  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| Jacqueline asks, "Theatre People by Michael Kielstra?" | ||
| Doug says, "haven't played it" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Anyone already played it?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I've barely woken up. I haven't played Theatre People yet." | ||
| BrianK says, "I have not played it" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask theatrepeople" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Another openin', another show -- and everybody gets applause but you. Floyd | It's been fun, but you wish that the audience and, especially, the Floyd | actors would recognize your contribution to the production. It takes Floyd | a lot of skill to push the scenery into place! Floyd | Floyd | Theatre People Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by 13Clocks Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 160922 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Left Wing Floyd | The stage left wing is your home away from home. It's full of props Floyd | that will be required onstage if the show ever starts. South is the Floyd | left stage corridor, and east is that most glamorous of areas, the Floyd | stage. Floyd | Floyd | Mandy looks you up and down with the gaze she reserves for Floyd | insignificant insects and junior tech crew members. "The curtain's Floyd | not going up. Find out what's wrong." Floyd | Floyd | You can see Mandy here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Teaspoon says, "Have fun all." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks, Tsp." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Have a good evening." | ||
| Teaspoon teleports home to the sound of tortured piano strings. | Doug asks, "shall I paste the blurb?" | |
| BrianK says, "Sure, I'd like to see the blurb" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure" | ||
| Doug | Theatre People | ||
| Doug | A game about curtains, among other things. | ||
| Doug | Michael Kielstra | ||
| Doug | The dazzle of the theatre: the footlights, the bows, the adoring crowd! It's your job, as a tech crew member, to make sure that the actors and, especially, the actresses, get enough of that. Not for you the ten-minute standing ovation; your lot is to deal with pushy stage managers, issues with the fly tower, and a bartender who, no matter what, flat-out refuses to give you free drinks. Even when you could really use one. Especially when you could really use one... | ||
| Doug | Maybe, just maybe, this could be your ticket to the big time. You could single-handedly get the production back on its feet, win the praise and adulation of all, and, possibly, even aid a damsel in distress. Alternatively, you could do your job quietly, stay out of peoples' way, and have no reward but the quiet smugness of an underrated worker. Fame, glory, and a trek in search of rope await! | ||
| Lionheart arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | Jacqueline asks, "So I guess our first thing is to figure out why the curtain's not going up, but before the first thing, >I and >X ME?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | As good-looking as ever. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > Introduction to Theatre People Floyd | Instructions for Play Floyd | Hints Floyd | Credits | BrianK says, "From the title I was expecting the theatre people to be actors, but a stagehand story is interesting too" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Excellent. I am glad we are not having a bad hair day." | ||
| Doug presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] Introduction to Theatre People Floyd | This game grew out of my experiences crewing amateur productions in Floyd | various theatres. Due to my inexperience, I was always the Floyd | least-respected team member. The game really started to grow in my Floyd | mind when I realised that some of my ideas were better than the Floyd | current best ideas but that no-one would really listen to me. I Floyd | worked out the plot and the puzzles during the intervals of two Floyd | performances and went home to write it! Floyd | Floyd | I have enjoyed interactive fiction for a long time, and this game is Floyd | inspired in large part by The People's Glorious Revolutionary Text Floyd | Adventure Game, by Taylor Vaughan. In particular, the way that the Floyd | puzzles are set up owes much to that superb piece of work. I played a Floyd | lot of IF before I decided to write any, and this is, among other Floyd | things, my way of giving back to a community which has provided me Floyd | with so many hours of fun and adventure. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | DavidW says, "sorry, I wasn't here. I was in the bathroom." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Ha! I wondered if this was written by a disgruntled stagehand." | ||
| Doug pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > Introduction to Theatre People Floyd | Instructions for Play Floyd | Hints Floyd | Credits | ||
| zarf arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "q" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | Left Wing Floyd | The stage left wing is your home away from home. It's full of props Floyd | that will be required onstage if the show ever starts. South is the Floyd | left stage corridor, and east is that most glamorous of areas, the Floyd | stage. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Mandy here. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "I was thinking the same thing" | |
| BrianK says, "Ok, recap: the curtain is stuck, and we need to fix it" | ||
| DavidW says, "I think this is too fast for me with my current brain." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That's a sweet tribute to Taylor Vaughn." | ||
| DavidW asks, "who?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Author of The People's Glorious Revolutionary Text Adventure Game." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So, I think we should at least check out the 'Instructions for Play' to make sure there are no unexpected verbs." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oh, good point" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, you quit the menu. My bad." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > Introduction to Theatre People Floyd | Instructions for Play Floyd | Hints Floyd | Credits | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Introduction to Theatre People Floyd | > Instructions for Play Floyd | Hints Floyd | Credits | Doug says, "I assumed it would just be the standard instructions" | |
| Jacqueline says, "It probably is, but..." | ||
| Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] Instructions for Play Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Last Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > About Interactive Fiction Floyd | What to do with > Floyd | Getting Started Floyd | Rooms and Travel Floyd | Objects Floyd | Controlling the Game Floyd | How the World is Assembled Floyd | If You Get Stuck | Jacqueline says, "Okay, yeah." | |
| DavidW says, "Well, you don't WHISTLE. You don't SAY MACBETH. I know that much." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Introduction to Theatre People Floyd | > Instructions for Play Floyd | Hints Floyd | Credits | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | Left Wing Floyd | The stage left wing is your home away from home. It's full of props Floyd | that will be required onstage if the show ever starts. South is the Floyd | left stage corridor, and east is that most glamorous of areas, the Floyd | stage. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Mandy here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "If we're still talking about verbs." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "say macbeth" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > SAY MACBETH Floyd | Floyd | (to Mandy) Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x curtain" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > X CURTAIN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "talk to mandy" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO MANDY Floyd | Floyd | It might be more productive to ASK Mandy ABOUT what you want to know. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "I think I know why the curtain won't go up... it's missing!" | |
| DavidW says, "The curtain will be on stage, not in the wing." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask mandy about curtain" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MANDY ABOUT CURTAIN Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, the curtain. It has to go up before the show can start. Find Floyd | Rich in the fly tower. That's his job." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline starts a map. | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask mandy about mandy" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MANDY ABOUT MANDY Floyd | Floyd | Mandy glares at you. You decide not to pursue that line of enquiry. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | There are none at all available! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask mandy about fly tower" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MANDY ABOUT FLY TOWER Floyd | Floyd | "Rich is usually very reliable. Go find out what's got into him. Floyd | He's in the fly tower." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So, go s, I guess?" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "ask mandy about me" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MANDY ABOUT ME Floyd | Floyd | "It's good that you're on my team. Good for you, I mean -- great Floyd | experience." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Love you too, Mandy" | |
| DavidW says, "I'm guessing Rich is out having a smoke." | ||
| Doug says, "I don't know what a fly tower is, let alone how to get there" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "May I?" | ||
| Doug says, "take the wheel!" | ||
| BrianK says, "Go for it" | ||
| DavidW says, "Well, the fly tower will be up above the stage." | ||
| BrianK says, "I dunno what a fly tower is either, so this will be a great learning experience about what goes on backstage" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Left Stage Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Left Stage Corridor Floyd | This corridor leads to the stage left wing, due north. It's Floyd | tastefully decorated with the cheapest possible white tiling. Floyd | Backstage is east, and a set of stairs lead up to the fly tower. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "So we need to find stairs." | |
| BrianK says, "Well, there it is" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh look. stairs to the fly tower." | ||
| Doug says, "ah, I guess the stage faces north." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, so it is. Continue, Doug." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x tiling" | ||
Floyd ] Left Stage Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > X TILING Floyd | Floyd | The tiling is dirty and some of the grout is peeling off. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "And yeah, the stage faces north" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get grout" | ||
Floyd ] Left Stage Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > GET GROUT Floyd | Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Floyd | > Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fly Tower Floyd | This is where things, like curtains, are raised and lowered onto the Floyd | stage via bars. Right now, that's not happening. The left stage Floyd | corridor is below. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Rich here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says, "Hello... Rich." | DavidW says, "ask Rich about curtains" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask rich about curtains" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK RICH ABOUT CURTAINS Floyd | Floyd | Rich gives you a good-natured smile. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "ask rich about curtain" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK RICH ABOUT CURTAIN Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, the curtain's not working right now. One of the ropes snapped Floyd | just before I was due to lift it. I'll need a replacement rope before Floyd | I can do anything." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm, trying to use a new program for mapping. Not quite as nice as Dia for this." | |
| Doug asks, "trizbort?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask rich about rope" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK RICH ABOUT ROPE Floyd | Floyd | "I don't know what happened, exactly -- maybe the rope was faulty. Floyd | I've got to check all the others now in case they're going to break Floyd | too, so I don't have time to get another one. Could you go to the Floyd | equipment store and get me a replacement coil? Thanks a million." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "ask rich about mandy" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK RICH ABOUT MANDY Floyd | Floyd | "Mandy's your stage manager? Just do whatever she says, whenever she Floyd | says it, and you should escape." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask rich about equipment store" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK RICH ABOUT EQUIPMENT STORE Floyd | Floyd | "It's on the other side of the theatre. They keep all sorts of stuff Floyd | in there." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm glad someone else is mapping. I'm too out of it to do it myself right now." | |
| Doug says, "maybe we'll have to use the rope to TIE FLOWER TO FLY TOWER. ...wait, this isn't an Andrew Schultz game" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x rich" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Floyd | > Floyd | > X RICH Floyd | Floyd | Rich has never been known to fail to pull the right rope at the right Floyd | time. If you give him something to hang from the ceiling, it will Floyd | hang from the ceiling. Your sole ally in the fight against Floyd | unremarkability, he has always liked you and the feeling is mutual. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think this is gonna be the store is locked and we have to get the key from Alan and Alan will want a screwdriver and the screwdriver will come from Sandy etc." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Doug), "No, I was trying to use Scapple. Good for mapping text and dialog, but not so much for maps. Switching to Dia." | ||
| Doug says, "Good Guy Rich." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "YEah" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "er, yeah" | ||
| Doug says, "to the equipment store!" | ||
| DavidW says, "please." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Left Stage Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Left Stage Corridor Floyd | This corridor leads to the stage left wing, due north. It's Floyd | tastefully decorated with the cheapest possible white tiling. Floyd | Backstage is east, and a set of stairs lead up to the fly tower. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Backstage Floyd | The actors and crew gather here when they aren't needed onstage. West Floyd | is the left stage corridor; east is the right stage corridor. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a props table (on which is a flower bouquet) and Henry Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Sobbing, eh?" | |
| Doug asks, "stick with the plan, or investigate?" | ||
| BrianK says, "I vote investigate" | ||
| DavidW says, "I say stick with the plan for now. I'm sure we'll investigate eventually." | ||
| BrianK says, "We need a tiebreaker :P" | ||
| Doug asks, "actually, by 'other side of the theater', I took that as other side of the stage, but maybe we have to go out through the seats and stuff?" | ||
| BrianK says, "I think it might just be the right side" | ||
| Doug says, "I say let's not let Mandy & Rich down, and find the rope" | ||
| Peregrine arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Right Stage Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Right Stage Corridor Floyd | Here, at least, both sides of the theatre are equal. The right stage Floyd | corridor is decorated just as badly as the left one. North is the Floyd | right wing, west is backstage, and east is the door to the equipment Floyd | store. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "aha" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Right Stage Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the Equipment Store door) Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "knew it" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "knock on east" | ||
Floyd ] Right Stage Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > KNOCK ON EAST Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ask mandy about key" | |
| DavidW asks, "unless we have a key?" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Right Stage Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "we have nothingk" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Backstage Floyd | The actors and crew gather here when they aren't needed onstage. West Floyd | is the left stage corridor; east is the right stage corridor. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a props table (on which is a flower bouquet) and Henry Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine asks, "What game is this ?" | |
| Doug asks, "should we ask Henry, or go back to Mandy?" | ||
| DavidW says, "'Theatre People'" | ||
| DavidW says, "or maybe it's 'Theater People'." | ||
| Peregrine says (to DavidW), "Thanks" | ||
| Doug says, "Theatre Peopel" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "ask henry about equipment room" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK HENRY ABOUT EQUIPMENT ROOM Floyd | Floyd | Henry sighs and mops his brow. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "Thanks Henry." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x henry" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > X HENRY Floyd | Floyd | Henry is the director. He has a lot on his plate right now, and it Floyd | shows in his deeply-scored face and messy brown hair. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "equipment store, not room" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "ask henry about equipment store" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK HENRY ABOUT EQUIPMENT STORE Floyd | Floyd | Henry sighs and mops his brow. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "Oooh, IFcomp entry" | |
| DavidW says, "ask mandy about key" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Left Stage Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Left Stage Corridor Floyd | This corridor leads to the stage left wing, due north. It's Floyd | tastefully decorated with the cheapest possible white tiling. Floyd | Backstage is east, and a set of stairs lead up to the fly tower. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Left Wing Floyd | The stage left wing is your home away from home. It's full of props Floyd | that will be required onstage if the show ever starts. South is the Floyd | left stage corridor, and east is that most glamorous of areas, the Floyd | stage. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Mandy here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask mandy about key" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MANDY ABOUT KEY Floyd | Floyd | "You don't have one? You really should have told someone by now. I'm Floyd | sure the manager will get you one after the performance." Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "haha" | |
| Doug says, "loop detected!" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "ask mandy about equipment store" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MANDY ABOUT EQUIPMENT STORE Floyd | Floyd | Mandy glares at you. You decide not to pursue that line of enquiry. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "lady, there won't BE a performance if we don't get that curtain up!" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask mandy about manager" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MANDY ABOUT MANAGER Floyd | Floyd | "I'd be a better manager. I had to fill in once, when mine got sick Floyd | on the opening night of Much Ado about Nothing. I talked to someone Floyd | from that production recently and apparently they still tell stories Floyd | about that night..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask mandy about stories" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MANDY ABOUT STORIES Floyd | Floyd | Mandy glares at you. You decide not to pursue that line of enquiry. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "ask mandy about henry" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MANDY ABOUT HENRY Floyd | Floyd | "I'm going to ask him out tonight. What a wonderful man..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "ask mandy about curtain" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MANDY ABOUT CURTAIN Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, the curtain. It has to go up before the show can start. Find Floyd | Rich in the fly tower. That's his job." Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "I'm guessing it's in a desk drawer somewhere." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask mandy about rope" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MANDY ABOUT ROPE Floyd | Floyd | Mandy glares at you. You decide not to pursue that line of enquiry. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "I suppose we can also ask Henry about the key" | |
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "ask mandy about rich" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MANDY ABOUT RICH Floyd | Floyd | "Rich is usually very reliable. Go find out what's got into him. Floyd | He's in the fly tower." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "ask mandy about fly tower" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MANDY ABOUT FLY TOWER Floyd | Floyd | "Rich is usually very reliable. Go find out what's got into him. Floyd | He's in the fly tower." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think someone is carrying it. But a desk drawer is a good second guess." | |
| Doug says (to Peregrine), "we've already been to the fly tower, Rich asked us to get rope" | ||
| Peregrine says, "Ah, olkay" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Very simple map, but probably still useful:" | ||
| Doug says, "I vote henry" | ||
| Jacqueline | [LINK] | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I will keep updating it." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'd ask henry about mandy at this point." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Left Stage Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Left Stage Corridor Floyd | This corridor leads to the stage left wing, due north. It's Floyd | tastefully decorated with the cheapest possible white tiling. Floyd | Backstage is east, and a set of stairs lead up to the fly tower. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Backstage Floyd | The actors and crew gather here when they aren't needed onstage. West Floyd | is the left stage corridor; east is the right stage corridor. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a props table (on which is a flower bouquet) and Henry Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "I'm assuming there's a Right Wing?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask henry about key" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK HENRY ABOUT KEY Floyd | Floyd | "You must have one somewhere." Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "Have we checked out the equipment store" | |
| BrianK says, "It was locked" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask henry about mandy" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK HENRY ABOUT MANDY Floyd | Floyd | "Whatever Mandy told you to tell me, I don't want to hear it. She's a Floyd | raving maniac if she thinks I'm going to take her to dinner." Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The store, she is locked." | |
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | It isn't something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Ah, yes." | |
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "examine door" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > EXAMINE DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The door to the leading lady's dressing room. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "listen at door" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN AT DOOR Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to listen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask henry about manager" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK HENRY ABOUT MANAGER Floyd | Floyd | "I don't see what's wrong with lowering the rent on your theatre a Floyd | little bit. The company's practically broke as it is. We've staked Floyd | everything on this production, and the least he could do is help us a Floyd | little bit." Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "enter dressing room" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER DRESSING ROOM Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask henry about leading lady" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK HENRY ABOUT LEADING LADY Floyd | Floyd | "She's a good actress, but man can she get emotional." Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "Okay, that's a -1 point for this game" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "ask henry about sobbing" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK HENRY ABOUT SOBBING Floyd | Floyd | "It's just my luck! The night that the theatre review man is in the Floyd | audience, my lighting technician calls my leading lady old! Now I've Floyd | got to calm her down." Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "(the unimplemented door, I mean�" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "ask henry about dressing room" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK HENRY ABOUT DRESSING ROOM Floyd | Floyd | Henry sighs and mops his brow. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x flower" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > X FLOWER Floyd | Floyd | Clearly someone has an admirer: this bouquet of roses is enormous. Floyd | Floyd | You find a card inscribed "To a beautiful young woman" with the Floyd | flowers and take it. It might come in handy. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine exclaims, "Aha, let's give the flowers to her!" | |
| DavidW says, "We can't seem to reach the leading lady." | ||
| Doug says, "or the card" | ||
| BrianK says, "Well, we took the card, so I'm assuming we just do something with the card" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "take bouquet" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BOUQUET Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put card under door" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT CARD UNDER DOOR Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "examine card" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > EXAMINE CARD Floyd | Floyd | "To a beautiful young woman." It's in the theatre manager's Floyd | handwriting! There is, however, no signiature. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Can we please explore unexplored areas please." | |
| Doug says, "no signiature!" | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Right Stage Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Right Stage Corridor Floyd | Here, at least, both sides of the theatre are equal. The right stage Floyd | corridor is decorated just as badly as the left one. North is the Floyd | right wing, west is backstage, and east is the door to the equipment Floyd | store. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "if only we had a pen..." | |
| BrianK says, "That would be the right wing and onstage I guess" | ||
| DavidW says, "I dunno. The map doesn't show unused exits." | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Right Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Right Wing Floyd | A bigger wing than yours, stage right has been graced with the Floyd | prompter's desk and a truly unattractive chaise longue for act 2. Floyd | West is the stage, south is a corridor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Right Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | You can't sit here. Only people with real theatrical power can sit Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "haha" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||
Floyd ] Right Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DRAWER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I am missing things updating the map, but I'm updating." | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x chaise longue" | ||
Floyd ] Right Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHAISE LONGUE Floyd | Floyd | A faded red and gold seat for two, this chaise longue looks too Floyd | rickety to hold up to much. It's a miracle it's lasted through the Floyd | first week of performances. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "A desk? No drawer?" | |
| Doug says, "rats" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search longue" | ||
Floyd ] Right Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH LONGUE Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "This game is suffering from unimplementitis, it would seem" | |
| Doug says, "not unreasonably so" | ||
| Peregrine says, "You're right, I'm too harsh" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search desk" | ||
Floyd ] Right Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH DESK Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under desk" | ||
Floyd ] Right Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER DESK Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "open desk" | ||
Floyd ] Right Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DESK Floyd | Floyd | It isn't something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hmph. What's south of right stage corridor?" | |
| BrianK says, "There is no south as far as the room description goes" | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Right Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Right Wing Floyd | A bigger wing than yours, stage right has been graced with the Floyd | prompter's desk and a truly unattractive chaise longue for act 2. Floyd | West is the stage, south is a corridor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "nothing indicated" | |
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "take chaise" | ||
Floyd ] Right Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE CHAISE Floyd | Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "Let's check the stage first" | |
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "eat deak" | ||
Floyd ] Right Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT DEAK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "shall we check out the stage?" | |
| Peregrine says, "Yeah" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Stage Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Stage Floyd | You're on stage! This would be very exciting if a performance were Floyd | going on. East is the Right Wing, west is the Left Wing. The Floyd | auditorium is to the north, past the currently unopenable curtain. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "There has to be more to this map." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Map updated" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hit refresh" | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Auditorium Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Auditorium Floyd | You force your way under the curtain, leap the orchestra pit smoothly, Floyd | and take a second to congratulate yourself on your landing. The Floyd | auditorium is not yet open, and the seats are empty. If you succeed Floyd | in your task, they will soon be filled with audience, admiring the Floyd | theatre and dropping things. The stage is to the south, and the Floyd | atrium is to the north. To the west is the lighting booth. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Sorry, you all are going so fast it's hard to keep up with it." | |
| Peregrine says, "Sorry..." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Does it look like all we know right now" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Nope" | ||
| Peregrine asks, "?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Auditorium. One sec." | ||
| Doug says, "atrium north, lighting booth west" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x seats" | ||
Floyd ] Auditorium Floyd | > Floyd | > X SEATS Floyd | Floyd | The cushioned seats are colored a lurid orange. They stand a few Floyd | inches off the floor. Every so often, the space under them has to be Floyd | cleaned. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "look under seats" | ||
Floyd ] Auditorium Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER SEATS Floyd | Floyd | Everything that the audience drops ends up under here, including -- Floyd | lucky you -- money! You quickly gather up the coins. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under seats" | ||
Floyd ] Auditorium Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER SEATS Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x coins" | ||
Floyd ] Auditorium Floyd | > Floyd | > X COINS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "I like the fact that we leap the pit and congratulate ourselves :) +20 points for this game" | |
| DavidW says, "Audience dropping things indeed." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x money" | ||
Floyd ] Auditorium Floyd | > Floyd | > X MONEY Floyd | Floyd | Money! Just what you need for... everything, really. It's not much, Floyd | but it'll buy something. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pit" | ||
Floyd ] Auditorium Floyd | > Floyd | > X PIT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Auditorium Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Auditorium Floyd | The auditorium is not yet open, and the seats are empty. If you Floyd | succeed in your task, they will soon be filled with audience, admiring Floyd | the theatre and dropping things. The stage is to the south, and the Floyd | atrium is to the north. To the west is the lighting booth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x curtain" | ||
Floyd ] Auditorium Floyd | > Floyd | > X CURTAIN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lighting Booth Floyd | The stage is lit from here. It's filled with machinery that Fred Floyd | never lets anyone touch. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Fred here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Please pause a second" | |
| Peregrine says, "Lighting booth west of auditorium" | ||
| BrianK says, "We usually ask before moving to a different room" | ||
| Peregrine says, "Sorry" | ||
| Peregrine steps back and calms down. | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, refresh the map." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Are we good?" | ||
| BrianK says, "The lighting booth is west of the auditorium, not the atrium" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, right. Oops." | ||
| DavidW says, "I think Ligthing was west of Aud, not Atrium." | ||
| Jacqueline fixes. | ||
| DavidW says, "er Lighting" | ||
| BrianK says, "I suppose we can talk to Fred while we're here" | ||
| DavidW says, "We haven't seen the Atrium yet." | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "ask fred about key" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT KEY Floyd | Floyd | "If you don't have one, that's hardly my fault now, is it?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says (to Jacqueline), "Lovely map" | |
| DavidW says, "yes, ask fred about his surly behaviour." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Fixed. Sorry, was rushing because you all are going so fast. Refresh again?" | ||
| BrianK says, "That looks good" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Peregrine), "Thanks. Dia is great for maps." | ||
| BrianK says, "Oh, actually, the fly tower goes up from the left stage corridor" | ||
| Doug says, "I'm imagining Dia from Orange is the New Black drawing the map by hand." | ||
| Peregrine asks, "Okay, shall we gently throttle Fred until he accepts to be a little more helpful?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to BK), "Does it? I'll scroll back to check." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'd ask Fred about the leading lady." | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "ask fred about leading lady" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT LEADING LADY Floyd | Floyd | Fred makes a minor adjustment to his dials and scowls. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Fred), "That's not helpful." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask fred about equipment store" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT EQUIPMENT STORE Floyd | Floyd | Fred makes a minor adjustment to his dials and scowls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask fred about me" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT ME Floyd | Floyd | "Maybe one day you'll make a decent technician. Until then, leave me Floyd | alone!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask fred about manager" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT MANAGER Floyd | Floyd | "I can't believe they didn't hire me to do sound as well! I know the Floyd | sound guy they picked, and he couldn't mix his way out of a wet paper Floyd | bag!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask fred about sound guy" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT SOUND GUY Floyd | Floyd | "I can't believe they didn't hire me to do sound as well! I know the Floyd | sound guy they picked, and he couldn't mix his way out of a wet paper Floyd | bag!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to BK), "Thanks. Map is updated." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x machinery" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > X MACHINERY Floyd | Floyd | Dials and buttons and readouts, oh my! You technically understand Floyd | what these do, but Fred never allows you more than a cursory glance Floyd | before he pushes you away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask fred about rope" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT ROPE Floyd | Floyd | Fred makes a minor adjustment to his dials and scowls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask fred about key" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT KEY Floyd | Floyd | "If you don't have one, that's hardly my fault now, is it?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "he keeps needing to adjust his scowls" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask fred about mandy" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT MANDY Floyd | Floyd | "Don't ever say that name in here again. Don't ever. I was going to Floyd | be stage manager, and she stole that from me! Stole it from me in Floyd | cold blood!" Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "Haha" | |
| DavidW asks, "stole what?" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, the job" | ||
| Doug says, "stage manager job" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| Doug says, "...in blood" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Somehow, I doubt it was in blood." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "But who knows?" | ||
| Doug says, "COLD blood." | ||
| DavidW asks, "remind me who the guy in the fly tower is? Ask about him?" | ||
| Doug says, "Rich" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask fred about rich" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT RICH Floyd | Floyd | "He can pull on ropes, and that's all he's good for. It took me three Floyd | hours to get him to hang the lights right." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask fred about henry" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT HENRY Floyd | Floyd | "Why Henry has an actual job I'll never know. He's a wuss. You'll Floyd | find him backstage, if you feel like losing your faith in humanity." Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "I don't think it's totally clear what to do with Fred just yet, so I vote we check out the atrium" | |
| Doug says, "seconded" | ||
| DavidW says, "I agree." | ||
| DavidW says, "Fred is a downer." | ||
| Doug asks, "who's driving? Peregrine?" | ||
| BrianK says, "We don't really have a driver :P" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Peregrine can." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So long as we pause when I need to update the map, I'm cool. I'll ask if that happens." | ||
| Doug asks, "who drives the driver??" | ||
| Doug says, "seems idle. I'll drive" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Auditorium Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Auditorium Floyd | The auditorium is not yet open, and the seats are empty. If you Floyd | succeed in your task, they will soon be filled with audience, admiring Floyd | the theatre and dropping things. The stage is to the south, and the Floyd | atrium is to the north. To the west is the lighting booth. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "That little gnome who turns the light on in the fridge." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Atrium Floyd | The atrium is filled to the brim with discerning theatregoers and Floyd | cultured folk, demanding, in upper-class accents, to be let in. The Floyd | bar is not very busy and Lola, behind it, looks bored. The manager is Floyd | trying his best to quiet the crowd and mostly failing. The stage is Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | On the bar is a menu. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see the Theatre Manager and Lola here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "aha, a Manager." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x manager" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > X MANAGER Floyd | Floyd | The manager looks haggard and desperate. He is wearing a suit and tie Floyd | with sweat marks from dealing with the audience, and a keycard hangs Floyd | around his neck. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "aha" | |
| Doug says, "a keycard, fancy" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask manager for key" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MANAGER FOR KEY Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask manager about key" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MANAGER ABOUT KEY Floyd | Floyd | "Not another one? Don't worry, sir, you will see a performance Floyd | tonight. We are experiencing a few slight technical hitches, but the Floyd | auditorium will open soon." He sighs and turns away, muttering. Floyd | "Gosh, I could use a drink." Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "Now we know for certain these ain't the Victorian times" | |
| Doug says, "guess we have to get him drunk." | ||
| Peregrine says, "Oh, that old 'get the guy what he wants' puzzle" | ||
| DavidW says, "Manager doesn't realize we're crew." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "We need the card. Maybe ask about the card?" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "ask manager about me" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MANAGER ABOUT ME Floyd | Floyd | "Not another one? Don't worry, sir, you will see a performance Floyd | tonight. We are experiencing a few slight technical hitches, but the Floyd | auditorium will open soon." He sighs and turns away, muttering. Floyd | "Gosh, I could use a drink." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Peregrine), "THAT is the entire game so far." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask about keycard" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK ABOUT KEYCARD Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask manager about keycard" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MANAGER ABOUT KEYCARD Floyd | Floyd | "Not another one? Don't worry, sir, you will see a performance Floyd | tonight. We are experiencing a few slight technical hitches, but the Floyd | auditorium will open soon." He sighs and turns away, muttering. Floyd | "Gosh, I could use a drink." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x menu" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > X MENU Floyd | Floyd | The menu offers everything from spring water to Dom Perignon. Usually Floyd | the patrons lean more towards the spring water side of the price Floyd | range. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Well, to be fair, it's probably not far off from reality that stage crew live in a fetch puzzle." | |
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "ask manager about flying pig" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MANAGER ABOUT FLYING PIG Floyd | Floyd | "Not another one? Don't worry, sir, you will see a performance Floyd | tonight. We are experiencing a few slight technical hitches, but the Floyd | auditorium will open soon." He sighs and turns away, muttering. Floyd | "Gosh, I could use a drink." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x lola" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > X LOLA Floyd | Floyd | You have known Lola for a long time. She still won't let you have a Floyd | free drink, no matter how much you compliment her long black hair or Floyd | her brown eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine explodes with laughter | |
| DavidW says, "fortunately, we found money" | ||
| BrianK says, "Does the manager have any actual response other than the default one :/" | ||
| Peregrine says, "No, he doesn't (check out what he said when I asked him about flying pig)" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask manager about manager" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MANAGER ABOUT MANAGER Floyd | Floyd | "Not another one? Don't worry, sir, you will see a performance Floyd | tonight. We are experiencing a few slight technical hitches, but the Floyd | auditorium will open soon." He sighs and turns away, muttering. Floyd | "Gosh, I could use a drink." Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oh rigt, money!" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "buy drink" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY DRINK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "I mean, MAYBE if we get the right keyword, but who knows" | |
| DavidW says, "Poor pigasus." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, poop. Guess he just needs a drink." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask lola about drink" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK LOLA ABOUT DRINK Floyd | Floyd | By some miracle, you have enough money to pay. Lola hands you a gin Floyd | and tonic, then slowly closes her mouth and makes a concerted effort Floyd | to look bored again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "give gin to manager" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE GIN TO MANAGER Floyd | Floyd | "Thanks. You're a lifesaver." He looks like he genuinely means it as Floyd | he devotes all his attention to the glass. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "ask manager about key" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MANAGER ABOUT KEY Floyd | Floyd | "Not another one? Don't worry, sir, you will see a performance Floyd | tonight. We are experiencing a few slight technical hitches, but the Floyd | auditorium will open soon." He sips his drink. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "'slowly closes her mouth'?" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Crap. Is this a bug?" | ||
| BrianK says, "Well, his drink line changed" | ||
| DavidW says, "I see no bug." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "steal keycard" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > STEAL KEYCARD Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "Tiny variation." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get keycard" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > GET KEYCARD Floyd | Floyd | The gin and tonic distracts the manager long enough for you to Floyd | pickpocket his keycard. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "wooow" | |
| BrianK says, "Ah, there we go" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "I mean -- okay." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I meant his conversation." | ||
| Doug says, "pickpocket? more like pickneck" | ||
| Peregrine says, "That was underclued" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x keycard" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > X KEYCARD Floyd | Floyd | The keycard to the equipment store. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Because normally you don't liquor up your boss to steal his key card." | |
| zarf says, "sez you!" | ||
| DavidW says, "to the store to the store to the store store store" | ||
| Doug | he devotes all his attention to the glass. | ||
| Peregrine says (to zarf), "haha" | ||
| Doug says, "seemed like a clue to me" | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of zarf), "You work from home, don't you?" | ||
| zarf says, "I am self-employed, yes. Let's not get distracted by trivialities." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| DavidW says, "zarf steals from the best" | ||
| Doug asks, "right, back to the store?" | ||
| BrianK says, "Yep" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Auditorium Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Auditorium Floyd | The auditorium is not yet open, and the seats are empty. If you Floyd | succeed in your task, they will soon be filled with audience, admiring Floyd | the theatre and dropping things. The stage is to the south, and the Floyd | atrium is to the north. To the west is the lighting booth. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says (to Doug), "Yeah, but there should have been a response for 'steal keycard'" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Stage Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Stage Floyd | You're on stage! This would be very exciting if a performance were Floyd | going on. East is the Right Wing, west is the Left Wing. The Floyd | auditorium is to the north, past the currently unopenable curtain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Right Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Right Wing Floyd | A bigger wing than yours, stage right has been graced with the Floyd | prompter's desk and a truly unattractive chaise longue for act 2. Floyd | West is the stage, south is a corridor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Right Stage Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Right Stage Corridor Floyd | Here, at least, both sides of the theatre are equal. The right stage Floyd | corridor is decorated just as badly as the left one. North is the Floyd | right wing, west is backstage, and east is the door to the equipment Floyd | store. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Right Stage Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the Equipment Store door) Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Let's open an store-y together." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "unlock" | ||
Floyd ] Right Stage Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > UNLOCK Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to unlock? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "door" | ||
Floyd ] Right Stage Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > DOOR Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to unlock the Equipment Store door with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "keycard" | ||
Floyd ] Right Stage Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > KEYCARD Floyd | Floyd | You unlock the Equipment Store door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine exclaims, "At last!" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Equipment Store Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the Equipment Store door) Floyd | Floyd | Equipment Store Floyd | Everything you need to hold a production together is here, piled on Floyd | shelves. The right stage corridor is back west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a rope and a table (on which are some papers and a roll of Floyd | gaffer tape) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||
Floyd ] Equipment Store Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | rope: Taken. Floyd | papers: Taken. Floyd | roll of gaffer tape: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x papers" | ||
Floyd ] Equipment Store Floyd | > Floyd | > X PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | A pile of indeterminate forms which, with your luck, you will sooner Floyd | or later have to fill out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x tape" | ||
Floyd ] Equipment Store Floyd | > Floyd | > X TAPE Floyd | Floyd | Red tape shows up well in the dark, making it useful for marking the Floyd | stage, among other things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x rope" | ||
Floyd ] Equipment Store Floyd | > Floyd | > X ROPE Floyd | Floyd | Just the sort of rope that you need to raise a curtain. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "hmm, red tape and forms." | |
| DavidW says, "We play Bureaucracy next." | ||
| BrianK says, "oh boy, we'll have to deal with some red tape and some red tape" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, give the rope to the dude in the tower?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Right Stage Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Right Stage Corridor Floyd | Here, at least, both sides of the theatre are equal. The right stage Floyd | corridor is decorated just as badly as the left one. North is the Floyd | right wing, west is backstage, and east is the door to the equipment Floyd | store. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Backstage Floyd | The actors and crew gather here when they aren't needed onstage. West Floyd | is the left stage corridor; east is the right stage corridor. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a props table and Henry here. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Left Stage Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Left Stage Corridor Floyd | This corridor leads to the stage left wing, due north. It's Floyd | tastefully decorated with the cheapest possible white tiling. Floyd | Backstage is east, and a set of stairs lead up to the fly tower. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "up" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Floyd | > Floyd | > UP Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fly Tower Floyd | This is where things, like curtains, are raised and lowered onto the Floyd | stage via bars. Right now, that's not happening. The left stage Floyd | corridor is below. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Rich here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "give rope to rich" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE ROPE TO RICH Floyd | Floyd | "Thanks a bundle. Actually, I can't get into the mechanism to put the Floyd | rope in. When the other rope broke, it fouled up the pulleys and I Floyd | can't reach to unjam them. Can you do anything?" Rich takes the rope Floyd | with this disappointing speech, before delivering some good news: Floyd | "I've finished checking all the other ropes, so I can raise and lower Floyd | a bar if you want me to. Just SHOUT from the stage." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x pulleys" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Floyd | > Floyd | > X PULLEYS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "Okay, we go back to the stage, shout, shout, and figure it out" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x mechanism" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Floyd | > Floyd | > X MECHANISM Floyd | Floyd | The mechanism of the fly tower is great, mysterious, and has a jammed Floyd | part that is just out of reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP Floyd | Floyd | You jump on the spot. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "maybe ride the bar." | |
| Peregrine says, "I like this game, actually." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x bar" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Floyd | > Floyd | > X BAR Floyd | Floyd | Anything that needs to hang in the theatre hangs from one of these Floyd | horizontal metal tubes. Rich raises and lowers them to bring things Floyd | onto and off of the stage below. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "climb bar" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB BAR Floyd | Floyd | Little is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "bar bar" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Floyd | > Floyd | > BAR BAR Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says (to DavidW), "yep" | |
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "eat bar" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT BAR Floyd | Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "foo bar" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Floyd | > Floyd | > FOO BAR Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "hit bar" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT BAR Floyd | Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Fly Tower Floyd | This is where things, like curtains, are raised and lowered onto the Floyd | stage via bars. Right now, that's not happening. The left stage Floyd | corridor is below. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Rich here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Don't we go to the stage?" | |
| Peregrine says, "Yeha," | ||
| BrianK says, "Yep" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask rich about manager" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK RICH ABOUT MANAGER Floyd | Floyd | "The manager's taking the heat for all this, out in the atrium. He's Floyd | a good man, if a little easily distracted." Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "So we'd gathered ;)" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask rich about flowers" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK RICH ABOUT FLOWERS Floyd | Floyd | Rich gives you a good-natured smile. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "ok, to the stage!" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Left Stage Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Left Stage Corridor Floyd | This corridor leads to the stage left wing, due north. It's Floyd | tastefully decorated with the cheapest possible white tiling. Floyd | Backstage is east, and a set of stairs lead up to the fly tower. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Left Wing Floyd | The stage left wing is your home away from home. It's full of props Floyd | that will be required onstage if the show ever starts. South is the Floyd | left stage corridor, and east is that most glamorous of areas, the Floyd | stage. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Mandy here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Stage Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Stage Floyd | You're on stage! This would be very exciting if a performance were Floyd | going on. East is the Right Wing, west is the Left Wing. The Floyd | auditorium is to the north, past the currently unopenable curtain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "shout" | ||
Floyd ] Stage Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOUT Floyd | Floyd | Rich hears your shouts and lowers the bar for you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Stage Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Stage Floyd | You're on stage! This would be very exciting if a performance were Floyd | going on. East is the Right Wing, west is the Left Wing. The Floyd | auditorium is to the north, past the currently unopenable curtain. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a fly bar here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "x bar" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ride bar" | ||
Floyd ] Stage Floyd | > Floyd | > X BAR Floyd | Floyd | Anything that needs to hang in the theatre hangs from one of these Floyd | horizontal metal tubes. Rich raises and lowers them to bring things Floyd | onto and off of the stage below. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Stage Floyd | > Floyd | > RIDE BAR Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Take?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "sit on bar" | ||
Floyd ] Stage Floyd | > Floyd | > SIT ON BAR Floyd | Floyd | You get onto the fly bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "shout" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Mechanisms Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOUT Floyd | Floyd | Rich raises the bar and you find yourself pulled up into the Floyd | mechanisms of the fly tower. Floyd | Floyd | Fly Tower Mechanisms Floyd | Standing on the fly bar, you can see the pulleys and counterweights Floyd | that make Rich's job possible. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "shout again" | |
| DavidW says, "ah. okay" | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Mechanisms Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Fly Tower Mechanisms Floyd | Standing on the fly bar, you can see the pulleys and counterweights Floyd | that make Rich's job possible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pulleys" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Mechanisms Floyd | > Floyd | > X PULLEYS Floyd | Floyd | The ropes go over and under these pulleys in their everlasting quest Floyd | to pull things onto and off of the stage as fast as possible. One Floyd | pulley looks jammed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "x pulley" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Mechanisms Floyd | > Floyd | > X PULLEY Floyd | Floyd | The pulley has been jammed by a broken piece of rope. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "Is this a thing that happens because it seems rather dangerous" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get rope" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Mechanisms Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ROPE Floyd | Floyd | You pull the piece of rope out of the pulley, fixing the Floyd | curtain-raising mechanism! Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine exclaims, "Yes!" | |
| DavidW says, "I think this is a thing that happens." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Map updated." | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "shout" | ||
Floyd ] Stage Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOUT Floyd | Floyd | Stage (on the fly bar) Floyd | You're on stage! This would be very exciting if a performance were Floyd | going on. East is the Right Wing, west is the Left Wing. The Floyd | auditorium is to the north, past the currently unopenable curtain. Floyd | Floyd | Rich lowers the bar, and you, to the stage. Floyd | "Thanks," he shouts from the fly tower, "that did it. I'm putting the Floyd | new rope in now." Floyd | Floyd | Through bravery, intelligence, and not a little good luck, you have Floyd | saved the production almost single-handedly! The actual show is a Floyd | flop -- the lead actress is crying all the way through -- but that's Floyd | hardly your fault, is it? Afterwards, Mandy listens to you pour out Floyd | your story, nods, thanks you quickly, and then begins: "You know, this Floyd | reminds me of the time I was doing Hamlet in Dublin and the wheels on Floyd | one of the mobile walls got stuck..." You settle in for a long ten Floyd | minutes of looking like you aren't inwardly congratulating yourself. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The show has gone on. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It's either this or huge scaffolding." | |
| Jacqueline exclaims, "!" | ||
| BrianK says, "Oh my" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, that ended quickly." | ||
| Doug says, "whoops!" | ||
| Peregrine says, "I was so not expecting that" | ||
| Doug says, "guess we were supposed to fix the lead actress first" | ||
| BrianK says, "I suppose the remaining stuff is a sidequest" | ||
| DavidW says, "I guess we shoulda dealt with the lady's issues." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Doug), "I'm not sure we were supposed to deal with her." | ||
| BrianK says, "I think the blurb implies we can do more" | ||
| Doug says, "I think we needed a signiature (sic) on the card" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "That room wasn't even a room, was it? The Dressing Room?" | ||
| Peregrine says, "I would have liked to comfort the leading lady" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Mechanisms Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Fly Tower Mechanisms Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Mechanisms Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Fly Tower Mechanisms Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "shout" | ||
Floyd ] Stage Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOUT Floyd | Floyd | Stage (on the fly bar) Floyd | You're on stage! This would be very exciting if a performance were Floyd | going on. East is the Right Wing, west is the Left Wing. The Floyd | auditorium is to the north, past the currently unopenable curtain. Floyd | Floyd | Rich lowers the bar, and you, to the stage. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine exclaims, "Okay, let's comfort the leading lady!" | |
| DavidW says, "I think maybe if we gave the flowers to the right person, Fred maybe, he could apologize." | ||
| Doug says, "we never did anything with Fred either" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, perhaps." | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Stage Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a roll of gaffer tape Floyd | some papers Floyd | a keycard Floyd | a flower bouquet Floyd | a card Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "examine paper" | ||
Floyd ] Stage Floyd | > Floyd | > EXAMINE PAPER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "examine papers" | ||
Floyd ] Stage Floyd | > Floyd | > EXAMINE PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | A pile of indeterminate forms which, with your luck, you will sooner Floyd | or later have to fill out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "fill papers" | ||
Floyd ] Stage Floyd | > Floyd | > FILL PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "and the papers and tape... hm. What to do with them?" | |
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "fill in papers" | ||
Floyd ] Stage Floyd | > Floyd | > FILL IN PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "fill out papers" | ||
Floyd ] Stage Floyd | > Floyd | > FILL OUT PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "write" | ||
Floyd ] Stage Floyd | > Floyd | > WRITE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "maybe if we ask the director or manager to fill out forms, we'll end up with a pen?" | |
| BrianK says, "It could just be a red tape joke" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Maybe give papers to mandy?" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | (first getting off the fly bar) Floyd | Floyd | Left Wing Floyd | The stage left wing is your home away from home. It's full of props Floyd | that will be required onstage if the show ever starts. South is the Floyd | left stage corridor, and east is that most glamorous of areas, the Floyd | stage. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Mandy here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x mandy" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > X MANDY Floyd | Floyd | Mandy is your Stage Manager. You answer to her. Usually, that answer Floyd | is something along the lines of "Yes, I would love to hear about yet Floyd | another time you saved the day for whatever production you were Floyd | doing." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "give papers to mandy" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE PAPERS TO MANDY Floyd | Floyd | Mandy doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask mandy about papers" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MANDY ABOUT PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | Mandy glares at you. You decide not to pursue that line of enquiry. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "give papers to mandy" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE PAPERS TO MANDY Floyd | Floyd | Mandy doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask mandy about flowers" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MANDY ABOUT FLOWERS Floyd | Floyd | Mandy glares at you. You decide not to pursue that line of enquiry. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "give flowers to mandy" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE FLOWERS TO MANDY Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Left Wing Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Left Wing Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Left Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a roll of gaffer tape Floyd | some papers Floyd | a keycard Floyd | a flower bouquet Floyd | a card Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "it's a bouqet" | |
| DavidW says, "er bouquet" | ||
| Doug says, "oh, Henry said Fred called her old" | ||
| Doug says, "so maybe we need to trick Fred into signing the card" | ||
| Peregrine says, "Time to go to see Fred" | ||
| Peregrine exclaims, "Papers!" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Stage Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Stage Floyd | You're on stage! This would be very exciting if a performance were Floyd | going on. East is the Right Wing, west is the Left Wing. The Floyd | auditorium is to the north, past the currently unopenable curtain. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a fly bar here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Auditorium Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Auditorium Floyd | The auditorium is not yet open, and the seats are empty. If you Floyd | succeed in your task, they will soon be filled with audience, admiring Floyd | the theatre and dropping things. The stage is to the south, and the Floyd | atrium is to the north. To the west is the lighting booth. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Maybe Fred with sign the papers?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lighting Booth Floyd | The stage is lit from here. It's filled with machinery that Fred Floyd | never lets anyone touch. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Fred here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "er will sign" | |
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "give papers to fred" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE PAPERS TO FRED Floyd | Floyd | Fred doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "put card in papers" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT CARD IN PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | Those can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Or Henry? I dunno." | |
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "give card to fred" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE CARD TO FRED Floyd | Floyd | Fred doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask fred about papers" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | Fred makes a minor adjustment to his dials and scowls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "give bouquet to fred" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE BOUQUET TO FRED Floyd | Floyd | Fred doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask fred about tape" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT TAPE Floyd | Floyd | Fred makes a minor adjustment to his dials and scowls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "ask fred about card" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT CARD Floyd | Floyd | "Why should I sign anything I don't need to?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask fred about leading lady" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT LEADING LADY Floyd | Floyd | Fred makes a minor adjustment to his dials and scowls. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "Ahem..." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask fred about actress" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT ACTRESS Floyd | Floyd | "I will not apologise for what I said. She does look old." Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "classy." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Super classy" | ||
| Peregrine says, ">THROTTLE FRED" | ||
| Doug asks, "so how do we convince him he needs to sign something?" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "ask fred about autograph" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT AUTOGRAPH Floyd | Floyd | Fred makes a minor adjustment to his dials and scowls. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Have we explored everywhere, by the way?" | |
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "tell fred about red tape" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > TELL FRED ABOUT RED TAPE Floyd | Floyd | This provokes no reaction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask fred about signiature" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT SIGNIATURE Floyd | Floyd | "Why should I sign anything I don't need to?" Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "I think we've explored everywhere" | |
| DavidW asks, "Were their any restrooms near the atrium at all?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I *think* we have." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "give flowers to fred" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE FLOWERS TO FRED Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "give bouquet to fred" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE BOUQUET TO FRED Floyd | Floyd | Fred doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Where's the sound booth?" | |
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Lighting Booth Floyd | The stage is lit from here. It's filled with machinery that Fred Floyd | never lets anyone touch. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Fred here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "You'd expect that, but... let me go check for restrooms." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "tape machinery" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > TAPE MACHINERY Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to tape the machinery to? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "card" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > CARD Floyd | Floyd | You would achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "tape machinery to fred" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > TAPE MACHINERY TO FRED Floyd | Floyd | You would achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "so hm, I guess we need to tape something to something?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "tape card to papers" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > TAPE CARD TO PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | You would achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "unless that's just a standard verb" | |
| Peregrine says, "It's not usually" | ||
| DavidW says, "We probably tape the card to the bouquet, but after the card's signed." | ||
| Doug says, "oh, there was that chaise longue" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "tape card to bouquet" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > TAPE CARD TO BOUQUET Floyd | Floyd | You would achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "and the prompter's desk" | |
| Peregrine asks, "What do you do with a chaise longue?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "There is no indication of restrooms from the atrium" | ||
| DavidW says (to Peregrine), "faint devinely" | ||
| DavidW says, "er divinely" | ||
| Peregrine says, "Haha" | ||
| Peregrine asks, "Have we done all we could with Henry?" | ||
| Doug says, "we didn't really use the bar menu either" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And there does not apper to be a reference to a sound room beyond what Fred mentions." | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a roll of gaffer tape Floyd | some papers Floyd | a keycard Floyd | a flower bouquet Floyd | a card Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Doug), "Well, we ordered a drink." | |
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "sign card" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > SIGN CARD Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "write on card" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > WRITE ON CARD Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says (to Jacqueline), "it wasn't on the menu though. Or at least not explicitly. Maybe we wouldn't have been able to before reading it" | |
| DavidW says, "I guess we have to trick or force Fred into signing the card." | ||
| BrianK asks, "Maybe go around asking everyone about Fred?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I think Henry must be of some help in all this. He's closest to the lady." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask fred about machinery" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT MACHINERY Floyd | Floyd | "Back off. This is my kit." Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "I think so too" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask fred about henry" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT HENRY Floyd | Floyd | "Why Henry has an actual job I'll never know. He's a wuss. You'll Floyd | find him backstage, if you feel like losing your faith in humanity." Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "Let's head off to find henry" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Well, the menu just says it ranges in price from spring water to Dom Perignon. Nothing else is explicit." | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "c" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > C Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "c?" | |
| BrianK says, "I'm up for going to henry" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Auditorium Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Auditorium Floyd | The auditorium is not yet open, and the seats are empty. If you Floyd | succeed in your task, they will soon be filled with audience, admiring Floyd | the theatre and dropping things. The stage is to the south, and the Floyd | atrium is to the north. To the west is the lighting booth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Stage Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Stage Floyd | You're on stage! This would be very exciting if a performance were Floyd | going on. East is the Right Wing, west is the Left Wing. The Floyd | auditorium is to the north, past the currently unopenable curtain. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a fly bar here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Right Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Right Wing Floyd | A bigger wing than yours, stage right has been graced with the Floyd | prompter's desk and a truly unattractive chaise longue for act 2. Floyd | West is the stage, south is a corridor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Right Stage Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Right Stage Corridor Floyd | Here, at least, both sides of the theatre are equal. The right stage Floyd | corridor is decorated just as badly as the left one. North is the Floyd | right wing, west is backstage, and east is the door to the equipment Floyd | store. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Backstage Floyd | The actors and crew gather here when they aren't needed onstage. West Floyd | is the left stage corridor; east is the right stage corridor. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a props table and Henry here. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "x props" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > X PROPS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | A small red table for props and other items of supreme importance to Floyd | the production. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x dressing room door" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > X DRESSING ROOM DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The door to the leading lady's dressing room. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x props" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > X PROPS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | It isn't something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "ask henry about papers" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK HENRY ABOUT PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | Henry sighs and mops his brow. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask henry about fred" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK HENRY ABOUT FRED Floyd | Floyd | "Why Fred has an actual job I'll never know. He's a jerk. You'll Floyd | find him in the lighting booth, off the auditorium, if you feel like Floyd | losing your faith in humanity." Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask henry about sound" | ||
| Peregrine says (to Floyd), "ask henry about card" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK HENRY ABOUT SOUND Floyd | Floyd | Henry sighs and mops his brow. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK HENRY ABOUT CARD Floyd | Floyd | Henry sighs and mops his brow. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "ask henry about actress" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK HENRY ABOUT ACTRESS Floyd | Floyd | "She's a good actress, but man can she get emotional." Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "ask henry about signature" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK HENRY ABOUT SIGNATURE Floyd | Floyd | Henry sighs and mops his brow. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug asks, "henry about signiature" | Peregrine says, "Note: Henry and Fred have exactly the same opinion of each other ;)" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask henry about signiature" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK HENRY ABOUT SIGNIATURE Floyd | Floyd | Henry sighs and mops his brow. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "Well, signature is implemented as an option for Fred, so I'm guessing he has to sign it after all" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give papers to henry" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE PAPERS TO HENRY Floyd | Floyd | Henry doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show papers to henry" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW PAPERS TO HENRY Floyd | Floyd | Henry is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask henry about papers" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK HENRY ABOUT PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | Henry sighs and mops his brow. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "Okay, I'm going to bed..." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask henry about pen" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK HENRY ABOUT PEN Floyd | Floyd | Henry sighs and mops his brow. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Night, Peregrine" | |
| BrianK says, "G'nite" | ||
| Peregrine exclaims, "Bonne nuit a tous!" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give bouquet to henry" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE BOUQUET TO HENRY Floyd | Floyd | Henry doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine hops into the DeLorean and heads off to the future. | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "give card to actress" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE CARD TO ACTRESS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put card under door" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT CARD UNDER DOOR Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The door to the leading lady's dressing room. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "tape card to door" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > TAPE CARD TO DOOR Floyd | Floyd | (the dressing room door) Floyd | You would achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x card" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > X CARD Floyd | Floyd | "To a beautiful young woman." It's in the theatre manager's Floyd | handwriting! There is, however, no signiature. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "so what do we know about Fred? He wanted to do sound, and hates Mandy for stealing his job" | |
| DavidW says, "oh. Theater manager's handwriting." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x flowers" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > X FLOWERS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We need to visit him in the Atrium." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x bouquet" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOUQUET Floyd | Floyd | Clearly someone has an admirer: this bouquet of roses is enormous. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks (of DavidW), "again?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Right Stage Corridor Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Right Stage Corridor Floyd | Here, at least, both sides of the theatre are equal. The right stage Floyd | corridor is decorated just as badly as the left one. North is the Floyd | right wing, west is backstage, and east is the door to the equipment Floyd | store. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't remember asking him about any of this." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Right Wing Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Right Wing Floyd | A bigger wing than yours, stage right has been graced with the Floyd | prompter's desk and a truly unattractive chaise longue for act 2. Floyd | West is the stage, south is a corridor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Stage Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Stage Floyd | You're on stage! This would be very exciting if a performance were Floyd | going on. East is the Right Wing, west is the Left Wing. The Floyd | auditorium is to the north, past the currently unopenable curtain. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a fly bar here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Auditorium Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Auditorium Floyd | The auditorium is not yet open, and the seats are empty. If you Floyd | succeed in your task, they will soon be filled with audience, admiring Floyd | the theatre and dropping things. The stage is to the south, and the Floyd | atrium is to the north. To the west is the lighting booth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Atrium Floyd | The atrium is filled to the brim with discerning theatregoers and Floyd | cultured folk, demanding, in upper-class accents, to be let in. The Floyd | bar is not very busy and Lola, behind it, looks bored. The manager is Floyd | trying his best to quiet the crowd and mostly failing. The stage is Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | On the bar is a menu. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see the Theatre Manager and Lola here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hey, folks, I'm going to head out. This last puzzle is ... well, it's both annoying and a trope and I'm happy enough with the ending we got." | |
| Jacqueline goes to play other comp games. | ||
| BrianK says, "All right" | ||
| Doug says, "bye Jacq" | ||
| Lionheart exclaims, "Ciao!" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | menu: Lola stops you with a quick slap. Floyd | gin and tonic: That seems to belong to the Theatre Manager. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get menu" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > GET MENU Floyd | Floyd | Lola stops you with a quick slap. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "give card to manager" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE CARD TO MANAGER Floyd | Floyd | The manager doesn't even glance at the card before saying "Sir, I know Floyd | that your ticket says the performance should have started ten minutes Floyd | ago. I'm very sorry. We're doing everything we can." Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "aha!" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "give bouquet to manager" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE BOUQUET TO MANAGER Floyd | Floyd | The Theatre Manager doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "give papers to manager" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE PAPERS TO MANAGER Floyd | Floyd | The Theatre Manager doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "give bouquet to lola" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE BOUQUET TO LOLA Floyd | Floyd | Lola doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "hrm." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask manager about papers" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MANAGER ABOUT PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | "Not another one? Don't worry, sir, you will see a performance Floyd | tonight. We are experiencing a few slight technical hitches, but the Floyd | auditorium will open soon." He sips his drink. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask manager about tape" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MANAGER ABOUT TAPE Floyd | Floyd | "Not another one? Don't worry, sir, you will see a performance Floyd | tonight. We are experiencing a few slight technical hitches, but the Floyd | auditorium will open soon." He sips his drink. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask manager about actress" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MANAGER ABOUT ACTRESS Floyd | Floyd | "Not another one? Don't worry, sir, you will see a performance Floyd | tonight. We are experiencing a few slight technical hitches, but the Floyd | auditorium will open soon." He sips his drink. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask manager about fred" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MANAGER ABOUT FRED Floyd | Floyd | "Not another one? Don't worry, sir, you will see a performance Floyd | tonight. We are experiencing a few slight technical hitches, but the Floyd | auditorium will open soon." He sips his drink. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask manager about gin" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MANAGER ABOUT GIN Floyd | Floyd | "Not another one? Don't worry, sir, you will see a performance Floyd | tonight. We are experiencing a few slight technical hitches, but the Floyd | auditorium will open soon." He sips his drink. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask manager about lola" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK MANAGER ABOUT LOLA Floyd | Floyd | "Not another one? Don't worry, sir, you will see a performance Floyd | tonight. We are experiencing a few slight technical hitches, but the Floyd | auditorium will open soon." He sips his drink. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask lola about fred" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK LOLA ABOUT FRED Floyd | Floyd | "Who? I don't go backstage, you know that." Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "The manager must be pretty tipsy by now" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask lola about actress" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK LOLA ABOUT ACTRESS Floyd | Floyd | Lola ignores you pointedly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask lola about manager" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK LOLA ABOUT MANAGER Floyd | Floyd | "The man can run a theatre, but he's got no backbone. Just look at Floyd | him! If he had an ounce of chutzpah, he'd tell everyone to shut up Floyd | and wait." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask lola about papers" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK LOLA ABOUT PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | Lola ignores you pointedly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "ask lola about actress" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK LOLA ABOUT ACTRESS Floyd | Floyd | Lola ignores you pointedly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "ask lola about me" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK LOLA ABOUT ME Floyd | Floyd | "Why should you ask me about yourself? You tell me all about yourself Floyd | without me asking." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crowd" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > X CROWD Floyd | Floyd | Just the sort of people whose applause you would love to hear. Right Floyd | now, they aren't applauding, just shouting. They aren't even shouting Floyd | in unison. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "I might be ready for hints." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "crowd, shut up" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > CROWD, SHUT UP Floyd | Floyd | You can't talk to the crowd. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "crowd, wait" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > CROWD, WAIT Floyd | Floyd | You can't talk to the crowd. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "ask lola about crowd" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK LOLA ABOUT CROWD Floyd | Floyd | Lola ignores you pointedly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask crowd about manager" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK CROWD ABOUT MANAGER Floyd | Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "x crowd" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | > Floyd | > X CROWD Floyd | Floyd | Just the sort of people whose applause you would love to hear. Right Floyd | now, they aren't applauding, just shouting. They aren't even shouting Floyd | in unison. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "I'm down for a hint too" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "hint" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > Introduction to Theatre People Floyd | Instructions for Play Floyd | Hints Floyd | Credits | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Introduction to Theatre People Floyd | > Instructions for Play Floyd | Hints Floyd | Credits | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Introduction to Theatre People Floyd | Instructions for Play Floyd | > Hints Floyd | Credits | Doug asks (of DavidW), "you okay with a hint?" | |
| DavidW says, "ugh. if you must." | ||
| BrianK presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] Hints Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Last Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > The curtain isn't rising. What should I do? Floyd | What's the deal with the sobbing backstage? Floyd | How do I get rope for Rich? Floyd | How do I get Fred to do what I want? Floyd | I've given Rich the rope. Now what? Floyd | How do I fix the fly tower mechanism? | DavidW says, "I think we're probably close but I can't guess it." | |
| Doug says, "I'm fine with continuing if you have more ideas" | ||
| BrianK says, "Well, looking at the hint questions themselves" | ||
| BrianK says, "Looks like we're on the right track with Fred" | ||
| Doug says, "yep" | ||
| DavidW says, "I can't think of any way to blackmail Fred." | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "q" | ||
Floyd ] Instructions Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | Introduction to Theatre People Floyd | Instructions for Play Floyd | > Hints Floyd | Credits | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "q" | ||
Floyd ] Atrium Floyd | Atrium Floyd | The atrium is filled to the brim with discerning theatregoers and Floyd | cultured folk, demanding, in upper-class accents, to be let in. The Floyd | bar is not very busy and Lola, behind it, looks bored. The manager is Floyd | trying his best to quiet the crowd and mostly failing. The stage is Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | On the bar is a menu. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see the Theatre Manager and Lola here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "The card doesn't mention the leading lady, but maybe Fred's sweet on Lola?" | |
| Doug says, "hm, maybe" | ||
| Doug says, "although Lola doesn't know anyone backstage" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "s. w." | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > S. W. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Auditorium Floyd | The auditorium is not yet open, and the seats are empty. If you Floyd | succeed in your task, they will soon be filled with audience, admiring Floyd | the theatre and dropping things. The stage is to the south, and the Floyd | atrium is to the north. To the west is the lighting booth. Floyd | Floyd | Lighting Booth Floyd | The stage is lit from here. It's filled with machinery that Fred Floyd | never lets anyone touch. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Fred here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "ask fred about lola" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT LOLA Floyd | Floyd | "You've just got to be firm with her. Of course, if you're you, you Floyd | just don't have the build for firmness." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask fred about mandy" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT MANDY Floyd | Floyd | "Don't ever say that name in here again. Don't ever. I was going to Floyd | be stage manager, and she stole that from me! Stole it from me in Floyd | cold blood!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "ask fred about signature" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT SIGNATURE Floyd | Floyd | Fred makes a minor adjustment to his dials and scowls. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. Definitely not sweet on Mandy" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "ask fred about signing" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT SIGNING Floyd | Floyd | Fred makes a minor adjustment to his dials and scowls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug asks, "fred about tape" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask fred about tape" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT TAPE Floyd | Floyd | Fred makes a minor adjustment to his dials and scowls. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK asks, "What's the word that gets a response from Fred about signing?" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "give tape to fred" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE TAPE TO FRED Floyd | Floyd | Fred doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "signiature (sic)" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask fred about job" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT JOB Floyd | Floyd | Fred makes a minor adjustment to his dials and scowls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "ask fred about signiature" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT SIGNIATURE Floyd | Floyd | "Why should I sign anything I don't need to?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "or the card" | |
| BrianK says, "That's an awkward misspelling" | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah" | ||
| DavidW asks, "did we ask the manager about signiature?" | ||
| Doug asks, "what else could we tape?" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "show card to fred" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW CARD TO FRED Floyd | Floyd | Fred is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "give card to fred" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE CARD TO FRED Floyd | Floyd | Fred doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a roll of gaffer tape Floyd | some papers Floyd | a keycard Floyd | a flower bouquet Floyd | a card Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask fred about card" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRED ABOUT CARD Floyd | Floyd | "Why should I sign anything I don't need to?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tape papers to fred" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > TAPE PAPERS TO FRED Floyd | Floyd | You would achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "It sounds like he would sign something that he DOES need to" | |
| BrianK says, "but the papers aren't working B(" | ||
| Doug says, "yeah, like a job offer" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x papers" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > X PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | A pile of indeterminate forms which, with your luck, you will sooner Floyd | or later have to fill out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "read papers" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > READ PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | A pile of indeterminate forms which, with your luck, you will sooner Floyd | or later have to fill out. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. indeterminate forms." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "ask fred to sign papers" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRED TO SIGN PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Can they become determinate forms?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fill out forms" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > FILL OUT FORMS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "look through papers" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK THROUGH PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | You find a safety form in the pile and pocket it. It might be useful Floyd | later; for what, you aren't sure. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "!" | |
| DavidW says, "oh geez" | ||
| BrianK says, "oh" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x safety" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > X SAFETY Floyd | Floyd | A very long form detailing a tedious and redundant risk assessment for Floyd | the production. It just needs a signiature. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "tape card to safety" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > TAPE CARD TO SAFETY Floyd | Floyd | You attach the card to the form in such a way that it looks like the Floyd | tail end of ten pages of risk assessment. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "looking good" | |
| BrianK says, "Well, I guess that's it then" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "give safety to fred" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE SAFETY TO FRED Floyd | Floyd | Fred takes the form too quickly to notice your alterations and signs Floyd | at the bottom, which happens to be the manager's letter to Lily. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oh, she has a name!" | |
| BrianK exclaims, "And we get the actress's name!" | ||
| Doug asks, "ok, to the dressing room?" | ||
| BrianK says, "Yep" | ||
| DavidW says, "well, now the card has to be put on the bouquet." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take card" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE CARD Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put card on bouquet" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT CARD ON BOUQUET Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on the flower bouquet would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x card" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > X CARD Floyd | Floyd | "To a beautiful young woman." It's in the theatre manager's Floyd | handwriting! It's signed by Fred. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug asks, "or just slip the card under the door?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tape card to bouquet" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > TAPE CARD TO BOUQUET Floyd | Floyd | You would achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put card in bouquet" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT CARD IN BOUQUET Floyd | Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "attach card to bouquet" | ||
Floyd ] Lighting Booth Floyd | > Floyd | > ATTACH CARD TO BOUQUET Floyd | Floyd | You would achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "I figure we can just use the card without the bouquet" | |
| Doug says, "she doesn't need flowers, just the word 'young'" | ||
| DavidW says, "okay, try it with just the card." | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "e. s. w. s. e." | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > E. S. W. S. E. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Auditorium Floyd | The auditorium is not yet open, and the seats are empty. If you Floyd | succeed in your task, they will soon be filled with audience, admiring Floyd | the theatre and dropping things. The stage is to the south, and the Floyd | atrium is to the north. To the west is the lighting booth. Floyd | Floyd | Stage Floyd | You're on stage! This would be very exciting if a performance were Floyd | going on. East is the Right Wing, west is the Left Wing. The Floyd | auditorium is to the north, past the currently unopenable curtain. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a fly bar here. Floyd | Floyd | Left Wing Floyd | The stage left wing is your home away from home. It's full of props Floyd | that will be required onstage if the show ever starts. South is the Floyd | left stage corridor, and east is that most glamorous of areas, the Floyd | stage. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Mandy here. Floyd | Floyd | Left Stage Corridor Floyd | This corridor leads to the stage left wing, due north. It's Floyd | tastefully decorated with the cheapest possible white tiling. Floyd | Backstage is east, and a set of stairs lead up to the fly tower. Floyd | Floyd | Backstage Floyd | The actors and crew gather here when they aren't needed onstage. West Floyd | is the left stage corridor; east is the right stage corridor. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a props table and Henry here. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "slide card under door" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > SLIDE CARD UNDER DOOR Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "give card to lily" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE CARD TO LILY Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DOOR Floyd | Floyd | It isn't something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | You hear sobbing from behind the dressing room door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "give card to sobbing" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE CARD TO SOBBING Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "give it to henry." | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "give card to henry" | ||
Floyd ] Backstage Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE CARD TO HENRY Floyd | Floyd | "'To a beautiful young woman.' Maybe this'll get Lily out of her Floyd | funk." With these hopeful words, Henry slides the card under the Floyd | dressing room door. Floyd | The sobbing suddenly stops and you hear Lily's voice through the door. Floyd | "He didn't mean it after all! Gosh, I look a fright. I've got to get Floyd | ready -- the curtain goes up soon!" Floyd | Henry looks at you with a mixture of surprise and admiration. "Where Floyd | did you get that? No, actually, I don't want to know. Thanks." He Floyd | disappears, no doubt off to do important and meaningful Floyd | theatre-related things. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "jinx" | |
| Doug asks, "ok, back to the stage to unjam the pulley?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes please" | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "w. n. e. shout" | ||
Floyd ] Stage Floyd | > Floyd | > W. N. E. SHOUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Left Stage Corridor Floyd | This corridor leads to the stage left wing, due north. It's Floyd | tastefully decorated with the cheapest possible white tiling. Floyd | Backstage is east, and a set of stairs lead up to the fly tower. Floyd | Floyd | Left Wing Floyd | The stage left wing is your home away from home. It's full of props Floyd | that will be required onstage if the show ever starts. South is the Floyd | left stage corridor, and east is that most glamorous of areas, the Floyd | stage. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Mandy here. Floyd | Floyd | Stage Floyd | You're on stage! This would be very exciting if a performance were Floyd | going on. East is the Right Wing, west is the Left Wing. The Floyd | auditorium is to the north, past the currently unopenable curtain. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a fly bar here. Floyd | Floyd | Rich hears your shouts and raises the bar for you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doug says, "oops" | |
| Doug says (to Floyd), "shout" | ||
Floyd ] Stage Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOUT Floyd | Floyd | Rich hears your shouts and lowers the bar for you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get on bar" | ||
Floyd ] Stage Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ON BAR Floyd | Floyd | You get onto the fly bar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "shout" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Mechanisms Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOUT Floyd | Floyd | Rich raises the bar and you find yourself pulled up into the Floyd | mechanisms of the fly tower. Floyd | Floyd | Fly Tower Mechanisms Floyd | Standing on the fly bar, you can see the pulleys and counterweights Floyd | that make Rich's job possible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "get rope" | ||
Floyd ] Fly Tower Mechanisms Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ROPE Floyd | Floyd | You pull the piece of rope out of the pulley, fixing the Floyd | curtain-raising mechanism! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Doug says (to Floyd), "shout" | ||
Floyd ] Stage Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOUT Floyd | Floyd | Stage (on the fly bar) Floyd | You're on stage! This would be very exciting if a performance were Floyd | going on. East is the Right Wing, west is the Left Wing. The Floyd | auditorium is to the north, past the currently unopenable curtain. Floyd | Floyd | Rich lowers the bar, and you, to the stage. Floyd | "Thanks," he shouts from the fly tower, "that did it. I'm putting the Floyd | new rope in now." Floyd | Floyd | Through bravery, intelligence, and not a little good luck, you have Floyd | saved the production almost single-handedly! The show is a great Floyd | success, carried from good to great by Lily's splendid singing. Floyd | Afterwards, Mandy listens to you pour out your story, nods, thanks you Floyd | quickly, and then begins: "You know, this reminds me of the time I was Floyd | doing Hamlet in Dublin and the wheels on one of the mobile walls got Floyd | stuck..." But, for the first time, she doesn't have an audience. Floyd | Henry is arriving to thank you for saving the production, and actually Floyd | cuts her off! If not a hero, you are at least no longer unknown. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** A glorious career awaits! *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | BrianK exclaims, "Hurray!" | |
| DavidW applauds. | ||
| Doug says, "win!" | ||
| DavidW says, "good game, all." | ||
| Doug says (to BrianK), "nice job on the LOOK THROUGH." | ||
| BrianK says, "I didn't think it would work" | ||
| Doug asks, "I guess SEARCH would have done that too?" | ||
| Doug says, "funny that we did try to search a few things before" | ||
| DavidW says, "I assume SEARCH would work." | ||
| BrianK says, "ah, look through is a synonym for search" | ||
| Doug says, "yeah, I checked out the hints offline and it suggests SEARCH." | ||
| Doug says, "so yeah, moral of the story is, when a woman is sad about being called old, use deception to convince her she's young." | ||
| Doug says, "also, scrounge up spare change to buy your boss a drink to steal the key you're supposed to have." | ||
| DavidW says, "Many IF games have questionable logic to them." | ||
| zarf has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Doug says, "well, I was questioning the ethics more than the logic" | |
| DavidW says, "mm" | ||
| Doug says, "but it wasn't as egregious as Five Minutes To Burn Something." | ||
| Doug says, "which also involved needing to SEARCH something, if I recall. Plus making a noose." | ||
| Doug says, "er, lasso." | ||
| Doug says, "(spoiler!)" | ||
| Doug says, "ok, I need some food. Thanks for playing!" | ||
