  
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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| Knight_Otu says, "Good evening" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hey there." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "So we finished the new years games. Is there a plan for today?" | ||
| DavidW says, "ack. Wasn't watching the time." | ||
| DavidW says, "I turn away to update my ifindex.html page and suddenly it's ClubFloyd time." | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't know what the plan for today is but I can think of a new IF game that I haven't played yet." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, who all we got?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Well, I was thinking we'd play the post-comp release of a Beauty Cold & Austere. What were you thinking?" | ||
| DavidW says, "The Lurkening, which is Ryan Veeder's sequel to The Lurking Horror." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Huh. I missed that memo." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Well, we can always continue comp games at a later week. KO, what are you up for?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Although I have not played the post-comp release of ABCAA, I did play the comp version and wrote a walkthrough for it." | ||
| Roger says, "I have no strong feelings" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hullo, Roger." | ||
| DavidW says, "A Beauty Cold & Austere is an excellent game, in my humble opinion." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I'm fine either way. I've read a bit about Beauty, but haven't gotten to playing it yet (comp or post-comp)." | ||
| DavidW says, "It's like The Chinese Room but with math concepts instead of philosophical ones." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I don't think I've seen any big spoilers at any rate." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, why don't we save ABCAA for a later date? I would like to play it, and today I am packing for a trip and doing some work and likely can't participate much, where as the other game none of you have played, so it'll be more fun for all here." | ||
| Jacqueline goes to find the Lurkening. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask lurkening" | ||
Floyd ] Your Dorm Room 0/100 Floyd | across campus, you finally return to... Floyd | Floyd | Your Dorm Room Floyd | Apparently your roommate moved out today. The room looks pretty bare Floyd | with only your stuff left in it - not that you had much to begin with. Floyd | The only decorations that remain are a few of your posters hanging on Floyd | the walls. Floyd | Floyd | You hear loud noises coming from the hallway to the south. It sounds Floyd | like your hallmates have begun celebrating the end of the academic Floyd | year. Floyd | Floyd | You can see your bed and your desk (on which are a medicine bottle and Floyd | a note) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read note" | ||
Floyd ] Your Dorm Room 0/100 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ NOTE Floyd | Floyd | It's from your roommate. "Good luck on your final! I've left you the Floyd | last of my study pills. I promise you they are perfectly safe, Floyd | all-natural, and organic - although they may not work exactly like you Floyd | expect." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "That's not Lurkening. That's A Beauty Cold and Austere." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, weird." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "One sec." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Are you sure? I uploaded the correct file." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "version" | ||
Floyd ] Your Dorm Room 0/100 Floyd | > Floyd | > VERSION Floyd | Floyd | Identification number: //0BFE11AF-82A9-4491-A740-AB7155B81DCA// Floyd | Interpreter version 1.3.1 / VM 3.1.2 / Library serial number 080126 Floyd | Standard Rules version 3/120430 by Graham Nelson Floyd | Rideable Vehicles version 3 by Graham Nelson Floyd | Conditional Undo version 4/140510 by Jesse McGrew Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] A Beauty Cold and Austere Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Select Floyd | > What is "interactive fiction"? Floyd | How does one read/play interactive fiction? (Part 1: some IF Floyd | conventions) Floyd | How does one read/play interactive fiction? (Part 2: common Floyd | commands) Floyd | How do I interact with other characters? Floyd | What else should I know to help me with this game? Floyd | But I'm not very good at math! Floyd | But I'm very good at math! Floyd | I think there are symbols that aren't displaying properly. Floyd | Hints Floyd | Acknowledgements Floyd | Contacting the author | Jacqueline exclaims, "!" | |
| DavidW says, "I'm sure. The Lurkening starts in Alchemy Basement." | ||
| Jacqueline sighs. "Sorry, not sure how I did that. One sec." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||
Floyd ] Your Dorm Room 0/100 Floyd | Your Dorm Room Floyd | Your dorm room looks half empty now that your roommate has left for Floyd | the summer. The only decorations left are a few of your posters Floyd | hanging on the walls. You can hear the sounds of a loud party in the Floyd | hallway to the south. Floyd | Floyd | You can see your bed and your desk (on which are a medicine bottle and Floyd | a note) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||
Floyd ] Your Dorm Room 0/100 Floyd | > Floyd | > QUIT Floyd | Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit? | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?
Floyd | > Y
Floyd | cheapglulxe quit with exit status: 0
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| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask thelurkening" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't know if we want up or north." | |
| DavidW asks, "I suppose north?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "hello?" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Are there parts of the intro missing? Beauty, too?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "They seem incomplete." | ||
| DavidW says, "No to either. This is how this game starts." | ||
| DavidW says, "And that was how that game started." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Okay then. I'd say up." | ||
| DavidW says, "This is an 'in media res' beginning, I think the cool people call it." | ||
| DavidW asks (of Jacqueline?), "Up or north?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Is it just the three of us?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, sorry." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I will likely not be with you today." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Have to prepare for a business trip." | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Have fun!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I will watch for a bit, but yeah, don't wait on me." | ||
| DavidW says, "well, let's try up. I bet the game denies us an up." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | The Alchemy building feels small and defenseless in the face of the Floyd | wild thunderstorm outside. Rain and howling wind pound at the doors to Floyd | the north and east. A stairway leads down to the basement (and the Floyd | tunnels). Floyd | Floyd | This lobby is especially creepy because there's an informative poster Floyd | depicting an Elder Horror hanging on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x poster" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > X POSTER Floyd | Floyd | Above the picture of the Elder Horror are the words "IF YOU SEE Floyd | SOMETHING, SAY RAENFIDHRE." Smaller text below explains: "Elder Floyd | Horrors are a nuisance—but you don't have to let them inconvenience Floyd | you. The incantation 'Raenfidhre' sends Elder Horrors right back where Floyd | they came from. (Don't ask!) When you run into an Elder Horror, just Floyd | say 'Raenfidhre' and watch it disappear." Floyd | Floyd | For years, students of the arcane arts struggled to find some logic or Floyd | significance in the forms of these incantations. Eventually the Floyd | experts reached the consensus that they're just random stupid words. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "Well, that makes thing easy." | |
| Peregrine asks, "Or... does it?" | ||
| Karona arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Knight_Otu says, "I'm surprised elder horrors would be that easy to dismiss." | |
| DavidW says, "I don't know. This is Ryan Veeder we're talking about, and he has a twisty mind about these things." | ||
| DavidW asks, "North or East or back down?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Perhaps they're actually younger horrors and raenfidhre means "You're grounded"" | ||
| DavidW says, "The rain is probably to keep us indoors, though, I would guess." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "North?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Construction Site Floyd | Torrents of rain lash at the earth in blind fury. Floyd | Floyd | This is the future site of the Gentry Antiquarian Center. Right now Floyd | it's a rectangular pit with concrete walls. Floyd | Floyd | The Alchemy building is south. Another building—a despicable Floyd | building—is further north. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "Rain is the eternal enemy of the PC." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pit" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > X PIT Floyd | Floyd | The cyclopean walls of the unfinished Gentry Center are slick with Floyd | rain, and its muddy basement floor is pockmarked with oily puddles. Floyd | Floyd | Floating in one puddle is a manila envelope. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine asks, "How can a building be despicable?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take envelope" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | There's no safe way to reach the envelope from up here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x envelope" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > X ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | Hard to tell from way over here, but it looks like campus mail. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Wel...." | |
| Peregrine says, "Let's hurl ourselves screaming into the pit! That sounds like fun." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "er well." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Down? I suspect that's unsafe, but we can try it?" | ||
| DavidW clears the save counter. | Peregrine says, "Let's." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Sure." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits are north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter pit" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER PIT Floyd | Floyd | The slick concrete walls of the pit offer no safe way down. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "Whoa" | |
| Peregrine says, "I don't think those were connected events." | ||
| Peregrine asks, "More like some sort of timed event?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Construction Site Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside Department of Sorcery Floyd | The forboding building to the east houses the Department of Sorcery, Floyd | which frequently competes with the Alchemy department for funding and Floyd | is always reserving the best classrooms before Alchemy can get a Floyd | chance. The rest of the campus is south from here. Floyd | Floyd | Thunder rumbles nearby. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "No, we seem to be on a strict timer." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Now the intro sentence makes sence." | |
| DavidW asks, "It's possible we need to gather info from multiple playthroughs to succeed ala Hadean Lands?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Possibly." | ||
| Peregrine says, "Oooo, paradoxal loop." | ||
| Allen arrives, full of fun and funk. | DavidW says, "So let me try to use one run to read the envelope as quickly as I can get to it." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | The Alchemy building feels small and defenseless in the face of the Floyd | wild thunderstorm outside. Rain and howling wind pound at the doors to Floyd | the north and east. A stairway leads down to the basement (and the Floyd | tunnels). Floyd | Floyd | This lobby is especially creepy because there's an informative poster Floyd | depicting an Elder Horror hanging on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "sense, not sence. Yesh, me." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Construction Site Floyd | Torrents of rain lash at the earth in blind fury. Floyd | Floyd | This is the future site of the Gentry Antiquarian Center. Right now Floyd | it's a rectangular pit with concrete walls. Floyd | Floyd | The Alchemy building is south. Another building—a despicable Floyd | building—is further north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter pit" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER PIT Floyd | Floyd | The slick concrete walls of the pit offer no safe way down. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "Well, it *was* Groundhog Day recently..." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside Department of Sorcery Floyd | The forboding building to the east houses the Department of Sorcery, Floyd | which frequently competes with the Alchemy department for funding and Floyd | is always reserving the best classrooms before Alchemy can get a Floyd | chance. The rest of the campus is south from here. Floyd | Floyd | Thunder rumbles nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "Thunder means we have one move left." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | You break out in gooseflesh as you contemplate the eldritch Floyd | experiments performed within these walls on a daily basis. You don't Floyd | like visiting this place unless you have to. It even smells Floyd | pretentious. Floyd | Floyd | The department head's office is down the hall to the east. The way Floyd | back outside is west. Floyd | Floyd | The only person here tonight is a grad student whom you kind of know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x student" | ||
Floyd ] Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > X STUDENT Floyd | Floyd | He's a sorcery student you've seen around campus, usually sitting down Floyd | in a secluded study space you were hoping to use. Floyd | Floyd | He squints at you. "What are you doing here?" Floyd | Floyd | "None of your beeswax," you snap back. "What are you doing Floyd | here?" Floyd | Floyd | He curls his lip into an odious sneer. "The department head asked me Floyd | to help with some research, so I'm on my way to his office." Floyd | Floyd | "Well, great for you," you respond, facetiously. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. Continue east?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Let's." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You try to walk past the sorcery student, but he blocks your path: Floyd | "The department head doesn't need another research Floyd | assistant—especially not from the Department of Alchemy. He asked for Floyd | me specifically." Floyd | Floyd | You stare at each other like a pair of housecats that have just been Floyd | introduced. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, ">scratch his eyes out" | |
| Peregrine says, "heh" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit student" | ||
Floyd ] Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT STUDENT Floyd | Floyd | Really? Resorting to brute force already? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | That was a rhetorical question. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "f dance to summon an eldritch god." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Wait, we're alchemy, sorry." | ||
| DavidW says, "I suppose we should explore north this time." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Sure." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Typical Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Typical Tunnel Floyd | Before you enrolled at G.U.E. Tech, you had this romantic idea that Floyd | the tunnels would all be dingy, claustrophobic, and dangerous. But Floyd | these tunnels—the tunnels that most people see—are really more like Floyd | hallways with pipes. Floyd | Floyd | This hallway and its pipes lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine exclaims, "Northwards!" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eerie Corner Floyd | You've reached a bend in the tunnel where the lights don't quite Floyd | reach. You can continue east or south. Floyd | Floyd | But you can't just stand around, because an Elder Horror is flitting Floyd | through the shadows here, gibbering in little shrieks. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "Quick, say the magic word" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "raenfidhre" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > RAENFIDHRE Floyd | Floyd | You utter the incantation, the eldritch puissance of its awful Floyd | phonemes flowing with hideous sweetness over your tongue. The Elder Floyd | Horror howls in response, as if to drown out your spell with its Floyd | ululating tongues—but it is no use. Floyd | Floyd | A hole opens in space, and the Elder Horror is dragged by unknown Floyd | forces back to its native dimension. Floyd | Floyd | Whatever the thing was holding falls to your feet: Looks like Floyd | somebody's lecture notes. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hissing noise as a portion of the ambient atmosphere is Floyd | sucked away before the aperture closes itself. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "R" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read notes" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > READ NOTES Floyd | Floyd | A few pages of sparsely annotated Powerpoint slides. Is there anything Floyd | good in here? Floyd | Floyd | The annotator has indicated one slide with a series of exclamation Floyd | marks: It alludes to the incantation "Jilxube," and describes its Floyd | applications as "gross." Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine exclaims, "Let's use it on the grad student!" | |
| DavidW asks, "well, on next run, yes. I think we ought to try continuing east for now?" | ||
| Peregrine says, "okay" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Top of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Top of Ladder Floyd | In the middle of this east-west strip of tunnel is an open grate. In Floyd | the grate is a ladder. The ladder leads down to the sub-basement Floyd | level. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "East, yes" | |
| Peregrine says, "and down" | ||
| Peregrine says, "into... darkness..." | ||
| DavidW says, "We could also continue east." | ||
| Peregrine says, "True." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I vote further east first." | ||
| DavidW says, "I agree." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Well-Lit Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Well-Lit Corner Floyd | The passage from the west turns here, at the top of a gentle slope Floyd | leading south. This would be a great place to race office chairs, if Floyd | other concerns weren't taking precedence. Floyd | Floyd | A hacker is leaning against the wall here, taking a break from Floyd | hacking. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hacker" | ||
Floyd ] Well-Lit Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > X HACKER Floyd | Floyd | You can tell she's an accomplished hacker from the unrealistically Floyd | heavy key ring hanging from her belt loop. Anyone who has that many Floyd | keys isn't supposed to have all of them. Floyd | Floyd | You wave to each other, and are about to exchange pleasantries when a Floyd | massive peal of thunder from above shakes the tunnels. The lights go Floyd | out. Floyd | Floyd | The lights come back on. The two of you grimace. Floyd | Floyd | "Hey," says the hacker. "If the lights ever go out for real, I know a Floyd | spell that for seeing in the dark. It's 'kulehrif.' You say it just Floyd | like that." Floyd | Floyd | You nod. "Thanks. I probably should have known that already." Floyd | Floyd | "It's okay. At least you only have to learn something for the first Floyd | time once." Floyd | Floyd | "That is so true," you say. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "That is useful." | |
| Peregrine says, "I begin to sense a pattern." | ||
| DavidW asks, "We could ask about keys or continue south, I guess?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Doesn't delay Ynf's ascension directly, though." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Or do you want to use JILXUBE here?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Asking may be bad form. Let's do it." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jilxube" | ||
Floyd ] Well-Lit Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > JILXUBE Floyd | Floyd | You struggle to pronounce the abhorrent incantation properly. When you Floyd | finally get it right, a huge mass of slime appears out of nowhere, Floyd | draping its dreadful viscousness all over everything in the immediate Floyd | area. Floyd | Floyd | The hacker grimaces and takes a few steps back. "Nice trick," she Floyd | says. "Are you planning on cleaning that up?" Floyd | Floyd | "I'm really in a hurry at the moment," you tell her, and although it's Floyd | the truth you don't think she's convinced. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "J" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "And now we know." | |
| Peregrine says, "This is a brilliant concept, actually." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I meant asking about the keys, but that works too." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hacker about keys" | ||
Floyd ] Well-Lit Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK HACKER ABOUT KEYS Floyd | Floyd | Use >TALK TO to interact with entities. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "The restart is a literal reversal of time." | |
| DavidW says, "yeah." | ||
| Peregrine says, "cool" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine gives Ryan Veeder the thumbs up. | |
| Karona says, "Whoa" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Do we think that JILXUBE slime will help against the student?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Maybe." | ||
| Roger says, "Can't hurt" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | The Alchemy building feels small and defenseless in the face of the Floyd | wild thunderstorm outside. Rain and howling wind pound at the doors to Floyd | the north and east. A stairway leads down to the basement (and the Floyd | tunnels). Floyd | Floyd | This lobby is especially creepy because there's an informative poster Floyd | depicting an Elder Horror hanging on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Construction Site Floyd | Torrents of rain lash at the earth in blind fury. Floyd | Floyd | This is the future site of the Gentry Antiquarian Center. Right now Floyd | it's a rectangular pit with concrete walls. Floyd | Floyd | The Alchemy building is south. Another building—a despicable Floyd | building—is further north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside Department of Sorcery Floyd | The forboding building to the east houses the Department of Sorcery, Floyd | which frequently competes with the Alchemy department for funding and Floyd | is always reserving the best classrooms before Alchemy can get a Floyd | chance. The rest of the campus is south from here. Floyd | Floyd | Thunder rumbles nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | You break out in gooseflesh as you contemplate the eldritch Floyd | experiments performed within these walls on a daily basis. You don't Floyd | like visiting this place unless you have to. It even smells Floyd | pretentious. Floyd | Floyd | The department head's office is down the hall to the east. The way Floyd | back outside is west. Floyd | Floyd | The only person here tonight is a grad student whom you kind of know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jilxube" | ||
Floyd ] Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > JILXUBE Floyd | Floyd | You struggle to pronounce the abhorrent incantation properly. When you Floyd | finally get it right, a huge mass of slime appears out of nowhere, Floyd | draping its dreadful viscousness all over everything in the immediate Floyd | area. Floyd | Floyd | The sorcery student barely escapes getting slimed himself. "The heck Floyd | do you think you're doing?" he wails. Floyd | Floyd | You raise your palms in mock confusion. "What, is the sorcery building Floyd | full of slime? I don't notice any difference!" Floyd | Floyd | You grin madly, having delivered the ultimate slam upon your rival. He Floyd | only grits his teeth in response. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "J" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine exclaims, "Yay!" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You try to walk past the sorcery student, but he blocks your path: Floyd | "The department head doesn't need another research Floyd | assistant—especially not from the Department of Alchemy. He asked for Floyd | me specifically." Floyd | Floyd | You stare at each other like a pair of housecats that have just been Floyd | introduced. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "Oh." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "j" | ||
Floyd ] Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > J Floyd | Floyd | You utter the incantation again. More slime appears. This place is Floyd | getting more and more disgusting every moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "j" | ||
Floyd ] Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > J Floyd | Floyd | You utter the incantation again. More slime appears. This place is Floyd | getting more and more disgusting every moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||
Floyd ] Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | That verb doesn't work in this story. Sorry. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x slime" | ||
Floyd ] Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > X SLIME Floyd | Floyd | It is a translucent pudding-like substance of unearthly color. It is Floyd | disgusting. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Hm. Doesn't help." | |
| DavidW asks, "So, sub-basement ladder or find what's south of the hacker?" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "South from the hacker, now?" | ||
| DavidW says, "okay" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Typical Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Typical Tunnel Floyd | Before you enrolled at G.U.E. Tech, you had this romantic idea that Floyd | the tunnels would all be dingy, claustrophobic, and dangerous. But Floyd | these tunnels—the tunnels that most people see—are really more like Floyd | hallways with pipes. Floyd | Floyd | This hallway and its pipes lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eerie Corner Floyd | You've reached a bend in the tunnel where the lights don't quite Floyd | reach. You can continue east or south. Floyd | Floyd | But you can't just stand around, because an Elder Horror is flitting Floyd | through the shadows here, gibbering in little shrieks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "raenfidhre" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > RAENFIDHRE Floyd | Floyd | You utter the incantation, the eldritch puissance of its awful Floyd | phonemes flowing with hideous sweetness over your tongue. The Elder Floyd | Horror howls in response, as if to drown out your spell with its Floyd | ululating tongues—but it is no use. Floyd | Floyd | A hole opens in space, and the Elder Horror is dragged by unknown Floyd | forces back to its native dimension. Floyd | Floyd | Whatever the thing was holding falls to your feet: Looks like Floyd | somebody's lecture notes. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hissing noise as a portion of the ambient atmosphere is Floyd | sucked away before the aperture closes itself. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "R" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Top of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Top of Ladder Floyd | In the middle of this east-west strip of tunnel is an open grate. In Floyd | the grate is a ladder. The ladder leads down to the sub-basement Floyd | level. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Well-Lit Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Well-Lit Corner Floyd | The passage from the west turns here, at the top of a gentle slope Floyd | leading south. This would be a great place to race office chairs, if Floyd | other concerns weren't taking precedence. Floyd | Floyd | A hacker is leaning against the wall here, taking a break from Floyd | hacking. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Graffito Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Graffito Floyd | At this intersection, the tunnels go north, south—and west, to the Floyd | chamber of your ill-advised project. Floyd | Floyd | An old graffito is on the east wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read graffito" | ||
Floyd ] Graffito Floyd | > Floyd | > READ GRAFFITO Floyd | Floyd | The names of the vandals are lost to campus history. All that we know Floyd | is: Someone wrote something on a wall; then, before the message could Floyd | be summarily painted over, someone else prepended an additional word. Floyd | Now, and since time immemorial, the wall reads: Floyd | Floyd | NEVER Floyd | GIVE Floyd | UP Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "West, I assume?" | |
| DavidW says, "I didn't know we had a project." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Ritual Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ritual Chamber Floyd | It groans sluggishly. It shrugs its unthinkable head—No. That is not Floyd | a Floyd | head. Floyd | Floyd | The whitish, loathsome, incomprehensible thing that oozes before you Floyd | is Ynf-Okh-Omm, the Eldest Horror. It is sleeping, for now. Soon (very Floyd | soon), it will awaken, and this helpless universe will suffer the Floyd | consequences. Floyd | Floyd | The way out is east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "At last, we meet, villain." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Okay, this is our mess, then." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "raenfidhre" | ||
Floyd ] Ritual Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > RAENFIDHRE Floyd | Floyd | You utter the incantation, the eldritch puissance of its awful Floyd | phonemes flowing with hideous sweetness over your tongue. Floyd | Floyd | A crackle of eldritch power washes over the sleeping hulk, and your Floyd | spell falls flat. How did it do that? Where is it getting this energy? Floyd | Floyd | Ynf-Okh-Omm stirs. The Eldest Horror rolls over. Some hideous aspect Floyd | of its body—an eye?—a mouth?—opens, and you are the first to be Floyd | devoured. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "gaaaaaa" | |
| Peregrine says, "splurkl" | ||
| Peregrine says, "We have been eaten." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Okay, eldest horrors can't be grounded." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Who said this would be easy? Who?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Sub-basement or south of graffito?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I mean, if it worked, we'd have done so pre-game, presumably." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Let's continue were we left off, I'd say." | ||
| DavidW says, "ok" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Typical Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Typical Tunnel Floyd | Before you enrolled at G.U.E. Tech, you had this romantic idea that Floyd | the tunnels would all be dingy, claustrophobic, and dangerous. But Floyd | these tunnels—the tunnels that most people see—are really more like Floyd | hallways with pipes. Floyd | Floyd | This hallway and its pipes lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eerie Corner Floyd | You've reached a bend in the tunnel where the lights don't quite Floyd | reach. You can continue east or south. Floyd | Floyd | But you can't just stand around, because an Elder Horror is flitting Floyd | through the shadows here, gibbering in little shrieks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "raenfidhre" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > RAENFIDHRE Floyd | Floyd | You utter the incantation, the eldritch puissance of its awful Floyd | phonemes flowing with hideous sweetness over your tongue. The Elder Floyd | Horror howls in response, as if to drown out your spell with its Floyd | ululating tongues—but it is no use. Floyd | Floyd | A hole opens in space, and the Elder Horror is dragged by unknown Floyd | forces back to its native dimension. Floyd | Floyd | Whatever the thing was holding falls to your feet: Looks like Floyd | somebody's lecture notes. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hissing noise as a portion of the ambient atmosphere is Floyd | sucked away before the aperture closes itself. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "R" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Top of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Top of Ladder Floyd | In the middle of this east-west strip of tunnel is an open grate. In Floyd | the grate is a ladder. The ladder leads down to the sub-basement Floyd | level. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Well-Lit Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Well-Lit Corner Floyd | The passage from the west turns here, at the top of a gentle slope Floyd | leading south. This would be a great place to race office chairs, if Floyd | other concerns weren't taking precedence. Floyd | Floyd | A hacker is leaning against the wall here, taking a break from Floyd | hacking. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Graffito Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Graffito Floyd | At this intersection, the tunnels go north, south—and west, to the Floyd | chamber of your ill-advised project. Floyd | Floyd | An old graffito is on the east wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Odd Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Odd Corner Floyd | The tunnel turns from north to west here, but the passage to the west Floyd | is too dark to see where it goes. Floyd | Floyd | You take another step and slip on a piece of paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine asks, "Paper?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x paper" | ||
Floyd ] Odd Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > X PAPER Floyd | Floyd | The paper has disappeared—but you know you slipped on Floyd | something. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine exclaims, "Oh, if it's too dark to the west, let's use the light spell!" | |
| Peregrine exclaims, "The one the hacker gave us!" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kulehrif" | ||
Floyd ] Odd Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > KULEHRIF Floyd | Floyd | You mutter the incantation, and a greenish haze swims in front of your Floyd | eyes. Your knees buckle, and for a giddy moment you feel as though you Floyd | may barf. Floyd | Floyd | But when you regain your faculties, you notice your vision has Floyd | improved, and you can see easily what lurks in dark corners. You don't Floyd | notice anything new right here, though. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "K" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I guess we don't quite get the time to go there." | |
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "give up" | ||
Floyd ] Odd Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE UP Floyd | Floyd | (I really think you ought to RESTART.) Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "never give up" | ||
Floyd ] Odd Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > NEVER GIVE UP Floyd | Floyd | (I really think you ought to RESTART.) Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "I thought the odd phrasing was a clue" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kulehrif" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > KULEHRIF Floyd | Floyd | You mutter the incantation, and a greenish haze swims in front of your Floyd | eyes. Your knees buckle, and for a giddy moment you feel as though you Floyd | may barf. Floyd | Floyd | But when you regain your faculties, you notice your vision has Floyd | improved, and you can see easily what lurks in dark corners. You don't Floyd | notice anything new right here, though. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "K" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Typical Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Typical Tunnel Floyd | Before you enrolled at G.U.E. Tech, you had this romantic idea that Floyd | the tunnels would all be dingy, claustrophobic, and dangerous. But Floyd | these tunnels—the tunnels that most people see—are really more like Floyd | hallways with pipes. Floyd | Floyd | This hallway and its pipes lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eerie Corner Floyd | You've reached a bend in the tunnel where the lights don't quite Floyd | reach. You can continue east or south. Floyd | Floyd | But you can't just stand around, because an Elder Horror is flitting Floyd | through the shadows here, gibbering in little shrieks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "raenfidhre" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > RAENFIDHRE Floyd | Floyd | You utter the incantation, the eldritch puissance of its awful Floyd | phonemes flowing with hideous sweetness over your tongue. The Elder Floyd | Horror howls in response, as if to drown out your spell with its Floyd | ululating tongues—but it is no use. Floyd | Floyd | A hole opens in space, and the Elder Horror is dragged by unknown Floyd | forces back to its native dimension. Floyd | Floyd | Whatever the thing was holding falls to your feet: Looks like Floyd | somebody's lecture notes. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hissing noise as a portion of the ambient atmosphere is Floyd | sucked away before the aperture closes itself. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "R" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Top of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Top of Ladder Floyd | In the middle of this east-west strip of tunnel is an open grate. In Floyd | the grate is a ladder. The ladder leads down to the sub-basement Floyd | level. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Well-Lit Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Well-Lit Corner Floyd | The passage from the west turns here, at the top of a gentle slope Floyd | leading south. This would be a great place to race office chairs, if Floyd | other concerns weren't taking precedence. Floyd | Floyd | A hacker is leaning against the wall here, taking a break from Floyd | hacking. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Graffito Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Graffito Floyd | At this intersection, the tunnels go north, south—and west, to the Floyd | chamber of your ill-advised project. Floyd | Floyd | An old graffito is on the east wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Odd Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Odd Corner Floyd | The tunnel turns from north to west here. Floyd | Floyd | You take another step and slip on a piece of paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x paper" | ||
Floyd ] Odd Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > X PAPER Floyd | Floyd | The paper has disappeared—but you know you slipped on Floyd | something. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I thought if I cast the light spell first, I'd see the paper instead of slipping on it." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "That was a reasonavble assumption." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'd like to examine the pipes in the tunnel and try the sub-basement next." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Sure." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Odd Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | (I really think you ought to RESTART.) Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Typical Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Typical Tunnel Floyd | Before you enrolled at G.U.E. Tech, you had this romantic idea that Floyd | the tunnels would all be dingy, claustrophobic, and dangerous. But Floyd | these tunnels—the tunnels that most people see—are really more like Floyd | hallways with pipes. Floyd | Floyd | This hallway and its pipes lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pipes" | ||
Floyd ] Typical Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > X PIPES Floyd | Floyd | The pipes don't even lead to or from anywhere in particular. They're Floyd | all the same, all along this level of the tunnels. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eerie Corner Floyd | You've reached a bend in the tunnel where the lights don't quite Floyd | reach. You can continue east or south. Floyd | Floyd | But you can't just stand around, because an Elder Horror is flitting Floyd | through the shadows here, gibbering in little shrieks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "raenfidhre" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > RAENFIDHRE Floyd | Floyd | You utter the incantation, the eldritch puissance of its awful Floyd | phonemes flowing with hideous sweetness over your tongue. The Elder Floyd | Horror howls in response, as if to drown out your spell with its Floyd | ululating tongues—but it is no use. Floyd | Floyd | A hole opens in space, and the Elder Horror is dragged by unknown Floyd | forces back to its native dimension. Floyd | Floyd | Whatever the thing was holding falls to your feet: Looks like Floyd | somebody's lecture notes. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hissing noise as a portion of the ambient atmosphere is Floyd | sucked away before the aperture closes itself. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "R" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Top of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Top of Ladder Floyd | In the middle of this east-west strip of tunnel is an open grate. In Floyd | the grate is a ladder. The ladder leads down to the sub-basement Floyd | level. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Bottom of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bottom of Ladder Floyd | These are not the fun tunnels that they show you on campus tours. Floyd | These are the old tunnels. The evil tunnels. Floyd | Floyd | Ancient pipes clank and hiss, and beneath these noises—you wonder if Floyd | you're imagining—the sound of something skittering behind you. Floyd | Floyd | The ladder here goes up to the main basement level. Tunnels lead east, Floyd | south, and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "wow, more choices." | |
| DavidW says, "I tend to go with the order listed, so I'd pick east first." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I't a hydra - cut off one choice, three new ones appear." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Confusing Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Confusing Tunnel Floyd | Oh dear. This is one of those places. Floyd | Floyd | The geometry in here is incorrect. All the surfaces are inside-out. Floyd | The physical laws of some other dimension must be impinging on this Floyd | space from somewhere outside space. Floyd | Floyd | Dang. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Sure, east." | |
| DavidW says, "oh geez." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jilxube" | ||
Floyd ] Confusing Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > JILXUBE Floyd | Floyd | You struggle to pronounce the abhorrent incantation properly. When you Floyd | finally get it right, a huge mass of slime appears out of nowhere, Floyd | draping its dreadful viscousness all over everything in the immediate Floyd | area. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "J" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Confusing Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You try to move in that direction, but in this particular context the Floyd | idea of "direction" doesn't really apply, which makes it hard to get Floyd | anywhere. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "look behind me" | ||
Floyd ] Confusing Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK BEHIND ME Floyd | Floyd | (I really think you ought to RESTART.) Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Maybe we can go 'out'?" | |
| DavidW says, "no, I think a spell is needed there." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Typical Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Typical Tunnel Floyd | Before you enrolled at G.U.E. Tech, you had this romantic idea that Floyd | the tunnels would all be dingy, claustrophobic, and dangerous. But Floyd | these tunnels—the tunnels that most people see—are really more like Floyd | hallways with pipes. Floyd | Floyd | This hallway and its pipes lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eerie Corner Floyd | You've reached a bend in the tunnel where the lights don't quite Floyd | reach. You can continue east or south. Floyd | Floyd | But you can't just stand around, because an Elder Horror is flitting Floyd | through the shadows here, gibbering in little shrieks. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I suspect it's one we don't have yet then." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "raenfidhre" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > RAENFIDHRE Floyd | Floyd | You utter the incantation, the eldritch puissance of its awful Floyd | phonemes flowing with hideous sweetness over your tongue. The Elder Floyd | Horror howls in response, as if to drown out your spell with its Floyd | ululating tongues—but it is no use. Floyd | Floyd | A hole opens in space, and the Elder Horror is dragged by unknown Floyd | forces back to its native dimension. Floyd | Floyd | Whatever the thing was holding falls to your feet: Looks like Floyd | somebody's lecture notes. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hissing noise as a portion of the ambient atmosphere is Floyd | sucked away before the aperture closes itself. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "R" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Top of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Top of Ladder Floyd | In the middle of this east-west strip of tunnel is an open grate. In Floyd | the grate is a ladder. The ladder leads down to the sub-basement Floyd | level. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Bottom of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bottom of Ladder Floyd | These are not the fun tunnels that they show you on campus tours. Floyd | These are the old tunnels. The evil tunnels. Floyd | Floyd | Ancient pipes clank and hiss, and beneath these noises—you wonder if Floyd | you're imagining—the sound of something skittering behind you. Floyd | Floyd | The ladder here goes up to the main basement level. Tunnels lead east, Floyd | south, and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Power Station Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Power Station Floyd | Thrumming all around you are hulks of decrepit machinery, sagging Floyd | under the weight of decades, struggling to supply power to the Floyd | university above. And twisting through their cables are the insidious Floyd | tentacles of Ynf-Okh-Omm, worming their way through the ceiling from Floyd | its chamber above. The Eldest Horror is leeching power from G.U.E.'s Floyd | electrical system! This is your fault! Floyd | Floyd | The tunnels continue north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Let's see if slime can short it out." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jilxube" | ||
Floyd ] Power Station Floyd | > Floyd | > JILXUBE Floyd | Floyd | You struggle to pronounce the abhorrent incantation properly. When you Floyd | finally get it right, a huge mass of slime appears out of nowhere, Floyd | draping its dreadful viscousness all over everything in the immediate Floyd | area. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "J" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "nope" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x machinery" | ||
Floyd ] Power Station Floyd | > Floyd | > X MACHINERY Floyd | Floyd | Some of these machines date back to the eighties. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Can we simply turn it off?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn off machinery" | ||
Floyd ] Power Station Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN OFF MACHINERY Floyd | Floyd | It isn't something you can switch. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "nope" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Hm." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Explore south of the power station next?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Typical Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Typical Tunnel Floyd | Before you enrolled at G.U.E. Tech, you had this romantic idea that Floyd | the tunnels would all be dingy, claustrophobic, and dangerous. But Floyd | these tunnels—the tunnels that most people see—are really more like Floyd | hallways with pipes. Floyd | Floyd | This hallway and its pipes lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eerie Corner Floyd | You've reached a bend in the tunnel where the lights don't quite Floyd | reach. You can continue east or south. Floyd | Floyd | But you can't just stand around, because an Elder Horror is flitting Floyd | through the shadows here, gibbering in little shrieks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "raenfidhre" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > RAENFIDHRE Floyd | Floyd | You utter the incantation, the eldritch puissance of its awful Floyd | phonemes flowing with hideous sweetness over your tongue. The Elder Floyd | Horror howls in response, as if to drown out your spell with its Floyd | ululating tongues—but it is no use. Floyd | Floyd | A hole opens in space, and the Elder Horror is dragged by unknown Floyd | forces back to its native dimension. Floyd | Floyd | Whatever the thing was holding falls to your feet: Looks like Floyd | somebody's lecture notes. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hissing noise as a portion of the ambient atmosphere is Floyd | sucked away before the aperture closes itself. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "R" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Top of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Top of Ladder Floyd | In the middle of this east-west strip of tunnel is an open grate. In Floyd | the grate is a ladder. The ladder leads down to the sub-basement Floyd | level. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Bottom of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bottom of Ladder Floyd | These are not the fun tunnels that they show you on campus tours. Floyd | These are the old tunnels. The evil tunnels. Floyd | Floyd | Ancient pipes clank and hiss, and beneath these noises—you wonder if Floyd | you're imagining—the sound of something skittering behind you. Floyd | Floyd | The ladder here goes up to the main basement level. Tunnels lead east, Floyd | south, and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Power Station Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Power Station Floyd | Thrumming all around you are hulks of decrepit machinery, sagging Floyd | under the weight of decades, struggling to supply power to the Floyd | university above. And twisting through their cables are the insidious Floyd | tentacles of Ynf-Okh-Omm, worming their way through the ceiling from Floyd | its chamber above. The Eldest Horror is leeching power from G.U.E.'s Floyd | electrical system! This is your fault! Floyd | Floyd | The tunnels continue north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Dark Intersection Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dark Intersection Floyd | The lights have gone out in this chamber, and you can't see your own Floyd | hand in front of your face, but you can just make out paths to the Floyd | north, east, and west. Floyd | Floyd | And you can definitely hear something slithering squamously nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kulehrif" | ||
Floyd ] Dim Intersection Floyd | > Floyd | > KULEHRIF Floyd | Floyd | You mutter the incantation, and a greenish haze swims in front of your Floyd | eyes. Your knees buckle, and for a giddy moment you feel as though you Floyd | may barf. Floyd | Floyd | But when you regain your faculties, you notice your vision has Floyd | improved, and the room does not seem so dark now: Floyd | Floyd | Dim Intersection Floyd | The lights have gone out in this chamber, but you can clearly see the Floyd | paths to the north, east, and west. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an Elder Horror near you. Whether it can see you Floyd | remains to be seen. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "K" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Dim Intersection Floyd | > Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | You utter the incantation, the eldritch puissance of its awful Floyd | phonemes flowing with hideous sweetness over your tongue. The Elder Floyd | Horror squeals in shock and inhuman pain, and its entire form Floyd | undulates bizarrely as a rent in the universe swallows it up. There is Floyd | a sharp squelching noise as the interstice sucks away some of this Floyd | world's air before it closes completely. Floyd | Floyd | Apparently the creature had been coiled around a statuette. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Dim Intersection Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Dim Intersection Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Dim Intersection Floyd | > Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | You utter the incantation, the eldritch puissance of its awful Floyd | phonemes flowing with hideous sweetness over your tongue. The Elder Floyd | Horror squeals in shock and inhuman pain, and its entire form Floyd | undulates bizarrely as a rent in the universe swallows it up. There is Floyd | a sharp squelching noise as the interstice sucks away some of this Floyd | world's air before it closes completely. Floyd | Floyd | Apparently the creature had been coiled around a statuette. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "f time travel harder" | |
| DavidW says, "I'm thinking if I didn't cast the light spell, I could just use R to get rid of the 2nd elder." | ||
| Ellison asks, "if the eldest horror wakes on a timer, can we do something to prolong its sleep? cover it in comfy slime?" | ||
| zarf arrives, full of fun and funk. | DavidW says (to Ellison), "I don't know. We can eventually try that." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Typical Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Typical Tunnel Floyd | Before you enrolled at G.U.E. Tech, you had this romantic idea that Floyd | the tunnels would all be dingy, claustrophobic, and dangerous. But Floyd | these tunnels—the tunnels that most people see—are really more like Floyd | hallways with pipes. Floyd | Floyd | This hallway and its pipes lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eerie Corner Floyd | You've reached a bend in the tunnel where the lights don't quite Floyd | reach. You can continue east or south. Floyd | Floyd | But you can't just stand around, because an Elder Horror is flitting Floyd | through the shadows here, gibbering in little shrieks. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Well, presumably we'll get more time when we deal with the machinery." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "raenfidhre" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > RAENFIDHRE Floyd | Floyd | You utter the incantation, the eldritch puissance of its awful Floyd | phonemes flowing with hideous sweetness over your tongue. The Elder Floyd | Horror howls in response, as if to drown out your spell with its Floyd | ululating tongues—but it is no use. Floyd | Floyd | A hole opens in space, and the Elder Horror is dragged by unknown Floyd | forces back to its native dimension. Floyd | Floyd | Whatever the thing was holding falls to your feet: Looks like Floyd | somebody's lecture notes. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hissing noise as a portion of the ambient atmosphere is Floyd | sucked away before the aperture closes itself. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "R" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Top of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Top of Ladder Floyd | In the middle of this east-west strip of tunnel is an open grate. In Floyd | the grate is a ladder. The ladder leads down to the sub-basement Floyd | level. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Bottom of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bottom of Ladder Floyd | These are not the fun tunnels that they show you on campus tours. Floyd | These are the old tunnels. The evil tunnels. Floyd | Floyd | Ancient pipes clank and hiss, and beneath these noises—you wonder if Floyd | you're imagining—the sound of something skittering behind you. Floyd | Floyd | The ladder here goes up to the main basement level. Tunnels lead east, Floyd | south, and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Power Station Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Power Station Floyd | Thrumming all around you are hulks of decrepit machinery, sagging Floyd | under the weight of decades, struggling to supply power to the Floyd | university above. And twisting through their cables are the insidious Floyd | tentacles of Ynf-Okh-Omm, worming their way through the ceiling from Floyd | its chamber above. The Eldest Horror is leeching power from G.U.E.'s Floyd | electrical system! This is your fault! Floyd | Floyd | The tunnels continue north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Dark Intersection Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dark Intersection Floyd | The lights have gone out in this chamber, and you can't see your own Floyd | hand in front of your face, but you can just make out paths to the Floyd | north, east, and west. Floyd | Floyd | And you can definitely hear something slithering squamously nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd ] Dark Intersection Floyd | > Floyd | > R Floyd | Floyd | You utter the incantation, the eldritch puissance of its awful Floyd | phonemes flowing with hideous sweetness over your tongue. You hear Floyd | something squeal in shock and inhuman pain. Then you hear a sharp Floyd | squelching noise. Floyd | Floyd | Then you hear something clank against the floor. What the heck was Floyd | that? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x statuette" | ||
Floyd ] Dark Intersection Floyd | > Floyd | > X STATUETTE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kulehrif" | ||
Floyd ] Dim Intersection Floyd | > Floyd | > KULEHRIF Floyd | Floyd | You mutter the incantation, and a greenish haze swims in front of your Floyd | eyes. Your knees buckle, and for a giddy moment you feel as though you Floyd | may barf. Floyd | Floyd | But when you regain your faculties, you notice your vision has Floyd | improved, and the room does not seem so dark now: Floyd | Floyd | Dim Intersection Floyd | The lights have gone out in this chamber, but you can clearly see the Floyd | paths to the north, east, and west. Floyd | Floyd | There is a statuette sitting on the floor here. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "K" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. There's just not enough time to get to the statuette." | |
| DavidW says, "I suggest exploring west of the ladder bottom next." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Definitely." | ||
| DavidW says, "We could also, uh, ignore this 2nd elder and try to go past it into a dark tunnel." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Hm, possibly." | ||
| zarf says, "I point out that "X statuette" blew a turn" | ||
| DavidW says (to zarf), "True." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "But there's little time to do something there then." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Typical Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Typical Tunnel Floyd | Before you enrolled at G.U.E. Tech, you had this romantic idea that Floyd | the tunnels would all be dingy, claustrophobic, and dangerous. But Floyd | these tunnels—the tunnels that most people see—are really more like Floyd | hallways with pipes. Floyd | Floyd | This hallway and its pipes lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eerie Corner Floyd | You've reached a bend in the tunnel where the lights don't quite Floyd | reach. You can continue east or south. Floyd | Floyd | But you can't just stand around, because an Elder Horror is flitting Floyd | through the shadows here, gibbering in little shrieks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "raenfidhre" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > RAENFIDHRE Floyd | Floyd | You utter the incantation, the eldritch puissance of its awful Floyd | phonemes flowing with hideous sweetness over your tongue. The Elder Floyd | Horror howls in response, as if to drown out your spell with its Floyd | ululating tongues—but it is no use. Floyd | Floyd | A hole opens in space, and the Elder Horror is dragged by unknown Floyd | forces back to its native dimension. Floyd | Floyd | Whatever the thing was holding falls to your feet: Looks like Floyd | somebody's lecture notes. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a hissing noise as a portion of the ambient atmosphere is Floyd | sucked away before the aperture closes itself. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "R" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "It may be enough, though." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Top of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Top of Ladder Floyd | In the middle of this east-west strip of tunnel is an open grate. In Floyd | the grate is a ladder. The ladder leads down to the sub-basement Floyd | level. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Bottom of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bottom of Ladder Floyd | These are not the fun tunnels that they show you on campus tours. Floyd | These are the old tunnels. The evil tunnels. Floyd | Floyd | Ancient pipes clank and hiss, and beneath these noises—you wonder if Floyd | you're imagining—the sound of something skittering behind you. Floyd | Floyd | The ladder here goes up to the main basement level. Tunnels lead east, Floyd | south, and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Circular Tunnel Floyd | This damp tunnel looks like it used to be a sewer, or a pneumatic Floyd | railroad. The curved floor makes it difficult to walk without keeping Floyd | a hand on the damp curved walls. Floyd | Floyd | The way back is east. The tunnel continues south, beyond a Floyd | waterfall-like curtain of slime. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "south, I guess?" | |
| Knight_Otu is reminded of Ghostbusters 2. | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Sure, let's try." | ||
| DavidW asks, "or waste a turn examining the waterfall?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I guess south first." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You reach tentatively at the curtain of slime, and the acrid substance Floyd | burns your hand. Apparently walking through this stuff wouldn't just Floyd | be disgusting; it could be deadly. Floyd | Floyd | So how do you get it to stop flowing? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ebuxlij" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > EBUXLIJ Floyd | Floyd | That verb doesn't work in this story. Sorry. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jilxube" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > JILXUBE Floyd | Floyd | You successfully cast the spell, but the slime that you conjure only Floyd | adds to the curtain of slime that's already flowing down across the Floyd | passage to the south. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "J" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "No base slime vs acid slime, I guess." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x waterfall" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > X WATERFALL Floyd | Floyd | The slime falls down in thick, globby rivulets, and the tunnel beyond Floyd | is difficult to make out. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Allen has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Knight_Otu says, "I guess we delve into the darkness, then." | |
| DavidW says, "I'm running out of useful ideas, but I think maybe TALK TO with all NPCs seen so far? Also, we can try to slime the big bad elder." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I don't think our spells help with the envelope." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Oh yeah,talk to may bring other info to light, yes." | ||
| DavidW asks (of KO), "What if the envelope floats upward on the slime to us?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I'm doubtful, but we can try." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm doubtful too, but I'm out of *good* ideas." | ||
| DavidW says, "Let's try the fill the pit with slime idea first, then." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | The Alchemy building feels small and defenseless in the face of the Floyd | wild thunderstorm outside. Rain and howling wind pound at the doors to Floyd | the north and east. A stairway leads down to the basement (and the Floyd | tunnels). Floyd | Floyd | This lobby is especially creepy because there's an informative poster Floyd | depicting an Elder Horror hanging on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Construction Site Floyd | Torrents of rain lash at the earth in blind fury. Floyd | Floyd | This is the future site of the Gentry Antiquarian Center. Right now Floyd | it's a rectangular pit with concrete walls. Floyd | Floyd | The Alchemy building is south. Another building—a despicable Floyd | building—is further north. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Well, the talk to idea is an option." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jilxube" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > JILXUBE Floyd | Floyd | You struggle to pronounce the abhorrent incantation properly. When you Floyd | finally get it right, a huge mass of slime appears out of nowhere. Floyd | Floyd | The slime, driven by an invisible and irresistible impulse, flows into Floyd | the subterranean walls of the construction site, filling the pit until Floyd | the level of the ghastly liquid is even with the surrounding earth. A Floyd | manila envelope floats up to glide lazily over the surface. Floyd | Floyd | An idea creeps over your brain that the slime may have done all this Floyd | because you wanted it to, and you shudder. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "J" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Have we been east of the lobby?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read envelope" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > READ ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | Hard to tell from way over here, but it looks like campus mail. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Construction Site Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take envelope" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | Reaching the envelope now would require swimming through a pool of Floyd | slime, which is a no-go. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Oh my goodness, it worked... or not." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "j" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > J Floyd | Floyd | You cast the spell again, and more repulsive slime flows into this Floyd | universe from without—but it simply flows to join the slime within Floyd | the Floyd | construction pit. The level of the slime doesn't rise an inch. This is Floyd | all disturbingly convenient. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "so, this is a partial solution?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah, I guess we need some grabbing pole of some sort." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Or something that works similarly." | ||
| DavidW says, "Unless the ladder is portable, I don't think I've need a pole-like thing anywhere." | ||
| DavidW says, "er seen" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | The Alchemy building feels small and defenseless in the face of the Floyd | wild thunderstorm outside. Rain and howling wind pound at the doors to Floyd | the north and east. A stairway leads down to the basement (and the Floyd | tunnels). Floyd | Floyd | This lobby is especially creepy because there's an informative poster Floyd | depicting an Elder Horror hanging on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I think we haven't been east of the lobby." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take poster" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE POSTER Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you need to take with you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move poster" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > MOVE POSTER Floyd | Floyd | The informative poster is fine right there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | Normally, this grassy courtyard is a favorite spot for joggers and Floyd | Ultimate Frisbee players—but what with the rain, and the lightning, Floyd | there's nobody here right now. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is the Department of Alchemy. East is the Department of Floyd | Necromancy. North is the Department of Linguistics. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. I missed this exit entirely." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I only just saw it when you went to the pit." | ||
| DavidW says, "okay, we must explore those." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | The Alchemy building feels small and defenseless in the face of the Floyd | wild thunderstorm outside. Rain and howling wind pound at the doors to Floyd | the north and east. A stairway leads down to the basement (and the Floyd | tunnels). Floyd | Floyd | This lobby is especially creepy because there's an informative poster Floyd | depicting an Elder Horror hanging on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | Normally, this grassy courtyard is a favorite spot for joggers and Floyd | Ultimate Frisbee players—but what with the rain, and the lightning, Floyd | there's nobody here right now. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is the Department of Alchemy. East is the Department of Floyd | Necromancy. North is the Department of Linguistics. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Necromancy first?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Sure." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Necromancy Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Necromancy Hallway Floyd | You seem to be in a hallway—but it's too dark to see which way it Floyd | leads, what it leads to, or what else is in here with you. The only Floyd | thing you can see is the way outside, to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kulehrif" | ||
Floyd ] Necromancy Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > KULEHRIF Floyd | Floyd | You mutter the incantation, and a greenish haze swims in front of your Floyd | eyes. Your knees buckle, and for a giddy moment you feel as though you Floyd | may barf. Floyd | Floyd | But when you regain your faculties, you notice your vision has Floyd | improved, and the room does not seem so dark now: Floyd | Floyd | Necromancy Hallway Floyd | Looks like there are no necromancy students here tonight, which is Floyd | just as well. Floyd | Floyd | This hallway leads north and west. Floyd | Floyd | And there's a dead cockroach on the floor here! Gross. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "K" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "uh, I note the cockroach but suggest leaving it alone for now." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Let's not waste our timer." | ||
| DavidW says, "But I suspect zombie roach will be willing to be our slave soon." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Necromancy Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Necromancy Lab Floyd | Lightning flashes, your hair stands on end, and then a hideous peal of Floyd | thunder shakes the building. Floyd | Floyd | There are about a dozen workstations here for students to practice Floyd | their necromantic arts upon, but nobody's here right now. Floyd | Floyd | There is, however, a scrap of paper on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read paper" | ||
Floyd ] Necromancy Lab Floyd | > Floyd | > READ PAPER Floyd | Floyd | The top of the page indicates that these are notes from an intro-level Floyd | Necromancy class. The student has scribbled and crossed out a long Floyd | list of incantations. The final attempt, "HTERWERBSET," has been Floyd | circled triumphantly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Gesundheit." | |
| DavidW says, "well, I plan to use that on the roach asap." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Necromancy Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Necromancy Hallway Floyd | There are no necromancy students here tonight. The place is as quiet Floyd | as the—well, it's quiet. Floyd | Floyd | This hallway leads north and west. Floyd | Floyd | That dead bug is still here. Upsetting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hterwerbset" | ||
Floyd ] Necromancy Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > HTERWERBSET Floyd | Floyd | You whisper the incantation, and feel a daemoniac power crystallize in Floyd | the air, its vertices aligned by the awful syllables as they leave Floyd | your lips. Floyd | Floyd | The spell's angles align with something invisible and dreadful, and Floyd | the roach on the floor springs to life. It makes a grateful hissing Floyd | noise before crawling speedily away. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "H" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "That's less slavish than I expected." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "At least it was grateful." | ||
| Roger says, "Maybe the statuette can be animated unseen" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Maybe it goes to gnaw on our eldest." | ||
| DavidW says, "hm. Statuettes aren't usually alive prior to being carved." | ||
| DavidW says, "I think we ought to explore linguistics next." | ||
| Roger says, "Sure" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | Normally, this grassy courtyard is a favorite spot for joggers and Floyd | Ultimate Frisbee players—but what with the rain, and the lightning, Floyd | there's nobody here right now. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is the Department of Alchemy. East is the Department of Floyd | Necromancy. North is the Department of Linguistics. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | The Alchemy building feels small and defenseless in the face of the Floyd | wild thunderstorm outside. Rain and howling wind pound at the doors to Floyd | the north and east. A stairway leads down to the basement (and the Floyd | tunnels). Floyd | Floyd | This lobby is especially creepy because there's an informative poster Floyd | depicting an Elder Horror hanging on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | Normally, this grassy courtyard is a favorite spot for joggers and Floyd | Ultimate Frisbee players—but what with the rain, and the lightning, Floyd | there's nobody here right now. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is the Department of Alchemy. East is the Department of Floyd | Necromancy. North is the Department of Linguistics. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Linguistics Floyd | There's not much here—the Linguistics department was organized with a Floyd | minimalist philosophy in mind. A likely-looking (and heavy-looking) Floyd | grimoire rests on a pedestal in an alcove. Floyd | Floyd | The way out is south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x grimoire" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | > Floyd | > X GRIMOIRE Floyd | Floyd | You reach out to inspect the grimoire. Your hand runs into something. Floyd | Something squishy and invisible. Floyd | Floyd | You hold still for a second: You think you can hear it breathing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Likely-looking?" | |
| Roger says, "slime-paint it perhaps" | ||
| DavidW asks, "um, slime it?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jilxube" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | > Floyd | > JILXUBE Floyd | Floyd | You struggle to pronounce the abhorrent incantation properly. When you Floyd | finally get it right, a huge mass of slime appears out of nowhere, Floyd | draping its dreadful viscousness all over everything in the immediate Floyd | area. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "J" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Department of Linguistics Floyd | There's not much here—the Linguistics department was organized with a Floyd | minimalist philosophy in mind. A likely-looking (and heavy-looking) Floyd | grimoire rests on a pedestal in an alcove. Floyd | Floyd | The way out is south. Floyd | Floyd | Also, everything here is covered in slime. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Department of Linguistics Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x grimoire" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | > Floyd | > X GRIMOIRE Floyd | Floyd | You move your hands around and confirm that the invisible thing is Floyd | blocking the entire alcove. Great. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "raenfidhre" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | > Floyd | > RAENFIDHRE Floyd | Floyd | You utter the incantation, the eldritch puissance of its awful Floyd | phonemes flowing with hideous sweetness over your tongue. Floyd | Floyd | Did it work? Floyd | Floyd | You reach out into space—and touch the horrid thing again. Darn. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "R" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Hum." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kulehrif" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | > Floyd | > KULEHRIF Floyd | Floyd | You mutter the incantation, and a greenish haze swims in front of your Floyd | eyes. Your knees buckle, and for a giddy moment you feel as though you Floyd | may barf. Floyd | Floyd | But when you regain your faculties, you notice your vision has Floyd | improved, and you can see easily what lurks in dark corners. You don't Floyd | notice anything new right here, though. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "K" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hterwerbset" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | > Floyd | > HTERWERBSET Floyd | Floyd | You whisper the incantation, and feel a daemoniac power crystallize in Floyd | the air, its vertices aligned by the awful syllables as they leave Floyd | your lips. Floyd | Floyd | But nothing else happens, and the abominable polyhedron gradually Floyd | melts away. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "H" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I would have expected the slime thing to work." | |
| DavidW asks, "'abominable polyhedron'?" | ||
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "DnD is necromancy confirmed!" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes, the slime ought to have helped somewhat." | ||
| DavidW says, "Let's try the necro first on it." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | The Alchemy building feels small and defenseless in the face of the Floyd | wild thunderstorm outside. Rain and howling wind pound at the doors to Floyd | the north and east. A stairway leads down to the basement (and the Floyd | tunnels). Floyd | Floyd | This lobby is especially creepy because there's an informative poster Floyd | depicting an Elder Horror hanging on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | Normally, this grassy courtyard is a favorite spot for joggers and Floyd | Ultimate Frisbee players—but what with the rain, and the lightning, Floyd | there's nobody here right now. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is the Department of Alchemy. East is the Department of Floyd | Necromancy. North is the Department of Linguistics. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Linguistics Floyd | There's not much here—the Linguistics department was organized with a Floyd | minimalist philosophy in mind. A likely-looking (and heavy-looking) Floyd | grimoire rests on a pedestal in an alcove. Floyd | Floyd | The way out is south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hterwerbset" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | > Floyd | > HTERWERBSET Floyd | Floyd | You whisper the incantation, and feel a daemoniac power crystallize in Floyd | the air, its vertices aligned by the awful syllables as they leave Floyd | your lips. Floyd | Floyd | But nothing else happens, and the abominable polyhedron gradually Floyd | melts away. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "H" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x grimoire" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | > Floyd | > X GRIMOIRE Floyd | Floyd | You reach out to inspect the grimoire. Your hand runs into something. Floyd | Something squishy and invisible. Floyd | Floyd | You hold still for a second: You think you can hear it breathing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, the polyhedron is the necro spell itself, not the invisible whatever." | |
| Roger says, "maybe try READ instead of X" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read grimoire" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | > Floyd | > READ GRIMOIRE Floyd | Floyd | You move your hands around and confirm that the invisible thing is Floyd | blocking the entire alcove. Great. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to invisible" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO INVISIBLE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see the thing. You can touch it, and hear it, but these Floyd | senses yield no actionable information—only a queasy feeling. Floyd | Floyd | What we have here is an Elder Horror, probably. But is it really Floyd | here? Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger asks, "We can hear it?" | |
| DavidW says, "well, I'm stuck with this puzzle. Perhaps we can try something else elsewhere." | ||
| DavidW says, "Yes, we hear it breathing." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "If it's not here... the best bet I'd have is that weird room in the subbasement." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Wgich would mean it's for when we extend our timer." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Which, even." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'd like to try talking to the student next." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Sure." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm also wondering if the animated roach can get the envelope for us." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Hm." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Possibly." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit invisible" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | > Floyd | > HIT INVISIBLE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see the thing. You can touch it, and hear it, but these Floyd | senses yield no actionable information—only a queasy feeling. Floyd | Floyd | What we have here is an Elder Horror, probably. But is it really Floyd | here? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "raenfidhre" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | > Floyd | > RAENFIDHRE Floyd | Floyd | You utter the incantation, the eldritch puissance of its awful Floyd | phonemes flowing with hideous sweetness over your tongue. Floyd | Floyd | Did it work? Floyd | Floyd | You reach out into space—and touch the horrid thing again. Darn. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "R" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | The Alchemy building feels small and defenseless in the face of the Floyd | wild thunderstorm outside. Rain and howling wind pound at the doors to Floyd | the north and east. A stairway leads down to the basement (and the Floyd | tunnels). Floyd | Floyd | This lobby is especially creepy because there's an informative poster Floyd | depicting an Elder Horror hanging on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Construction Site Floyd | Torrents of rain lash at the earth in blind fury. Floyd | Floyd | This is the future site of the Gentry Antiquarian Center. Right now Floyd | it's a rectangular pit with concrete walls. Floyd | Floyd | The Alchemy building is south. Another building—a despicable Floyd | building—is further north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside Department of Sorcery Floyd | The forboding building to the east houses the Department of Sorcery, Floyd | which frequently competes with the Alchemy department for funding and Floyd | is always reserving the best classrooms before Alchemy can get a Floyd | chance. The rest of the campus is south from here. Floyd | Floyd | Thunder rumbles nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | You break out in gooseflesh as you contemplate the eldritch Floyd | experiments performed within these walls on a daily basis. You don't Floyd | like visiting this place unless you have to. It even smells Floyd | pretentious. Floyd | Floyd | The department head's office is down the hall to the east. The way Floyd | back outside is west. Floyd | Floyd | The only person here tonight is a grad student whom you kind of know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to student" | ||
Floyd ] Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO STUDENT Floyd | Floyd | He's a sorcery student you've seen around campus, usually sitting down Floyd | in a secluded study space you were hoping to use. Floyd | Floyd | He squints at you. "What are you doing here?" Floyd | Floyd | "None of your beeswax," you snap back. "What are you doing Floyd | here?" Floyd | Floyd | He curls his lip into an odious sneer. "The department head asked me Floyd | to help with some research, so I'm on my way to his office." Floyd | Floyd | "Well, great for you," you respond, facetiously. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to student" | ||
Floyd ] Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO STUDENT Floyd | Floyd | He's a sorcery student you've seen around campus, usually sitting down Floyd | in a secluded study space you were hoping to use. Floyd | Floyd | He squints at you. "What are you doing here?" Floyd | Floyd | "None of your beeswax," you snap back. "What are you doing Floyd | here?" Floyd | Floyd | He curls his lip into an odious sneer. "The department head asked me Floyd | to help with some research, so I'm on my way to his office." Floyd | Floyd | "Well, great for you," you respond, facetiously. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "drat. No new info." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||
Floyd ] Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL Floyd | Floyd | You'd rather not. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hterwerbset" | ||
Floyd ] Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > HTERWERBSET Floyd | Floyd | You whisper the incantation, and feel a daemoniac power crystallize in Floyd | the air, its vertices aligned by the awful syllables as they leave Floyd | your lips. Floyd | Floyd | But nothing else happens, and the abominable polyhedron gradually Floyd | melts away. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "H" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "raenfidhre" | ||
Floyd ] Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > RAENFIDHRE Floyd | Floyd | You utter the incantation, the eldritch puissance of its awful Floyd | phonemes flowing with hideous sweetness over your tongue. Floyd | Floyd | Nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "R" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "okay, I'm going to try to animate the roach, head to the pit, and fill it with slime, hoping the roach will show up and get the envelope in a fit of gratitude." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Sure." | ||
| DavidW says, "Highly unlikely we have time to do all that, though." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | The Alchemy building feels small and defenseless in the face of the Floyd | wild thunderstorm outside. Rain and howling wind pound at the doors to Floyd | the north and east. A stairway leads down to the basement (and the Floyd | tunnels). Floyd | Floyd | This lobby is especially creepy because there's an informative poster Floyd | depicting an Elder Horror hanging on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | Normally, this grassy courtyard is a favorite spot for joggers and Floyd | Ultimate Frisbee players—but what with the rain, and the lightning, Floyd | there's nobody here right now. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is the Department of Alchemy. East is the Department of Floyd | Necromancy. North is the Department of Linguistics. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Necromancy Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Necromancy Hallway Floyd | You seem to be in a hallway—but it's too dark to see which way it Floyd | leads, what it leads to, or what else is in here with you. The only Floyd | thing you can see is the way outside, to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hterwerbset" | ||
Floyd ] Necromancy Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > HTERWERBSET Floyd | Floyd | You whisper the incantation, and feel a daemoniac power crystallize in Floyd | the air, its vertices aligned by the awful syllables as they leave Floyd | your lips. Floyd | Floyd | The spell's angles align with something invisible and dreadful, and Floyd | you hear a low skittering. Something brushes against your foot. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "H" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | Normally, this grassy courtyard is a favorite spot for joggers and Floyd | Ultimate Frisbee players—but what with the rain, and the lightning, Floyd | there's nobody here right now. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is the Department of Alchemy. East is the Department of Floyd | Necromancy. North is the Department of Linguistics. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | The Alchemy building feels small and defenseless in the face of the Floyd | wild thunderstorm outside. Rain and howling wind pound at the doors to Floyd | the north and east. A stairway leads down to the basement (and the Floyd | tunnels). Floyd | Floyd | This lobby is especially creepy because there's an informative poster Floyd | depicting an Elder Horror hanging on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Construction Site Floyd | Torrents of rain lash at the earth in blind fury. Floyd | Floyd | This is the future site of the Gentry Antiquarian Center. Right now Floyd | it's a rectangular pit with concrete walls. Floyd | Floyd | The Alchemy building is south. Another building—a despicable Floyd | building—is further north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jilxube" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > JILXUBE Floyd | Floyd | You struggle to pronounce the abhorrent incantation properly. When you Floyd | finally get it right, a huge mass of slime appears out of nowhere. Floyd | Floyd | The slime, driven by an invisible and irresistible impulse, flows into Floyd | the subterranean walls of the construction site, filling the pit until Floyd | the level of the ghastly liquid is even with the surrounding earth. A Floyd | manila envelope floats up to glide lazily over the surface. Floyd | Floyd | An idea creeps over your brain that the slime may have done all this Floyd | because you wanted it to, and you shudder. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "J" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take envelope" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | Reaching the envelope now would require swimming through a pool of Floyd | slime, which is a no-go. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Hm." | |
| DavidW says, "The roach didn't show up here." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Can we animate the slime perhaps? Doesn't seem too likely, though." | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't think we can find the roach and take it and put it in the pit. There's no time or light for that." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Try talking to the hacker? Or to the tunnel elder?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Sure." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Typical Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Typical Tunnel Floyd | Before you enrolled at G.U.E. Tech, you had this romantic idea that Floyd | the tunnels would all be dingy, claustrophobic, and dangerous. But Floyd | these tunnels—the tunnels that most people see—are really more like Floyd | hallways with pipes. Floyd | Floyd | This hallway and its pipes lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eerie Corner Floyd | You've reached a bend in the tunnel where the lights don't quite Floyd | reach. You can continue east or south. Floyd | Floyd | But you can't just stand around, because an Elder Horror is flitting Floyd | through the shadows here, gibbering in little shrieks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to horror" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO HORROR Floyd | Floyd | The gibbering horror isn't very talkative. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x horror" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > X HORROR Floyd | Floyd | You can only bring yourself to glance at the unnamable thing, but you Floyd | notice it has something clutched in its claws. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Top of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Top of Ladder Floyd | In the middle of this east-west strip of tunnel is an open grate. In Floyd | the grate is a ladder. The ladder leads down to the sub-basement Floyd | level. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Interesting. We can walk past him." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Oh." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Well-Lit Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Well-Lit Corner Floyd | The passage from the west turns here, at the top of a gentle slope Floyd | leading south. This would be a great place to race office chairs, if Floyd | other concerns weren't taking precedence. Floyd | Floyd | A hacker is leaning against the wall here, taking a break from Floyd | hacking. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to hacker" | ||
Floyd ] Well-Lit Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO HACKER Floyd | Floyd | You can tell she's an accomplished hacker from the unrealistically Floyd | heavy key ring hanging from her belt loop. Anyone who has that many Floyd | keys isn't supposed to have all of them. Floyd | Floyd | You wave to each other, and are about to exchange pleasantries when a Floyd | massive peal of thunder from above shakes the tunnels. The lights go Floyd | out. Floyd | Floyd | The lights come back on. The two of you grimace. Floyd | Floyd | "Hey," says the hacker. "If the lights ever go out for real, I know a Floyd | spell that for seeing in the dark. It's 'kulehrif.' You say it just Floyd | like that." Floyd | Floyd | You nod. "Thanks. I probably should have known that already." Floyd | Floyd | "It's okay. At least you only have to learn something for the first Floyd | time once." Floyd | Floyd | "That is so true," you say. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu exclaims, "That saves a turn!" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to hacker" | ||
Floyd ] Well-Lit Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO HACKER Floyd | Floyd | You can tell she's an accomplished hacker from the unrealistically Floyd | heavy key ring hanging from her belt loop. Anyone who has that many Floyd | keys isn't supposed to have all of them. Floyd | Floyd | You smile at each other politely, but there isn't really anything else Floyd | to talk about. You're kind of in a hurry. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, true." | |
| DavidW says, "So we could examine that statuette in time." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| DavidW says, "As long as we ignore the first horror." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Graffito Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Graffito Floyd | At this intersection, the tunnels go north, south—and west, to the Floyd | chamber of your ill-advised project. Floyd | Floyd | An old graffito is on the east wall. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Typical Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Typical Tunnel Floyd | Before you enrolled at G.U.E. Tech, you had this romantic idea that Floyd | the tunnels would all be dingy, claustrophobic, and dangerous. But Floyd | these tunnels—the tunnels that most people see—are really more like Floyd | hallways with pipes. Floyd | Floyd | This hallway and its pipes lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eerie Corner Floyd | You've reached a bend in the tunnel where the lights don't quite Floyd | reach. You can continue east or south. Floyd | Floyd | But you can't just stand around, because an Elder Horror is flitting Floyd | through the shadows here, gibbering in little shrieks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Top of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Top of Ladder Floyd | In the middle of this east-west strip of tunnel is an open grate. In Floyd | the grate is a ladder. The ladder leads down to the sub-basement Floyd | level. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Bottom of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bottom of Ladder Floyd | These are not the fun tunnels that they show you on campus tours. Floyd | These are the old tunnels. The evil tunnels. Floyd | Floyd | Ancient pipes clank and hiss, and beneath these noises—you wonder if Floyd | you're imagining—the sound of something skittering behind you. Floyd | Floyd | The ladder here goes up to the main basement level. Tunnels lead east, Floyd | south, and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Power Station Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Power Station Floyd | Thrumming all around you are hulks of decrepit machinery, sagging Floyd | under the weight of decades, struggling to supply power to the Floyd | university above. And twisting through their cables are the insidious Floyd | tentacles of Ynf-Okh-Omm, worming their way through the ceiling from Floyd | its chamber above. The Eldest Horror is leeching power from G.U.E.'s Floyd | electrical system! This is your fault! Floyd | Floyd | The tunnels continue north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "That surely won't have repercussions." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Dark Intersection Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dark Intersection Floyd | The lights have gone out in this chamber, and you can't see your own Floyd | hand in front of your face, but you can just make out paths to the Floyd | north, east, and west. Floyd | Floyd | And you can definitely hear something slithering squamously nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "raenfidhre" | ||
Floyd ] Dark Intersection Floyd | > Floyd | > RAENFIDHRE Floyd | Floyd | You utter the incantation, the eldritch puissance of its awful Floyd | phonemes flowing with hideous sweetness over your tongue. You hear Floyd | something squeal in shock and inhuman pain. Then you hear a sharp Floyd | squelching noise. Floyd | Floyd | Then you hear something clank against the floor. What the heck was Floyd | that? Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "R" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kulehrif" | ||
Floyd ] Dim Intersection Floyd | > Floyd | > KULEHRIF Floyd | Floyd | You mutter the incantation, and a greenish haze swims in front of your Floyd | eyes. Your knees buckle, and for a giddy moment you feel as though you Floyd | may barf. Floyd | Floyd | But when you regain your faculties, you notice your vision has Floyd | improved, and the room does not seem so dark now: Floyd | Floyd | Dim Intersection Floyd | The lights have gone out in this chamber, but you can clearly see the Floyd | paths to the north, east, and west. Floyd | Floyd | There is a statuette sitting on the floor here. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "K" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x statuette" | ||
Floyd ] Dim Intersection Floyd | > Floyd | > X STATUETTE Floyd | Floyd | The statuette, carved in an oddly soft bluish substance, depicts a Floyd | creature you dimly recognize as appearing in certain dreams from which Floyd | you awoke babbling and covered in sweat. The base of the piece is Floyd | carved with an inscription in an alien tongue that you happened to Floyd | learn in one of those Humanities classes that they made you take. It Floyd | says: "Yzawnzag." Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "woo" | |
| Roger says, "Also these are more like the Loitering Horrors" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "And when you raen them, they're littering horrors." | ||
| DavidW says, "I Wuz A Teenage Horror And All I Got Wuz This Loiterin' T-Shirt" | ||
| DavidW says, "I guess we should try the new YZAWNZAG at either the invisible thing or the confusing space." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "This may be the spell to deal with the invisible horror?" | ||
| Roger says, "try it all over" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Or that, yes." | ||
| DavidW says, "Or it might make slime solid." | ||
| Roger says, "Oh the things it might do" | ||
| DavidW says, "Dunno. It's a mystery!" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | The Alchemy building feels small and defenseless in the face of the Floyd | wild thunderstorm outside. Rain and howling wind pound at the doors to Floyd | the north and east. A stairway leads down to the basement (and the Floyd | tunnels). Floyd | Floyd | This lobby is especially creepy because there's an informative poster Floyd | depicting an Elder Horror hanging on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | Normally, this grassy courtyard is a favorite spot for joggers and Floyd | Ultimate Frisbee players—but what with the rain, and the lightning, Floyd | there's nobody here right now. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is the Department of Alchemy. East is the Department of Floyd | Necromancy. North is the Department of Linguistics. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Linguistics Floyd | There's not much here—the Linguistics department was organized with a Floyd | minimalist philosophy in mind. A likely-looking (and heavy-looking) Floyd | grimoire rests on a pedestal in an alcove. Floyd | Floyd | The way out is south. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Well, we'll know when we try it and it works on something." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yzawnzag" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | > Floyd | > YZAWNZAG Floyd | Floyd | As you pronounce the incantation, you feel your mind curl inward as if Floyd | to defend itself. You think, or you hope, that your willpower has Floyd | increased. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "Y" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Huh." | |
| DavidW says, "Gimme my green lantern ring, stat!" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "That's not what I expected." | ||
| Roger says, "maybe for our sorceror standoff" | ||
| DavidW says, "okay, that's definitely for the pit o' slime, then." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read grimoire" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | > Floyd | > READ GRIMOIRE Floyd | Floyd | You reach out to inspect the grimoire. Your hand runs into something. Floyd | Something squishy and invisible. Floyd | Floyd | You hold still for a second: You think you can hear it breathing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | Normally, this grassy courtyard is a favorite spot for joggers and Floyd | Ultimate Frisbee players—but what with the rain, and the lightning, Floyd | there's nobody here right now. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is the Department of Alchemy. East is the Department of Floyd | Necromancy. North is the Department of Linguistics. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | The Alchemy building feels small and defenseless in the face of the Floyd | wild thunderstorm outside. Rain and howling wind pound at the doors to Floyd | the north and east. A stairway leads down to the basement (and the Floyd | tunnels). Floyd | Floyd | This lobby is especially creepy because there's an informative poster Floyd | depicting an Elder Horror hanging on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Construction Site Floyd | Torrents of rain lash at the earth in blind fury. Floyd | Floyd | This is the future site of the Gentry Antiquarian Center. Right now Floyd | it's a rectangular pit with concrete walls. Floyd | Floyd | The Alchemy building is south. Another building—a despicable Floyd | building—is further north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jilxube" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > JILXUBE Floyd | Floyd | You struggle to pronounce the abhorrent incantation properly. When you Floyd | finally get it right, a huge mass of slime appears out of nowhere. Floyd | Floyd | The slime, driven by an invisible and irresistible impulse, flows into Floyd | the subterranean walls of the construction site, filling the pit until Floyd | the level of the ghastly liquid is even with the surrounding earth. A Floyd | manila envelope floats up to glide lazily over the surface. Floyd | Floyd | An idea creeps over your brain that the slime may have done all this Floyd | because you wanted it to, and you shudder. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "J" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | The Alchemy building feels small and defenseless in the face of the Floyd | wild thunderstorm outside. Rain and howling wind pound at the doors to Floyd | the north and east. A stairway leads down to the basement (and the Floyd | tunnels). Floyd | Floyd | This lobby is especially creepy because there's an informative poster Floyd | depicting an Elder Horror hanging on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Construction Site Floyd | Torrents of rain lash at the earth in blind fury. Floyd | Floyd | This is the future site of the Gentry Antiquarian Center. Right now Floyd | it's a rectangular pit with concrete walls. Floyd | Floyd | The Alchemy building is south. Another building—a despicable Floyd | building—is further north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yzawnzag" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > YZAWNZAG Floyd | Floyd | As you pronounce the incantation, you feel your mind curl inward as if Floyd | to defend itself. You think, or you hope, that your willpower has Floyd | increased. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "Y" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jilxube" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > JILXUBE Floyd | Floyd | You struggle to pronounce the abhorrent incantation properly. When you Floyd | finally get it right, a huge mass of slime appears out of nowhere. Floyd | Floyd | The slime, driven by an invisible and irresistible impulse, flows into Floyd | the subterranean walls of the construction site, filling the pit until Floyd | the level of the ghastly liquid is even with the surrounding earth. A Floyd | manila envelope floats up to glide lazily over the surface. Floyd | Floyd | An idea creeps over your brain that the slime may have done all this Floyd | because you wanted it to, and you shudder. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "J" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "j" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > J Floyd | Floyd | You cast the spell again, and more repulsive slime flows into this Floyd | universe from without—but it simply flows to join the slime within Floyd | the Floyd | construction pit. The level of the slime doesn't rise an inch. This is Floyd | all disturbingly convenient. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. drat." | |
| DavidW asks, "So you want to try this on the student?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside Department of Sorcery Floyd | The forboding building to the east houses the Department of Sorcery, Floyd | which frequently competes with the Alchemy department for funding and Floyd | is always reserving the best classrooms before Alchemy can get a Floyd | chance. The rest of the campus is south from here. Floyd | Floyd | Thunder rumbles nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | You break out in gooseflesh as you contemplate the eldritch Floyd | experiments performed within these walls on a daily basis. You don't Floyd | like visiting this place unless you have to. It even smells Floyd | pretentious. Floyd | Floyd | The department head's office is down the hall to the east. The way Floyd | back outside is west. Floyd | Floyd | The only person here tonight is a grad student whom you kind of know. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "That may be it." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You try to walk past the sorcery student, but he blocks your path: Floyd | "The department head doesn't need another research Floyd | assistant—especially not from the Department of Alchemy. He asked for Floyd | me specifically." Floyd | Floyd | You stare at each other like a pair of housecats that have just been Floyd | introduced. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yzawnzag" | ||
Floyd ] Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > YZAWNZAG Floyd | Floyd | You cast the hypnosis-resistance spell again, and steel your mind even Floyd | more against external influence (possibly to the point of overdoing Floyd | it). Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Hypnosis resistance..." | |
| DavidW says, "'hypnosis-resistance' it calls it." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I don't think anything tried hynosis yet." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "That we've seen." | ||
| Roger says, "hmmm" | ||
| DavidW says, "I need a quick bathroom break. back in a bit." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Or...." | ||
| Roger says, "maybe the linguistics quasi-entity is a hypnotic suggestion" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "There was that time we slipped on a paper. Even with better vision. Then we didn't find that paper anymore." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Maybe that was hypnosis." | ||
| Roger says, "It might also be the gumption-boost we need for the acid falls" | ||
| Roger says, "This game has a lot of willpower-saves, is what I'm saying" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "That one may be fortitude, instead." | ||
| DavidW says, "back" | ||
| DavidW says, "I suggest revisting Odd Corner, where we slipped on paper, but getting there quicker because we can ignore the first horror." | ||
| Roger says, "Sounds good to me" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Typical Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Typical Tunnel Floyd | Before you enrolled at G.U.E. Tech, you had this romantic idea that Floyd | the tunnels would all be dingy, claustrophobic, and dangerous. But Floyd | these tunnels—the tunnels that most people see—are really more like Floyd | hallways with pipes. Floyd | Floyd | This hallway and its pipes lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eerie Corner Floyd | You've reached a bend in the tunnel where the lights don't quite Floyd | reach. You can continue east or south. Floyd | Floyd | But you can't just stand around, because an Elder Horror is flitting Floyd | through the shadows here, gibbering in little shrieks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Top of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Top of Ladder Floyd | In the middle of this east-west strip of tunnel is an open grate. In Floyd | the grate is a ladder. The ladder leads down to the sub-basement Floyd | level. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Well-Lit Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Well-Lit Corner Floyd | The passage from the west turns here, at the top of a gentle slope Floyd | leading south. This would be a great place to race office chairs, if Floyd | other concerns weren't taking precedence. Floyd | Floyd | A hacker is leaning against the wall here, taking a break from Floyd | hacking. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Graffito Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Graffito Floyd | At this intersection, the tunnels go north, south—and west, to the Floyd | chamber of your ill-advised project. Floyd | Floyd | An old graffito is on the east wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Odd Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Odd Corner Floyd | The tunnel turns from north to west here, but the passage to the west Floyd | is too dark to see where it goes. Floyd | Floyd | You take another step and slip on a piece of paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kulehrif" | ||
Floyd ] Odd Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > KULEHRIF Floyd | Floyd | You mutter the incantation, and a greenish haze swims in front of your Floyd | eyes. Your knees buckle, and for a giddy moment you feel as though you Floyd | may barf. Floyd | Floyd | But when you regain your faculties, you notice your vision has Floyd | improved, and you can see easily what lurks in dark corners. You don't Floyd | notice anything new right here, though. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "K" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Dead End Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dead End Floyd | The tunnel from the east terminates here at a brick wall. There are no Floyd | lights here because it would seem that there is nothing here to Floyd | illuminate. Floyd | Floyd | Apparently someone disagreed, and made this into their personal study Floyd | space: A thick textbook lies forgotten on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "woot" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x textbook" | ||
Floyd ] Dead End Floyd | > Floyd | > X TEXTBOOK Floyd | Floyd | The book's cover is immediately recognizable: This is the Floyd | Necronomicon, by A. Alhazred, an infamous tome of dark magic. Floyd | You flip through it a little bit. Floyd | Floyd | Here's a page that jogs your memory: A spell that conjures frigid wind Floyd | from... It doesn't say where. The incantation is "bheishauph." Floyd | Floyd | Why would someone just leave a Necronomicon lying around? Floyd | These books are expensive! Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "yay, an envelope-blowing wind" | |
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "Probably, yes!" | ||
| DavidW asks, "might also freeze the slime waterfall?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Oh, maybe." | ||
| DavidW says, "Envelope first, though." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | The Alchemy building feels small and defenseless in the face of the Floyd | wild thunderstorm outside. Rain and howling wind pound at the doors to Floyd | the north and east. A stairway leads down to the basement (and the Floyd | tunnels). Floyd | Floyd | This lobby is especially creepy because there's an informative poster Floyd | depicting an Elder Horror hanging on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Construction Site Floyd | Torrents of rain lash at the earth in blind fury. Floyd | Floyd | This is the future site of the Gentry Antiquarian Center. Right now Floyd | it's a rectangular pit with concrete walls. Floyd | Floyd | The Alchemy building is south. Another building—a despicable Floyd | building—is further north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "bheishauph" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > BHEISHAUPH Floyd | Floyd | You breathe the incantation, and a breeze of cool air swirls around Floyd | you. For a moment you feel the supernatural cold of the infinite space Floyd | between the stars. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "B" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jilxube" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > JILXUBE Floyd | Floyd | You struggle to pronounce the abhorrent incantation properly. When you Floyd | finally get it right, a huge mass of slime appears out of nowhere. Floyd | Floyd | The slime, driven by an invisible and irresistible impulse, flows into Floyd | the subterranean walls of the construction site, filling the pit until Floyd | the level of the ghastly liquid is even with the surrounding earth. A Floyd | manila envelope floats up to glide lazily over the surface. Floyd | Floyd | An idea creeps over your brain that the slime may have done all this Floyd | because you wanted it to, and you shudder. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "J" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "bheishauph" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > BHEISHAUPH Floyd | Floyd | You breathe the incantation, and a breeze of cool air swirls around Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | Crystalline patterns appear in the surface of the pool of slime, Floyd | spreading across and down through the repugnant morass. The surface of Floyd | the fluid ceases its undulations: It has frozen straight through. Floyd | Floyd | The manila envelope sits on top of the ice. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Close enough" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read envelope" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > READ ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | You take a cautious step onto the slime-ice. Floyd | Floyd | It seems to support your weight. Floyd | Floyd | Time being a limiting factor, you scuttle across the ice, snatch up Floyd | the envelope, and scuttle back to solid ground as fast as you can. Floyd | Floyd | It's definitely campus mail, but the rain has washed away any Floyd | addresses that were ever written on the outside. Floyd | Floyd | The envelope is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu exclaims, "Woo!" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open envelope" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN ENVELOPE Floyd | Floyd | You open the manila envelope, revealing a grant application. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x application" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > X APPLICATION Floyd | Floyd | Not long ago you swore you'd never look at another one of these, but Floyd | such oaths often prove difficult to uphold. Floyd | Floyd | The application proposes an investigation into the little-understood Floyd | branch of "reparative spatial mechanics." The document is careful not Floyd | to explain these terms with extraneous clarity, lest the subject Floyd | appear too comprehensible to warrant investigation. Floyd | Floyd | But the applicant has let one specific detail slip: an incantation, Floyd | "Vaadignephod," with apparent reparative spatio-mechanical potency. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "hmmm" | |
| Roger says, "maybe defunk the power" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Confusing room, surely." | ||
| DavidW says, "yes, confusing room for sure. Maybe the invisible thing too." | ||
| Roger says, "Or hrm maybe it'll actually alter the map, like down in Funky Intersection or whatnot" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh geez." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | The Alchemy building feels small and defenseless in the face of the Floyd | wild thunderstorm outside. Rain and howling wind pound at the doors to Floyd | the north and east. A stairway leads down to the basement (and the Floyd | tunnels). Floyd | Floyd | This lobby is especially creepy because there's an informative poster Floyd | depicting an Elder Horror hanging on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Typical Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Typical Tunnel Floyd | Before you enrolled at G.U.E. Tech, you had this romantic idea that Floyd | the tunnels would all be dingy, claustrophobic, and dangerous. But Floyd | these tunnels—the tunnels that most people see—are really more like Floyd | hallways with pipes. Floyd | Floyd | This hallway and its pipes lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eerie Corner Floyd | You've reached a bend in the tunnel where the lights don't quite Floyd | reach. You can continue east or south. Floyd | Floyd | But you can't just stand around, because an Elder Horror is flitting Floyd | through the shadows here, gibbering in little shrieks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Top of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Top of Ladder Floyd | In the middle of this east-west strip of tunnel is an open grate. In Floyd | the grate is a ladder. The ladder leads down to the sub-basement Floyd | level. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Bottom of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bottom of Ladder Floyd | These are not the fun tunnels that they show you on campus tours. Floyd | These are the old tunnels. The evil tunnels. Floyd | Floyd | Ancient pipes clank and hiss, and beneath these noises—you wonder if Floyd | you're imagining—the sound of something skittering behind you. Floyd | Floyd | The ladder here goes up to the main basement level. Tunnels lead east, Floyd | south, and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Confusing Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Confusing Tunnel Floyd | Oh dear. This is one of those places. Floyd | Floyd | The geometry in here is incorrect. All the surfaces are inside-out. Floyd | The physical laws of some other dimension must be impinging on this Floyd | space from somewhere outside space. Floyd | Floyd | Dang. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "vaadignephod" | ||
Floyd ] Normal Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > VAADIGNEPHOD Floyd | Floyd | You pronounce the incantation in solemn, creaking tones, and the walls Floyd | slowly untangle themselves as the normal laws of three-dimensional Floyd | space reassert themselves. Floyd | Floyd | Normal Tunnel Floyd | Now that you've sorted out the geometry, this is a perfectly normal Floyd | turn in the hallway, leading west and south. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "V" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "woot" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Lonely Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lonely Tunnel Floyd | The tunnel from the north comes to an abrupt end here. Floyd | Floyd | On the dusty floor is a pitiful, deflated blob. Floyd | Floyd | "Ooooooh, I'm miiiiserabllllle," it groans, in a voice that makes you Floyd | wince. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "uhh" | |
| DavidW asks, "Slimer on a bad day?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to blob" | ||
Floyd ] Lonely Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO BLOB Floyd | Floyd | The thing on the floor manages to make eye contact despite your best Floyd | efforts. Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, um. How're you doing?" you ask. Floyd | Floyd | "Hoooooorribllllle," it responds. "I'm sooooo huuuungry, I can barely Floyd | moooooove." Floyd | Floyd | You nod. "That's rough." Floyd | Floyd | The blob pouts some more: "Can't you hellllllp meeeeee?". Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "hmm yeah maybe a resliming would chear it up" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Maybe." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jilxube" | ||
Floyd ] Lonely Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > JILXUBE Floyd | Floyd | You force yourself to pronounce the nauseous formula, and a mass of Floyd | slime appears from nowhere. The blob's eyes widen. It forces its Floyd | boneless bulk forward for a taste. Floyd | Floyd | It begins scarfing down the vile stuff with unholy relish, moving Floyd | unctuously up and down the hall like a formless, wheezing Roomba. It Floyd | ceases its slobbering only when no trace of the slime you conjured Floyd | remains. Floyd | Floyd | "Thaaaaaank yoooooou," it squeals. "That was deliiiiiiciousssss." Floyd | Floyd | "It was nothing. Honestly," you say, trying to smile. Floyd | Floyd | "Nooooooo, I have to thaaaaaaaank you," says the blob. "Looooook, I'll Floyd | teach you a spelllllllll: CAERLAEV. Don't aaaaaask how I Floyd | knooooow it." Floyd | Floyd | You take the blob's advice, and wave gratefully when it finally Floyd | leaves. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "J" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Everything's coming up humanity" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "caerlaev" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > CAERLAEV Floyd | Floyd | You pronounce the incantation correctly, but the sound seems to fade Floyd | away even as it exits your lips. Something is missing. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "C" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm gonna try it on the invisible thing." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits are north and up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "sure" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | The Alchemy building feels small and defenseless in the face of the Floyd | wild thunderstorm outside. Rain and howling wind pound at the doors to Floyd | the north and east. A stairway leads down to the basement (and the Floyd | tunnels). Floyd | Floyd | This lobby is especially creepy because there's an informative poster Floyd | depicting an Elder Horror hanging on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | Normally, this grassy courtyard is a favorite spot for joggers and Floyd | Ultimate Frisbee players—but what with the rain, and the lightning, Floyd | there's nobody here right now. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is the Department of Alchemy. East is the Department of Floyd | Necromancy. North is the Department of Linguistics. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Linguistics Floyd | There's not much here—the Linguistics department was organized with a Floyd | minimalist philosophy in mind. A likely-looking (and heavy-looking) Floyd | grimoire rests on a pedestal in an alcove. Floyd | Floyd | The way out is south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "caerlaev" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | > Floyd | > CAERLAEV Floyd | Floyd | You pronounce the incantation correctly, but the sound seems to fade Floyd | away even as it exits your lips. Something is missing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Hm." | |
| Roger says, "I'll guess acid slime" | ||
| Roger says, "(which maybe we could still freeze; I dunno)" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Can we repair space-time while we're here to test that?" | ||
| DavidW says, "vaadingephod" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "vaadingephod" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | > Floyd | > VAADINGEPHOD Floyd | Floyd | That verb doesn't work in this story. Sorry. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I suspect it was only for the confusing tunnel, but you never know." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "bheishauph" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | > Floyd | > BHEISHAUPH Floyd | Floyd | You breathe the incantation, and a breeze of cool air swirls around Floyd | you. For a moment you feel the supernatural cold of the infinite space Floyd | between the stars. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "B" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Roger says (to f), "VAADIGNEPHOD" | DavidW says, "oops" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "vaadignephod" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | > Floyd | > VAADIGNEPHOD Floyd | Floyd | You pronounce the incantation in solemn, creaking tones, to no Floyd | discernable effect. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "V" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Okay. Not it." | |
| DavidW says, "okay, waterfall next" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | Normally, this grassy courtyard is a favorite spot for joggers and Floyd | Ultimate Frisbee players—but what with the rain, and the lightning, Floyd | there's nobody here right now. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is the Department of Alchemy. East is the Department of Floyd | Necromancy. North is the Department of Linguistics. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Typical Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Typical Tunnel Floyd | Before you enrolled at G.U.E. Tech, you had this romantic idea that Floyd | the tunnels would all be dingy, claustrophobic, and dangerous. But Floyd | these tunnels—the tunnels that most people see—are really more like Floyd | hallways with pipes. Floyd | Floyd | This hallway and its pipes lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eerie Corner Floyd | You've reached a bend in the tunnel where the lights don't quite Floyd | reach. You can continue east or south. Floyd | Floyd | But you can't just stand around, because an Elder Horror is flitting Floyd | through the shadows here, gibbering in little shrieks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Top of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Top of Ladder Floyd | In the middle of this east-west strip of tunnel is an open grate. In Floyd | the grate is a ladder. The ladder leads down to the sub-basement Floyd | level. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Bottom of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bottom of Ladder Floyd | These are not the fun tunnels that they show you on campus tours. Floyd | These are the old tunnels. The evil tunnels. Floyd | Floyd | Ancient pipes clank and hiss, and beneath these noises—you wonder if Floyd | you're imagining—the sound of something skittering behind you. Floyd | Floyd | The ladder here goes up to the main basement level. Tunnels lead east, Floyd | south, and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Circular Tunnel Floyd | This damp tunnel looks like it used to be a sewer, or a pneumatic Floyd | railroad. The curved floor makes it difficult to walk without keeping Floyd | a hand on the damp curved walls. Floyd | Floyd | The way back is east. The tunnel continues south, beyond a Floyd | waterfall-like curtain of slime. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "caerlaev" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > CAERLAEV Floyd | Floyd | You pronounce the incantation correctly, but the sound seems to fade Floyd | away even as it exits your lips. Something is missing. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "C" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "vaadignephod" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > VAADIGNEPHOD Floyd | Floyd | You pronounce the incantation in solemn, creaking tones, to no Floyd | discernable effect. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "V" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Possibly it affects other humans" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Tunnel Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Circular Tunnel Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "bheishauph" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > BHEISHAUPH Floyd | Floyd | You breathe the incantation, and a breeze of cool air swirls around Floyd | you. Unsettlingly regular patterns of frost curl across the tunnel Floyd | walls until they reach the curtain of slime. Floyd | Floyd | The flow of slime slows, and then it stops as the waterfall freezes in Floyd | place. You hear a crinkling sound. Floyd | Floyd | The frozen curtain of slime shatters and disappears. The way south is Floyd | open. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "B" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "That may be so." | |
| DavidW says, "ah, freezing the waterfall is the way" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Hall of Slime Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hall of Slime Floyd | The tunnel is a river of undulating slime, and there are few places Floyd | where it's safe to set foot. The way out is north. Floyd | Floyd | Someone has written something on the walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "woot" | |
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "Woo!" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read walls" | ||
Floyd ] Hall of Slime Floyd | > Floyd | > READ WALLS Floyd | Floyd | Globs of slime obscure random sections of the wall, then drip down to | Ellison says, "one freezes a curtain of slime in the Lurking Horror, too" | |
Floyd | reveal some words and cover others. Slowly you piece the whole message Floyd | together: Floyd | Floyd | I have mastered the Dusky Threshold. I have tamed its mindless and Floyd | insidious inhabitants; I step from one world to the other and back Floyd | with ease, as a jump-roper jumps in and out of a double Dutch. Floyd | Floyd | And I have grown to love the horrid pallor of the Dusky Threshold, Floyd | its lifelessness, its very unreality. It happens that I am tired of Floyd | the Normal World; it happens that I am tired of being a real Floyd | person. Floyd | Floyd | I renounce the Normal World. I will travel to the Dusky Threshold, Floyd | and I will not return. Do not seek me. Please do not seek me. Unless Floyd | it's really important. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "no new spell this time." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Hm. Not sure how that helps us yet." | ||
| Roger says, "It sounds like an endgame thing" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| DavidW asks, "If we ignore statuette horror as well, what's past that location?" | ||
| Roger says, "anyway let's caer some peoples" | ||
| DavidW says, "or that." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | The Alchemy building feels small and defenseless in the face of the Floyd | wild thunderstorm outside. Rain and howling wind pound at the doors to Floyd | the north and east. A stairway leads down to the basement (and the Floyd | tunnels). Floyd | Floyd | This lobby is especially creepy because there's an informative poster Floyd | depicting an Elder Horror hanging on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Construction Site Floyd | Torrents of rain lash at the earth in blind fury. Floyd | Floyd | This is the future site of the Gentry Antiquarian Center. Right now Floyd | it's a rectangular pit with concrete walls. Floyd | Floyd | The Alchemy building is south. Another building—a despicable Floyd | building—is further north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside Department of Sorcery Floyd | The forboding building to the east houses the Department of Sorcery, Floyd | which frequently competes with the Alchemy department for funding and Floyd | is always reserving the best classrooms before Alchemy can get a Floyd | chance. The rest of the campus is south from here. Floyd | Floyd | Thunder rumbles nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | You break out in gooseflesh as you contemplate the eldritch Floyd | experiments performed within these walls on a daily basis. You don't Floyd | like visiting this place unless you have to. It even smells Floyd | pretentious. Floyd | Floyd | The department head's office is down the hall to the east. The way Floyd | back outside is west. Floyd | Floyd | The only person here tonight is a grad student whom you kind of know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "caerlaev" | ||
Floyd ] Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > CAERLAEV Floyd | Floyd | You lock eyes with the grad student as you hiss the incantation. Your Floyd | vision swims—and then you are staring into your own eyes. They look Floyd | back with shock, then dawning fear, and then revulsion. Floyd | Floyd | "Why'd you steal my body?" the grad student demands, in your voice. Floyd | "That's messed up!" Floyd | Floyd | "I don't have time to explain," you grunt, in his voice. "I've got Floyd | stuff I've gotta do." Floyd | Floyd | "Well," says the grad student, rifling through your belongings, "it Floyd | looks like I've got your car keys. So..." Floyd | Floyd | He takes off down the hall and out into the storm. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "C" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "woo" | |
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "Ah Ha!" | ||
| DavidW says, "goodness" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department Head's Office Floyd | The head of the Sorcery department has an extremely nice office. For Floyd | example, his desk does not look like it was dragged out of a junkyard. Floyd | On top of the desk is what looks like a copy of the Book of Floyd | Eibon. Floyd | Floyd | The department head rises to greet you. Floyd | Floyd | "Thanks for coming," he says. "I could really use your help with..." Floyd | Floyd | Then, his eyes suddenly afire with evil, he waves his hand and mutters Floyd | an eldritch invocation at you. Something in your mind disconnects from Floyd | something else. Floyd | Floyd | "Perfect," says the professor. "Now, would you mind standing inside of Floyd | that pentagram over there?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Uh oh." | |
| Roger says, "uh oh we need to resist some hypmotismo" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yzawnzag" | ||
Floyd | >## y | ||
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd | >## y## e | ||
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd | >## y## e## a | ||
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd | >## y## e## a## h | zarf says, "so at this point the game is faking your keyboard input" | |
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd | >## y## e## a## h## , | ||
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd | >## y## e## a## h## ,## | ||
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd | >## y## e## a## h## ,## ## n | ||
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd | >## y## e## a## h## ,## ## n## o | ||
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd | >## y## e## a## h## ,## ## n## o## | ||
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd | >## y## e## a## h## ,## ## n## o## ## p | ||
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd | >## y## e## a## h## ,## ## n## o## ## p## r | ||
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd | >## y## e## a## h## ,## ## n## o## ## p## r## o | zarf says, "because you;re hypmotizes" | |
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd | >## y## e## a## h## ,## ## n## o## ## p## r## o## b | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | >## y## e## a## h## ,## ## n## o## ## p## r## o## b## l | Knight_Otu says, "Forced input" | |
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | >## y## e## a## h## ,## ## n## o## ## p## r## o## b## l## e | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | >## y## e## a## h## ,## ## n## o## ## p## r## o## b## l## e## m | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Department Head's Office Floyd | >## y## e## a## h## ,## ## n## o## ## p## r## o## b## l## e## m Floyd | Floyd | You step into the pentagram. The professor lifts the Book of Floyd | Eibon from his desk and begins chanting in a bizarre, Floyd | otherworldly language. Floyd | Floyd | Something else appears in the room. It appears to have a lot of teeth. Floyd | Floyd | Uh-oh! Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Department Head's Office Floyd | > Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | (I really think you ought to RESTART.) Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Thanks Veeder" | |
| DavidW says, "ok, so increase the willpower before visiting evil head." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Typical Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Typical Tunnel Floyd | Before you enrolled at G.U.E. Tech, you had this romantic idea that Floyd | the tunnels would all be dingy, claustrophobic, and dangerous. But Floyd | these tunnels—the tunnels that most people see—are really more like Floyd | hallways with pipes. Floyd | Floyd | This hallway and its pipes lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eerie Corner Floyd | You've reached a bend in the tunnel where the lights don't quite Floyd | reach. You can continue east or south. Floyd | Floyd | But you can't just stand around, because an Elder Horror is flitting Floyd | through the shadows here, gibbering in little shrieks. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oops" | |
| DavidW says, "I forgot to go up first." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Top of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Top of Ladder Floyd | In the middle of this east-west strip of tunnel is an open grate. In Floyd | the grate is a ladder. The ladder leads down to the sub-basement Floyd | level. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Well-Lit Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Well-Lit Corner Floyd | The passage from the west turns here, at the top of a gentle slope Floyd | leading south. This would be a great place to race office chairs, if Floyd | other concerns weren't taking precedence. Floyd | Floyd | A hacker is leaning against the wall here, taking a break from Floyd | hacking. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "caerlaev" | ||
Floyd ] Well-Lit Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > CAERLAEV Floyd | Floyd | You lock eyes with the hacker as you hiss the incantation. Your vision Floyd | swims—and then you are staring into your own eyes. Floyd | Floyd | "Did you just switch our bodies?" the hacker asks, in your voice. Floyd | Floyd | "For the time being, yes," you say. Floyd | Floyd | Your voice sounds disappointed. "That is incredibly rude," she says. Floyd | "Could I get my key ring back, at least?" Floyd | Floyd | Embarrassed, you awkwardly unclip the heavy ring from the hacker's Floyd | belt and toss it to your body. The hacker snatches it from the air and Floyd | starts rummaging through your pockets. Pretty soon she finds your Floyd | keys, and clips them onto her ring. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, I'm going to go mess with your stuff now," she explains, and Floyd | she brushes past you on her way down the tunnel. Floyd | Floyd | She's right, you know. That was super rude. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "C" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "It was." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Well-Lit Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Graffito Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Graffito Floyd | At this intersection, the tunnels go north, south—and west, to the Floyd | chamber of your ill-advised project. Floyd | Floyd | An old graffito is on the east wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Ritual Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Ritual Chamber Floyd | It groans sluggishly. It shrugs its unthinkable head—No. That is not Floyd | a Floyd | head. Floyd | Floyd | The whitish, loathsome, incomprehensible thing that oozes before you Floyd | is Ynf-Okh-Omm, the Eldest Horror. It is sleeping, for now. Soon (very Floyd | soon), it will awaken, and this helpless universe will suffer the Floyd | consequences. Floyd | Floyd | The way out is east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "caerlaev" | ||
Floyd ] Ritual Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > CAERLAEV Floyd | Floyd | You pronounce the incantation correctly, but the sound seems to fade Floyd | away even as it exits your lips. Something is missing. Floyd | Floyd | Ynf-Okh-Omm stirs. The Eldest Horror rolls over. Some hideous aspect Floyd | of its body—an eye?—a mouth?—opens, and you are the first to be Floyd | devoured. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | The Alchemy building feels small and defenseless in the face of the Floyd | wild thunderstorm outside. Rain and howling wind pound at the doors to Floyd | the north and east. A stairway leads down to the basement (and the Floyd | tunnels). Floyd | Floyd | This lobby is especially creepy because there's an informative poster Floyd | depicting an Elder Horror hanging on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Construction Site Floyd | Torrents of rain lash at the earth in blind fury. Floyd | Floyd | This is the future site of the Gentry Antiquarian Center. Right now Floyd | it's a rectangular pit with concrete walls. Floyd | Floyd | The Alchemy building is south. Another building—a despicable Floyd | building—is further north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside Department of Sorcery Floyd | The forboding building to the east houses the Department of Sorcery, Floyd | which frequently competes with the Alchemy department for funding and Floyd | is always reserving the best classrooms before Alchemy can get a Floyd | chance. The rest of the campus is south from here. Floyd | Floyd | Thunder rumbles nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | You break out in gooseflesh as you contemplate the eldritch Floyd | experiments performed within these walls on a daily basis. You don't Floyd | like visiting this place unless you have to. It even smells Floyd | pretentious. Floyd | Floyd | The department head's office is down the hall to the east. The way Floyd | back outside is west. Floyd | Floyd | The only person here tonight is a grad student whom you kind of know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "caerlaev" | ||
Floyd ] Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > CAERLAEV Floyd | Floyd | You lock eyes with the grad student as you hiss the incantation. Your Floyd | vision swims—and then you are staring into your own eyes. They look Floyd | back with shock, then dawning fear, and then revulsion. Floyd | Floyd | "Why'd you steal my body?" the grad student demands, in your voice. Floyd | "That's messed up!" Floyd | Floyd | "I don't have time to explain," you grunt, in his voice. "I've got Floyd | stuff I've gotta do." Floyd | Floyd | "Well," says the grad student, rifling through your belongings, "it Floyd | looks like I've got your car keys. So..." Floyd | Floyd | He takes off down the hall and out into the storm. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "C" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yzawnzag" | ||
Floyd ] Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > YZAWNZAG Floyd | Floyd | As you pronounce the incantation, you feel your mind curl inward as if Floyd | to defend itself. You think, or you hope, that your willpower has Floyd | increased. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "Y" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Department Head's Office Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department Head's Office Floyd | The head of the Sorcery department has an extremely nice office. For Floyd | example, his desk does not look like it was dragged out of a junkyard. Floyd | On top of the desk is what looks like a copy of the Book of Floyd | Eibon. Floyd | Floyd | The department head rises to greet you. Floyd | Floyd | "Thanks for coming," he says. "I could really use your help with..." Floyd | Floyd | Then, his eyes suddenly afire with evil, he waves his hand and mutters Floyd | an eldritch invocation at you. Floyd | Floyd | "That's not gonna work," you say. "I cast a Yzawnzag on myself a Floyd | little bit ago." Floyd | Floyd | He squints. "Why would you do that?" Floyd | Floyd | "Because I knew you were gonna try to hypnotize me! Oh, also, I'm not Floyd | really your research assistant. I switched bodies with him." Floyd | Floyd | The professor gapes at you in distress. "So—But—Where is my Floyd | assistant?" Floyd | Floyd | You shrug. He rolls his eyes and grabs his coat. As he rushes out of Floyd | his office he snaps at you: "Don't touch anything." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||
Floyd ] Department Head's Office Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOOK Floyd | Floyd | You open the book to a dogeared page. Oh dear. Floyd | Floyd | You turn to another page. This can't be! Floyd | Floyd | You flip wildly through the Book of Eibon, but it's all the Floyd | same! It's all in Swedish! Floyd | Floyd | You do not speak Swedish. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "uhhh I dunno" | |
| Roger asks, "Maybe he desk holds something else?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Now I know what the linguistic grimoire is likely to do: teach us Swedish." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Department Head's Office Floyd | > Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | The department head may in fact be the original user of this desk. The Floyd | idea of a new piece of furniture in an office at G.U.E. Tech Floyd | is almost impossible to contemplate. Floyd | Floyd | On the desk is a copy of the Book of Eibon. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "Oh yeah that sounds likely" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Department Head's Office Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Department Head's Office Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pentagram" | ||
Floyd ] Department Head's Office Floyd | > Floyd | > X PENTAGRAM Floyd | Floyd | It's not that unusual for sorcery professors to inscribe pentagrams in Floyd | their offices. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "So what can we do with a hacker body, I guess" | |
| DavidW says, "We really haven't used the cockroach yet." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I suspect nothing what we couldn't do." | ||
| Roger asks, "Can we take the cockroach with us or do we need to animate it in place?" | ||
| DavidW says, "There's still areas past the statuette horror." | ||
| Roger says, "Let's roll" | ||
| DavidW says, "To take the roach we need to use the light spell." | ||
| DavidW says, "We've never actually tried to pick the thing up." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Typical Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Typical Tunnel Floyd | Before you enrolled at G.U.E. Tech, you had this romantic idea that Floyd | the tunnels would all be dingy, claustrophobic, and dangerous. But Floyd | these tunnels—the tunnels that most people see—are really more like Floyd | hallways with pipes. Floyd | Floyd | This hallway and its pipes lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eerie Corner Floyd | You've reached a bend in the tunnel where the lights don't quite Floyd | reach. You can continue east or south. Floyd | Floyd | But you can't just stand around, because an Elder Horror is flitting Floyd | through the shadows here, gibbering in little shrieks. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "We were a bit grossed out about it." | |
| Ellison asks, "I haven't paid super close attention. did you get that one envelope? if not, maybe slime it then freeze it?" | ||
| Roger says, "Yeah we got envelope" | ||
| DavidW says, "We got the envelope" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Top of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Top of Ladder Floyd | In the middle of this east-west strip of tunnel is an open grate. In Floyd | the grate is a ladder. The ladder leads down to the sub-basement Floyd | level. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "That'show we got it, yes." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Bottom of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bottom of Ladder Floyd | These are not the fun tunnels that they show you on campus tours. Floyd | These are the old tunnels. The evil tunnels. Floyd | Floyd | Ancient pipes clank and hiss, and beneath these noises—you wonder if Floyd | you're imagining—the sound of something skittering behind you. Floyd | Floyd | The ladder here goes up to the main basement level. Tunnels lead east, Floyd | south, and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Power Station Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Power Station Floyd | Thrumming all around you are hulks of decrepit machinery, sagging Floyd | under the weight of decades, struggling to supply power to the Floyd | university above. And twisting through their cables are the insidious Floyd | tentacles of Ynf-Okh-Omm, worming their way through the ceiling from Floyd | its chamber above. The Eldest Horror is leeching power from G.U.E.'s Floyd | electrical system! This is your fault! Floyd | Floyd | The tunnels continue north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Dark Intersection Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dark Intersection Floyd | The lights have gone out in this chamber, and you can't see your own Floyd | hand in front of your face, but you can just make out paths to the Floyd | north, east, and west. Floyd | Floyd | And you can definitely hear something slithering squamously nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kulehrif" | ||
Floyd ] Dim Intersection Floyd | > Floyd | > KULEHRIF Floyd | Floyd | You mutter the incantation, and a greenish haze swims in front of your Floyd | eyes. Your knees buckle, and for a giddy moment you feel as though you Floyd | may barf. Floyd | Floyd | But when you regain your faculties, you notice your vision has Floyd | improved, and the room does not seem so dark now: Floyd | Floyd | Dim Intersection Floyd | The lights have gone out in this chamber, but you can clearly see the Floyd | paths to the north, east, and west. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an Elder Horror near you. Whether it can see you Floyd | remains to be seen. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "K" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Crumbled Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crumbled Tunnel Floyd | A wall of debris makes further progress impossible. The only way out Floyd | is to go back west. Floyd | Floyd | There's a dead rat on the floor here. Yuckers. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "oho" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hterwerbset" | ||
Floyd ] Crumbled Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > HTERWERBSET Floyd | Floyd | You whisper the incantation, and feel a daemoniac power crystallize in Floyd | the air, its vertices aligned by the awful syllables as they leave Floyd | your lips. The spell's angles align with something invisible and Floyd | dreadful, and the rat on the floor shudders to life. Floyd | Floyd | "That was awful nice of you!" the rat would say, if rats could talk, Floyd | but they can't; instead, it crawls into a crevice in the debris, Floyd | kicking a crumpled note out behind it. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "H" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "close, close" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Hm. Maybe we can get there without the light spell." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'll try it." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Or vision spell, I guess." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Typical Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Typical Tunnel Floyd | Before you enrolled at G.U.E. Tech, you had this romantic idea that Floyd | the tunnels would all be dingy, claustrophobic, and dangerous. But Floyd | these tunnels—the tunnels that most people see—are really more like Floyd | hallways with pipes. Floyd | Floyd | This hallway and its pipes lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eerie Corner Floyd | You've reached a bend in the tunnel where the lights don't quite Floyd | reach. You can continue east or south. Floyd | Floyd | But you can't just stand around, because an Elder Horror is flitting Floyd | through the shadows here, gibbering in little shrieks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Top of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Top of Ladder Floyd | In the middle of this east-west strip of tunnel is an open grate. In Floyd | the grate is a ladder. The ladder leads down to the sub-basement Floyd | level. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Bottom of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bottom of Ladder Floyd | These are not the fun tunnels that they show you on campus tours. Floyd | These are the old tunnels. The evil tunnels. Floyd | Floyd | Ancient pipes clank and hiss, and beneath these noises—you wonder if Floyd | you're imagining—the sound of something skittering behind you. Floyd | Floyd | The ladder here goes up to the main basement level. Tunnels lead east, Floyd | south, and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Power Station Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Power Station Floyd | Thrumming all around you are hulks of decrepit machinery, sagging Floyd | under the weight of decades, struggling to supply power to the Floyd | university above. And twisting through their cables are the insidious Floyd | tentacles of Ynf-Okh-Omm, worming their way through the ceiling from Floyd | its chamber above. The Eldest Horror is leeching power from G.U.E.'s Floyd | electrical system! This is your fault! Floyd | Floyd | The tunnels continue north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Dark Intersection Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dark Intersection Floyd | The lights have gone out in this chamber, and you can't see your own Floyd | hand in front of your face, but you can just make out paths to the Floyd | north, east, and west. Floyd | Floyd | And you can definitely hear something slithering squamously nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Crumbled Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Crumbled Tunnel Floyd | A wall of debris makes further progress impossible. The only way out Floyd | is to go back west. Floyd | Floyd | There's a dead rat on the floor here. Yuckers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hterwerbset" | ||
Floyd ] Crumbled Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > HTERWERBSET Floyd | Floyd | You whisper the incantation, and feel a daemoniac power crystallize in Floyd | the air, its vertices aligned by the awful syllables as they leave Floyd | your lips. The spell's angles align with something invisible and Floyd | dreadful, and the rat on the floor shudders to life. Floyd | Floyd | "That was awful nice of you!" the rat would say, if rats could talk, Floyd | but they can't; instead, it crawls into a crevice in the debris, Floyd | kicking a crumpled note out behind it. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "H" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x note" | ||
Floyd ] Crumbled Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > X NOTE Floyd | Floyd | You uncrumple the note. This appears to be... Ooh! You're not supposed Floyd | to have this! Floyd | Floyd | This note explains a magical formula that allows one to travel to the Floyd | Dusky Threshold, an eerie plane of existence that exists parallel to Floyd | the Normal World. It's very similar to—but distinct Floyd | from—the Floyd | "Upside-Down" from that Winona Ryder show. Floyd | Floyd | Knowledge of the Dusky Threshold is kept under wraps because it's Floyd | reportedly very dangerous and it's essentially impossible to get back Floyd | to the Normal World once you're there. Anyway, it looks like the Floyd | incantation for sending yourself there is "Pheimmeb." Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "I guess the western portion next?" | |
| DavidW says, "yeah" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Typical Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Typical Tunnel Floyd | Before you enrolled at G.U.E. Tech, you had this romantic idea that Floyd | the tunnels would all be dingy, claustrophobic, and dangerous. But Floyd | these tunnels—the tunnels that most people see—are really more like Floyd | hallways with pipes. Floyd | Floyd | This hallway and its pipes lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eerie Corner Floyd | You've reached a bend in the tunnel where the lights don't quite Floyd | reach. You can continue east or south. Floyd | Floyd | But you can't just stand around, because an Elder Horror is flitting Floyd | through the shadows here, gibbering in little shrieks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Top of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Top of Ladder Floyd | In the middle of this east-west strip of tunnel is an open grate. In Floyd | the grate is a ladder. The ladder leads down to the sub-basement Floyd | level. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Bottom of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bottom of Ladder Floyd | These are not the fun tunnels that they show you on campus tours. Floyd | These are the old tunnels. The evil tunnels. Floyd | Floyd | Ancient pipes clank and hiss, and beneath these noises—you wonder if Floyd | you're imagining—the sound of something skittering behind you. Floyd | Floyd | The ladder here goes up to the main basement level. Tunnels lead east, Floyd | south, and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Power Station Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Power Station Floyd | Thrumming all around you are hulks of decrepit machinery, sagging Floyd | under the weight of decades, struggling to supply power to the Floyd | university above. And twisting through their cables are the insidious Floyd | tentacles of Ynf-Okh-Omm, worming their way through the ceiling from Floyd | its chamber above. The Eldest Horror is leeching power from G.U.E.'s Floyd | electrical system! This is your fault! Floyd | Floyd | The tunnels continue north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Dark Intersection Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dark Intersection Floyd | The lights have gone out in this chamber, and you can't see your own Floyd | hand in front of your face, but you can just make out paths to the Floyd | north, east, and west. Floyd | Floyd | And you can definitely hear something slithering squamously nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Confusing Passage Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Confusing Passage Floyd | Something is wrong with the angles in this passage—if it is a Floyd | passage. Floyd | Space seems to be turned around, or it's backwards, or... This is Floyd | giving you a headache. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "We don't want to go into alternate universe right this moment? Cmon it'll be fun." | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Another one?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "vaadignephod" | ||
Floyd ] End of Passage Floyd | > Floyd | > VAADIGNEPHOD Floyd | Floyd | You pronounce the incantation in solemn, creaking tones, and the walls Floyd | slowly untangle themselves as the normal laws of three-dimensional Floyd | space reassert themselves. Floyd | Floyd | End of Passage Floyd | Now that everything is straightened out, you can see that this Floyd | "passage" is actually a dead end. The only way out is east. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "V" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Dark Intersection Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dark Intersection Floyd | The lights have gone out in this chamber, and you can't see your own Floyd | hand in front of your face, but you can just make out paths to the Floyd | north, east, and west. Floyd | Floyd | And you can definitely hear something slithering squamously nearby. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "That didn't seem like a helpful direction." | |
| DavidW says, "hm. I wonder what that End of Passage is really about." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pheimmeb" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | > Floyd | > PHEIMMEB Floyd | Floyd | As you pronounce the incantation, a gauzy curtain of shadow falls over Floyd | you. The world becomes hazy, dim, and distant. Floyd | Floyd | Dusky Threshold Floyd | You are in a space behind space. The Normal World is barely visible Floyd | beyond the veil of shadow: a congeries of silent and Floyd | near-unrecognizable shapes. It basically looks like a basement. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "P" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | After a little experimentation, you get the impression that movement Floyd | through the Dusky Threshold is not possible. Floyd | Floyd | You may be stuck here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "The invisible thing is probably in the threshold?" | |
| Roger says, "But our buddy is in here somewhere" | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, that seems likely now." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "We'll probably reach that guy from the slime room." | ||
| DavidW says, "but we should've gone to the linguistics first and traveled from there." | ||
| Karona disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | Roger says, "Sure sounds good" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter veil" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER VEIL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter normal world" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER NORMAL WORLD Floyd | Floyd | You are close enough to the shapes already. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shapes" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | > Floyd | > X SHAPES Floyd | Floyd | It basically looks like a basement. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch shapes" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH SHAPES Floyd | Floyd | Best to keep one's hands to oneself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter basement" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER BASEMENT Floyd | Floyd | You are close enough to the shapes already. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "maybe just cast Phlegm again" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pheimmeb" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | > Floyd | > PHEIMMEB Floyd | Floyd | You pronounce the incantation, but nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | It's starting to look like you're stuck here. But! It might not be too Floyd | late to UNDO repeatedly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Dusky Threshold Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Dusky Threshold Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Dusky Threshold Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Dusky Threshold Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Dusky Threshold Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Dusky Threshold Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Dusky Threshold Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | The Alchemy building feels small and defenseless in the face of the Floyd | wild thunderstorm outside. Rain and howling wind pound at the doors to Floyd | the north and east. A stairway leads down to the basement (and the Floyd | tunnels). Floyd | Floyd | This lobby is especially creepy because there's an informative poster Floyd | depicting an Elder Horror hanging on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | Normally, this grassy courtyard is a favorite spot for joggers and Floyd | Ultimate Frisbee players—but what with the rain, and the lightning, Floyd | there's nobody here right now. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is the Department of Alchemy. East is the Department of Floyd | Necromancy. North is the Department of Linguistics. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Linguistics Floyd | There's not much here—the Linguistics department was organized with a Floyd | minimalist philosophy in mind. A likely-looking (and heavy-looking) Floyd | grimoire rests on a pedestal in an alcove. Floyd | Floyd | The way out is south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pheimmeb" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | > Floyd | > PHEIMMEB Floyd | Floyd | As you pronounce the incantation, a gauzy curtain of shadow falls over Floyd | you. The world becomes hazy, dim, and distant. Floyd | Floyd | Dusky Threshold Floyd | You are in a space behind space. The Normal World is barely visible Floyd | beyond the veil of shadow: a congeries of silent and Floyd | near-unrecognizable shapes. You're pretty sure you're still "inside" Floyd | the Linguistics building. Floyd | Floyd | A huge mass of seething fungoid tissue hangs in the space Floyd | corresponding (you think) to the alcove. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "P" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to fungoid" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO FUNGOID Floyd | Floyd | The fungoid horror isn't very talkative. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Dusky Threshold Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "raenfidhre" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | > Floyd | > RAENFIDHRE Floyd | Floyd | You utter the incantation, the eldritch puissance of its awful Floyd | phonemes flowing with hideous sweetness over your tongue. A hole opens Floyd | in the non-space of the Dusky Threshold. Floyd | Floyd | It is a big hole, big enough to tear such a hideously massive Elder Floyd | Horror away from this realm, stretching the alien beast into Floyd | impossible angles, and sucking great ropes of the caliginous substance Floyd | of the Dusky Threshold along with the beast into the dimension beyond. Floyd | Even as vaporous as you are, you feel yourself drawn into the chasm as Floyd | well— Floyd | Floyd | But the hole shuts itself, and you are alone among the shadows. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "R" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "nice work" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Dusky Threshold Floyd | You are in a space behind space. The Normal World is barely visible Floyd | beyond the veil of shadow: a congeries of silent and Floyd | near-unrecognizable shapes. You're pretty sure you're still "inside" Floyd | the Linguistics building. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x grimoire" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | > Floyd | > X GRIMOIRE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shapes" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | > Floyd | > X SHAPES Floyd | Floyd | You're pretty sure you're still "inside" the Linguistics building. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "These horrors are rather... nonthreatening, aren't they?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | After a little experimentation, you get the impression that movement Floyd | through the Dusky Threshold is not possible. Floyd | Floyd | You may be stuck here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Except the eldest one." | |
| Roger says, "I wonder if Ryan went as far as faking the UNDO" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Dusky Threshold Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Dusky Threshold Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Dusky Threshold Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Hum." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Dusky Threshold Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Dusky Threshold Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Department of Linguistics Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x grimoire" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | > Floyd | > X GRIMOIRE Floyd | Floyd | You reach out to inspect the grimoire. Your hand runs into something. Floyd | Something squishy and invisible. Floyd | Floyd | You hold still for a second: You think you can hear it breathing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "can we get to the room with the writing with time to go to the Dusky Threshold? maybe dude will tell us how to get out" | |
| DavidW says, "yeah, that's probably the answer." | ||
| Roger says, "sounds good to me" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | Normally, this grassy courtyard is a favorite spot for joggers and Floyd | Ultimate Frisbee players—but what with the rain, and the lightning, Floyd | there's nobody here right now. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is the Department of Alchemy. East is the Department of Floyd | Necromancy. North is the Department of Linguistics. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Yeah, seems that's what we need to do first." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | The Alchemy building feels small and defenseless in the face of the Floyd | wild thunderstorm outside. Rain and howling wind pound at the doors to Floyd | the north and east. A stairway leads down to the basement (and the Floyd | tunnels). Floyd | Floyd | This lobby is especially creepy because there's an informative poster Floyd | depicting an Elder Horror hanging on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | Normally, this grassy courtyard is a favorite spot for joggers and Floyd | Ultimate Frisbee players—but what with the rain, and the lightning, Floyd | there's nobody here right now. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is the Department of Alchemy. East is the Department of Floyd | Necromancy. North is the Department of Linguistics. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Necromancy Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Necromancy Hallway Floyd | You seem to be in a hallway—but it's too dark to see which way it Floyd | leads, what it leads to, or what else is in here with you. The only Floyd | thing you can see is the way outside, to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take roach" | ||
Floyd ] Necromancy Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ROACH Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kulehrif" | ||
Floyd ] Necromancy Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > KULEHRIF Floyd | Floyd | You mutter the incantation, and a greenish haze swims in front of your Floyd | eyes. Your knees buckle, and for a giddy moment you feel as though you Floyd | may barf. Floyd | Floyd | But when you regain your faculties, you notice your vision has Floyd | improved, and the room does not seem so dark now: Floyd | Floyd | Necromancy Hallway Floyd | Looks like there are no necromancy students here tonight, which is Floyd | just as well. Floyd | Floyd | This hallway leads north and west. Floyd | Floyd | And there's a dead cockroach on the floor here! Gross. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "K" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Typical Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Typical Tunnel Floyd | Before you enrolled at G.U.E. Tech, you had this romantic idea that Floyd | the tunnels would all be dingy, claustrophobic, and dangerous. But Floyd | these tunnels—the tunnels that most people see—are really more like Floyd | hallways with pipes. Floyd | Floyd | This hallway and its pipes lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eerie Corner Floyd | You've reached a bend in the tunnel where the lights don't quite Floyd | reach. You can continue east or south. Floyd | Floyd | But you can't just stand around, because an Elder Horror is flitting Floyd | through the shadows here, gibbering in little shrieks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Top of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Top of Ladder Floyd | In the middle of this east-west strip of tunnel is an open grate. In Floyd | the grate is a ladder. The ladder leads down to the sub-basement Floyd | level. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Bottom of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bottom of Ladder Floyd | These are not the fun tunnels that they show you on campus tours. Floyd | These are the old tunnels. The evil tunnels. Floyd | Floyd | Ancient pipes clank and hiss, and beneath these noises—you wonder if Floyd | you're imagining—the sound of something skittering behind you. Floyd | Floyd | The ladder here goes up to the main basement level. Tunnels lead east, Floyd | south, and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Circular Tunnel Floyd | This damp tunnel looks like it used to be a sewer, or a pneumatic Floyd | railroad. The curved floor makes it difficult to walk without keeping Floyd | a hand on the damp curved walls. Floyd | Floyd | The way back is east. The tunnel continues south, beyond a Floyd | waterfall-like curtain of slime. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "bheishauph" | ||
Floyd ] Circular Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > BHEISHAUPH Floyd | Floyd | You breathe the incantation, and a breeze of cool air swirls around Floyd | you. Unsettlingly regular patterns of frost curl across the tunnel Floyd | walls until they reach the curtain of slime. Floyd | Floyd | The flow of slime slows, and then it stops as the waterfall freezes in Floyd | place. You hear a crinkling sound. Floyd | Floyd | The frozen curtain of slime shatters and disappears. The way south is Floyd | open. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "B" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Hall of Slime Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hall of Slime Floyd | The tunnel is a river of undulating slime, and there are few places Floyd | where it's safe to set foot. The way out is north. Floyd | Floyd | Someone has written something on the walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pheimmeb" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | > Floyd | > PHEIMMEB Floyd | Floyd | As you pronounce the incantation, a gauzy curtain of shadow falls over Floyd | you. The world becomes hazy, dim, and distant. Floyd | Floyd | Dusky Threshold Floyd | You are in a space behind space. The Normal World is barely visible Floyd | beyond the veil of shadow: a congeries of silent and Floyd | near-unrecognizable shapes. Among them you can almost make out the Floyd | form, such as it is, of the river of slime. Floyd | Floyd | You are not alone. An annoyed-looking spectre is here with you. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "P" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to spectre" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO SPECTRE Floyd | Floyd | You think you are looking at a humanoid form—but as you try to look Floyd | closer, the spectre starts yelling at you. Floyd | Floyd | "What are you doing here?!" Floyd | Floyd | "It's a long story," you try to say, but the spectre has other plans. Floyd | Floyd | "I don't care! Get out of here! I specifically asked not to be Floyd | bothered!" Floyd | Floyd | You grit your teeth. "I don't know how." Floyd | Floyd | The spectre sighs. "Just cast mnymnswst, okay?" Floyd | Floyd | "Sure," you say, hoping the spell is easier to pronounce than it Floyd | sounds. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. Even here, where the Normal World is completely Floyd | silent, you can hear it: something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine exclaims, "Aha!" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Gesundheit." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Wait, I did that one already." | ||
| Ellison says, "note to self: if I ever play this game on my own, be sure to do it on an interpreter that supports aliases" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm going to pretend that mnymnswst is Welsh." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits are north and up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | The Alchemy building feels small and defenseless in the face of the Floyd | wild thunderstorm outside. Rain and howling wind pound at the doors to Floyd | the north and east. A stairway leads down to the basement (and the Floyd | tunnels). Floyd | Floyd | This lobby is especially creepy because there's an informative poster Floyd | depicting an Elder Horror hanging on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | Normally, this grassy courtyard is a favorite spot for joggers and Floyd | Ultimate Frisbee players—but what with the rain, and the lightning, Floyd | there's nobody here right now. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is the Department of Alchemy. East is the Department of Floyd | Necromancy. North is the Department of Linguistics. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Linguistics Floyd | There's not much here—the Linguistics department was organized with a Floyd | minimalist philosophy in mind. A likely-looking (and heavy-looking) Floyd | grimoire rests on a pedestal in an alcove. Floyd | Floyd | The way out is south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pheimmeb" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | > Floyd | > PHEIMMEB Floyd | Floyd | As you pronounce the incantation, a gauzy curtain of shadow falls over Floyd | you. The world becomes hazy, dim, and distant. Floyd | Floyd | Dusky Threshold Floyd | You are in a space behind space. The Normal World is barely visible Floyd | beyond the veil of shadow: a congeries of silent and Floyd | near-unrecognizable shapes. You're pretty sure you're still "inside" Floyd | the Linguistics building. Floyd | Floyd | A huge mass of seething fungoid tissue hangs in the space Floyd | corresponding (you think) to the alcove. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "P" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "raenfidhre" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | > Floyd | > RAENFIDHRE Floyd | Floyd | You utter the incantation, the eldritch puissance of its awful Floyd | phonemes flowing with hideous sweetness over your tongue. A hole opens Floyd | in the non-space of the Dusky Threshold. Floyd | Floyd | It is a big hole, big enough to tear such a hideously massive Elder Floyd | Horror away from this realm, stretching the alien beast into Floyd | impossible angles, and sucking great ropes of the caliginous substance Floyd | of the Dusky Threshold along with the beast into the dimension beyond. Floyd | Even as vaporous as you are, you feel yourself drawn into the chasm as Floyd | well— Floyd | Floyd | But the hole shuts itself, and you are alone among the shadows. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "R" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "mnymnswst" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | > Floyd | > MNYMNSWST Floyd | Floyd | As you utter the incantation, the smoky dimness around you is ripped Floyd | away—in an instant, the Dusky Threshold has become the Normal World. Floyd | Floyd | Department of Linguistics Floyd | There's not much here—the Linguistics department was organized with a Floyd | minimalist philosophy in mind. A likely-looking (and heavy-looking) Floyd | grimoire rests on a pedestal in an alcove. Floyd | Floyd | The way out is south. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "M" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x grimoire" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Linguistics Floyd | > Floyd | > X GRIMOIRE Floyd | Floyd | Now you can get a close look at the grimoire. Floyd | Floyd | Its contents are mostly theoretical, concerned with the notion Floyd | (undoubtedly quite novel, back whenever this was written) that Floyd | language itself is a kind of contagious disease, propagating itself by Floyd | transmission from human mind to human mind, but having an origin quite Floyd | distant from the sphere of human existence. Floyd | Floyd | The applications of this theory are relegated to the end notes, which Floyd | include a formula that purportedly will "infect" its speaker with a Floyd | Scandanavian strain of the mind-virus: "Fickordbok." Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine exclaims, "Swedish!" | |
| Roger says, "Huzzah" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "That sounds dirty." | ||
| DavidW says, "It's where Swedish chefs come from." | ||
| Peregrine says, "So, learn Swedish, strengthen willpower, swap bodies with the grad student, and read the Swedish" | ||
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | Normally, this grassy courtyard is a favorite spot for joggers and Floyd | Ultimate Frisbee players—but what with the rain, and the lightning, Floyd | there's nobody here right now. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is the Department of Alchemy. East is the Department of Floyd | Necromancy. North is the Department of Linguistics. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | The Alchemy building feels small and defenseless in the face of the Floyd | wild thunderstorm outside. Rain and howling wind pound at the doors to Floyd | the north and east. A stairway leads down to the basement (and the Floyd | tunnels). Floyd | Floyd | This lobby is especially creepy because there's an informative poster Floyd | depicting an Elder Horror hanging on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "This is indeed a neat puzzle." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department of Alchemy Lobby Floyd | The Alchemy building feels small and defenseless in the face of the Floyd | wild thunderstorm outside. Rain and howling wind pound at the doors to Floyd | the north and east. A stairway leads down to the basement (and the Floyd | tunnels). Floyd | Floyd | This lobby is especially creepy because there's an informative poster Floyd | depicting an Elder Horror hanging on the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Construction Site Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Construction Site Floyd | Torrents of rain lash at the earth in blind fury. Floyd | Floyd | This is the future site of the Gentry Antiquarian Center. Right now Floyd | it's a rectangular pit with concrete walls. Floyd | Floyd | The Alchemy building is south. Another building—a despicable Floyd | building—is further north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Outside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside Department of Sorcery Floyd | The forboding building to the east houses the Department of Sorcery, Floyd | which frequently competes with the Alchemy department for funding and Floyd | is always reserving the best classrooms before Alchemy can get a Floyd | chance. The rest of the campus is south from here. Floyd | Floyd | Thunder rumbles nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "As one does" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | You break out in gooseflesh as you contemplate the eldritch Floyd | experiments performed within these walls on a daily basis. You don't Floyd | like visiting this place unless you have to. It even smells Floyd | pretentious. Floyd | Floyd | The department head's office is down the hall to the east. The way Floyd | back outside is west. Floyd | Floyd | The only person here tonight is a grad student whom you kind of know. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "caerlaev" | ||
Floyd ] Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > CAERLAEV Floyd | Floyd | You lock eyes with the grad student as you hiss the incantation. Your Floyd | vision swims—and then you are staring into your own eyes. They look Floyd | back with shock, then dawning fear, and then revulsion. Floyd | Floyd | "Why'd you steal my body?" the grad student demands, in your voice. Floyd | "That's messed up!" Floyd | Floyd | "I don't have time to explain," you grunt, in his voice. "I've got Floyd | stuff I've gotta do." Floyd | Floyd | "Well," says the grad student, rifling through your belongings, "it Floyd | looks like I've got your car keys. So..." Floyd | Floyd | He takes off down the hall and out into the storm. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "C" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yzawnzag" | ||
Floyd ] Inside Department of Sorcery Floyd | > Floyd | > YZAWNZAG Floyd | Floyd | As you pronounce the incantation, you feel your mind curl inward as if Floyd | to defend itself. You think, or you hope, that your willpower has Floyd | increased. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "Y" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Department Head's Office Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Department Head's Office Floyd | The head of the Sorcery department has an extremely nice office. For Floyd | example, his desk does not look like it was dragged out of a junkyard. Floyd | On top of the desk is what looks like a copy of the Book of Floyd | Eibon. Floyd | Floyd | The department head rises to greet you. Floyd | Floyd | "Thanks for coming," he says. "I could really use your help with..." Floyd | Floyd | Then, his eyes suddenly afire with evil, he waves his hand and mutters Floyd | an eldritch invocation at you. Floyd | Floyd | "That's not gonna work," you say. "I cast a Yzawnzag on myself a Floyd | little bit ago." Floyd | Floyd | He squints. "Why would you do that?" Floyd | Floyd | "Because I knew you were gonna try to hypnotize me! Oh, also, I'm not Floyd | really your research assistant. I switched bodies with him." Floyd | Floyd | The professor gapes at you in distress. "So—But—Where is my Floyd | assistant?" Floyd | Floyd | You shrug. He rolls his eyes and grabs his coat. As he rushes out of Floyd | his office he snaps at you: "Don't touch anything." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fickordbok" | ||
Floyd ] Department Head's Office Floyd | > Floyd | > FICKORDBOK Floyd | Floyd | The incantation trips liltingly over your tongue, and instantaneously Floyd | you feel as though you have a working knowledge of the Swedish Floyd | language. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "F" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||
Floyd ] Department Head's Office Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOOK Floyd | Floyd | You open the book to a dogeared page. The Swedish text is inscrutable Floyd | to your conscious mind, but nonetheless you somehow understand Floyd | it—well, most of it: Floyd | Floyd | There's a trollformel (incantation) that lets you Floyd | stiga (go up) and sjunka (go down) through tak Floyd | och golv (ceilings and floors). And the incantation is: Floyd | AVITHSKELT. Got it. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "aiieee" | |
| Peregrine says, "This time loop business reminds me of the ending to Doctor Strange." | ||
| Peregrine exclaims, "Ynf-Okh-Omm, I have come to bargain!" | ||
| DavidW says, "I haven't drawn maps yet. I don't know how the levels layer on top of each other." | ||
| Peregrine says, "Oh, dear." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Any idea which floor or ceiling to go through?" | ||
| zarf says, "now would be a good time for a quick map" | ||
| Ellison asks, "maybe try the power room since it talked about cables through the ceiling?" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Machine room ceiling?" | ||
| Peregrine says, "we need to disconnect the power" | ||
| DavidW says, "This would be a good time for a quick meal, if you ask me. I'm hungry." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Er power room, yes." | ||
| DavidW says, "Well, we know the power room is below the big bad." | ||
| Peregrine exclaims, "So we need to go down!" | ||
| Roger says, "We could break, sure. Unless someone just wants to grind through an exhaustive map. I'm not volunteering." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Maybe. I did lose track of spacial relations there." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm wondering what's directly below our initial location." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Is that that end of passage confusing place two?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "That may be the second confusing... yeah." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "avithskelt" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > AVITHSKELT Floyd | Floyd | You whisper the incantation, and you feel a violent, shuddering change Floyd | in your bones, or else in your molecular structure. You have the Floyd | impression of a bizarre untetheredness. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "A" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Confusing Passage Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You think of the so-called "Pauli exclusion principle" and roll your Floyd | eyes as you float down, through the ground. Floyd | Floyd | Confusing Passage Floyd | Something is wrong with the angles in this passage—if it is a Floyd | passage. Floyd | Space seems to be turned around, or it's backwards, or... This is Floyd | giving you a headache. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "vaadignephod" | ||
Floyd ] End of Passage Floyd | > Floyd | > VAADIGNEPHOD Floyd | Floyd | You pronounce the incantation in solemn, creaking tones, and the walls Floyd | slowly untangle themselves as the normal laws of three-dimensional Floyd | space reassert themselves. Floyd | Floyd | End of Passage Floyd | Now that everything is straightened out, you can see that this Floyd | "passage" is actually a dead end. The only way out is east. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "V" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Dark Intersection Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dark Intersection Floyd | The lights have gone out in this chamber, and you can't see your own Floyd | hand in front of your face, but you can just make out paths to the Floyd | north, east, and west. Floyd | Floyd | And you can definitely hear something slithering squamously nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "So this is two below the courtyard?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I think so..." | ||
| DavidW says, "Looks like the basement and sub-basement are both 3x3 grids." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah, that's what I get." | ||
| DavidW says, "Top-level as well." | ||
| DavidW says, "So, in theory, we could enter some places from unexpected directions. We could potentially see the other side of the waterfall or surprise the dept head by coming up through the floor." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "So, do we need to go deeper? Or is there something where we need a shortcut?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "hose are possible as well." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Those, I mean." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure what's intended yet. Shortcuts, subsubbasement or even an upperfloor." | ||
| Roger says, "possibly the weird-geometry places will act differently after being straightened out. Or not! worth checking I think." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Dark Intersection Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You will yourself downward—but apparently this is literally as low as Floyd | you can get. Oh well. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Dark Intersection Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Dark Intersection Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Dark Hall Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Shrugging at the outmoded law of gravity, you float up, through the Floyd | ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | Dark Hall Floyd | The tunnel continues further than the light can reach. All you can see Floyd | is the way back to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Shrugging at the outmoded law of gravity, you float up, through the Floyd | ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | Normally, this grassy courtyard is a favorite spot for joggers and Floyd | Ultimate Frisbee players—but what with the rain, and the lightning, Floyd | there's nobody here right now. Floyd | Floyd | To the west is the Department of Alchemy. East is the Department of Floyd | Necromancy. North is the Department of Linguistics. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You will yourself upward—but apparently there is nowhere up from Floyd | here. Floyd | Oh well. Floyd | Floyd | Your body shudders again, and you no longer feel so untethered. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The spell doesn't last forever." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Necromancy Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Necromancy Hallway Floyd | You seem to be in a hallway—but it's too dark to see which way it Floyd | leads, what it leads to, or what else is in here with you. The only Floyd | thing you can see is the way outside, to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "avithskelt" | ||
Floyd ] Necromancy Hallway Floyd | > Floyd | > AVITHSKELT Floyd | Floyd | You whisper the incantation, and you feel a violent, shuddering change Floyd | in your bones, or else in your molecular structure. You have the Floyd | impression of a bizarre untetheredness. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. You hear something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Let's see if there's anything below the power station?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "avithskelt" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > AVITHSKELT Floyd | Floyd | You whisper the incantation, and you feel a violent, shuddering change Floyd | in your bones, or else in your molecular structure. You have the Floyd | impression of a bizarre untetheredness. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "A" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Wow. Y'all are still at it." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Confusing Passage Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You think of the so-called "Pauli exclusion principle" and roll your Floyd | eyes as you float down, through the ground. Floyd | Floyd | Confusing Passage Floyd | Something is wrong with the angles in this passage—if it is a Floyd | passage. Floyd | Space seems to be turned around, or it's backwards, or... This is Floyd | giving you a headache. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "vaadignephod" | ||
Floyd ] End of Passage Floyd | > Floyd | > VAADIGNEPHOD Floyd | Floyd | You pronounce the incantation in solemn, creaking tones, and the walls Floyd | slowly untangle themselves as the normal laws of three-dimensional Floyd | space reassert themselves. Floyd | Floyd | End of Passage Floyd | Now that everything is straightened out, you can see that this Floyd | "passage" is actually a dead end. The only way out is east. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "V" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Dark Intersection Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dark Intersection Floyd | The lights have gone out in this chamber, and you can't see your own Floyd | hand in front of your face, but you can just make out paths to the Floyd | north, east, and west. Floyd | Floyd | And you can definitely hear something slithering squamously nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Power Station Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Power Station Floyd | Thrumming all around you are hulks of decrepit machinery, sagging Floyd | under the weight of decades, struggling to supply power to the Floyd | university above. And twisting through their cables are the insidious Floyd | tentacles of Ynf-Okh-Omm, worming their way through the ceiling from Floyd | its chamber above. The Eldest Horror is leeching power from G.U.E.'s Floyd | electrical system! This is your fault! Floyd | Floyd | The tunnels continue north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Power Station Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You will yourself downward—but apparently this is literally as low as Floyd | you can get. Oh well. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Ritual Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Shrugging at the outmoded law of gravity, you float up, through the Floyd | ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | Ritual Chamber Floyd | It groans sluggishly. It shrugs its unthinkable head—No. That is not Floyd | a Floyd | head. Floyd | Floyd | The whitish, loathsome, incomprehensible thing that oozes before you Floyd | is Ynf-Okh-Omm, the Eldest Horror. It is sleeping, for now. Soon (very Floyd | soon), it will awaken, and this helpless universe will suffer the Floyd | consequences. Floyd | Floyd | The way out is east. Floyd | Floyd | Your body shudders again, and you no longer feel so untethered. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yzawnzag" | ||
Floyd ] Ritual Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > YZAWNZAG Floyd | Floyd | As you pronounce the incantation, you feel your mind curl inward as if Floyd | to defend itself. You think, or you hope, that your willpower has Floyd | increased. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "Y" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ] Ritual Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > Y Floyd | Floyd | You cast the hypnosis-resistance spell again, and steel your mind even Floyd | more against external influence (possibly to the point of overdoing Floyd | it). Floyd | Floyd | Ynf-Okh-Omm stirs. The Eldest Horror rolls over. Some hideous aspect Floyd | of its body—an eye?—a mouth?—opens, and you are the first to be Floyd | devoured. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Ritual Chamber Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Ritual Chamber Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Peregrine hops into the DeLorean and heads off to the future. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "raenfidhre" | ||
Floyd ] Ritual Chamber Floyd | > Floyd | > RAENFIDHRE Floyd | Floyd | You utter the incantation, the eldritch puissance of its awful Floyd | phonemes flowing with hideous sweetness over your tongue. Floyd | Floyd | A crackle of eldritch power washes over the sleeping hulk, and your Floyd | spell falls flat. How did it do that? Where is it getting this energy? Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "R" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | Ynf-Okh-Omm stirs. The Eldest Horror rolls over. Some hideous aspect Floyd | of its body—an eye?—a mouth?—opens, and you are the first to be Floyd | devoured. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Which of our spells is likeliest to help in the power station? Freezing wind? Slime? Or should I try to caerlaev a horror?" | |
| Roger says, "I feel like we haven't abused the hacker body sufficiently" | ||
| Ellison says, "I get the impression Caerlaev only works with things you can make eye contact with, so maybe the stuff about not being sure it can see you is a clue" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Maybe we can Raen the tentacles, then avith up to raen the horror?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "wellll. we might send the hacker up to the sorcery dept head, I guess?" | ||
| DavidW says (to KO), "oh, maybe." | ||
| Roger says, "Sure, or maybe her body knows what to do with the power station, or something" | ||
| DavidW asks, "But wouldn't the tentacles be just as strong?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Hm, they might be." | ||
| Roger says, "Or hrm hey if we anti-hypnotise, maybe we can keep her out of our body, and keep her keys" | ||
| DavidW says, "Why do we need keys? Nothing's locked." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I suspect we can't keep the keys." | ||
| DavidW says, "I will try to send the hacker up through the ceiling to the head." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Go for it." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Typical Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Typical Tunnel Floyd | Before you enrolled at G.U.E. Tech, you had this romantic idea that Floyd | the tunnels would all be dingy, claustrophobic, and dangerous. But Floyd | these tunnels—the tunnels that most people see—are really more like Floyd | hallways with pipes. Floyd | Floyd | This hallway and its pipes lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eerie Corner Floyd | You've reached a bend in the tunnel where the lights don't quite Floyd | reach. You can continue east or south. Floyd | Floyd | But you can't just stand around, because an Elder Horror is flitting Floyd | through the shadows here, gibbering in little shrieks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Top of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Top of Ladder Floyd | In the middle of this east-west strip of tunnel is an open grate. In Floyd | the grate is a ladder. The ladder leads down to the sub-basement Floyd | level. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Well-Lit Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Well-Lit Corner Floyd | The passage from the west turns here, at the top of a gentle slope Floyd | leading south. This would be a great place to race office chairs, if Floyd | other concerns weren't taking precedence. Floyd | Floyd | A hacker is leaning against the wall here, taking a break from Floyd | hacking. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "caerlaev" | ||
Floyd ] Well-Lit Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > CAERLAEV Floyd | Floyd | You lock eyes with the hacker as you hiss the incantation. Your vision Floyd | swims—and then you are staring into your own eyes. Floyd | Floyd | "Did you just switch our bodies?" the hacker asks, in your voice. Floyd | Floyd | "For the time being, yes," you say. Floyd | Floyd | Your voice sounds disappointed. "That is incredibly rude," she says. Floyd | "Could I get my key ring back, at least?" Floyd | Floyd | Embarrassed, you awkwardly unclip the heavy ring from the hacker's Floyd | belt and toss it to your body. The hacker snatches it from the air and Floyd | starts rummaging through your pockets. Pretty soon she finds your Floyd | keys, and clips them onto her ring. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, I'm going to go mess with your stuff now," she explains, and Floyd | she brushes past you on her way down the tunnel. Floyd | Floyd | She's right, you know. That was super rude. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "C" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "avithskelt" | ||
Floyd ] Well-Lit Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > AVITHSKELT Floyd | Floyd | You whisper the incantation, and you feel a violent, shuddering change Floyd | in your bones, or else in your molecular structure. You have the Floyd | impression of a bizarre untetheredness. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "A" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Department Head's Office Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Shrugging at the outmoded law of gravity, you float up, through the Floyd | ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | Department Head's Office Floyd | The head of the Sorcery department has an extremely nice office. For Floyd | example, his desk does not look like it was dragged out of a junkyard. Floyd | On top of the desk is what looks like a copy of the Book of Floyd | Eibon. Floyd | Floyd | The department head rises to greet you. Floyd | Floyd | "What the heck are you doing here?" he says. Floyd | Floyd | You look around with a thoughtful frown. "Sorry," you say. "I've Floyd | already finished this room." Floyd | Floyd | "What are you talking about? How did you get here?" Floyd | Floyd | You close your eyes and visualize the tortuous sequence of events. "I Floyd | used the Avithskelt spell, which I got from the Book of Eibon Floyd | over there, which I read using Fickordbok, after I used Caerlaev to Floyd | switch bodies with your research assistant. And Yzawnzag, because you Floyd | were going to hypnotize him. And then I traveled back in time." You Floyd | open your eyes. Floyd | Floyd | "You know a lot of spells," says the professor. Floyd | Floyd | You shrug coyly. "I guess." Floyd | Floyd | "Do you know this one?" He gestures fiendishly and utters something Floyd | unpronounceable. Floyd | Floyd | "I don't think I do," you almost say, as your body ages centuries in Floyd | the space of seconds, reducing you to a desiccated husk. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "nice" | |
| zarf says, "heh" | ||
| Roger says, "worth it" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Heh." | ||
| Roger says, "I'm otherwise out of ideas" | ||
| zarf asks, "did you get the statuette?" | ||
| Roger says, "We observed it" | ||
| DavidW says, "We can try to raenfidhre the tentacles first, at least." | ||
| DavidW says, "The statuette had the YZAWNZAG spell." | ||
| zarf says, "right" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Typical Tunnel Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Typical Tunnel Floyd | Before you enrolled at G.U.E. Tech, you had this romantic idea that Floyd | the tunnels would all be dingy, claustrophobic, and dangerous. But Floyd | these tunnels—the tunnels that most people see—are really more like Floyd | hallways with pipes. Floyd | Floyd | This hallway and its pipes lead north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Eerie Corner Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Eerie Corner Floyd | You've reached a bend in the tunnel where the lights don't quite Floyd | reach. You can continue east or south. Floyd | Floyd | But you can't just stand around, because an Elder Horror is flitting Floyd | through the shadows here, gibbering in little shrieks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Top of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Top of Ladder Floyd | In the middle of this east-west strip of tunnel is an open grate. In Floyd | the grate is a ladder. The ladder leads down to the sub-basement Floyd | level. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Bottom of Ladder Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bottom of Ladder Floyd | These are not the fun tunnels that they show you on campus tours. Floyd | These are the old tunnels. The evil tunnels. Floyd | Floyd | Ancient pipes clank and hiss, and beneath these noises—you wonder if Floyd | you're imagining—the sound of something skittering behind you. Floyd | Floyd | The ladder here goes up to the main basement level. Tunnels lead east, Floyd | south, and west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Power Station Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Power Station Floyd | Thrumming all around you are hulks of decrepit machinery, sagging Floyd | under the weight of decades, struggling to supply power to the Floyd | university above. And twisting through their cables are the insidious Floyd | tentacles of Ynf-Okh-Omm, worming their way through the ceiling from Floyd | its chamber above. The Eldest Horror is leeching power from G.U.E.'s Floyd | electrical system! This is your fault! Floyd | Floyd | The tunnels continue north and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | zarf says, "I believe you're missing a spell but I don't remember where you're missing it" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "raenfidhre" | ||
Floyd ] Power Station Floyd | > Floyd | > RAENFIDHRE Floyd | Floyd | You utter the incantation, the eldritch puissance of its awful Floyd | phonemes flowing with hideous sweetness over your tongue. Floyd | Floyd | Nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "R" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jilxube" | ||
Floyd ] Power Station Floyd | > Floyd | > JILXUBE Floyd | Floyd | You struggle to pronounce the abhorrent incantation properly. When you Floyd | finally get it right, a huge mass of slime appears out of nowhere, Floyd | draping its dreadful viscousness all over everything in the immediate Floyd | area. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "J" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "bheishauph" | ||
Floyd ] Power Station Floyd | > Floyd | > BHEISHAUPH Floyd | Floyd | You breathe the incantation, and a breeze of cool air swirls around Floyd | you. For a moment you feel the supernatural cold of the infinite space Floyd | between the stars. Floyd | Floyd | The slime crystallizes over a period of seconds, becoming a rigid but Floyd | no less unwholesome mass of many-faceted ice-slime. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "B" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pheimmeb" | ||
Floyd ] Dusky Threshold Floyd | > Floyd | > PHEIMMEB Floyd | Floyd | As you pronounce the incantation, a gauzy curtain of shadow falls over Floyd | you. The world becomes hazy, dim, and distant. Floyd | Floyd | Dusky Threshold Floyd | You are in a space behind space. The Normal World is barely visible Floyd | beyond the veil of shadow: a congeries of silent and Floyd | near-unrecognizable shapes. All that electrical equipment has been Floyd | reduced to a series of vague rectangles. Floyd | Floyd | You can use the abbreviation "P" the next time you want to cast this Floyd | spell. But not if you travel back in time again. That's how time Floyd | travel works. Floyd | Floyd | Then it happens. Even here, where the Normal World is completely Floyd | silent, you can hear it: something huge rousing itself from cosmic Floyd | sleep. The thing groans, and the entire campus shakes. Ynf-Okh-Omm has Floyd | awoken. Shortly it will consume G.U.E. Tech—and then the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have failed. *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | If you RESTART, you might be able to fix this, unless you— Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "restart" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | —manage to foul things up again this time, which is a distinct Floyd | possibility... Floyd | Floyd | The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening Floyd | An MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle by Ryan Veeder, with apologies to Dave Floyd | Lebling Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180118 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Alchemy Basement Floyd | Your vision clears, and you're back in the basement of the Alchemy Floyd | building. Floyd | Floyd | This is one of your favorite haunts on the G.U.E. campus. It's a great Floyd | place to curl up with a book—but you really don't have time for that Floyd | right now. Floyd | Floyd | There's a stairway here that leads up to the Department of Alchemy Floyd | lobby, and a well-lit tunnel leads north. Floyd | Floyd | You'd better start moving if you're going to get anything done this Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I'm counting twelve spells." | |
| Roger says, "I wonder if the Swedish spell works inside the Duskiness. Probably not, but..." | ||
| DavidW says, "R, J, K, H, Y, B, V, C, P, M, F, and A." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Well, it'll work, but I doubt there's anything good to read in the threshold." | ||
| Roger says, "hunh I thought there were technical reasons that made 'A' a difficult thing to remap" | ||
| Roger says, "No the Swedish travelling spell" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Oh, that one. Hmm...." | ||
| DavidW says, "It seems to be a 3x3x3 map." | ||
| DavidW says, "With the elder-est horror in center cube."[clubfloyd] Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| DavidW says, "Chortling like Paul Lynde." | ||
| Ellison asks, "check the Dusky Threshold versions of big bad and power room?" | ||
| DavidW says, "It's 5pm, and I know we're so close, but I don't know what to do next except find food somewhere." | ||
| Ellison asks, "should we end it there until next week?" | ||
| Roger says, "I'm down with that" | ||
| DavidW says, "I guess we don't need to save our place." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "If you guys want that, sure." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I would save." | ||
| Ellison says, "I'll probably watch a little bit of the game so I don't really want to take a break and come back" | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, I think I need a break regardless." | ||
| Roger says, "If someone wants to post their map and/or notes, I'll say thanks." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'll write up my notes later tonight." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "never give up" | ||
Floyd ] Alchemy Basement Floyd | > Floyd | > NEVER GIVE UP Floyd | Floyd | That verb doesn't work in this story. Sorry. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "the funny thing is that I tried the lurkening on my own the other week but stopped when it seemed like it required more mapping than I wanted to deal with at the moment, and I'm pretty sure I came to that decision even before running into the timer limit" | |
| DavidW says, "Okay, my notes so far are at [LINK]" | ||
| Ellison says, "I made a map of The Lurkening: [LINK]" | ||
| DavidW says, "I did also." | ||
| DavidW says, "Mine is at [LINK]" | ||
| DavidW says, "I also spent a bit of time seeing if I could go up from the ground level or down from the subbasement level." | ||
| DavidW says, "So far, I have no succeeded." | ||
| DavidW says, "er not" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, I also found out what the hacker's and grad student's names are, by having them switch bodies with each other." | ||
| Ellison says, "your map is also nice (my computer is running slowly so it took a while to come up)" | ||
| Ellison says, "awesome" | ||
| DavidW says, "She's Paulina; he's Oswaldo." | ||
| Ellison says, "I'm glad we played it. I had been feeling guilty about not getting through it yet." | ||
| DavidW says, "I still don't know what do to about the Eldest Horror or the power station tentacles." | ||
| DavidW says, "Since AVITHSKELT doesn't seem to open any new areas, it's only likely purpose is to help us reach some location faster for some reason." | ||
| Ellison says, "honestly, I found what we missed during my mapping (and replaying the game to go over the things I hadn't paid attention to) so I'll have to be quiet next week" | ||
| DavidW says, "okay, I think I found an anomoly to persue." | ||
| DavidW says, "aha." | ||
| Ellison says, "you'll probably find it legitimately. I found it on accident." | ||
| DavidW says, "I have a 13th spell, but I'm not sure how to use it effectively." | ||
| Taleslinger says, "DW's map is better" | ||
| DavidW asks (of Taleslinger), "Why do you say that?" | ||
| Olly says (to Taleslinger), "Naturally." | ||
| Taleslinger says, "To needle Ellison. I haven't looked at them." | ||
| Ellison says, "GUEmap has some nice shortcuts so it's my favorite to use but I would use Trizbort if I weren't so lazy" | ||
| *** THE SUPPOSED SECOND SESSION *** | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yo" | ||
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "Hi!" | ||
| Guenni says, "Exactly." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh yeah. Exactly." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So, in a game of Bad News/Good News, I am both ill and have company from the mainland." | ||
| DavidW arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "tsk. Should've scheduled those for different days." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "HA. I know, right?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So I'm not sure I will be part of the festivities today but am happy to get" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Hope you recover soon then, and don't pass the illness to your company." | ||
| Guenni says, "Yeah, especially the illness." | ||
| Taleslinger says, "Mainland? Those guys suck" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "What I meant to say is I am happy to get you all started. Are you continuing your game from last week?" | ||
| Guenni asks, "What did you play?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "The Lurkening, but I'm not sure it got completed." | ||
| DavidW says, "I, uh, finished last week's game on my own." | ||
| DavidW says, "We were very close to the end of it." | ||
| zarf says, "yah" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We need, like, the equivalent of Netflix Commitment Rings for this group, it would appear." | ||
| zarf asks (of DW), "Did you get the puzzle answer as well as the winning ending?" | ||
| Guenni says, "I was migrainized and thus not here." | ||
| DavidW says (to zarf), "I learned about the puzzle answer by cheating after winning." | ||
| zarf says, "ah" | ||
| Guenni grins. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Guenni), "That sounds painful." | ||
| Guenni stops grinning and nods. | ||
| DavidW says, "After winning, I ... uh ... used a disassembler to see if we'd missed anything." | ||
| Guenni says, "What I mean is, if you get into a second session, I won't be of much help." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Sounds we're not doing a second session of it." | ||
