  
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 ether" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 0/1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Year after year beheld the silent toil Floyd | That spread his lustrous coil; Floyd | Still, as the spiral grew, Floyd | He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Floyd | Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Floyd | Built up its idle door, Floyd | Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | --From "The Chambered Nautilus", by Oliver Wendell Homes Floyd | Floyd | For the first time in centuries, something is different. Your Floyd | tentacles tingle as you float to the east past icebergs and Floyd | whirlwinds. You skirt a pocket of hot air, bounce through a field of Floyd | ice, and finally come upon a massive stormcloud filling the sky to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | There it is. Glinting red below you and heading this way. Floyd | Floyd | Ether Floyd | A jet through the atmosphere. Version 2. by Brian Rushton Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 151005 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | The wild sky stretches off forever in all directions. To the far east, Floyd | storm clouds boil. To the far west, the sky is gentle and open. To the Floyd | far north, icebergs float amid the clouds. To the far south, patches Floyd | of steam whirl in vortices. Far above you, the air becomes thinner Floyd | near the top of the world. Far below you lies a blanket of thicker Floyd | air. Floyd | Floyd | The temperature is pleasant and mild. You feel a mild breeze. The air Floyd | pressure matches your natural buoyancy. Floyd | Floyd | A chunk of glowing red ice shoots out of the frozen clouds to the Floyd | north, far below you, and starts to slowly rise. The ice glows Floyd | strangely. Floyd | Floyd | [If you are playing Ether for the first time, you are strongly Floyd | encouraged to type in ABOUT]. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "fwiw, I have not played this game yet." | |
| Roger says, "nor I" | ||
| DavidW says, "I vote 'ABOUT'" | ||
| Roger says, "indeed" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 0/1 Floyd | > Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | Commands: If you are new to interactive fiction, you can type Floyd | COMMANDS to get a list of all the commands necessary to complete this Floyd | game, and instructions on how to use them. Commands that you can type Floyd | in are written in caps throughout this documentation. Floyd | Floyd | Movement: "Ether" is mostly set in one very large area (with Floyd | many small sub-areas) where your location determines the properties of Floyd | the environment. Going UP and DOWN increases or decreases the Floyd | pressure, going EAST and WEST increases and decreases wind speed, and Floyd | going NORTH and SOUTH makes you colder or hotter. Each variable has Floyd | levels 0 to 8. Going beyond the highest and lowest levels always Floyd | results in death. Floyd | Floyd | You can use alternative directions. For instance, COLDER or C will go Floyd | north; HOTTER or H is south; FIERCER or F is east; MILDER or M is Floyd | west; THINNER or T is up; and DENSER or D is down. Floyd | Floyd | You can also combine directions: NU, UN, or NORTHUP will take you Floyd | north and up. SWD, WDS, WSD, SDW, DWS, or DSW will take you south, Floyd | west, and down (the parser can't handle words as big as Floyd | SOUTHWESTDOWN). Floyd | | ||
| Floyd Finally, you can alway just use GO TO [something] to have your | ||
Floyd | character move in the direction of the item. Floyd | Floyd | Precision: If you want the exact ("quantitative") number of Floyd | moves necessary to reach an item, type "QUANT ON". To stop, type Floyd | "QUANT OFF". Floyd | Floyd | Walkthrough: For a walkthrough, type "WALKTHROUGH". Floyd | Floyd | Credits: For credits, type "CREDITS". Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "I vote we go all the way up, east, and north to test the boundaries before settling down to serious solving." | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| DavidW says, "I would like to point out that the parser can handle long words if you do some pre-parse work first." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "nifty" | ||
| Roger says, "I am sort of interested to see how the calm winds kill us" | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of Teaspoon), "So you're just wanting to see some death?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'd like to examine myself, take inventory, and look at the red ice." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And so are you, Roger, but in calm winds." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 0/2 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Your tentacles wiggle with excitement. Your shell gleams in the bright Floyd | glow from the south. Floyd | Floyd | The chunk of red ice bobs upward. It now lies far to the north and far Floyd | below you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "I'm fascinated by multiple endings, and the About's told us how to do one" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 0/3 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing except a relentless sense of determination. Floyd | Floyd | The chunk of red ice bobs upward. It now lies far to the north and Floyd | below you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "are we a flying squid? I shall assume we are a flying squid." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Shall I kill us mildly?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "sure" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I think we're a nautilus, given the cover art." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "m" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 0/4 Floyd | > Floyd | > M Floyd | Floyd | You burst west through a small patch of cloud. Floyd | Floyd | There is a faint breeze. Floyd | Floyd | The chunk of red ice bobs upward. It now lies far to the north, Floyd | slightly to the east, and slightly below you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "m" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > M Floyd | Floyd | You lazily swim west through the air. Floyd | Floyd | The wind here is slower and mild. Unlike the other directions, you Floyd | notice that the west is peaceful, clear, and free, with gentle air and Floyd | thick, pillowy cloud formations that drift slowly by. You realize when Floyd | you see it how deeply tired you are. You shake yourself, determined to Floyd | press on. Floyd | Floyd | The chunk of red ice bobs upward. It now lies far to the north and to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I would prefer not to seek death, but I seem outvoted, so I'll wait." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "m" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > M Floyd | Floyd | You lazily swim west through the air. Floyd | Floyd | The air flows slowly here, with torpid spirals that you idly spin in. Floyd | Floyd | The chunk of red ice lies far to the north and far to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "maybe we get eaten" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "," | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > , Floyd | Floyd | You can't begin with a comma. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "m" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 0/7 Floyd | > Floyd | > M Floyd | Floyd | You jet swiftly west. Floyd | Floyd | The air is still and peaceful. You find yourself tired, your tentacles Floyd | drooping. Any further west and you might fall asleep. Floyd | Floyd | The chunk of red ice lies far to the north and far to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "aha" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "m" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 0/7 Floyd | > Floyd | > M Floyd | Floyd | You lazily swim west through the air. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The peaceful environment lulls you to sleep. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 0 out of a possible 12, in 7 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Death by torpor, I'm guessing." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 0/1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Year after year beheld the silent toil Floyd | That spread his lustrous coil; Floyd | Still, as the spiral grew, Floyd | He left the past year's dwelling for the new, Floyd | Stole with soft step its shining archway through, Floyd | Built up its idle door, Floyd | Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | --From "The Chambered Nautilus", by Oliver Wendell Homes Floyd | Floyd | For the first time in centuries, something is different. Your Floyd | tentacles tingle as you float to the east past icebergs and Floyd | whirlwinds. You skirt a pocket of hot air, bounce through a field of Floyd | ice, and finally come upon a massive stormcloud filling the sky to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | There it is. Glinting red below you and heading this way. Floyd | Floyd | Ether Floyd | A jet through the atmosphere. Version 2. by Brian Rushton Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 151005 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | The wild sky stretches off forever in all directions. To the far east, Floyd | storm clouds boil. To the far west, the sky is gentle and open. To the Floyd | far north, icebergs float amid the clouds. To the far south, patches Floyd | of steam whirl in vortices. Far above you, the air becomes thinner Floyd | near the top of the world. Far below you lies a blanket of thicker Floyd | air. Floyd | Floyd | The temperature is pleasant and mild. You feel a mild breeze. The air Floyd | pressure matches your natural buoyancy. Floyd | Floyd | A chunk of glowing red ice shoots out of the frozen clouds to the Floyd | north, far below you, and starts to slowly rise. The ice glows Floyd | strangely. Floyd | Floyd | [If you are playing Ether for the first time, you are strongly Floyd | encouraged to type in ABOUT]. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "So it would seem" | |
| Roger says, "okay my deathlust is sated" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, I guess we actually want to go toward the red ice?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I'd agree" | ||
| Roger says, "Reckon so" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm flashing back on Threediopolis with this setup, btw." | ||
| DavidW asks, "There's also a light behind us, I think?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, ND?" | ||
| DavidW says, "But red ice first, I think." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I guess we go north then" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I was thinking north & down." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "Oh, right, we can do that! Sounds good" | ||
| Roger says, "We might move faster when lower, so, as you will" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nd" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 0/2 Floyd | > Floyd | > ND Floyd | Floyd | You lazily swim northdown through the air. Floyd | Floyd | The air is cool and fresh. You pause in awe at the wintry spectacle to Floyd | the north. Massive pillowy clouds blot out the horizon, shedding Floyd | enormous snowflakes that hurl about in blizzards to the northeast and Floyd | clump together in snowbergs and icebergs to the northwest. Even here, Floyd | close to you, a few small snowflakes spill out and dance around you. Floyd | The air becomes noticeably chiller to the north. Floyd | Floyd | The air weighs on your shell a bit more than usual. Floyd | Floyd | The chunk of red ice bobs upward. It now lies far to the north and Floyd | below you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "and again, it would appear" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nd" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 0/3 Floyd | > Floyd | > ND Floyd | Floyd | You lazily swim northdown through the air. Floyd | Floyd | You feel a chill in the air. Floyd | Floyd | You notice that the air is thicker than usual down here. The air far Floyd | below you is so compressed and thick that it has become liquid, its Floyd | surface constantly bubbling and popping. Even here, much higher, you Floyd | can feel a slight, uncomfortable pressure on your shell.. Floyd | Floyd | The chunk of red ice bobs upward. It now lies to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 0/4 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You lazily swim north through the air. Floyd | Floyd | Thin snowflakes litter the air here. Puffs of mist come from your Floyd | gills. Floyd | Floyd | The chunk of red ice bobs upward. It now lies slightly to the north Floyd | and slightly above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "northup?" | |
| DavidW says, "please" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oho - should have perhaps held off on the d, but hard to know that." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nu" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > NU Floyd | Floyd | You burst northup through a small patch of cloud. Floyd | Floyd | Thick frost clusters on your shell and sticks your tentacles together. Floyd | You may not be able to go any further to the north. Floyd | Floyd | The air weighs on your shell a bit more than usual. Floyd | Floyd | The chunk of red ice bobs upward. It now lies slightly above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You jet swiftly up. Floyd | Floyd | The air pressure matches your natural buoyancy. Floyd | Floyd | The chunk of red ice is right next to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take ice" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 0/7 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ICE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | You have it! You still remember the day you gave it up, streams of red Floyd | magic flowing out of you, coalescing into this form. You threw it deep Floyd | into the icy maelstrom of the world, knowing you would fear to come Floyd | here until you had mastered this airy realm. Floyd | Floyd | You just need to melt the ice to release the energy. The hot air to Floyd | the south should do the trick. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "south, then" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 0/8 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You recklessly coast about as you fly south. Floyd | Floyd | Thin snowflakes litter the air here. Puffs of mist come from your Floyd | gills. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 0/9 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You lazily swim south through the air. Floyd | Floyd | You feel a chill in the air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 0/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You jet swiftly south. Floyd | Floyd | The air is cool and fresh. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 0/11 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You spin slightly as you glide south. Floyd | Floyd | The temperature is pleasant and mild. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 0/12 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You burst south through a small patch of cloud. Floyd | Floyd | The air is warm and moist. Floyd | Floyd | The chunk of red ice is melting slowly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "One more?" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Or wait?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm curious what our red Kryptonite does." | ||
| Roger says, "I'm guessing roe or poop or maybe both" | ||
| DavidW says, "I think we ought to go south once more." | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "it seems like we stuffed our magic into a chunk and we'll be using it in several other worlds?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 0/13 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You jet swiftly south. Floyd | Floyd | The air is hot and humid here, in stark contrast to the north. The Floyd | southern horizon is filled with nebulous masses that glow red and Floyd | churn slowly, occasionally flaring out bursts of steam. A dry heat Floyd | bakes your tentacles, only to be suddenly replaced by a Floyd | shell-drenching humidity that is quickly swept away. The air gets Floyd | quite a bit hotter to the south, although it is still manageable. Floyd | Floyd | The chunk of red ice is melting rapidly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x ice" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 0/14 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ICE Floyd | Floyd | A small chunk of cold red ice pulsing with magical power. You Floyd | remember... Floyd | Floyd | You were new to this world, and its strong winds and extreme Floyd | environment frightened you at first. You felt out of control and lost. Floyd | You thought of leaving, of giving up, of admitting you had made a Floyd | mistake. You even began preparing the great door to your next home. Floyd | Floyd | But you changed your mind at the last minute. You would make a home Floyd | here, and you would not leave until you mastered this realm. So you Floyd | took the power, the world-power, the summoning-power, the mind-power, Floyd | and bound it in this crystal until it was time. Floyd | Floyd | But the time is now. Floyd | Floyd | The chunk of red ice is partially melted. Floyd | Floyd | The chunk of red ice is melting rapidly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "trippy" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 1/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The chunk of red ice has now melted completely. Floyd | Floyd | The now-free magic flows in blood-red streams into you. You feel the Floyd | power coursing through your veins, more than you can remember feeling Floyd | in a long, long time. Enough to summon what you need. It is time to Floyd | move on. You exert your will, and the world answers. Floyd | Floyd | Nervously, you wait. You never know what the portal to the next world Floyd | will be like. Once, it was just a door. The next time, it was a seed Floyd | that grew into a hollow tree. Once, it was a mechanical crocodile; you Floyd | spent weeks in its belly as it voyaged between worlds. Floyd | Floyd | Slowly, out of the top of the storm cloud to the east, a shape Floyd | coalesces. The world has chosen to represent the way out as a scroll. Floyd | Floyd | The scroll, a small piece of paper, is thrown violently into your view Floyd | by the storm. It lies close to the top of the storm cloud. You find it Floyd | odd that the scroll formed so far from you. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "so we have to get the scroll now, eh?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "You find it convenient-for-the-game-mechanic that the scroll formed so far from you." | ||
| DavidW says (to Tsp), "It would seem so, unless we've changed too." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Someone else want this one? I get the feeling that we have to anticipate its movement and lead it a bit, perhaps." | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "I don't mind driving, but does anyone else want a go?" | ||
| Roger says, "not me, thanks" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm happy to keep doing it, just wanted to ask." | ||
| DavidW says, "not me. My ISP is too unreliable this close to month's-end." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Want me to keep going, or do you want a try, Ts?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "sure" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 1/16 Floyd | > Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | You burst up through a small patch of cloud. Floyd | Floyd | The air is a bit thin up here. Floyd | Floyd | The scroll sinks lower in the air. It now lies to the north, far to Floyd | the east, and above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "neup" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 1/16 Floyd | > Floyd | > NEUP Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "northeastup" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 1/16 Floyd | > Floyd | > NORTHEASTUP Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the northeast, northeastup, or northeastdown? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "go northeastup" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 1/16 Floyd | > Floyd | > GO NORTHEASTUP Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the northeast, northeastup, or northeastdown? Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "uh oh" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I think you want neu" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "neu" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 1/17 Floyd | > Floyd | > NEU Floyd | Floyd | You lazily swim northeastup through the air. Floyd | Floyd | The air is warm and moist. Floyd | Floyd | The brisk wind ruffles your tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The atmosphere is weak and thin here. You look up, and far above you, Floyd | the clouds and snowflakes and all other details that enrich this world Floyd | slowly phase out into empty nothingness. Here, where you are, the air Floyd | is thin, but you can still manage to go up a bit further. Floyd | Floyd | The scroll sinks lower in the air. It now lies slightly to the north Floyd | and far to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "thanks" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "That's the parser not handling the longer word; it could only parse the first few letters." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 1/18 Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You jet swiftly northeast. Floyd | Floyd | The temperature is pleasant and mild. Floyd | Floyd | The stiff wind blows you off course for a moment. You struggle to Floyd | remain in place. A particularly nasty blast of wind comes from the Floyd | east, whose vast space is filled by colossal black stormclouds Floyd | constantly shredded by small tornadoes and gales. Occasional lightning Floyd | bolts flash, followed by deep grumbling thunder. Even this far away, Floyd | the wind is still uncomfortably strong. Floyd | Floyd | The scroll sinks lower in the air. It now lies to the east and Floyd | slightly below you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "The first six, I should say." | |
| Jacqueline says, "If it's still six." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "ed" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 1/19 Floyd | > Floyd | > ED Floyd | Floyd | You lazily swim eastdown through the air. Floyd | Floyd | A gale blows here, making it difficult to fly. You feel your shell Floyd | trembling. Floyd | Floyd | The air is a bit thin up here. Floyd | Floyd | The scroll sinks lower in the air. It now lies slightly to the east Floyd | and slightly below you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm interested to hear more about your coding point regarding longer words, DW." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "ed" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 1/20 Floyd | > Floyd | > ED Floyd | Floyd | You lazily swim eastdown through the air. Floyd | Floyd | Terrifying winds buffet you about. You revel in the excitement, but Floyd | know that you may not be able to withstand stronger winds. Floyd | Floyd | The air pressure matches your natural buoyancy. Floyd | Floyd | The scroll is right next to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "get scroll" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 1/21 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET SCROLL Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The strong wind whips the scroll about violently. You need to find a Floyd | quieter location if you want to read it. The scroll looks odd. Floyd | Floyd | The howling storm threatens to rip the scroll from your tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So, m" | |
| Teaspoon says, "looks like we have to go somewhere milder for the teleport" | ||
| DavidW says, "Just that one could add in a Before parsing the player's input rule." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 1/22 Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You jet swiftly southwest. Floyd | Floyd | The air is warm and moist. Floyd | Floyd | A gale blows here, making it difficult to fly. You feel your shell Floyd | trembling. Floyd | Floyd | The gale twists the paper about, rendering it impossible to read. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 1/23 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You spin slightly as you glide west. Floyd | Floyd | The stiff wind blows you off course for a moment. You struggle to Floyd | remain in place. Floyd | Floyd | The stiff wind flips the paper here and there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 1/24 Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You spin slightly as you glide southwest. Floyd | Floyd | The air is hot and humid. Floyd | Floyd | The brisk wind ruffles your tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The breeze rustles the scroll about. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 1/24 Floyd | > Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | Commands: If you are new to interactive fiction, you can type Floyd | COMMANDS to get a list of all the commands necessary to complete this Floyd | game, and instructions on how to use them. Commands that you can type Floyd | in are written in caps throughout this documentation. Floyd | Floyd | Movement: "Ether" is mostly set in one very large area (with Floyd | many small sub-areas) where your location determines the properties of Floyd | the environment. Going UP and DOWN increases or decreases the Floyd | pressure, going EAST and WEST increases and decreases wind speed, and Floyd | going NORTH and SOUTH makes you colder or hotter. Each variable has Floyd | levels 0 to 8. Going beyond the highest and lowest levels always Floyd | results in death. Floyd | Floyd | You can use alternative directions. For instance, COLDER or C will go Floyd | north; HOTTER or H is south; FIERCER or F is east; MILDER or M is Floyd | west; THINNER or T is up; and DENSER or D is down. Floyd | Floyd | You can also combine directions: NU, UN, or NORTHUP will take you Floyd | north and up. SWD, WDS, WSD, SDW, DWS, or DSW will take you south, Floyd | west, and down (the parser can't handle words as big as Floyd | SOUTHWESTDOWN). Floyd | | ||
| Floyd Finally, you can alway just use GO TO [something] to have your | ||
Floyd | character move in the direction of the item. Floyd | Floyd | Precision: If you want the exact ("quantitative") number of Floyd | moves necessary to reach an item, type "QUANT ON". To stop, type Floyd | "QUANT OFF". Floyd | Floyd | Walkthrough: For a walkthrough, type "WALKTHROUGH". Floyd | Floyd | Credits: For credits, type "CREDITS". Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'd just use M for milder." | |
| Teaspoon says, "I suppose I should have been using gotoscroll. Whoops" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "To make sure you're headed the right way. If it were me." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "agreed" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "m" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 1/25 Floyd | > Floyd | > M Floyd | Floyd | You burst west through a small patch of cloud. Floyd | Floyd | You feel a mild breeze. Floyd | Floyd | Your tentacles have difficulty keeping the paper still in the light Floyd | breeze. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 1/26 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You jet swiftly west. Floyd | Floyd | There is a faint breeze. Floyd | Floyd | The scroll is calmer now, but still flits fitfully. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 1/27 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You jet swiftly west. Floyd | Floyd | The wind here is slower and mild. Unlike the other directions, you Floyd | notice that the west is peaceful, clear, and free, with gentle air and Floyd | thick, pillowy cloud formations that drift slowly by. You realize when Floyd | you see it how deeply tired you are. You shake yourself, determined to Floyd | press on. Floyd | Floyd | Frustratingly, the scroll is so fragile that it ripples slightly in Floyd | the wind. You can almost make out a word or two. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 1/28 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You jet swiftly west. Floyd | Floyd | The air flows slowly here, with torpid spirals that you idly spin in. Floyd | Floyd | The scroll lies still, and can now be read. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon exclaims, "hurrah!" | |
| Jacqueline says, "yay" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "read scroll" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 2/29 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ SCROLL Floyd | Floyd | Finally, the scroll stops fluttering long enough for you to read it. Floyd | It has taken the appearance of an old roll of vellum, ripped at the Floyd | edges and slightly musty. Floyd | Floyd | It contains a list of items and requirements to travel to your next Floyd | world. As you continue to read, you realize with surprise that you Floyd | will not just be travelling to the next world. Floyd | Floyd | You will be creating it. Floyd | Floyd | You read to the end. Nervously, you begin the first step. With a snap Floyd | of your tentacles, the scroll disappears. To begin your world, you Floyd | have to have something, and you have to have nothing; the light and Floyd | the dark. Again you call on the red magic, and the world responds Floyd | grudgingly. Floyd | Floyd | Slowly, a ball of pure light forms far below you. Simultaneously, a Floyd | smear of pure darkness forms far above you. In a short time, the ball Floyd | of light resolves into a glowing jellyfish, in form like those you Floyd | used to hunt worlds ago. The darkness resolves into an ebony chunk of Floyd | coral. Floyd | Floyd | The jellyfish of light bobs upward. It now lies far to the east and Floyd | far below you. Floyd | Floyd | The coral of darkness sinks lower in the air. It now lies to the Floyd | north, far to the east, and far above you. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "ah, so we're going to be using this mechanism conistently then" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "gotojellyfish" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 2/29 Floyd | > Floyd | > GOTOJELLYFISH Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suspect it will get a bit more choicey later. Also, I'd start to use GO TO more." | |
| verbalK arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "go to jellyfish" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 2/30 Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO JELLYFISH Floyd | Floyd | You spin slightly as you glide eastdown. Floyd | Floyd | The wind here is slower and mild. Floyd | Floyd | The air weighs on your shell a bit more than usual. Floyd | Floyd | The jellyfish of light bobs upward. It now lies far to the east and Floyd | slightly below you. Floyd | Floyd | The coral of darkness sinks lower in the air. It now lies to the Floyd | north, to the east, and far above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "go to jellyfish" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 2/31 Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO JELLYFISH Floyd | Floyd | You lazily swim eastdown through the air. Floyd | Floyd | There is a faint breeze. Floyd | Floyd | You notice that the air is thicker than usual down here. Floyd | Floyd | The jellyfish of light bobs upward. It now lies far to the east and Floyd | slightly above you. Floyd | Floyd | The coral of darkness sinks lower in the air. It now lies to the Floyd | north, slightly to the east, and far above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "go to jellyfish" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 2/32 Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO JELLYFISH Floyd | Floyd | You lazily swim eastup through the air. Floyd | Floyd | You feel a mild breeze. Floyd | Floyd | The air weighs on your shell a bit more than usual. Floyd | Floyd | The jellyfish of light bobs upward. It now lies far to the east and Floyd | slightly above you. Floyd | Floyd | The coral of darkness sinks lower in the air. It now lies to the north Floyd | and slightly above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "go to jellyfish" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 2/33 Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO JELLYFISH Floyd | Floyd | You spin slightly as you glide eastup. Floyd | Floyd | The brisk wind ruffles your tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The air pressure matches your natural buoyancy. Floyd | Floyd | The jellyfish of light bobs upward. It now lies to the east and Floyd | slightly above you. Floyd | Floyd | The coral of darkness sinks lower in the air. It now lies to the Floyd | north, slightly to the west, and slightly below you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x self" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 2/34 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SELF Floyd | Floyd | Your tentacles wiggle with excitement. Your shell gleams in the bright Floyd | glow from the south. Floyd | Floyd | The jellyfish of light bobs upward. It now lies to the east and above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | The coral of darkness sinks lower in the air. It now lies to the Floyd | north, slightly to the west, and below you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "so we still look the same then" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "go to jellyfish" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 2/35 Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO JELLYFISH Floyd | Floyd | You burst eastup through a small patch of cloud. Floyd | Floyd | The stiff wind blows you off course for a moment. You struggle to Floyd | remain in place. Floyd | Floyd | The air is a bit thin up here. Floyd | Floyd | The jellyfish of light bobs upward. It now lies slightly to the east Floyd | and above you. Floyd | Floyd | The coral of darkness sinks lower in the air. It now lies to the Floyd | north, to the west, and far below you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "again" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 2/36 Floyd | > Floyd | > AGAIN Floyd | Floyd | You jet swiftly eastup. Floyd | Floyd | A gale blows here, making it difficult to fly. You feel your shell Floyd | trembling. Floyd | Floyd | The atmosphere is weak and thin here. Floyd | Floyd | The jellyfish of light bobs upward. It now lies above you. Floyd | Floyd | The coral of darkness sinks lower in the air. It now lies to the Floyd | north, far to the west, and far below you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "again" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 2/37 Floyd | > Floyd | > AGAIN Floyd | Floyd | You burst up through a small patch of cloud. Floyd | Floyd | You find yourself slightly drowsy in the thin air. Floyd | Floyd | The jellyfish of light bobs upward. It now lies above you. Floyd | Floyd | The coral of darkness sinks lower in the air. It now lies to the Floyd | north, far to the west, and far below you. Floyd | Floyd | The jellyfish sails out of your reach above you. You summon another, Floyd | but you feel resistance from this world, and your power grows weaker. Floyd | Slowly, grudgingly, another jellyfish forms, far below you, and begins Floyd | to rise. Floyd | Floyd | The coral sinks into the darkness below. You summon another, but you Floyd | feel resistance from this world, and your power grows weaker. Slowly, Floyd | grudgingly, another coral forms, far above you, and begins to sink Floyd | down. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "is this bad?" | |
| DavidW says, "I think so, yes." | ||
| Doug says, "it's not that bad" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "should I go chase down the jellyfish again" | ||
| DavidW says, "I think not." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I get the impression this game is fairly forgiving, we just have to figure it out." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "just have to decide what we want to get first, then" | ||
| Doug says, "spoiler: Jacqueline is right" | ||
| DavidW says, "I didn't record what the jellyfish or coral did, exactly, in response to our movements, so I can only guess that direct chasing may be a problem." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "The hints were too explicit at the beginning, though I'm thinkin that that was to let us get our bearings (no pun intended) and then my guess/hope is that it will slowly leave more of the game to us." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 2/38 Floyd | > Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | You spin slightly as you glide down. Floyd | Floyd | The atmosphere is weak and thin here. Floyd | Floyd | The jellyfish of light bobs upward. It now lies far below you. Floyd | Floyd | The coral of darkness sinks lower in the air. It now lies to the Floyd | north, far to the west, and slightly above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "As a wild guess, perhaps heading away from both jellyfish and coral will let them find each other." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 2/39 Floyd | > Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | You burst down through a small patch of cloud. Floyd | Floyd | The air is a bit thin up here. Floyd | Floyd | The jellyfish of light bobs upward. It now lies far below you. Floyd | Floyd | The coral of darkness sinks lower in the air. It now lies to the Floyd | north, far to the west, and slightly above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Or maybe we need to chase coral first, not the jellyfish." | |
| Teaspoon asks, "how would that help?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "if they find each other" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 2/40 Floyd | > Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | You lazily swim down through the air. Floyd | Floyd | The air pressure matches your natural buoyancy. Floyd | Floyd | The jellyfish of light bobs upward. It now lies slightly below you. Floyd | Floyd | The coral of darkness sinks lower in the air. It now lies to the Floyd | north, far to the west, and slightly above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 2/41 Floyd | > Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | You burst down through a small patch of cloud. Floyd | Floyd | The air weighs on your shell a bit more than usual. Floyd | Floyd | The jellyfish of light bobs upward. It now lies slightly above you. Floyd | Floyd | The coral of darkness sinks lower in the air. It now lies to the Floyd | north, far to the west, and slightly above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 2/42 Floyd | > Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | You spin slightly as you glide up. Floyd | Floyd | The air pressure matches your natural buoyancy. Floyd | Floyd | The jellyfish of light bobs upward. It now lies slightly above you. Floyd | Floyd | The coral of darkness sinks lower in the air. It now lies to the Floyd | north, far to the west, and slightly below you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "I think you passed it" | |
| Teaspoon says, "I guess I need to undo a bit" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 2/41 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Aloft Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 2/40 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Aloft Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 2/41 Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The jellyfish of light bobs upward. It is right next to you. Floyd | Floyd | The coral of darkness sinks lower in the air. It now lies to the north Floyd | and far to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "get jellyfish" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 2/42 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET JELLYFISH Floyd | Floyd | As you grab the jellyfish, it pulses a bright flash of light, and the Floyd | coral pulses a deep black echo. When it sees the dark flash, the Floyd | jellyfish begins to wiggle and squirm, almost escaping. You can feel Floyd | in it an overwhelming urge to rush towards the coral, to combine Floyd | violently with it. Floyd | Floyd | Unexpectedly, a tongue of black, smoky cloud from the east bursts Floyd | towards the coral, engulfing it. When it withdraws, you see that the Floyd | coral has become a nautilus, like you, but dark and nebulous, with Floyd | glints of red ice for eyes. Floyd | Floyd | The jellyfish squirms and wiggles in your tentacles. It pulls towards Floyd | the black nautilus so hard that you have to use all your strength to Floyd | restrain it. Floyd | Floyd | The nautilus flees upward! Now it lies to the north, to the west, and Floyd | above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon exclaims, "we *are* a squid! Hurrah!" | |
| Doug says, "huh, I don't remember that from my playthrough" | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "should we let go?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We are a nautilus, aren't we? Which is like a squid, closely related, but not a squid? My apologies to be such a cephalopod pedant." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "looks like yes. I had not previously known this" | ||
| Jacqueline recently saw a nautilus for the first time. | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I'll let go if people want, or we could just chase donw the nautilus" | ||
| Roger says, "They're kinda freaky, but they've got pinhole camera eyes, so that's a bonus" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Ts), "Go for it." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "nwup" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 2/42 Floyd | > Floyd | > NWUP Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "go to nautilus" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 2/43 Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO NAUTILUS Floyd | Floyd | You jet swiftly northwestup. Floyd | Floyd | The air is warm and moist. Floyd | Floyd | The stiff wind blows you off course for a moment. You struggle to Floyd | remain in place. Floyd | Floyd | The air is a bit thin up here. Floyd | Floyd | The jellyfish squirms and wiggles in your tentacles. It pulls towards Floyd | the black nautilus so hard that you have to use all your strength to Floyd | restrain it. Floyd | Floyd | The nautilus flees upward! Now it lies to the north, to the west, and Floyd | above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm a little confused on our actual options." | |
| DavidW says, "Try nwu, not nwup." | ||
| DavidW says, "Abbreviate all or none." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "nwu" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 2/44 Floyd | > Floyd | > NWU Floyd | Floyd | You burst northwestup through a small patch of cloud. Floyd | Floyd | The temperature is pleasant and mild. Floyd | Floyd | The brisk wind ruffles your tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The atmosphere is weak and thin here. Floyd | Floyd | The jellyfish squirms and wiggles in your tentacles. It pulls towards Floyd | the black nautilus so hard that you have to use all your strength to Floyd | restrain it. Floyd | Floyd | The nautilus flees upward! Now it lies to the west and above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wup" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 2/44 Floyd | > Floyd | > WUP Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "fw" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 2/44 Floyd | > Floyd | > FW Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "I think my problem with this is that the game doesn't really communicate the stakes and so I kinda don't care" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wu" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 4/45 Floyd | > Floyd | > WU Floyd | Floyd | You jet swiftly westup. Floyd | Floyd | You feel a mild breeze. Floyd | Floyd | You find yourself slightly drowsy in the thin air. Floyd | Floyd | The jellyfish squirms and wiggles in your tentacles. It pulls towards Floyd | the black nautilus so hard that you have to use all your strength to Floyd | restrain it. Floyd | Floyd | The nautilus is too close to the jellyfish to escape. The jellyfish is Floyd | ripped from your tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The jellyfish drifts uncontrollably closer to the nautilus, Floyd | accelerating rapidly. You cringe and turn away, and an explosion hurls Floyd | you about as a loud *CRACK* echoes through the sky as the two Floyd | violently combine, releasing their energy. Floyd | Floyd | You blink wearily and shake your tentacles. You blink again, closing Floyd | your eyes, and they open somewhere else. At first there is nothing, Floyd | and then you start to sense pulses and waves. Clouds of potential Floyd | swarm around you, spiking in brilliant flashes here and there. Clouds Floyd | rip into millions and billions and trillions of tiny pieces, Floyd | rearrange, combine, flip in and out of reality. Your new world in its Floyd | infant form lies before you. Floyd | Floyd | You open your eyes, and they slowly adjust, returning to the world Floyd | your body resides in. Slowly, a number of objects fade into view, Floyd | archetypes summoned by this old world as building blocks and food for Floyd | your new world. Vacuum, liquid, solid and gas lay before you. Floyd | Floyd | But there is something odd; each is encased in a thick shell of a Floyd | different kind. The vacuum is encased in a crystalline bottle; the Floyd | solid metals are contained in a thick treasure chest, like the one you Floyd | used on the desert world; the argon gas is contained in an organic Floyd | flask, made from some sort of dense wood; and the liquid toluene is in Floyd | a tea kettle, like the one you used on your birth world. Floyd | Floyd | Your tentacles squirm uncomfortably. It is supposed to be much easier Floyd | than this. Something about this world seems off today. You look at the Floyd | maelstrom to the east, to the burning heat of the south and the Floyd | freezing cold of the north. Then you understand... Floyd | Floyd | This world doesn't want you to leave. Floyd | Floyd | The bottle of vacuum lies to the south, far to the east, and far below Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold lies far to the south and far to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The insulated flask of argon gas lies far below you. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene lies slightly to the north, Floyd | slightly to the west, and slightly below you. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "I'm confused now" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Hm, I'm liking this more than some of the games we've played recently. I would have voted it higher than things that came in above it." | ||
| Roger says, "I guess this game succeeds as a floating simulator" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I like the languidness." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, do we need to combine those things?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I do like that feature" | ||
| Roger says, "also I guess we have eyelids" | ||
| DavidW asks, "I think we need to unlock these things first before they can combine?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "cephalopodas do" | ||
| Roger says, "maybe we're Flying Spaghetti Monster" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I guess we can start by getting things" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, a world of pasta would be nice." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "go to flask" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 4/46 Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO FLASK Floyd | Floyd | You spin slightly as you glide down. Floyd | Floyd | The atmosphere is weak and thin here. Floyd | Floyd | The bottle of vacuum bobs upward. It now lies to the south, far to the Floyd | east, and far below you. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold sinks lower in the air. It now lies far to the Floyd | south and far to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The insulated flask of argon gas bobs upward. It now lies far below Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene sinks lower in the air. It now Floyd | lies slightly to the north, slightly to the west, and slightly below Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "go to flask" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 4/47 Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO FLASK Floyd | Floyd | You spin slightly as you glide down. Floyd | Floyd | The air is a bit thin up here. Floyd | Floyd | The bottle of vacuum bobs upward. It now lies to the south, far to the Floyd | east, and below you. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold sinks lower in the air. It now lies far to the Floyd | south and far to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The insulated flask of argon gas bobs upward. It now lies slightly Floyd | below you. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene sinks lower in the air. It now Floyd | lies slightly to the north, slightly to the west, and slightly below Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Roger), "That is a game that I think has yet to be written. You should consider that for this year's New Years, perhaps." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 4/48 Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The bottle of vacuum bobs upward. It now lies to the south, far to the Floyd | east, and slightly below you. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold sinks lower in the air. It now lies far to the Floyd | south, far to the west, and slightly below you. Floyd | Floyd | The insulated flask of argon gas lies slightly below you. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene lies slightly to the north, Floyd | slightly to the west, and slightly below you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "((you can't get ye flask))" | |
| Jacqueline says, "hee" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "someone had to say that, heh" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 4/49 Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The bottle of vacuum bobs upward. It now lies to the south and far to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold sinks lower in the air. It now lies far to the Floyd | south, far to the west, and below you. Floyd | Floyd | The insulated flask of argon gas lies slightly below you. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene lies slightly to the north, Floyd | slightly to the west, and slightly below you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "go to flask" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 4/50 Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO FLASK Floyd | Floyd | You jet swiftly down. Floyd | Floyd | The air pressure matches your natural buoyancy. Floyd | Floyd | The bottle of vacuum bobs upward. It now lies to the south, far to the Floyd | east, and above you. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold sinks lower in the air. It now lies far to the Floyd | south, far to the west, and below you. Floyd | Floyd | The insulated flask of argon gas is right next to you. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene lies slightly to the north and Floyd | slightly to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "get flask" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 4/51 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET FLASK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The bottle of vacuum bobs upward. It now lies to the south, far to the Floyd | east, and far above you. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold sinks lower in the air. It now lies far to the Floyd | south, far to the west, and far below you. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene lies slightly to the north and Floyd | slightly to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "go to vacuum" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 4/52 Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO VACUUM Floyd | Floyd | You burst southeastup through a small patch of cloud. Floyd | Floyd | The air is warm and moist. Floyd | Floyd | The brisk wind ruffles your tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | The air is a bit thin up here. Floyd | Floyd | The bottle of vacuum lies slightly to the south, far to the east, and Floyd | above you. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold sinks lower in the air. It now lies to the Floyd | south, far to the west, and far below you. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene lies to the north, to the west, Floyd | and slightly below you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "go to vacuum" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 4/53 Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO VACUUM Floyd | Floyd | You burst southeastup through a small patch of cloud. Floyd | Floyd | The air is hot and humid. Floyd | Floyd | The stiff wind blows you off course for a moment. You struggle to Floyd | remain in place. Floyd | Floyd | The atmosphere is weak and thin here. Floyd | Floyd | The bottle of vacuum lies to the east and slightly above you. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold lies slightly to the south, far to the west, Floyd | and far below you. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene lies far to the north, far to the Floyd | west, and below you. Floyd | Floyd | The flask creaks a little. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "go to vacuum" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 4/54 Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO VACUUM Floyd | Floyd | You jet swiftly eastup. Floyd | Floyd | A gale blows here, making it difficult to fly. You feel your shell Floyd | trembling. Floyd | Floyd | You find yourself slightly drowsy in the thin air. Floyd | Floyd | The bottle of vacuum lies slightly to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold lies slightly to the south, far to the west, Floyd | and far below you. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene lies far to the north, far to the Floyd | west, and far below you. Floyd | Floyd | The flask cracks and pops a bit as the pressure inside builds up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 4/55 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an insulated flask of argon gas Floyd | Floyd | The bottle of vacuum lies slightly to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold lies slightly to the south, far to the west, Floyd | and far below you. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene lies far to the north, far to the Floyd | west, and far below you. Floyd | Floyd | The flask cracks and pops a bit as the pressure inside builds up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "chests of the solid gold dancers" | |
| DavidW says, "arrrgon, Billy" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Roger, I would say you're old, except that I get the reference." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "maybe we need to leave items in places where we can retrieve them? It looks like the vacuum will blow up if we go much further" | ||
| DavidW says, "I think we need to break the flask this way." | ||
| DavidW says, "I bet the gold chest needs heat." | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "votes, anyone?" | ||
| olethros says, "I dunno nothing about solid gol' dancers" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | Teaspoon asks, "did I do something wrong?" | |
| Teaspoon says, "or do I just enter something" | ||
| DavidW says, "If you save manually, you have to give a filename in the next command." | ||
| Jacqueline clears the save counter. | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "getyerflask" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 4/55
Floyd | > SAVEOk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Jacqueline clears the save counter. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Aloft 4/55 Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 4/56 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | The wild sky stretches off forever in all directions. To the far east, Floyd | storm clouds boil. To the far west, the sky is gentle and open. To the Floyd | far north, icebergs float amid the clouds. To the far south, patches Floyd | of steam whirl in vortices. Far above you, the air becomes thinner Floyd | near the top of the world. Far below you lies a blanket of thicker Floyd | air. Floyd | Floyd | The air is hot and humid. A gale blows here, making it difficult to Floyd | fly. You feel your shell trembling. You find yourself slightly drowsy Floyd | in the thin air. Floyd | Floyd | The bottle of vacuum lies slightly to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold lies slightly to the south, far to the west, Floyd | and far below you. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene lies far to the north, far to the Floyd | west, and far below you. Floyd | Floyd | The flask cracks and pops a bit as the pressure inside builds up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 4/57 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You lazily swim east through the air. Floyd | Floyd | Terrifying winds buffet you about. You revel in the excitement, but Floyd | know that you may not be able to withstand stronger winds. Floyd | Floyd | The bottle of vacuum is right next to you. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold lies slightly to the south, far to the west, Floyd | and far below you. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene lies far to the north, far to the Floyd | west, and far below you. Floyd | Floyd | The flask cracks and pops a bit as the pressure inside builds up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "get vacuum" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 4/58 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET VACUUM Floyd | Floyd | Your tentacles have difficulty carrying that many objects at once. Floyd | Floyd | The bottle of vacuum is right next to you. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold lies slightly to the south, far to the west, Floyd | and far below you. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene lies far to the north, far to the Floyd | west, and far below you. Floyd | Floyd | The flask cracks and pops a bit as the pressure inside builds up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So from now on >PRESS SAVE to save and >PRESS RESTORE to restore the most recent one (I think, I oddly enough only just realized that was an option)." | |
| Teaspoon says, "Oh, nice" | ||
| Roger says, "hunh" | ||
| DavidW asks, "oh we can't take mutli items?" | ||
| DavidW says, "er multi" | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "I guess not. Perhaps we have to destroy these items?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "to let the world out" | ||
| DavidW says, "I see it as breaking eggs." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 4/58 Floyd | > Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | Commands: If you are new to interactive fiction, you can type Floyd | COMMANDS to get a list of all the commands necessary to complete this Floyd | game, and instructions on how to use them. Commands that you can type Floyd | in are written in caps throughout this documentation. Floyd | Floyd | Movement: "Ether" is mostly set in one very large area (with Floyd | many small sub-areas) where your location determines the properties of Floyd | the environment. Going UP and DOWN increases or decreases the Floyd | pressure, going EAST and WEST increases and decreases wind speed, and Floyd | going NORTH and SOUTH makes you colder or hotter. Each variable has Floyd | levels 0 to 8. Going beyond the highest and lowest levels always Floyd | results in death. Floyd | Floyd | You can use alternative directions. For instance, COLDER or C will go Floyd | north; HOTTER or H is south; FIERCER or F is east; MILDER or M is Floyd | west; THINNER or T is up; and DENSER or D is down. Floyd | Floyd | You can also combine directions: NU, UN, or NORTHUP will take you Floyd | north and up. SWD, WDS, WSD, SDW, DWS, or DSW will take you south, Floyd | west, and down (the parser can't handle words as big as Floyd | SOUTHWESTDOWN). Floyd | | ||
| Floyd Finally, you can alway just use GO TO [something] to have your | ||
Floyd | character move in the direction of the item. Floyd | Floyd | Precision: If you want the exact ("quantitative") number of Floyd | moves necessary to reach an item, type "QUANT ON". To stop, type Floyd | "QUANT OFF". Floyd | Floyd | Walkthrough: For a walkthrough, type "WALKTHROUGH". Floyd | Floyd | Credits: For credits, type "CREDITS". Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "For all I know, we can hit or throw the flask." | |
| Teaspoon says, "so there's probably a direction we can go that will do something to open the argon brown" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "*struggling to recall rules regarding pressure from school*" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 5/59 Floyd | > Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | You lazily swim up through the air. Floyd | Floyd | You struggle mightily to keep alert and aloft in the thin atmosphere. Floyd | You may not be able to go any higher. Floyd | Floyd | The bottle of vacuum lies slightly below you. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold lies slightly to the south, far to the west, Floyd | and far below you. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene lies far to the north, far to the Floyd | west, and far below you. Floyd | Floyd | The pressure of the gas ruptures the flask. The gas fluoresces Floyd | fitfully as sparks of lightning consume it and the flask. Floyd | Floyd | Again, you sense the new world. A strong atmosphere springs into Floyd | place, like the world you are in now. You see powerful storms sending Floyd | down torrents of rain. You see enormous clouds floating in the sky. Floyd | You see light spreading and filling the world, turning the sky blue or Floyd | red. Floyd | Floyd | You return to the old world. The gas flows and surrounds you, then is Floyd | sucked into your shell. You now have the ability to rocket about; Floyd | type "ROCKET [DIRECTION]" to go as far as you can in that Floyd | direction. Floyd | Floyd | This world rumbles and shakes, grudging you your success. The Floyd | maelstrom to the east boils up in massive black clouds. Lightning Floyd | strikes out in several directions, some smashing icebergs, others Floyd | lighting up the underbellies of clouds. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Pressure is down, yes?" | |
| Roger says, "reckon so" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "It seems to be a moot point now." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 5/60 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing except a relentless sense of determination. Floyd | Floyd | The bottle of vacuum lies slightly below you. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold lies slightly to the south, far to the west, Floyd | and far below you. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene lies far to the north, far to the Floyd | west, and far below you. Floyd | Floyd | A thick finger of black cloud stretches out from the east and flicks Floyd | at you. The cloud narrowly misses you, cracking the air to your side. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "I guess we just keep blowing things up then...." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 5/61 Floyd | > Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | You spin slightly as you glide down. Floyd | Floyd | You find yourself slightly drowsy in the thin air. Floyd | Floyd | The bottle of vacuum is right next to you. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold lies slightly to the south, far to the west, Floyd | and far below you. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene lies far to the north, far to the Floyd | west, and far below you. Floyd | Floyd | A thick finger of black cloud stretches out from the east and flicks Floyd | at you. The cloud narrowly misses you, cracking the air to your side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "get vacuum" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 5/62 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET VACUUM Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold lies slightly to the south, far to the west, Floyd | and far below you. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene lies far to the north, far to the Floyd | west, and far below you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I wonder what would happen if these things were actually combined irl" | |
| Teaspoon says, "I wonder what combination of pressures and heat I need to get this flask open" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "rocket up" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 5/63 Floyd | > Floyd | > ROCKET UP Floyd | Floyd | You rocket up as far as you safely can. Floyd | Floyd | The air is hot and humid. Terrifying winds buffet you about. You revel Floyd | in the excitement, but know that you may not be able to withstand Floyd | stronger winds. You struggle mightily to keep alert and aloft in the Floyd | thin atmosphere. You may not be able to go any higher. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold lies slightly to the south, far to the west, Floyd | and far below you. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene lies far to the north, far to the Floyd | west, and far below you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "gold is pretty inert" | |
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "Argon is a noble gas and doesn't combine." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "rocket down" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 6/64 Floyd | > Floyd | > ROCKET DOWN Floyd | Floyd | You rocket down as far as you safely can. Floyd | Floyd | The air is hot and humid. Terrifying winds buffet you about. You revel Floyd | in the excitement, but know that you may not be able to withstand Floyd | stronger winds. The thick air squeezes your shell from all sides. You Floyd | find yourself somewhat uncomfortable, and wonder if your shell could Floyd | take any more pressure. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold lies slightly to the south and far to the Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene lies far to the north, far to the Floyd | west, and far above you. Floyd | Floyd | The intense pressure crushes the crystal bottle. With a loud "pop", Floyd | the vacuum collapses, and the crystal shards are compressed to a small Floyd | point, vanishing. Floyd | Floyd | As the bottle shatters, the vision of the new world springs into your Floyd | view again. Like an explosion, the bounds of the world shatter, and a Floyd | vacuum-filled space expands exponentially faster and faster away from Floyd | your world, sprouting stars, nebulae, and suns. This new world will be Floyd | bigger than any you have created before. Floyd | Floyd | You absorb the power of the vacuum inside of you. You can now draw Floyd | all objects towards you. Type "VACUUM" to attract objects. The air Floyd | around you starts slowly drifting towards you, absorbing into your Floyd | shell, increasing in speed until a steady stream of air is pulling all Floyd | visible objects to you. Floyd | Floyd | You sense intense anger as you take yet another step towards leaving. Floyd | The blanket of thick air below you begins to bubble and boil. A thick Floyd | globule of air rises slowly before popping uncomfortably close to you. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I have clearly forgotten all my chemistry." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I always rocked at physics but for some reason struggled in chem." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "vacuum gold" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 6/64 Floyd | > Floyd | > VACUUM GOLD Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to vacuum. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Okay these skill-ups are kinda interesting" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "vacuum" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 6/65 Floyd | > Floyd | > VACUUM Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene and chest of solid gold are pulled Floyd | a bit closer to you. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold moves northeast, towards you. It now lies far Floyd | to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene moves southeast, towards you. It Floyd | sinks lower in the air. It now lies to the north, far to the west, and Floyd | far above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Ooh. New command." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "vacuum" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 6/66 Floyd | > Floyd | > VACUUM Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene and chest of solid gold are pulled Floyd | a bit closer to you. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold moves east, towards you. It now lies far to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene moves southeast, towards you. It Floyd | sinks lower in the air. It now lies slightly to the north, far to the Floyd | west, and above you. Floyd | Floyd | Another globule of air boils out from below and rushes at you. Before Floyd | you can move, it pops, dazing you for a second. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "so we're now squidhoover" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "vacuum" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 6/67 Floyd | > Floyd | > VACUUM Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene and chest of solid gold are pulled Floyd | a bit closer to you. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold moves east, towards you. It now lies far to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene moves southeast, towards you. It Floyd | sinks lower in the air. It now lies to the west and slightly above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "vacuum" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 6/68 Floyd | > Floyd | > VACUUM Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene and chest of solid gold are pulled Floyd | a bit closer to you. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold moves east, towards you. It now lies far to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene moves east, towards you. It sinks Floyd | lower in the air. It now lies slightly to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline) Jacqueline says, "ITYM nautilushoover" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 6/69 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You lazily swim west through the air. Floyd | Floyd | A gale blows here, making it difficult to fly. You feel your shell Floyd | trembling. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold lies far to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene bobs upward. It now lies slightly Floyd | above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 6/70 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You burst west through a small patch of cloud. Floyd | Floyd | The stiff wind blows you off course for a moment. You struggle to Floyd | remain in place. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold lies to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene bobs upward. It now lies slightly Floyd | to the east and above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "vacuum" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 6/71 Floyd | > Floyd | > VACUUM Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene and chest of solid gold are pulled Floyd | a bit closer to you. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold moves east, towards you. It now lies slightly Floyd | to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene moves west, towards you. It sinks Floyd | lower in the air. It now lies slightly above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "vacuum" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 6/72 Floyd | > Floyd | > VACUUM Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene and chest of solid gold are pulled Floyd | a bit closer to you. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold moves east, towards you. It is right next to Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene sinks lower in the air. It is Floyd | right next to you. Floyd | Floyd | The stiff wind makes the hinges of chest creak. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "get chest" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 6/73 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET CHEST Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene bobs upward. It now lies slightly Floyd | above you. Floyd | Floyd | The stiff wind makes the hinges of the chest creak. Floyd | Floyd | Another globule of air boils out from below and rushes at you. Before Floyd | you can move, it pops, sending everything you are carrying Floyd | flying. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "nooooo my precious garbage" | |
| Teaspoon says, "well that's annoying" | ||
| DavidW says, "Toluene might be tolerable." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 6/74 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | The wild sky stretches off forever in all directions. To the far east, Floyd | storm clouds boil. To the far west, the sky is gentle and open. To the Floyd | far north, icebergs float amid the clouds. To the far south, patches Floyd | of steam whirl in vortices. Far above you, the air becomes thinner Floyd | near the top of the world. Below you lies a blanket of thicker air. Floyd | The world is agitated, with globules of thicker air floating from Floyd | below and exploding, as violent eddies swirl from the east. Floyd | Floyd | The air is hot and humid. The stiff wind blows you off course for a Floyd | moment. You struggle to remain in place. The thick air squeezes your Floyd | shell from all sides. You find yourself somewhat uncomfortable, and Floyd | wonder if your shell could take any more pressure. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold sinks lower in the air. It now lies to the Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene bobs upward. It now lies above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | The stiff wind makes the hinges of chest creak. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 6/75 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You spin slightly as you glide south. Floyd | Floyd | Waves of heat roll at you from every direction Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold lies slightly to the south. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene bobs upward. It now lies slightly Floyd | to the north and far above you. Floyd | Floyd | The stiff wind makes the hinges of chest creak. Floyd | Floyd | Another globule of air boils out from below and rushes at you. It Floyd | bursts in a loud explosion close to you. The explosion rocks you, but Floyd | you avoid the brunt of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 6/76 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You lazily swim south through the air. Floyd | Floyd | Thin strands of steam are leaking from your tentacles. You may not be Floyd | able to withstand further heat. Floyd | Floyd | The chest of solid gold is right next to you. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene bobs upward. It now lies to the Floyd | north and far above you. Floyd | Floyd | The stiff wind makes the hinges of chest creak. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "get chest" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 6/77 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET CHEST Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene lies to the north and far above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | The stiff wind makes the hinges of the chest creak. Floyd | Floyd | Another globule of air boils out from below and rushes at you. It Floyd | bursts in a loud explosion close to you. The explosion rocks you, but Floyd | you avoid the brunt of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "rocket west" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 6/78 Floyd | > Floyd | > ROCKET WEST Floyd | Floyd | You rocket west as far as you safely can. Floyd | Floyd | Thin strands of steam are leaking from your tentacles. You may not be Floyd | able to withstand further heat. The air is still and peaceful. You Floyd | find yourself tired, your tentacles drooping. Any further west and you Floyd | might fall asleep. The thick air squeezes your shell from all sides. Floyd | You find yourself somewhat uncomfortable, and wonder if your shell Floyd | could take any more pressure. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene lies to the north, far to the Floyd | east, and far above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think the chest was vulnerable to winds from the descriptions." | |
| Teaspoon says, "you're right. It's the other way" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "rocket east" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 7/79 Floyd | > Floyd | > ROCKET EAST Floyd | Floyd | You rocket east as far as you safely can. Floyd | Floyd | Thin strands of steam are leaking from your tentacles. You may not be Floyd | able to withstand further heat. Terrifying winds buffet you about. You Floyd | revel in the excitement, but know that you may not be able to Floyd | withstand stronger winds. The thick air squeezes your shell from all Floyd | sides. You find yourself somewhat uncomfortable, and wonder if your Floyd | shell could take any more pressure. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene lies to the north, to the west, Floyd | and far above you. Floyd | Floyd | The extreme wind rips the hinges off the chest. Gold nuggets and coins Floyd | spill out and spiral through the air before disappearing in a flash Floyd | along with the chest. Floyd | Floyd | The old world fades for a moment as the new world enters your view. Floyd | You feel enormous weight as a thick core of iron builds up in the Floyd | center of your world, hot and mobile. More and more molten rock piles Floyd | on, the outsides cooling, popping and cracking into seams of quartz, Floyd | basalt, silver, and gold. Your new world will have a solid foundation. Floyd | The visions of the new world fade away. Floyd | Floyd | As they disappear, you feel a power coursing through your tentacles. Floyd | They strengthen and harden. You now have the ability to crush Floyd | objects instead of moving them around. To crush an object, type "CRUSH Floyd | [OBJECT]". You must be carrying an object before you can crush it. Floyd | Floyd | The world explodes in fury. An enormous bolt of lightning rockets from Floyd | east to west, sending a thunderclap echoing throughout the world. A Floyd | wave of steaming air rolls from the south to the north. You are tossed Floyd | about for a second. The lightning bolt has temporarily blinded you, Floyd | but it quickly wears off. Floyd | Floyd | Another globule of air boils out from below and rushes at you. Before Floyd | you can move, it pops, dazing you for a second. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "I get the impression there are quite a few ways of solving this puzzle" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "vacuum" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 7/80 Floyd | > Floyd | > VACUUM Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene is pulled a bit closer to you. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene moves southeast, towards you. It Floyd | sinks lower in the air. It now lies slightly to the north, slightly to Floyd | the west, and far above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "vacuum" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 7/81 Floyd | > Floyd | > VACUUM Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene is pulled a bit closer to you. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene moves southeast, towards you. It Floyd | sinks lower in the air. It now lies above you. Floyd | Floyd | The liquid boils in the kettle, causing intense pressure. However, the Floyd | walls still hold. It may need a little something more to release the Floyd | liquid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "vacuum" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 7/82 Floyd | > Floyd | > VACUUM Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene is pulled a bit closer to you. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene sinks lower in the air. It now Floyd | lies slightly above you. Floyd | Floyd | The liquid boils in the kettle, causing intense pressure. However, the Floyd | walls still hold. It may need a little something more to release the Floyd | liquid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "get kettle" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 7/83 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET KETTLE Floyd | Floyd | That's too far away! Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene bobs upward. It now lies above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | The liquid boils in the kettle, causing intense pressure. However, the Floyd | walls still hold. It may need a little something more to release the Floyd | liquid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "go to kettle" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 7/84 Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO KETTLE Floyd | Floyd | You lazily swim up through the air. Floyd | Floyd | The air is soupy and uncomfortably thick down here. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene bobs upward. It now lies above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | The liquid boils in the kettle, causing intense pressure. However, the Floyd | walls still hold. It may need a little something more to release the Floyd | liquid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "go to kettle" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 7/85 Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO KETTLE Floyd | Floyd | You burst up through a small patch of cloud. Floyd | Floyd | You notice that the air is thicker than usual down here. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene bobs upward. It now lies above Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | The liquid boils in the kettle, causing intense pressure. However, the Floyd | walls still hold. It may need a little something more to release the Floyd | liquid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "go to kettle" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 7/86 Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO KETTLE Floyd | Floyd | You lazily swim up through the air. Floyd | Floyd | The air weighs on your shell a bit more than usual. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene lies slightly above you. Floyd | Floyd | The liquid boils in the kettle, causing intense pressure. However, the Floyd | walls still hold. It may need a little something more to release the Floyd | liquid. Floyd | Floyd | Another globule of air boils out from below and rushes at you. It Floyd | bursts in a loud explosion close to you. The explosion rocks you, but Floyd | you avoid the brunt of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I guess kettles want heat, but maybe crush it instead?" | |
| Teaspoon says, "I agree" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "vacuum kettle" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 7/86 Floyd | > Floyd | > VACUUM KETTLE Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to vacuum. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "vacuum" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 7/87 Floyd | > Floyd | > VACUUM Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene is pulled a bit closer to you. Floyd | Floyd | The sealed kettle of liquid toluene sinks lower in the air. It is Floyd | right next to you. Floyd | Floyd | The liquid boils in the kettle, causing intense pressure. However, the Floyd | walls still hold. It may need a little something more to release the Floyd | liquid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "get kettle" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 7/88 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET KETTLE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The liquid boils in the kettle, causing intense pressure. However, the Floyd | walls still hold. It may need a little something more to release the Floyd | liquid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "crush kettle" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 8/89 Floyd | > Floyd | > CRUSH KETTLE Floyd | Floyd | You raise your hardened tentacles high in the air, and send the Floyd | plummeting down onto the sealed kettle of liquid toluene. It smashes Floyd | into dozens of pieces. Floyd | The kettle is smashed and explodes in a cloud of mist. Floyd | Floyd | As the mist envelopes you, you feel the presence of the new world Floyd | stronger than before. Rivers and oceans spill across it, lakes and Floyd | streams. The Ocean... you have never seen a world with so much water. Floyd | The ocean teems with life, but the deepest recesses of it are dark and Floyd | empty. You watch it all with excitement. In this new world, the Ocean Floyd | will be your home. Floyd | Floyd | The liquid spreads all over your tentacles and shell, and is absorbed Floyd | into your body. Your tentacles lengthen and become stickier. You Floyd | can now carry multiple objects at once. Floyd | Floyd | There is a great pause in the air. Your world now is complete; you can Floyd | sense it, waiting for you. But something is holding it back; a Floyd | membrane between the worlds, or a dam. Floyd | Floyd | Another bolt of lightning streaks from the east. You were turn away Floyd | before the bolt strikes, and it doesn't affect you. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "oh dear, typoes" | |
| Roger says, "Let us jet forth and breach the World Hymen" | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "which way?" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | You spin slightly as you glide up. Floyd | Floyd | The air pressure matches your natural buoyancy. Floyd | Floyd | Another globule of air boils out from below and rushes at you. Before Floyd | you can move, it pops, dazing you for a second. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, you feel it. You concentrate with all your might. Slowly, Floyd | slowly, the membrane between the worlds stretches and thins out. With Floyd | the tiniest sound in the world, a minuscule tear in the fabric of time Floyd | appears, to the west. Through it, you can see a black field of stars. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | DavidW says, "oh, now we can carry multiple objects." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "rocket west" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "rocket w" | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Battlezone 8/90
Floyd |
Floyd | As you reach towards the rift, the world around you bursts into
Floyd | activity. Streams of thick black clouds, tendrils of flame, and giant
Floyd | chunks of ice swirl to the west to surround the tear in space. The sky
Floyd | darkens considerably, and red glints of light flash far in the
Floyd | distance, all around you.
Floyd |
Floyd | The churning mass to the left grows and grows, forming into an
Floyd | enormous shell of clouds and fire so large that you cannot see where
Floyd | it ends in any direction. Slowly, painfully, the cloud rotates,
Floyd | lightning exploding all around it, until a single red baleful eye
Floyd | stares at you, miles long in each direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | A dark and black sky surrounds you. Unfamiliar flashes of red glint
Floyd | balefully in the distance. To the east, the maelstrom of black clouds
Floyd | spirals into a churning vortex. To the far north, icebergs clash and
Floyd | explode in violent, freezing confrontations. To the south, the sky has
Floyd | caught on fire. Far above you, the nakedness of an empty sky seeks
Floyd | your embrace. Far below you the thicker air churns and roils, sending
Floyd | out geysers unpredictably. To the far west lies the massive, gibbering
Floyd | stormbeast. Its enormous red eye glares balefully at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Thin strands of steam are leaking from your tentacles and flames lick
Floyd | your shell. You may not be able to withstand further heat. Terrifying
Floyd | winds buffet you about. You revel in the excitement, but know that you
Floyd | may not be able to withstand stronger winds. The air pressure matches
Floyd | your natural buoyancy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Teaspoon says, "yes, that would have been nice earlier" | |
| DavidW says, "uh-oh. Battlezone. Might not want to rocket anywhere." | ||
| Roger says, "truly love is a battlezone" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "The massive, gibbering stormbeast sounds like something you'd call someone if you didn't like them very much." | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "shall I vacuum it?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm not sure what to do, so sure." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "we can't go more west because monster, so..." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "vacuum" | ||
Floyd ] Battlezone 8/91 Floyd | > Floyd | > VACUUM Floyd | Floyd | You feel the air flow towards you. Floyd | Floyd | A geyser of thick, deep air from below erupts. Your shell is stretched Floyd | and pulled in different directions, and you are almost ripped from Floyd | your shell. It subsides and you must pause for a moment until the pain Floyd | becomes bearable. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Go nw, I think, where it's milder and colder." | |
| Teaspoon says, "oh, we do have a shell. Points for biological accuracy" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "okay" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Battlezone 8/92 Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You quickly dodge northwest. Floyd | Floyd | Waves of heat roll at you from every direction and jets of flame Floyd | scorch your shell from time to time. Floyd | Floyd | A gale blows here, making it difficult to fly. You feel your shell Floyd | trembling. Floyd | Floyd | A blast of fire from the south rolls into you, singing your tentacles Floyd | and blackening your shell. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Good idea" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Except this also seems bad." | ||
| Roger says, "Hurray we made our original paradise into a hellhole" | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "the monster is west, so do we need to go east?" | ||
| DavidW says, "well, I think we need to get to the center and nw is the way to go." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "let" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "see" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "Dammit, you said that right as I was taking a sip of coffee. That was almost tragic for my keyboard." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Battlezone 8/93 Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You blast northwest. Floyd | Floyd | The air is hot and humid. Floyd | Floyd | The stiff wind blows you off course for a moment. You struggle to Floyd | remain in place. Floyd | Floyd | The great stormbeast roars and a torrent of pale green phosphorescent Floyd | rain fills the air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Battlezone 8/94 Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You quickly dodge northwest. Floyd | Floyd | The air is warm and moist. Floyd | Floyd | The brisk wind ruffles your tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | A blast of fire from the south rolls into you, singing your tentacles Floyd | and blackening your shell. Floyd | Floyd | You begin to despair of your life. You turn to the west and notice a Floyd | thin web of cracks in the eye. If you could rocket into it, perhaps Floyd | you could break it open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "rocket west" | ||
Floyd ] Battlezone 8/95 Floyd | > Floyd | > ROCKET WEST Floyd | Floyd | You rocket to the west with all your might, towards the eye. You Floyd | impact the center with a mighty crash, and the eye splinters, forming Floyd | a deep crack in the middle. Floyd | Floyd | A geyser of thick, deep air from below erupts. Your shell is stretched Floyd | and pulled in different directions, and you are almost ripped from Floyd | your shell. It subsides and you must pause for a moment until the pain Floyd | becomes bearable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "rocket west" | ||
Floyd ] Center 10/96 Floyd | > Floyd | > ROCKET WEST Floyd | Floyd | You rocket to the west with all your might, towards the eye. You Floyd | impact the center with a mighty crash, and you smash through the eye Floyd | into the center of the beast! Floyd | Floyd | Center Floyd | You are in a vast, empty blackness. Isolated red tendrils pulse Floyd | throughout the darkness. Floyd | Floyd | You fly into the eye and into a dark and empty scene. Behind you is a Floyd | sheet of red ice with a crack in the center, dwindling as you fall Floyd | further into the beast. There is nothing around you except empty Floyd | blackness. Occasionally, you see thin tendrils of red energy. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "get sheet" | ||
Floyd ] Center 10/97 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET SHEET Floyd | Floyd | You can't reach into Battlezone. Floyd | Floyd | You drift slowly through the darkness. A single snowflake passes by Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "We got points, so I guess that's good." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "rocket west" | ||
Floyd ] Center 10/98 Floyd | > Floyd | > ROCKET WEST Floyd | Floyd | You try to move, but you can't. Or maybe you do move; it is hard to Floyd | tell. Floyd | Floyd | Slowly, you sense something being pulled to you. A tiny red dot Floyd | surrounded by tendrils appears in the distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd ] Center 10/99 Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The red dot increases in size as it is pulled towards you. More and Floyd | more tendrils come into your view, leading towards the red dot. As you Floyd | approach, you see that it is a massive, pulsing red ball, hundreds of Floyd | times larger than yourself. As it pulses, energy swirls around it and Floyd | out through the conduits. It is the heart of the stormbeast. In the Floyd | center of it, encased in the thick swirls of energy, you see the Floyd | entrance to your new world, a tear in the fabric of space with a field Floyd | of stars behind it. The heart around it constricts, and the inner Floyd | world trembles. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It would have been so much more fun if they'd called the Battlezone the DANGERzone." | |
| Teaspoon asks, "er, why?" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd ] Center 10/100 Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The tendrils pulse regularly. The rift to your world pulses wildly Floyd | inside of the heart, but the red tendrils restrain it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It's a joke. Sorry." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "vacuum" | ||
Floyd ] Center 10/101 Floyd | > Floyd | > VACUUM Floyd | Floyd | You feel the air flow towards you. Floyd | Floyd | The tendrils pulse regularly. The rift to your world pulses wildly Floyd | inside of the heart, but the red tendrils restrain it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "get dot" | ||
Floyd ] Center 10/102 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET DOT Floyd | Floyd | The heart is too big to carry, but your tentacles latch onto the Floyd | heart, ready to crush it. Floyd | Floyd | The tendrils pulse regularly. The rift to your world pulses wildly Floyd | inside of the heart, but the red tendrils restrain it. Floyd | Floyd | The red forces constrict your new world. Helpless, you watch through Floyd | the rift as an enormous asteroid hurtles through the void and smashes Floyd | into your planet, killing billions of creatures. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "dammit we killed the dinosaurs was not how I expected this game to go" | |
| Roger says, "whoops sorry guys my bad" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I, uh, suspec there's only one thing we can do, which is to crush it" | ||
| Roger says, "To be fair if you want to kill billions of creatures you can boil a cup of yoghurt" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "ha" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "crush heart" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > CRUSH HEART Floyd | Floyd | You destroy the heart, and the red energy explodes around you in a Floyd | violent red flash. As the light dims, you see the darkness around you Floyd | crumbling and fading, until you are surrounded again by your familiar Floyd | clouds. The red energy begins flowing into your new world at a quick Floyd | pace. A crimson stream touches you, and images flash into your mind... Floyd | Floyd | An image of your first entrance into this world, opening a mighty Floyd | machine and flying out. Floyd | Floyd | An image of you drowsily floating through the air, tickled by a zephyr Floyd | of this world. Floyd | Floyd | An image of you careening through a black storm cloud, exhilarated by Floyd | the joy and excitement of the dangerous gale. Floyd | Floyd | An image of you hesitating, turning away from both zephyr and Floyd | whirlwind, drawn to inner contemplation. Floyd | Floyd | You begin to realize that this world has always been alive, and that Floyd | in its own way, the world has loved you. You see a last series of Floyd | images, of the world bringing the red ice to you, bringing the scroll Floyd | and the ingredients it needed. Floyd | Floyd | Finally, you turn and see the blood of the world flowing into the Floyd | next, strengthening it and making it real. Now you understand. This Floyd | old world knew that the next could not live on its own. A sacrifice Floyd | must be made; the old must die that the new may live. And only you Floyd | could destroy the old world. Suddenly, a tremor runs through the area. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | DavidW says, "I'm a bit lost what's happening." | |
| DavidW says, "also, lag" | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 12/103 Floyd | Floyd | The wild sky stretches off forever in all directions. To the far east, Floyd | storm clouds boil. To the west, the sky is gentle and open. To the far Floyd | north, icebergs float amid the clouds. To the far south, patches of Floyd | steam whirl in vortices. Far above you, the air becomes thinner near Floyd | the top of the world. Far below you lies a blanket of thicker air. Floyd | Floyd | The air is warm and moist. The air is still and peaceful. You find Floyd | yourself tired, your tentacles drooping. Any further west and you Floyd | might fall asleep. The air pressure matches your natural buoyancy. Floyd | Floyd | The darkness clears, and you see the world around you again, slowly Floyd | collapsing. Small bubbles float in the air around you. One bursts Floyd | against you, misting your tentacles. The world, you realize, is Floyd | kissing you goodbye. Floyd | Floyd | A bubble moves southwest, towards you. It bobs upward. It now lies Floyd | slightly to the north and far to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Another bubble moves northwest, towards you. It sinks lower in the Floyd | air. It now lies far to the east and above you. Floyd | Floyd | Another bubble moves southwest, towards you. It bobs upward. It now Floyd | lies slightly to the north, to the east, and slightly below you. Floyd | Floyd | A pale green phosphorescent rain of tears fills the air. You cannot Floyd | see the rift to your world, but you sense it near you. The Floyd | world around you slowly decays, and you feel its energy flowing into Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "basically we're a creature whose lifecycle involves creating entire planets to live on, only this latest one we've been living on didn't want us to go. We have cruelly crushed its heart and are ready to move on to our new planet" | |
| Teaspoon says, "which is earth. Where we also killed all the dinosaurs by mistake." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It had to happen." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It was fate." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "go to rift" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 12/104 Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO RIFT Floyd | Floyd | [GO TO only works on objects in the field of play] Floyd | Floyd | A bubble lies slightly to the north and far to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Another bubble sinks lower in the air. It now lies far to the east and Floyd | slightly above you. Floyd | Floyd | Another bubble bobs upward. It now lies slightly to the north and to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | A pale green phosphorescent rain of tears fills the air. You weep as Floyd | the world around you slowly grows silent. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 12/105 Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | A bubble lies slightly to the north and far to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Another bubble sinks lower in the air. It now lies far to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Another bubble lies slightly to the north and to the east. Floyd | Floyd | A pale green phosphorescent rain of tears fills the air. A shower of Floyd | red glinting lights pours in around you, and you feel your strength Floyd | increase. Floyd | Floyd | The storm to the east builds up to an immense speed, and then rockets Floyd | across to the west. Ice, steam, and strange sandlike debris whirl Floyd | around you. When the wind settles, the storm is gone. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "I think it's a waiting game at this point" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 12/106 Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | A bubble lies slightly to the north and far to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Another bubble lies far to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Another bubble lies slightly to the north and to the east. Floyd | Floyd | A pale green phosphorescent rain of tears fills the air. The energy is Floyd | building in you to almost unbearable levels. It is almost time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 12/107 Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | A bubble lies slightly to the north and far to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Another bubble lies far to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Another bubble lies slightly to the north and to the east. Floyd | Floyd | A pale green phosphorescent rain of tears fills the air. The world Floyd | around you slowly decays, and you feel its energy flowing into you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 12/108 Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | A bubble lies slightly to the north and far to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Another bubble lies far to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Another bubble lies slightly to the north and to the east. Floyd | Floyd | A pale green phosphorescent rain of tears fills the air. A shower of Floyd | red glinting lights pours in around you, and you feel your strength Floyd | increase. Floyd | Floyd | Now the blanket of thick air below you bubbles and boils before Floyd | erupting in plumes of dense air that you sense rather than see. They Floyd | bubble higher and higher as they diffuse, until they are gone. Now, Floyd | all about you, the air pressure is equalized. Floyd | > | Roger says, "Sorry to burst your bubble" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 12/109 Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | A bubble lies slightly to the north and far to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Another bubble lies far to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Another bubble lies slightly to the north and to the east. Floyd | Floyd | A pale green phosphorescent rain of tears fills the air. A shower of Floyd | red glinting lights pours in around you, and you feel your strength Floyd | increase. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 12/110 Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | A bubble lies slightly to the north and far to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Another bubble lies far to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Another bubble lies slightly to the north and to the east. Floyd | Floyd | A pale green phosphorescent rain of tears fills the air. You weep as Floyd | the world around you slowly grows silent. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 12/111 Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | A bubble lies slightly to the north and far to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Another bubble lies far to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Another bubble lies slightly to the north and to the east. Floyd | Floyd | A pale green phosphorescent rain of tears fills the air. A shower of Floyd | red glinting lights pours in around you, and you feel your strength Floyd | increase. Floyd | Floyd | The icebergs from the north and the steam vortices from the north move Floyd | together. You brace yourself for the impact. When they touch, the Floyd | world explodes into steam. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "poff!" | |
| Teaspoon says, "we're watching the various chemical principles we've been playing with destroy themselves" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd ] Aloft 12/112 Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | A bubble lies slightly to the north and far to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Another bubble lies far to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Another bubble lies slightly to the north and to the east. Floyd | Floyd | A pale green phosphorescent rain of tears fills the air. The world Floyd | around you slowly decays, and you feel its energy flowing into you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | A bubble lies slightly to the north and far to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Another bubble lies far to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Another bubble lies slightly to the north and to the east. Floyd | Floyd | A pale green phosphorescent rain of tears fills the air. A shower of Floyd | red glinting lights pours in around you, and you feel your strength Floyd | increase. Floyd | Floyd | Finally, you are ready. The magic bursts from you, then returns as you Floyd | spin faster and faster. Shards of metal from the kettle, strands of Floyd | emptiness from the vacuum, tentacles of light and polyps of dark, gold Floyd | coins and strange-smelling gas unite around you. Floyd | Floyd | You begin shrinking into a point of incredibly bright light, and then Floyd | rocket into the tear in the fabric of this world. Everything fades. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Ocean (much, much later) 12/113 Floyd | Floyd | Ocean (much, much later) Floyd | You are swimming near the bottom of a slope in a large reef, your home Floyd | for untold years. Brightly-colored fish swim about, and polyps wave Floyd | from the reef. The surface glimmers dimly, far above you, and the Floyd | ocean stretches away to all sides. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "swim" | ||
Floyd ] Ocean (much, much later) 12/113 Floyd | > Floyd | > SWIM Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Ocean (much, much later) 12/114 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You are battered and slightly dazed. Your shell is dinged and one of Floyd | your tentacles' tips is seared off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Ocean (much, much later) 12/115 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing except a relentless sense of determination. Floyd | Floyd | Something splashes from far above. Through the murk, you dimly see a Floyd | metal sphere slowly sinking to the ocean floor, attached to a cable Floyd | stretching up high. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, I'm not really following this." | |
| Jacqueline says, "That is awesome." | ||
| DavidW says, "Too strange to read like this." | ||
| DavidW says, "especially with the lag and textdumps." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x sphere" | ||
Floyd ] Ocean (much, much later) 12/116 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SPHERE Floyd | Floyd | A sphere of metal with glass windows and a cable running above it. Floyd | Inside the window is an oddly shaped being with knobbly tentacles at Floyd | the end of its appendages peering at you through a small hole. Floyd | Floyd | In the bathysphere is an oddly shaped being. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wave" | ||
Floyd ] Ocean (much, much later) 12/117 Floyd | > Floyd | > WAVE Floyd | Floyd | You wave. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x being" | ||
Floyd ] Ocean (much, much later) 12/118 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BEING Floyd | Floyd | An elongated being with eyes in the front of its head. Five fingers Floyd | spring from each of two hands, and they are all pressed up against the Floyd | window. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I have no idea why you knew that waiting would be useful, for example." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "because we'd been told that the new world was creating itself, so we just had to sit around watching doomsday" | ||
Floyd ] Ocean (much, much later) 12/118 Floyd | > Floyd | > BECAUSE WE'D BEEN TOLD THAT THE NEW WORLD WAS CREATING ITSELF, SO WE Floyd | JUST HAD TO SIT AROUND WATCHING DOOMSDAY Floyd | Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon exclaims, "aghhh!" | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| says, "What he said to Floyd." | ||
| Doug says, "Floyd, DavidW is right here!" | ||
| Doug says, "I guess that wasn't Floyd saying that, that was Ether" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I'm not sure if we vacuum the sphere though" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Kind of doubt it." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But we can always undo if you want to try and it's bad." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "good point" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "vacuum" | ||
Floyd ] Ocean (much, much later) 12/119 Floyd | > Floyd | > VACUUM Floyd | Floyd | You feel the water flow towards you sluggishly. You're not used to Floyd | doing this anymore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "get sphere" | ||
Floyd ] Ocean (much, much later) 12/119 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET SPHERE Floyd | Floyd | You consider the sphere for some time, but you soon lose interest and Floyd | swim slowly backwards, occasionally bumping a chunk of coral. Floyd | Floyd | You swim slowly back down the slope, to where the reefs end, to where Floyd | all life ends, except for you. This world has been good to you now for Floyd | a long, long time. But maybe now it's time to go. It's time to start Floyd | looking for a way out. Floyd | Floyd | "This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Floyd | Sails the unshadowed main,- Floyd | The venturous bark that flings Floyd | On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings Floyd | In gulfs enchanted, where the Siren sings, Floyd | And coral reefs lie bare, Floyd | Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair... Floyd | Floyd | Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, Floyd | As the swift seasons roll! Floyd | Leave thy low-vaulted past! Floyd | Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Floyd | Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Floyd | Till thou at length art free, Floyd | Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!" Floyd | -Oliver Wendell Holmes Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have won *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 12 out of a possible 12, in 119 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT, or UNDO the last command? Floyd | > | Roger says, "oh maybe we're cthulhu" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "snrk" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "we're going to destroy earth when we go..." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "if the last planet was anything to go by" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "amusing" | ||
Floyd ] Things to Try Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > Standard responses Floyd | Alternate solutions Floyd | Unusual deaths Floyd | Nautilus trivia Floyd | Full poem | Jacqueline says, "Well, that was jarbled but very lovely." | |
| Teaspoon says, "I enjoyed that. Very stress free too." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "The imagery was what I loved." | ||
| Doug says, "I found the world saying goodbye to be touching." | ||
| Doug says, "though Emily felt it was unearned" | ||
| Doug says, "or rather that there was no time to develop feelings for the world" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm, possibly. But I don't think the game mechanic would allow for much of that without making the player feel like they were foundering." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I would have liked to have seen more of teh world first, but that was still good" | ||
| Roger says, "Ennhh I'm feeling lukewarm on it all" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "You should maybe go in a warmer direction." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry that this wasn't your sort of game, DW." | ||
| DavidW says, "heh. They can't all target me." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "fwiw, here's the coverart (a selfie of the protagonist, I believe): [LINK]" | ||
| DavidW says, "I suppose if I had some clue what opening a kettle of toluene was likely to do, I'd be able to make better predictions on what actions are effective." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "they were archetypes of various chemical principles, I figured" | ||
| Emily goes home. | ||
| Emily has disconnected. | DavidW says, "In Katana, there's a section where the PC uses the Five Elements of Water, Air, Fire, Metal, and Earth to create a new location, and that was easier to understand." | |
