  
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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| Guenni asks, "Soo??? now???" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm still trying to wake up." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, there is no rule that says we must play" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Jacq suggested A Beauty Cold and Austere last week." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Are people not up for it today? Or shall I launch A Beauty-- yeah, that" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "That would be fine by me." | ||
| DavidW says, "It'd be pleasant for me to watch people play ABCAA." | ||
| Guenni says, "The title doesn't sound post apocalyptic, so it seems fine. :-)" | ||
| DavidW says, "I was up all night making a map for Ballymun Adventure." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask beautycoldandaustere2" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme Floyd | beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without Floyd | appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous Floyd | trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a Floyd | stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show." -- Floyd | Bertrand Russell | Guenni says, "That sounds like numbers. :shudders." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yep." | ||
| Guenni pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd | Would you like to...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Play through the tutorial : T
Floyd | Start the story - from the beginning : (SPACE)
Floyd | - from a saved position : R
Floyd | Quit : Q
| DavidW says (to Guenni), "This is a game about mathematical concepts." | |
| Guenni says, "Even worse. :-)" | ||
| DavidW says, "No, it's actually fun." | ||
| DavidW says, "Well, I enjoyed it, at least." | ||
| Guenni asks, "Is the tutorial important? Or just for complete if newbies?" | ||
| zarf arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | DavidW says, "The tutorial is useful mostly for reminding you that you can use AND with nouns." | |
| DavidW says, "It's a short tutorial and painless." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "t" | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd | "Closing time!" The voice echoes in the space around you.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | You slowly open your eyes to find your face pressed against a book. A
Floyd | book you've been drooling on.
Floyd |
Floyd | One thing at a time. Let's focus on the book.
Floyd |
Floyd | Type EXAMINE BOOK, or X BOOK for short.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOOK Floyd | Floyd | This is your textbook for Math 058, Concepts of Mathematics. (Or is Floyd | it Math 314? Or Math 272? You really ought to remember this.) The Floyd | book has some drool on it. Floyd | Floyd | So it's your math book. That helps some. You might be up to a wider Floyd | glance around now. Try LOOK, or just L for short. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] College Library Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Right. The library. Floyd | Floyd | College Library Floyd | The library is a great place to study - or so you've been told. You Floyd | hadn't seen the inside of it until today. Floyd | Floyd | (You've also been told it's a good place to sleep. Well, you can Floyd | vouch for that now.) Floyd | Floyd | On the study table in front of you are your math book and an empty Floyd | yogurt cup. Floyd | Floyd | The librarian spots you and begins walking in your direction. Oh, no. Floyd | Floyd | You might have time to look up one more topic in your math book. Floyd | Newton, maybe. He'll probably show up on the final tomorrow. Or Floyd | maybe Professor Glasser will expect you to wax philosophical about Floyd | mathematics in general. You could LOOK UP NEWTON or LOOK UP MATH. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "look up math" | ||
Floyd ] College Library Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP MATH Floyd | Floyd | (in your math book) Floyd | There is considerable debate as to the exact definition of Floyd | mathematics. Is it the study of numbers? Shapes? Is it discovered, Floyd | or is it invented? Aristotle called mathematics "the science of Floyd | quantity," but some modern areas of mathematics like topology don't Floyd | really fit that definition. Bertrand Russell said that mathematics Floyd | can be reduced to logic, but his own efforts in that area were Floyd | punctured by Gödel's incompleteness theorems. Most modern Floyd | mathematicians take a "I know it when I see it" view, when they bother Floyd | to think about the definition of mathematics at all. Floyd | Floyd | Regardless of its definition, since the 1600s mathematics has proven Floyd | to be particularly useful to science. For example, Isaac Newton's Floyd | second law of motion, F = ma, or force equals mass times Floyd | acceleration, single-handedly reduced a wide variety of problems in Floyd | physics to a simple equation. Modern physics, engineering, chemistry, Floyd | economics, computers, and even large parts of biology and the social Floyd | sciences would not be possible without mathematics. Galileo even went Floyd | so far as to claim that mathematics is the language with which God has Floyd | written the universe. Floyd | Floyd | Is mathematics art or science? Science owes much to mathematics, and Floyd | Gauss called mathematics "the queen of the sciences." But some Floyd | mathematicians sound more like artists when describing their work. Floyd | Russell, in the following quote, makes that comparison explicit: Floyd | Floyd | "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme Floyd | beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without Floyd | appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous Floyd | trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a Floyd | stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true Floyd | spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, Floyd | which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in Floyd | mathematics as surely as poetry." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Wow. That's a lot to digest. You're never going to remember all of Floyd | this for tomorrow. Floyd | Floyd | The librarian is getting closer. You probably should take the Floyd | initiative and GREET HER. Maybe if you're friendly she'll let you Floyd | stay a little longer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "greet librarian" | ||
Floyd ] College Library Floyd | > Floyd | > GREET LIBRARIAN Floyd | Floyd | "Hello!" you say brightly. Floyd | Floyd | "Hello," the librarian responds. "I'm afraid it's time for you to Floyd | leave." Floyd | Floyd | It looks like you might need more than friendliness here. Let's go Floyd | for pathos. Try TELL LIBRARIAN ABOUT FINAL. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I wish more games would support GREET." | |
| Guenni nods. | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Many just support greed." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "tell libririan about final" | ||
Floyd ] College Library Floyd | > Floyd | > TELL LIBRIRIAN ABOUT FINAL Floyd | Floyd | (to the librarian) Floyd | "Um, I have my final exam in conceptual mathematics tomorrow," you say Floyd | in your best respectful-of-authority voice. "I really need to do some Floyd | more studying. May I please, please stay here for just a little Floyd | longer?" Floyd | Floyd | "No," she replies. "I'm sorry, but I have to close up the library Floyd | now." Floyd | Floyd | Well, that didn't work. She's probably heard it all before. Floyd | Floyd | You might as well just head back to your dorm room. You'll need to Floyd | pick up your things first, though. Try GET BOOK AND CUP. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "get book and cup" | ||
Floyd ] College Library Floyd | > Floyd | > GET BOOK AND CUP Floyd | Floyd | your math book: You pick up your math book. Floyd | empty yogurt cup: You pick up the yogurt cup. Floyd | Floyd | (Notice that you can GET more than one object at a time.) Floyd | Floyd | "I hope you're not planning to remove any library books," the Floyd | librarian says. "The borrowing period for this academic year has Floyd | ended." Floyd | Floyd | You should check your inventory to show her. Try INVENTORY, or just I Floyd | for short. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] College Library Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an empty yogurt cup Floyd | your math book Floyd | Floyd | "Good," says the librarian. Then her eyes focus on the yogurt cup. Floyd | She frowns. "I'll take that," she says. Floyd | Floyd | Try GIVE CUP TO LIBRARIAN. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "give cup to librarian" | ||
Floyd ] College Library Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE CUP TO LIBRARIAN Floyd | Floyd | You give the empty yogurt cup to the librarian. Floyd | Floyd | "Thank you," the librarian says. "Next time, please try to follow the Floyd | rules about food in the library. Floyd | Floyd | "Good luck on your final," she adds, pointedly indicating the exit to Floyd | the south. Floyd | Floyd | There's really nothing left to do but head back to your dorm room. Floyd | Try SOUTH, or just S. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You walk out, flashing the librarian a weak smile as you go. She Floyd | closes and locks the doors behind you. Floyd | Floyd | Then you trudge back to your dorm room, thinking about how you got Floyd | here... | ||
| Guenni pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | This ends the tutorial. Floyd | Floyd | You've just seen several of the most useful commands in the game: Floyd | EXAMINE object (or X object) Floyd | LOOK (or L) Floyd | LOOK UP topic (in your math book) Floyd | GREET character Floyd | TELL character ABOUT topic Floyd | GET an object (more than one if you want) Floyd | GIVE object TO character Floyd | INVENTORY (or I) Floyd | SOUTH (or S. The other seven compass directions - and their Floyd | abbreviations - are allowed, too, plus UP and DOWN). Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You can review these commands and many others by typing HELP at any Floyd | time. In-game HINTS are available as well. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Please press SPACE to continue.] | ||
| Guenni pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd | A Beauty Cold and Austere
Floyd | An Interactive Digression by Mike Spivey
Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180112 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Professor Glasser's survey course in conceptual mathematics seemed
Floyd | like a good idea at the start of the term - no graded homework, no
Floyd | midterm exams - just an oral final at the end. As the semester
Floyd | progressed, cutting a few classes didn't really seem to matter.
Floyd | Neither did skipping a reading assignment - or a homework set - here
Floyd | and there. But "a few, here and there" slowly turned into "several,"
Floyd | which turned into "most." Eventually you were too embarrassed to show
Floyd | up to class anymore, and for the better part of the second half of the
Floyd | term you did an impressive job of forgetting about the final exam.
Floyd |
Floyd | Until this morning.
Floyd |
Floyd | Cramming has never worked for you, but what choice did you have? You
Floyd | already made your choices, you suppose - repeatedly, throughout the
Floyd | semester.
Floyd |
Floyd | Blaming yourself now isn't going to do any good, though. You can
Floyd | blame yourself all you want after tomorrow. Focus on the final.
Floyd | Focus on the final.
Floyd |
Floyd | How, though? It's late. You need more sleep. But you're not sure
Floyd | you remember much (anything?) from today's library cram session.
Floyd |
Floyd | You've got to pass that final because you've got to pass the class.
Floyd | What will happen to your scholarship if you don't?
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | With these pleasant thoughts running through your head as you walk
Floyd | across campus, you finally return to...
| DavidW says, "hm. I don't think the prof had an actual name in version 1." | |
| Taleslinger says, "A sequel to the original Halloween, or the remake" | ||
| Taleslinger says, "ilac" | ||
| Guenni pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Your Dorm Room 0/100 Floyd | across campus, you finally return to... 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 | > | ||
| Guenni 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 | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x pills" | ||
Floyd ] Your Dorm Room 0/100 Floyd | > Floyd | > X PILLS Floyd | Floyd | Your roommate claims these pills are good for your memory, but you've Floyd | always been skeptical. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Those pills sound suspicious." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||
Floyd ] Your Dorm Room 0/100 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BED Floyd | Floyd | Your bedsheets feature characters from one of your favorite childhood Floyd | shows. Particularly prominent is a purple puppet vampire, who is Floyd | endearing rather than scary. You don't care that your friends Floyd | occasionally make fun of you for these sheets. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Well, sleeping doesn't seem to be an option with that level of background noise. So might as well give the pills a try." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bottle" | ||
Floyd ] Your Dorm Room 0/100 Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | These study pills are ones that your roommate picked up at that Floyd | sketchy health-food store downtown. Your roommate swears by them, but Floyd | you've always been skeptical. The bottle is closed, and there is Floyd | something written on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Sure." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "read bottle" | ||
Floyd ] Your Dorm Room 0/100 Floyd | > Floyd | > READ BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | On the bottle is written "Blorple Pills: Explore a nearby object's Floyd | mystic energy field via the power of dreams!" Floyd | Floyd | Mystic energy field? Power of dreams?! You thought these were Floyd | supposed to be study pills. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Huh." | |
| Guenni says, "Sounds like we're in for very graphic math lessons. :-)" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "open bottle" | ||
Floyd ] Your Dorm Room 0/100 Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN BOTTLE Floyd | Floyd | You push down on the bottle's cap, twist it, and pull... and the Floyd | bottle opens easily. Whew! Sometimes these "childproof" medicine Floyd | bottles are really hard to open. There is one pill left in the Floyd | bottle. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Magic pills." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Or pill, rather." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "take pill" | ||
Floyd ] Your Dorm Room 0/100 Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PILL Floyd | Floyd | A bit hesitantly, you swallow the pill. Hopefully this will help with Floyd | your studying. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "put textbook under pillow" | ||
Floyd ] Your Dorm Room 0/100 Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT TEXTBOOK UNDER PILLOW Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing, at least as described. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni sighs. So much for true and tested methods. | |
| DavidW says, "I don't think there's any pillow object." | ||
| DavidW says, "Just keep the book in your inventory." | ||
| Guenni says, "I really didn't think there would be. But it was worth at try. :-)" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "get on bed" | ||
Floyd ] Your Dorm Room 0/100 Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ON BED Floyd | Floyd | You get onto your bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | You curl up with the math book. Whether by exhaustion or the effects Floyd | of the pill (or both), you quickly fall asleep. Floyd | Floyd | Your dreams are strange. Images from today's cramfest run through Floyd | your mind in rapid succession, combining, reforming, and producing new Floyd | images, each of which sinks into your unconscious. Eventually your Floyd | thoughts slow down, and as they do you can feel your mind empty. Your Floyd | dream coalesces into... | ||
| Guenni pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Point 2/100 Floyd | Floyd | Point Floyd | You find yourself in a deep dark blue - almost black - expanse of Floyd | space that extends as far as you can see in all three dimensions. The Floyd | only thing that breaks up this space is the white disk floating in Floyd | mid-air that you are standing on. While the disk doesn't appear to be Floyd | supported by anything, there is a hole in the middle of it. Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Arithmetic has increased. You estimate Floyd | that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by two Floyd | points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "score" | ||
Floyd ] Point 2/100 Floyd | > Floyd | > SCORE Floyd | Floyd | You estimate that you would score 2 out of 100 on tomorrow's final Floyd | exam. If you remember Professor Glasser's grading scale correctly, Floyd | this would earn you an F in the course. Floyd | (For a more complete breakdown of your score, use the FULL command. Floyd | To toggle reporting of your grade in the status line, use the GRADE Floyd | command.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Oy feel smorter olreaday." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x disk" | ||
Floyd ] Point 2/100 Floyd | > Floyd | > X DISK Floyd | Floyd | The disk is pure white and has a diameter of about 8 feet. There is a Floyd | hole in the middle of it, large enough for you to enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. GRADE command is new." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "grade" | ||
Floyd ] Point 2/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > GRADE Floyd | Floyd | (Grade reporting is now on.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "enter disk" | ||
Floyd ] One 2/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER DISK Floyd | Floyd | You clamber down the hole. Floyd | Floyd | One Floyd | This is more of an abstract space than a physical place, but it gives Floyd | you a sense of unity, wholeness, and beginnings. A hole leads back Floyd | up. You sense another exit, too - one in a deeper, "downward" Floyd | direction from this space. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Void 2/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You make your way down. Floyd | Floyd | Void Floyd | This space feels formless, as if it consists of as-yet unshaped Floyd | matter. You can sense a way out above you. Floyd | Floyd | The only solid thing you can discern here is a white wand, floating Floyd | upright in the void. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "take wand" | ||
Floyd ] Void 2/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE WAND Floyd | Floyd | You take the white wand from the void. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] Void 2/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | This white wand is in the shape of a snake - a one-eyed adder, Floyd | actually. The adder's eye is a dark sapphire. The wand has the word Floyd | "Increment" inscribed along it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Adder. Ow." | |
| DavidW says, "heh." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "wave wand" | ||
Floyd ] Void 2/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > WAVE WAND Floyd | Floyd | You wave the wand, and the word "Increment" on it glows briefly before Floyd | fading. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "I guess we can grow or shrink with it." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Void 2/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Void Floyd | This space feels formless, as if it consists of as-yet unshaped Floyd | matter. You can sense a way out above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] One 2/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up through the void. Floyd | Floyd | One Floyd | This is more of an abstract space than a physical place, but it gives Floyd | you a sense of unity, wholeness, and beginnings. A hole leads back Floyd | up. You sense another exit, too - one in a deeper, "downward" Floyd | direction from this space. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "wave wand" | ||
Floyd ] Two 2/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > WAVE WAND Floyd | Floyd | You wave the wand, and the word "Increment" on it begins to glow. It Floyd | glows brighter and brighter. Finally, the wand emits a dazzling flash Floyd | of light - and disappears! Wandless, you feel yourself Floyd | increment. Floyd | Floyd | Two Floyd | This is more of an abstract space than a physical place, but it's Floyd | marked by a feeling of duality, as if it somehow contains opposites Floyd | within itself. The only exit is a hole leading up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni asks, "Ok, is this good or bad?" | |
| DavidW says, "It's good." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Positive Axis: 2 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | As you climb through the hole, at first it appears you are entering a Floyd | dark blue nothingness. But then you see, off to the "west," the white Floyd | disk you were standing on earlier. The white wand is lying on it, Floyd | pointed in your direction. As you stare at it, the wand begins to Floyd | change shape! It widens and flattens until it is the width of the Floyd | disk. Then the tip stretches toward you, the wand soon extending far Floyd | beyond its original length. The tip picks up speed, and it passes you Floyd | almost faster than you can follow. You get a last glimpse of the tip Floyd | off in the distance before it is lost from sight. Looking around, you Floyd | find that the wand has become a line with numbers marked on it, a line Floyd | that extends as far as you can see to the "east." With some Floyd | trepidation, you step onto this new line. Floyd | Floyd | Positive Axis: 2 Floyd | You are in a dark blue expanse of space, standing on a white line that Floyd | stretches to the west and as far as you can see to the east. The Floyd | number 2 is marked on the line here. There is a hole next to the 2 Floyd | large enough for you to climb down into. Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Arithmetic has increased. You estimate Floyd | that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by one Floyd | point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Good, I'd say." | |
| DavidW says, "You are discovering new things." | ||
| Guenni says, "Ok, that one even I get." | ||
| DavidW says, "You discovered Two by incrementing One." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Two 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You clamber down the hole. Floyd | Floyd | Two Floyd | This is more of an abstract space than a physical place, but it's Floyd | marked by a feeling of duality, as if it somehow contains opposites Floyd | within itself. The only exit is a hole leading back up to the Floyd | positive axis. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Positive Axis: 2 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | Positive Axis: 2 Floyd | You are in a dark blue expanse of space, standing on a white line that Floyd | stretches to the west and as far as you can see to the east. The Floyd | number 2 is marked on the line here. There is a hole next to the 2 Floyd | large enough for you to climb down into. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "I say we stay positive for now, that's east. :-)" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Positive Axis: 2 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You walk along the positive axis for a while, tracing the passage of Floyd | the tip of the white wand. You see marks for 3, 4, 5, and larger Floyd | numbers. There are no holes or anything else featured on this part of Floyd | the positive axis, though, and you soon decide return to the 2 mark. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Aw." | |
| Guenni says, "Looks like we have to cross cero after all." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Positive Axis: 1 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Positive Axis: 1 Floyd | You find yourself in a deep dark blue - almost black - expanse of Floyd | space that extends as far as you can see in all three dimensions. The Floyd | space is broken up by the straight, flat white line floating in Floyd | mid-air that you are standing on. The line begins here and stretches Floyd | out of sight to the east. The number 1 is marked on the line. While Floyd | the line doesn't appear to be supported by anything, there is a hole Floyd | in the middle of it here, next to the 1. Floyd | Floyd | Since the disk you were standing on earlier has now become the Floyd | location of 1 on the positive axis, you find yourself wondering if Floyd | this is the only space that has changed. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You haven't discovered Zero yet." | |
| Guenni says, "I just noticed." | ||
| Guenni says, "But so far, this is fun." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] One 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You clamber down the hole. Floyd | Floyd | One Floyd | This is more of an abstract space than a physical place, but it gives Floyd | you a sense of unity, wholeness, and beginnings. A hole leads back up Floyd | to the positive axis. You sense another exit, too - one in a deeper, Floyd | "downward" direction from this space. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Form 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You make your way down. Floyd | Floyd | This space seems more formed than it did the last time you were here. Floyd | Floyd | Form Floyd | The space is now partially-formed, but it is still mostly unshaped Floyd | matter. Besides the way up to the manifestation of one, you can now Floyd | sense several more "paths" through the void: north, south, east, and Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni asks, "any preferences?" | |
| zarf says, "check out zero first" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You make your way west through the void. As you do, you feel an Floyd | electrical impulse course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Great Hall Floyd | You are standing in the great hall of a large, cobwebby castle. A Floyd | long table stretches from one end of the hall to the other. The Floyd | entryway of the castle is to the east. Exits west and south lead to Floyd | other parts of the castle. Floyd | Floyd | On the long table is a pile of old coins. Floyd | Floyd | A large purple puppet is here, counting several coins laid out on the Floyd | table. He is talking to himself. "... eight, nine, ten! Ten coins!" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks (of puppet), "Didn't I see you on my bedshets?" | |
| zarf says, "fine, don't listen to me :)" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, ">count count" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x puppet" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X PUPPET Floyd | Floyd | The Count is not a man but a purple puppet. There is no one animating Floyd | him, yet he talks and moves about. You're definitely dreaming. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x cup" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X CUP Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing, at least as described. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x coins" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X COINS Floyd | Floyd | This is a huge pile of coins. You wonder if the Count knows exactly Floyd | how many there are. He probably does. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "ask count about coins" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK COUNT ABOUT COINS Floyd | Floyd | It would be more polite to greet the Count first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "greet count" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > GREET COUNT Floyd | Floyd | The puppet looks up at your approach. "I am the Count of this castle, Floyd | and I love to count! But I have a problem. Maybe you can help. Floyd | Floyd | "I have ten different coins here that I have been flipping. I want to Floyd | count how many ways I can flip the ten coins and have half of them Floyd | come up heads and half come up tails. For example, one way is Floyd | HHHHHTTTTT. Another way is HTHTHTHTHT. A third way is HTHHTTTTHH. Floyd | That's three. But there are a lot more than that, and I can't seem to Floyd | count them because I can't keep track of all the combinations! Floyd | Floyd | "Here are some ideas. I know that if I want 0 heads, then the answer Floyd | is 1: TTTTTTTTTT. I know that if I want 1 head, the answer is 10: Floyd | HTTTTTTTTT, THTTTTTTTT, and so on, with one head for each of the other Floyd | coins. It took me a long time to find the answer with two heads, but Floyd | I'm pretty sure I got it: 45. But with three or more I can't keep Floyd | track of what I've counted and what I haven't. Floyd | Floyd | "If you know the answer, please tell me! Floyd | Floyd | "I will be happy to let you have one of my coins if you can help me." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask count about big bird" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK COUNT ABOUT BIG BIRD Floyd | Floyd | "I haven't seen him in a while," the Count says. "I probably should Floyd | go visit sometime soon." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask count about coins" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK COUNT ABOUT COINS Floyd | Floyd | "Can you tell me how many ways there are to flip ten coins and get Floyd | five heads and five tails?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Gods, if I get tat correctly it's one less than the answer is like a safe with numbercombinations just with two and not nine." | |
| Guenni says, "And yes, that only makes sense in my head." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "99" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > 99 Floyd | Floyd | I didn't recognize that command. (There is a list of recognized Floyd | commands in the HELP menus.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I *think* the answer is 252" | |
| DavidW says (to Guenni), "I suggest coming back to this puzzle a bit later. There's stuff in the game that'll help answer it." | ||
| Guenni says, "ok." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Form 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | As you move east, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Form Floyd | The space is now partially-formed, but it is still mostly unshaped Floyd | matter. Besides the way up to the manifestation of one, you can now Floyd | sense several more "paths" through the void: north, south, east, and Floyd | west to the Great Hall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You make your way north through the void. As you do, you feel an Floyd | electrical impulse course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Lyceum Floyd | You stand in the Lyceum, a collection of buildings and open spaces in Floyd | ancient Athens. There is a stadium to the west, a temple lies north, Floyd | and you can see a private home with an ornate doorway to the east. A Floyd | road leads northeast out of Athens, and the rest of the city lies Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Southern End 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Number, Southern End Floyd | You stand in the southern end of the Temple of Number. The temple is Floyd | made of white stone and features imposing Ionic columns. There is an Floyd | inscription on the wall, the rest of the temple is to the north, and Floyd | the exit to the Lyceum is south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "read inscription" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Southern End 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > READ INSCRIPTION Floyd | Floyd | "Number is the origin of all things." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Number, Northern End Floyd | You stand in the northern end of the Temple of Number. The temple is Floyd | made of white stone and features imposing Ionic columns. Instead of Floyd | the half-expected statue of Athena Parthenos, though, stands a large Floyd | statue of Pythagoras. Behind the statue is a small passageway heading Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | An acolyte is here, silently cleaning up the area around the statue. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a trash urn and a scrap of papyrus here. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte picks up the scrap of papyrus from the floor. She reads Floyd | it carefully, nods, and tosses it in the urn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x urn" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X URN Floyd | Floyd | This large urn is decorated with tasteful depictions of various Floyd | numbers. Floyd | Floyd | In the trash urn is a scrap of papyrus. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte polishes an already spotless part of the statue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "take scrap" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SCRAP Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte pokes at a corner of the temple with her broom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > READ IT Floyd | Floyd | This appears to be a piece torn from some religious scroll. Floyd | Floyd | "Number is the origin of all things. Floyd | Floyd | Number has two basic forms: The odd and the even. Each thing is odd Floyd | or even or is a ΛΟΓΟΣ, or ratio, made from odd and even. Floyd | Floyd | 1. Odd things include the statue of Him in our temple, which is one. Floyd | Floyd | 2. Even things include the primary sources of light in our sky - the Floyd | sun and moon, which are two. Floyd | Floyd | 3. ΛΟΓΟΣ things include the seasons, which represent the ratio of Floyd | one Floyd | year into four parts. Floyd | Floyd | Nothing which is not odd, even, or a ratio from odd and even can Floyd | exist." Floyd | Floyd | [If the Greek letters are not displaying correctly, you may type Floyd | SYMBOLS OFF to turn off the use of Greek letters and mathematical Floyd | symbols for the remainder of the game.] Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte polishes an already spotless part of the statue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x statue" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X STATUE Floyd | Floyd | This large statue of Pythagoras dominates the north end of the temple. Floyd | A small passageway is behind the statue, leading north. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte picks up a speck of dust from the floor of the temple. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We probably want SYMBOLS OFF." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "greet acolyte" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > GREET ACOLYTE Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte is focused on her cleaning, and she ignores you. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte sweeps the area in front of the statue. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "That's probably the job you'll end up in, if you mess up this exam." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte stops you. She shakes her head silently. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte polishes an already spotless part of the statue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a scrap of papyrus Floyd | your math book Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte pokes at a corner of the temple with her broom. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni asks, "Is this a matter of not yet, or a matter entering without stuff?" | |
| DavidW says, "Mostly not yet, because you need something to help you here which you don't have yet." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "She might be objecting to the papyrus that you took out of the urn?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Oh." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "put scrap in urn" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT SCRAP IN URN Floyd | Floyd | You put the scrap of papyrus into the trash urn. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte sweeps the area in front of the statue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte stops you. She shakes her head silently. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte gazes up at the statue with a reverent look on her face. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Don't forget that you can look up topics in your math book." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "climb statue" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > CLIMB STATUE Floyd | Floyd | That would be rather sacrilegious. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte polishes an already spotless part of the statue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "drop book" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP BOOK Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte picks up a speck of dust from the floor of the temple. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte walks over to where you dropped the math book and looks Floyd | around. Not seeing anything, she returns to her work. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte stops you. She shakes her head silently. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte polishes an already spotless part of the statue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "take book" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BOOK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte gazes up at the statue with a reverent look on her face. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x statue" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X STATUE Floyd | Floyd | This large statue of Pythagoras dominates the north end of the temple. Floyd | A small passageway is behind the statue, leading north. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte pokes at a corner of the temple with her broom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "look up pythagoras" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP PYTHAGORAS Floyd | Floyd | (in your math book) Floyd | Pythagoras was an ancient Greek mathematician. He also founded a Floyd | quasi-religious order whose key belief was that numbers (by which they Floyd | meant the positive integers) are the basis of everything in the Floyd | universe. Floyd | Floyd | The Pythagorean Theorem says that the square of the diagonal of a Floyd | right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the sides, or, in Floyd | symbols, a² + b² = c². While this Floyd | theorem Floyd | is named for Pythagoras, there is no conclusive evidence that he Floyd | actually proved the theorem. It probably led to the downfall of his Floyd | religious cult, though. If you take a right triangle with sides of Floyd | length 1, the Pythagorean Theorem says that the length of the diagonal Floyd | must be the square root of 2. The proof that the square root of 2 is Floyd | irrational - by one of the Pythagoreans - invalidated their key belief Floyd | in numbers. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte picks up a speck of dust from the floor of the temple. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x acolyte" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X ACOLYTE Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte is wearing pure white robes and wields a broom. She Floyd | doesn't look much like the conversational type. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte pokes at a corner of the temple with her broom. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Goodness, my mudclient allows superscript-2." | |
| Guenni asks, "What's that?" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Southern End 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Number, Southern End Floyd | You stand in the southern end of the Temple of Number. The temple is Floyd | made of white stone and features imposing Ionic columns. There is an Floyd | inscription on the wall, the rest of the temple is to the north, and Floyd | the exit to the Lyceum is south. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The character in the equation above." | |
| DavidW says, "²" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x columns" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Southern End 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X COLUMNS Floyd | Floyd | These imposing columns are made of white stone and feature Ionic Floyd | capitals. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x capitals" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Southern End 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X CAPITALS Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the capitals. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lyceum Floyd | You stand in the Lyceum, a collection of buildings and open spaces in Floyd | ancient Athens. There is a stadium to the west, a temple lies north, Floyd | and you can see a private home with an ornate doorway to the east. A Floyd | road leads northeast out of Athens, and the rest of the city lies Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni asks, "Home or stadium?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I'd say home first." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Some force blocks you from stepping through the doorway of the home. Floyd | Ignorance may be bliss, but a little knowledge would go a long way Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Moot point. You won't be able to enter the home yet." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x doorway" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOORWAY Floyd | Floyd | There is a rather ornate doorway here - but no door. Written above Floyd | the doorway is the phrase "Let no one ignorant of geometry enter." Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "So we noticed. :-)" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Stadium 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Stadium Floyd | This is a stadium in ancient Athens. The stadium itself consists of Floyd | raised ground on either side of a race track about 200 meters long. Floyd | The rest of the Lyceum is back east. Floyd | Floyd | Achilles sits by the side of the race track with his head in his Floyd | hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Now where do we get a tortoise." | |
| Guenni says, "Sounds more like a broken foot to me." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "greet achilles" | ||
Floyd ] Stadium 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > GREET ACHILLES Floyd | Floyd | Achilles looks up. "I'm the fastest man in Greece. Then this guy Floyd | Zeno challenged me to a 200-meter race with a tortoise, under two Floyd | conditions: (1) I had to be willing to give the tortoise a head start Floyd | of 100 meters, and (2) every time I got to where I last saw the Floyd | tortoise I had to look up and mark its position. Of course I can beat Floyd | a tortoise, even with that much head start, right? But no. Watch." Floyd | Floyd | Achilles snaps his fingers, and from somewhere in the grass of the Floyd | raised ground comes a tortoise. The tortoise ambles to the 100-meter Floyd | mark, and Achilles heads to the start. They take off. When Achilles Floyd | reaches the halfway mark, he looks up, and the tortoise is ahead of Floyd | him. Achilles notes its position, races to that position, and looks Floyd | up. The tortoise is still ahead of him. He does this again. The Floyd | tortoise is still ahead. And again. The tortoise is, once more, Floyd | ahead. Every time Achilles looks up he's closer to the tortoise, but Floyd | he never quite catches up to it! Finally he stops running and looks Floyd | over at you forlornly. The tortoise crosses the finish line, flashes Floyd | a chelonian smile at Achilles, and disappears to wherever it was Floyd | before. Floyd | Floyd | Achilles says, "You see? I can't catch up to the tortoise if every Floyd | time I run to where it was before, it's still ahead of me!" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Tortoise does cameo-entrances and exits." | |
| zarf says, "let me just say that no tortoise has ever won a race from the inside of a soup tureen, if you know what I mean, and I do mean soup." | ||
| Guenni says, "Ok, you were right and I get a discworld flashback." | ||
| DavidW says, "Shame we didn't bring a dictionary into this dream as well so we could look up 'chelonian'." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x track" | ||
Floyd ] Stadium 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X TRACK Floyd | Floyd | The race track is made of hard-packed clay and is about 200 meters Floyd | long. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I've never had turtle soup or mock turtle soup." | |
| Guenni says, "me neither." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I've once read a novel where Zeno ruled a world that ran on this paradox." | ||
| Guenni says, "I don't think we can do much here." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Or related ones, at least." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lyceum Floyd | You stand in the Lyceum, a collection of buildings and open spaces in Floyd | ancient Athens. There is a stadium to the west, a temple lies north, Floyd | and you can see a private home with an ornate doorway to the east. A Floyd | road leads northeast out of Athens, and the rest of the city lies Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Yeah, not sure what we can do here yet." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Form 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | As you move south, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Form Floyd | The space is now partially-formed, but it is still mostly unshaped Floyd | matter. Besides the way up to the manifestation of one, you can now Floyd | sense several more "paths" through the void: north to the Lyceum, Floyd | south, east, and west to the Great Hall. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "There's more of the Count's castle, and areas east and south of Form." | |
| Guenni nods. We just meant the stadium | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, and a track northeast from the Lyceum." | ||
| Guenni says, "Yeah, My inner map got confused. I hadn't planned on leaving athens just yet" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You make your way north through the void. As you do, you feel an Floyd | electrical impulse course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Lyceum Floyd | You stand in the Lyceum, a collection of buildings and open spaces in Floyd | ancient Athens. There is a stadium to the west, a temple lies north, Floyd | and you can see a private home with an ornate doorway to the east. A Floyd | road leads northeast out of Athens, and the rest of the city lies Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni has had her fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
| Guenni arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Royal Road 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Royal Road Floyd | This flat, paved road runs from southwest to northeast. However, you Floyd | also spot a steep path leaving the road and winding its way north up Floyd | the hillside. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "It is a bit misleading of an description" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Hilltop 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | It's an arduous trek up the path. By the time you reach the top you Floyd | are winded. Floyd | Floyd | Hilltop Floyd | You stand on top of a small hill just north of Athens. A winding path Floyd | leads south, back down to the Royal Road. Floyd | Floyd | The great geometer Euclid is sitting here. He appears to be lost in Floyd | thought. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "greet geometer" | ||
Floyd ] Hilltop 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > GREET GEOMETER Floyd | Floyd | "Oh! Hello. Sorry. Please accept my apologies if you've been Floyd | standing there a while. Sometimes I don't notice what's going on Floyd | around me when I'm doing geometry." Floyd | Floyd | You give Euclid a nod, as if to say that there's no need to apologize. Floyd | He interprets it as interest. Floyd | Floyd | "I was just thinking about the postulates in my Elements. Floyd | These are what I call the basic truths on which I build all of my Floyd | geometric arguments. I'm happy with the first four, but the fifth one Floyd | is too... I don't know... wordy? Floyd | Floyd | "It's basically equivalent to saying this: Given any straight line and Floyd | a point not on that line, there exists exactly one other straight line Floyd | that passes through the point and never intersects the first line. Floyd | This is true no matter how far you extend the two lines. So there's Floyd | exactly one other line that's parallel to the first line and Floyd | that goes through the point. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm trying to figure out how to derive this one from the first four Floyd | so that I don't have to claim it as a postulate. But I can't seem to Floyd | do it. Floyd | Floyd | "Is it obvious that if you start with a point and a line, there's Floyd | exactly one other line that goes through the point and never touches Floyd | the first line? Or is that not even true? Floyd | Floyd | "If you have any ideas about how to prove this, or run across any Floyd | examples where there are no lines or two or more lines through the Floyd | point that don't touch the first line, please tell me about them! Floyd | Floyd | "And here. This will help you remember my postulates." He hands you Floyd | a scroll. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "read scroll" | ||
Floyd ] Hilltop 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > READ SCROLL Floyd | Floyd | "First postulate: You can draw a straight line from any point to any Floyd | other point. Floyd | Floyd | Second postulate: You can extend a finite straight line continuously Floyd | in a straight line. Floyd | Floyd | Third postulate: You can draw a circle with any center and any radius. Floyd | Floyd | Fourth postulate: All right (90 degree) angles are equal to each Floyd | other. Floyd | Floyd | Fifth postulate (rephrased, also known as the parallel Floyd | postulate): Given a line and a point not on the line, there is Floyd | exactly one other line that goes through the point that never touches Floyd | the first line." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Eschar arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Royal Road 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You make the somewhat less arduous trek back down the path. Floyd | Floyd | Royal Road Floyd | This flat, paved road runs from southwest to northeast. However, you Floyd | also spot a steep path leaving the road and winding its way north up Floyd | the hillside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Dead End 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dead End Floyd | Apparently the royal road doesn't lead anywhere; you've come to a dead Floyd | end. You may follow it back to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Royal Road 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Royal Road Floyd | This flat, paved road runs from southwest to northeast. However, you Floyd | also spot a steep path leaving the road and winding its way north up Floyd | the hillside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Eschar enters a generic vehicle. | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lyceum Floyd | You stand in the Lyceum, a collection of buildings and open spaces in Floyd | ancient Athens. There is a stadium to the west, a temple lies north, Floyd | and you can see a private home with an ornate doorway to the east. A Floyd | road leads northeast out of Athens, and the rest of the city lies Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Ok, the authors' map is the confused one. :P" | |
| Eschar gets out. | ||
| Eschar exits the vehicle. | DavidW asks (of Guenni), "hm?" | |
| Guenni says, "It says the rest of the city lies south and the way out is northeast." | ||
| Eschar plays a piece on the keyboard, somewhat reminiscent of something written by Schubert, but at a seemingly slow pace, and still missing half the notes, for that matter. | Knight_Otu says, "I don't think it's confused, just misleading." | |
| Eschar punches the dummy. | ||
| Eschar stomps the dummy. | ||
| Eschar throttles the dummy. | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Form 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | As you move south, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Form Floyd | The space is now partially-formed, but it is still mostly unshaped Floyd | matter. Besides the way up to the manifestation of one, you can now Floyd | sense several more "paths" through the void: north to the Lyceum, Floyd | south, east, and west to the Great Hall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Eschar fires the dummy, from a small cannon. | ||
| DavidW says (to Eschar), "Could you not do that? We're in the middle of a game." | ||
| Eschar says, "I apologize." | ||
| Eschar disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | Guenni says, "You know, "please" rarely hurts." | |
| DavidW asks, "Did I make a mistake?" | ||
| Guenni asks, "Ok, once more into the castle?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Sure, castle." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You make your way west through the void. As you do, you feel an Floyd | electrical impulse course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Great Hall Floyd | You are standing in the great hall of a large, cobwebby castle. A Floyd | long table stretches from one end of the hall to the other. The Floyd | entryway of the castle is to the east. Exits west and south lead to Floyd | other parts of the castle. Floyd | Floyd | On the long table is a pile of old coins. Floyd | Floyd | The Count is here, sitting at the table. He mumbles something that Floyd | sounds like "three." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Castle Chapel 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Castle Chapel Floyd | This small chapel does not appear to be dedicated to God or gods; Floyd | instead, it looks like a place for the worship of numbers. Icons are Floyd | placed at regular intervals around the walls. The exit to the Great Floyd | Hall is back east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I don't think you made a mistake, David." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Though you may have sounded sterner than intended." | ||
| DavidW says, "I know my leadership skills aren't the best." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x icons" | ||
Floyd ] Castle Chapel 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X ICONS Floyd | Floyd | Most of the icons are highly stylized representations of a single Floyd | number, such as three, one, or four. One icon, though, is a little Floyd | different: It consists of a number triangle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x triangle" | ||
Floyd ] Castle Chapel 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X TRIANGLE Floyd | Floyd | The number triangle on the icon looks like this: Floyd | Floyd | 1 Floyd | 1 1 Floyd | 1 2 1 Floyd | 1 3 3 1 Floyd | 1 4 6 4 1 Floyd | 1 5 10 10 5 1 Floyd | 1 6 15 20 15 6 1 Floyd | 1 7 21 35 35 21 7 1 Floyd | 1 8 28 56 70 56 28 8 1 Floyd | Floyd | The words "Pascal's Triangle" appear underneath the numbers. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Ok a triangle is above my visual/mental capabilities." | |
| Guenni says, "At least, a triangle like this." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "look up pascal" | ||
Floyd ] Castle Chapel 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP PASCAL Floyd | Floyd | (in your math book) Floyd | Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, scientist, philosopher, and Floyd | theologian. He is known for constructing one of the first mechanical Floyd | calculators, for his work in projective geometry, and for his work in Floyd | hydrodynamics. A unit of pressure is named after him, as is the Floyd | triangle of numbers known as "Pascal's triangle." Floyd | Floyd | Pascal was also one of the founders of the field of probability. Floyd | While his initial work in probability was to solve gambling problems, Floyd | he applied his insights to other areas of human knowledge as well. Floyd | For example, Pascal's wager consists of one of the first uses Floyd | of expected values. In it, Pascal argues that, in the absence of Floyd | conclusive evidence as to the existence of God, the payoffs for Floyd | believing in God (infinite happiness if God exists, nothing if God Floyd | does not) versus not believing in God (eternal damnation if God Floyd | exists, nothing if God does not) are such that it is more reasonable Floyd | for humans to bet on belief in God. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| yournamehere arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | DavidW says, "You can look up pascal's traingle, as well." | |
| DavidW says, "er triangle" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "look up pascal's triangle" | ||
Floyd ] Castle Chapel 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP PASCAL'S TRIANGLE Floyd | Floyd | (in your math book) Floyd | Pascal's triangle is a triangle of numbers that have several Floyd | interpretations. One meaning is that the number in the nth Floyd | row, kth column (denoted C(n,k)) is the number of Floyd | committees of size k that can be formed from n Floyd | people. An equivalent interpretation is that C(n,k) is the Floyd | number of sequences of 1's and 0's that have length n and Floyd | contain exactly k 1's. Floyd | Floyd | Another, different kind of meaning of the numbers in Pascal's triangle Floyd | is that they are the coefficients when expanding Floyd | (x+1)ⁿ in powers of x. For example, Floyd | (x+1)⁵ = x⁵ + 5x⁴ + 10x³ + Floyd | 10x²+ 5x + 1, and the coefficients 1, 5, 10, 10, 5, Floyd | 1 are the numbers in row 5 in Pascal's triangle. Floyd | Floyd | Pascal's triangle can be generated very easily: The numbers in the Floyd | leftmost column are all 1's, and the numbers in the right diagonal are Floyd | all 1's as well. Otherwise, to get C(n,k), you add Floyd | C(n-1,k) and C(n-1,k-1). In other words, to obtain Floyd | the number you want, you add the number to its "north" and to its Floyd | "northwest" in the triangle. Floyd | Floyd | Pascal's triangle is indexed starting with 0 rather than 1: The Floyd | initial row is row 0, not row 1, and the leftmost column is column 0, Floyd | not column 1. Floyd | Floyd | (Unfortunately, the page giving the first several rows of Pascal's Floyd | triangle appears to be torn out of your math book. You did buy it Floyd | used, after all.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "I guess that's better for our mathal health, anyway." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Great Hall Floyd | You are standing in the great hall of a large, cobwebby castle. A Floyd | long table stretches from one end of the hall to the other. The Floyd | entryway of the castle is to the east. Exits west and south lead to Floyd | other parts of the castle. Floyd | Floyd | On the long table is a pile of old coins. Floyd | Floyd | The Count is here, sitting at the table. He mumbles something that Floyd | sounds like "two." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Solar 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Solar Floyd | This is a smaller, cozier room than the great hall to the north. A Floyd | sumptuous tapestry hangs on one wall, and there is a side table Floyd | beneath it. Floyd | Floyd | A large bronze box lies on the side table. Floyd | Floyd | Another large purple puppet is here, fiddling disgruntledly with the Floyd | bronze box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x puppet" | ||
Floyd ] Solar 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X PUPPET Floyd | Floyd | She looks much like the Count, except that she sports a large mop of Floyd | blonde hair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "greet puppet" | ||
Floyd ] Solar 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > GREET PUPPET Floyd | Floyd | You approach the purple puppet and introduce yourself. She steps back Floyd | from the bronze box and says, "Please forgive my manners! I was Floyd | preoccupied with my mechanical calculator. Floyd | Floyd | "I am the Countess of this castle. Like my husband, I love to count! Floyd | And I love to work large multiplication problems with my mechanical Floyd | calculator. Unfortunately, it seems to be broken now, and I'm not Floyd | sure how to fix it. Floyd | Floyd | "If you have any questions for me, please feel free to ask. Floyd | Otherwise, I'd really like to get this fixed." Floyd | Floyd | She turns back to the bronze box. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu exclaims, "This is getting out of hand, now there's two of them!" | |
| Guenni laughs. | ||
| DavidW says, "Two! Two purple puppets, ha ha ha." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||
Floyd ] Solar 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOX Floyd | Floyd | This bronze box has several knobs and small wheels on it. It appears Floyd | to be a primitive mechanical calculator. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni asks, "What, no Abacus?" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "ask puppet about box" | ||
Floyd ] Solar 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK PUPPET ABOUT BOX Floyd | Floyd | "It seems to be broken. It would be nice to have it fixed!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x tapestry" | ||
Floyd ] Solar 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X TAPESTRY Floyd | Floyd | This is a beautiful tapestry, consisting of several mathematical Floyd | symbols woven together in an intricate pattern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x symbols" | ||
Floyd ] Solar 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X SYMBOLS Floyd | Floyd | They're symbolic. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Of course they are." | |
| Guenni blows bad pun trumpet. | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Great Hall Floyd | You are standing in the great hall of a large, cobwebby castle. A Floyd | long table stretches from one end of the hall to the other. The Floyd | entryway of the castle is to the east. Exits west and south lead to Floyd | other parts of the castle. Floyd | Floyd | On the long table is a pile of old coins. Floyd | Floyd | The Count is here, sitting at the table. He mumbles something that Floyd | sounds like "three." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Form 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | As you move east, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Form Floyd | The space is now partially-formed, but it is still mostly unshaped Floyd | matter. Besides the way up to the manifestation of one, you can now Floyd | sense several more "paths" through the void: north to the Lyceum, Floyd | south, east, and west to the Great Hall. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Guenni), "Really, you should play cymbals." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Ow." | ||
| Guenni drums on her keyboard. | ||
| Guenni asks, "East or south?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Let's not harp on these puns anymore." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "South?" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Librarian's Office 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You make your way south through the void. As you do, you feel an Floyd | electrical impulse course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Librarian's Office Floyd | This appears to be the head librarian's office in the Great Library of Floyd | Alexandria. Scrolls litter the floor. The main part of the library Floyd | is north of you. Floyd | Floyd | The numbers from 1 to 100 are carved on the wall here, in some kind of Floyd | puzzle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x puzzle" | ||
Floyd ] Librarian's Office 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X PUZZLE Floyd | Floyd | On the wall are carved numbers from 1 to 100, in ten rows of ten each. Floyd | It looks like you could push any of the numbers. Next to the numbers Floyd | is a switch, with two settings: "Remove Number," and "Remove Larger Floyd | Multiples of the Number." The switch is currently set to "Remove Floyd | Number," although you could easily move it to the other setting by Floyd | flipping the switch. The numbers currently look like this: Floyd | Floyd | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Floyd | 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Floyd | 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Floyd | 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Floyd | 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Floyd | 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 Floyd | 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 Floyd | 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 Floyd | 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 Floyd | 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 Floyd | Floyd | At the bottom is a challenge from the librarian: "To access the map Floyd | room, leave just the primes between 1 and 100 by pushing only five Floyd | numbers." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Hm. 2, 3, 5, 7, 11. If we switch to larger multiples and push those, I think that would be it." | |
| Guenni asks, "Do we want to tackle this now?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I do think we're able to." | ||
| Guenni says, "It sounds at least doable." | ||
| DavidW says, "This puzzle is very doable now." | ||
| Guenni says, "I'd say we should check what's the highest prime number is first." | ||
| yournamehere has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up primes in book" | ||
Floyd ] Librarian's Office 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP PRIMES IN BOOK Floyd | Floyd | A positive integer is prime if it is divisible by exactly two positive Floyd | integers: itself and 1. The numbers 7, 29, and 43 are all examples of Floyd | primes. The number 1 is not prime because it is only divisible by one Floyd | positive integer (itself), rather than two. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "look up prime numbers" | ||
Floyd ] Librarian's Office 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP PRIME NUMBERS Floyd | Floyd | (in your math book) Floyd | A positive integer is prime if it is divisible by exactly two positive Floyd | integers: itself and 1. The numbers 7, 29, and 43 are all examples of Floyd | primes. The number 1 is not prime because it is only divisible by one Floyd | positive integer (itself), rather than two. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Well, I knew that. I had hoped for a table." | |
| DavidW says, "Still, it means that KO's guess won't work because 1 would still be on the board." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| DavidW says, "You were close, though." | ||
| Guenni says, "I hadn't thought much further." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I don't think we need the 11. Every multiple that matters would be eliminated by the others." | ||
| DavidW says, "Yes. Because 11 squared is greater than 100." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "That would free up pushing 1 with the switch on eliminate number." | ||
| Guenni says, "Eleven is a prime number, so it has to stay anyway" | ||
| Guenni asks, "Or won't the numbers themselves be removed if the switch is switched?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "True, but with the switch on larger multiples, it wouldn't have been removed." | ||
| DavidW says, "The multiples setting doesn't remove the number itself, correct." | ||
| Guenni says, "Well if we use 3 6 and 9 multiples will go away as well." | ||
| Guenni says, "And with 2 we get all the even numbers." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up sieve in book" | ||
Floyd ] Librarian's Office 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP SIEVE IN BOOK Floyd | Floyd | That topic is not listed in the index. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Yeah, so we push 1, switch the switch, then push 2, 3, 5, and 7." | |
| Guenni nods. | ||
| DavidW says (to Knight_Otu), "yes." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "push 1" | ||
Floyd ] Librarian's Office 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH 1 Floyd | Floyd | The number 1 fades into the wall until you can barely see it anymore. Floyd | The numbers now look like this: Floyd | Floyd | 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Floyd | 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Floyd | 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Floyd | 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Floyd | 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Floyd | 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 Floyd | 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 Floyd | 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 Floyd | 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 Floyd | 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 Floyd | Floyd | You have used 1 push so far. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "push switch" | ||
Floyd ] Librarian's Office 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH SWITCH Floyd | Floyd | You flip the switch to "Remove Larger Multiples of the Number." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "push 2" | ||
Floyd ] Librarian's Office 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH 2 Floyd | Floyd | All visible multiples of 2 larger than 2 fade into the wall until you Floyd | can barely see them anymore. The numbers now look like this: Floyd | Floyd | 2 3 5 7 9 Floyd | 11 13 15 17 19 Floyd | 21 23 25 27 29 Floyd | 31 33 35 37 39 Floyd | 41 43 45 47 49 Floyd | 51 53 55 57 59 Floyd | 61 63 65 67 69 Floyd | 71 73 75 77 79 Floyd | 81 83 85 87 89 Floyd | 91 93 95 97 99 Floyd | Floyd | You have used 2 pushes so far. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "push 3" | ||
Floyd ] Librarian's Office 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH 3 Floyd | Floyd | All visible multiples of 3 larger than 3 fade into the wall until you Floyd | can barely see them anymore. The numbers now look like this: Floyd | Floyd | 2 3 5 7 Floyd | 11 13 17 19 Floyd | 23 25 29 Floyd | 31 35 37 Floyd | 41 43 47 49 Floyd | 53 55 59 Floyd | 61 65 67 Floyd | 71 73 77 79 Floyd | 83 85 89 Floyd | 91 95 97 Floyd | Floyd | You have used 3 pushes so far. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "push 5" | ||
Floyd ] Librarian's Office 3/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH 5 Floyd | Floyd | All visible multiples of 5 larger than 5 fade into the wall until you Floyd | can barely see them anymore. The numbers now look like this: Floyd | Floyd | 2 3 5 7 Floyd | 11 13 17 19 Floyd | 23 29 Floyd | 31 37 Floyd | 41 43 47 49 Floyd | 53 59 Floyd | 61 67 Floyd | 71 73 77 79 Floyd | 83 89 Floyd | 91 97 Floyd | Floyd | You have used 4 pushes so far. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "push 7" | ||
Floyd ] Librarian's Office 6/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH 7 Floyd | Floyd | All visible multiples of 7 larger than 7 fade into the wall until you Floyd | can barely see them anymore. The numbers now look like this: Floyd | Floyd | 2 3 5 7 Floyd | 11 13 17 19 Floyd | 23 29 Floyd | 31 37 Floyd | 41 43 47 Floyd | 53 59 Floyd | 61 67 Floyd | 71 73 79 Floyd | 83 89 Floyd | 97 Floyd | Floyd | After the fifth push, the wall flickers, but the numbers remain as Floyd | they were. Only the prime numbers between 1 and 100 are now visible! Floyd | Floyd | A part of the south wall slides open, revealing a room beyond. Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Number Theory has increased. You Floyd | estimate that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by three Floyd | points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yay" | |
| Guenni exclaims, "Yeah!" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Map Room 6/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Map Room Floyd | This room is quite large to be a side room just off the librarian's Floyd | office. The walls are covered with maps, and an exit leads back north Floyd | to the librarian's office. Floyd | Floyd | A huge globe sits on a pedestal in the center of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu exclaims, "Woo!" | |
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Guenni says (to Ellison), "Be ready for mental math." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x globe" | ||
Floyd ] Map Room 6/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X GLOBE Floyd | Floyd | This appears to be the librarian's model of the earth, and it is much Floyd | larger than you are. It's incomplete, as it only shows the parts of Floyd | the world that were known in Alexandria at this time. However, it Floyd | does have lines of latitude and meridians of longitude marked on it. Floyd | Floyd | The globe doesn't fit perfectly on its pedestal, though; there is a Floyd | small gap between the pedestal and the globe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x gap" | ||
Floyd ] Map Room 6/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X GAP Floyd | Floyd | Since the globe doesn't fit perfectly on the pedestal, there is a Floyd | small gap between the edge of the pedestal and the globe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x pedestal" | ||
Floyd ] Map Room 6/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X PEDESTAL Floyd | Floyd | This short pedestal supports the globe. The globe doesn't fit Floyd | perfectly on the pedestal, though; there is a small gap between the Floyd | pedestal and the globe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "spin globe" | ||
Floyd ] Map Room 6/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > SPIN GLOBE Floyd | Floyd | The globe rocks slightly on its pedestal - thanks to the small gap Floyd | between the edge of the pedestal and the globe - but you're not strong Floyd | enough to push it off. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Euclid may want to know about the globe." | |
| Guenni says, "If you say so." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x maps" | ||
Floyd ] Map Room 6/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X MAPS Floyd | Floyd | The maps are mostly of parts of the eastern Mediterranean world: Floyd | Egypt, Libya, Greece, Palestine, Anatolia. None of them look Floyd | particularly useful. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Librarian's Office 6/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Librarian's Office Floyd | This appears to be the head librarian's office in the Great Library of Floyd | Alexandria. Scrolls litter the floor. The main part of the library Floyd | is north of you, and a side room lies to the south. Floyd | Floyd | You have solved the number puzzle on the wall here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x scrolls" | ||
Floyd ] Librarian's Office 6/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X SCROLLS Floyd | Floyd | There are many scrolls here. None of them particularly catches your Floyd | eye. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Form 6/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | As you move north, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Form Floyd | The space is now partially-formed, but it is still mostly unshaped Floyd | matter. Besides the way up to the manifestation of one, you can now Floyd | sense several more "paths" through the void: north to the Lyceum, Floyd | south to the Librarian's Office, east, and west to the Great Hall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 6/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You make your way north through the void. As you do, you feel an Floyd | electrical impulse course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Lyceum Floyd | You stand in the Lyceum, a collection of buildings and open spaces in Floyd | ancient Athens. There is a stadium to the west, a temple lies north, Floyd | and you can see a private home with an ornate doorway to the east. A Floyd | road leads northeast out of Athens, and the rest of the city lies Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Royal Road 6/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Royal Road Floyd | This flat, paved road runs from southwest to northeast. However, you Floyd | also spot a steep path leaving the road and winding its way north up Floyd | the hillside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Hilltop 6/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | It's an arduous trek up the path. By the time you reach the top you Floyd | are winded. Floyd | Floyd | Hilltop Floyd | You stand on top of a small hill just north of Athens. A winding path Floyd | leads south, back down to the Royal Road. Floyd | Floyd | The great geometer Euclid is sitting here. He appears to be lost in Floyd | thought. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "greet euclid" | ||
Floyd ] Hilltop 6/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > GREET EUCLID Floyd | Floyd | "Do you have any ideas about how to prove my parallel postulate?" Floyd | Euclid asks. "Or have you found any examples with no other lines Floyd | through the point that don't touch the first line? Or maybe examples Floyd | with two or more lines through the point that don't touch the first Floyd | line? If so, please tell me about them!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "tell euclid about globe" | ||
Floyd ] Hilltop 6/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > TELL EUCLID ABOUT GLOBE Floyd | Floyd | "A spherical model of the earth, huh? Aristotle argued that the world Floyd | is round, and so I'm not surprised that someone has created one of Floyd | these. Anything interesting marked on it?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni asks, "Damn, do you remember anyything?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "latitudes and longitudes." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "tell about latitudes" | ||
Floyd ] Hilltop 6/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > TELL ABOUT LATITUDES Floyd | Floyd | (to Euclid) Floyd | Euclid says, "I don't think that will help me prove or disprove my Floyd | parallel postulate." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "tell about latitudes and longitudes" | ||
Floyd ] Hilltop 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > TELL ABOUT LATITUDES AND LONGITUDES Floyd | Floyd | (to Euclid) Floyd | You describe the meridians of longitude that you saw on the globe in Floyd | the Library of Alexandria. Euclid becomes more and more agitated. As Floyd | you finish, Euclid almost cuts you off in his excitement. Floyd | Floyd | "That's it!" he says. "If you take a meridian of longitude and a Floyd | point not on that meridian, a second - parallel - meridian that goes Floyd | through the point must intersect the first meridian at both the north Floyd | and south poles! So my parallel postulate is actually false: If we Floyd | think of lines as meridians of longitude, then there is no other line Floyd | through the point that doesn't intersect the first line! Floyd | Floyd | "Wait." He stops himself and thinks carefully for several minutes. Floyd | You're afraid to interrupt him. Suddenly, he starts laughing. Soon Floyd | he is laughing so hard he is doubled over, holding his stomach. It Floyd | takes him a few minutes to pull himself together. Floyd | Floyd | "I've been asking the wrong question! The meridians of longitude Floyd | don't prove my parallel postulate false; they just represent a Floyd | different system of geometry! The parallel postulate as I first Floyd | stated it is true on a flat plane. The meridians of longitude Floyd | help describe a 'parallel postulate' that would be true on a Floyd | sphere! You get a different system of geometry if you're on a Floyd | flat plane versus a sphere! Floyd | Floyd | "The meridians of longitude were a brilliant suggestion! I can't Floyd | thank you enough, but please take this as a token of my appreciation." Floyd | He hands you a copy of his Elements. Floyd | Floyd | "I've got to go write this down. Floyd | Floyd | "Hmmm... No, on second thought I won't bother. Trying to prove my Floyd | parallel postulate will give mathematicians something to do for the Floyd | next two thousand years!" Floyd | Floyd | Euclid walks down the winding path, laughing as he goes. Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Geometry has increased. You estimate Floyd | that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by three Floyd | points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Ok, with his explanation I got it." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Hilltop 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | Elements Floyd | a scribbled scroll Floyd | your math book Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "And now that you know some Geometry, you should be able to enter that home now." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x emblement" | ||
Floyd ] Hilltop 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X EMBLEMENT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing, at least as described. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Hilltop 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | Elements Floyd | a scribbled scroll Floyd | your math book Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "elements" | |
| Guenni says, "Ok, with his explanation I got it." | ||
| Guenni asks, "thanks. And did I mention hate and client lately?" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x elements" | ||
Floyd ] Hilltop 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X ELEMENTS Floyd | Floyd | This is a copy of the Elements of Euclid. It's actually Floyd | divided into thirteen books. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Royal Road 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You make the somewhat less arduous trek back down the path. Floyd | Floyd | Royal Road Floyd | This flat, paved road runs from southwest to northeast. However, you Floyd | also spot a steep path leaving the road and winding its way north up Floyd | the hillside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lyceum Floyd | You stand in the Lyceum, a collection of buildings and open spaces in Floyd | ancient Athens. There is a stadium to the west, a temple lies north, Floyd | and you can see a private home with an ornate doorway to the east. A Floyd | road leads northeast out of Athens, and the rest of the city lies Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | A force pushes back on you at the doorway. You feel it testing your Floyd | knowledge of geometry. It seems to relent, grudgingly, allowing you Floyd | to step into the private home. Floyd | Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | You are standing in the courtyard of a home in ancient Athens. The Floyd | owner does not appear to be about. A passage leads down, and the Floyd | Lyceum is to the west. Floyd | Floyd | In the middle of the courtyard stands a group of six elegant Floyd | pedestals. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x pedestals" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X PEDESTALS Floyd | Floyd | Five of the pedestals are arranged in a circle around the sixth. The Floyd | pedestals are distinguished by their tops: The five on the outside Floyd | have tops in the form of a large triangle, a medium-sized triangle, a Floyd | small triangle, a square, and a pentagon. The top of the pedestal in Floyd | the center is in the shape of a circle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Cave 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floyd | Shadows dance along the wall of this dark cave, in the dim light Floyd | filtering down from the courtyard above. Pieces of broken chains lie Floyd | scattered about the floor of the cave. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x pieces" | ||
Floyd ] Cave 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X PIECES Floyd | Floyd | The chains are all in pieces. Whoever was imprisoned here must have Floyd | escaped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "take pieces" | ||
Floyd ] Cave 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE PIECES Floyd | Floyd | The broken chain pieces are all worthless; they are not worth Floyd | bothering with. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | You are standing in the courtyard of a home in ancient Athens. The Floyd | owner does not appear to be about. A passage leads down, and the Floyd | Lyceum is to the west. Floyd | Floyd | In the middle of the courtyard stands a group of six elegant Floyd | pedestals. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Hm, I don't see what we can/shell do here." | |
| DavidW says, "Nothing just yet." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lyceum Floyd | You stand in the Lyceum, a collection of buildings and open spaces in Floyd | ancient Athens. There is a stadium to the west, a temple lies north, Floyd | and you can see a private home with an ornate doorway to the east. A Floyd | road leads northeast out of Athens, and the rest of the city lies Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Form 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | As you move south, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Form Floyd | The space is now partially-formed, but it is still mostly unshaped Floyd | matter. Besides the way up to the manifestation of one, you can now Floyd | sense several more "paths" through the void: north to the Lyceum, Floyd | south to the Librarian's Office, east, and west to the Great Hall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You make your way east through the void. As you do, you feel an Floyd | electrical impulse course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Scholar's Study Floyd | You are in the House of Wisdom in early-medieval Baghdad, standing in Floyd | what appears to be someone's private study. The walls are covered in Floyd | intricate geometric designs, and a low table stands in the middle of Floyd | the room. A small room lies to the south, and the rest of the House Floyd | of Wisdom is to the west. Floyd | Floyd | On the low table are a small coffer, a square root, and a formal note. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Directions arent't his forte." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x coffer" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X COFFER Floyd | Floyd | This coffer appears to be of Indian origin. It is currently closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "open coffer" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN COFFER Floyd | Floyd | You open the small coffer, revealing a white ring. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "take ring" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE RING Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The directions are sound. You're just not appreciating what it means." | |
| Guenni says, "I think the cero might be around the corner." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Scholar's Study Floyd | You are in the House of Wisdom in early-medieval Baghdad, standing in Floyd | what appears to be someone's private study. The walls are covered in Floyd | intricate geometric designs, and a low table stands in the middle of Floyd | the room. A small room lies to the south, and the rest of the House Floyd | of Wisdom is to the west. Floyd | Floyd | On the low table are a small coffer, a square root, and a formal note. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "read note" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > READ NOTE Floyd | Floyd | The note reads, Floyd | Floyd | "Al-Khwarizmi, Floyd | Floyd | Our most recent investigations indicate at least two types of objects Floyd | of power: Those activated by more-or-less normal use, and those Floyd | activated by the appropriate word of power. Floyd | Floyd | This square object was recently given to the caliph. It appears to be Floyd | of the latter type. Please examine it and let us know what you Floyd | discover of it." Floyd | Floyd | Instead of a name, the note is signed with the first few digits of π: Floyd | 3.1415. Floyd | Floyd | There is also a postscript: "By the way, thank you for the hint on Floyd | your problem with the balances. I had not realized that the weight of Floyd | an object has nothing to do with that object's color." Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni asks, "A piece of pie anyone?" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x root" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X ROOT Floyd | Floyd | This is an unusual object. It appears to be made of some tough Floyd | vegetable matter - perhaps the root of a tree. It's also in the shape Floyd | of a perfect square. The word "EXTRACT" is written on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Cherry? Mince?" | |
| Guenni says, "One of 42 kinds. :-)" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE IT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Alcove Floyd | This is a small, plain room just south of the study. Floyd | Floyd | The room is dominated by three large double-pan balance scales: a Floyd | bronze one, a silver one, and a gold one. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I've been to two different pie shops and neither has 42 kinds of pie at once." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x scales>" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X SCALES> Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing, at least as described. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "You just didn't get far enough out into the galaxy." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x golden" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X GOLDEN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing, at least as described. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Alcove Floyd | This is a small, plain room just south of the study. Floyd | Floyd | The room is dominated by three large double-pan balance scales: a Floyd | bronze one, a silver one, and a gold one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x gold" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X GOLD Floyd | Floyd | (the gold balance scale) Floyd | This is a double-pan balance scale made of gold. The left pan Floyd | contains a yellow x block, a yellow z block, and Floyd | four sand pebbles; the right pan contains a yellow y block Floyd | and eight maize pebbles. Inscribed on the base of the gold scale is Floyd | the single letter z. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x silver" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X SILVER Floyd | Floyd | (the silver balance scale) Floyd | This is a double-pan balance scale made of silver. The left pan Floyd | contains three gray y blocks and six ash pebbles; the right Floyd | pan contains a gray x block and ten slate pebbles. Inscribed Floyd | on the base of the silver scale is the single letter y. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x bronze" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X BRONZE Floyd | Floyd | (the bronze balance scale) Floyd | This is a double-pan balance scale made of bronze. The left pan Floyd | contains two brown x blocks and two tan pebbles; the right Floyd | pan contains twelve sepia pebbles. Inscribed on the base of the Floyd | bronze scale is the single letter x. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Iria arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Guenni says, "Here's an equation for you Guenni -loo =wet chair." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "So I guess the goal is to have the letter blocks on their respective scale, and the scales balanced." | ||
| Guenni says, "back in a minute." | ||
| Guenni says, "Back. and agrees." | ||
| Guenni says, "But don't really know how." | ||
| Guenni says, "I also think with the letters it's somehow about the three dimensions." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "It's probably variables, as in x + 2 = 12" | ||
| Guenni says, "That's also possible." | ||
| DavidW says, "2x + 2 = 12, actually." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Right." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I misread that." | ||
| DavidW says, "So, solve for x." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "take one x" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ONE X Floyd | Floyd | (the brown x block) Floyd | As you lift one of the brown x blocks off the left bronze pan Floyd | it disappears. The left pan rises somewhat and the right pan drops Floyd | somewhat. Floyd | Floyd | Now the left pan of the bronze scale contains a brown x block Floyd | and two tan pebbles, while the right pan contains twelve sepia Floyd | pebbles. Floyd | Floyd | The bronze scale is out of balance and tips over. As it rights Floyd | itself, you see that all the blocks and pebbles have returned to the Floyd | bronze pans just as if you had never taken any of them. Floyd | | DavidW says, "This is where the AND in the tutorial is useful." | |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "Because, to keep a scale in balance, you have to take from both pans at the same time." | |
| Guenni says, "It was less about the mechanics and more about the fact that my last conscious equation solving was a while ago. :-)" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x bronze" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X BRONZE Floyd | Floyd | (the bronze balance scale) Floyd | This is a double-pan balance scale made of bronze. The left pan Floyd | contains two brown x blocks and two tan pebbles; the right Floyd | pan contains twelve sepia pebbles. Inscribed on the base of the Floyd | bronze scale is the single letter x. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'd start with >TAKE TWO TAN AND TWO SEPIA." | |
| Guenni nods. Reading just takes a while sometimes. | ||
| DavidW says, "Which would reduce the equation to 2x = 10." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "take two tan and two sepia" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE TWO TAN AND TWO SEPIA Floyd | Floyd | two tan pebbles: After you lift the tan pebbles from the left bronze Floyd | pan, they disappear. The left pan rises somewhat and the right pan Floyd | drops somewhat. Floyd | two sepia pebbles: After you lift the sepia pebbles from the right Floyd | bronze pan, they disappear. The right pan rises somewhat and the left Floyd | pan drops somewhat. Floyd | Floyd | Now the left pan of the bronze scale contains two brown x Floyd | blocks, while the right pan contains ten sepia pebbles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. | ||
| Ellison has disconnected. | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "take five tan and one x" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE FIVE TAN AND ONE X Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing, at least as described. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x bronze" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X BRONZE Floyd | Floyd | (the bronze balance scale) Floyd | This is a double-pan balance scale made of bronze. The left pan Floyd | contains two brown x blocks; the right pan contains ten sepia Floyd | pebbles. Inscribed on the base of the bronze scale is the single Floyd | letter x. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "careful. There's other X's on the other scales." | |
| DavidW says, "It's safer to refer to colors, I think." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "take one brown and five sepia" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ONE BROWN AND FIVE SEPIA Floyd | Floyd | brown x block: As you lift one of the brown x blocks Floyd | off the left bronze pan it disappears. The left pan rises somewhat Floyd | and the right pan drops somewhat. Floyd | five sepia pebbles: After you lift the sepia pebbles from the right Floyd | bronze pan, they disappear. The right pan rises somewhat and the left Floyd | pan drops somewhat. Floyd | Floyd | Now the left pan of the bronze scale contains a brown x Floyd | block, while the right pan contains five sepia pebbles. Floyd | Floyd | From the bronze balance scale you hear a click. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x bronze" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X BRONZE Floyd | Floyd | (the bronze balance scale) Floyd | This is a double-pan balance scale made of bronze. The left pan Floyd | contains a brown x block; the right pan contains five sepia Floyd | pebbles. Inscribed on the base of the bronze scale is the single Floyd | letter x. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Bronze scale solved. x = 5." | |
| DavidW says, "Do the silver one next and solve for y." | ||
| Guenni asks, "Do you want to drive/solve silver, KNight?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Can try at least." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x silver" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X SILVER Floyd | Floyd | (the silver balance scale) Floyd | This is a double-pan balance scale made of silver. The left pan Floyd | contains three gray y blocks and six ash pebbles; the right Floyd | pan contains a gray x block and ten slate pebbles. Inscribed Floyd | on the base of the silver scale is the single letter y. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "3y+6=x+10" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get one gray x and five ash" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ONE GRAY X AND FIVE ASH Floyd | Floyd | gray x block: After you lift the gray x block from Floyd | the right silver pan, it disappears. The right pan rises somewhat and Floyd | the left pan drops somewhat. Floyd | five ash pebbles: After you lift the ash pebbles from the left silver Floyd | pan, they disappear. The left pan rises somewhat and the right pan Floyd | drops somewhat. Floyd | Floyd | Now the left pan of the silver scale contains three gray y Floyd | blocks and an ash pebble, while the right pan contains ten slate Floyd | pebbles. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "so,.. a gray x and five ash... right." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get ash and one slate" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ASH AND ONE SLATE Floyd | Floyd | ash pebble: After you lift the ash pebble from the left silver pan, it Floyd | disappears. The left pan rises a little and the right pan drops a Floyd | little. Floyd | slate pebble: After you lift the slate pebble from the right silver Floyd | pan, it disappears. The right pan rises a little and the left pan Floyd | drops a little. Floyd | Floyd | Now the left pan of the silver scale contains three gray y Floyd | blocks, while the right pan contains nine slate pebbles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get two gray y and six slate" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET TWO GRAY Y AND SIX SLATE Floyd | Floyd | two gray y blocks: As you lift two of the gray y Floyd | blocks off the left silver pan they disappear. The left pan rises Floyd | somewhat and the right pan drops somewhat. Floyd | six slate pebbles: After you lift the slate pebbles from the left Floyd | silver pan, they disappear. The left pan rises somewhat and the right Floyd | pan drops somewhat. Floyd | Floyd | Now the left pan of the silver scale contains a gray y block, Floyd | while the right pan contains three slate pebbles. Floyd | Floyd | From the silver balance scale you hear a click. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "y=3" | |
| DavidW says, "Correct." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x gold" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X GOLD Floyd | Floyd | (the gold balance scale) Floyd | This is a double-pan balance scale made of gold. The left pan Floyd | contains a yellow x block, a yellow z block, and Floyd | four sand pebbles; the right pan contains a yellow y block Floyd | and eight maize pebbles. Inscribed on the base of the gold scale is Floyd | the single letter z. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "x+z+4=y+8" | |
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get yellow x and five maize" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET YELLOW X AND FIVE MAIZE Floyd | Floyd | yellow x block: After you lift the yellow x block Floyd | from the left gold pan, it disappears. The left pan rises somewhat Floyd | and the right pan drops somewhat. Floyd | five maize pebbles: After you lift the maize pebbles from the right Floyd | gold pan, they disappear. The right pan rises somewhat and the left Floyd | pan drops somewhat. Floyd | Floyd | Now the left pan of the gold scale contains a yellow z block Floyd | and four sand pebbles, while the right pan contains a yellow Floyd | y block and three maize pebbles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get yellow y and three sand" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove 9/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET YELLOW Y AND THREE SAND Floyd | Floyd | yellow y block: After you lift the yellow y block Floyd | from the right gold pan, it disappears. The right pan rises somewhat Floyd | and the left pan drops somewhat. Floyd | three sand pebbles: After you lift the sand pebbles from the left gold Floyd | pan, they disappear. The left pan rises somewhat and the right pan Floyd | drops somewhat. Floyd | Floyd | Now the left pan of the gold scale contains a yellow z block Floyd | and a sand pebble, while the right pan contains three maize pebbles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get one sand and one maize" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ONE SAND AND ONE MAIZE Floyd | Floyd | sand pebble: After you lift the sand pebble from the left gold pan, it Floyd | disappears. The left pan rises a little and the right pan drops a Floyd | little. Floyd | maize pebble: After you lift the maize pebble from the right gold pan, Floyd | it disappears. The right pan rises a little and the left pan drops a Floyd | little. Floyd | Floyd | Now the left pan of the gold scale contains a yellow z block, Floyd | while the right pan contains two maize pebbles. Floyd | Floyd | From the gold balance scale you hear a click. Floyd | Floyd | As you isolate the last variable on the scales, a small compartment Floyd | near the base of the gold scale opens. Out falls a blue gem. The Floyd | compartment then closes, leaving no trace. Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Algebra has increased. You estimate that Floyd | your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by four Floyd | points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get gem" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET GEM Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | This small, dark blue sapphire is quite beautiful. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. Interesting. It was a key in Version 1." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "z = blue gem. :p" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Scholar's Study Floyd | You are in the House of Wisdom in early-medieval Baghdad, standing in Floyd | what appears to be someone's private study. The walls are covered in Floyd | intricate geometric designs, and a low table stands in the middle of Floyd | the room. A small room lies to the south, and the rest of the House Floyd | of Wisdom is to the west. Floyd | Floyd | On the low table are a small coffer and a formal note. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x designs" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X DESIGNS Floyd | Floyd | These designs consist of intricate combinations of squares, circles, Floyd | and other geometric figures. The overall structure of the patterns is Floyd | clear to you, and you can make out several buttons hidden in the Floyd | designs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x buttons" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X BUTTONS Floyd | Floyd | There are five buttons hidden in the geometric designs: a circular Floyd | button, a button in the shape of two juxtaposed parentheses, a Floyd | triangular button, a square button, and a pentagonal button. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "I guess these somehow relate to the pedestals." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | From here, south and west are the only possibilities. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "That seems likely, yes." | |
| Guenni says, "Want me to press anyy just for the explosion? :-)" | ||
| DavidW says, "Other than being about geometry, they don't have much in common." | ||
| Guenni says, "Oh, ok, so let's really look what happens." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x buttons" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X BUTTONS Floyd | Floyd | There are five buttons hidden in the geometric designs: a circular Floyd | button, a button in the shape of two juxtaposed parentheses, a Floyd | triangular button, a square button, and a pentagonal button. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Baghdad didn't have gunpowder yet, I don't think." | |
| Guenni says, "But chemical experiments gone wrong." | ||
| DavidW says, "It took me a while to understand what the buttons meant, and even longer to understand what to do with them." | ||
| DavidW says, "But you guys might be quicker on the uptake than me." | ||
| Guenni says, "I'd just press them from least corners to most, But the paranthesis don't fit with that system." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I'm not sure what to make of the buttons right now." | ||
| DavidW says, "In Japanese escape games, the parentheses button would be an L shape instead." | ||
| Guenni says, "Well, let's see if something might have changed upstairs." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Matter 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | As you move west, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | The space here feels much more formed than before. Floyd | Floyd | Matter Floyd | The space here is now mostly formed, though the floor is still hazy. Floyd | You can now see an inscription on the wall. Several "paths" through Floyd | the space are clear: up to the manifestation of one, north to the Floyd | Lyceum, south to the Librarian's Office, east to the Scholar's Study, Floyd | and west to the Great Hall. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Form became Matter." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x inscription" | ||
Floyd ] Matter 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X INSCRIPTION Floyd | Floyd | The inscription reads, Floyd | Floyd | "Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Floyd | Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, Floyd | And lay them prone upon the earth and cease Floyd | To ponder on themselves, the while they stare Floyd | At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere Floyd | In shapes of shifting lineage; let geese Floyd | Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release Floyd | From dusty bondage into luminous air. Floyd | O blinding hour, O holy, terrible day, Floyd | When first the shaft into his vision shone Floyd | Of light anatomized! Euclid alone Floyd | Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Floyd | Who, though once only and then but far away, Floyd | Have heard her massive sandal set on stone." Floyd | Floyd | > | Iria says, "What's today's game" | |
| Guenni says, "That's to philosophic for my brain at this late hour." | ||
| DavidW says, "A Beauty Cold and Austere, release 2." | ||
| Guenni says, "We could also try the temple passage again." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Matter 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a sapphire gem Floyd | a square root Floyd | a white ring Floyd | Elements Floyd | a scribbled scroll Floyd | your math book Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I wonder what that gem is for. It's completely new to me." | |
| zarf says, "'Euclid alone has looked on Beauty's butt. He liked it, and he cannot lie; nor Euclid tell the truth. Which one...?''" | ||
| zarf says, "sorry" | ||
| DavidW says (to zarf), "hee hee" | ||
| Guenni asks, "So, up or temple or down?" | ||
| zarf walks off through the wall; vivid gold light flares briefly around him. | DavidW says, "I think up might be helpful." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] One 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | One Floyd | This is more of an abstract space than a physical place, but it gives Floyd | you a sense of unity, wholeness, and beginnings. A hole leads back up Floyd | to the positive axis. You sense another exit, too - one in a deeper, Floyd | "downward" direction from this space. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Doesn't look like we can go down. Since we're here already..." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Positive Axis: 1 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | Positive Axis: 1 Floyd | You find yourself in a deep dark blue - almost black - expanse of Floyd | space that extends as far as you can see in all three dimensions. The Floyd | space is broken up by the straight, flat white line floating in Floyd | mid-air that you are standing on. The line begins here and stretches Floyd | out of sight to the east. The number 1 is marked on the line. While Floyd | the line doesn't appear to be supported by anything, there is a hole Floyd | in the middle of it here, next to the 1. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Positive Axis: 2 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Positive Axis: 2 Floyd | You are in a dark blue expanse of space, standing on a white line that Floyd | stretches to the west and as far as you can see to the east. The Floyd | number 2 is marked on the line here. There is a hole next to the 2 Floyd | large enough for you to climb down into. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "enter 2" | ||
Floyd ] Positive Axis: 2 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER 2 Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing, at least as described. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "enter hole 2" | ||
Floyd ] Positive Axis: 2 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER HOLE 2 Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that. The first word or two on their own might Floyd | suffice, though; perhaps it would work to just enter the hole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "enter hole" | ||
Floyd ] Two 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER HOLE Floyd | Floyd | You clamber down the hole. Floyd | Floyd | Two Floyd | This is more of an abstract space than a physical place, but it's Floyd | marked by a feeling of duality, as if it somehow contains opposites Floyd | within itself. The only exit is a hole leading back up to the Floyd | positive axis. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Nothing new here. (yet?)" | |
| Guenni nods | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Positive Axis: 2 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | Positive Axis: 2 Floyd | You are in a dark blue expanse of space, standing on a white line that Floyd | stretches to the west and as far as you can see to the east. The Floyd | number 2 is marked on the line here. There is a hole next to the 2 Floyd | large enough for you to climb down into. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Positive Axis: 2 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You walk along the positive axis for a while, tracing the passage of Floyd | the tip of the white wand. You see marks for 3, 4, 5, and larger Floyd | numbers. There are no holes or anything else featured on this part of Floyd | the positive axis, though, and you soon decide return to the 2 mark. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Positive Axis: 1 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Positive Axis: 1 Floyd | You find yourself in a deep dark blue - almost black - expanse of Floyd | space that extends as far as you can see in all three dimensions. The Floyd | space is broken up by the straight, flat white line floating in Floyd | mid-air that you are standing on. The line begins here and stretches Floyd | out of sight to the east. The number 1 is marked on the line. While Floyd | the line doesn't appear to be supported by anything, there is a hole Floyd | in the middle of it here, next to the 1. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Positive Axis: 1 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You can see absolutely nothing in the blue darkness off the positive Floyd | axis. Stepping off it doesn't sound like a good idea. Going down is Floyd | an option, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "throw ring w" | ||
Floyd ] Positive Axis: 1 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > THROW RING W Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that. The first word or two on their own might Floyd | suffice, though; perhaps it would work to just throw the white ring. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm not sure if I should hint or not. Jacqueline would probably tell me to be quiet." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "throw ring" | ||
Floyd ] Positive Axis: 1 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > THROW RING Floyd | Floyd | You really shouldn't take out your frustrations on the white ring. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x ring" | ||
Floyd ] Positive Axis: 1 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X RING Floyd | Floyd | This ring is white and is in the shape of a one-eyed adder biting its Floyd | tail. The adder's eye is a dark sapphire. The ring has the word Floyd | "Identity" inscribed along the outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "put ring on line" | ||
Floyd ] Positive Axis: 1 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT RING ON LINE Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on the positive axis would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Hm, with this description it's not a cero after all" | |
| DavidW says, "It's a finger ring." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "wear ring" | ||
Floyd ] Positive Axis: 1 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR RING Floyd | Floyd | You put on the ring. The word "Identity" on it glows briefly before Floyd | fading. The ring enlarges slightly - just enough to slip off your Floyd | finger. Then the ring shrinks back to its original size. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Positive Axis: 1 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Positive Axis: 1 Floyd | You find yourself in a deep dark blue - almost black - expanse of Floyd | space that extends as far as you can see in all three dimensions. The Floyd | space is broken up by the straight, flat white line floating in Floyd | mid-air that you are standing on. The line begins here and stretches Floyd | out of sight to the east. The number 1 is marked on the line. While Floyd | the line doesn't appear to be supported by anything, there is a hole Floyd | in the middle of it here, next to the 1. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros asks, "not an olympic ring?" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] One 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You clamber down the hole. Floyd | Floyd | One Floyd | This is more of an abstract space than a physical place, but it gives Floyd | you a sense of unity, wholeness, and beginnings. A hole leads back up Floyd | to the positive axis. You sense another exit, too - one in a deeper, Floyd | "downward" direction from this space. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "That response makes it seem we have no identity. :O" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Matter 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You make your way down. Floyd | Floyd | Matter Floyd | The space here is now mostly formed, though the floor is still hazy. Floyd | You can now see an inscription on the wall. Several "paths" through Floyd | the space are clear: up to the manifestation of one, north to the Floyd | Lyceum, south to the Librarian's Office, east to the Scholar's Study, Floyd | and west to the Great Hall. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Identity is usually associated with the number one." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x floor" | ||
Floyd ] Matter 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X FLOOR Floyd | Floyd | (There is no need to refer to the walls, floor, or ceiling during this Floyd | game.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You make your way north. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Lyceum Floyd | You stand in the Lyceum, a collection of buildings and open spaces in Floyd | ancient Athens. There is a stadium to the west, a temple lies north, Floyd | and you can see a private home with an ornate doorway to the east. A Floyd | road leads northeast out of Athens, and the rest of the city lies Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "As for the Olympics, imagine if Achilles had been to one." | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Does he get a head start or not?" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Southern End 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Number, Southern End Floyd | You stand in the southern end of the Temple of Number. The temple is Floyd | made of white stone and features imposing Ionic columns. There is an Floyd | inscription on the wall, the rest of the temple is to the north, and Floyd | the exit to the Lyceum is south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Number, Northern End Floyd | You stand in the northern end of the Temple of Number. The temple is Floyd | made of white stone and features imposing Ionic columns. Instead of Floyd | the half-expected statue of Athena Parthenos, though, stands a large Floyd | statue of Pythagoras. Behind the statue is a small passageway heading Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | An acolyte is here, silently cleaning up the area around the statue. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a trash urn (in which is a scrap of papyrus) here. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte gazes up at the statue with a reverent look on her face. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte stops you. She shakes her head silently. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte sweeps the area in front of the statue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Southern End 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Number, Southern End Floyd | You stand in the southern end of the Temple of Number. The temple is Floyd | made of white stone and features imposing Ionic columns. There is an Floyd | inscription on the wall, the rest of the temple is to the north, and Floyd | the exit to the Lyceum is south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lyceum Floyd | You stand in the Lyceum, a collection of buildings and open spaces in Floyd | ancient Athens. There is a stadium to the west, a temple lies north, Floyd | and you can see a private home with an ornate doorway to the east. A Floyd | road leads northeast out of Athens, and the rest of the city lies Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Royal Road 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Royal Road Floyd | This flat, paved road runs from southwest to northeast. However, you Floyd | also spot a steep path leaving the road and winding its way north up Floyd | the hillside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Dead End 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dead End Floyd | Apparently the royal road doesn't lead anywhere; you've come to a dead Floyd | end. You may follow it back to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Royal Road 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Royal Road Floyd | This flat, paved road runs from southwest to northeast. However, you Floyd | also spot a steep path leaving the road and winding its way north up Floyd | the hillside. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "ok, now I'm out of ideas." | |
| DavidW says, "You were almost right with the ring. You just chose the wrong spot to wear it." | ||
| Guenni says, "We could check up on the hill, but I think we're done there." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I suspect so, yes." | ||
| Guenni says, "Soo?? :looks westward and makes hopeful eyes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I'm assuming we're supposed to wear the ring in the One room." | ||
| DavidW says, "You can also do something with the square root." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Royal Road 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | From here, north, northeast, and southwest are the only possibilities. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to KO), "yes" | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lyceum Floyd | You stand in the Lyceum, a collection of buildings and open spaces in Floyd | ancient Athens. There is a stadium to the west, a temple lies north, Floyd | and you can see a private home with an ornate doorway to the east. A Floyd | road leads northeast out of Athens, and the rest of the city lies Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Matter 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | As you move south, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Matter Floyd | The space here is now mostly formed, though the floor is still hazy. Floyd | You can now see an inscription on the wall. Several "paths" through Floyd | the space are clear: up to the manifestation of one, north to the Floyd | Lyceum, south to the Librarian's Office, east to the Scholar's Study, Floyd | and west to the Great Hall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You make your way east. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Scholar's Study Floyd | You are in the House of Wisdom in early-medieval Baghdad, standing in Floyd | what appears to be someone's private study. The walls are covered in Floyd | intricate geometric designs, and a low table stands in the middle of Floyd | the room. A small room lies to the south, and the rest of the House Floyd | of Wisdom is to the west. Floyd | Floyd | With your increased knowledge of geometry, the designs on the walls Floyd | make more sense to you now. Floyd | Floyd | On the low table are a small coffer and a formal note. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x designs" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X DESIGNS Floyd | Floyd | These designs consist of intricate combinations of squares, circles, Floyd | and other geometric figures. The overall structure of the patterns is Floyd | now clear to you, and you can make out several buttons hidden in the Floyd | designs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni asks, "Did we have some kind of crash, or was it just my client?" | DavidW says, "There was no crash here." | |
| Guenni grits teeth. | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Not that I'm aware." | ||
| Guenni says, "Hate and client." | ||
| Guenni says, "It somehow jumps to other lines in my input window." | ||
| Guenni says, "But the ring still didn't help." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Alcove 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Alcove Floyd | This is a small, plain room just south of the study. Floyd | Floyd | The room is dominated by three large double-pan balance scales: a Floyd | bronze one, a silver one, and a gold one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Scholar's Study Floyd | You are in the House of Wisdom in early-medieval Baghdad, standing in Floyd | what appears to be someone's private study. The walls are covered in Floyd | intricate geometric designs, and a low table stands in the middle of Floyd | the room. A small room lies to the south, and the rest of the House Floyd | of Wisdom is to the west. Floyd | Floyd | On the low table are a small coffer and a formal note. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Iria says (to Floyd), "x note" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X NOTE Floyd | Floyd | The note reads, Floyd | Floyd | "Al-Khwarizmi, Floyd | Floyd | Our most recent investigations indicate at least two types of objects Floyd | of power: Those activated by more-or-less normal use, and those Floyd | activated by the appropriate word of power. Floyd | Floyd | This square object was recently given to the caliph. It appears to be Floyd | of the latter type. Please examine it and let us know what you Floyd | discover of it." Floyd | Floyd | Instead of a name, the note is signed with the first few digits of π: Floyd | 3.1415. Floyd | Floyd | There is also a postscript: "By the way, thank you for the hint on Floyd | your problem with the balances. I had not realized that the weight of Floyd | an object has nothing to do with that object's color." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "put root on square" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ROOT ON SQUARE Floyd | Floyd | (the square root) Floyd | I'm not sure even a master topologist could pull that off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x root" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X ROOT Floyd | Floyd | This is an unusual object. It appears to be made of some tough Floyd | vegetable matter - perhaps the root of a tree. It's also in the shape Floyd | of a perfect square. The word "EXTRACT" is written on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "eat root" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT ROOT Floyd | Floyd | You're not particularly hungry. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, you've already eaten a blorple pill today. And yoghurt." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Against library regulations, even." | ||
| DavidW says, "Livin' the dream." | ||
| Guenni says, "Yeah, seems to be a filling meal." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, I see, you wanted a SQUARE meal." | ||
| Guenni asks, "What's that?" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Rooting around for puns again?" | ||
| Guenni says, "Non native speaker here. :-)" | ||
| DavidW says (to Guenni), "oh sorry" | ||
| DavidW says, "A square meal is a complete meal. Meat, potatoes, veggies, coffee, the works." | ||
| Guenni says, "Ah." | ||
| Guenni asks, "So where we rooting?" | ||
| DavidW says, "well, unless you're solving the buttons puzzle, I'd use the root somewhere else." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I suspect the root is for the 2 room." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Or the inner temple." | ||
| Guenni says, "Let's try giving a gift." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Matter 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | As you move west, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Matter Floyd | The space here is now mostly formed, though the floor is still hazy. Floyd | You can now see an inscription on the wall. Several "paths" through Floyd | the space are clear: up to the manifestation of one, north to the Floyd | Lyceum, south to the Librarian's Office, east to the Scholar's Study, Floyd | and west to the Great Hall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You make your way north. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Lyceum Floyd | You stand in the Lyceum, a collection of buildings and open spaces in Floyd | ancient Athens. There is a stadium to the west, a temple lies north, Floyd | and you can see a private home with an ornate doorway to the east. A Floyd | road leads northeast out of Athens, and the rest of the city lies Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Southern End 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Number, Southern End Floyd | You stand in the southern end of the Temple of Number. The temple is Floyd | made of white stone and features imposing Ionic columns. There is an Floyd | inscription on the wall, the rest of the temple is to the north, and Floyd | the exit to the Lyceum is south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Number, Northern End Floyd | You stand in the northern end of the Temple of Number. The temple is Floyd | made of white stone and features imposing Ionic columns. Instead of Floyd | the half-expected statue of Athena Parthenos, though, stands a large Floyd | statue of Pythagoras. Behind the statue is a small passageway heading Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | An acolyte is here, silently cleaning up the area around the statue. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a trash urn (in which is a scrap of papyrus) here. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte pokes at a corner of the temple with her broom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "give root to woman" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE ROOT TO WOMAN Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte is focused on her cleaning, and she ignores you. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte gazes up at the statue with a reverent look on her face. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x statue" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X STATUE Floyd | Floyd | This large statue of Pythagoras dominates the north end of the temple. Floyd | A small passageway is behind the statue, leading north. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte picks up a speck of dust from the floor of the temple. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "put root on statue" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ROOT ON STATUE Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on the statue of Pythagoras would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte polishes an already spotless part of the statue. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I kinda want to dump a bag of confetti here, just so she has something to clean up." | |
| Guenni nods. | ||
| Guenni says, "I think we need to cook soup or something with the root because of the "extract"." | ||
| Iria goes home. | Knight_Otu says, "The note that was in the study makes me think extract is the verb to use the root." | |
| Guenni says, "But with the pi signature close by it is possibly also circle related." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "put root on gem" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ROOT ON GEM Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on the sapphire gem would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte picks up a speck of dust from the floor of the temple. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look through gem" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK THROUGH GEM Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte gazes up at the statue with a reverent look on her face. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take eye from ring" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE EYE FROM RING Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing, at least as described. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Southern End 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Number, Southern End Floyd | You stand in the southern end of the Temple of Number. The temple is Floyd | made of white stone and features imposing Ionic columns. There is an Floyd | inscription on the wall, the rest of the temple is to the north, and Floyd | the exit to the Lyceum is south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lyceum Floyd | You stand in the Lyceum, a collection of buildings and open spaces in Floyd | ancient Athens. There is a stadium to the west, a temple lies north, Floyd | and you can see a private home with an ornate doorway to the east. A Floyd | road leads northeast out of Athens, and the rest of the city lies Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Matter 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | As you move south, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Matter Floyd | The space here is now mostly formed, though the floor is still hazy. Floyd | You can now see an inscription on the wall. Several "paths" through Floyd | the space are clear: up to the manifestation of one, north to the Floyd | Lyceum, south to the Librarian's Office, east to the Scholar's Study, Floyd | and west to the Great Hall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] One 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | One Floyd | This is more of an abstract space than a physical place, but it gives Floyd | you a sense of unity, wholeness, and beginnings. A hole leads back up Floyd | to the positive axis. You sense another exit, too - one in a deeper, Floyd | "downward" direction from this space. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Positive Axis: 1 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | Positive Axis: 1 Floyd | You find yourself in a deep dark blue - almost black - expanse of Floyd | space that extends as far as you can see in all three dimensions. The Floyd | space is broken up by the straight, flat white line floating in Floyd | mid-air that you are standing on. The line begins here and stretches Floyd | out of sight to the east. The number 1 is marked on the line. While Floyd | the line doesn't appear to be supported by anything, there is a hole Floyd | in the middle of it here, next to the 1. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "put gem on line" | ||
Floyd ] Positive Axis: 1 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT GEM ON LINE Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on the positive axis would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "drop gem" | ||
Floyd ] Positive Axis: 1 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP GEM Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x line" | ||
Floyd ] Positive Axis: 1 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X LINE Floyd | Floyd | This flat white line begins here and runs as far as you can see to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "take gem" | ||
Floyd ] Positive Axis: 1 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE GEM Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm thinking the gem is likely for a white thing we haven't seen yet." | |
| Guenni says, "probabbly" | ||
| DavidW says, "The adder wand had a sapphire eye, and the adder ring does as well." | ||
| DavidW says, "If we find an eye-less adder, I'll put the gem in its socket." | ||
| Guenni nods | ||
| Guenni asks, "So now what?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Speaking of the ring, I think it is for the room down from here." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] One 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You clamber down the hole. Floyd | Floyd | One Floyd | This is more of an abstract space than a physical place, but it gives Floyd | you a sense of unity, wholeness, and beginnings. A hole leads back up Floyd | to the positive axis. You sense another exit, too - one in a deeper, Floyd | "downward" direction from this space. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "To be worn there, that is." | |
| DavidW says, "Yes. Go down to One and wear the ring there." | ||
| DavidW says, "here" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] One 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] One 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | I didn't recognize that command. (There is a list of recognized Floyd | commands in the HELP menus.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "turn ring" | ||
Floyd ] One 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN RING Floyd | Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] One 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a sapphire gem Floyd | a square root Floyd | a white ring Floyd | Elements Floyd | a scribbled scroll Floyd | your math book Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think the reason there's both a One location and a Positive Axis: One location is because the former is the number itself, and the latter is its representation. That's was numerical operations aren't done on the number line." | |
| DavidW says, "er That's why" | ||
| DavidW says (to Guenni), "Wear the ring." | ||
| Guenni nods. But how does that help us now? | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "squeeze root" | ||
Floyd ] One 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > SQUEEZE ROOT Floyd | Floyd | That wouldn't make you feel any better. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Maybe I should've said 'please'." | |
| Guenni asks, "How did you get back there now?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't know what you're asking about." | ||
| Guenni says, "Well, the "interuption" was a while ago now, so I was just curious why you came back to it." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "David is wondering why you're not wearing the ring." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh. I mean, maybe I should've said 'please' to YOU because I've asked you to wear the ring and you won't do it. So maybe I should've said PLEASE WEAR THE RING." | ||
| Guenni says, "Oops! I thought one of you had typed it." | ||
| Guenni says, "I thought we were wearing it the whole time." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "wear ring." | ||
Floyd ] Zero 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR RING. Floyd | Floyd | You put on the ring. The word "Identity" on it begins to glow, the Floyd | ring enlarging as it does so. Soon the ring slips off your finger. Floyd | Yet it continues to grow, larger and larger, until it is large enough Floyd | to encircle you. Then the ring emits a dazzling flash of light, and Floyd | you feel yourself shift as you are pulled into the space in Floyd | the center of the ring. Floyd | Floyd | Zero Floyd | This is more of an abstract space than a physical place. Besides the Floyd | hole leading up, you sense nothing here. Floyd | Floyd | Well, actually... You can see an empty set here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "whew. And yay." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I try not to interrupt the driver. I don't always succeed, but I try." | ||
| Guenni says, "Oh no, now I remember, it fell off." | ||
| DavidW says, "Yes, the ring fell off when you put it on earlier." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "take sack" | ||
Floyd ] Zero 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SACK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing, at least as described. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "take set" | ||
Floyd ] Zero 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE SET Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] Zero 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | It's just a pair of curly braces. You could probably put things into Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "That'll be helpful." | |
| Guenni asks, "Would the calculator be happy about these?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "The Countess?" | ||
| Guenni asks, "Did we have some kind of crash, or was it just my client?" | Guenni says, "yes to your question." | |
| DavidW says, "No crash." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Client, I suspect." | ||
| Guenni nods. | ||
| DavidW says, "You didn't even leave." | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't think the Countess would have anything to say about the set, but I dunno for sure." | ||
| Guenni clears her input window and hopes that helps. {>; :nods.} | ||
| DavidW says, "It won't fix her machine." | ||
| Guenni says, "I'm not really sure what "curly braces" are." | ||
| DavidW says, "I know you can show things to her, though, and ask her about stuff, but most of the characters except the acolyte are friendly enough for that." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x braces" | ||
Floyd ] Zero 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X BRACES Floyd | Floyd | It's just a pair of curly braces. You could probably put things into Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It's mathematical notation for the empty set. They're the squiggly brackets." | |
| Guenni says, "Ah ok." | ||
| DavidW says, "{}" | ||
| DavidW says, "Of course, once something's inside the set, it won't be the empty set anymore, but that's okay." | ||
| Guenni says, "We could put the root in there." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "put root in braces." | ||
Floyd ] Zero 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ROOT IN BRACES. Floyd | Floyd | You put the square root into the set. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We can put everything into the set. Except itself." | |
| DavidW says, "Sets have infinite capacity." | ||
| Guenni says, "But I can't really remember doing that. Usually you put that before them." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Zero 13/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Zero Floyd | This is more of an abstract space than a physical place. Besides the Floyd | hole leading up, you sense nothing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Doing what? Put what before what? I've lost the context." | |
| Guenni says, "Put the root before the braces when writing down equations." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Beginning of Positive Axis: 0 14/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | Climbing through the hole, you enter what seems to be a mostly empty, Floyd | dark blue expanse of nothingness. The only thing you can see is the Floyd | end of the positive axis off to the "east." The enlarged white ring Floyd | is resting on the axis. Then the ring begins to roll toward you. As Floyd | it does, the ring widens and flattens until it is the width of the Floyd | positive axis. The ring rolls past the end of the axis, still heading Floyd | toward you, but it is now unrolling as it goes, effectively Floyd | extending the positive axis in your direction. The end of the ring Floyd | soon reaches you, at which point it ceases unrolling. No traces that Floyd | this new line segment was ever a ring remain. With only a bit of Floyd | hesitation, you step onto the new line. Floyd | Floyd | Beginning of Positive Axis: 0 Floyd | You are in a dark blue expanse of space, standing on a straight, flat Floyd | white line that stretches as far as you can see to the east. The Floyd | number 0 is marked at the very beginning of the line here. There is a Floyd | hole next to the 0 large enough for you to climb down into. Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Arithmetic has increased. You estimate Floyd | that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by one Floyd | point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "uh, no?" | |
| Guenni says, "We did that, sometimes. having an addition or whatever in the braces and having to extract the sqr from that. So the root is written in front "or above" the braces. It's possible you sighted folks write that a bit diffferently." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Zero 14/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You clamber down the hole. Floyd | Floyd | Zero Floyd | This is more of an abstract space than a physical place. Besides the Floyd | hole leading back up to the positive axis, you sense nothing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Well, "nothing, is rather fitting. :-)" | |
| DavidW says, "yeah, perhaps. I don't normally see braces in equations at all. Brackets, yes, but not curly braces." | ||
| Guenni says, "I'm also happy that I was kindd of right with the ring being the cero." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Beginning of Positive Axis: 0 14/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | Beginning of Positive Axis: 0 Floyd | You are in a dark blue expanse of space, standing on a straight, flat Floyd | white line that stretches as far as you can see to the east. The Floyd | number 0 is marked at the very beginning of the line here. There is a Floyd | hole next to the 0 large enough for you to climb down into. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Positive Axis: 1 14/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Positive Axis: 1 Floyd | You find yourself in a deep dark blue - almost black - expanse of Floyd | space that extends as far as you can see in all three dimensions. The Floyd | space is broken up by the straight, flat white line floating in Floyd | mid-air that you are standing on. The line stretches to the west and Floyd | out of sight to the east. The number 1 is marked on the line. While Floyd | the line doesn't appear to be supported by anything, there is a hole Floyd | in the middle of it here, next to the 1. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Yes, the ring was meant to suggest a zero." | |
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Knight_Otu says, "I think I should mention that it's getting late over here." | |
| Guenni says (to Ellison), "We.re still mathematizing." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] One 14/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You clamber down the hole. Floyd | Floyd | One Floyd | This is more of an abstract space than a physical place, but it gives Floyd | you a sense of unity, wholeness, and beginnings. A hole leads back up Floyd | to the positive axis. You sense another exit, too - one in a deeper, Floyd | "downward" direction from this space. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It's after 5 pm for me." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I'm not sure how long I'll stay on." | ||
| Guenni says, "Yeah, the midnight lurks around the corner here." | ||
| Guenni asks, "Want to do the rest next week?" | ||
| DavidW says, "At some point, I'll need to put on real clothes and find food." | ||
| Ellison says, "that's 14 points out of 100? long game, it seems" | ||
| DavidW says, "It's a large game, yes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| Guenni asks, "Whom did you answer?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Kind of everyone, I guess? But yeah, continuing next week would be good from my perspective" | ||
| Guenni asks, "Any protests?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Looking at my notes, this game has 71 locations in it." | ||
| DavidW says, "I have no objection." | ||
| Ellison says, "I protest with all my might, you quitters" | ||
| Guenni says, "Oi, sounds like we won't get done next week either." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd ] One 14/100 (F)
Floyd | > SAVEOk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Knight_Otu says, "That might get overwritten." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "cfbeauty1" | ||
Floyd ] One 14/100 (F)
Floyd | > SAVEOk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| DavidW says, "That's better" | |
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "Good night, then!" | ||
| Guenni asks, "I thought "cf" stands for club floyd. So why would it get overwritten until next week?" | ||
| Knight_Otu goes home. | DavidW says, "Because other people sometimes use the save function who aren't ClubFloyders." | |
| Guenni asks, "Yeah, but won't other people other names, and not "cf"?" | ||
| Guenni asks, "use other names?" | ||
| DavidW says, "nope" | ||
| Ellison has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DavidW says, "It's just not safe to assume." | |
| Guenni asks, "Any other reasons for that,than people are idiots sometimes?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "People are idiots more often than sometimes?" | ||
| Guenni says, "Ah." | ||
| Guenni says, "Well, it's nearly z time in this household." | ||
| Guenni hollers, "Night everyone!" | ||
| Guenni goes home. | DavidW says, "People do use Floyd outside of ClubFloyd sessions, but because the only way they see Floyd used is by Club... oh never mind, you're gone already." | |
| DavidW says, "I can't type fast enough sometimes." | ||
| *** SESSION TWO *** | ||
| DavidW says, "I may need to bow out early. I'm way tired this week." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh. I only just woke up and had to pry myself up because of CF" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But I was having this crazy spy adventure dream and would love to try to pick back up where it left off." | ||
| DavidW says, "I've been awake nights and sleeping days lately." | ||
| Guenni says, "Well, we weren't finished with the math cramming session yet." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm still diurnal, but I have had a fairly rough go of things since mid January and this is my first real weekend to recharge." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Drug dream, you mean." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to KO), "No, spy dream." | ||
| Plover signed NightFloyd Suggestions. | Guenni says (to Jacq), "He meant the game." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I meant the math cramming - right." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I mean, we took a "magic pill" and then have a strange math dream..." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "From last week." | ||
| Guenni says, "Yep." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I was thinking that Guenni was helping someone study for an exam." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Maybe I'm still sleeping." | ||
| Guenni says, "With math? If it's above middle school I'm the wrong one." | ||
| DavidW says, "I remember that they'd found the empty set but haven't used the square root yet." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I'm assuming that we extract the root in room "2", and the set may be for the coins." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm. So, Perry is still logging from last week, and you all have a game you're in the middle of that I know nothing about, so I shall leave you all to it, I think." | ||
| Guenni says, "Erm, I got curious and mathematized for myself on my own pc." | ||
| Guenni says, "But I'm fine with lurking and help to stir if needed. :-)" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Just remember that the one you want to load beautycoldandaustere2" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That's the post-comp version that I believe you were using." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask beautycoldandaustere2" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme Floyd | beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without Floyd | appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous Floyd | trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a Floyd | stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show." -- Floyd | Bertrand Russell | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd | Would you like to...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Play through the tutorial : T
Floyd | Start the story - from the beginning : (SPACE)
Floyd | - from a saved position : R
Floyd | Quit : Q
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cfbeauty1" | ||
Floyd ] One 14/100 (F)
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline asks, "Do you all need your transcript from last week for reference?" | |
| DavidW says, "I don't, but I'm about to crash, I think." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I think I can go without, but if anyone needs it..." | ||
| Guenni shakes head. It should be fresh enough that I'll remember things when I read them again here. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] One 14/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | One Floyd | This is more of an abstract space than a physical place, but it gives Floyd | you a sense of unity, wholeness, and beginnings. A hole leads back up Floyd | to the positive axis. You sense another exit, too - one in a deeper, Floyd | "downward" direction from this space. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] One 14/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a set (no longer empty) Floyd | a square root Floyd | a sapphire gem Floyd | Elements Floyd | a scribbled scroll Floyd | your math book Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Heh. No longer empty." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x scroll" | ||
Floyd ] One 14/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X SCROLL Floyd | Floyd | This scroll is made from papyrus. Euclid has scribbled his five Floyd | geometric postulates on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||
Floyd ] One 14/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > READ IT Floyd | Floyd | "First postulate: You can draw a straight line from any point to any Floyd | other point. Floyd | Floyd | Second postulate: You can extend a finite straight line continuously Floyd | in a straight line. Floyd | Floyd | Third postulate: You can draw a circle with any center and any radius. Floyd | Floyd | Fourth postulate: All right (90 degree) angles are equal to each Floyd | other. Floyd | Floyd | Fifth postulate (rephrased, also known as the parallel Floyd | postulate): Given a line and a point not on the line, there is Floyd | exactly one other line that goes through the point that never touches Floyd | the first line." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read elements" | ||
Floyd ] One 14/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > READ ELEMENTS Floyd | Floyd | This is a copy of the Elements of Euclid. It's actually Floyd | divided into thirteen books. Floyd | Floyd | Elements contains far too much material to read through. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Matter 14/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You make your way down. Floyd | Floyd | Matter Floyd | The space here is now mostly formed, though the floor is still hazy. Floyd | You can now see an inscription on the wall. Several "paths" through Floyd | the space are clear: up to the manifestation of one, north to the Floyd | Lyceum, south to the Librarian's Office, east to the Scholar's Study, Floyd | and west to the Great Hall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Getting the 0 doesn't seem to have changed this room yet." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] One 14/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | One Floyd | This is more of an abstract space than a physical place, but it gives Floyd | you a sense of unity, wholeness, and beginnings. A hole leads back up Floyd | to the positive axis. You sense another exit, too - one in a deeper, Floyd | "downward" direction from this space. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Changes to the Matter room(s) requires increasing your score." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I guessed as much." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Positive Axis: 1 14/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | Positive Axis: 1 Floyd | You find yourself in a deep dark blue - almost black - expanse of Floyd | space that extends as far as you can see in all three dimensions. The Floyd | space is broken up by the straight, flat white line floating in Floyd | mid-air that you are standing on. The line stretches to the west and Floyd | out of sight to the east. The number 1 is marked on the line. While Floyd | the line doesn't appear to be supported by anything, there is a hole Floyd | in the middle of it here, next to the 1. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Positive Axis: 2 14/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Positive Axis: 2 Floyd | You are in a dark blue expanse of space, standing on a white line that Floyd | stretches to the west and as far as you can see to the east. The Floyd | number 2 is marked on the line here. There is a hole next to the 2 Floyd | large enough for you to climb down into. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Don't forget, you can probably solve the Count's puzzle as well." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Two 14/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You clamber down the hole. Floyd | Floyd | Two Floyd | This is more of an abstract space than a physical place, but it's Floyd | marked by a feeling of duality, as if it somehow contains opposites Floyd | within itself. The only exit is a hole leading back up to the Floyd | positive axis. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Yeah, but I want to try the root as well." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get root" | ||
Floyd ] Two 14/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ROOT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "extract root" | ||
Floyd ] Irrational: Between 1 and 2 16/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > EXTRACT ROOT Floyd | Floyd | The root vibrates quietly, as it extracts the square root of the Floyd | essence of the space around it. You feel yourself shift. Floyd | Floyd | Irrational: Between 1 and 2 Floyd | This is more of an abstract space than a physical place, but it feels Floyd | large beyond your understanding, as if it encompasses infinitely more Floyd | space than the single-number locations beneath the positive axis. A Floyd | hole leads up to the positive axis. Floyd | Floyd | A proof is lying here. Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Number Theory has increased. You Floyd | estimate that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by two Floyd | points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| zarf arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x proof" | ||
Floyd ] Irrational: Between 1 and 2 16/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X PROOF Floyd | Floyd | This is a mathematical proof that the square root of 2 is irrational. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get proof" | ||
Floyd ] Irrational: Between 1 and 2 16/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET PROOF Floyd | Floyd | (putting your math book into the empty set to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "That's for the temple, I guess." | |
| Guenni nods. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Positive Axis: 1 16/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | As you step onto the positive axis, the hole behind you closes. Floyd | Rather than standing at an unmarked spot between 1 and 2, you head Floyd | back to 1. Floyd | Floyd | Positive Axis: 1 Floyd | You find yourself in a deep dark blue - almost black - expanse of Floyd | space that extends as far as you can see in all three dimensions. The Floyd | space is broken up by the straight, flat white line floating in Floyd | mid-air that you are standing on. The line stretches to the west and Floyd | out of sight to the east. The number 1 is marked on the line. While Floyd | the line doesn't appear to be supported by anything, there is a hole Floyd | in the middle of it here, next to the 1. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] One 16/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You clamber down the hole. Floyd | Floyd | One Floyd | This is more of an abstract space than a physical place, but it gives Floyd | you a sense of unity, wholeness, and beginnings. A hole leads back up Floyd | to the positive axis. You sense another exit, too - one in a deeper, Floyd | "downward" direction from this space. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Matter 16/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You make your way down. Floyd | Floyd | Matter Floyd | The space here is now mostly formed, though the floor is still hazy. Floyd | You can now see an inscription on the wall. Several "paths" through Floyd | the space are clear: up to the manifestation of one, north to the Floyd | Lyceum, south to the Librarian's Office, east to the Scholar's Study, Floyd | and west to the Great Hall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 16/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You make your way west. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Great Hall Floyd | You are standing in the great hall of a large, cobwebby castle. A Floyd | long table stretches from one end of the hall to the other. The Floyd | entryway of the castle is to the east. Exits west and south lead to Floyd | other parts of the castle. Floyd | Floyd | On the long table is a pile of old coins. Floyd | Floyd | The Count is here, sitting at the table. He mumbles something that Floyd | sounds like "six." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 16/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a proof Floyd | a square root Floyd | a set (no longer empty) Floyd | your math book Floyd | a sapphire gem Floyd | Elements Floyd | a scribbled scroll Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put coins into set" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 16/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT COINS INTO SET Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the pile of old coins) Floyd | Those belong to the Count. I wouldn't just take one without his Floyd | permission. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "greet count" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 16/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > GREET COUNT Floyd | Floyd | "If you know, please tell me how many ways you can flip ten coins and Floyd | have them come out half heads and half tails!" the Count says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "show set to count" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 16/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW SET TO COUNT Floyd | Floyd | The Count is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Plover says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Plover says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Great Hall 16/100 (F) Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "ask count for coins" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 16/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK COUNT FOR COINS Floyd | Floyd | (the Count first taking the pile of old coins) Floyd | The Count ignores your request. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "ask count about coins" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 16/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK COUNT ABOUT COINS Floyd | Floyd | "Can you tell me how many ways there are to flip ten coins and get Floyd | five heads and five tails?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Plover says, "What are you playing" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "It's called A Beauty Cold and Austere." | ||
| DavidW says, "(release 2)" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Also, you may want to talk on the channel by typing #Clubfloyd (text)." | Guenni says, "I have to admit I cheated for that one." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "After the first time, you can abbreviate #clubfloyd as ;" | ||
| Roger arrives, full of fun and funk. | Knight_Otu says, "I might be using the wrong words, I guess." | |
| Guenni says, "No, you have to give just the answer to the count." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Maybe I'll check out the temple first if I don't find it." | ||
| DavidW says, "Probably either something like SAY 43 or ANSWER 208" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Oh, okay." | ||
| DavidW says, "With the correct number, of course." | ||
| Guenni nods. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "say 42" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 16/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > SAY 42 Floyd | Floyd | (to the Count) Floyd | The Count arches his eyebrow. "That's not the right answer." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "say 252" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 19/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > SAY 252 Floyd | Floyd | (to the Count) Floyd | "That's it! That's it! I know that's it! Thank you, thank you, Floyd | thank you!" The Count hands you one of the coins from his pile. "If Floyd | you lose this one, feel free to come back and take another. I have Floyd | plenty!" Floyd | Floyd | (You put the scribbled scroll into the set to make room.) Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Combinatorics has increased. You Floyd | estimate that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by three Floyd | points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu exclaims, "Woo, I was right last week!" | |
| DavidW says, "yes, you were." | ||
| Plover says, "i’m new here." | ||
| Guenni asks, "Is it ok if we set the game to "brief"?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x coin" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 19/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X COIN Floyd | Floyd | This old coin is of eastern European origin. It is probably quite Floyd | valuable. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Sure, if I need the room, I can just look." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "brief" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 19/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > BRIEF Floyd | Floyd | A Beauty Cold and Austere is now in its "brief" printing mode, which Floyd | gives long descriptions of places never before visited and short Floyd | descriptions otherwise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "thanks." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Castle Chapel 19/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Castle Chapel Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 19/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Great Hall Floyd | On the long table is a pile of old coins. Floyd | Floyd | The Count is here, looking rather bored. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Matter 19/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The Count calls after you, "If you find something else for me to count Floyd | I would be grateful!" Floyd | Floyd | As you move east, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Matter Floyd | Floyd | > | Plover says, "yes" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 19/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You make your way north. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Lyceum Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Southern End 19/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Number, Southern End Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 19/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Number, Northern End Floyd | An acolyte is here, silently cleaning up the area around the statue. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a trash urn (in which is a scrap of papyrus) here. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte polishes an already spotless part of the statue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "show proof to acolyte" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 19/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW PROOF TO ACOLYTE Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte is focused on her cleaning, and she ignores you. There Floyd | must be some way to make her notice the proof. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte picks up a speck of dust from the floor of the temple. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 19/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte stops you. She shakes her head silently. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte gazes up at the statue with a reverent look on her face. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read proof" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 19/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > READ PROOF Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Proof that the Square Root of 2 is Irrational Floyd | Floyd | Suppose the square root of 2 is rational. Then it can be expressed as Floyd | a fraction x/y in lowest terms, so that x Floyd | and y are integers with no common factors. Since Floyd | x/y is the square root of 2, squaring Floyd | x/y must yield 2, and so we get 2 = x² / Floyd | y². This means that 2y² = x². Floyd | Floyd | Since y is an integer, so is y². Since x² Floyd | is 2 times an integer, x² must be an even number. The only Floyd | way that the square of a number can be even, though, is for the number Floyd | itself to be even. Thus x is even. So x = Floyd | 2z, where z is some other integer. Floyd | Floyd | Substituting 2z for x, our equation now looks like Floyd | 2y² = (2z)² = 4z². Divide both sides by Floyd | 2 Floyd | to get y² = 2z². By the same logic as before, this Floyd | means y is even. So x and y are both even. Floyd | Floyd | But x and y can't both be even because they have no Floyd | common factors. We now have a logical contradiction. Since our Floyd | supposition that the square root of 2 is rational leads to a logical Floyd | contradiction, the only possibility left is that the square root of 2 Floyd | is, in fact, irrational. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte picks up a speck of dust from the floor of the temple. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni asks, "Want a hint?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "recite proof" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 19/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > RECITE PROOF Floyd | Floyd | I didn't recognize that command. (There is a list of recognized Floyd | commands in the HELP menus.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Not quite yet." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "drop proof" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 19/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP PROOF Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte sweeps the area in front of the statue. Floyd | Floyd | Then the acolyte picks up the proof. On her way to the trash urn, she Floyd | glances at it. Then she stops and reads through it carefully. Her Floyd | face tightens. She shakes the proof at you, spluttering. "This... Floyd | this is blasphemy! All things must be odd or even or a ratio! You Floyd | are in error! I will show it to you!" Floyd | Floyd | She reads over the proof again. "The error is here, in the second Floyd | line. No... the mistake is in the assumption that... In this place, Floyd | you can't claim that this follows from... Aarrrgghh! This proof is Floyd | wrong! I know it is!" Floyd | Floyd | She reads the proof a third time. And then a fourth time. The anger Floyd | slowly fades from her face. "How did you come by such sacred Floyd | knowledge, and why, why did you share it with me?" Tears drop onto Floyd | her cheeks. Giving you a last mournful glance, she runs sobbing out Floyd | of the temple. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Poor attendant." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "We're shattering her faith." | ||
| DavidW says, "Math is a harsh mistress." | ||
| Guenni Yeah, sometimes, ignorance is bliss. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 19/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Number, Northern End Floyd | You stand in the northern end of the Temple of Number. The temple is Floyd | made of white stone and features imposing Ionic columns. Instead of Floyd | the half-expected statue of Athena Parthenos, though, stands a large Floyd | statue of Pythagoras. Behind the statue is a small passageway heading Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a trash urn (in which is a scrap of papyrus) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Okay, I guess she kept the proof." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Inner Sanctum 19/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | With the acolyte gone, no one prevents you from entering the Floyd | passageway behind the statue. Floyd | Floyd | Inner Sanctum Floyd | This small room tucked away behind the statue of Pythagoras is made Floyd | from the same pure white stone as the more public parts of the temple. Floyd | It feels like a holy space. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an octahedron, Archimedes's staff, and some exhaustion Floyd | sandals here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x octahedron" | ||
Floyd ] Inner Sanctum 19/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > X OCTAHEDRON Floyd | Floyd | The octahedron has eight sides, each of which is in the shape of an Floyd | equilateral triangle. It looks kind of like someone took two pyramids Floyd | and glued their bases together. This octahedron is about one cubic Floyd | foot in volume. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||
Floyd ] Inner Sanctum 20/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IT Floyd | Floyd | You take the octahedron. Looking curiously at it, you note that it Floyd | has eight sides, each of which is in the shape of an equilateral Floyd | triangle. You feel you understand three-dimensional solid geometry a Floyd | little better. Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Geometry has increased. You estimate Floyd | that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by one Floyd | point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Plover says, "who is the game by" | |
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "We reached D-!" | ||
| Knight_Otu 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 | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "q" | ||
Floyd ] Inner Sanctum 20/100 (D-) Floyd | Inner Sanctum Floyd | This small room tucked away behind the statue of Pythagoras is made Floyd | from the same pure white stone as the more public parts of the temple. Floyd | It feels like a holy space. Floyd | Floyd | You can see Archimedes's staff and some exhaustion sandals here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "version" | ||
Floyd ] Inner Sanctum 20/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > VERSION Floyd | Floyd | A Beauty Cold and Austere Floyd | An Interactive Digression by Mike Spivey Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180112 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) 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 | Serial And Fix by Andrew Plotkin Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "There ya go. It's by Mike Spivey." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Thanks. I should always expect a menu." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x staff" | ||
Floyd ] Inner Sanctum 20/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > X STAFF Floyd | Floyd | This thin staff is surprisingly strong. It is longer than you are Floyd | tall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||
Floyd ] Inner Sanctum 20/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IT Floyd | Floyd | (putting Elements into the set to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I imagine the haze is gone from the floor in Matter now." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Give me a big enough lever..." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x sandals" | ||
Floyd ] Inner Sanctum 20/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > X SANDALS Floyd | Floyd | This pair of exhaustion sandals is the embodiment of Eudoxus's Floyd | principle of exhaustion. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "... and I can move the world" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Or a globe, for that matter." | ||
| Guenni nods. | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Not sure why yet, though." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get sandals" | ||
Floyd ] Inner Sanctum 20/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET SANDALS Floyd | Floyd | (putting the sapphire gem into the set to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up eudoxus in math book" | ||
Floyd ] Inner Sanctum 20/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP EUDOXUS IN MATH BOOK Floyd | Floyd | Eudoxus was an ancient Greek mathematician. He is most well-known for Floyd | his method of exhaustion. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up exhaustion" | ||
Floyd ] Inner Sanctum 20/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP EXHAUSTION Floyd | Floyd | (in your math book) Floyd | The method of exhaustion was a technique used by various ancient Greek Floyd | mathematicians to find areas and volumes of geometric objects like Floyd | circles, spheres, cones, and cylinders. It can be thought of as a Floyd | precursor to more modern techniques that use limits. Floyd | Floyd | > | Plover says, "I've never done a ClubFloyd playthrough before, sorry if I'm interfearing." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I was getting there." | ||
| DavidW says (to KO), "sorry" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "You're not interfering." | ||
| DavidW says, "I just wanted to remind everyone that the book was still around." | ||
| Plover says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||
| Plover says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RESTORE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: Floyd ] Great Hall 16/100 (F) Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Eep." | |
| Guenni asks, "What did you do that for?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "That wasn't good." | ||
| DavidW says (to Plover), "THAT WAS INTERFERING." | ||
| Plover says, "′" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 16/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a proof Floyd | a square root Floyd | a set (no longer empty) Floyd | your math book Floyd | a sapphire gem Floyd | Elements Floyd | a scribbled scroll Floyd | Floyd | > | Plover says, "orry, i’ll keep quiet." | |
| DavidW says, "You'll have to replay almost everything we've done so far today." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "say 252" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 19/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > SAY 252 Floyd | Floyd | (to the Count) Floyd | "That's it! That's it! I know that's it! Thank you, thank you, Floyd | thank you!" The Count hands you one of the coins from his pile. "If Floyd | you lose this one, feel free to come back and take another. I have Floyd | plenty!" Floyd | Floyd | (You put the scribbled scroll into the set to make room.) Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Combinatorics has increased. You Floyd | estimate that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by three Floyd | points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Matter 19/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | As you move east, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Matter Floyd | The space here is now mostly formed, though the floor is still hazy. Floyd | You can now see an inscription on the wall. Several "paths" through Floyd | the space are clear: up to the manifestation of one, north to the Floyd | Lyceum, south to the Librarian's Office, east to the Scholar's Study, Floyd | and west to the Great Hall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "brief" | ||
Floyd ] Matter 19/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > BRIEF Floyd | Floyd | A Beauty Cold and Austere is now in its "brief" printing mode, which Floyd | gives long descriptions of places never before visited and short Floyd | descriptions otherwise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "If you do something like that, at least give some kind of warning, so people have a chance to protest." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Oh, right, the brief. Thanks." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 19/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You make your way north. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Lyceum Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Southern End 19/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Number, Southern End Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 19/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Number, Northern End Floyd | An acolyte is here, silently cleaning up the area around the statue. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a trash urn (in which is a scrap of papyrus) here. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte polishes an already spotless part of the statue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "drop proof" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 19/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > DROP PROOF Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | The acolyte sweeps the area in front of the statue. Floyd | Floyd | Then the acolyte picks up the proof. On her way to the trash urn, she Floyd | glances at it. Then she stops and reads through it carefully. Her Floyd | face tightens. She shakes the proof at you, spluttering. "This... Floyd | this is blasphemy! All things must be odd or even or a ratio! You Floyd | are in error! I will show it to you!" Floyd | Floyd | She reads over the proof again. "The error is here, in the second Floyd | line. No... the mistake is in the assumption that... In this place, Floyd | you can't claim that this follows from... Aarrrgghh! This proof is Floyd | wrong! I know it is!" Floyd | Floyd | She reads the proof a third time. And then a fourth time. The anger Floyd | slowly fades from her face. "How did you come by such sacred Floyd | knowledge, and why, why did you share it with me?" Tears drop onto Floyd | her cheeks. Giving you a last mournful glance, she runs sobbing out Floyd | of the temple. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Inner Sanctum 19/100 (F) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | With the acolyte gone, no one prevents you from entering the Floyd | passageway behind the statue. Floyd | Floyd | Inner Sanctum Floyd | This small room tucked away behind the statue of Pythagoras is made Floyd | from the same pure white stone as the more public parts of the temple. Floyd | It feels like a holy space. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an octahedron, Archimedes's staff, and some exhaustion Floyd | sandals here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||
Floyd ] Inner Sanctum 20/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ALL Floyd | Floyd | octahedron: You take the octahedron. Looking curiously at it, you Floyd | note that it has eight sides, each of which is in the shape of an Floyd | equilateral triangle. You feel you understand three-dimensional solid Floyd | geometry a little better. Floyd | Archimedes's staff: (putting Elements into the set to make Floyd | room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | exhaustion sandals: (putting the sapphire gem into the set to make Floyd | room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Geometry has increased. You estimate Floyd | that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by one Floyd | point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Northern End 20/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Number, Northern End Floyd | You can see a trash urn (in which is a scrap of papyrus) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Temple of Number, Southern End 20/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Temple of Number, Southern End Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 20/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lyceum Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Was there something else we did?" | |
| Plover asks, "What’s happening so far?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "We did the root thing, but thatwas before the save." | ||
| DavidW asks, "So I guess you ought to try using one of the three new items next?" | ||
| Guenni says, "If it was already in brief mode. I think we are where we were before." | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, we were lucky" | ||
| Plover speaks into the microphone on his radio, hoping somebody is alive out there... | Knight_Otu says, "I'm guessing the lever is for the globe, and the octahedron for the villa." | |
| Guenni nods. | ||
| Plover speaks into the microphone on his radio, hoping somebody is alive out there... | Knight_Otu says, "I'm not sure about the sandals. My first thought was Achilles, but that doesn't seem likely." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Well, anymore." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard 20/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You step through the doorway of the private home, confident in your Floyd | knowledge of geometry. Floyd | Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | In the middle of the courtyard stands a group of six elegant Floyd | pedestals. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "not completely wrong. But not quite there yet. :-)" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x pedestals" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard 20/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > X PEDESTALS Floyd | Floyd | Five of the pedestals are arranged in a circle around the sixth. The Floyd | pedestals are distinguished by their tops: The five on the outside Floyd | have tops in the form of a large triangle, a medium-sized triangle, a Floyd | small triangle, a square, and a pentagon. The top of the pedestal in Floyd | the center is in the shape of a circle. Floyd | Floyd | > | Plover asks, "How does Floyd work?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put octahedron on large triangle" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard 20/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT OCTAHEDRON ON LARGE TRIANGLE Floyd | Floyd | You put the octahedron on the large triangular top pedestal. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "It's a boot where you can load if games." | |
| yournamehere arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Karona asks, "What does "boot" mean in this context?" | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Bot. I think it's basically an interface between if interpreters and the mud?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Plover), "I don't know exactly how he's programmed, but he acts like an emcee. He runs the game on his machine, tells us what the game says and passes on commands to the game from us." | ||
| Plover says, "How do I load IF games," | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get octahedron" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard 20/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET OCTAHEDRON Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Could we talk about this later please? We're in the middle of a game here." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 20/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lyceum Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter 20/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | As you move south, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | You enter a now fully-formed space. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter 20/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter Floyd | This space is made of some spongy gray matter. You can see an Floyd | inscription here, and you can go north to the Lyceum, south to the Floyd | Librarian's Office, east to the Scholar's Study, and west to the Great Floyd | Hall, or up to the manifestation of one from this space. Now that the Floyd | space has taken on a complete shape, you can also see a passage Floyd | leading down. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "New path." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Librarian's Office 20/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You make your way south. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Librarian's Office Floyd | You have solved the number puzzle on the wall here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Librarian's Office 20/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Librarian's Office Floyd | This appears to be the head librarian's office in the Great Library of Floyd | Alexandria. Scrolls litter the floor. The main part of the library Floyd | is north of you, and a side room lies to the south. Floyd | Floyd | You have solved the number puzzle on the wall here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Plover says (to Floyd), "nolth" | ||
Floyd ] Librarian's Office 20/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > NOLTH Floyd | Floyd | I didn't recognize that command. (There is a list of recognized Floyd | commands in the HELP menus.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Map Room 20/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Map Room Floyd | A huge globe sits on a pedestal in the center of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "lever globe with staff" | ||
Floyd ] Map Room 22/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > LEVER GLOBE WITH STAFF Floyd | Floyd | You slide the staff into the gap between the pedestal and the globe. Floyd | Floyd | You push down on the staff. The globe starts to shift. You push Floyd | harder. With this additional leverage, the globe pops off the Floyd | pedestal! It rolls a few feet and comes to rest against the wall. It Floyd | looks like there was something underneath the globe. Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Physics has increased. You estimate that Floyd | your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Plover says (to Floyd), "iventory" | ||
Floyd ] Map Room 22/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > IVENTORY Floyd | Floyd | I didn't recognize that command. (There is a list of recognized Floyd | commands in the HELP menus.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Plover says (to Floyd), "inventory" | ||
Floyd ] Map Room 22/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > INVENTORY Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an octahedron Floyd | some exhaustion sandals Floyd | an old coin Floyd | a square root Floyd | a set (no longer empty) Floyd | a sapphire gem Floyd | Elements Floyd | a scribbled scroll Floyd | your math book Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Map Room 22/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Map Room Floyd | This room is quite large to be a side room just off the librarian's Floyd | office. The walls are covered with maps, and an exit leads back north Floyd | to the librarian's office. A short pedestal stands in the center of Floyd | the room. Floyd | Floyd | The huge globe lies on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | On the short pedestal is a tetrahedron. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Archimedes's staff here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x tetrahedron" | ||
Floyd ] Map Room 22/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > X TETRAHEDRON Floyd | Floyd | The tetrahedron, more commonly known as a pyramid, has four sides. Floyd | Each side is in the shape of an equilateral triangle. This Floyd | tetrahedron is about one cubic foot in volume. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||
Floyd ] Map Room 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IT Floyd | Floyd | You take the tetrahedron. Looking curiously at it, you note that it Floyd | has four sides, each of which is in the shape of an equilateral Floyd | triangle. You feel you understand three-dimensional solid geometry a Floyd | little better. Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Geometry has increased. You estimate Floyd | that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by one Floyd | point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Plover says (to Floyd), "version" | ||
Floyd ] Map Room 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > VERSION Floyd | Floyd | A Beauty Cold and Austere Floyd | An Interactive Digression by Mike Spivey Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180112 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) 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 | Serial And Fix by Andrew Plotkin Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Librarian's Office 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Librarian's Office Floyd | You have solved the number puzzle on the wall here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | As you move north, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You make your way north. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Lyceum Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You step through the doorway of the private home, confident in your Floyd | knowledge of geometry. Floyd | Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | In the middle of the courtyard stands a group of six elegant Floyd | pedestals. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "pu tetrahedron on large triangle" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > PU TETRAHEDRON ON LARGE TRIANGLE Floyd | Floyd | I didn't recognize that command. (There is a list of recognized Floyd | commands in the HELP menus.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put tetrahedron on large triangle" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT TETRAHEDRON ON LARGE TRIANGLE Floyd | Floyd | You put the tetrahedron on the large triangular top pedestal. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get tetrahedron" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET TETRAHEDRON Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "By the way, you can abbreviate solids' names by dropping the -hedron part." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Good to know,thanks." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I guess I'll keep them until I have the full set." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lyceum Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | As you move south, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Now what? Sandals or down from here?" | |
| DavidW asks, "Or something else?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Okay, unsolved puzzles we know about. The Countess' calculator." | ||
| DavidW says, "Also the buttons to the east." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Achilles. The buttons in the study." | ||
| Guenni says, "The countess solution is lying around somewhere." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I'll try giving Achilles the sandals first, I guess." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You make your way north. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Lyceum Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You step through the doorway of the private home, confident in your Floyd | knowledge of geometry. Floyd | Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | In the middle of the courtyard stands a group of six elegant Floyd | pedestals. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lyceum Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Stadium 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Stadium Floyd | Achilles sits by the side of the race track with his head in his Floyd | hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "If you figure out the button solution without a nudge You'll earn a heap of respect from me." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "give sandals to Achilles" | ||
Floyd ] Stadium 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE SANDALS TO ACHILLES Floyd | Floyd | Achilles looks at the exhaustion sandals rather skeptically ("I always Floyd | run barefoot," he says), but he agrees to try them. After lacing them Floyd | up, he snaps his fingers, and the tortoise appears. They find their Floyd | places as before, and take off. Achilles runs to the halfway mark, Floyd | looks up, and sees the tortoise ahead of him. He notes the tortoise's Floyd | new position, races to it, and sees the tortoise still ahead. Floyd | Achilles doesn't give up, though, and every time he looks up he finds Floyd | himself closer to the tortoise. As they approach the finish, Achilles Floyd | is so close to the tortoise you can't see much distance between them. Floyd | However, the tortoise crosses the finish line just barely ahead of Floyd | Achilles. Floyd | Floyd | The tortoise disappears again, and Achilles jogs back to you. He Floyd | returns the exhaustion sandals. "Thanks for letting me try the Floyd | sandals. I felt myself almost overtaking the tortoise, but the Floyd | sandals weren't quite enough." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I figured the buttons out on my own." | |
| Plover asks, "is Rideable Vehicles an Inform game?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "So you earn a heap of respect from Guenni." | ||
| Guenni says, "Sounds more like an addon to me." | ||
| DavidW says (to Plover), "It's an extension." | ||
| Guenni pushes over a heap of respect to David. | ||
| DavidW says, "Most library extensions for Inform 7 are on the Inform 7 website." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lyceum Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | As you move south, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You make your way down. Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | The darkness in this space feels different than simply the absence of Floyd | light - both weaker and stronger, somehow. You can still perceive Floyd | yourself and what you're carrying, but a foot or so away from you the Floyd | darkness seems palpable, almost alive. You do sense an exit above Floyd | you, though. Floyd | Floyd | You can just perceive a white mirror floating here in the darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Plover takes a sip of coffee | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > X MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | You would probably get a better look at the mirror if you were holding Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IT Floyd | Floyd | (putting the square root into the set to make room) Floyd | You take the white-framed mirror from the darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Looks like Rideable Vehicles, however, is a built-in extension." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | This mirror is not made of glass but rather of some tougher material. Floyd | Encircling the mirror and forming its frame is a one-eyed white adder, Floyd | although there is a small hole where the eye should be. The word Floyd | "Inverse" is inscribed on the bottom of the frame. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "That adder again." | |
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "It haunts us!" | ||
| Guenni nods. | ||
| DavidW asks, "We still have the gem, I hope?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put gem in mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT GEM IN MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | You push the sapphire gem into the eye hole of the adder on the Floyd | white-framed mirror. The sapphire glows briefly as it slides into Floyd | place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up through the darkness. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] One 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | One Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "inverse mirror" | ||
Floyd ] One 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > INVERSE MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | Nothing happens. Perhaps the mirror is activated some other way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look in mirror" | ||
Floyd ] Negative One 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | You look in the mirror and see an inverted image of yourself reflected Floyd | back at you. As you gaze at your image, the word "Inverse" on the Floyd | mirror's frame begins to glow. In response, your image in the mirror Floyd | grows larger. Soon your face fills the entire mirror. You lean in Floyd | closer, and your nose brushes the mirror's surface. The mirror emits Floyd | a dazzling flash of light, and you feel yourself invert as Floyd | you are pulled through the mirror. Floyd | Floyd | Negative One Floyd | This is more of an abstract space than a physical place. You get a Floyd | general feeling of opposition here. The only exit is a hole leading Floyd | up. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a phase inverter here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x inverter" | ||
Floyd ] Negative One 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > X INVERTER Floyd | Floyd | This complicated mechanism appears to have a place to insert objects. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||
Floyd ] Negative One 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IT Floyd | Floyd | The phase inverter does not appear to be portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Negative One 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | some exhaustion sandals Floyd | a tetrahedron Floyd | an octahedron Floyd | an old coin Floyd | a set (no longer empty) Floyd | a square root Floyd | Elements Floyd | a scribbled scroll Floyd | your math book Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put sandals in inverter" | ||
Floyd ] Negative One 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT SANDALS IN INVERTER Floyd | Floyd | You briefly insert the exhaustion sandals into the phase inverter. Floyd | The inverter hums as it adds π units to the essence of the exhaustion Floyd | sandals. If something has changed about the exhaustion sandals, it's Floyd | difficult to see what. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put coin in inverter" | ||
Floyd ] Negative One 23/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT COIN IN INVERTER Floyd | Floyd | You briefly insert the old coin into the phase inverter. The inverter Floyd | hums as it adds π units to the essence of the old coin. If something Floyd | has changed about the old coin, it's difficult to see what. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I see a question mark, but I know from playing before that it's the symbol for pi." | |
| Plover says, "I'll try and come here every Sunday, but mytime zone is Greenwich." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Hm." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I do see the pi." | ||
| Guenni says, "My timezone is even further east." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Number Line: -1 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | As you climb through the hole, you enter the dark blue expanse of Floyd | space surrounding the positive axis. Off to the "east" you can see Floyd | the back of the now-enlarged white-framed mirror, supported by nothing Floyd | but standing upright just on the edge of the positive axis. The top Floyd | of the mirror begins to pivot towards you, while the bottom of the Floyd | mirror remains where it is. As the mirror continues to rotate, you Floyd | see that it is reflecting a second copy of the positive axis. This Floyd | copy is rotating with the mirror, as if it is a ray of light bouncing Floyd | off the mirror. At the instant the mirror passes through the plane of Floyd | the positive axis, the mirror disappears! The reflected copy of the Floyd | positive axis remains, though, passing right by you and running as far Floyd | as you can see to the "west." You feel fairly comfortable stepping on Floyd | the now fully-formed number line. Floyd | Floyd | Number Line: -1 Floyd | You are in a dark blue expanse of space, standing on a white line that Floyd | stretches as far as you can see from west to east. The number -1 is Floyd | marked on the line here. There is a hole next to the -1 large enough Floyd | for you to climb down into. Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Arithmetic has increased. You estimate Floyd | that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by one Floyd | point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Plover says, "be If I can’t ake it, there’s lw the transcripts on allthingjaq.com" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Number Line: -1 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You walk along the number line for a while, noting marks for -2, -3, Floyd | -4, and the other negative integers. There are no holes or anything Floyd | else featured on the this part of the number line, though, and you Floyd | soon decide return to the -1 mark. Floyd | Floyd | > | Plover says, "If I can’t make it, there’s lw the transcripts not llthingsjaq.com" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "It can take a while for the transcripts to appear." | ||
| Plover asks, "Do you meet here every Sunday?" | ||
| Guenni says, "90% of the time, yes." | ||
| DavidW says, "Usually. There have been exceptions." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "But the ones already there are worth a read if you haven't already." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "There are occasional breaks, and on some days, there's no one there." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Haven't seen the latter much though, yet." | ||
| Plover says, "How long is aClubFloyd" | ||
| Guenni says, "Somewhere between one and four hours. Both are extremes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "We aim for two hours as far as I've seen." | ||
| DavidW says, "We aim for a 2 hour session, generally. But we've definitely had shorter and much longer sessions." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "But as Guenni says, there are expections." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Number Line: 0 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Number Line: 0 Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Number Line: 1 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Number Line: 1 Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] One 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You clamber down the hole. Floyd | Floyd | One Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You make your way down. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You make your way down. Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up through the darkness. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter Floyd | Floyd | > | Plover asks, "What’s the difference between ClubFloyd and NightFloyd?" | |
| Guenni says, "You might give the "darkness" a closer look." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You make your way down. Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Darkness Floyd | The darkness in this space feels different than simply the absence of Floyd | light - both weaker and stronger, somehow. You can still perceive Floyd | yourself and what you're carrying, but a foot or so away from you the Floyd | darkness seems palpable, almost alive. You do sense an exit above Floyd | you, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "NightFloyd used to run on Thursday nights. But we haven't had a NightFloyd in ages." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x darkness" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > X DARKNESS Floyd | Floyd | The darkness surrounding you feels like more than just the absence of Floyd | light. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Plover says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Plover says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Darkness 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "touch it" | ||
Floyd ] Darkness 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH IT Floyd | Floyd | You've got to be kidding. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "I was wrong, sorry." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "No problem." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up through the darkness. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Plover says (to Floyd), "this" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > THIS Floyd | Floyd | I didn't recognize that command. (There is a list of recognized Floyd | commands in the HELP menus.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Plover says (to Floyd), "north" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > NORTH Floyd | Floyd | You make your way north. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Lyceum Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Plover says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > VERBOSE Floyd | Floyd | A Beauty Cold and Austere is now in its "verbose" mode, which always Floyd | gives long descriptions of locations (even if you've been there Floyd | before). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Plover says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | As you move south, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter Floyd | This space is made of some spongy gray matter. You can see an Floyd | inscription here, and you can go north to the Lyceum, south to the Floyd | Librarian's Office, east to the Scholar's Study, and west to the Great Floyd | Hall, or up to the manifestation of one from this space. Now that the Floyd | space has taken on a complete shape, you can also see a passage Floyd | leading down to Darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Plover says (to Floyd), "south" | ||
Floyd ] Librarian's Office 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > SOUTH Floyd | Floyd | You make your way south. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Librarian's Office Floyd | This appears to be the head librarian's office in the Great Library of Floyd | Alexandria. Scrolls litter the floor. The main part of the library Floyd | is north of you, and a side room lies to the south. Floyd | Floyd | You have solved the number puzzle on the wall here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "We're keeping the game in brief on purpose." | |
| DavidW says (to Plover), "We're playing brief for a reason." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "brief" | ||
Floyd ] Librarian's Office 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > BRIEF Floyd | Floyd | A Beauty Cold and Austere is now in its "brief" printing mode, which Floyd | gives long descriptions of places never before visited and short Floyd | descriptions otherwise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | As you move north, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You make your way east. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Scholar's Study Floyd | On the low table are a small coffer and a formal note. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x buttons" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > X BUTTONS Floyd | Floyd | There are five buttons hidden in the geometric designs: a circular Floyd | button, a button in the shape of two juxtaposed parentheses, a Floyd | triangular button, a square button, and a pentagonal button. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "You could check the count. I'm not sure he was still solved after the restoring." | |
| DavidW says, "If we have the coin, we solved his puzzle." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "That was the first thing I did, I think." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | some exhaustion sandals Floyd | a tetrahedron Floyd | an octahedron Floyd | an old coin Floyd | a set (no longer empty) Floyd | a square root Floyd | Elements Floyd | a scribbled scroll Floyd | your math book Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah" | |
| Guenni says, "Hmm makes sense." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x circular" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > X CIRCULAR Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the circular button. Floyd | Floyd | > | Plover says, "who selects the driver for ClubFloyd? I'v for ClubFlod and it says only the driver can enter commands" | |
| DavidW says, "Common concensus." | ||
| Guenni says, "That happens, somehow, at the beginning of every session." | ||
| Plover disappears through a gap in the MUD. Oh dear, you'll see Plover next time. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push circular" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH CIRCULAR Floyd | Floyd | You hear a click as you push the circular button. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push parentheses" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH PARENTHESES Floyd | Floyd | You hear a click as you push the parentheses button. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push triangular" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH TRIANGULAR Floyd | Floyd | You hear a click as you push the triangular button. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push parentheses" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH PARENTHESES Floyd | Floyd | You hear a click as you push the parentheses button. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "If this was a Japanese escape game, the parentheses button would be a L button instead." | |
| Plover arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Knight_Otu says, "I recall you saying that last time. I'm not quite sure what that means, though." | |
| Plover enters a generic vehicle. | DavidW says, "I suppose it's a weak hint on my part. Too weak to matter, I guess." | |
| Plover gets out. | ||
| Plover exits the vehicle. | ||
| Plover has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||
| Plover arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Knight_Otu says, "I'm still not sure about the buttons. My inclination was that the buttons are mathematical operations (+, -, ()), and 0, 1, but that seems not it." | |
| DavidW says, "It's simpler than that." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Hm." | ||
| Guenni asks, "I was out for a moment. Did he find the "recipe" yet?" | ||
| DavidW says, "not yet" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Scholar's Study Floyd | You are in the House of Wisdom in early-medieval Baghdad, standing in Floyd | what appears to be someone's private study. The walls are covered in Floyd | intricate geometric designs, and a low table stands in the middle of Floyd | the room. A small room lies to the south, and the rest of the House Floyd | of Wisdom is to the west. Floyd | Floyd | On the low table are a small coffer and a formal note. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x note" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > X NOTE Floyd | Floyd | The note reads, Floyd | Floyd | "Al-Khwarizmi, Floyd | Floyd | Our most recent investigations indicate at least two types of objects Floyd | of power: Those activated by more-or-less normal use, and those Floyd | activated by the appropriate word of power. Floyd | Floyd | This square object was recently given to the caliph. It appears to be Floyd | of the latter type. Please examine it and let us know what you Floyd | discover of it." Floyd | Floyd | Instead of a name, the note is signed with the first few digits of π: Floyd | 3.1415. Floyd | Floyd | There is also a postscript: "By the way, thank you for the hint on Floyd | your problem with the balances. I had not realized that the weight of Floyd | an object has nothing to do with that object's color." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push triangular" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH TRIANGULAR Floyd | Floyd | You hear a click as you push the triangular button. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push circular" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH CIRCULAR Floyd | Floyd | You hear a click as you push the circular button. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "This looks promising." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push square" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH SQUARE Floyd | Floyd | (the square button) Floyd | You hear a click as you push the square button. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "mmhm" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push circular" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH CIRCULAR Floyd | Floyd | You hear a click as you push the circular button. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push pentagon" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH PENTAGON Floyd | Floyd | You hear a click as you push the pentagonal button. A part Floyd | of the east wall swings open, revealing a room behind it! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hooray!" | |
| Guenni pushes over the promised heap of respect. :-) | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Man. I'm not sure I'd have gotten there without DavidW's hint that I was thinking too complicated." | ||
| Guenni says, "I mean, figuring out what buttons to push wasn't the problem. But using the note was to big of a leap for my brain." | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the heap back. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Room 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hidden Room Floyd | This is a small, nondescript room to the east of the study. Its walls Floyd | are plain and unadorned. Floyd | Floyd | In the center of the room is a large wooden chest. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a cube here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x cube" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Room 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > X CUBE Floyd | Floyd | This featureless cube has six sides, each of which is in the shape of Floyd | a square. The cube is about one cubic foot in volume. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, don't worry, there's more math in this game." | |
| Plover says (to Floyd), "ve" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Room 24/100 (D-) Floyd | > Floyd | > VE Floyd | Floyd | I didn't recognize that command. (There is a list of recognized Floyd | commands in the HELP menus.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Plover says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Room 24/100 (D-)
Floyd | > SAVEOk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Room 25/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IT Floyd | Floyd | You take the cube. It is just a cube, but there's something about it Floyd | that holds your attention. You feel you understand three-dimensional Floyd | solid geometry a little better. Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Geometry has increased. You estimate Floyd | that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by one Floyd | point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x chest" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Room 25/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHEST Floyd | Floyd | Carved into the side of this ornate chest is the expression Floyd | (x+1)⁴. It also has a set of five dials embedded in its Floyd | lid. Floyd | It appears each dial can be set to an integer between 0 and 9. Floyd | Floyd | The first dial has x⁴ marked below it. The first dial is Floyd | set Floyd | to 0. Floyd | Floyd | The second dial has x³ marked below it. The second dial is Floyd | set to 0. Floyd | Floyd | The third dial has x² marked below it. The third dial is set Floyd | to 0. Floyd | Floyd | The fourth dial has x¹ marked below it. The fourth dial is Floyd | set to 0. Floyd | Floyd | The fifth dial has x⁰ marked below it. The fifth dial is Floyd | set Floyd | to 0. Floyd | Floyd | The chest is currently closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "case in point." | |
| Plover says, "Can you play Zork on Floyd" | ||
| Guenni exclaims, "In general yes. Right now. NO!" | ||
| Plover enters a generic vehicle. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "set first dial to 1" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Room 25/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > SET FIRST DIAL TO 1 Floyd | Floyd | You set the first dial to 1. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "set second to 1" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Room 25/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > SET SECOND TO 1 Floyd | Floyd | You set the second dial to 1. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Plover gets out. | ||
| Plover exits the vehicle. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "set third to 1" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Room 25/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > SET THIRD TO 1 Floyd | Floyd | You set the third dial to 1. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "set fourth to 1" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Room 25/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > SET FOURTH TO 1 Floyd | Floyd | You set the fourth dial to 1. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "set fifth to 1" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Room 25/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > SET FIFTH TO 1 Floyd | Floyd | You set the fifth dial to 1. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Plover goes south through the orange door. | ||
| Plover enters from the south, through an unauthorized orange door. | ||
| Plover kicks the banana machine and it spits out a banana! He deftly catches it. | ||
| DavidW says (to Plover), "If you're that bored, you have the entire rest of the mud to explore." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "open chest" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Room 25/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CHEST Floyd | Floyd | You can't get the chest open. It appears to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Thought so." | |
| Guenni says, "Since my screen reader didn't display the equations in a readable way, I had the perfect excuse to also cheat with this one." | ||
| Plover gives banana to Knight_Otu. | DavidW says, "We could try SYMBOLS ON, if I remember the command correctly." | |
| Plover kicks the banana machine and it spits out a banana! He deftly catches it. | DavidW asks, "Or is it SYMBOLS OFF we want?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I'm not sure,but I do see power symbols." | ||
| DavidW says, "I only saw three of them." | ||
| Guenni says, "Since I don't have to really read it now. We don't need to experiment if it's ok for everybody else." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "^0, ^1, to ^4." | ||
| Plover turns on the cork nut dispenser, which proceeds to hum for several moments. | ||
| A cork nut materializes in the middle of the room. It's not entirely clear where it came from. | Guenni says, "Ah, ok." | |
| Plover grabs the cork nut before Alex can get to it. | DavidW says, "When I played, I solved this puzzle the hard way, by actually multiplying the expression." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Of course, 2^4 is already 16, which seems out of bounds of the dials." | ||
| Plover cracks open a cork nut and snacks on the corky goodness within. | ||
| Guenni says (to Plover), "Plese! stop! moving! around! in! here!! right!! now!!." | ||
| Plover turns on the cork nut dispenser, which proceeds to hum for several moments. | ||
| A cork nut materializes in the middle of the room. It's not entirely clear where it came from. | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "symbols off" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Room 25/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > SYMBOLS OFF Floyd | Floyd | [Use of mathematical symbols is now off.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||
| Plover turns on the cork nut dispenser, which proceeds to hum for several moments. | ||
| A cork nut materializes in the middle of the room. It's not entirely clear where it came from. | ||
| Plover picks up the icy corknut. His hands look cold. | Guenni says (to knight), "You still with us? :-)" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Thinking, thinking." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Plover), "There is a gaming session going on in this room, and you are being quite disruptive." | ||
| Plover turns on the cork nut dispenser, which proceeds to hum for several moments. | ||
| A cork nut materializes in the middle of the room. It's not entirely clear where it came from. | Knight_Otu says, "But maybe I'm taking too long." | |
| Plover picks up a chocolate cork nut. | ||
| Plover turns on the cork nut dispenser, which proceeds to hum for several moments. | ||
| A cork nut materializes in the middle of the room. It's not entirely clear where it came from. | DavidW says, "I thought maybe all the corknuts were distracting you too." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "A bit." | ||
| Plover acquires a nearby pink corknut. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Plover), "Please stop or one of our moderators will be forced to take action." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x chest" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Room 25/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X CHEST Floyd | Floyd | Carved into the side of this ornate chest is the expression Floyd | (x+1)^4. It also has a set of five dials embedded in its Floyd | lid. It appears each dial can be set to an integer between 0 and 9. Floyd | Floyd | The first dial has x^4 marked below it. The first dial is Floyd | set to 1. Floyd | Floyd | The second dial has x^3 marked below it. The second dial is Floyd | set to 1. Floyd | Floyd | The third dial has x^2 marked below it. The third dial is Floyd | set to 1. Floyd | Floyd | The fourth dial has x^2 marked below it. The fourth dial is Floyd | set to 1. Floyd | Floyd | The fifth dial has x^0 marked below it. The fifth dial is Floyd | set to 1. Floyd | Floyd | The chest is currently closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "set second to 4" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Room 25/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > SET SECOND TO 4 Floyd | Floyd | You set the second dial to 4. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ah, that's easier to read. For me, at least." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "set third to 6" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Room 25/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > SET THIRD TO 6 Floyd | Floyd | You set the third dial to 6. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "set fourth to 4" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Room 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > SET FOURTH TO 4 Floyd | Floyd | You set the fourth dial to 4. The lid of the chest gives a Floyd | click. Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Algebra has increased. You estimate that Floyd | your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by four Floyd | points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Right. Those numbers." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "open chest" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Room 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN CHEST Floyd | Floyd | You open the large wooden chest, revealing The Compendious Book on Floyd | Calculation by Completion and Balancing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Room 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOOK Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, The Compendious Book on Calculation by Floyd | Completion and Balancing, Elements, or your math book? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I can now tell you that the Pascal's Triangle is also useful for that puzzle." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x compendious" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Room 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X COMPENDIOUS Floyd | Floyd | This is a copy of al-Khwarizmi's Compendious Book on Calculation Floyd | by Completion and Balancing, or, more simply, Algebra. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read algebra" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Room 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > READ ALGEBRA Floyd | Floyd | This is a copy of al-Khwarizmi's Compendious Book on Calculation Floyd | by Completion and Balancing, or, more simply, Algebra. Floyd | Floyd | The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Floyd | Balancing contains far too much material to read through. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||
Floyd ] Hidden Room 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IT Floyd | Floyd | (putting the old coin into the set to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Yeah, I also remembered that after seeing the numbers." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Right, it would be." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Scholar's Study 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Scholar's Study Floyd | On the low table are a small coffer and a formal note. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | As you move west, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You make your way west. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Great Hall Floyd | On the long table is a pile of old coins. Floyd | Floyd | The Count is here, looking rather bored. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Castle Chapel 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | The Count calls after you, "If you find something else for me to count Floyd | I would be grateful!" Floyd | Floyd | Castle Chapel Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x triangle" | ||
Floyd ] Castle Chapel 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X TRIANGLE Floyd | Floyd | The number triangle on the icon looks like this: Floyd | Floyd | 1 Floyd | 1 1 Floyd | 1 2 1 Floyd | 1 3 3 1 Floyd | 1 4 6 4 1 Floyd | 1 5 10 10 5 1 Floyd | 1 6 15 20 15 6 1 Floyd | 1 7 21 35 35 21 7 1 Floyd | 1 8 28 56 70 56 28 8 1 Floyd | Floyd | The words "Pascal's Triangle" appear underneath the numbers. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I guess there's no puzzle here, then." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry for the distraction, folks. It appears to have paused for now. Please ping me if it starts back up." | ||
| Guenni says, "No, it's just an information." | ||
| DavidW says, "I think if you look up Pascal's Triangle in the book, it'll mention how it's handy for quadratic expressions like the one the chest used." | ||
| Guenni says, "The triangle, I mean." | ||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "Thanks." | ||
| Jacqueline waves and makes an isquiesque departure for home. | Knight_Otu says, "Yeah, thanks." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Great Hall Floyd | On the long table is a pile of old coins. Floyd | Floyd | The Count is here, looking rather bored. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni seconds that. | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Solar 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | The Count calls after you, "If you find something else for me to count Floyd | I would be grateful!" Floyd | Floyd | Solar Floyd | A large bronze box lies on the side table. Floyd | Floyd | The Countess is here, fiddling disgruntledly with the bronze box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||
Floyd ] Solar 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOX Floyd | Floyd | This bronze box has several knobs and small wheels on it. It appears Floyd | to be a primitive mechanical calculator. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x knobs" | ||
Floyd ] Solar 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X KNOBS Floyd | Floyd | You can't tell what the knobs are supposed to do, exactly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look up calculator" | ||
Floyd ] Solar 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP CALCULATOR Floyd | Floyd | (in your math book) Floyd | That topic is not listed in the index. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look up mechanical calculator" | ||
Floyd ] Solar 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP MECHANICAL CALCULATOR Floyd | Floyd | (in your math book) Floyd | That topic is not listed in the index. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look up pascal" | ||
Floyd ] Solar 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP PASCAL Floyd | Floyd | (in your math book) Floyd | Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, scientist, philosopher, and Floyd | theologian. He is known for constructing one of the first mechanical Floyd | calculators, for his work in projective geometry, and for his work in Floyd | hydrodynamics. A unit of pressure is named after him, as is the Floyd | triangle of numbers known as "Pascal's triangle." Floyd | Floyd | Pascal was also one of the founders of the field of probability. Floyd | While his initial work in probability was to solve gambling problems, Floyd | he applied his insights to other areas of human knowledge as well. Floyd | For example, Pascal's wager consists of one of the first uses Floyd | of expected values. In it, Pascal argues that, in the absence of Floyd | conclusive evidence as to the existence of God, the payoffs for Floyd | believing in God (infinite happiness if God exists, nothing if God Floyd | does not) versus not believing in God (eternal damnation if God Floyd | exists, nothing if God does not) are such that it is more reasonable Floyd | for humans to bet on belief in God. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Unless the game has changed a lot from version 1, I don't think we can help the Countess any time soon." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Okay, thanks." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "That leaves Achilles, and the inverter, I think?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Solar 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Floyd | Balancing Floyd | a cube Floyd | some exhaustion sandals Floyd | a tetrahedron Floyd | an octahedron Floyd | a set (no longer empty) Floyd | an old coin Floyd | a square root Floyd | Elements Floyd | a scribbled scroll Floyd | your math book Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "And the Darkness." | |
| Guenni says, "I don't know about soon. But at least not as directly as you try right now." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Great Hall Floyd | On the long table is a pile of old coins. Floyd | Floyd | The Count is here, looking rather bored. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The Count calls after you, "If you find something else for me to count Floyd | I would be grateful!" Floyd | Floyd | As you move east, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Twilight 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You make your way down. Floyd | Floyd | This space feels a little less dark than the last time you were here. Floyd | Floyd | Twilight Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Twilight 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Twilight Floyd | This space now exhibits a kind of semidarkness. You can't see Floyd | anything clearly in the space itself, but you do perceive exits north, Floyd | south, east, and west, as well as one above you to Gray Matter. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Also the Count wants something to count, but that also won't be found soon." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I was about to say that, but I thought it might be a red herring" | ||
| Guenni says, "That depends on the season. :D" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Are the herrings blue in the wintertime?" | ||
| Guenni says, "Ignore the last comment until much much later. It's not helping in any form." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I also was about to say that I didn't think that we have anything for the inverter, but I guess we may have one." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Area 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You make your way north through the darkness. As you do, you feel an Floyd | electrical impulse course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Grassy Area Floyd | This is a grassy area between buildings at some university. Dusk is Floyd | falling, and no one else is around. There is a log table at the edge Floyd | of the grassy area. It looks like there is a small laundry facility Floyd | in the building to east, and a gate lies south of you. Floyd | Floyd | Someone has left their trigonometry homework on the log table. A Floyd | slide rule is lying next to the trig homework. Floyd | Floyd | On the grass lies a funny-looking soccer ball. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You can put anything into the converter. We just have nothing useful for it." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x soccer" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Area 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X SOCCER Floyd | Floyd | Something about this soccer ball doesn't look quite right. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says (to david), "in that specific case the specific object(s) change with the seasons." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "That, I noticed... right, pi. My guess was wrong then." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Area 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | This wooden table was constructed from several large logs. Floyd | Floyd | On the log table are the trig homework and a slide rule. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x homework" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Area 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X HOMEWORK Floyd | Floyd | The homework is covered with equations involving sines, cosines, and Floyd | tangents. There are also a couple of graphs drawn on the homework, Floyd | labeled "sin x" and "cos x." Each graph consists of Floyd | a wavy line that switches from positive to negative every Pi units. Floyd | Circled at the top of the homework is the phrase "Review Floyd | Logarithms!!!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "And of course it's on the log table." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x slide" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Area 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X SLIDE Floyd | Floyd | The slide rule consists of three pieces of wood: the two on the Floyd | outside are attached to each other, while the third - in the middle - Floyd | can slide between the other two. Numbers are marked on all three Floyd | pieces of wood. You have no idea how to use a slide rule. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Where else? :-)" | |
| DavidW asks, "y'know, I missed that pun until just now?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get ball" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Area 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET BALL Floyd | Floyd | You reach for the soccer ball, but it rolls away as your hand gets Floyd | near. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "The game did set the pun tune with the adder." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get rule" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Area 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET RULE Floyd | Floyd | (putting the octahedron into the set to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Karona groans. | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Laundry Room 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Laundry Room Floyd | This small laundry room, presumably for student use, contains a single Floyd | washing machine and a single dryer. A sign hangs nearby. The exit is Floyd | west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x sign" | ||
Floyd ] Laundry Room 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X SIGN Floyd | Floyd | The sign is handwritten in black ink. It reads, "The dryer won't Floyd | tumble, and the washing machine is completely broken. Won't anyone Floyd | fix anything around here?!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Apparently not, just ask the Countess." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x washing" | ||
Floyd ] Laundry Room 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X WASHING Floyd | Floyd | This washing machine does not look like it has been treated well. The Floyd | washing machine is currently open and off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x dryer" | ||
Floyd ] Laundry Room 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X DRYER Floyd | Floyd | This dryer does not look as if it has been treated well. The dryer is Floyd | currently open and off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Area 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Grassy Area Floyd | Someone has left their trigonometry homework on the log table. Floyd | Floyd | On the grass lies a funny-looking soccer ball. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Twilight 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | As you move south, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Twilight Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] West of House 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You make your way east through the darkness. As you do, you feel an Floyd | electrical impulse course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | West of House Floyd | You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a Floyd | boarded front door. A path leads west into the forest. Floyd | Floyd | There is a small mailbox here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "tada!" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Huh." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x mailbox" | ||
Floyd ] West of House 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X MAILBOX Floyd | Floyd | The mailbox is closed. It has a small hole in it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||
Floyd ] West of House 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | The mailbox is closed tight. You can't see how to get it open. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "No one expects the West of House anymore." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||
Floyd ] West of House 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X HOLE Floyd | Floyd | The small hole contains screw threads that are oriented Floyd | counterclockwise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] West of House 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | There are boards over the front door, but the boards look somewhat Floyd | rotten. There is also an inscription on the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x inscription" | ||
Floyd ] West of House 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X INSCRIPTION Floyd | Floyd | The inscription reads, Floyd | Floyd | "You have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of math." Floyd | - Maryam Mirzakhani. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] West of House 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | I didn't recognize that command. (There is a list of recognized Floyd | commands in the HELP menus.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Karona says, "Oooh." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x boards" | ||
Floyd ] West of House 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOARDS Floyd | Floyd | The boards were once securely fastened, but now they are starting to Floyd | rot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "remove boards" | ||
Floyd ] West of House 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > REMOVE BOARDS Floyd | Floyd | The rotting boards fall apart in your hands as you remove them from Floyd | the front door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the front door) Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | This is the living room of the white house, and it looks to be the Floyd | only room still intact. A sofa sits against one wall, and a bookcase Floyd | stands against another. The sole unblocked exit is through the front Floyd | door to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x sofa" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X SOFA Floyd | Floyd | The sofa features a faded floral-print pattern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "search it" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH IT Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing in or under the sofa. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look under it" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER IT Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing under the sofa. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x bookcase" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOOKCASE Floyd | Floyd | The bookcase looks like it has space for twelve books. It is Floyd | currently empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 29/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a slide rule Floyd | The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Floyd | Balancing Floyd | a cube Floyd | some exhaustion sandals Floyd | a tetrahedron Floyd | a set (no longer empty) Floyd | an octahedron Floyd | an old coin Floyd | a square root Floyd | Elements Floyd | a scribbled scroll Floyd | your math book Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put elements in bookcase" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 30/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ELEMENTS IN BOOKCASE Floyd | Floyd | (first taking Elements) Floyd | (putting the tetrahedron into the set to make room) Floyd | You put Elements on the bookcase. As it slides into place Floyd | you hear a faint click. Then you hear a voice. You're not Floyd | sure where it's coming from, but it sounds like Professor Glasser. Floyd | Floyd | The voice says, "Euclid's Elements is the most influential Floyd | mathematics book of all time. Containing numerous results on geometry Floyd | and number theory, and used as a textbook for over 2000 years, its Floyd | logical, deductive approach has also served as a model for how pure Floyd | mathematics should be done." Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Mathematics Texts has increased. You Floyd | estimate that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by one Floyd | point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put algebra in bookcase" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ALGEBRA IN BOOKCASE Floyd | Floyd | You put The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Floyd | Balancing on the bookcase. As it slides into place you hear a Floyd | faint click. Then you hear the same voice as before - the Floyd | one that sounds like Professor Glasser. Floyd | Floyd | The voice says, "While systematic methods for solving equations had Floyd | been used before, the branch of mathematics known as algebra is often Floyd | dated to this work by Al-Khwarizmi. In fact, the Arabic word Floyd | al-jabr, translated here as 'Completion,' is the origin of Floyd | our word 'algebra.' Among the book's other contributions is a Floyd | classification of quadratic equations and a discussion of their Floyd | solutions." Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Mathematics Texts has increased. You Floyd | estimate that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by one Floyd | point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] West of House 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | West of House Floyd | There is a small mailbox here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Twilight 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | As you move west, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Twilight Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Casino 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You make your way west through the darkness. As you do, you feel an Floyd | electrical impulse course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Casino Floyd | Your senses are assaulted by the gleaming lights and jangly sounds of Floyd | this casino. An interesting poker game is going on to the north of Floyd | you, while the casino's exit appears to lie to the east. Floyd | Floyd | A gaming machine near you catches your eye. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x machine" | ||
Floyd ] Casino 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | This gaming machine has the words "TOP TWO GAME" written across its Floyd | side. There are several buttons on the machine, each with a different Floyd | label. Floyd | Floyd | White: "Instructions." Floyd | Black: "Start New Game." Floyd | Green: "Accept Current Number." Floyd | Orange: "Reject Current Number." Floyd | Red: "Reject Next 10 Numbers." Floyd | Blue: The label for the blue button has been torn off. Floyd | Floyd | The screen currently reads, "Press white button for instructions, or Floyd | press black button to start a new game." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "press white" | ||
Floyd ] Casino 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > PRESS WHITE Floyd | Floyd | You push the white button. The screen clears, and the following text Floyd | appears. Floyd | Floyd | "In this game you will be presented with 100 numbers, one at a time. Floyd | For each number you are presented, you must decide whether to accept Floyd | it or reject it. Once you reject a number it is gone and you cannot Floyd | go back and select it. Once you accept a number the game ends. Floyd | Floyd | You win the game by having the number you selected be one of the two Floyd | largest numbers out of the 100 total numbers. Floyd | Floyd | Hint: The best strategy for this game gives you a greater than 50% Floyd | chance of winning." Floyd | Floyd | The instructions disappear from the screen, and it once again reads, Floyd | "Press white button for instructions, or press black button to start a Floyd | new game." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Poker Game 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Poker Game Floyd | You stand next to a poker table in the casino. The lights and noise Floyd | here are just as overwhelming as in the rest of the casino. The Floyd | gaming machine is to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Pascal, Bayes, Kolmogorov, and Diaconis are here, playing an intense Floyd | game of poker. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Plover disappears through a gap in the MUD. Oh dear, you'll see Plover next time. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x poker" | ||
Floyd ] Poker Game 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X POKER Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the poker game, the poker cards, or the poker Floyd | table? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "game" | ||
Floyd ] Poker Game 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > GAME Floyd | Floyd | You watch the poker game for a while. Pascal is making huge wagers Floyd | and winning big. Bayes is trying to use prior knowledge of previous Floyd | hands to plan his strategy, but that doesn't seem to be working out Floyd | too well for him. Kolmogorov appears to be more interested in Floyd | constructing some elaborate theory of poker than winning; not Floyd | surprisingly, he is losing as well. Diaconis is dealing, and he is Floyd | winning more than losing. Cards fly out of his hands as if by magic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x cards" | ||
Floyd ] Poker Game 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X CARDS Floyd | Floyd | They look like a standard set of poker cards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd ] Poker Game 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | This is a standard casino poker table. The only thing somewhat Floyd | unusual about it is that its top is five-sided. Pascal, Bayes, Floyd | Kolmogorov, and Diaconis are playing an animated game of poker at the Floyd | table. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Okay, I'm not going to dive in here now." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Casino 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Casino Floyd | A gaming machine near you catches your eye. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Twilight 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | As you move east, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Twilight Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Physician's Office 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You make your way south through the darkness. As you do, you feel an Floyd | electrical impulse course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Physician's Office Floyd | Judging from the odd assortment of medical instruments scattered Floyd | around this room, you are in the office of some Renaissance-era Floyd | physician. You can leave the office to the north. Floyd | Floyd | There is a strange mechanism in the center of the office. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a parchment and a square piece of metal here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x parchment" | ||
Floyd ] Physician's Office 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X PARCHMENT Floyd | Floyd | This is a small, square piece of parchment. Written on the parchment Floyd | are a couple of equations: Floyd | Floyd | 2A + X = 5Y + 8Z, Floyd | Floyd | 3B - Z = 7C + 4Y. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x metal" | ||
Floyd ] Physician's Office 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X METAL Floyd | Floyd | (the square piece of metal) Floyd | This small, square, flat piece of metal has five rectangular holes cut Floyd | into it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Karona goes home. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||
Floyd ] Physician's Office 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x mechanism" | ||
Floyd ] Physician's Office 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X MECHANISM Floyd | Floyd | This mechanical device contains, among other things, a turnable crank, Floyd | three interlocking gears, a metal bar attached to one of the smaller Floyd | gears, and an access panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x crank" | ||
Floyd ] Physician's Office 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X CRANK Floyd | Floyd | It's fairly large. It looks like you could probably turn it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x gears" | ||
Floyd ] Physician's Office 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X GEARS Floyd | Floyd | The two smaller gears have about half the radius of the large gear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x bar" | ||
Floyd ] Physician's Office 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X BAR Floyd | Floyd | This bar is attached to one of the smaller gears. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x panel" | ||
Floyd ] Physician's Office 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X PANEL Floyd | Floyd | The access panel is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||
Floyd ] Physician's Office 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | You open the access panel. Floyd | Floyd | Inside is some complicated machinery. A sine wave is intertwined with Floyd | the machinery. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x wave" | ||
Floyd ] Physician's Office 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X WAVE Floyd | Floyd | The sine wave goes up and down and up and down and up and down... Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Right." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "turn crank" | ||
Floyd ] Physician's Office 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN CRANK Floyd | Floyd | You turn the crank, which causes the two small gears to rotate around Floyd | the large gear. As the small gears rotate, they move the metal bar Floyd | back and forth in a straight line. Floyd | Floyd | Then the strange mechanism emits an aura of positive power that fills Floyd | the room. You briefly feel happier, as well as more optimistic about Floyd | your chances on tomorrow's exam. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get wave" | ||
Floyd ] Physician's Office 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET WAVE Floyd | Floyd | You carefully take the sine wave from the strange mechanism. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I need one of those machines." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "turn crank" | ||
Floyd ] Physician's Office 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN CRANK Floyd | Floyd | You turn the crank, which causes the two small gears to rotate around Floyd | the large gear. As the small gears rotate, they move the metal bar Floyd | back and forth in a straight line. Floyd | Floyd | Nothing else happens (although converting rotational motion to linear Floyd | motion is pretty cool in and of itself). Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Yeah, I could use one for "my" radio station." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x instruments" | ||
Floyd ] Physician's Office 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X INSTRUMENTS Floyd | Floyd | You search through the medical instruments, but they all look more Floyd | painful than useful. One does say, "Property of G. Cardano" on it, Floyd | though. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look up cardano" | ||
Floyd ] Physician's Office 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP CARDANO Floyd | Floyd | (in your math book) Floyd | Girolamo Cardano was a practicing physician, mathematician, and Floyd | inventor: a true Renaissance man. His inventions include the Cardan Floyd | gear, used to convert rotational motion to linear motion, and the Floyd | Cardan grille, an early cryptographic technique in which secret Floyd | messages are revealed by placing a thin sheet with holes cut out of it Floyd | over a paper containing an ordinary-looking message. Cardano also Floyd | contributed to the development of (and sometimes is credited with the Floyd | invention of) the combination lock. Floyd | Floyd | Mathematically, he was the first person to make systematic use of Floyd | negative numbers. His work features the first use of complex numbers, Floyd | too, as well as the first published solutions to the general cubic and Floyd | quartic equations. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Physician's Office 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a sine wave Floyd | a square piece of metal Floyd | a slide rule Floyd | a cube Floyd | some exhaustion sandals Floyd | a set (no longer empty) Floyd | a tetrahedron Floyd | an octahedron Floyd | an old coin Floyd | a square root Floyd | a scribbled scroll Floyd | your math book Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put metal on scroll" | ||
Floyd ] Physician's Office 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT METAL ON SCROLL Floyd | Floyd | (the square piece of metal on the scribbled scroll) Floyd | You place the piece of metal on the scribbled scroll, but you can't Floyd | seem to align it in such a way that letters clearly show through the Floyd | holes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I guess the paper in the temple might." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Twilight 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | As you move north, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Twilight Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "What you're looking for is still lying in front of you." | |
| DavidW says, "yeah." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Physician's Office 31/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You make your way south through the darkness. As you do, you feel an Floyd | electrical impulse course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Physician's Office Floyd | There is a strange mechanism in the center of the office. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a parchment here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Doh." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put metal on parchment" | ||
Floyd ] Physician's Office 33/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT METAL ON PARCHMENT Floyd | Floyd | (the square piece of metal on the parchment) Floyd | You place the piece of metal on the parchment, aligning it so that it Floyd | covers the parchment completely. Through the holes you can see five Floyd | letters: "XYZZY." Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Cryptography has increased. You estimate Floyd | that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by two Floyd | points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "What else." | |
| DavidW says, "heh" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||
Floyd ] Physician's Office 33/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | You speak the word of power confidently. A part of the wall slides Floyd | open, revealing a niche. Inside the niche is Ars Magna. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni smiles. | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x ars" | ||
Floyd ] Physician's Office 33/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X ARS Floyd | Floyd | This is a copy of Ars Magna, by Girolamo Cardano. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We must have our in-joke fun." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||
Floyd ] Physician's Office 33/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > READ IT Floyd | Floyd | This is a copy of Ars Magna, by Girolamo Cardano. Floyd | Floyd | Ars Magna contains far too much material to read through. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||
Floyd ] Physician's Office 33/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IT Floyd | Floyd | (putting the exhaustion sandals into the set to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Gray 33/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | As you move north, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | The darkness has mostly lifted. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Floyd | Off to the side sits a gray storage bin. Floyd | Floyd | A gray, translucent ghost flits around the storage bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x bin" | ||
Floyd ] Gray 33/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X BIN Floyd | Floyd | It's just a storage bin that happens to be gray. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "a g-g-ghost!" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x ghost" | ||
Floyd ] Gray 33/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > X GHOST Floyd | Floyd | She looks a lot like the college librarian - except older, more Floyd | translucent, and, well, grayer. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros asks, "are you playing Scoobie?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "greet ghost" | ||
Floyd ] Gray 33/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > GREET GHOST Floyd | Floyd | "Hello?" you say tentatively, unsure of the proper greeting for a Floyd | ghost. Floyd | Floyd | "Hello!" she replies. She looks at you carefully. "You know, you've Floyd | got enough running around in your head right now." As an aside she Floyd | adds, "I suppose that includes me." Floyd | Floyd | Shimmering slightly, she continues. "Anyway, I'm here to help you Floyd | organize your thoughts. Show me any possession of yours, and I'll Floyd | tell you whether I think it will still be useful for you. Go on. Try Floyd | me!" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yi-he-he-he" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Gray 33/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | Ars Magna Floyd | a sine wave Floyd | a square piece of metal Floyd | a slide rule Floyd | a cube Floyd | a set (no longer empty) Floyd | some exhaustion sandals Floyd | a tetrahedron Floyd | an octahedron Floyd | an old coin Floyd | a square root Floyd | a scribbled scroll Floyd | your math book Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "show root to ghost" | ||
Floyd ] Gray 33/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW ROOT TO GHOST Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the square root) Floyd | (putting the cube into the set to make room) Floyd | The gray lady looks carefully at the square root. "I would definitely Floyd | hold on to that," she says. "You're not likely to find much that is Floyd | more useful." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "That could have gone both ways." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "show scroll to ghost" | ||
Floyd ] Gray 33/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW SCROLL TO GHOST Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the scribbled scroll) Floyd | (putting the slide rule into the set to make room) Floyd | The gray lady looks carefully at the scribbled scroll. Then she says, Floyd | "I'm not sure you'll have any more use for that." She takes the Floyd | scribbled scroll from you and places it in the gray storage bin. "If Floyd | you ever want it back, though, feel free to just take it," she adds. Floyd | "I might be wrong." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "show metal to ghost" | ||
Floyd ] Gray 33/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW METAL TO GHOST Floyd | Floyd | The gray lady looks carefully at the square piece of metal. Then she Floyd | says, "I'm not sure you'll have any more use for that." She takes the Floyd | square piece of metal from you and places it in the gray storage bin. Floyd | "If you ever want it back, though, feel free to just take it," she Floyd | adds. "I might be wrong." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I guess that's convenient." | |
| DavidW says, "yeah." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] West of House 33/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You make your way east. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | West of House Floyd | There is a small mailbox here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 33/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | There are currently two books on the bookcase: Floyd | The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Floyd | Balancing Floyd | Elements Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put ars in bookcase" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 34/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ARS IN BOOKCASE Floyd | Floyd | You put Ars Magna on the bookcase. As it slides into place Floyd | you hear a faint click. Then you hear the same voice as Floyd | before - the one that sounds like Professor Glasser. Floyd | Floyd | The voice says, "Cardano's great work on algebra contains the first Floyd | published solutions to the general cubic and quartic equations. It Floyd | includes the use of negative numbers, which were not widely accepted Floyd | in Europe at the time, and it also features the first use of complex Floyd | numbers (in the context of solving a quadratic equation)." Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Mathematics Texts has increased. You Floyd | estimate that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by one Floyd | point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] West of House 34/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | West of House Floyd | There is a small mailbox here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Gray 34/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | As you move west, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Floyd | Off to the side sits a gray storage bin. In the storage bin you see a Floyd | square piece of metal and a scribbled scroll. Floyd | Floyd | A gray, translucent ghost flits around the storage bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Gray 34/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Gray Floyd | The darkness has mostly lifted, but now everything in this space looks Floyd | gray. The darkness does continue to pool around your feet, though. Floyd | There is an inscription on the wall, and there are exits up to Gray Floyd | Matter, as well as north to the Grassy Area, south to the Physician's Floyd | Office, east to the white house, and west to the Casino. Floyd | Floyd | Off to the side sits a gray storage bin. In the storage bin you see a Floyd | square piece of metal and a scribbled scroll. Floyd | Floyd | A gray, translucent ghost flits around the storage bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter 34/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] One 34/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | One Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Number Line: 1 34/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | Number Line: 1 Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Number Line: 0 34/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Number Line: 0 Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Number Line: -1 34/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Number Line: -1 Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Negative One 34/100 (D) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You clamber down the hole. Floyd | Floyd | Negative One Floyd | You can see a phase inverter here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put sine in inverter" | ||
Floyd ] Negative One 36/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT SINE IN INVERTER Floyd | Floyd | You briefly insert the sine wave into the phase inverter. The Floyd | inverter hums as it adds Pi units to the essence of the sine wave. Floyd | The sine wave shifts phase, becoming a negative sine wave. Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Trigonometry has increased. You estimate Floyd | that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by two Floyd | points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu exclaims, "D+!" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Number Line: -1 36/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | Number Line: -1 Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Number Line: 0 36/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Number Line: 0 Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Number Line: 1 36/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Number Line: 1 Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] One 36/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You clamber down the hole. Floyd | Floyd | One Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter 36/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You make your way down. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "uh, did you want the wave back?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Gray 36/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You make your way down. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Floyd | Off to the side sits a gray storage bin. In the storage bin you see a Floyd | square piece of metal and a scribbled scroll. Floyd | Floyd | A gray, translucent ghost flits around the storage bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "oops?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Gray 36/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a square root Floyd | a negative sine wave Floyd | a set (no longer empty) Floyd | a slide rule Floyd | a cube Floyd | some exhaustion sandals Floyd | a tetrahedron Floyd | an octahedron Floyd | an old coin Floyd | your math book Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, you still have it." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Good, we do have it." | ||
| DavidW says, "I thought it might've been left in there." | ||
| DavidW says, "sorry. continue." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "That didn't even ocur to me." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Physician's Office 36/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You make your way south. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Physician's Office Floyd | A part of the wall has slid open, revealing a niche. Floyd | Floyd | There is a strange mechanism in the center of the office. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a parchment here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put wave in gears" | ||
Floyd ] Physician's Office 36/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT WAVE IN GEARS Floyd | Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put wave in panel" | ||
Floyd ] Physician's Office 36/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT WAVE IN PANEL Floyd | Floyd | You carefully insert the negative sine wave back into the strange Floyd | mechanism. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "The inverter gives stuff back automatically." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "turn crank" | ||
Floyd ] Physician's Office 36/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN CRANK Floyd | Floyd | You turn the crank, which causes the two small gears to rotate around Floyd | the large gear. As the small gears rotate, they move the metal bar Floyd | back and forth in a straight line. Floyd | Floyd | Then the strange mechanism emits an aura of negative power that fills Floyd | the room. You briefly feel more depressed, as well as more Floyd | pessimistic about your chances on tomorrow's exam. Floyd | Floyd | For just a moment, the square root glows, as it absorbs the negative Floyd | power emitted by the mechanism. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Guenni), "I forgot." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x root" | ||
Floyd ] Physician's Office 36/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > X ROOT Floyd | Floyd | This is an unusual object. It appears to be made of some tough Floyd | vegetable matter - perhaps the root of a tree. It's also in the shape Floyd | of a perfect square. The word "EXTRACT" is written on it. Floyd | Floyd | The square root has also absorbed negative power from the machine in Floyd | the physician's office. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Gray 36/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | As you move north, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Floyd | Off to the side sits a gray storage bin. In the storage bin you see a Floyd | square piece of metal and a scribbled scroll. Floyd | Floyd | A gray, translucent ghost flits around the storage bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter 36/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "A square root with negative power...." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] One 36/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | One Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Number Line: 1 36/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | Number Line: 1 Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Number Line: 1 36/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You can see absolutely nothing in the blue darkness off the number Floyd | line. Stepping off it doesn't sound like a good idea. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Number Line: 2 36/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Number Line: 2 Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Two 36/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You clamber down the hole. Floyd | Floyd | Two Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "extract root" | ||
Floyd ] Irrational: Between 1 and 2 36/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > EXTRACT ROOT Floyd | Floyd | The root vibrates quietly, as it extracts the square root of the Floyd | essence of the space around it. You feel yourself shift. Floyd | Floyd | Irrational: Between 1 and 2 Floyd | This is more of an abstract space than a physical place, but it feels Floyd | large beyond your understanding, as if it encompasses infinitely more Floyd | space than the single-number locations beneath the number line. A Floyd | hole leads up to the number line. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Number Line: 1 36/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | As you step onto the number line, the hole behind you closes. Rather Floyd | than standing at an unmarked spot between 1 and 2, you head back to 1. Floyd | Floyd | Number Line: 1 Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Number Line: 0 36/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Number Line: 0 Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Number Line: -1 36/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Number Line: -1 Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Negative One 36/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You clamber down the hole. Floyd | Floyd | Negative One Floyd | You can see a phase inverter here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "extract root" | ||
Floyd ] Imaginary Unit 36/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > EXTRACT ROOT Floyd | Floyd | The root vibrates quietly, as it extracts the square root of the Floyd | essence of the space around it. You feel yourself rotate Floyd | clockwise, swinging in an arc that takes you halfway back to the Floyd | positive part of the number line. Floyd | Floyd | Imaginary Unit Floyd | This is more of an abstract space than a physical place. It feels Floyd | different than the spaces just below the number line - not less real, Floyd | but more as if this space exists in a different dimension. A hole Floyd | leads up, maybe to the number line? Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "No object to pick up? :(" | |
| DavidW says, "Not this time." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Imaginary Axis: i 38/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | As you climb through the hole, at first it appears as if you are Floyd | climbing into a dark blue nothingness. But then a thin, infinitely Floyd | long vertical line appears out of that nothingness, widens, and Floyd | rotates 90 degrees to run north-to-south. You confidently step onto Floyd | the new line. Floyd | Floyd | Imaginary Axis: i Floyd | You are in a dark blue expanse of space, standing on a white line that Floyd | stretches as far as you can see to the north. To the south you can Floyd | perceive where the imaginary axis crosses the number line. The number Floyd | i is marked on the line here. There is a hole next to the Floyd | i that you might be able to climb down into. Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Complex Numbers has increased. You Floyd | estimate that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by two Floyd | points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Origin 38/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Origin Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Real Axis: 1 38/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Real Axis: 1 Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] One 38/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You clamber down the hole. Floyd | Floyd | One Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter 38/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You make your way down. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Gray 38/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You make your way down. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Floyd | Off to the side sits a gray storage bin. In the storage bin you see a Floyd | square piece of metal and a scribbled scroll. Floyd | Floyd | A gray, translucent ghost flits around the storage bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Area 38/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You make your way north. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Grassy Area Floyd | Someone has left their trigonometry homework on the log table. Floyd | Floyd | On the grass lies a funny-looking soccer ball. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x homework" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Area 38/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > X HOMEWORK Floyd | Floyd | The homework is covered with equations involving sines, cosines, and Floyd | tangents. There are also a couple of graphs drawn on the homework, Floyd | labeled "sin x" and "cos x." Each graph consists of Floyd | a wavy line that switches from positive to negative every Pi units. Floyd | Circled at the top of the homework is the phrase "Review Floyd | Logarithms!!!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x ball" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Area 38/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > X BALL Floyd | Floyd | Something about this soccer ball doesn't look quite right. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "kick it" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Area 38/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > KICK IT Floyd | Floyd | The soccer ball remains still, and your foot connects with a solid Floyd | "thud." As the ball flies through the air it begins to transform, Floyd | becoming less round and more pointed. It bounces off one of the Floyd | buildings and rolls across the grass, coming to a stop near you. You Floyd | look down to see an object that is no longer quite a soccer ball. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Area 38/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | The icosahedron has twenty sides, each of which is in the shape of an Floyd | equilateral triangle. It kind of looks like a more pointy version of Floyd | a soccer ball. In fact, you realize that if you cut its vertices off Floyd | in the right way and inflated it to make it more round you would have Floyd | a soccer ball. This icosahedron is about one cubic foot in volume. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Area 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IT Floyd | Floyd | You take the icosahedron. Looking curiously at it, you note that it Floyd | has twenty sides, each of which is in the shape of an equilateral Floyd | triangle. You feel you understand three-dimensional solid geometry a Floyd | little better. Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Geometry has increased. You estimate Floyd | that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by one Floyd | point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You can call this an 'ico'." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Thanks." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Laundry Room 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Laundry Room Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look in dryer" | ||
Floyd ] Laundry Room 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN DRYER Floyd | Floyd | The dryer is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Plover arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Guenni says, "Thanks for putting the song from "rain man\" into my head." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look in washer" | ||
Floyd ] Laundry Room 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK IN WASHER Floyd | Floyd | The washing machine is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | Plover says, "are you still playing" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "fix washer" | ||
Floyd ] Laundry Room 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > FIX WASHER Floyd | Floyd | You have no idea how to fix the washing machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Yes." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yep." | ||
| Plover says (to Floyd), "version" | ||
Floyd ] Laundry Room 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > VERSION Floyd | Floyd | A Beauty Cold and Austere Floyd | An Interactive Digression by Mike Spivey Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180112 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) 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 | Serial And Fix by Andrew Plotkin Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Area 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Grassy Area Floyd | Someone has left their trigonometry homework on the log table. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "finish homework" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Area 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > FINISH HOMEWORK Floyd | Floyd | I didn't recognize that command. (There is a list of recognized Floyd | commands in the HELP menus.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Guessed so." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Area 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Grassy Area Floyd | This is a grassy area between buildings at some university. Dusk is Floyd | falling, and no one else is around. There is a log table at the edge Floyd | of the grassy area. It looks like there is a small laundry facility Floyd | in the building to east, and a gate lies south of you. Floyd | Floyd | Someone has left their trigonometry homework on the log table. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Area 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an icosahedron Floyd | a square root Floyd | a set (no longer empty) Floyd | a slide rule Floyd | a cube Floyd | some exhaustion sandals Floyd | a tetrahedron Floyd | an octahedron Floyd | an old coin Floyd | your math book Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "I think that one's only for showing you how the sin wave works." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x slide" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Area 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > X SLIDE Floyd | Floyd | The slide rule consists of three pieces of wood: the two on the Floyd | outside are attached to each other, while the third - in the middle - Floyd | can slide between the other two. Numbers are marked on all three Floyd | pieces of wood. You have no idea how to use a slide rule. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Take the homework. Show it to the ghost. No need to leave stuff around." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Right. Adventurer cleptomania." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get homework" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Area 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET HOMEWORK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Gray 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | As you move south, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Floyd | Off to the side sits a gray storage bin. In the storage bin you see a Floyd | square piece of metal and a scribbled scroll. Floyd | Floyd | A gray, translucent ghost flits around the storage bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "show homework to ghost" | ||
Floyd ] Gray 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW HOMEWORK TO GHOST Floyd | Floyd | The gray lady looks carefully at the trig homework. Then she says, "I Floyd | think you may still find some use for that. You never know, though," Floyd | she adds. "I might be wrong." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "At least you'll know if it's still useful or not." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "So I don't think I'm up for the casino section today, I suspect we dried out the office, and we need a screw for the mailbox." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "There's still the laundry area, Achilles, and the calculator." | ||
| Guenni says, "You could try to solve the pedestals upstairs." | ||
| DavidW says, "hm. That sounds right." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "And whatever rooms come below :p" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Right, the pedestals." | ||
| DavidW says, "I think we're missing at least one of the solids for the pedestals." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Gray 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | the trig homework Floyd | an icosahedron Floyd | a square root Floyd | a set (no longer empty) Floyd | a slide rule Floyd | a cube Floyd | some exhaustion sandals Floyd | a tetrahedron Floyd | an octahedron Floyd | an old coin Floyd | your math book Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The dodecahedron." | |
| Guenni says, "Oh, yeah." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah, I think there's five pedestals." | ||
| DavidW says, "Six, but there's only five solids." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Right, I wasn't counting the center one." | ||
| DavidW asks, "I assume you know by now who owns that villa?" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "I guess I should. Plato?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Yes." | ||
| Guenni says, "Yep." | ||
| DavidW says, "The cave was also a clue." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look up plato" | ||
Floyd ] Gray 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP PLATO Floyd | Floyd | (in your math book) Floyd | Plato held that mathematical reasoning serves as a model for how to Floyd | think philosophically. There is a legend that the phrase "Let no one Floyd | ignorant of geometry enter" was written over the door to his Academy. Floyd | The five Platonic solids - the tetrahedron, the cube, the octahedron, Floyd | the dodecahedron, and the icosahedron - are named for him. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Right, there was that thing with the shadows and the world, or how that went." | |
| DavidW says, "That's a thought experiment called Plato's Cave." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x rule" | ||
Floyd ] Gray 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > X RULE Floyd | Floyd | The slide rule consists of three pieces of wood: the two on the Floyd | outside are attached to each other, while the third - in the middle - Floyd | can slide between the other two. Numbers are marked on all three Floyd | pieces of wood. You have no idea how to use a slide rule. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "slide rule" | ||
Floyd ] Gray 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > SLIDE RULE Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to slide the slide rule under? Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Okay." | |
| Guenni says, "My parents actually used these in school." | ||
| DavidW says, "I had one when I was young." | ||
| DavidW says, "They had stopped teaching logarithms when I got to high school, though." | ||
| DavidW says, "Calculators finally became commonplace when I reached grade 11." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Gray 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You must name something more substantial. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Interesting. We learnt what they were, but used the calculator for solving them." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You make your way north. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Lyceum Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Stadium 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Stadium Floyd | Achilles sits by the side of the race track with his head in his Floyd | hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "show rule to achilles" | ||
Floyd ] Stadium 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW RULE TO ACHILLES Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the slide rule) Floyd | Achilles frowns. "I don't see how that will help me beat the Floyd | tortoise." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Me neither, but it was worth a try." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I'm assuming we don't have what it takes yet." | ||
| Guenni nods once more. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up achilles in math" | ||
Floyd ] Stadium 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP ACHILLES IN MATH Floyd | Floyd | The story of Achilles and the tortoise is a paradox related to the Floyd | nature of infinity. It was devised by Zeno of Elea. Floyd | Floyd | In the paradox, Achilles is racing a tortoise who is given a head Floyd | start. Zeno claims that Achilles can never catch up to the tortoise Floyd | because "In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the Floyd | slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the Floyd | pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead." Floyd | Floyd | The paradox of Achilles and the tortoise, as well as Zeno's paradoxes Floyd | in general, are important in mathematics because they helped force Floyd | mathematicians to consider carefully what they mean by continuous Floyd | quantities that are infinitely divisible, as well as infinity itself. Floyd | Floyd | Some mathematicians believe that the limit concept, which not only Floyd | provides a rigorous method for handling infinite quantities but also Floyd | put calculus on a firm theoretical foundation, resolves the paradox of Floyd | Achilles and the tortoise. However, limits were not developed until Floyd | over 2000 years after the death of Zeno. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "But you're on the right track for making someone else happy." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Stadium 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | From here, the only exit is east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lyceum Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I think Ihave an inkling." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | As you move south, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You make your way west. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Great Hall Floyd | On the long table is a pile of old coins. Floyd | Floyd | The Count is here, looking rather bored. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Solar 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | The Count calls after you, "If you find something else for me to count Floyd | I would be grateful!" Floyd | Floyd | Solar Floyd | A large bronze box lies on the side table. Floyd | Floyd | The Countess is here, fiddling disgruntledly with the bronze box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "show rule to countess" | ||
Floyd ] Solar 39/100 (D+) Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW RULE TO COUNTESS Floyd | Floyd | You show the slide rule to the Countess. "This is an interesting Floyd | device," she says. "Do you know how to work it?" You shake your Floyd | head, and she returns the slide rule to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Right." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Should have guessed that much." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look up slide rule" | ||
Floyd ] Solar 41/100 (C-) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP SLIDE RULE Floyd | Floyd | (in your math book) Floyd | The only mention of slide rules in the index refers to a unit on Floyd | logarithms, so you turn to that section. Floyd | Floyd | A logarithm is a function whose output is an exponent or power. For Floyd | example, the base 10 logarithm of 1000 is 3, since 10^3 is 1000. Floyd | Floyd | The earliest practical use of logarithms was to convert a Floyd | multiplication calculation to an addition calculation via the Floyd | logarithm property log(xy) = log x + log y. Floyd | The slide rule operates on this and other properties of logarithms. Floyd | Floyd | (There follows a detailed description of how to work a slide rule to Floyd | do multiplication using logarithms.) Floyd | Floyd | Using the example, you practice with the slide rule until you Floyd | understand how to use it to do multiplication. Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Logarithms has increased. You estimate Floyd | that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by two Floyd | points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "show rule to countess" | ||
Floyd ] Solar 43/100 (C-) Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW RULE TO COUNTESS Floyd | Floyd | You show the slide rule to the Countess, and you carefully explain to Floyd | her how to use it to do multiplication. She immediately grasps the Floyd | concept. "With this, I don't need to fix my mechanical calculator! Floyd | Do you mind if I have it?" You give your assent, and the Countess Floyd | smiles widely. Floyd | Floyd | "If this does multiplication, it could also do division." She begins Floyd | playing with the slide rule. "And it should be able to calculate Floyd | powers of a number." She performs a few more calculations on the Floyd | slide rule. "Yes!" she says. "Here, let me show you what I've done." Floyd | Floyd | As the Countess explains how to use the slide rule to do division and Floyd | exponentiation, you realize that she is essentially showing you two Floyd | more logarithm properties: log(x/y) = log x - log Floyd | y, converting division to subtraction, and log x^n = Floyd | n log x, converting exponentiation to Floyd | multiplication. Floyd | Floyd | "Thank you so much for the slide rule. What an ingenious device and Floyd | valuable gift!" she says. "I must reciprocate!" She produces a small Floyd | bell from somewhere and rings it. A servant rushes in, and the Floyd | Countess whispers something to him. The servant disappears, but he Floyd | soon returns, hands a book to the Countess, and disappears once more. Floyd | Floyd | The Countess gives the book to you. "This is a wide-margin copy of Floyd | Diophantus's Arithmetica. We used to have a copy with narrow Floyd | margins, too, but we gave that one to Fermat." Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Logarithms has increased. You estimate Floyd | that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by two Floyd | points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Hah." | |
| Guenni exclaims, "Toeroe!" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "But are the margins wide enough for Fermat's mythical proof?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x arithmetica" | ||
Floyd ] Solar 43/100 (C-) Floyd | > Floyd | > X ARITHMETICA Floyd | Floyd | This is a copy of Diophantus's Arithmetica. As the Countess Floyd | indicated, it does have wide margins. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look up fermat" | ||
Floyd ] Solar 43/100 (C-) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP FERMAT Floyd | Floyd | (in your math book) Floyd | Pierre de Fermat was a contemporary and sometime rival of Descartes. Floyd | He was the greatest number theorist of his era, invented analytic Floyd | geometry about the same time as Descartes (but did not publish his Floyd | results), and his method of tangents was a forerunner to the Floyd | derivative concept used in calculus. Fermat was actually a lawyer and Floyd | did mathematics for fun in his spare time. Floyd | Floyd | Fermat is most well-known for his conjecture that become known as Floyd | "Fermat's Last Theorem": There do not exist solutions in nonzero Floyd | integers a, b, c, and n > 2, such Floyd | that a^n + b^n = c^n. In his copy of Floyd | Diophantus's Arithmetica Fermat claimed to have found a Floyd | "truly remarkable proof of this theorem which this margin is too Floyd | narrow to contain." No one has ever found Fermat's proof, and, Floyd | despite an enormous amount of effort, nobody succeeded in proving it Floyd | themselves until 1995, more than 350 years later. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 43/100 (C-) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Great Hall Floyd | On the long table is a pile of old coins. Floyd | Floyd | The Count is here, looking rather bored. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "count count" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 43/100 (C-) Floyd | > Floyd | > COUNT COUNT Floyd | Floyd | You get exactly the number you expected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter 43/100 (C-) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The Count calls after you, "If you find something else for me to count Floyd | I would be grateful!" Floyd | Floyd | As you move east, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Two 43/100 (C-) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You make your way down. Floyd | Floyd | The darkness is completely gone now, revealing a passage down. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level Two Floyd | Off to the side sits a gray storage bin. In the storage bin you see a Floyd | square piece of metal and a scribbled scroll. Floyd | Floyd | A gray, translucent ghost flits around the storage bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Plover disappears through a gap in the MUD. Oh dear, you'll see Plover next time. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Confusion 43/100 (C-) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You make your way down. Floyd | Floyd | Confusion Floyd | This space is filled with some kind of swirling, ethereal fog that Floyd | plays tricks with your mind. You can't make much sense of the space Floyd | or anything in it. However, you do sense an exit above you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x fog" | ||
Floyd ] Confusion 43/100 (C-) Floyd | > Floyd | > X FOG Floyd | Floyd | This gray fog is confusing your mind. It's hard to focus on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Two 43/100 (C-) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up through the fog. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level Two Floyd | Off to the side sits a gray storage bin. In the storage bin you see a Floyd | square piece of metal and a scribbled scroll. Floyd | Floyd | A gray, translucent ghost flits around the storage bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Two 43/100 (C-) Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level Two Floyd | This space is made of the same gray matter as the one above you. Floyd | There is an inscription on the wall, as well as exits up to Gray Floyd | Matter, Level One, north to the Grassy Area, south to the Physician's Floyd | Office, east to the white house, and west to the Casino. Now that the Floyd | darkness is gone, you can also see a passage leading down to Floyd | Confusion. Floyd | Floyd | Off to the side sits a gray storage bin. In the storage bin you see a Floyd | square piece of metal and a scribbled scroll. Floyd | Floyd | A gray, translucent ghost flits around the storage bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x inscription" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Two 43/100 (C-) Floyd | > Floyd | > X INSCRIPTION Floyd | Floyd | The inscription reads, "Mathematics is like a blind man in a dark room Floyd | looking for a black cat that isn't there." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "That's a bit mean." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] West of House 43/100 (C-) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You make your way east. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | West of House Floyd | There is a small mailbox here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 43/100 (C-) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | There are currently three books on the bookcase: Floyd | Ars Magna Floyd | The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Floyd | Balancing Floyd | Elements Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put arithmetica in shelf" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 44/100 (C-) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ARITHMETICA IN SHELF Floyd | Floyd | You put Diophantus's Arithmetica on the bookcase. As it Floyd | slides into place you hear a faint click. Then you hear the Floyd | same voice as before - the one that sounds like Professor Glasser. Floyd | Floyd | The voice says, "Diophantus's Arithmetica introduced symbols Floyd | to the study of the solutions of equations, in contrast to the prior Floyd | method of writing everything out in words. The book itself discusses Floyd | a variety of techniques for solving what we would now call algebraic Floyd | equations. Floyd | Floyd | Arithmetica is also famous (or perhaps infamous) for a note Floyd | Fermat once wrote on his copy of the book. The note conjectures that Floyd | there do not exist solutions in nonzero integers a, | Guenni says, "Well, not everybody is a fan of the number sciences." | |
Floyd | b, c, and n > 2, such that a^n + Floyd | b^n = c^n. Then Fermat writes, 'I have discovered a Floyd | truly remarkable proof of this theorem which this margin is too narrow Floyd | to contain.' No one has ever found Fermat's proof. This conjecture, Floyd | which became known as "Fermat's Last Theorem," was not actually proved Floyd | until 1995, more than 350 years later, using mathematical techniques Floyd | far more sophisticated than the ones available to Fermat in the Floyd | mid-1600s." Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Mathematics Texts has increased. You Floyd | estimate that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by one Floyd | point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I noticed a new down passage from Level Two." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I went there by accident. It's currently confusion." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Maybe it's deconfused by the book points though." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] West of House 44/100 (C-) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | West of House Floyd | There is a small mailbox here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says, "I guess." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x machine" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push black" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push blue" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push green" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x wood" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x farmer" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "greet farmer" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x card" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x dog" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "pet dog" | ||
Floyd ] Barn 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > PET DOG Floyd | Floyd | Pennings licks your face happily. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x fountain" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s statue" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x statue" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x prism" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x beam" | ||
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x circle" | ||
Floyd ] College Chapel 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X CIRCLE Floyd | Floyd | The light in the circle seems to sparkle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "greet newton" | ||
Floyd ] College Chapel 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > GREET NEWTON Floyd | Floyd | In response, the statue of Newton nods almost imperceptibly in the Floyd | direction of the circle of light on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Great Court 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Great Court Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | College Hall Floyd | You walk into the middle of a lecture on mathematics. The atmosphere Floyd | feels a bit tense. Floyd | Floyd | The speaker glares briefly at you as you enter, and you - somewhat Floyd | sheepishly - step back into the shadows against the wall. Floyd | Floyd | The speaker continues. "And so, as I was saying, the calculus of Floyd | Newton does not rest on a logical foundation! Newton claims that the Floyd | fluxion of x^2 is 2x, but one cannot have the Floyd | "infinitely small quantity" he uses in the calculation equal to zero Floyd | in one place and not equal to zero in another!" | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | in one place and not equal to zero in another!" Floyd | You hear several "Boo" shouts from the audience. "Go back to Oxford, Floyd | Berkeley!" says one mathematician. "But calculus works!" yells a Floyd | physicist. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | physicist. Floyd | "I repeat myself," replies Berkeley. "A quantity cannot be Floyd | simultaneously equal to zero and not equal to zero. As Newton himself Floyd | says, 'The minutest errors are not to be neglected in mathematics!'" Floyd | Floyd | You can feel the audience's anger level rising, as Berkeley quotes Floyd | Newton in his attack on Newton's calculus. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] College Hall 48/100 (C)
Floyd | Newton in his attack on Newton's calculus.
Floyd | Then, after a tense few moments, a man in the front row storms the
Floyd | podium. The shocked look on Berkeley's face is visible from your
Floyd | place against the wall. Berkeley slowly backs away from the podium.
Floyd | Emboldened, several other audience members join the first man.
Floyd | Berkeley turns and runs out of the room. The rest of the audience
Floyd | rises and chases after him.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] College Hall 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | College Hall Floyd | The normally-impressive great hall, with its wood paneling and Floyd | Tudor-style interior, is in a state of disarray in the wake of Floyd | Berkeley's lecture. A podium stands at the front of the room. The Floyd | great court lies to the east. Floyd | Floyd | In his haste to flee the crowd of angry mathematicians, Berkeley has Floyd | left his lecture notes on the podium. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x notes" | ||
Floyd ] College Hall 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X NOTES Floyd | Floyd | These are Berkeley's notes describing what he considers to be serious Floyd | logical flaws in the theoretical foundation of calculus. The notes Floyd | are rather extensive, but the details of his attack on the fluxion of Floyd | x^2 catch your eye. Floyd | Floyd | "Newton says that the fluxion, or derivative, of x^2 is to be Floyd | calculated like so: Adding the infinitely small quantity o to Floyd | x causes x^2 to become (x+o)^2. Then Floyd | (x+o)^2 expands to x^2 + 2ox + o^2. Floyd | Subtracting x^2 from the expansion of (x+o)^2 gives Floyd | us 2ox + o^2. Floyd | Floyd | "The next step in the procedure is to divide by the infinitely small Floyd | quantity o, producing 2x + o. Newton says now that since o Floyd | is infinitely small we can ignore it. This means that the fluxion of Floyd | x^2 is 2x. Floyd | Floyd | "However, is the 'infinitely small quantity' denoted 'o' equal to zero Floyd | or not? If it is zero, then we cannot divide by it, since there is no Floyd | meaning to dividing by zero. If it is not zero, then we cannot ignore Floyd | it in the last step, and so the fluxion of x^2 cannot be Floyd | 2x. Floyd | Floyd | "You cannot have it both ways: Either o is equal to zero or it is Floyd | not!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get them" | ||
Floyd ] College Hall 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET THEM Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look up berkeley" | ||
Floyd ] College Hall 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP BERKELEY Floyd | Floyd | (in your math book) Floyd | Along with John Locke and David Hume, Bishop George Berkeley is Floyd | considered part of the trio of great British empirical philosophers of Floyd | the 17th and 18th centuries. His major contribution to mathematics Floyd | was his critique of the logical foundations of calculus. This Floyd | critique helped inspire mathematicians to look more closely at what Floyd | they meant by the "infinitesimally small" quantities used in calculus, Floyd | ultimately leading to a precise definition of the limit concept. Floyd | Incidentally, the main campus of the University of California and the Floyd | surrounding city are named for him. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look up limit" | ||
Floyd ] College Hall 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP LIMIT Floyd | Floyd | (in your math book) Floyd | The limit is one of the most important concepts in mathematics. Floyd | Limits allow us to define exactly what we mean by concepts like Floyd | "arbitrarily large" and "infinitesimally small." Floyd | Floyd | Limits had been used implicitly in calculus since the time of Newton Floyd | and Leibniz, but it was not until over 150 years later that the Floyd | definition of a limit was made precise by Weierstrass, thereby placing Floyd | calculus on a more solid theoretical foundation. Limits are also used Floyd | to make sense of sequences and infinite series. Some argue that Floyd | limits resolve Zeno's paradoxes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x podium" | ||
Floyd ] College Hall 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X PODIUM Floyd | Floyd | This podium is made of the same wood as the paneling you see around Floyd | the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x paneling" | ||
Floyd ] College Hall 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X PANELING Floyd | Floyd | It's quite beautiful. Nothing at your university looks looks like Floyd | this room. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I love how everything in this game fits together." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "It's true." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Great Court 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Great Court Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Less Confusion 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | As you move east, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Less Confusion Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Neon-Lit Room 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You make your way east through the fog. As you do, you feel an Floyd | electrical impulse course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Neon-Lit Room Floyd | The floor and ceiling of this room are black, while the walls feature Floyd | eerie, pulsating, dark blue neon lights. An exit leads west. Floyd | Floyd | A sleek laser bike is parked in the center of the room. Floyd | Floyd | Someone has left a crudely-drawn comic on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Are we Tron now?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x comic" | ||
Floyd ] Neon-Lit Room 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X COMIC Floyd | Floyd | The comic consists simply of two pictures: A man singing Christmas Floyd | carols and a man wearing an old Houston football jersey. The Yuler Floyd | has a large red X next to him, while the Oiler sports a large green Floyd | check mark. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Plover was asking about Rideable Vehicles, so you know there had to be one in the game somewhere." | |
| DavidW says, "And yes, this is Tron." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| Guenni says, "Actually that's one of them." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||
Floyd ] Neon-Lit Room 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IT Floyd | Floyd | (putting the square root into the set to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||
Floyd ] Neon-Lit Room 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > READ IT Floyd | Floyd | The comic consists simply of two pictures: A man singing Christmas Floyd | carols and a man wearing an old Houston football jersey. The Yuler Floyd | has a large red X next to him, while the Oiler sports a large green Floyd | check mark. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni grins. | |
| DavidW says (to Guenni), "oh right, there is another vehicle. Forgot to count that one." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x bike" | ||
Floyd ] Neon-Lit Room 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X BIKE Floyd | Floyd | Built for speed, this laser bike pulses with the same dark blue neon Floyd | light as the rest of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "ride bike" | ||
Floyd ] Intersection 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > RIDE BIKE Floyd | Floyd | You mount the laser bike. A door slides open in the east wall, and, Floyd | without warning, the laser bike shoots through it! Floyd | Floyd | You briefly catch a glimpse of a grid laid out before you, with Floyd | intersection points, lines connecting them, and several ramps Floyd | scattered throughout the intersections. A mechanical voice intones, Floyd | "Starting new game. Illuminate all grid lines. Intersections will Floyd | not be illuminated. One ramp jump allowed." Floyd | Floyd | Then the bike launches into space, coming down in... Floyd | Floyd | Intersection (on the laser bike) Floyd | You are riding a laser bike, traveling rapidly east through an Floyd | intersection. Dark blue neon walls surround the intersection, but Floyd | there are grid lines that lead northeast, south, southeast, and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "In Germany "Oi" is mostly spelt "eu"." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Uff." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Intersection 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You give the laser bike a sharp turn south, and it speeds through the Floyd | grid line to the south. The bike leaves a laser beam of light in its Floyd | wake. Floyd | Floyd | Intersection (on the laser bike) Floyd | You are riding a laser bike, traveling rapidly south through an Floyd | intersection. Dark blue neon walls surround the intersection, but Floyd | there are grid lines that lead north and east. Floyd | Floyd | However, the grid line to the north is lit up by a beam of light. Floyd | Floyd | There is also a ramp to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "I actually thought that one was easy. But I couldn' explain why I did what I did." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Intersection 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You give the laser bike a sharp turn east, and it speeds through the Floyd | grid line to the east. The bike leaves a laser beam of light in its Floyd | wake. Floyd | Floyd | Intersection (on the laser bike) Floyd | You are riding a laser bike, traveling rapidly east through an Floyd | intersection. Dark blue neon walls surround the intersection, but Floyd | there are grid lines that lead north, northwest, east, and west. Floyd | Floyd | However, the grid line to the west is lit up by a beam of light. Floyd | Floyd | There is also a ramp to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Or more exactly Why I went, where I went." | |
| DavidW says, "I solved it mainly by outlining the outer edge, then doing the middle." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Intersection 48/100 (C) | Guenni says, "Yeah, same here." | |
Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You keep going east, and the laser bike speeds through the grid line Floyd | to the east. The bike leaves a laser beam of light in its wake. Floyd | Floyd | Intersection (on the laser bike) Floyd | You are riding a laser bike, traveling rapidly east through an Floyd | intersection. Dark blue neon walls surround the intersection, but Floyd | there are grid lines that lead north and west. Floyd | Floyd | However, the grid line to the west is lit up by a beam of light. Floyd | Floyd | There is also a ramp to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Intersection 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You give the laser bike a sharp turn north, and it speeds through the Floyd | grid line to the north. The bike leaves a laser beam of light in its Floyd | wake. Floyd | Floyd | Intersection (on the laser bike) Floyd | You are riding a laser bike, traveling rapidly north through an Floyd | intersection. Dark blue neon walls surround the intersection, but Floyd | there are grid lines that lead north, south, and west. Floyd | Floyd | However, the grid line to the south is lit up by a beam of light. Floyd | Floyd | There are also ramps to the northwest and southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Intersection 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You keep going north, and the laser bike speeds through the grid line Floyd | to the north. The bike leaves a laser beam of light in its wake. Floyd | Floyd | Intersection (on the laser bike) Floyd | You are riding a laser bike, traveling rapidly north through an Floyd | intersection. Dark blue neon walls surround the intersection, but Floyd | there are grid lines that lead south and west. Floyd | Floyd | However, the grid line to the south is lit up by a beam of light. Floyd | Floyd | There is also a ramp to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Intersection 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You give the laser bike a sharp turn west, and it speeds through the Floyd | grid line to the west. The bike leaves a laser beam of light in its Floyd | wake. Floyd | Floyd | Intersection (on the laser bike) Floyd | You are riding a laser bike, traveling rapidly west through an Floyd | intersection. Dark blue neon walls surround the intersection, but Floyd | there are grid lines that lead south, southwest, and east. Floyd | Floyd | However, the grid line to the east is lit up by a beam of light. Floyd | Floyd | There is also a ramp to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Intersection 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You give the laser bike a sharp turn south, and it speeds through the Floyd | grid line to the south. The bike leaves a laser beam of light in its Floyd | wake. Floyd | Floyd | Intersection (on the laser bike) Floyd | You are riding a laser bike, traveling rapidly south through an Floyd | intersection. Dark blue neon walls surround the intersection, but Floyd | there are grid lines that lead north, south, east, and west. Floyd | Floyd | However, the grid line to the north is lit up by a beam of light. Floyd | Floyd | There are also ramps to the northeast, southeast, and southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Intersection 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You give the laser bike a sharp turn west, and it speeds through the Floyd | grid line to the west. The bike leaves a laser beam of light in its Floyd | wake. Floyd | Floyd | Intersection (on the laser bike) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Intersection 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Intersection (on the laser bike) Floyd | You are riding a laser bike, traveling rapidly west through an Floyd | intersection. Dark blue neon walls surround the intersection, but Floyd | there are grid lines that lead northeast, south, southeast, and east. Floyd | Floyd | However, the grid lines to the south and east are lit up by beams of Floyd | light. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh yeah, brief might be unhelpful here." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah, a bit" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||
Floyd ] Intersection 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > VERBOSE Floyd | Floyd | A Beauty Cold and Austere is now in its "verbose" mode, which always Floyd | gives long descriptions of locations (even if you've been there Floyd | before). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] Intersection 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | You give the laser bike a sharp turn northeast, and it speeds through Floyd | the grid line to the northeast. The bike leaves a laser beam of light Floyd | in its wake. Floyd | Floyd | Intersection (on the laser bike) Floyd | You are riding a laser bike, traveling rapidly northeast through an Floyd | intersection. Dark blue neon walls surround the intersection, but Floyd | there are grid lines that lead south, southwest, and east. Floyd | Floyd | However, all the grid lines are lit up by beams of light. Floyd | Floyd | There is also a ramp to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] Intersection 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | You give the laser bike a sharp turn southeast, and it takes the ramp Floyd | at a high speed, launching you into the air. As you look down you Floyd | notice that all the ramps in the grid are lowering to the level of the Floyd | intersection. The bike touches down in... Floyd | Floyd | Intersection (on the laser bike) Floyd | You are riding a laser bike, traveling rapidly southeast through an Floyd | intersection. Dark blue neon walls surround the intersection, but Floyd | there are grid lines that lead north, south, and west. Floyd | Floyd | However, the grid lines to the north and south are lit up by beams of Floyd | light. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Intersection 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You give the laser bike a sharp turn west, and it speeds through the Floyd | grid line to the west. The bike leaves a laser beam of light in its Floyd | wake. Floyd | Floyd | Intersection (on the laser bike) Floyd | You are riding a laser bike, traveling rapidly west through an Floyd | intersection. Dark blue neon walls surround the intersection, but Floyd | there are grid lines that lead north, south, east, and west. Floyd | Floyd | However, the grid lines to the north, east, and west are lit up by Floyd | beams of light. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Intersection 48/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You give the laser bike a sharp turn south, and it speeds through the Floyd | grid line to the south. The bike leaves a laser beam of light in its Floyd | wake. Floyd | Floyd | Intersection (on the laser bike) Floyd | You are riding a laser bike, traveling rapidly south through an Floyd | intersection. Dark blue neon walls surround the intersection, but Floyd | there are grid lines that lead north, northwest, east, and west. Floyd | Floyd | However, the grid lines to the north, east, and west are lit up by Floyd | beams of light. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd ] Neon-Lit Room 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | You give the laser bike a sharp turn northwest, and it speeds through Floyd | the grid line to the northwest. The bike leaves a laser beam of light Floyd | in its wake. Floyd | Floyd | The laser bike slows down as it comes to the middle of the Floyd | intersection. A long ramp drops down from the west, and the bike Floyd | automatically turns toward it. As the bike ascends the ramp, a Floyd | mechanical voice intones, "Congratulations. You have found an Euler Floyd | circuit. Your prize awaits." Floyd | Floyd | The bike re-enters the neon-lit room and comes to rest in the middle Floyd | of the floor. The door to the east closes once more. Floyd | Floyd | Neon-Lit Room (on the laser bike) Floyd | The floor and ceiling of this room are black, while the walls feature Floyd | eerie, pulsating, dark blue neon lights. An exit leads west. Floyd | Floyd | Your prize appears to be a book: Introduction to the Analysis of Floyd | the Infinite. Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Combinatorics has increased. You Floyd | estimate that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by five Floyd | points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Okay." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get book" | ||
Floyd ] Neon-Lit Room 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET BOOK Floyd | Floyd | (Introduction to the Analysis of the Infinite) Floyd | You can't reach Introduction to the Analysis of the Infinite Floyd | from the laser bike. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||
Floyd ] Neon-Lit Room 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > STAND Floyd | Floyd | You dismount the laser bike. Floyd | Floyd | Neon-Lit Room Floyd | The floor and ceiling of this room are black, while the walls feature Floyd | eerie, pulsating, dark blue neon lights. An exit leads west. Floyd | Floyd | A sleek laser bike is parked in the center of the room. Floyd | Floyd | Your prize appears to be a book: Introduction to the Analysis of Floyd | the Infinite. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get book" | ||
Floyd ] Neon-Lit Room 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET BOOK Floyd | Floyd | (Introduction to the Analysis of the Infinite) Floyd | (putting the icosahedron into the set to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Ok, you did a different route than me." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] Neon-Lit Room 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | This is a copy of Leonhard Euler's two-volume Introduction to the Floyd | Analysis of the Infinite. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, there's more than one valid route." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look up euler circuit" | ||
Floyd ] Neon-Lit Room 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP EULER CIRCUIT Floyd | Floyd | (in your math book) Floyd | An Euler circuit is a path through a graph that traverses every edge Floyd | exactly once. Euler proved that the only graphs that have Euler Floyd | circuits are those whose vertices all have an even number of Floyd | connections. The key idea behind this is that every time you go Floyd | through a vertex you must enter by one edge and leave by a different Floyd | edge, thus traversing two edges. In order to have an Euler circuit, Floyd | then, the total number of edges incident on each vertex must be even. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Three 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | As you move west, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | The confusing fog is much less now than it was at first. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level Three Floyd | Most of the fog that was filling up this space is now gone - the only Floyd | bit that remains swirls about your feet. You can see now that you are Floyd | in another space made of the same gray matter as the two above you. Floyd | You can see an inscription on the wall, and there are exits up to Gray Floyd | Matter, Level Two, north to the Barn, south, east to the Neon-Lit Floyd | Room, and west to the Great Court of Trinity College. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x inscription" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Three 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X INSCRIPTION Floyd | Floyd | The inscription reads, Floyd | Floyd | "Even as the finite encloses an infinite series Floyd | And in the unlimited limits appear, Floyd | So the soul of immensity dwells in minutia Floyd | And in narrowest limits no limits inhere. Floyd | What joy to discern the minute in infinity! Floyd | The vast to perceive in the small, what divinity!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "brief" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Three 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > BRIEF Floyd | Floyd | A Beauty Cold and Austere is now in its "brief" printing mode, which Floyd | gives long descriptions of places never before visited and short Floyd | descriptions otherwise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "All these inscriptions on your gray matter." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Roller Coaster Entrance 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You make your way south. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Roller Coaster Entrance Floyd | You stand at the entrance to a huge roller coaster, which sprawls Floyd | above and around you in every direction - even into the river below. Floyd | A notice hangs nearby. You could climb up to the boarding platform Floyd | above you. The operator's office is to the east, and you can exit the Floyd | roller coaster area to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Someone has dropped a brochure here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Well, the stuff is fairly maleable." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x notice" | ||
Floyd ] Roller Coaster Entrance 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X NOTICE Floyd | Floyd | The notice reads, "Has anyone seen Descartes? He seems to have Floyd | disappeared!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x brochure" | ||
Floyd ] Roller Coaster Entrance 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X BROCHURE Floyd | Floyd | This brightly-colored brochure is an advertisement for the roller Floyd | coaster. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||
Floyd ] Roller Coaster Entrance 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > READ IT Floyd | Floyd | "Descartes's Roller Coaster and Water Ride: Experience the thrills of Floyd | cutting-edge analytic geometry! Floyd | Floyd | "With our proprietary technology, we can change the shape of the track Floyd | to any algebraic curve! We feature a new curve each month, so ride Floyd | often! Floyd | Floyd | "For special events such as birthday parties and weddings we can even Floyd | accommodate curve requests! Just write the algebraic equation for the Floyd | curve you want on one of our special cards and give it to the Floyd | operator! (Guests are encouraged to book well in advance, as we do Floyd | have an extensive waiting list.) Floyd | Floyd | "There's more: Our patented "air bubble" technology prevents anything Floyd | inside the car from getting wet while the car travels underwater!" Floyd | Floyd | Underneath, in smaller print, are some disclaimers: "Riders should be Floyd | aware that the boarding platform may be moved to different x Floyd | coordinates to accommodate differently-shaped tracks. Any such Floyd | coordinate changes are purely to maximize the riders' experience. In Floyd | addition, in the rare case that a track is completely underwater, Floyd | riders will be prevented from entering the boarding area." Floyd | Floyd | Finally, very tiny print at the bottom reads "Construction by Meretzky Floyd | and Co." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x card" | ||
Floyd ] Roller Coaster Entrance 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X CARD Floyd | Floyd | This small, very thin card reads "Farmer's Problem: y = Floyd | 50x - Pi*x^3." You remember that y Floyd | represents the volume of the barrel the farmer is trying to build, Floyd | while x represents the radius. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "turn it around" | ||
Floyd ] Roller Coaster Entrance 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN IT AROUND Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing, at least as described. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get brochure" | ||
Floyd ] Roller Coaster Entrance 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET BROCHURE Floyd | Floyd | (putting the trig homework into the set to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Flip card or turn card over might work." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x rollercoaster" | ||
Floyd ] Roller Coaster Entrance 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X ROLLERCOASTER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing, at least as described. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "flip card" | ||
Floyd ] Roller Coaster Entrance 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > FLIP CARD Floyd | Floyd | It isn't something you can switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "turn card over" | ||
Floyd ] Roller Coaster Entrance 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN CARD OVER Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing, at least as described. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess there aren't second sides to cards in this game." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Well, I'm sure enough that it's what we want." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh yes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x roller coaster" | ||
Floyd ] Roller Coaster Entrance 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X ROLLER COASTER Floyd | Floyd | The roller coaster consists of a track mounted on a grid-like frame Floyd | marked with coordinates. For the horizontal - or x - Floyd | coordinates, the entrance is marked at 0, and the numbers increase as Floyd | you go east. For the vertical - or y - coordinates, the Floyd | water line is marked at 0, and the numbers increase as you go up. Floyd | Floyd | The roller coaster track starts high, goes through a loop-the-loop, Floyd | enters the water, and returns to the platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Did you find the dodeca by now? I had to step out when you started with the game machine." | |
| DavidW says, "No, the dodeca is still unfound." | ||
| Guenni says, "I remembered where it is. In case it's wanted." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Operator's Office 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Operator's Office Floyd | The roller coaster operator's office is a small, dingy affair. The Floyd | only thing to commend it is that it still has a good view of the Floyd | roller coaster. The exit is to the west. Floyd | Floyd | A display is set into the wall, with a slot next to it. Floyd | Floyd | A saying hangs loosely on the wall above the display. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see some correspondence and an x-finder here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I remember where it is and that puzzle is still unsolved." | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Is it the poker one?" | ||
| Guenni nods. | ||
| DavidW asks, "With the five sided table? Maaaaybe?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x display" | ||
Floyd ] Operator's Office 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X DISPLAY Floyd | Floyd | The display reads "x^3 + y^3 = 3xy." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x slot" | ||
Floyd ] Operator's Office 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X SLOT Floyd | Floyd | It looks like only a thin card of a certain size and shape will fit in Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x saying" | ||
Floyd ] Operator's Office 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X SAYING Floyd | Floyd | The saying reads, "Cogito Ergo Sum." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x correspondence" | ||
Floyd ] Operator's Office 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X CORRESPONDENCE Floyd | Floyd | You read through the correspondence. It's a series of letters from Floyd | Fermat to Descartes. The discussions center on Fermat's method of Floyd | tangents, which Descartes criticizes. Floyd | Floyd | The final letter, though, is addressed to Fermat. In it, Descartes Floyd | claims that his new Folium curve is so complicated that Fermat's Floyd | method cannot be used to find its tangent lines. Floyd | Floyd | The letter ends with Descartes asking rhetorically, "And you believe Floyd | your method will still work? I think not!" The ink is blotted after Floyd | the final sentence, as if the quill pen Descartes had been using was Floyd | dropped abruptly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu exclaims, "Murder mystery!" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Or maybe not" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x finder" | ||
Floyd ] Operator's Office 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X FINDER Floyd | Floyd | This small object shows the x-coordinate of your current Floyd | position. It was probably used for testing the roller coaster. The Floyd | x-finder is covered by some kind of waterproof plastic film, Floyd | and it also includes a primitive-looking carabiner. Floyd | Floyd | The x-finder currently reads... nothing. I suppose you're Floyd | not at a location that has a meaningful x-coordinate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||
Floyd ] Operator's Office 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ALL Floyd | Floyd | Descartes's saying: (putting the thin card into the set to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | correspondence: (putting Berkeley's lecture notes into the set to make Floyd | room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | x-finder: (putting the comic strip into the set to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Na, no corpses here." | |
| DavidW says, "Just courses and corpuses." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I didn't expect the saying to be takeable." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Do we want to ride the current configuration?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I didn't either at first. Later, I realized the saying had to be takeable." | ||
| Guenni says, "It doesn't hurt, it doesn't help." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Okay, then I'll just use the card now." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put card in slot" | ||
Floyd ] Operator's Office 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT CARD IN SLOT Floyd | Floyd | You place the card in the slot. With a screeching of metal and wood, Floyd | the roller coaster track tears itself apart and reforms as the graph Floyd | of the equation on the card. The roller coaster appears to be Floyd | undamaged by this process. Floyd | Floyd | The display now reads "y = 50x - Pi*x^3." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x coaster" | ||
Floyd ] Operator's Office 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X COASTER Floyd | Floyd | The roller coaster consists of a track mounted on a grid-like frame Floyd | marked with coordinates. For the horizontal - or x - Floyd | coordinates, the entrance is marked at 0, and the numbers increase as Floyd | you go east. For the vertical - or y - coordinates, the Floyd | water line is marked at 0, and the numbers increase as you go up. Floyd | Floyd | The roller coaster track consists of a hill above the water and a Floyd | valley below the water. The track climbs the single hill, descends Floyd | it, enters the water, turns around, dips down into the valley, and Floyd | then returns to the platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Same for me with the saying." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Roller Coaster Entrance 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Roller Coaster Entrance Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Boarding Platform 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You climb up to the boarding platform. The ascent is a bit Floyd | disorienting, and you're not sure exactly where you ended up relative Floyd | to the roller coaster entrance. Floyd | Floyd | Boarding Platform Floyd | You stand at the boarding platform to a huge roller coaster, which Floyd | sprawls above and around you in every direction - even into the river Floyd | far below. Floyd | Floyd | A car sits at the platform, enticing you to enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "enter car" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER CAR Floyd | Floyd | You glance at the track to remind yourself what you're getting Floyd | yourself into. Floyd | Floyd | The roller coaster track consists of a hill above the water and a Floyd | valley below the water. The track climbs the single hill, descends Floyd | it, enters the water, turns around, dips down into the valley, and Floyd | then returns to the platform. Floyd | Floyd | You enter the car, and it pulls away from the platform. The numbers Floyd | on the x-finder start to increase. | DavidW asks (of Guenni), "This is the second rideable, correct?" | |
| Guenni nods. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | on the x-finder start to increase.The car slows down as the Floyd | track begins its climb up the single hill of this track. The numbers Floyd | on the x-finder are increasing slowly now. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | on the x-finder are increasing slowly now.You reach the crest Floyd | of the hill, and the car starts rapidly down the other side. The Floyd | numbers on the x-finder are still increasing. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | numbers on the x-finder are still increasing.Unfortunately, Floyd | the car was moving too fast for you to read the x coordinate Floyd | at the crest, but it looked like it was some number between 2 and 3. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | at the crest, but it looked like it was some number between 2 and
Floyd | 3.Then the car hurtles down the far side of the hill, picking up
Floyd | speed. You splash into the river! Yet some force field seems to be
Floyd | keeping you and your possessions dry. The numbers on the
Floyd | x-finder continue to increase rapidly.
| ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | x-finder continue to increase rapidly.The car makes a turn, Floyd | and you travel underwater for a while. You're having trouble Floyd | following the numbers on the x-finder here. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | following the numbers on the x-finder here.The car takes a Floyd | dip down further into the water, but soon comes up again, emerges from Floyd | the river and returns to the platform. The numbers on the Floyd | x-finder stop changing. You exit the car. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Boarding Platform 53/100 (C) Floyd | x-finder stop changing. You exit the car. Floyd | Boarding Platform Floyd | You stand at the boarding platform to a huge roller coaster, which Floyd | sprawls above and around you in every direction - even into the river Floyd | far below. Floyd | Floyd | A car sits at the platform, enticing you to enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x finder" | ||
Floyd ] Boarding Platform 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X FINDER Floyd | Floyd | This small object shows the x-coordinate of your current Floyd | position. It was probably used for testing the roller coaster. The Floyd | x-finder is covered by some kind of waterproof plastic film, Floyd | and it also includes a primitive-looking carabiner. Floyd | Floyd | The x-finder currently reads... 0.2. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I need some quiet time, so I'm going to tune out and mute most channels, but if you have issues again, page me." | |
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "understood. And thank you again." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x carabiner" | ||
Floyd ] Boarding Platform 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X CARABINER Floyd | Floyd | This carabiner is likely for attaching the x-finder to Floyd | something. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Boarding Platform 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an x-finder Floyd | some correspondence Floyd | Descartes's saying Floyd | a brochure Floyd | Introduction to the Analysis of the Infinite Floyd | a set (no longer empty) Floyd | a comic strip Floyd | Berkeley's lecture notes Floyd | the trig homework Floyd | an icosahedron Floyd | a square root Floyd | a cube Floyd | some exhaustion sandals Floyd | a tetrahedron Floyd | an octahedron Floyd | an old coin Floyd | your math book Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "You're most welcome." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x car" | ||
Floyd ] Boarding Platform 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X CAR Floyd | Floyd | This car is primed for speed. A small metal loop is attached to the Floyd | side of the car. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x loop" | ||
Floyd ] Boarding Platform 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X LOOP Floyd | Floyd | The metal loop is attached to the side of the car. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "attach finder to loop" | ||
Floyd ] Boarding Platform 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > ATTACH FINDER TO LOOP Floyd | Floyd | Using the carabiner, you attach the x-finder to the metal Floyd | loop on the car. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "enter car" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER CAR Floyd | Floyd | You glance at the track to remind yourself what you're getting Floyd | yourself into. Floyd | Floyd | The roller coaster track consists of a hill above the water and a Floyd | valley below the water. The track climbs the single hill, descends Floyd | it, enters the water, turns around, dips down into the valley, and Floyd | then returns to the platform. Floyd | Floyd | You enter the car, and it pulls away from the platform. The numbers Floyd | on the x-finder start to increase. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | on the x-finder start to increase.The car slows down as the Floyd | track begins its climb up the single hill of this track. The numbers Floyd | on the x-finder are increasing slowly now. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | on the x-finder are increasing slowly now.You reach the crest Floyd | of the hill, and the car starts rapidly down the other side. The Floyd | numbers on the x-finder are still increasing. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | numbers on the x-finder are still increasing.Unfortunately, Floyd | the car was moving too fast for you to read the x coordinate Floyd | at the crest, but it looked like it was some number between 2 and 3. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | at the crest, but it looked like it was some number between 2 and
Floyd | 3.Then the car hurtles down the far side of the hill, picking up
Floyd | speed. You splash into the river! Yet some force field seems to be
Floyd | keeping you and your possessions dry. The numbers on the
Floyd | x-finder continue to increase rapidly.
| ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | x-finder continue to increase rapidly.The car makes a turn, Floyd | and you travel underwater for a while. You're having trouble Floyd | following the numbers on the x-finder here. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | following the numbers on the x-finder here.The car takes a Floyd | dip down further into the water, but soon comes up again, emerges from Floyd | the river and returns to the platform. The numbers on the Floyd | x-finder stop changing. You exit the car. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Boarding Platform 53/100 (C) Floyd | x-finder stop changing. You exit the car. Floyd | Boarding Platform Floyd | You stand at the boarding platform to a huge roller coaster, which Floyd | sprawls above and around you in every direction - even into the river Floyd | far below. Floyd | Floyd | A car sits at the platform, enticing you to enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get finder" | ||
Floyd ] Boarding Platform 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET FINDER Floyd | Floyd | You remove the x-finder from the metal loop. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] Boarding Platform 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | This small object shows the x-coordinate of your current Floyd | position. It was probably used for testing the roller coaster. The Floyd | x-finder is covered by some kind of waterproof plastic film, Floyd | and it also includes a primitive-looking carabiner. Floyd | Floyd | The x-finder currently reads... 0.2. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Hm." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "We want to detach the finder at the crest somehow, I guess." | ||
| Guenni says, "well..." | ||
| DavidW says, "I dare not say anything." | ||
| DavidW says, "Except, if you goof up, I know how to fix things afterwards." | ||
| DavidW says, "Assuming you don't save and restore." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x brochure" | ||
Floyd ] Boarding Platform 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X BROCHURE Floyd | Floyd | This brightly-colored brochure is an advertisement for the roller Floyd | coaster. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Please don't, I didn't mess up, and want to read how the fixing play out. :-)" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||
Floyd ] Boarding Platform 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > READ IT Floyd | Floyd | "Descartes's Roller Coaster and Water Ride: Experience the thrills of Floyd | cutting-edge analytic geometry! Floyd | Floyd | "With our proprietary technology, we can change the shape of the track Floyd | to any algebraic curve! We feature a new curve each month, so ride Floyd | often! Floyd | Floyd | "For special events such as birthday parties and weddings we can even Floyd | accommodate curve requests! Just write the algebraic equation for the Floyd | curve you want on one of our special cards and give it to the Floyd | operator! (Guests are encouraged to book well in advance, as we do Floyd | have an extensive waiting list.) Floyd | Floyd | "There's more: Our patented "air bubble" technology prevents anything Floyd | inside the car from getting wet while the car travels underwater!" Floyd | Floyd | Underneath, in smaller print, are some disclaimers: "Riders should be Floyd | aware that the boarding platform may be moved to different x Floyd | coordinates to accommodate differently-shaped tracks. Any such Floyd | coordinate changes are purely to maximize the riders' experience. In Floyd | addition, in the rare case that a track is completely underwater, Floyd | riders will be prevented from entering the boarding area." Floyd | Floyd | Finally, very tiny print at the bottom reads "Construction by Meretzky Floyd | and Co." Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "And yes. I'd know how to do it as well." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x platform" | ||
Floyd ] Boarding Platform 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X PLATFORM Floyd | Floyd | Boarding Platform Floyd | You stand at the boarding platform to a huge roller coaster, which Floyd | sprawls above and around you in every direction - even into the river Floyd | far below. Floyd | Floyd | A car sits at the platform, enticing you to enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "move platform" | ||
Floyd ] Boarding Platform 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > MOVE PLATFORM Floyd | Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Roller Coaster Entrance 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You climb down to the roller coaster entrance. The descent is a bit Floyd | disorienting, and you're not sure exactly where you ended up relative Floyd | to the platform. Floyd | Floyd | Roller Coaster Entrance Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Operator's Office 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Operator's Office Floyd | A display is set into the wall, with a slot next to it. There is a Floyd | thin card in the slot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x display" | ||
Floyd ] Operator's Office 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X DISPLAY Floyd | Floyd | The display reads "y = 50x - Pi*x^3." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "It is getting late again here, I should note." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x card" | ||
Floyd ] Operator's Office 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X CARD Floyd | Floyd | This small, very thin card reads "Farmer's Problem: y = Floyd | 50x - Pi*x^3." You remember that y Floyd | represents the volume of the barrel the farmer is trying to build, Floyd | while x represents the radius. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x finder" | ||
Floyd ] Operator's Office 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X FINDER Floyd | Floyd | This small object shows the x-coordinate of your current Floyd | position. It was probably used for testing the roller coaster. The Floyd | x-finder is covered by some kind of waterproof plastic film, Floyd | and it also includes a primitive-looking carabiner. Floyd | Floyd | The x-finder currently reads... nothing. I suppose you're Floyd | not at a location that has a meaningful x-coordinate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x film" | ||
Floyd ] Operator's Office 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > X FILM Floyd | Floyd | This waterproof plastic film covers the x-finder. You could Floyd | probably remove it if you wanted. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "Yeah, the midnight isn't to far off on this peace of the bluerange." | |
| DavidW says, "It's 5:30ish for me." | ||
| DavidW says, "5:30 pm" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "save" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "cfbeauty2" | ||
Floyd ] Operator's Office 53/100 (C)
Floyd | > SAVEOk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Guenni says, "Otherwise, you'd be probably be calld Davidow :-)" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "at least we're more than half-way through, pointwise." | ||
| DavidW says, "yes, you accomplished a ton of stuff today." | ||
| Guenni says, "My two favorite puzzles still await." | ||
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "Good night!" | ||
| DavidW says, "good night, Good Knight" | ||
| Guenni hollers, "Night everyone." | DavidW says (to Guenni), "good night to you also" | |
| DavidW says, "I shall also crash for a bit." | ||
| *** SESSION TWO *** | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I realize we have a couple of minutes yet, but I assume you all want to continue ABC&A with your cfbeauty2 save..." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "You're... half-way?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "(Judging by the transcript thus far)" | ||
| DavidW says, "uhhh, not quite." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Approximately, yes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Pointwise." | ||
| Jacqueline nods. | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at Guenni), "!" | ||
| DavidW asks, "must be bad connection?" | ||
| Roger says, "Like a ship passing in the night" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "So I know some people were looking forward to me failing the roller coaster." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask beautycoldandaustere2" | ||
Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme Floyd | beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without Floyd | appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous Floyd | trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a Floyd | stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show." -- Floyd | Bertrand Russell | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||
Floyd ]
Floyd | Would you like to...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Play through the tutorial : T
Floyd | Start the story - from the beginning : (SPACE)
Floyd | - from a saved position : R
Floyd | Quit : Q
| ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "r" | ||
Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cfbeauty2" | ||
Floyd ] Operator's Office 53/100 (C)
Floyd | Ok.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Knight_Otu says, "So, as I was saying, the roller coaster. The solution hit me shortly after logging off last week." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Operator's Office 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Operator's Office Floyd | The roller coaster operator's office is a small, dingy affair. The Floyd | only thing to commend it is that it still has a good view of the Floyd | roller coaster. The exit is to the west. Floyd | Floyd | A display is set into the wall, with a slot next to it. There is a Floyd | thin card in the slot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Operator's Office 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an x-finder Floyd | some correspondence Floyd | Descartes's saying Floyd | a brochure Floyd | Introduction to the Analysis of the Infinite Floyd | a set (no longer empty) Floyd | a comic strip Floyd | Berkeley's lecture notes Floyd | the trig homework Floyd | an icosahedron Floyd | a square root Floyd | a cube Floyd | some exhaustion sandals Floyd | a tetrahedron Floyd | an octahedron Floyd | an old coin Floyd | your math book Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I didn't think you had quite enough info to solve solve it yet." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "We have a formula where we need to get a local peak." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "We have an x-finder that we can short out or something when it hits the water level, also known as 0." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "The answer is..." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look up differential calculus" | ||
Floyd ] Operator's Office 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS Floyd | Floyd | (in your math book) Floyd | That topic is not listed in the index. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look up derivative" | ||
Floyd ] Operator's Office 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP DERIVATIVE Floyd | Floyd | (in your math book) Floyd | The derivative is one of the major concepts in calculus. Roughly Floyd | speaking, it gives a precise way to determine the ratio of two Floyd | quantities as they become infinitely small. Thus it can be used to Floyd | measure rates of change, with applications like velocity, Floyd | acceleration, and marginal cost. It can also be used to find the Floyd | slope, or steepness, of the graph of a function, as this can be Floyd | thought of as the ratio of the vertical change in the graph of a Floyd | function to a corresponding horizontal change. Floyd | Floyd | Another major application of the derivative is to find the maximum or Floyd | minimum value of a function. The maximum of a function occurs when Floyd | the graph of the function switches from ascending to descending. Floyd | Since the derivative is positive when the graph of a function is Floyd | ascending, and the derivative is negative when the graph of a function Floyd | is descending, at the maximum the derivative has a value of zero. A Floyd | similar scenario holds true for the minimum of a function. In that Floyd | case the graph of the function switches from descending to ascending, Floyd | and so its derivative switches from negative to positive. The value Floyd | of the derivative at the minimum is also zero. There are some other Floyd | technicalities to consider, but this is the basic situation. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "That the derivative of a function hits 0 where its "parent" hits a peak or valley." | |
| DavidW says, "yes. So far, correct." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "So we need to derive that somehow." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "derive card" | ||
Floyd ] Operator's Office 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > DERIVE CARD Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that. The first word or two on their own might Floyd | suffice, though; perhaps it would work to just derive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "derive" | ||
Floyd ] Operator's Office 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > DERIVE Floyd | Floyd | Nothing happens. Perhaps you need to be holding an object to serve as Floyd | the focus of the word of power. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Which we can't do yet. That means we have to play poker first." | |
| DavidW says, "goodness. You guessed a word of power before finding its object. That's very impressive." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "At least I'm pretty sure we need that platonic solid." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm going to mute this channel since I have not yet played this, but I'll be on mud for quite a while yet so if you need me, just page." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "It helps knowing about the math involved." | ||
| Plover arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Operator's Office 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Operator's Office Floyd | The roller coaster operator's office is a small, dingy affair. The Floyd | only thing to commend it is that it still has a good view of the Floyd | roller coaster. The exit is to the west. Floyd | Floyd | A display is set into the wall, with a slot next to it. There is a Floyd | thin card in the slot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Roller Coaster Entrance 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Roller Coaster Entrance Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Three 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | As you move north, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level Three Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Plover says (to Floyd), "version" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Three 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > VERSION Floyd | Floyd | A Beauty Cold and Austere Floyd | An Interactive Digression by Mike Spivey Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 180112 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) 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 | Serial And Fix by Andrew Plotkin Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I think power was level two and west?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I wonder how all of that just now read to someone who doesn't know about this game." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Two 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level Two Floyd | Off to the side sits a gray storage bin. In the storage bin you see a Floyd | square piece of metal and a scribbled scroll. Floyd | Floyd | A gray, translucent ghost flits around the storage bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "er poker" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Casino 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You make your way west. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Casino Floyd | A gaming machine is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Poker Game 53/100 (C) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Poker Game Floyd | Pascal, Bayes, Kolmogorov, and Diaconis are here, playing an intense Floyd | game of poker. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni asks (of plover), "Are you sure the third session for a specific game is a good date for your first floyding?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Now let's see how this works." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "play poker" | ||
Floyd ] No Longer a Poker Game 55/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > PLAY POKER Floyd | Floyd | (the poker game) Floyd | You place the old coin on the poker table. Diaconis gives you a pile Floyd | of money in exchange for the coin, and then he deals the cards. Floyd | Floyd | You play several hands. At first you lose more than you win, but Floyd | thanks to your knowledge of probability, you find that you are pretty Floyd | good at calculating exactly how strong your hand is and what would be Floyd | a reasonable amount to bet for each hand. As the game continues, your Floyd | skill increases, and your calculations become more and more accurate. Floyd | Even though you don't know what cards the other players hold, your Floyd | ability to determine precisely both your hand strength and the optimal Floyd | betting amount mean that, over time, you win much more than you lose. Floyd | The other players start to drop out - first Kolmogorov, then Bayes, Floyd | and then Diaconis. Floyd | Floyd | You and Pascal continue to play, each winning several hands. Finally Floyd | Pascal gets a hand he's very confident of. "All in," he says, as he Floyd | pushes the rest of his money to the center of the table. Glancing at Floyd | your cards, you decide to call his bet. Floyd | Floyd | Pascal, grinning from ear to ear, lays down an ace-high straight. You Floyd | slowly put one, then a second, a third, a fourth, and finally a fifth Floyd | spade on the table. Pascal's smile slides awkwardly off his face. Floyd | You gather your winnings into a pile. Floyd | Floyd | Shaking his head, Pascal congratulates you, as do Kolmogorov, Bayes, Floyd | and Diaconis. The four of them get up from the table and walk off. Floyd | As they leave, you hear Pascal berating himself to Bayes over his last Floyd | bet: "I should have known better. The only thing worth wagering all Floyd | you have is infinite happiness." Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Probability has increased. You estimate Floyd | that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by two Floyd | points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni asks, "I mean, wouldn't it make more sense to start when a new game is started?" | |
| Plover asks, "what game are we playing?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "We're still on Beauty old and Austere." | ||
| Guenni says, "Same as last week "a beauty cold and austere"." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Er, Cold." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] No Longer a Poker Game 55/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | No Longer a Poker Game Floyd | You stand next to a poker table in the casino. The lights and noise Floyd | here are just as overwhelming as in the rest of the casino. The Floyd | gaming machine is to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A piece of paper is on the floor here. It must have fallen out of Floyd | someone's pocket. Floyd | Floyd | On the poker table are a pile of money and an old coin. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yay the room name change." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||
Floyd ] No Longer a Poker Game 55/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ALL Floyd | Floyd | piece of paper: (putting Introduction to the Analysis of the Floyd | Infinite into the set to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | pile of money: (putting the brochure into the set to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | old coin: (putting Descartes's saying into the set to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Heh." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x paper" | ||
Floyd ] No Longer a Poker Game 55/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > X PAPER Floyd | Floyd | On this paper several numbers have been written, in a triangular Floyd | pattern: Floyd | Floyd | 1 Floyd | 1 1 Floyd | 1 2 1 Floyd | 1 3 3 1 Floyd | 1 4 6 4 1 Floyd | 1 5 10 10 5 1 Floyd | 1 6 15 20 15 6 1 Floyd | 1 7 21 35 35 21 7 1 Floyd | 1 8 28 56 70 56 28 8 1 Floyd | 1 9 36 84 126 126 84 36 9 1 Floyd | 1 10 45 120 210 210 120 45 10 1 Floyd | Floyd | The middle number in the last row has been smudged, and you cannot Floyd | make it out. Underneath the numbers is written: "Note to self: Start Floyd | counting with row 0 and column 0, not row 1 and column 1." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Another one of those." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x money" | ||
Floyd ] No Longer a Poker Game 55/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > X MONEY Floyd | Floyd | The huge pile of money represents your winnings from beating Pascal, Floyd | Bayes, Kolmogorov, and Diaconis at poker. If this weren't a dream you Floyd | would be rich. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "fwiw, you could've picked that paper out of Pascal's pocket while he was here." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I also realised we lost our lever that we toppled the world with." | ||
| DavidW says, "Oh, that's still in the map room." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look under table" | ||
Floyd ] No Longer a Poker Game 55/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UNDER TABLE Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing underneath the poker table. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] No Longer a Poker Game 55/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | As you start to leave, something catches your eye. You turn and see Floyd | that the five-sided poker table is shaking. The poker table begins to Floyd | transform, shrinking while maintaining its pentagonal top. Soon you Floyd | are no longer looking at a poker table; you are looking at a Floyd | dodecahedron. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It simply fell on the floor when you moved the globe." | |
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "Ah ha!" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get dodeca" | ||
Floyd ] No Longer a Poker Game 56/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET DODECA Floyd | Floyd | (putting the correspondence into the set to make room) Floyd | You take the dodecahedron. Looking curiously at it, you note that it Floyd | has twelve sides, each of which is in the shape of a regular pentagon. Floyd | You feel you understand three-dimensional solid geometry a little Floyd | better. Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Geometry has increased. You estimate Floyd | that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by one Floyd | point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Casino 56/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Casino Floyd | A gaming machine is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Two 56/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | As you move east, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level Two Floyd | Off to the side sits a gray storage bin. In the storage bin you see a Floyd | square piece of metal and a scribbled scroll. Floyd | Floyd | A gray, translucent ghost flits around the storage bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] West of House 56/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You make your way east. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | West of House Floyd | There is a small mailbox here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "That should be all five Platonic solids." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 56/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | There are currently four books on the bookcase: Floyd | Diophantus's Arithmetica Floyd | Ars Magna Floyd | The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Floyd | Balancing Floyd | Elements Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put infinite in shelf" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 57/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT INFINITE IN SHELF Floyd | Floyd | (first taking Introduction to the Analysis of the Infinite) Floyd | (putting the x-finder into the set to make room) Floyd | You put Introduction to the Analysis of the Infinite on the Floyd | bookcase. As it slides into place you hear a faint click. Floyd | Then you hear the same voice as before - the one that sounds like Floyd | Professor Glasser. Floyd | Floyd | The voice says, "Much of the modern notation and many of the concepts Floyd | for handling exponential, logarithmic, and trigonometric functions Floyd | ultimately derive from this comprehensive treatment of infinite series Floyd | by Leonhard Euler." Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Mathematics Texts has increased. You Floyd | estimate that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by one Floyd | point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] West of House 57/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | West of House Floyd | There is a small mailbox here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Two 57/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | As you move west, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level Two Floyd | Off to the side sits a gray storage bin. In the storage bin you see a Floyd | square piece of metal and a scribbled scroll. Floyd | Floyd | A gray, translucent ghost flits around the storage bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni nods. | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level One 57/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level One Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 57/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You make your way north. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Lyceum Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard 57/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You step through the doorway of the private home, confident in your Floyd | knowledge of geometry. Floyd | Floyd | Courtyard Floyd | In the middle of the courtyard stands a group of six elegant Floyd | pedestals. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard 57/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a dodecahedron Floyd | an old coin Floyd | a pile of money Floyd | a piece of paper Floyd | a set (no longer empty) Floyd | an x-finder Floyd | some correspondence Floyd | Descartes's saying Floyd | a brochure Floyd | a comic strip Floyd | Berkeley's lecture notes Floyd | the trig homework Floyd | an icosahedron Floyd | a square root Floyd | a cube Floyd | some exhaustion sandals Floyd | a tetrahedron Floyd | an octahedron Floyd | your math book Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put cube on square" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard 57/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT CUBE ON SQUARE Floyd | Floyd | (the square top pedestal) Floyd | (first taking the cube) Floyd | You put the cube on the square top pedestal. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "dodeca on the pentagon, of course." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put tetra on large" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard 57/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT TETRA ON LARGE Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the tetrahedron) Floyd | You put the tetrahedron on the large triangular top pedestal. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put dodeca on pentagon" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard 57/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT DODECA ON PENTAGON Floyd | Floyd | You put the dodecahedron on the pentagonal top pedestal. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put octa on medium" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard 57/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT OCTA ON MEDIUM Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the octahedron) Floyd | You put the octahedron on the medium triangular top pedestal. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put ico on small" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard 59/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT ICO ON SMALL Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the icosahedron) Floyd | You place the icosahedron on the small triangular top pedestal and Floyd | step back. As you do so, the air grows still. Then a strong wind Floyd | whips through the courtyard. The five Platonic solids rise from their Floyd | pedestals, rotating slowly. Then they begin spinning in the air, Floyd | forming a single ring that revolves around and above the circular Floyd | pedestal in the center. They spin faster and faster - until you Floyd | cannot distinguish them from each other. Then, with a final loud clap Floyd | and a blinding flash of light, the ring of solids collapses in on Floyd | itself! After your vision clears you look back at the pedestals to Floyd | see a sphere resting on the circular one in the center. Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Geometry has increased. You estimate Floyd | that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by two Floyd | points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x sphere" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard 59/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > X SPHERE Floyd | Floyd | This beautiful translucent sphere seems to sparkle as you gaze at it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard 59/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET IT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Courtyard 59/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You wander around the home for a while, but you find nothing of Floyd | interest. Eventually you return to the courtyard. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Pretty" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 59/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lyceum Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level One 59/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | As you move south, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level One Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 59/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You make your way west. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Great Hall Floyd | On the long table is a pile of old coins. Floyd | Floyd | The Count is here, looking rather bored. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I didn't know Plato was into disco." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "give money to count" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 59/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE MONEY TO COUNT Floyd | Floyd | The Count eyes the money. Then he shakes his head and says, "I'm Floyd | sorry, but I'm really tired of counting money." He indicates the pile Floyd | of coins. "Thank you anyway. Something different would be nice." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Okay." | |
| DavidW says, "yay. Nice try, though." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "give correspondence to count" | ||
Floyd ] Great Hall 59/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE CORRESPONDENCE TO COUNT Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the correspondence) Floyd | The Count doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level One 59/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The Count calls after you, "If you find something else for me to count Floyd | I would be grateful!" Floyd | Floyd | As you move east, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level One Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni exclaims, "He!" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "So up here, that leaves the count and Achilles as puzzles." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Librarian's Office 59/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You make your way south. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Librarian's Office Floyd | You have solved the number puzzle on the wall here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Map Room 59/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Map Room Floyd | The huge globe lies on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see Archimedes's staff here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm, yes" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get staff" | ||
Floyd ] Map Room 59/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET STAFF Floyd | Floyd | (putting the piece of paper into the set to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Librarian's Office 59/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Librarian's Office Floyd | You have solved the number puzzle on the wall here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level One 59/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | As you move north, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level One Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Two 59/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You make your way down. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level Two Floyd | Off to the side sits a gray storage bin. In the storage bin you see a Floyd | square piece of metal and a scribbled scroll. Floyd | Floyd | A gray, translucent ghost flits around the storage bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "show staff to ghost" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Two 59/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW STAFF TO GHOST Floyd | Floyd | The gray lady looks carefully at Archimedes's staff. Then she says, Floyd | "This would certainly be useful - and valuable - if you weren't Floyd | dreaming. However, I think you've exhausted its usefulness for now." Floyd | She takes the staff from you and places it in the gray storage bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Good to know." | |
| DavidW says, "Ghost is useful ghost." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Here, I think there was the laundry area and the mailbox." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Grassy Area 59/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You make your way north. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Grassy Area Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Yeah, I think so." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Two 59/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | As you move south, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level Two Floyd | Off to the side sits a gray storage bin. In the storage bin you see Floyd | Archimedes's staff, a square piece of metal, and a scribbled scroll. Floyd | Floyd | A gray, translucent ghost flits around the storage bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Three 59/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You make your way down. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level Three Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Great Court 59/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You make your way west. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Great Court Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "It's possible you won't need the laundry room." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Possible, sure." | ||
| DavidW says, "I didn't understand what the laundry room was for. The author told me after I published my walkthrough." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "But then it's kind of pointless to have it." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] College Chapel 59/100 (C+) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | College Chapel Floyd | At the west end of the chapel stands a statue of Isaac Newton. Floyd | Floyd | A beam of light shines through a window and forms a circle on the Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Plover gets bored and wanders off to the Toyshop. | ||
| Plover arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put sphere in circle" | ||
Floyd ] Giant's Shoulder 61/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT SPHERE IN CIRCLE Floyd | Floyd | You place the sphere into the circle of light. The beam of light Floyd | passes through the surface of the sphere, refracting into a beautiful Floyd | rainbow that shines across the statue of Newton. Floyd | Floyd | To your surprise, the statue grins at you, steps down off its plinth, Floyd | and takes your hand. Floyd | Floyd | The chapel slowly fades from view, and you find yourself on... Floyd | Floyd | Giant's Shoulder Floyd | You stand on the broad shoulder of a giant. From this location you Floyd | have a sweeping view of the surrounding landscape - a valley below Floyd | with a lake in its center, surrounded by a forest. A snow-capped Floyd | mountain range is off in the distance. Floyd | Floyd | Sir Isaac Newton is here, gazing out over the landscape. Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Physics has increased. You estimate that Floyd | your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "If he's seen farther than anyone..." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "greet newton" | ||
Floyd ] Giant's Shoulder 61/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > GREET NEWTON Floyd | Floyd | Newton stares at you for a long time. "You're on an epic Quest, Floyd | aren't you?" he finally says. Floyd | Floyd | You nod in response. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm willing to assist you," Newton replies, "but if I give you my Floyd | help now then you won't understand how to use it. Floyd | Floyd | "I want you to prove to me that you are worthy of my help. Answer my Floyd | questions, and my help is yours. Floyd | Floyd | "Two hints: (1) Each answer consists of a single word; you should Floyd | ANSWER the single-word-answer. (2) If you want me to repeat a Floyd | question, TALK TO me. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, and if you want to leave this place, just jump off the giant's Floyd | shoulder. Trust me on that." Newton grins. Floyd | Floyd | "First question: There are three major concepts in calculus. One is Floyd | the limit, and a second is the integral. What's the third?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "answer derivative" | ||
Floyd ] Giant's Shoulder 61/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > ANSWER DERIVATIVE Floyd | Floyd | (to Isaac Newton) Floyd | "That's correct. The three major concepts in calculus are the limit, Floyd | the derivative, and the integral. Floyd | Floyd | "In fact, the fundamental theorem of calculus, (cough, cough) which I Floyd | first proved (cough, cough), shows that the derivative and the Floyd | integral are inverse operations - kind of like addition and Floyd | subtraction are inverse operations, but in a more complicated way. Floyd | Limits get precisely defined much later, as mathematicians try to Floyd | solve the theoretical problems with calculus pointed out by people Floyd | like George Berkeley." Floyd | Floyd | Newton sighs. "It pains me somewhat to say that 'derivative' and Floyd | 'integral' were not my terms - I preferred 'fluxion' and Floyd | 'fluent.' But Leibniz won that particular battle." Floyd | Floyd | "Here's the second question: What's the primary graphical Floyd | interpretation of the derivative?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "answer tangent" | ||
Floyd ] Giant's Shoulder 61/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > ANSWER TANGENT Floyd | Floyd | (to Isaac Newton) Floyd | "No, that's not correct. I'll repeat the question: What's the primary Floyd | graphical interpretation of the derivative?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Hm." | |
| yournamehere says, "if y'all discover the purpose of the laundry room, please advise" | ||
| DavidW says, "Math book might help." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "But will he allow lookups?" | ||
| DavidW says (to yournamehere), "I know what it's for." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look up derivative" | ||
Floyd ] Giant's Shoulder 61/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP DERIVATIVE Floyd | Floyd | (in your math book) Floyd | The derivative is one of the major concepts in calculus. Roughly Floyd | speaking, it gives a precise way to determine the ratio of two Floyd | quantities as they become infinitely small. Thus it can be used to Floyd | measure rates of change, with applications like velocity, Floyd | acceleration, and marginal cost. It can also be used to find the Floyd | slope, or steepness, of the graph of a function, as this can be Floyd | thought of as the ratio of the vertical change in the graph of a Floyd | function to a corresponding horizontal change. Floyd | Floyd | Another major application of the derivative is to find the maximum or Floyd | minimum value of a function. The maximum of a function occurs when Floyd | the graph of the function switches from ascending to descending. Floyd | Since the derivative is positive when the graph of a function is Floyd | ascending, and the derivative is negative when the graph of a function Floyd | is descending, at the maximum the derivative has a value of zero. A Floyd | similar scenario holds true for the minimum of a function. In that Floyd | case the graph of the function switches from descending to ascending, Floyd | and so its derivative switches from negative to positive. The value Floyd | of the derivative at the minimum is also zero. There are some other Floyd | technicalities to consider, but this is the basic situation. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to K-O), "oh yes. You can leave and come back too." | |
| DavidW says, "This isn't a formal exam." | ||
| yournamehere says (to dw), "right...it sounded like you were holding back to avoid spoiling it for the others" | ||
| DavidW says (to ynh), "Correct." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "But are we really worthy if we only know where to find it?" | ||
| Guenni says, "Newton isn't that picky. :-)" | ||
| Guenni says, "Plus, we might above his eyes at the moment. So he mighn't even notice." | ||
| DavidW says, "These aren't random questions. These questions are designed to teach what you need to know to use his gift." | ||
| Guenni says, "might be." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "answer rate of change" | ||
Floyd ] Giant's Shoulder 61/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > ANSWER RATE OF CHANGE Floyd | Floyd | (to Isaac Newton) Floyd | "No, that's not correct. I'll repeat the question: What's the primary Floyd | graphical interpretation of the derivative?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "One word answers, remember." | |
| Knight_Otu feels his smarts drain away. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "answer change" | ||
Floyd ] Giant's Shoulder 61/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > ANSWER CHANGE Floyd | Floyd | (to Isaac Newton) Floyd | "No, that's not correct. I'll repeat the question: What's the primary Floyd | graphical interpretation of the derivative?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "answer slope" | ||
Floyd ] Giant's Shoulder 61/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > ANSWER SLOPE Floyd | Floyd | (to Isaac Newton) Floyd | "That's correct. The derivative measures the slope of the graph of a Floyd | function - how steeply it is rising or falling. Floyd | Floyd | "So if the graph of a function is rising, its derivative is positive, Floyd | and if it is rising sharply, its derivative is even more positive. Floyd | Similarly, if the graph of a function is decreasing, its derivative is Floyd | negative. Floyd | Floyd | "Next question: If a function's derivative is positive when the Floyd | function is increasing, and the function's derivative is negative when Floyd | the function is decreasing, what's the value of the derivative when a Floyd | function is at its largest value? At that place the function is Floyd | neither increasing nor decreasing." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "answer zero" | ||
Floyd ] Giant's Shoulder 61/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > ANSWER ZERO Floyd | Floyd | (to Isaac Newton) Floyd | "That's correct. When a function crosses through its maximum, its Floyd | graph switches from rising to falling. Thus its derivative switches Floyd | from positive to negative. At the instant the function hits its Floyd | maximum, its derivative must be zero. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, there are some other technical considerations, like if the Floyd | derivative doesn't exist, but we don't need to go into those. Floyd | Floyd | "Last question!" Newton grins mischievously. "What have you seen in Floyd | your travels - something not man-made - that has slopes?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "answer sine" | ||
Floyd ] Giant's Shoulder 61/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > ANSWER SINE Floyd | Floyd | (to Isaac Newton) Floyd | "The sine wave you've seen does have slopes, but that particular one Floyd | was made by Cardano. Try again," Newton replies. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "answer hill" | ||
Floyd ] Giant's Shoulder 64/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > ANSWER HILL Floyd | Floyd | (to Isaac Newton) Floyd | Newton grins. "Close enough," he says. Floyd | Floyd | Newton reaches out his hand toward the mountain range off in the Floyd | distance and closes his eyes. You follow the line of his outstretched Floyd | hand, and you see the mountains moving - moving towards you. Newton Floyd | appears to be summoning them! Floyd | Floyd | Not sure of what you're seeing, you blink, shake your head, and look Floyd | once more. The mountain range off in the distance is gone. Floyd | Floyd | Instead, Newton is holding a toy model of a mountain range in his Floyd | hand. He gives it to you. "Use this well," he says. "It will Floyd | transform the graph of a function into the graph of its derivative Floyd | function." Floyd | Floyd | "A word of caution, though: this is only powerful enough to handle Floyd | curves where y is equal to some expression involving Floyd | x - in other words, where y is explicitly Floyd | some function of x. It will not handle situations in which Floyd | x and y are merely related in some equation; i.e., Floyd | where y may be implicitly some function of Floyd | x. (You need a more powerful technique, 'implicit Floyd | differentiation,' for that.) Floyd | Floyd | "Also, remember what we've discussed: The derivative measures the Floyd | slope of the graph of a function. If you can find where the Floyd | derivative function is 0, that should tell you where the original Floyd | function hits its maximum. If you would like a reminder of this, feel Floyd | free to come back and speak with me again. Floyd | Floyd | "Finally, please return the mountain range when you're done with it." Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Calculus has increased. You estimate Floyd | that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by three Floyd | points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Good." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "jump off" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP OFF Floyd | Floyd | You jump off the giant's shoulder and hurtle toward the ground. You Floyd | hear Newton calling after you, "Don't forget to return the mountain Floyd | range when you're finished with it!" Floyd | Floyd | It's a long fall. You're falling, and falling, and falling... | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] College Chapel 64/100 (B-) Floyd | It's a long fall. You're falling, and falling, and falling...And you Floyd | hit the ground back in the chapel of Trinity College. Floyd | Floyd | College Chapel Floyd | You stand in the magnificent chapel of Trinity College. You make a Floyd | mental note to visit this place sometime when you're truly awake. The Floyd | exit is to the south. Floyd | Floyd | At the west end of the chapel stands a statue of Isaac Newton. Floyd | Floyd | A beam of light shines through a window and forms a circle on the Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a sphere here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x range" | ||
Floyd ] College Chapel 64/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > X RANGE Floyd | Floyd | This small model of a mountain range wouldn't be out of place as a Floyd | backdrop to someone's train set. It features a variety of slopes: up, Floyd | down, steep, gentle, flat. The word "DERIVE" is written on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Great Court 64/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Great Court Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Three 64/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | As you move east, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | The fog is completely gone now, and with it, any confusion you may Floyd | have had about this space. You can now see a passage leading down. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level Three Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Excellent progress." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "New downwards path." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Roller Coaster Entrance 64/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You make your way south. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Roller Coaster Entrance Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "derive" | ||
Floyd ] Roller Coaster Entrance 64/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > DERIVE Floyd | Floyd | The toy mountain range vibrates quietly. With a screeching of metal Floyd | and wood, the roller coaster track tears itself apart and reforms in Floyd | the shape of its derivative curve. The roller coaster appears to be Floyd | undamaged by this process. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Boarding Platform 64/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You climb up to the boarding platform. The ascent is a bit Floyd | disorienting, and you're not sure exactly where you ended up relative Floyd | to the roller coaster entrance. Floyd | Floyd | Boarding Platform Floyd | A car sits at the platform, enticing you to enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x finder" | ||
Floyd ] Boarding Platform 64/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > X FINDER Floyd | Floyd | This small object shows the x-coordinate of your current Floyd | position. It was probably used for testing the roller coaster. The Floyd | x-finder is covered by some kind of waterproof plastic film, Floyd | and it also includes a primitive-looking carabiner. Floyd | Floyd | The x-finder currently reads... -2. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get film" | ||
Floyd ] Boarding Platform 64/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET FILM Floyd | Floyd | You pull the plastic film off the x-finder, tearing it in the Floyd | process. After removing it completely, you wad it up into a ball. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "attach finder to car" | ||
Floyd ] Boarding Platform 64/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > ATTACH FINDER TO CAR Floyd | Floyd | Using the carabiner, you attach the x-finder to the metal Floyd | loop on the car. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "enter car" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER CAR Floyd | Floyd | You glance at the track to remind yourself what you're getting Floyd | yourself into. Floyd | Floyd | The roller coaster track climbs a single hill, then descends it, Floyd | enters the water, turns around, and returns to the platform. Floyd | Floyd | You enter the car, and it pulls away from the platform. The numbers Floyd | on the x-finder are negative, and they start to increase. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | on the x-finder are negative, and they start to increase.The Floyd | car slows down as the track begins its climb up the single hill of Floyd | this track. The numbers on the x-finder are increasing Floyd | slowly now. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | slowly now.You reach the crest of the hill, and the car starts rapidly
Floyd | down the other side. The numbers on the x-finder are still
Floyd | increasing.
| ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | increasing.Then the car hurtles down the far side of the hill, picking Floyd | up speed. You splash into the river! Yet some force field seems to Floyd | be keeping you and your possessions dry. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | be keeping you and your possessions dry.The numbers on the
Floyd | x-finder were increasing until you hit the water, but they
Floyd | are no longer doing so.
| ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | are no longer doing so.The car makes a turn, and you travel underwater Floyd | for a while. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | for a while.Soon the car emerges from the river and returns to the Floyd | platform. You exit the car. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Boarding Platform 64/100 (B-) Floyd | platform. You exit the car. Floyd | Boarding Platform Floyd | You stand at the boarding platform to a huge roller coaster, which Floyd | sprawls above and around you in every direction - even into the river Floyd | far below. Floyd | Floyd | A car sits at the platform, enticing you to enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x finder" | ||
Floyd ] Boarding Platform 64/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > X FINDER Floyd | Floyd | This small object shows the x-coordinate of your current Floyd | position. It was probably used for testing the roller coaster. It Floyd | includes a primitive-looking carabiner. Unfortunately, the Floyd | x-finder has gotten waterlogged and so no longer works Floyd | properly. Floyd | Floyd | The x-finder currently reads... 2.30329. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu exclaims, "Tadaa!" | |
| DavidW says, "hooray!" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Now the farmer can make his barrel." | ||
| DavidW asks, "What's the dog's name, Pennington?" | ||
| Guenni says, "Yeah." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Man, I really wonder how that reads to people knowing nothing about the game." | ||
| DavidW asks, "I think the farmer is level 3 north?" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Riding a rollercoaster to solve a farmer's problem?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Roller Coaster Entrance 64/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You climb down to the roller coaster entrance. The descent is a bit Floyd | disorienting, and you're not sure exactly where you ended up relative Floyd | to the platform. Floyd | Floyd | Roller Coaster Entrance Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Three 64/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | As you move north, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level Three Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Barn 64/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You make your way north. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Barn Floyd | Pennings the dog is here, looking expectantly at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "pet dog" | ||
Floyd ] Barn 64/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > PET DOG Floyd | Floyd | Pennings licks your face happily. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "give finder to pennings" | ||
Floyd ] Barn 64/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE FINDER TO PENNINGS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing, at least as described. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Oops" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Three 64/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | As you move south, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level Three Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Roller Coaster Entrance 64/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You make your way south. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Roller Coaster Entrance Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Boarding Platform 64/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You climb up to the boarding platform. The ascent is a bit Floyd | disorienting, and you're not sure exactly where you ended up relative Floyd | to the roller coaster entrance. Floyd | Floyd | Boarding Platform Floyd | A car sits at the platform, enticing you to enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get finder" | ||
Floyd ] Boarding Platform 64/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET FINDER Floyd | Floyd | You remove the x-finder from the metal loop. Floyd | Floyd | (You put the pile of money into the set to make room.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Roller Coaster Entrance 64/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You climb down to the roller coaster entrance. The descent is a bit Floyd | disorienting, and you're not sure exactly where you ended up relative Floyd | to the platform. Floyd | Floyd | Roller Coaster Entrance Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Three 64/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | As you move north, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level Three Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Barn 64/100 (B-) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You make your way north. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Barn Floyd | Pennings the dog is here, looking expectantly at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "give finder to dog" | ||
Floyd ] Barn 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE FINDER TO DOG Floyd | Floyd | Pennings takes the x-finder in his mouth and rushes out of Floyd | the barn, his tail wagging happily. Floyd | Floyd | Soon he returns with the farmer, who has an interested look on his Floyd | face. "I just finished freeing Bessie," the farmer says. "This looks Floyd | promising!" Floyd | Floyd | He does some calculations, and his look of interest turns to surprise. Floyd | "With a radius of 2.30329 feet, the height turns out to be 4.60659 Floyd | feet, which (other than a little rounding error) is exactly twice the Floyd | radius! And it gives a volume of 76.7765 cubic feet, which is better Floyd | than any other volume I've been able to find! How did you come up Floyd | with this?" Floyd | Floyd | You explain about the derivative of a function, how it measures how Floyd | steeply the graph of the function is ascending or descending, and how Floyd | ascending means a positive derivative and descending means a negative Floyd | derivative. The you describe how the largest value of the barrel Floyd | volume function occurs where its graph switches from ascending to Floyd | descending - a location where the derivative of the function is zero. Floyd | Floyd | "And so," you say, "once I hit the water on the derivative track, the Floyd | x-finder got stuck at the radius that gives the largest Floyd | possible value for the volume of the barrel." Floyd | Floyd | "Impressive!" says the farmer. "Most impressive." Floyd | Floyd | He turns to Pennings. "Go on now," he says. "Go. There's a treat Floyd | for you at the back door." Pennings gives a happy bark and runs out Floyd | of the barn. Floyd | Floyd | Thanking you profusely, the farmer returns the x-finder to Floyd | you and starts working on the pile of wood. Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Calculus has increased. You estimate Floyd | that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by seven Floyd | points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu exclaims, "We've reached B!" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Three 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | As you move south, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level Three Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Two 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level Two Floyd | Off to the side sits a gray storage bin. In the storage bin you see Floyd | Archimedes's staff, a square piece of metal, and a scribbled scroll. Floyd | Floyd | A gray, translucent ghost flits around the storage bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Plover disappears through a gap in the MUD. Oh dear, you'll see Plover next time. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "show finder to ghost" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Two 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW FINDER TO GHOST Floyd | Floyd | The gray lady looks carefully at the x-finder. Then she Floyd | says, "I'm not sure you'll have any more use for that." She takes the Floyd | x-finder from you and places it in the gray storage bin. "If Floyd | you ever want it back, though, feel free to just take it," she adds. Floyd | "I might be wrong." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Three 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You make your way down. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level Three Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Blinding Light 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You make your way down. Floyd | Floyd | Blinding Light Floyd | A bright, blinding - almost painful - light fills this space. You Floyd | can't see anything for the light, but you do sense the exit up. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Keeping the wad of plastic, eh?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x light" | ||
Floyd ] Blinding Light 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > X LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | The light is so bright it's almost painful. It feels like you've just Floyd | stepped from a dark building into the sunlight, yet your eyes don't Floyd | seem to be adjusting. You can't tell where the light is coming from. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Oh, we kept that?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Blinding Light 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a wad of plastic Floyd | a toy mountain range Floyd | some correspondence Floyd | an old coin Floyd | a set (no longer empty) Floyd | a pile of money Floyd | a piece of paper Floyd | Descartes's saying Floyd | a brochure Floyd | a comic strip Floyd | Berkeley's lecture notes Floyd | the trig homework Floyd | a square root Floyd | some exhaustion sandals Floyd | your math book Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x wad" | ||
Floyd ] Blinding Light 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > X WAD Floyd | Floyd | This useless wad was once the plastic film on the x-finder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Three 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up through the bright light. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level Three Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Two 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level Two Floyd | Off to the side sits a gray storage bin. In the storage bin you see Floyd | an x-finder, Archimedes's staff, a square piece of metal, and Floyd | a scribbled scroll. Floyd | Floyd | A gray, translucent ghost flits around the storage bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "show wad to ghost" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Two 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW WAD TO GHOST Floyd | Floyd | The gray lady looks carefully at the wad of plastic. Then she says, Floyd | "I'm not sure you'll have any more use for that." She takes the wad Floyd | of plastic from you and places it in the gray storage bin. "If you Floyd | ever want it back, though, feel free to just take it," she adds. "I Floyd | might be wrong." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "show piece of paper to ghost" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Two 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW PIECE OF PAPER TO GHOST Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the piece of paper) Floyd | The gray lady looks carefully at the piece of paper. Then she says, Floyd | "I'm not sure you'll have any more use for that." She takes the piece Floyd | of paper from you and places it in the gray storage bin. "If you ever Floyd | want it back, though, feel free to just take it," she adds. "I might Floyd | be wrong." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "show notes to ghost" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Two 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW NOTES TO GHOST Floyd | Floyd | (first taking Berkeley's lecture notes) Floyd | The gray lady looks carefully at Berkeley's lecture notes. Then she Floyd | says, "I think you may still find some use for those. You never know, Floyd | though," she adds. "I might be wrong." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "If I may suggest, what about the money from the poker game?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "show brochure to ghost" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Two 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW BROCHURE TO GHOST Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the brochure) Floyd | The gray lady looks carefully at the brochure. Then she says, "I'm Floyd | not sure you'll have any more use for that." She takes the brochure Floyd | from you and places it in the gray storage bin. "If you ever want it Floyd | back, though, feel free to just take it," she adds. "I might be Floyd | wrong." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu exclaims, "But we may need that!" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "show money to ghost" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Two 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW MONEY TO GHOST Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the pile of money) Floyd | The gray lady looks carefully at the pile of money. Finally she says, Floyd | "That would certainly be useful if you weren't dreaming. However, I Floyd | suspect it's not that useful here." She takes the pile of money from Floyd | you and places it in the gray storage bin. "I'm not certain about Floyd | this, so feel free to come back and take it." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu exclaims, "Awww, but we were rich!" | |
| DavidW says, "You want it, take it back." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "show strip to ghost" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Two 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW STRIP TO GHOST Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the comic strip) Floyd | The gray lady looks carefully at the comic strip. Then she says, "I'm Floyd | not sure you'll have any more use for that." She takes the comic Floyd | strip from you and places it in the gray storage bin. "If you ever Floyd | want it back, though, feel free to just take it," she adds. "I might Floyd | be wrong." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "show old coin to ghost" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Two 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW OLD COIN TO GHOST Floyd | Floyd | The gray lady looks carefully at the old coin. Then she says, "I'm Floyd | not sure you'll have any more use for that." She takes the old coin Floyd | from you and places it in the gray storage bin. "If you ever want it Floyd | back, though, feel free to just take it," she adds. "I might be Floyd | wrong." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "It may be fairer to give it back to the count, maybe." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Three 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You make your way down. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level Three Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Light 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You make your way down. Floyd | Floyd | You seem to have gotten more used to the light in this space. Floyd | Floyd | Light Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Light 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Light Floyd | This space is still filled with a bright light. While the light isn't Floyd | painful anymore, it is still difficult to see. You can now tell, Floyd | though, that the source of the light seems to be coming from the Floyd | floor. In addition, there are exits north, south, east, and west, as Floyd | well as the one above you to Gray Matter, Level Three. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oo, good." | |
| DavidW says, "More places to explore." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "That accustoming wasn't tied to points this time." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I'm pretty sure the others were." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Smoky Pub 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You make your way north through the bright light. As you do, you feel Floyd | an electrical impulse course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Smoky Pub Floyd | The smell of tobacco hangs in the air in this small, dark pub. It is Floyd | nearly deserted; even the bartender appears to have stepped out. An Floyd | exit leads south. Floyd | Floyd | Cauchy is sitting at the bar, sipping from a glass of wine. Floyd | Floyd | Weierstrass is next to Cauchy, drowning his sorrows in a pint of beer. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Sometimes you rack up points quicker than the level spaces can catch up to." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Ah." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x cauchy" | ||
Floyd ] Smoky Pub 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > X CAUCHY Floyd | Floyd | Cauchy looks like he is trying to cheer up Weierstrass. He Floyd | occasionally takes a sip from a glass of wine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x weierstrass" | ||
Floyd ] Smoky Pub 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > X WEIERSTRASS Floyd | Floyd | Weierstrass is deep into a pint of beer. He stares morosely into his Floyd | mug from time to time. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "So sometimes you have to do a little back up back down action to see the next stage, since all stages must be seen at least once." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look up weierstrass" | ||
Floyd ] Smoky Pub 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP WEIERSTRASS Floyd | Floyd | (in your math book) Floyd | Karl Weierstrass, one of the great mathematicians of the 19th century, Floyd | never actually completed a college degree. He is particularly famous Floyd | for his precise definitions of limits and continuity, which helped put Floyd | calculus on a solid theoretical foundation. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Good to know." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look up cauchy" | ||
Floyd ] Smoky Pub 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP CAUCHY Floyd | Floyd | (in your math book) Floyd | Frenchman Augustin-Louis Cauchy was the most prolific mathematician of Floyd | the 19th century. While he made important contributions in many Floyd | areas, he is particularly known for his emphasis on rigor in Floyd | mathematics and his pathbreaking work in complex analysis. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Light 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | As you move south, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Light Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Research Lab 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You make your way west through the bright light. As you do, you feel Floyd | an electrical impulse course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Research Lab Floyd | Wires and pieces of metal indicate that highly complex experiments Floyd | must have once been performed in this room. Now, though, they lie Floyd | scattered haphazardly here and there: Someone has cleared this place Floyd | out. There are open doors to the north and south, and the exit to the Floyd | lab lies east. A door to the west is closed. Floyd | Floyd | Not all of the experiments are gone, though; near the west door is a Floyd | platform, raised slightly off the floor. A control panel is attached Floyd | to the wall near the platform. Floyd | Floyd | There is also a large fan set into the east wall. Floyd | Floyd | A printout has fallen to the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Don't forget you can GREET people in this game." | |
| olethros says, "GREET SAILOR" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah, but I want to see the new rooms." | ||
| DavidW says (to olethros), "hee hee" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Politeness can wait." | ||
| olethros arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | DavidW says (to Knight_Otu), "certainly. :)" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x wires" | ||
Floyd ] Research Lab 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > X WIRES Floyd | Floyd | There are several wires here, but none appear to be worth troubling Floyd | yourself with. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x metal" | ||
Floyd ] Research Lab 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > X METAL Floyd | Floyd | You are unsure what the pieces of metal are for, but they do not Floyd | appear to be worth your time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x platform" | ||
Floyd ] Research Lab 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > X PLATFORM Floyd | Floyd | Nothing is on the platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x panel" | ||
Floyd ] Research Lab 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > X PANEL Floyd | Floyd | The control panel is labeled "Transformation Matrix Prototype." It Floyd | features numbers in a 3 by 3 matrix. Each number in the top row has a Floyd | slider above it that controls the setting of that number. The numbers Floyd | in the second and third rows, though, seem to be fixed. A button is Floyd | next to the 3 by 3 matrix. Floyd | Floyd | The matrix currently looks like this: Floyd | 0 -1 0 Floyd | 1 0 0 Floyd | 0 0 1 Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x fan" | ||
Floyd ] Research Lab 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > X FAN Floyd | Floyd | This is a large, industrial-strength wall fan. You wonder what Floyd | experiments it was used for. Floyd | Floyd | The wall fan is currently switched off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Seminar Room 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Seminar Room Floyd | The seminar room is dominated by the large table running the length of Floyd | it. A small window in the north wall looks out onto a courtyard, and Floyd | a door leads south back into the lab. Floyd | Floyd | On the seminar table are some presentation slides. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x slides" | ||
Floyd ] Seminar Room 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > X SLIDES Floyd | Floyd | There are seven pages to these slides. If you want to look more Floyd | closely at them you should read a particular page. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read page 1" | ||
Floyd ] Seminar Room 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > READ PAGE 1 Floyd | Floyd | The first page begins a discussion of three-dimensional transformation Floyd | matrices. It points out that the columns in a transformation matrix Floyd | consist of the "inputs," while the rows consist of the "outputs." For Floyd | instance, the entry in column 1, row 2 indicates the effect of the Floyd | first, or x, dimension of the original object on producing Floyd | the second, or y, dimension of the transformed object. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read page 2" | ||
Floyd ] Seminar Room 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > READ PAGE 2 Floyd | Floyd | Starting with the second page, there are some examples of Floyd | three-dimensional transformation matrices. The first involves the Floyd | matrix Floyd | 1 0 0 Floyd | 0 1 0 Floyd | 0 0 1. Floyd | The fact that the first row of this transformation matrix consists of Floyd | 1, 0, 0, means that, to produce the x coordinates of the Floyd | output object the matrix takes only the x coordinates of the Floyd | input object and multiplies each of them by 1. The 0, 1, 0 in the Floyd | second row means that, to produce the y coordinates of the Floyd | output object the matrix takes only the y coordinates of the Floyd | input object and multiplies each of them by 1. The same is true for Floyd | the 0, 0, 1 in the third row and the z coordinates. This Floyd | transformation matrix doesn't really do anything, then; since none of Floyd | the coordinates are changed, the output object is the same as the Floyd | input object. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read page 3" | ||
Floyd ] Seminar Room 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > READ PAGE 3 Floyd | Floyd | The matrix Floyd | 1 0 0 Floyd | 0 1 0 Floyd | 0 0 2 Floyd | simply doubles the z coordinates. The output object would be Floyd | twice as tall as the input object. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read page 4" | ||
Floyd ] Seminar Room 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > READ PAGE 4 Floyd | Floyd | The matrix Floyd | 1 0 0 Floyd | 0 0 1 Floyd | 0 1 0 Floyd | swaps the y coordinates with the z coordinates, Floyd | while keeping the x coordinates the same. An object would be Floyd | transformed via this matrix to a mirror image of itself that is also Floyd | lying on its side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read page 5" | ||
Floyd ] Seminar Room 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > READ PAGE 5 Floyd | Floyd | The matrix Floyd | 1 1 0 Floyd | 0 1 0 Floyd | 0 0 1 Floyd | keeps the y and z coordinates the same from the Floyd | original object to the transformed object. However, to create the Floyd | x coordinates of the transformed object, it adds the Floyd | x and y coordinates of the original object. A cube, Floyd | for example, would be transformed into an object that looks like a box Floyd | that has been partially crushed so that its sides are at an angle. Floyd | (Technically the transformed object is a parallelepiped, a Floyd | three-dimensional version of a parallelogram.) This kind of Floyd | transformation is known as a shear transformation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read page 6" | ||
Floyd ] Seminar Room 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > READ PAGE 6 Floyd | Floyd | The matrix Floyd | 1 0 0 Floyd | 0 0 1 Floyd | 0 -1 0 Floyd | keeps the x coordinates the same from the original object to Floyd | the transformed object, makes the z coordinates in the Floyd | original into y coordinates in the new object, and turns the Floyd | y coordinates in the original into negative z Floyd | coordinates in the transformed object. The effect of this is to Floyd | rotate the object 90 degrees clockwise when viewed from the front. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read page 7" | ||
Floyd ] Seminar Room 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > READ PAGE 7 Floyd | Floyd | The final page mentions that combinations of these effects as well as Floyd | other effects can be achieved by using different matrices. A Floyd | three-dimensional object can even be turned into a two-dimensional or Floyd | even a one-dimensional object by using the appropriate transformation Floyd | matrix. Floyd | Floyd | At the end of the final page is a brief description of one of the Floyd | graduate student experiments involving transformation matrices. Thus Floyd | far the student has constructed a prototype that allows one to apply a Floyd | transformation matrix to a physical object. For the prototype the Floyd | transformations that produce the y and z coordinates Floyd | are hard-coded; the user can only affect the transformations for the Floyd | x coordinates of the new object. In addition, only a few Floyd | choices have thus far been implemented for the top row of the matrix. Floyd | Finally, the transformation effect is thus far permanent only for Floyd | objects made of lead. Even for lead objects, though, the process Floyd | seems to be permanent only once; subsequent transformations on a Floyd | transformed lead object have so far only been temporary. The current Floyd | hypothesis is that the transformation process changes something about Floyd | the lead object at the atomic level. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Seminar Room 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | Berkeley's lecture notes Floyd | a toy mountain range Floyd | some correspondence Floyd | a set (no longer empty) Floyd | Descartes's saying Floyd | the trig homework Floyd | a square root Floyd | some exhaustion sandals Floyd | your math book Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Research Lab 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Research Lab Floyd | Not all of the experiments are gone; near the west door is a platform, Floyd | raised slightly off the floor. A control panel is attached to the Floyd | wall near the platform. Floyd | Floyd | There is also a large fan set into the east wall. Floyd | Floyd | A printout has fallen to the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x printour" | ||
Floyd ] Research Lab 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > X PRINTOUR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing, at least as described. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x printout" | ||
Floyd ] Research Lab 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > X PRINTOUT Floyd | Floyd | The note is a printout of an email. It reads, "To my graduate Floyd | students: Greetings from Hawaii! I'm having a great time at the Floyd | conference. It's too bad none of you could come. Floyd | Floyd | "Unfortunately, I have some bad news. Most of my funding has run out. Floyd | While I have enough to support myself, I do not have enough left to Floyd | support any of you anymore. Thus, all of your current projects are Floyd | hereby cancelled. If you want to finish your degrees you'll need to Floyd | find another adviser." Floyd | Floyd | Underneath someone has written an unprintable commentary on the Floyd | contents of the email. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x commentary" | ||
Floyd ] Research Lab 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > X COMMENTARY Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing, at least as described. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Aw." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I guess it *was* unprintable." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Graduate Student Office 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Graduate Student Office Floyd | This office is small and cramped, although that hasn't prevented Floyd | someone from squeezing several desks in here. A door leads north, Floyd | back into the lab. A small window in the south wall looks out onto a Floyd | dingy part of campus. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look out window" | ||
Floyd ] Graduate Student Office 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK OUT WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | There isn't much of a view from this window - mostly just the back Floyd | side of another building. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x desks" | ||
Floyd ] Graduate Student Office 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > X DESKS Floyd | Floyd | The desks have all been cleaned out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "search them" | ||
Floyd ] Graduate Student Office 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH THEM Floyd | Floyd | You can't see 'them' (nothing) at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "search desks" | ||
Floyd ] Graduate Student Office 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH DESKS Floyd | Floyd | The empty desks are a sad testament to the graduate students who used Floyd | to work here. They're not worth bothering with. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Graduate Student Office 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | The window is closed. Even if it was open, though, you're too high Floyd | up. There is no way you would survive the drop to the hard ground Floyd | below. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu exclaims, "But we're, like, totally dreamin', man!" | |
| DavidW says, "Only falling from the shoulders of giants is safe." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Research Lab 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Research Lab Floyd | Not all of the experiments are gone; near the west door is a platform, Floyd | raised slightly off the floor. A control panel is attached to the Floyd | wall near the platform. Floyd | Floyd | There is also a large fan set into the east wall. Floyd | Floyd | A printout has fallen to the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni -) | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Whoops, I thought I scooped that up." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get printout" | ||
Floyd ] Research Lab 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET PRINTOUT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Light 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | As you move east, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Light Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You make your way east through the bright light. As you do, you feel Floyd | an electrical impulse course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Machine Room Floyd | Brass wheels, gears, knobs, and pipes emitting smoke are everywhere: Floyd | This is a room out of some steampunk's dream. The south end of the Floyd | room opens onto a gold-colored path. This path appears to be Floyd | suspended in the air, with no apparent support, and to run for as far Floyd | as you can see. You may also exit west. Floyd | Floyd | The room is dominated by a large, complicated-looking machine in its Floyd | center. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x machine" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > X MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | This machine is just as steampunk as everything else here, although Floyd | there are several parts to it that look at least somewhat Floyd | recognizable. Floyd | Floyd | For one, the machine has a switch that can be set to "Sequence" or Floyd | "Series." It is currently set to "Sequence," although you could Floyd | easily move it to the other setting by flipping the switch. Floyd | Floyd | There is a button labeled "Alternate" that is currently pushed off. Floyd | Floyd | The machine also has a dial that can be set to "Constant," "Identity," Floyd | "Squared," or "Reciprocal." It is currently set to "Constant." Floyd | Floyd | There is a small circular hole near the button. Floyd | Floyd | Finally, there is a warning light on top of the machine. The warning Floyd | light is dark. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > X HOLE Floyd | Floyd | The circular hole is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | As you approach the golden path you take a look at it. Floyd | Floyd | The path is level with the floor of the room you are currently in. It Floyd | consists of golden steps that seem to run on forever. Each step has Floyd | two numbers appearing on it, although from here you can only read the Floyd | numbers on the six closest steps. The first numbers on the steps are Floyd | all the same: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, and 1. The second numbers are the same Floyd | as the first numbers: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, and 1. Floyd | Floyd | Just before you reach the path, though, it shifts: The heights of the Floyd | steps change. The first step is now up. After that, though, the path Floyd | is level with the first step. Floyd | Floyd | You step onto the path and follow it for a while. It seems to stretch Floyd | on forever, though, and so you eventually decide to turn back. As you Floyd | step off the golden path back into the room with the complicated Floyd | machine the path shifts once again: It returns to being level with the Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "switch switch" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > SWITCH SWITCH Floyd | Floyd | You flip the switch to "Series." Some of the numbers on the golden Floyd | path change. The warning light is still dark. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x light" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > X LIGHT Floyd | Floyd | The warning light is dark. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Machine Room 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | As you approach the golden path you take another look at it. Floyd | Floyd | The path is level with the floor of the room you are currently in. It Floyd | consists of golden steps that seem to run on forever. Each step has Floyd | two numbers appearing on it, although from here you can only read the Floyd | numbers on the six closest steps. The first numbers on the steps are Floyd | all the same: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, and 1. The second numbers are 1, 2, 3, Floyd | 4, 5, and 6. Floyd | Floyd | Just before you reach the path, though, it shifts: The heights of the Floyd | steps change. The first step is now up. After that, the path rises Floyd | evenly, each step just as much of an upstep as the previous one. In Floyd | fact, the path looks like a set of stairs. Floyd | Floyd | You step onto the path and follow it for a while. It seems to stretch Floyd | on forever, though, and so you eventually decide to turn back. As you Floyd | step off the golden path back into the room with the complicated Floyd | machine the path shifts once again: It returns to being level with the Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Light 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | As you move west, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Light Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Window into Oblivion 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You make your way south through the bright light. As you do, you feel Floyd | an electrical impulse course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Window into Oblivion Floyd | This rather plain room is dominated by a large window that fills the Floyd | entire southern wall. An open doorway lies to the north. Floyd | Floyd | A tray is attached to the wall next to the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||
Floyd ] Window into Oblivion 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > X WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | This window looks onto an endless flat, gray plane. You can see a Floyd | large pile of discarded objects a short distance away in the plane. Floyd | Floyd | Standing near the pile, rocking back and forth and muttering to Floyd | himself, is René Descartes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x descartes" | ||
Floyd ] Window into Oblivion 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > X DESCARTES Floyd | Floyd | (René Descartes) Floyd | Descartes is holding his head and muttering to himself, "I can't think Floyd | here. I can't think here." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x pile" | ||
Floyd ] Window into Oblivion 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > X PILE Floyd | Floyd | This pile consists of a large number of unusual objects that seem to Floyd | fade in and out of view. Floyd | Floyd | A square circle catches your eye for a moment before disappearing Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x pile" | ||
Floyd ] Window into Oblivion 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > X PILE Floyd | Floyd | This pile consists of a large number of unusual objects that seem to Floyd | fade in and out of view. Floyd | Floyd | A formula for solving the general quintic equation catches your eye Floyd | for a moment before disappearing again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x pile" | ||
Floyd ] Window into Oblivion 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > X PILE Floyd | Floyd | This pile consists of a large number of unusual objects that seem to Floyd | fade in and out of view. Floyd | Floyd | A solution in positive integers to x^n + y^n = Floyd | z^n for n > 2 catches your eye for a moment before Floyd | disappearing again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x pile" | ||
Floyd ] Window into Oblivion 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > X PILE Floyd | Floyd | This pile consists of a large number of unusual objects that seem to Floyd | fade in and out of view. Floyd | Floyd | An algorithm to solve the Halting Problem catches your eye for a Floyd | moment before disappearing again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x pile" | ||
Floyd ] Window into Oblivion 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > X PILE Floyd | Floyd | This pile consists of a large number of unusual objects that seem to Floyd | fade in and out of view. Floyd | Floyd | A proof of the continuum hypothesis catches your eye for a moment Floyd | before disappearing again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x tray" | ||
Floyd ] Window into Oblivion 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > X TRAY Floyd | Floyd | The tray is made of metal. It looks like it could hold one thing at a Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "greet descartes" | ||
Floyd ] Window into Oblivion 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > GREET DESCARTES Floyd | Floyd | (René Descartes) Floyd | Descartes looks up at you briefly, a request for help in his eyes. Floyd | Then he grabs his head once more. "I can't think here. I can't think Floyd | here," he mutters. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put saying in tray" | ||
Floyd ] Window into Oblivion 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT SAYING IN TRAY Floyd | Floyd | (first taking Descartes's saying) Floyd | You place Descartes's saying on the tray. The tray beeps softly, and Floyd | a voice says, "Existence detected." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get saying" | ||
Floyd ] Window into Oblivion 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET SAYING Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "enter window" | ||
Floyd ] Window into Oblivion 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put saying in tray" | ||
Floyd ] Window into Oblivion 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT SAYING IN TRAY Floyd | Floyd | You place Descartes's saying on the tray. The tray beeps softly, and Floyd | a voice says, "Existence detected." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x descartes" | ||
Floyd ] Window into Oblivion 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > X DESCARTES Floyd | Floyd | (René Descartes) Floyd | Descartes is holding his head and muttering to himself, "I can't think Floyd | here. I can't think here." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "greet descartes" | ||
Floyd ] Window into Oblivion 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > GREET DESCARTES Floyd | Floyd | (René Descartes) Floyd | Descartes looks up at you briefly, a request for help in his eyes. Floyd | Then he grabs his head once more. "I can't think here. I can't think Floyd | here," he mutters. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get saying" | ||
Floyd ] Window into Oblivion 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET SAYING Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Light 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | As you move north, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Light Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Smoky Pub 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You make your way north through the bright light. As you do, you feel Floyd | an electrical impulse course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Smoky Pub Floyd | Cauchy is sitting at the bar, sipping from a glass of wine. Floyd | Floyd | Weierstrass is next to Cauchy, drowning his sorrows in a pint of beer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "greet cauchy" | ||
Floyd ] Smoky Pub 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > GREET CAUCHY Floyd | Floyd | You walk over to Cauchy. "Are you guys O.K.?" you ask. Floyd | Floyd | Cauchy looks up from his wine. "Hello," he says. "Weierstrass and I Floyd | were just commiserating on the state of our research programs." Floyd | Floyd | Weierstrass snorts. "Cauchy is being kind. I don't have a research Floyd | program! I need an important problem to solve, something to show the Floyd | mathematical world I'm capable of more than teaching high school. Not Floyd | that there's anything wrong with that," he quickly adds, "but it would Floyd | be nice to have a university position. Floyd | Floyd | "Cauchy, though, is already internationally famous. He practically Floyd | invented complex analysis, for one thing!" Weierstrass falls silent, Floyd | staring back into his mug. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to weierstrass" | ||
Floyd ] Smoky Pub 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO WEIERSTRASS Floyd | Floyd | Weierstrass grunts at you in response before returning to his mug. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "talk to cauchy" | ||
Floyd ] Smoky Pub 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO CAUCHY Floyd | Floyd | Cauchy says quietly, "I'm worried about Weierstrass. I'm sure he's Floyd | capable of being one of the great mathematicians of our age, but he Floyd | needs the right problem to work on in order to prove it." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look up weierstrass" | ||
Floyd ] Smoky Pub 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP WEIERSTRASS Floyd | Floyd | (in your math book) Floyd | Karl Weierstrass, one of the great mathematicians of the 19th century, Floyd | never actually completed a college degree. He is particularly famous Floyd | for his precise definitions of limits and continuity, which helped put Floyd | calculus on a solid theoretical foundation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "show notes to weierstrass" | ||
Floyd ] Smoky Pub 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW NOTES TO WEIERSTRASS Floyd | Floyd | Weierstrass lifts his head from his mug long enough to glance at the Floyd | proffered notes. He grunts and starts to return to his mug - but then Floyd | he stops. He takes the notes from you and reads through them. Floyd | "Berkeley's criticisms of the foundations of calculus... Yes..." He Floyd | thinks for a while. Floyd | Floyd | Then he turns to Cauchy. "The limit concept you've used in your work Floyd | - I wonder if that would help here. But it needs to be more Floyd | rigorous." Floyd | Floyd | Cauchy and Weierstrass are soon deep in conversation, scribbling Floyd | mathematical symbols and scratching them out again on a bar napkin. Floyd | About all of the conversation you can follow are the words "function," Floyd | "distance," "error," and "limit," each repeated several times. Floyd | Finally, Weierstrass says, "And if we use delta for 'distance' and Floyd | epsilon for 'error,' that should do it!" He pockets the napkin. Floyd | Floyd | Weierstrass looks at you excitedly. "I think I've got some ideas that Floyd | would put calculus on a sound theoretical footing! This should make Floyd | my name, mathematically-speaking. Floyd | Floyd | "I owe you more than I can say, but I don't know how best to reward Floyd | you. Perhaps I can improve something of yours with the power of the Floyd | limit concept?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "show sandals to weierstrass" | ||
Floyd ] Smoky Pub 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW SANDALS TO WEIERSTRASS Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the exhaustion sandals) Floyd | Weierstrass takes the sandals and looks at them carefully. "These Floyd | embody the principle of exhaustion, don't they?" he says. Then he Floyd | closes his eyes and concentrates for a moment. The sandals begin to Floyd | glow, and then they start to morph. Soon Weierstrass is holding a Floyd | pair of shoes in his hands. "There," he says, opening his eyes and Floyd | handing the shoes to you. "I've improved your exhaustion sandals to a Floyd | pair of limit shoes. Floyd | Floyd | "Thanks again," he says. He stands up, an eager look on his face. "I Floyd | need to explore these concepts further. I've got an idea for a Floyd | continuous function that is not differentiable anywhere..." Floyd | Weierstrass downs the rest of his beer, places his mug on the bar, and Floyd | walks out of the pub. The bartender appears out of nowhere and whisks Floyd | the mug away before disappearing again. Floyd | Floyd | Cauchy remains behind. "Weierstrass has expressed his personal Floyd | gratitude," he says. "Let me offer my gratitude on behalf of Floyd | mathematics as a whole. Weierstrass mentioned earlier that I know a Floyd | little something about complex analysis. I can imbue an item of yours Floyd | with the power of complex analysis, much as Weierstrass improved those Floyd | sandals with the power of the limit." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Smoky Pub 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | some limit shoes Floyd | Descartes's saying Floyd | a printout Floyd | a toy mountain range Floyd | some correspondence Floyd | a set (no longer empty) Floyd | the trig homework Floyd | a square root Floyd | your math book Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "show range to cauchy" | ||
Floyd ] Smoky Pub 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW RANGE TO CAUCHY Floyd | Floyd | Cauchy looks carefully at you for a while, as if reading your Floyd | thoughts. Finally, he gives a satisfied nod. Floyd | Floyd | Then Cauchy takes the toy mountain range and looks at it carefully. Floyd | Then he closes his eyes and rubs his hands over it. The mountain Floyd | range begins to glow. After a while Cauchy opens his eyes again, and Floyd | the toy stops glowing. "There," he says, handing the it back to you. Floyd | "I've improved your toy mountain range. It should be able to Floyd | differentiate complex functions now. However, unless you actually Floyd | find a complex function the additional power won't be of any use. I Floyd | think I can reward you better than this." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "show root to cauchy" | ||
Floyd ] Smoky Pub 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW ROOT TO CAUCHY Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the square root) Floyd | (putting the correspondence into the set to make room) Floyd | Cauchy looks carefully at you for a while, as if reading your Floyd | thoughts. Finally, he gives a satisfied nod. Floyd | Floyd | Then Cauchy takes the square root and looks at it carefully. Then he Floyd | closes his eyes and rubs his hands over it. The square root begins to Floyd | glow. After a while Cauchy opens his eyes again, and the square root Floyd | stops glowing. "There," he says, handing the square root back to you. Floyd | "I've improved your square root. It should be able to extract complex Floyd | numbers now. Floyd | Floyd | "Thank you, once again, on behalf of mathematics," Cauchy says. "The Floyd | discipline will be stronger if Weierstrass can put calculus on a more Floyd | solid foundation." He stands up and finishes the last of his wine, Floyd | placing the glass on the bar before walking out of the pub. The Floyd | bartender appears out of nowhere once more and whisks the empty glass Floyd | away before disappearing again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Smoky Pub 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Smoky Pub Floyd | The smell of tobacco hangs in the air in this small, dark pub. It is Floyd | deserted; even the bartender appears to have stepped out. An exit Floyd | leads south. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I didn't know that the range could be improved upon." | |
| DavidW says, "Cool." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "The bartender won't be happy that we cleared out his pub." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Newton hinted at it." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Light 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | As you move south, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Light Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Three 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up through the bright light. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level Three Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Two 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level Two Floyd | Off to the side sits a gray storage bin. In the storage bin you see Floyd | an old coin, a comic strip, a pile of money, a brochure, a piece of Floyd | paper, a wad of plastic, an x-finder, Archimedes's staff, a Floyd | square piece of metal, and a scribbled scroll. Floyd | Floyd | A gray, translucent ghost flits around the storage bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level One 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You make your way up. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level One Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yes, he did, actually, now that you mention it." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You make your way north. As you do, you feel an electrical impulse Floyd | course through you. You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | Lyceum Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Stadium 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Stadium Floyd | Achilles sits by the side of the race track with his head in his Floyd | hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "show shoes to achilles" | ||
Floyd ] Stadium 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW SHOES TO ACHILLES Floyd | Floyd | "Do you think these will work any better than those sandals I tried Floyd | earlier?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "say yes" | ||
Floyd ] Stadium 71/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > SAY YES Floyd | Floyd | (to Achilles) Floyd | Achilles just looks at you miserably, and then he puts his head back Floyd | down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "give shoes to achilles" | ||
Floyd ] Stadium 73/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE SHOES TO ACHILLES Floyd | Floyd | Achilles looks at the limit shoes rather skeptically, but you assure Floyd | him that these shoes are different - more powerful than the exhaustion Floyd | sandals - and so he agrees to try them. After lacing them up, he Floyd | snaps his fingers, and the tortoise appears. They find their places Floyd | as before, and take off. Achilles runs to the halfway mark, looks up, Floyd | and sees the tortoise ahead of him. He notes the tortoise's new Floyd | position, races to it, and sees the tortoise still ahead. You start Floyd | to think that the limit shoes aren't going to do Achilles any good. Floyd | About this time, though, their inherent virtue starts to kick in. Floyd | Yes, there are infinitely many times Achilles must note the tortoise's Floyd | position, leading to infinitely many distances he must run, but each Floyd | successive distance is shorter than the one before. The power of the Floyd | limit shoes successfully sums the lengths of these infinitely many Floyd | shorter and shorter distances, and Achilles passes the tortoise for Floyd | the win! Floyd | Floyd | Achilles jogs back to the start, a huge grin on his face, and gives Floyd | you a crushing hug. Slightly abashed, he steps back, thanks you Floyd | profusely, and returns the limit shoes. He runs away to celebrate. Floyd | Floyd | As you're recovering from Achilles's excitement, Zeno walks over from Floyd | where he has been discreetly watching the race. He picks up the Floyd | tortoise. As he gazes quizzically at it, he's joined by Aristotle. Floyd | They head off, arguing over whether the limit process actually solves Floyd | the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise. You notice something fall Floyd | from Aristotle's robes. Floyd | Floyd | [Your understanding of Infinity has increased. You estimate Floyd | that your score on tomorrow's final has just gone up by two Floyd | points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Stadium 73/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Stadium Floyd | This is a stadium in ancient Athens. The stadium itself consists of Floyd | raised ground on either side of a race track about 200 meters long. Floyd | The rest of the Lyceum is back east. Floyd | Floyd | Aristotle has dropped a papyrus scroll here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x scroll" | ||
Floyd ] Stadium 73/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > X SCROLL Floyd | Floyd | This scroll contains a discussion of logical fallacies. Two prominent Floyd | ones mentioned are "Affirming the Consequent" and "Denying the Floyd | Antecedent." Floyd | Floyd | An example of "Affirming the Consequent" is the following argument. Floyd | "If one drinks hemlock then they will die. Thucydides is dead. Floyd | Therefore, Thucydides must have drunk hemlock." The first two Floyd | statements are true, but the third is false. The argument is invalid Floyd | because there are other ways that Thucydides could have died than Floyd | drinking hemlock. In other words, the truth of the consequent, "they Floyd | died," does not imply the truth of the antecedent, "they drank Floyd | hemlock." Floyd | Floyd | An example of "Denying the Antecedent" is the following argument. "If Floyd | one writes the Iliad then they will be famous. Plato didn't Floyd | write the Iliad. Therefore, Plato will not be famous." The Floyd | first two statements are true, but the third is false. The argument Floyd | is invalid because there are other ways that Plato could be famous Floyd | besides writing the Iliad. In other words, the falseness of Floyd | the antecedent, "one writes the Iliad," does not imply the Floyd | falseness of the consequent, "they will not be famous." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "don't forget to pick the scroll up." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah, still reading." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Which is kind of silly when it is on the ground, I admit." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get scroll" | ||
Floyd ] Stadium 73/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET SCROLL Floyd | Floyd | (putting the toy mountain range into the set to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu (putting the toy mountain range into the set to make room) | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Lyceum 73/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Lyceum Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level One 73/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | As you move south, you feel an electrical impulse course through you. Floyd | The space around you seems to fold in on itself. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level One Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Two 73/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You make your way down. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level Two Floyd | Off to the side sits a gray storage bin. In the storage bin you see Floyd | an old coin, a comic strip, a pile of money, a brochure, a piece of Floyd | paper, a wad of plastic, an x-finder, Archimedes's staff, a Floyd | square piece of metal, and a scribbled scroll. Floyd | Floyd | A gray, translucent ghost flits around the storage bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Two 73/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a logic scroll Floyd | some limit shoes Floyd | a square root Floyd | Descartes's saying Floyd | a printout Floyd | a set (no longer empty) Floyd | a toy mountain range Floyd | some correspondence Floyd | the trig homework Floyd | your math book Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "show shoes to ghost" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Two 73/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW SHOES TO GHOST Floyd | Floyd | The gray lady looks carefully at the limit shoes. "I would definitely Floyd | hold on to those," she says. "You're not likely to find much that is Floyd | more useful." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess level one is almost done except for the Count's need for more things to count." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I think so, yes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "show printout to ghost" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Two 73/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW PRINTOUT TO GHOST Floyd | Floyd | The gray lady looks carefully at the printout. Then she says, "I Floyd | think you may still find some use for that. You never know, though," Floyd | she adds. "I might be wrong." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "No new things to drop of here, no new books for our shelves." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Three 73/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You make your way down. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level Three Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Four 73/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You make your way down. Floyd | Floyd | You can see most of this space now. Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level Four Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Four 73/100 (B) Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Gray Matter, Level Four Floyd | The light has dimmed enough (or your eyes have adjusted enough) that Floyd | you can now see that this space contains the same gray, spongy matter Floyd | as the spaces above you. The only part of this space that is still Floyd | painful to look at is a very bright patch on the floor. There is the Floyd | expected inscription on the wall, as well as the exits up to Gray Floyd | Matter, Level Three, north to the Smoky Pub, south to the Window into Floyd | Oblivion, east to the Machine Room, and west to the Research Lab. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Your square root is improved, though. And you have limit shoes still." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x inscription" | ||
Floyd ] Gray Matter, Level Four 73/100 (B)
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