  
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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| Jacqueline says, "Aloha, folks." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Having heard no, 'HELLO, JACQ! WE ARE EXCITED TO BE HERE!' I will give it a few minutes..." | |||
| Roger says, "I am moderately excited" | |||
| Roger asks, "IntroComp on the sched?" | |||
| Teaspoon arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Teaspoon says, "EXCITED TO BE HERE, EVERYONE" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "*dusts off bullhorn*" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "Yeah" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "Sounds good." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Should we give it a few more minutes to see if others show?" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "That sounds fine." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's check back in at quarter past (i.e. just a few minutes)" | |||
| kpaquette asks, "Is Clubfloyd started yet?" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "Not yet, no." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Not yet, but it will start in a moment, Katie." | |||
| kpaquette arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | kpaquette asks, "Is ClubFloyd started yet?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Not yet, but it will start in a moment, Katie." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Actually, we said we'd revisit starting around now. So I take it that DW and Peregrine et al are not coming." | |||
| kpaquette says, "I need to go for dinner." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I am of two minds about today. I did not tell authors or in fact promote that we'd be playing IntroComp games." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to katie), "Then you should go have dinner." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "We could play and not post transcripts, I suppose." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Authors aren't allowed to publically discuss their games, but will still see the transcripts eventually, so I think them not knowing is okay." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Tsp), "Well, people can post reviews, just not players." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "oh, I see. That makes sense." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "So I guess what I'm saying is that I was feeling bad for not promoting this, but in the end I think it's actually for the best." | |||
| Jacqueline | Anyway, there are seven games, three of which are playable on Floyd. Three others are browser-based. | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oops, that... wasn't a | thing. Anyway." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I looked at copying & pasting them for us, but one of them clearly relied on images for part of the experience, so I didn't feel it would be fair to try them on Floyd." | |||
| Teaspoon asks, "What's the seventh one then?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "(C&Ping the browser-based stuff, I mean.)" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "The final game is a Unity exe and couldn't be copied & pasted -- even if I wanted to, which I wouldn't, because the experience would clearly not be as the authors intended." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "So we'll play the parser games, but I really do encourage you to knock out the other four on your own. You could probably knock them all out today." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "Neat." | |||
| Iria arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | Iria says, "This is a first for me. Attending ClubFloyd while on the Northeast Regional." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "As a reminder, you should be thinking about a vote from 1-10, based on how much you'd like to see the author(s) finish the game." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "With a 10 meaning you really want them to finish it." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "And for each game you should also write down a bit of feedback for the author as to why you voted the way you did. That info is anonymously shared with the author after the comp closes." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "A link to the voting site (along with other FAQ stuff) is at [LINK]" | |||
| Iria asks, "IntroComp is here already?" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "The games are out, yes." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, came out last week? Something like that." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway, in no particular order..." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask spellbound" | |||
Floyd ] Institute of Orthographic Studies 0/1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Here," says the professor. "These are yours now." Floyd | Floyd | In your hands, you see the old professor's alphabet case, containing Floyd | the three known letters, and his well-used letter frame. This is the Floyd | day that you've waited years for. Ever since Professor Spruce shocked Floyd | the orthographic community by announcing that there were, somewhere Floyd | out there, 26 (twenty-six!) letters in all, you made it your Floyd | goal in life to search them out. You were just a kid then; you could Floyd | never have imagined that Professor Spruce himself would be the one to Floyd | send you on your way. Floyd | Floyd | "Before you go," Professor Spruce says, "I wonder if you might spell Floyd | one last cup of tea for me." Floyd | Floyd | (If this is your first time playing, type ABOUT Floyd | for information.) Floyd | Floyd | Spellbound Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Adam Perry Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 160728 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Institute of Orthographic Studies Floyd | These halls have been your home for the past several years. It was Floyd | here that you learned how to arrange the known letters into words, to Floyd | recognize the unknown letters, and to introduce them to your alphabet Floyd | case. These skills are sure to come in handy very soon. Floyd | Floyd | The entrance doors are south of here, through which you can see the Floyd | bustle of the city. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Professor Spruce here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Iria says (to Floyd), "x Professor" | |||
Floyd ] Institute of Orthographic Studies 0/2 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PROFESSOR Floyd | Floyd | No doubt the good professor would have loved to be the one to fill his Floyd | alphabet case, but the man was always more of an academic. He has Floyd | always been an inspiration to you, even now that his age is catching Floyd | up to him. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Institute of Orthographic Studies 0/3 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | your alphabet case (A, E, and T) Floyd | a three-letter frame Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x frame" | |||
Floyd ] Institute of Orthographic Studies 0/4 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FRAME Floyd | Floyd | This frame has exactly the right number of slots for you to spell Floyd | three-letter words. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x case" | |||
Floyd ] Institute of Orthographic Studies 0/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CASE Floyd | Floyd | Your alphabet case holds your collection of letters. Currently, it has Floyd | the letters A, E, and T. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "I like this." | ||
| Iria says, "Clever." | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "spell eat" | |||
Floyd ] Institute of Orthographic Studies 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL EAT Floyd | Floyd | You don't need the alphabet's help to eat, and if you don't have Floyd | something to eat, then this isn't the word you're looking for. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Iria says (to floyd), "spell ate" | |||
Floyd ] Institute of Orthographic Studies 0/7 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL ATE Floyd | Floyd | It's not clear what you ate, but you feel quite satisfied now. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "spell eta" | |||
Floyd ] Institute of Orthographic Studies 0/8 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL ETA Floyd | Floyd | The image of an "H" shimmers briefly in the air, but you can't use a Floyd | Greek letter, even if it does resemble an English one. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "huh" | |||
| Iria says (to Floyd), "Spell Tea" | |||
Floyd ] Institute of Orthographic Studies 1/9 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TEA Floyd | Floyd | You deftly arrange the letters in the frame, just like you've Floyd | practiced a thousand times. You produce a cup of bergamot, the Floyd | professor's favorite. Floyd | Floyd | Between sips, the professor begins reminiscing. "You know, I've been Floyd | studying the alphabet for most of a lifetime now. I always knew I Floyd | wouldn't be the one to hunt down the unknown letters -- I'm not much Floyd | for traveling, as you know. So I've kept my eyes open for the one who Floyd | would fulfill my ambition. In all these years, I have only met a Floyd | handful of people that showed the passion and aptitude for spelling Floyd | that would be required for such a venture." Floyd | Floyd | Professor Spruce takes a final swill of his teacup and looks you Floyd | square in the eyes. "You should know that this is not our first Floyd | attempt at an expedition to Phoenicia. There was one other, a Floyd | colleague of mine, that we were preparing to send. The expedition Floyd | ended in failure before it could even begin. No orthographer has ever Floyd | set foot in Phoenicia." He takes a look at you before continuing. "I Floyd | don't mean to alarm you. I only want you to understand the Floyd | significance of your journey. You know as well as I do the importance Floyd | and power of the alphabet. The Institute exists to ensure that the Floyd | alphabet is used responsibly, and -- well, I'm preaching to the choir, Floyd | aren't I? I wish you the best of luck on your voyage. We are all Floyd | counting on you to return with the complete alphabet." Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Iria asks, "What? No coffee?" | ||
| Teaspoon exclaims, "yay, points!" | |||
| Iria exclaims, "I get the point now!" | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Institute of Orthographic Studies 1/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | your alphabet case (A, E, and T) Floyd | a three-letter frame Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "about" | |||
Floyd ] Institute of Orthographic Studies 1/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | Equipped with a three-letter frame and a case of your collected Floyd | letters (currently A, E, and T), you are on a quest to find all 26. Floyd | Floyd | Your primary method of interacting with the world is by spelling Floyd | words. If you have A, C, and T, for example, you could try the command Floyd | SPELL CAT. If you're stuck, try spelling all the words you can Floyd | in as many places as possible. While you can bring your journey to an Floyd | abrupt end with a few ill-advised actions (in which case you can Floyd | simply UNDO), you can never find yourself in a situation where Floyd | it's impossible to win, so experiment! Many of the game's puzzles have Floyd | multiple solutions. Floyd | Floyd | If this is your first time playing a game like this, type HELP Floyd | for some tips on how to get around and a few useful commands. If you Floyd | find yourself stumped, you can try the HINT command. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "sing" | |||
Floyd ] Institute of Orthographic Studies 1/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > SING Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | |||
Floyd ] Institute of Orthographic Studies 1/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "This seems clever but impossible to fully implement." | ||
| Roger says, "There's some trickery that could be invoked" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Like, the intro would be manageable due to so few letters, but once the player has 20?" | |||
| Iria says (to Jacqueline), "I see what you're getting at." | |||
| Jacqueline asks (of Roger), "What are you thinking?" | |||
| Roger says, "Maybe the player has to turn them in, keep the hand size to, I dunno, 7" | |||
| Roger says, "It's magic, why not" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm, yeah. There'd have to be something like that." | |||
| Iria stage-whispers, "By the way, if you're thinking of MU*ing from an Amtrak train, make sure that you're not sitting behind someone who wants to lean back all the time!" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "scrabble connection." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask professor about expedition" | |||
Floyd ] Institute of Orthographic Studies 1/11 Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK PROFESSOR ABOUT EXPEDITION Floyd | Floyd | The old professor says, "You have a long journey ahead of you, and Floyd | there's nothing more I can teach you." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "professor about me" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask professor about me" | |||
Floyd ] Institute of Orthographic Studies 1/12 Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK PROFESSOR ABOUT ME Floyd | Floyd | The old professor says, "You have a long journey ahead of you, and Floyd | there's nothing more I can teach you." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Iria hoohoohoohoohoohoos! | Jacqueline says, "So, no more info." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "?" | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "exit" | |||
Floyd ] Aleph City 1/13 Floyd | > Floyd | > EXIT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Aleph City Floyd | Today may be the most important day of your life, but for the rest of Floyd | Aleph City, it's Tuesday. The streets are busy as ever, and you see a Floyd | few familiar faces among the hustle and bustle. None of that matters Floyd | to you. You have a mission. Floyd | Floyd | The Institute of Orthographic Studies is north of here, and far to the Floyd | east is the wilderness of Phoenicia, theorized by Professor Spruce to Floyd | contain the unknown letters. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "oops. Sorry" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I was trying to find the exits" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I think I'm okay with exiting." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "I get the idea we are not meant to hang around the city." | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look at crowd" | |||
Floyd ] Aleph City 1/13 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK AT CROWD Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Should we just go e?" | ||
| Iria says (to floyd), "x wilderness" | |||
Floyd ] Aleph City 1/13 Floyd | > Floyd | > X WILDERNESS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x city" | |||
Floyd ] Aleph City 1/13 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CITY Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "spell tea" | |||
Floyd ] Aleph City 1/14 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TEA Floyd | Floyd | You enjoy a cup of oolong. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "spell tea" | |||
Floyd ] Aleph City 1/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TEA Floyd | Floyd | You enjoy a cup of Earl Grey. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "I guess we like different tea." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "spell tea" | |||
Floyd ] Aleph City 1/16 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TEA Floyd | Floyd | You enjoy a cup of oolong. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "spell tea" | |||
Floyd ] Aleph City 1/17 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TEA Floyd | Floyd | You enjoy a cup of peppermint tea. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "spell tea" | |||
Floyd ] Aleph City 1/18 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TEA Floyd | Floyd | You enjoy a cup of oolong. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "spell tea" | |||
Floyd ] Aleph City 1/19 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TEA Floyd | Floyd | You enjoy a cup of jasmine. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "spell tea" | |||
Floyd ] Aleph City 1/20 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TEA Floyd | Floyd | You enjoy a cup of rooibos. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "spell tea" | |||
Floyd ] Aleph City 1/21 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TEA Floyd | Floyd | You enjoy a cup of oolong. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "spell tea" | |||
Floyd ] Aleph City 1/22 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TEA Floyd | Floyd | You enjoy a cup of rooibos. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "spell tea" | |||
Floyd ] Aleph City 1/23 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TEA Floyd | Floyd | You enjoy a cup of iced tea. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh. Many teas." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "Nice little randomizer that." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "So, granted, there's some scenery implementation that needs to be done, but I don't think that's what the author was focusing on in the intro." | |||
| Roger says, "It introduces the conceit well and gives me a good idea of what the final product is likely to be like" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "And what there is works. No typoes." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Can we go east?" | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Western Edge of Phoenicia 1/24 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Western Edge of Phoenicia Floyd | All of Phoenicia lies before you, ready for you to explore. You're not Floyd | the first to explore Phoenicia -- that honor goes to Jerome Phoenix, Floyd | for whom the region is named -- but you are the first orthographer to Floyd | come here in search of the alphabet. Floyd | Floyd | This particular area is a little bare, though. Undoubtedly, there's Floyd | something more interesting to the northeast, east, and southeast. Floyd | Aleph City is far away to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes a little beneath your feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "I'm curious about the worldbuilding now." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x ground" | |||
Floyd ] Western Edge of Phoenicia 1/25 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GROUND Floyd | Floyd | There's very little I can tell you about the ground that won't come Floyd | across as incredibly patronizing. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes a little beneath your feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "...er, what?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh. Okay." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x sky" | |||
Floyd ] Western Edge of Phoenicia 1/25 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SKY Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x ground" | |||
Floyd ] Western Edge of Phoenicia 1/26 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GROUND Floyd | Floyd | There's very little I can tell you about the ground that won't come Floyd | across as incredibly patronizing. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes a little beneath your feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "jump" | |||
Floyd ] Western Edge of Phoenicia 1/26 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP Floyd | Floyd | You can't jump very high. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "dig" | |||
Floyd ] Western Edge of Phoenicia 1/26 Floyd | > Floyd | > DIG Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| kpaquette goes home. | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Clearing 1/27 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | You find yourself in a grassy clearing. The landscape is thoroughly Floyd | unremarkable here, but you can see the edge of Phoenicia Forest to the Floyd | south, Lake Phoenicia to the east, and a large brick structure to the Floyd | north. To your west is the area where you first set foot here. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes a little beneath your feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search for letters" | |||
Floyd ] Clearing 1/27 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH FOR LETTERS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Iria says, "BBL, naptime" | ||
| Iria goes home. | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 1/28 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lake Phoenicia Floyd | You stand at the bank of Lake Phoenicia. It's certainly not as Floyd | majestic as you might have hoped: the water is a dank brown and the Floyd | whole thing smells vaguely swampy. The lake is certainly vast, though: Floyd | the only way forward from here is back to the west where you came Floyd | from. Floyd | Floyd | A log floats in the water nearby. Floyd | Floyd | The letter C -- one of the unknown letters -- floats in the water a Floyd | little ways from the shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "get c" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 1/29 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET C Floyd | Floyd | Hold on -- that log is a crocodile! Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "ooh" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x c" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 1/30 Floyd | > Floyd | > X C Floyd | Floyd | You'd have to get a little wet in the process, but otherwise only the Floyd | crocodile is stopping you from taking the letter C. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "haha" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "spell eat" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 1/31 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL EAT Floyd | Floyd | You don't need the alphabet's help to eat, and if you don't have Floyd | something to eat, then this isn't the word you're looking for. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Just the crocodile. No big." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "eat crocodile" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 1/32 Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT CROCODILE Floyd | Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "oh." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x croc" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 1/32 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CROC Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x crocodile" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 1/33 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CROCODILE Floyd | Floyd | The crocodile lies in wait, looking very much like a log. Only on Floyd | careful inspection do you notice that the crocodile is very much Floyd | alert. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| kpaquette arrives, ready to play with the toys. | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "tickle crocodile" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 1/33 Floyd | > Floyd | > TICKLE CROCODILE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "touch crocodile" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 1/34 Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH CROCODILE Floyd | Floyd | The crocodile might not like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "spell tea" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 1/35 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TEA Floyd | Floyd | You enjoy a cup of oolong. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I was hoping tea would bring us insight." | ||
| Roger says, "that would be a good mechanism yeah" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, can we only spell nouns?" | |||
| kpaquette exclaims, "I'm back!" | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "spell log" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 1/36 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL LOG Floyd | Floyd | You don't have the necessary letters to spell "log." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "spell tae" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 1/37 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TAE Floyd | Floyd | We could debate whether Scottish mutations of English words are Floyd | appropriate in the context of this game, but it's not like "tae" would Floyd | be helpful either way. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "To bring objects into existence?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "spell aet" | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "spell aet" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 1/38 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL AET Floyd | Floyd | "aet" isn't a word. Don't you know the dangers of reckless alphabet Floyd | usage? Floyd | Floyd | (If you're stuck, you can type HINT for help.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon exclaims, "nope!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Tea is the only noun we can make right now." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "spell ate" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 1/39 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL ATE Floyd | Floyd | It's not clear what you ate, but you feel quite satisfied now. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "limiting it to nouns would make some sense." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, okay. We can spell verbs." | |||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "But yeah, I think limiting it to nouns might make this less crazy to code. But then, I've been there: it's fun to think of a concept that is over-ambitiously awesome!" | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "take crocodile." | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 1/40 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE CROCODILE. Floyd | Floyd | I don't suppose the crocodile would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "shout" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 1/41 Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOUT Floyd | Floyd | (to the crocodile) Floyd | The crocodile has nothing to say. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Let's explore and see if we can find an easier letter first?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "Sure." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe we need another letter to deal with this, I'm thinking." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 1/42 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Lake Phoenicia Floyd | You stand at the bank of Lake Phoenicia. It's certainly not as Floyd | majestic as you might have hoped: the water is a dank brown and the Floyd | whole thing smells vaguely swampy. The lake is certainly vast, though: Floyd | the only way forward from here is back to the west where you came Floyd | from. Floyd | Floyd | A crocodile is in the water nearby, keeping intruders away. Floyd | Floyd | The letter C -- one of the unknown letters -- floats in the water a Floyd | little ways from the shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Clearing 1/43 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | You find yourself in a grassy clearing. The landscape is thoroughly Floyd | unremarkable here, but you can see the edge of Phoenicia Forest to the Floyd | south, Lake Phoenicia to the east, and a large brick structure to the Floyd | north. To your west is the area where you first set foot here. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes a little beneath your feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Western Phoenicia Forest 1/44 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Western Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees are sufficiently sparse to allow grass to grow in this area, Floyd | but there are still enough of them to consider this part of the Floyd | forest. The forest continues to the southeast. You can also head north Floyd | or northwest from here. Floyd | Floyd | An elephant is relaxing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x elephant" | |||
Floyd ] Western Phoenicia Forest 1/45 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ELEPHANT Floyd | Floyd | A large, gray pachyderm with floppy ears, ivory tusks, and a long, Floyd | prehensile trunk. You're no zoologist, but it seems like any other Floyd | elephant, really. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "climb elephant" | |||
Floyd ] Western Phoenicia Forest 1/46 Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB ELEPHANT Floyd | Floyd | You've never been much of a climber, and the elephant isn't really Floyd | made for climbing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "climb tree" | |||
Floyd ] Western Phoenicia Forest 1/47 Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB TREE Floyd | Floyd | You spend a few minutes climbing to the top of a tree, which affords Floyd | you a marginally nicer vantage point of the area you were already able Floyd | to see. At least you had fun. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "Aw, nice." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pet elephant" | |||
Floyd ] Western Phoenicia Forest 1/47 Floyd | > Floyd | > PET ELEPHANT Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "elephant, hello" | |||
Floyd ] Western Phoenicia Forest 1/48 Floyd | > Floyd | > ELEPHANT, HELLO Floyd | Floyd | The elephant has nothing to say. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask elephant about tea" | |||
Floyd ] Western Phoenicia Forest 1/49 Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK ELEPHANT ABOUT TEA Floyd | Floyd | The elephant has nothing to say. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "spell tea" | |||
Floyd ] Western Phoenicia Forest 1/50 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TEA Floyd | Floyd | You enjoy a cup of iced tea. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | |||
Floyd ] Western Phoenicia Forest 1/51 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Western Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees are sufficiently sparse to allow grass to grow in this area, Floyd | but there are still enough of them to consider this part of the Floyd | forest. The forest continues to the southeast. You can also head north Floyd | or northwest from here. Floyd | Floyd | An elephant is relaxing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "should we just look at everything?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search grass" | |||
Floyd ] Western Phoenicia Forest 1/52 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH GRASS Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search trees" | |||
Floyd ] Western Phoenicia Forest 1/53 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH TREES Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "search trees" | |||
Floyd ] Western Phoenicia Forest 1/54 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH TREES Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "search elephant" | |||
Floyd ] Western Phoenicia Forest 1/55 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH ELEPHANT Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Part of me wants to SEARCH ALL THE THINGS except that C we found was just there in the room description." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "Suppose so." | |||
| Teaspoon asks, "just expore then?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Tsp), "I don't even want to know how you searched that elephant." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "Very carefully." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Tsp), "Sure. Explore is good." | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | |||
Floyd ] Western Phoenicia Forest 1/56 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Western Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees are sufficiently sparse to allow grass to grow in this area, Floyd | but there are still enough of them to consider this part of the Floyd | forest. The forest continues to the southeast. You can also head north Floyd | or northwest from here. Floyd | Floyd | An elephant is relaxing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Deep Within Phoenicia Forest 1/57 Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Deep Within Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees are incredibly dense in this area, and there's no trail to Floyd | follow. Were it not for your innate talent at recognizing cardinal Floyd | directions, you could easily get lost in here. Floyd | Floyd | To the northwest and northeast, the forest begins to thin out. You see Floyd | a small tunnel leading underground to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "what a good talent." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 1/58 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You wriggle and crawl through the cramped tunnel. Whatever's on the Floyd | other side had better be worth it and not, like, a giant fleshworm or Floyd | something. Floyd | Floyd | Kobold Warren Floyd | Oh, great. It's a hole full of rat-dragons. This was so not Floyd | worth it. To make matters worse, this place isn't quite tall enough to Floyd | stand in, so you're hunched over just a bit. This is giving you a Floyd | neckache. But wait -- the letter G is here. One of the unknown Floyd | letters! Floyd | Floyd | A large fire lights the room from the western wall, and to the side is Floyd | a large pile of sticks. The tunnel leading to the surface is to the Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | The kobolds are huddled around the letter G on the southern edge of Floyd | this little hole. Floyd | Floyd | The letter G -- one of the unknown letters -- sits unguarded at the Floyd | south end of the warren. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "Underground!" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "get g" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 1/59 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET G Floyd | Floyd | You edge closer to the south end of the warren where the kobolds are Floyd | congregated, and they begin to notice you. A chorus of hisses makes Floyd | its way through the crowd, then the kobolds begin to bark at you. Floyd | Floyd | "The human can't have our treasure!" Floyd | Floyd | "The human wasn't invited here!" Floyd | Floyd | "The human came in without knocking!" Floyd | Floyd | "We don't have a door, dummy!" Floyd | Floyd | "How did the human get in here if we don't have a door?" Floyd | Floyd | "The human must be a wizard!" Floyd | Floyd | And then the voices become muddled as the kobolds talk amongst Floyd | themselves. After several seconds, they all quiet down at once. One of Floyd | them calls out, "Show us your magic, wizard!" The other kobolds roar Floyd | in approval. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "This is fun." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "spell tea" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 1/60 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TEA Floyd | Floyd | You enjoy a cup of peppermint tea. Floyd | Floyd | The kobolds seem puzzled. Clearly, your remarkable mastery of the Floyd | alphabet was not "magical" enough. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "Oh." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Can I just put forth the psuedo-philosophical comment that if G is an unknown letter, how would you immediately recognize it as a G?" | |||
| Roger says, "Maybe we can spell with it immediately" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "But we can't, until we acquire it." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "Yeah, we don't have it yet." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "But we can try." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "spell gate" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 1/61 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL GATE Floyd | Floyd | You don't have a four-letter frame, so you can't spell "gate." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "OHO" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "There. That's your constraint." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 1/62 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | your alphabet case (A, E, and T) Floyd | a three-letter frame Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Nice." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "spell get" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 1/63 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL GET Floyd | Floyd | You don't have the necessary letters to spell "get." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I was going to say. What if the player tries to spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Then again, you could probably only use easch letter once." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "so we definitely can't spell without holding the letter in our case." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Tsp), "Right, and only three letter words." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I was thinking 'gate' because it would be a sort of door for the kobolds." | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "spell eat" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 1/64 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL EAT Floyd | Floyd | You don't need the alphabet's help to eat, and if you don't have Floyd | something to eat, then this isn't the word you're looking for. Floyd | Floyd | The kobolds seem puzzled. Clearly, your remarkable mastery of the Floyd | alphabet was not "magical" enough. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "spell tag" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 1/65 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TAG Floyd | Floyd | You don't have the necessary letters to spell "tag." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, right, we just tried that." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "get g" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 1/66 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET G Floyd | Floyd | The throng of kobolds blocks your way. You hear several cries of "Show Floyd | us your magic, wizard!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So, um, maybe we need to keep exploring? I think we can only make tea right now." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, mmm... tea." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "I think so." | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Deep Within Phoenicia Forest 1/67 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Deep Within Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees are incredibly dense in this area, and there's no trail to Floyd | follow. Were it not for your innate talent at recognizing cardinal Floyd | directions, you could easily get lost in here. Floyd | Floyd | To the northwest and northeast, the forest begins to thin out. You see Floyd | a small tunnel leading underground to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Western Phoenicia Forest 1/68 Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Western Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees are sufficiently sparse to allow grass to grow in this area, Floyd | but there are still enough of them to consider this part of the Floyd | forest. The forest continues to the southeast. You can also head north Floyd | or northwest from here. Floyd | Floyd | An elephant is relaxing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Deep Within Phoenicia Forest 1/69 Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Deep Within Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees are incredibly dense in this area, and there's no trail to Floyd | follow. Were it not for your innate talent at recognizing cardinal Floyd | directions, you could easily get lost in here. Floyd | Floyd | To the northwest and northeast, the forest begins to thin out. You see Floyd | a small tunnel leading underground to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 1/70 Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eastern Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees clear out on the east to reveal a precipice overlooking a Floyd | beautiful rainbow. Far below, you see a waterfall flowing from a gap Floyd | in the cliff wall that turns into a winding river. There is an Floyd | outcropping nearby on which lies the letter S -- one of the unknown Floyd | letters! Floyd | Floyd | You can return to the denser area of the forest to your southwest, or Floyd | you can follow the cliff edge to the north. Floyd | Floyd | The letter S sits on the outcropping. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "get s" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 1/71 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET S Floyd | Floyd | As you approach the outcropping, a small man dressed in green hops up Floyd | from the other side and snatches the letter! You're torn between being Floyd | annoyed and wondering how long he was hanging there. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Not that it's a complimicated map, but do you happen to be mapping?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Because I am not." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "But could. If I had to." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "No. I didn't think it'd be big enough." | |||
| Jacqueline is clearly lazy doay. | |||
| Jacqueline says, "er, today." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "So, we can just keep wandering until it gets too large. I am good with that." | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x man" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 1/72 Floyd | > Floyd | > X MAN Floyd | Floyd | A small man with curly red hair and an outfit of dark green holds the Floyd | letter S. He dances manically, hopping to and fro as if he weighed Floyd | nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "talk to man" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 1/73 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MAN Floyd | Floyd | The leprechaun responds by blowing a raspberry and laughing Floyd | derisively. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "spell tea" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 1/74 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TEA Floyd | Floyd | You enjoy a cup of green tea. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "hmm. No reaction." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 1/75 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Eastern Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees clear out on the east to reveal a precipice overlooking a Floyd | beautiful rainbow. Far below, you see a waterfall flowing from a gap Floyd | in the cliff wall that turns into a winding river. There is an Floyd | outcropping nearby, which is bare now that the leprechaun has taken Floyd | the letter S. Floyd | Floyd | You can return to the denser area of the forest to your southwest, or Floyd | you can follow the cliff edge to the north. Floyd | Floyd | A sprightly leprechaun dances around you waving the letter S. Floyd | Floyd | The sight of the leprechaun fills you with annoyance. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] East Wall 1/76 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | East Wall Floyd | The forest gives way to reveal a lofty brick structure. There is a Floyd | large archway facing you, through which you could access the interior Floyd | were it not for a massive hole underneath. No, wait, holes can't be Floyd | massive -- that doesn't make sense. Let's just call it a big hole. Floyd | Floyd | The path ends here: any further north and you'll have left Phoenicia, Floyd | and the cliff is still to your east. You'll have to head back south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "enter hole" | |||
Floyd ] East Wall 1/77 Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER HOLE Floyd | Floyd | You'd get stuck. Isn't that the pits? Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "Someone likes Nethack." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "Or at least likes the same jokebooks the Dev Team does." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm more of a zangband person, and while it takes a lot from nethack I have not heard that joke." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "It's even funnier when a pit viper falls into the pit." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "whereupon you get the above response." | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 1/78 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eastern Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees clear out on the east to reveal a precipice overlooking a Floyd | beautiful rainbow. Far below, you see a waterfall flowing from a gap Floyd | in the cliff wall that turns into a winding river. There is an Floyd | outcropping nearby, which is bare now that the leprechaun has taken Floyd | the letter S. Floyd | Floyd | You can return to the denser area of the forest to your southwest, or Floyd | you can follow the cliff edge to the north. Floyd | Floyd | A sprightly leprechaun dances around you waving the letter S. Floyd | Floyd | The sight of the leprechaun fills you with annoyance. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Deep Within Phoenicia Forest 1/79 Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Deep Within Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees are incredibly dense in this area, and there's no trail to Floyd | follow. Were it not for your innate talent at recognizing cardinal Floyd | directions, you could easily get lost in here. Floyd | Floyd | To the northwest and northeast, the forest begins to thin out. You see Floyd | a small tunnel leading underground to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Western Phoenicia Forest 1/80 Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Western Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees are sufficiently sparse to allow grass to grow in this area, Floyd | but there are still enough of them to consider this part of the Floyd | forest. The forest continues to the southeast. You can also head north Floyd | or northwest from here. Floyd | Floyd | An elephant is relaxing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Clearing 1/81 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | You find yourself in a grassy clearing. The landscape is thoroughly Floyd | unremarkable here, but you can see the edge of Phoenicia Forest to the Floyd | south, Lake Phoenicia to the east, and a large brick structure to the Floyd | north. To your west is the area where you first set foot here. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes a little beneath your feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Western Edge of Phoenicia 1/82 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Western Edge of Phoenicia Floyd | You're back at the area where you first set foot in Phoenicia. There's Floyd | little worth mentioning here. Undoubtedly, there's something more Floyd | interesting to the northeast, east, and southeast. Aleph City is far Floyd | away to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes a little beneath your feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Western Phoenicia Forest 1/83 Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Western Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees are sufficiently sparse to allow grass to grow in this area, Floyd | but there are still enough of them to consider this part of the Floyd | forest. The forest continues to the southeast. You can also head north Floyd | or northwest from here. Floyd | Floyd | An elephant is relaxing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Western Edge of Phoenicia 1/84 Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Western Edge of Phoenicia Floyd | You're back at the area where you first set foot in Phoenicia. There's Floyd | little worth mentioning here. Undoubtedly, there's something more Floyd | interesting to the northeast, east, and southeast. Aleph City is far Floyd | away to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes a little beneath your feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Clearing 1/85 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | You find yourself in a grassy clearing. The landscape is thoroughly Floyd | unremarkable here, but you can see the edge of Phoenicia Forest to the Floyd | south, Lake Phoenicia to the east, and a large brick structure to the Floyd | north. To your west is the area where you first set foot here. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes a little beneath your feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Western Phoenicia Forest 1/86 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Western Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees are sufficiently sparse to allow grass to grow in this area, Floyd | but there are still enough of them to consider this part of the Floyd | forest. The forest continues to the southeast. You can also head north Floyd | or northwest from here. Floyd | Floyd | An elephant is relaxing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Clearing 1/87 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | You find yourself in a grassy clearing. The landscape is thoroughly Floyd | unremarkable here, but you can see the edge of Phoenicia Forest to the Floyd | south, Lake Phoenicia to the east, and a large brick structure to the Floyd | north. To your west is the area where you first set foot here. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes a little beneath your feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 1/88 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lake Phoenicia Floyd | You stand at the bank of Lake Phoenicia. It's certainly not as Floyd | majestic as you might have hoped: the water is a dank brown and the Floyd | whole thing smells vaguely swampy. The lake is certainly vast, though: Floyd | the only way forward from here is back to the west where you came Floyd | from. Floyd | Floyd | A crocodile is in the water nearby, keeping intruders away. Floyd | Floyd | The letter C -- one of the unknown letters -- floats in the water a Floyd | little ways from the shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Clearing 1/89 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | You find yourself in a grassy clearing. The landscape is thoroughly Floyd | unremarkable here, but you can see the edge of Phoenicia Forest to the Floyd | south, Lake Phoenicia to the east, and a large brick structure to the Floyd | north. To your west is the area where you first set foot here. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes a little beneath your feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] West Wall 1/90 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | West Wall Floyd | This clearing is notable for the great wall that occupies its eastern Floyd | edge, where an archway connects this clearing to the Phoenician ruins Floyd | that lie beyond. Oh, and there is an enormous cyclops moping Floyd | listlessly here, which is probably worth mentioning. Floyd | Floyd | Besides the ruins to the east, you can travel southwest to where you Floyd | first arrived or south to a more open area. Floyd | Floyd | The cyclops occupies the entire archway and then some. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes as the cyclops's stomach roars. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Aha" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "This looks promising." | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "spell tea" | |||
Floyd ] West Wall 1/91 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TEA Floyd | Floyd | You enjoy a cup of chamomile. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes as the cyclops's stomach roars. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It must be a very large cyclops." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "spell eat" | |||
Floyd ] West Wall 1/91 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL EAT Floyd | Floyd | The cyclops looks around for something to eat, but he only finds one Floyd | thing that might possibly be edible. Floyd | Floyd | Years of orthographic training should have driven home the correct way Floyd | to use the known letters for satiation, but hey, we all make mistakes. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have been devoured *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 1 out of a possible 26, in 91 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Lousy Letterer. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "oops." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh dear" | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] West Wall 1/91 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | West Wall Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "sorry I'm late." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to tsp), "I understood your approach. I would have done the same." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Tsp/Rog), "I am up for restarting so that DW can get the feel of this." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "It's not like we're far in." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "It's so nice to have undo after all the Zork. Like being in civilisation again." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Tsp), "heh" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "(a heretical reaction, I know.)" | |||
| Roger says, "Sure go for it" | |||
| DavidW says, "I still need time to get my eyes to adjust." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "But, hi David! We have this Introcomp alphabet game." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "So far we can't make it do much besides make lots of tea." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Tsp), "No, not heretical at all. There are some things better left in the Good Ol' Days." | |||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "So, you're not really here yet?" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "Apparently not." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I guess that's an affirmative, yeah." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "spell ate" | |||
Floyd ] West Wall 2/92 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL ATE Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes one last time as the cyclops delivers a thundering Floyd | burp that knocks you from your feet. He stands up and stretches, then Floyd | collapses in a deep sleep, but not before moving just enough to allow Floyd | passage into the ruins. Floyd | Floyd | The cyclops snores loudly. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "That was clever." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] West Wall 2/93 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | West Wall Floyd | This clearing is notable for the great wall that occupies its eastern Floyd | edge, where an archway connects this clearing to the Phoenician ruins Floyd | that lie beyond. Floyd | Floyd | Besides the ruins to the east, you can travel southwest to where you Floyd | first arrived or south to a more open area. Floyd | Floyd | The cyclops is sleeping just to the side of the archway. Floyd | Floyd | The cyclops snores loudly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] West Entrance to Phoenician Ruins 2/94 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | West Entrance to Phoenician Ruins Floyd | The air is stale, and the walls are netted with cobwebs, but Floyd | otherwise, these ruins are in marvelous condition. You're here for Floyd | orthography, though, not archaeology, so your eyes are immediately Floyd | drawn to the wall mural that clearly depicts the letter R -- one of Floyd | the unknown letters! If you take it from the wall, you can add it to Floyd | your alphabet case. Floyd | Floyd | The archway to the west leads back outside, and a staircase leads down Floyd | into the dark subterrain of the ruins. Floyd | Floyd | The letter R is yours for the taking. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "e?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing" | |||
| Teaspoon exclaims, "A letter!" | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "take r" | |||
Floyd ] West Entrance to Phoenician Ruins 3/95 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE R Floyd | Floyd | You insert R into your alphabet case, adding its power to the three Floyd | letters you already possess. Floyd | Floyd | You can now spell words that contain the letter R. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Nice." | ||
| Roger says, "I think the kobolds will go for some art" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "We can but try." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "unless you want to go down first." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Yeah, either art for the kobolds or tar for the crocodile?" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "worth a shot." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, yeah, let's go down first." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "See what's here." | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness 3/96 Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It's very dark down here. The top staircase is illuminated from the Floyd | sunlight up above, but aside from that, you can't see a thing down Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm so sory I missed the beginning of this." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "We were talking about restarting." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "We offered to restart, if you're here now." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Are you here now?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I can almost see properly. My eyes still aren't quite there." | |||
| DavidW asks, "I assume this must be Andrew Schultz's game if we're collecting letters?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Nope" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "Not his style." | |||
| kpaquette says, "I'm here too." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Adam Perry." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "It's much milder." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "There is, however, an Andrew Schultz game today as well, if we end up playing more than one today." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Could we take a quick five minutes? Let DW's eyes open, let me transition to standing up and stretching to recover from my snorkeling yesterday?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, we could all make tea." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Back at quarter after?" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "Sounds good." | |||
| DavidW says, "alright." | |||
| kpaquette says, "Fine with me." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "version" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness 3/96 Floyd | > Floyd | > VERSION Floyd | Floyd | Spellbound Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Adam Perry Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 160728 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Identification number: //7A1FC68E-5AC4-4C5E-A72F-7F59DE266C5E// Floyd | Interpreter version 1.3.1 / VM 3.1.2 / Library serial number 080126 Floyd | Standard Rules version 3/120430 by Graham Nelson Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Back. Stretching." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Shall we restart?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm here." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, you're the one we want to catch up..." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restart" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness 3/96 Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTART Floyd | Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart? | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | |||
Floyd ] Institute of Orthographic Studies 0/1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Here," says the professor. "These are yours now." Floyd | Floyd | In your hands, you see the old professor's alphabet case, containing Floyd | the three known letters, and his well-used letter frame. This is the Floyd | day that you've waited years for. Ever since Professor Spruce shocked Floyd | the orthographic community by announcing that there were, somewhere Floyd | out there, 26 (twenty-six!) letters in all, you made it your Floyd | goal in life to search them out. You were just a kid then; you could Floyd | never have imagined that Professor Spruce himself would be the one to Floyd | send you on your way. Floyd | Floyd | "Before you go," Professor Spruce says, "I wonder if you might spell Floyd | one last cup of tea for me." Floyd | Floyd | (If this is your first time playing, type ABOUT Floyd | for information.) Floyd | Floyd | Spellbound Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Adam Perry Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 160728 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Institute of Orthographic Studies Floyd | These halls have been your home for the past several years. It was Floyd | here that you learned how to arrange the known letters into words, to Floyd | recognize the unknown letters, and to introduce them to your alphabet Floyd | case. These skills are sure to come in handy very soon. Floyd | Floyd | The entrance doors are south of here, through which you can see the Floyd | bustle of the city. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Professor Spruce here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| zarf arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Institute of Orthographic Studies 0/2 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | your alphabet case (A, E, and T) Floyd | a three-letter frame Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to zarf), "@recap #toyshop 50 or so" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "about" | |||
Floyd ] Institute of Orthographic Studies 0/2 Floyd | > Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | Equipped with a three-letter frame and a case of your collected Floyd | letters (currently A, E, and T), you are on a quest to find all 26. Floyd | Floyd | Your primary method of interacting with the world is by spelling Floyd | words. If you have A, C, and T, for example, you could try the command Floyd | SPELL CAT. If you're stuck, try spelling all the words you can Floyd | in as many places as possible. While you can bring your journey to an Floyd | abrupt end with a few ill-advised actions (in which case you can Floyd | simply UNDO), you can never find yourself in a situation where Floyd | it's impossible to win, so experiment! Many of the game's puzzles have Floyd | multiple solutions. Floyd | Floyd | If this is your first time playing a game like this, type HELP Floyd | for some tips on how to get around and a few useful commands. If you Floyd | find yourself stumped, you can try the HINT command. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to zarf), "make that 100" | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Maybe wait for z to confirm he's caught up?" | |||
| DavidW says, "okay." | |||
| DavidW says, "I find it too difficult to recap that much." | |||
| zarf says, "I'm just spectating" | |||
| zarf says, "proceed" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "10-4" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Go for it." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell tea" | |||
Floyd ] Institute of Orthographic Studies 1/3 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TEA Floyd | Floyd | You deftly arrange the letters in the frame, just like you've Floyd | practiced a thousand times. You produce a cup of bergamot, the Floyd | professor's favorite. Floyd | Floyd | Between sips, the professor begins reminiscing. "You know, I've been Floyd | studying the alphabet for most of a lifetime now. I always knew I Floyd | wouldn't be the one to hunt down the unknown letters -- I'm not much Floyd | for traveling, as you know. So I've kept my eyes open for the one who Floyd | would fulfill my ambition. In all these years, I have only met a Floyd | handful of people that showed the passion and aptitude for spelling Floyd | that would be required for such a venture." Floyd | Floyd | Professor Spruce takes a final swill of his teacup and looks you Floyd | square in the eyes. "You should know that this is not our first Floyd | attempt at an expedition to Phoenicia. There was one other, a Floyd | colleague of mine, that we were preparing to send. The expedition Floyd | ended in failure before it could even begin. No orthographer has ever Floyd | set foot in Phoenicia." He takes a look at you before continuing. "I Floyd | don't mean to alarm you. I only want you to understand the Floyd | significance of your journey. You know as well as I do the importance Floyd | and power of the alphabet. The Institute exists to ensure that the Floyd | alphabet is used responsibly, and -- well, I'm preaching to the choir, Floyd | aren't I? I wish you the best of luck on your voyage. We are all Floyd | counting on you to return with the complete alphabet." Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I neglected to note the exits." | ||
| kpaquette says, "I'mhere." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I think it's just east. You can just L" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Institute of Orthographic Studies 1/4 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Institute of Orthographic Studies Floyd | These halls have been your home for the past several years. It was Floyd | here that you learned how to arrange the known letters into words, to Floyd | recognize the unknown letters, and to introduce them to your alphabet Floyd | case. These skills are sure to come in handy very soon. Floyd | Floyd | The entrance doors are south of here, through which you can see the Floyd | bustle of the city. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Professor Spruce here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "I hope the final game has easter-egg letters like thorn, ae, and &" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x spruce" | |||
Floyd ] Institute of Orthographic Studies 1/5 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SPRUCE Floyd | Floyd | No doubt the good professor would have loved to be the one to fill his Floyd | alphabet case, but the man was always more of an academic. He has Floyd | always been an inspiration to you, even now that his age is catching Floyd | up to him. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask spruce about phoenica" | |||
Floyd ] Institute of Orthographic Studies 1/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK SPRUCE ABOUT PHOENICA Floyd | Floyd | The old professor says, "You have a long journey ahead of you, and Floyd | there's nothing more I can teach you." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Aleph City 1/7 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Aleph City Floyd | Today may be the most important day of your life, but for the rest of Floyd | Aleph City, it's Tuesday. The streets are busy as ever, and you see a Floyd | few familiar faces among the hustle and bustle. None of that matters Floyd | to you. You have a mission. Floyd | Floyd | The Institute of Orthographic Studies is north of here, and far to the Floyd | east is the wilderness of Phoenicia, theorized by Professor Spruce to Floyd | contain the unknown letters. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims (at Roger), "Good idea!" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Western Edge of Phoenicia 1/8 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Western Edge of Phoenicia Floyd | All of Phoenicia lies before you, ready for you to explore. You're not Floyd | the first to explore Phoenicia -- that honor goes to Jerome Phoenix, Floyd | for whom the region is named -- but you are the first orthographer to Floyd | come here in search of the alphabet. Floyd | Floyd | This particular area is a little bare, though. Undoubtedly, there's Floyd | something more interesting to the northeast, east, and southeast. Floyd | Aleph City is far away to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes a little beneath your feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ground" | |||
Floyd ] Western Edge of Phoenicia 1/9 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GROUND Floyd | Floyd | There's very little I can tell you about the ground that won't come Floyd | across as incredibly patronizing. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes a little beneath your feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig" | |||
Floyd ] Western Edge of Phoenicia 1/9 Floyd | > Floyd | > DIG Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Which way should we go? ne, e, se?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen to ground" | |||
Floyd ] Western Edge of Phoenicia 1/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN TO GROUND Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes a little beneath your feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Last time we lamented not making a map" | ||
| Roger says, "Not sure if anyone is on it this time" | |||
| DavidW says, "I will map." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, it's kind of sma-- okay." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] West Wall 1/11 Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | West Wall Floyd | This clearing is notable for the great wall that occupies its eastern Floyd | edge, where an archway connects this clearing to the Phoenician ruins Floyd | that lie beyond. Oh, and there is an enormous cyclops moping Floyd | listlessly here, which is probably worth mentioning. Floyd | Floyd | Besides the ruins to the east, you can travel southwest to where you Floyd | first arrived or south to a more open area. Floyd | Floyd | The cyclops occupies the entire archway and then some. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes as the cyclops's stomach roars. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take i" | |||
Floyd ] West Wall 1/11 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE I Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "We'll let you solve this one, DW. This is the one puzzle we've already solved." | ||
| DavidW says, "Cyclopses always have eye/I." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cyclops" | |||
Floyd ] West Wall 1/12 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CYCLOPS Floyd | Floyd | Easily twice and probably three times your height, this is one of the Floyd | one-eyed giants known as cyclopes. They're not as stupid or mean as Floyd | ogres or trolls, although it's common for a cyclops to have trouble Floyd | concentrating on more than one thing at a time. This one is just Floyd | sitting there looking despondent, probably on account of his empty Floyd | stomach that's been causing these minor earthquakes. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes as the cyclops's stomach roars. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to cyclops" | |||
Floyd ] West Wall 1/13 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CYCLOPS Floyd | Floyd | The forlorn cyclops fixes his eye on you. "No talk," he says. Floyd | "Huuungry." Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes as the cyclops's stomach roars. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell tea" | |||
Floyd ] West Wall 1/14 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TEA Floyd | Floyd | You enjoy a cup of green tea. Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes as the cyclops's stomach roars. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give tea to cyclops" | |||
Floyd ] West Wall 1/14 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE TEA TO CYCLOPS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell eat" | |||
Floyd ] West Wall 1/14 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL EAT Floyd | Floyd | The cyclops looks around for something to eat, but he only finds one Floyd | thing that might possibly be edible. Floyd | Floyd | Years of orthographic training should have driven home the correct way Floyd | to use the known letters for satiation, but hey, we all make mistakes. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have been devoured *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 1 out of a possible 26, in 14 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Lousy Letterer. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] West Wall 1/14 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | West Wall Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Don't worry, we did that too. But you're close." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell ate" | |||
Floyd ] West Wall 2/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL ATE Floyd | Floyd | The ground shakes one last time as the cyclops delivers a thundering Floyd | burp that knocks you from your feet. He stands up and stretches, then Floyd | collapses in a deep sleep, but not before moving just enough to allow Floyd | passage into the ruins. Floyd | Floyd | The cyclops snores loudly. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "Yay!" | ||
| DavidW says, "I didn't expect that to work." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ruins" | |||
Floyd ] West Wall 2/16 Floyd | > Floyd | > X RUINS Floyd | Floyd | The ruins are in remarkably good shape given their age. The vines Floyd | crawling up the bricks of the outer walls are the biggest indication Floyd | that the ruins have been long abandoned. Floyd | Floyd | The cyclops snores loudly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "WE hadn't either." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] West Wall 2/17 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | your alphabet case (A, E, and T) Floyd | a three-letter frame Floyd | Floyd | The cyclops snores loudly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "oh, wait. right! Sorry, carry on." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x eye" | |||
Floyd ] West Wall 2/17 Floyd | > Floyd | > X EYE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x vines" | |||
Floyd ] West Wall 2/18 Floyd | > Floyd | > X VINES Floyd | Floyd | The vines run in jagged lines up the outer edge of the Phoenician Floyd | ruins. Floyd | Floyd | The cyclops snores loudly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb vines" | |||
Floyd ] West Wall 2/19 Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB VINES Floyd | Floyd | You've never been much of a climber, and the vines isn't really made Floyd | for climbing. Floyd | Floyd | The cyclops snores loudly. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "aren't really made" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] West Entrance to Phoenician Ruins 2/20 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | West Entrance to Phoenician Ruins Floyd | The air is stale, and the walls are netted with cobwebs, but Floyd | otherwise, these ruins are in marvelous condition. You're here for Floyd | orthography, though, not archaeology, so your eyes are immediately Floyd | drawn to the wall mural that clearly depicts the letter R -- one of Floyd | the unknown letters! If you take it from the wall, you can add it to Floyd | your alphabet case. Floyd | Floyd | The archway to the west leads back outside, and a staircase leads down Floyd | into the dark subterrain of the ruins. Floyd | Floyd | The letter R is yours for the taking. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline begins writing down her feedback for the author. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take r" | |||
Floyd ] West Entrance to Phoenician Ruins 3/21 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE R Floyd | Floyd | You insert R into your alphabet case, adding its power to the three Floyd | letters you already possess. Floyd | Floyd | You can now spell words that contain the letter R. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell treat" | |||
Floyd ] West Entrance to Phoenician Ruins 3/22 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TREAT Floyd | Floyd | You can't spell "treat," since your alphabet case has only one of each Floyd | letter. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "spell rat" | |||
Floyd ] West Entrance to Phoenician Ruins 3/23 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL RAT Floyd | Floyd | A rodent of modest size appears out of thin air. After getting its Floyd | bearings, it scampers off. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon exclaims, "Ah ha!" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell ear" | |||
Floyd ] West Entrance to Phoenician Ruins 3/24 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL EAR Floyd | Floyd | You produce a third ear, square on your forehead. It's unsightly and Floyd | it feels really weird, so you send it back with a poof. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "I think we hve a use for htis." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "this." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "A rodent of modest size. Nice ref." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Darkness 3/25 Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | It's very dark down here. The top staircase is illuminated from the Floyd | sunlight up above, but aside from that, you can't see a thing down Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "oh we didn't try 2-letter words" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] West Entrance to Phoenician Ruins 3/26 Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | West Entrance to Phoenician Ruins Floyd | The air is stale, and the walls are netted with cobwebs, but Floyd | otherwise, these ruins are in marvelous condition. You're here for Floyd | orthography, though, not archaeology, so you're unequipped to fully Floyd | appreciate this. Floyd | Floyd | The archway to the west leads back outside, and a staircase leads down Floyd | into the dark subterrain of the ruins. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Can we?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell at" | |||
Floyd ] West Entrance to Phoenician Ruins 3/27 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL AT Floyd | Floyd | "at" is too short; you have to completely fill a letter frame in order Floyd | for it to work. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell tear" | |||
Floyd ] West Entrance to Phoenician Ruins 3/28 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TEAR Floyd | Floyd | You don't have a four-letter frame, so you can't spell "tear." Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "This will have to be very carefully planned game. Everything laid out just so." | ||
| Roger says, "Might be" | |||
| DavidW says, "so we're stuck at 3-letter words until we find another frame." | |||
| Roger says, "maybe in the sequel (I would guess)" | |||
| DavidW says, "I think we need to backtrack to western edge." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "My present ideas are tar in the crocodile pond (which I don't think DW has seen yet) or art for the kobolds (which he also has not seen)." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "I want rat for the elephant." | |||
| DavidW asks, "May I backtrack and see these critters?" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "By all means." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] West Wall 3/29 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | West Wall Floyd | This clearing is notable for the great wall that occupies its eastern Floyd | edge, where an archway connects this clearing to the Phoenician ruins Floyd | that lie beyond. Floyd | Floyd | Besides the ruins to the east, you can travel southwest to where you Floyd | first arrived or south to a more open area. Floyd | Floyd | The cyclops is sleeping just to the side of the archway. Floyd | Floyd | The cyclops snores loudly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "I want to end an era" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Western Edge of Phoenicia 3/30 Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Western Edge of Phoenicia Floyd | You're back at the area where you first set foot in Phoenicia. There's Floyd | little worth mentioning here. Undoubtedly, there's something more Floyd | interesting to the northeast, east, and southeast. Aleph City is far Floyd | away to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Clearing 3/31 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | You find yourself in a grassy clearing. The landscape is thoroughly Floyd | unremarkable here, but you can see the edge of Phoenicia Forest to the Floyd | south, Lake Phoenicia to the east, and a large brick structure to the Floyd | north. To your west is the area where you first set foot here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x brick" | |||
Floyd ] Clearing 3/31 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BRICK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x structure" | |||
Floyd ] Clearing 3/31 Floyd | > Floyd | > X STRUCTURE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] West Wall 3/32 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | West Wall Floyd | This clearing is notable for the great wall that occupies its eastern Floyd | edge, where an archway connects this clearing to the Phoenician ruins Floyd | that lie beyond. Floyd | Floyd | Besides the ruins to the east, you can travel southwest to where you Floyd | first arrived or south to a more open area. Floyd | Floyd | The cyclops is sleeping just to the side of the archway. Floyd | Floyd | The cyclops snores loudly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Clearing 3/33 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | You find yourself in a grassy clearing. The landscape is thoroughly Floyd | unremarkable here, but you can see the edge of Phoenicia Forest to the Floyd | south, Lake Phoenicia to the east, and a large brick structure to the Floyd | north. To your west is the area where you first set foot here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 3/34 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lake Phoenicia Floyd | You stand at the bank of Lake Phoenicia. It's certainly not as Floyd | majestic as you might have hoped: the water is a dank brown and the Floyd | whole thing smells vaguely swampy. The lake is certainly vast, though: Floyd | the only way forward from here is back to the west where you came Floyd | from. Floyd | Floyd | A log floats in the water nearby. Floyd | Floyd | The letter C -- one of the unknown letters -- floats in the water a Floyd | little ways from the shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take c" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 3/35 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE C Floyd | Floyd | Hold on -- that log is a crocodile! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "spell tar" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 3/36 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TAR Floyd | Floyd | Better not. Your hands and pockets would get sticky -- it'd be a real Floyd | mess. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crocodile" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 3/37 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CROCODILE Floyd | Floyd | The crocodile lies in wait, looking very much like a log. Only on Floyd | careful inspection do you notice that the crocodile is very much Floyd | alert. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh. No tar, then." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "spell ate" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 3/38 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL ATE Floyd | Floyd | It's not clear what you ate, but you feel quite satisfied now. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "spell eat" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 3/39 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL EAT Floyd | Floyd | You don't need the alphabet's help to eat, and if you don't have Floyd | something to eat, then this isn't the word you're looking for. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I've heard of crocodile tears, but we don't have a 4-letter frame." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Odd that 'eat' killed us with the cyclops but not the croc. Then again, the cyclops was clearly hungry." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to croc" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 3/39 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CROC Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "spell rat" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 3/40 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL RAT Floyd | Floyd | A rodent of modest size appears out of thin air. After getting its Floyd | bearings, it scampers off. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to crocodile" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 3/41 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CROCODILE Floyd | Floyd | The crocodile has nothing to say. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 3/42 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Lake Phoenicia Floyd | You stand at the bank of Lake Phoenicia. It's certainly not as Floyd | majestic as you might have hoped: the water is a dank brown and the Floyd | whole thing smells vaguely swampy. The lake is certainly vast, though: Floyd | the only way forward from here is back to the west where you came Floyd | from. Floyd | Floyd | A crocodile is in the water nearby, keeping intruders away. Floyd | Floyd | The letter C -- one of the unknown letters -- floats in the water a Floyd | little ways from the shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "swim" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 3/42 Floyd | > Floyd | > SWIM Floyd | Floyd | You remove your shoes and socks and wade into the water a little, Floyd | keeping an eye on the crocodile. It doesn't move, so you hesitantly Floyd | edge towards the letter C. As you reach for it, the crocodile springs Floyd | into action, moving more freely in the water than you could hope to. Floyd | It turns out to be a better aquatic combatant than you, too. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have been chomped *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 3 out of a possible 26, in 42 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Lousy Letterer. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 3/42 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Lake Phoenicia Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell rat" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 3/43 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL RAT Floyd | Floyd | A rodent of modest size appears out of thin air. After getting its Floyd | bearings, it scampers off. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It was worth a try." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "(Swimming, that is.)" | |||
| DavidW asks, "I think we need to explore more. Agreed?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes" | |||
| Roger says, "Sure" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 3/44 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. From here, you can go west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Clearing 3/45 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | You find yourself in a grassy clearing. The landscape is thoroughly Floyd | unremarkable here, but you can see the edge of Phoenicia Forest to the Floyd | south, Lake Phoenicia to the east, and a large brick structure to the Floyd | north. To your west is the area where you first set foot here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Western Phoenicia Forest 3/46 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Western Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees are sufficiently sparse to allow grass to grow in this area, Floyd | but there are still enough of them to consider this part of the Floyd | forest. The forest continues to the southeast. You can also head north Floyd | or northwest from here. Floyd | Floyd | An elephant is relaxing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x elephant" | |||
Floyd ] Western Phoenicia Forest 3/47 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ELEPHANT Floyd | Floyd | A large, gray pachyderm with floppy ears, ivory tusks, and a long, Floyd | prehensile trunk. You're no zoologist, but it seems like any other Floyd | elephant, really. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ride elephant" | |||
Floyd ] Western Phoenicia Forest 3/48 Floyd | > Floyd | > RIDE ELEPHANT Floyd | Floyd | I don't think the elephant would let you do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pet elephant" | |||
Floyd ] Western Phoenicia Forest 3/48 Floyd | > Floyd | > PET ELEPHANT Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell rat" | |||
Floyd ] Western Phoenicia Forest 3/49 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL RAT Floyd | Floyd | You produce a rodent of modest size. The elephant notices it and runs Floyd | off to the north in abject terror. The rat, not too fond of the Floyd | elephant, runs off in the opposite direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Clearing 3/50 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | You find yourself in a grassy clearing. The landscape is thoroughly Floyd | unremarkable here, but you can see the edge of Phoenicia Forest to the Floyd | south, Lake Phoenicia to the east, and a large brick structure to the Floyd | north. To your west is the area where you first set foot here. Floyd | Floyd | The elephant is here, looking a bit spooked. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "Oh right!" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell rat" | |||
Floyd ] Clearing 4/51 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL RAT Floyd | Floyd | You produce another rat. The elephant raises its front feet off the Floyd | ground in surprise, then stomps off to the east. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 4/52 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lake Phoenicia Floyd | You stand at the bank of Lake Phoenicia. It's certainly not as Floyd | majestic as you might have hoped: the water is a dank brown and the Floyd | whole thing smells vaguely swampy. The lake is certainly vast, though: Floyd | the only way forward from here is back to the west where you came Floyd | from. Floyd | Floyd | The elephant has taken up residence in the lake. Floyd | Floyd | A crocodile is swimming through the lake far from here. It seems to be Floyd | keeping its distance from the elephant. Floyd | Floyd | The letter C -- one of the unknown letters -- floats in the water a Floyd | little ways from the shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Nice" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Really nice." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take c" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 5/53 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE C Floyd | Floyd | You remove your shoes and socks and wade into the water. With the Floyd | elephant nearby, the crocodile keeps its distance, and you easily Floyd | reach the letter. You insert C into your alphabet case, adding its Floyd | power to the four letters you already possess. Floyd | Floyd | You can now spell words that contain the letter C. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "That'll let us spell CAT, ACE, ... ?" | ||
| DavidW says, "CAR" | |||
| DavidW says, "ARC" | |||
| DavidW says, "ACT" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "CAT" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "ACE" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh wait, you said those first." | |||
| DavidW says, "Just trying to explore our new skill set." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell cat" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 5/54 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL CAT Floyd | Floyd | You produce a colorful calico. It's a skittish thing, and it darts Floyd | away as it notices you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "The full list right now, I think is: TEA, EAT, RAT, ARC, ERA, ACT, CAR, CAT, TAR, ART, ATE, EAR" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "spell ace" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 5/55 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL ACE Floyd | Floyd | A card (the ace of diamonds) appears in your hand. It would bend in Floyd | your pockets, so you send it back with a poof. Nice trick, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell act" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 5/56 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL ACT Floyd | Floyd | You put on a small play, using your hands as puppets. The crocodile is Floyd | unamused. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "heh" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell arc" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 5/57 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL ARC Floyd | Floyd | The image of a curve shimmers briefly in the air. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "spell car" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 5/58 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL CAR Floyd | Floyd | You produce a shiny red Ferrari. It's impressive, but the automobile Floyd | won't be invented for quite some time still, so you have no clue how Floyd | to operate it. You send it back with a poof. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell rec" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 5/59 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL REC Floyd | Floyd | You enjoy a little recreation. Happy now? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "The croc not applauding our play is awesome." | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "spell art" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell art" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 5/60 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL ART Floyd | Floyd | You produce a copy of The Scream. It's good, but is it art? Floyd | Floyd | Well, in this case, it's a forgery, and it's too big to carry around, Floyd | so you send it back with a poof. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "I am confuddled by the time period." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Shall we return to the forest? You said there's a kobold?" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "several" | |||
| DavidW says (to Teaspoon), "I usually assume 'lazy medieval' with games like this." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Clearing 5/61 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | You find yourself in a grassy clearing. The landscape is thoroughly Floyd | unremarkable here, but you can see the edge of Phoenicia Forest to the Floyd | south, Lake Phoenicia to the east, and a large brick structure to the Floyd | north. To your west is the area where you first set foot here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Western Phoenicia Forest 5/62 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Western Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees are sufficiently sparse to allow grass to grow in this area, Floyd | but there are still enough of them to consider this part of the Floyd | forest. The forest continues to the southeast. You can also head north Floyd | or northwest from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Deep Within Phoenicia Forest 5/63 Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Deep Within Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees are incredibly dense in this area, and there's no trail to Floyd | follow. Were it not for your innate talent at recognizing cardinal Floyd | directions, you could easily get lost in here. Floyd | Floyd | To the northwest and northeast, the forest begins to thin out. You see Floyd | a small tunnel leading underground to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "I think the kobolds were underground... by the cyclops area?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Is that right?" | |||
| Roger says, "We're here" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh yeah, it's here." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "The tunnel." | |||
| DavidW says, "It was dark there. I didn't explore down from the ruins." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tunnel" | |||
Floyd ] Deep Within Phoenicia Forest 5/63 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TUNNEL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 5/64 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You wriggle and crawl through the cramped tunnel. Whatever's on the Floyd | other side had better be worth it and not, like, a giant fleshworm or Floyd | something. Floyd | Floyd | Kobold Warren Floyd | Oh, great. It's a hole full of rat-dragons. This was so not Floyd | worth it. To make matters worse, this place isn't quite tall enough to Floyd | stand in, so you're hunched over just a bit. This is giving you a Floyd | neckache. But wait -- the letter G is here. One of the unknown Floyd | letters! Floyd | Floyd | A large fire lights the room from the western wall, and to the side is Floyd | a large pile of sticks. The tunnel leading to the surface is to the Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | The kobolds are huddled around the letter G on the southern edge of Floyd | this little hole. Floyd | Floyd | The letter G -- one of the unknown letters -- sits unguarded at the Floyd | south end of the warren. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Seems the G is guarded at the moment, game." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "true." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take stick" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 5/65 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE STICK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell tar" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 5/66 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TAR Floyd | Floyd | Better not. Your hands and pockets would get sticky -- it'd be a real Floyd | mess. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "spell art" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 5/67 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL ART Floyd | Floyd | You produce a copy of Persistence of Memory. It's good, but is it art? Floyd | Floyd | Well, in this case, it's a forgery, and it's too big to carry around, Floyd | so you send it back with a poof. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "light stick" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 5/68 Floyd | > Floyd | > LIGHT STICK Floyd | Floyd | The stick as it stands would burn out quickly. If you want a light Floyd | source, you'll need a proper torch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "spell cat" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 5/69 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL CAT Floyd | Floyd | You produce a poofy Scottish Fold. It's a skittish thing, and it darts Floyd | away as it notices you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "spell rat" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 5/70 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL RAT Floyd | Floyd | A rodent of modest size appears out of thin air. After getting its Floyd | bearings, it scampers off. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I tried to make tar for the torch." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Do I really need a pot first?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 5/71 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a stick Floyd | your alphabet case (A, C, E, R, and T) Floyd | a three-letter frame Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "make torch" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 5/71 Floyd | > Floyd | > MAKE TORCH Floyd | Floyd | Good idea, but I'm not sure how you plan to do it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Interesting response." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell oil" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 5/72 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL OIL Floyd | Floyd | You don't have the necessary letters to spell "oil." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x kobolds" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 5/73 Floyd | > Floyd | > X KOBOLDS Floyd | Floyd | Kobolds are to dragons what chihuahuas are to golden retrievers, Floyd | except that some people find chihuahuas endearing. The kobolds are Floyd | gathered around the letter G, ignoring you. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fire" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 5/74 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FIRE Floyd | Floyd | The fire suggests some method of exhaust, since the warren isn't Floyd | filled with smoke, but you didn't notice anything above ground. This Floyd | makes you a little curious, but not curious enough to attempt a Floyd | conversation with the kobolds. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell tar" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 5/75 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TAR Floyd | Floyd | Better not. Your hands and pockets would get sticky -- it'd be a real Floyd | mess. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| kpaquette goes home. | DavidW says, "okay, I think we explore more." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "ok" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell ear" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 5/76 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL EAR Floyd | Floyd | You produce a third ear, square on your forehead. It's unsightly and Floyd | it feels really weird, so you send it back with a poof. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Deep Within Phoenicia Forest 5/77 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Deep Within Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees are incredibly dense in this area, and there's no trail to Floyd | follow. Were it not for your innate talent at recognizing cardinal Floyd | directions, you could easily get lost in here. Floyd | Floyd | To the northwest and northeast, the forest begins to thin out. You see Floyd | a small tunnel leading underground to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/78 Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eastern Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees clear out on the east to reveal a precipice overlooking a Floyd | beautiful rainbow. Far below, you see a waterfall flowing from a gap Floyd | in the cliff wall that turns into a winding river. There is an Floyd | outcropping nearby on which lies the letter S -- one of the unknown Floyd | letters! Floyd | Floyd | You can return to the denser area of the forest to your southwest, or Floyd | you can follow the cliff edge to the north. Floyd | Floyd | The letter S sits on the outcropping. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take s" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/79 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE S Floyd | Floyd | As you approach the outcropping, a small man dressed in green hops up Floyd | from the other side and snatches the letter! You're torn between being Floyd | annoyed and wondering how long he was hanging there. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x man" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/80 Floyd | > Floyd | > X MAN Floyd | Floyd | A small man with curly red hair and an outfit of dark green holds the Floyd | letter S. He dances manically, hopping to and fro as if he weighed Floyd | nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to man" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/81 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MAN Floyd | Floyd | The leprechaun responds by blowing a raspberry and laughing Floyd | derisively. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell act" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/82 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL ACT Floyd | Floyd | You put on a small play, using your hands as puppets. The leprechaun Floyd | is unamused. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell arc" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/83 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL ARC Floyd | Floyd | The image of a curve shimmers briefly in the air. Floyd | Floyd | (If you're stuck, you can type HINT for help.) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Iria arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rainbow" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/83 Floyd | > Floyd | > X RAINBOW Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Iria asks, "Same game still?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell cat" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/84 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL CAT Floyd | Floyd | You produce a colorful calico. It's a skittish thing, and it darts Floyd | away as it notices you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Shall we ignore the leprechaun and go north?" | ||
| Roger says, "Sure" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] East Wall 5/85 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | East Wall Floyd | The forest gives way to reveal a lofty brick structure. There is a Floyd | large archway facing you, through which you could access the interior Floyd | were it not for a massive hole underneath. No, wait, holes can't be Floyd | massive -- that doesn't make sense. Let's just call it a big hole. Floyd | Floyd | The path ends here: any further north and you'll have left Phoenicia, Floyd | and the cliff is still to your east. You'll have to head back south. Floyd | Floyd | > | Iria is done taking a nap. Namely because there's a couple of girls in front of her one of whom is watching a portable TV, while the other is moving around a lot. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell tar" | |||
Floyd ] East Wall 5/86 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TAR Floyd | Floyd | Better not. Your hands and pockets would get sticky -- it'd be a real Floyd | mess. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hole" | |||
Floyd ] East Wall 5/87 Floyd | > Floyd | > X HOLE Floyd | Floyd | The hole is large and deep, and the edges are sheer enough to make it Floyd | very difficult to escape. There's nothing in the hole, fortunately, so Floyd | you can just avoid it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Iria says (to floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] East Wall 5/88 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a stick Floyd | your alphabet case (A, C, E, R, and T) Floyd | a three-letter frame Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't see how to make a bengal tiger trap." | ||
| Roger says, "Fill it with tar" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Get more sticks, sharpen them, line the pit." | |||
| DavidW says, "Tried that." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, kidding." | |||
| Roger says, "Push a car in" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x archway" | |||
Floyd ] East Wall 5/89 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ARCHWAY Floyd | Floyd | A tall archway provides entrance to the ruins. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell car" | |||
Floyd ] East Wall 5/90 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL CAR Floyd | Floyd | You produce a shiny white Lamborghini. It's impressive, but the Floyd | automobile won't be invented for quite some time still, so you have no Floyd | clue how to operate it. You send it back with a poof. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] East Wall 5/91 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. From here, you can go south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter archway" | |||
Floyd ] East Wall 5/92 Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER ARCHWAY Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] East Wall 5/93 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | East Wall Floyd | The forest gives way to reveal a lofty brick structure. There is a Floyd | large archway facing you, through which you could access the interior Floyd | were it not for a large hole underneath. Floyd | Floyd | The path ends here: any further north and you'll have left Phoenicia, Floyd | and the cliff is still to your east. You'll have to head back south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] East Wall 5/94 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | That's a long way down, friend. Floyd | Floyd | > | Iria is reminded of the time Wile E. Coyote tried to catch the Road Runner with a Burmese Tiger trap, only to end up catching a Burmese Tiger! | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "why not eat the tiger then?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take leaves" | |||
Floyd ] East Wall 5/94 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE LEAVES Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Iria exclaims, "Because the tiger would eat you first!" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I suppose if you have trouble with a roadrunner, an entire tiger would be a little hard to swallow." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/95 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eastern Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees clear out on the east to reveal a precipice overlooking a Floyd | beautiful rainbow. Far below, you see a waterfall flowing from a gap Floyd | in the cliff wall that turns into a winding river. There is an Floyd | outcropping nearby, which is bare now that the leprechaun has taken Floyd | the letter S. Floyd | Floyd | You can return to the denser area of the forest to your southwest, or Floyd | you can follow the cliff edge to the north. Floyd | Floyd | A sprightly leprechaun dances around you waving the letter S. Floyd | Floyd | The sight of the leprechaun fills you with annoyance. Floyd | Floyd | > | Iria hoohoohoohoohoohoos! | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell rat" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/96 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL RAT Floyd | Floyd | A rodent of modest size appears out of thin air. After getting its Floyd | bearings, it scampers off. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell tea" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/97 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TEA Floyd | Floyd | You enjoy a cup of jasmine. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell are" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/98 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL ARE Floyd | Floyd | You are. At least you think so. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell era" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/99 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL ERA Floyd | Floyd | Conveniently, you're already in an era of some sort, so this word has Floyd | no discernible effect. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Iria says (to Floyd), "spell ear" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/100 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL EAR Floyd | Floyd | You produce a third ear, square on your forehead. It's unsightly and Floyd | it feels really weird, so you send it back with a poof. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell tac" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/101 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TAC Floyd | Floyd | "tac" isn't a word. Don't you know the dangers of reckless alphabet Floyd | usage? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell tat" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/102 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TAT Floyd | Floyd | You can't spell "tat," since your alphabet case has only one of each Floyd | letter. Floyd | Floyd | > | Iria says (to DavidW), "They haven't invented Tic Tacs yet." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell eta" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/103 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL ETA Floyd | Floyd | The image of an "H" shimmers briefly in the air, but you can't use a Floyd | Greek letter, even if it does resemble an English one. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell rac" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/104 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL RAC Floyd | Floyd | "rac" isn't a word. Don't you know the dangers of reckless alphabet Floyd | usage? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push man" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/105 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH MAN Floyd | Floyd | The leprechaun might not like that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "catch man" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/105 Floyd | > Floyd | > CATCH MAN Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/105 Floyd | > Floyd | > DIG Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/106 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a stick Floyd | your alphabet case (A, C, E, R, and T) Floyd | a three-letter frame Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/107 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Eastern Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees clear out on the east to reveal a precipice overlooking a Floyd | beautiful rainbow. Far below, you see a waterfall flowing from a gap Floyd | in the cliff wall that turns into a winding river. There is an Floyd | outcropping nearby, which is bare now that the leprechaun has taken Floyd | the letter S. Floyd | Floyd | You can return to the denser area of the forest to your southwest, or Floyd | you can follow the cliff edge to the north. Floyd | Floyd | A sprightly leprechaun dances around you waving the letter S. Floyd | Floyd | The sight of the leprechaun fills you with annoyance. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gap" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/107 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GAP Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x river" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/108 Floyd | > Floyd | > X RIVER Floyd | Floyd | Far below, the river heads east for a bit before snaking in a Floyd | northwesterly direction. The water is calm outside the occasional Floyd | eddy. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "swim" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/109 Floyd | > Floyd | > SWIM Floyd | Floyd | You can't do that here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dive" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/109 Floyd | > Floyd | > DIVE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/110 Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | That's a long way down, friend. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gold" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/110 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GOLD Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell tar" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 5/111 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TAR Floyd | Floyd | You produce a pile of sticky goo directly under the leprechaun. He Floyd | jumps out of it as quickly as possible and resumes his annoying dance, Floyd | but his shoes are coated in tar, making his jumps slightly awkward. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "okay, that sorta worked?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take s" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 6/112 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE S Floyd | Floyd | The leprechaun is unable to escape your grasp, and you easily take the Floyd | letter from him. You insert S into your alphabet case, adding its Floyd | power to the five letters you already possess. Floyd | Floyd | You can now spell words that contain the letter S. Floyd | Floyd | The leprechaun is dispirited at the loss of his treasure. He trudges Floyd | back to the cliff and jumps off. How awfully dramatic! You rush to Floyd | stop him, but he's already gone -- disappeared off to wherever Floyd | leprechauns go when they're not tormenting poor explorers, it seems, Floyd | and not a suicide after all. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "Well done." | ||
| Iria says, "i" | |||
| Iria says, "ILAC" | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "spell sat" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 6/113 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL SAT Floyd | Floyd | You suddenly recall sitting in a lecture by Professor Spruce. You sat Floyd | like a real professional. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Iria says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 6/114 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a stick Floyd | your alphabet case (A, C, E, R, S, and T) Floyd | a three-letter frame Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "Heh." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] East Wall 6/115 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | East Wall Floyd | The forest gives way to reveal a lofty brick structure. There is a Floyd | large archway facing you, through which you could access the interior Floyd | were it not for a large hole underneath. Floyd | Floyd | The path ends here: any further north and you'll have left Phoenicia, Floyd | and the cliff is still to your east. You'll have to head back south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell sea" | |||
Floyd ] East Wall 6/116 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL SEA Floyd | Floyd | Whatever problem you're having is unlikely to be helped by millions of Floyd | gallons of water. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Iria exclaims (at DavidW), "You beat me to it!" | |||
| Iria says (to Floyd), "spell ace" | |||
Floyd ] East Wall 6/117 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL ACE Floyd | Floyd | A card (the ace of clubs) appears in your hand. It would bend in your Floyd | pockets, so you send it back with a poof. Nice trick, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "!" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "oh, I see what you mean." | |||
| Teaspoon exclaims, "Kobolds!" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "That might work for the kobolds..." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Indeed." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 6/118 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eastern Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees clear out on the east to reveal a precipice overlooking a Floyd | beautiful rainbow. Far below, you see a waterfall flowing from a gap Floyd | in the cliff wall that turns into a winding river. There is an Floyd | outcropping nearby where you found the letter S. Floyd | Floyd | You can return to the denser area of the forest to your southwest, or Floyd | you can follow the cliff edge to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Deep Within Phoenicia Forest 6/119 Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Deep Within Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees are incredibly dense in this area, and there's no trail to Floyd | follow. Were it not for your innate talent at recognizing cardinal Floyd | directions, you could easily get lost in here. Floyd | Floyd | To the northwest and northeast, the forest begins to thin out. You see Floyd | a small tunnel leading underground to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 6/120 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kobold Warren Floyd | You're back in the kobold warren, despite your preference to be almost Floyd | literally anywhere else. As always, this place isn't quite tall enough Floyd | to stand in, so you're hunched over just a bit. This is giving you a Floyd | neckache. But wait -- the letter G is here. One of the unknown Floyd | letters! Floyd | Floyd | A large fire lights the room from the western wall, and to the side is Floyd | a large pile of sticks. The tunnel leading to the surface is to the Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | The kobolds are huddled around the letter G on the southern edge of Floyd | this little hole. Floyd | Floyd | The letter G -- one of the unknown letters -- sits unguarded at the Floyd | south end of the warren. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell sea" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 6/121 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL SEA Floyd | Floyd | Whatever problem you're having is unlikely to be helped by millions of Floyd | gallons of water. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "No, Ace." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell ace" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 7/122 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL ACE Floyd | Floyd | "Wanna see some magic?" you say. The kobolds stop what they're doing Floyd | and look your way. You produce an ace of spades from thin air, and the Floyd | kobolds ooh and ahh. When you send the card back with a poof, there is Floyd | a wave of gasps. The kobolds applaud and gather around you. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Nicely hinted, game." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Why did that work?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "What was the hint?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell act" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 7/123 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL ACT Floyd | Floyd | You put on what is surely the worst magic act ever performed, spelling Floyd | various words and sending them back. The kobolds are highly Floyd | entertained, though, since this might as well be magic to them. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take g" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 8/124 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE G Floyd | Floyd | Now that the kobolds are enthralled by your, ahem, Floyd | performance, you have no trouble budging through to the Floyd | letter G. You insert G into your alphabet case, adding its power to Floyd | the six letters you already possess. Floyd | Floyd | You can now spell words that contain the letter G. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "The hint was in the description for ACE... 'Nice trick, though.'" | ||
| Iria says (to Floyd), "spell gas" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 8/125 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL GAS Floyd | Floyd | Hmm. That didn't do anything obvious, but you can smell something in Floyd | the air now. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "The kobolds wanted to see magic." | ||
| Iria says, "LOL" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell gas" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 8/126 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL GAS Floyd | Floyd | Hmm. That didn't do anything obvious, but you can smell something in Floyd | the air now. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell sag" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 8/127 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL SAG Floyd | Floyd | You feel your cheeks droop a bit. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "meh" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell tag" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 8/128 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TAG Floyd | Floyd | You tag the kobolds. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "spell rag" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 8/129 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL RAG Floyd | Floyd | You produce dirty scrap of cloth. Good for you? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell gat" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 8/130 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL GAT Floyd | Floyd | Kudos for thinking outside the box, but at no point will you need to Floyd | use a word that obscure. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | (If you're stuck, you can type HINT for help.) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tie rag to stick" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 8/131 Floyd | > Floyd | > TIE RAG TO STICK Floyd | Floyd | You wrap the rag tightly around the stick. If you soaked it in Floyd | something more flammable, then it would make a good torch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell tar" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 8/132 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TAR Floyd | Floyd | Better not. Your hands and pockets would get sticky -- it'd be a real Floyd | mess. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell art" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 8/133 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL ART Floyd | Floyd | You produce a copy of the Creation of Adam. It's good, but is it art? Floyd | Floyd | Well, in this case, it's a forgery, and it's too big to carry around, Floyd | so you send it back with a poof. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell sec" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 8/134 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL SEC Floyd | Floyd | You wait for a second, but nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It does seem like that should work." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "The tar, I mean." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Deep Within Phoenicia Forest 8/135 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Deep Within Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees are incredibly dense in this area, and there's no trail to Floyd | follow. Were it not for your innate talent at recognizing cardinal Floyd | directions, you could easily get lost in here. Floyd | Floyd | To the northwest and northeast, the forest begins to thin out. You see Floyd | a small tunnel leading underground to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 8/136 Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eastern Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees clear out on the east to reveal a precipice overlooking a Floyd | beautiful rainbow. Far below, you see a waterfall flowing from a gap Floyd | in the cliff wall that turns into a winding river. There is an Floyd | outcropping nearby where you found the letter S. Floyd | Floyd | You can return to the denser area of the forest to your southwest, or Floyd | you can follow the cliff edge to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tar" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 8/136 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TAR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "no tar left here." | ||
| DavidW says, "Obviously we need the torch for the ruins." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm. Yeah." | |||
| DavidW asks, "What else is flammable besides oil, tar, gas?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 8/137 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a stick Floyd | a rag Floyd | your alphabet case (A, C, E, G, R, S, and T) Floyd | a three-letter frame Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell car" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 8/138 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL CAR Floyd | Floyd | You produce a shiny red Ferrari. It's impressive, but the automobile Floyd | won't be invented for quite some time still, so you have no clue how Floyd | to operate it. You send it back with a poof. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Nothing on our current list of three letter words, far as I can see." | ||
| zarf asks, "AGE? GAR?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell age" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 8/139 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL AGE Floyd | Floyd | You feel nominally older now. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell gar" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 8/140 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL GAR Floyd | Floyd | A needlefish appears out of thin air. You have no need for it at the Floyd | moment and it would be cumbersome to carry around, so you send it back Floyd | with a poof. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yay needlefish" | ||
| zarf says, "I forget if the crocodile is still around" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I saw a school of them yesterday while snorkeling." | |||
| Iria cues up Crocodile Roc. | |||
| Iria says, "Rock*" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Deep Within Phoenicia Forest 8/141 Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Deep Within Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees are incredibly dense in this area, and there's no trail to Floyd | follow. Were it not for your innate talent at recognizing cardinal Floyd | directions, you could easily get lost in here. Floyd | Floyd | To the northwest and northeast, the forest begins to thin out. You see Floyd | a small tunnel leading underground to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Western Phoenicia Forest 8/142 Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Western Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees are sufficiently sparse to allow grass to grow in this area, Floyd | but there are still enough of them to consider this part of the Floyd | forest. The forest continues to the southeast. You can also head north Floyd | or northwest from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Clearing 8/143 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | You find yourself in a grassy clearing. The landscape is thoroughly Floyd | unremarkable here, but you can see the edge of Phoenicia Forest to the Floyd | south, Lake Phoenicia to the east, and a large brick structure to the Floyd | north. To your west is the area where you first set foot here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 8/144 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lake Phoenicia Floyd | You stand at the bank of Lake Phoenicia. It's certainly not as Floyd | majestic as you might have hoped: the water is a dank brown and the Floyd | whole thing smells vaguely swampy. The lake is certainly vast, though: Floyd | the only way forward from here is back to the west where you came Floyd | from. Floyd | Floyd | The elephant has taken up residence in the lake. Floyd | Floyd | A crocodile is swimming through the lake far from here. It seems to be Floyd | keeping its distance from the elephant. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell gar" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 8/145 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL GAR Floyd | Floyd | You produce a needlefish, which splashes into the lake and swims off. Floyd | It wants nothing to do with the crocodile or elephant, nor they with Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Iria says (to floyd), "spell rat" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 8/145 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL RAT Floyd | Floyd | You produce another rat, startling the elephant once again. The Floyd | elephant trumpets loudly and, seeing no other exit, storms off to the Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | Hey, that's where you were standing, wasn't it? Oops! Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have been trampled *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 8 out of a possible 26, in 145 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Ordinary Orthographer. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | |||
| Iria says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 8/145 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Lake Phoenicia Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Iria puts a dunce cap on | ||
| Jacqueline says, "whoops" | |||
| Iria says, "Iria, you idiot." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Now, now." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "It's fine." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Undo is your friend." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "I wonder how many letters have been implemented." | |||
| DavidW says, "This is an intro game, right/" | |||
| DavidW asks, "?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "yes" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "I haven't seen anything to really provide a sense of how long the intro is though." | |||
| DavidW says, "So it probably cuts off when the enter the underground with a torch, I would assume." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Only one way to know." | |||
| DavidW says, "er when we enter" | |||
| DavidW says, "We still need to make the torch." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Lake Phoenicia 8/146 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. From here, you can go west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I mean, we don't have to get to the end. We could call it, as I think we have a good sense of this game and what it would be, and move on to another." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Clearing 8/147 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | You find yourself in a grassy clearing. The landscape is thoroughly Floyd | unremarkable here, but you can see the edge of Phoenicia Forest to the Floyd | south, Lake Phoenicia to the east, and a large brick structure to the Floyd | north. To your west is the area where you first set foot here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I still want an "I" from the cyclops." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "heh." | |||
| DavidW asks, "oh, can we cover the hole with ART?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Western Phoenicia Forest 8/148 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Western Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees are sufficiently sparse to allow grass to grow in this area, Floyd | but there are still enough of them to consider this part of the Floyd | forest. The forest continues to the southeast. You can also head north Floyd | or northwest from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Deep Within Phoenicia Forest 8/149 Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Deep Within Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees are incredibly dense in this area, and there's no trail to Floyd | follow. Were it not for your innate talent at recognizing cardinal Floyd | directions, you could easily get lost in here. Floyd | Floyd | To the northwest and northeast, the forest begins to thin out. You see Floyd | a small tunnel leading underground to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 8/150 Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eastern Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees clear out on the east to reveal a precipice overlooking a Floyd | beautiful rainbow. Far below, you see a waterfall flowing from a gap Floyd | in the cliff wall that turns into a winding river. There is an Floyd | outcropping nearby where you found the letter S. Floyd | Floyd | You can return to the denser area of the forest to your southwest, or Floyd | you can follow the cliff edge to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] East Wall 8/151 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | East Wall Floyd | The forest gives way to reveal a lofty brick structure. There is a Floyd | large archway facing you, through which you could access the interior Floyd | were it not for a large hole underneath. Floyd | Floyd | The path ends here: any further north and you'll have left Phoenicia, Floyd | and the cliff is still to your east. You'll have to head back south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell art" | |||
Floyd ] East Wall 8/152 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL ART Floyd | Floyd | You produce a copy of Persistence of Memory. It's good, but is it art? Floyd | Floyd | Well, in this case, it's a forgery, and it's too big to carry around, Floyd | so you send it back with a poof. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "drat" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take hole" | |||
Floyd ] East Wall 8/153 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE HOLE Floyd | Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to game), "But portable holes are awesome." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "but most aren't portable." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] East Wall 8/154 Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Whether you meant down the hole or down the cliff, you'd have a hard Floyd | time getting back up. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wall" | |||
Floyd ] East Wall 8/155 Floyd | > Floyd | > X WALL Floyd | Floyd | The ruins are in remarkably good shape given their age. The vines Floyd | crawling up the bricks of the outer walls are the biggest indication Floyd | that the ruins have been long abandoned. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "score" | |||
Floyd ] East Wall 8/155 Floyd | > Floyd | > SCORE Floyd | Floyd | You have so far scored 8 out of a possible 26, in 155 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Ordinary Orthographer. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Do we have map areas we haven't explored?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ful score" | |||
Floyd ] East Wall 8/155 Floyd | > Floyd | > FUL SCORE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "full score" | |||
Floyd ] East Wall 8/155 Floyd | > Floyd | > FULL SCORE Floyd | Floyd | So far, you have the following accomplishments to your name: Floyd | served tea Floyd | satiated a cyclops Floyd | discovered the letter R Floyd | scared an elephant Floyd | discovered the letter C Floyd | discovered the letter S Floyd | impressed a group of kobolds Floyd | discovered the letter G Floyd | You have earned a total of 8 points in 155 turns, granting you the Floyd | rank of Ordinary Orthographer. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "As far as I know, there's only two areas we can't go: east of this hole and down into the dark ruins." | ||
| DavidW says, "I haven't doublechecked the forest for hidden paths, though." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Huh. I was thinking it'd be one point per letter (i.e. 26), but this is kind of looking like you get points for other stuff and not all the letters? Possibly 26 is just a placeholder for the intro..." | |||
| Jacqueline nods at DW. | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 8/156 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eastern Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees clear out on the east to reveal a precipice overlooking a Floyd | beautiful rainbow. Far below, you see a waterfall flowing from a gap Floyd | in the cliff wall that turns into a winding river. There is an Floyd | outcropping nearby where you found the letter S. Floyd | Floyd | You can return to the denser area of the forest to your southwest, or Floyd | you can follow the cliff edge to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Deep Within Phoenicia Forest 8/157 Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Deep Within Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees are incredibly dense in this area, and there's no trail to Floyd | follow. Were it not for your innate talent at recognizing cardinal Floyd | directions, you could easily get lost in here. Floyd | Floyd | To the northwest and northeast, the forest begins to thin out. You see Floyd | a small tunnel leading underground to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Deep Within Phoenicia Forest 8/158 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. From here, you can go northwest, south, and Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Deep Within Phoenicia Forest 8/159 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. From here, you can go northwest, south, and Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Deep Within Phoenicia Forest 8/160 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. From here, you can go northwest, south, and Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Deep Within Phoenicia Forest 8/161 Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. From here, you can go northwest, south, and Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Deep Within Phoenicia Forest 8/162 Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. From here, you can go northwest, south, and Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh well." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell sac" | |||
Floyd ] Deep Within Phoenicia Forest 8/163 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL SAC Floyd | Floyd | You produce an anal sac. It's really gross and not obviously useful, Floyd | so you send it back with a poof and a grimace. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "darn" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "snrk" | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure if we need a container for the tar before we can make the torch or what's the problem." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 8/164 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kobold Warren Floyd | You're back in the kobold warren, despite your preference to be almost Floyd | literally anywhere else. As always, this place isn't quite tall enough Floyd | to stand in, so you're hunched over just a bit. This is giving you a Floyd | neckache. Floyd | Floyd | A large fire lights the room from the western wall, and to the side is Floyd | a large pile of sticks. The tunnel leading to the surface is to the Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | As the kobolds notice you enter, they gather around you once again. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Given the pockets reference, perhaps" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "light torch" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 8/165 Floyd | > Floyd | > LIGHT TORCH Floyd | Floyd | The rag needs to be more flammable before this will work as a torch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 8/166 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a stick Floyd | a rag Floyd | your alphabet case (A, C, E, G, R, S, and T) Floyd | a three-letter frame Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take stick" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 8/167 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE STICK Floyd | Floyd | You already snagged one. It's probably best to limit the amount you Floyd | steal from the kobolds. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "spell set" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 8/168 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL SET Floyd | Floyd | Unbelievable! You've produced a complete set of those wooden soldiers Floyd | that your parents would never buy for you. These are worth a fortune Floyd | nowadays. You have no use for them at the moment, of course, so you Floyd | send them back with a poof and make a mental note to make another set Floyd | once you get back to Aleph City. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "Aw." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Hoping for an Egyptian god, were you?" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "Could be useful." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell etc" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 8/169 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL ETC Floyd | Floyd | "etc" isn't a word. Don't you know the dangers of reckless alphabet Floyd | usage? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "Oh dear." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell arg" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 8/170 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL ARG Floyd | Floyd | "arg" isn't a word. Don't you know the dangers of reckless alphabet Floyd | usage? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Iria says, "I believe it's spelled 'ARRRGH!'" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell get" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 8/171 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL GET Floyd | Floyd | You could, you know, just take whatever you're after. This is one word Floyd | that you don't need to spell. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell reg" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 8/172 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL REG Floyd | Floyd | You reminisce on the Institute's "Regulations for Proper Alphabet Floyd | Use." Floyd | Floyd | Rule #2: No one shall engage in spelling while intoxicated. Floyd | Floyd | (If you're stuck, you can type HINT for help.) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell erg" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 8/173 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL ERG Floyd | Floyd | Reaching deep to the bottom of our vocabulary barrel, are we? Obscure Floyd | words aren't required to win. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Shall I try HINT?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That is... a lot of hard returns." | |||
| DavidW says, "yeah, the returns there are odd." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell ret" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 8/174 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL RET Floyd | Floyd | That word isn't especially helpful unless you're playing a certain Floyd | board game. Floyd | Floyd | You're not. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Are they building each time?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, no." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway, I am okay with a hint, I guess." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "Me too." | |||
| DavidW says, "I think it wants to sometimes suggest HINT but is still producing the returns regardless." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hint" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 8/174 Floyd | > Floyd | > HINT Floyd | Floyd | Try HINT TOPIC for hints on a specific topic. For example, if Floyd | you're having trouble slaying the dragon, try HINT DRAGON. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hint torch" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 8/174 Floyd | > Floyd | > HINT TORCH Floyd | Floyd | A torch is more than just a stick. Before you can light it, you need Floyd | to put an accelerant onto some kind of absorbent material -- such as Floyd | cloth -- and wrap it around one end. Try HINT ACCELERANT or Floyd | HINT CLOTH if you're still stuck. Floyd | Floyd | You'll also need a source of fire to get it going. You've seen one Floyd | somewhere already. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hint accelerant" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 8/174 Floyd | > Floyd | > HINT ACCELERANT Floyd | Floyd | An accelerant is a highly flammable substance, like lighter fluid. Floyd | There's something matching this description that you can spell. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We sorta knew that." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hint tar" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 8/174 Floyd | > Floyd | > HINT TAR Floyd | Floyd | You're already off to a good start! Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "hint cloth" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "hint cloth" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 8/174 Floyd | > Floyd | > HINT CLOTH Floyd | Floyd | The cloth for your torch doesn't need to be in good shape. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hint cloth" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 8/174 Floyd | > Floyd | > HINT CLOTH Floyd | Floyd | The cloth for your torch doesn't need to be in good shape. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), " spell gas" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 8/175 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL GAS Floyd | Floyd | You produce a cloud of gasoline and soak the stick in it. Just add Floyd | fire and you've got a light source. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh." | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "Didn't we try that earlier?" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "Pretty sure we did." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I thought of that and nearly made a 'lighting farts' joke, but then decided not to." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "We tried it but don't think we'd done the rag yet." | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "put stick in fire" | |||
Floyd ] Kobold Warren 9/176 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT STICK IN FIRE Floyd | Floyd | Before the torch even touches the dancing flames, the fumes ignite and Floyd | the torch bursts into life. Congratulations: you've got a light. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I thought so, but I guess not when the rag was on the stick." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "Huh." | |||
| Teaspoon asks, "Well, was there anywhere to take this besides the ruins?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Just the ruins, I think" | |||
| DavidW asks, "shall I take us there?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Deep Within Phoenicia Forest 9/177 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Deep Within Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees are incredibly dense in this area, and there's no trail to Floyd | follow. Were it not for your innate talent at recognizing cardinal Floyd | directions, you could easily get lost in here. Floyd | Floyd | To the northwest and northeast, the forest begins to thin out. You see Floyd | a small tunnel leading underground to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Eastern Phoenicia Forest 9/178 Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eastern Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees clear out on the east to reveal a precipice overlooking a Floyd | beautiful rainbow. Far below, you see a waterfall flowing from a gap Floyd | in the cliff wall that turns into a winding river. There is an Floyd | outcropping nearby where you found the letter S. Floyd | Floyd | You can return to the denser area of the forest to your southwest, or Floyd | you can follow the cliff edge to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Deep Within Phoenicia Forest 9/179 Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Deep Within Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees are incredibly dense in this area, and there's no trail to Floyd | follow. Were it not for your innate talent at recognizing cardinal Floyd | directions, you could easily get lost in here. Floyd | Floyd | To the northwest and northeast, the forest begins to thin out. You see Floyd | a small tunnel leading underground to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Western Phoenicia Forest 9/180 Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Western Phoenicia Forest Floyd | The trees are sufficiently sparse to allow grass to grow in this area, Floyd | but there are still enough of them to consider this part of the Floyd | forest. The forest continues to the southeast. You can also head north Floyd | or northwest from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Clearing 9/181 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Clearing Floyd | You find yourself in a grassy clearing. The landscape is thoroughly Floyd | unremarkable here, but you can see the edge of Phoenicia Forest to the Floyd | south, Lake Phoenicia to the east, and a large brick structure to the Floyd | north. To your west is the area where you first set foot here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] West Wall 9/182 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | West Wall Floyd | This clearing is notable for the great wall that occupies its eastern Floyd | edge, where an archway connects this clearing to the Phoenician ruins Floyd | that lie beyond. Floyd | Floyd | Besides the ruins to the east, you can travel southwest to where you Floyd | first arrived or south to a more open area. Floyd | Floyd | The cyclops is sleeping just to the side of the archway. Floyd | Floyd | The cyclops snores loudly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] West Entrance to Phoenician Ruins 9/183 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | West Entrance to Phoenician Ruins Floyd | The air is stale, and the walls are netted with cobwebs, but Floyd | otherwise, these ruins are in marvelous condition. You're here for Floyd | orthography, though, not archaeology, so you're unequipped to fully Floyd | appreciate this. Floyd | Floyd | The archway to the west leads back outside, and a staircase leads down Floyd | into the dark subterrain of the ruins. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] West Ruins Underground 9/184 Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | West Ruins Underground Floyd | The light of your torch dances on the walls of the walls of the Floyd | Phoenician underground. To step down into these ruins is to step into Floyd | history itself. Floyd | Floyd | The stairs lead up to the surface, and this corridor continues to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline leans in. | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So... d again?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "oH, wait, east." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] West Ruins Corridor 9/185 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | West Ruins Corridor Floyd | The air down here is dry. From your admittedly limited exposure to Floyd | spelunking, you had expected humid air and the occasional drip, but Floyd | the Phoenician architecture holds watertight after all these years. Floyd | Floyd | The corridor continues to the west and east. Floyd | Floyd | The letter O hangs on a mural on the stone wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "There we go." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take o" | |||
Floyd ] Pit 9/186 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE O Floyd | Floyd | You begin to approach the mural when your ears perk up. What was that Floyd | noise? You stand still and listen. Footsteps, coming from the other Floyd | direction. Floyd | Floyd | To the east, another light approaches. You strain to see a human woman Floyd | who appears just as surprised to see you. You are considerably more Floyd | surprised, however, when you notice what she's carrying: an alphabet Floyd | case and a letter frame. An orthographer? But you're the only one the Floyd | Institute authorized to explore Phoenicia! Floyd | Floyd | Dumbfounded as you are, you have no time to react as the woman Floyd | arranges letters into her frame. The first two letters are unfamiliar, Floyd | and you can barely see her slide T into the last slot when a gaping Floyd | hole opens beneath you, dropping you into... Floyd | Floyd | Pit Floyd | Your landing was hardly comfortable, but you have only scrapes and Floyd | bruises to show for it. The real problem is that the walls of the pit Floyd | offer no means of purchase. Fortunately, you've retained your Floyd | possessions, and you even managed to avoid burning yourself with the Floyd | torch. All told, you're in great shape aside from being in this pit. Floyd | Floyd | The overall look of this hole brings to mind the one that you saw in Floyd | the eastern ruins entrance. It occurs to you that your rival Floyd | orthographer was probably responsible for that as well, meaning she's Floyd | had more time than you to explore the ruins. Judging from the word she Floyd | spelled, your new friend has at least two of the unknown letters. This Floyd | is a serious problem: you're going to need those letters. You'd better Floyd | be on your toes next time the two of you meet. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, this changes everything." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "I suspected this would happen, but it's still very exciting." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Pit 9/187 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a torch (providing light) Floyd | your alphabet case (A, C, E, G, R, S, and T) Floyd | a three-letter frame Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell sea" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL SEA Floyd | Floyd | You inhale sharply, hold your breath, and arrange the letters. You are Floyd | slammed to the ground by a crushing load of water, and it's all you Floyd | can do to keep your breath from being knocked out of you. Suddenly, Floyd | you question the wisdom of this course of action. The torch has been Floyd | extinguished and your possessions have been scattered. The wet torch Floyd | is easy enough to find, but you spend precious seconds groping the Floyd | floor for the case and frame. Seizing them, you swim as quickly as you Floyd | can in the direction of the only light you can now see. Your breath Floyd | gives out before you make it there, and just as you inhale a lungful Floyd | of sea water, it occurs to you to dismiss the sea, sending it back Floyd | with a poof. Floyd | Floyd | You cough and strain for air, but as you do, you hear a distant howl Floyd | echoing through the tunnels. As you gather your things and head back Floyd | to the surface, a grin reaches your lips. Somewhere deep in the Floyd | catacombs below, the woman who tried to thwart your mission is Floyd | fumbling around in the darkness. Being dropped in a pit was unpleasant Floyd | for you, and having to rekindle your torch is a little inconvenient, Floyd | but you have dealt her a major setback. After making sure your Floyd | alphabet case survived the ordeal and returning to the kobold warren Floyd | to relight your torch, you're ready to go. | Jacqueline says (to Tsp), "You did? I did not." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Oh wow, nice." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "Right in one." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "But when the Prof said "Oh yes, there is ANOTHER who was NEVER SEEN AGAIN", I rather thought we'd have a rival." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] West Entrance to Phoenician Ruins 10/188 Floyd | to relight your torch, you're ready to go. Floyd | West Entrance to Phoenician Ruins Floyd | The air is stale, and the walls are netted with cobwebs, but Floyd | otherwise, these ruins are in marvelous condition. You're here for Floyd | orthography, though, not archaeology, so you're unequipped to fully Floyd | appreciate this. Floyd | Floyd | The archway to the west leads back outside, and a staircase leads down Floyd | into the dark subterrain of the ruins. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Tsp), "See, I figured that person was just deaded." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Long ago." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] West Ruins Underground 10/189 Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | West Ruins Underground Floyd | The light of your torch dances on the walls of the walls of the Floyd | Phoenician underground. To step down into these ruins is to step into Floyd | history itself. Floyd | Floyd | The stairs lead up to the surface, and this corridor continues to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] West Ruins Corridor 10/190 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | West Ruins Corridor Floyd | The air down here is dry. From your admittedly limited exposure to Floyd | spelunking, you had expected humid air and the occasional drip, but Floyd | the Phoenician architecture holds watertight after all these years. Floyd | Floyd | The corridor continues to the west and east. There's also a gaping Floyd | hole in the ground here which you have no desire to revisit. Floyd | Floyd | The mural on the wall is unsurprisingly bare. Your new acquaintance Floyd | has taken its letter. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Grand Staircase 10/191 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Grand Staircase Floyd | The relatively tight corridor makes way here to a cavernous stairway Floyd | that descends south into abyssal darkness. The dust and cobwebs fail Floyd | to conceal the majesty of the stonework. You can't help but be Floyd | awestruck. Floyd | Floyd | The north wall is decorated by a mural bare of any letter. The other Floyd | orthographer came from this direction; she must have taken this Floyd | mural's letter. Floyd | Floyd | Besides the staircase, you can go east and west from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "I wonder whether we'll have the opportunity to work with her. Or against." | ||
| DavidW asks, "East or South/Down?" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "uh, east." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] East Ruins Corridor 10/192 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | East Ruins Corridor Floyd | The corridor once again narrows to the east of the staircase. The Floyd | corridor seems to be east-west symmetric about the staircase: a mural Floyd | (once again bare) adorns the north wall again, and far to the east, Floyd | you see a glimmer of sunlight. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] East Ruins Underground 10/193 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | East Ruins Underground Floyd | As you'd expected, a staircase here ascends into daylight. The Floyd | corridor ends here otherwise; the grand staircase is clearly the focus Floyd | of this corridor. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] East Entrance to Phoenician Ruins 10/194 Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | East Entrance to Phoenician Ruins Floyd | You find yourself on the other side of the large hole that you Floyd | discovered earlier. There is a mural on the wall here, too, Floyd | unsurprisingly bereft of its letter. No prizes for guessing what Floyd | happened here. Floyd | Floyd | With the large hole effectively blocking the archway, your only option Floyd | is to head back down into the ruins. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] East Ruins Underground 10/195 Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | East Ruins Underground Floyd | As you'd expected, a staircase here ascends into daylight. The Floyd | corridor ends here otherwise; the grand staircase is clearly the focus Floyd | of this corridor. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] East Ruins Corridor 10/196 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | East Ruins Corridor Floyd | The corridor once again narrows to the east of the staircase. The Floyd | corridor seems to be east-west symmetric about the staircase: a mural Floyd | (once again bare) adorns the north wall again, and far to the east, Floyd | you see a glimmer of sunlight. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Grand Staircase 10/197 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Grand Staircase Floyd | The relatively tight corridor makes way here to a cavernous stairway Floyd | that descends south into abyssal darkness. The dust and cobwebs fail Floyd | to conceal the majesty of the stonework. You can't help but be Floyd | awestruck. Floyd | Floyd | The north wall is decorated by a mural bare of any letter. The other Floyd | orthographer came from this direction; she must have taken this Floyd | mural's letter. Floyd | Floyd | Besides the staircase, you can go east and west from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 10/198 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Underground City of Phoenicia Floyd | As you descend the gigantic staircase, your jaw drops. And it keeps Floyd | dropping. Floyd | Floyd | The ceiling is no longer visible with the light from your torch. Floyd | Through its inadequate glow, great structures rise to meet you. An Floyd | entire city is down here. Floyd | Floyd | The heart of the underground city is south of here, and the staircase Floyd | rises to the north. Floyd | Floyd | On the polished stone ahead is a four-letter frame, covered with the Floyd | same centuries of dust as everything else. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take frame" | |||
Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 11/199 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE FRAME Floyd | Floyd | (the four-letter frame) Floyd | Your hands tremble in anticipation as you pick up the four-letter Floyd | frame. You blow the dust off of it and polish it with your sleeve. Floyd | Hundreds of years ago, a real, living Phoenician spelled words with Floyd | this, using all twenty-six letters of the alphabet. Now, that power is Floyd | yours. Floyd | Floyd | You can now spell four-letter words. Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, we're gonna make a CAGEfor our rival, I bet." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell seat" | |||
Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 11/200 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL SEAT Floyd | Floyd | You produce a seat, something like a chair but with no legs. It Floyd | doesn't stay up on its own, which makes it pretty useless. You send it Floyd | back with a poof. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell case" | |||
Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 11/201 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL CASE Floyd | Floyd | Your existing alphabet case is enough. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell gear" | |||
Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 11/202 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL GEAR Floyd | Floyd | You produce a small brass cog. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cog" | |||
Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 11/203 Floyd | > Floyd | > X COG Floyd | Floyd | A small, thick brass disc with teeth around the side to interlock with Floyd | other, similar items. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon exclaims, "!" | ||
| Iria says (to Floyd), "spell Sega" | |||
Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 11/204 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL SEGA Floyd | Floyd | "Sega" isn't a word. Don't you know the dangers of reckless alphabet Floyd | usage? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf21" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 11/204 Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | Iria says, "Yes it is1" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "Well, this is very excitiing." | |||
| Iria exclaims, "!" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 11/204 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You've reached the end of the IntroComp release of Spellbound. I hope Floyd | you have enjoyed your time in Phoenicia. If you are anxious to see Floyd | more of the game, you can experiment with the four-letter frame (as Floyd | long as you don't take it into the Underground City) or explore the Floyd | Underground City (as long as you don't take the four-letter frame). Floyd | Thanks for playing! Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** So long for now *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 11 out of a possible 26, in 204 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Ordinary Orthographer. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT, or UNDO the last command? Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 11/204 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Underground City of Phoenicia Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell cage" | |||
Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 11/205 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL CAGE Floyd | Floyd | You produce a large iron cage. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cage" | |||
Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 11/206 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CAGE Floyd | Floyd | A large cage made of iron bars painted black. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 11/207 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a gear Floyd | a four-letter frame Floyd | a torch (providing light) Floyd | your alphabet case (A, C, E, G, R, S, and T) Floyd | a three-letter frame Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cage" | |||
Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 11/208 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE CAGE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell cats" | |||
Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 11/209 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL CATS Floyd | Floyd | No need for plurals; let's not be greedy, now. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell star" | |||
Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 11/210 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL STAR Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere, far, far away, a new star blinks into existence. In a few Floyd | hundred years, its light will reach this planet. Do this a few more Floyd | times and you'll really confuse a lot of astronomers down the line. Floyd | Floyd | (If you're stuck, you can type HINT for help.) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell scat" | |||
Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 11/211 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL SCAT Floyd | Floyd | That's a really crappy idea. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hee" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell cast" | |||
Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 11/212 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL CAST Floyd | Floyd | A hard plaster cast covers your leg. It's quite uncomfortable, and Floyd | your leg is in good condition, so you send it back with a poof. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell tear" | |||
Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 11/213 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL TEAR Floyd | Floyd | You shed a single tear. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell rate" | |||
Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 11/214 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL RATE Floyd | Floyd | You give the cage a 5 out of 10. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "A lot of work has been put into this." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell sate" | |||
Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 11/215 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL SATE Floyd | Floyd | It's not clear what you ate, but you feel quite satisfied now. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell race" | |||
Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 11/216 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL RACE Floyd | Floyd | There's no one here for you to race. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spell rage" | |||
Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 11/217 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL RAGE Floyd | Floyd | You feel really angry! But your anger subsides. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I wonder how our rival has a T for PIT when we have the T?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I was wondering that too." | |||
| Teaspoon asks, "Are there multiple letters?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Maybe? I don't know." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "We were sent to find new ones, but perhaps we were both equipped with ts." | |||
| Iria says (to Floyd), "spell sage" | |||
Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 11/218 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPELL SAGE Floyd | Floyd | You produce a handful of Salvia officinalis. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Shall we go south and check AMUSING?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell sage" | |||
Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 11/219 Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL SAGE Floyd | Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sage" | |||
Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 11/220 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SAGE Floyd | Floyd | Sage has a long tradition of culinary and medicinal usage. You're not Floyd | a chef or doctor, so it's little more than a plant to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "Amusing sounds good." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "burn sage" | |||
Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 11/221 Floyd | > Floyd | > BURN SAGE Floyd | Floyd | There's no fire here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 11/222 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | some sage Floyd | a cage (open but empty) Floyd | a gear Floyd | a four-letter frame Floyd | a torch (providing light) Floyd | your alphabet case (A, C, E, G, R, S, and T) Floyd | a three-letter frame Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 11/222 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You've reached the end of the IntroComp release of Spellbound. I hope Floyd | you have enjoyed your time in Phoenicia. If you are anxious to see Floyd | more of the game, you can experiment with the four-letter frame (as Floyd | long as you don't take it into the Underground City) or explore the Floyd | Underground City (as long as you don't take the four-letter frame). Floyd | Thanks for playing! Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** So long for now *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 11 out of a possible 26, in 222 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Ordinary Orthographer. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT, or UNDO the last command? Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "amusing" | |||
Floyd ] Underground City of Phoenicia 11/222 Floyd | > Floyd | > AMUSING Floyd | Floyd | Did you try... Floyd | Floyd | ...spelling a fish (e.g. GAR) at Lake Phoenicia? Floyd | ...all three ways to get S from the leprechaun? Floyd | ...generating a few varieties of ADS, ART, CAR, or CAT? Floyd | ...adding a few more STARs to the sky? Floyd | ...and much more to come in the full release of the game. Floyd | Floyd | The author recognizes and apologizes for the ambiguous nature of Floyd | letters and spelling words in this game (for example, to whom the Floyd | spelled word should apply, or what physical actions are involved in Floyd | arranging letters from the alphabet case into a letter frame). Certain Floyd | concessions were made in the name of keeping things simple for both Floyd | player and author as well as creating an entertaining game out of a Floyd | rather ridiculous premise. I hope you have enjoyed your time in Floyd | Phoenicia. Please direct your praise, complaints, and suggestions to Floyd | arperry@gmail.com or @hoursgoby on Twitter. Floyd | Floyd | Thanks so much for playing! Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT, or UNDO the last command? Floyd | > | Roger says, "So this professor just throws students into this dark hole every once in a while" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "This is really quite good." | |||
| Jacqueline goes to vote and leave feedback. | |||
| Roger says, "Yep it's solid" | |||
| Jacqueline | [LINK] | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Shall we take a brief break for people to note down their feedback?" | |||
| Roger says, "sure" | |||
| DavidW says, "I wonder what the other two ways of dealing with the leprechaun are." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "This will be a very solid game." | |||
| DavidW says, "Yes. I definitely want to see this game completed." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "So, meet again at 5 after? I need a snack..." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Or are we done until next week?" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "I'm easy." | |||
| DavidW says, "I can continue." | |||
| DavidW says, "or wait. Either is fine." | |||
| Iria says, "Either or is fine as well. My train ride doesn't end until 9:10 PM EST." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "We could go another." | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm curious about Schultz's game, if it's another wordplay offering." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Should we do the Andrew Schultz (likely puzzly like this one if it's like his other stuff) or break things up with the other Floydable one?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "So does that mean you'd like us to do the AS one next?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I would like AS's, yes, but I'm not insistent." | |||
| DavidW says, "I rather like making a PEAR into a PEARL instead of fighting zombies or visiting some emo world of sadness." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, let's do AS's game, then." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > QUIT Floyd | cheapglulxe quit with exit status: 0 | |||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask grubbyville" | |||
Floyd ] Your bedroom sleepy Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Grubbyville Floyd | A Story of High School Ambition by Andrew Schultz Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 160805 / Inform 7 build 6G60 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Your bedroom Floyd | You hear a knock. "Max! Son!" Floyd | Floyd | The door opens. Pop nods determinedly. "Son, we need to have a talk." Floyd | | |||
| Floyd [1] (Zone Pop out. He LOVES to hear himself talk, sometimes. You'll | |||
Floyd | get the general drift.) | |||
| Floyd [2] Geez, I know about girls already! | |||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline asks, "How many of us are playing?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "me" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "me" | |||
| DavidW says, "okay, it took a while for me to parse what 'Zone Pop out' meant." | |||
| DavidW says, "me" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Trying to determine what a quorum is for conversation choice votes... anyone else?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Zone Pop: now with more caffeine and less flavour!" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "ugh" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "So, I guess just three of us." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, um, 1?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I would pick [2]" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I would really pick, 'Sure, pop. What's on your mind?' but that is not an option." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "yup" | |||
| DavidW says, "(I don't think Pop is gonna talk about -shudder- girls.)" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to tsp), "You're the tie breaker. You pick." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "er, 2. I don't want to zone out on the into." | |||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Maybe he is going to talk about our interpersonal interactions with people of any and all genders?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | |||
Floyd ] Your bedroom sleepy
Floyd |
Floyd | > 2
Floyd |
Floyd | "No, no, no, son. This is about GRADES."
Floyd |
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| Floyd [1] (Zone Pop out. You'll get the general drift.) | |||
| Floyd [2] But I've gotten all A's! | |||
| Floyd [3] Pop, we've been through this. I won't have a senior slump. | |||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "I suspect the choice here doesn't matter much." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yeah, me too." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "good point." | |||
| DavidW says, "[2]" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "2" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | |||
Floyd ] Your bedroom sleepy
Floyd |
Floyd | > 2
Floyd |
Floyd | "Bad news, son. You still want to be valedictorian?" (yes or no)
| Jacqueline says, "Yes" | ||
| DavidW says, "er, I dunno." | |||
| DavidW says, "I don't think we ever did valley diction." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "let's say no and laugh at the abrupt ending when we can't proceed unless we're the BEST" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heh." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "..DW?" | |||
| DavidW says, "sure, say no" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Your bedroom sleepy
Floyd |
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd | "Not funny. But it's late, so I'll let it slide.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Harley Drotz's ahead of you now, son. Or he will be, at year's end."
Floyd |
Floyd |
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| Floyd [1] (Zone Pop out. You'll get the general drift.) | |||
| Floyd [2] But we've got the same grades! The same classes! And I have the | |||
Floyd | tiebreaks! | |||
| Floyd [3] How'd he do it? You can only take so many Advanced Placement | |||
Floyd | classes! | |||
| Floyd [4] I'm still going to a really good college, though. Whatever, I'll | |||
Floyd | deal.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Teaspoon says, "3. I require information." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "okay, 3" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | |||
Floyd ] Your bedroom sleepy
Floyd |
Floyd | > 3
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hate to say it, son, but his dad's got a little pull in the art
Floyd | department. Some of the mid-level administrators let him slip into
Floyd | honors Ceramics for his fine art elective."
Floyd |
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| Floyd [1] (Zone Pop out. You'll get the general drift.) | |||
| Floyd [2] But we've got the same grades! The same classes! And I have the | |||
Floyd | tiebreaks! | |||
| Floyd [3] I'm still going to a really good college, though. Whatever, I'll | |||
Floyd | deal. | |||
| Floyd [4] I give up. If he really wants it that bad... | |||
| Floyd [5] Honors CERAMICS?! What does he know about that? | |||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "I am so not this person." | ||
| DavidW says, "Neither am I." | |||
| DavidW says, "I like the sleepy part." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "No. It's a very particular character we're being asked to identify with." | |||
| Teaspoon asks, "Maybe zoning out will just give us this intro in a big block summary and then we proceed?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I have no need to beat Harvey or Harold or whoever in Honours Ceramics." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I am down with zoning out." | |||
| DavidW says, "choose 5" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Wait, 1 or 5?" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "Okay, 5 and then zone out if the conversation's still going." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure. I like that." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "5" | |||
Floyd ] Your bedroom sleepy
Floyd |
Floyd | > 5
Floyd |
Floyd | "Not much. But enough to pass all the tests. And not piss off the
Floyd | teacher."
Floyd |
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| Floyd [1] (Zone Pop out. You'll get the general drift.) | |||
| Floyd [2] But we've got the same grades! The same classes! And I have the | |||
Floyd | tiebreaks! | |||
| Floyd [3] I'm still going to a really good college, though. Whatever, I'll | |||
Floyd | deal. | |||
| Floyd [4] Oh no. You didn't do anything illegal... | |||
| Floyd [5] I give up. If he really wants it that bad... | |||
| Floyd [6] So let's just do what he and his father did. Or get an applied art | |||
Floyd | elective. | |||
| Floyd [7] So how do we go one better? | |||
| Floyd [8] What, is there some AP Art course I don't know about? | |||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline asks, "Still 1?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "1" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Your bedroom sleepy Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Your bedroom Floyd | Pop taps his foot as you stare around your room. (Note: type REPEAT to Floyd | see how you can respond to him.) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "repeat" | |||
Floyd ] Your bedroom sleepy
Floyd |
Floyd | > REPEAT
Floyd |
Floyd | The available options are:
Floyd |
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| Floyd [1] (Zone Pop out. You'll get the general drift.) | |||
| Floyd [2] But we've got the same grades! The same classes! And I have the | |||
Floyd | tiebreaks! | |||
| Floyd [3] I'm still going to a really good college, though. Whatever, I'll | |||
Floyd | deal. | |||
| Floyd [4] Oh no. You didn't do anything illegal... | |||
| Floyd [5] I give up. If he really wants it that bad... | |||
| Floyd [6] So let's just do what he and his father did. Or get an applied art | |||
Floyd | elective. | |||
| Floyd [7] So how do we go one better? | |||
| Floyd [8] What, is there some AP Art course I don't know about? | |||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "Just trying out the interface. This is similar to something I tried recently." | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "1?" | |||
| DavidW says, "yeah" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] Entry Hall (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | You listen to the rest of Pop's lecture. Floyd | Floyd | "Son, these are pretty straightforward points, but you're flaking out, Floyd | here. It's late at night, so I'll let it slide." Floyd | Floyd | "Look, it's up to you. I'll leave this spreadsheet right here. Short Floyd | story: you're number one. Drotz's got the honors art course. And Floyd | you're gonna slip to #2 without that independent study course. If Floyd | you're too good for your father, maybe you're not too good for the Floyd | hard work he put in." Floyd | Floyd | He hands you the spreadsheet. It looks sort of boring, but then again, Floyd | you are a bit behind on your sleep. It helps you catch up. Floyd | Floyd | You know Pop probably would be pretty cross if he caught you wandering Floyd | around so late, so you decide to call it a night. Pop drops you off Floyd | the next day at Grubbyville High School, in the entry hall. Floyd | Floyd | Entry Hall Floyd | What a way to start the day. You've been through the Entry Hall Floyd | countless times before, but never in the middle of summer. The Help Floyd | Hole to the north is blocked off--tutoring during the school year--and Floyd | the hall continues west to by the teachers' lounge. Floyd | Floyd | Of course, you can always chicken out back east. That'd make everyone Floyd | except Pop happy. Floyd | Floyd | VERBS will tell you verbs used in the game, and THINK will give you an Floyd | idea of what to do and where to go. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Entry Hall (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a spreadsheet Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "read spreadsheet" | |||
Floyd ] Entry Hall (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > READ SPREADSHEET Floyd | Floyd | That's not readable. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x spreadsheet" | |||
Floyd ] Entry Hall (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > X SPREADSHEET Floyd | Floyd | It's got a comparison of your grades to Drotz's, a brief explanation Floyd | of how Grubbyville awards GPA, and a listing of teachers and Floyd | administrators with whom Pop has discussed your newfound interest in Floyd | the study of art. Floyd | Floyd | The math still makes sense. Harley's got an extra 4.5, which lowers Floyd | his average from 4.6, but if you slip and get an A-, it's like he's Floyd | got an extra 4.8. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| kpaquette arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Teaspoon says, "I vote we make like a tree and go east." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Back in my day, 4.0 was the max. And we sat on our rocks and we liked that." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "verbs" | |||
Floyd ] Entry Hall (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > VERBS Floyd | Floyd | You can TAKE things, or TALK TO people. Typing I takes inventory. You Floyd | can check your MOOD (synonym is SCORE,) see what you've DONE or GIVE Floyd | people items. You can also see what this game is ABOUT, or Floyd | CREDITS/CREDIT for people who helped. You can also THINK to figure Floyd | what to do next, or see a rough MAP of the high school. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "These numbers mean nothing to me." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So, in the US, grades are A, B, C, D, and F. They correspond to 4, 3, 2, 1, and 0." | |||
| Iria disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | Jacqueline says, "Or, more accurately, 3.5-4.0 is an A, 2.5-3.4 is a B, 1.5-2.4 is a C, 0.5-1.4 is a D, and below 0.5 is an F." | ||
| Iria arrives, full of fun and funk. | DavidW says, "oh lord." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Except in recent years, students can take accelerated courses, which give them a boost and allow them to get above a 4." | |||
| DavidW asks, "where my anagrams at?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Am I helping or making this worse?" | |||
| DavidW says, "[1] Zone Jacqueline out. [2] Go west. [3] Go north. [4] Go east." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "hahaha" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "heh" | |||
| DavidW says, "Just... move the PC somewhere fun." | |||
| kpaquette says (to Jacqueline), "A code I hear? I think I know what it is." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't think it's a code, Katie. I was just trying to explain US grade point averages to the other people who are playing who are in Canada and the UK" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read explanation" | |||
Floyd ] Entry Hall (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > READ EXPLANATION Floyd | Floyd | That's not readable. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x explanation" | |||
Floyd ] Entry Hall (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > X EXPLANATION Floyd | Floyd | 4=A 3.7=A- 3.3=B+ 3=B 2.7=B- 2.3=C+ 2=C 1.7=C- 1.3=D+ 1=D 0=F 1 bonus Floyd | for AP (advanced placement,) .5 for H (honors,) all averaged together. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Okay, yeah. So, what I said. But maybe more succinctly?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I so hope these grades aren't actually important." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "I suspect it will be scoring." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | |||
| Roger says, "Can't we get some sort of minority bonus for being raised by a struggling 50s stereotype" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I suspect they are very important." | |||
| Jacqueline asks (of Roger), "Wouldn't that be a blatant example of child-of-obsessive-50s-stereotype privilege?" | |||
| kpaquette says (to Jacqueline), "Check your email. I'll put numbers with letters." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Anyway, so, um, where to begin?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to katie), "Um, okay." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "I still want to go east." | |||
| DavidW asks, "Is east where the land of running away from home and heading to the big city is?" | |||
| Iria goes home. | Teaspoon says, "yes, that one." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh boy. Pizza and cigars and dangerous women ahead!" | |||
| DavidW says, "east" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "that's a quorum." | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Entry Hall (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You think about it. You almost can. It would be so easy, except it Floyd | isn't. (Note: you really will leave if you try again.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Let Harold make honours ceramics! We can dance with flamingoes!" | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "...what?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I assume the big city has flamingoes." | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Entry Hall (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You leave Grubbyville behind. Pop asks why you came back empty-handed, Floyd | and you come up with a mishmosh of moral misgivings and, well, if Floyd | other kids found out it might be hard for you. Pop tells you he's Floyd | heard Harley isn't as popular as he pretends to be, and you just blew Floyd | a chance...well. You'll learn. Floyd | Floyd | That June as Harley steps up to give his valedictorian speech, Pop Floyd | looks at you pointedly to applaud. You two almost have a contest, who Floyd | can applaud louder. After, some people congratulate you on your Floyd | sportsmanship before segueing into complaining what a fake Harley is. Floyd | It's not much consolation. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You Finished Second *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command or see your final MOOD? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "And singing fish on the walls." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "moood" | |||
Floyd ] Entry Hall (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > MOOOD Floyd | Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command or see your final MOOD? Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "mood" | |||
Floyd ] Entry Hall (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > MOOD Floyd | Floyd | Different dialogue choices will give you different intro-end text. In Floyd | this playthrough... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Business is business. Might as well beat Harley in the GPA stakes. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command or see your final MOOD? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "so, we didn't go to the city." | ||
| Roger says, "I suspect this intro gives one a pretty good idea of what the final game might be like, which is a good thing for it to do." | |||
| DavidW says, "I suppose we were supposed to go west or north instead." | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Entry Hall (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Entry Hall Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "I wonder what the mechanics are." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | |||
Floyd ] Entry Hall (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Entry Hall Floyd | You're staring around Entry Hall, though you're not sure why. The Help Floyd | Hole to the north is closed for the summer, so you should be getting a Floyd | move on to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Of course, you can always chicken out back east. That'd make everyone Floyd | except Pop happy. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Entry Hall (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You did your tutoring for Honors Society, and you can't actually get Floyd | tutoring for a task like this. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] By Teachers' Lounge (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | By Teachers' Lounge Floyd | You can enter the teachers' lounge here. It's completely locked, since Floyd | it's summer. You can also go west to X-Hall, the center of GHS, or Floyd | east back to the Entry. There's also a rug here. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a brochure rack (in which is a GHS brochure) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "take brochure" | |||
Floyd ] By Teachers' Lounge (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BROCHURE Floyd | Floyd | (the GHS brochure) Floyd | You already know enough about GHS. You understand the inner workings Floyd | pretty well, and of course brochures never cover that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm, there are the grades, and then there appears to also be our mood." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "take rug" | |||
Floyd ] By Teachers' Lounge (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE RUG Floyd | Floyd | You wouldn't get far carrying it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x rug" | |||
Floyd ] By Teachers' Lounge (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > X RUG Floyd | Floyd | SAY NO TO DRUGS is woven into it, but someone duct-taped over the D. Floyd | In fact, a lot of people did, and the administrators just gave up Floyd | getting the janitors to peel it off. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "hee" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Is there a trapdoor to Zork underneath?" | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "pull rug" | |||
Floyd ] By Teachers' Lounge (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > PULL RUG Floyd | Floyd | You'll need to exercise pull, but physical pulling won't do much good. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "boo. Bad joke." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move rug" | |||
Floyd ] By Teachers' Lounge (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE RUG Floyd | Floyd | You'll need to be pushy, but physical pushing won't do much good. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under rug" | |||
Floyd ] By Teachers' Lounge (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER RUG Floyd | Floyd | Nothing is hidden in the game. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "is this just here for bad jokes?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear rug" | |||
Floyd ] By Teachers' Lounge (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR RUG Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the rug) Floyd | You wouldn't get far carrying it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take D" | |||
Floyd ] By Teachers' Lounge (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE D Floyd | Floyd | (the D) Floyd | That seems to be a part of the rug. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x d" | |||
Floyd ] By Teachers' Lounge (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > X D Floyd | Floyd | (the D) Floyd | You see nothing special about the D. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "explore more, I guess." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "let's go into the lounge and hack our grades on the computer." | |||
| DavidW says, "We probably didn't want a D, anyway. We'd rather have an A+." | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "enter lounge" | |||
Floyd ] By Teachers' Lounge (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER LOUNGE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] By Teachers' Lounge (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | There's a wall there. You should know GHS like the back of your hand Floyd | after three years--and after a brief look, you see you can go east, Floyd | west and inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Tsp), "Belatedly, 'pulling' is not an American turn of phrase in the manner I think you mean." | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "No?" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "Still looks like a bad joke to me." | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "inside" | |||
Floyd ] Teachers' Lounge (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Teachers' Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | |||
Floyd ] Teachers' Lounge (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Teachers' Lounge Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "I...guess we aren't supposed to be here." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] By Teachers' Lounge (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | By Teachers' Lounge Floyd | You can enter the teachers' lounge here. It's completely locked, since Floyd | it's summer. You can also go west to X-Hall, the center of GHS, or Floyd | east back to the Entry. There's also a rug here. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a brochure rack (in which is a GHS brochure) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Looks empty." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "just leaves west then." | |||
| DavidW says, "The center of GHS is H." | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] X-Hall (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | X-Hall Floyd | X-Hall is the center of GHS. Corridors head in diagonal directions to Floyd | the various departments, the teachers' lounge is to the east, the Floyd | upperclassmen's social area is south, and the testing room is to the Floyd | north. Looks like people are still taking a standardized test right Floyd | now. You can go inside to the library, and a rusted elevator panel Floyd | lies to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "oh lor'." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x panel" | |||
Floyd ] X-Hall (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > X PANEL Floyd | Floyd | You don't need to do anything with the rusted elevator panel. You're Floyd | not sure why it's there, and you don't have time to find out, now. Floyd | It's being curious about that sort of thing that can distract you from Floyd | your business here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Let's go into the library." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "inside" | |||
Floyd ] X-Hall (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | Well, okay, I lied a bit. You can go inside in the full game. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "right then." | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "south?" | |||
| DavidW says, "sure" | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Social Lounge (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Social Lounge Floyd | Back north is X-Hall. Ironically, you can go in to the Chess Hovel to Floyd | the side of the social lounge, here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "exits" | |||
Floyd ] Social Lounge (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | You got a great score on the SAT Verbal, but really...no need to try Floyd | anything fancy. Just type VERBS to see what actions this game Floyd | recognizes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Social Lounge (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | There's a wall there. You should know GHS like the back of your hand Floyd | after three years--and after a brief look, you see you can go north Floyd | and inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "inside" | |||
Floyd ] Chess Hovel (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Chess Hovel Floyd | You can really only go back outside from here. Floyd | Floyd | Dennis Durfle paces here in front of a shelf of chess books, reading a Floyd | chess book and mumbling to himself. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x book" | |||
Floyd ] Chess Hovel (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOK Floyd | Floyd | A dizzying array of books with weird names. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "take book" | |||
Floyd ] Chess Hovel (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BOOK Floyd | Floyd | You're not super weak, but you're smart enough to know when Floyd | something's too heavy. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "talk to denis" | |||
Floyd ] Chess Hovel (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO DENIS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dennis" | |||
Floyd ] Chess Hovel (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > X DENNIS Floyd | Floyd | You remember being horrified when you barely placed above Dennis on Floyd | both a female and male list of Who's Hot. He's not ugly, but he sure Floyd | frowns a lot, so he might as well be. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "talk to dennis" | |||
Floyd ] Chess Hovel (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO DENNIS Floyd | Floyd | "Go away. I don't trust you." Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "that would appear to be that." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "play chess" | |||
Floyd ] Chess Hovel (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > PLAY CHESS Floyd | Floyd | That's not very fun. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I know it's not fun, game." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "Certainly not as a solo exercise." | |||
| DavidW says, "So not-really-ugly Dennis has a chess book and there's a shelf of chess books. So hot." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chess" | |||
Floyd ] Chess Hovel (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > X CHESS Floyd | Floyd | A dizzying array of books with weird names. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read books" | |||
Floyd ] Chess Hovel (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > READ BOOKS Floyd | Floyd | It'd take too long to get started. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask dennis about chess" | |||
Floyd ] Chess Hovel (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > ASK DENNIS ABOUT CHESS Floyd | Floyd | [Use TALK TO to interact with characters.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kick dennis" | |||
Floyd ] Chess Hovel (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > KICK DENNIS Floyd | Floyd | That wasn't a recognized verb. You may wish to try something from Floyd | VERBS. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, let's go elsewhere." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Social Lounge (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Social Lounge Floyd | Back north is X-Hall. Ironically, you can go in to the Chess Hovel to Floyd | the side of the social lounge, here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Social Lounge (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] X-Hall (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | X-Hall Floyd | X-Hall is the center of GHS. Corridors head in diagonal directions to Floyd | the various departments, the teachers' lounge is to the east, the Floyd | upperclassmen's social area is south, and the testing room is to the Floyd | north. Looks like people are still taking a standardized test right Floyd | now. You can go inside to the library, and a rusted elevator panel Floyd | lies to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] X-Hall (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You shouldn't disrupt the testing. Nobody important may be taking Floyd | those tests, but if people are distracted, GHS's average grades as a Floyd | whole will suffer. That would make your valedictory less presitigious. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "figured." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "so, we get to try diagonals. Woo." | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "northeast" | |||
Floyd ] X-Hall (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > NORTHEAST Floyd | Floyd | You think about going northeast, but you're intimidated a bit--you Floyd | don't really have anything resembling art to show off. Obviously, Floyd | you'll need to get there, but you get the feeling they don't like Floyd | tip-top students there. You need some street cred. (NOTE: the arts Floyd | wing is beyond the scope of the introduction. The goal is to find Floyd | something that will get you something resembling art.) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "northwest" | |||
Floyd ] X-Hall (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > NORTHWEST Floyd | Floyd | Big Ed, the security guard, is probably lying in wait. While he hated Floyd | science in school, he's extra enthusiastic about guarding the science Floyd | wing. You would be quite a scalp for his detention quota without a Floyd | pass. Unfortunately, there are no teachers here to give you a pass. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "southeast" | |||
Floyd ] Humanities Wing (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > SOUTHEAST Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Humanities Wing Floyd | This is the Humanities Wing of Grubbyville High School. It has various Floyd | activities you can't put a price on, and it encourages people to have Floyd | careers that won't make much money. Floyd | Floyd | The World Languages Sub-Wing is south, the Social Studies Sub-Wing is Floyd | southeast, and the English Sub-Wing is east. The Social Studies Floyd | Sub-Wing is actually open, because it houses the yearbook staff, too. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] X-Hall (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | X-Hall Floyd | X-Hall is the center of GHS. Corridors head in diagonal directions to Floyd | the various departments, the teachers' lounge is to the east, the Floyd | upperclassmen's social area is south, and the testing room is to the Floyd | north. Looks like people are still taking a standardized test right Floyd | now. You can go inside to the library, and a rusted elevator panel Floyd | lies to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] X-Hall (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | The life skills wing is beyond the scope of the introduction. Which is Floyd | kind of ironic, because you find the skills therein a Floyd | bit...introductory. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Humanities Wing (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Humanities Wing Floyd | This is the Humanities Wing of Grubbyville High School. It has various Floyd | activities you can't put a price on, and it encourages people to have Floyd | careers that won't make much money. Floyd | Floyd | The World Languages Sub-Wing is south, the Social Studies Sub-Wing is Floyd | southeast, and the English Sub-Wing is east. The Social Studies Floyd | Sub-Wing is actually open, because it houses the yearbook staff, too. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Chicken wings would be nice." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "Okay, so this is the only direction with actual stuff." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "This is feeling like one of those dreams where there's a test and you forgot to study. And wear clothes." | |||
| Teaspoon asks, "are we wearing clothes?" | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||
Floyd ] Humanities Wing (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | In pretty good shape, but not dumb-jock shape. Pretty well-dressed, Floyd | but not mindless preppie well-dressed. People wouldn't suspect you of Floyd | being a valedictorian, til they talked to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "Oh." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We are, but I mean it's like an anxiety dream." | |||
| DavidW says, "oh, maybe it is a dream." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "that'd make sense." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wake up" | |||
Floyd ] Humanities Wing (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > WAKE UP Floyd | Floyd | The dreadful truth is, this is not a dream. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon asks, "which department?" | ||
| Roger says, "This is what Ralph Wigguns dreams. This and vikings." | |||
| DavidW says, "And we wake up and our dad is a king and we're a prince/ss." | |||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at Inform), "Thank you for your default responses!" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Which way was the English dept?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Also, art supplies might be in with the yearbook people." | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Humanities Wing (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a spreadsheet Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | |||
Floyd ] Humanities Wing (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Humanities Wing Floyd | This is the Humanities Wing of Grubbyville High School. It has various Floyd | activities you can't put a price on, and it encourages people to have Floyd | careers that won't make much money. Floyd | Floyd | The World Languages Sub-Wing is south, the Social Studies Sub-Wing is Floyd | southeast, and the English Sub-Wing is east. The Social Studies Floyd | Sub-Wing is actually open, because it houses the yearbook staff, too. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "se" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Humanities Wing (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Exotic languages won't help you with exotic art appreciation, here. Floyd | Well, maybe they will once this game is more than an introduction. Floyd | We'll see. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Humanities Wing (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The school paper office is that way, but you don't need to influence Floyd | anyone on the editorial staff. Maybe when you're older, you'll need to Floyd | schmooze them. But nobody REALLY reads the school paper. Especially in Floyd | the summer when it's not being published. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Social Studies Sub-Wing (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Social Studies Sub-Wing Floyd | This sub-wing, part of a NW/SE hall, brings back bad memories of a Floyd | teacher who couldn't quite find enough subjectively wrong with your Floyd | work to give an A-. Still, it's an annoying memory. Floyd | Floyd | An open door leads southeast into the yearbook office. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] YRBK OFFICE (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | School Yearbook Office Floyd | An open door leads northwest back out of the yearbook office. Floyd | Floyd | Myron Knurp fidgets and chews his nails here. At the sight of you, he Floyd | hastily guards a yearbook pass. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x knurp" | |||
Floyd ] YRBK OFFICE (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > X KNURP Floyd | Floyd | He doesn't gaze right up at you. You're not surprised he had no nerve Floyd | to tell his colleagues he doesn't want to do drudge work on a summer Floyd | Saturday morning. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), " talk to knurp" | |||
Floyd ] YRBK OFFICE (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO KNURP
Floyd |
| |||
| Floyd [1] "Hey, Myron, what's up?" | |||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Teaspoon says, "oh joy, it's a conversation." | ||
| DavidW says, "ok, so we want that pass of his." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "probably by swiping chess books for him or something" | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] YRBK OFFICE (MOOD: RESTRICTED) MORNING
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | "The sky."
Floyd |
Floyd | That joke's so bad, it'll never be so bad it's good.
Floyd |
Floyd | You frown and glance meaningfully at the hall pass.
Floyd |
Floyd | "No you don't. That's yearbook staff property. And you're not
Floyd | yearbook."
Floyd |
| |||
| Floyd [1] Share a few up-to-date jokes | |||
| Floyd [2] "Yeah, but I'd like to join the yearbook staff." | |||
| Floyd [3] "C'mon, just a loan." | |||
| Floyd [4] "C'mon, someone'll con you out of it, why not someone | |||
Floyd | respectable?" | |||
| Floyd [5] (bribe him) | |||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "We'll agree to interview Leslie Murgatroyd or something." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I'm at a loss, conversationally." | |||
| DavidW says, "Join the staff." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "2" | |||
Floyd ] YRBK OFFICE (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | You explain you'd like to be on the yearbook, just because. Maybe you Floyd | could help him with some of the drudgework. But you might need lunch Floyd | first. Fair enough, says Myron, as he hands you a temporary pass for Floyd | the day. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "mood" | |||
Floyd ] YRBK OFFICE (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > MOOD Floyd | Floyd | Your current mood is UN-ALLIED. You've done 1 sly thing. You can list Floyd | everything you've done with DONE. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "tada. Now we can go ne from X-Hall, I think." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | |||
Floyd ] YRBK OFFICE (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | School Yearbook Office Floyd | An open door leads northwest back out of the yearbook office. Floyd | Floyd | Myron Knurp fidgets and chews his nails here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Social Studies Sub-Wing (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Social Studies Sub-Wing Floyd | This is a NW/SE hall. Floyd | Floyd | An open door leads southeast into the yearbook office. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Humanities Wing (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Humanities Wing Floyd | This is the Humanities Wing of Grubbyville High School. It has various Floyd | activities you can't put a price on, and it encourages people to have Floyd | careers that won't make much money. Floyd | Floyd | The World Languages Sub-Wing is south, the Social Studies Sub-Wing is Floyd | southeast, and the English Sub-Wing is east. The Social Studies Floyd | Sub-Wing is actually open, because it houses the yearbook staff, too. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "done" | |||
Floyd ] Humanities Wing (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > DONE Floyd | Floyd | You haven't been nice to anyone. Floyd | You've been sly to Myron Knurp. Floyd | You haven't been nasty to anyone. Floyd | You've met Dennis Durfle, but you haven't done anything meaningful Floyd | around them. Floyd | You've met pretty much everyone you're going to at Grubbyville today. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "Uh, right." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I imagine that going to the art department ends this." | |||
| DavidW says, "I dunno." | |||
| DavidW says, "I still don't know what this game's really about yet." | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "oout" | |||
Floyd ] Humanities Wing (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > OOUT Floyd | Floyd | That wasn't a recognized verb. You may wish to try something from Floyd | VERBS. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Humanities Wing (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline asks (of Tsp), "Ends what? The idea that we've met everyone we're going to meet today?" | Jacqueline asks (of Tsp), "Ends what? The idea that we've met everyone we're going to meet today?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "ends this part of the game. I could be wrong." | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | |||
Floyd ] Humanities Wing (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Humanities Wing Floyd | This is the Humanities Wing of Grubbyville High School. It has various Floyd | activities you can't put a price on, and it encourages people to have Floyd | careers that won't make much money. Floyd | Floyd | The World Languages Sub-Wing is south, the Social Studies Sub-Wing is Floyd | southeast, and the English Sub-Wing is east. The Social Studies Floyd | Sub-Wing is actually open, because it houses the yearbook staff, too. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] X-Hall (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | X-Hall Floyd | X-Hall is the center of GHS. Corridors head in diagonal directions to Floyd | the various departments, the teachers' lounge is to the east, the Floyd | upperclassmen's social area is south, and the testing room is to the Floyd | north. Looks like people are still taking a standardized test right Floyd | now. You can go inside to the library, and a rusted elevator panel Floyd | lies to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] X-Hall (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You think about going northeast, but you're intimidated a bit--you Floyd | don't really have anything resembling art to show off. Obviously, Floyd | you'll need to get there, but you get the feeling they don't like Floyd | tip-top students there. You need some street cred. (NOTE: the arts Floyd | wing is beyond the scope of the introduction. The goal is to find Floyd | something that will get you something resembling art.) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] X-Hall (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a yearbook pass Floyd | a spreadsheet Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x yearbook pass" | |||
Floyd ] X-Hall (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > X YEARBOOK PASS Floyd | Floyd | It's laminated and neon-ish, and nobody questions its authority. Floyd | Though it also expires at the end of the day. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "do we go show this to Dennis? I'm not sure what to do now." | ||
| DavidW asks, "where was the guard dude?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I wasn't mapping this one, so I'm a bit lost." | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] X-Hall (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You think about going northeast, but you're intimidated a bit--you Floyd | don't really have anything resembling art to show off. Obviously, Floyd | you'll need to get there, but you get the feeling they don't like Floyd | tip-top students there. You need some street cred. (NOTE: the arts Floyd | wing is beyond the scope of the introduction. The goal is to find Floyd | something that will get you something resembling art.) Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Math/Science Wing (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You flash your hall pass at Big Ed, who's cleverly hidden in a Floyd | drinking fountain recess like it's a speed trap, as you walk down the Floyd | corridor. It works! Floyd | Floyd | Math/Science Wing Floyd | All the hard sciences are covered here: clockwise from south, you have Floyd | Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science to the northwest (it's Floyd | the only one open--independent study projects and all) and finally Floyd | Math (math team off-season practice) to the north. The Earth Sciences Floyd | department is upstairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "You were right." | ||
| DavidW says, "ah." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "if only one is open, that tells us where to go." | |||
| DavidW says, "nw again, I guess." | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Computer Science (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Computer Science Floyd | This lab is full of computers that aren't quite as good as what you Floyd | have at home. Most are off, but one PC is humming away. You see a Floyd | backpack by it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x backpack" | |||
Floyd ] Computer Science (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > X BACKPACK Floyd | Floyd | The backpack appears to be Tod Smoot's. He's kind of a jerk, from what Floyd | you know but you don't want to look through his stuff without SERIOUS Floyd | provocation. Maybe you'll find it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x pc" | |||
Floyd ] Computer Science (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING
Floyd |
Floyd | > X PC
Floyd |
Floyd | You aren't expecting much, maybe some assignment on heap sorts or
Floyd | whatever. But wait! It's a game! A sort of cheap one, but a game
Floyd | nonetheless!
Floyd |
Floyd | It's...PARTICIPATION POINTS, by the Disgruntled Intellectuals Club. It
Floyd | features Harley Drotz and...you! Play it? (yes or no)
| Teaspoon asks, "I guess we play it?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes" | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "yes" | |||
Floyd ] Computer Science (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING
Floyd |
Floyd | > YES
Floyd |
Floyd | WHO WILL YOU PLAY AS?
| |||
| Floyd [1] HARLEY DROTZ | |||
| Floyd [2] MAX HERDESH | |||
| Floyd [3] Ditch this stupid game | |||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "Seems kinda meta." | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "wanna bet it's a text adventure?" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "I vote we play as us." | |||
| DavidW says, "no bet" | |||
| DavidW says, "yes, play as us." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "Heh." | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "2" | |||
Floyd ] Computer Science (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING
Floyd |
Floyd | > 2
Floyd |
Floyd | Well, it's you against Harley Drotz. It's sort of like the two
Floyd | political parties, but you're going with outer weenieness over pure
Floyd | force.
Floyd |
| |||
| Floyd [1] Berate other students | |||
| Floyd [2] Snivel | |||
| Floyd [3] Argue with Harley | |||
| Floyd [4] Ditch this stupid game | |||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Teaspoon says, "uh. 3." | ||
| DavidW says, "yes, argue" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "3" | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "3" | |||
Floyd ] Computer Science (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING
Floyd |
Floyd | > 3
Floyd |
Floyd | You and Harley argue for a bit, and Mr. Jones moans he wishes more
Floyd | students would participate so enthusiastically.
Floyd |
| |||
| Floyd [1] Berate other students | |||
| Floyd [2] Snivel | |||
| Floyd [3] Ditch this stupid game | |||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] Computer Science (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | You berate other students for not participating as much as you. Harley
Floyd | nods in agreement.
Floyd |
| |||
| Floyd [1] Snivel | |||
| Floyd [2] Ditch this stupid game | |||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Teaspoon asks, "do we ditch the game now?" | ||
| DavidW says, "no, snivel" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I am tempted to make a joke about how #2 is very meta." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "ouch." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "(Sorry, Andrew. I know you'll read this. It's just not my kind of game.)" | |||
| DavidW quietly turns the meta into meat. Yum! | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "so...you have the deciding vote." | |||
| DavidW converts the meat into team. That's some teamwork! | |||
| Teaspoon says, "mmm, meatwork." | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm willing to change my vote if that gets us moving again." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "okay." | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "2" | |||
Floyd ] Computer Science (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING
Floyd |
Floyd | > 2
Floyd |
Floyd | It doesn't seem terribly detailed. And you're curious how it ends.
Floyd |
| |||
| Floyd [1] Snivel | |||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Teaspoon says, "boo." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "1" | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] Computer Science (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | The teacher appreciates your alternate view on life compared to Floyd | Harley. It's a bold gambit, but not really, because you always manage Floyd | to say people may not agree with you, but there you go. Floyd | Floyd | WOW! WHAT A BUSY DAY! ALTHOUGH IT WAS NOTHING SPECIAL FOR YOU, MAX! IT Floyd | REALLY IS THAT EASY, IF IT'S EASY! Floyd | Floyd | Harsh. Floyd | Floyd | IF YOU HATED THIS GAME, THE DISGRUNTLED INTELLECTUALS CLUB DOESN'T Floyd | CARE! OKAY, WE SORT OF DO! Floyd | Floyd | You have to admit. You're curious now. And a little annoyed. Even Floyd | without the ten control-g bells at the end of the game. Floyd | Floyd | You groan and roll your eyes, and the backpack gets your attention. Floyd | Whoah, a sequel, or something. You wouldn't normally mess with others' Floyd | property, but hey, they baited you, and you aren't going to STEAL it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Iria arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x backpack" | |||
Floyd ] Computer Science (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > X BACKPACK Floyd | Floyd | The backpack appears to be Tod Smoot's. You wouldn't normally look Floyd | through it, but after playing that game...well, there are notes for Floyd | others, including CASINO FUN by NO FUN CASEY. Floyd | Floyd | It has with formulas for the probability of turning $50 into $100 Floyd | playing craps, and if you play, you either go broke tonight or get Floyd | hooked on gambling and go really broke ten years from now. The game Floyd | will note playing it saved you three hours you would've wasted rolling Floyd | dice and a headache from the noise, and it also lets the user see the Floyd | formula used so it didn't have to bother actually simulating all those Floyd | dice rolls. Floyd | Floyd | There's also notes for a game called Being Dennis Durfle. It's light Floyd | on the technical stuff but in-depth in the usual hit-piece ways. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Iria says, "Well, that was exciting..." | Teaspoon says, "You're right, he is doubling down on the meta." | ||
| Teaspoon asks, "shall we tell dennis about the game?" | |||
| DavidW says, "uh, if we can." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read notes" | |||
Floyd ] Computer Science (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > READ NOTES Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "take backpack" | |||
Floyd ] Computer Science (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BACKPACK Floyd | Floyd | That's someone's property. Better not do much more than look. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "oh well, maybe we can jsut go tell him." | ||
| DavidW asks, "So we head se about six times?" | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Math/Science Wing (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Math/Science Wing Floyd | All the hard sciences are covered here: clockwise from south, you have Floyd | Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science to the northwest (it's Floyd | the only one open--independent study projects and all) and finally Floyd | Math (math team off-season practice) to the north. The Earth Sciences Floyd | department is upstairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh wait" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Math/Science Wing (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | That's about the only direction you can't go here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Math/Science Wing (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | That area's beyond the scope of this introduction. You can go north to Floyd | Math or northwest to Computer Science, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Math (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Math Floyd | You can go inside the math study area, which doubles as the math Floyd | team's training room, if you'd like. Pneumonia Alley connects the Floyd | science wing with the Arts wing. Floyd | Floyd | You can see list of birthdays here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "he's south of X-Hall, right?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "yes." | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Math/Science Wing (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Math/Science Wing Floyd | All the hard sciences are covered here: clockwise from south, you have Floyd | Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science to the northwest (it's Floyd | the only one open--independent study projects and all) and finally Floyd | Math (math team off-season practice) to the north. The Earth Sciences Floyd | department is upstairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I haven't been mapping." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Math/Science Wing (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | That area's beyond the scope of this introduction. You can go north to Floyd | Math or northwest to Computer Science, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "what was that list?" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] X-Hall (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | X-Hall Floyd | X-Hall is the center of GHS. Corridors head in diagonal directions to Floyd | the various departments, the teachers' lounge is to the east, the Floyd | upperclassmen's social area is south, and the testing room is to the Floyd | north. Looks like people are still taking a standardized test right Floyd | now. You can go inside to the library, and a rusted elevator panel Floyd | lies to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Social Lounge (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Social Lounge Floyd | Back north is X-Hall. Ironically, you can go in to the Chess Hovel to Floyd | the side of the social lounge, here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Social Lounge (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | There's a wall there. You should know GHS like the back of your hand Floyd | after three years--and after a brief look, you see you can go north Floyd | and inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "inside" | |||
Floyd ] Chess Hovel (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Chess Hovel Floyd | You can really only go back outside from here. Floyd | Floyd | Dennis Durfle paces here in front of a shelf of chess books, reading a Floyd | chess book and mumbling to himself. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "talk to dennis" | |||
Floyd ] Chess Hovel (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > TALK TO DENNIS Floyd | Floyd | "Go away. I don't trust you." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "the list of birthdays? was that important?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "Hmm. I guess we can go look at it." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "whoa, Dennis." | |||
| Roger asks, "Maybe we can challenge him to a game of chess?" | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Chess Hovel (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a yearbook pass Floyd | a spreadsheet Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "That's what Dennis said last time." | ||
| Teaspoon says, ""we want to tell you about a game making fun of you to the entire student body"" | |||
| DavidW says, "Maybe we needed to STEAL the notes and GIVE them to Dennis." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "But we were told we could only do that in a SERIOUS mood. Which we're not in." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "maybe the birthday list will fix that." | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Social Lounge (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Social Lounge Floyd | Back north is X-Hall. Ironically, you can go in to the Chess Hovel to Floyd | the side of the social lounge, here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] X-Hall (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | X-Hall Floyd | X-Hall is the center of GHS. Corridors head in diagonal directions to Floyd | the various departments, the teachers' lounge is to the east, the Floyd | upperclassmen's social area is south, and the testing room is to the Floyd | north. Looks like people are still taking a standardized test right Floyd | now. You can go inside to the library, and a rusted elevator panel Floyd | lies to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Math/Science Wing (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Math/Science Wing Floyd | All the hard sciences are covered here: clockwise from south, you have Floyd | Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science to the northwest (it's Floyd | the only one open--independent study projects and all) and finally Floyd | Math (math team off-season practice) to the north. The Earth Sciences Floyd | department is upstairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Math (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Math Floyd | You can go inside the math study area, which doubles as the math Floyd | team's training room, if you'd like. Pneumonia Alley connects the Floyd | science wing with the Arts wing. Floyd | Floyd | You can see list of birthdays here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "x list" | |||
Floyd ] Math (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > X LIST Floyd | Floyd | (list of birthdays) Floyd | You look through today's, for curiosity's sake: Floyd | Floyd | Thad Bings, Dennis Durfle, Pip O'Floppovich, Fredley Freydel, Simba Floyd | Zabmis. Floyd | Floyd | The only name you recognize is Dennis Durfle, the chess guy. Everyone Floyd | knows who he is, but they don't know him. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "oh, the mood thing is relevant?" | ||
| Teaspoon says, "I think so. It changed when we got the pass, which is the only real thing we've done so far." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up dennis in list" | |||
Floyd ] Math (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UP DENNIS IN LIST Floyd | Floyd | (list of birthdays) Floyd | You discover nothing of interest in list of birthdays. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Math (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | There's a wall there. You should know GHS like the back of your hand Floyd | after three years--and after a brief look, you see you can go south, Floyd | east and inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "inside" | |||
Floyd ] Math Study Area (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Math Study Area Floyd | The Math Study Area is full of all kinds of mathy things that are Floyd | supposed to make math fun. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a Book of Modern Chess Strategy here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "take book" | |||
Floyd ] Math Study Area (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BOOK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Geez, it's as painful to slug around as a textbook. Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "read book" | |||
Floyd ] Math Study Area (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > READ BOOK Floyd | Floyd | That's not readable. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "inside" | |||
Floyd ] Math Study Area (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > INSIDE Floyd | Floyd | There's a wall there. You should know GHS like the back of your hand Floyd | after three years--and after a brief look, you see you can go outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "outside" | |||
Floyd ] Math (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > OUTSIDE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Math Floyd | You can go inside the math study area, which doubles as the math Floyd | team's training room, if you'd like. Pneumonia Alley connects the Floyd | science wing with the Arts wing. Floyd | Floyd | You can see list of birthdays here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Math (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | There's a wall there. You should know GHS like the back of your hand Floyd | after three years--and after a brief look, you see you can go south, Floyd | east and inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Math (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | While you can't catch pneumonia there in the summer, you won't need to Floyd | go through Pneumonia Alley for the introduction. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Math/Science Wing (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Math/Science Wing Floyd | All the hard sciences are covered here: clockwise from south, you have Floyd | Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science to the northwest (it's Floyd | the only one open--independent study projects and all) and finally Floyd | Math (math team off-season practice) to the north. The Earth Sciences Floyd | department is upstairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Math/Science Wing (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | That area's beyond the scope of this introduction. You can go north to Floyd | Math or northwest to Computer Science, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Can we take the list?" | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Math (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Math Floyd | You can go inside the math study area, which doubles as the math Floyd | team's training room, if you'd like. Pneumonia Alley connects the Floyd | science wing with the Arts wing. Floyd | Floyd | You can see list of birthdays here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "take list" | |||
Floyd ] Math (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE LIST Floyd | Floyd | (list of birthdays) Floyd | You don't need to take it, but it maybe has useful information. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "no. I think we give him the chess book as a present." | ||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Math/Science Wing (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Math/Science Wing Floyd | All the hard sciences are covered here: clockwise from south, you have Floyd | Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science to the northwest (it's Floyd | the only one open--independent study projects and all) and finally Floyd | Math (math team off-season practice) to the north. The Earth Sciences Floyd | department is upstairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Math/Science Wing (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Math/Science Wing (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | That area's beyond the scope of this introduction. You can go north to Floyd | Math or northwest to Computer Science, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] X-Hall (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | X-Hall Floyd | X-Hall is the center of GHS. Corridors head in diagonal directions to Floyd | the various departments, the teachers' lounge is to the east, the Floyd | upperclassmen's social area is south, and the testing room is to the Floyd | north. Looks like people are still taking a standardized test right Floyd | now. You can go inside to the library, and a rusted elevator panel Floyd | lies to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Social Lounge (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Social Lounge Floyd | Back north is X-Hall. Ironically, you can go in to the Chess Hovel to Floyd | the side of the social lounge, here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "in" | |||
Floyd ] Chess Hovel (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Chess Hovel Floyd | You can really only go back outside from here. Floyd | Floyd | Dennis Durfle paces here in front of a shelf of chess books, reading a Floyd | chess book and mumbling to himself. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "give book to dennis" | |||
Floyd ] Chess Hovel (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE BOOK TO DENNIS Floyd | Floyd | (the Book of Modern Chess Strategy to Dennis Durfle) Floyd | "Hey! Wow! Where'd you...? But Big Ed... oh, man! I'd been missing Floyd | that two months! Thanks! I...I was about to go buy a new one." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "talk to dennis" | |||
Floyd ] Chess Hovel (MOOD: UN-ALLIED) MORNING
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO DENNIS
Floyd |
| |||
| Floyd [1] Oh, hey, man. Happy birthday. Why are you spending it here? | |||
| Floyd [2] You know it's pretty sad to be spending a birthday in summer at | |||
Floyd | SCHOOL... | |||
| Floyd [3] So you probably didn't see the game the Disgruntled Intellectual | |||
Floyd | Club wants to write about you? | |||
| Floyd [4] So, yeah, bye. | |||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Teaspoon exclaims, "decision time!" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh geez. I dunno." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "3" | |||
| DavidW says, "sure" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "3" | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "3" | |||
Floyd ] Chess Hovel (MOOD: DIPLOMATIC) MORNING
Floyd |
Floyd | > 3
Floyd |
Floyd | "Whoah. Those hacker types. They're pretty rough."
Floyd |
Floyd | "Yeah," you say. "They got me, already."
Floyd |
Floyd | Dennis looks like he almost trusts you.
Floyd |
| |||
| Floyd [1] Oh, hey, man. Happy birthday. Why are you spending it here? | |||
| Floyd [2] You know it's pretty sad to be spending a birthday in summer at | |||
Floyd | SCHOOL... | |||
| Floyd [3] So, yeah, bye. | |||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Teaspoon asks, "1?" | ||
| DavidW says, "ok" | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] Chess Hovel (MOOD: ARTISTIC) MORNING
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | "How did you know?" You explain something about the math team, and he
Floyd | launches into turf wars between the math and chess teams, and how
Floyd | people who are on both are extra annoying. You nod in agreement. He
Floyd | seems almost surprised.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Man. I didn't know we were bummed by the same stuff. But you asked me
Floyd | what I'm doing here. What are YOU doing here?"
Floyd |
Floyd | After you explain, Dennis continues, "Well, enemy's enemy stuff, I
Floyd | guess. Still can't forgive Harley for, um...look, I have something
Floyd | that can help you. I wrote some really satirical protest poetry or
Floyd | something but if I submitted it to the school art magazine, they'd say
Floyd | I was just some bitter dork. You'd give it gravitas and stuff. What do
Floyd | you say? I just want to get the message out." (yes or no)
| Teaspoon says, "this is horrifying, this is." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm not even understanding any of this." | |||
| DavidW says, "Some sort of student politics that is totally alien to me." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "We've convinced an adolesecent who writes DARK AND MOODY poetry to offer to give it to us, so that we can pass it off as our own to the art department." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "Because his chess team has a feud with the math team." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "What the math team has to do with anything, I wish I knew." | |||
| DavidW asks, "And this to appease our dad who wants bragging rights over other dads?" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "yes" | |||
| DavidW says, "So messed up." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I hope you all don't mind, but I am going to go work out." | |||
| DavidW asks, "Why didn't we write our own poem?" | |||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "I look forward to the transcript!" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "anyway, we are clearly being bulldozed into the one inexonerable choice, although frankly I think it'd be more amusing to steal the terrible game about us and fob that off on the art dept." | |||
| DavidW asks, "oh, is that an option too?" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "cos we aren't artistic and never have been and are only doing this cos our dad said so." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "Well, it didn't seem like it. As per the SERIOUS mood thing." | |||
| DavidW says, "I thought you said we couldn't take it because we weren't SERIOUS." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "Right. I imagine it'd be in the finished game, but I'd rather do it now cos it's slightly more amusing." | |||
| DavidW asks, "so I guess yes, we take the poem, then?" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "guess so." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "against my better judgement" | |||
| DavidW says, "'Just Say No To Rugs', a poem by Max Humdrum." | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "yes" | |||
Floyd ] Chess Hovel (MOOD: ARTISTIC) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | You take a closer look at Dennis's note. It's a lot more coherent and Floyd | funny than you'd imagined. You're almost...jealous. You find yourself Floyd | riffing on it--like you're not totally happy with Grubbyville. You Floyd | wonder how serious he is about not really wanting any credit. Maybe Floyd | he'll backstab you later. I mean, If you can think ten moves ahead in Floyd | chess, what else can you plan? Floyd | Floyd | But with this writing, you feel like you should be able to shmooze. Floyd | Floyd | Leaving the Chess Hovel behind, you feel like this grades thing is Floyd | just business. You're not finding some huge tax loophole. Harley Floyd | started it. Someone will find a new loophole next year. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** INTRO IS OVER *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command or see your final MOOD? Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "mood" | |||
Floyd ] Chess Hovel (MOOD: ARTISTIC) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > MOOD Floyd | Floyd | Different dialogue choices will give you different intro-end text. In Floyd | this playthrough... Floyd | Floyd | You've been nice to Dennis Durfle, particularly Dennis Durfle. Floyd | You've been sly to Myron Knurp. Floyd | Floyd | You're looking forward to more than just getting a better GPA. It Floyd | sounds a bit hokey, and it might not last, but there you go. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last Floyd | command or see your final MOOD? Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Chess Hovel (MOOD: DIPLOMATIC) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Chess Hovel Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "no" | |||
Floyd ] Chess Hovel (MOOD: DIPLOMATIC) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > NO Floyd | Floyd | That was a rhetorical question. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Chess Hovel (MOOD: DIPLOMATIC) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Chess Hovel Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "look" | |||
Floyd ] Chess Hovel (MOOD: DIPLOMATIC) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Chess Hovel Floyd | You can really only go back outside from here. Floyd | Floyd | Dennis Durfle paces here in front of a shelf of chess books, reading a Floyd | chess book and mumbling to himself. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "talk to dennis" | |||
Floyd ] Chess Hovel (MOOD: DIPLOMATIC) MORNING
Floyd |
Floyd | > TALK TO DENNIS
Floyd |
| |||
| Floyd [1] Oh, hey, man. Happy birthday. Why are you spending it here? | |||
| Floyd [2] You know it's pretty sad to be spending a birthday in summer at | |||
Floyd | SCHOOL... | |||
| Floyd [3] So, yeah, bye. | |||
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd ] Chess Hovel (MOOD: ARTISTIC) MORNING
Floyd |
Floyd | > 1
Floyd |
Floyd | "How did you know?" You explain something about the math team, and he
Floyd | launches into turf wars between the math and chess teams, and how
Floyd | people who are on both are extra annoying. You nod in agreement. He
Floyd | seems almost surprised.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Man. I didn't know we were bummed by the same stuff. But you asked me
Floyd | what I'm doing here. What are YOU doing here?"
Floyd |
Floyd | After you explain, Dennis continues, "Well, enemy's enemy stuff, I
Floyd | guess. Still can't forgive Harley for, um...look, I have something
Floyd | that can help you. I wrote some really satirical protest poetry or
Floyd | something but if I submitted it to the school art magazine, they'd say
Floyd | I was just some bitter dork. You'd give it gravitas and stuff. What do
Floyd | you say? I just want to get the message out." (yes or no)
| |||
| Teaspoon says (to Floyd), "no" | |||
Floyd ] Chess Hovel (MOOD: ARTISTIC) MORNING Floyd | Floyd | > NO Floyd | Floyd | "Talk to me if you change your mind." Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "yeah, that's not interesting." | ||
| Teaspoon says, "Still, we finished it." | |||
| DavidW says, "yeah" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Want to call ourselves done for today?" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "I think so." | |||
| DavidW says, "okay." | |||
| DavidW says, "I guess I was hoping for another wordplay game, but this is obviously something else." | |||
| Teaspoon says, "so 'tis." | |||
| Teaspoon asks, "Very different in tone, eh?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "So if now we're in an ARTISTIC mood... what does that allow us to do?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I don't quite understand this mood business." | |||
| DavidW asks, "Are we collecing mood tools in our mood toolbox? or are we a mood weathervane that the game spins around to different moods every so often?" | |||
| Teaspoon asks, "I...think it's the latter?" | |||
| Roger says, "Help someone you don't like accomplish goals that are probably not in his best interest by methods which you don't approve of" | |||
| Teaspoon says, "Um, yes." | |||
| Teaspoon I think I'd have to agree. | |||
| Iria goes home. | |||
| Roger disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | |||
| Teaspoon teleports home to the sound of tortured piano strings. | |||
| kpaquette goes home. | |||
| DavidW has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | |||
| kpaquette arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Doug asks, "looks like you played some IntroComp games today?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We did, yes." | |||
| Doug says, "Grubbyville and what else? (too lazy to recap that far back)" | |||
| kpaquette goes home. | Jacqueline says, "Spellbound" | ||
| Doug says, "cool" | |||
| Doug says, "that reminds me I need to replay Some Exceptions for Reasons Unknown" | |||
| Doug says, "I might replay Spellbound too because I didn't get into the underground city" | |||
| *** SECOND SESSION *** | |||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "aLOha!" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, three of us?" | |||
| Roger says, "Sure" | |||
| DavidW says, "hi" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I would like to ask that if today's game is short you just go ahead and check out the rest of the games. (Though, DW, I'll warn you that BestieFone is an 80mb download)." | |||
| DavidW asks, "What's the game for today?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I played through everything else last week except the game we're going to play today." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Some Exceptions for Reasons Unknown by Thomas Mack." | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm lagging a bit. I think I downloaded the games during the good half of the month." | |||
| DavidW says, "oh, a game I haven't played yet." | |||
| Roger says, "Nor I" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Narrows and Astronomical Theories of the Great British Empire will take you less than 2 minutes, Deviled Kegs will take less than 5, and BestiePhone 10-15. All of those except Bestie Phone run in a browser." | |||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "So you can play and get your votes and feedback logged today, well ahead of the deadline!" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Wouldn't that be an awesome thing to do?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Think of the authors, folks. Think of the authors." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Anyway, should we start, or give people until quarter after to straggle in?" | |||
| Roger says, "That would be awesome" | |||
| Roger says, "I can wait, or not, or whatever" | |||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I know I played Deviled Kegs and the two Squiffy entries." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Cool." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, heck, we're here. Let's just do this thing." | |||
| DavidW says, "I can wait." | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm in no hurry." | |||
| DavidW says, "And my connection is in no hurry either :)" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Nah, we have three cats. If we wait we may have even more cat herding." | |||
| DavidW says, "meow" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "(This is the cue for one of you to-- thank you, DW.)" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask someexceptions" | |||
Floyd | %% Critical error. Floyd | %% Message: window_clear: invalid ref Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Some Exceptions for Reasons Unknown Floyd ] Floyd ] [Press any key to begin.] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd ] Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts Floyd | uncritically--- Floyd ] to those who hardly think about us in return. Floyd | Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd ] ---T. H. White, "The Once and Floyd | Future King" Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "That is... a sad quote." | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | |||
Floyd | %% Critical error. Floyd | %% Message: window_clear: invalid ref Floyd ] Antechamber 8:00 am 0/0 Floyd | It was love at first sight. You weren't permitted even to see them Floyd | until you passed the trials: rappelling down the east tower, slipping Floyd | through the gap in the patrols, and then picking the counting house Floyd | lock. When you returned triumphantly, your new friends toasted and Floyd | praised and paraded you around the hall. You were happiest, though, Floyd | when the master--- now just another respected colleague--- solemnly Floyd | handed your set of lockpicks, shining darkly in the guild hall. For a Floyd | while, it was perfect. Floyd | Floyd | And then it all went wrong. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Some Exceptions for Reasons Unknown Floyd | A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Crime Floyd | Copyright (c) 2016 by Thomas Mack. Floyd | Release 1.03 / Serial number 160730 / Inform v6.32 Library 6/11 S Floyd | First-time players should type ABOUT. Floyd | Floyd | Mistakes were made. Plans were exposed. People were compromised. The Floyd | job was ambitious but reasonable for a crew as skilled as Big Sally's, Floyd | and you're certain your scheme would have been successful. The Floyd | authorities couldn't prove anything, but the damage was done. With the Floyd | town watch constantly looking over your shoulder, the Thieves' Guild Floyd | gently suggested you look elsewhere. It was over. Floyd | Floyd | Antechamber Floyd | Before it became the seat of local government, this castle was an Floyd | actively defended fortress, built and run to protect the town of Floyd | Blackacre. It was designed for defense rather than comfort, and the Floyd | castle still retains its original vertiginous spiral staircases, Floyd | cavernous galleries, and piles of crumbling stonework. Nevertheless, Floyd | people expect a certain reassuring level of conspicuous wealth in Floyd | their public buildings, and the town council has obligingly added Floyd | little bits of opulence to this audience hall. An array of dainty Floyd | chandeliers hanging from the ceiling barely warms or brightens the Floyd | room. Portraits of jowly merchants line the stone walls, looking down Floyd | onto the clerks and audience-seekers below with imperturbable disdain. Floyd | The entrance to the council chambers to the north and the exit from Floyd | the hall to the south are both flanked by extravagantly woven but thin Floyd | tapestries. Floyd | Floyd | Well-dressed men and women sit in ornate chairs lined across one wall Floyd | of the gallery, presumably also waiting for an audience with the Floyd | council. The town's clerk, Trelawney, watches over them irritably from Floyd | his desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. Not sure what we're supposed to do here. Is this a job interview?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:00 am 0/1 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | As good-looking as ever. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:00 am 0/2 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | some forms Floyd | a spellbook Floyd | a set of lockpicks Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x forms" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:00 am 0/3 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FORMS Floyd | Floyd | Various forms releasing the town council from any legal liability in Floyd | various likely scenarios. Dragon-slaying has changed quite a bit since Floyd | Blackacre was founded. Floyd | Floyd | A clerk scurries over to Trelawney and whispers something to him. "All Floyd | right," he says to you, "give me your forms, and you can leave." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Do we give the forms to Trelawney, then?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give forms to trelawney" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:01 am 0/4 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE FORMS TO TRELAWNEY Floyd | Floyd | Trelawney gives the forms a cursory inspection and adds them to the Floyd | stack of paperwork on his desk. "You've already done your interview," Floyd | he says, and you wince as you remember it, "so that's it. You may go." Floyd | Floyd | It isn't a request. The Guild, though just as firm, was kinder. They Floyd | arranged an apprenticeship to a wizard, but learning magic is a slow, Floyd | arduous process. In the year you've worked for Dr. Mortemain, you've Floyd | only managed to learn a single spell. You've dutifully completed the Floyd | chores he gives you (usually involving petty acts of larceny against Floyd | his rival wizards), but you're growing impatient, and you're always Floyd | looking for something better. Floyd | Floyd | That thing turned out to be a giant, fire-breathing dragon. The Floyd | otherwise pleasant town of Blackacre has been terrorized for the last Floyd | few months by a dragon that sweeps in, burns down farmsteads and Floyd | devours livestock, then retreats to the safety of its mountain lair. Floyd | The town council is finally organizing a hunting party to defeat the Floyd | dragon, and it needs someone to lead it. After weeks of pleading, Dr. Floyd | Mortemain deigned to let you interview with the council to run the Floyd | expedition, but only in exchange for stealing some important letters Floyd | that are apparently stashed in the castle. (You didn't ask for the Floyd | details; Dr. Mortemain doesn't like explaining himself, and you didn't Floyd | want him to rescind his permission.) The interview turned out to be Floyd | what you should have expected, but at least the council won't announce Floyd | its decision until noon. You still have some time left. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "uh... so is our goal to steal letters, or to slay a dragon, or both?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So... we need to steal the letter by noon, I guess." | |||
| Roger says, "We didn't ABOUT as suggested, did we" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to trelawney" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TRELAWNEY Floyd | Floyd | You approach the seneschal's desk. Floyd | Floyd | 0) (Leave.) Floyd | 1) What happens now? Floyd | 2) Anything wrong? Floyd | 3) What's the competition like? Floyd | 4) When will I find out if I've been chosen? Floyd | Floyd | Choose a topic (0-4) > | DavidW says (to Roger), "I missed that in the walls of text." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "about" | Jacqueline says, "Um." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe I should give it a number first." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "0" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:01 am 0/5
Floyd | Choose a topic (0-4) > 0
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "about" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | 0) Return to the game Floyd | 1) How to play a text-adventure Floyd | 2) Special commands specific to this game Floyd | 3) Walkthrough Floyd | 4) Contact the author Floyd | 5) Other games by the author Floyd | 6) Acknowledgments Floyd | Floyd | Choose a topic (0-6) > | DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "uh, you're in a menu." | ||
| Jacqueline shrugs. "Sometimes you can do stuff during menus.' | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | |||
Floyd | Choose a topic (0-6) > 2 Floyd | | |||
| Floyd Conversations are menu driven; simply TALK TO [character] to start | |||
Floyd | one. This interaction also replaces more complicated commands like ASK | |||
| Floyd [character] ABOUT [topic]; instead, relevant topics will appear in the | |||
Floyd | conversation tree as appropriate. Floyd | | |||
| Floyd To cast a spell, CAST [spell] ON [target], or simply [spell] [target]. | |||
Floyd | There's no need to memorize or otherwise prepare spells; once you know Floyd | a spell, you can cast it freely. The SPELLS or MEMORY verbs will show Floyd | you what spells you've learned, although reading your spellbook will Floyd | give you the same information. Floyd | Floyd | This game treats EXAMINE and READ as different verbs. Examining, say, Floyd | a book will describe its cover; reading it would describe its Floyd | contents. Floyd | Floyd | You can FOLLOW characters, though there's no difference between that | |||
| Floyd command and the corresponding GO [direction] statement. | |||
Floyd | Floyd | The EXITS command lists the obvious exists from a room, though there Floyd | may be some hidden exits that aren't initially listed. Floyd | Floyd | The ABOUT command will bring up a menu of various help topics, Floyd | although you've presumably already figured that out by now. Floyd | Floyd | 0) Return to the game Floyd | 1) How to play a text-adventure Floyd | 2) Special commands specific to this game Floyd | 3) Walkthrough Floyd | 4) Contact the author Floyd | 5) Other games by the author Floyd | 6) Acknowledgments Floyd | Floyd | Choose a topic (0-6) > | DavidW says, "no, you exited the first chat menu so you could enter the about menu." | ||
| polarisunique arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Right. Only after trying it the other way and finding it failed." | ||
| Roger says, "ok I think we're good now" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "6" | |||
Floyd | Choose a topic (0-6) > 6 Floyd | Floyd | Our sincere thanks to Diane Christoforo for playtesting and editing Floyd | this game. Floyd | Floyd | 0) Return to the game Floyd | 1) How to play a text-adventure Floyd | 2) Special commands specific to this game Floyd | 3) Walkthrough Floyd | 4) Contact the author Floyd | 5) Other games by the author Floyd | 6) Acknowledgments Floyd | Floyd | Choose a topic (0-6) > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "0" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:01 am 0/5
Floyd | Choose a topic (0-6) > 0
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "I would like to know what our single spell is when there's a free moment." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read spellbook" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:01 am 0/6 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ SPELLBOOK Floyd | Floyd | A year of study, and you've only learned one spell: Floyd | Floyd | anracni: turns green objects red Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Fun at the holidays, that spell." | ||
| DavidW says, "thank you" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, talk to Trelawney?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "I guess, sure?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to Trelawney" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO TRELAWNEY Floyd | Floyd | You approach the seneschal's desk. Floyd | Floyd | 0) (Leave.) Floyd | 1) What happens now? Floyd | 2) Anything wrong? Floyd | 3) What's the competition like? Floyd | 4) When will I find out if I've been chosen? Floyd | Floyd | Choose a topic (0-4) > | Jacqueline asks, "1?" | ||
| Roger says, "Mow it" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd | Choose a topic (0-4) > 1 Floyd | Floyd | "So, do I wait here, or..." Floyd | "You may leave," says the seneschal encouragingly. "The mayor will Floyd | announce the decision at noon." Floyd | Floyd | 0) (Leave.) Floyd | 1) What happens now? Floyd | 2) Anything wrong? Floyd | 3) What's the competition like? Floyd | 4) When will I find out if I've been chosen? Floyd | Floyd | Choose a topic (0-4) > | DavidW says, "Mowing is good." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | |||
Floyd | Choose a topic (0-4) > 2
Floyd |
Floyd | You're with the Thieves' Guild, aren't you?" asks Trelawney.
Floyd | "I was," you reply delicately. "Is that a problem?"
Floyd | Trelawney pauses as he thinks about how to make it one. "Have you ever
Floyd | done anything illegal?"
Floyd | "Of course not."
Floyd | "You were in the Thieves' Guild, and you expect me to believe you
Floyd | never did anything illegal?"
Floyd | "Well...I've never been caught," you say without conviction.
Floyd | "I think it's safe to say that the matter will be moot anyway," he
Floyd | replies, smiling icily.
Floyd |
Floyd | 0) (Leave.)
Floyd | 1) What happens now?
Floyd | 2) Anything wrong?
Floyd | 3) What's the competition like?
Floyd | 4) When will I find out if I've been chosen?
Floyd |
Floyd | Choose a topic (0-4) >
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | |||
Floyd | Choose a topic (0-4) > 3 Floyd | Floyd | "So, any idea about my competition?" you ask Trelawney. Floyd | "With all due respect---" he pauses and corrects himself. "With all Floyd | the respect you deserve, I'm not sure you're quite up to our Floyd | standards. There have been quite a few remarkable applicants this Floyd | morning." Floyd | "Such as?" Floyd | The seneschal opens his mouth to speak, then thinks better of it. Floyd | "You'll find out at noon along with everyone else." Floyd | Floyd | 0) (Leave.) Floyd | 1) What happens now? Floyd | 2) Anything wrong? Floyd | 3) What's the competition like? Floyd | 4) When will I find out if I've been chosen? Floyd | Floyd | Choose a topic (0-4) > | Jacqueline says, "ouch" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "4" | |||
Floyd | Choose a topic (0-4) > 4 Floyd | Floyd | "When will the council's decision be announced?" you ask the Floyd | seneschal. Floyd | "At noon, in the town square." He looks at you flintily. "I wouldn't Floyd | get your hopes up, young man." Floyd | Floyd | 0) (Leave.) Floyd | 1) What happens now? Floyd | 2) Anything wrong? Floyd | 3) What's the competition like? Floyd | 4) When will I find out if I've been chosen? Floyd | Floyd | Choose a topic (0-4) > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "0" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:01 am 0/7
Floyd | Choose a topic (0-4) > 0
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:02 am 0/8 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Antechamber Floyd | Before it became the seat of local government, this castle was an Floyd | actively defended fortress, built and run to protect the town of Floyd | Blackacre. It was designed for defense rather than comfort, and the Floyd | castle still retains its original vertiginous spiral staircases, Floyd | cavernous galleries, and piles of crumbling stonework. Nevertheless, Floyd | people expect a certain reassuring level of conspicuous wealth in Floyd | their public buildings, and the town council has obligingly added Floyd | little bits of opulence to this audience hall. An array of dainty Floyd | chandeliers hanging from the ceiling barely warms or brightens the Floyd | room. Portraits of jowly merchants line the stone walls, looking down Floyd | onto the clerks and audience-seekers below with imperturbable disdain. Floyd | The entrance to the council chambers to the north and the exit from Floyd | the hall to the south are both flanked by extravagantly woven but thin Floyd | tapestries. Floyd | Floyd | Well-dressed men and women sit in ornate chairs lined across one wall Floyd | of the gallery, presumably also waiting for an audience with the Floyd | council. The town's clerk, Trelawney, watches over them irritably from Floyd | his desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tapestries" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:02 am 0/9 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TAPESTRIES Floyd | Floyd | The tapestries show Blackacre's founder, depicted as a victorious Floyd | blond knight in spotless armor, slaying some sort of monstrous Floyd | serpent. According to town legend, he defeated a monster that had been Floyd | threatening the area and made it safe again for human habitation; in Floyd | gratitude, the struggling settlers then declared him their mayor. In Floyd | reality, Blackacre was founded by a consortium of herring merchants Floyd | looking for a port closer to their shoals to cut down on Floyd | transportation costs, and the founding comprised filing a proposal Floyd | with the deputy undersecretary of the Royal Ministry of Fisheries. The Floyd | artist chose the story that's easier to weave into a tapestry. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, for a green herring." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Which we can then turn red." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "That is a long set up for a joke." | |||
| DavidW says, "Look at the portraits too, when ready, please." | |||
| DavidW says, "(I wish I wasn't lagging so badly)" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x portraits" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:02 am 0/10 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PORTRAITS Floyd | Floyd | The portraits show long-deceased merchants from the past centuries of Floyd | Blackacre's history. Some of their business practices were Floyd | indisputably underhanded and occasionally completely illegal, but Floyd | their considerable donations to the town have apparently succeeded in Floyd | whitewashing their pasts. The painters did their best to present their Floyd | dissipated, corpulent subjects in a favorable light (literally, in the Floyd | case of the chiaroscuros), but the rows of faces look blank and Floyd | unremarkable even as they sneer down at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "It's difficult to come up with new red herring jokes, y'know." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Fair enough." | |||
| DavidW asks, "so... north into the council chambers, or south to exit like Trelawney wants? Or is there more to do here?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Okay. So, I'm done looking up what chiaroscuro means. What now?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm sure we'll get turned away to the north, but let's try." | |||
| DavidW says, "I think we ought to at least try north first, yeah" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:02 am 0/11 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | "The council will be deliberating for a while," says Trelawney. Floyd | "You're free to leave now. They'll make the announcement at noon in Floyd | the town square." Floyd | Floyd | You notice two of your old colleagues in the Guild, Mr. Wattman and Floyd | Mr. Puncher, stalk into the antechamber. You try to look Floyd | inconspicuous, but the two notice you, and Mr. Wattman boisterously Floyd | waves to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says (to Jacq), "Don't let maga find out you didn't know that" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "What? That I looked up a word? Yeah, I know." | |||
| DavidW asks, "oh. More people. Talk to them?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to wattman" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO WATTMAN Floyd | Floyd | Against your better judgment, you strike up a conversation with Mr. Floyd | Wattman. Floyd | Floyd | 0) (Leave.) Floyd | 1) Nervous at all? Floyd | 2) How's the Guild? Floyd | Floyd | Choose a response (0-2) > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | |||
Floyd | Choose a response (0-2) > 2 Floyd | Floyd | "How are you doing in the Guild?" Floyd | "Mr. Puncher and I have moved up in the world. We're management now," Floyd | he says proudly. "We run the loss prevention group in the Guild." Floyd | "Isn't that against the entire point of the Guild?" Floyd | "Preventing the loss of people, not things. We're looking at the Floyd | bigger picture now. You see, occasionally some guild members forget Floyd | their loyalty to the guild and try to do some things they shouldn't: Floyd | quit the guild, join a rival guild, or even run tattling to the town Floyd | watch." Floyd | "You don't think I---" Floyd | "Oh, don't worry. You left the Guild on mutual and perfectly amicable Floyd | terms. Besides, we have bigger fish to fry." Floyd | "In burning oil," puts in Mr. Puncher. Floyd | "For example. Our job is to find those poor, wayward souls who might Floyd | be tempted to leave the Guild and put the fear of God, as well as Floyd | several knives, into them." Floyd | Floyd | 1) That's great! Floyd | 2) That's awful! Floyd | Floyd | Choose a response (1-2) > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, huh. My bad." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I thought this would be another lawnmower, so I didn't ask." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "But it appears to be a conversation tree." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Felt weird to ask if they're nervous when we don't know that they are applying or not..." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Anyway, is this great or awful?" | |||
| Roger says, "I think we should tell them it's great" | |||
| DavidW says, "I honestly don't know." | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure I'm understanding what's being said." | |||
| Roger says, "That they're stabbing people who leave the Guild. People like us." | |||
| DavidW says, "They sound like bullies, though." | |||
| Roger says, "Well yeah we're all criminals here" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I think we should tell 'em it's great, even if we think it's awful." | |||
| DavidW says, "ok" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd | Choose a response (1-2) > 1 Floyd | Floyd | "That's great!" you say a bit too loudly. Floyd | "Glad to see you're on our side. Like I keep telling people, you're a Floyd | good kid. I know a few members of the Guild think you're a traitor, Floyd | but I want you to know that I merely think you're incompetent." Floyd | Floyd | As he leans forward to pat you on the shoulder in what he presumably Floyd | thinks is a reassuring manner, you notice a small rock tied to his Floyd | belt. Floyd | Floyd | 0) (Leave.) Floyd | 1) Nervous about your interview? Floyd | 2) How's the Guild? Floyd | 3) What's that rock? Floyd | Floyd | Choose a response (0-3) > | Jacqueline asks, "3?" | ||
| DavidW says, "uh, sure" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | |||
Floyd | Choose a response (0-3) > 3 Floyd | Floyd | "What's that?" you ask, pointing toward the rock hung from his Floyd | belt?"Oh, that?" He shifts his tunic in an unsuccessful attempt to Floyd | hide it. "There's a mission later on, and--- well, I'd tell you, Floyd | but..." Floyd | Floyd | 0) (Leave.) Floyd | 1) Nervous about your interview? Floyd | 2) How's the Guild? Floyd | 3) What's that rock? Floyd | Floyd | Choose a response (0-3) > | Jacqueline asks, "Lawnmower the remaining?" | ||
| DavidW says, "leave, I guess." | |||
| Roger says, "sure" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd | Choose a response (0-3) > 1 Floyd | Floyd | "Are you nervous about your interview?" Floyd | "Not at all," he says enthusiastically. "This is actually the second Floyd | one; Mr. Puncher and I met with the council last week. I showed off Floyd | some of my knife tricks, which will come in handy for fighting a Floyd | dragon. Some of the council members were concerned that I didn't have Floyd | much experience with the finer points of diplomacy and negotiation, Floyd | but I said I could take a wild stab in the dark at them. When they're Floyd | walking home at night, for example." Floyd | Floyd | 0) (Leave.) Floyd | 1) Nervous about your interview? Floyd | 2) How's the Guild? Floyd | 3) What's that rock? Floyd | Floyd | Choose a response (0-3) > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | |||
Floyd | Choose a response (0-3) > 2 Floyd | Floyd | "How are you doing in the Guild?" Floyd | "Mr. Puncher and I have moved up in the world. We're management now," Floyd | he says proudly. "We run the loss prevention group in the Guild." Floyd | "Isn't that against the entire point of the Guild?" Floyd | "Preventing the loss of people, not things. We're looking at the Floyd | bigger picture now. You see, occasionally some guild members forget Floyd | their loyalty to the guild and try to do some things they shouldn't: Floyd | quit the guild, join a rival guild, or even run tattling to the town Floyd | watch." Floyd | "You don't think I---" Floyd | "Oh, don't worry. You left the Guild on mutual and perfectly amicable Floyd | terms. Besides, we have bigger fish to fry." Floyd | "In burning oil," puts in Mr. Puncher. Floyd | "For example. Our job is to find those poor, wayward souls who might Floyd | be tempted to leave the Guild and put the fear of God, as well as Floyd | several knives, into them." Floyd | Floyd | 1) That's great! Floyd | 2) That's awful! Floyd | Floyd | Choose a response (1-2) > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, sorry, we did that one." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "But huh. What if we change our response?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I noticed that asked topics don't go away." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | |||
| DavidW says, "I don't know if it matters or not what we ask." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | |||
Floyd | Choose a response (1-2) > 2
Floyd |
Floyd | "That's terrible!"
Floyd | "No, it's actually very profitable."
Floyd | "I mean that it's morally wrong."
Floyd | "Well, maybe it is, and maybe it isn't. If we always stopped to worry
Floyd | about what's 'right' or wrong'," he says, making quotation marks with
Floyd | his fingers, "then nothing would ever get done.
Floyd | "You have to keep in mind what's really important," he continues,
Floyd | giving you what he apparently thinks is a smile. "Does the Guild pay
Floyd | me a literally and metaphorically criminal sum for my work? Certainly.
Floyd | Am I successful? Of course. But I'm rich because I have a lot of
Floyd | friends." He clears his throat. "Excuse me, I misspoke. I'm rich
Floyd | because I have a lot of money."
Floyd |
Floyd | You notice idly that when he lifted his arms and his tunic rode up
Floyd | slightly, he had a small rock tied to his belt.
Floyd |
Floyd | 0) (Leave.)
Floyd | 1) Nervous about your interview?
Floyd | 2) How's the Guild?
Floyd | 3) What's that rock?
Floyd |
Floyd | Choose a response (0-3) >
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "0" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:03 am 0/12
Floyd | Choose a response (0-3) > 0
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "Just want to check something." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to puncher" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO PUNCHER Floyd | Floyd | You approach the massive thief. Floyd | Floyd | 0) (Leave.) Floyd | 1) Anxious about the interview? Floyd | 2) How's the Guild? Floyd | Floyd | Choose a topic (0-2) > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd | Choose a topic (0-2) > 1 Floyd | Floyd | "Are you anxious about your interview with the council?" Floyd | "No," he says simply. Floyd | "Really? Not at all?" Floyd | "No." Floyd | "All right, then." Floyd | Floyd | 0) (Leave.) Floyd | 1) Anxious about the interview? Floyd | 2) How's the Guild? Floyd | Floyd | Choose a topic (0-2) > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | |||
Floyd | Choose a topic (0-2) > 2 Floyd | Floyd | "Are you still working with Mr. Wattman in the Guild?" Floyd | "Yes," he replies. Floyd | "And that's enjoyable?" Floyd | "It's good exercise." Having run out of things to say after such a Floyd | long sentence, he falls silent. Floyd | Floyd | 0) (Leave.) Floyd | 1) Anxious about the interview? Floyd | 2) How's the Guild? Floyd | Floyd | Choose a topic (0-2) > | Jacqueline says, "Huh. So it *is* a different conversation, even though he interjected in the other conversation." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "0" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:03 am 0/13
Floyd | Choose a topic (0-2) > 0
Floyd |
Floyd | Trelawney swats at a passing fly irritably. "Rotten things, insects,"
Floyd | he grumbles.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline asks, "So... leave? See if we can find another way in?" | ||
| Roger says, "Sure" | |||
| DavidW says, "unless there's a passage behind a tapestry." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look behind tapestry" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:03 am 0/14 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND TAPESTRY Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x book" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:03 am 0/15 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOOK Floyd | Floyd | Your trusty spellbook contains the only spell you know, as well as a Floyd | disheartening number of blank pages. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:04 am 0/16 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a spellbook Floyd | a set of lockpicks Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x lockpicks" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:04 am 0/17 Floyd | > Floyd | > X LOCKPICKS Floyd | Floyd | Your trusty set of lockpicks are undoubtedly your most treasured Floyd | possession, far beyond the literal treasure you've possessed. Even Floyd | though the Guild politely suggested that you return the other Floyd | accoutrements and clever devices you carried, it would have been Floyd | unthinkable to suggest or offer to relinquish your lockpicks. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, there's a timer in the status bar. I didn't notice that earlier." | ||
| Roger says, "indeed" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Enh. We have nearly four hours, and besides -- it's an introcomp game. I doubt we can complete the task anyway." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:04 am 0/18 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Antechamber Floyd | Before it became the seat of local government, this castle was an Floyd | actively defended fortress, built and run to protect the town of Floyd | Blackacre. It was designed for defense rather than comfort, and the Floyd | castle still retains its original vertiginous spiral staircases, Floyd | cavernous galleries, and piles of crumbling stonework. Nevertheless, Floyd | people expect a certain reassuring level of conspicuous wealth in Floyd | their public buildings, and the town council has obligingly added Floyd | little bits of opulence to this audience hall. An array of dainty Floyd | chandeliers hanging from the ceiling barely warms or brightens the Floyd | room. Portraits of jowly merchants line the stone walls, looking down Floyd | onto the clerks and audience-seekers below with imperturbable disdain. Floyd | The entrance to the council chambers to the north and the exit from Floyd | the hall to the south are both flanked by extravagantly woven but thin Floyd | tapestries. Floyd | Floyd | Well-dressed men and women sit in ornate chairs lined across one wall Floyd | of the gallery, presumably also waiting for an audience with the Floyd | council. The town's clerk, Trelawney, watches over them irritably from Floyd | his desk. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Mr. Puncher and Mr. Wattman here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:04 am 0/19 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | "The council will be deliberating for a while," says Trelawney. Floyd | "You're free to leave now. They'll make the announcement at noon in Floyd | the town square." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:05 am 0/20 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Mortemain only deigned to let you come to the castle this morning Floyd | after you promised to retrieve the missing letters for him. If you Floyd | return empty-handed, you'll likely spend another week as a frog. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oho" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "u" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:05 am 0/21 Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. We don't leave the room that way. Huh." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x chandeliers" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:05 am 0/22 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHANDELIERS Floyd | Floyd | The chandeliers are an obligatory bit of finery in the hall, but they Floyd | serve no purpose; the castle is now a place of business rather than a Floyd | residence, and it's unlit after the clerks leave at night. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x clerks" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:05 am 0/23 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CLERKS Floyd | Floyd | The clerks shuffle through the hall carrying piles of documents, Floyd | somehow managing to dodge the audience-seekers and other functionaries Floyd | seemingly without looking at where they're going. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So, should we steal the rock from Wattman?" | ||
| Roger says, "Seems worth trying" | |||
| DavidW asks, "There's other people here too, yes? I suppose look behind the portraits?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Maybe there's a wall safe." | |||
| DavidW says, "oh, there's a desk too." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look behind portrait" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:06 am 0/24 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND PORTRAIT Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x desk" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:06 am 0/25 Floyd | > Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | This desk is Trelawney's bulwark against the hordes of demanding Floyd | troublemakers in the hall. Like its owner, it's wooden, imposing, and Floyd | has paperwork piled onto it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "har" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "steal rock" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:06 am 1/26 Floyd | > Floyd | > STEAL ROCK Floyd | Floyd | You sidle over to Mr. Wattman and search around for something with Floyd | which to distract him. "So, it sounds like you're moving up in the Floyd | world." Floyd | Floyd | "Absolutely," he says, grinning. "Both metaphorically and literally. Floyd | I'm in a corner office on the top floor, with a secretary to keep out Floyd | the riffraff." Floyd | Floyd | "Impressive. Soon you'll have a portrait up there," you say, pointing Floyd | at the rows of gilt-edged oil paintings of merchants lining the walls. Floyd | As Mr. Wattman reflexively looks up at the portraits, you quickly Floyd | snatch the rock off his belt. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, you'd better go in for your interview now," you say quickly, Floyd | looking at Trelawney supplicatingly. He waffles for a moment between Floyd | his distaste for you and his distaste for Mr. Wattman, then brusquely Floyd | waves him toward the door. He triumphantly leaves to the north, and Floyd | Mr. Puncher follows mutely. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "I guess that was a good idea for some reason" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x rock" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:06 am 1/27 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ROCK Floyd | Floyd | The grey, spongy rock is enchanted with a spell that magically summons Floyd | a swarm of illusory insects when it's poked or squeezed, which can Floyd | serve as a convenient distraction. It's one of the last resorts of Floyd | thieves and joke shops; it's strange for Mr. Wattman to have had it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Look at the rock?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah, hence the comment from Trelawney earlier." | |||
| Roger says, "ah that'll help" | |||
| DavidW says, "(I lag yet again)" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "squeeze it?" | |||
| DavidW says, "sure" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "squeeze rock" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:07 am 1/28 Floyd | > Floyd | > SQUEEZE ROCK Floyd | Floyd | With a dry susurration, a horde of bugs crawls out of the holes in the Floyd | rock and scatters across the floor. Even though you know they're only Floyd | an illusion, you skin crawls as they do across the floor. The Floyd | audience-seekers are too practiced to lose their composure, merely Floyd | lifting their feet off the floor and trying to avoid eye contact with Floyd | the bugs or their companions. The clerks, however, have no need to Floyd | impress anyone, and several give short cries and dash out of the hall. Floyd | Trelawney looks up from his desk and sighs. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "hrm" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't think that helped much." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "That did nothing to Trelawney." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x clerks" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:07 am 1/29 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CLERKS Floyd | Floyd | The clerks shuffle through the hall carrying piles of documents, Floyd | somehow managing to dodge the audience-seekers and other functionaries Floyd | seemingly without looking at where they're going. Floyd | Floyd | The seneschal tries gamely to corral the swarm of illusionary bugs, Floyd | stalking them about the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "He may scurry off on his own in a bit" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I guess now just isn't the time." | |||
| DavidW says, "maybe try north anyway." | |||
| DavidW says, "Trelawney seems to be chasing the bugs now that we waited a turn." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:07 am 1/30 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | "The council will be deliberating for a while," says Trelawney. Floyd | "You're free to leave now. They'll make the announcement at noon in Floyd | the town square." Floyd | Floyd | The seneschal tries gamely to corral the swarm of illusionary bugs, Floyd | stalking them about the room. The spell maintaining the swarm is a Floyd | weak one, and the complexity of responding to his actions is enough to Floyd | disrupt it. The illusions scurry into corners of the room and fade Floyd | out. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It's not him, it's someone else." | ||
| Roger says, "Maybe we can get him to sit on it" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Sit on... on ehat?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "er, what?" | |||
| Roger says, "The bug rock" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Maybe search the paperwork when he's busy with bugs?" | |||
| Roger says, "It's worth a shot" | |||
| Roger says, "Maybe try a little harder to leave this room, too." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, how?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read book" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:07 am 1/31 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ BOOK Floyd | Floyd | A year of study, and you've only learned one spell: Floyd | Floyd | anracni: turns green objects red Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "anracni rock" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:08 am 1/32 Floyd | > Floyd | > ANRACNI ROCK Floyd | Floyd | Nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | Trelawney slowly and methodically adjusts the accounts on his desk, Floyd | straightening the already neat stacks of paperwork. "A tidy desk means Floyd | a tidy mind," he murmurs to himself. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put rock in papers" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:08 am 1/32 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ROCK IN PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give rock to trelawney" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:08 am 1/33 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE ROCK TO TRELAWNEY Floyd | Floyd | Trelawney doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sneak n" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:08 am 1/33 Floyd | > Floyd | > SNEAK N Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, maybe push the papers." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "push papers" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:08 am 1/33 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push paperwork" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:08 am 1/34 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH PAPERWORK Floyd | Floyd | Those are fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | Trelawney slowly and methodically adjusts the accounts on his desk, Floyd | straightening the already neat stacks of paperwork. "A tidy desk means Floyd | a tidy mind," he murmurs to himself. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x paperwork" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:08 am 1/35 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PAPERWORK Floyd | Floyd | You surreptitiously glance over the seneschal's shoulder at the Floyd | accounting reports. They seem to be standard, uninteresting paperwork Floyd | related to the castle upkeep. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "blow paperwork" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:09 am 1/36 Floyd | > Floyd | > BLOW PAPERWORK Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the accounting reports) Floyd | You'd rather leave the reports alone. As long as Trelawney is Floyd | concentrating on them, he's not paying close attention to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So, there's a map that comes with this game." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And it has a lot of locations, as if implying we can leave this room somehow." | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure what's expected." | |||
| DavidW says, "Needing a map seems premature. We've only seen one room." | |||
| Jacqueline | [LINK] | |||
| Roger says, "Possibly it's the intended map for the full game" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, possibly." | |||
| DavidW asks, "Would it make sense to throw or give the rock?" | |||
| Roger says, "As much sense as anything else" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I tried to give it." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give rock to trelawney" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:09 am 1/37 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE ROCK TO TRELAWNEY Floyd | Floyd | Trelawney doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "throw rock at trelawney" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:09 am 1/38 Floyd | > Floyd | > THROW ROCK AT TRELAWNEY Floyd | Floyd | You miss, and the rock bounces into a corner. With a dry susurration, Floyd | a horde of bugs crawls out of the holes in the rock and scatters Floyd | across the floor. Even though you know they're only an illusion, you Floyd | skin crawls as they do across the floor. The audience-seekers are too Floyd | practiced to lose their composure, merely lifting their feet off the Floyd | floor and trying to avoid eye contact with the bugs or their Floyd | companions. The clerks, however, have no need to impress anyone, and Floyd | several give short cries and dash out of the hall. Trelawney looks up Floyd | from his desk and sighs. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw rock at chandelier" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:09 am 1/39 Floyd | > Floyd | > THROW ROCK AT CHANDELIER Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the porous grey rock) Floyd | Futile. Floyd | Floyd | The seneschal tries gamely to corral the swarm of illusionary bugs, Floyd | stalking them about the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I am kind of at a loss." | ||
| polarisunique goes home. | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:10 am 1/40 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Antechamber Floyd | Before it became the seat of local government, this castle was an Floyd | actively defended fortress, built and run to protect the town of Floyd | Blackacre. It was designed for defense rather than comfort, and the Floyd | castle still retains its original vertiginous spiral staircases, Floyd | cavernous galleries, and piles of crumbling stonework. Nevertheless, Floyd | people expect a certain reassuring level of conspicuous wealth in Floyd | their public buildings, and the town council has obligingly added Floyd | little bits of opulence to this audience hall. An array of dainty Floyd | chandeliers hanging from the ceiling barely warms or brightens the Floyd | room. Portraits of jowly merchants line the stone walls, looking down Floyd | onto the clerks and audience-seekers below with imperturbable disdain. Floyd | The entrance to the council chambers to the north and the exit from Floyd | the hall to the south are both flanked by extravagantly woven but thin Floyd | tapestries. Floyd | Floyd | Well-dressed men and women sit in ornate chairs lined across one wall Floyd | of the gallery, presumably also waiting for an audience with the Floyd | council. The town's clerk, Trelawney, watches over them irritably from Floyd | his desk. Floyd | Floyd | A horde of illusionary insects skitters across the floor here, causing Floyd | many of the audience-seekers to jump on their chairs or hover in the Floyd | corners of the hall. Floyd | Floyd | The seneschal tries gamely to corral the swarm of illusionary bugs, Floyd | stalking them about the room. The spell maintaining the swarm is a Floyd | weak one, and the complexity of responding to his actions is enough to Floyd | disrupt it. The illusions scurry into corners of the room and fade Floyd | out. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Maybe we can corral the bugs? Maybe there's a new conversation topic with Trelawney?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take bugs" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:10 am 1/40 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BUGS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "squeeze rock" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:10 am 1/41 Floyd | > Floyd | > SQUEEZE ROCK Floyd | Floyd | You fiddle with the rock, but nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take insects" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:10 am 1/41 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE INSECTS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:10 am 1/42 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:10 am 1/43 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:11 am 1/44 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Trelawney swats at a passing fly irritably. "Rotten things, insects," Floyd | he grumbles. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "squeeze rock" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:11 am 1/45 Floyd | > Floyd | > SQUEEZE ROCK Floyd | Floyd | With a dry susurration, a horde of bugs crawls out of the holes in the Floyd | rock and scatters across the floor. Even though you know they're only Floyd | an illusion, you skin crawls as they do across the floor. The Floyd | audience-seekers are too practiced to lose their composure, merely Floyd | lifting their feet off the floor and trying to avoid eye contact with Floyd | the bugs or their companions. The clerks, however, have no need to Floyd | impress anyone, and several give short cries and dash out of the hall. Floyd | Trelawney looks up from his desk and sighs. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take bugs" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:11 am 1/46 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BUGS Floyd | Floyd | You don't feel any sensation as the illusionary horde of insects Floyd | passes through your fingers, which is just as well. Floyd | Floyd | The seneschal tries gamely to corral the swarm of illusionary bugs, Floyd | stalking them about the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I feel like we're supposed to dump these bugs all over his paperwork pile" | ||
| DavidW asks, "What, like >bugs, push paperwork ?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "bugs, take paperwork" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:11 am 1/46 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUGS, TAKE PAPERWORK Floyd | Floyd | You can't talk to the insect swarm. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push desk" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:11 am 1/47 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH DESK Floyd | Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | The seneschal tries gamely to corral the swarm of illusionary bugs, Floyd | stalking them about the room. The spell maintaining the swarm is a Floyd | weak one, and the complexity of responding to his actions is enough to Floyd | disrupt it. The illusions scurry into corners of the room and fade Floyd | out. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "No, like >bugs, annoy trelawney by getting into his neat pile of stuff" | ||
| Roger says, "throw the rock at him, at his desk, at the paperwork, etc" | |||
| DavidW says, "well, we can't talk to the bugs." | |||
| DavidW says, "sure, target the desk and paperwork with a throw." | |||
| DavidW says, "Throwing at men didn't work." | |||
| DavidW says, "er him" | |||
| Roger says, "I can take the conn for a bit if we agree" | |||
| DavidW says, "I can't drive. My ISP is too slow today." | |||
| Roger says, "alas" | |||
| Roger says, "Okay, taking contro" | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "throw rock at trelawney" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:12 am 1/48 Floyd | > Floyd | > THROW ROCK AT TRELAWNEY Floyd | Floyd | You lack the nerve when it comes to the crucial moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "throw rock at desk" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:12 am 1/49 Floyd | > Floyd | > THROW ROCK AT DESK Floyd | Floyd | You miss, and the rock bounces into a corner. With a dry susurration, Floyd | a horde of bugs crawls out of the holes in the rock and scatters Floyd | across the floor. Even though you know they're only an illusion, you Floyd | skin crawls as they do across the floor. The audience-seekers are too Floyd | practiced to lose their composure, merely lifting their feet off the Floyd | floor and trying to avoid eye contact with the bugs or their Floyd | companions. The clerks, however, have no need to impress anyone, and Floyd | several give short cries and dash out of the hall. Trelawney looks up Floyd | from his desk and sighs. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "nope" | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:12 am 1/50 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Antechamber Floyd | Before it became the seat of local government, this castle was an Floyd | actively defended fortress, built and run to protect the town of Floyd | Blackacre. It was designed for defense rather than comfort, and the Floyd | castle still retains its original vertiginous spiral staircases, Floyd | cavernous galleries, and piles of crumbling stonework. Nevertheless, Floyd | people expect a certain reassuring level of conspicuous wealth in Floyd | their public buildings, and the town council has obligingly added Floyd | little bits of opulence to this audience hall. An array of dainty Floyd | chandeliers hanging from the ceiling barely warms or brightens the Floyd | room. Portraits of jowly merchants line the stone walls, looking down Floyd | onto the clerks and audience-seekers below with imperturbable disdain. Floyd | The entrance to the council chambers to the north and the exit from Floyd | the hall to the south are both flanked by extravagantly woven but thin Floyd | tapestries. Floyd | Floyd | Well-dressed men and women sit in ornate chairs lined across one wall Floyd | of the gallery, presumably also waiting for an audience with the Floyd | council. The town's clerk, Trelawney, watches over them irritably from Floyd | his desk. Floyd | Floyd | A horde of illusionary insects skitters across the floor here, causing Floyd | many of the audience-seekers to jump on their chairs or hover in the Floyd | corners of the hall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a porous grey rock here. Floyd | Floyd | The seneschal tries gamely to corral the swarm of illusionary bugs, Floyd | stalking them about the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to flo), "x me" | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "x men" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:12 am 1/51 Floyd | > Floyd | > X MEN Floyd | Floyd | Well-dressed men and women mill around the hall, trying in vain to Floyd | grab the attention of the clerks that sweep through the room. A few Floyd | more sit in the chairs around the edge of the hall, waiting patiently Floyd | for their audience with the council. Floyd | Floyd | The seneschal tries gamely to corral the swarm of illusionary bugs, Floyd | stalking them about the room. The spell maintaining the swarm is a Floyd | weak one, and the complexity of responding to his actions is enough to Floyd | disrupt it. The illusions scurry into corners of the room and fade Floyd | out. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "x women" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:13 am 1/52 Floyd | > Floyd | > X WOMEN Floyd | Floyd | Well-dressed men and women mill around the hall, trying in vain to Floyd | grab the attention of the clerks that sweep through the room. A few Floyd | more sit in the chairs around the edge of the hall, waiting patiently Floyd | for their audience with the council. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "take rock" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:13 am 1/53 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ROCK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:13 am 1/54 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Mortemain only deigned to let you come to the castle this morning Floyd | after you promised to retrieve the missing letters for him. If you Floyd | return empty-handed, you'll likely spend another week as a frog. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:13 am 1/55 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Salon 8:14 am 1/56 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Salon Floyd | This salon also functions as a waiting room, though it's refreshingly Floyd | quieter than the main gallery to the west. A massive table occupies Floyd | most of the space in the small, dimly-lit room, and there is a soft Floyd | carpet underfoot. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Well hey" | ||
| DavidW says, "Try talking to him; see if there's a new conversation option. Also, try squeezing the rock when there's already a swarm. Also, try poking to see if that's different from squeezing." | |||
| DavidW asks, "what? There was an east exit?" | |||
| Roger says, "So it would seem" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Was that mentioned in the text wall?" | |||
| Roger says, "I don't believe so" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "If you squeeze when there's already a swarm, nothing happens." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "...okay, the extra exit... well, I guess we did have a map... but yeah." | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "x table" | |||
Floyd ] Salon 8:14 am 1/57 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | It's a massive table, probably used for some sort of meeting or Floyd | conference. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x carpet" | |||
Floyd ] Salon 8:14 am 1/58 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CARPET Floyd | Floyd | The carpet is soft and thick, though slightly frayed at the edges. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under carpet" | |||
Floyd ] Salon 8:14 am 1/59 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER CARPET Floyd | Floyd | You shove a corner of the carpet aside. The floor beneath it is far Floyd | less dusty than you would have expected, and one of the flagstones in Floyd | it looks loose. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move flagstone" | |||
Floyd ] Salon 8:15 am 1/60 Floyd | > Floyd | > MOVE FLAGSTONE Floyd | Floyd | The flagstone is too heavy to lift completely off the floor, though Floyd | you can shove it aside with a bit of effort. The stone groans as it Floyd | grinds against the floor, and you hear impatient footsteps Floyd | approaching. You heave it back in place just in time to face Trelawney Floyd | as he glares at you from the doorway. Floyd | Floyd | "What's going on in here?" he demands. Floyd | "What do you mean, what's going in here?" Floyd | "What do you mean, what do I mean, what's going in here?" Floyd | "What do you---" Floyd | "Enough. I heard a loud noise." Floyd | "Oh, that. Sorry, I was doing some calisthenics--- you know, for the Floyd | dragon. I must have bumped the table by accident." Floyd | "Very well," says Trelawney. "I'll leave you alone for now. You should Floyd | know, however, that I've talked with the city guard. I'll be keeping Floyd | an eye on you." Floyd | "I don't know what you mean, sir. I'm just eager to help out my city Floyd | however I can." Floyd | Floyd | Trelawney mutters something under his breath and returns to the main Floyd | hall. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "so... insects then flagstone?" | ||
| Roger says, "Well hunh" | |||
| Roger says, "sure worth a try. I think I left the rock behind" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Salon 8:15 am 1/61 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a porous grey rock Floyd | a spellbook Floyd | a set of lockpicks Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Or possibly I didn't" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "squeeze rock. move flagstone" | |||
Floyd ] Salon 8:15 am 1/63 Floyd | > Floyd | > SQUEEZE ROCK. MOVE FLAGSTONE Floyd | Floyd | With a dry susurration, a horde of illusionary bugs crawls out of the Floyd | holes in the rock and scatters across the floor. Even though you know Floyd | they're only an illusion, you skin crawls as they do across the floor. Floyd | The flagstone is too heavy to lift completely off the floor, though Floyd | you can shove it aside with a bit of effort. The stone groans as it Floyd | grinds against the floor, and you hear impatient footsteps Floyd | approaching. You heave it back in place just in time to face Trelawney Floyd | as he glares at you from the doorway. Floyd | Floyd | "What's going on in here?" he demands. "I heard a loud noise." Floyd | "Hmm? I didn't hear anything." Floyd | The seneschal looks at you disapprovingly. "I don't know what you're Floyd | up to, young man, but stay out of trouble. Don't make me have a word Floyd | with your master. He and I are very good friends, you know." Floyd | "I doubt that Dr. Mortemain is very good friends with anyone," you say Floyd | skeptically. Floyd | Trelawney opens his mouth to respond, then decides that he was bested Floyd | and quietly withdraws from the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger asks, "I'm thinking maybe somehow we can push the flagstone onto the nice soft quiet carpet?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Maybe?" | |||
| Roger says, "Or maybe barracade the entrance with the table" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push flagstone onto carpet" | |||
Floyd ] Salon 8:15 am 1/63 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH FLAGSTONE ONTO CARPET Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess PUSH X ONTO Y isn't understood." | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "push table" | |||
Floyd ] Salon 8:16 am 1/64 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH TABLE Floyd | Floyd | You are unable to. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Any chance there's a diagonal exit from the antechamber?" | ||
| Roger says, "I'll mow them there, then come back here and check the exits for existence, if that works" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "There are no exits from this room except back to where we came from." | |||
| Roger says, "Oh okay" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "(According to the map. Which I posted.)" | |||
| Roger says, "Yeah sheepish thanks" | |||
| DavidW says, "I think the about did say there was an exits command." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Here it is again..." | |||
| Jacqueline | [LINK] | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "exits" | |||
Floyd ] Salon 8:16 am 1/64 Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | There is an exit leading west. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I didn't click that link, 'cause ISP." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Also, wouldn't the map be a spoiler?" | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "stand on table" | |||
Floyd ] Salon 8:16 am 1/65 Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON TABLE Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can stand on. Floyd | Floyd | The swarm of insects dissolves as the spell maintaining the illusion Floyd | dissipates. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I guess it's slightly spoilery." | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "put carpet on flagstone" | |||
Floyd ] Salon 8:16 am 1/66 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT CARPET ON FLAGSTONE Floyd | Floyd | You need to be holding the soft carpet before you can put it on top of Floyd | something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "take carpet" | |||
Floyd ] Salon 8:16 am 1/67 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE CARPET Floyd | Floyd | Although the carpet is undeniably valuable, walking through the castle Floyd | with it might attract some notice. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "If you want, I can reduce the map to jpgs, much lighter download than a pdf" | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "push carpet" | |||
Floyd ] Salon 8:17 am 1/68 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH CARPET Floyd | Floyd | You uncover the flagstone again. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "or I could see if I have already downloaded it." | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "hide under table" | |||
Floyd ] Salon 8:17 am 1/68 Floyd | > Floyd | > HIDE UNDER TABLE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "But I don't want to look at the map, do I?" | ||
| Roger says, "It's pretty tame" | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "pull stone" | |||
Floyd ] Salon 8:17 am 1/69 Floyd | > Floyd | > PULL STONE Floyd | Floyd | The flagstone is too heavy to lift completely off the floor, though Floyd | you can shove it aside with a bit of effort. The stone groans as it Floyd | grinds against the floor, and you hear impatient footsteps Floyd | approaching. You heave it back in place just in time to face Trelawney Floyd | as he glares at you from the doorway. Floyd | Floyd | "Could you please keep it down in here?" asks Trelawney exasperatedly. Floyd | "I don't know what you're up to, and I don't care. Just don't make any Floyd | trouble." Floyd | "Wouldn't dream of it, sir," you reply, smiling innocently. Floyd | Floyd | The seneschal sighs and returns to the audience hall. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:17 am 1/70 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Antechamber Floyd | Before it became the seat of local government, this castle was an Floyd | actively defended fortress, built and run to protect the town of Floyd | Blackacre. It was designed for defense rather than comfort, and the Floyd | castle still retains its original vertiginous spiral staircases, Floyd | cavernous galleries, and piles of crumbling stonework. Nevertheless, Floyd | people expect a certain reassuring level of conspicuous wealth in Floyd | their public buildings, and the town council has obligingly added Floyd | little bits of opulence to this audience hall. An array of dainty Floyd | chandeliers hanging from the ceiling barely warms or brightens the Floyd | room. Portraits of jowly merchants line the stone walls, looking down Floyd | onto the clerks and audience-seekers below with imperturbable disdain. Floyd | The entrance to the council chambers to the north and the exit from Floyd | the hall to the south are both flanked by extravagantly woven but thin Floyd | tapestries. Floyd | Floyd | Well-dressed men and women sit in ornate chairs lined across one wall Floyd | of the gallery, presumably also waiting for an audience with the Floyd | council. The town's clerk, Trelawney, watches over them irritably from Floyd | his desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "squeeze stone" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:17 am 1/71 Floyd | > Floyd | > SQUEEZE STONE Floyd | Floyd | You achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | Trelawney slowly and methodically adjusts the accounts on his desk, Floyd | straightening the already neat stacks of paperwork. "A tidy desk means Floyd | a tidy mind," he murmurs to himself. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "squeeze rock" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:18 am 1/72 Floyd | > Floyd | > SQUEEZE ROCK Floyd | Floyd | With a dry susurration, a horde of bugs crawls out of the holes in the Floyd | rock and scatters across the floor. Even though you know they're only Floyd | an illusion, you skin crawls as they do across the floor. The Floyd | audience-seekers are too practiced to lose their composure, merely Floyd | lifting their feet off the floor and trying to avoid eye contact with Floyd | the bugs or their companions. The clerks, however, have no need to Floyd | impress anyone, and several give short cries and dash out of the hall. Floyd | Trelawney looks up from his desk and sighs. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Salon 8:18 am 1/73 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Salon Floyd | This salon also functions as a waiting room, though it's refreshingly Floyd | quieter than the main gallery to the west. A massive table occupies Floyd | most of the space in the small, dimly-lit room, and there is a soft Floyd | carpet underfoot. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a loose flagstone here. Floyd | Floyd | From the audience hall to the west, you hear heavy bootsteps and mild Floyd | minced oaths directed at insects. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "take stone" | |||
Floyd ] Salon 8:18 am 4/74 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE STONE Floyd | Floyd | The flagstone is too heavy to lift completely off the floor, though Floyd | you can shove it aside with a bit of effort. The stone groans as it Floyd | grinds against the floor, but you manage to heave it far enough aside Floyd | to reveal a sheaf of letters underneath. You gingerly pocket it and Floyd | replace the flagstone. Floyd | Floyd | From the audience hall to the west, you hear heavy bootsteps and mild Floyd | minced oaths directed at insects. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by three points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Whew" | ||
| DavidW asks, "ok, how about putting the rock under the flagstone so it's always squeezed?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "oh, what'd you do?" | |||
| Roger says, "I got the bugs then went into the salon while he was distracted" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Distracted people - yeah" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x letters" | |||
Floyd ] Salon 8:18 am 4/75 Floyd | > Floyd | > X LETTERS Floyd | Floyd | The letters look vaguely official, but you can't determine anything Floyd | more specific. They're free of dust, which suggests that they weren't Floyd | hidden beneath the flagstone for long. Floyd | Floyd | The seneschal pokes his head through the doorway. "What are you doing Floyd | in here? I heard a loud noise." Floyd | "Really? I didn't hear anything," you protest innocently. Floyd | Trelawney glares at you. "Out of respect for your master, I'm going to Floyd | pretend I believe you. Now go. The council will announce its decision Floyd | in the town square at noon." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ah." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Isn't this not how dust works?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Like, dust doesn't fall under carpets or flagstones, does it?" | |||
| Roger says, "I think maybe we can leave now" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read letters" | |||
Floyd ] Salon 8:19 am 4/76 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ LETTERS Floyd | Floyd | The top sheet is blank, and the papers are bound together too tightly Floyd | to read any of the others. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "huh" | ||
| DavidW asks, "So we can finally leave?" | |||
| Roger says, "I think this game is a bit too realistic" | |||
| Roger says, "Like of course a real spy-type person always stealing crap and never looking at it" | |||
| Roger says, "Anyway I'm turning steering back over the Jacq" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't think any one person has to drive this one, really." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "unbind papers" | |||
Floyd ] Salon 8:19 am 4/76 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNBIND PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open letters" | |||
Floyd ] Salon 8:19 am 4/77 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN LETTERS Floyd | Floyd | You consider unraveling the sheaf of letters, but Dr. Mortemain Floyd | insisted that you not read them, and you don't think you could tie Floyd | them together as neatly again. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Oh, is this what we came for?" | ||
| DavidW says, "YES" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I guess this is the exact thing we came for." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Antechamber 8:19 am 4/78 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You discreetly conceal the letters in your tunic and return to the Floyd | antechamber. Floyd | Floyd | Antechamber Floyd | Before it became the seat of local government, this castle was an Floyd | actively defended fortress, built and run to protect the town of Floyd | Blackacre. It was designed for defense rather than comfort, and the Floyd | castle still retains its original vertiginous spiral staircases, Floyd | cavernous galleries, and piles of crumbling stonework. Nevertheless, Floyd | people expect a certain reassuring level of conspicuous wealth in Floyd | their public buildings, and the town council has obligingly added Floyd | little bits of opulence to this audience hall. An array of dainty Floyd | chandeliers hanging from the ceiling barely warms or brightens the Floyd | room. Portraits of jowly merchants line the stone walls, looking down Floyd | onto the clerks and audience-seekers below with imperturbable disdain. Floyd | The entrance to the council chambers to the north and the exit from Floyd | the hall to the south are both flanked by extravagantly woven but thin Floyd | tapestries. Floyd | Floyd | Well-dressed men and women sit in ornate chairs lined across one wall Floyd | of the gallery, presumably also waiting for an audience with the Floyd | council. The town's clerk, Trelawney, watches over them irritably from Floyd | his desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Castle Gate 8:19 am 4/79 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | With the letters safely tucked under your tunic, you dispose of the Floyd | incriminating rock, bound out of the antechamber, and head toward Floyd | Blackacre. The castle gate clatters down behind you, crashing against Floyd | the stonework with a deafening finality. Floyd | Floyd | Castle Gate Floyd | The imposing Castle Blackacre stands before you to the south, casting Floyd | a long shadow over the nearby farmland. Centuries ago, it was a useful Floyd | fortification; now, it's the de facto town hall and headquarters for Floyd | Mayor Pratt and his staff. Floyd | Floyd | A road to the north leads into town. The castle gate is normally left Floyd | open, but today the portcullis is down while the castle prepares for Floyd | the Mayor's speech at noon. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Wasn't that obvious those were the papers we needed?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It wasn't to me, but possibly because it took us so long I lost track." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "When you said 'we can finally leave' I was thinking you meant that room." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Possibly I am just distracted. Anyway." | |||
| Roger says, "The map implies we want to go north" | |||
| DavidW says, "I think north is the only exit from the gate, without looking at the map." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to ROger), "We just came from the norht." | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "exits" | |||
Floyd ] Castle Gate 8:19 am 4/79 Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | There is an exit leading north. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "er, north." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Winding Path 8:20 am 4/80 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Winding Path Floyd | This path winds northwest to south between the town of Blackacre and Floyd | its nearby castle. Newly-planted fields stretch as far as you can see Floyd | to either side of the trail. It's a charmingly rustic sight but an Floyd | unpleasant smell; the farmers must have fertilized the fields Floyd | recently. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a skunk here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Wait. What. Okay." | ||
| Roger says, "This kinda feels like a game written by someone who doesn't actually like the genre" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "See, I like a lot of the writing." | |||
| Roger says, "I don't dislike it per se" | |||
| Roger says, "But anyway. Skunk." | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "x skunk" | |||
Floyd ] Winding Path 8:20 am 4/81 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SKUNK Floyd | Floyd | A small black and white creature with a bushy tail. It looks at you Floyd | warily. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Maybe we'll come back for you later, skunk" | ||
| DavidW says, "hm. In another game, we distracted a skunk with a shiny." | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "exits" | |||
Floyd ] Winding Path 8:20 am 4/81 Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | There are exits leading south and northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I suppose we could try to shake or jangle the lockpicks?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Sure. Go for it." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake lockpicks" | |||
Floyd ] Winding Path 8:20 am 4/82 Floyd | > Floyd | > SHAKE LOCKPICKS Floyd | Floyd | You look ridiculous waving the set of lockpicks. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "shake what yer grandmaster gave ya" | ||
| guest23 arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Jacqueline says (to Roger), "yay" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, nw?" | |||
| DavidW says, "show lockpicks to skunk" | |||
| Roger says, "If the macguffin had not been paperwork-related we probably wouldn't have thrashed around quite so much" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show lockpick to skunk" | |||
Floyd ] Winding Path 8:20 am 4/83 Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW LOCKPICK TO SKUNK Floyd | Floyd | The skunk is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | The skunk leaves to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show lockpicks to skunk" | |||
Floyd ] Winding Path 8:20 am 4/83 Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW LOCKPICKS TO SKUNK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x plants" | |||
Floyd ] Winding Path 8:20 am 4/83 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PLANTS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x field" | |||
Floyd ] Winding Path 8:21 am 4/84 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FIELD Floyd | Floyd | Blackacre was originally a fishing outpost, and the land here is not Floyd | particularly fertile. There's no shortage of overly optimistic farmers Floyd | in the area around the castle, but they don't stay in town long. Floyd | Floyd | The skunk enters from the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yell" | |||
Floyd ] Winding Path 8:21 am 4/84 Floyd | > Floyd | > YELL Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "NW?" | ||
| Roger says, "yerp" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 8:21 am 4/85 Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Twisting Path Floyd | This path winds north to southeast between the town of Blackacre and Floyd | its nearby castle. The farmland on either side of the road is bare; Floyd | it's far too early for crops to start growing, and no trees disturb Floyd | the empty fields. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I think if we go nw, we'll get sprayed. But maybe we have to?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "No spraying, fortunately." | |||
| Roger says, "This skunk is friendlier than usual" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "But hey, that's what undo is for." | |||
| polarisunique arrives, ready to play with the toys. | DavidW says, "odd" | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "exits" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 8:21 am 4/85 Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | There are exits leading north and southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "version" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 8:21 am 4/85 Floyd | > Floyd | > VERSION Floyd | Floyd | Some Exceptions for Reasons Unknown Floyd | A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Crime Floyd | Copyright (c) 2016 by Thomas Mack. Floyd | Release 1.03 / Serial number 160730 / Inform v6.32 Library 6/11 S Floyd | Interpreter version 1.3.1 / VM 3.1.2 / Library serial number 040227 Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I thought this was the game." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Check it out: I6" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "So are we supposed to go deliver these letters to our boss?" | |||
| Roger says, "Sounds like it" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "And where is he? The Magick Shoppe?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I think so, yes." | |||
| DavidW says, "Dr Mortemain." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Mind if we just head there, ignoring the scenery unless we hit a snag?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "There's a Magick Shoppe?" | |||
| Roger says, "Yeah we can walk a little faster" | |||
| DavidW says, "Someone's peeked at the map." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "The author released the map with the game, so I don't feel that's spoilery." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Town Square 8:21 am 4/86 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Town Square Floyd | Blackacre's picturesque town square spreads out before you. Although Floyd | it's no longer central in terms of geography or importance, this area Floyd | is nevertheless a genuinely pleasant part of town. A clock tower Floyd | dominates the plaza, towering over the cedars planted around it. Floyd | Benches surround the flowerbeds that dot the square. Blackacre Floyd | residents occasionally filter through the square, shivering in the Floyd | crisp morning air. Floyd | Floyd | Streets leave the square to the east and west, and a road to the south Floyd | leads from the town of Blackacre to the castle of Blackacre. Among the Floyd | crowded buildings ringing the square are the post office to the north Floyd | and magic store to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "I feel that's being efficient with what we've been given." | ||
| polarisunique says, "I wasn't here for the part, but didn't you need the map to know that there was an east exit from the antechamber to the salon" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to polar), "Not necessarily. There's an exit command." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "But yeah, we ended up stumbling on the east exit." | |||
| Roger says, "There's a bunch of crap in here" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Town Square 8:21 am 4/87 Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You decide to hand off the papers to Dr. Mortemain first; walking Floyd | around town with them is unnecessarily risky. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, so he is not in the Magick Shoppe." | ||
| DavidW says, "Castle, perhaps." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:22 am 4/88 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (West) Floyd | As its name implies, Guild Street contains most of the town's Floyd | guildhalls. There are far fewer now than a century ago, when the Floyd | street was originally constructed, as the daily administration of the Floyd | town became concentrated in the nearby castle. The ominous stone tower Floyd | standing to the north was formerly the base of operations of the Floyd | once-prominent Magicians' Guild, which counted dozens of wizards among Floyd | its members in its heyday. That heyday passed centuries ago, however, Floyd | and the only wizards currently in town are you and Dr. Mortemain. He Floyd | acquired the tower after the guild's dissolution, and it's there that Floyd | you now spend most of your time. Floyd | Floyd | The street returns to the town square to the west and continues to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a tarnished brass mailbox (which contains a beige Floyd | envelope) here. Floyd | Floyd | A tinny but catchy song issues from the mailbox: Floyd | Floyd | You have a letter! Floyd | It could be a sweater! Floyd | Or something even better! Floyd | Let's find out together! Floyd | Which almost rhymes with letter! Floyd | Hooray! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Ah yes, the tower." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:22 am 4/89 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You can't, since the massive oak doors are in the way. Floyd | Floyd | A tinny but catchy song issues from the mailbox: Floyd | Floyd | There's something in your mailbox! Floyd | Don't invest in kale stocks! Floyd | Something something snail fox! Floyd | Hooray! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Do we listen to all of its cutesy songs?" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, please get the envelope." | |||
| DavidW says, "actually I gotta visit the washroom." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open mailbox" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:22 am 4/90 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN MAILBOX Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | A tinny but catchy song issues from the mailbox: Floyd | Floyd | Please pick up your mail! Floyd | Before it gets too stale! Floyd | Like a shrimp cocktail Floyd | Left on the windowsail! Floyd | Support the local Guild of Songwriters! Floyd | Hooray! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get mail" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:22 am 4/90 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET MAIL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take envelope" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:22 am 4/91 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x envelope" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:23 am 4/92 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | The beige envelope is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open envelope" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:23 am 4/93 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | You open the beige envelope, revealing a glossy flyer. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read flyer" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:23 am 4/94 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ FLYER Floyd | Floyd | The glossy flyer shows colorful images of various alleged magical Floyd | paraphernalia: raven's skulls, black pointy hats, staves with vaguely Floyd | mysterious symbols on them, and so on. At the bottom is an endorsement Floyd | from the head of the Illusionists' Guild: "These products Floyd | have...magical value, and the claims made by their sellers are [not] Floyd | fraudulent." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x flyer" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:23 am 4/95 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FLYER Floyd | Floyd | The glossy flyer shows colorful images of various alleged magical Floyd | paraphernalia: raven's skulls, black pointy hats, staves with vaguely Floyd | mysterious symbols on them, and so on. At the bottom is an endorsement Floyd | from the head of the Illusionists' Guild: "These products Floyd | have...magical value, and the claims made by their sellers are [not] Floyd | fraudulent." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:24 am 4/96 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You can't, since the massive oak doors are in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:24 am 4/97 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | They seem to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pick lock" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:24 am 4/97 Floyd | > Floyd | > PICK LOCK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "unlock door" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:24 am 4/97 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNLOCK DOOR Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to unlock the massive oak doors with? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "lock pick" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:24 am 4/97 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOCK PICK Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to lock the set of lockpicks with? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "..." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "unlock doors with lock pick" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:24 am 4/97 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNLOCK DOORS WITH LOCK PICK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "unlock door with lockpick" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:24 am 4/98 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNLOCK DOOR WITH LOCKPICK Floyd | Floyd | With a sullen click, the lock yields. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open door" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:24 am 4/99 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You open the massive oak doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 8:25 am 4/100 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tower Entry Floyd | This familiar area is the tower's entryway. It's intended to impress Floyd | and intimidate visitors, and so the recesses of the gloomy vaulted Floyd | ceiling are decorated with elaborate carvings of gargoyles and demons. Floyd | The curtains are partially drawn, bathing the cavernous hall in Floyd | hesitant shadows. As an uncharacteristic nod to practicality, an Floyd | umbrella stand sits beside the double doors leading south from the Floyd | tower. A corridor to the north leads across the polished marble floor Floyd | deeper inside. Floyd | Floyd | Flux, Dr. Mortemain's familiar, waves its tail in a desultory greeting Floyd | as you enter. "I sssee you have returned. How did the busssinesss at Floyd | the cassstle go?" it hisses. Floyd | "Great!" you lie smoothly. "I won't know until noon, but the interview Floyd | went very well." Floyd | "Not that," sneers Flux. "Did you sssteal the massster'sss lettersss?" Floyd | "Oh, right. Sure, no problem." Floyd | "Good! I knew you could do it," says Flux unconvincingly, dipping its Floyd | head slightly in an uncharacteristic gesture of appreciation. "The Floyd | massster sssaid you're good for nothing, but I know you're good for Floyd | exsssactly one thing." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Man that felt harder than it needed to be." | ||
| Roger says, "yup" | |||
| DavidW asks, "ok, what'd I miss?" | |||
| Roger says, "To be fair, 'lockpick' is pretty standardized as a single word, in my experience" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "The flyer was an advert for magic stuff." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "We had to pick a door through me fumbling with the parser." | |||
| Roger says, "Fake magic stuff" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "And now we are inside the tower and our master's familiar is passive aggressively complimenting us." | |||
| Roger says, "There is an umbrella" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take all" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 8:25 am 4/101 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | Flux: I don't suppose Flux would care for that. Floyd | perch: That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Flux is a snake, I assume? Maybe?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take umbrella" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 8:25 am 4/102 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE UMBRELLA Floyd | Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | polarisunique says, "There's only an umbrella stand actually" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Think it may just be an umbrella *stand*," | |||
| Jacqueline says, "yeah" | |||
| Roger says, "That doesn't sound very practical at all" | |||
| DavidW says, "I guess he could be a salamander." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "That's my assumption too, yes." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "so, um, give the letters to Flux?" | |||
| DavidW says, "An umbrella stand is just the bucket to hold umbrellas in." | |||
| Roger says, "noooo" | |||
| Roger says, "He'll eat them or something" | |||
| Roger says, "There's a whole map of this tower after all" | |||
| DavidW says, "There could be something in the stand that's not an umbrella, of course." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "So then, N?" | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "x stand" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 8:25 am 4/103 Floyd | > Floyd | > X STAND Floyd | Floyd | Only visitors to the tower use the umbrella stand; you've never Floyd | managed to keep track of an umbrella for more than a few days, and no Floyd | wizard worth the title would deign to get caught in a rainstorm. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "look in stand" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 8:26 am 4/104 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN STAND Floyd | Floyd | The umbrella stand is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Well fine" | ||
| polarisunique says (to floyd), "x flux" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 8:26 am 4/105 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FLUX Floyd | Floyd | Flux is Dr. Mortemain's familiar. You're not sure what kind of Floyd | creature it is, but it looks like a small lizard with leathery, Floyd | bat-like wings and a scaly, prehensile tail. It performs some basic Floyd | chores around the tower, but you suspect that the wizard keeps it Floyd | around just to annoy you. Floyd | Floyd | > | polarisunique exclaims, "Not a snake after all!" | ||
| DavidW says, "'Flux' would imply shapechanging." | |||
| Roger says, "Or soldering" | |||
| DavidW says, "anyway, either talk to Flux or go north like you wanted." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Hm, true." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to flux" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 8:26 am 4/106 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO FLUX Floyd | Floyd | "Not now! Bring me the massster'sss lettersss!" it hisses. Floyd | Floyd | Flux idly whacks the perch with its tail. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "kill flux" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 8:26 am 4/107 Floyd | > Floyd | > KILL FLUX Floyd | Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "There's gotta be *something* green that we can turn red in this place." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So N, then? I have a feeling it won't let us." | |||
| DavidW says, "Or give the letters to Flux." | |||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "i no, rite?" | |||
| Roger says, "Sure whatevs" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 8:27 am 4/108 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Flux flaps its wings angrily in your face and hisses. "No no no! The Floyd | massster told you to get his lettersss, and he told me to ssstop you Floyd | from going inside the tower until you get them!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, fine." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Flux), "Jerk" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give letters to flux" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 8:27 am 5/109 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE LETTERS TO FLUX Floyd | Floyd | Flux greedily snatches the letters from you and flies off deeper into Floyd | the castle. After a moment, it returns with three pouches and a sheet Floyd | of parchment. Floyd | "Well," you say conversationally, "I guess I'll be getting on with Floyd | things. It'll nice to have the day to myself, without Dr. Mortemain Floyd | dictating what I do." Floyd | "I'm sssure it would, but the massster left some choresss for you in Floyd | hisss absssenssse," says Flux, brandishing the parchment. Floyd | "But---" Floyd | "Or I could tell him that you ignored hisss inssstructionsss, if you'd Floyd | prefer. I'm sssure he'd ssstill let you go to the ssseremony thisss Floyd | afternoon..." It leaves the threat hanging in the air as you sigh and Floyd | take the items. "Let me know when you're done, and I'll passs them Floyd | along to the massster." Floyd | "And that's it?" Floyd | "Of courssse. Almossst sssertainly. Probably." Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Read the parchment." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read parchment" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 8:27 am 5/110 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ PARCHMENT Floyd | Floyd | You read the parchment: Floyd | Floyd | All right flux do I just start talking and oh it's already going. How Floyd | long does the spell last? Three hundred words might not be enough for Floyd | hang on don't write that part. Stop. Stop writing. End. Turn off. Floyd | Fine, whatever, let's just start. Floyd | Floyd | I know your eager to prove yourself, but I have some errands for you Floyd | to perform first. Not that your. The other one. Your, not your. Back Floyd | up. Backspace. Go back. Sigh. Fine. Floyd | Floyd | I know your with an apostrophe eager to prove yourself, but I have Floyd | some errands for you to perform first. Once you complete them, you Floyd | have my permission to attend the ceremony in the town square at noon. Floyd | Maybe the council will even be impressed enough with your incompetent Floyd | backspace backspace backspace incomparable display of talent to decide Floyd | that yore oh for expletive deleted Floyd | Floyd | To decide that you space are the one they want to send to fight the Floyd | dragon. I wish you the best of luck. In the year weave whatever let's Floyd | keep going known each other, I've been impressed by your youthful Floyd | energy, prodigious capacity for learning, and some sort of third thing Floyd | I'll add in later. As such put a comma there I'm entrusting you with a Floyd | crucial task. Floyd | Floyd | To help fight the dragon, I am preparing a powerful spell that I will Floyd | cast this afternoon. It is start underline vitally important stop Floyd | underline that you secure and deliver to flux the three Floyd | components I need to cast it. They are parentheses number 1 powdered Floyd | skink, parentheses number 2 basilisk scales, and parentheses number 3 Floyd | a fossilized toad. The first two can be found at the magic shop, and Floyd | the third should have arrived in the mail early this morning. Floyd | Floyd | Whatever you do, it is absolutely imperative that you never Floyd | Floyd | Flux idly whacks the perch with its tail. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "snrk" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I think I know where we get some powdered skinky. Oh wait, no, that's a skunk." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, I did enjoy the parchment." | |||
| Roger says, "Yeah that was fun" | |||
| DavidW says, "There was a skink in Trinity. It's a small lizard." | |||
| Roger says, "With detachable tails" | |||
| DavidW says, "But maybe we get a U-to-I spell somwhere." | |||
| Roger says, "It might actually be in the magic shop" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yeah, I grew up in a place with a lot of skinks." | |||
| DavidW asks, "Did you open the envelope?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 8:27 am 5/111 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a sheet of parchment Floyd | an indigo pouch (which is closed) Floyd | a black pouch (which is closed) Floyd | a moss-colored pouch (which is closed) Floyd | a beige envelope (which is open) Floyd | a glossy flyer Floyd | a spellbook Floyd | a set of lockpicks Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read flyer" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 8:28 am 5/112 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ FLYER Floyd | Floyd | The glossy flyer shows colorful images of various alleged magical Floyd | paraphernalia: raven's skulls, black pointy hats, staves with vaguely Floyd | mysterious symbols on them, and so on. At the bottom is an endorsement Floyd | from the head of the Illusionists' Guild: "These products Floyd | have...magical value, and the claims made by their sellers are [not] Floyd | fraudulent." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Anyway, these pouches." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Do we have fossilized toad?" | |||
| polarisunique says, "It wasn't in the mail as far as we know" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x indigo pouch" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 8:28 am 5/113 Floyd | > Floyd | > X INDIGO POUCH Floyd | Floyd | It's indigo and has the magical character for 'skink' embroidered on Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "oh. Just a flyer?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x moss-colored pouch" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 8:28 am 5/114 Floyd | > Floyd | > X MOSS-COLORED POUCH Floyd | Floyd | It's moss-colored and has the magical character for 'toad' embroidered Floyd | on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x black pouch" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 8:28 am 5/115 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BLACK POUCH Floyd | Floyd | It's black and has the magical character for 'basilisk' written on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open indigo pouch" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 8:29 am 5/116 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN INDIGO POUCH Floyd | Floyd | You open the indigo pouch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look in indigo pouch" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 8:29 am 5/117 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN INDIGO POUCH Floyd | Floyd | The indigo pouch is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, got it. As I thought, we put the stuff we find in these." | ||
| DavidW says, "I assume these pouches are all empty." | |||
| polarisunique says, "Let's hope the warning is simply that we don't put the wrong ingredients in the wrong pouches" | |||
| DavidW asks, "So, do we explore the tower or go straight to the magic shop? Can we buy on credit?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "enh. Sure. Let's go the magick shoppe first." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Unless..." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Library 8:29 am 5/118 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Library Floyd | The tower's library is wonderful. You spent the first two weeks as Dr. Floyd | Mortemain's apprentice here, grudgingly falling asleep early each Floyd | morning after spending the day and night reading through the mountain Floyd | of the books piled around the room. Even now, you've only covered a Floyd | small fraction of the maze of tipping bookcases that stretch to the Floyd | ceiling and crowd around the reading area. In this quiet and Floyd | undisturbed area, redolent of old books, you've spent the happiest Floyd | part of your year in the tower. If you have to leave, exits lead in Floyd | all four directions to the other wings. Floyd | Floyd | A lectern stands in an empty space near the center of the room. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a leather-bound index here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Oh, so we can look around the tower. Should we do that first?" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, a lovely library." | |||
| DavidW says, "'redolent'" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x index" | |||
Floyd ] Library 8:29 am 5/119 Floyd | > Floyd | > X INDEX Floyd | Floyd | It's an index of some common substances used in enchantments. It's not Floyd | detailed or specific enough to be helpful when actually casting Floyd | spells, which is why it's in this library rather than a laboratory, Floyd | but it's nevertheless a useful reference. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "let's play the rest of the game from here. We can order in pizza." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read index" | |||
Floyd ] Library 8:30 am 5/120 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ INDEX Floyd | Floyd | You flip through the book to a random entry: Floyd | Floyd | SKINK: Skinks are often used in divination spells, usually in the form Floyd | of a bright red powder. The natural color of powdered skink is a dull Floyd | grey; the chemicals and magical treatments involved in preparing it Floyd | for spellcraft dye it that color. They are particularly useful in Floyd | spells locating quarry in caves or underground, due to their Floyd | predilection for burrowing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "RED" | ||
| DavidW asks, "so, look up our three ingredients, I guess?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read index" | |||
Floyd ] Library 8:30 am 5/121 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ INDEX Floyd | Floyd | You flip through the book to a random entry: Floyd | Floyd | BASILISK: This frightening monster is used in only very powerful Floyd | magical spells, as it is rare and extremely dangerous. Its scales are Floyd | far less dangerous to work with than the live creature, and they can Floyd | often be found in abandoned lairs after molting. Basilisks are often Floyd | used in protective spells, particularly in enchanting armor. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read index" | |||
Floyd ] Library 8:30 am 5/122 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ INDEX Floyd | Floyd | You flip through the book to a random entry: Floyd | Floyd | SKINK: Skinks are often used in divination spells, usually in the form Floyd | of a bright red powder. The natural color of powdered skink is a dull Floyd | grey; the chemicals and magical treatments involved in preparing it Floyd | for spellcraft dye it that color. They are particularly useful in Floyd | spells locating quarry in caves or underground, due to their Floyd | predilection for burrowing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look up toad in index" | |||
Floyd ] Library 8:30 am 5/123 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP TOAD IN INDEX Floyd | Floyd | TOAD: Frogs and toads are used in a variety of magic. For larger and Floyd | more complex spells, it is generally preferable to use fossilized or Floyd | petrified toads, rather than powdered ones, in order to concentrate Floyd | the magical energies. The natural agility of the toad makes it a Floyd | natural component for spells related to travel, and its locomotion Floyd | makes it particularly apt for teleportation spells. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. Sounds like they're for 3 different spells, not one that uses all three ingredients." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up skunk in index" | |||
Floyd ] Library 8:31 am 5/124 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP SKUNK IN INDEX Floyd | Floyd | You can't find anything about that in the leather-bound index. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess we can't really stay here." | ||
| polarisunique says (to floyd), "x lectern" | |||
Floyd ] Library 8:31 am 5/125 Floyd | > Floyd | > X LECTERN Floyd | Floyd | The stately lectern suits this library well, even if there's no real Floyd | use for it. A heavy tome is chained to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Sadly, yes." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take all" | |||
Floyd ] Library 8:31 am 5/126 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | leather-bound index: Taken. Floyd | lectern: That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "N?" | ||
| polarisunique asks, "Oh we can carry it around?" | |||
| DavidW says, "tome is chained" | |||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at polar), "Apparently!" | |||
| polarisunique asks, "Is the tome that's chained to the lectern different from the index?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x tome" | |||
Floyd ] Library 8:31 am 5/127 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TOME Floyd | Floyd | The heavy book is a bestiary of mundane and fantastical creatures. Floyd | It's not very reliable; the information in it is taken from folk Floyd | legends and secondhand reports from explorers. Its illustrations are Floyd | beautiful, though, and it's remarkable as a work of art, if not Floyd | scholarship. The book is chained to the lectern. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x index" | |||
Floyd ] Library 8:32 am 5/128 Floyd | > Floyd | > X INDEX Floyd | Floyd | It's an index of some common substances used in enchantments. It's not Floyd | detailed or specific enough to be helpful when actually casting Floyd | spells, which is why it's in this library rather than a laboratory, Floyd | but it's nevertheless a useful reference. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "They appear to be different." | ||
| polarisunique says (to floyd), "read tome" | |||
Floyd ] Library 8:32 am 5/129 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ TOME Floyd | Floyd | You flip through the book to a random entry: Floyd | Floyd | BASILISK: Basilisks are dangerous monsters able to turn their prey to Floyd | stone with a glance. Few currently survive, but they prefer cold Floyd | climates and isolated areas. Floyd | Floyd | Unsurprisingly, there is no illustration with the entry. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Anyway, north to the study or west to the kitchen..." | ||
| polarisunique says, "There's also apparently an east exit, although I'm going to guess it's blocked" | |||
| DavidW says, "Study sounds more interesting than the kitchen." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up toad in tome" | |||
Floyd ] Library 8:32 am 5/130 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP TOAD IN TOME Floyd | Floyd | You can't find anything about that in the heavy tome. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "exit" | |||
Floyd ] Library 8:32 am 5/131 Floyd | > Floyd | > EXIT Floyd | Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "exits" | |||
Floyd ] Library 8:32 am 5/131 Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | There are exits leading north, east, south, and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, huh. Yeah, I guess there is a little stem to nowhere on the map." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Library 8:33 am 5/132 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Flux suddenly appears in front of you in a cloud of acrid smoke. "No!" Floyd | he snarls. "The massster said that you're to get hisss ssspell Floyd | componentsss before your other choresss! Get back to work!" He then Floyd | immediately disappears. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "exits lists exits" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Study 8:33 am 5/133 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | This room is Dr. Mortemain's study, his gentlemanly refuge from the Floyd | rigors of his duties as a wizard. An inviting antimacassared armchair Floyd | sits in front of the fireplace, and a liquor cabinet stands at the Floyd | ready nearby. Above the mantle, an intricately painted map hangs from Floyd | the wainscoting. An octagonal stand has been tucked discreetly into Floyd | the corner. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a wooden staff here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x stand" | |||
Floyd ] Study 8:33 am 5/134 Floyd | > Floyd | > X STAND Floyd | Floyd | The crystal ball sits at the center of an octagonal stand with an Floyd | arrow painted on it, pointing to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x staff" | |||
Floyd ] Study 8:33 am 5/135 Floyd | > Floyd | > X STAFF Floyd | Floyd | Some wizards have staves covered in eldritch runes and imbued with Floyd | tremendous magical power. Dr. Mortemain's is a plain wooden staff he Floyd | started using a few years ago when he was having knee problems. It's a Floyd | bit of a disappointment, really. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| DavidW says, "The ball and map are probably important. But maybe the staff is useful for poking things." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take all" | |||
Floyd ] Study 8:34 am 5/136 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | wooden staff: Taken. Floyd | octagonal stand: That's fixed in place. Floyd | fireplace: That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search crystal ball" | |||
Floyd ] Study 8:34 am 5/137 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH CRYSTAL BALL Floyd | Floyd | An image slowly fades into view: Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (West) Floyd | As its name implies, Guild Street contains most of the town's Floyd | guildhalls. There are far fewer now than a century ago, when the Floyd | street was originally constructed, as the daily administration of the Floyd | town became concentrated in the nearby castle. The ominous stone tower Floyd | standing to the north was formerly the base of operations of the Floyd | once-prominent Magicians' Guild, which counted dozens of wizards among Floyd | its members in its heyday. That heyday passed centuries ago, however, Floyd | and the only wizards currently in town are you and Dr. Mortemain. He Floyd | acquired the tower after the guild's dissolution, and it's there that Floyd | you now spend most of your time. Floyd | Floyd | The street returns to the town square to the west and continues to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "And don't forget the liquor cabinet. Might be something good in there." | ||
| Jacqueline) DavidW wiggles his eyebrows and makes a sipping gesture with his hand. | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open liquor cabinet" | |||
Floyd ] Study 8:34 am 5/138 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN LIQUOR CABINET Floyd | Floyd | You receive a mild shock as you try to open the cabinet; apparently Floyd | Dr. Mortemain has put a magical ward on it to prevent your breaking Floyd | into it. You feel a momentary bit of righteous indignation at his lack Floyd | of trust in you, tempered by the fact that you've just proven him Floyd | right. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "So, a cautionary tale about the dangers of hiring ex-cons" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Huh. Wonder if I could do that for our liquor cabinet here in the apartment." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Stepping away to get a much-needed snack. Will someone else please take the helm?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Kittens break into it often?" | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "L" | |||
Floyd ] Study 8:34 am 5/139 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | This room is Dr. Mortemain's study, his gentlemanly refuge from the Floyd | rigors of his duties as a wizard. An inviting antimacassared armchair Floyd | sits in front of the fireplace, and a liquor cabinet stands at the Floyd | ready nearby. Above the mantle, an intricately painted map hangs from Floyd | the wainscoting. An octagonal stand has been tucked discreetly into Floyd | the corner. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn stand" | |||
Floyd ] Study 8:35 am 5/140 Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN STAND Floyd | Floyd | You rotate the stand so that the arrow is now pointing to the Floyd | southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ball" | |||
Floyd ] Study 8:35 am 5/141 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BALL Floyd | Floyd | It's a perfectly round sphere of crystal, or at least glass, set into Floyd | the exact center of the octagonal stand. You can vaguely make out some Floyd | hazy images deep within it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Only if we leave it open. I do worry that the kitten will get trapped inside it one day." | ||
| DavidW says, "The lag is just too awkward." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in ball" | |||
Floyd ] Study 8:35 am 5/142 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN BALL Floyd | Floyd | An image slowly fades into view: Floyd | Floyd | Town Square Floyd | Blackacre's picturesque town square spreads out before you. Although Floyd | it's no longer central in terms of geography or importance, this area Floyd | is nevertheless a genuinely pleasant part of town. A clock tower Floyd | dominates the plaza, towering over the cedars planted around it. Floyd | Benches surround the flowerbeds that dot the square. Blackacre Floyd | residents occasionally filter through the square, shivering in the Floyd | crisp morning air. Floyd | Floyd | Streets leave the square to the east and west, and a road to the south Floyd | leads from the town of Blackacre to the castle of Blackacre. Among the Floyd | crowded buildings ringing the square are the post office to the north Floyd | and magic store to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search ball" | |||
Floyd ] Study 8:35 am 5/143 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH BALL Floyd | Floyd | An image slowly fades into view: Floyd | Floyd | Town Square Floyd | Blackacre's picturesque town square spreads out before you. Although Floyd | it's no longer central in terms of geography or importance, this area Floyd | is nevertheless a genuinely pleasant part of town. A clock tower Floyd | dominates the plaza, towering over the cedars planted around it. Floyd | Benches surround the flowerbeds that dot the square. Blackacre Floyd | residents occasionally filter through the square, shivering in the Floyd | crisp morning air. Floyd | Floyd | Streets leave the square to the east and west, and a road to the south Floyd | leads from the town of Blackacre to the castle of Blackacre. Among the Floyd | crowded buildings ringing the square are the post office to the north Floyd | and magic store to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | polarisunique says, "So the image changes to the direction we point it at" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x map" | |||
Floyd ] Study 8:36 am 5/144 Floyd | > Floyd | > X MAP Floyd | Floyd | The map depicts this corner of the world in intricate detail: the Floyd | ports along the coast, the financial center at Moneyville, the barren Floyd | northeastern tundra, the densely forested marches to the west, and the Floyd | rough gorges in the western scrublands. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh joy. I bet we have to go to all those places to get our ingredients." | ||
| DavidW says, "eg: the tundra for the basilisk scales in an abandoned cold lair." | |||
| Roger says, "Sounds plausible" | |||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure if skinks go in the marches and the toads in the scrublnads or the other way around." | |||
| DavidW says, "er scrublands" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "My guess is the other way around, but I'm not 100% sure." | |||
| Jacqueline eats some pineapple. | |||
| DavidW says, "We probably still need to visit the magick shoppe regardless." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch ball" | |||
Floyd ] Study 8:36 am 5/145 Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH BALL Floyd | Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Someone who doesn't lag excessively should drive us to the shoppe." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Okay. I can do that. Do we want to check the kitchen first?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Library 8:36 am 5/146 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Library Floyd | The tower's library is wonderful. You spent the first two weeks as Dr. Floyd | Mortemain's apprentice here, grudgingly falling asleep early each Floyd | morning after spending the day and night reading through the mountain Floyd | of the books piled around the room. Even now, you've only covered a Floyd | small fraction of the maze of tipping bookcases that stretch to the Floyd | ceiling and crowd around the reading area. In this quiet and Floyd | undisturbed area, redolent of old books, you've spent the happiest Floyd | part of your year in the tower. If you have to leave, exits lead in Floyd | all four directions to the other wings. Floyd | Floyd | A lectern stands in an empty space near the center of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen 8:36 am 5/147 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The tower's kitchen is almost an afterthought; Dr. Mortemain prefers Floyd | to conduct business with various dignitaries over meals in town rather Floyd | than wasting time eating alone in the tower, and you're usually too Floyd | busy while here to eat. As such, the spartan kitchen is usually empty Floyd | and spotless. An unused trestle table sits in the center of the room, Floyd | and a desultory cabinet has been set into the far wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the trestle table are a white canister (which is closed) and a Floyd | green canister (which is closed). Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open white" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen 8:37 am 5/148 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN WHITE Floyd | Floyd | You open the white canister, revealing some salt. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open green" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen 8:37 am 5/149 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN GREEN Floyd | Floyd | You open the moss-colored pouch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open green canister" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen 8:37 am 5/150 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN GREEN CANISTER Floyd | Floyd | You open the green canister, revealing some bright green powder. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "only if I get a snack." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x green powder" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen 8:37 am 5/151 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GREEN POWDER Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Mortemain is very particular about his tea, and he had this fine, Floyd | bright green powder shipped here at great expense. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Okay, so now we know about this stuff. Do we take it?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take all" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen 8:38 am 5/152 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | trestle table: That's fixed in place. Floyd | cupboard: That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take white container" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen 8:38 am 5/152 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE WHITE CONTAINER Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to take the white canister. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take white canister" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen 8:38 am 5/153 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE WHITE CANISTER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take green canister" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen 8:38 am 5/154 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE GREEN CANISTER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Get used to red tea, doctor." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen 8:38 am 5/155 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CABINET Floyd | Floyd | Opening the cupboard reveals a variety of foodstuffs: a manchet loaf, Floyd | some salted herring, and a slab of beef. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take all from cabinet" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen 8:39 am 5/156 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ALL FROM CABINET Floyd | Floyd | manchet loaf: Removed. Floyd | salted herring: Removed. Floyd | slab of beef: Removed. Floyd | Floyd | > | polarisunique asks, "Is the herring.... green??" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x herring" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen 8:39 am 5/157 Floyd | > Floyd | > X HERRING Floyd | Floyd | Although Blackacre was founded by fishermen, its appeal was quantity Floyd | rather than quality. These herring look completely unremarkable. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read spell" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen 8:39 am 5/158 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ SPELL Floyd | Floyd | anracni: turns green objects red Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "anracni herring" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen 8:39 am 5/159 Floyd | > Floyd | > ANRACNI HERRING Floyd | Floyd | You're confident you cast the spell correctly, but nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Sadly,no." | ||
| polarisunique says, "A shame" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, to the magick shoppe?" | |||
| DavidW says, "The tea was green." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "It was, but I'm sort of loathe to turn it red unless we know." | |||
| polarisunique says, "We can test it on the canister" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Unless we know that we need to, I mean." | |||
| polarisunique says, "I don't think that'll have lasting effects" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "I guess there's always undo?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen 8:39 am 5/158 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sprinkle tea on herring" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen 8:39 am 5/158 Floyd | > Floyd | > SPRINKLE TEA ON HERRING Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "anracni green tea" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen 8:39 am 5/159 Floyd | > Floyd | > ANRACNI GREEN TEA Floyd | Floyd | The bright green powder turns bright red. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x tea" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen 8:40 am 5/160 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TEA Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Mortemain is very particular about his tea, and he had this fine, Floyd | bright red powder shipped here at great expense. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, technically that's true." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Should we undo?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen 8:39 am 5/159 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen 8:39 am 5/158 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x tea" | |||
Floyd ] Kitchen 8:39 am 5/159 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TEA Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Mortemain is very particular about his tea, and he had this fine, Floyd | bright green powder shipped here at great expense. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "To the magick shoppe now?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Shame we can't turn it back." | |||
| polarisunique says, "Maybe this is about tricking Dr. Mortemain into thinking the red powder is actually the skink" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Are you really going to carry that meat and fish around town?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I was going to. This is IF, after all. It's not like they were in a fridge." | |||
| DavidW says (to polarisunique), "I was wondering about that, but fake ingredients seem very risky." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I feel like we kind of want/need the spell he's working on to actually work" | |||
| polarisunique says, "Well, I suppose we can move on to the magic shop now" | |||
| DavidW says, "I'll watch you guys go past Flux." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Library 8:40 am 5/160 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Library Floyd | The tower's library is wonderful. You spent the first two weeks as Dr. Floyd | Mortemain's apprentice here, grudgingly falling asleep early each Floyd | morning after spending the day and night reading through the mountain Floyd | of the books piled around the room. Even now, you've only covered a Floyd | small fraction of the maze of tipping bookcases that stretch to the Floyd | ceiling and crowd around the reading area. In this quiet and Floyd | undisturbed area, redolent of old books, you've spent the happiest Floyd | part of your year in the tower. If you have to leave, exits lead in Floyd | all four directions to the other wings. Floyd | Floyd | A lectern stands in an empty space near the center of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 8:40 am 5/161 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tower Entry Floyd | This familiar area is the tower's entryway. It's intended to impress Floyd | and intimidate visitors, and so the recesses of the gloomy vaulted Floyd | ceiling are decorated with elaborate carvings of gargoyles and demons. Floyd | The curtains are partially drawn, bathing the cavernous hall in Floyd | hesitant shadows. As an uncharacteristic nod to practicality, an Floyd | umbrella stand sits beside the double doors leading south from the Floyd | tower. A corridor to the north leads across the polished marble floor Floyd | deeper inside. Floyd | Floyd | Flux sits on his perch, idly kneading it with its claws. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:40 am 5/162 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (West) Floyd | As its name implies, Guild Street contains most of the town's Floyd | guildhalls. There are far fewer now than a century ago, when the Floyd | street was originally constructed, as the daily administration of the Floyd | town became concentrated in the nearby castle. The ominous stone tower Floyd | standing to the north was formerly the base of operations of the Floyd | once-prominent Magicians' Guild, which counted dozens of wizards among Floyd | its members in its heyday. That heyday passed centuries ago, however, Floyd | and the only wizards currently in town are you and Dr. Mortemain. He Floyd | acquired the tower after the guild's dissolution, and it's there that Floyd | you now spend most of your time. Floyd | Floyd | The street returns to the town square to the west and continues to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a tarnished brass mailbox here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Town Square 8:40 am 5/163 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Town Square Floyd | Blackacre's picturesque town square spreads out before you. Although Floyd | it's no longer central in terms of geography or importance, this area Floyd | is nevertheless a genuinely pleasant part of town. A clock tower Floyd | dominates the plaza, towering over the cedars planted around it. Floyd | Benches surround the flowerbeds that dot the square. Blackacre Floyd | residents occasionally filter through the square, shivering in the Floyd | crisp morning air. Floyd | Floyd | Streets leave the square to the east and west, and a road to the south Floyd | leads from the town of Blackacre to the castle of Blackacre. Among the Floyd | crowded buildings ringing the square are the post office to the north Floyd | and magic store to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 8:41 am 5/164 Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Magick Shoppe Floyd | Blackacre's only magic shop looks the part: It's a musty, timbered Floyd | building with some feeble light oozing in through its rafters. Its Floyd | owner, Sandie, was formerly an undistinguished apprentice wizard; now Floyd | she uses both that title and her ineptitude with magic for Floyd | considerable financial gain. Her clients are from rich families and Floyd | have elderly, sick relatives. They want to inherit, but they're Floyd | obligated to do something to help. Sandie is that something. She Floyd | performs the perfunctory duties of an attendant magician, but her lack Floyd | of talent with magic eliminates the possibility of any inconvenient Floyd | recovery. She sadly informs the dutiful sons or daughters that nothing Floyd | can be done; they inherit a large sum of money shortly thereafter; and Floyd | then they donate a modest fraction of that sum to Sandie in gratitude Floyd | for her services. Floyd | Floyd | As such, most of the items in the shop are gaudy, sparkly trinkets of Floyd | no use or value. A stuffed alligator even hangs gratuitously from the Floyd | ceiling. To maintain plausible deniability, though, Sandie keeps some Floyd | genuinely magical items in her shop. Having the occasional wizard as a Floyd | customer makes her consulting activities more plausible, and she tries Floyd | to keep you and Dr. Mortemain as loyal customers. Your jaundiced eye Floyd | notices a display case that looks invitingly dusty. Floyd | Floyd | The store continues to the south, and the exit back to the town square Floyd | is to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A golem stands at the exit. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So I am guessing, based upon the presence of that golem, that we probably can't shoplift." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 8:41 am 5/165 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Shoppe Counter Floyd | This back corner is a bit more tasteful than the main shop floor to Floyd | the north. There aren't any magical (or magickal) items for purchase Floyd | here, but at the back of the room is a long, high counter. Floyd | Floyd | A satchel hangs from a hook on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | Sandie herself is here, stuffing a pile of envelopes into a satchel. Floyd | She greets at you with a brisk but genuine friendliness without Floyd | affection behind it. "I'm just about to take these to the post Floyd | office," she explains, indicating the satchel. "It's part of a Floyd | marketing campaign I've just begun. I'm mailing off as many of these Floyd | as I can to advertise the shop. It means lugging a bag full of Floyd | envelopes to the mail about four or five times per hour, but it'll be Floyd | worth it if it drums up some more customers." She excuses herself and Floyd | heads north. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "examine the dusty display case, please." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 8:41 am 5/166 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Magick Shoppe Floyd | Blackacre's only magic shop looks the part: It's a musty, timbered Floyd | building with some feeble light oozing in through its rafters. Its Floyd | owner, Sandie, was formerly an undistinguished apprentice wizard; now Floyd | she uses both that title and her ineptitude with magic for Floyd | considerable financial gain. Her clients are from rich families and Floyd | have elderly, sick relatives. They want to inherit, but they're Floyd | obligated to do something to help. Sandie is that something. She Floyd | performs the perfunctory duties of an attendant magician, but her lack Floyd | of talent with magic eliminates the possibility of any inconvenient Floyd | recovery. She sadly informs the dutiful sons or daughters that nothing Floyd | can be done; they inherit a large sum of money shortly thereafter; and Floyd | then they donate a modest fraction of that sum to Sandie in gratitude Floyd | for her services. Floyd | Floyd | As such, most of the items in the shop are gaudy, sparkly trinkets of Floyd | no use or value. A stuffed alligator even hangs gratuitously from the Floyd | ceiling. To maintain plausible deniability, though, Sandie keeps some Floyd | genuinely magical items in her shop. Having the occasional wizard as a Floyd | customer makes her consulting activities more plausible, and she tries Floyd | to keep you and Dr. Mortemain as loyal customers. Your jaundiced eye Floyd | notices a display case that looks invitingly dusty. Floyd | Floyd | The store continues to the south, and the exit back to the town square Floyd | is to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A golem stands at the exit. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Sandie here. Floyd | Floyd | Sandie exits the shop, and the golem bows reverentially as she passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x display case" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 8:41 am 5/167 Floyd | > Floyd | > X DISPLAY CASE Floyd | Floyd | The display case lacks the gaudiness of the rest of the shop's Floyd | offerings and thus has accumulated a thick layer of dust. Three are Floyd | three bins in it, suitable for storing small magical components. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x bins" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 8:41 am 5/167 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BINS Floyd | Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x bin" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 8:41 am 5/167 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BIN Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the left bin, the center bin, or the right bin? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x left bin" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 8:42 am 5/168 Floyd | > Floyd | > X LEFT BIN Floyd | Floyd | Like the rest of the display case, the left bin has seen little use. Floyd | Floyd | The left bin is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open left bin" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 8:42 am 5/169 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN LEFT BIN Floyd | Floyd | You open the left bin, revealing some powdered skink. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "!" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open center bin" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 8:42 am 5/170 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CENTER BIN Floyd | Floyd | You open the center bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x center bin" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 8:42 am 5/171 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CENTER BIN Floyd | Floyd | Like the rest of the display case, the center bin has seen little use. Floyd | Floyd | The center bin is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open right bin" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 8:43 am 5/172 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN RIGHT BIN Floyd | Floyd | You open the right bin, revealing some basilisk scales. Floyd | Floyd | > | polarisunique says, "I'm a little amazed that the ingredients are actually here" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x scales" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 8:43 am 5/173 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SCALES Floyd | Floyd | The scales are transparent but have a faint oily, iridescent sheen. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x skink" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 8:43 am 5/174 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SKINK Floyd | Floyd | It's a fine, acrid red powder. Floyd | Floyd | Sandie enters the shop, and the golem bows reverentially as she Floyd | passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to polaris), "Yeah. I was sure we'd have to turn the skunk into a skink." | ||
| DavidW says, "There's bound to be a complication." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, I suspect the complication may be the golem" | |||
| Jacqueline clears the save counter. | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 8:43 am 5/174 Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take skink" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 8:43 am 5/175 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SKINK Floyd | Floyd | As you reach down to scoop up the powder, you're rudely jostled from Floyd | behind. It tumbles out of your hand, and you watch helplessly as it Floyd | falls down a crack in the floor. You turn in around in irritation and Floyd | are met by the smirking face of Mr. Wattman. Floyd | "Oh, I'm so sorry! It's so crowded in here," he says, gesturing at the Floyd | empty space around the two of you, "and it looks like we were both Floyd | looking for some powdered skink. I know your master asked you to get Floyd | some, and now... Oh well, these things happen." Floyd | Whistling happily, Mr. Wattman leaves the shop, doffing his hat to the Floyd | golem as he passes it. Floyd | Floyd | Sandie leaves to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, didn't see that coming." | ||
| polarisunique says, ".....Well then." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I saw *something* coming, just not that." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I see no way to circumvent that, honestly." | |||
| Roger says, "We gotta psych him out with the red tea, I think" | |||
| guest23 says, "Quite enjoying the writing/humour in this one" | |||
| polarisunique asks, "Let's see what happens if we try and take the scales?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take basilisk" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 8:44 am 5/176 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BASILISK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 8:44 am 5/177 Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | As you leave, the golem pats you down, pawing at your clothing Floyd | aggressively and rifling through your possessions. It lays one massive Floyd | hand on the basilisk scales and looks at you expressionlessly. Floyd | "Oh, that? I must have accidentally forgotten to pay for it by Floyd | accident," you manage to say through confused anger. Floyd | The golem continues to stare at you blankly, though it makes no Floyd | movement away from the exit. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm curious how we pay for things here." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, um, should we restore and then go slip Wattman some fake skink?" | |||
| polarisunique says, "I still don't know if that's something that we can avoid" | |||
| Roger says, "Or maybe we want it under the floorboards so we can get it later" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x floor" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 8:44 am 5/178 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FLOOR Floyd | Floyd | There's a narrow crack in the floor, presumably leading into the Floyd | store's basement or underground. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "An underground that is not on the map but that does not necessarily mean that it is not there." | ||
| polarisunique says, "Hmm, I guess we can try restoring" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 8:43 am 5/174
Floyd | > RESTOREOk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline asks, "What should we do, peeps?" | ||
| polarisunique says, "I figure it's something like putting the powder in the center bin, and then taking it out again" | |||
| DavidW says, "I think we should consider the skink powder as lost for now and attempt 'buy basilisk scales'." | |||
| DavidW says, "Like, it's ludicrous to think the player is supposed to 'fool' Mr Wattman before we have any idea he's about to enter the shoppe." | |||
| polarisunique says, "Hmm, you're right. It's not something we can prevent without undoing/restoring" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take basilisk" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 8:43 am 5/175 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BASILISK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Sandie leaves to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 8:44 am 5/176 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Shoppe Counter Floyd | This back corner is a bit more tasteful than the main shop floor to Floyd | the north. There aren't any magical (or magickal) items for purchase Floyd | here, but at the back of the room is a long, high counter. Floyd | Floyd | A hook is mounted on the wall here. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Sandie here. Floyd | Floyd | Sandie hangs up her satchel. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The likely subterfuge in this store is to make advantage of our envelope. We put something in the beige envelope, put the envelope in the satchel, and let the envelope be re-mailed to us." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "buy basilisk" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 8:44 am 5/177 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY BASILISK Floyd | Floyd | "I'm a bit busy at the moment. Let's talk once I open up the shop Floyd | again," she demurs. Floyd | Floyd | Sandie, smilingly brightly, stands once again at the counter. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put basilisk into envelope" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 8:44 am 5/178 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT BASILISK INTO ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | There's not enough room in the beige envelope. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "I liked your idea!" | ||
| polarisunique says, "Try buying it again? Since she's at the counter now" | |||
| DavidW says, "Take the flyer out of the envelope first." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "buy basilisk" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 8:44 am 5/179 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY BASILISK Floyd | Floyd | "How much are these basilisk scales?" Floyd | She peers at them critically. "Hmm, eighteen marks." Floyd | "Eighteen marks? That's more than the rent for my cottage for Floyd | an entire year!" Floyd | "Is it?" she asks, regarding you with disappointment. "Then perhaps Floyd | the scales are not for you." Floyd | "They aren't for me; they're for my master. Can you put them on his Floyd | account?" Floyd | "Dr. Mortemain? He doesn't have an account here," she says firmly. Floyd | "Rich wizards with their attention on loftier matters have a tendency Floyd | to forget about their debts. My creditors are not as absent-minded. If Floyd | you want the scales, you'll have to pay for them in cash." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, huh." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, bah." | |||
| DavidW says, "Take the flyer out of the envelope and put the scales in the envelope." | |||
| polarisunique says, "Hmm, something must be going on, since we were supposed to be loyal customers at this shoppe." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 8:45 am 5/180 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | some basilisk scales Floyd | a slab of beef Floyd | some salted herring Floyd | a manchet loaf Floyd | a green canister (which is open) Floyd | some bright green powder Floyd | a white canister (which is open) Floyd | some salt Floyd | a wooden staff Floyd | a leather-bound index Floyd | a sheet of parchment Floyd | an indigo pouch (which is open but empty) Floyd | a black pouch (which is closed) Floyd | a moss-colored pouch (which is open but empty) Floyd | a beige envelope (which is open) Floyd | a glossy flyer Floyd | a spellbook Floyd | a set of lockpicks Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take flyer" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 8:45 am 5/181 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE FLYER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 8:45 am 5/182 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a glossy flyer Floyd | some basilisk scales Floyd | a slab of beef Floyd | some salted herring Floyd | a manchet loaf Floyd | a green canister (which is open) Floyd | some bright green powder Floyd | a white canister (which is open) Floyd | some salt Floyd | a wooden staff Floyd | a leather-bound index Floyd | a sheet of parchment Floyd | an indigo pouch (which is open but empty) Floyd | a black pouch (which is closed) Floyd | a moss-colored pouch (which is open but empty) Floyd | a beige envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | a spellbook Floyd | a set of lockpicks Floyd | Floyd | Sandie drums her fingers on the counter impatiently. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 8:45 am 5/183 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | guest23 says, "Does she take the satchel with her, can we put something in for her to take out" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 8:46 am 5/184 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put basilisk in envelope" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 8:46 am 5/185 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT BASILISK IN ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | You put the basilisk scales into the beige envelope. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "seal envelope" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 8:46 am 5/185 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEAL ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put envelope in satchel" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 8:46 am 5/186 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ENVELOPE IN SATCHEL Floyd | Floyd | You put the beige envelope into the satchel. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay. Thanks. That was the thing - the flyer." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 8:46 am 5/187 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Magick Shoppe Floyd | Blackacre's only magic shop looks the part: It's a musty, timbered Floyd | building with some feeble light oozing in through its rafters. Its Floyd | owner, Sandie, was formerly an undistinguished apprentice wizard; now Floyd | she uses both that title and her ineptitude with magic for Floyd | considerable financial gain. Her clients are from rich families and Floyd | have elderly, sick relatives. They want to inherit, but they're Floyd | obligated to do something to help. Sandie is that something. She Floyd | performs the perfunctory duties of an attendant magician, but her lack Floyd | of talent with magic eliminates the possibility of any inconvenient Floyd | recovery. She sadly informs the dutiful sons or daughters that nothing Floyd | can be done; they inherit a large sum of money shortly thereafter; and Floyd | then they donate a modest fraction of that sum to Sandie in gratitude Floyd | for her services. Floyd | Floyd | As such, most of the items in the shop are gaudy, sparkly trinkets of Floyd | no use or value. A stuffed alligator even hangs gratuitously from the Floyd | ceiling. To maintain plausible deniability, though, Sandie keeps some Floyd | genuinely magical items in her shop. Having the occasional wizard as a Floyd | customer makes her consulting activities more plausible, and she tries Floyd | to keep you and Dr. Mortemain as loyal customers. Your jaundiced eye Floyd | notices a display case that looks invitingly dusty. Floyd | Floyd | The store continues to the south, and the exit back to the town square Floyd | is to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A golem stands at the exit. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "close, not seal" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Do you think I needed to close it?" | |||
| Roger says, "PC has a dust fetish" | |||
| DavidW says, "well, I thought you needed to leave meat in a fridge, but I dunno for sure. But I bet you need to grab the envelope at the post office." | |||
| Roger says, "This one's already addressed to us, which is useful" | |||
| Jacqueline asks (of Roger), "PC? Or author?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 8:47 am 5/188 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 8:47 am 5/189 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 8:47 am 5/190 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 8:47 am 5/191 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 8:48 am 5/192 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 8:48 am 5/193 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 8:48 am 5/194 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I was wanting to know if she walked through with the mail, but I feel like I'm just wasting time." | ||
| DavidW says, "A watched mail satchel never gets delivered." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Evidently." | |||
| polarisunique says, "Maybe we can talk to Sandie to get her to deliver it" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 8:48 am 5/195 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Shoppe Counter Floyd | This back corner is a bit more tasteful than the main shop floor to Floyd | the north. There aren't any magical (or magickal) items for purchase Floyd | here, but at the back of the room is a long, high counter. Floyd | Floyd | A satchel hangs from a hook on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Sandie here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to sandie" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SANDIE Floyd | Floyd | You approach the shopkeeper. Floyd | Floyd | 0) (Leave.) Floyd | 1) What do you have in stock? Floyd | 2) What's with the golem? Floyd | 3) Do you have any clients now? Floyd | 4) What's with all the envelopes? Floyd | Floyd | Choose a topic (0-4) > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd | Choose a topic (0-4) > 1 Floyd | Floyd | "Excuse me, I was wondering if you had any---" Floyd | "We have everything here!" she says, gesturing expansively. "Take a Floyd | look around!" Floyd | Floyd | 0) (Leave.) Floyd | 1) What do you have in stock? Floyd | 2) What's with the golem? Floyd | 3) Do you have any clients now? Floyd | 4) What's with all the envelopes? Floyd | Floyd | Choose a topic (0-4) > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | |||
Floyd | Choose a topic (0-4) > 2 Floyd | Floyd | "Where did you get that golem? Floyd | Floyd | "Wonderful, isn't it? That was a gift from the Baron Brombury. His Floyd | elderly mother caught a nasty cold, and he asked me to look after her. Floyd | I did all I could, but..." She trails off. "Anyway, the baron was Floyd | quite forgiving, and he graciously offered me the golem in gratitude Floyd | for my services. It's been quite useful. I had a few problems with Floyd | thieves earlier---" Floyd | "I'm sure the Thieves' Guild would never---" Floyd | "Oh, of course not," she says, smiling. "It's the amateurs I'm worried Floyd | about. Fortunately, the golem has scared them off." Floyd | Floyd | 0) (Leave.) Floyd | 1) What do you have in stock? Floyd | 2) What's with the golem? Floyd | 3) Do you have any clients now? Floyd | 4) What's with all the envelopes? Floyd | Floyd | Choose a topic (0-4) > | DavidW says, "Maybe you can offer to take the mail to the post office." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | |||
Floyd | Choose a topic (0-4) > 3 Floyd | Floyd | "Do you have any clients outside the shop?" Floyd | "Not at the moment. I heard that the Dowager Countess of Wittering Floyd | fell into a coma last week, though, so I have my fingers crossed." Floyd | Floyd | 0) (Leave.) Floyd | 1) What do you have in stock? Floyd | 2) What's with the golem? Floyd | 3) Do you have any clients now? Floyd | 4) What's with all the envelopes? Floyd | Floyd | Choose a topic (0-4) > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "4" | |||
Floyd | Choose a topic (0-4) > 4 Floyd | Floyd | "What are those for?" you ask, nodding at the stack of envelopes. Floyd | "Ah, those are part of a new marketing campaign. I'm sending out Floyd | flyers to everyone in town reminding them that I'm here to help them Floyd | with their rich but annoyingly long-lived relatives. There should at Floyd | least be some distant, twice-removed cousin of a baronet around here." Floyd | Floyd | 0) (Leave.) Floyd | 1) What do you have in stock? Floyd | 2) What's with the golem? Floyd | 3) Do you have any clients now? Floyd | 4) What's with all the envelopes? Floyd | Floyd | Choose a topic (0-4) > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "0" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 8:49 am 5/196
Floyd | Choose a topic (0-4) > 0
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "I was thinking that, but it seems now." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "er, not" | |||
| DavidW says, "anyway, she's unlikely to leave her shop while there's a customer inside it." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "She did earlier, but yeah. I'm ready to leave." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 8:49 am 5/197 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Magick Shoppe Floyd | Blackacre's only magic shop looks the part: It's a musty, timbered Floyd | building with some feeble light oozing in through its rafters. Its Floyd | owner, Sandie, was formerly an undistinguished apprentice wizard; now Floyd | she uses both that title and her ineptitude with magic for Floyd | considerable financial gain. Her clients are from rich families and Floyd | have elderly, sick relatives. They want to inherit, but they're Floyd | obligated to do something to help. Sandie is that something. She Floyd | performs the perfunctory duties of an attendant magician, but her lack Floyd | of talent with magic eliminates the possibility of any inconvenient Floyd | recovery. She sadly informs the dutiful sons or daughters that nothing Floyd | can be done; they inherit a large sum of money shortly thereafter; and Floyd | then they donate a modest fraction of that sum to Sandie in gratitude Floyd | for her services. Floyd | Floyd | As such, most of the items in the shop are gaudy, sparkly trinkets of Floyd | no use or value. A stuffed alligator even hangs gratuitously from the Floyd | ceiling. To maintain plausible deniability, though, Sandie keeps some Floyd | genuinely magical items in her shop. Having the occasional wizard as a Floyd | customer makes her consulting activities more plausible, and she tries Floyd | to keep you and Dr. Mortemain as loyal customers. Your jaundiced eye Floyd | notices a display case that looks invitingly dusty. Floyd | Floyd | The store continues to the south, and the exit back to the town square Floyd | is to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A golem stands at the exit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 8:49 am 5/198 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Town Square 8:49 am 5/199 Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | As you leave, the golem pats you down, pawing at your clothing Floyd | aggressively and rifling through your possessions. You jump back in Floyd | surprise, but, having found nothing, it looks at you expressionlessly Floyd | and gestures toward the exit. You sneer at it but quietly leave. Floyd | Floyd | Town Square Floyd | Blackacre's picturesque town square spreads out before you. Although Floyd | it's no longer central in terms of geography or importance, this area Floyd | is nevertheless a genuinely pleasant part of town. A clock tower Floyd | dominates the plaza, towering over the cedars planted around it. Floyd | Benches surround the flowerbeds that dot the square. Blackacre Floyd | residents occasionally filter through the square, glancing up Floyd | nervously at the overcast sky. Floyd | Floyd | Streets leave the square to the east and west, and a road to the south Floyd | leads from the town of Blackacre to the castle of Blackacre. Among the Floyd | crowded buildings ringing the square are the post office to the north Floyd | and magic store to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | You notice that the sky has become overcast. It's likely to rain soon. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Rain. Huh." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Post Office 8:50 am 5/200 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Post Office Floyd | When the Guild of Postmen flourished under the patronage of the town, Floyd | this sprawling building was its headquarters. Now it's a humid, Floyd | cavernous warehouse containing a single contraption, designed by the Floyd | popular Thaumatics Group, that handles all of the mail within the Floyd | city. The machine hums quietly as tiny iridescent sparks coruscate Floyd | along its surface. Floyd | Floyd | The building's exit is to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x machine" | |||
Floyd ] Post Office 8:50 am 5/201 Floyd | > Floyd | > X MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | The large machine looms over the post office. Its simple red brass Floyd | exterior doesn't expose any of the complicated mechanical and magical Floyd | workings that must be inside. On its face are two simple buttons, one Floyd | white and one black. Below them are two slots, one narrow and one Floyd | wide. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x white" | |||
Floyd ] Post Office 8:50 am 5/201 Floyd | > Floyd | > X WHITE Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the white button, the manchet loaf, or the white Floyd | canister? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x whie button" | |||
Floyd ] Post Office 8:50 am 5/201 Floyd | > Floyd | > X WHIE BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x white button" | |||
Floyd ] Post Office 8:50 am 5/202 Floyd | > Floyd | > X WHITE BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | There's an image on the button of a white rectangle with an arrow Floyd | pointing out of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It used to have a simple green brass exterior, but, y'know." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x black button" | |||
Floyd ] Post Office 8:50 am 5/203 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BLACK BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | There's an image on the button of a white rectangle and a yellow Floyd | circle, both crossed out. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Should we go pressing buttons and stuff, just to see?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf2" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Post Office 8:50 am 5/203 Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "push white button" | |||
Floyd ] Post Office 8:51 am 5/204 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH WHITE BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | The machine hums impatiently, but nothing further happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "push black button" | |||
Floyd ] Post Office 8:51 am 5/205 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH BLACK BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | The machine clicks hollowly, but nothing further happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "What do people want to do?" | ||
| DavidW) Machine thinks, "I'm hungry. I'd love a good pile of mail to eat." | |||
| Roger says, "Yeah, start inserting things into orifices" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Post Office 8:51 am 5/206 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a glossy flyer Floyd | a slab of beef Floyd | some salted herring Floyd | a manchet loaf Floyd | a green canister (which is open) Floyd | some bright green powder Floyd | a white canister (which is open) Floyd | some salt Floyd | a wooden staff Floyd | a leather-bound index Floyd | a sheet of parchment Floyd | an indigo pouch (which is open but empty) Floyd | a black pouch (which is closed) Floyd | a moss-colored pouch (which is open but empty) Floyd | a spellbook Floyd | a set of lockpicks Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put flyer in narrow slot" | |||
Floyd ] Post Office 8:51 am 5/207 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT FLYER IN NARROW SLOT Floyd | Floyd | That won't fit. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The flyer." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put flyer in wide slot" | |||
Floyd ] Post Office 8:52 am 5/208 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT FLYER IN WIDE SLOT Floyd | Floyd | With an offended clurnk, the machine spits it back out onto Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "push white button" | |||
Floyd ] Post Office 8:52 am 5/209 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH WHITE BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | The machine hums impatiently, but nothing further happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take flyer" | |||
Floyd ] Post Office 8:52 am 5/210 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE FLYER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Sandie enters from the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put flyer in wide slot" | |||
Floyd ] Post Office 8:52 am 5/211 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT FLYER IN WIDE SLOT Floyd | Floyd | With an offended clurnk, the machine spits it back out onto Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | Sandie puts some coins into the machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take flyer" | |||
Floyd ] Post Office 8:53 am 5/212 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE FLYER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Sandie takes some letters out of her satchel and puts them into the Floyd | machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oho - coins" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Post Office 8:53 am 5/213 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Sandie takes some letters out of her satchel and puts them into the Floyd | machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. Bills and coins." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to sandie" | |||
Floyd ] Post Office 8:53 am 5/214 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SANDIE Floyd | Floyd | "I'm a bit busy at the moment. Let's talk once I open up the shop Floyd | again," she demurs. Floyd | Floyd | Sandie steps back from the machine and wipes her hands on her dress. Floyd | Floyd | > | polarisunique says, "Well, I'm guessing the scales will be delivered to us in the mailbox then" | ||
| DavidW asks, "well, you can start pushing buttons, now, I assume?" | |||
| DavidW says, "or look in the satchel." | |||
| DavidW asks (of polarisunique), "But today before noon?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x satchel" | |||
Floyd ] Post Office 8:53 am 5/215 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SATCHEL Floyd | Floyd | Sandie is carrying a rough burlap satchel. Floyd | Floyd | Sandie leaves to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Town Square 8:54 am 5/216 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Town Square Floyd | Blackacre's picturesque town square spreads out before you. Although Floyd | it's no longer central in terms of geography or importance, this area Floyd | is nevertheless a genuinely pleasant part of town. A clock tower Floyd | dominates the plaza, towering over the cedars planted around it. Floyd | Benches surround the flowerbeds that dot the square. Blackacre Floyd | residents occasionally filter through the square, glancing up Floyd | nervously at the overcast sky. Floyd | Floyd | Streets leave the square to the east and west, and a road to the south Floyd | leads from the town of Blackacre to the castle of Blackacre. Among the Floyd | crowded buildings ringing the square are the post office to the north Floyd | and magic store to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Sandie here. Floyd | Floyd | Sandie exits to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:54 am 5/217 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (West) Floyd | As its name implies, Guild Street contains most of the town's Floyd | guildhalls. There are far fewer now than a century ago, when the Floyd | street was originally constructed, as the daily administration of the Floyd | town became concentrated in the nearby castle. The ominous stone tower Floyd | standing to the north was formerly the base of operations of the Floyd | once-prominent Magicians' Guild, which counted dozens of wizards among Floyd | its members in its heyday. That heyday passed centuries ago, however, Floyd | and the only wizards currently in town are you and Dr. Mortemain. He Floyd | acquired the tower after the guild's dissolution, and it's there that Floyd | you now spend most of your time. Floyd | Floyd | The street returns to the town square to the west and continues to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a tarnished brass mailbox (which contains a pearl-colored Floyd | envelope) here. Floyd | Floyd | A tinny but catchy song issues from the mailbox: Floyd | Floyd | Please pick up your mail! Floyd | Before it gets too stale! Floyd | Like a shrimp cocktail Floyd | Left on the windowsail! Floyd | Support the local Guild of Songwriters! Floyd | Hooray! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take envelope" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:54 am 5/218 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open envelope" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:54 am 5/219 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | You open the pearl-colored envelope, revealing a glossy flyer. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read flyer" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:55 am 5/220 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ FLYER Floyd | Floyd | The glossy flyer shows colorful images of various alleged magical Floyd | paraphernalia: raven's skulls, black pointy hats, staves with vaguely Floyd | mysterious symbols on them, and so on. At the bottom is an endorsement Floyd | from the head of the Illusionists' Guild: "These products Floyd | have...magical value, and the claims made by their sellers are [not] Floyd | fraudulent." Floyd | Floyd | > | polarisunique says, "...Well." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That... is not what I wanted." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read envelope" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:55 am 5/221 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | The address on it is that of Dr. Mortemain's tower, though there's no Floyd | specific person named. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take flyer" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:55 am 5/222 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE FLYER Floyd | Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:55 am 5/223 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a pearl-colored envelope (which is open) Floyd | a glossy flyer Floyd | a glossy flyer Floyd | a slab of beef Floyd | some salted herring Floyd | a manchet loaf Floyd | a green canister (which is open) Floyd | some bright green powder Floyd | a white canister (which is open) Floyd | some salt Floyd | a wooden staff Floyd | a leather-bound index Floyd | a sheet of parchment Floyd | an indigo pouch (which is open but empty) Floyd | a black pouch (which is closed) Floyd | a moss-colored pouch (which is open but empty) Floyd | a spellbook Floyd | a set of lockpicks Floyd | Floyd | > | polarisunique asks, "Was that the only thing in the mailbox?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "remove flyer from envelope" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:56 am 5/224 Floyd | > Floyd | > REMOVE FLYER FROM ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | Removed. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "This is a pearl-colored envelope. Where's the beige one?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I put the beige one in the satchel" | |||
| DavidW says, "well, go back to the post office and make the machine upchuck it." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Town Square 8:56 am 5/225 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Town Square Floyd | Blackacre's picturesque town square spreads out before you. Although Floyd | it's no longer central in terms of geography or importance, this area Floyd | is nevertheless a genuinely pleasant part of town. A clock tower Floyd | dominates the plaza, towering over the cedars planted around it. Floyd | Benches surround the flowerbeds that dot the square. Blackacre Floyd | residents occasionally filter through the square, glancing up Floyd | nervously at the overcast sky. Floyd | Floyd | Streets leave the square to the east and west, and a road to the south Floyd | leads from the town of Blackacre to the castle of Blackacre. Among the Floyd | crowded buildings ringing the square are the post office to the north Floyd | and magic store to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | The sky looks cloudy. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Post Office 8:56 am 5/226 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Post Office Floyd | When the Guild of Postmen flourished under the patronage of the town, Floyd | this sprawling building was its headquarters. Now it's a humid, Floyd | cavernous warehouse containing a single contraption, designed by the Floyd | popular Thaumatics Group, that handles all of the mail within the Floyd | city. The machine hums quietly as tiny iridescent sparks coruscate Floyd | along its surface. Floyd | Floyd | The building's exit is to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "push black button" | |||
Floyd ] Post Office 8:56 am 5/227 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH BLACK BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | The machine clicks hollowly, but nothing further happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look in machine" | |||
Floyd ] Post Office 8:57 am 5/228 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "push white" | |||
Floyd ] Post Office 8:57 am 5/228 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH WHITE Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the white button, the manchet loaf, or the white Floyd | canister? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "push white button" | |||
Floyd ] Post Office 8:57 am 5/229 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH WHITE BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | The machine hums impatiently, but nothing further happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Town Square 8:57 am 5/230 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Town Square Floyd | Blackacre's picturesque town square spreads out before you. Although Floyd | it's no longer central in terms of geography or importance, this area Floyd | is nevertheless a genuinely pleasant part of town. A clock tower Floyd | dominates the plaza, towering over the cedars planted around it. Floyd | Benches surround the flowerbeds that dot the square. Blackacre Floyd | residents occasionally filter through the square, glancing up Floyd | nervously at the overcast sky. Floyd | Floyd | Streets leave the square to the east and west, and a road to the south Floyd | leads from the town of Blackacre to the castle of Blackacre. Among the Floyd | crowded buildings ringing the square are the post office to the north | polarisunique says, "Or maybe we were supposed to close the envelope after all" | ||
Floyd | and magic store to the southwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:57 am 5/231 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (West) Floyd | As its name implies, Guild Street contains most of the town's Floyd | guildhalls. There are far fewer now than a century ago, when the Floyd | street was originally constructed, as the daily administration of the Floyd | town became concentrated in the nearby castle. The ominous stone tower Floyd | standing to the north was formerly the base of operations of the Floyd | once-prominent Magicians' Guild, which counted dozens of wizards among Floyd | its members in its heyday. That heyday passed centuries ago, however, Floyd | and the only wizards currently in town are you and Dr. Mortemain. He Floyd | acquired the tower after the guild's dissolution, and it's there that Floyd | you now spend most of your time. Floyd | Floyd | The street returns to the town square to the west and continues to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a tarnished brass mailbox (which contains an umber Floyd | envelope and a beige envelope) here. Floyd | Floyd | A tinny but catchy song issues from the mailbox: Floyd | Floyd | You have a letter! Floyd | It could be a sweater! Floyd | Or something even better! Floyd | Let's find out together! Floyd | Which almost rhymes with letter! Floyd | Hooray! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take envelope" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:58 am 5/232 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | A tinny but catchy song issues from the mailbox: Floyd | Floyd | Please pick up your mail! Floyd | Before it gets too stale! Floyd | Like a shrimp cocktail Floyd | Left on the windowsail! Floyd | Support the local Guild of Songwriters! Floyd | Hooray! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look in mailbox" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:58 am 5/233 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN MAILBOX Floyd | Floyd | In the tarnished brass mailbox are an umber envelope and a beige Floyd | envelope. Floyd | Floyd | A tinny but catchy song issues from the mailbox: Floyd | Floyd | There's something in your mailbox! Floyd | Don't invest in kale stocks! Floyd | Something something snail fox! Floyd | Hooray! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ooh, there's the beige one." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take beige envelope" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:58 am 5/234 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BEIGE ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | A tinny but catchy song issues from the mailbox: Floyd | Floyd | You have a letter! Floyd | It could be a sweater! Floyd | Or something even better! Floyd | Let's find out together! Floyd | Which almost rhymes with letter! Floyd | Hooray! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "and an umber one?" | ||
| polarisunique says, "Guess it was just late being sent" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take umber envelope" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:58 am 5/235 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE UMBER ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open beige envelope" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:59 am 5/236 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN BEIGE ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | That's already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look in beige envelope" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:59 am 5/237 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN BEIGE ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | In the beige envelope are some basilisk scales. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "w00t" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:59 am 5/238 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an umber envelope (which is closed) Floyd | a beige envelope (which is open) Floyd | some basilisk scales Floyd | two glossy flyers Floyd | a pearl-colored envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | a slab of beef Floyd | some salted herring Floyd | a manchet loaf Floyd | a green canister (which is open) Floyd | some bright green powder Floyd | a white canister (which is open) Floyd | some salt Floyd | a wooden staff Floyd | a leather-bound index Floyd | a sheet of parchment Floyd | an indigo pouch (which is open but empty) Floyd | a black pouch (which is closed) Floyd | a moss-colored pouch (which is open but empty) Floyd | a spellbook Floyd | a set of lockpicks Floyd | Floyd | The sky looks cloudy. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x black pouch" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 8:59 am 5/239 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BLACK POUCH Floyd | Floyd | It's black and has the magical character for 'basilisk' written on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | polarisunique says, "Since Sandie went out twice, she sent two envelopes + the extra envelope we planted" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open black pouch" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:00 am 5/240 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN BLACK POUCH Floyd | Floyd | You open the black pouch. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "put the scales into the black pouch." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put basilisk in black pouch" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:00 am 5/241 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT BASILISK IN BLACK POUCH Floyd | Floyd | You need to be holding the basilisk scales before you can put them Floyd | into something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh for the love of --" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take basilisk" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:00 am 5/242 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BASILISK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put basilisk in black pouch" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:00 am 5/243 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT BASILISK IN BLACK POUCH Floyd | Floyd | You put the basilisk scales into the black pouch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "close black pouch" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:01 am 5/244 Floyd | > Floyd | > CLOSE BLACK POUCH Floyd | Floyd | You close the black pouch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 9:01 am 5/245 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tower Entry Floyd | This familiar area is the tower's entryway. It's intended to impress Floyd | and intimidate visitors, and so the recesses of the gloomy vaulted Floyd | ceiling are decorated with elaborate carvings of gargoyles and demons. Floyd | The curtains are partially drawn, bathing the cavernous hall in Floyd | hesitant shadows. As an uncharacteristic nod to practicality, an Floyd | umbrella stand sits beside the double doors leading south from the Floyd | tower. A corridor to the north leads across the polished marble floor Floyd | deeper inside. Floyd | Floyd | Flux sits on his perch, idly kneading it with its claws. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give black pouch to flux" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 9:01 am 10/246 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE BLACK POUCH TO FLUX Floyd | Floyd | Flux considers the basilisk scales for a moment, trying to think of a Floyd | reason to be displeased with them. "I sssuppossse this will have to Floyd | do," it says resignedly, accepting the pouch and flying off with it Floyd | deeper into the tower. After a moment, it returns empty-handed and Floyd | lands heavily on its perch, clawing it at irritably. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yay." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm now wondering if this is going to be a complete game." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:01 am 10/247 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (West) Floyd | As its name implies, Guild Street contains most of the town's Floyd | guildhalls. There are far fewer now than a century ago, when the Floyd | street was originally constructed, as the daily administration of the Floyd | town became concentrated in the nearby castle. The ominous stone tower Floyd | standing to the north was formerly the base of operations of the Floyd | once-prominent Magicians' Guild, which counted dozens of wizards among Floyd | its members in its heyday. That heyday passed centuries ago, however, Floyd | and the only wizards currently in town are you and Dr. Mortemain. He Floyd | acquired the tower after the guild's dissolution, and it's there that Floyd | you now spend most of your time. Floyd | Floyd | The street returns to the town square to the west and continues to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a tarnished brass mailbox here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:02 am 10/248 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an umber envelope (which is closed) Floyd | a beige envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | two glossy flyers Floyd | a pearl-colored envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | a slab of beef Floyd | some salted herring Floyd | a manchet loaf Floyd | a green canister (which is open) Floyd | some bright green powder Floyd | a white canister (which is open) Floyd | some salt Floyd | a wooden staff Floyd | a leather-bound index Floyd | a sheet of parchment Floyd | an indigo pouch (which is open but empty) Floyd | a moss-colored pouch (which is open but empty) Floyd | a spellbook Floyd | a set of lockpicks Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Is the toad in the umber envelope, maybe?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read spells" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:02 am 10/249 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ SPELLS Floyd | Floyd | anracni: turns green objects red Floyd | Floyd | The sky looks cloudy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "We... don't have a toad?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "anracni tea" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:02 am 10/250 Floyd | > Floyd | > ANRACNI TEA Floyd | Floyd | The bright green powder turns bright red. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x green pouch" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:02 am 10/251 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GREEN POUCH Floyd | Floyd | It's moss-colored and has the magical character for 'toad' embroidered Floyd | on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I thought you were going to leave the tea alone." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm trying a thing." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Though possibly I should undo, save, then try." | |||
| DavidW asks, "did you save first?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:02 am 10/250 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (West) Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "und" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:02 am 10/250 Floyd | > Floyd | > UND Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x tea" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:02 am 10/251 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TEA Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Mortemain is very particular about his tea, and he had this fine, Floyd | bright red powder shipped here at great expense. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:02 am 10/250 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (West) Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:02 am 10/250 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (West) Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x tea" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:02 am 10/251 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TEA Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Mortemain is very particular about his tea, and he had this fine, Floyd | bright red powder shipped here at great expense. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:02 am 10/250 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (West) Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:02 am 10/249 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (West) Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:02 am 10/248 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (West) Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:01 am 10/247 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (West) Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 9:01 am 10/246 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Tower Entry Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf3" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Tower Entry 9:01 am 10/246 Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:01 am 10/247 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (West) Floyd | As its name implies, Guild Street contains most of the town's Floyd | guildhalls. There are far fewer now than a century ago, when the Floyd | street was originally constructed, as the daily administration of the Floyd | town became concentrated in the nearby castle. The ominous stone tower Floyd | standing to the north was formerly the base of operations of the Floyd | once-prominent Magicians' Guild, which counted dozens of wizards among Floyd | its members in its heyday. That heyday passed centuries ago, however, Floyd | and the only wizards currently in town are you and Dr. Mortemain. He Floyd | acquired the tower after the guild's dissolution, and it's there that Floyd | you now spend most of your time. Floyd | Floyd | The street returns to the town square to the west and continues to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a tarnished brass mailbox here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "anracni tea" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:02 am 10/248 Floyd | > Floyd | > ANRACNI TEA Floyd | Floyd | The bright green powder turns bright red. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put tea in indigo pouch" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:02 am 10/249 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT TEA IN INDIGO POUCH Floyd | Floyd | You need to be holding the bright red powder before you can put it Floyd | into something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take powder" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:02 am 10/250 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE POWDER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put tea in indigo pouch" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:02 am 10/251 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT TEA IN INDIGO POUCH Floyd | Floyd | You put the bright red powder into the indigo pouch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "close blue pouch" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:03 am 10/252 Floyd | > Floyd | > CLOSE BLUE POUCH Floyd | Floyd | You close the indigo pouch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x blue pouch" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:03 am 10/253 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BLUE POUCH Floyd | Floyd | It's indigo and has the magical character for 'skink' embroidered on Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 9:03 am 10/254 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tower Entry Floyd | This familiar area is the tower's entryway. It's intended to impress Floyd | and intimidate visitors, and so the recesses of the gloomy vaulted Floyd | ceiling are decorated with elaborate carvings of gargoyles and demons. Floyd | The curtains are partially drawn, bathing the cavernous hall in Floyd | hesitant shadows. As an uncharacteristic nod to practicality, an Floyd | umbrella stand sits beside the double doors leading south from the Floyd | tower. A corridor to the north leads across the polished marble floor Floyd | deeper inside. Floyd | Floyd | Flux sits on his perch, idly kneading it with its claws. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give blue pouch to flux" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 9:03 am 10/255 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE BLUE POUCH TO FLUX Floyd | Floyd | Flux considers the bright red powder for a moment, trying to think of Floyd | a reason to be displeased with it. "Thisss doesssn't ssseem quite Floyd | right. The magic on it feelsss wrong," it hisses, gingerly poking the Floyd | powder with its claws. It sinuously lowers its head to the powder and Floyd | sniffs it. "No, thisss sssmellsss wrong. It isssn't the ssskink the Floyd | massster asked for." Floyd | "It must have gone off," you say innocently. Floyd | "Then find a better one," says Flux, handing the pouch back to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You're gonna try to pass off the red tea as skink powder, I assume." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Lag timing. Yes. Also, unsuccessful." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf3" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 9:01 am 10/246
Floyd | > RESTOREOk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x tea" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 9:01 am 10/247 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TEA Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Mortemain is very particular about his tea, and he had this fine, Floyd | bright green powder shipped here at great expense. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Okay, what's next?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We have some unexplored map" | |||
| DavidW asks, "well, what else is in town?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 9:02 am 10/248 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:02 am 10/249 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (West) Floyd | As its name implies, Guild Street contains most of the town's Floyd | guildhalls. There are far fewer now than a century ago, when the Floyd | street was originally constructed, as the daily administration of the Floyd | town became concentrated in the nearby castle. The ominous stone tower Floyd | standing to the north was formerly the base of operations of the Floyd | once-prominent Magicians' Guild, which counted dozens of wizards among Floyd | its members in its heyday. That heyday passed centuries ago, however, Floyd | and the only wizards currently in town are you and Dr. Mortemain. He Floyd | acquired the tower after the guild's dissolution, and it's there that Floyd | you now spend most of your time. Floyd | Floyd | The street returns to the town square to the west and continues to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a tarnished brass mailbox here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (East) 9:02 am 10/250 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (East) Floyd | As its name implies, Guild Street contains most of the town's Floyd | guildhalls. There are far fewer now than a century ago, when the Floyd | street was originally constructed, as the daily administration of the Floyd | town became concentrated in the nearby castle. Nevertheless, there are Floyd | still some guilds whose headquarters lie along this street. Most Floyd | infamous among them is the Thieves' Guild, whose aggressively Floyd | nondescript building runs along the south edge of the street. Floyd | Floyd | The street continues to the east and west, and a narrow alley to the Floyd | southeast winds along the guild. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a shiny brass mailbox (which contains a brown parcel) Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | A shadowy figure stalks over to the mailbox and starts to open it. Floyd | Seeing that you're watching him, he pointedly turns away from you. He Floyd | then does something with the mailbox, but with his back blocking your Floyd | view, you can't tell what exactly it is. There is a faint click from Floyd | the mailbox, and the man turns back around. He pulls a parcel out of Floyd | the mailbox, confusedly ponders its label for a moment, and returns Floyd | it. With a shrug, he leaves to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The sky looks cloudy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "... ?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Maybe this is Toad Hall." | |||
| DavidW says, "I dunno." | |||
| DavidW asks, "The Thieves' Guild is right next door to our digs?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I didn't draw a map." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (East) 9:02 am 10/251 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (East) 9:03 am 10/252 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You wander deeper into the city, find nothing of interest, and return. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Alley 9:03 am 10/253 Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Alley Floyd | This narrow alley runs behind the Thieves' Guild headquarters and is Floyd | thus scrupulously avoided by most of the town. You can reenter Guild Floyd | Street to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | The sky looks cloudy. Floyd | Floyd | > | polarisunique says, "Yeah, it's right next to where our mailbox is so" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm surprised there's not more to the alley" | |||
| polarisunique says, "If there's some sort of trick to getting into the mailbox that the guy was hiding from us..." | |||
| DavidW says, "well, there's possibly a secret exit or something will be scheduled for here later." | |||
| polarisunique says, "I figure we can use the crystal ball to peek at whatever he's doing" | |||
| DavidW asks, "oh, turn the stand to the southeast?" | |||
| polarisunique says, "Yep" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, good idea." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (East) 9:03 am 10/254 Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (East) Floyd | As its name implies, Guild Street contains most of the town's Floyd | guildhalls. There are far fewer now than a century ago, when the Floyd | street was originally constructed, as the daily administration of the Floyd | town became concentrated in the nearby castle. Nevertheless, there are Floyd | still some guilds whose headquarters lie along this street. Most Floyd | infamous among them is the Thieves' Guild, whose aggressively Floyd | nondescript building runs along the south edge of the street. Floyd | Floyd | The street continues to the east and west, and a narrow alley to the Floyd | southeast winds along the guild. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a shiny brass mailbox (which contains a brown parcel) Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | The sky looks cloudy. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:03 am 10/255 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (West) Floyd | As its name implies, Guild Street contains most of the town's Floyd | guildhalls. There are far fewer now than a century ago, when the Floyd | street was originally constructed, as the daily administration of the Floyd | town became concentrated in the nearby castle. The ominous stone tower Floyd | standing to the north was formerly the base of operations of the Floyd | once-prominent Magicians' Guild, which counted dozens of wizards among Floyd | its members in its heyday. That heyday passed centuries ago, however, Floyd | and the only wizards currently in town are you and Dr. Mortemain. He Floyd | acquired the tower after the guild's dissolution, and it's there that Floyd | you now spend most of your time. Floyd | Floyd | The street returns to the town square to the west and continues to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a tarnished brass mailbox here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 9:04 am 10/256 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tower Entry Floyd | This familiar area is the tower's entryway. It's intended to impress Floyd | and intimidate visitors, and so the recesses of the gloomy vaulted Floyd | ceiling are decorated with elaborate carvings of gargoyles and demons. Floyd | The curtains are partially drawn, bathing the cavernous hall in Floyd | hesitant shadows. As an uncharacteristic nod to practicality, an Floyd | umbrella stand sits beside the double doors leading south from the Floyd | tower. A corridor to the north leads across the polished marble floor Floyd | deeper inside. Floyd | Floyd | Flux sits on his perch, idly kneading it with its claws. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Library 9:04 am 10/257 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Library Floyd | The tower's library is wonderful. You spent the first two weeks as Dr. Floyd | Mortemain's apprentice here, grudgingly falling asleep early each Floyd | morning after spending the day and night reading through the mountain Floyd | of the books piled around the room. Even now, you've only covered a Floyd | small fraction of the maze of tipping bookcases that stretch to the Floyd | ceiling and crowd around the reading area. In this quiet and Floyd | undisturbed area, redolent of old books, you've spent the happiest Floyd | part of your year in the tower. If you have to leave, exits lead in Floyd | all four directions to the other wings. Floyd | Floyd | A lectern stands in an empty space near the center of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Study 9:04 am 10/258 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | This room is Dr. Mortemain's study, his gentlemanly refuge from the Floyd | rigors of his duties as a wizard. An inviting antimacassared armchair Floyd | sits in front of the fireplace, and a liquor cabinet stands at the Floyd | ready nearby. Above the mantle, an intricately painted map hangs from Floyd | the wainscoting. An octagonal stand has been tucked discreetly into Floyd | the corner. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "aren't we gonna look at the brown parcel?!?!" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn crystal ball se" | |||
Floyd ] Study 9:04 am 10/259 Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN CRYSTAL BALL SE Floyd | Floyd | No, you can't set that to anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "turn stand se" | |||
Floyd ] Study 9:05 am 10/260 Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN STAND SE Floyd | Floyd | You rotate the stand so that the arrow is now pointing to the Floyd | southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I can in a sec, sure" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "You didn't say to do that, so I didn't." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search ball" | |||
Floyd ] Study 9:05 am 10/261 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH BALL Floyd | Floyd | An image slowly fades into view: Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (East) Floyd | As its name implies, Guild Street contains most of the town's Floyd | guildhalls. There are far fewer now than a century ago, when the Floyd | street was originally constructed, as the daily administration of the Floyd | town became concentrated in the nearby castle. Nevertheless, there are Floyd | still some guilds whose headquarters lie along this street. Most Floyd | infamous among them is the Thieves' Guild, whose aggressively Floyd | nondescript building runs along the south edge of the street. Floyd | Floyd | The street continues to the east and west, and a narrow alley to the Floyd | southeast winds along the guild. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ISP" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search ball" | |||
Floyd ] Study 9:05 am 10/262 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH BALL Floyd | Floyd | An image slowly fades into view: Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (East) Floyd | As its name implies, Guild Street contains most of the town's Floyd | guildhalls. There are far fewer now than a century ago, when the Floyd | street was originally constructed, as the daily administration of the Floyd | town became concentrated in the nearby castle. Nevertheless, there are Floyd | still some guilds whose headquarters lie along this street. Most Floyd | infamous among them is the Thieves' Guild, whose aggressively Floyd | nondescript building runs along the south edge of the street. Floyd | Floyd | The street continues to the east and west, and a narrow alley to the Floyd | southeast winds along the guild. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search ball" | |||
Floyd ] Study 9:05 am 10/263 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH BALL Floyd | Floyd | An image slowly fades into view: Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (East) Floyd | As its name implies, Guild Street contains most of the town's Floyd | guildhalls. There are far fewer now than a century ago, when the Floyd | street was originally constructed, as the daily administration of the Floyd | town became concentrated in the nearby castle. Nevertheless, there are Floyd | still some guilds whose headquarters lie along this street. Most Floyd | infamous among them is the Thieves' Guild, whose aggressively Floyd | nondescript building runs along the south edge of the street. Floyd | Floyd | The street continues to the east and west, and a narrow alley to the Floyd | southeast winds along the guild. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So, um. Was I supposed to do something else?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Or has the moment passed?" | |||
| polarisunique says, "...Maybe they'll only come out to check the mail when they have mail" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Should I just go look at the parcel?" | |||
| polarisunique asks, "We can... stuff the mailbox?" | |||
| DavidW says, "The ball doesn't mention the mailbox at all." | |||
| Rob discreetly asks what the game is today | |||
| DavidW says, "well, if the parcel is addressed to us, I'd like to know." | |||
| Rob arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Jacqueline says (to Rob), "Some Exceptions for Reasons Unknown by Thomas Mack." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It's an IntroComp entry." | |||
| Rob says, "ok thx shh" | |||
| DavidW says (to Rob), "I don't remember the name. something Exceptions something something." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Library 9:06 am 10/264 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Library Floyd | The tower's library is wonderful. You spent the first two weeks as Dr. Floyd | Mortemain's apprentice here, grudgingly falling asleep early each Floyd | morning after spending the day and night reading through the mountain Floyd | of the books piled around the room. Even now, you've only covered a Floyd | small fraction of the maze of tipping bookcases that stretch to the Floyd | ceiling and crowd around the reading area. In this quiet and Floyd | undisturbed area, redolent of old books, you've spent the happiest Floyd | part of your year in the tower. If you have to leave, exits lead in Floyd | all four directions to the other wings. Floyd | Floyd | A lectern stands in an empty space near the center of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 9:06 am 10/265 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tower Entry Floyd | This familiar area is the tower's entryway. It's intended to impress Floyd | and intimidate visitors, and so the recesses of the gloomy vaulted Floyd | ceiling are decorated with elaborate carvings of gargoyles and demons. Floyd | The curtains are partially drawn, bathing the cavernous hall in Floyd | hesitant shadows. As an uncharacteristic nod to practicality, an Floyd | umbrella stand sits beside the double doors leading south from the Floyd | tower. A corridor to the north leads across the polished marble floor Floyd | deeper inside. Floyd | Floyd | Flux sits on his perch, idly kneading it with its claws. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "hee" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:06 am 10/266 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (West) Floyd | As its name implies, Guild Street contains most of the town's Floyd | guildhalls. There are far fewer now than a century ago, when the Floyd | street was originally constructed, as the daily administration of the Floyd | town became concentrated in the nearby castle. The ominous stone tower Floyd | standing to the north was formerly the base of operations of the Floyd | once-prominent Magicians' Guild, which counted dozens of wizards among Floyd | its members in its heyday. That heyday passed centuries ago, however, Floyd | and the only wizards currently in town are you and Dr. Mortemain. He Floyd | acquired the tower after the guild's dissolution, and it's there that Floyd | you now spend most of your time. Floyd | Floyd | The street returns to the town square to the west and continues to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a tarnished brass mailbox here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (East) 9:06 am 10/267 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (East) Floyd | As its name implies, Guild Street contains most of the town's Floyd | guildhalls. There are far fewer now than a century ago, when the Floyd | street was originally constructed, as the daily administration of the Floyd | town became concentrated in the nearby castle. Nevertheless, there are Floyd | still some guilds whose headquarters lie along this street. Most Floyd | infamous among them is the Thieves' Guild, whose aggressively Floyd | nondescript building runs along the south edge of the street. Floyd | Floyd | The street continues to the east and west, and a narrow alley to the Floyd | southeast winds along the guild. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a shiny brass mailbox (which contains a brown parcel) Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x parcel" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (East) 9:07 am 10/268 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PARCEL Floyd | Floyd | The street address written on the nondescript parcel is smudged and Floyd | difficult to read. The last digit could be a 9, meaning that it was Floyd | intended for the Thieves' Guild, but it's much more likely to be a 7 Floyd | and thus intended for Dr. Mortemain's tower. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take parcel" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (East) 9:07 am 10/269 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PARCEL Floyd | Floyd | You suddenly recall some of the horror stories told in the Guild about Floyd | the defenses it placed on even something as ordinary as a mailbox. No Floyd | one would be stupid enough to try to steal from you all, but sometimes Floyd | stupid people can be taught a lesson. You reconsider, trying to Floyd | remember if you knew anything about booby traps around the Guild. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x mailbox" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (East) 9:07 am 10/270 Floyd | > Floyd | > X MAILBOX Floyd | Floyd | The Thieves' Guild mailbox is much like its owner: tastefully Floyd | expensive, designed to blend into its surroundings, and quietly Floyd | menacing. Floyd | Floyd | Inside the shiny brass mailbox is a brown parcel. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob DVR's it | ||
| polarisunique asks, "Try sticking one of our envelopes in the mailbox?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (East) 9:07 am 10/271 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an umber envelope (which is closed) Floyd | a beige envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | two glossy flyers Floyd | a pearl-colored envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | a slab of beef Floyd | some salted herring Floyd | a manchet loaf Floyd | a green canister (which is open) Floyd | some bright green powder Floyd | a white canister (which is open) Floyd | some salt Floyd | a wooden staff Floyd | a leather-bound index Floyd | a sheet of parchment Floyd | an indigo pouch (which is open but empty) Floyd | a moss-colored pouch (which is open but empty) Floyd | a spellbook Floyd | a set of lockpicks Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf4" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Guild Street (East) 9:07 am 10/271 Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x umber" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (East) 9:08 am 10/272 Floyd | > Floyd | > X UMBER Floyd | Floyd | The umber envelope is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read umber" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (East) 9:08 am 10/273 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ UMBER Floyd | Floyd | The address on it is that of Dr. Mortemain's tower, though there's no Floyd | specific person named. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open umber" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (East) 9:08 am 10/274 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN UMBER Floyd | Floyd | You open the umber envelope, revealing a glossy flyer. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x flyer" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (East) 9:08 am 10/275 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FLYER Floyd | Floyd | The glossy flyer shows colorful images of various alleged magical Floyd | paraphernalia: raven's skulls, black pointy hats, staves with vaguely Floyd | mysterious symbols on them, and so on. At the bottom is an endorsement Floyd | from the head of the Illusionists' Guild: "These products Floyd | have...magical value, and the claims made by their sellers are [not] Floyd | fraudulent." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "closer umber" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (East) 9:08 am 10/275 Floyd | > Floyd | > CLOSER UMBER Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "close umber" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (East) 9:09 am 10/276 Floyd | > Floyd | > CLOSE UMBER Floyd | Floyd | You close the umber envelope. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put umber in mailbox" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (East) 9:09 am 10/277 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT UMBER IN MAILBOX Floyd | Floyd | You put the umber envelope into the shiny brass mailbox. Floyd | Floyd | A tinny but catchy song issues from the mailbox: Floyd | Floyd | Please pick up your mail! Floyd | Before it gets too stale! Floyd | Like a shrimp cocktail Floyd | Left on the windowsail! Floyd | Support the local Guild of Songwriters! Floyd | Hooray! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Wait, or go back to the crystal ball?" | ||
| Rob asks, "does Floyd make that <u1></u1> translation?" | |||
| DavidW says, "sure." | |||
| polarisunique says, "Uhh, if I'm right we'll be able to see it from the crystal ball" | |||
| DavidW says (to Rob), "The terp does that." | |||
| Rob says (to DW), "thx. was curious" | |||
| DavidW says, "yes PLEASE watch the action in the ball" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Rob), "It's set that way so that the proper formatting appears in the eventual transcript." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:09 am 10/278 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (West) Floyd | As its name implies, Guild Street contains most of the town's Floyd | guildhalls. There are far fewer now than a century ago, when the Floyd | street was originally constructed, as the daily administration of the Floyd | town became concentrated in the nearby castle. The ominous stone tower Floyd | standing to the north was formerly the base of operations of the Floyd | once-prominent Magicians' Guild, which counted dozens of wizards among Floyd | its members in its heyday. That heyday passed centuries ago, however, Floyd | and the only wizards currently in town are you and Dr. Mortemain. He Floyd | acquired the tower after the guild's dissolution, and it's there that Floyd | you now spend most of your time. Floyd | Floyd | The street returns to the town square to the west and continues to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a tarnished brass mailbox (which contains an ochre Floyd | envelope) here. Floyd | Floyd | A tinny but catchy song issues from the mailbox: Floyd | Floyd | You have a letter! Floyd | It could be a sweater! Floyd | Or something even better! Floyd | Let's find out together! Floyd | Which almost rhymes with letter! Floyd | Hooray! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 9:09 am 10/279 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tower Entry Floyd | This familiar area is the tower's entryway. It's intended to impress Floyd | and intimidate visitors, and so the recesses of the gloomy vaulted Floyd | ceiling are decorated with elaborate carvings of gargoyles and demons. Floyd | The curtains are partially drawn, bathing the cavernous hall in Floyd | hesitant shadows. As an uncharacteristic nod to practicality, an Floyd | umbrella stand sits beside the double doors leading south from the Floyd | tower. A corridor to the north leads across the polished marble floor Floyd | deeper inside. Floyd | Floyd | Flux sits on his perch, idly kneading it with its claws. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Library 9:10 am 10/280 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Library Floyd | The tower's library is wonderful. You spent the first two weeks as Dr. Floyd | Mortemain's apprentice here, grudgingly falling asleep early each Floyd | morning after spending the day and night reading through the mountain Floyd | of the books piled around the room. Even now, you've only covered a Floyd | small fraction of the maze of tipping bookcases that stretch to the Floyd | ceiling and crowd around the reading area. In this quiet and Floyd | undisturbed area, redolent of old books, you've spent the happiest Floyd | part of your year in the tower. If you have to leave, exits lead in Floyd | all four directions to the other wings. Floyd | Floyd | A lectern stands in an empty space near the center of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says (to Jacq), "hi jacq! got it. trying not to interfere" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Study 9:10 am 10/281 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | This room is Dr. Mortemain's study, his gentlemanly refuge from the Floyd | rigors of his duties as a wizard. An inviting antimacassared armchair Floyd | sits in front of the fireplace, and a liquor cabinet stands at the Floyd | ready nearby. Above the mantle, an intricately painted map hangs from Floyd | the wainscoting. An octagonal stand has been tucked discreetly into Floyd | the corner. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "search ball" | |||
Floyd ] Study 9:10 am 10/282 Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH BALL Floyd | Floyd | An image slowly fades into view: Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (East) Floyd | As its name implies, Guild Street contains most of the town's Floyd | guildhalls. There are far fewer now than a century ago, when the Floyd | street was originally constructed, as the daily administration of the Floyd | town became concentrated in the nearby castle. Nevertheless, there are Floyd | still some guilds whose headquarters lie along this street. Most Floyd | infamous among them is the Thieves' Guild, whose aggressively Floyd | nondescript building runs along the south edge of the street. Floyd | Floyd | The street continues to the east and west, and a narrow alley to the Floyd | southeast winds along the guild. Floyd | Floyd | A shadowy figure approaches the Guild's mailbox. He looks around and, Floyd | seeing no one, sighs in relief. From your vantage above the scene, you Floyd | watch him tap a small indentation concealed on the underside of the Floyd | mailbox. He then fearlessly reaches into the mailbox and rummages Floyd | around within it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "AHO" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "er, AHA" | |||
| polarisunique says, "Yessss" | |||
| guest23 says, "OHO" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Library 9:10 am 10/283 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Library Floyd | The tower's library is wonderful. You spent the first two weeks as Dr. Floyd | Mortemain's apprentice here, grudgingly falling asleep early each Floyd | morning after spending the day and night reading through the mountain Floyd | of the books piled around the room. Even now, you've only covered a Floyd | small fraction of the maze of tipping bookcases that stretch to the Floyd | ceiling and crowd around the reading area. In this quiet and Floyd | undisturbed area, redolent of old books, you've spent the happiest Floyd | part of your year in the tower. If you have to leave, exits lead in Floyd | all four directions to the other wings. Floyd | Floyd | A lectern stands in an empty space near the center of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 9:11 am 10/284 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tower Entry Floyd | This familiar area is the tower's entryway. It's intended to impress Floyd | and intimidate visitors, and so the recesses of the gloomy vaulted Floyd | ceiling are decorated with elaborate carvings of gargoyles and demons. Floyd | The curtains are partially drawn, bathing the cavernous hall in Floyd | hesitant shadows. As an uncharacteristic nod to practicality, an Floyd | umbrella stand sits beside the double doors leading south from the Floyd | tower. A corridor to the north leads across the polished marble floor Floyd | deeper inside. Floyd | Floyd | Flux sits on his perch, idly kneading it with its claws. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 9:11 am 10/285 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:11 am 10/286 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (West) Floyd | As its name implies, Guild Street contains most of the town's Floyd | guildhalls. There are far fewer now than a century ago, when the Floyd | street was originally constructed, as the daily administration of the Floyd | town became concentrated in the nearby castle. The ominous stone tower Floyd | standing to the north was formerly the base of operations of the Floyd | once-prominent Magicians' Guild, which counted dozens of wizards among Floyd | its members in its heyday. That heyday passed centuries ago, however, Floyd | and the only wizards currently in town are you and Dr. Mortemain. He Floyd | acquired the tower after the guild's dissolution, and it's there that Floyd | you now spend most of your time. Floyd | Floyd | The street returns to the town square to the west and continues to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a tarnished brass mailbox (which contains an ochre Floyd | envelope) here. Floyd | Floyd | A tinny but catchy song issues from the mailbox: Floyd | Floyd | There's something in your mailbox! Floyd | Don't invest in kale stocks! Floyd | Something something snail fox! Floyd | Hooray! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x mailbox" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:11 am 10/287 Floyd | > Floyd | > X MAILBOX Floyd | Floyd | Despite already beginning to tarnish, the brass mailbox is a recent Floyd | addition to the tower. It emits a blandly cheerful tune when mail Floyd | arrives, and it continues to do until it's removed. You and Dr. Floyd | Mortemain both dislike it, but each of you keeps it around out of mild Floyd | spite towards the other. Floyd | Floyd | Inside the tarnished brass mailbox is an ochre envelope. Floyd | Floyd | A tinny but catchy song issues from the mailbox: Floyd | Floyd | There's something in your mailbox! Floyd | Don't invest in kale stocks! Floyd | Something something snail fox! Floyd | Hooray! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Man she is sending a ton of mail." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take ochre" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:12 am 10/288 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE OCHRE Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open ochre" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:12 am 10/289 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN OCHRE Floyd | Floyd | You open the ochre envelope, revealing a glossy flyer. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x flyer" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:12 am 10/290 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FLYER Floyd | Floyd | The glossy flyer shows colorful images of various alleged magical Floyd | paraphernalia: raven's skulls, black pointy hats, staves with vaguely Floyd | mysterious symbols on them, and so on. At the bottom is an endorsement Floyd | from the head of the Illusionists' Guild: "These products Floyd | have...magical value, and the claims made by their sellers are [not] Floyd | fraudulent." Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:12 am 10/291 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an ochre envelope (which is open) Floyd | a glossy flyer Floyd | a beige envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | two glossy flyers Floyd | a pearl-colored envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | a slab of beef Floyd | some salted herring Floyd | a manchet loaf Floyd | a green canister (which is open) Floyd | some bright green powder Floyd | a white canister (which is open) Floyd | some salt Floyd | a wooden staff Floyd | a leather-bound index Floyd | a sheet of parchment Floyd | an indigo pouch (which is open but empty) Floyd | a moss-colored pouch (which is open but empty) Floyd | a spellbook Floyd | a set of lockpicks Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (East) 9:13 am 10/292 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (East) Floyd | As its name implies, Guild Street contains most of the town's Floyd | guildhalls. There are far fewer now than a century ago, when the Floyd | street was originally constructed, as the daily administration of the Floyd | town became concentrated in the nearby castle. Nevertheless, there are Floyd | still some guilds whose headquarters lie along this street. Most Floyd | infamous among them is the Thieves' Guild, whose aggressively Floyd | nondescript building runs along the south edge of the street. Floyd | Floyd | The street continues to the east and west, and a narrow alley to the Floyd | southeast winds along the guild. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an umber envelope (which is closed) and a shiny brass Floyd | mailbox (which contains a brown parcel) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look under mailbox" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (East) 9:13 am 10/293 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER MAILBOX Floyd | Floyd | Remembering the earlier actions of the footman, you gingerly run your Floyd | hands over the mailbox and discover a small indentation on its Floyd | underside. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "push indentation" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (East) 9:13 am 10/294 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH INDENTATION Floyd | Floyd | The mailbox reassuringly issues a faint, tinny clink. Floyd | Floyd | The sky looks cloudy. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take parcel" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (East) 9:13 am 10/295 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PARCEL Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x parcel" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (East) 9:14 am 10/296 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PARCEL Floyd | Floyd | The street address written on the nondescript parcel is smudged and Floyd | difficult to read. The last digit could be a 9, meaning that it was Floyd | intended for the Thieves' Guild, but it's much more likely to be a 7 Floyd | and thus intended for Dr. Mortemain's tower. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:14 am 10/297 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (West) Floyd | As its name implies, Guild Street contains most of the town's Floyd | guildhalls. There are far fewer now than a century ago, when the Floyd | street was originally constructed, as the daily administration of the Floyd | town became concentrated in the nearby castle. The ominous stone tower Floyd | standing to the north was formerly the base of operations of the Floyd | once-prominent Magicians' Guild, which counted dozens of wizards among Floyd | its members in its heyday. That heyday passed centuries ago, however, Floyd | and the only wizards currently in town are you and Dr. Mortemain. He Floyd | acquired the tower after the guild's dissolution, and it's there that Floyd | you now spend most of your time. Floyd | Floyd | The street returns to the town square to the west and continues to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a tarnished brass mailbox here. Floyd | Floyd | The sky looks cloudy. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "open parcel" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:14 am 10/298 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN PARCEL Floyd | Floyd | You rip apart the parcel, revealing a fossilized toad. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Welp, there we go." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take toad" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:14 am 10/299 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE TOAD Floyd | Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put toad in green pouch" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:15 am 10/300 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT TOAD IN GREEN POUCH Floyd | Floyd | You put the fossilized toad into the moss-colored pouch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "close pouch" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:15 am 10/300 Floyd | > Floyd | > CLOSE POUCH Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the indigo pouch or the moss-colored pouch? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "close green pouch" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:15 am 10/301 Floyd | > Floyd | > CLOSE GREEN POUCH Floyd | Floyd | You close the moss-colored pouch. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Put that in the moss pouch" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 9:15 am 10/302 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tower Entry Floyd | This familiar area is the tower's entryway. It's intended to impress Floyd | and intimidate visitors, and so the recesses of the gloomy vaulted Floyd | ceiling are decorated with elaborate carvings of gargoyles and demons. Floyd | The curtains are partially drawn, bathing the cavernous hall in Floyd | hesitant shadows. As an uncharacteristic nod to practicality, an Floyd | umbrella stand sits beside the double doors leading south from the Floyd | tower. A corridor to the north leads across the polished marble floor Floyd | deeper inside. Floyd | Floyd | Flux sits on his perch, idly kneading it with its claws. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give green pouch to Flux" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 9:15 am 15/303 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE GREEN POUCH TO FLUX Floyd | Floyd | Flux considers the fossilized toad for a moment, trying to think of a Floyd | reason to be displeased with it. "I sssuppossse this will have to do," Floyd | it says resignedly, accepting the pouch and flying off with it deeper Floyd | into the tower. After a moment, it returns empty-handed and lands Floyd | heavily on its perch, clawing it at irritably. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "yay" | ||
| polarisunique says, "Now there's the problem of the skink" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I would like to take this opportunity to point out that what I said about this being the full game is utter bollucks because we now have 15 of *303* points." | |||
| polarisunique says, "Uh, the 303 is our turn count" | |||
| Rob says, "ha ha" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh, is it?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I guess it is." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "PHEW" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "score" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 9:15 am 15/303 Floyd | > Floyd | > SCORE Floyd | Floyd | You have so far scored 15 out of a possible 20, in 303 turns. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "I kinda like the traditional IF vibe the author is going for, and kinda nailing" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, 15 out of 20. hahaha" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "That is so much better." | |||
| polarisunique says, "So we just have the final ingredient worth 5 points" | |||
| Roger says, "Upon further reflection, I think I may just be grumpy for reasons unrelated to this game" | |||
| vimes says, "i like the idea of actions increasing the maximum point total rather than giving you points" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Polar), "Sorry, I just totally forgot all of IF status line convention, I guess." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to vimes), "heh" | |||
| Rob says (to Roger), "you and me both, brother" | |||
| DavidW says, "So we get the skink to flux and we're done." | |||
| Jacqueline asks (of Roger), "Some Grumpiness for Reasons Unknown?" | |||
| Rob says, "although I'm cheering up" | |||
| Rob says, "the less I interfere" | |||
| vimes says, ""you now have 1 out of a possible 6,293,192 points. good luck!"" | |||
| Rob says (to vimes), "as someone floating around for inspiration alone, yeah, I like the idea of ations increasing the max rather than the points. huh." | |||
| Rob goes quiet! for the remainder | |||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at vimes), "Hey, there might still be time to enter this year's IF Comp!" | |||
| DavidW asks, "So, what's our options? Try to find a way *under* the Magick Shoppe? Find our own skink and prepare it too? Do something with our fake skink powder to make it more skink powder like?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up skink in index" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 9:16 am 15/304 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP SKINK IN INDEX Floyd | Floyd | SKINK: Skinks are often used in divination spells, usually in the form Floyd | of a bright red powder. The natural color of powdered skink is a dull Floyd | grey; the chemicals and magical treatments involved in preparing it Floyd | for spellcraft dye it that color. They are particularly useful in Floyd | spells locating quarry in caves or underground, due to their Floyd | predilection for burrowing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So, since we have new peeps... should we show what happened with the powder in the magic shop?" | ||
| vimes asks (of jacq), "go around taking things out of a treasure chest and resetting puzzles?" | |||
| Rob asks (of jacq), "what's the author's name?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Rob), "Thomas Mack" | |||
| DavidW says, "No other obvious properties besides 'red'." | |||
| Rob says, "mmM." | |||
| polarisunique says, "Yeah, I was gonna say we should go through the motions with the skink just in case it's important to the script" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "okay." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm also wondering if we can put something on the floor. It's not like we don't have a ton of flyers and mail." | |||
| DavidW asks, "What are we doing?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:16 am 15/305 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (West) Floyd | As its name implies, Guild Street contains most of the town's Floyd | guildhalls. There are far fewer now than a century ago, when the Floyd | street was originally constructed, as the daily administration of the Floyd | town became concentrated in the nearby castle. The ominous stone tower Floyd | standing to the north was formerly the base of operations of the Floyd | once-prominent Magicians' Guild, which counted dozens of wizards among Floyd | its members in its heyday. That heyday passed centuries ago, however, Floyd | and the only wizards currently in town are you and Dr. Mortemain. He Floyd | acquired the tower after the guild's dissolution, and it's there that Floyd | you now spend most of your time. Floyd | Floyd | The street returns to the town square to the west and continues to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a tarnished brass mailbox here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "w" | |||
Floyd ] Town Square 9:16 am 15/306 Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Town Square Floyd | Blackacre's picturesque town square spreads out before you. Although Floyd | it's no longer central in terms of geography or importance, this area Floyd | is nevertheless a genuinely pleasant part of town. A clock tower Floyd | dominates the plaza, towering over the cedars planted around it. Floyd | Benches surround the flowerbeds that dot the square. Blackacre Floyd | residents occasionally filter through the square, glancing up Floyd | nervously at the overcast sky. Floyd | Floyd | Streets leave the square to the east and west, and a road to the south Floyd | leads from the town of Blackacre to the castle of Blackacre. Among the Floyd | crowded buildings ringing the square are the post office to the north Floyd | and magic store to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sw" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:16 am 15/307 Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Magick Shoppe Floyd | Blackacre's only magic shop looks the part: It's a musty, timbered Floyd | building with some feeble light oozing in through its rafters. Its Floyd | owner, Sandie, was formerly an undistinguished apprentice wizard; now Floyd | she uses both that title and her ineptitude with magic for Floyd | considerable financial gain. Her clients are from rich families and Floyd | have elderly, sick relatives. They want to inherit, but they're Floyd | obligated to do something to help. Sandie is that something. She Floyd | performs the perfunctory duties of an attendant magician, but her lack Floyd | of talent with magic eliminates the possibility of any inconvenient Floyd | recovery. She sadly informs the dutiful sons or daughters that nothing Floyd | can be done; they inherit a large sum of money shortly thereafter; and Floyd | then they donate a modest fraction of that sum to Sandie in gratitude Floyd | for her services. Floyd | Floyd | As such, most of the items in the shop are gaudy, sparkly trinkets of Floyd | no use or value. A stuffed alligator even hangs gratuitously from the Floyd | ceiling. To maintain plausible deniability, though, Sandie keeps some Floyd | genuinely magical items in her shop. Having the occasional wizard as a Floyd | customer makes her consulting activities more plausible, and she tries Floyd | to keep you and Dr. Mortemain as loyal customers. Your jaundiced eye Floyd | notices a display case that looks invitingly dusty. Floyd | Floyd | The store continues to the south, and the exit back to the town square Floyd | is to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A golem stands at the exit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf5" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:16 am 15/307 Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:17 am 15/308 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an ochre envelope (which is open) Floyd | a glossy flyer Floyd | a beige envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | two glossy flyers Floyd | a pearl-colored envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | a slab of beef Floyd | some salted herring Floyd | a manchet loaf Floyd | a green canister (which is open) Floyd | some bright green powder Floyd | a white canister (which is open) Floyd | some salt Floyd | a wooden staff Floyd | a leather-bound index Floyd | a sheet of parchment Floyd | an indigo pouch (which is open but empty) Floyd | a spellbook Floyd | a set of lockpicks Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take fler from ochre" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:17 am 15/308 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE FLER FROM OCHRE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | polarisunique says, "We can probably drop all our envelopes" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take flyer from ochre" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:17 am 15/309 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE FLYER FROM OCHRE Floyd | Floyd | Removed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x floor" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:17 am 15/310 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FLOOR Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oh" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put envelopes on floor" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:17 am 15/311 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ENVELOPES ON FLOOR Floyd | Floyd | ochre envelope: Dropped. Floyd | beige envelope: Dropped. Floyd | pearl-colored envelope: Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Is there more skink powder in the shoppe to take?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "We restored." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x skink" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:18 am 15/312 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SKINK Floyd | Floyd | It's a fine, acrid red powder. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So, here's what happened when we just tried to take some..." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take red" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:18 am 15/313 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE RED Floyd | Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take skink" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:18 am 15/314 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SKINK Floyd | Floyd | As you reach down to scoop up the powder, you're rudely jostled from Floyd | behind. It tumbles out of your hand, and you watch helplessly as it Floyd | falls down a crack in the floor. You turn in around in irritation and Floyd | are met by the smirking face of Mr. Wattman. Floyd | "Oh, I'm so sorry! It's so crowded in here," he says, gesturing at the Floyd | empty space around the two of you, "and it looks like we were both Floyd | looking for some powdered skink. I know your master asked you to get Floyd | some, and now... Oh well, these things happen." Floyd | Whistling happily, Mr. Wattman leaves the shop, doffing his hat to the Floyd | golem as he passes it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:18 am 15/313 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Magick Shoppe Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take envelops" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:18 am 15/313 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ENVELOPS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take envelopes" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:18 am 15/314 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ENVELOPES Floyd | Floyd | pearl-colored envelope: Taken. Floyd | beige envelope: Taken. Floyd | ochre envelope: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put skink in beige envelope" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:18 am 15/315 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT SKINK IN BEIGE ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | You need to be holding the powdered skink before you can put it into Floyd | something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | polarisunique says, "The game has been relatively nice so far so I think it's a scripted event" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I was afraid it would say that." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Clearly, we must murder Mr. Wattman." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "But I am open to other ideas." | |||
| DavidW asks, "Can we try to fake-steal something so the golem blocks not just our way out but Wattman's way in?" | |||
| Rob asks, "what is the situation?" | |||
| Rob asks, "what's the plot-block?" | |||
| guest23 asks, "does the Wattman thing happen if you try to take red tea out of another container?" | |||
| DavidW says, "We need to buy skink powder." | |||
| Rob says, "ah." | |||
| DavidW says (to guest23), "No idea yet." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to guest23), "hm. Not sure." | |||
| Rob says, "I love the inventory list" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take tea" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:19 am 15/316 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE TEA Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Rob says (to Floyd), "take inventory" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:19 am 15/317 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE INVENTORY Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | some bright green powder Floyd | an ochre envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | a beige envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | a pearl-colored envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | three glossy flyers Floyd | a slab of beef Floyd | some salted herring Floyd | a manchet loaf Floyd | a green canister (which is open but empty) Floyd | a white canister (which is open) Floyd | some salt Floyd | a wooden staff Floyd | a leather-bound index Floyd | a sheet of parchment Floyd | an indigo pouch (which is open but empty) Floyd | a spellbook Floyd | a set of lockpicks Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put tea in left bin" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:19 am 15/318 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT TEA IN LEFT BIN Floyd | Floyd | The bright green powder is too large to fit inside the left bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, it's still green. right." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x tea" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:19 am 15/319 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TEA Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Mortemain is very particular about his tea, and he had this fine, Floyd | bright green powder shipped here at great expense. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read spell" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:20 am 15/320 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ SPELL Floyd | Floyd | anracni: turns green objects red Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "anracni tea" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:20 am 15/321 Floyd | > Floyd | > ANRACNI TEA Floyd | Floyd | The bright green powder turns bright red. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "what is the bottleneck keeping progress from happening" | ||
| Rob says, "these are my author questions" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "When we try to take the red powder we actually need, a rival comes into the room and bumps us, making us spill it into the floor boards." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put tea in center bin" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:20 am 15/322 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT TEA IN CENTER BIN Floyd | Floyd | The bright red powder is too large to fit inside the center bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "huh" | ||
| Rob says, "so what neutralizes the red powder rival" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "That we do not know." | |||
| Rob says, "ah" | |||
| DavidW says, "We don't know. I think it's the golem." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I was facetiously suggesting murder but no one said that was a good idea." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Dw), "Explain the golum idea more." | |||
| Rob says, "as a game boss, the red powder rival must have a weakness that the author wants you to guess" | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "pour tea into center bin" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:20 am 15/323 Floyd | > Floyd | > POUR TEA INTO CENTER BIN Floyd | Floyd | That's something you can pour. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "The golem blocks our way out if we try to leave with an item without paying for it, right?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "RIght" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh, fake him out with the tea?" | |||
| Rob says, "the author thinks it's clever-obvious" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Well, won't the golem also block Wattman from entering?" | |||
| Rob says, "now you must read his mind, I said I'd shut up and I didn't. sorry. I was just enjoying the spectacle" | |||
| DavidW says, "(And I hat lagging so much!)" | |||
| DavidW says, "(hate)" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Well, sure, but we also can't step away to do anything else when the golum has us." | |||
| Rob asks, "there's a golum? can it be activated or de-activated?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "What do you mean, 'golem has us'?" | |||
| DavidW says, "He blocks the doorway." | |||
| Rob says, "a golem has a magic word that gives him life, traditionally" | |||
| Rob says, "'life' being the magic word, so that's not helpful at all" | |||
| polarisunique says, "I think we're supposed to be trying to recover the skink after it's lost, not trying to prevent the skink from being lost in the first place" | |||
| DavidW says, "The word for 'life' in Hebrew. I forget the actual word." | |||
| Rob says (to DW), "yah" | |||
| Rob says, "wh" | |||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "chayim?" | |||
| Rob says, "I am intro-comp'ed by this Mack game I guess" | |||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "I don't know. Doesn't sound right." | |||
| Rob says, "dang" | |||
| Rob says, "ok, so the situation is" | |||
| Rob says, "we lack what to solve this" | |||
| DavidW says, "Like, if you erase a letter, life becomes death, and the golem stops living." | |||
| Roger says, "The map implies there's another location in here" | |||
| Jacqueline asks (of polaris), "What are you thinking about how to recover it?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x floor" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:21 am 15/324 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FLOOR Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x crack" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:21 am 15/324 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CRACK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "There's no crack, the floor is nondescript..." | ||
| DavidW says, "But I love how you guys won't even try my idea when you have no idea yourselves." | |||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "I have no idea what to try?" | |||
| polarisunique says, "Uhh, I don't really have a solution yet" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "What are the steps you're suggesting, DW?" | |||
| polarisunique says, "I'm just going off what David said earlier about how the author probably isn't intending for us to undo to get the skink" | |||
| DavidW says, "Well, first we need something to steal and I don't know what's here." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to polaris), "Oh, true." | |||
| DavidW says, "So LOOK." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:21 am 15/325 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Magick Shoppe Floyd | Blackacre's only magic shop looks the part: It's a musty, timbered Floyd | building with some feeble light oozing in through its rafters. Its Floyd | owner, Sandie, was formerly an undistinguished apprentice wizard; now Floyd | she uses both that title and her ineptitude with magic for Floyd | considerable financial gain. Her clients are from rich families and Floyd | have elderly, sick relatives. They want to inherit, but they're Floyd | obligated to do something to help. Sandie is that something. She Floyd | performs the perfunctory duties of an attendant magician, but her lack Floyd | of talent with magic eliminates the possibility of any inconvenient Floyd | recovery. She sadly informs the dutiful sons or daughters that nothing Floyd | can be done; they inherit a large sum of money shortly thereafter; and Floyd | then they donate a modest fraction of that sum to Sandie in gratitude Floyd | for her services. Floyd | Floyd | As such, most of the items in the shop are gaudy, sparkly trinkets of Floyd | no use or value. A stuffed alligator even hangs gratuitously from the Floyd | ceiling. To maintain plausible deniability, though, Sandie keeps some Floyd | genuinely magical items in her shop. Having the occasional wizard as a Floyd | customer makes her consulting activities more plausible, and she tries Floyd | to keep you and Dr. Mortemain as loyal customers. Your jaundiced eye Floyd | notices a display case that looks invitingly dusty. Floyd | Floyd | The store continues to the south, and the exit back to the town square Floyd | is to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A golem stands at the exit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take trinket" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:21 am 15/326 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE TRINKET Floyd | Floyd | That would be pointless. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take alligator" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:21 am 15/327 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ALLIGATOR Floyd | Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x alligator" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:22 am 15/328 Floyd | > Floyd | > X ALLIGATOR Floyd | Floyd | The massive reptile looks like a dragon without the wings. It's hard Floyd | not to empathize with him, stuck watching over a hoard of sparkly Floyd | junk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x right bin" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:22 am 15/329 Floyd | > Floyd | > X RIGHT BIN Floyd | Floyd | Like the rest of the display case, the right bin has seen little use. Floyd | Floyd | The right bin is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Basically, the only thing here that we can take (I think) is the skink." | ||
| DavidW asks, "So there isn't even any basilisk scales left? Is there something to steal in the other room?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look in right bin" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:22 am 15/330 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN RIGHT BIN Floyd | Floyd | The right bin is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 9:22 am 15/331 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Shoppe Counter Floyd | This back corner is a bit more tasteful than the main shop floor to Floyd | the north. There aren't any magical (or magickal) items for purchase Floyd | here, but at the back of the room is a long, high counter. Floyd | Floyd | A satchel hangs from a hook on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Sandie here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take satchel" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 9:23 am 15/332 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SATCHEL Floyd | Floyd | That's far too cumbersome for you to carry around. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x counter" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 9:23 am 15/333 Floyd | > Floyd | > X COUNTER Floyd | Floyd | The counter creates a small area in which the shopkeeper can stand and Floyd | watch over the store. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It would appear no on both questions." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on counter" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 9:23 am 15/334 Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND ON COUNTER Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can stand on. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob asks, "what's heavy in the satchel?" | ||
| Roger says, "Could we give her the tea" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "buy tea" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 9:23 am 15/335 Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY TEA Floyd | Floyd | That isn't for sale. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show tea to Sandie" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 9:24 am 15/336 Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW TEA TO SANDIE Floyd | Floyd | Sandie is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give tea to sandie" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 9:24 am 15/337 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE TEA TO SANDIE Floyd | Floyd | Sandie doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Rob says (to floyd), "X search satchel" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 9:24 am 15/337 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SEARCH SATCHEL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "blurgh" | ||
| DavidW says, "I was hoping there's something to steal so we can get the reaction we got from the scales." | |||
| Rob asks, "what did you get from the scales?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I don't think there's anything we can actually steal." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "The basilisk scales?" | |||
| Rob asks, "what is in that satchel that's so heavy?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "We turned those in to our boss' familiar and got our five points." | |||
| DavidW says, "oh god, I'm not explaining the plan a fourth time." | |||
| Rob says, "got the points, ok, so it's probably done" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "The satchel is for bulk advertising mail that Sandie is generating to drum up more business." | |||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "What do you mean?" | |||
| Rob says, "yeah, I'm way too behind to be helpful" | |||
| DavidW says, "If there's nothing to steal, I can't try my plan." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah, okay." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Sorry. I tried to 'fake steal' the tea." | |||
| DavidW says, "Unless we restore back to when the scales were here." | |||
| Rob says, "man, a game where 'fake steal' is a thing" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, it's evidently not a thing." | |||
| Rob says (to to), "Jon" | |||
| Rob says, "...... yet!" | |||
| guest23 asks, "The skunk has not been used yet right? everything else has?" | |||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at guest23), "That is true!" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Should we go mess with the skunk?" | |||
| Roger says, "Surely" | |||
| DavidW asks, "so, do people think they can get into the basement?" | |||
| Rob says, "yes" | |||
| DavidW says (to guest23), "We have not used everything." | |||
| guest23 asks, "We have not used the tea either .. is there more?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "The map does not imply a basement. And the 'crack' that the skink falls through is not implemented." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "We have some salt" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 9:24 am 15/338 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | some bright red powder Floyd | an ochre envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | a beige envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | a pearl-colored envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | three glossy flyers Floyd | a slab of beef Floyd | some salted herring Floyd | a manchet loaf Floyd | a green canister (which is open but empty) Floyd | a white canister (which is open) Floyd | some salt Floyd | a wooden staff Floyd | a leather-bound index Floyd | a sheet of parchment Floyd | an indigo pouch (which is open but empty) Floyd | a spellbook Floyd | a set of lockpicks Floyd | Floyd | Sandie drums her fingers on the counter impatiently. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "hm" | ||
| polarisunique says, "I think the crack shows up after we drop the skink through it" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf6" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 9:24 am 15/338 Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take skink" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 9:24 am 15/338 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SKINK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "beef-herring-flyers staff" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:24 am 15/339 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Magick Shoppe Floyd | Blackacre's only magic shop looks the part: It's a musty, timbered Floyd | building with some feeble light oozing in through its rafters. Its Floyd | owner, Sandie, was formerly an undistinguished apprentice wizard; now Floyd | she uses both that title and her ineptitude with magic for Floyd | considerable financial gain. Her clients are from rich families and Floyd | have elderly, sick relatives. They want to inherit, but they're Floyd | obligated to do something to help. Sandie is that something. She Floyd | performs the perfunctory duties of an attendant magician, but her lack Floyd | of talent with magic eliminates the possibility of any inconvenient Floyd | recovery. She sadly informs the dutiful sons or daughters that nothing Floyd | can be done; they inherit a large sum of money shortly thereafter; and Floyd | then they donate a modest fraction of that sum to Sandie in gratitude Floyd | for her services. Floyd | Floyd | As such, most of the items in the shop are gaudy, sparkly trinkets of Floyd | no use or value. A stuffed alligator even hangs gratuitously from the Floyd | ceiling. To maintain plausible deniability, though, Sandie keeps some Floyd | genuinely magical items in her shop. Having the occasional wizard as a Floyd | customer makes her consulting activities more plausible, and she tries Floyd | to keep you and Dr. Mortemain as loyal customers. Your jaundiced eye Floyd | notices a display case that looks invitingly dusty. Floyd | Floyd | The store continues to the south, and the exit back to the town square Floyd | is to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A golem stands at the exit. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We haven't used the staff/cane thing or the herring or the meat or the salt or the skunk or the map and we probably haven't seen all the locations yet even." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take skink" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:25 am 15/340 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SKINK Floyd | Floyd | As you reach down to scoop up the powder, you're rudely jostled from Floyd | behind. It tumbles out of your hand, and you watch helplessly as it Floyd | falls down a crack in the floor. You turn in around in irritation and Floyd | are met by the smirking face of Mr. Wattman. Floyd | "Oh, I'm so sorry! It's so crowded in here," he says, gesturing at the Floyd | empty space around the two of you, "and it looks like we were both Floyd | looking for some powdered skink. I know your master asked you to get Floyd | some, and now... Oh well, these things happen." Floyd | Whistling happily, Mr. Wattman leaves the shop, doffing his hat to the Floyd | golem as he passes it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x crack" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:25 am 15/341 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CRACK Floyd | Floyd | The finely powdered skink has disappeared down the hairline crack, and Floyd | you see no way of recovering it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So it does." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf6" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 9:24 am 15/338
Floyd | > RESTOREOk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW asks, "Put flyer in crack?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I believe we have seen all of the locations, actually." | |||
| polarisunique says, "We can't interact with the crack before dropping the skink, unfortunately" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "You can't see the crack before the event where the crack is revealed." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put flyer on crack" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 9:24 am 15/338 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT FLYER ON CRACK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "BUT you see it afterwards, yes?" | ||
| Rob says, "so it's a babelfish thing where you need to do something in order to take the skink? and it must be something in inventory" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I mean, yes, you can see it afterwards." | |||
| DavidW asks, "So why not interact with the crack when it is there?" | |||
| Rob says, "I hear my phone" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Because at that point the skink is gone?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "But we can mess with it. No one is saying not to try." | |||
| DavidW asks, "All of it?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "All the skink is gone the first time?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I just wanted to poke a skunk with a stick, but if people have other ideas that is good too." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yes, I believe so. I can try again." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take red" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 9:24 am 15/338 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE RED Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the bright red powder or the slab of beef? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take skink" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 9:24 am 15/338 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SKINK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 9:24 am 15/339 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Shoppe Counter Floyd | This back corner is a bit more tasteful than the main shop floor to Floyd | the north. There aren't any magical (or magickal) items for purchase Floyd | here, but at the back of the room is a long, high counter. Floyd | Floyd | A satchel hangs from a hook on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Sandie here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:25 am 15/340 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Magick Shoppe Floyd | Blackacre's only magic shop looks the part: It's a musty, timbered Floyd | building with some feeble light oozing in through its rafters. Its Floyd | owner, Sandie, was formerly an undistinguished apprentice wizard; now Floyd | she uses both that title and her ineptitude with magic for Floyd | considerable financial gain. Her clients are from rich families and Floyd | have elderly, sick relatives. They want to inherit, but they're Floyd | obligated to do something to help. Sandie is that something. She Floyd | performs the perfunctory duties of an attendant magician, but her lack Floyd | of talent with magic eliminates the possibility of any inconvenient Floyd | recovery. She sadly informs the dutiful sons or daughters that nothing Floyd | can be done; they inherit a large sum of money shortly thereafter; and Floyd | then they donate a modest fraction of that sum to Sandie in gratitude Floyd | for her services. Floyd | Floyd | As such, most of the items in the shop are gaudy, sparkly trinkets of Floyd | no use or value. A stuffed alligator even hangs gratuitously from the Floyd | ceiling. To maintain plausible deniability, though, Sandie keeps some Floyd | genuinely magical items in her shop. Having the occasional wizard as a Floyd | customer makes her consulting activities more plausible, and she tries Floyd | to keep you and Dr. Mortemain as loyal customers. Your jaundiced eye Floyd | notices a display case that looks invitingly dusty. Floyd | Floyd | The store continues to the south, and the exit back to the town square Floyd | is to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A golem stands at the exit. Floyd | Floyd | > | guest23 says, "Can we feed it the meat, or maybe mix meat with red tea first" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take skink" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:25 am 15/341 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SKINK Floyd | Floyd | As you reach down to scoop up the powder, you're rudely jostled from Floyd | behind. It tumbles out of your hand, and you watch helplessly as it Floyd | falls down a crack in the floor. You turn in around in irritation and Floyd | are met by the smirking face of Mr. Wattman. Floyd | "Oh, I'm so sorry! It's so crowded in here," he says, gesturing at the Floyd | empty space around the two of you, "and it looks like we were both Floyd | looking for some powdered skink. I know your master asked you to get Floyd | some, and now... Oh well, these things happen." Floyd | Whistling happily, Mr. Wattman leaves the shop, doffing his hat to the Floyd | golem as he passes it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "nope" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "look in left bin" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:25 am 15/342 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN LEFT BIN Floyd | Floyd | The left bin is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf6" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 9:24 am 15/338
Floyd | > RESTOREOk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:24 am 15/339 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Magick Shoppe Floyd | Blackacre's only magic shop looks the part: It's a musty, timbered Floyd | building with some feeble light oozing in through its rafters. Its Floyd | owner, Sandie, was formerly an undistinguished apprentice wizard; now Floyd | she uses both that title and her ineptitude with magic for Floyd | considerable financial gain. Her clients are from rich families and Floyd | have elderly, sick relatives. They want to inherit, but they're Floyd | obligated to do something to help. Sandie is that something. She Floyd | performs the perfunctory duties of an attendant magician, but her lack Floyd | of talent with magic eliminates the possibility of any inconvenient Floyd | recovery. She sadly informs the dutiful sons or daughters that nothing Floyd | can be done; they inherit a large sum of money shortly thereafter; and Floyd | then they donate a modest fraction of that sum to Sandie in gratitude Floyd | for her services. Floyd | Floyd | As such, most of the items in the shop are gaudy, sparkly trinkets of Floyd | no use or value. A stuffed alligator even hangs gratuitously from the Floyd | ceiling. To maintain plausible deniability, though, Sandie keeps some Floyd | genuinely magical items in her shop. Having the occasional wizard as a Floyd | customer makes her consulting activities more plausible, and she tries Floyd | to keep you and Dr. Mortemain as loyal customers. Your jaundiced eye Floyd | notices a display case that looks invitingly dusty. Floyd | Floyd | The store continues to the south, and the exit back to the town square Floyd | is to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A golem stands at the exit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give meat to golum" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:24 am 15/339 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE MEAT TO GOLUM Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob asks, "what's the deal with scooping up the powder?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of Rob), "What do you mean?" | |||
| Rob says, "(typing...)" | |||
| DavidW says, "golem not golum" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Oh, sorry. Thanks." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give meat to golem" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:25 am 15/340 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE MEAT TO GOLEM Floyd | Floyd | The golem doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:25 am 15/341 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | some bright red powder Floyd | an ochre envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | a beige envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | a pearl-colored envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | three glossy flyers Floyd | a slab of beef Floyd | some salted herring Floyd | a manchet loaf Floyd | a green canister (which is open but empty) Floyd | a white canister (which is open) Floyd | some salt Floyd | a wooden staff Floyd | a leather-bound index Floyd | a sheet of parchment Floyd | an indigo pouch (which is open but empty) Floyd | a spellbook Floyd | a set of lockpicks Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "you >take skink, it says 'As you reach down to scoop up the powder, you're rudely jostled -- ... etc... falls down a crack ... smirking face of Wattman" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give herring to golem" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:25 am 15/342 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE HERRING TO GOLEM Floyd | Floyd | The golem doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Rob), "The skink is powdered and it is red." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Can we please bring the crack back and try to interact with it more?" | |||
| Rob says, "the author means us to realize, that -- something has to do with preparatory to taking the skink/scooping the powder. --> what keeps it from falling helplessly down a crack in the floor" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf7" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:25 am 15/342 Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take skink" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:25 am 15/343 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SKINK Floyd | Floyd | As you reach down to scoop up the powder, you're rudely jostled from Floyd | behind. It tumbles out of your hand, and you watch helplessly as it Floyd | falls down a crack in the floor. You turn in around in irritation and Floyd | are met by the smirking face of Mr. Wattman. Floyd | "Oh, I'm so sorry! It's so crowded in here," he says, gesturing at the Floyd | empty space around the two of you, "and it looks like we were both Floyd | looking for some powdered skink. I know your master asked you to get Floyd | some, and now... Oh well, these things happen." Floyd | Whistling happily, Mr. Wattman leaves the shop, doffing his hat to the Floyd | golem as he passes it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put flyer on crack" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:26 am 15/344 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT FLYER ON CRACK Floyd | Floyd | That would be pointless. Floyd | Floyd | Sandie enters from the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "insert flyer into crack" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:26 am 15/345 Floyd | > Floyd | > INSERT FLYER INTO CRACK Floyd | Floyd | That would be pointless. Floyd | Floyd | Sandie exits the shop, and the golem bows reverentially as she passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pry crack with staff" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:26 am 15/346 Floyd | > Floyd | > PRY CRACK WITH STAFF Floyd | Floyd | That doesn't seem to be something you can unlock. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open floor" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:26 am 15/347 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN FLOOR Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in crack" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:27 am 15/348 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN CRACK Floyd | Floyd | The finely powdered skink has disappeared down the hairline crack, and Floyd | you see no way of recovering it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob asks, "what would keep the powder from falling down a crack in the floor, for example?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "suck crack" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:27 am 15/348 Floyd | > Floyd | > SUCK CRACK Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob asks, "what blocks a crack?" | ||
| Rob asks, "that we own?" | |||
| Rob asks, "a rug? a ... whut?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "roll flyer" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:27 am 15/348 Floyd | > Floyd | > ROLL FLYER Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Rob), "Well, see, part of the issue is that we don't know about the crack until it's too late." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We cannot block the crack before it becomes an issue because we don't know about it yet." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "reach in crack" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:27 am 15/348 Floyd | > Floyd | > REACH IN CRACK Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:27 am 15/349 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | some bright red powder Floyd | an ochre envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | a beige envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | a pearl-colored envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | three glossy flyers Floyd | a slab of beef Floyd | some salted herring Floyd | a manchet loaf Floyd | a green canister (which is open but empty) Floyd | a white canister (which is open) Floyd | some salt Floyd | a wooden staff Floyd | a leather-bound index Floyd | a sheet of parchment Floyd | an indigo pouch (which is open but empty) Floyd | a spellbook Floyd | a set of lockpicks Floyd | Floyd | > | guest23 says, "But that would force the player to restore to solve it.. which feels bad.. if it was something like preventing this crack thing wouldn't it just leave more skink in the container for you to try these things.. feeling this is pushing us towards finding skink elsewhere" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put tea in crack" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:27 am 15/350 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT TEA IN CRACK Floyd | Floyd | That would be pointless. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock crack with lockpick" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:27 am 15/351 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNLOCK CRACK WITH LOCKPICK Floyd | Floyd | That doesn't seem to be something you can unlock. Floyd | Floyd | Sandie enters the shop, and the golem bows reverentially as she Floyd | passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jimmy crack with staff" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:28 am 15/352 Floyd | > Floyd | > JIMMY CRACK WITH STAFF Floyd | Floyd | That doesn't seem to be something you can unlock. Floyd | Floyd | Sandie leaves to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "prise crack with staff" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:28 am 15/353 Floyd | > Floyd | > PRISE CRACK WITH STAFF Floyd | Floyd | That doesn't seem to be something you can unlock. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to guest23), "I completely agree with you." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But am happy for people to play this room out." | |||
| DavidW says, "This approach doesn't seem to be working." | |||
| DavidW says, "Someone else try something." | |||
| Rob asks, "so, -- what is the crack?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks (of Rob), "You mean, existentially?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "snort crack" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:28 am 15/353 Floyd | > Floyd | > SNORT CRACK Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "heh" | ||
| Roger asks, "May I?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyone want to mess with -- yes" | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "x golem" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:28 am 15/354 Floyd | > Floyd | > X GOLEM Floyd | Floyd | The golem is a gigantic, roughly humanoid, earthenware figure with Floyd | some vague facial features roughly carved into it. Golems are rare; Floyd | this particular one was a present to Sandie from the grateful heir to Floyd | a baron who devoted his leisure time to magical oddities. The Floyd | unnerving thing about it is not how much it looks like a human, but Floyd | how much it doesn't look like a human; it's like looking at a corpse. Floyd | Floyd | > | guest23 asks, "Can we feed the meat to the skunk, or try combine red tea powder with meat?" | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "talk to golem" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:28 am 15/355 Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GOLEM Floyd | Floyd | The golem stares at you blankly. It's probably better that it doesn't Floyd | respond, considering its crudely-drawn face has no mouth. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Roger), "go ahead" | ||
| Rob says, "I think the author wants the player to know there's a crack, the obvious choice with the powder results in 'that doesn't work...yet', so something first, then the powder *does* work" | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "x door" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:28 am 15/355 Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "x bin" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:28 am 15/355 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BIN Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the left bin, the center bin, or the right bin? Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "x left bin" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:29 am 15/356 Floyd | > Floyd | > X LEFT BIN Floyd | Floyd | Like the rest of the display case, the left bin has seen little use. Floyd | Floyd | The left bin is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "look in left bin" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:29 am 15/357 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN LEFT BIN Floyd | Floyd | The left bin is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "look in right bin" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:29 am 15/358 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN RIGHT BIN Floyd | Floyd | The right bin is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "look in center bin" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:29 am 15/359 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN CENTER BIN Floyd | Floyd | The center bin is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Oh is it gone already" | ||
| Rob says (to Roger), "dead ends" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I can restore if you want to reset/" | |||
| Roger says, "Yeah please" | |||
| Rob says, "what is the story so far, btw" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf7" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:25 am 15/342
Floyd | > RESTOREOk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "There you go." | ||
| Roger says, "thx" | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "look in left bin" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:25 am 15/343 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN LEFT BIN Floyd | Floyd | In the left bin is some powdered skink. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "x tea" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:26 am 15/344 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TEA Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Mortemain is very particular about his tea, and he had this fine, Floyd | bright red powder shipped here at great expense. Floyd | Floyd | Sandie enters from the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Rob), "We've been playing for over four hours." | ||
| Rob says, "conjecture: powdered skink works, if the crack is solved" | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "give tea to sandie" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:26 am 15/345 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE TEA TO SANDIE Floyd | Floyd | Sandie doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | Sandie exits the shop, and the golem bows reverentially as she passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says (to Jacq), "ok ok" | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:26 am 15/346 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:26 am 15/347 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:27 am 15/348 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:27 am 15/349 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:27 am 15/350 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:27 am 15/351 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Sandie enters the shop, and the golem bows reverentially as she Floyd | passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "take skink" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:28 am 15/352 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SKINK Floyd | Floyd | As you reach down to scoop up the powder, you're rudely jostled from Floyd | behind. It tumbles out of your hand, and you watch helplessly as it Floyd | falls down a crack in the floor. You turn in around in irritation and Floyd | are met by the smirking face of Mr. Wattman. Floyd | "Oh, I'm so sorry! It's so crowded in here," he says, gesturing at the Floyd | empty space around the two of you, "and it looks like we were both Floyd | looking for some powdered skink. I know your master asked you to get Floyd | some, and now... Oh well, these things happen." Floyd | Whistling happily, Mr. Wattman leaves the shop, doffing his hat to the Floyd | golem as he passes it. Floyd | Floyd | Sandie leaves to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "The current thing is that we need to get three ingredients for our boss, so that he can make a spell to kill a dragon. We have found two of the three, this is the last one." | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:27 am 15/351 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Magick Shoppe Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob asks, "this is an IntroComp?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes" | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "put tea in right bin" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:28 am 15/352 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT TEA IN RIGHT BIN Floyd | Floyd | The bright red powder is too large to fit inside the right bin. Floyd | Floyd | Sandie leaves to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "so .. it does have a solution" | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "x tea" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:28 am 15/353 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TEA Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Mortemain is very particular about his tea, and he had this fine, Floyd | bright red powder shipped here at great expense. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "The other two have been solvable. I am assuming, as well as this has been implemented, that this would not be a red (powder) herring." | ||
| DavidW says (to Rob), "We are an ex-Thieves' Guild member that is now apprenticed to a wizard but we only know one spell. We've applied to lead an attack a dragon at noon but we don't know if our application is accepted. Meanwhile we needed to recover some papers from the council chambers, then we got a new task to get three spell ingredients." | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:28 am 15/354 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | some bright red powder Floyd | an ochre envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | a beige envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | a pearl-colored envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | three glossy flyers Floyd | a slab of beef Floyd | some salted herring Floyd | a manchet loaf Floyd | a green canister (which is open but empty) Floyd | a white canister (which is open) Floyd | some salt Floyd | a wooden staff Floyd | a leather-bound index Floyd | a sheet of parchment Floyd | an indigo pouch (which is open but empty) Floyd | a spellbook Floyd | a set of lockpicks Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "put skink in indigo pouch" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:28 am 15/355 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT SKINK IN INDIGO POUCH Floyd | Floyd | You need to be holding the powdered skink before you can put it into Floyd | something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "ok hm" | ||
| DavidW says, "It's not a very coherent story as yet." | |||
| Rob says, "which flyer or spellbook explains the nature of powdered skink" | |||
| DavidW says, "The index sorta explains the skink powder, and the tome might say something about the skink itself as a creature." | |||
| Roger says (to flo), "roll sheet" | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "roll sheet" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:28 am 15/355 Floyd | > Floyd | > ROLL SHEET Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Rob says, "I think it's not likely I'm gonna solve this, I'm just asking like I would if I were playing" | ||
| Rob says, "I'm actually terrible about playing IF, that's why I write IF that plays real fun -ly" | |||
| DavidW says, "I tried 'roll' earlier." | |||
| DavidW says, "Try smelling the real skink powder before taking it." | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "put green canister in left bin" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:29 am 15/356 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT GREEN CANISTER IN LEFT BIN Floyd | Floyd | The green canister is too large to fit inside the left bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "take skink" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:29 am 15/357 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SKINK Floyd | Floyd | As you reach down to scoop up the powder, you're rudely jostled from Floyd | behind. It tumbles out of your hand, and you watch helplessly as it Floyd | falls down a crack in the floor. You turn in around in irritation and Floyd | are met by the smirking face of Mr. Wattman. Floyd | "Oh, I'm so sorry! It's so crowded in here," he says, gesturing at the Floyd | empty space around the two of you, "and it looks like we were both Floyd | looking for some powdered skink. I know your master asked you to get Floyd | some, and now... Oh well, these things happen." Floyd | Whistling happily, Mr. Wattman leaves the shop, doffing his hat to the Floyd | golem as he passes it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "x crack" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:29 am 15/358 Floyd | > Floyd | > X CRACK Floyd | Floyd | The finely powdered skink has disappeared down the hairline crack, and Floyd | you see no way of recovering it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "If there's a distinctive smell to the stuff, that might be a clue on how to make fake powder out of the tea." | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "x floor" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:29 am 15/359 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FLOOR Floyd | Floyd | There's a narrow crack in the floor, presumably leading into the Floyd | store's basement or underground. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floor), "smell skink" | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "smell skink" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:29 am 15/359 Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL SKINK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "smell tea" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:30 am 15/360 Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL TEA Floyd | Floyd | It smells strongly of earth. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:29 am 15/359 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Magick Shoppe Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:29 am 15/359 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Magick Shoppe Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:29 am 15/358 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Magick Shoppe Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:29 am 15/357 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Magick Shoppe Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:29 am 15/356 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Magick Shoppe Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:28 am 15/355 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Magick Shoppe Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "x skink" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:29 am 15/356 Floyd | > Floyd | > X SKINK Floyd | Floyd | It's a fine, acrid red powder. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "smell skink" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:29 am 15/357 Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL SKINK Floyd | Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm." | ||
| Roger says, "It could get sprayed by the skunk, perhaps" | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "x floor" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:29 am 15/358 Floyd | > Floyd | > X FLOOR Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "d" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:29 am 15/359 Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "eat skink" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:30 am 15/360 Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT SKINK Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the powdered skink) Floyd | As you reach down to scoop up the powder, you're rudely jostled from Floyd | behind. It tumbles out of your hand, and you watch helplessly as it Floyd | falls down a crack in the floor. You turn in around in irritation and Floyd | are met by the smirking face of Mr. Wattman. Floyd | "Oh, I'm so sorry! It's so crowded in here," he says, gesturing at the Floyd | empty space around the two of you, "and it looks like we were both Floyd | looking for some powdered skink. I know your master asked you to get Floyd | some, and now... Oh well, these things happen." Floyd | Whistling happily, Mr. Wattman leaves the shop, doffing his hat to the Floyd | golem as he passes it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:29 am 15/359 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Magick Shoppe Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "talk to whats-her-name, maybe she'll tell us there's a basement entrance after the skink is lost." | ||
| Roger says, "sure" | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "take skink" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:30 am 15/360 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SKINK Floyd | Floyd | As you reach down to scoop up the powder, you're rudely jostled from Floyd | behind. It tumbles out of your hand, and you watch helplessly as it Floyd | falls down a crack in the floor. You turn in around in irritation and Floyd | are met by the smirking face of Mr. Wattman. Floyd | "Oh, I'm so sorry! It's so crowded in here," he says, gesturing at the Floyd | empty space around the two of you, "and it looks like we were both Floyd | looking for some powdered skink. I know your master asked you to get Floyd | some, and now... Oh well, these things happen." Floyd | Whistling happily, Mr. Wattman leaves the shop, doffing his hat to the Floyd | golem as he passes it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:30 am 15/361 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You notice with apprehension that it's starting to get late. If you're Floyd | going to pull off some clever trick before the ceremony at noon, you'd Floyd | better hurry. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:30 am 15/362 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:30 am 15/363 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:31 am 15/364 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:31 am 15/365 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:31 am 15/366 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:31 am 15/367 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:32 am 15/368 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 9:32 am 15/369 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Shoppe Counter Floyd | This back corner is a bit more tasteful than the main shop floor to Floyd | the north. There aren't any magical (or magickal) items for purchase Floyd | here, but at the back of the room is a long, high counter. Floyd | Floyd | A satchel hangs from a hook on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Sandie here. Floyd | Floyd | Sandie drums her fingers on the counter impatiently. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "talk to sandie" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SANDIE Floyd | Floyd | You approach the shopkeeper. Floyd | Floyd | 0) (Leave.) Floyd | 1) What do you have in stock? Floyd | 2) What's with the golem? Floyd | 3) Do you have any clients now? Floyd | 4) What's with all the envelopes? Floyd | 5) Do you have any more powdered skink? Floyd | Floyd | Choose a topic (0-5) > | Roger says, "oho" | ||
| Roger says, "DW comes through again" | |||
| DavidW says, "5" | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "5" | |||
Floyd | Choose a topic (0-5) > 5
Floyd |
Floyd | "Do you have any more powdered skink?"
Floyd | "Sorry, that's it. Most of my customers prefer flashier items, and I
Floyd | prefer safer ones."
Floyd | "Do you know where I could get some more?"
Floyd | "Sure: Travel six hundred miles to the northern wastes, find a nest of
Floyd | skinks, capture one without getting bitten, carefully dissect it,
Floyd | dissolve it in several caustic acids, pulverize it, apply a variety of
Floyd | enchantments to preserve it, then travel back to Blackacre by
Floyd | dogsled."
Floyd | "Is how you get them?"
Floyd | "No, I pay someone to travel six hundred miles to the
Floyd | northern wastes, find a nest of skinks, capture one without getting
Floyd | bitten, carefully dissect it, dissolve it in several caustic acids,
Floyd | pulverize it, apply a variety of enchantments to preserve it, then
Floyd | travel back to Blackacre by dogsled."
Floyd |
Floyd | 0) (Leave.)
Floyd | 1) What do you have in stock?
Floyd | 2) What's with the golem?
Floyd | 3) Do you have any clients now?
Floyd | 4) What's with all the envelopes?
Floyd | 5) Do you have any more powdered skink?
Floyd |
Floyd | Choose a topic (0-5) >
| Roger says, "Still, promising that this isn't a dead-end" | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "1" | |||
Floyd | Choose a topic (0-5) > 1 Floyd | Floyd | "Excuse me, I was wondering if you had any---" Floyd | "We have everything here!" she says, gesturing expansively. "Take a Floyd | look around!" Floyd | Floyd | 0) (Leave.) Floyd | 1) What do you have in stock? Floyd | 2) What's with the golem? Floyd | 3) Do you have any clients now? Floyd | 4) What's with all the envelopes? Floyd | 5) Do you have any more powdered skink? Floyd | Floyd | Choose a topic (0-5) > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "2" | |||
Floyd | Choose a topic (0-5) > 2 Floyd | Floyd | "Where did you get that golem? Floyd | Floyd | "Wonderful, isn't it? That was a gift from the Baron Brombury. His Floyd | elderly mother caught a nasty cold, and he asked me to look after her. Floyd | I did all I could, but..." She trails off. "Anyway, the baron was Floyd | quite forgiving, and he graciously offered me the golem in gratitude Floyd | for my services. It's been quite useful. I had a few problems with Floyd | thieves earlier---" Floyd | "I'm sure the Thieves' Guild would never---" Floyd | "Oh, of course not," she says, smiling. "It's the amateurs I'm worried Floyd | about. Fortunately, the golem has scared them off." Floyd | Floyd | 0) (Leave.) Floyd | 1) What do you have in stock? Floyd | 2) What's with the golem? Floyd | 3) Do you have any clients now? Floyd | 4) What's with all the envelopes? Floyd | 5) Do you have any more powdered skink? Floyd | Floyd | Choose a topic (0-5) > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "0" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 9:32 am 15/370
Floyd | Choose a topic (0-5) > 0
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "l" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 9:32 am 15/371 Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Shoppe Counter Floyd | This back corner is a bit more tasteful than the main shop floor to Floyd | the north. There aren't any magical (or magickal) items for purchase Floyd | here, but at the back of the room is a long, high counter. Floyd | Floyd | A satchel hangs from a hook on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Sandie here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "x counter" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 9:33 am 15/372 Floyd | > Floyd | > X COUNTER Floyd | Floyd | The counter creates a small area in which the shopkeeper can stand and Floyd | watch over the store. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't think the new topic helps us much." | ||
| Roger says, "Not directly but it gives me hope that this isn't a dead-end" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look behind counter" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 9:33 am 15/373 Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND COUNTER Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 9:33 am 15/374 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:33 am 15/375 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Magick Shoppe Floyd | Blackacre's only magic shop looks the part: It's a musty, timbered Floyd | building with some feeble light oozing in through its rafters. Its Floyd | owner, Sandie, was formerly an undistinguished apprentice wizard; now Floyd | she uses both that title and her ineptitude with magic for Floyd | considerable financial gain. Her clients are from rich families and Floyd | have elderly, sick relatives. They want to inherit, but they're Floyd | obligated to do something to help. Sandie is that something. She Floyd | performs the perfunctory duties of an attendant magician, but her lack Floyd | of talent with magic eliminates the possibility of any inconvenient Floyd | recovery. She sadly informs the dutiful sons or daughters that nothing Floyd | can be done; they inherit a large sum of money shortly thereafter; and Floyd | then they donate a modest fraction of that sum to Sandie in gratitude Floyd | for her services. Floyd | Floyd | As such, most of the items in the shop are gaudy, sparkly trinkets of Floyd | no use or value. A stuffed alligator even hangs gratuitously from the Floyd | ceiling. To maintain plausible deniability, though, Sandie keeps some Floyd | genuinely magical items in her shop. Having the occasional wizard as a Floyd | customer makes her consulting activities more plausible, and she tries Floyd | to keep you and Dr. Mortemain as loyal customers. Your jaundiced eye Floyd | notices a display case that looks invitingly dusty. Floyd | Floyd | The store continues to the south, and the exit back to the town square Floyd | is to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | The floor here has a small crack in it, through which the powdered Floyd | skink fell. Floyd | Floyd | A golem stands at the exit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull hook" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:33 am 15/375 Floyd | > Floyd | > PULL HOOK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:34 am 15/376 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 9:34 am 15/377 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Shoppe Counter Floyd | This back corner is a bit more tasteful than the main shop floor to Floyd | the north. There aren't any magical (or magickal) items for purchase Floyd | here, but at the back of the room is a long, high counter. Floyd | Floyd | A satchel hangs from a hook on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Sandie here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "pull hook" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 9:34 am 15/378 Floyd | > Floyd | > PULL HOOK Floyd | Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn hook" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 9:34 am 15/379 Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN HOOK Floyd | Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | Sandie paces behind the counter. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Shoppe Counter 9:35 am 15/380 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:35 am 15/381 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Magick Shoppe Floyd | Blackacre's only magic shop looks the part: It's a musty, timbered Floyd | building with some feeble light oozing in through its rafters. Its Floyd | owner, Sandie, was formerly an undistinguished apprentice wizard; now Floyd | she uses both that title and her ineptitude with magic for Floyd | considerable financial gain. Her clients are from rich families and Floyd | have elderly, sick relatives. They want to inherit, but they're Floyd | obligated to do something to help. Sandie is that something. She Floyd | performs the perfunctory duties of an attendant magician, but her lack Floyd | of talent with magic eliminates the possibility of any inconvenient Floyd | recovery. She sadly informs the dutiful sons or daughters that nothing Floyd | can be done; they inherit a large sum of money shortly thereafter; and Floyd | then they donate a modest fraction of that sum to Sandie in gratitude Floyd | for her services. Floyd | Floyd | As such, most of the items in the shop are gaudy, sparkly trinkets of Floyd | no use or value. A stuffed alligator even hangs gratuitously from the Floyd | ceiling. To maintain plausible deniability, though, Sandie keeps some Floyd | genuinely magical items in her shop. Having the occasional wizard as a Floyd | customer makes her consulting activities more plausible, and she tries Floyd | to keep you and Dr. Mortemain as loyal customers. Your jaundiced eye Floyd | notices a display case that looks invitingly dusty. Floyd | Floyd | The store continues to the south, and the exit back to the town square Floyd | is to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | The floor here has a small crack in it, through which the powdered Floyd | skink fell. Floyd | Floyd | A golem stands at the exit. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "put lockpick in crack" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:35 am 15/382 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT LOCKPICK IN CRACK Floyd | Floyd | That would be pointless. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "jump" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:35 am 15/383 Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP Floyd | Floyd | You jump on the spot, fruitlessly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:36 am 15/384 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | some bright red powder Floyd | an ochre envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | a beige envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | a pearl-colored envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | three glossy flyers Floyd | a slab of beef Floyd | some salted herring Floyd | a manchet loaf Floyd | a green canister (which is open but empty) Floyd | a white canister (which is open) Floyd | some salt Floyd | a wooden staff Floyd | a leather-bound index Floyd | a sheet of parchment Floyd | an indigo pouch (which is open but empty) Floyd | a spellbook Floyd | a set of lockpicks Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "show tea to golem" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:36 am 15/385 Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW TEA TO GOLEM Floyd | Floyd | The golem is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. Bring the skunk into the shoppe." | ||
| Roger says, "hmm sure" | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "out" | |||
Floyd ] Town Square 9:36 am 15/386 Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | As you leave, the golem pats you down, pawing at your clothing Floyd | aggressively and rifling through your possessions. You glare at it, Floyd | but, having found nothing, it looks at you expressionlessly and Floyd | gestures toward the exit. You sneer at it but quietly leave. Floyd | Floyd | Town Square Floyd | Blackacre's picturesque town square spreads out before you. Although Floyd | it's no longer central in terms of geography or importance, this area Floyd | is nevertheless a genuinely pleasant part of town. A clock tower Floyd | dominates the plaza, towering over the cedars planted around it. Floyd | Benches surround the flowerbeds that dot the square. Blackacre Floyd | residents occasionally filter through the square, glancing up Floyd | nervously at the overcast sky. Floyd | Floyd | Streets leave the square to the east and west, and a road to the south Floyd | leads from the town of Blackacre to the castle of Blackacre. Among the Floyd | crowded buildings ringing the square are the post office to the north Floyd | and magic store to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Rob has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:36 am 15/387 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Twisting Path Floyd | This path winds north to southeast between the town of Blackacre and Floyd | its nearby castle. The farmland on either side of the road is bare; Floyd | it's far too early for crops to start growing, and no trees disturb Floyd | the empty fields. Floyd | Floyd | The skunk enters from the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Is it finally time to poke the skunk with the stick?" | ||
| Roger asks, "How should we do this, do you think? I'm thinking maybe feed it?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Unless there's a way to travel 600 miles to the northern wastes." | |||
| polarisunique says, "It might follow you if you feed it" | |||
| DavidW says, "show it a food item." | |||
| guest23 says, "Tame it and ride it to the northern wastes" | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "Show herring to skunk" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:37 am 15/388 Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW HERRING TO SKUNK Floyd | Floyd | The skunk considers the salted herring with interest. It looks at you Floyd | warily but hopefully. Floyd | Floyd | The skunk looks at you expectantly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "N" | |||
Floyd ] Town Square 9:37 am 15/389 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Town Square Floyd | Blackacre's picturesque town square spreads out before you. Although Floyd | it's no longer central in terms of geography or importance, this area Floyd | is nevertheless a genuinely pleasant part of town. A clock tower Floyd | dominates the plaza, towering over the cedars planted around it. Floyd | Benches surround the flowerbeds that dot the square. Blackacre Floyd | residents occasionally filter through the square, glancing up Floyd | nervously at the overcast sky. Floyd | Floyd | Streets leave the square to the east and west, and a road to the south Floyd | leads from the town of Blackacre to the castle of Blackacre. Among the Floyd | crowded buildings ringing the square are the post office to the north Floyd | and magic store to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Town Square 9:37 am 15/390 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:37 am 15/391 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Twisting Path Floyd | This path winds north to southeast between the town of Blackacre and Floyd | its nearby castle. The farmland on either side of the road is bare; Floyd | it's far too early for crops to start growing, and no trees disturb Floyd | the empty fields. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a skunk here. Floyd | Floyd | The skunk looks at you expectantly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "give herring to skunk" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:38 am 15/392 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE HERRING TO SKUNK Floyd | Floyd | The skunk considers the salted herring with interest. It looks at you Floyd | warily, then snatches them from you and greedily devours them. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:38 am 15/393 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The skunk looks at you expectantly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Town Square 9:38 am 15/394 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Town Square Floyd | Blackacre's picturesque town square spreads out before you. Although Floyd | it's no longer central in terms of geography or importance, this area Floyd | is nevertheless a genuinely pleasant part of town. A clock tower Floyd | dominates the plaza, towering over the cedars planted around it. Floyd | Benches surround the flowerbeds that dot the square. Blackacre Floyd | residents occasionally filter through the square, glancing up Floyd | nervously at the overcast sky. Floyd | Floyd | Streets leave the square to the east and west, and a road to the south Floyd | leads from the town of Blackacre to the castle of Blackacre. Among the Floyd | crowded buildings ringing the square are the post office to the north Floyd | and magic store to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Sandie here. Floyd | Floyd | Sandie leaves to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "it didn't follow. Try giving the herring." | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Town Square 9:38 am 15/395 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:39 am 15/396 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Twisting Path Floyd | This path winds north to southeast between the town of Blackacre and Floyd | its nearby castle. The farmland on either side of the road is bare; Floyd | it's far too early for crops to start growing, and no trees disturb Floyd | the empty fields. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a skunk here. Floyd | Floyd | The skunk looks at you expectantly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "take skunk" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:39 am 15/397 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SKUNK Floyd | Floyd | I don't suppose the skunk would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "throw loaf north" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:39 am 15/397 Floyd | > Floyd | > THROW LOAF NORTH Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "give loaf to skunk" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:39 am 15/398 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE LOAF TO SKUNK Floyd | Floyd | The skunk considers the manchet loaf with interest. It looks at you Floyd | warily, then snatches it from you and greedily devours it. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Roger says (to floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:39 am 15/399 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | some bright red powder Floyd | an ochre envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | a beige envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | a pearl-colored envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | three glossy flyers Floyd | a slab of beef Floyd | a green canister (which is open but empty) Floyd | a white canister (which is open) Floyd | some salt Floyd | a wooden staff Floyd | a leather-bound index Floyd | a sheet of parchment Floyd | an indigo pouch (which is open but empty) Floyd | a spellbook Floyd | a set of lockpicks Floyd | Floyd | The skunk looks at you expectantly. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "give more food" | ||
| Roger says (to floyd), "give beef to skunk" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:40 am 15/400 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE BEEF TO SKUNK Floyd | Floyd | The skunk considers the slab of beef with interest. It looks at you Floyd | warily, then snatches it from you and greedily devours it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "lag is terrible. hates it." | ||
| Roger says, "It seems like the right idea, but... hrm." | |||
| guest23 asks, "may as well keep trying items?" | |||
| DavidW says, "In 'The Man From DEFRA', I led a chicken by making a trail of feed backwards from destination to the chicken." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "poke skunk with staff" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:40 am 15/400 Floyd | > Floyd | > POKE SKUNK WITH STAFF Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to poke the skunk. Floyd | Floyd | > | polarisunique says, "Since it's a skunk, I assume we want it to spray something" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "poke skunk" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:40 am 15/401 Floyd | > Floyd | > POKE SKUNK Floyd | Floyd | The skunk shies away from you and hisses. Floyd | Floyd | The skunk flees to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:40 am 15/402 Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Winding Path 9:40 am 15/403 Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Winding Path Floyd | This path winds northwest to south between the town of Blackacre and Floyd | its nearby castle. Newly-planted fields stretch as far as you can see Floyd | to either side of the trail. It's a charmingly rustic sight but an Floyd | unpleasant smell; the farmers must have fertilized the fields Floyd | recently. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a skunk here. Floyd | Floyd | The skunk leaves to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:41 am 15/404 Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Twisting Path Floyd | This path winds north to southeast between the town of Blackacre and Floyd | its nearby castle. The farmland on either side of the road is bare; Floyd | it's far too early for crops to start growing, and no trees disturb Floyd | the empty fields. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a skunk here. Floyd | Floyd | The skunk leaves to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:41 am 15/405 Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | some bright red powder Floyd | an ochre envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | a beige envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | a pearl-colored envelope (which is open but empty) Floyd | three glossy flyers Floyd | a green canister (which is open but empty) Floyd | a white canister (which is open) Floyd | some salt Floyd | a wooden staff Floyd | a leather-bound index Floyd | a sheet of parchment Floyd | an indigo pouch (which is open but empty) Floyd | a spellbook Floyd | a set of lockpicks Floyd | Floyd | The skunk enters from the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "poke skunk with staff" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:41 am 15/405 Floyd | > Floyd | > POKE SKUNK WITH STAFF Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to poke the skunk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "poke skunk" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:41 am 15/406 Floyd | > Floyd | > POKE SKUNK Floyd | Floyd | The skunk shies away from you and hisses. Floyd | Floyd | The skunk flees to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "poke skunk" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:41 am 15/406 Floyd | > Floyd | > POKE SKUNK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:41 am 15/406 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Twisting Path Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:41 am 15/405 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Twisting Path Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:41 am 15/405 Floyd | > Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Twisting Path Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | polarisunique says, "How far are we undoing" | ||
| DavidW says, "I suppose poking it was a poor idea." | |||
| Roger says, "I'm happy to restore, sure" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I am done. I just was undoing to the point before we made it hiss." | |||
| DavidW says, "That'd be about 30 turns." | |||
| guest23 asks, "Will it eat salt or tea?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "We could restore." | |||
| DavidW says, "yes, restore" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Sorry, I must have missed what happened 30 turns ago, aside from the fact that it's eaten a lot of our food." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf7" | |||
Floyd ] Magick Shoppe 9:25 am 15/342
Floyd | > RESTOREOk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline asks, "What now?" | ||
| polarisunique asks, "Can I try something?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure" | |||
| polarisunique says (to floyd), "ne" | |||
Floyd ] Town Square 9:25 am 15/343 Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | As you leave, the golem pats you down, pawing at your clothing Floyd | aggressively and rifling through your possessions. You glare at it, Floyd | but, having found nothing, it looks at you expressionlessly and Floyd | gestures toward the exit. You sneer at it but quietly leave. Floyd | Floyd | Town Square Floyd | Blackacre's picturesque town square spreads out before you. Although Floyd | it's no longer central in terms of geography or importance, this area Floyd | is nevertheless a genuinely pleasant part of town. A clock tower Floyd | dominates the plaza, towering over the cedars planted around it. Floyd | Benches surround the flowerbeds that dot the square. Blackacre Floyd | residents occasionally filter through the square, glancing up Floyd | nervously at the overcast sky. Floyd | Floyd | Streets leave the square to the east and west, and a road to the south Floyd | leads from the town of Blackacre to the castle of Blackacre. Among the Floyd | crowded buildings ringing the square are the post office to the north Floyd | and magic store to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| polarisunique says (to floyd), "s" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:26 am 15/344 Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Twisting Path Floyd | This path winds north to southeast between the town of Blackacre and Floyd | its nearby castle. The farmland on either side of the road is bare; Floyd | it's far too early for crops to start growing, and no trees disturb Floyd | the empty fields. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a skunk here. Floyd | Floyd | The skunk leaves to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| polarisunique says (to floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:26 am 15/345 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The sky looks cloudy. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| polarisunique says (to floyd), "z" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:26 am 15/346 Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The skunk enters from the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| polarisunique says (to floyd), "poke skunk" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:26 am 15/347 Floyd | > Floyd | > POKE SKUNK Floyd | Floyd | The skunk shies away from you and hisses. Floyd | Floyd | The skunk flees to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| polarisunique says (to floyd), "se" | |||
Floyd ] Winding Path 9:27 am 15/348 Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Winding Path Floyd | This path winds northwest to south between the town of Blackacre and Floyd | its nearby castle. Newly-planted fields stretch as far as you can see Floyd | to either side of the trail. It's a charmingly rustic sight but an Floyd | unpleasant smell; the farmers must have fertilized the fields Floyd | recently. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a skunk here. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| polarisunique says (to floyd), "poke skunk" | |||
Floyd ] Winding Path 9:27 am 15/349 Floyd | > Floyd | > POKE SKUNK Floyd | Floyd | The skunk hisses at you and waves its tail threateningly. Floyd | Floyd | The skunk flees to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| polarisunique says (to floyd), "nw" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:27 am 15/350 Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Twisting Path Floyd | This path winds north to southeast between the town of Blackacre and Floyd | its nearby castle. The farmland on either side of the road is bare; Floyd | it's far too early for crops to start growing, and no trees disturb Floyd | the empty fields. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a skunk here. Floyd | Floyd | The skunk hisses at you and waves its tail threateningly. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| polarisunique says (to floyd), "poke skunk" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:27 am 15/351 Floyd | > Floyd | > POKE SKUNK Floyd | Floyd | The skunk's patience is exhausted. You leap out of the way, nimbly Floyd | somersaulting in your haste to avoid the noisome onslaught. You manage Floyd | to avoid the brunt of the attack, but the stench still clings to you. Floyd | Fortunately, no one else is around to smell it; unfortunately, that Floyd | also means no one was around to witness your impressive combat Floyd | maneuvers. Floyd | Floyd | The skunk flees to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "There's the food trail idea, but I dunno if it'd work." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure what use it would be to have the skunk in the shoppe anyway." | |||
| polarisunique says, "It sprays us after three pokes" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "oH WAIT" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "So, this is convoluted, but..." | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "I wonder if our red tea is now skunky?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Because the way that Flux tests our ingredients (at least when I tried to pass off the tea) was by smelling it." | |||
| polarisunique says, "Oh snap" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway, that's far-fetched, but the only new idea I've had in an hour." | |||
| guest23 says, "yeah the skunk smell may cover the tea smell" | |||
| DavidW says, "oh, maybe." | |||
| DavidW says, "Flux's ability to smell might be foiled, yeah." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "smell me" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:28 am 15/352 Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL ME Floyd | Floyd | The only thing you can smell is the overwhelming stench from the Floyd | skunk. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "smell tea" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:28 am 15/353 Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL TEA Floyd | Floyd | The only thing you can smell is the overwhelming stench from the Floyd | skunk. Floyd | Floyd | The sky looks cloudy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Lizards don't generally have a good sense of smell" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x tea" | Roger says, "But yeah this might just work" | ||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:28 am 15/354 Floyd | > Floyd | > X TEA Floyd | Floyd | Dr. Mortemain is very particular about his tea, and he had this fine, Floyd | bright red powder shipped here at great expense. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "so put the tea into the indigo bag." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put tea in indigo" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:28 am 15/355 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT TEA IN INDIGO Floyd | Floyd | You put the bright red powder into the indigo pouch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "smell tea" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:29 am 15/356 Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL TEA Floyd | Floyd | The only thing you can smell is the overwhelming stench from the Floyd | skunk. Floyd | Floyd | The sky looks cloudy. Floyd | Floyd | > | polarisunique says, "So in the end we are passing off the powder as the skink :P" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "close indigo" | |||
Floyd ] Twisting Path 9:29 am 15/357 Floyd | > Floyd | > CLOSE INDIGO Floyd | Floyd | You close the indigo pouch. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Town Square 9:29 am 15/358 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Town Square Floyd | Blackacre's picturesque town square spreads out before you. Although Floyd | it's no longer central in terms of geography or importance, this area Floyd | is nevertheless a genuinely pleasant part of town. A clock tower Floyd | dominates the plaza, towering over the cedars planted around it. Floyd | Benches surround the flowerbeds that dot the square. Blackacre Floyd | residents occasionally filter through the square, glancing up Floyd | nervously at the overcast sky. Floyd | Floyd | Streets leave the square to the east and west, and a road to the south Floyd | leads from the town of Blackacre to the castle of Blackacre. Among the Floyd | crowded buildings ringing the square are the post office to the north Floyd | and magic store to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd ] Guild Street (West) 9:29 am 15/359 Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Guild Street (West) Floyd | As its name implies, Guild Street contains most of the town's Floyd | guildhalls. There are far fewer now than a century ago, when the Floyd | street was originally constructed, as the daily administration of the Floyd | town became concentrated in the nearby castle. The ominous stone tower Floyd | standing to the north was formerly the base of operations of the Floyd | once-prominent Magicians' Guild, which counted dozens of wizards among Floyd | its members in its heyday. That heyday passed centuries ago, however, Floyd | and the only wizards currently in town are you and Dr. Mortemain. He Floyd | acquired the tower after the guild's dissolution, and it's there that Floyd | you now spend most of your time. Floyd | Floyd | The street returns to the town square to the west and continues to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a tarnished brass mailbox (which contains a lemon-colored Floyd | envelope) here. Floyd | Floyd | A tinny but catchy song issues from the mailbox: Floyd | Floyd | Please pick up your mail! Floyd | Before it gets too stale! Floyd | Like a shrimp cocktail Floyd | Left on the windowsail! Floyd | Support the local Guild of Songwriters! Floyd | Hooray! Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 9:30 am 15/360 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Tower Entry Floyd | This familiar area is the tower's entryway. It's intended to impress Floyd | and intimidate visitors, and so the recesses of the gloomy vaulted Floyd | ceiling are decorated with elaborate carvings of gargoyles and demons. Floyd | The curtains are partially drawn, bathing the cavernous hall in Floyd | hesitant shadows. As an uncharacteristic nod to practicality, an Floyd | umbrella stand sits beside the double doors leading south from the Floyd | tower. A corridor to the north leads across the polished marble floor Floyd | deeper inside. Floyd | Floyd | Flux sits on his perch, idly kneading it with its claws. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "give indigo to flux" | |||
Floyd ] Tower Entry 9:30 am 20/361 Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE INDIGO TO FLUX Floyd | Floyd | Flux considers the bright red powder for a moment, trying to think of Floyd | a reason to be displeased with it. "Thisss doesssn't ssseem quite Floyd | right. The magic on it feelsss wrong," it hisses, gingerly poking the Floyd | powder with its claws. It sinuously lowers its head to the powder and Floyd | sniffs it. "What is that sssmell? Floyd | "Oh, sorry. There was a skunk, and..." Floyd | Flux delicately sniffs the powder again. "Bah, I can't sssmell Floyd | anything else. Are you sssure thisss is the ssskink?" Floyd | "Of course. The proprietor of the magic shop gave it to me herself." Floyd | It snorts and flaps its wings in frustration. "Fine, fine." It Floyd | resignedly accepts the pouch and flies off with it deeper into the Floyd | tower. After a moment, it returns empty-handed and lands heavily on Floyd | its perch, clawing it at irritably. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm done now, right? Free to go to the ceremony at noon?" Floyd | "Of courssse," Flux reassures you. "Well, mossstly. There'sss ssstill Floyd | one thing the massster needsss from you." Floyd | "But his instructions said---" Floyd | "I know what he ssssaid." It pauses. "It was sssupposssed to be a Floyd | sssurprissse, but the massster told me to give you hisss old Floyd | ssspellbook. You know, asss a sssort of good-luck charm before the Floyd | announsssement this afternoon." Floyd | "Oh," you say, embarrassed. "That's very kind of him." Floyd | "He hasss a sssoft ssspot for lossst causssesss. Now, follow me," it Floyd | says, flying off to the north. Floyd | Floyd | You notice with apprehension that it's starting to get late. If you're Floyd | going to pull off some clever trick before the ceremony at noon, you'd Floyd | better hurry. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by five points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "There we go!" | ||
| polarisunique exclaims, "We did it!" | |||
| guest23 says, "Well played" | |||
| Rob asks, "we did? what?" | |||
| Roger says, "Thanks to DW for thinking of smelling things" | |||
| DavidW says, "cool" | |||
| Rob asks, "smelling was the answer?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "No, smelling like a skunk was the answer." | |||
| DavidW says, "let's see our new spells" | |||
| polarisunique says, "We need to follow Flux" | |||
| DavidW says, "It's probably in the room east of library." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I still think this bodes badly for later when we need the spell to actually work, but whatev." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | |||
Floyd ] Library 9:30 am 20/362 Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Library Floyd | The tower's library is wonderful. You spent the first two weeks as Dr. Floyd | Mortemain's apprentice here, grudgingly falling asleep early each Floyd | morning after spending the day and night reading through the mountain Floyd | of the books piled around the room. Even now, you've only covered a Floyd | small fraction of the maze of tipping bookcases that stretch to the Floyd | ceiling and crowd around the reading area. In this quiet and Floyd | undisturbed area, redolent of old books, you've spent the happiest Floyd | part of your year in the tower. If you have to leave, exits lead in Floyd | all four directions to the other wings. Floyd | Floyd | Flux perches on the lectern, hissing excitedly. Floyd | Floyd | A lectern stands in an empty space near the center of the room. Floyd | Floyd | "Come on, come on," squeaks Flux, flying off to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "e" | |||
Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You follow Flux through the doorway and arrive at the base of the Floyd | tower's central staircase. As you begin to climb upward, you hear the Floyd | sound of breaking glass above you, followed by a heavy, muffled thump. Floyd | Flux seems unconcerned, though, and you follow it as it glides up the Floyd | spiral stairs. Just as you reach the third floor, a figure dressed Floyd | completely in black and cradling a crumbling spellbook bounds down the Floyd | stairs, narrowly avoiding crashing into you. It loses its balance and Floyd | tumbles roughly down the remaining stairs, only to fall into a roll at Floyd | the bottom and gracefully recover. Snatching the book from the ground Floyd | where it had landed, the figure runs out of the tower. You dash down Floyd | the stairs to give chase, but you only manage to get a receding Floyd | glimpse of the figure as it runs towards the Thieves' Guild. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have won *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 20 out of a possible 20, in 363 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, UNDO your last move, Floyd | or QUIT? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, there we are folks." | ||
| Roger says, "Glad we saved that one for last; good call" | |||
| DavidW says, "hm." | |||
| Jacqueline goes to vote. | |||
| DavidW says (to ThievesGuild), "Of course you know, this means war." | |||
| Rob says, "well, there's always the clubfloyd recap" | |||
| guest23 has had their fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DavidW says, "We need to go into that Guild, find some unripe green tomatoes, turn them red, and wait for them to eat salad. That'll teach 'em." | ||
| Jacqueline submits her votes. | |||
| Roger says, "Yeah, what did they ever do for us" | |||
| DavidW says, "They gave us lockpicking skills." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks, all. Please play the other games, three of which run in a browser and are fairly short. BestieFone requires a download but there are both Mac and Windows versions." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "(Sorry, Linux peeps.)" | |||
| DavidW says, "Turn all their traffic lights red so their cars can't go anywhere." | |||
| Rob says, "I should mention that I'm terrible at playing IF games of old school flavor, even though I am so intrigued by them I always want to try" | |||
| Rob says, "then I get all into here's how I'd play it if I were authoring it, and it doesn't really help" | |||
| DavidW says, "Turn all their green kryptonite to red K so they can't kill Superman anymore." | |||
| Rob says, "but I enjoyed popping into the middle of your play today" | |||
| Rob says, "thanks" | |||
| Rob says, "I guess it was my play today too for a bit" | |||
| Rob says, "I'm sorry I sound like an alien dropping in from galaxy X" | |||
| DavidW says, "I'll turn all their green salsa into red salsa and they won't look as hip. They'll be sorry." | |||
| Rob asks, "hooray clubfloyd?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Gonna paint this town red." | |||
| Rob says (to dw), "I like traffic lights, but only when they're green" | |||
| Roger says, "Turn the green dragon into a red dragon, foiling their countermeasures" | |||
| DavidW says, "They shouldn't've taking my new spellbook. They'll never eat green M&Ms again." | |||
| Roger says, "ifcomp.org is taking its sweet time with registering my new acct" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "So, um, DW & Roger, I know you played last week's entries... and yet you have not voted..." | |||
| Jacqueline tries to mind her own business and goes to another window. | |||
| Jacqueline disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | DavidW says, "I doubt I can vote from here. I'll have to go to the library this week to do it." | ||
| DavidW says, "And I haven't played that large game yet." | |||
| DavidW has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Roger says, "I will seriously vote real soon when I have an account" | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of Roger), "You don't have an IF Comp account?" | |||
| Roger says, "Apparently not" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "huh" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Roger), "Well, get thee to the ifcomp.org..." | |||
| DavidW says, "geez, it's after 7pm now." | |||
| polarisunique goes home. | |||
| Roger has disconnected. | |||
| Roger has connected. | |||
| Roger disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | Doug asks, "how long did it take the Club to play Some Exceptions?" | ||
| polarisunique says, "I think it was around four hours" | |||
| Roger says, "Closer to 5, but yeah" | |||
| Doug says, "I guess I don't feel as bad about not finishing it yet" | |||
| Doug says, "though I know Club Floyd is usually slower than solo play." | |||
| Olly arrives, ready to play with the toys. | |||
| Olly drops stupid people detector. | |||
| Olly drops Moiler. | |||
| Olly ooks itself into the ether. | |||
| Olly arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | |||
| Olly is a newbie. | |||
| Olly gets a pronoun tester. | |||
| Olly gets Moiler. | |||
| Olly is borne away by a squadron of flying toads. | |||
| DavidW arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | |||
| DavidW has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | |||
