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The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask laughinggnome" | ||
Floyd ] High Street 0/1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You're just finishing a walk down the high street, when you hear Floyd | footsteps behind you. Floyd | Floyd | The Laughing Gnome Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Teaspoon Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 160212 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | First time players may wish to type ABOUT. Floyd | Floyd | High Street Floyd | Not as musical as Denmark Street, not flash like Carnaby Street or Floyd | rocking like Electric Avenue, but it's your high street and you like Floyd | it. However, "The Forsyte Saga" is on so everything's shut except the Floyd | corner shop to the south. Your house is to the north and the Surbiton Floyd | Railway Station is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a Gnome here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "So far, so good!" | |
| Roger says, "Already my favourite game of the morning" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Roger says, "I guess we should About the About" | ||
| Emily goes home. | ||
| Emily has disconnected. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > Introduction to The Laughing Gnome Floyd | Instructions for Play Floyd | Contacting the author Floyd | Walkthrough Floyd | Credits | ||
| Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] Introduction to The Laughing Gnome Floyd | Written for the first Intfiction Weekly SpeedIF comp (1 Jan 2016), Floyd | this was intended as a straightforward adaption of "The Laughing Floyd | Gnome" into text adventuring, in answer to the David Bowie prompt. It Floyd | did get slightly out of control; a list of references would be long Floyd | and tedious, but it does seem only polite to mention Stella Street as Floyd | an inspiration/source of ripoff material. Floyd | Floyd | There's a walkthrough under Walkthrough, as it happens, but following Floyd | the song should cover you. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Jacqueline says, "Following the song." | |
| DavidW says, "This assumes I know of the song in question. I don't." | ||
| Roger says, "I'm not familiar with the song either (that I'm aware of)" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "A song with which I am unfamiliar, but we can probably find the lyrics online." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "they're online" | ||
| DavidW says, "Hopefully song knowledge isn't needed." | ||
| Roger says, "But I'll be on the lookout for some really freaky eyes without a face" | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of Roger), "That's... Billy Idol, isn't it?" | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > Introduction to The Laughing Gnome Floyd | Instructions for Play Floyd | Contacting the author Floyd | Walkthrough Floyd | Credits | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Introduction to The Laughing Gnome Floyd | > Instructions for Play Floyd | Contacting the author Floyd | Walkthrough Floyd | Credits | Roger says, "uhh maybe" | |
| Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] Instructions for Play Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Last Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > About Interactive Fiction Floyd | What to do with > Floyd | Getting Started Floyd | Rooms and Travel Floyd | Objects Floyd | Controlling the Game Floyd | How the World is Assembled Floyd | If You Get Stuck | Teaspoon says, "that's just the usual Emily material." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Okay, this is stock standard how to play, nothing new?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "yup" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "p" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions for Play Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Last Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > About Interactive Fiction Floyd | What to do with > Floyd | Getting Started Floyd | Rooms and Travel Floyd | Objects Floyd | Controlling the Game Floyd | How the World is Assembled Floyd | If You Get Stuck | Roger says, "okay let's rock on" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions for Play Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Last Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | About Interactive Fiction Floyd | > What to do with > Floyd | Getting Started Floyd | Rooms and Travel Floyd | Objects Floyd | Controlling the Game Floyd | How the World is Assembled Floyd | If You Get Stuck | Jacqueline says, "ack" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "p" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions for Play Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Last Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > About Interactive Fiction Floyd | What to do with > Floyd | Getting Started Floyd | Rooms and Travel Floyd | Objects Floyd | Controlling the Game Floyd | How the World is Assembled Floyd | If You Get Stuck | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Introduction to The Laughing Gnome Floyd | > Instructions for Play Floyd | Contacting the author Floyd | Walkthrough Floyd | Credits | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Introduction to The Laughing Gnome Floyd | Instructions for Play Floyd | > Contacting the author Floyd | Walkthrough Floyd | Credits | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Introduction to The Laughing Gnome Floyd | Instructions for Play Floyd | Contacting the author Floyd | > Walkthrough Floyd | Credits | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Introduction to The Laughing Gnome Floyd | Instructions for Play Floyd | Contacting the author Floyd | Walkthrough Floyd | > Credits | ||
| Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] Credits Floyd | Thanks to Graham Nelson and Emily Short for Inform 7. Floyd | Floyd | Thanks to David Bowie for half a century of beautiful music. Floyd | Floyd | Apologies to anyone reading this who may happen to be from Surbiton Floyd | and wishes to point out that Stella Street is *not* next door to the Floyd | railway station there. For everybody else - said station really is Floyd | excitingly futuristic as described. Honest. Worth a look. Floyd | Floyd | The cover art, such as it is, was constructed by me, myself and I, and Floyd | released under the CC BY 4.0 license, should it be desired for some Floyd | arcane reason. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Roger says, "maybe start with some laughing" | |
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Introduction to The Laughing Gnome Floyd | Instructions for Play Floyd | Contacting the author Floyd | Walkthrough Floyd | > Credits | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q" | ||
Floyd ] High Street 0/1 Floyd | High Street Floyd | Not as musical as Denmark Street, not flash like Carnaby Street or Floyd | rocking like Electric Avenue, but it's your high street and you like Floyd | it. However, "The Forsyte Saga" is on so everything's shut except the Floyd | corner shop to the south. Your house is to the north and the Surbiton Floyd | Railway Station is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a Gnome here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x gnome" | ||
Floyd ] High Street 0/2 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GNOME Floyd | Floyd | A little old man in scarlet and grey. He trots along besides you. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, scared now." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] High Street 0/3 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a light Floyd | a cigarette Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x light" | ||
Floyd ] High Street 0/4 Floyd | > Floyd | > X LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | A battered antique one, of no great interest except for the engraving. Floyd | "To Father Brown, with all my thanks". You occasionally wonder what Floyd | sort of priest would get a light for a present. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "oh cmon he's jolly and he's not beeping" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x cigarette" | ||
Floyd ] High Street 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CIGARETTE Floyd | Floyd | A cigarette. Your favourite brand: Political Correctness Gone Mad, or Floyd | POC for short. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] High Street 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | Ziggy Stardust. Floyd | Floyd | Not really. Just a struggling writer trying to break into radio. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to gnome" | ||
Floyd ] High Street 0/7 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GNOME Floyd | Floyd | "My brother Fred always wanted to be a comedy singer. I like the Floyd | joke-writing, myself." Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to gnome" | ||
Floyd ] High Street 0/8 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GNOME Floyd | Floyd | "Didn't they teach you to get your hair cut at school? You look like a Floyd | rolling gnome." Floyd | Floyd | "No, not at the London School of Ecognomics." Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to gnome" | ||
Floyd ] High Street 0/9 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GNOME Floyd | Floyd | "Here, where do you come from?" Floyd | Floyd | "Gnome man's land!" Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to gnome" | ||
Floyd ] High Street 0/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GNOME Floyd | Floyd | "Haven't you got an 'ome to go to?" Floyd | Floyd | "No, we're gnomads." Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "That... yeah." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to gnome" | ||
Floyd ] High Street 0/11 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GNOME Floyd | Floyd | "I'm a laughing gnome and you don't catch me!" Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Let's go to the shop and buy some gnome de plumes." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to gnome" | ||
Floyd ] High Street 0/12 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GNOME Floyd | Floyd | "My brother Fred always wanted to be a comedy singer. I like the Floyd | joke-writing, myself." Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline makes eye contact with David and gestures toward the exit of the Toyshop. | |
| Jacqueline says, "Just kidding. Sort of." | ||
| DavidW says, "Ha ha ha, hee hee hee." | ||
| Jacqueline disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | ||
| Jacqueline arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Jacqueline says, "Fine." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "So, um, what now?" | ||
| DavidW says, "south" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Keep inflicting these jokes or south?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "You've run through most of the jokes" | ||
| Roger says, "Maybe go over to the chippy or whatev" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "vintage Bowie, all of it" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "To be fair, gnome de plume was the best of the lot." | ||
| DavidW says, "yay" | ||
| Roger says, "Yeah that's not bad" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'd like someone else to drive, please." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Corner Shop 0/13 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Corner Shop Floyd | The sign says Mick & Keith's Corner Shop, in carefully-equilateral Floyd | lettering. It shows a good deal more foresight than the shop itself, Floyd | which is a tiny cramped place with products strewn everywhere. Floyd | Usually, anyway: there are only a few items left on the shelves. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Keith, dandelion wine, Brazil nuts, caviar, honey and a Floyd | mop here. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | The Gnome arrives from the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x keith" | ||
Floyd ] Corner Shop 0/14 Floyd | > Floyd | > X KEITH Floyd | Floyd | He's just a touch drunk, although whether punch or otherwise is Floyd | difficult to tell. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to keith" | ||
Floyd ] Corner Shop 0/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO KEITH Floyd | Floyd | "Mick's out watching his bloody show, the shop's been raided, still Floyd | can't get any Lemsip...just get what you want and leave, all right? Floyd | I'll put it on your tab." Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wine" | ||
Floyd ] Corner Shop 0/16 Floyd | > Floyd | > X WINE Floyd | Floyd | Imported from Illinois, apparently. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ha" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x nuts" | ||
Floyd ] Corner Shop 0/17 Floyd | > Floyd | > X NUTS Floyd | Floyd | A prominent animator had little packets sent to all sorts of odd Floyd | places as a promotional stunt for his new film. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "This does feel sufficiently speedy" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x caviar" | ||
Floyd ] Corner Shop 0/18 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CAVIAR Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about caviar. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x honey" | ||
Floyd ] Corner Shop 0/19 Floyd | > Floyd | > X HONEY Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about honey. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mop" | ||
Floyd ] Corner Shop 0/20 Floyd | > Floyd | > X MOP Floyd | Floyd | "Just what you need if that last one is looking a little bit ragged!" Floyd | Floyd | A space-age design with self-contained water supply. Also Fairy. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||
Floyd ] Corner Shop 0/21 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | dandelion wine: Taken. Floyd | Brazil nuts: Taken. Floyd | caviar: Your tab is big enough as it is. Caviar is rather beyond your Floyd | means. Floyd | honey: Your tab is big enough as it is. Honey is rather beyond your Floyd | means. Floyd | mop: Taken. Floyd | bag: That seems to belong to the Gnome. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "er, sufficiently speedy?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bag" | ||
Floyd ] Corner Shop 0/22 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BAG Floyd | Floyd | Doubtless full of mysterious gnome objects. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat nuts" | ||
Floyd ] Corner Shop 0/23 Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT NUTS Floyd | Floyd | Only slightly stale. You nibble a few. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "taste wine" | ||
Floyd ] Corner Shop 0/24 Floyd | > Floyd | > TASTE WINE Floyd | Floyd | You taste nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Corner Shop 0/25 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a mop Floyd | Brazil nuts Floyd | dandelion wine Floyd | a light Floyd | a cigarette Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat caviar" | ||
Floyd ] Corner Shop 0/26 Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT CAVIAR Floyd | Floyd | You'd have to pay Keith for it, which you can't just at present, being Floyd | temporarily embarassed. So that's no then. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "mop floor" | ||
Floyd ] Corner Shop 0/26 Floyd | > Floyd | > MOP FLOOR Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to mop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "mop" | ||
Floyd ] Corner Shop 0/27 Floyd | > Floyd | > MOP Floyd | Floyd | Keith is deeply offended by people cleaning in here besides him. Or Floyd | just offended by cleaning in general, hard to say. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear mop" | ||
Floyd ] Corner Shop 0/28 Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR MOP Floyd | Floyd | You can't wear that! Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Hm. Go home or visit the railway station? Or give some of our stuff to the gnome?" | |
| Roger says, "I dunno" | ||
| DavidW says, "Let's go home then." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] High Street 0/29 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | High Street Floyd | Not as musical as Denmark Street, not flash like Carnaby Street or Floyd | rocking like Electric Avenue, but it's your high street and you like Floyd | it. However, "The Forsyte Saga" is on so everything's shut except the Floyd | corner shop to the south. Your house is to the north and the Surbiton Floyd | Railway Station is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | The Gnome arrives from the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 0/30 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Your new flat, or rather your antiquated Victorian terrace house (now Floyd | only one floor, after what the landlord described as an exotic and Floyd | friendly swarm of Egyptian super termites). After deploying a Floyd | flamethrower, six kinds of bleach and the local exorcist, you now have Floyd | a kitchen that only vaguely smells of toxic gloop. The bathroom, such Floyd | as it is, is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an oven, a bed, a fireplace and a telly here. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | The Gnome arrives from the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Sure let's see if this little weirdo follows us into bed" | |
| Roger says, "Maybe he wants to get on the metro" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x oven" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 0/31 Floyd | > Floyd | > X OVEN Floyd | Floyd | A hulking old iron oven you picked up for a song from the nice couple Floyd | down the way. They said they were upgrading to something more Floyd | managable, like one made out of mud. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open oven" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 0/32 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN OVEN Floyd | Floyd | It isn't something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 0/33 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BED Floyd | Floyd | The one usable piece of furniture left in the place, a heavy piece Floyd | that's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Olly arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||
| Fido arrives. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 0/34 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER BED Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter bed" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 0/35 Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER BED Floyd | Floyd | You get onto the bed. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 0/36 Floyd | > Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | Sleep with that chortling gnome around? Not likely. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 0/37 Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You get off the bed. Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Your new flat, or rather your antiquated Victorian terrace house (now Floyd | only one floor, after what the landlord described as an exotic and Floyd | friendly swarm of Egyptian super termites). After deploying a Floyd | flamethrower, six kinds of bleach and the local exorcist, you now have Floyd | a kitchen that only vaguely smells of toxic gloop. The bathroom, such Floyd | as it is, is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a Gnome, an oven, a bed, a fireplace and a telly here. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fireplace" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 0/38 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FIREPLACE Floyd | Floyd | Incongruously huge, with the draftiest chimney you ever did see. You Floyd | could probably fit two gnomes comfortably in here if it didn't smell Floyd | of gloop. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell fireplace" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 0/39 Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL FIREPLACE Floyd | Floyd | It smells like yesterday's chicken tikka masala, actually. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "clean it" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 0/40 Floyd | > Floyd | > CLEAN IT Floyd | Floyd | You rub the fireplace. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "mop it" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 0/40 Floyd | > Floyd | > MOP IT Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to mop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "mop" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 1/41 Floyd | > Floyd | > MOP Floyd | Floyd | You attack the remaining gloop, finding a pocket of residue in the Floyd | chimney. Away with it! Everything now smells like Fairies. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x residue" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 1/41 Floyd | > Floyd | > X RESIDUE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 1/42 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a mop Floyd | Brazil nuts Floyd | dandelion wine Floyd | a light Floyd | a cigarette Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 1/43 Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL Floyd | Floyd | It smells like yesterday's chicken tikka masala, actually. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | Olly asks, "What's this game?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 1/44 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Your new, nicely cleaned flat. Or antiquated Victorian terrace house. Floyd | The bathroom, such as it is, is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a Gnome, an oven, a bed, a fireplace and a telly here. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "SpeedIf of mine" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x telly" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 1/45 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TELLY Floyd | Floyd | It's stuck on BBC Two. If you liked the Forsyte Saga, you wouldn't Floyd | have gone on that walk and met this gnome. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "'The Laughing Gnome'" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom 1/46 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bathroom Floyd | Indescribably filthy. It would make a student houseshare look neat. It Floyd | makes that bloke Withnail look tidy by comparision. It looks a little Floyd | cleaner than the one that Richard and Eddie down the way have. Floyd | Floyd | The one advantage is that you can't see any of those fiddly objects Floyd | such as a toilet, shower, or a mirror full of asprin and toothbrushes Floyd | - everything is indistinguisable under toxic gloop. Floyd | Floyd | You can see toadstools here. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | The Gnome arrives from the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "mop" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom 1/47 Floyd | > Floyd | > MOP Floyd | Floyd | You rub the mop around a bit. A vocabulary list comes to mind, Floyd | consisting of words such as futile, pointless, useless, unhelpful, Floyd | wishful, pathetic, ineffectual, unavailing...cleaning this bathroom is Floyd | beyond your ken, in short. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x toadstools" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom 1/48 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TOADSTOOLS Floyd | Floyd | They look like the kind of thing you might feed a gnome. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take them" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom 1/48 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE THEM Floyd | Floyd | I'm not sure what 'them' refers to. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "!" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take toadstools" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom 1/49 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE TOADSTOOLS Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "feed gnome" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom 1/49 Floyd | > Floyd | > FEED GNOME Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to feed the Gnome? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "toadstools" | ||
Floyd ] Bathroom 1/50 Floyd | > Floyd | > TOADSTOOLS Floyd | Floyd | "Uncooked toadstools?" Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 1/51 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Your new, nicely cleaned flat. Or antiquated Victorian terrace house. Floyd | The bathroom, such as it is, is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an oven, a bed, a fireplace and a telly here. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | The Gnome arrives from the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "He's just a fun guy" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put toadstools in oven" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 1/52 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT TOADSTOOLS IN OVEN Floyd | Floyd | Your feeble culinary skills are at least sufficient for the purpose of Floyd | heaating toadstools for gnomes. One plate of roast toadstools, coming Floyd | right up! Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x toadstools" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 1/53 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TOADSTOOLS Floyd | Floyd | You still wouldn't eat them. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give toadstools to gnome" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 2/54 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE TOADSTOOLS TO GNOME Floyd | Floyd | The Gnome seems very pleased with your cooking. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "full" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 2/54 Floyd | > Floyd | > FULL Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "score" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 2/54 Floyd | > Floyd | > SCORE Floyd | Floyd | You have so far scored 2 out of a possible 5, in 54 turns. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 2/55 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a mop Floyd | Brazil nuts Floyd | dandelion wine Floyd | a light Floyd | a cigarette Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give nuts to gnome" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 2/56 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE NUTS TO GNOME Floyd | Floyd | The gnome shakes his head. "Gnomes prefer toadstools." Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "light cigarette" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 2/57 Floyd | > Floyd | > LIGHT CIGARETTE Floyd | Floyd | You light the cigarette. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smoke cigarette" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 2/58 Floyd | > Floyd | > SMOKE CIGARETTE Floyd | Floyd | It occurs to you this is your last one. Maybe you'd better save it. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | Olly says, "After having lit it." | |
| DavidW says, "undo" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 2/57 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 2/56 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cigarette" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 2/57 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CIGARETTE Floyd | Floyd | A cigarette. Your favourite brand: Political Correctness Gone Mad, or Floyd | POC for short. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] High Street 2/58 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | High Street Floyd | Not as musical as Denmark Street, not flash like Carnaby Street or Floyd | rocking like Electric Avenue, but it's your high street and you like Floyd | it. However, "The Forsyte Saga" is on so everything's shut except the Floyd | corner shop to the south. Your house is to the north and the Surbiton Floyd | Railway Station is to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | The Gnome arrives from the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Surbiton Railway Station 2/59 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Surbiton Railway Station Floyd | The Surbiton Railway Station: a rather excitingly futurist-looking Floyd | building done up in lots of white concrete and glass. A large sign Floyd | says "Due to the current rail strike, no trains are available except Floyd | the Victoria-Eastbourne Express." You can see the Express to the Floyd | north. The High Street is to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a Ticket Seller here. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | The Gnome arrives from the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x seller" | ||
Floyd ] Surbiton Railway Station 2/60 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SELLER Floyd | Floyd | Dark hair, glasses and enough world-weariness to float HMS Belfast. Floyd | She is struggling with a malfunctioning piece of equipment. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x equipment" | ||
Floyd ] Surbiton Railway Station 2/61 Floyd | > Floyd | > X EQUIPMENT Floyd | Floyd | A ticket machine which does not seem to be functioning properly. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fix machine" | ||
Floyd ] Surbiton Railway Station 2/61 Floyd | > Floyd | > FIX MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to seller" | ||
Floyd ] Surbiton Railway Station 2/62 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SELLER Floyd | Floyd | "Everyone went on strike to protest the new continually-running Floyd | express to Eastbourne," she tells you with the air of someone who has Floyd | long since stopped listening to what she was saying. Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "buy ticket" | ||
Floyd ] Surbiton Railway Station 2/63 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY TICKET Floyd | Floyd | The Ticket Seller shrugs. "Gnomes travel free. So do you, if I can't Floyd | get this machine to work properly." Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 2/64 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Express Floyd | The train is a smooth, highly-industralised piece of equipment that is Floyd | not powered by steam in any way whatsoever. Floyd | Floyd | You persuade the gnome to follow you on board the express, even Floyd | carrying his bag, and wave him goodbye. So long to the gnome, then. Floyd | Nome, even. Back to your mundane existence. Floyd | Floyd | You head home for some much needed sleep, awaken fresh and bright the Floyd | next day, and find that he's back. What's more, he's brought a friend. Floyd | Floyd | Somehow, you aren't really surprised. Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen (on the bed) Floyd | Your new, nicely cleaned flat. Or antiquated Victorian terrace house. Floyd | The bathroom, such as it is, is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Fred, a Gnome, an oven, a fireplace and a telly here. Floyd | Floyd | Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fred" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 2/65 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FRED Floyd | Floyd | A metrognome. A metrosexual ticker, then. Floyd | Floyd | Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock. Floyd | Floyd | Ha ha ha, hee hee hee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to fred" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 2/65 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO FRED Floyd | Floyd | Fred gazes solemmly up at you. "I would like to sing you a song," he Floyd | explains. | Roger says, "wha" | |
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 2/65
Floyd | explains.
Floyd | >
Floyd |
Floyd | Will you say yes or no?>
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 3/65
Floyd | It's a song about how someone out on a walk met a laughing gnome. You
Floyd | are immediately struck by its brilliance and call up the BBC to tell
Floyd | them about the fantastic talent of these gnomes you've discovered.
Floyd |
Floyd | The BBC immediately employs them to write comedic prose for the Nome
Floyd | Service, the gnomes move into your chimney, and you all live on caviar
Floyd | and honey. A happy ending for everyone!
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | *** The End ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In that game you scored 3 out of a possible 5, in 65 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, "well hunh" | |
| DavidW says, "Sorry I didn't get high score!" | ||
| Olly has some caviar and honey. | ||
| Roger says, "That's okay" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "no problem" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "amusing" | ||
Floyd ] Kitchen 3/65 Floyd | > Floyd | > AMUSING Floyd | Floyd | Hurrah! Floyd | Floyd | Tip for the points: try doing things that would make the gnomes happy Floyd | to move in with you. 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 | > | Olly asks, "?" | |
| DavidW says, "I have no idea what makes gnomes happy." | ||
| Roger says, "laughing" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I am pretty deficient in that sort of street knowledge as well." | ||
| Olly says, "Yeah, that gnome seems pretty happy already." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We've all led very sheltered lives, not knowing how to please gnomes." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I agree with Olly." | ||
| Roger says, "cold toast" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I'd reply but I am in fact incapacitated by a fit of the giggles myself" | ||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "But you at least lived in Alaska." | ||
| DavidW says, "Everyone's heard of Gnome, Alaska." | ||
| Olly says, "I've heard of it, but never read of it before." | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "but is it inhabited by gnomes?" | ||
| Roger says, "Gnome means gnome" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "gnome sweet gnome" | ||
| Roger says, "I'm just glad it worked" | ||
| [LINK] | ||
| Olly says, "I'm going to try that sometime." | Teaspoon says, "thanks for having a go everyone" | |
| DavidW says, "/Gnome,_Alaska#Gnomenclature" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh dear" | ||
| Olly exclaims, "Yay!" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Anyway, thanks, Teaspoon for giving us a game that actually worked so that today was not a complete and total wash!" | ||
| Olly exclaims, "Yay!" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes, thank you, Teaspoon!" | ||
| Olly says, "If Allen were here, he would know how to get all the points." | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "Who's Allen?" | ||
| Olly says, "He knows all about gnomes." | ||
| DavidW says, "and hot sauce" | ||
| Roger says, "and music" | ||
| Olly says (to Teaspoon), "A chronic MUDder." | ||
| DavidW says, "and eating raw onions like apples." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "cooked onions with apples I can understand" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "raw onions, not so much" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "(so note to self: add in honey description, and remember that tasting is different from eating)" | ||
| DavidW says, "Fortunately, no one expects perfection in a speed game." | ||
| Roger says, "mmhmm" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "that's true" | ||
| DavidW says, "I half expected I'd have to cook the toadstools in the fireplace. But I thought to try the oven first." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I still haven't finished fiddling with the New Year's one." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "Ah. Well, to cook in the fireplace seemed like it'd be lots of fiddling with MAKE A FIRE and GET KINDLING commands" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "that's probably a speed-if - a slightly less morbid version of "To build a fire"" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Roger says, "David Bowie game now with 50% more flaming" | ||
| DavidW says (to Roger), "That could be dangerous." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "or troll-ish" | ||
| Roger says, "look out, little china girl" | ||
| Olly says, "Or gobliny." | ||
| DavidW says, ">DANCE MAGIC DANCE" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks again, all. I'm afk for a bit." | ||
| Olly says, "Heh." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "the song's rather fun, by the way" | ||
| [LINK] | ||
| Roger disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | DavidW says, "ah, I guess we were supposed to give the gnome a glass of wine and the cigarette." | |
| Teaspoon says, "yup" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Did we miss the glass?" | ||
| Roger says, "We give and we give and we give" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "you're being hospitable to a gnome" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "who in return rewards you with a BBC contract and lavish lifestyle" | ||
| Roger says, "We were hospitable to a ticket seller, a gnome, and a fault" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "It's like one of those fairy tales where the protagonist is called upon to be nice to a fault and is then rewarded out of all proportion for it" | ||
| Olly nods. | ||
| Teaspoon says, "but you don't actually need a glass. The gnome is perfectly happy to chug wine straight from the bottle" | ||
| Olly says, "It's always a good idea to be nice to magical creatures." | ||
| Roger says, "Magical or just short" | ||
| DavidW says, "I tried giving the nuts, but he seemed to only want toadstools, so I didn't think he wanted anything else." | ||
| Roger says, "The express train reminds me slightly, but fondly, of Dark City" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I had a complicated gag about Terry Gilliam there, but apparently forgot to actually code in the joke" | ||
| Roger says, "I caught that! It felt like enough." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "oh, hurrah" | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "Dark City?" | ||
| Roger says, "It's a movie with maybe a bit of a cult following now" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I've heard about it but don't know it" | ||
| Roger says, "If you're the sort of cat to drop a Brazil reference then I think you'd appreciate it" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I'll have to have a look then" | ||
