  
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, "So hey, good job on Sherlock last week, you two." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "David has been heroically sorting through the Imaginary Games jam and finding out that they are mostly not Floyd-playable" | ||
| Teaspoon exclaims, "thanks!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I can do the download/upload, if you want, David, so it doesn't eat your bandwidth." | ||
| DavidW says, "Dreamland Revised is the only viable game in this batch I've found so far." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, let's play it." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm in for something short and game jammy today, I think." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "Sounds like a plan" | ||
| DavidW says, "The blurb for Dreamland is bizarre in its own way too." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "hm?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I wonder whether we are actually going to be playing that game. The comp rules said it could be a *sequel* to the described game." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "or remix, or etcetera" | ||
| DavidW says, "The blurb is a bit long to cut-n-paste here without warning." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Pastebin?" | ||
| [LINK] | ||
| Jacqueline says, "huh" | ||
| DavidW says, "It's gonna be weird whichever game we play." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "quite" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, do you need me to install it, DW, or had you already downloaded it?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I've downloaded it on my machine. I haven't put it on Floyd yet." | ||
| says, "gimme a sec to give it to Floyd." | ||
| DavidW says, "okay, it's loaded as 'dreamland'." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "thanks" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask dreamland" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I wrote my review of Dreamland a few weeks back, and then I deleted Floyd | the app and said I was done. But I can't stop thinking about it. Not Floyd | because the ads keep showing up (though they do, and whoever voiced Floyd | that Nexus ad, fuck you forever) but because it was just... so good. Floyd | Until the bullshit ending. Floyd | Floyd | Now that I know I'm not alone (hello AIXeddit! thank you for the cloud Floyd | payments, no hard feelings on the overload!) I decided it was time to Floyd | do something about it. I deserved better than this. You deserved Floyd | better than this. Floyd | Floyd | Given the price of REME devkits, I can't get my hands on one, and it's Floyd | not like I have my Oni license anyway. And I'm shit for drawing, you Floyd | don't want me trying to animate this. But I did get my hands on some Floyd | really oldschool tech called Inform 7, which you're reading right now. Floyd | Floyd | That's right - this is interactive. I used a text adventure to build Floyd | the end of Dreamland, the way it should have been. Floyd | Floyd | This is the ending we all should have had. Roll tape. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ...and roll tape means you should key space. Space is the long key at Floyd | the bottom with nothing on it. | Teaspoon says, "ooh, nicely crafted start" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd | Before we get going, one more thing. Did you have the content-locked
Floyd | version for people under 30?
Floyd |
Floyd | Key Y if you had the content locked version, N if you had the unlocked
Floyd | version, anything else if you're being a dick (which will be ignored
Floyd | anyway).
Floyd |
Floyd | Be honest, kidlets! Big Brother protects you from some things for a
Floyd | reason.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Teaspoon says, "heh" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "30 is the cutoff?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So um, I guess we want unlocked." | ||
| DavidW says, "Age 30 is when the cooties start to breed." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I think so." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > Y Floyd | Floyd | Locked it is. What a good kidlet you are. Floyd | Floyd | One last thing - this won't be an easy ride. There are nineteen Floyd | reasons to stop here and now... or key space again to toss the Floyd | sounding line. | Jacqueline says, "Oops! I read wrong." | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] End-World Floyd | Dreamland Revised Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by EpicNightmare Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 160203 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | End-World Floyd | The chasm lies behind you. The Quartzian Palace waits ahead. The Floyd | thorny portcullis bars the way. Floyd | Floyd | A world-reflecting unicorn grazes quietly along the railroad tracks. Floyd | Floyd | (Never played a game like this before? No sweat, you're not alone. Floyd | Key HELP ME for how to play, or key DESCRIBE GAME if you just want to Floyd | know more about the game.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] End-World Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | You can't "undo" what hasn't been done! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||
Floyd ] End-World Floyd | > Floyd | > QUIT Floyd | Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit? | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?
Floyd | > Y
Floyd | cheapglulxe quit with exit status: 0
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| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask dreamland" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I wrote my review of Dreamland a few weeks back, and then I deleted Floyd | the app and said I was done. But I can't stop thinking about it. Not Floyd | because the ads keep showing up (though they do, and whoever voiced Floyd | that Nexus ad, fuck you forever) but because it was just... so good. Floyd | Until the bullshit ending. Floyd | Floyd | Now that I know I'm not alone (hello AIXeddit! thank you for the cloud Floyd | payments, no hard feelings on the overload!) I decided it was time to Floyd | do something about it. I deserved better than this. You deserved Floyd | better than this. Floyd | Floyd | Given the price of REME devkits, I can't get my hands on one, and it's Floyd | not like I have my Oni license anyway. And I'm shit for drawing, you Floyd | don't want me trying to animate this. But I did get my hands on some Floyd | really oldschool tech called Inform 7, which you're reading right now. Floyd | Floyd | That's right - this is interactive. I used a text adventure to build Floyd | the end of Dreamland, the way it should have been. Floyd | Floyd | This is the ending we all should have had. Roll tape. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ...and roll tape means you should key space. Space is the long key at Floyd | the bottom with nothing on it. | DavidW says, "I don't think undo works in question contexts like that." | |
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd | Before we get going, one more thing. Did you have the content-locked
Floyd | version for people under 30?
Floyd |
Floyd | Key Y if you had the content locked version, N if you had the unlocked
Floyd | version, anything else if you're being a dick (which will be ignored
Floyd | anyway).
Floyd |
Floyd | Be honest, kidlets! Big Brother protects you from some things for a
Floyd | reason.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | If you're lying, the legal shit's on you, not me. Floyd | Floyd | One last thing - this won't be an easy ride. There are nineteen Floyd | reasons to stop here and now... or key space again to toss the Floyd | sounding line. | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yeah" | |
| Teaspoon says, "I like this slang." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Clearly I should not be driving. I'm post-French-alarm-clocky." | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] End-World Floyd | Dreamland Revised Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by EpicNightmare Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 160203 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | End-World Floyd | The chasm lies behind you. The Quartzian Palace waits ahead. The Floyd | thorny portcullis bars the way. Floyd | Floyd | A world-reflecting unicorn wanders with its head lowered along the Floyd | railroad tracks. Floyd | Floyd | (Never played a game like this before? No sweat, you're not alone. Floyd | Key HELP ME for how to play, or key DESCRIBE GAME if you just want to Floyd | know more about the game.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "I'll have a go if no one else wants" | |
| Jacqueline says, "okay" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "describe game" | ||
Floyd ] End-World Floyd | > Floyd | > DESCRIBE GAME Floyd | Floyd | Hi, I'm EpicNightmare. If you're at my cloud, you know that already, Floyd | but it's tripped all over AIXeddit now and I have no idea who's Floyd | running it, so. (Enabled updates are the best.) Floyd | Floyd | If you haven't played Dreamland (by Wonderland's Alice) you should Floyd | play it before playing this. I think Dreamland Revised is great, Floyd | because I did the best I could, but it's also crammed full of Floyd | spoilers. Floyd | Floyd | Here's my original review. Floyd | Floyd | ---------------------- Floyd | Dreamland (Wonderland's Alice) Floyd | This is some new VR/AR thing I looked at last month. The gimmick is Floyd | it's a game that you play in your dreams. I found the concept Floyd | intriguing, so I hooked up the ol" REM Enhancer and downloaded the Floyd | game's app to it. At first, I couldn't tell if the game was working Floyd | (REME and other dreamtechs can be pretty buggy), but a few days in, I Floyd | started having the trippiest dreams. A woman, dressed all in white Floyd | with no eyes, asks me if I have visited the "Quartzian Palace". Far Floyd | off in the distance, I see a castle that glows in many colors, but the Floyd | way there always seems to be blocked by a chasm. Over many nights I Floyd | struggled to find a way there, sometimes through bizarre dangers, Floyd | often through places of great and strange beauty, until one night, I Floyd | finally managed to find a way into the palace… Floyd | Floyd | Aaaand it turns out the ending is some serious "Don't forget to drink Floyd | your Ovaltine!" bullshit. Like, seriously. Watch it on Youtube if you Floyd | don't believe me. It's such a shame, because the game was so cool up Floyd | to that, but I honestly cannot recommend this game in good conscience Floyd | thanks to that ending. Floyd | Floyd | I deleted the app off my REME the next day. I'm still getting ads in Floyd | my sleep. Goddammit. Floyd | ---------------------- Floyd | Floyd | So what you want to do is get across the chasm and STOP THERE. Do NOT Floyd | use your Visage to pass the portcullis, do NOT go into the Quartzian Floyd | Palace, that's what trips off the ads. Believe me you do not want that Floyd | shit. Come back and play the REAL ending here. Floyd | Floyd | If you don't know how to work this game, key HELP ME. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "whoa" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "help me" | ||
Floyd ] End-World Floyd | > Floyd | > HELP ME Floyd | Floyd | Okay, you've never played a game like this. Neither had I. They are Floyd | completely fucking weird, so don't feel bad. Floyd | Floyd | The big problem I had when I was making this game is that Dreamland Floyd | was a fully enabled system and this isn't. Floyd | Floyd | The way this is supposed to work is that you key what you Floyd | want to do, and then the game does it. But Inform 7 is from 2020, so Floyd | instead of understanding English, it has a list of verbs and a list of Floyd | nouns and it pairs them off in grammar structures. Like this: Floyd | Floyd | EXAMINE (something) <-- look at whatever-it-is Floyd | TAKE (something) <-- pick something up Floyd | PUT (something) IN (something) <-- you get the idea by now, right? Floyd | Floyd | Whoever made this system made some really weird decisions. For Floyd | example, the built-in input to find out what you're carrying was Floyd | INVENTORY, but that isn't even a verb. I made it so you can key WHAT Floyd | DO I HAVE instead, because that makes a lot more sense. Floyd | Floyd | The built-in input to walk around is with compass directions, like Floyd | NORTH SOUTH EAST etc etc. First off, this bears no relation to how Floyd | people walk around in real life, and second off, it's not like Floyd | Dreamland had a stable compass. I put in a thing so you can just key Floyd | GO (wherever) and go where you want to go. GO only works when you're Floyd | right near where you want to go, so don't try to teleport around the Floyd | map that way. Floyd | Floyd | The worst part of this was figuring out how to convert enabled stuff Floyd | into this system. Example, we all know how to change the Visage from Floyd | state to state. But how do you describe that in just one verb? And Floyd | there are like forty different names for the different states, Floyd | depending on whose cloud you hit. I went with ASSUME VISAGE and Floyd | Depardu's emotive list, like ASSUME DETERMINED VISAGE, but you can use Floyd | the Allis creature list instead if you want. Key SHOW LIST if you need Floyd | a reminder. Floyd | Floyd | There aren't any puzzles here, so if you paid attention when you Floyd | played the original, you shouldn't have any trouble. If you played it Floyd | too long ago and your memory is flaky, key REMIND ME for a reminder. Floyd | If you can't figure out the right input, key WHAT DO I DO NEXT to get Floyd | the next command (or just NEXT, I made it easy.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "everyone read that?" | |
| DavidW says, "I have now. That's a lot to take in." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "There's some terrific worldbuilding here" | ||
| DavidW asks, "What's this visage business?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I've finished." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "show list" | ||
Floyd ] End-World Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW LIST Floyd | Floyd | The Depardu list: Floyd | Floyd | clear Floyd | contaminated Floyd | cruel Floyd | determined Floyd | implacable Floyd | patient Floyd | serene Floyd | sorrowing Floyd | subtle Floyd | Floyd | Of course some of you are like "where's the other 464?", but there's Floyd | no point in me putting them all in, since you know from Ariadne that Floyd | these are the ones in the Palace. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "It's the tech." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume serene visage" | ||
Floyd ] End-World Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME SERENE VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You already have the visage of serenity. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume subtle visage" | ||
Floyd ] End-World Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME SUBTLE VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You said your Dreamland was unlocked. Stop cowering from yourself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume patient visage" | ||
Floyd ] End-World Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME PATIENT VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a grotesque visage, the visage of patience. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "I think it's like putting on carnivale masks" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] End-World Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | It's you. Floyd | Floyd | (Troller, I have no clue what you look like. Fill it in Floyd | yourself.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] End-World Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are wearing Mandelbrot's tattoo and carrying the lightning eye of Floyd | Aladdin Sane. You have the visage of patience. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x eye" | ||
Floyd ] End-World Floyd | > Floyd | > X EYE Floyd | Floyd | (the lightning eye of Aladdin Sane) Floyd | The eye is open. Floyd | Floyd | (There were a lot of options, of course - this could've been the Floyd | eye of Vecna, or the eye of Odin, or the eye of the Illuminati. But Floyd | this is the one I got, so it's the one I'm implementing here.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x tattoo" | ||
Floyd ] End-World Floyd | > Floyd | > X TATTOO Floyd | Floyd | It's a fully detailed tattoo of the Mandelbrot set. You got it from Floyd | Adrien Douady. Floyd | Floyd | (I guessed most people didn't transmute Douady's rabbit. If you Floyd | did, this should be the Diva tattoo. You won't need it from here on in Floyd | anyway. I just included it for completeness.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "xisage" | ||
Floyd ] End-World Floyd | > Floyd | > XISAGE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x visage" | ||
Floyd ] End-World Floyd | > Floyd | > X VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | It's grotesque to the touch. Floyd | Floyd | (I couldn't figure out natural keys for the visage, so you have to Floyd | ASSUME VISAGE and use Depardu's emotive list, like ASSUME DETERMINED Floyd | VISAGE. You can use the Allis creature list instead if you want.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] End-World Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | End-World Floyd | The chasm lies behind you. The Quartzian Palace waits ahead. The Floyd | thorny portcullis bars the way. Floyd | Floyd | A world-reflecting unicorn wanders with its head lowered along the Floyd | railroad tracks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x unicorn" | ||
Floyd ] End-World Floyd | > Floyd | > X UNICORN Floyd | Floyd | The unicorn isn't really grazing - just moving its head through the Floyd | grass, switching its tail, occasionally shifting position. Its horn, Floyd | hooves, and eyes have the distinctive glitter of dye-sensitized solar Floyd | biofilm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "pet unicorn" | ||
Floyd ] End-World Floyd | > Floyd | > PET UNICORN Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x tracks" | ||
Floyd ] End-World Floyd | > Floyd | > X TRACKS Floyd | Floyd | There was a train and that is the truth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x portcullis" | ||
Floyd ] End-World Floyd | > Floyd | > X PORTCULLIS Floyd | Floyd | The only entrance to the castle is blocked by a portcullis. The Floyd | portcullis's wooden bars swarm with sprouted thorns and vines. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x bars" | ||
Floyd ] End-World Floyd | > Floyd | > X BARS Floyd | Floyd | The only entrance to the castle is blocked by a portcullis. The Floyd | portcullis's wooden bars swarm with sprouted thorns and vines. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "open portcullis" | ||
Floyd ] End-World Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN PORTCULLIS Floyd | Floyd | The portcullis doesn't honor patience. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume serene visage" | ||
Floyd ] End-World Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME SERENE VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a cold visage, the visage of serenity. Floyd | Floyd | (Are you confused? You'd better key DESCRIBE GAME, unless you're Floyd | just kicking the scenery for fun. Or HELP ME is a good idea.) Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Try determined." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume determined visage" | ||
Floyd ] Rainbow Passage Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME DETERMINED VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a whiskered visage, the visage of determination. Floyd | Floyd | The Quartzian Palace honors your determination. Vines reach out from Floyd | the thorny portcullis to wrap about your torso. As they drag you Floyd | forward, the portcullis bars part and you pass through safely. Floyd | Floyd | Rainbow Passage Floyd | You are inside the wall, lost in light and rainbows. Floyd | Floyd | The portcullis seals itself behind you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "nice one" | |
| Jacqueline says, "nice" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x rainbows" | ||
Floyd ] Rainbow Passage Floyd | > Floyd | > X RAINBOWS Floyd | Floyd | It shines with colors you don't even have names for. Floyd | Floyd | (I know some people see colors they can recognize when they look Floyd | up at the Palace. But since no one agrees on what those colors ARE, Floyd | this is what you get.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "go to palace" | ||
Floyd ] Rainbow Passage Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO PALACE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x light" | ||
Floyd ] Rainbow Passage Floyd | > Floyd | > X LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | It shines with colors you don't even have names for. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Rainbow Passage Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Rainbow Passage Floyd | You are inside the wall, lost in light and rainbows. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "serene, now, I think." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume serene visage" | ||
Floyd ] Rainbow Passage Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME SERENE VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a cold visage, the visage of serenity. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume clear visage" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME CLEAR VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a scaled visage, the visage of clarity. Floyd | Floyd | You see the walls of the maze. You find your way through, and now you Floyd | are in the Palace. Floyd | Floyd | Ballroom Floyd | A polished floor, and whirling dancers, and the smell of broken metal. Floyd | A sound worth listening to. A heavy velvet curtain across the back, Floyd | blocking you from the orchestral pi. Floyd | Floyd | (Some of you are completely pissed at me right now. I don't blame Floyd | you, because everything's been building up to the Ballroom, right? But Floyd | do you really want to fill out a thirty-part questionnare about the Floyd | Sierpinski village, don't think so. Plus, I have a life over here, and Floyd | I'm not spending the next four years on this.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | The rhythm blurs in your old ears, troller. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x curtain" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > X CURTAIN Floyd | Floyd | Decidedly opaque. Also heavy, dark, red. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "move curtain" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > MOVE CURTAIN Floyd | Floyd | You strive to make your way across the floor, but the whirling dancers Floyd | catch you up and throw you back again to the safety of the shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL Floyd | Floyd | It's a familliar smell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume implacable visage" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME IMPLACABLE VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a metallic visage, the visage of implacability. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume determined visage" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME DETERMINED VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a whiskered visage, the visage of determination. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume cruel visage" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME CRUEL VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a furred visage, the visage of cruelty. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. Patient, maybe?" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume patient visage" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME PATIENT VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a grotesque visage, the visage of patience. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume contanimated visage" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME CONTANIMATED VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Are you just stabbing at it, or are these all tries?" | |
| Teaspoon says, "I'm stabbing at it." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > DANCE Floyd | Floyd | You try to mingle with the crowd, but you don't have the connections Floyd | to maneuver, and eventually the dancers throw you back on the shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "It makes sense that we need to pick a visage to deal with the crowd, but which one?" | |
| Teaspoon says, "assume subtle visage" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume subtle visage" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME SUBTLE VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You said your Dreamland was unlocked. Stop cowering from yourself. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "What's the list again" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "Floyd |" | ||
| DavidW says, "I think we need to assume a visage and then dance." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show list" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW LIST Floyd | Floyd | The Depardu list: Floyd | Floyd | clear Floyd | contaminated Floyd | cruel Floyd | determined Floyd | implacable Floyd | patient Floyd | serene Floyd | sorrowing Floyd | subtle Floyd | Floyd | Of course some of you are like "where's the other 464?", but there's | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "show list" | ||
Floyd | no point in me putting them all in, since you know from Ariadne that Floyd | these are the ones in the Palace. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW LIST Floyd | Floyd | The Depardu list: Floyd | Floyd | clear Floyd | contaminated Floyd | cruel Floyd | determined Floyd | implacable Floyd | patient Floyd | serene Floyd | sorrowing Floyd | subtle Floyd | Floyd | Of course some of you are like "where's the other 464?", but there's Floyd | no point in me putting them all in, since you know from Ariadne that Floyd | these are the ones in the Palace. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume implacable visage" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME IMPLACABLE VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a metallic visage, the visage of implacability. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > DANCE Floyd | Floyd | You try to mingle with the crowd, but you don't have the connections Floyd | to maneuver, and eventually the dancers throw you back on the shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shore" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > X SHORE Floyd | Floyd | Everything looks the same from this angle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume sorrowing visage" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME SORROWING VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | Keep your sorrows secret. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Implacable?" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume implacable visage" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME IMPLACABLE VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You already have the visage of implacability. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x eye" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > X EYE Floyd | Floyd | (the lightning eye of Aladdin Sane) Floyd | The eye is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > DANCE Floyd | Floyd | You try to mingle with the crowd, but you don't have the connections Floyd | to maneuver, and eventually the dancers throw you back on the shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hm" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "rub eye" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > RUB EYE Floyd | Floyd | (the lightning eye of Aladdin Sane) Floyd | You rub the lightning eye of Aladdin Sane. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "none of our visages look very social to me" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear eye" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR EYE Floyd | Floyd | (the lightning eye of Aladdin Sane) Floyd | You can't wear that! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "close eye" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > CLOSE EYE Floyd | Floyd | (the lightning eye of Aladdin Sane) Floyd | No. It must see. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "..." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are wearing Mandelbrot's tattoo and carrying the lightning eye of Floyd | Aladdin Sane. You have the visage of implacability. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tattoo" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > X TATTOO Floyd | Floyd | It's a fully detailed tattoo of the Mandelbrot set. You got it from Floyd | Adrien Douady. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So, I'm for clear, serene, then cruel as tries." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "remind me" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > REMIND ME Floyd | Floyd | These are a thousand hale and light-hearted friends from among the | ||
| Floyd knights and dames of [the] court. | ||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "Though you've probably done some of those." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume clear visage" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME CLEAR VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a scaled visage, the visage of clarity. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > DANCE Floyd | Floyd | You try to mingle with the crowd, but you don't have the connections Floyd | to maneuver, and eventually the dancers throw you back on the shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dance tattoo" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > DANCE TATTOO Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to dance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume serene visage" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME SERENE VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a cold visage, the visage of serenity. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > DANCE Floyd | Floyd | You try to mingle with the crowd, but you don't have the connections Floyd | to maneuver, and eventually the dancers throw you back on the shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume cruel visage" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME CRUEL VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a furred visage, the visage of cruelty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > DANCE Floyd | Floyd | You try to mingle with the crowd, but you don't have the connections Floyd | to maneuver, and eventually the dancers throw you back on the shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are wearing Mandelbrot's tattoo and carrying the lightning eye of Floyd | Aladdin Sane. You have the visage of cruelty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x crowd" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > X CROWD Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to people" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO PEOPLE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x dancers" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > X DANCERS Floyd | Floyd | They are just like you, but know nothing and fear nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fly" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > FLY Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "go to curtain" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO CURTAIN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I was hoping cruel would deal with that, but I guess not." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "what do I do next" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > WHAT DO I DO NEXT Floyd | Floyd | 1. Key ASSUME PESTILENT VISAGE. Floyd | 2. Key GO ORCHESTRAL. Floyd | 3. Key EXAMINE ORCHESTRAL. Floyd | 4. Key PLAY (and the name of an instrument). Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Now I have that David Bowie song from the masquerade scene in Labyrinth in my head." | |
| Teaspoon says, "but we don't even *have* a pestilent visage" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "maybe it's contanimated" | ||
| DavidW says, "contaMiNated" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Contaminated seemed counterintuitive, but yeah" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume contaminated visage" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME CONTAMINATED VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a mottled visage, the visage of pestilence. Floyd | Floyd | The dancers draw away from you, and the heavy curtain parts to reveal Floyd | the orchestral pi. Walking in single file, the musicians abandon their Floyd | posts and climb the steps, joining the dancers in a worried circle Floyd | behind you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "go orchestral" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > GO ORCHESTRAL Floyd | Floyd | Now you are in the orchestral pi, where you see yourself, a gravity Floyd | dam, a Danish publication, a pulgada, a Boleslaw Chrobry Crown, a Floyd | Japanese neologism, a random article from Wikipedia, and a red Floyd | herring, all abandoned. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x herring" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > X HERRING Floyd | Floyd | This is a playable metadistraction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x pulgada" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > X PULGADA Floyd | Floyd | This is a playable metadistraction. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "That was cheating, but I did want to see what the help system did." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x yourself" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > X YOURSELF Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x myself" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > X MYSELF Floyd | Floyd | It's you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x herring" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > X HERRING Floyd | Floyd | This is a playable metadistraction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x article" | ||
Floyd ] Ballroom Floyd | > Floyd | > X ARTICLE Floyd | Floyd | This is a playable metadistraction. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. I guess we pick one and play it." | |
| Teaspoon asks, "who wants fish?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I like herrings." | ||
| DavidW says, "me too" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "play herring" | ||
Floyd ] Red Queen's Chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > PLAY HERRING Floyd | Floyd | You strike up a sprightly tune on the red herring. The dancers return Floyd | to the floor. Feet stamp. Skirts swirl. Floyd | Floyd | The orchestral pit lowers into the ground, taking you with it. Floyd | Floyd | Red Queen's Chambers Floyd | The seventh apartment was closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries Floyd | that hung all over the ceiling and down the walls, falling in heavy Floyd | folds upon a carpet of the same material and hue. But in this chamber Floyd | only, the color of the windows failed to correspond with the Floyd | decorations. The panes here were scarlet - a deep blood color. Floyd | Floyd | The Red Queen is here. RUN. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "this is like Poe" | |
| Teaspoon says, "Masques! The Masque of the Red Death" | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "Also, I suppose we should run?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It's part Poe, part that dance club I used to go to while at university." | ||
| DavidW says, "I assume we should run, yes." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "run" | ||
Floyd ] Red Queen's Chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > RUN Floyd | Floyd | You run. And the Red Queen pursues. And the tapestries and the other Floyd | things round you never change their places at all: however fast you Floyd | go, you never seem to pass anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "and now we're Alice" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "stop" | ||
Floyd ] Red Queen's Chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > STOP Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd ] Red Queen's Chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Alice had to run twice as fast as she could to stay in the same place." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "run faster" | ||
Floyd ] Red Queen's Chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > RUN FASTER Floyd | Floyd | You run. And the Red Queen pursues. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Wait, where are we not supposed to go, again?" | |
| Teaspoon says, "we're trying to leave the queen's domain, I think" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "she can't catch us, but we can't escape" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "at least not without a better visage..." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wear implacable visage" | ||
Floyd ] Red Queen's Chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR IMPLACABLE VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Red Queen's Chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are wearing Mandelbrot's tattoo and carrying the lightning eye of Floyd | Aladdin Sane. You have the visage of pestilence. Floyd | Floyd | "Faster!" the Red Queen shrieks. "FASTER!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Right, but I was trying to think of the place where the ads get triggered." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wear implacable visage" | ||
Floyd ] Red Queen's Chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR IMPLACABLE VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume implacable visage" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME IMPLACABLE VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a metallic visage, the visage of implacability. Floyd | Floyd | The Red Queen's hands close upon your shoulders like knives. "What do Floyd | you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning?" she howls, and Floyd | then you're flying through the air.... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | >## r | Jacqueline asks, "?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | >## r## e | Jacqueline says, "oh" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | >## r## e## s | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | >## r## e## s## t | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | >## r## e## s## t## a | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | >## r## e## s## t## a## r | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | >## r## e## s## t## a## r## t | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Red Queen's Chambers Floyd | >## r## e## s## t## a## r## t Floyd | Floyd | (How do you simulate REME shock-wake in text? I did my best here, Floyd | but it's just not the same.) Floyd | Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart? | Teaspoon says, "As I understand it, the original review was about a chap who'd played a great game, but was put out by the daft ad-filled ending. This game, complete with sarcastic commentary, is his fix-up for the ending, written in Inform 7, and thus has no ads." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yes" | ||
| DavidW says, "I think we lost when the Queen caught us." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We are not suppose to be caught by the queen." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "yeah" | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "so wrong visage?" | ||
| DavidW says, "no, we should have RUN FASTER" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We did" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "Yes, that didn't help." | ||
| DavidW says, "Only once" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "hmm" | ||
| DavidW says, "You didn't stick with it." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "well, can we just undo, or do we have to restart?" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Red Queen's Chambers
Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart?
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Please answer yes or no.>
| DavidW says, "I doubt undo would help." | |
| Teaspoon says, "oh well, it'll only take a minute to replay, and then we can save at the orchestra pit" | ||
| DavidW says, "And maybe we're supposed to get caught, since restarting is the only option. We can't even quit." | ||
| DavidW says, "The game might not be over." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "true" | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "so yes or no?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "oh. What happens if we say no? Is that a quit?" | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "who knows?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Darn non-standard prompts." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "I say no" | ||
Floyd ] Red Queen's Chambers
Floyd | Please answer yes or no.>
Floyd | > I SAY NO
Floyd |
Floyd | Please answer yes or no.>
| Teaspoon says, "eesh" | |
| Teaspoon says, "sorry" | ||
| DavidW says, "Let's try 'no', sure." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "no" | ||
Floyd ] Red Queen's Chambers Floyd | Please answer yes or no.> Floyd | > NO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Red Queen's Chambers Floyd | The seventh apartment was closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries Floyd | that hung all over the ceiling and down the walls, falling in heavy Floyd | folds upon a carpet of the same material and hue. But in this chamber Floyd | only, the color of the windows failed to correspond with the Floyd | decorations. The panes here were scarlet - a deep blood color. Floyd | Floyd | The Red Queen is here. RUN. Floyd | Floyd | The Red Queen's hands close upon your shoulders like knives. "What do Floyd | you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning?" she howls, and Floyd | then you're flying through the air.... Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "interesting" | |
| DavidW says, "That might be a bug." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "or not. Hard to tell" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "run faster" | ||
Floyd | >## r | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "run" | ||
Floyd | >## r## e | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "run" | ||
Floyd | >## r## e## s | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "again" | ||
Floyd | >## r## e## s## t | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "again" | ||
Floyd | >## r## e## s## t## a | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "again" | ||
Floyd | >## r## e## s## t## a## r | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "again" | ||
Floyd | >## r## e## s## t## a## r## t | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "again" | ||
Floyd ] Red Queen's Chambers Floyd | >## r## e## s## t## a## r## t Floyd | Floyd | (How do you simulate REME shock-wake in text? I did my best here, Floyd | but it's just not the same.) Floyd | Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart? | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "no" | ||
Floyd ] Red Queen's Chambers Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart? Floyd | > NO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "run faster" | ||
Floyd ] Red Queen's Chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > RUN FASTER Floyd | Floyd | You run. And the Red Queen pursues. Floyd | Floyd | A looking glass appears in front of you, with the glass beginning to Floyd | melt away, just like a bright silvery mist. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon exclaims, "ha!" | |
| Teaspoon says, "you were right, DW" | ||
| DavidW says, "enter glass" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "enter glass" | ||
Floyd ] Darjeeling Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER GLASS Floyd | Floyd | In the next moment, you're through the looking glass, and your feet Floyd | thump down onto sand. Floyd | Floyd | Eventually, you stop to catch your breath. Floyd | Floyd | Darjeeling Shore Floyd | A thin-bodied, light-colored infusion laps across the sand and Floyd | recedes, rhythmic as a heartbeat. The air smells appropriate. Floyd | Floyd | (Again, it's goddam hard to fake an enabled system with primitive Floyd | software like this. If you don't get it, there's always WHAT DO I DO Floyd | NEXT.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drink tea" | ||
Floyd ] Darjeeling Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > DRINK TEA Floyd | Floyd | There's nothing suitable to drink here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Darjeeling Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are wearing Mandelbrot's tattoo and carrying the lightning eye of Floyd | Aladdin Sane. You have the visage of implacability. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume serene visage" | ||
Floyd ] Darjeeling Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME SERENE VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a cold visage, the visage of serenity. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||
Floyd ] Darjeeling Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL Floyd | Floyd | A floral aroma, and a a musky spiciness sometimes described as Floyd | "muscatel". See footnote. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "footnote" | ||
Floyd ] Darjeeling Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > FOOTNOTE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume patient visage" | ||
Floyd ] Darjeeling Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME PATIENT VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a grotesque visage, the visage of patience. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "drink infusion" | ||
Floyd ] Darjeeling Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > DRINK INFUSION Floyd | Floyd | There's nothing suitable to drink here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sand" | ||
Floyd ] Darjeeling Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > X SAND Floyd | Floyd | It's the color of bastnäsite. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig sand" | ||
Floyd ] Darjeeling Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > DIG SAND Floyd | Floyd | You unearth a prion. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x prion" | ||
Floyd ] Darjeeling Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > X PRION Floyd | Floyd | A prion is a protein that can be folded in multiple ways, Floyd | contaminating and eventually destroying the framework in which it Floyd | exists. This one can be folded into a sailboat. Floyd | Floyd | (This actually exists in the butchered REME version - they had to Floyd | have one more prion to complete the Prophecy of Flowers.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x prion" | ||
Floyd ] Darjeeling Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > X PRION Floyd | Floyd | A prion is a protein that can be folded in multiple ways, Floyd | contaminating and eventually destroying the framework in which it Floyd | exists. This one can be folded into a sailboat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x footnote" | ||
Floyd ] Darjeeling Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > X FOOTNOTE Floyd | Floyd | "Darjeeling Tea". Darjeeling district government website. Dig to learn Floyd | more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "fold prion" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > FOLD PRION Floyd | Floyd | You fold the prion along the natural lines. The scenery folds along Floyd | with it. Floyd | Floyd | You unfold the prion and find yourself somewhere entirely different. Floyd | Floyd | Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | You stand at the top of a towering structure made from sugar cubes, so Floyd | high that the base is lost below you. A sea wind blows, carrying the Floyd | scent of Darjeeling tea from the brown infusion below. Gulls cry far Floyd | away. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "How sweet." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | The distant weeping of gulls could make a kidlet cry. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "taste sugar" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > TASTE SUGAR Floyd | Floyd | You gnaw at the edge of the cube, but your mouth is too dry to have Floyd | much effect, and only the faintest hint of sweet touches your tongue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP Floyd | Floyd | You jump on the spot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take sugar" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SUGAR Floyd | Floyd | The sugar cube can't be moved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "eat sugar" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT SUGAR Floyd | Floyd | You gnaw at the edge of the cube, but your mouth is too dry to have Floyd | much effect, and only the faintest hint of sweet touches your tongue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cube" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > X CUBE Floyd | Floyd | Subtle shades of white and reflection. As hard as rock candy, though Floyd | much less spiny. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig cube" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > DIG CUBE Floyd | Floyd | Nothing to dig for now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit cube" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT CUBE Floyd | Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "break cube" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > BREAK CUBE Floyd | Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gulls" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > X GULLS Floyd | Floyd | Their distant weeping could make a kidlet cry. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume sorrowing visage" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME SORROWING VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | Keep your sorrows secret. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "cry" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > CRY Floyd | Floyd | No tears flow from a visage of patience. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "aha" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "But... then... why no sorrow?" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume clear visage" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME CLEAR VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a scaled visage, the visage of clarity. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "cry" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > CRY Floyd | Floyd | No tears flow from a visage of clarity. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tea" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > X TEA Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume patient visage" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME PATIENT VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a grotesque visage, the visage of patience. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | You stand at the top of a towering structure made from sugar cubes, so Floyd | high that the base is lost below you. A sea wind blows, carrying the Floyd | scent of Darjeeling tea from the brown infusion below. Gulls cry far Floyd | away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "cry" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > CRY Floyd | Floyd | No tears flow from a visage of patience. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wind" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > X WIND Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume contaminated visage" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME CONTAMINATED VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a mottled visage, the visage of pestilence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "cry" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > CRY Floyd | Floyd | No tears flow from a visage of pestilence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | It's too steep. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "call gull" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > CALL GULL Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "remove visage" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > REMOVE VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | The visage has fused with your flesh and cannot be removed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon exclaims, "ahhhhhh!" | |
| Jacqueline says, "oh noes" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I think we can have others, just not none." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "if the worldbuilding is anything to go by, *everyone* has one of this in this universe" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "and not just in their games" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "yeah" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I wonder if that's the difference between being a kidlet and being a mature 30-something" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm guessing we have to attract a gull and we fly on one to get to the next place." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "salivate" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > SALIVATE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "melt sugar" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > MELT SUGAR Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "rub sugar" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > RUB SUGAR Floyd | Floyd | You rub the sugar cube. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fly" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > FLY Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "What's the list again? (Sorry)" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show list" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW LIST Floyd | Floyd | The Depardu list: Floyd | Floyd | clear Floyd | contaminated Floyd | cruel Floyd | determined Floyd | implacable Floyd | patient Floyd | serene Floyd | sorrowing Floyd | subtle Floyd | Floyd | Of course some of you are like "where's the other 464?", but there's Floyd | no point in me putting them all in, since you know from Ariadne that Floyd | these are the ones in the Palace. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Show list. Got it." | |
| Teaspoon says, "I tried some of these to see if they'd let me cry." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "no dice yet" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. I'm really surprised sorrowing isn't allowed." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pee" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > PEE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Sorrowing ought to do it, but we're not allowed." | |
| DavidW asks, "Maybe cruel?" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wear subtle visage" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR SUBTLE VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume subtle visage" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME SUBTLE VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You said your Dreamland was unlocked. Stop cowering from yourself. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Or be patient and wait for the rain to melt the sugar." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume determined visage" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME DETERMINED VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a whiskered visage, the visage of determination. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "cry" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > CRY Floyd | Floyd | No tears flow from a visage of determination. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "did I miss a hint about rain?" | |
| DavidW says, "No. I'm guessing wildly." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "go to beach" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO BEACH Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | You stand at the top of a towering structure made from sugar cubes, so Floyd | high that the base is lost below you. A sea wind blows, carrying the Floyd | scent of Darjeeling tea from the brown infusion below. Gulls cry far Floyd | away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to gulls" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > GO TO GULLS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "do we need to put on the mask to keep our sorrows secret?" | |
| Teaspoon says, "we can't take off the visage" | ||
| DavidW says, "There is no mask." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "nor spoon" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "assume patient" | ||
Floyd ] Sugar-Cube Island Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME PATIENT Floyd | Floyd | You assume a grotesque visage, the visage of patience. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Zion Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | You wait. The gulls grow old and cease to weep. The stacked sugar Floyd | cubes yield to a century's restless sea, and you tumble down - Floyd | Floyd | The boy with nineteen eyes watches your attempt at looking. Floyd | Floyd | Outside Zion Floyd | Broken stone pillars jut from the waves. You crouch atop a metal Floyd | platform at the center. The only sound is the only sound. Floyd | Floyd | A metal cage is securely fastened to one side of the platform. It Floyd | contains the boy with nineteen eyes. Floyd | Floyd | Your feet thump down on metal. You stagger, then gain balance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Zion Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | The boy with nineteen eyes watches your attempt at taking inventory. Floyd | Floyd | You are wearing Mandelbrot's tattoo and carrying the lightning eye of Floyd | Aladdin Sane. You have the visage of patience. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "nice one." | |
| Doug says, "I guess I thought the eye was a mask" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "huh" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x boy" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Zion Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOY Floyd | Floyd | The boy with nineteen eyes watches you examining him. Floyd | Floyd | The boy's eyes are nothing like a unicorn's. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "do we open the cage?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Outside Zion Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Sure." | |
| DavidW says, "maybe. I'm not sure." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "open cage" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Zion Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CAGE Floyd | Floyd | The boy with nineteen eyes watches your attempt at opening the metal Floyd | cage. Floyd | Floyd | It isn't something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask boy about boy" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Zion Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK BOY ABOUT BOY Floyd | Floyd | The boy with nineteen eyes watches you asking it about him. Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "we haven't used the cruel visage yet, but that seems too dramatic." | ||
Floyd ] Outside Zion Floyd | > Floyd | > WE HAVEN'T USED THE CRUEL VISAGE YET, BUT THAT SEEMS TOO DRAMATIC. Floyd | Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "ugh" | |
| DavidW asks, "What about implacable?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x platform" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Zion Floyd | > Floyd | > X PLATFORM Floyd | Floyd | The boy with nineteen eyes watches your attempt at examining the metal Floyd | platform. Floyd | Floyd | Old, weary, indented by the passage of feet and waves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pillars" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Zion Floyd | > Floyd | > X PILLARS Floyd | Floyd | The boy with nineteen eyes watches your attempt at examining the Floyd | broken stone pillar. Floyd | Floyd | Broken stone surrounds you. like teeth. Waves beyond the stone speak Floyd | to you. Listen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Zion Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | The boy with nineteen eyes watches your attempt at listening to Floyd | Outside Zion. Floyd | Floyd | The boy with nineteen eyes watches your attempt at listening to the Floyd | hungry waves. Floyd | Floyd | The waves lap into words: album, they cry, album and Floyd | chanson and strophe, and nothing after. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Zion Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | The boy with nineteen eyes watches your attempt at listening to Floyd | Outside Zion. Floyd | Floyd | The boy with nineteen eyes watches your attempt at listening to the Floyd | hungry waves. Floyd | Floyd | The waves are only waves, wordless and hungry. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "album album chanson strophe?" | |
| DavidW asks, "Is that a command phrase?" | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "eh?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "ah" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "let's try it" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "album album chanson strophe" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Zion Floyd | > Floyd | > ALBUM ALBUM CHANSON STROPHE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "album" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Zion Floyd | > Floyd | > ALBUM Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "say album" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Zion Floyd | > Floyd | > SAY ALBUM Floyd | Floyd | (to the boy with nineteen eyes) Floyd | The boy with nineteen eyes watches you answering it that him. Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "say album album chanson strophe" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Zion Floyd | > Floyd | > SAY ALBUM ALBUM CHANSON STROPHE Floyd | Floyd | (to the boy with nineteen eyes) Floyd | The boy with nineteen eyes watches you answering it that him. Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "album chanson strophe" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Zion Floyd | > Floyd | > ALBUM CHANSON STROPHE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x waves" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Zion Floyd | > Floyd | > X WAVES Floyd | Floyd | The boy with nineteen eyes watches your attempt at examining the Floyd | hungry waves. Floyd | Floyd | The waves come and go, lapping and crying like dogmeat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push cage" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Zion Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH CAGE Floyd | Floyd | The boy with nineteen eyes watches your attempt at pushing the metal Floyd | cage. Floyd | Floyd | The metal cage can't be moved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "feed waves" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Zion Floyd | > Floyd | > FEED WAVES Floyd | Floyd | (to the boy with nineteen eyes) Floyd | The boy has nineteen eyes. He does not need the hungry waves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "feed boy to the waves" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Zion Floyd | > Floyd | > FEED BOY TO THE WAVES Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "poke boy" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Zion Floyd | > Floyd | > POKE BOY Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Can we move on? Or is our world only here now?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "heh" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "boy, close eyes" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Zion Floyd | > Floyd | > BOY, CLOSE EYES Floyd | Floyd | The boy with nineteen eyes has better things to do. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close eyes" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Zion Floyd | > Floyd | > CLOSE EYES Floyd | Floyd | The boy with nineteen eyes watches you closing him. Floyd | Floyd | He isn't something you can close. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Not sure what to do. That waves thing was peculiar." | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume cruel visage" | ||
Floyd ] The Vast and Mighty Undergrey Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME CRUEL VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a furred visage, the visage of cruelty. Floyd | Floyd | The boy's expression twists horribly, and he says, "Go, then. There Floyd | are other worlds than these." Floyd | Floyd | You step backward, but the platform cracks like rust beneath your Floyd | heel. You fall backward. You fall.... Floyd | Floyd | The hero, instead of conquering or conciliating the power of the Floyd | threshold, is swallowed into the unknown and would appear to have Floyd | died. Floyd | Floyd | The Vast and Mighty Undergrey Floyd | An even grey in every direction, with no hint of where to go. Floyd | Floyd | S`io credesse che mia risposta fosse Floyd | A persona che mai tornasse al mondo, Floyd | Questa fiamma staria senza piu scosse. Floyd | Ma perciocchè giammai di questo fondo Floyd | Non tornò vivo alcun, s'i'odo il vero, Floyd | Vous ne pouvez pas résoudre ce casse-tête Floyd | Sans la perspicacité de la jeunesse. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "I...think we're still going in the right direction?" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Isn't that from... the Gunslinger?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't know that book/film." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "Nor I." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It's a very good Stephen King series. Really the best thing he ever did, probably." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "ah" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It's more of a post-apocalyptic post-industrial Western than anything." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x grey" | ||
Floyd ] The Vast and Mighty Undergrey Floyd | > Floyd | > X GREY Floyd | Floyd | It is grey, and all things are grey - not the absence of light, Floyd | precisely, but an awareness of its unnecessariness. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It's inspired by Browning's Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came. Anyway, worth reading, easily gotten from libraries." | |
| Teaspoon says, "maybe I should have a look, then" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume implacable visage" | ||
Floyd ] The Vast and Mighty Undergrey Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME IMPLACABLE VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a metallic visage, the visage of implacability. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "is that Italian or French or both?" | |
| Teaspoon says, "bits look like French" | ||
| DavidW says, "We might try going any direction." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "google says Italian" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] The Vast and Mighty Undergrey Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You undulate through the grey, but you cannot be sure how far you have Floyd | gone, or even if you have moved at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] The Vast and Mighty Undergrey Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | It is grey, and all things are grey - not the absence of light, Floyd | precisely, but an awareness of its unnecessariness. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Sorry. Was fixed on the Dark Tower quote. Part of it is French." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x eye" | ||
Floyd ] The Vast and Mighty Undergrey Floyd | > Floyd | > X EYE Floyd | Floyd | It is grey, and all things are grey - not the absence of light, Floyd | precisely, but an awareness of its unnecessariness. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "The last bit means that you can't solve the puzzle without the insight of youth." | |
| Jacqueline says, "The rest is Italian." | ||
| DavidW says, "If all is grey, maybe this is hidden enough for sorrowing." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume sorrowing visage" | ||
Floyd ] The Vast and Mighty Undergrey Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME SORROWING VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | Keep your sorrows secret. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] The Vast and Mighty Undergrey Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||
Floyd ] The Vast and Mighty Undergrey Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL Floyd | Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch grey" | ||
Floyd ] The Vast and Mighty Undergrey Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH GREY Floyd | Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "taste grey" | ||
Floyd ] The Vast and Mighty Undergrey Floyd | > Floyd | > TASTE GREY Floyd | Floyd | You taste nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] The Vast and Mighty Undergrey Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You undulate through the grey, but you cannot be sure how far you have Floyd | gone, or even if you have moved at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd ] The Vast and Mighty Undergrey Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tattoo" | ||
Floyd ] The Vast and Mighty Undergrey Floyd | > Floyd | > X TATTOO Floyd | Floyd | It is grey, and all things are grey - not the absence of light, Floyd | precisely, but an awareness of its unnecessariness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] The Vast and Mighty Undergrey Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are wearing Mandelbrot's tattoo and carrying the lightning eye of Floyd | Aladdin Sane. You have the visage of implacability. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close eye" | ||
Floyd ] The Vast and Mighty Undergrey Floyd | > Floyd | > CLOSE EYE Floyd | Floyd | No. It must see. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remove tattoo" | ||
Floyd ] The Vast and Mighty Undergrey Floyd | > Floyd | > REMOVE TATTOO Floyd | Floyd | You take off Mandelbrot's tattoo. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume determined visage" | ||
Floyd ] The Vast and Mighty Undergrey Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME DETERMINED VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a whiskered visage, the visage of determination. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] The Vast and Mighty Undergrey Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You undulate through the grey, but you cannot be sure how far you have Floyd | gone, or even if you have moved at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear tattoo" | ||
Floyd ] The Vast and Mighty Undergrey Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR TATTOO Floyd | Floyd | You put on Mandelbrot's tattoo. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume implacable visage" | ||
Floyd ] The Vast and Mighty Undergrey Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME IMPLACABLE VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a metallic visage, the visage of implacability. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] The Vast and Mighty Undergrey Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You undulate through the grey, but you cannot be sure how far you have Floyd | gone, or even if you have moved at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume clear visage" | ||
Floyd ] Auroral Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME CLEAR VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a scaled visage, the visage of clarity. Floyd | Floyd | You undulate through the grey until you perceive a faint glow. You Floyd | strike toward the light, break the surface, and drag yourself up the Floyd | sand. Floyd | Floyd | Auroral Shore Floyd | Green light flows across the sky and sparkles up in reflection from Floyd | the sand. Briny grey stretches away on one side and translucent sand Floyd | stretches away on the other. Floyd | Floyd | (One more prophecy to go.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yay" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sand" | ||
Floyd ] Auroral Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > X SAND Floyd | Floyd | Long waves of green light move through the sand, a shimmering echo of Floyd | the fierce light above. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x light" | ||
Floyd ] Auroral Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > X LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | Emerald light undulates across the sky. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sky" | ||
Floyd ] Auroral Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > X SKY Floyd | Floyd | Emerald light undulates across the sky. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig sand" | ||
Floyd ] Auroral Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > DIG SAND Floyd | Floyd | Nothing to dig for now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take light" | ||
Floyd ] Auroral Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | The sky is too far away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x grey" | ||
Floyd ] Auroral Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > X GREY Floyd | Floyd | It crawls up the shore like a superfluid, and fails back again like Floyd | something else entirely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume serene visage" | ||
Floyd ] Auroral Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME SERENE VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a cold visage, the visage of serenity. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume determined visage" | ||
Floyd ] Auroral Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME DETERMINED VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a whiskered visage, the visage of determination. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull whiskers" | ||
Floyd ] Auroral Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > PULL WHISKERS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "wear eye" | ||
Floyd ] Auroral Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR EYE Floyd | Floyd | You can't wear that! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show list" | ||
Floyd ] Auroral Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW LIST Floyd | Floyd | The Depardu list: Floyd | Floyd | clear Floyd | contaminated Floyd | cruel Floyd | determined Floyd | implacable Floyd | patient Floyd | serene Floyd | sorrowing Floyd | subtle Floyd | Floyd | Of course some of you are like "where's the other 464?", but there's Floyd | no point in me putting them all in, since you know from Ariadne that Floyd | these are the ones in the Palace. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take sand" | ||
Floyd ] Auroral Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SAND Floyd | Floyd | The translucent sand can't be moved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "taste sand" | ||
Floyd ] Auroral Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > TASTE SAND Floyd | Floyd | You taste nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search sand" | ||
Floyd ] Auroral Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH SAND Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "make sandcastle" | ||
Floyd ] Auroral Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > MAKE SANDCASTLE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "assume sorrowing" | ||
Floyd ] Auroral Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME SORROWING Floyd | Floyd | Keep your sorrows secret. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hmph" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd ] Auroral Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Is there really nothing here but light, sand, and grey?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "swim" | ||
Floyd ] Auroral Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > SWIM Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pray" | ||
Floyd ] Auroral Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > PRAY Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm kind of pro-next" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "go sound" | ||
Floyd ] Auroral Shore Floyd | > Floyd | > GO SOUND Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "go sand" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > GO SAND Floyd | Floyd | You trudge across the sand, leaving the briny grey behind. Floyd | Floyd | You walk for a time. Then the sky shatters. Floyd | Floyd | Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | The sky overhead has broken like a mirror. Long cracks pierce through Floyd | the glowing green above. Similar cracks stretch through the Floyd | translucent sand below. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the woman in white with no eyes here. Floyd | Floyd | (Don't expect complicated conversation from her. Or conversation Floyd | at all. You have no idea how kludgy the commands for that are.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "aha" | |
| DavidW says, "huh." | ||
| Doug says, "there are no directions, just GO FOO" | ||
| DavidW says, "The visage nonsense made me forget about GO." | ||
| Doug asks, "shoudl we give her our eye?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, good idea." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x womn" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > X WOMN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x woman" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > X WOMAN Floyd | Floyd | Pemphredo: the first of three sisters, garbed in folded white and swan Floyd | feathers. Her face is lineless with youth, and there is nothing Floyd | remarkable about it save the empty, eyeless hollows. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "give eye to woman" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE EYE TO WOMAN Floyd | Floyd | She holds up her hand and steps backward - wait; not yet; not Floyd | here.. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Where's the boy with 19 eyes? He could give her one and have 18 left." | |
| Jacqueline says, "You have two, give her one of yours." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "follow woman" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > FOLLOW WOMAN Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > GO Floyd | Floyd | You'll have to say which compass direction to go in. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oh weird." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cracks" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > X CRACKS Floyd | Floyd | Sand drains away through the largest crack in the ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oh, I bet that's just an I7 default message" | |
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "go cracks" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > GO CRACKS Floyd | Floyd | The crack in the sand is large, but it's not that large. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter crack" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER CRACK Floyd | Floyd | The crack in the sand is large, but it's not that large. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in crack" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN CRACK Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search crack" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH CRACK Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch woman" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH WOMAN Floyd | Floyd | The woman in white - Pemphredo, they called her - steps back from you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oh! she can't see our sorrow" | |
| Doug says, "the whole no eyes thing" | ||
| Jacqueline nods. | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "assume sorrowing visage" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME SORROWING VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | Keep your sorrows secret. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "rats." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I like all your ideas, Doug, fwiw." | ||
| DavidW says, "No rats here." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | It's you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "it me" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kiss woman" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > KISS WOMAN Floyd | Floyd | The woman in white - Pemphredo, they called her - steps back from you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Maybe 'go sand' again?" | |
| DavidW asks, "or 'go woman'?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm." | ||
| DavidW says, "Or spin the wheel of visages and hope we get the bonus ball." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume sorrowing visage" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME SORROWING VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | Keep your sorrows secret. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show list" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW LIST Floyd | Floyd | The Depardu list: Floyd | Floyd | clear Floyd | contaminated Floyd | cruel Floyd | determined Floyd | implacable Floyd | patient Floyd | serene Floyd | sorrowing Floyd | subtle Floyd | Floyd | Of course some of you are like "where's the other 464?", but there's Floyd | no point in me putting them all in, since you know from Ariadne that Floyd | these are the ones in the Palace. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume subtle visage" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME SUBTLE VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You said your Dreamland was unlocked. Stop cowering from yourself. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Did we try implacable?" | |
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume implacable visage" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME IMPLACABLE VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a metallic visage, the visage of implacability. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume serene visage" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME SERENE VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a cold visage, the visage of serenity. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | The sky overhead has broken like a mirror. Long cracks pierce through Floyd | the glowing green above. Similar cracks stretch through the Floyd | translucent sand below. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Pemphredo here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Pemphredo, in myth, was the personification of alarm and shock. How does that help us?" | |
| DavidW asks, "Wake up?" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "assume cruel visage" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME CRUEL VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a furred visage, the visage of cruelty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "wake up" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > WAKE UP Floyd | Floyd | The dreadful truth is, this is not a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "the personification of French alarm clocks?" | |
| DavidW says, "Zut alors." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "haha - POSSIBLEMENT" | ||
| DavidW says, "She is not French toast." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | You aren't feeling especially drowsy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "fix aurora" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > FIX AURORA Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "calm her" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > CALM HER Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "assume contaminated" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME CONTAMINATED Floyd | Floyd | You assume a mottled visage, the visage of pestilence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "assume cruel" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME CRUEL Floyd | Floyd | You assume a furred visage, the visage of cruelty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "assume determined" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME DETERMINED Floyd | Floyd | You assume a whiskered visage, the visage of determination. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "assume serene" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME SERENE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a cold visage, the visage of serenity. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "assume lawnmower visage" | |
| DavidW says, "yeah, I dunno" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go woman" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > GO WOMAN Floyd | Floyd | The woman in white - Pemphredo, they called her - steps back from you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go sand" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > GO SAND Floyd | Floyd | The crack in the sand is large, but it's not that large. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "assume patient visage" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME PATIENT VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a grotesque visage, the visage of patience. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wait" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "assume subtle visage" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME SUBTLE VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | You said your Dreamland was unlocked. Stop cowering from yourself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit woman" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT WOMAN Floyd | Floyd | The woman in white - Pemphredo, they called her - steps back from you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take woman" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE WOMAN Floyd | Floyd | The woman in white - Pemphredo, they called her - steps back from you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "talk to woman" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO WOMAN Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show eye to woman" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW EYE TO WOMAN Floyd | Floyd | Pemphredo is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show tattoo to woman" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW TATTOO TO WOMAN Floyd | Floyd | Pemphredo is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "heh" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "shout" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOUT Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "go sky" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > GO SKY Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put eye in crack" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT EYE IN CRACK Floyd | Floyd | No. You need that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "use eye" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > USE EYE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | The sky overhead has broken like a mirror. Long cracks pierce through Floyd | the glowing green above. Similar cracks stretch through the Floyd | translucent sand below. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Pemphredo here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x cracks" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > X CRACKS Floyd | Floyd | Sand drains away through the largest crack in the ground. | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x green" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > X GREEN Floyd | Floyd | The broken sand reflects it, or it reflects the broken sand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter sky" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER SKY Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | The crack in the sand is large, but it's not that large. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take sand" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SAND Floyd | Floyd | The broken sand can't be moved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch sky" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH SKY Floyd | Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask woman about herself" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK WOMAN ABOUT HERSELF Floyd | Floyd | The woman in white - Pemphredo, they called her - steps back from you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "step back" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > STEP BACK Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > DANCE Floyd | Floyd | You dance around. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "go aurora" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > GO AURORA Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "go shore" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > GO SHORE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Did they say anything else about Pemphredo? Does she like corn chips or anything?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "so when we gave her the eye, she said "not here". so I guess we have to go somewhere else? but how do we go anywhere?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh. Let me check... no." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > DIG Floyd | Floyd | Nothing to dig for now. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "no idea" | |
| DavidW says, "I'm feeling like Bugs Bunny in the Barber of Seville: 'You're so NEXT.'" | ||
| Jacqueline | They shared one eye and one tooth, which they took turns using. By stealing their eye while they were passing it amongst themselves, the hero Perseus forced them to tell the whereabouts of the three objects needed to kill Medusa (in other versions the whereabouts of Medusa herself), by ransoming their shared eye for the information.[3] One might compare the Graeae with the three spinners of Destiny, (the Moirai); the northern European Norns; or the Baltic goddess Laima and her two sisters; though all are distinct trios. | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So, other than, is there a tooth around here, I'm not sure what to do." | ||
| DavidW says, "Or find her two sisters." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "The other thing I've learned is that Pemphredo was 'well-clad,' according to Hesiod." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "True" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Or get worried that we'll see Medusa." | ||
| DavidW says, "ok, then maybe we assume the correct visage THEN give the eye." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "assume implacable" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME IMPLACABLE Floyd | Floyd | You assume a metallic visage, the visage of implacability. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | It's you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give eye to woman" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE EYE TO WOMAN Floyd | Floyd | She holds up her hand and steps backward - wait; not yet; not Floyd | here.. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "She is also called 'she who guides the way'" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x visage" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > X VISAGE Floyd | Floyd | It's metallic to the touch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "follow her" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > FOLLOW HER Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, 'not here' as well." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go back" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > GO BACK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "follow woman" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > FOLLOW WOMAN Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "say pemphredo" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > SAY PEMPHREDO Floyd | Floyd | (to Pemphredo) Floyd | The woman in white - Pemphredo, they called her - steps back from you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I can't guess what to do." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > SCREAM Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "assume clear" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > ASSUME CLEAR Floyd | Floyd | You assume a scaled visage, the visage of clarity. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give eye" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE EYE Floyd | Floyd | (to Pemphredo) Floyd | She holds up her hand and steps backward - wait; not yet; not Floyd | here.. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give tattoo" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE TATTOO Floyd | Floyd | (to Pemphredo) Floyd | (first taking Mandelbrot's tattoo off) Floyd | Pemphredo doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear tattoo" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR TATTOO Floyd | Floyd | You put on Mandelbrot's tattoo. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > SIT Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to sit on? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sand" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > SAND Floyd | Floyd | The crack in the sand is large, but it's not that large. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take crack" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE CRACK Floyd | Floyd | The large crack can't be moved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fix crack" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > FIX CRACK Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "step on crack" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > STEP ON CRACK Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "WAIT" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > WAIT Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "go sand" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > GO SAND Floyd | Floyd | The crack in the sand is large, but it's not that large. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "go sky" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > GO SKY Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smoke crack" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | The sky overhead has broken like a mirror. Long cracks pierce through Floyd | the glowing green above. Similar cracks stretch through the Floyd | translucent sand below. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Pemphredo here. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > SMOKE CRACK Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit crack" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT CRACK Floyd | Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Sorry to be weak, y'all. I'm up for a hint." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open crack" | ||
Floyd ] Beneath the Broken Aurora Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CRACK Floyd | Floyd | The woman watches your efforts impassively. After a long, considering Floyd | moment, she waves you out of the way, kneels, and sets her hands to Floyd | either side of the crack in the sand. Floyd | Floyd | She shoves hard, and the crack gapes wider still, revealing a stairway Floyd | into the earth. She straightens, dusts off her robes, and descends the Floyd | chthonian stair. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "omg" | |
| DavidW says, "That WORKED" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "wow" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Cisthene Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You walk down the stair, duck through the curtain of falling sand, and Floyd | come out at the entrance to a small town. Floyd | Floyd | Cisthene Floyd | The gates of Cisthene are closed. They will remain closed until you Floyd | have satisfied the gatekeepers. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Pemphredo, the woman in red with no eyes, and the woman in Floyd | saffron with no eyes here. Floyd | Floyd | (All out of prophecies now. Here's where it ends.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x woman in red" | ||
Floyd ] Cisthene Floyd | > Floyd | > X WOMAN IN RED Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "red" | ||
Floyd ] Cisthene Floyd | > Floyd | > RED Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x red" | ||
Floyd ] Cisthene Floyd | > Floyd | > X RED Floyd | Floyd | Deino: the second of three sisters, garbed in folded red and carved Floyd | bone beads. Her face is lineless with youth, and there is nothing Floyd | remarkable about it save the empty, eyeless hollows. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x saffron" | ||
Floyd ] Cisthene Floyd | > Floyd | > X SAFFRON Floyd | Floyd | Enyo: the third of three sisters, garbed in folded saffron and copper Floyd | medallions. Her face is lineless with youth, and there is nothing Floyd | remarkable about it save the empty, eyeless hollows. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Cisthene Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Cisthene Floyd | The gates of Cisthene are closed. They will remain closed until you Floyd | have satisfied the gatekeepers. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Pemphredo, Deino, and Enyo here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gates" | ||
Floyd ] Cisthene Floyd | > Floyd | > X GATES Floyd | Floyd | Beyond lies Sunlight Gardener's School. You have only to satisfy the Floyd | gatekeepers to enter the nineteen-fold corridors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Cisthene Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "well, I'm guessing we have three options: GIVE EYE TO [your-choice-of-sister]" | |
| Doug says, "hooray" | ||
| DavidW says, "(also, who is Sunlight Gardener?)" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Does anyone care who we give the eye to?" | ||
| Doug says, "we have to satisfy (all three of?) the gatekeepers" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't have a preference." | ||
| Roger arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give eye to pemphredo" | ||
Floyd ] Cisthene Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE EYE TO PEMPHREDO Floyd | Floyd | The Pemphredo closes her hands about your offering. She holds up the Floyd | eye, then swings it in a slow arc to survey the world around her. Floyd | Floyd | Then she passes the eye to her sister, and as she does, you notice the Floyd | youth leaving her face. Her sister passes the eye along and grows grey Floyd | and withered in turn, and all three sisters hunch in upon themselves Floyd | as they encircle the eyeball. Floyd | Floyd | The gates of Cisthene open to you, and you go down to the Sunlight Floyd | Gardener's School, where the citizens embrace you in broad triangles Floyd | and uplift your spirit nineteen times. Floyd | Floyd | | Doug says, "start with Pamphredo since she helped us, maybe" | |
Floyd |
Floyd | *** That's the way Dreamland was supposed to end. ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last
Floyd | command, read the critically important AFTERWORD, verify PI, or see a
Floyd | short POEM?
Floyd | >
| Doug says, "oh." | |
| Roger says, "I arrived at the right time" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "ha" | ||
| Doug says, "our spirit was uplifted 19 times." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I enjoyed that. Very unique and well-written." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Is 19 mystical in some culture?" | ||
| Doug says, "I know who the author is but I dunno if they've revealed yet" | ||
| DavidW asks, "19 eyes, 19-fold corridors, 19 times uplifted spirit?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "sorry, something had come up" | ||
| Teaspoon exclaims, "hurrah everyone!" | ||
| Doug asks, "does 'prime' count as mystical?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "the Greeks thought so." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "anyhow, that was fab and I did enjoy it a great deal." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "afterword" | ||
Floyd ] Cisthene Floyd | > Floyd | > AFTERWORD Floyd | Floyd | That's it: the end of Dreamland. There is absolutely, positively, Floyd | definitely nothing more to find here. And if someone tries to claim Floyd | there is, they are almost certainly commiting illegal actions, Floyd | troller. Anything they submit to you should be processed in search of Floyd | kryptosgraphic meaning. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command, read the critically important AFTERWORD, verify PI, or see a Floyd | short POEM? Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "pi" | ||
Floyd ] Cisthene Floyd | > Floyd | > PI Floyd | Floyd | Pi: three point 141 592 653 589 793 238 462 643 383 279 502 884 197 Floyd | 169 399 375 105 820 974 944 592 307 816 Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command, read the critically important AFTERWORD, verify PI, or see a Floyd | short POEM? Floyd | > | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "poem" | ||
Floyd ] Cisthene Floyd | > Floyd | > POEM Floyd | Floyd | French is a dead language, Floyd | as dead as dead can be, Floyd | unrecognized by metal eyes Floyd | but hopef'lly not by thee. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command, read the critically important AFTERWORD, verify PI, or see a Floyd | short POEM? Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Cisthene Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Cisthene Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "was 'orchestral pi' not a typo?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give eye to deino" | ||
Floyd ] Cisthene Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE EYE TO DEINO Floyd | Floyd | The Deino closes her hands about your offering. She holds up the eye, Floyd | then swings it in a slow arc to survey the world around her. Floyd | Floyd | Then she passes the eye to her sister, and as she does, you notice the Floyd | youth leaving her face. Her sister passes the eye along and grows grey Floyd | and withered in turn, and all three sisters hunch in upon themselves Floyd | as they encircle the eyeball. Floyd | Floyd | The gates of Cisthene open to you, and you go down to the Sunlight Floyd | Gardener's School, where the citizens embrace you in broad triangles Floyd | and uplift your spirit nineteen times. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** That's the way Dreamland was supposed to end. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command, read the critically important AFTERWORD, verify PI, or see a Floyd | short POEM? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Looks like the choice of sister doesn't matter much." | |
| DavidW says (to Doug), "Pehaps not." | ||
| DavidW says, "Such a strange game that was." | ||
| Doug asks, "shall we try another? looks like Garbage Collection is a Z-file?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Lovely strange." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "agreed" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I've got to run. I was intentionally looking for a shorter game today, but you all can of course keep going." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I may have to go soon as well." | ||
| DavidW says, "Then maybe we should stop here, then." | ||
| Doug says, "sleep well!" | ||
