: straight and treats Floyd ] Main Room The Ambassador Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Main Room Floyd | The first thing you notice is a lack of any temporary features in the Floyd | room this time: all that is here is the usual canine accoutrements and Floyd | human furniture. The sleeping cell is east and the rest of this place Floyd | is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Huncel takes a seat on the recliner and gestures you to get on the rug Floyd | below it if you want. Floyd | Floyd | "So, in lieu of what we normally do, how about we talk a bit? I Floyd | believe at this point you are more willing than previously to just Floyd | talk about you and your feelings." Floyd | Floyd | Query as to whether this will still lead to treats, or jump Floyd | straight in? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on rug" | ||
Floyd | Topics: straight and treats Floyd ] Main Room The Ambassador Floyd | > Floyd | > SIT ON RUG Floyd | Floyd | You get onto the rug. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "treats" | ||
Floyd | Topics: food, mate, and opportunities Floyd ] Main Room The Ambassador Floyd | > Floyd | > TREATS Floyd | Floyd | "Will you still give treats?" Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, this counts as an experiment. And the first part of the test Floyd | was whether you'd question the possibility of treats due to the Floyd | significant change. Good job, you've earned an extra eventual Floyd | treat!" Huncel sends you a weird vision, and then, detecting your Floyd | lack of understanding, assures you that it is supposed to represent a Floyd | human smiling. Floyd | Floyd | "So, Ambassador, are you content at this moment?" Floyd | Floyd | Lament the lack of opportunities to tear The Tide up, or lament Floyd | the lack of a mate? It feels like Huncel is hinting something Floyd | more around the food end of things, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So, I guess there was some time that passed?" | |
| DavidW says, "yes. We seem to have moved forward in time somewhat." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "A considerable bit, it feels like." | ||
| DavidW says, "At least a month." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's go ith opportunities - I want to learn more about The Tide." | ||
| DavidW says, "ok" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "opportunities" | ||
Floyd | Topics: interloping, injured, and damage Floyd ] Main Room The Ambassador Floyd | > Floyd | > OPPORTUNITIES Floyd | Floyd | You send all the messages you can that imply that you'd want to spend Floyd | the rest of your life at war with The Tide, but Huncel sends Floyd | exasperation and his emotional memories of the glass incident: how he Floyd | was worried he couldn't control and that you would endanger everyone Floyd | in the facility including yourself, plus the paternal feelings he's Floyd | trying and failing to hide. Seems Huncel will never give that up. Floyd | Floyd | "That does bring us elsewhere though. We humans often ask why. Why Floyd | is the sky blue, why do you have your abilities, why do we do what we Floyd | do? So I ask you: why do you hate The Tide the way do you?" Floyd | Floyd | Well, Huncel hates The Tide because of its damage to humanity, Floyd | and The Tide injured you. What reason do you need though? The Floyd | Tide is an interloping force. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Injured" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "injured" | ||
Floyd | Topics: yes or no Floyd ] Main Room The Ambassador Floyd | > Floyd | > INJURED Floyd | Floyd | You repeat your encounter with The Tide. Floyd | Floyd | "There's still something more, Ambassador. Maybe you don't know it Floyd | yourself, but something unprecedented must have happened to you. In Floyd | the entire history of humanity there is not one case of a wolf or Floyd | anything at all with telepathy like yours, and other animals pretty Floyd | much never get that angry at the species of something that attacked Floyd | them." Floyd | Floyd | The back of your mind screams at a possible reason for it all, but you Floyd | just can't bring it up into something concrete. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, I know you're against The Tide and all, but aren't you Floyd | happy that you don't have to hunt anymore? This would be a paradise Floyd | for you if your motivations were that of a typical wolf." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "no?" | |
| DavidW asks, "A box is 'paradise'? Is Huncel kidding?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Right" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "no" | ||
Floyd ] Main Room The Ambassador Floyd | > Floyd | > NO Floyd | Floyd | "It just doesn't make me that happy." Floyd | Floyd | "Well, it should. You do like treats at least. Speaking of which, Floyd | I'll go get them now. Just stay here for a bit and maybe play with one Floyd | of your chew toys." Floyd | Floyd | And Huncel leaves north and closes the door behind him. You cut the Floyd | channel and have your mind entirely to yourself once again. Floyd | Floyd | Huncel is The Tide's enemy. You are The Tide's enemy. But Huncel still Floyd | doesn't understand your actions. Next glass incident, you'll actually Floyd | break through the glass and bite the creature beyond it. You know it Floyd | already. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** End of Intro *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "!" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I was not expecting the end now. I expected it before this scene shift, then completely forgot this might end abruptly." | ||
| Roger says, "Hmmm so yeah that turned out on the worthwhile end of things" | ||
| DavidW asks, "seems like the Ambassador might have a touch of precognition there? Or was that just wishful thinking?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Experiencing the intro, you mean? Or the actions we took?" | ||
| Roger says, "overall" | ||
| DavidW says, "I can see why this entry won. Very unusual and captivating." | ||
| Roger says, "Some errors but not the usual ones" | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of Roger), "Which?" | ||
| Roger says, "hmmm just in the way it was structured and paced, in my opinion" | ||
| Roger says, "It was unnecessarily coy about what it was about, I think" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "The bit at the beginning? The Latin?" | ||
| Roger says, "The latin and the whole intro bit, and then all the character switching" | ||
| Roger says, "But as an early draft it stands well" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It's good, yea." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "er, yeah." | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't object to the character switching, but I agree the emphasis on Latin at the very beginning is rather misleading." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "What David said." | ||
