  
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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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask ariadne" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Isle of Aeaea, the eastern Aegean. Floyd | 3,500 years ago. Floyd | Floyd | "What tidings from the northern wastes?" asked the High Priestess. Floyd | Floyd | Her elderly eyes were glued to the north, across the moonlit lagoon, Floyd | beyond the cliffs on the other side, towards the great sea. Deep in Floyd | though, she didn't notice a human shape silhouetted against the Floyd | glistening waters, scurrying along the clifftop. Floyd | Floyd | "Alas, my potnia, the Achaeans have taken Tiryns", said the other Floyd | woman, her voice so quiet her Egyptian lilt was almost unrecognisable Floyd | "They are spreading through the Argolis like wildfire." Floyd | Floyd | "Wildfire", echoed the High Priestess. "The Achaeans have a new Wanax, Floyd | do they not?" Floyd | Floyd | "Be truer to say their new Wanax has them - lined up like pieces upon Floyd | a game-board. Hear me, Circe, I have not the slightest doubt that he Floyd | had a part in my sister's murder." Floyd | Floyd | Circe turned with a placating gesture. Floyd | Floyd | "Before we publicly accuse the most powerful Wanax of the northern Floyd | wastes of sacrilegious killing..." Floyd | Floyd | "My potnia, you and I know full well that my sister was all that stood Floyd | between Achaean greed and the palace of Tiryns. Wake up, Circe. Palace Floyd | after palace, they are bringing their sky-gods southwards and they Floyd | care not an iota for us or the Goddess. Today it is Tiryns and Floyd | tomorrow perhaps a closer port, and before we react they shall have a Floyd | foothold in Crete. Perchance my potnia is growing soft in her old age? Floyd | Maybe the Goddess needs a more... youthful vehicle for the fulfilment Floyd | of her designs?" Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, let me guess, one of you Avaris women? Do you reckon I cling to Floyd | this life just to spite you?" Floyd | Floyd | "Kindly give us your candidates for evaluation, then. One of your Floyd | nieces, I suppose?" Floyd | Floyd | "In due time. Phaedra shows potential but she is still too young. And Floyd | concerning Ariadne..." Floyd | Floyd | The other woman let go a short, hearty laugh. Floyd | Floyd | "Ariadne! We Thebans always love a good joke, but it is high time we Floyd | made a serious move, my potnia." Floyd | Floyd | "Very well. I shall send for her in the morning, and we shall reach a Floyd | decision before sunset. In fact, you can go fetch my niece yourself." Floyd | Floyd | "Pray tell, which one, my potnia?" Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, very droll, very droll..." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | BrianK says, "Oh my, that's a long intro" | |
| Doug arrives, full of fun and funk. | DavidW asks (of BrianK), "Would you like to drive since I've seen the first part of this?" | |
| BrianK says, "All right" | ||
| BrianK pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Ariadne in Aeaea by Víctor Ojuel Floyd | Made with Inform 7, September 2016. Floyd | Floyd | Art by Ara Carrasco. Floyd | Floyd | The author wishes to thank those who kindly (and bravely!) tested this Floyd | game in its infancy, namely Ara Carrasco, Matthew Holland, Liz Mercuri Floyd | and Andrew Schultz. Floyd | Floyd | Type HELP or INSTRUCTIONS if you want instructions on Floyd | how to play. Floyd | Type ABOUT AUTHOR to learn more about the author. Floyd | Type ABOUT GAME to know more about the game and its Floyd | historical/mythological setting. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| BrianK pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | Floyd | Ariadne in Aeaea Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Victor Ojuel Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 160928 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Shepherd's hut Floyd | You wake up from a dream of winding passages and a beast chasing you, Floyd | to a morning which is little better: no labyrinth but a tangle of Floyd | limbs, no beast but a pulsing headache and a concert of snores. A Floyd | pale, blueish light filters through the wooden ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | Which is odd, because the living quarters of the palace are all stone, Floyd | and the other priestesses are rarely this physically affectionate and Floyd | come to think about that... Floyd | Floyd | You open your eyes and bolt upright. Floyd | Floyd | This is not quite the palace's living quarters, more like a ragged Floyd | wooden shelter. Your memories of yesterday are vague: you remember Floyd | waiting until the other novices fell asleep, climbing down the outer Floyd | wall of the palace, sneaking along the clifftop to meet the shepherd Floyd | boys, and then all is a blur. Floyd | Floyd | An empty jug lies on its side against a wall, abandoned where it Floyd | stopped rolling. Just like the human occupants of the hut. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "I'm gonna look at the instructions to see if there's anything specific to this game" | |
| DavidW says, "okay" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "instructions" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > INSTRUCTIONS Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | These are all the actions you need to complete the game: Floyd | Floyd | Use N, S, E, W, NE, NW, SE and SW to move in the cardinal directions. Floyd | Use ENTER and OUT to get in and out of buildings. Floyd | Use INVENTORY to see the objects you carry and the clothes you wear. Floyd | Use LOOK to see your surroundings. Floyd | Use EXAMINE to learn more about a certain object or person. Floyd | Use TAKE to pick up objects and GIVE TO to Floyd | interact with humans. Floyd | Use WEAR and TAKE OFF to don and disrobe pieces of clothing. Floyd | Use TALK TO to interact socially. Floyd | Use PUSH and PULL to move heavy objects. Floyd | And if you get stuck and would like a hint, use THINK to switch on Floyd | your grey cells! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "That's more brief than I expected. How nice." | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "about author" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > ABOUT AUTHOR Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Víctor Ojuel (Barcelona, 1983) is a writer, narrative designer and Floyd | translator, based in Manchester, UK. Floyd | Floyd | He has worked as a business consultant, advertising copywriter and Floyd | fashion transcreator before writing videogames, among them Floyd | Pharaonic (now on Steam), Forgotten Kodama and Floyd | Pilgrimage (IFDB). Floyd | Floyd | He has written a novel (Ava Ström, a university thriller with Floyd | SF touches, now on Amazon) and is currently working on a second book, Floyd | as well as a few undisclosed commercial projects. And, of course, Floyd | Mistress of the Labyrinth, the original Ariadne game and an Floyd | immediate sequel to the events of Ariadne in Aeaea. He is Floyd | available as a freelance writer and narrative designer for videogames Floyd | and other multimedia projects. Floyd | Floyd | Catch me on Twitter (@victorojuel) or send me an email Floyd | and let me know what you think of this game Floyd | (victor.ojuel@gmail.com). And thanks for playing! :) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "about game" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > ABOUT GAME Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ariadne in Aeaea is designed as a short, slightly Floyd | tongue-in-cheek prologue to the events in the upcoming Mistress of Floyd | the Labyrinth. They are both based upon the author's Floyd | reinterpretation of the myths of the sorceress Circe, Ariadne, queen Floyd | Pasiphaë, king Minos, the Minotaur and Theseus as historical facts Floyd | deformed by post-Homeric Greek propaganda. In this world, Ariadne is a Floyd | priestess of the (chthonic, matriarcal, animistic) Cretan/Minoan Floyd | civilisation. She is also a stand-in for her culture, pitted against Floyd | the onslaught of Achaean (proto-Greek) expansion, in the late Bronze Floyd | Age in the Aegean sea, around the 15th century BC. Floyd | Floyd | Historically, this process ended with almost complete cultural Floyd | assimilation, to the point that by Homer's time (400 to 600 years Floyd | later) all traces of the Minoan culture where shrouded in legend. Floyd | Nowadays it is extremely difficult to distinguish the Minoan roots of Floyd | many aspects of Greek civilisation. Floyd | Floyd | Ariadne in Aeaea specifically presents a conjectural theocratic Floyd | society based on a fictional island, geographically modelled after Floyd | Thera (Santorini) and culturally based on the Minoan palatial Floyd | societies of Knossos and Phaistos. While most details are historically Floyd | correct, the bigger picture is purely fictional - specially the notion Floyd | of a somewhat centralised cult, Minoan in nature and with Egyptian Floyd | influences, wielding significant international power and in control of Floyd | a Mediterranean-wide network of priestesses cum diplomatic envoys and Floyd | spies. While I believe it was entirely possible by the cultural and Floyd | technological means of the era, there is no evidence of such a Floyd | political structure ever existing. Floyd | Floyd | Type CREDITS for general info, art and testing credits. Floyd | Type ABOUT AUTHOR to learn more about the author. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "credits" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > CREDITS Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ariadne in Aeaea by Víctor Ojuel Floyd | Made with Inform 7, September 2016. Floyd | Floyd | Art by Ara Carrasco. Floyd | Floyd | The author wishes to thank those who kindly (and bravely!) tested this Floyd | game in its infancy, namely Ara Carrasco, Matthew Holland, Liz Mercuri Floyd | and Andrew Schultz. Floyd | Floyd | Type HELP or INSTRUCTIONS if you want instructions on Floyd | how to play. Floyd | Type ABOUT AUTHOR to learn more about the author. Floyd | Type ABOUT GAME to know more about the game and its Floyd | historical/mythological setting. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "oh that's the same as the beginning" | |
| BrianK says, "Anyway now we can proceed with the game" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Shepherd's hut Floyd | Now that your vision has cleared a little, you take better stock of Floyd | your surroundings. The hut is little more than a rough wooden shack, Floyd | and the only furniture is a rudimentary rack on one side of the Floyd | entrance. Most of the space is taken up by the... bed, if you could Floyd | call it that. Two boys are sleeping there, snoring drunkenly. There is Floyd | an Ariadne-shaped empty space between them. Floyd | Floyd | An empty jug lies on its side against a wall, abandoned where it Floyd | stopped rolling. Just like the human occupants of the hut. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You are Ariadne of Knossos, daughter of Minos, of the royal line of Floyd | Pasiphaë the Sun-Maiden. At your formidable seventeen springtimes, you Floyd | are an initiate priestess of the Isle of Aeaea, holiest of priestly Floyd | orders of Potinaja, the Great Goddess. Floyd | Floyd | And right now you are not exactly at your brightest - hungover, hungry Floyd | and naked after a deliciously rough night. But the poets don't need to Floyd | know about your early years when they sing your praises for the Floyd | centuries, do they? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are nude. Floyd | Floyd | You are empty-handed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x boys" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOYS Floyd | Floyd | The boys are snoring loudly. One of them is really worth it, the other Floyd | one only passable in the mercilessly sober light of the morning. So Floyd | they even out and it's fine. (You understate things. You always do. As Floyd | befits a sophisticated lady of royal lineage.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suggest finding your clothes before heading back to the holy palace." | |
| BrianK says, "That would make sense" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x jug" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > X JUG Floyd | Floyd | It is a stylish round design with a small flat base, red clay with a Floyd | striking black many-tentacled octopus. Such a modern and expensive Floyd | model can only be imported from Crete and way above the means of a Floyd | goatherder, so it was probably you who brought it from the Floyd | palace.There lingers the faint perfume of fine wine, but it is Floyd | completely empty. You probably had more than your fair share of it Floyd | last night. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE IT Floyd | Floyd | You lift the jug with one hand: unsurprisingly, it's empty. A pity - Floyd | by the Goddess, you could use a drink. And some breakfast... Then your Floyd | eyes catch the glint of something metallic. You squat again, screwing Floyd | your eyes in the half-light. There was something behind the jug... a Floyd | pin? It seems to be a sort of golden brooch. You can guess it was Floyd | carefully hidden somewhere, until last night's whirlwind of men and Floyd | clothes ended up with the little golden bauble thrown in a corner. Now Floyd | this is a surprise... Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "As far as I know, there's no timer. We can take our time with this." | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "take brooch" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BROOCH Floyd | Floyd | You take the brooch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x brooch" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > X BROOCH Floyd | Floyd | You take a good look at it, from all sides. It is gold indeed, and the Floyd | device is a lion sitting on its hind legs. You have no idea what it Floyd | means, so at least it's not Cretan. Not from one of the great palaces, Floyd | at any rate, or you'd know, but it is an expensive piece of art, and Floyd | not from Aeaea either. Only the Goddess knows how it came into the Floyd | hands of a rustic goatherder. Well, obviously it was the Goddess' will Floyd | that you'd find it. It will look better on you anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "wear brooch" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR BROOCH Floyd | Floyd | Wear it where? Pin it in your skin? This kind of jewelry without Floyd | clothes is not just kinky, also painful. Better put on some clothes Floyd | first, then wear the brooch. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "oh yeah" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x rack" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > X RACK Floyd | Floyd | A simple wooden platform to hold the meagre posessions of the Floyd | goatherder. The only interesting ones are a loaf of bread and a pile Floyd | of discarded pieces of clothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x clothing" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > X CLOTHING Floyd | Floyd | Someone undressed hastily here. You might have had something to do Floyd | with the undressing. Or with the haste. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "wear clothing" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR CLOTHING Floyd | Floyd | (first taking pile of clothes) Floyd | Your clothes should be somewhere around here. Now, let's think, you Floyd | were wearing a tunic, right? If only you could remember where you left Floyd | it... Rifling through the clothing (raw woollen shirts, leather pants, Floyd | ragged boots) yields no result, except for a stench of sweat and Floyd | seawater (now how do shepherds get wet with seawater? Are they so Floyd | rustic that they bathe dressed?). You drop the lot with a weary sigh. Floyd | Now where did you take off that bloody tunic, really? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x bread" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > X BREAD Floyd | Floyd | A hard piece of coarse, stale bread, perhaps adequate fare for Floyd | shepherds but utterly unedible by humans. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "wow, sick burn to those shepherds" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE IT Floyd | Floyd | Feeling your stomach churning, you snatch away the piece of bread. Too Floyd | much wine and no dinner, time you ate something solid. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "A girl's gotta have *some* standards." | |
| BrianK says, "Except when she doesn't, and sleeps with them anyway :P" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > X BED Floyd | Floyd | The boys are lying on top of what probably was a nice and fluffy pile Floyd | of straw a few hours ago. After last night's activities, the straw has Floyd | been evenly spread through the hut and they are practically sleeping Floyd | on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "My notes say that if you examine the men, she found one to be worth it and the other only passable." | |
| BrianK says, "I guess that's fair" | ||
| Roger arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "search bed" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH BED Floyd | Floyd | You have already done all you felt like doing with, and on, that bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Shepherd's hut Floyd | Now that your vision has cleared a little, you take better stock of Floyd | your surroundings. The hut is little more than a rough wooden shack, Floyd | and the only furniture is a rudimentary rack on one side of the Floyd | entrance. Most of the space is taken up by the... bed, if you could Floyd | call it that. Two boys are sleeping there, snoring drunkenly. There is Floyd | an Ariadne-shaped empty space between them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x floor" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > X FLOOR Floyd | Floyd | Girl, you are seriously confused this morning. Maybe time to cut down Floyd | on the wine a bit? Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "Wow, parser. Rude :(" | |
| BrianK asks, "Did I forget to examine anything?" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "search clothes" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH CLOTHES Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "search boys" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH BOYS Floyd | Floyd | You have already done all you felt like doing to him/them last night. Floyd | Possibly. Memories still a bit hazy, but you've had your fun. In any Floyd | case, you feel like breakfast without conversation, so better get a Floyd | move on. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "or are my clothes not in this room" | |
| DavidW says, "You've seen everything here, yeah." | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Rugged hills Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Shielding your eyes against the light, you step outside. It takes you Floyd | a few moments to adjust to sunlight, and your headache doesn't Floyd | particularly like it. When you open your eyes again, the grand Floyd | landscape of the Isle of Aeaea unfolds against a crisp blue morning Floyd | sky. Floyd | Floyd | Rugged hills Floyd | In all directions, the hills climb up and down, reddish earth Floyd | embroidered with dark green shrubs and a few small pine woods, Floyd | sometimes broken by white, sheer rock. The land slopes downwards, from Floyd | the cliffs in the west to the eastern beaches. The shepherd's hut is Floyd | the only visible shelter. The isle narrows to the north and broadens Floyd | to the south, where a few smoke columns indicate the location of the Floyd | palace. The shepherd's hut is nearby. Floyd | Floyd | A herd of goats is roaming the pastures nearby, grazing on the short, Floyd | tough grass. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "I like the picture painted by this description" | |
| DavidW says, "The writing is good, yes." | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x goats" | ||
Floyd ] Rugged hills Floyd | > Floyd | > X GOATS Floyd | Floyd | A nearby goat is breakfasting on something that looks like a piece of Floyd | textile of some so... oh by the Goddess, it's your tunic! You try to Floyd | shoo the beast, or frighten it in some way to discourage the munching Floyd | of your clothes, but it seems to love the change in diet. Damn... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "give bread to goat" | ||
Floyd ] Rugged hills Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE BREAD TO GOAT Floyd | Floyd | You wave the bread in front of the stupid animal's eyes. Eventually Floyd | you catch its attention, and it approaches and reluctantly stops Floyd | chewing your tunic to munch on the bread. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK exclaims, "Puzzle solved!!" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "take tunic" | ||
Floyd ] Rugged hills Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE TUNIC Floyd | Floyd | You swiftly snatch away the tunic, lest the animal changes its mind. Floyd | It's not exactly clean, and part of a shoulder seems to have been Floyd | bitten off, but surely asymmetric shoulders must be the fashion in Floyd | some faraway island? And it beats showing up naked in the palace. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yay. Take the tunic before the bread's gone." | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "wear tunic" | ||
Floyd ] Rugged hills Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR TUNIC Floyd | Floyd | You pull the tunic in place, and hold the torn shoulder while you pin Floyd | it with the brooch, then smooth the torn edges under it. It holds, and Floyd | possibly even adds a fanciful highlight to the otherwise plain Floyd | garment. Can't wait to be ordained a full priestess and do away with Floyd | these rags. Anyway, for the moment you are decent again, or decent Floyd | enough to sneak back into the palace. And head straight for the Floyd | kitchen, adds your rumbling stomach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x tunic" | ||
Floyd ] Rugged hills Floyd | > Floyd | > X TUNIC Floyd | Floyd | Fine linen, fashionably pleated like the Egyptian girls from the Floyd | Avaris chapter, but edged with embroidered dolphins and saffron Floyd | crocus. It is one of the pieces Mother sewed for you before your Floyd | departure for Aeaea (which is goatshit. Your know full well Mother Floyd | could never sew to save her life.) The torn shoulder has been repaired Floyd | with a flashy golden brooch, and the effect is rather fetching, if you Floyd | do say so yourself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Rugged hills Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You really don't fancy going cross-country through these solitudes Floyd | like a goat. Better do like a human and follow the clifftop path to Floyd | the west, or go back inside the hut. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Crest path Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crest path Floyd | A narrow path on top of the cliffs follows the crescent shape of Floyd | Aeaea. The isle's rocky arms stretch like the horns of a bull piercing Floyd | the sea. The Saffron Bay occupies most of the view, sheer cliff faces Floyd | the height of a hundred men plunging vertically into the waters below. Floyd | The palace complex shines across the bay like white teeth on jagged, Floyd | blackened gums. Floyd | Floyd | The path clings to the clifftop, coming from the civilised south and Floyd | stretching towards the sharp edge of the isle to the northwest. To the Floyd | east lie the hilly scrublands frequented only by shepherds and Floyd | goatherds. As you know full well. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Crest path Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | Let us hope this is not what the poets will remember you for... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Clifftop path Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Clifftop path Floyd | This is where the elegant curve of the Saffron Bay becomes wider and Floyd | the downward slope is more benign. Most of the productive fields of Floyd | the isle are around here, tended by peasants indentured to the palace, Floyd | a few free settlers and scores of slaves. The olive trees, vineyards Floyd | and farms of this side provide most of the local foodstuffs. The path Floyd | follows the clifftop to the wild north and it becomes a proper paved Floyd | road to the southwest, towards the entrance to the palace. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "The exits could be clearer for some of the descriptions" | |
| DavidW says, "mm" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Ceremonial entrance to the palace Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Ceremonial entrance to the palace Floyd | The ceremonial road ends in an ample paved space before the grand Floyd | entrance to the palace. Men and oxen come on go along the road like Floyd | ants and mill around the vast plaza, transporting all manners of goods Floyd | from the palace stores to the port below, overseen by Floyd | administrative-rank priestesses and keen-eyed archers. The great Floyd | complex is three stories high, fronted with a majestic row of crimson Floyd | red and marine blue tapered columns. Floyd | Floyd | A couple of archers wink at you (old "friends", so to speak), and Floyd | quite a few priestesses frown (older "friends", so to speak). Floyd | Floyd | The ceremonial paved road snakes descends towards the southeast and Floyd | the harbour. The palace lies west, blocking the view of the bay. A Floyd | narrow path leads northeast, following the clifftops, towards the Floyd | wilderness. Floyd | Floyd | Well, finally here you are. Now, if you can only slip unnoticed to the Floyd | side wall that is never guarded, and just climb up to the first floor Floyd | terrace, then it should be easy to... Floyd | Floyd | "Why, if it isn't the wayward Ariadne!" booms a female voice behind Floyd | you, grating on your hungover brains. Floyd | Floyd | You close your eyes, hard, taking an extra moment before turning Floyd | around to face her. Oh sweet Potinaja, fair lady, let it not be old Floyd | Circe... Floyd | Floyd | And the Goddess must have a perverse sense humour, because the Floyd | offending lady is indeed not your aunt... but your sister. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x sister" | ||
Floyd ] Ceremonial entrance to the palace Floyd | > Floyd | > X SISTER Floyd | Floyd | Your younger sister is considerably smaller than you, of slighter Floyd | build, and is wearing the complete paraphernalia of a confirmed potnia Floyd | - ruched and tiered red-and-blue longskirt, ceremonial apron, fitten Floyd | open gilet and headdress. Her eyes and breasts are heavily made up Floyd | with kohl and crushed coral. You used to look after her when she was Floyd | just a bawling toddler... and now she has been ordained a potnia Floyd | before you. Curses. Floyd | Floyd | "Phaedra." you say, in an extremely friendly way. The sight of her is Floyd | the very last thing you needed right now and... oh by the Goddess, Floyd | what is she wearing? Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, I can see you have noticed..." she purrs in triumph. You roll Floyd | your eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "TALK TO is the conversation style in this game." | |
| BrianK says, "I guess that was a little sequence breaking" | ||
| BrianK says, "since it seems like I was supposed to get the "what is she wearing?" message and then examine her clothes afterwards" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, I see what you mean." | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "talk to phaedra" | ||
Floyd ] Ceremonial entrance to the palace Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO PHAEDRA Floyd | Floyd | You take a deep breath for your next reply: Floyd | Floyd | "What are you doing, all tarted up like that?", you ask, trying to Floyd | sound not at all taken aback. Floyd | Floyd | "You watch that tongue when speaking to a potnia, dear Floyd | sister, specially while you are still an initiate", Phaedra Floyd | says, savouring each word. The realisation comes late to your fried Floyd | brains: has she been ordained yet? Before you? But you're at least two Floyd | springtimes her senior! And you shed first blood at more or less the Floyd | same age, so... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "talk to phaedra" | ||
Floyd ] Ceremonial entrance to the palace Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO PHAEDRA Floyd | Floyd | You take a deep breath for your next reply: Floyd | Floyd | "I see. Grovelling at Aunt Circe's feet has finally paid up". Floyd | Floyd | "Pay? Circe, like all us potnias, is just a conduit for the designs of Floyd | the Goddess, praise be the fair Potinaja," she recites, doing a little Floyd | dance around you, presumably to rub in the offence, "And talking about Floyd | payment, how does whatever you do pay? What a lovely brooch, sister. A Floyd | little trinket from a client of yours?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You can use AGAIN or just G to repeat your last command." | |
| BrianK says, "Oh yeah" | ||
| BrianK says, "I was just using the up key to repeat it though" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh." | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Ceremonial entrance to the palace Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You take a deep breath for your next reply: Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, sweet lady, does it come to this? Come, come, sister, be not so Floyd | bitter", you smile in sympathy, taking her arm sororally, "Is it my Floyd | fault no sane man was ever interested in you?" Floyd | Floyd | "Men, is that so?" she brushes your hand aside "I hear you sleep with Floyd | goatherders." Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, I hear you sleep with the goats." Floyd | Floyd | "Oh very droll..." Floyd | Floyd | "Potinaja wept, you even got the rancid mannerisms...!" Floyd | Floyd | Her eyes become linear slits, snake-like under the copious makeup. "I Floyd | shan't have you profer blasphemies, least of all in presence of a Floyd | potnia. You shall go see Circe and send my regards..." Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, that I shall..." Floyd | Floyd | "...and if I do learn later that you have not, or have not used the Floyd | proper formula and respect, I shall ask the High Priestess to have you Floyd | seconded to my retinue, to do my hair and prepare the potions. Floyd | Understood, initiate?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Ceremonial entrance to the palace Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You take a deep breath for your next reply: Floyd | Floyd | You shut your mouth in time. Normally no priestess would be on a Floyd | position to do that, but Phaedra is a royal as well, and of Pasiphaë's Floyd | line, and her standing with your aunt is obviously better than yours. Floyd | (Actually there are at least three slaves that Circe regards higher Floyd | than she does you...). And then again, you'd sooner jump into the sea Floyd | and try to make it back to Crete swimming than go through the Floyd | humiliation of being your little sister's handmaiden. Floyd | Floyd | "Understood." Floyd | Floyd | "Understood what?" Floyd | Floyd | "Understood, my potnia." Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, I am so loving the sound of that. I shall see you later, Floyd | initiate, do make haste", she sing-songs as she walks away. You pull a Floyd | face at her back and quietly tell the Goddess how much you love little Floyd | Phaedra. Floyd | Floyd | Well. Perhaps you really, really should have not stolen that toy Floyd | crocodile when she was five. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Ceremonial entrance to the palace Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Ceremonial entrance to the palace Floyd | The ceremonial road ends in an ample paved space before the grand Floyd | entrance to the palace. Men and oxen come on go along the road like Floyd | ants and mill around the vast plaza, transporting all manners of goods Floyd | from the palace stores to the port below, overseen by Floyd | administrative-rank priestesses and keen-eyed archers. The great Floyd | complex is three stories high, fronted with a majestic row of crimson Floyd | red and marine blue tapered columns. Floyd | Floyd | A couple of archers wink at you (old "friends", so to speak), and Floyd | quite a few priestesses frown (older "friends", so to speak). Floyd | Floyd | The ceremonial paved road snakes descends towards the southeast and Floyd | the harbour. The palace lies west, blocking the view of the bay. A Floyd | narrow path leads northeast, following the clifftops, towards the Floyd | wilderness. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "west" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Palace megaron Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You enter the palace unchallenged by either priestess or archer Floyd | patrols. Floyd | Floyd | Palace megaron Floyd | The main megaron is flanked with tapered red columns, centered around Floyd | a central great hall that opens to two long wings. The western wing Floyd | contains the workshops, stores and administrative dependencies. The Floyd | north wing is mainly taken up with living quarters for priestess in Floyd | the upper floors, and servants and slaves in the lower ones. But the Floyd | definitive majestic piece of the megaron is the monumental gipsum Floyd | stairway leading up, to the High Priestess' dependencies. Floyd | Floyd | The megaron is in full swing, with dozens of priestesses of diverse Floyd | rank coming and going about palace business. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Circe's chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Circe's chambers Floyd | The residence of the High Priestesses is less sumptuous than what you Floyd | had imagined the first time. It is nevertheless the most luxurious Floyd | room in the whole island, somewhat in spite of Circe herself. The Floyd | focal point of the room is a great wooden table, strewn with a Floyd | thousand little objects around a map. Floyd | Floyd | The High Priestess is studying something intently at the great table, Floyd | stopping only occasionally to gaze out of the window, never quite Floyd | bothering to look in your general direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "This scene is very amusing." | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x map" | ||
Floyd ] Circe's chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > X MAP Floyd | Floyd | It is surprisingly difficult to identify the landmasses. This one must Floyd | be Aeaea; the bottom-heavy crescent is unmistakeable. Crete must be Floyd | big and west of here, so it should be that vaguely rectangular block Floyd | over there, with Knossos and Phaistos marked prominently and a dozen Floyd | smaller palaces dotted around. South lies the Egyptian coast, so the Floyd | symbol there must mark the position of Avaris. And far to the Floyd | northwest, in the wastes beyond the sea, there's a cluster of black Floyd | figurines. All of them are modelled in the likeness of a sitting lion. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "talk to circle" | ||
Floyd ] Circe's chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CIRCLE Floyd | Floyd | You are so lost it would take a big ball of twine to get you out of Floyd | your confusion. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "oops" | |
| BrianK says, "muscle memory in action" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "talk to circe" | ||
Floyd ] Circe's chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CIRCE Floyd | Floyd | You put your left fist to your left temple, performing the adoration Floyd | gesture. Circe pays no attention to you. You ahem-ahem a little, still Floyd | to no reaction from the High Priestess, so you just chatter away. Floyd | Floyd | "My potnia, I come on behalf of my beloved sister..." Floyd | Floyd | "Now, that is a droll one", she mutters, still not looking at you. She Floyd | rereads a line from a tablet, then moves another figurine over the Floyd | map. Floyd | Floyd | "I bring my beloved sister Phaedra's respect and best wishes for the Floyd | High Priestess, on the occasion of my noble sister's ordainment..." Floyd | Floyd | "I am sure you must be very proud of her, are you not?", she says Floyd | dryly. Floyd | Floyd | "Very" you reply with equal enthusiasm, "As proud as if it was my own Floyd | and belated induction into the Goddess' mysteries", you drone on Floyd | monotonously. Floyd | Floyd | "Do I hear a complaint?" Floyd | Floyd | "Actually..." Floyd | Floyd | "Shut up, it's a rhetorical question. Because I hear many complaints Floyd | every day, and quite a few have something to do with one of my nieces Floyd | being somewhat unruly." Floyd | Floyd | Being essentially a sensible young woman despite what certain Floyd | uncharitable individuals might think, you let that one pass and force Floyd | a smile. Floyd | Floyd | "Anything else?", she asks. You are biting your tongue, hard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Circe's chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "Auntie Circe," you try, affectionately "when is my ordainment going Floyd | to take place? I yearn to serve the Goddess and I am already old Floyd | enough for the mysteries..." Floyd | Floyd | "Age has nothing to do with it, child," she interrupts, still Floyd | contemplating her map, "Maturity has. Just as some women shed first Floyd | blood earlier, the Goddess blesses certain minds sooner than Floyd | others..." Floyd | Floyd | "So the lesson today is patience..." you sigh boredly. Floyd | Floyd | "...and some she does not touch ever at all. What, patience? The Floyd | Goddess and I have wasted ours with you, Ariadne." Floyd | Floyd | "Auntie, I promise, if this is about the drinking and... uhm, Floyd | merrymaking, I swear I shall just..." Floyd | Floyd | "Oh shut up, girl. What am I now, one of those bloody Lukkan puritans? Floyd | Shut up, it's another rhetorical question. Merrymaking, the Floyd | goatshit one has to hear! Mark my words, I do not give a fig if you Floyd | fuck each and every fisherman in Aeaea while drunk as an Alassian Floyd | sailor..." Floyd | Floyd | "Auntie Circe...!" Floyd | Floyd | "...and don't you Auntie Circe me as if I was some senile Floyd | spinster! What, scandalised? Oh, the irony! Listen, you might well Floyd | despise your sister because she is a bit stupider than you (which is Floyd | no small measure), or because she is quite insufferable (not to say Floyd | you are not), or just because she is your sister, which is reason Floyd | enough... Bugger me, did I hate your noble mother when we were your Floyd | age, did I! And she was just like you, chasing men and women and Floyd | whatnot, and the Goddess and I could not care less because she was Floyd | also useful, and that is the whole point. Pasiphaë is and was useful, Floyd | and thus she is Wanassa of Knossos. Your sister Phaedra doesn't have Floyd | her political vision but she's fanatical and ruthless, and one day she Floyd | shall be Wanassa of Phaistos. Now tell me, wench, what are you Floyd | good for?" Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Circe's chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "Is it another rhetorical question?" Floyd | Floyd | "Very, very droll", Circe sighs, fingering one of the figurines on the Floyd | map. "An easier one, then. What do we export, here in Aeaea?" Floyd | Floyd | "Saffron and potnias?" Floyd | Floyd | "Very well. You might not be Wanassa material since you have no Floyd | political wits... or an officiant priestess, given how obviously the Floyd | Goddess chooses not to speak through you, but we might at least make a Floyd | store administrator out of you yet." Floyd | Floyd | "Stores?" you gasp, horrified "Sitting downstairs all day, counting Floyd | measures of olive oil? Aunt, I'm begging you, send me back to Knossos Floyd | rather than...!" Floyd | Floyd | "It was not a rhetorical question, girl. Dozens of palaces rely on us Floyd | to provide suitable potnias as Wanassas," she says, making a broad Floyd | gesture over the map, "and we do deliver. I need not remind you who Floyd | brokered your mother's marriage to the Wanax of Knossos, or why he and Floyd | thirty other dinasties send me their daughters for education and Floyd | ordainment. In due time, your sister will be Wanassa of Phaistos. The Floyd | Wanax shall get a powerful priestess to take care of divine affairs Floyd | while he wages wars. Your father shall get a reliable alliance. And Floyd | the Goddess and I shall get an influent agent in southern Crete, same Floyd | as Pasiphaë has been in the north coast for decades." Floyd | Floyd | "I am still a royal of the Pasiphaë line, I can marry..." Floyd | Floyd | "Marry as you please. The world is full of bloody royals, do you know Floyd | how many new siblings you've gotten since you came? Every petty Floyd | warlord has two or three score bastards, and do you know what a Floyd | nightmare genealogy has become? I should know, my father is the bloody Floyd | Sun. Anyway. Princes and princesses are a fig a dozen. Potnias are Floyd | scarce and precious. Should I send you back unordained, Minos would be Floyd | offended and Pasiphaë's position weakened. I shall not undo the work Floyd | of a generation for your sake." Floyd | Floyd | She waves you away and concentrates on the maps, moving another of the Floyd | lion-shaped thingies. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x lions" | ||
Floyd ] Circe's chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > X LIONS Floyd | Floyd | Your head is killing you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x lion" | ||
Floyd ] Circe's chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > X LION Floyd | Floyd | A golden brooch representing a sitting lion, of unknown origin. You Floyd | found it at the shepherd's hut, which is quite a mystery. Perhaps you Floyd | should look into it. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "no, the lion-shaped thingies :|" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x lion-shaped thingies" | ||
Floyd ] Circe's chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > X LION-SHAPED THINGIES Floyd | Floyd | Sweet lady Potinaja, what do you mean? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "talk to circe" | ||
Floyd ] Circe's chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CIRCE Floyd | Floyd | "I shall prove to you I am useful to you and the Goddess." Floyd | Floyd | Without looking up from her maps, Circe waves you away. Floyd | Floyd | "Pray be not a nuisance, niece. Go do as you please but bother me no Floyd | more." Floyd | Floyd | She is obviously concerned with something, very much unrelated to your Floyd | tribulations, and somehow related to the many lion-shaped figurines Floyd | she keeps herding around the map. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think the things on the map aren't implemented separately." | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x figurines" | ||
Floyd ] Circe's chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > X FIGURINES Floyd | Floyd | A black piece of stone. Obviously Circe is using them to signify some Floyd | sort of kingdom or faction over her map. Each is shaped like a sitting Floyd | lion. Now where have you seen that before? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, okay, they are." | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "show brooch to circe" | ||
Floyd ] Circe's chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW BROOCH TO CIRCE Floyd | Floyd | Holding the torn shoulder with your fingers, you undo the brooch and Floyd | throw it on the table. It lands squarely among the black lion-shaped Floyd | figurines, sending them on sudden expeditions across the sea. Circe Floyd | looks up, startled. Floyd | Floyd | "How dare you...?", she starts. Floyd | Floyd | "Answering your next, non-rhetorical question, I have my own sources, Floyd | just like you, aunt dear. I thought this might interest you, since you Floyd | seem so fond of little lion figurines." Floyd | Floyd | "Do you know what this is?" Circe says, as she takes the brooch and Floyd | looks at it intently before staring back at you. "Its meaning? Where Floyd | does it come from?" Floyd | Floyd | "Let's see - yes, no, kind of. It's a brooch. I have no idea what it Floyd | stands for. It comes from somewhere in the northern wastes, since you Floyd | are piling all your toys there?" Floyd | Floyd | The High Priestess takes a deep breath, obviously pondering whether to Floyd | discuss important matters with you. Finally, she sighs and looks away. Floyd | Was that a little chuckle? Floyd | Floyd | "Young Ariadne, what do you know about the Achaeans?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "talk to circe" | ||
Floyd ] Circe's chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CIRCE Floyd | Floyd | "Achaeans. Northern barbarians, a few sad excuses for palaces. No Floyd | fleet worth of the name. The only thing they are good at is making Floyd | cheap copies of every piece of pottery Father sells them at outrageous Floyd | prices. They are desperate for some culture. Are we sending them many Floyd | potnias?" Floyd | Floyd | "Not a single one. They have their own unsavoury gods. And a very Floyd | unsavoury new Wanax. With very, very unsavoury methods." Floyd | Floyd | "You sound jealous, aunt." Circe waves a finger at you. Floyd | Floyd | "Do not get cocky, child. If you have found this in Aeaea, and I can Floyd | only imagine where or how, it might mean we have a little spy problem. Floyd | Now, I do not have enough archers to keep a patrol on all shores at Floyd | all times, and sending them to search every ship and warehouse in the Floyd | harbour would alert the spy... So...", she says, looking up and down Floyd | at you with a critical eye. Floyd | Floyd | "So" you echo, tossing your hair dramatically, "You got yourself a Floyd | secret agent, auntie." Floyd | Floyd | She hmphs. You smile. Then remember something. Floyd | Floyd | "Ah, my potnia? On an unrelated note, can I have that brooch back? Floyd | Holding this thing in place all day is tiring." Floyd | Floyd | The High Priestess of Aeaea mutters something unpleasant about your Floyd | generation while fumbling about her things, then slides a clay token Floyd | over the table towards you, together with the brooch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "take brooch" | ||
Floyd ] Circe's chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BROOCH Floyd | Floyd | You take the Achaean brooch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "wear brooch" | ||
Floyd ] Circe's chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR BROOCH Floyd | Floyd | Are you still hungover? Do you think it is a good idea to hunt around Floyd | for an Achaean spy while wearing this for all the world to see? Floyd | Perhaps Circe was right about your true calling after all... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "take token" | ||
Floyd ] Circe's chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE TOKEN Floyd | Floyd | You palm the little piece of clay gleefully. Circe is notoriously Floyd | stingy with supplies. Floyd | Floyd | "The price of saffron is down and imports are killing us, Ariadne." Floyd | she says warily "Take better care of your clothes from now on. And do Floyd | not get anywhere near goats." Floyd | Floyd | "By the Goddess, how do you...?" Floyd | Floyd | "I have been your age. Just avoid rumiants in general." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x token" | ||
Floyd ] Circe's chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > X TOKEN Floyd | Floyd | A piece of fired clay, bearing three symbols - the glyphs for Floyd | "priestess tunic", "high quality" and the personal seal of Circe. A Floyd | requistion order for the palace stores, from the highest authority. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "Ah, we're getting a new tunic, which is why we don't need to wear the brooch again.... I guess" | |
| BrianK says, "look" | ||
| BrianK says, "er" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Circe's chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Circe's chambers Floyd | The residence of the High Priestesses is less sumptuous than what you Floyd | had imagined the first time. It is nevertheless the most luxurious Floyd | room in the whole island, somewhat in spite of Circe herself. The Floyd | focal point of the room is a great wooden table, strewn with a Floyd | thousand little objects around a map. Floyd | Floyd | Circe is looking at you, appraisingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Circe's chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd ] Palace megaron Floyd | > Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Palace megaron Floyd | The main megaron is flanked with tapered red columns, centered around Floyd | a central great hall that opens to two long wings. The western wing Floyd | contains the workshops, stores and administrative dependencies. The Floyd | north wing is mainly taken up with living quarters for priestess in Floyd | the upper floors, and servants and slaves in the lower ones. But the Floyd | definitive majestic piece of the megaron is the monumental gipsum Floyd | stairway leading up, to the High Priestess' dependencies. Floyd | Floyd | The megaron is in full swing, with dozens of priestesses of diverse Floyd | rank coming and going about palace business. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "west" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "west" | ||
Floyd ] Palace stores Floyd | > Floyd | > WEST Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Palace stores Floyd | The chambers are filled with the hustle of a few dozen workers Floyd | carrying goods into our out of the stores. Slaves bring in copper ore Floyd | and oil pithoi in carts, checked and accounted for by palace Floyd | administrators. Throngs of artisans from the workshops bring their Floyd | finished crafts for inspection, and receive clay tokens in exchange. Floyd | This is a part of the palace you seldom visit willingily, except to Floyd | pilfer some baubles or chat with your friend. If you don't manage to Floyd | fulfil your quest, you might well be spending the rest of your days Floyd | here... The mere idea makes you shiver. Floyd | Floyd | One of of the administrator catches your eye. It's Satiah, one of your Floyd | last friends. She nods slightly in your direction while she keepts Floyd | doing calculations on her abacus and counting tokens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x satiah" | ||
Floyd ] Palace stores Floyd | > Floyd | > X SATIAH Floyd | Floyd | Satiah is more or less your age. She has the darker skin that Floyd | identifies her as coming from the Avaris chapter, which is somewhere Floyd | in the Two Lands, on the delta of an incredibly big river, far to the Floyd | south. She wears the full pleated linen favoured by admininstrative Floyd | priestesses when they are not facing the public, decorated with the Floyd | insignia of a mid-junior priestess - quite a promotion for accounting Floyd | duty. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "This scene is as far as I got." | |
| DavidW asks, "Did you remember to take the jug from the hut as well, by the way?" | ||
| BrianK says, "Yeah, I have it" | ||
| DavidW says, "good" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "talk to satiah" | ||
Floyd ] Palace stores Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SATIAH Floyd | Floyd | "Why, bad girl Ariadne is back. What tidings, love?", she greets, with Floyd | her unmistakeable Egyptian lilt. Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, Satiah. My sister is such a bitch." Floyd | Floyd | "We have had this conversation already.", she observes, looking at you Floyd | sideways. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh. So, you want to hear about last night? It was like a dream. I Floyd | met these two satyrs under the moonlight..." Floyd | Floyd | "And that one as well. You Keftius are like trained songbirds who only Floyd | know two songs." Floyd | Floyd | "Fine. You tell me about your fascinating adventures, then. How many Floyd | measures of olives? Did someone, gasp, forget to record a few copper Floyd | ingots? Tell me about your night of wild passion with your abacus." Floyd | Floyd | "Ari, love, why are we always talking about men or pouring goatshit Floyd | about other women? Can we not have a relevant conversation, like Floyd | priestesses are supposed to? Do you reckon this is what the Goddess Floyd | wants to discuss through us?" Floyd | Floyd | "I... never thought of it that way, honestly." Floyd | Floyd | "Well, I mean not to offend, dear Ariadne, but perhaps that is one Floyd | reason why you are still only an initiate at seventeen? While the rest Floyd | of our year-sisters have their own shrines on the other shore of the Floyd | Great Green? Even Phaedra is prancing around with rouged boobs and Floyd | acting like she is Circe reborn." Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, my hangover. Catch you later." Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, ""Oh, my hangover." great excuse, Ariadne" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "give token to satiah" | ||
Floyd ] Palace stores Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE TOKEN TO SATIAH Floyd | Floyd | Satiah takes the token and gives it a cursory glance, then a double Floyd | take. Floyd | Floyd | "Aha. Somebody's connections are starting to pay off?" Floyd | Floyd | "Thank you for your kind words, Satiah. I am so glad I can share this Floyd | very special moment with a good friend." Floyd | Floyd | "All I am saying is," she shrugs, "it is quite unusual to see two of Floyd | these within the same day, both for nieces of the High Priestess. And Floyd | I have been a witness to Phaedra's initiation in the third mysteries, Floyd | but you I have not seen since you talked me into pilfering that wine Floyd | jug for you." Floyd | Floyd | "So I am working my way to ordainment a different way, does that make Floyd | me a worse priestess than my dear, dear sister?" Floyd | Floyd | Satiah smiles sympathetically, says nothing (because she is an amazing Floyd | friend) and sends a slave for the goods (because she does not trust Floyd | you alone in a room filled with valuable stuff). She inspects the Floyd | garments when they arrive, nods and drops the token in the appropiate Floyd | jar. Floyd | Floyd | "All yours. And congratulations. You must have done something quite Floyd | impressive, given your record, to impress the old girl so. Care to Floyd | gossip about it, or you're too important now for your old friend, my Floyd | potnia?" Floyd | Floyd | You give her a conspiratorial wink. Floyd | Floyd | "Secret mission. High priesthood business. Can't talk", you whisper in Floyd | a mysterious and alluring way. Satiah tsk-tsks and shields her eyes in Floyd | mock shock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Palace stores Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You are wearing: Floyd | tunic Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an Achaean brooch Floyd | wine jug (empty) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "take garments" | ||
Floyd ] Palace stores Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE GARMENTS Floyd | Floyd | With the appropiate reverence, you take the ceremonial garments Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You need to take the ... ah, good" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "wear garments" | ||
Floyd ] Palace stores Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR GARMENTS Floyd | Floyd | You should get rid of the tunic first, or it will look ridiculous. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "take off tunic" | ||
Floyd ] Palace stores Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE OFF TUNIC Floyd | Floyd | Been there, but in your new quest as a secret agent, this is probably Floyd | not the way to keep a low profile, at least in such a public place. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "Oh yeah, duh" | |
| DavidW says, "You can also give the jug to Satiah." | ||
| BrianK says, "I'm clearly too used to stripping in public places" | ||
| DavidW says, "heh" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "give jug to Satiah" | ||
Floyd ] Palace stores Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE JUG TO SATIAH Floyd | Floyd | "You did not smash it this time? Good. Keep it for now. If I take it I Floyd | shall have to account for it and I am all out of pottery tokens. Call Floyd | it inventories adjustment." Floyd | Floyd | "I was not giving it back, Satiah. I was asking for a refill." Floyd | Floyd | "Potinaja wept, Ari, you have a drinking problem." Floyd | Floyd | "The boys drank almost all of it, I promised. Pretty please?" Floyd | Floyd | She frowns, calls one of her helpers and mutters some instructions in Floyd | his ear. He takes the jug, disappears and brings it back after a Floyd | while. Satiah smiles and hands it back to you. Floyd | Floyd | "There." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Palace stores Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Palace stores Floyd | The chambers are filled with the hustle of a few dozen workers Floyd | carrying goods into our out of the stores. Slaves bring in copper ore Floyd | and oil pithoi in carts, checked and accounted for by palace Floyd | administrators. Throngs of artisans from the workshops bring their Floyd | finished crafts for inspection, and receive clay tokens in exchange. Floyd | This is a part of the palace you seldom visit willingily, except to Floyd | pilfer some baubles or chat with your friend. If you don't manage to Floyd | fulfil your quest, you might well be spending the rest of your days Floyd | here... The mere idea makes you shiver. Floyd | Floyd | Satiah smiles at you from behind her desk, fingers flying on the Floyd | abacus. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Palace megaron Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Palace megaron Floyd | The main megaron is flanked with tapered red columns, centered around Floyd | a central great hall that opens to two long wings. The western wing Floyd | contains the workshops, stores and administrative dependencies. The Floyd | north wing is mainly taken up with living quarters for priestess in Floyd | the upper floors, and servants and slaves in the lower ones. But the Floyd | definitive majestic piece of the megaron is the monumental gipsum Floyd | stairway leading up, to the High Priestess' dependencies. Floyd | Floyd | The megaron is in full swing, with dozens of priestesses of diverse Floyd | rank coming and going about palace business. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Ceremonial entrance to the palace Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ceremonial entrance to the palace Floyd | The ceremonial road ends in an ample paved space before the grand Floyd | entrance to the palace. Men and oxen come on go along the road like Floyd | ants and mill around the vast plaza, transporting all manners of goods Floyd | from the palace stores to the port below, overseen by Floyd | administrative-rank priestesses and keen-eyed archers. The great Floyd | complex is three stories high, fronted with a majestic row of crimson Floyd | red and marine blue tapered columns. Floyd | Floyd | A couple of archers wink at you (old "friends", so to speak), and Floyd | quite a few priestesses frown (older "friends", so to speak). Floyd | Floyd | The ceremonial paved road snakes descends towards the southeast and Floyd | the harbour. The palace lies west, blocking the view of the bay. A Floyd | narrow path leads northeast, following the clifftops, towards the Floyd | wilderness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Palace megaron Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You enter the palace unchallenged by either priestess or archer Floyd | patrols. Floyd | Floyd | Palace megaron Floyd | The main megaron is flanked with tapered red columns, centered around Floyd | a central great hall that opens to two long wings. The western wing Floyd | contains the workshops, stores and administrative dependencies. The Floyd | north wing is mainly taken up with living quarters for priestess in Floyd | the upper floors, and servants and slaves in the lower ones. But the Floyd | definitive majestic piece of the megaron is the monumental gipsum Floyd | stairway leading up, to the High Priestess' dependencies. Floyd | Floyd | The megaron is in full swing, with dozens of priestesses of diverse Floyd | rank coming and going about palace business. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Palace megaron Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You start towards the living quarters, but you stop after a couple of Floyd | steps. What's the point? You have already been caught, and in the Floyd | worst of ways, so why pretend? Better carry on with your own business. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "Uh, where do I go to change" | |
| DavidW says, "So, I'm thinking we need to find a place to change our clothes, but I'm not sure where." | ||
| BrianK says, "I thought it would be the living quarters" | ||
| BrianK asks, "I... guess we could try the wilderness?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, me too. But I stopped playing instead of finding where the next scene was." | ||
| DavidW says, "Unless there's exits that just aren't mentioned." | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Ceremonial entrance to the palace Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ceremonial entrance to the palace Floyd | The ceremonial road ends in an ample paved space before the grand Floyd | entrance to the palace. Men and oxen come on go along the road like Floyd | ants and mill around the vast plaza, transporting all manners of goods Floyd | from the palace stores to the port below, overseen by Floyd | administrative-rank priestesses and keen-eyed archers. The great Floyd | complex is three stories high, fronted with a majestic row of crimson Floyd | red and marine blue tapered columns. Floyd | Floyd | A couple of archers wink at you (old "friends", so to speak), and Floyd | quite a few priestesses frown (older "friends", so to speak). Floyd | Floyd | The ceremonial paved road snakes descends towards the southeast and Floyd | the harbour. The palace lies west, blocking the view of the bay. A Floyd | narrow path leads northeast, following the clifftops, towards the Floyd | wilderness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Clifftop path Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Clifftop path Floyd | This is where the elegant curve of the Saffron Bay becomes wider and Floyd | the downward slope is more benign. Most of the productive fields of Floyd | the isle are around here, tended by peasants indentured to the palace, Floyd | a few free settlers and scores of slaves. The olive trees, vineyards Floyd | and farms of this side provide most of the local foodstuffs. The path Floyd | follows the clifftop to the wild north and it becomes a proper paved Floyd | road to the southwest, towards the entrance to the palace. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "take off tunic" | ||
Floyd ] Clifftop path Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE OFF TUNIC Floyd | Floyd | You shimmer out of tunic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "wear garments" | ||
Floyd ] Clifftop path Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR GARMENTS Floyd | Floyd | You put on ceremonial priestly garments. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK exclaims, "Puzzle solved!" | |
| DavidW asks, "I'm not sure what we're supposed to do next. Ask the shepherds about the brooch? Or poke around somewhere else?" | ||
| BrianK says, "I'll talk to the shepherds, then, if I can" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Crest path Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crest path Floyd | A narrow path on top of the cliffs follows the crescent shape of Floyd | Aeaea. The isle's rocky arms stretch like the horns of a bull piercing Floyd | the sea. The Saffron Bay occupies most of the view, sheer cliff faces Floyd | the height of a hundred men plunging vertically into the waters below. Floyd | The palace complex shines across the bay like white teeth on jagged, Floyd | blackened gums. Floyd | Floyd | The path clings to the clifftop, coming from the civilised south and Floyd | stretching towards the sharp edge of the isle to the northwest. To the Floyd | east lie the hilly scrublands frequented only by shepherds and Floyd | goatherds. As you know full well. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Perhaps reentering the palace gives new options, now we're dressed nicer." | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Rugged hills Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Rugged hills Floyd | In all directions, the hills climb up and down, reddish earth Floyd | embroidered with dark green shrubs and a few small pine woods, Floyd | sometimes broken by white, sheer rock. The land slopes downwards, from Floyd | the cliffs in the west to the eastern beaches. The shepherd's hut is Floyd | the only visible shelter. The isle narrows to the north and broadens Floyd | to the south, where a few smoke columns indicate the location of the Floyd | palace. The shepherd's hut is nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "enter hut" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER HUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Shepherd's hut Floyd | Here you are, back in the hut. The boys are gone, it is marginally Floyd | tidier than it was this morning, and there is still nothing but a Floyd | wooden rack and a miserable bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "Ah, they're gone" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x rack" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > X RACK Floyd | Floyd | The rack is empty. No bread, no clothes (at a guess, the shepherds Floyd | must be wearing them)... You stop for an instant, look at it twice. Floyd | Wasn't it a bit further away from the wall, this morning? It might Floyd | just be the shepherd boys tidying up after your tryst, or there might Floyd | be another reason for pushing the rack against the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > X BED Floyd | Floyd | The bedding has been half-heartedly remade after last night, but still Floyd | consists of loose straw piled on the floor. You kick it around a bit, Floyd | but you find no more brooches or anything else but dusty straw. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, move the rack" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "push rack" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH RACK Floyd | Floyd | The rack is already against the wall, it won't move unless you pull Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "pull rack" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > PULL RACK Floyd | Floyd | You take both ends of the rack, plant your feet firmly on the ground Floyd | and pull. It is not terribly heavy, and you manage to separate it a Floyd | couple of handspans from the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x wall" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > X WALL Floyd | Floyd | Oh, you have no time for this, really. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "look behind it?" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "look behind rack" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND RACK Floyd | Floyd | Potinaja wept, you are not making any sense. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x rack" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > X RACK Floyd | Floyd | The rack is empty. No bread, no clothes (at a guess, the shepherds Floyd | must be wearing them)... You stop for an instant, look at it twice. Floyd | Wasn't it a bit further away from the wall, this morning? It might Floyd | just be the shepherd boys tidying up after your tryst, or there might Floyd | be another reason for pushing the rack against the wall. Pulling the Floyd | rack away from the wall has revealed a small hole in the ground. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "a hole" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > X HOLE Floyd | Floyd | What a surprise, a small cache. Now this goatherders are much more Floyd | mysterious than you thought. Floyd | The hole contains a small but finely made daidala. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x daidala" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > X DAIDALA Floyd | Floyd | It is a little statuette of a bull, cast in bronze and lacquered in Floyd | black, with lovingly carved ivory horns, small enough that it can Floyd | stand on your open palm. The head is articulated, so that the horns Floyd | can point up or down - either menacing, as during the ritual Floyd | bulldancing, or towards the earth, in worship of the Goddess. Very, Floyd | very clever, and so finely detailed it looks almost menacing. This Floyd | belongs in a major shrine. You have very seldom seen works of similar Floyd | craftsmanship... and all of them were tributes sent from your native Floyd | Crete. You examine it carefully again. Yes, without the shadow of a Floyd | doubt - this is no Achaean artifact. Only Cretan masters can produce Floyd | such perfection. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE IT Floyd | Floyd | Surprised, you take the statuette with careful fingers. What a place Floyd | to find a holy piece. Really, what were these lads up to? Depending on Floyd | its origin, they could be guilty of a most blasphemous crime. Floyd | Floyd | Well, well. Now you are really, really interested in having a Floyd | conversation with those two. Where are they gone? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "push rack" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH RACK Floyd | Floyd | You push the rack back against the wall, and brush the ground a bit Floyd | with your feet. Nobody would be able to tell it's been moved. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "It looks like we want to go find the boys then" | |
| DavidW asks, "I guess go back out, check for trampled grass?" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Rugged hills Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Rugged hills Floyd | In all directions, the hills climb up and down, reddish earth Floyd | embroidered with dark green shrubs and a few small pine woods, Floyd | sometimes broken by white, sheer rock. The land slopes downwards, from Floyd | the cliffs in the west to the eastern beaches. The shepherd's hut is Floyd | the only visible shelter. The isle narrows to the north and broadens Floyd | to the south, where a few smoke columns indicate the location of the Floyd | palace. The shepherd's hut is nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x grass" | ||
Floyd ] Rugged hills Floyd | > Floyd | > X GRASS Floyd | Floyd | The volcanic landscape of Aeaea is at its wildest here - not a Floyd | flouncy-skirted priestess in sight, not a rumour of toiling workers or Floyd | a flash of sunlight over a magnificient building, nary a word of Floyd | praise for the Goddess except the calls of goats and the song of Floyd | birds. Which is kind of pretty is you're that kind of person, but Floyd | being a sophisticated lady and having spent ten years in Aeaea, you Floyd | find it rather boring and unstimulating. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "eastern beaches, maybe" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Shepherd's hut Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Shepherd's hut Floyd | Here you are, back in the hut. The boys are gone, it is marginally Floyd | tidier than it was this morning, and there is still nothing but a Floyd | wooden rack and a miserable bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Rugged hills Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Rugged hills Floyd | In all directions, the hills climb up and down, reddish earth Floyd | embroidered with dark green shrubs and a few small pine woods, Floyd | sometimes broken by white, sheer rock. The land slopes downwards, from Floyd | the cliffs in the west to the eastern beaches. The shepherd's hut is Floyd | the only visible shelter. The isle narrows to the north and broadens Floyd | to the south, where a few smoke columns indicate the location of the Floyd | palace. The shepherd's hut is nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "north?" | |
| BrianK says, "North is a dead end" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Rugged hills Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You really don't fancy going cross-country through these solitudes Floyd | like a goat. Better do like a human and follow the clifftop path to Floyd | the west, or go back inside the hut. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Rugged hills Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You really don't fancy going cross-country through these solitudes Floyd | like a goat. Better do like a human and follow the clifftop path to Floyd | the west, or go back inside the hut. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "I guess we can head back to the palace, then" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Crest path Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crest path Floyd | A narrow path on top of the cliffs follows the crescent shape of Floyd | Aeaea. The isle's rocky arms stretch like the horns of a bull piercing Floyd | the sea. The Saffron Bay occupies most of the view, sheer cliff faces Floyd | the height of a hundred men plunging vertically into the waters below. Floyd | The palace complex shines across the bay like white teeth on jagged, Floyd | blackened gums. Floyd | Floyd | The path clings to the clifftop, coming from the civilised south and Floyd | stretching towards the sharp edge of the isle to the northwest. To the Floyd | east lie the hilly scrublands frequented only by shepherds and Floyd | goatherds. As you know full well. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. I suppose we can show the bull statuette to Circe if nothing else is available." | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Northern crags Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Northern crags Floyd | The crescent of Aeaea narrows to a bullhorn-sharp point here and the Floyd | clifftop resolves into a rocky chaos of crags plunging dramatically Floyd | into foaming waters. From here you can see the whole curve of the Floyd | Saffron Bay, steep as the edge of a cauldron, with the palace a Floyd | miniature on the other side. Without even a single goat to feed on the Floyd | thorny bushes, the only living presence is the gulls that circle Floyd | overhead, looking for fish in the the clashing waves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x gulls" | ||
Floyd ] Northern crags Floyd | > Floyd | > X GULLS Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about gull. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Crest path Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crest path Floyd | A narrow path on top of the cliffs follows the crescent shape of Floyd | Aeaea. The isle's rocky arms stretch like the horns of a bull piercing Floyd | the sea. The Saffron Bay occupies most of the view, sheer cliff faces Floyd | the height of a hundred men plunging vertically into the waters below. Floyd | The palace complex shines across the bay like white teeth on jagged, Floyd | blackened gums. Floyd | Floyd | The path clings to the clifftop, coming from the civilised south and Floyd | stretching towards the sharp edge of the isle to the northwest. To the Floyd | east lie the hilly scrublands frequented only by shepherds and Floyd | goatherds. As you know full well. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Clifftop path Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Clifftop path Floyd | This is where the elegant curve of the Saffron Bay becomes wider and Floyd | the downward slope is more benign. Most of the productive fields of Floyd | the isle are around here, tended by peasants indentured to the palace, Floyd | a few free settlers and scores of slaves. The olive trees, vineyards Floyd | and farms of this side provide most of the local foodstuffs. The path Floyd | follows the clifftop to the wild north and it becomes a proper paved Floyd | road to the southwest, towards the entrance to the palace. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x olive trees" | ||
Floyd ] Clifftop path Floyd | > Floyd | > X OLIVE TREES Floyd | Floyd | What can you say, the saffron fields produce most of the exports of Floyd | Aeaea, and the rest of the fields are merely foodstuffs. Some fields Floyd | are tended by slaves, property of the palace or of the settlers, and Floyd | most of the free men are depend on the palace in one way or the other: Floyd | some are indentuered workers, some are technically free but rely on Floyd | bartering their produce for clay tokens only exchangeable for other Floyd | stuff in the palace stores... Not that you care much for the boring Floyd | details. Your interest in agricultural matters has always been quite Floyd | low. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Ceremonial entrance to the palace Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ceremonial entrance to the palace Floyd | The ceremonial road ends in an ample paved space before the grand Floyd | entrance to the palace. Men and oxen come on go along the road like Floyd | ants and mill around the vast plaza, transporting all manners of goods Floyd | from the palace stores to the port below, overseen by Floyd | administrative-rank priestesses and keen-eyed archers. The great Floyd | complex is three stories high, fronted with a majestic row of crimson Floyd | red and marine blue tapered columns. Floyd | Floyd | A few priestesses blink, then nod respectfully as they pass, eyeing Floyd | your attire. A couple of archers almost stand at attention when they Floyd | see you approach. Floyd | Floyd | The ceremonial paved road snakes descends towards the southeast and Floyd | the harbour. The palace lies west, blocking the view of the bay. A Floyd | narrow path leads northeast, following the clifftops, towards the Floyd | wilderness. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "se to harbour?" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Harbour town Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Harbour town Floyd | The paved road snakes downhill towards the glistening blue waters. The Floyd | beach on the southern tip hosts the only port in the isle, a Floyd | collection of warehouses and shipyards clustered around the harbour. Floyd | The air smells of salt, rotting seaweed and adventure. Burly Floyd | longshoremen sing coarse shanties as they unload a merchant ship, Floyd | while the palace indentured workers wait to cart the loads to the Floyd | workshops in the hill. Floyd | Floyd | A dozen or so whores are pitching their wares to the sailors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x whores" | ||
Floyd ] Harbour town Floyd | > Floyd | > X WHORES Floyd | Floyd | They are gaudily dressed and most of them are girls. A couple of them Floyd | have had the cheek to dress up in flouncy skirts and open bodices, in Floyd | imitation of priestly garb. Such a near-blasphemy is indicative of Floyd | their liminal status, for they are one of the collectives in Aeaea Floyd | more loosely bound to the palace. As far as the High Priestess is Floyd | concerned, they are legally free settlers and economically unnecesary Floyd | for the Goddess, but also a natural element of the portuary Floyd | facilities. Apart from helping in the harvest of saffron, which is the Floyd | customary duty of all Aeaeans, their nominal allegiance to Circe boils Floyd | down to their personal piety. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "'most'" | |
| DavidW says, "not all" | ||
| BrianK says, "I was about to mention the same thing" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "talk to whores" | ||
Floyd ] Harbour town Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO WHORES Floyd | Floyd | You approach the prostitutes, reasoning that they probably know each Floyd | ship and sailor that moves around these parts. Floyd | Floyd | The group falls into a respectful silence, turning and bringing fists Floyd | to temples in the adoration gesture. A tall Peleset woman with her Floyd | hair braided with red and blue thread meets your eyes levelly. Floyd | Floyd | "My potnia," she says diplomatically, "We are conducting business this Floyd | side of the harbour as agreed, and not obstructing palace business in Floyd | any way. We are all healthy and a moon ago we donated a..." Floyd | Floyd | "I am here on palace business indeed but not of that sort. Have you Floyd | seen any Achaeans... err, northern barbarians? Long black hair, Floyd | beards, helmets made of boar tusks? Mycenaeans, Tirynsians, Floyd | Athenians?" Floyd | Floyd | "A lot of sailors fit that description, except for the helmets. And Floyd | who can tell where they come from? In any case, my potnia, almost all Floyd | our customers are foreigners, mostly Cretan and Alassian." Floyd | Floyd | "Have you seen anyone wearing brooches shaped like lions?" Floyd | Floyd | "How do they look like?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "show brooch to whore" | ||
Floyd ] Harbour town Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW BROOCH TO WHORE Floyd | Floyd | You show the lion brooch to the Peleset woman, whose eyes open wide as Floyd | soon as she sees it. Floyd | Floyd | "I have never seen a sailor wear such a thing...", she starts, but you Floyd | cut her off. Floyd | Floyd | "Come on. You have seen it before! Lying to me is lying to the Floyd | Goddess..." Floyd | Floyd | "...but as I was about to say, a man offered me one of those a few Floyd | nights ago. Not this one, but a very similar one." Floyd | Floyd | "And do you still have it? Who was that man, was he a northerner?" Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, I don't have it any more", she says slowly, looking you in the Floyd | eye, "but I know where to find him." Floyd | Floyd | "Lead me to him and you can keep this one as well." Floyd | Floyd | "Thank you, most generous potnia. The man is a local, a shepherd or Floyd | something. I had seen him many times, bringing milk and goatmeat to Floyd | town and eyeing the girls. Obviously we were never interested in his Floyd | custom, but as I say, he suddenly was very rich. I did not ask where Floyd | he got that little brooch, but he said something about going fishing Floyd | in the crags." Floyd | Floyd | "Fishing in the crags... and say, are you feeling well these Floyd | days? No rashes or itches or blood in your urine?" Floyd | Floyd | She smiles and shakes her head. You silently praise the Goddess and, Floyd | as agreed, let her have the brooch. Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "Well, we can go back to the craggy area, but I dunno if we need a fishing rod or something" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] Harbour town Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | Harbour town Floyd | The paved road snakes downhill towards the glistening blue waters. The Floyd | beach on the southern tip hosts the only port in the isle, a Floyd | collection of warehouses and shipyards clustered around the harbour. Floyd | The air smells of salt, rotting seaweed and adventure. Burly Floyd | longshoremen sing coarse shanties as they unload a merchant ship, Floyd | while the palace indentured workers wait to cart the loads to the Floyd | workshops in the hill. Floyd | Floyd | A dozen or so whores are pitching their wares to the sailors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x sailors" | ||
Floyd ] Harbour town Floyd | > Floyd | > X SAILORS Floyd | Floyd | A confusion of seamen, foreign captains in exotic clothing and toiling Floyd | longshoremen. It would be an interesting spectacle if you did not have Floyd | urgent matters to tend to. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "If we can't find a fishing rod, we can ask Satiah, I suppose." | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Ceremonial entrance to the palace Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ceremonial entrance to the palace Floyd | The ceremonial road ends in an ample paved space before the grand Floyd | entrance to the palace. Men and oxen come on go along the road like Floyd | ants and mill around the vast plaza, transporting all manners of goods Floyd | from the palace stores to the port below, overseen by Floyd | administrative-rank priestesses and keen-eyed archers. The great Floyd | complex is three stories high, fronted with a majestic row of crimson Floyd | red and marine blue tapered columns. Floyd | Floyd | A few priestesses blink, then nod respectfully as they pass, eyeing Floyd | your attire. A couple of archers almost stand at attention when they Floyd | see you approach. Floyd | Floyd | The ceremonial paved road snakes descends towards the southeast and Floyd | the harbour. The palace lies west, blocking the view of the bay. A Floyd | narrow path leads northeast, following the clifftops, towards the Floyd | wilderness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Palace megaron Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You enter the palace unchallenged by either priestess or archer Floyd | patrols. Floyd | Floyd | Palace megaron Floyd | The main megaron is flanked with tapered red columns, centered around Floyd | a central great hall that opens to two long wings. The western wing Floyd | contains the workshops, stores and administrative dependencies. The Floyd | north wing is mainly taken up with living quarters for priestess in Floyd | the upper floors, and servants and slaves in the lower ones. But the Floyd | definitive majestic piece of the megaron is the monumental gipsum Floyd | stairway leading up, to the High Priestess' dependencies. Floyd | Floyd | The megaron is in full swing, with dozens of priestesses of diverse Floyd | rank coming and going about palace business. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Palace stores Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Palace stores Floyd | The chambers are filled with the hustle of a few dozen workers Floyd | carrying goods into our out of the stores. Slaves bring in copper ore Floyd | and oil pithoi in carts, checked and accounted for by palace Floyd | administrators. Throngs of artisans from the workshops bring their Floyd | finished crafts for inspection, and receive clay tokens in exchange. Floyd | This is a part of the palace you seldom visit willingily, except to Floyd | pilfer some baubles or chat with your friend. If you don't manage to Floyd | fulfil your quest, you might well be spending the rest of your days Floyd | here... The mere idea makes you shiver. Floyd | Floyd | Satiah smiles at you from behind her desk, fingers flying on the Floyd | abacus. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "talk to satiah" | ||
Floyd ] Palace stores Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SATIAH Floyd | Floyd | "Tell me, Satiah, do you really like it here?" Floyd | Floyd | "Indeed I do. This palace might look like a rock, solid as the Floyd | foundations of the earth, but it is actually dangling in a fine Floyd | balance, always on a tipping point between copper ore coming in and Floyd | finished goods coming out, saffron exported and meat imported, and the Floyd | fluctuating number of mouths to nourish. The Goddess provides but it Floyd | is up to us to keep her equilibrium or this isle would perish in a Floyd | fortnight without us admin girls." Floyd | Floyd | "What about traveling, serving overseas?" Floyd | Floyd | "Ariadne dearest, I am already serving overseas, remember?" Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, yes, you told me about Avaris. Sorry, I have a bull-sized Floyd | hangover. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "talk to satiah" | ||
Floyd ] Palace stores Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SATIAH Floyd | Floyd | "I have just had a conversation with our beloved High Priestess." Floyd | Floyd | "And? Are you still a free woman?" Floyd | Floyd | "I have been told The World Is More Complicated Than I Know and also Floyd | that I Play But a Small Part in It." Floyd | Floyd | "Knowing Circe, it sounds surprisingly harmless. Anything troubling Floyd | your mind?" Floyd | Floyd | "Have you seen or heard of any Achaeans around here?", you ask Floyd | casually. Floyd | Floyd | "There used to be that girl, the straw-haired one? I think she was Floyd | from somewhere up north? She was sent to Wilusha, assistant Wanassa, Floyd | two springtimes ago maybe?" Floyd | Floyd | "Ah, yes. Nah, I was thinking more like traders, ambassadors, perhaps Floyd | sailors? Do you get any trade from the northerners?" Floyd | Floyd | "Occasionally. Not recently. They almost never trade directly with Floyd | us, I hear most of the commerce goes through your island of Keftiu, so Floyd | you probably know more than I do, you Cretan know-it-all. And they Floyd | would have no business here anyway, they are dealt with at the Floyd | harbour, and good riddance. Potinaja save me from dealing with the Floyd | maniacs at port authority." Floyd | Floyd | "Thank you, Satiah." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "btw, we can do something about the hangover. I was hoping you're discover it yourself, though." | |
| BrianK says, "Oh" | ||
| BrianK says, "Is it... to drink more" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "drink wine" | ||
Floyd ] Palace stores Floyd | > Floyd | > DRINK WINE Floyd | Floyd | Try again, this time making some sense. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Palace stores Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You are wearing: Floyd | ceremonial priestly garments Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | bull daidala Floyd | tunic Floyd | wine jug (full of water) Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "oh wait it's just water" | |
| DavidW says, "Drink something, but you don't actually have wine." | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "drink water" | ||
Floyd ] Palace stores Floyd | > Floyd | > DRINK WATER Floyd | Floyd | You drain it in a couple of long, greedy gulps. It does wonders to Floyd | alleviate your hangover. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "give jug to satiah" | ||
Floyd ] Palace stores Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE JUG TO SATIAH Floyd | Floyd | Satiah grimaces and calls a worker to refill your jug, then hands it Floyd | back to you again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x jug" | ||
Floyd ] Palace stores Floyd | > Floyd | > X JUG Floyd | Floyd | It is a stylish round design with a small flat base, red clay with a Floyd | striking black many-tentacled octopus. Such a modern and expensive Floyd | model can only be imported from Crete and way above the means of a Floyd | goatherder, so it was probably you who brought it from the Floyd | palace.Satiah has made sure it was refilled... with fresh water. What Floyd | a party pooper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "talk to satiah" | ||
Floyd ] Palace stores Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SATIAH Floyd | Floyd | "What tidings, Ariadne? Floyd | Floyd | "Secret stuff. Anything suspicious happening around here?" Floyd | Floyd | "Just a Sherden trader screwing the Goddess on the saffron-pottery Floyd | exchange rate, but nothing that would interest an important agent of Floyd | the High Priestess like you. Let us have a jug tonight and talk, shall Floyd | we?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Palace megaron Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Palace megaron Floyd | The main megaron is flanked with tapered red columns, centered around Floyd | a central great hall that opens to two long wings. The western wing Floyd | contains the workshops, stores and administrative dependencies. The Floyd | north wing is mainly taken up with living quarters for priestess in Floyd | the upper floors, and servants and slaves in the lower ones. But the Floyd | definitive majestic piece of the megaron is the monumental gipsum Floyd | stairway leading up, to the High Priestess' dependencies. Floyd | Floyd | The megaron is in full swing, with dozens of priestesses of diverse Floyd | rank coming and going about palace business. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Palace megaron Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You start towards the living quarters, but you stop after a couple of Floyd | steps. What's the point? You have already been caught, and in the Floyd | worst of ways, so why pretend? Better carry on with your own business. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Circe's chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Circe's chambers Floyd | The residence of the High Priestesses is less sumptuous than what you Floyd | had imagined the first time. It is nevertheless the most luxurious Floyd | room in the whole island, somewhat in spite of Circe herself. The Floyd | focal point of the room is a great wooden table, strewn with a Floyd | thousand little objects around a map. Floyd | Floyd | Circe is looking at you, appraisingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "talk to circe" | ||
Floyd ] Circe's chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CIRCE Floyd | Floyd | "So where shall I begin?", you ask in a conspiratorial tone. Circe Floyd | rolls her eyes. Floyd | Floyd | "Last time I had this sinking feeling the earth shook and it rained Floyd | ash for a moon." Floyd | Floyd | "Aunt?" Floyd | Floyd | "Well, get properly dressed, but remember it is not an official Floyd | ordainment but a temporary promotion, just for this mission." She Floyd | starts putting the figurines back in place "Then possibly try and Floyd | trace back the origin of that brooch? Further investigate the place Floyd | where you found it? Track whoever gave it ti you? Ask questions Floyd | discreetly to the right people? Seduce men and suss out their secrets? Floyd | Sweet lady Potinaja, ask me not about complicated matters of intrigue, Floyd | I am but the elderly High Priestess of Aeaea. You youngsters have it Floyd | all figured out, surely. I shall just stay here and play around with Floyd | my strategic toys while you do the Goddess' will." Floyd | Floyd | You make the adoration gesture again, this time with a slight smile, Floyd | and get ready to go. A secret mission for the High Priestess, no less! Floyd | Time to prove your mettle... and avoid ending up as a bloody clerk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "show daidala to circe" | ||
Floyd ] Circe's chambers Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW DAIDALA TO CIRCE Floyd | Floyd | "Look what I found", you say, putting the daidala on the table. Circe Floyd | looks puzzled for a second. Floyd | Floyd | "Where have you gotten that from? Ariadne, I expect you not to use Floyd | your mission as an excuse to commit sacrilegious actions..." Floyd | Floyd | "It was among the possessions of a suspected Achaean agent. But it is Floyd | clearly not Achaean. I suspect it was stolen from a shrine in Crete, Floyd | which is probably not beneath the barbarians, but why bring it here?" Floyd | Floyd | "And then again, why bring something as incriminating as the brooch? Floyd | Perhaps we are dealing with a particularly stupid spy, or perchance it Floyd | is a different matter. Whatever the case, if sacrilege is involved we Floyd | need solve it more than ever, Ariadne. Pursue that lead. Find your Floyd | man." Floyd | Floyd | "I shall, my potnia." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Palace megaron Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Palace megaron Floyd | The main megaron is flanked with tapered red columns, centered around Floyd | a central great hall that opens to two long wings. The western wing Floyd | contains the workshops, stores and administrative dependencies. The Floyd | north wing is mainly taken up with living quarters for priestess in Floyd | the upper floors, and servants and slaves in the lower ones. But the Floyd | definitive majestic piece of the megaron is the monumental gipsum Floyd | stairway leading up, to the High Priestess' dependencies. Floyd | Floyd | The megaron is in full swing, with dozens of priestesses of diverse Floyd | rank coming and going about palace business. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Ceremonial entrance to the palace Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ceremonial entrance to the palace Floyd | The ceremonial road ends in an ample paved space before the grand Floyd | entrance to the palace. Men and oxen come on go along the road like Floyd | ants and mill around the vast plaza, transporting all manners of goods Floyd | from the palace stores to the port below, overseen by Floyd | administrative-rank priestesses and keen-eyed archers. The great Floyd | complex is three stories high, fronted with a majestic row of crimson Floyd | red and marine blue tapered columns. Floyd | Floyd | A few priestesses blink, then nod respectfully as they pass, eyeing Floyd | your attire. A couple of archers almost stand at attention when they Floyd | see you approach. Floyd | Floyd | The ceremonial paved road snakes descends towards the southeast and Floyd | the harbour. The palace lies west, blocking the view of the bay. A Floyd | narrow path leads northeast, following the clifftops, towards the Floyd | wilderness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Clifftop path Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Clifftop path Floyd | This is where the elegant curve of the Saffron Bay becomes wider and Floyd | the downward slope is more benign. Most of the productive fields of Floyd | the isle are around here, tended by peasants indentured to the palace, Floyd | a few free settlers and scores of slaves. The olive trees, vineyards Floyd | and farms of this side provide most of the local foodstuffs. The path Floyd | follows the clifftop to the wild north and it becomes a proper paved Floyd | road to the southwest, towards the entrance to the palace. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Crest path Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crest path Floyd | A narrow path on top of the cliffs follows the crescent shape of Floyd | Aeaea. The isle's rocky arms stretch like the horns of a bull piercing Floyd | the sea. The Saffron Bay occupies most of the view, sheer cliff faces Floyd | the height of a hundred men plunging vertically into the waters below. Floyd | The palace complex shines across the bay like white teeth on jagged, Floyd | blackened gums. Floyd | Floyd | The path clings to the clifftop, coming from the civilised south and Floyd | stretching towards the sharp edge of the isle to the northwest. To the Floyd | east lie the hilly scrublands frequented only by shepherds and Floyd | goatherds. As you know full well. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Northern crags Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Northern crags Floyd | The crescent of Aeaea narrows to a bullhorn-sharp point here and the Floyd | clifftop resolves into a rocky chaos of crags plunging dramatically Floyd | into foaming waters. From here you can see the whole curve of the Floyd | Saffron Bay, steep as the edge of a cauldron, with the palace a Floyd | miniature on the other side. Without even a single goat to feed on the Floyd | thorny bushes, the only living presence is the gulls that circle Floyd | overhead, looking for fish in the the clashing waves. Floyd | Floyd | And then there's the goatherd, with no goats in sight, looking quite Floyd | out of place. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess check the crags again? ah." | |
| BrianK says, "Oh, he's just here" | ||
| BrianK exclaims, "...puzzle solved!" | ||
| BrianK says, "is he the good-looking one or the other one" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x goatherd" | ||
Floyd ] Northern crags Floyd | > Floyd | > X GOATHERD Floyd | Floyd | Well, at least he is the handsome one of last night's duo, a swarthy Floyd | square of a man, all straight lines and coiled muscle under tan skin. Floyd | He's wearing boots and loincloth and carries bag. He's looking around Floyd | shiftily, as if looking for a way to escape... or maybe get rid of Floyd | you? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, it's the cute one." | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "talk to goatherd" | ||
Floyd ] Northern crags Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GOATHERD Floyd | Floyd | The man meets your eyes with a jolt, then does a double take. You see Floyd | the doubt in his eyes for an instant and smile warmly, just in case Floyd | he's thinking of escaping. Or giving you a little nudge over the Floyd | cliff. Floyd | Floyd | "Why, if it is not my favourite goatherder. I never thought you would Floyd | be so difficult to get. Considering." Floyd | Floyd | He starts off with some remarks about last night that you might find Floyd | rudely enticing if you didn't know him to be an Achaean spy. Floyd | Floyd | And a sacrilegious thief of holy daidala, for good measure. Floyd | Floyd | "So what are you doing in these solitudes all by your own? Should you Floyd | not be tending to your herd?" Floyd | Floyd | He looks one way and the other, scratches his head and ahem-ahems for Floyd | a while, until you suggest that maybe he's fishing in the Floyd | crags? He nods, then stops and looks at you (you let nothing show Floyd | on your face), licks his lips, then nods again vigorously. "Why, aye, Floyd | fishing! Indeed!". Floyd | Floyd | Without a line or a hook, of course. And then there's that metallic Floyd | clink every time he shifts. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Northern crags Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | "So what were you fishing?" Floyd | Floyd | "Pretty girls, and look, it worked!" Floyd | Floyd | You roll your eyes, but not so much that you don't keep a watch on Floyd | him. He's trying to goatshit his way out of this one? Fine, then Floyd | you'll need to confront him with solid proof. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "give daidala to goatherd" | ||
Floyd ] Northern crags Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE DAIDALA TO GOATHERD Floyd | Floyd | "So where did you fish this one?", you say, holding the statuette Floyd | high. He looks horrified. You press on: Floyd | Floyd | "And I know about the brooch too, and the whole lot of them. And the Floyd | High Priestess does as well, in case you were thinking of a little Floyd | accident. Now, confess, and I shall make sure she is merciful with Floyd | you. How long have you been an Achaean spy? Floyd | Floyd | "Ah-aka... what is an Akayan? And I'm no spy! I know nothing, I-I Floyd | just...! the goats...! I thought you, you and I... Floyd | Floyd | "Cut the goatshit. Where did you find this? And the brooch? Confess or Floyd | you shall know Potinaja's wrath!" Floyd | Floyd | "D-downstairs!" Floyd | Floyd | You blink, watching out for any ruse. He gestures downwards with his Floyd | head, towards the cliffs. You nod. Carefully, he moves towards a few Floyd | thorny bushes and moves them aside. Floyd | Floyd | "There is a path down the cliff." Floyd | Floyd | "Guide me. You go first." Floyd | Floyd | He sighs, nods and disappears down the hidden passage, looking just as Floyd | if he was sinking into the tangle of thorns. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "intrigue!" | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "down" | ||
Floyd ] Pebble beach at the foot of the cliffs Floyd | > Floyd | > DOWN Floyd | Floyd | You find the secret way behind the bushes and carefully descend. Floyd | Floyd | Pebble beach at the foot of the cliffs Floyd | Taking a deep breath, you navigate your way through the narrow Floyd | passage. A few steps ahead of you, the shepherd beckons. The Floyd | passageway is little more than an excavated slope for a few paces, and Floyd | then it merges into a natural cavern, open on one side to a vista of Floyd | the northern seascape. You follow the man along the zigzagging open Floyd | cavern, descending down the face of the cliff, until you reach a tiny Floyd | pebble beach at the foot of the crags. As far as you can see, there is Floyd | nothing but open seas ahead. Behind you, Aeaea is a continuous wall of Floyd | sheer rock, uninterrupted except for this small beach. It is scarcely Floyd | twenty strides wide... and its main feature is a huge warship, wrecked Floyd | against the rock on the western side of the beach. Floyd | Floyd | Sweet Potinaja. This is something Circe would kill to know. Hopefully Floyd | not literally. Floyd | Floyd | The goatherd is pacing up and down the narrow beach, looking shifty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x warship" | ||
Floyd ] Pebble beach at the foot of the cliffs Floyd | > Floyd | > X WARSHIP Floyd | Floyd | You approach the wreck carefully. The bow third is a mess of Floyd | splintered wood, smashed against the rocks, the rest more or less Floyd | intact. A couple of dead bodies, presumably from the ship, are Floyd | stranded on the pebbles. The ship itself is long, single-masted, sleek Floyd | and probably rode low over the water. Definitely not a Cretan merchant Floyd | ship - more like a barbarian warship. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x bodies" | ||
Floyd ] Pebble beach at the foot of the cliffs Floyd | > Floyd | > X BODIES Floyd | Floyd | The corpses are both bloated and whitish, having spent many days at Floyd | sea. You take a look at the nearest one. It is a man, that much you Floyd | know, with a sword hung from a tasseled shoulder belt. The weapon is Floyd | of good quality and northern make, so you are looking at an Achaean Floyd | officer, may the Goddess have mercy on his heretic heart. You grimace. Floyd | A ship this size carried more warriors, obviously, perhaps thirty or Floyd | forty. Perhaps most of them were swept to the sea in the gale, or Floyd | jumped out in terror, or died here on the beach and were thrown back Floyd | into the ocean by whoever found the wreck. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "So he's been stealing from the wreck?" | |
| BrianK says, "Seems like it" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "take sword" | ||
Floyd ] Pebble beach at the foot of the cliffs Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SWORD Floyd | Floyd | Potinaja wept, you are not making any sense. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "talk to goatherd" | ||
Floyd ] Pebble beach at the foot of the cliffs Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO GOATHERD Floyd | Floyd | "You see, my potnia, me and my friend found this last new moon, and Floyd | though we tried to save the sailors..." Floyd | Floyd | "Goatshit", you interrupt, turning towards him with a dramatic Floyd | flourish, "You tricked them into running aground, surely with some Floyd | lamps. Do you expect a potnia to believe this Achaean warship just Floyd | happened to shipwreck here, on the only beach in the whole coast, on a Floyd | moonless night, and in the only spot where you and your mate would be Floyd | able to loot their ship?" Floyd | Floyd | "Well..." Floyd | Floyd | "Don't answer, you fool. It's what we priestesses call a rhetorical Floyd | question." Floyd | Floyd | "Actually, maybe it is a gift from the Goddess herself..." Floyd | Floyd | "Don't you explain the Goddess to me, man, I'm a bloody potnia! So you Floyd | pulled out your little trick, not that I mind because they were Floyd | Achaean scum anyway, and then tried to sell the stuff in town. You Floyd | made just one mistake - bedding me! I do not mean that as a literal Floyd | mistake, mind you. But when you mess with Ariadne, secret agent of the Floyd | High Priestess..." Floyd | Floyd | "Please, holy Ariadne...!" Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, shut up. Circe will be certainly interested in these shipwrecked Floyd | Achaeans, she does give not a fig for thieving goatherders. But you Floyd | should have told me in the first place." Floyd | Floyd | You take one last good look around. Being pretty sure you have learned Floyd | all there was to discover here, you say a brief prayer to the Goddess Floyd | - to guide the dead northerners to her underground realm, even if they Floyd | scarcely deserve it. The goatherd stands respectfully at attention, Floyd | although there is no way he can understand your oration, delivered in Floyd | your native Cretan. Floyd | Floyd | Out of the corner of your eye, you see something stir among the rocks! Floyd | And the goatherder has seen it as well, because he jumps scared, Floyd | thinking it is one of the corpses rising. Being an initiate in the Floyd | first mysteries, you go investigate, intoning incantations against the Floyd | wrath of the dead. Floyd | Floyd | But the boy is not quite dead. He is a young one, of perhaps eleven or Floyd | twelve years old, barely standing on his two feet, reeking of seawater Floyd | and malnutrition. He collapses as soon as you reach him. Floyd | Floyd | "Go fetch help!", you order, and the goatherder disappears towards the Floyd | passage. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "x boy" | ||
Floyd ] Pebble beach at the foot of the cliffs Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOY Floyd | Floyd | A boy or eleven or twelve, dressed according to Cretan fashion, with Floyd | taste and a touch of distinction. Not at all what you would expect to Floyd | find in an Achaean wreck! Perhaps he was a prisoner? The kidnaped son Floyd | of some Cretan great, held for ransom, as a guarantee of some peace? Floyd | You need to interrogate him. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I wonder if that's Jason." | |
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "talk to boy" | ||
Floyd ] Pebble beach at the foot of the cliffs Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO BOY Floyd | Floyd | "Boy, do you speak Cretan? Do you hear me?", you try to shake him Floyd | awake, but he's too delirious with thirst. Floyd | Floyd | "...ther... sorry, Father... shouldn't have... are coming... Minos... Floyd | shouldn't... coming... coming for... should... Father... the bull..." Floyd | Floyd | "Hold on, boy. I shall get you some water." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "give jug to boy" | |
| BrianK asks, "Is it.. Theseus?" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "give jug to boy" | ||
Floyd ] Pebble beach at the foot of the cliffs Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE JUG TO BOY Floyd | Floyd | You tilt the jug so that the boy can drink - it takes a few tries in Floyd | his state. Little by little, he regains consciousness. He looks at Floyd | you, frightened, so you smile as warmly as this crazy day allows. Floyd | Floyd | "I am Cretan like you, and a potnia. You are safe with me, boy. What Floyd | is your name and how come you where aboard an Achaean warship?" Floyd | Floyd | "My-my name is Icarus", he says, making a feeble attempt at an Floyd | adoration gesture, "and my father was...", and there he clams up, Floyd | opening his eyes wide and looking at you with a suspicious expression. Floyd | You tsk-tsk. Floyd | Floyd | "I am not one of them. My name is Ariadne, and I am the daughter of Floyd | the Wanassa of Knossos, whom you surely have heard of. So what about Floyd | your father?" Floyd | Floyd | "Hmph. He's a fisherman." Floyd | Floyd | "Sure she is, and I am a talking dolphin in disguise. See my fins? I Floyd | was swimming around today, minding my own dolphinic business and blam, Floyd | I came upon that wreck and said, what about having this little boy for Floyd | breakfast..." Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "Oh it's Icarus" | |
| DavidW says, "Maybe. I don't remember who Theseus is." | ||
| DavidW says, "huh. Icarus. neat." | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "talk to icarus" | ||
Floyd ] Pebble beach at the foot of the cliffs Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO ICARUS Floyd | Floyd | "So where did the Achaeans get you?" Floyd | Floyd | He thinks about it for too long. He's making it up. Floyd | Floyd | "At Phaistos. While we... I was trying to board a ship." Floyd | Floyd | "You and your father? Who is he? Is he the reason you were captured... Floyd | and trying to board a ship? Were you both on the run? Why?" Floyd | Floyd | He stammers a little, then pretends to faint. Floyd | Floyd | "Come on, Icarus. I am not a friend at all of the awful men that got Floyd | you. Did they get your father as well? Let me guess, he is an Floyd | important man in Crete, am I right? A lagawetes, perhaps? A Floyd | commander?" Floyd | Floyd | "A fisherman, like I said, from Phaistos." Floyd | Floyd | "Goatshit. You have the Knossos accent, Icarus, and your skin is too Floyd | white and soft for the son of a fisherman, not to mention your Floyd | clothes. Your hands look rough, though... is he a great artisan? Oh, I Floyd | know. Perhaps a maker of beautiful objects?" Floyd | Floyd | His eyes go wide in fear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Pebble beach at the foot of the cliffs Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | He is keeping his mouth shut, but you know full well there is Floyd | something more here. Perhaps you can refresh his memory... with a Floyd | little memento from his father. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "show bull to boy?" | |
| BrianK says, "Ohhhhh, the words daidala and Daedalus are related" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "show daidala to boy" | ||
Floyd ] Pebble beach at the foot of the cliffs Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW DAIDALA TO BOY Floyd | Floyd | "Is this perchance yours?" you ask, producing the bull statuette with Floyd | a theatrical gesture. Floyd | Floyd | He hesitates, wanting to trust the lovely lady with the hometown Floyd | accent, but still scared. You smile encouragingly. Floyd | Floyd | "It belongs to your mysterious father. And his only reason for owning Floyd | a sacred object would be being a priestess, and from my authoritative Floyd | experience as a priestess, men are rarely priestesses, or vice versa. Floyd | So your father must be a maker of daidala, and there are not many of Floyd | those, not even in my father's palace, so. See how the Floyd | Goddess speaks through me? Tell me the rest, Icarus, for Her patience Floyd | is much scarcer than her wisdom." Floyd | Floyd | "My father is indeed a daedalus," he sighs, giving up, "and we were on Floyd | the run when the Achaeans got us. They boarded our ship just out of Floyd | Phaistos, and Father fell overboard. I was taken captive." Floyd | Floyd | "You were on the run from what?", you ask, but you already know the Floyd | answer. Floyd | Floyd | "Your noble father, potnia. For a crime he did not commit!" Floyd | Floyd | You smile reassuringly and pat his head. Now this is something Circe Floyd | shall be interested in - courtly intrigue of which Mother has told her Floyd | nothing, Achaean warships roaming very close to Cretan ports, a Floyd | targeted kidnapping, and a smart kid with fresh news about it all. Floyd | Floyd | "Can you walk, Icarus? Come with me. We shall get you proper food and Floyd | a bed, and you shall talk to a very nice old lady." Floyd | Floyd | > | BrianK says, "Or, uh, daedalus is a profession rather than a name" | |
| DavidW says, "Perhaps with some people, it's the same thing." | ||
| BrianK says, "I'll return to the palace then" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "talk to icarus" | ||
Floyd ] Pebble beach at the foot of the cliffs Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO ICARUS Floyd | Floyd | You chat a little with the boy as you walk your way back to the Floyd | palace. He is still reserved and wary of saying too much, but you Floyd | gather a few juicy hints here and there. His father got enmeshed in Floyd | some kind of intrigue with Mother, and Father was not amused. Both are Floyd | in good health. You have four new siblings, four brothers and a Floyd | sister. There was an earth-shake two years ago, but the damages were Floyd | very minor, and it ceased as soon as three bulls were sacrificed. Floyd | Gortyn burned to the ground (all good, you never liked Gortynians). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Northern crags Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Northern crags Floyd | The crescent of Aeaea narrows to a bullhorn-sharp point here and the Floyd | clifftop resolves into a rocky chaos of crags plunging dramatically Floyd | into foaming waters. From here you can see the whole curve of the Floyd | Saffron Bay, steep as the edge of a cauldron, with the palace a Floyd | miniature on the other side. Without even a single goat to feed on the Floyd | thorny bushes, the only living presence is the gulls that circle Floyd | overhead, looking for fish in the the clashing waves. Floyd | Floyd | The shepherd has opened a narrow downwards passage through a few Floyd | thorny bushes. Floyd | Floyd | Icarus arrives from below. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Crest path Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crest path Floyd | A narrow path on top of the cliffs follows the crescent shape of Floyd | Aeaea. The isle's rocky arms stretch like the horns of a bull piercing Floyd | the sea. The Saffron Bay occupies most of the view, sheer cliff faces Floyd | the height of a hundred men plunging vertically into the waters below. Floyd | The palace complex shines across the bay like white teeth on jagged, Floyd | blackened gums. Floyd | Floyd | The path clings to the clifftop, coming from the civilised south and Floyd | stretching towards the sharp edge of the isle to the northwest. To the Floyd | east lie the hilly scrublands frequented only by shepherds and Floyd | goatherds. As you know full well. Floyd | Floyd | Icarus arrives from the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Clifftop path Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Clifftop path Floyd | This is where the elegant curve of the Saffron Bay becomes wider and Floyd | the downward slope is more benign. Most of the productive fields of Floyd | the isle are around here, tended by peasants indentured to the palace, Floyd | a few free settlers and scores of slaves. The olive trees, vineyards Floyd | and farms of this side provide most of the local foodstuffs. The path Floyd | follows the clifftop to the wild north and it becomes a proper paved Floyd | road to the southwest, towards the entrance to the palace. Floyd | Floyd | Icarus arrives from the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Ceremonial entrance to the palace Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ceremonial entrance to the palace Floyd | The ceremonial road ends in an ample paved space before the grand Floyd | entrance to the palace. Men and oxen come on go along the road like Floyd | ants and mill around the vast plaza, transporting all manners of goods Floyd | from the palace stores to the port below, overseen by Floyd | administrative-rank priestesses and keen-eyed archers. The great Floyd | complex is three stories high, fronted with a majestic row of crimson Floyd | red and marine blue tapered columns. Floyd | Floyd | A few priestesses blink, then nod respectfully as they pass, eyeing Floyd | your attire. A couple of archers almost stand at attention when they Floyd | see you approach. Floyd | Floyd | The ceremonial paved road snakes descends towards the southeast and Floyd | the harbour. The palace lies west, blocking the view of the bay. A Floyd | narrow path leads northeast, following the clifftops, towards the Floyd | wilderness. Floyd | Floyd | Icarus arrives from the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Palace megaron Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You enter the palace unchallenged by either priestess or archer Floyd | patrols. Floyd | Floyd | Palace megaron Floyd | The main megaron is flanked with tapered red columns, centered around Floyd | a central great hall that opens to two long wings. The western wing Floyd | contains the workshops, stores and administrative dependencies. The Floyd | north wing is mainly taken up with living quarters for priestess in Floyd | the upper floors, and servants and slaves in the lower ones. But the Floyd | definitive majestic piece of the megaron is the monumental gipsum Floyd | stairway leading up, to the High Priestess' dependencies. Floyd | Floyd | The megaron is in full swing, with dozens of priestesses of diverse Floyd | rank coming and going about palace business. Floyd | Floyd | Icarus arrives from the outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Circe looks up and blinks hard, twice. You smile your Competent Niece Floyd | and Even Better Potnia smile and fill her in with the facts of your Floyd | investigation, only embellishing slightly. As like how you fought to Floyd | death two of the Achaeans who were still alive (you are resolute!), or Floyd | the time you invoked the Goddess to reveal the identity of the boy Floyd | (the Potinaja obviously wants you ordained!). Floyd | Floyd | Circe listens with something like excited exasperation, then sends you Floyd | out while she grills Icarus. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| BrianK pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | You take advantage of the situation to go fetch some breakfast, at Floyd | long last. You come across Phaedra, and have a grand time prancing in Floyd | your priestly finery while she watches incredulously. Halfway through Floyd | the tale of how you are performing secret missions for the High Floyd | Priestess, she runs away in an undignified rage. Finally, the day is Floyd | starting to look up. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| BrianK pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Palace megaron Floyd | That evening just before sunset, Circe sends for you. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, well, perhaps the Goddess has found a way to speak through Floyd | you...", she says. Floyd | Floyd | "She needed some help in doing so, but I really cannot blame her, Floyd | auntie. I was quite out of voice this morning." Floyd | Floyd | "...and if you would just shut up for a while and kneel down, I shall Floyd | recite your ordainment invocation. Tonight you shall be brought to the Floyd | sacred cave and initiated in the third mysteries, and so please the Floyd | Goddess, by daybreak you shall be a full priestess, worthy of the Floyd | regalia." Floyd | Floyd | "My potnia..." Floyd | Floyd | "And then", she adds, with a harsh edge in her voice, "we shall talk, Floyd | Ariadne." Floyd | Floyd | She turns towards the last rays of the setting sun, and frowns, as if Floyd | watching the setting of a different sun. Floyd | Floyd | "We shall talk about what must be done to save Crete." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Thus begins the legend of Ariadne of Knossos, Floyd | Mistress of the Labyrinth *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT or UNDO the last command? Floyd | > | BrianK says, "Ariadne is a delight" | |
| DavidW says, "that was fun" | ||
| BrianK says (to Floyd), "amusing" | ||
Floyd ] Palace megaron Floyd | > Floyd | > AMUSING Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Circe sighs, her eyes still on the setting sun. Floyd | Floyd | "Praised be the Goddess, here we go. Listen, Ariadne have you tried... Floyd | Floyd | ...kissing Satiah?" Floyd | ...kissing me (Circe)?" Floyd | ...talking to the goat?" Floyd | ...praying?" Floyd | ...typing ABOUT GAME for a pedantic historical explanation?" Floyd | ...typing ABOUT AUTHOR for insufferable authorial ego-tripping?" Floyd | ...trying AMUSING during the game?" Floyd | ...examining the Sun?" Floyd | ...talking to the Sun?" Floyd | ...examining your own eyes?" Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, see some suggestions Floyd | for AMUSING things to do, QUIT or UNDO the last command? Floyd | > | BrianK says, "Aw, man, I could kiss people" | |
| DavidW asks, "oh, didn't Circe say her father was the Sun? Something like that?" | ||
| McMartin says, "Yep" | ||
| BrianK says, "Yeah" | ||
| BrianK says, "Which is Apollo, I guess" | ||
| McMartin says, "I got some notes in internal monologue to the effect that grandpa was the Sun" | ||
| DavidW says, "gread-uncle Apollo" | ||
| McMartin asks, "Wasn't there some Titan that was the Sun before Apollo took over?" | ||
| DavidW says, "er great-uncle" | ||
| McMartin asks, "Er, isn't your aunt's dad your grandpa?" | ||
| McMartin says, "Barring complexities" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, maybe." | ||
| McMartin says, "And assuming she's not your, uh, aunt-in-law" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Circe was mom's sister, I think?" | ||
| BrianK says, "Yeah" | ||
| DavidW says, "That's simpler, then." | ||
| BrianK says, "I guess Helios would be the other Sun" | ||
| DavidW says, "Ra was the other other Sun. There's a few." | ||
| BrianK says, "Oh, yeah, the wikipedia says Circe's the daughter of Helios" | ||
| BrianK says, "wikipedia article*" | ||
| DavidW says, "cool" | ||
| DavidW says, "I liked that. I hope there'll be a sequel." | ||
| DavidW says, "Maybe with an EXITS command, though, next time." | ||
| BrianK says, "Apparently this was supposed to be a prequel to a larger game" | ||
| BrianK says, "So if that's still being worked on then I'll look forward to that" | ||
