  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| Jacqueline says, "Golly" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "All the Floydable SpringThing games are loaded." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I did that much before I abandoned you all." | ||
| Genevieve says, "So how dare you have a paying job, and have to do such human things as eating and paying bills? ;-)" | ||
| DavidW says, "I've played Bobby and Bonnie. I started Enlightened Master, but I don't think it would work well as a group-played game." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm partway through The Weight of a Soul." | ||
| DavidW says, "And I played Niney." | ||
| Genevieve says, "Oooh, Enlightened Master? That sounds cool. I'll have to check that one out some time." | ||
| DavidW says, "So I suggest we try A Fly on the Wall or left/right." | ||
| DavidW says (to Genevieve), "It is cool, but it's not quite the sort of game you'd expect from the title. Even though it really IS also that sort of game too." | ||
| Genevieve says, "My parents are going to be here shortly, so I don't think I'll have the chance even to be a fly on the wall for a Fly on the Wall, if you play that one. :-) I'll totally check out the transcript afterward though." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I only have a couple of hours this morning, unfortunately." | ||
| DavidW says, "Bobby and Bonnie is a cute game. You play as a brother-sister team of bunny children." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Left/Right wasn't Floydable, I don't think." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh." | ||
| Genevieve says, "Yes, I remember watching you guys play that for a bit and get exasperated by the limited command parser." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask st17aflyonthewall" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your interpreter doesn't support volume control. Floyd | Your interpreter doesn't support volume control. Floyd | Your interpreter doesn't support volume control. Floyd | Your interpreter doesn't support volume control. Floyd | A sasquatch bends down before a leprechaun, who pulls a gold coin from Floyd | behind the beast's ear. Chuckling, the sasquatch takes the treasure Floyd | and places it onto a table as the leprechaun speaks to him. With a Floyd | shake of the head, he follows his fellow conspirator through a tangle Floyd | of costumed guests and out of the ballroom. Floyd | Floyd | A pirate wobbles his way to the gold, a wooden prosthesis attached to Floyd | one knee, a plush toucan on his shoulder bobbing as if it were keeping Floyd | time with the music. the pirate retrieves the coin, scowls, and peels Floyd | away the bright gold foil. Eating the chocolate and blinking his Floyd | unpatched eye in the dim light, he watches the other members of the Floyd | Fortean Society — a collection of caricatures, characters, monsters, Floyd | and myths — mingle in the Soul Dancers ballroom. Floyd | Floyd | A Fly on the Wall, or An Appositional Eye Interactive Floyd | Apposition by Nigel Jayne. Release 1. Floyd | Copyright © 2017 by Nigel Jayne. The license is under a Creative Floyd | Commons attribution, CC BY-NC 4.0 [LINK]Floyd | Serial number 170405 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib 6/12N) . Floyd | Floyd | Type the number of your choice then press "enter" to proceed: Floyd | 1. Start the game and join the party. Floyd | 2. Visit the Info Desk, which is recommended for anyone who hasn't Floyd | played A Fly on the Wall, or An Appositional Eye. Floyd | 3. Resume a previous surveillance. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh dear. This is already quite weird." | |
| Jacqueline says, "It should read, 'I SAID... YOUR INTERPRETER DOESN'T SUPPORT VOLUME CONTROL!'" | ||
| Genevieve arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | DavidW says, "Major Tom to Volume Control. Major Tom to Volume Control." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "So, 2?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I suggest that we visit the info desk, yes. 2." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] HELP MENU Floyd ] Press a number to choose an option or Floyd ] ESCAPE or X to exit. Floyd ] (Press M to turn Book Mode ON.) Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | (If you're using a screen reader, press S to turn on Screen Reader Floyd | mode. This message only appears on the front page of the menu system.) Floyd | Floyd | 1. How to watch (for novice and experienced interactive fiction Floyd | players) Floyd | 2. Set Audio and Goldie's Thoughts Floyd | 3. Help Desk Floyd | 4. Acknowledgements Floyd | 5. About the Author | Jacqueline says, "I wonder if this is playable without volume." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Without sound, rather." | ||
| Genevieve says, "Whoa, that is cool! A game that actually supports screen readers. I am impressed." | ||
| Genevieve says, "Which interpreter is this generally supposed to be for? Maybe Floyd won't support it very well." | ||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "I don't know. I haven't played this game at all." | ||
| Jacqueline wonders if she should fire it up offline to see. | ||
| Genevieve says, "That's probably a good idea." | ||
| DavidW says, "I vote 1 for 'How to watch'." | ||
| Genevieve says, "I'll let you guys make the decisions. I'm just here till my parents get here, which could be any minute now." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, this is weird." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Would screen reader mode be needed because there are pictures?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It is now only available to play online, no download. But I clearly downloaded this a few weeks back, probably a Glulxe version." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Hm, yeah. Perhaps." | ||
| Genevieve says, "I would imagine so." | ||
| DavidW says, "Oh, very belated, re our old Arrival game, we needed to hide under the counter." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "oh, wait." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "There are two Fly on the Wall games." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So, there is music we are missing." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] How to watch (for novice and experienced interactive fiction players) Floyd ] (page 1 of 1) Floyd ] Press ESCAPE to return to menu or X to exit. Floyd ] (Press M to turn Book Mode ON.) Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In A Fly on the Wall, or An Appositional Eye, you're represented by Floyd | Goldie, a Fortean Society member tasked with watching five (very Floyd | high-definition) monitors that receive feeds from five paranormal Floyd | hotspots in the Harrison Mansion. You begin in the Soul Dancers Floyd | Ballroom where music is playing, and you're likely to hear other Floyd | sounds throughout your vigil. However, this interpreter can't play the Floyd | audio files. Only a small number of commands are needed to complete Floyd | the game. Typical commands include X (or EXAMINE) [someone or | ||
| Floyd something] (e.g., x nun) and L (or LOOK), which describes your | ||
| Floyd surroundings. Conversation is handled with ASK [someone] ABOUT | ||
| Floyd [someone or something] or TALK TO [someone]. Sometimes the text will | ||
Floyd | suggest actions that you can try. For example, you could try LISTEN TO Floyd | MUSIC or LISTEN when music is playing. Floyd | Floyd | Unconventional commands are needed once Goldie settles in the Fly Eye. Floyd | You can watch a room by typing its monitor number . Use LOOK (or L) Floyd | to turn your attention to all the views, which will help you to decide Floyd | what to watch next. To replay an event after it has played, type Floyd | REPLAY. When you watch an event for the first time, ostensibly Floyd | important events continue to play out in the other rooms, and you Floyd | won't be able to see them. Fortunately, nothing of interest occurs on Floyd | the monitors when you do something other than selecting a feed, such Floyd | as examining or talking. COMMANDS shows many actions recognized by the Floyd | game, and you should check them if you're unfamiliar with commands Floyd | such as SAVE and UNDO. A hypertext version of A Fly on the Wall, or An Floyd | Appositional Eye is available at Floyd | [LINK], as is the original zcode Floyd | version, A Fly on the Wall. Floyd | Floyd | Goldie won't usually offer comments about the on-screen events, but Floyd | you can follow this thought process with THOUGHTS ON (they are off by Floyd | default). Goldie will comment when an event is witnessed that is part Floyd | of one of the storylines. THINK shows Goldie's current thought Floyd | regardless of whether or not thoughts are activated and, if you're Floyd | watching all of the monitors, it will hint at which monitor you might Floyd | want to watch next. REMEMBER shows all the important events you've | ||
| Floyd witnessed, and REMEMBER [a room] shows significant events for a | ||
Floyd | specific room (or person, if you specify one instead).
Floyd |
Floyd | The HELP command always displays this menu. Check out the Help Desk
Floyd | for general tips or the combinations to all three storylines. The
Floyd | staff here at the mansion wishes you a frightfully good evening.
Floyd |
Floyd | ------------------------
| Jacqueline asks, "If your theory about the screen reader mode is correct, perhaps we should activate it to get a description of images that Floyd can't show us?" | |
| DavidW says, "yes, I think so." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] How to watch (for novice and experienced interactive fiction players) Floyd | Press ESCAPE to return to the parent menu or X to exit the menu Floyd | system. Floyd | Press M to turn Book Mode on Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In A Fly on the Wall, or An Appositional Eye, you're represented by Floyd | Goldie, a Fortean Society member tasked with watching five (very Floyd | high-definition) monitors that receive feeds from five paranormal Floyd | hotspots in the Harrison Mansion. You begin in the Soul Dancers Floyd | Ballroom where music is playing, and you're likely to hear other Floyd | sounds throughout your vigil. However, this interpreter can't play the Floyd | audio files. Only a small number of commands are needed to complete Floyd | the game. Typical commands include X (or EXAMINE) [someone or | ||
| Floyd something] (e.g., x nun) and L (or LOOK), which describes your | ||
| Floyd surroundings. Conversation is handled with ASK [someone] ABOUT | ||
| Floyd [someone or something] or TALK TO [someone]. Sometimes the text will | ||
Floyd | suggest actions that you can try. For example, you could try LISTEN TO Floyd | MUSIC or LISTEN when music is playing. Floyd | Floyd | Unconventional commands are needed once Goldie settles in the Fly Eye. Floyd | You can watch a room by typing its monitor number . Use LOOK (or L) Floyd | to turn your attention to all the views, which will help you to decide Floyd | what to watch next. To replay an event after it has played, type Floyd | REPLAY. When you watch an event for the first time, ostensibly Floyd | important events continue to play out in the other rooms, and you Floyd | won't be able to see them. Fortunately, nothing of interest occurs on Floyd | the monitors when you do something other than selecting a feed, such Floyd | as examining or talking. COMMANDS shows many actions recognized by the Floyd | game, and you should check them if you're unfamiliar with commands Floyd | such as SAVE and UNDO. A hypertext version of A Fly on the Wall, or An Floyd | Appositional Eye is available at Floyd | [LINK], as is the original zcode Floyd | version, A Fly on the Wall. Floyd | Floyd | Goldie won't usually offer comments about the on-screen events, but Floyd | you can follow this thought process with THOUGHTS ON (they are off by Floyd | default). Goldie will comment when an event is witnessed that is part Floyd | of one of the storylines. THINK shows Goldie's current thought Floyd | regardless of whether or not thoughts are activated and, if you're Floyd | watching all of the monitors, it will hint at which monitor you might Floyd | want to watch next. REMEMBER shows all the important events you've | ||
| Floyd witnessed, and REMEMBER [a room] shows significant events for a | ||
Floyd | specific room (or person, if you specify one instead). Floyd | Floyd | The HELP command always displays this menu. Check out the Help Desk Floyd | for general tips or the combinations to all three storylines. The Floyd | staff here at the mansion wishes you a frightfully good evening. | Jacqueline says, "Hm." | |
| DavidW says, "Of course, you'll have to be at a normal prompt." | ||
| DavidW says, "We're in menu mode currently." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Do I? It kind of made it sound like it only worked in menu mode, but maybe it just means that's the only place it tells you about the command." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But yeah, that makes sense." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x" | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd | The other members of the Fortean Society of New England — a
Floyd | collection
Floyd | of caricatures, characters, monsters, and myths — mingle in groups in
Floyd | the dimly-lighted ballroom.
Floyd |
Floyd | Type the number of your choice then press "enter" to proceed:
Floyd | 1. Start the game and join the party.
Floyd | 2. Visit the Info Desk, which is recommended for anyone who hasn't
Floyd | played A Fly on the Wall, or An Appositional Eye.
Floyd | 3. Resume a previous surveillance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | A green-skinned man with a stitch across his forehead lumbers toward Floyd | you, two jumper cables swinging from his chest. Frankie bumps into Floyd | Cleopatra standing next to the stage, sending her to the floor and Floyd | knocking the headdress from her head. He extends his hand down to her, Floyd | but she swats it away and glowers. Black Widow, a woman dressed in Floyd | black with a red hourglass symbol on her back, picks up the headdress. Floyd | Cleopatra snatches it back, stands, and returns to her spot beside the Floyd | stage. Floyd | Floyd | Frankie stops in front of you. Are those batteries attached to Floyd | opposite sides of his neck? you wonder. As Frankie speaks, his Floyd | chin taps at the antenna protruding up from your forehead, and his Floyd | breath suffocates your nose with alcohol. "Our whorey sister over Floyd | there has sent me." He gestures erratically behind him. A nun with a Floyd | hunched back bends over the punchbowl by the stage. You think he must Floyd | have said "holy" sister, not "whorey." Floyd | Floyd | The nun straightens and turns around to face you. She rests her cup of Floyd | punch on her pregnant belly. Floyd | Floyd | "She told me it's your turn in the Fly Eye, Goldie," Frankie says. Floyd | Floyd | Goldie? you wonder. My name isn't Goldie. Then you Floyd | realize that, despite the alcoholic soup bathing his brain, Frankie Floyd | connected your costume with the eponymous horror film, Goldie being a Floyd | contraction of its star's surname, Goldblum. Floyd | Floyd | Frankie retreats toward Cleopatra. Arms crossed, she stands firm. Floyd | Frankie stumbles away, passing Black Widow who, head cocked, watches Floyd | Cleopatra. Floyd | Floyd | You glance at the double doors and consider making your exit to the Floyd | Fly Eye, but the nun attracts your attention. She smiles and raises Floyd | her cup in salute. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | The nun waves to you as you begin toward the hall outside. She strides Floyd | off, targeting a man with spiky white hair and wearing a lab coat. The Floyd | scientist takes a few steps back and stares at the floor. Floyd | Floyd | You head out the double doors, descend the stairs, and enter the small Floyd | room nicknamed, for tonight, the Fly Eye. Floyd | Floyd | The wire frames of your wings bend as you gently lean back into the Floyd | only chair in the room. The two floppy legs attached to your belt rise Floyd | as you rest your hands on a table in front of a bank of monitors on Floyd | the wall. The five screens receive signals from cameras in five Floyd | different rooms in the mansion. Normally, these would be used for Floyd | security, but tonight the Society is trying to record footage of the Floyd | supernatural that will raise the eyebrows of even the most stone-faced Floyd | skeptics. While you're hoping to witness such phenomena, following the Floyd | exploits of any one of the costumed characters would probably be more Floyd | interesting, after looking at the screens to decide which captures Floyd | your attention. Floyd | Floyd | The only person you know well is Gregory Hoblett, dressed as the Floyd | Russian mystic and healer Grigori Rasputin, in the Laboratory on Floyd | monitor 3. Everybody in the Society likes Hoblett, unlike Grigori who Floyd | survived a stabbing, possible cyanide poisoning, and two point blank Floyd | gunshots, only to succumb after being shot twice in the back and Floyd | beaten. Floyd | Floyd | The sasquatch chuckles quietly from the playroom on monitor 5, which Floyd | is wired to record the electronic voice phenomena of ghostly children. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm still not sure I turned it on, and now there's a ton to read. Sorry." | |
| Genevieve dies from an onslaught of spam. :-) | ||
| DavidW says, "I think the 's' was interpreted as 'south' there." | ||
| Genevieve says, "This sounds like a really neat game though. And yes, I think it was, too." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay. One sec." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "help" | ||
Floyd ] How to watch (for novice and experienced interactive fiction players) Floyd | Press ESCAPE to return to the parent menu or X to exit the menu Floyd | system. Floyd | Press M to turn Book Mode on Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In A Fly on the Wall, or An Appositional Eye, you're represented by Floyd | Goldie, a Fortean Society member tasked with watching five (very Floyd | high-definition) monitors that receive feeds from five paranormal Floyd | hotspots in the Harrison Mansion. You begin in the Soul Dancers Floyd | Ballroom where music is playing, and you're likely to hear other Floyd | sounds throughout your vigil. However, this interpreter can't play the Floyd | audio files. Only a small number of commands are needed to complete Floyd | the game. Typical commands include X (or EXAMINE) [someone or | ||
| Floyd something] (e.g., x nun) and L (or LOOK), which describes your | ||
| Floyd surroundings. Conversation is handled with ASK [someone] ABOUT | ||
| Floyd [someone or something] or TALK TO [someone]. Sometimes the text will | ||
Floyd | suggest actions that you can try. For example, you could try LISTEN TO Floyd | MUSIC or LISTEN when music is playing. Floyd | Floyd | Unconventional commands are needed once Goldie settles in the Fly Eye. Floyd | You can watch a room by typing its monitor number . Use LOOK (or L) Floyd | to turn your attention to all the views, which will help you to decide Floyd | what to watch next. To replay an event after it has played, type Floyd | REPLAY. When you watch an event for the first time, ostensibly Floyd | important events continue to play out in the other rooms, and you Floyd | won't be able to see them. Fortunately, nothing of interest occurs on Floyd | the monitors when you do something other than selecting a feed, such Floyd | as examining or talking. COMMANDS shows many actions recognized by the Floyd | game, and you should check them if you're unfamiliar with commands Floyd | such as SAVE and UNDO. A hypertext version of A Fly on the Wall, or An Floyd | Appositional Eye is available at Floyd | [LINK], as is the original zcode Floyd | version, A Fly on the Wall. Floyd | Floyd | Goldie won't usually offer comments about the on-screen events, but Floyd | you can follow this thought process with THOUGHTS ON (they are off by Floyd | default). Goldie will comment when an event is witnessed that is part Floyd | of one of the storylines. THINK shows Goldie's current thought Floyd | regardless of whether or not thoughts are activated and, if you're Floyd | watching all of the monitors, it will hint at which monitor you might Floyd | want to watch next. REMEMBER shows all the important events you've | ||
| Floyd witnessed, and REMEMBER [a room] shows significant events for a | ||
Floyd | specific room (or person, if you specify one instead). Floyd | Floyd | The HELP command always displays this menu. Check out the Help Desk Floyd | for general tips or the combinations to all three storylines. The Floyd | staff here at the mansion wishes you a frightfully good evening. | DavidW asks, "And we don't have any way to tell Floyd we pressed an Escape key, do we?" | |
| Jacqueline sighs. | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "What should we do? Restart and try to activate S from the front page of the menu system? Or just play?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "q" | ||
Floyd ] How to watch (for novice and experienced interactive fiction players) | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] How to watch (for novice and experienced interactive fiction players) | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | (1) Soul Dancers Ballroom: Cleopatra stomps over to where her Floyd | headdress had lain, picks something up, and tries to re-affix it to Floyd | her headgear. Black Widow rushes over to the side of the stage and Floyd | bends into the shadows. Was Cleopatra hiding something? you Floyd | wonder. Floyd | Floyd | (2) Communications: Vacant. Floyd | Floyd | (3) Laboratory: Rasputin, bloody axe in one hand, rummages through a Floyd | chest as someone you don't know, a medicine man, studies his face in a Floyd | mirror. Floyd | Floyd | (4) Alien Zoo: Vacant. Floyd | Floyd | (5) Children's Possessions Playroom: The sasquatch smiles as the Floyd | leprechaun tries to lift a gold dinner plate from a small table. You Floyd | wonder whether the leprechaun will play any tricks tonight. Floyd | Floyd | Below the pentagon of screens, "Abracadabra" plays on a laptop, which Floyd | shows an open web browser. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I no longer know where the S should be typed." | |
| Genevieve exclaims, "Have to go. Good luck!" | ||
| Genevieve, apparently having had enough of public life, disappears back to her Parisian retreat. | DavidW says, "I think we should at least try to soldier on, but it might be a losing battle. :)" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Okay." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I think I finally (really belatedly) caught the Goldie reference." | ||
| DavidW says, "I didn't understand it." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "I think it's a reference to Jeff Goldblum as The Fly?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Maybe?" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh. okay." | ||
| DavidW says, "I know there's a movie called The Fly and I know that Jeff Goldblum is a movie actor." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "browse web" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > BROWSE WEB Floyd | Floyd | Focus on the cameras, you think. I don't want to miss Floyd | anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You're dressed completely in black, including leather gloves and a Floyd | hoody, its hood hiding your hair but not your forehead, from which a Floyd | paper towel roll wrapped in a black sock points like a unicorn horn. Floyd | Two more of these appendages are stuck to your belt, each attached by Floyd | a length of string to the arm above. Oval wire scaffolds covered in Floyd | plastic wrap protrude from your back. Your mobile phone is tucked Floyd | under your belt. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x phone" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X PHONE Floyd | Floyd | It's stuffed behind your belt; you don't want to think about where Floyd | some of the other society members with the most extravagant costumes Floyd | are holding theirs. For the next hour, though, your attention is Floyd | focused strictly on the monitors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x 1" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X 1 Floyd | Floyd | As events on the other monitors unfold, you watch: Floyd | Floyd | Soul Dancers Ballroom (second floor, east wing) Floyd | (watch all monitors) Floyd | Floyd | Cleopatra slaps the headdress onto her head and, noticing Black Widow, Floyd | strides over to the crouching woman. Jerking her head up, Black Widow Floyd | teeters on her feet and almost falls over. She rises and backs away Floyd | from the other woman. Floyd | Floyd | Several of the guests watch as the spider and queen exchange words. Floyd | Black widow shakes her head and holds up her empty hands. Cleopatra's Floyd | shoulders lower, and her hands fall to her sides. Black Widow walks Floyd | away, shaking her head. Floyd | Floyd | Cleopatra pulls a bulky bag from the shadow beside the stage. She Floyd | looks inside the bag, hefts it over her shoulder, and leaves the room. Floyd | Floyd | The voices of the leprechaun and sasquatch play from the playroom Floyd | feed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "This feels really deja vu-ey (she typed, without the accents in deja, for those who don't have the proper encoding enabled)." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | [Sound effect number 4 here.] Floyd | The door behind you creaks. You whirl around. The door is still, still Floyd | in the position you left it. You think it is, anyway. You stand and Floyd | swing the door, but it doesn't make a sound. Hearing "Superstitious" Floyd | playing from the laptop, you return to your seat. Floyd | Floyd | The leprechaun speaks: "I'd be more scared if you showed up in my Floyd | house." A pause and he continues, "Guess you should have taken it easy Floyd | on the cabbage and beans at dinner." Floyd | Floyd | "No way, man. Didn't you smell that when we came in? It's all over Floyd | this room." That sounded like the sasquatch. Floyd | Floyd | The leprechaun says, "Someone's coming. Go out there and bring our Floyd | friend in." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm so confused." | |
| Jacqueline says, "And parts of this feel really procedurally-generated." | ||
| DavidW says, "Yes, that seems very likely." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But I'm pretty sure they're not." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Why so?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Because I also have the game running offline." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And it's the same." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I can't recall what this is remidning me of, but it's really reminding me of some other IF game." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Switch to looking at the monitor where the leprechaun is?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Suspended?" | ||
| BrianK arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x 5" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X 5 Floyd | Floyd | Remembering that something could be happening on the other screens, Floyd | you watch: Floyd | Floyd | Children's Possessions Playroom (main floor, west wing) Floyd | (watch all monitors) Floyd | Floyd | The sasquatch enters with one hairy arm wrapped around Rasputin's Floyd | shoulders. A toy clown sitting near the door behind them leans over. Floyd | Suddenly, a black-and-white blur darts from behind the clown and out Floyd | the door. Floyd | Floyd | Rasputin pulls away from the sasquatch. He takes in the shelves of Floyd | staring dolls and puppets. He chokes, and his face blanches. Floyd | Floyd | The sasquatch doesn't seem to notice Rasputin's distress. "Pretty Floyd | impressive collection, huh? You should see what's in that toybox." Floyd | Floyd | Rasputin glances at the chest just as the leprechaun pops out of it. Floyd | Rasputin screams and falls back into the sasquatch's arms. Floyd | Floyd | You're surprised the shriek didn't shatter the monitor's screen. Floyd | Floyd | The leprechaun climbs out of the toybox. "You seem a bit on edge." He Floyd | laughs. Floyd | Floyd | "Do you guys know what happened in here?" Rasputin says. Floyd | Floyd | "Why don't you tell us what you've heard," the sasquatch says as he Floyd | steadies Rasputin's wobbly stance. Floyd | Floyd | Rasputin watches the dolls as he speaks. "Wayne Harrison was having a Floyd | birthday party for his twin daughters in this room. They had cake and Floyd | drinks." His voice lowers. "Most of the kids died. Right here. The Floyd | twins, too. Poisoned. People suspected Wayne's chauffeur, who was Floyd | never charged. He was going to be fired for gambling and . . . doing Floyd | inappropriate things in front of the kids. His son didn't get sick. Floyd | That's why . . . ". Floyd | Floyd | "This place is haunted," the sasquatch says. Floyd | Floyd | The leprechaun picks up a child-sized doll with red hair and a white Floyd | dress. Wailing like a ghost, he shakes it at Rasputin. The mystic Floyd | rushes out the door. The leprechaun grins broadly. "We can have some Floyd | fun with this." He carries the doll out of the room with him, and the Floyd | sasquatch follows, shaking his head. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Geezus, this game is textdumpy." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "I suppose we can soon pick them up on another monitor?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | [Sound effect number 5 here.] Floyd | Something thumps onto the hallway floor. On instinct, you pull your Floyd | phone from your pocket and look out the door. The guestbook has fallen Floyd | from the table in the lobby. You wait but don't detect anyone, so you Floyd | return to your chair and tuck away the phone as you hear "I don't like Floyd | spiders and snakes, and that ain't what it takes to love me" from the Floyd | laptop. Floyd | Floyd | (1) Soul Dancers Ballroom: Some guests mingle at the refreshment Floyd | table. Floyd | Floyd | (2) Communications: The medicine man enters, stops at a mirror, and Floyd | stares into his contorted reflection. Floyd | Floyd | (3) Laboratory: Cleopatra enters, drops her bag next to a chest, and Floyd | unpacks some whips. Floyd | Floyd | (4) Alien Zoo: The sasquatch appears and positions himself in the Floyd | doorway, while the leprechaun passes him and searches the exhibits Floyd | with the red-haired doll tucked under his arm. Floyd | Floyd | (5) Children's Possessions Playroom: Vacant. Floyd | Floyd | Below the pentagon of screens, "Spiders and Snakes" plays on the Floyd | laptop, which shows an open web browser. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Possibly." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Sound effect 5 is really anti-climatic" | ||
| DavidW says, "I feel very ungrounded in this game." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "What do you mean?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't really know who I am, where I am, what's around me, why I'm here." | ||
| DavidW says, "Or what I'm supposed to do besides look and listen." | ||
| Amber says, "I feel that way all the time." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I think we are watching a party that is being held in a mansion that is allegedly haunted, and we are supposed to be watching for supernatural phenomenon." | ||
| Jacqueline smiles at Amber. | ||
| Amber says, "I'm rooting for sasquatch." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x 4" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X 4 Floyd | Floyd | Alien Zoo (second floor, north wing) Floyd | (watch all monitors) Floyd | Floyd | The leprechaun stops in front of some rope hanging between two Floyd | stanchions, which have been pushed up against the far wall to allow Floyd | greater access to the collections. He unhinges one end of the rope and Floyd | begins to wrap it around the doll's neck. Floyd | Floyd | The sasquatch steps back from the door, nodding at a devil in a hockey Floyd | jersey entering the room. The two speak. The sasquatch addresses the Floyd | leprechaun. Scowling, the leprechaun unwinds the rope from the doll. Floyd | He slaps the freed end into the devil's hand then rushes out the door, Floyd | his hairy friend following behind. Floyd | Floyd | Something snaps and cracks behind you. You spin around. A black cat Floyd | with a white stripe down its back tears at a rat on the floor. The cat Floyd | discards its prey, leaps onto your lap, and settles. It purrs loudly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Amber asks, "Is it Pepe Le Pew?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I had that thought. Or his actually-a-cat counterpart. I hesitate to call her a girlfriend, as it never, ever seemed consensual." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | The laptop below the screens plays a song you recognize: "You Can Do Floyd | Magic." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | The laptop below the screens plays a song you recognize: "You Can Do Floyd | Magic." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, that bit is evidently random. I'm going to shut down my off-line version." | |
| DavidW says, "Maybe this game is like Moonmist with near-identical setups for four possible stories." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Is there another IF game where you're watching cameras?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I guess there probably is." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x cat" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X CAT Floyd | Floyd | The stripe runs from the cat's neck to the base of its tail. It's a Floyd | straight line, and the intensity of the white color is uniform all Floyd | along the cat's back. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Well, there's Jota's "Practical Astrology"." | |
| DavidW says, "I think there's also a game set in a spaceship that's being invaded by pirates." | ||
| Amber says, "Ice Pirates? That movie was horrible." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | (1) Soul Dancers Ballroom: Without her bag, Cleopatra enters, stops Floyd | near the stage, and searches the crowd. Floyd | Floyd | (2) Communications: The medicine man pokes at a chandelier with his Floyd | staff. The leprechaun, doll in hand, and sasquatch arrive. They look Floyd | at the witch doctor then up at the fixture. Floyd | Floyd | (3) Laboratory: Vacant. Floyd | Floyd | (4) Alien Zoo: A bald man dressed completely in black enters. The MIB Floyd | stares down through sunglasses at the devil, who steps back, rope Floyd | dangling from his hand. Floyd | Floyd | (5) Children's Possessions Playroom: Vacant. Floyd | Floyd | Below the pentagon of screens, America is playing "You Can Do Magic" Floyd | on the laptop, which shows an open web browser, and the cat purrs on Floyd | your lap. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Unless someone has another idea, I'm going to just watch all the monitors for a bit." | |
| DavidW says, "hm. My thought was that we might have to pick one person to follow, and replay per character, to get some sort of sense of what everyone's story is." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I was thinking watch them all, then restart and pick one." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X Floyd | Floyd | You figure any of the five haunted hotspots on the monitors are worth Floyd | investigation. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Sure. It's a plan." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | (1) Soul Dancers Ballroom: Without her bag, Cleopatra continues to Floyd | study the guests. Floyd | Floyd | (2) Communications: The medicine man pokes at a chandelier with his Floyd | staff. The leprechaun, doll in hand, and sasquatch watch him. Floyd | Floyd | (3) Laboratory: Vacant. Floyd | Floyd | (4) Alien Zoo: The devil tries to look beyond the MIB and out the Floyd | door. Floyd | Floyd | (5) Children's Possessions Playroom: Vacant. Floyd | Floyd | Below the pentagon of screens, America is playing "You Can Do Magic" Floyd | on the laptop, which shows an open web browser, and the cat purrs on Floyd | your lap. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | Focus on the cameras, you think. I don't want to miss Floyd | anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | (1) Soul Dancers Ballroom: Without her bag, Cleopatra continues to Floyd | study the guests. Floyd | Floyd | (2) Communications: The medicine man pokes at a chandelier with his Floyd | staff. The leprechaun, doll in hand, and sasquatch watch him. Floyd | Floyd | (3) Laboratory: Vacant. Floyd | Floyd | (4) Alien Zoo: The devil tries to look beyond the MIB and out the Floyd | door. Floyd | Floyd | (5) Children's Possessions Playroom: Vacant. Floyd | Floyd | Below the pentagon of screens, America is playing "You Can Do Magic" Floyd | on the laptop, which shows an open web browser, and the cat purrs on Floyd | your lap. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | (1) Soul Dancers Ballroom: Without her bag, Cleopatra continues to Floyd | study the guests. Floyd | Floyd | (2) Communications: The medicine man pokes at a chandelier with his Floyd | staff. The leprechaun, doll in hand, and sasquatch watch him. Floyd | Floyd | (3) Laboratory: Vacant. Floyd | Floyd | (4) Alien Zoo: The devil tries to look beyond the MIB and out the Floyd | door. Floyd | Floyd | (5) Children's Possessions Playroom: Vacant. Floyd | Floyd | Below the pentagon of screens, America is playing "You Can Do Magic" Floyd | on the laptop, which shows an open web browser, and the cat purrs on Floyd | your lap. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "No change?" | |
| DavidW says, "Perhaps events don't progress without watching." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Who would you, the David, like to watch?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I think the HELP said that no time progressed when we did L." | ||
| DavidW says, "hmm. I think the leprechaun." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x 2" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X 2 Floyd | Floyd | Communications (second floor, west wing) Floyd | (watch all monitors) Floyd | Floyd | Something is different about the room . . . The lighting has dimmed, Floyd | and shadows shroud the corners. Floyd | Floyd | The sasquatch and leprechaun turn to each other, and the sasquatch Floyd | shrugs. The leprechaun speaks to the medicine man, who glances at the Floyd | red-haired doll as he listens. He points at the door. Smiling, the Floyd | leprechaun leads the sasquatch out of the room. Floyd | Floyd | The medicine man touches his staff to the bottom of the chandelier as Floyd | the white-haired scientist arrives. The scientist smiles and speaks. Floyd | The medicine man nods then lowers his staff. He speaks. The scientist Floyd | nods then begins to pull a liquor bottle with a ribbon around its neck Floyd | out of his pocket, but the medicine man stops him. The scientist Floyd | glances at the camera, and the medicine man gestures at the door with Floyd | his staff. They leave together. Floyd | Floyd | A shadow is cast over you. You swivel around. Frankie's bulk crowds Floyd | the tiny room. He considers the cat then looks up to you. His grin is Floyd | crooked. "What's new, pussycat?" he says. He laughs then starts Floyd | humming the eponymous Tom Jones song before turning to the monitors. Floyd | He tries to focus on the monitored characters. Floyd | Floyd | > | Amber asks, "What's the NJ devil up to?" | |
| DavidW says, "I wonder if it's possible to close the door and keep cats and Frankies out." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "close door" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > CLOSE DOOR Floyd | Floyd | The door remains silent as you swing it. You leave it open; you don't Floyd | want anything in your way if something happens out in the hall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x frankie" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X FRANKIE Floyd | Floyd | Reanimation, apparently achieved by shocking one's heart through Floyd | jumper cables attached to the chest, has turned Frankie's face green Floyd | and tore his shirt and jeans, and the brain transplant has left a Floyd | nasty black stitch across his forehead. Given the way Frankie has been Floyd | stumbling around the party, maybe it's time to hook up those batteries Floyd | attached to his neck because he definitely isn't fully charged. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to frankie" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO FRANKIE Floyd | Floyd | "So, have you seen anything unusual tonight?" you say. Floyd | Floyd | "You mean besides the fact that Bigfoot is wandering the halls?" Floyd | Frankie regards the cat. "And there's a giant skunk sitting on a fly's Floyd | lap?" Floyd | Floyd | The cat hisses, jumps to the floor, and runs out the door. Floyd | Floyd | "Sorry, pussy," Frankie says. "You don't smell as bad!" His voice Floyd | booms in the small room. "What was your question again?" Floyd | Floyd | "Have you seen anything creepy tonight. Supernatural." Floyd | Floyd | "Like ghosts? That's crap. It never hurts to be careful, though. We're Floyd | all targets thanks to the Greada Treaty that Eisenhower signed with Floyd | the grays. Human experiments for alien technology. I've seen them all. Floyd | The Nordics. Arcturians. Reptilians." Floyd | Floyd | "How do you know I'm not one of them?" Floyd | Floyd | He smiles. "They're cold blooded. You're hot." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "..." | |
| DavidW says, "I'm gonna assume the cat is causing the supernatural stuff." | ||
| DavidW says, "(whatever it's supposed to be)" | ||
| Amber says, "I'll go with that theory for now." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Um, okay." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It's all that other stuff that had me going '..." | ||
| DavidW says, "If Frankie is to be believed, this is a world with gray aliens." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk about aliens" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK ABOUT ALIENS Floyd | Floyd | "I'm beyond being able to talk about that," Frankie says then burps. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask frankie about aliens" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRANKIE ABOUT ALIENS Floyd | Floyd | "I'm beyond being able to talk about that," Frankie says then burps. Floyd | Floyd | > | Amber says, "They've gotten to Frankie." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I thought it said both types of discussion work. Anyway." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to frankie" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO FRANKIE Floyd | Floyd | "It looks like we need to keep an eye on the leprechaun," you say. Floyd | Floyd | "I wouldn't trust Lucky Charms as far as I could toss —" Frankie Floyd | attempts a swing of his arms and teeters on his feet. "He's trying to Floyd | scare us with that stupid doll, but I'm too smart for that." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Doesn't mean they have oodles of topics supported." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x 2" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X 2 Floyd | Floyd | Communications (second floor, west wing) Floyd | (watch all monitors) Floyd | Floyd | Black Widow appears and pulls Rasputin through the doorway to join Floyd | her. She notices a curtained off area at the far end of the room. Floyd | Passing between tables, she approaches it and pulls back the curtains, Floyd | revealing a set of audio equipment. Fiddling with the stereo, she says Floyd | something and gestures for Rasputin to join her. Floyd | Floyd | Rasputin takes a deep breath, rubs his palms on his pants, and makes Floyd | his way over to Black Widow. She points at a knot of cables snaking Floyd | from the equipment to a dark corner behind some speakers. Rasputin Floyd | hesitates then reaches into the darkness. Suddenly, he flings his arm Floyd | back and stumbles backward. With wide eyes, he rubs his hand and Floyd | speaks. Floyd | Floyd | Black Widow frowns and inspects Rasputin's hand. She shrugs. She Floyd | attempts to look behind the speaker, but Rasputin stops her with a Floyd | hand to her shoulder. Smiling, she shakes her head then bends over Floyd | into the darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The leprechaun, without the doll, steps through the doorway, the Floyd | sasquatch following behind him. They move aside as Black Widow, head Floyd | shaking, leads the trembling Rasputin out the door. As she exits, the Floyd | scientist appears in the doorway with a bottle. Rasputin snatches it Floyd | from his hand and takes a swig. He pauses and does it again. Nodding, Floyd | he returns the bottle, and the two men leave. Floyd | Floyd | The sasquatch follows the grinning leprechaun to the doorway where Floyd | they stop and look into the hall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Rasputin will die." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Communications (second floor, west wing) Floyd | (watch all monitors) Floyd | Floyd | The leprechaun and sasquatch look out the door and into the hall. The Floyd | grin falters on the leprechaun's face. He scowls and leaves the room, Floyd | the sasquatch trailing. Floyd | Floyd | The chandelier shakes. Tick one box on the "haunted house" Floyd | checklist: shaking chandelier, you think. Floyd | Floyd | Beneath, the room is filled with not only the tools of Floyd | transcommunication, such as ouija boards and sound trumpets, but also Floyd | the tricks of the trade, such as ectoplasmic cheesecloth and wobbly Floyd | furniture. Floyd | Floyd | Your interpreter doesn't support sound reproduction. Floyd | Your interpreter doesn't support sound reproduction. Floyd | Your interpreter doesn't support sound reproduction. Floyd | A high-pitched scream pierces the Fly Eye. That was from somewhere Floyd | upstairs. Floyd | Floyd | Static bursts from the playroom. Are children giggling? Floyd | Floyd | "Gotta check that out," Frankie says before lumbering away. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, maybe you were thinking of The Colonel's Bequest earlier, with all the looking through portrait eyes at various tableaus." | |
| Amber says, "I SAID..." | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Maybe?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm assuming that we just missed a high-pitched scream sound effect and that I am glad I shut this game down on my computer." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | Despite the static, you can hear the laptop playing "Clap for the Floyd | Wolfman." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x chandelier" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHANDELIER Floyd | Floyd | It's a fixture with lots of dangly glass bits for maximum jangling and Floyd | clattering. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Yes, that's what a chandelier is for: the jangling." | |
| Roger exclaims, "Well, when you're faking supernatural stuff, maybe!" | ||
| DavidW says, "Hard to tell if it's fake yet. There's hardly been anything." | ||
| Amber asks, "This isn't going to be like every episode of Scooby Doo is it?" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at Amber), "I'd have gotten away with it, too, if you hadn't pointed it out! You meddling kid!" | ||
| DavidW says, "But yeah, there could've been an invisible thread pulling the chandelier, then one end let go so the thread can be pulled away entirely, leaving no trace." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | (1) Soul Dancers Ballroom: Cleopatra rushes out. She returns holding Floyd | up a man with white hair and a cape. The two stumble forward, and the Floyd | man slumps to the floor. Floyd | Floyd | (2) Communications: Vacant. Floyd | Floyd | (3) Laboratory: Vacant. Floyd | Floyd | (4) Alien Zoo: The medicine man talks to someone through the doorway. Floyd | Floyd | (5) Children's Possessions Playroom: The footage is a blur of color. Floyd | Children seem to giggle in the static of the monitor's tiny speaker. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I am still having the super heavy deja vu thing." | |
| DavidW says, "If I was a ghost, I'd hope I'd find something better to do than push a chandelier." | ||
| Amber says, "Dance in the punch bowl." | ||
| DavidW says, "I could go to Vegas and watch a comedy/music show." | ||
| DavidW says, "I could audit all sorts of classes." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "There'll be time enough for that when you're dead." | ||
| DavidW says, "Well, I'm assuming I'm dead if I'm a shost." | ||
| DavidW says, "er ghost" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That... was kind of my joke." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x 1" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > X 1 Floyd | Floyd | Your interpreter doesn't support sound reproduction. Floyd | Soul Dancers Ballroom (second floor, east wing) Floyd | (watch all monitors) Floyd | Floyd | Cleopatra steps back. The arms of the fallen man spasm, fingers Floyd | covered in rings. It's Greg in his Rasputin costume. Except for that Floyd | spiked white hair. He lies prone with his cape flat on his back. Two Floyd | red holes are punched into the black fabric. Floyd | Floyd | Guests gather around your fallen friend. Several of them grab their Floyd | cell phones. Some take pictures while others make calls. The nun bends Floyd | down and touches the holes in Greg's cape. She rubs her fingers Floyd | together and shakes her head. Black Widow helps Frankie turn Greg onto Floyd | his back. His face is almost as white as his hair. The nun starts the Floyd | chest compressions for cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Cleopatra Floyd | watches with a concerned look. Floyd | Floyd | A tall woman wearing a white dress and tiara takes the hand of a Floyd | suited man in a top hat. They swirl and step around the crowd. Floyd | Floyd | Someone stomps toward the door to the Fly Eye. Floyd | Floyd | Press a key to whirl around and face the door. | DavidW asks, "Rasputin is dead alright, but not from his drink?" | |
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Press a key to whirl around and face the door. Floyd | Your interpreter doesn't support sound reproduction. Floyd | A doll the size of a small girl is sitting on the floor next to the Floyd | door and with the black-and-white cat covering her lap. She smiles a Floyd | black line under red freckles. She shakes as the cat raises its head Floyd | and Frankie stomps into the room. The doll begins saying "Mama . . . Floyd | mama . . . mama . . . Floyd | Floyd | Frankie's voice booms. "We have a problem. Everyone's meeting in the Floyd | ballroom." Floyd | Floyd | Press a key to follow Frankie out. | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd | Press a key to follow Frankie out.
Floyd | Outside the mansion, paramedics lift Greg into an ambulance. The
Floyd | resuscitation attempts by the nun may have saved his life. But from
Floyd | what? you know Greg wasn't shot. The bullet holes in the cape were
Floyd | part of the Rasputin costume, and Greg had no visible wounds.
Floyd |
Floyd | Everyone seems to have gathered around the lights cast by the mansion
Floyd | and its exterior lamps. Black Widow and Cleopatra, both in tears, tell
Floyd | their stories to a police officer. The medicine man places his staff
Floyd | into the trunk of a car before finding the scientist. They talk and
Floyd | wait. The leprechaun watches the paramedics, but the sasquatch stares
Floyd | at the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | Someone is missing, though . . . You don't see the man in black.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ambulance drives away. Cleopatra points at you, and the officer
Floyd | she was talking to nods. It's time to tell your story, but you can't
Floyd | make any reasonable connections between what happened to Greg and what
Floyd | you saw on the monitors. Maybe the events would have come together
Floyd | more clearly had you watched from a different perspective.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | *** There are three different interpretations of Greg's
Floyd | fate, each dependent upon which character you decide to follow when
Floyd | you settle in the Fly Eye. You didn't follow any of them during your
Floyd | vigil. You witnessed one of the five phenomena occurring tonight that
Floyd | are typically reported as hauntings. You decide how much influence, if
Floyd | any, it had on the night's events.
Floyd | ** ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the
Floyd | last command?
Floyd | >
| Roger says, "hunh" | |
| Amber says, "This is like Ghost Hunters, maybe." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "I have about a half an hour. Want to play again and follow one person? If so, who?" | ||
| DavidW says, "If Rasputin/Greg is destined to be a victim, follow him." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your interpreter doesn't support volume control. Floyd | Your interpreter doesn't support volume control. Floyd | Your interpreter doesn't support volume control. Floyd | Your interpreter doesn't support volume control. Floyd | A sasquatch bends down before a leprechaun, who pulls a gold coin from Floyd | behind the beast's ear. Chuckling, the sasquatch takes the treasure Floyd | and places it onto a table as the leprechaun speaks to him. With a Floyd | shake of the head, he follows his fellow conspirator through a tangle Floyd | of costumed guests and out of the ballroom. Floyd | Floyd | A pirate wobbles his way to the gold, a wooden prosthesis attached to Floyd | one knee, a plush toucan on his shoulder bobbing as if it were keeping Floyd | time with the music. the pirate retrieves the coin, scowls, and peels Floyd | away the bright gold foil. Eating the chocolate and blinking his Floyd | unpatched eye in the dim light, he watches the other members of the Floyd | Fortean Society — a collection of caricatures, characters, monsters, Floyd | and myths — mingle in the Soul Dancers ballroom. Floyd | Floyd | A Fly on the Wall, or An Appositional Eye Interactive Floyd | Apposition by Nigel Jayne. Release 1. Floyd | Copyright © 2017 by Nigel Jayne. The license is under a Creative Floyd | Commons attribution, CC BY-NC 4.0 [LINK]Floyd | Serial number 170405 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib 6/12N) . Floyd | Floyd | Type the number of your choice then press "enter" to proceed: Floyd | 1. Start the game and join the party. Floyd | 2. Visit the Info Desk, which is recommended for anyone who hasn't Floyd | played A Fly on the Wall, or An Appositional Eye. Floyd | 3. Resume a previous surveillance. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I am going to try the screen reader thing one more time." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] HELP MENU Floyd ] Press a number to choose an option or Floyd ] ESCAPE or X to exit. Floyd ] (Press M to turn Book Mode ON.) Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | (If you're using a screen reader, press S to turn on Screen Reader Floyd | mode. This message only appears on the front page of the menu system.) Floyd | Floyd | 1. How to watch (for novice and experienced interactive fiction Floyd | players) Floyd | 2. Set Audio and Goldie's Thoughts Floyd | 3. Help Desk Floyd | 4. Acknowledgements Floyd | 5. About the Author | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "S" | ||
Floyd ] HELP MENU Floyd | (Screen Reader mode is on. Press S at any time to turn it off again. Floyd | This message only appears on the front page of the menu system.) Floyd | Press a number to choose an option or ESCAPE or X to exit the menu Floyd | system. Floyd | Press M to turn Book Mode on Floyd | Floyd | 1. How to watch (for novice and experienced interactive fiction Floyd | players). 2. Set Audio and Goldie's Thoughts. 3. Help Desk. 4. Floyd | Acknowledgements. 5. About the Author. | Jacqueline says, "Oh." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] How to watch (for novice and experienced interactive fiction players) Floyd | Press ESCAPE to return to the parent menu or X to exit the menu Floyd | system. Floyd | Press M to turn Book Mode on Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In A Fly on the Wall, or An Appositional Eye, you're represented by Floyd | Goldie, a Fortean Society member tasked with watching five (very Floyd | high-definition) monitors that receive feeds from five paranormal Floyd | hotspots in the Harrison Mansion. You begin in the Soul Dancers Floyd | Ballroom where music is playing, and you're likely to hear other Floyd | sounds throughout your vigil. However, this interpreter can't play the Floyd | audio files. Only a small number of commands are needed to complete Floyd | the game. Typical commands include X (or EXAMINE) [someone or | ||
| Floyd something] (e.g., x nun) and L (or LOOK), which describes your | ||
| Floyd surroundings. Conversation is handled with ASK [someone] ABOUT | ||
| Floyd [someone or something] or TALK TO [someone]. Sometimes the text will | ||
Floyd | suggest actions that you can try. For example, you could try LISTEN TO Floyd | MUSIC or LISTEN when music is playing. Floyd | Floyd | Unconventional commands are needed once Goldie settles in the Fly Eye. Floyd | You can watch a room by typing its monitor number . Use LOOK (or L) Floyd | to turn your attention to all the views, which will help you to decide Floyd | what to watch next. To replay an event after it has played, type Floyd | REPLAY. When you watch an event for the first time, ostensibly Floyd | important events continue to play out in the other rooms, and you Floyd | won't be able to see them. Fortunately, nothing of interest occurs on Floyd | the monitors when you do something other than selecting a feed, such Floyd | as examining or talking. COMMANDS shows many actions recognized by the Floyd | game, and you should check them if you're unfamiliar with commands Floyd | such as SAVE and UNDO. A hypertext version of A Fly on the Wall, or An Floyd | Appositional Eye is available at Floyd | [LINK], as is the original zcode Floyd | version, A Fly on the Wall. Floyd | Floyd | Goldie won't usually offer comments about the on-screen events, but Floyd | you can follow this thought process with THOUGHTS ON (they are off by Floyd | default). Goldie will comment when an event is witnessed that is part Floyd | of one of the storylines. THINK shows Goldie's current thought Floyd | regardless of whether or not thoughts are activated and, if you're Floyd | watching all of the monitors, it will hint at which monitor you might Floyd | want to watch next. REMEMBER shows all the important events you've | ||
| Floyd witnessed, and REMEMBER [a room] shows significant events for a | ||
Floyd | specific room (or person, if you specify one instead). Floyd | Floyd | The HELP command always displays this menu. Check out the Help Desk Floyd | for general tips or the combinations to all three storylines. The Floyd | staff here at the mansion wishes you a frightfully good evening. | Jacqueline says, "I'd forgotten about replay." | |
| Roger says, "She's pretty fly for a fly eye" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "4" | ||
Floyd ] How to watch (for novice and experienced interactive fiction players) | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] How to watch (for novice and experienced interactive fiction players) | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x" | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd | The other members of the Fortean Society of New England — a
Floyd | collection
Floyd | of caricatures, characters, monsters, and myths — mingle in groups in
Floyd | the dimly-lighted ballroom.
Floyd |
Floyd | Type the number of your choice then press "enter" to proceed:
Floyd | 1. Start the game and join the party.
Floyd | 2. Visit the Info Desk, which is recommended for anyone who hasn't
Floyd | played A Fly on the Wall, or An Appositional Eye.
Floyd | 3. Resume a previous surveillance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "Weird." | |
| Jacqueline shrugs. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | A green-skinned man with a stitch across his forehead lumbers toward Floyd | you, two jumper cables swinging from his chest. Frankie bumps into Floyd | Cleopatra standing next to the stage, sending her to the floor and Floyd | knocking the headdress from her head. He extends his hand down to her, Floyd | but she swats it away and glowers. Black Widow, a woman dressed in Floyd | black with a red hourglass symbol on her back, picks up the headdress. Floyd | Cleopatra snatches it back, stands, and returns to her spot beside the Floyd | stage. Floyd | Floyd | Frankie stops in front of you. Are those batteries attached to Floyd | opposite sides of his neck? you wonder. As Frankie speaks, his Floyd | chin taps at the antenna protruding up from your forehead, and his Floyd | breath suffocates your nose with alcohol. "Our whorey sister over Floyd | there has sent me." He gestures erratically behind him. A nun with a Floyd | hunched back bends over the punchbowl by the stage. You think he must Floyd | have said "holy" sister, not "whorey." Floyd | Floyd | The nun straightens and turns around to face you. She rests her cup of Floyd | punch on her pregnant belly. Floyd | Floyd | "She told me it's your turn in the Fly Eye, Goldie," Frankie says. Floyd | Floyd | Goldie? you wonder. My name isn't Goldie. Then you Floyd | realize that, despite the alcoholic soup bathing his brain, Frankie Floyd | connected your costume with the eponymous horror film, Goldie being a Floyd | contraction of its star's surname, Goldblum. Floyd | Floyd | Frankie retreats toward Cleopatra. Arms crossed, she stands firm. Floyd | Frankie stumbles away, passing Black Widow who, head cocked, watches Floyd | Cleopatra. Floyd | Floyd | You glance at the double doors and consider making your exit to the Floyd | Fly Eye, but the nun attracts your attention. She smiles and raises Floyd | her cup in salute. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to nun" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO NUN Floyd | Floyd | The nun sips from her punch as you approach. Floyd | Floyd | "So, did you see anything good on your watch?" you say to the nun. Floyd | Floyd | She rests her cup on her belly. "I did hear some odd sounds out in the Floyd | hall, but that's about it. But there's always something going on with Floyd | this bunch." She gestures her cup at the guests. "I'd keep an eye on Floyd | them, if I were you." She laughs. Floyd | Floyd | Most of the guests have congregated into small groups in which someone Floyd | — or something — tries to talk over the music. Holographic dancers Floyd | materialize momentarily to dip, spin, and swing their partners next to Floyd | the corporeal partygoers before disappearing to continue their dance Floyd | in the ethereal. You thought that Robin Hood was up on the stage, but Floyd | the flute hanging from his neck suggests that instead he is the Pied Floyd | Piper of Hamelin, playing his enchantment. Black Widow watches Floyd | Cleopatra stand guard over a shadowed area next to the stage and Floyd | uncomfortably close to a pair of stacked speakers. Cutlass in one Floyd | wobbly hand, Frankie spars with an invisible foe as the pirate tries Floyd | to get his weapon back. The nun smiles at you from the refreshment Floyd | table along one wall. You suppose it may be time to make your exit and Floyd | take your shift in the Fly Eye. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I wonder if you can avoid being in the Fly Eye the whole game." | |
| DavidW says, "hm. Dunno." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to cleopatra" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CLEOPATRA Floyd | Floyd | She doesn't seem to be in the mood for talking. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Events might not progress otherwise." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to black widow" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO BLACK WIDOW Floyd | Floyd | She seems more intent on studying Cleopatra. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I swear I've played this before. This is so weird." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | The nun waves to you as you begin toward the hall outside. She strides Floyd | off, targeting a man with spiky white hair and wearing a lab coat. The Floyd | scientist takes a few steps back and stares at the floor. Floyd | Floyd | You head out the double doors, descend the stairs, and enter the small Floyd | room nicknamed, for tonight, the Fly Eye. Floyd | Floyd | The wire frames of your wings bend as you gently lean back into the Floyd | only chair in the room. The two floppy legs attached to your belt rise Floyd | as you rest your hands on a table in front of a bank of monitors on Floyd | the wall. The five screens receive signals from cameras in five Floyd | different rooms in the mansion. Normally, these would be used for Floyd | security, but tonight the Society is trying to record footage of the Floyd | supernatural that will raise the eyebrows of even the most stone-faced Floyd | skeptics. While you're hoping to witness such phenomena, following the Floyd | exploits of any one of the costumed characters would probably be more Floyd | interesting, after looking at the screens to decide which captures Floyd | your attention. Floyd | Floyd | The only person you know well is Gregory Hoblett, dressed as the Floyd | Russian mystic and healer Grigori Rasputin, in the Laboratory on Floyd | monitor 3. Everybody in the Society likes Hoblett, unlike Grigori who Floyd | survived a stabbing, possible cyanide poisoning, and two point blank Floyd | gunshots, only to succumb after being shot twice in the back and Floyd | beaten. Floyd | Floyd | The sasquatch chuckles quietly from the playroom on monitor 5, which Floyd | is wired to record the electronic voice phenomena of ghostly children. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "There are other games with people in costumes." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | You study the monitors: Floyd | Floyd | (1) Soul Dancers Ballroom: Cleopatra stomps over to where her Floyd | headdress had lain, picks something up, and tries to re-affix it to Floyd | her headgear. Black Widow rushes over to the side of the stage and Floyd | bends into the shadows. Was Cleopatra hiding something? you Floyd | wonder. Floyd | Floyd | (2) Communications: Vacant. Floyd | Floyd | (3) Laboratory: Rasputin, bloody axe in one hand, rummages through a Floyd | chest as someone you don't know, a medicine man, studies his face in a Floyd | mirror. Floyd | Floyd | (4) Alien Zoo: Vacant. Floyd | Floyd | (5) Children's Possessions Playroom: The sasquatch smiles as the Floyd | leprechaun tries to lift a gold dinner plate from a small table. You Floyd | wonder whether the leprechaun will play any tricks tonight. Floyd | Floyd | Below the pentagon of screens, "Spirit in the Sky" plays from a Floyd | laptop, which shows an open web browser. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So, watch Rasputin?" | |
| DavidW asks, "I'd choose Resputin, yes, but maybe Cleopatra?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, the first time I read this I interpreted, 'Rasputin, bloody axe in one hand, rummages through a chest,' as meaning a chest with lungs and a heart. I guess it was the reference to the bloody axe that made me think that." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "3" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > 3 Floyd | Floyd | As events on the other monitors unfold, you watch: Floyd | Floyd | Laboratory (third floor, west wing) Floyd | (watch all monitors) Floyd | Floyd | Axe in hand, Rasputin continues to root around in the chest at a dark Floyd | corner of the room. The medicine man leans his totem-laden staff onto Floyd | the wall between the two of them. He taps a couple of dark bulbs Floyd | surrounding the vanity's mirror. When they don't light, he tries Floyd | tightening them into their sockets, but that doesn't work either. He Floyd | gives up and studies himself in the mirror's reflection. He reaches Floyd | into a pouch on his belt and applies more black makeup to his face. Floyd | Floyd | Rasputin stands, turns, and kicks over the staff. Animal figurines Floyd | spill onto the floor. He drops the axe and begins to gather them up. Floyd | Floyd | Watching Rasputin, the medicine man retrieves his staff. He scowls as Floyd | Rasputin, on his knees and talking constantly, polishes each totem Floyd | before looping them onto their former holder. A raven settles down the Floyd | staff first, followed by an owl, frog, and wolf. Floyd | Floyd | Rasputin stands, and the medicine man glares at him as the mystic Floyd | slinks out of the room. Floyd | Floyd | The voices of the leprechaun and sasquatch play from the playroom Floyd | feed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm. Wonder if I can..." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "watch Rasputin" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > WATCH RASPUTIN Floyd | Floyd | [Sound effect number 4 here.] Floyd | The door behind you creaks. You whirl around. The door is still, still Floyd | in the position you left it. You think it is, anyway. You stand and Floyd | swing the door, but it doesn't make a sound. Hearing "Strange Magic" Floyd | playing from the laptop, you return to your seat. Floyd | Floyd | Rasputin is no longer visible in the Laboratory. Maybe he's on another Floyd | monitor. Floyd | Floyd | The voices of the leprechaun and sasquatch play from the playroom Floyd | feed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | (1) Soul Dancers Ballroom: Guests continue to mingle. Floyd | Floyd | (2) Communications: Cleopatra appears in the doorway with a bag over Floyd | one shoulder. Floyd | Floyd | (3) Laboratory: The medicine man leaves. Floyd | Floyd | (4) Alien Zoo: Vacant. Floyd | Floyd | (5) Children's Possessions Playroom: The sasquatch enters with one Floyd | hairy arm wrapped around Rasputin's shoulders. A toy clown sitting Floyd | near the door behind them leans over. Floyd | Floyd | Below the pentagon of screens, "Strange Magic" plays on the laptop, Floyd | which shows an open web browser. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "He's in the playroom now." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "5" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > 5 Floyd | Floyd | Remembering that something could be happening on the other screens, Floyd | you watch: Floyd | Floyd | Children's Possessions Playroom (main floor, west wing) Floyd | (watch all monitors) Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, a black-and-white blur darts from behind the clown and out Floyd | the door. Floyd | Floyd | Rasputin pulls away from the sasquatch. He takes in the shelves of Floyd | staring dolls and puppets. He chokes, and his face blanches. Floyd | Floyd | The sasquatch doesn't seem to notice Rasputin's distress. "Pretty Floyd | impressive collection, huh? You should see what's in that toybox." Floyd | Floyd | Rasputin glances at the chest just as the leprechaun pops out of it. Floyd | Rasputin screams and falls back into the sasquatch's arms. Floyd | Floyd | You're surprised the shriek didn't shatter the monitor's screen. Floyd | Floyd | The leprechaun climbs out of the toybox. "You seem a bit on edge." He Floyd | laughs. Floyd | Floyd | "Do you guys know what happened in here?" Rasputin says. Floyd | Floyd | "Why don't you tell us what you've heard," the sasquatch says as he Floyd | steadies Rasputin's wobbly stance. Floyd | Floyd | Rasputin watches the dolls as he speaks. "Wayne Harrison was having a Floyd | birthday party for his twin daughters in this room. They had cake and Floyd | drinks." His voice lowers. "Most of the kids died. Right here. The Floyd | twins, too. Poisoned. People suspected Wayne's chauffeur, who was Floyd | never charged. He was going to be fired for gambling and . . . doing Floyd | inappropriate things in front of the kids. His son didn't get sick. Floyd | That's why . . . ". Floyd | Floyd | "This place is haunted," the sasquatch says. Floyd | Floyd | The leprechaun picks up a child-sized doll with red hair and a white Floyd | dress. Wailing like a ghost, he shakes it at Rasputin. The mystic Floyd | rushes out the door. The leprechaun grins broadly. "We can have some Floyd | fun with this." He carries the doll out of the room with him, and the Floyd | sasquatch follows, shaking his head. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Wowza" | |
| DavidW says, "That part we saw before." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, it's just long." | ||
| Roger says, "Turns out most of the members of the Fortean Society are dicks" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | [Sound effect number 5 here.] Floyd | Something thumps onto the hallway floor. On instinct, you pull your Floyd | phone from your pocket and look out the door. The guestbook has fallen Floyd | from the table in the lobby. You wait but don't detect anyone, so you Floyd | return to your chair and tuck away the phone as you hear "I don't like Floyd | spiders and snakes, and that ain't what it takes to love me" from the Floyd | laptop. Floyd | Floyd | (1) Soul Dancers Ballroom: Some guests mingle at the refreshment Floyd | table. Floyd | Floyd | (2) Communications: The medicine man enters, stops at a mirror, and Floyd | stares into his contorted reflection. Floyd | Floyd | (3) Laboratory: Cleopatra enters, drops her bag next to a chest, and Floyd | unpacks some whips. Floyd | Floyd | (4) Alien Zoo: The sasquatch appears and positions himself in the Floyd | doorway, while the leprechaun passes him and searches the exhibits Floyd | with the red-haired doll tucked under his arm. Floyd | Floyd | (5) Children's Possessions Playroom: Vacant. Floyd | Floyd | Below the pentagon of screens, "Spiders and Snakes" plays on the Floyd | laptop, which shows an open web browser. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Anybody see Rasputin?" | |
| DavidW says, "No." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | (1) Soul Dancers Ballroom: Some guests mingle at the refreshment Floyd | table. Floyd | Floyd | (2) Communications: The medicine man makes faces at his distorted Floyd | reflection in the mirror. Floyd | Floyd | (3) Laboratory: Cleopatra continues to transfer weapons from her bag Floyd | to the chest. Floyd | Floyd | (4) Alien Zoo: The sasquatch is standing in the doorway, while the Floyd | leprechaun searches the exhibits with the red-haired doll tucked under Floyd | his arm. Floyd | Floyd | (5) Children's Possessions Playroom: Vacant. Floyd | Floyd | Below the pentagon of screens, "Spiders and Snakes" plays on the Floyd | laptop, which shows an open web browser. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | (1) Soul Dancers Ballroom: Some guests mingle at the refreshment Floyd | table. Floyd | Floyd | (2) Communications: The medicine man makes faces at his distorted Floyd | reflection in the mirror. Floyd | Floyd | (3) Laboratory: Cleopatra continues to transfer weapons from her bag Floyd | to the chest. Floyd | Floyd | (4) Alien Zoo: The sasquatch is standing in the doorway, while the Floyd | leprechaun searches the exhibits with the red-haired doll tucked under Floyd | his arm. Floyd | Floyd | (5) Children's Possessions Playroom: Vacant. Floyd | Floyd | Below the pentagon of screens, "Spiders and Snakes" plays on the Floyd | laptop, which shows an open web browser. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Which one do we want to watch?" | |
| DavidW says, "Cleo in the Laboratory with the candlestick." | ||
| Amber says, "I'd keep an eye on the `squatch" | ||
| Amber says, "I also don't trust that leprechaun." | ||
| DavidW says, "None of these people are trustworthy." | ||
| DavidW says, "I suspect all of them." | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "I don't put it past Greg to do it to himself!" | ||
| DavidW asks, "What does 'fortean' mean, anyway?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "(Kidding, actually.)" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "It means having to do with the paranormal." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm trying to remember what room Greg is in when stuff goes bad." | ||
| DavidW says, "monitor 1, I think it was." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "12" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > 12 Floyd | Floyd | There are only five monitors on the wall, and they are numbered from Floyd | one to five. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oops" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Soul Dancers Ballroom (second floor, east wing) Floyd | (watch all monitors) Floyd | Floyd | The monitor shows about a third of the room, including downstage, Floyd | which is flanked by stacked speakers. Most of the guests have drifted Floyd | toward the refreshment table lining the far wall. A couple of spirited Floyd | dancers materializes in front of the stage. The woman, dressed in a Floyd | purple ball gown, twirls as her partner holds her hand over her head. Floyd | They embrace then disappear. Floyd | Floyd | A fat, bald man, wearing a bloody apron and carrying a cleaver, Floyd | munches on a carrot as he watches the colorful guests. Floyd | Floyd | Something snaps and cracks behind you. You spin around. A black cat Floyd | with a white stripe down its back tears at a rat on the floor. The cat Floyd | discards its prey, leaps onto your lap, and settles. It purrs loudly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "'Fortean' refers to Charles Fort, who was a serious paranormal investigator dude" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Soul Dancers Ballroom (second floor, east wing) Floyd | (watch all monitors) Floyd | Floyd | Cleopatra enters, stops near the stage, and searches the crowd. Floyd | Rasputin rushes past her. He grabs a drink — from the alcoholic punch Floyd | bowl — just as Cleopatra catches up to him. He gulps down his drink Floyd | as Floyd | Cleopatra talks. Floyd | Floyd | Black Widow emerges from a crowd and approaches Rasputin. Smiling, she Floyd | places a hand on his shoulder. She speaks, silencing Cleopatra. Floyd | Rasputin replies to Black Widow, who nods. Arms crossed, Cleopatra Floyd | gets in a few words, but Rasputin only shrugs and finishes his drink. Floyd | He hands the cup to Cleopatra then allows himself to be lead out of Floyd | the room arm-in-arm with Black Widow. Floyd | Floyd | Cleopatra crushes the cup, tosses it onto the table. Staring at the Floyd | doors, she taps her foot. She walks to the exit and disappears Floyd | off-screen. Floyd | Floyd | A shadow is cast over you. You swivel around. Frankie's bulk crowds Floyd | the tiny room. He considers the cat then looks up to you. His grin is Floyd | crooked. "What's new, pussycat?" he says. He laughs then starts Floyd | humming the eponymous Tom Jones song before turning to the monitors. Floyd | "Nervous guy, that Rasputin. Bit of a wimp, if you ask me. I'm Floyd | surprised he came out from hiding under his bed tonight." Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "That's a skunk, not a cat" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | (1) Soul Dancers Ballroom: A couple of dancers materializes, Floyd | jitterbugs, and disappears. Floyd | Floyd | (2) Communications: Black Widow appears and pulls Rasputin through the Floyd | doorway to join her. Floyd | Floyd | (3) Laboratory: Vacant. Floyd | Floyd | (4) Alien Zoo: An alien of the gray-type, or a petit female Homo Floyd | sapiens, waits inside the doorway then steps out. Floyd | Floyd | (5) Children's Possessions Playroom: Vacant. Floyd | Floyd | Frankie bobs his head, although you aren't sure that he's keeping time Floyd | with "Werewolves of London" playing on the laptop, which shows an open Floyd | web browser. The cat lying on your lap has turned its head to keep an Floyd | eye on him as he tries to follow the peripatetic Fortean members on Floyd | the monitors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > 2 Floyd | Floyd | Communications (second floor, west wing) Floyd | (watch all monitors) Floyd | Floyd | Something is different about the room . . . The lighting has dimmed, Floyd | and shadows shroud the corners. Floyd | Floyd | Black Widow notices a curtained off area at the far end of the room. Floyd | Passing between tables, she approaches it and pulls back the curtains, Floyd | revealing a set of audio equipment. Fiddling with the stereo, she says Floyd | something and gestures for Rasputin to join her. Floyd | Floyd | Rasputin takes a deep breath, rubs his palms on his pants, and makes Floyd | his way over to Black Widow. She points at a knot of cables snaking Floyd | from the equipment to a dark corner behind some speakers. Rasputin Floyd | hesitates then reaches into the darkness. Suddenly, he flings his arm Floyd | back and stumbles backward. With wide eyes, he rubs his hand and Floyd | speaks. Floyd | Floyd | Black Widow frowns and inspects Rasputin's hand. She shrugs. She Floyd | attempts to look behind the speaker, but Rasputin stops her with a Floyd | hand to her shoulder. Smiling, she shakes her head then bends over Floyd | into the darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The leprechaun, without the doll, steps through the doorway, the Floyd | sasquatch following behind him. They move aside as Black Widow, head Floyd | shaking, leads the trembling Rasputin out the door. As she exits, the Floyd | scientist appears in the doorway with a bottle. Rasputin snatches it Floyd | from his hand and takes a swig. He pauses and does it again. Nodding, Floyd | he returns the bottle, and the two men leave. Floyd | Floyd | The sasquatch follows the grinning leprechaun to the doorway where Floyd | they stop and look into the hall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "So maybe he was poisoned by a drink or maybe he was bitten by something?" | |
| DavidW says, "yeah, there may have been an actual spider amongst the equipment." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I feel like we should watch the scientist maybe? That bottle..." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Unfortunately I will have to go soon, but y'all can keep poking at it." | ||
| DavidW says, "It's weird that Rasputin is just impulsively drinking any liquids he finds." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | (1) Soul Dancers Ballroom: Black Widow strolls into the room and Floyd | begins to chat with the nun in front of the stage. Floyd | Floyd | (2) Communications: The leprechaun and sasquatch look out the door and Floyd | into the hall. Floyd | Floyd | (3) Laboratory: Vacant. Floyd | Floyd | (4) Alien Zoo: Vacant. Floyd | Floyd | (5) Children's Possessions Playroom: A bald man dressed completely in Floyd | black steps into the room, a hand at the device on his belt. Floyd | Floyd | Next to Frankie, "Magic Man" plays on the laptop, which shows an open Floyd | web browser. The cat lying on your lap continues to stare at Frankie Floyd | as he tries to follow the peripatetic Fortean members on the monitors. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "1?" | |
| DavidW says, "yes please" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Soul Dancers Ballroom (second floor, east wing) Floyd | (watch all monitors) Floyd | Floyd | Cleopatra appears beside the doors and rushes over to Black Widow, Floyd | interrupting her conversation with the nun. Cleopatra speaks to Black Floyd | Widow, who responds with a few words and a pat on the woman's arm. Floyd | Cleopatra heads to the exit, and Black Widow shrugs at the nun. Floyd | Floyd | Cleopatra stops at the doors and stares out into the hall. Floyd | Floyd | Your interpreter doesn't support sound reproduction. Floyd | Your interpreter doesn't support sound reproduction. Floyd | Your interpreter doesn't support sound reproduction. Floyd | A high-pitched scream pierces the Fly Eye. That was from somewhere Floyd | upstairs. Floyd | Floyd | The cat leaps from your lap and scrambles out the door. Static bursts Floyd | from the playroom. Are children giggling? Floyd | Floyd | "Gotta check that out," Frankie says before lumbering away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | (1) Soul Dancers Ballroom: Cleopatra rushes out. She returns holding Floyd | up a man with white hair and a cape. The two stumble forward, and the Floyd | man slumps to the floor. Floyd | Floyd | (2) Communications: Vacant. Floyd | Floyd | (3) Laboratory: Vacant. Floyd | Floyd | (4) Alien Zoo: The medicine man talks to someone through the doorway. Floyd | Floyd | (5) Children's Possessions Playroom: The footage is a blur of color. Floyd | Children seem to giggle in the static of the monitor's tiny speaker. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "1, I guess? Or 5?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "1" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > 1 Floyd | Floyd | Your interpreter doesn't support sound reproduction. Floyd | Soul Dancers Ballroom (second floor, east wing) Floyd | (watch all monitors) Floyd | Floyd | Cleopatra steps back. The arms of the fallen man spasm, fingers Floyd | covered in rings. It's Greg in his Rasputin costume. Except for that Floyd | spiked white hair. He lies prone with his cape flat on his back. Two Floyd | red holes are punched into the black fabric. Floyd | Floyd | Guests gather around your fallen friend. Several of them grab their Floyd | cell phones. Some take pictures while others make calls. The nun bends Floyd | down and touches the holes in Greg's cape. She rubs her fingers Floyd | together and shakes her head. Black Widow helps Frankie turn Greg onto Floyd | his back. His face is almost as white as his hair. The nun starts the Floyd | chest compressions for cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Cleopatra Floyd | watches with a concerned look. Floyd | Floyd | A tall woman wearing a white dress and tiara takes the hand of a Floyd | suited man in a top hat. They swirl and step around the crowd. Floyd | Floyd | Someone stomps toward the door to the Fly Eye. Floyd | Floyd | Press a key to whirl around and face the door. | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Press a key to whirl around and face the door. Floyd | Your interpreter doesn't support sound reproduction. Floyd | A doll the size of a small girl is sitting on the floor next to the Floyd | door and with the black-and-white cat covering her lap. She smiles a Floyd | black line under red freckles. She shakes as the cat raises its head Floyd | and Frankie stomps into the room. The doll begins saying "Mama . . . Floyd | mama . . . mama . . . Floyd | Floyd | Frankie's voice booms. "We have a problem. Everyone's meeting in the Floyd | ballroom." Floyd | Floyd | Press a key to follow Frankie out. | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd | Press a key to follow Frankie out.
Floyd | Outside the mansion, paramedics lift Greg into an ambulance. The
Floyd | resuscitation attempts by the nun may have saved his life. But from
Floyd | what? you know Greg wasn't shot. The bullet holes in the cape were
Floyd | part of the Rasputin costume, and Greg had no visible wounds.
Floyd |
Floyd | Everyone seems to have gathered around the lights cast by the mansion
Floyd | and its exterior lamps. Black Widow and Cleopatra, both in tears, tell
Floyd | their stories to a police officer. The medicine man places his staff
Floyd | into the trunk of a car before finding the scientist. They talk and
Floyd | wait. The leprechaun watches the paramedics, but the sasquatch stares
Floyd | at the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | Someone is missing, though . . . You don't see the man in black or his
Floyd | gray partner.
Floyd |
Floyd | The ambulance drives away. Cleopatra points at you, and the officer
Floyd | she was talking to nods. It's time to tell your story, but you can't
Floyd | make any reasonable connections between what happened to Greg and what
Floyd | you saw on the monitors. Maybe the events would have come together
Floyd | more clearly had you watched from a different perspective.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | *** There are three different interpretations of Greg's
Floyd | fate, each dependent upon which character you decide to follow when
Floyd | you settle in the Fly Eye. You didn't follow any of them during your
Floyd | vigil. You also didn't witness any phenomena that are usually reported
Floyd | at haunted sites.
Floyd | ** ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the
Floyd | last command?
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "Hrm. I shall leave you all to it..." | |
| DavidW says, "hm. I'm willing to stop here for now." | ||
| Amber exclaims, "It's so suspenseful!" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't remember a 'grey companion' being mentioned in the first run-through." | ||
| DavidW says, "er 'gray partner'." | ||
| DavidW | Floyd | Someone is missing, though . . . You don't see the man in black. | ||
| Amber asks, "That's happened three times already?" | ||
| DavidW says, "We've only had 2 run-throughs, not three." | ||
