  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask mobius" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters mid-watch Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "Attention! Attention! We have arrived on station. Drop Team Floyd | Beta: Review your mission profile and report to Primary Transport Floyd | Room." Floyd | Floyd | Drop Team Beta - That means you. Floyd | Floyd | Damn. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Floyd | An Interactive Twist by J.D. Clemens Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 061119 / Inform 7 build 3V01 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/11N) Floyd | Floyd | (First time players should type "about".) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You must have dozed off for a few minutes; you had only meant to lie Floyd | down for a few seconds between tasks. Hopefully no one saw you, since Floyd | sleeping on duty will land you in the brig. Floyd | Floyd | Sitting up, you are relieved to find that you are alone in your Floyd | quarters. Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters (on your rack) Floyd | Your sparse quarters barely merit description. The gray metal Floyd | bulkheads remain bare since you haven't even had the energy to hang Floyd | pin-ups. The standard sleeping rack rests against one wall, across Floyd | from the standard work desk holding your sidearm and your Tactical Floyd | Display Unit. Floyd | Floyd | You would really like to get away from here for a while, away from the Floyd | your team members who clearly despise you. Floyd | Floyd | The hatch to the passageway is to the port side (commonly called west Floyd | by the rank and file not concerned with the long traditions of the Floyd | Galactic Marines). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] About "Möbius" Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Floyd | Select Floyd | > About "Möbius" Floyd | Playing this game Floyd | Credits Floyd | Contacting the Author | ||
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] About "Möbius" Floyd | This game was an entry in the 12th Annual Interactive Fiction Floyd | Competition, where it placed 9th out of 43 entries. IFComp 2006 was Floyd | organized by Stephen Granade. The game was written using Inform 7, Floyd | created by Graham Nelson. Floyd | Floyd | This is release 2, the obligatory post-comp release. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] About "Möbius" Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Floyd | Select Floyd | > About "Möbius" Floyd | Playing this game Floyd | Credits Floyd | Contacting the Author | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] About "Möbius" Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Floyd | Select Floyd | About "Möbius" Floyd | > Playing this game Floyd | Credits Floyd | Contacting the Author | ||
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | ||
Floyd ] Playing this game Floyd | "Möbius" uses mostly standard commands. A few additional commands are Floyd | listed here. Floyd | Floyd | The game uses color in the status line in a very limited fashion. Floyd | Color display can be turned on or off with the commands COLORS ON and Floyd | COLORS OFF; the command COLORS will give the current setting (color Floyd | display is initially disabled if the interpreter does not appear to Floyd | support color). Floyd | Floyd | Certain useful information is provided in the status line. This Floyd | information can be displayed in the usual window at the end of every Floyd | turn; the commands STATUS ON and STATUS OFF control this, and the Floyd | command STATUS will give the current setting (status reporting is Floyd | disabled by default). Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] About "Möbius" Floyd ] Floyd ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu Floyd ] P = Previous ENTER = Floyd | Select Floyd | About "Möbius" Floyd | > Playing this game Floyd | Credits Floyd | Contacting the Author | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "q" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters mid-watch Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters (on your rack) Floyd | The usual quarters: bulkheads, sleeping rack, desk holding your Floyd | sidearm and your Tactical Display Unit. The hatch to the passageway is Floyd | to the port side. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x unit" | ||
Floyd ] Your Quarters mid-watch Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | > X UNIT Floyd | Floyd | The Tactical Display Unit (TDU) is a small binocular unit which fits Floyd | over your eyes and displays critical mission information. It Floyd | incorporates the standard communications array which can be used to Floyd | contact the ship and other teammates during a mission. It is currently Floyd | switched off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn it on" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 1 UST: 1:16 am Floyd ] New MP available MRL: none Floyd | Floyd | > TURN IT ON Floyd | Floyd | You stumble to your feet, retrieve your TDU, and put it on, activating Floyd | it automatically. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear it" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 1 UST: 1:17 am Floyd ] New MP available MRL: none Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR IT Floyd | Floyd | That's already on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 1 UST: 1:18 am Floyd ] New MP available MRL: none Floyd | Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | Your TDU is currently operating normally. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mp" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 1 UST: 1:19 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: none Floyd | Floyd | > X MP Floyd | Floyd | You access the profile on your TDU: Floyd | Floyd | --- Begin Mission Profile --- Floyd | We have received a distress signal from scientists involved in project Floyd | Möbius. We have been unable to establish further communication. Drop Floyd | Team Beta is instructed to transport to the project's laboratory to Floyd | investigate. The team will provide medical and technical assistance as Floyd | needed. Floyd | Floyd | The project is studying the creation of various temporal distortions Floyd | (further details classified per Statute MSC-1316). Damaged equipment Floyd | may result in the release of multitemporal radiation, so all TDUs have Floyd | been configured to monitor radiation levels. Floyd | Floyd | Drop team should take minimal gear: TDU, sidearm, and basic Floyd | specialty-specific equipment. Floyd | --- End Mission Profile --- Floyd | Floyd | Good. This mission shouldn't be too bad, and since your only specialty Floyd | is security you won't even have to trudge to the armory for equipment. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So, the status line changed when we did that." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Pretty cool idea." | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x firearm" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 1 UST: 1:19 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: none Floyd | Floyd | > X FIREARM Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 1 UST: 1:20 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: none Floyd | Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | The desk is the usual all-purpose workspace, but since you try to Floyd | avoid working here it is currently just a storage space for your Floyd | sidearm. A small tag on the side says "Titaniumcase". Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "And we'd have the option to put it in the main text if sleepmask wasn't a thing." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open desk" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 1 UST: 1:21 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: none Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DESK Floyd | Floyd | The desk has no drawers; it is essentially a slab of metal with legs. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Sidearm?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 1 UST: 1:22 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: none Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Your Quarters Floyd | The usual quarters: bulkheads, sleeping rack, desk holding your Floyd | sidearm. The hatch to the passageway is to the port side. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I think so." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take sidearm" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 1 UST: 1:23 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: none Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SIDEARM Floyd | Floyd | You retrieve your sidearm from the desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Seems so." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 1 UST: 1:24 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: none Floyd | Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | It is a standard anti-personnel energy weapon, fully charged (as per Floyd | regulation). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "look under desk" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 1 UST: 1:25 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: none Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER DESK Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "x rack" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 1 UST: 1:26 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: none Floyd | Floyd | > X RACK Floyd | Floyd | Your rack is just a utilitarian bunk. You probably couldn't fall Floyd | asleep on it except for all the extra work they make you do. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "So, now we need to find the transport room, I assume?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Explore, yeah" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "look under rack" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 1 UST: 1:27 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: none Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER RACK Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Guenni says, "I guess so." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 1 UST: 1:28 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: none Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You open the hatch and step out into the passageway, remembering (of Floyd | course) to close the hatch behind you. Floyd | Floyd | Passageway Floyd | The passageway outside your quarters resembles all passageways in the Floyd | Solaris: dull, clean, functional. Like all Scout ships (and Floyd | other government projects) it was designed without any unneeded Floyd | amenities, like comfort. The head is directly across from your Floyd | quarters, while the armory, mess, and other useful places are aft. The Floyd | rest of your team has quarters along this section (while Drop Team Floyd | Alpha is located nearer to the bridge). The Primary Transport Room is Floyd | forward from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "f" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 4 UST: 1:29 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: none Floyd | Floyd | > F Floyd | Floyd | You brace yourself and step into the transport room. Floyd | Floyd | Primary Transport Room Floyd | The main focus of the room is the transport pad, which covers most of Floyd | the floor. The transport is controlled remotely, to help prevent Floyd | unauthorized use. A few monitors and diagnostic equipment surround the Floyd | pad, but otherwise the room is empty. Floyd | Floyd | Sergeant Jacobson is staring at you impatiently. Behind him you see Floyd | Medic Davis giving his medical kit a final inspection and Specialist Floyd | Thorne adjusting his technical sensor settings. Floyd | Floyd | "So you finally decided to show up, eh Private?" the Sergeant sneers Floyd | at you. You are the last to arrive, naturally. "Have you read the Floyd | mission profile?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "You would think that the space marines would have learned from way back in the 20th century that well-rested marines perform better work, and that perhaps a little comfort could be mission-critical." | |
| DavidW says, "mmyeah" | ||
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 4 UST: 1:30 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: none Floyd | Floyd | > Y Floyd | Floyd | "You will address me as Sergeant!" barks the Sergeant. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Bah, that's just excuses." | |
| Guenni says (to Floyd), "y sergeant" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 4 UST: 1:31 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: none Floyd | Floyd | > Y SERGEANT Floyd | Floyd | "Finally, the jackass is ready. Ok, let's get ready for transport! Floyd | Watch the MRL readings; we'll transport back if they become critical." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I am loving this work environment. I wanna be a space marine." | |
| Guenni says, "Ok folks, the shell wants to lie down. Sorry." | ||
| Guenni goes home. | DavidW asks, "so, wait?" | |
| DavidW says, "I think we will need a driver very soon." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I guess so." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 4 UST: 1:32 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: none Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | "Communications check... Good, TDU communication is functioning. Floyd | Remember not to shoot the scientists..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x jacobson" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 4 UST: 1:32 am
Floyd ] MP stored MRL: none
Floyd |
Floyd | > X JACOBSON
Floyd |
Floyd | The sergeant's jaw is as as hard as his ass. He is giving the final
Floyd | mission briefing.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Begin transport sequence."
Floyd |
Floyd | The transport begins. At least scientists won't be shooting at you,
Floyd | or, at any rate, they're probably not very good shots...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
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| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 3 UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | After the usual brief nauseating sensations, you regain your composure Floyd | and look around. Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | You're glad you weren't in here during whatever happened to this Floyd | place. The walls and most of the equipment are charred and twisted, Floyd | including the communications array and a personal transporter. A Floyd | utility table is still bolted to one wall, next to a small cabinet Floyd | labeled "For Emergency Use Only". Floyd | Floyd | The central feature is a large cylindrical machine, with the words Floyd | "Temporal Reactor" stenciled on the front. A closed control panel Floyd | protrudes from the wall next to the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | The head scientist and her assistant are lying on the floor near the Floyd | reactor, severely burned and unconscious. They will certainly die Floyd | without immediate medical help. Floyd | Floyd | You are the first to be transported, as always, in order to make sure Floyd | that the area is secure. If you are still alive in a minute or two, Floyd | the rest of the team should join you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "MRL is now low, whatever that means." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "MRL = Mission Risk Level?" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, maybe." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "The MRL abbreviation seems a bit odd to me. It's "monitor radiation level", isn't it?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It's just a guess." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, could be that as well." | ||
| Knight_Otu Floyd | been configured to monitor radiation levels. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x head scientist" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 3 UST: 1:34 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > X HEAD SCIENTIST Floyd | Floyd | Grotesque burns cover her face, which may have been attractive. She is Floyd | in slightly better condition than her clothing, but will not survive Floyd | long without help. She clutches a metallic rod in one fist, stretched Floyd | out toward the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to KO), "Okay, yeah." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x metallic rod" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 3 UST: 1:34 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > X METALLIC ROD Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rod" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 3 UST: 1:35 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > X ROD Floyd | Floyd | The absorbing rod is a dark metal, and very heavy for its size. You Floyd | have seen absorbing rods and cones (apparently identical except for Floyd | their shape) used in reactors to absorb radiation emissions. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x reactor" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 3 UST: 1:36 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > X REACTOR Floyd | Floyd | The reactor is a large cylinder slightly larger than you. It has Floyd | clearly been damaged, and glows brightly in a way that you are sure it Floyd | shouldn't. Radiation shielding covers the outside and looks like it Floyd | can be opened for access. Floyd | Floyd | It's strange that the rest of your team hasn't arrived yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "But shouldn't it be just RL? Well, not that important." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x assistant" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 3 UST: 1:37 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > X ASSISTANT Floyd | Floyd | He is younger than the scientist, though disfiguring burns make this a Floyd | bit uncertain. You guess he will be dead in half an hour without care. Floyd | His lab coat seems essentially unburned; if it had been buttoned the Floyd | rest of him might have fared as well. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take coat" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 3 UST: 1:38 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE COAT Floyd | Floyd | You're only trained for security; you should contact the ship before Floyd | taking any action. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "uh-oh. MRL went up." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yikes." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "contact ship" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 3 UST: 1:39 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > CONTACT SHIP Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply from the ship, but that could simply be interference Floyd | from the transport. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take rod" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 3 UST: 1:40 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ROD Floyd | Floyd | You manage to pry the rod out of the scientist's hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN, MARINE" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open reactor" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 3 UST: 1:41 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN REACTOR Floyd | Floyd | An angry beep from your TDU warns you of intense radiation buildup in Floyd | the temporal reactor shielding; since you do not want to die, you Floyd | decide not to touch it. Floyd | Floyd | You can't possibly handle this by yourself. What the hell happened to Floyd | the rest of the team? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "contact ship" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 3 UST: 1:42 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical Floyd | Floyd | > CONTACT SHIP Floyd | Floyd | There is still no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Ideas?" | |
| Ellison asks, "just try to put the rod in the reactor?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "provide mouth to mouth" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 3 UST: 1:42 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical Floyd | Floyd | > PROVIDE MOUTH TO MOUTH Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "sure" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 3 UST: 1:42 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CABINET Floyd | Floyd | The cabinet has no seams or handles; there is no obvious way to open Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | With a deafening Boom! the temporal reactor finally goes Floyd | critical and explodes. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | Knight_Otu asks, "Or open shielding?" | |
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] He who confronts the paradoxical Floyd ] exposes himself to reality. Floyd ] Floyd ] - Friedrich Dürrenmatt Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You look around, surprised that you are not dead. Not even hurt, as Floyd | far as you can tell. In fact, you seem to still be in the laboratory, Floyd | which looks much as it did when you first transported here. Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | The walls and most of the equipment are charred and twisted, including Floyd | the communications array and a personal transporter. A utility table Floyd | is still bolted to one wall, next to a small cabinet labeled "For Floyd | Emergency Use Only". Floyd | Floyd | The central feature is a large cylindrical machine, with the words Floyd | "Temporal Reactor" stenciled on the front. A closed control panel Floyd | protrudes from the wall next to the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | The head scientist and her assistant are lying on the floor near the Floyd | reactor, severely burned and unconscious. They will certainly die Floyd | without immediate medical help. Floyd | Floyd | One thing is different: Another marine is standing here, looking Floyd | around. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Or get blown up." | |
| DavidW says, "Time is back to 1:33 am." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah. One of those plots." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Star Trek: Discovery did this last season." | ||
| DavidW says, "The explosion happened after 1:42." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Oh, and is that another 'us'?" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Maybe?" | ||
| DavidW says, "'Lifeforms: Inconclusive'" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Heh." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, huh." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Three? Four? Three and a half?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "But wouldn't we recognize ourselves?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x marine" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:34 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > X MARINE Floyd | Floyd | He looks exactly like you, with the same red uniform, and carries his Floyd | sidearm and his TDU. Floyd | Floyd | The other marine looks closely at the head scientist. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Maybe not if we're in heavy gear." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Oh gosh. Now I'm getting the title. This is ambitiously clever." | ||
| DavidW says, "The other us is going to do exactly what we did before, I bet." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "So we gotta coordinate with our past self." | ||
| DavidW says, "I think one thing we need to do is get the cabinet open." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah. Looking at the scientist was the first thing we did." | ||
| DavidW says, "I honestly don't know how to approach this sort of puzzle except pretend the other us isn't there." | ||
| Plover runs out of the room, with a smile on his face. | Ellison says, "there are probably some actions that we and previous selves need to do at the same time" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, hullo, Ell" | ||
| Ellison says, "hullo hullo" | ||
| DavidW says (to Ellison), "reasonable assumption." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I wonder if we break the universe if we take the rod before we take it." | ||
| DavidW asks, "What if we shoot our past self?" | ||
| Ellison says, "we need to save the day so we can finally found out if that one scientist is attractive" | ||
| Jacqueline clears the save counter. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:34 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push cabinet" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:35 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH CABINET Floyd | Floyd | You are unable to. Floyd | Floyd | The other marine looks closely at the absorbing rod. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search coat" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:36 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH COAT Floyd | Floyd | The lab coat is mostly white, with a blue trim at the cuffs. The coat Floyd | must be heat resistant to have survived (like most Marine uniforms). Floyd | The assistant must do the dangerous work, since the scientist is not Floyd | wearing any protective gear. Floyd | Floyd | The other marine looks closely at the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline The other marine makes a stupid move and blows you both up. | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search cabinet" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:37 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH CABINET Floyd | Floyd | The emergency cabinet is a solid metal panel set into the wall, with Floyd | no apparent seams or handles. Floyd | Floyd | The other marine looks closely at the technical assistant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search head" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:38 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH HEAD Floyd | Floyd | Grotesque burns cover her face, which may have been attractive. She is Floyd | in slightly better condition than her clothing, but will not survive Floyd | long without help. She clutches a metallic rod in one fist, stretched Floyd | out toward the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I'm wondering if there's a id-chip in the coat?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cabinet, open" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:38 am
Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate
Floyd |
Floyd | > CABINET, OPEN
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't talk to the emergency cabinet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Knight_Otu says, "Hm." | |
| Jacqueline says, "aw" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Computer), "Stabilize Core" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Reverse polarity." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x array" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:39 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > X ARRAY Floyd | Floyd | The video and audio input panels are still recognizable, but most of Floyd | the communications array has been burned away. Presumably the Floyd | scientists sent their distress call before the destruction happened. Floyd | Floyd | The other marine tries to communicate on his TDU. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x transporter" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:40 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > X TRANSPORTER Floyd | Floyd | (the personal transporter) Floyd | This transporter is a smaller version of the ones used by Marine Floyd | ships, and is suitable for transporting a single person. This is Floyd | apparently the only way of accessing the lab, and unfortunately has Floyd | been damaged beyond use. Floyd | Floyd | The other marine manages to pry the rod out of the scientist's hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "That's a very secure setup." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:41 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical Floyd | Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | The table is made of highly polished metal, now scraped and Floyd | discolored. Among the wrecked equipment you can see a partially burned Floyd | notebook, a wrench, and a radiation damper. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "found stuff!" | |
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "Ntebook!" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read notebook" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:42 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical Floyd | Floyd | > READ NOTEBOOK Floyd | Floyd | This seems to be a record of the Möbius Project's results. Much of Floyd | the Floyd | notebook is burned, but you can make out a few fragments. The Floyd | scientists seem to be trying to create loops in time, allowing several Floyd | versions of an object to exist simultaneously. Apparently there have Floyd | been problems, involving unduplicated objects being pulled into one Floyd | part of the loop. These objects remain visible, but can not be Floyd | touched. The temporal reactor also seems to have become unstable. Floyd | Floyd | The rest of the fragments are technical jargon, much beyond your Floyd | comprehension. Floyd | Floyd | The other marine tries to communicate on his TDU. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu exclaims, "Notebook, even!" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x damper" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:42 am
Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical
Floyd |
Floyd | > X DAMPER
Floyd |
Floyd | The radiation damper is a thick magnetized box with a pulse switch on
Floyd | the front. It can safely be attached to a radiated metallic object and
Floyd | then activated, emitting a brief intense pulse which temporarily
Floyd | neutralizes radiation which has built up on the surface of the object.
Floyd |
Floyd | The temporal reactor finally goes critical and explodes again.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| Jacqueline says, "Huh. So some stuff will be visible but not tangible." | |
| Iria arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Jacqueline says, "Before you ask, Iria, you can always see what we're playing by saying >WHO FLOYD (don't know why, but when people arrive late and ask what we're playing it always annoys me)" | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "So, will there be two other marines now, or just one?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Let's find out." | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You seem to have survived the explosion again, but it seems to be Floyd | causing some sort of loop in time. The other marine must be a previous Floyd | version of yourself. Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | The walls and most of the equipment are charred and twisted, including Floyd | the communications array and a personal transporter. A utility table Floyd | is still bolted to one wall, next to a small cabinet labeled "For Floyd | Emergency Use Only". Floyd | Floyd | The central feature is a large cylindrical machine, with the words Floyd | "Temporal Reactor" stenciled on the front. A closed control panel Floyd | protrudes from the wall next to the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | The head scientist and her assistant are lying on the floor near the Floyd | reactor, severely burned and unconscious. They will certainly die Floyd | without immediate medical help. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self is standing nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | Iria says, "I had no idea it annoyed you." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take damper" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:34 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE DAMPER Floyd | Floyd | You retrieve the radiation damper from the utility table. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self looks closely at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Iria says (to floyd), "look self" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:34 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK SELF Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Iria), "I know. That's why I shared." | |
| Plover arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put damper on reactor" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:35 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > PUT DAMPER ON REACTOR Floyd | Floyd | You attach the radiation damper to the temporal reactor, being careful Floyd | not to get too close. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Iria says (to floyd), "x self" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:36 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > X SELF Floyd | Floyd | Your uniform is a bit creased, but fortunately no one has disciplined Floyd | you for this yet. Otherwise, you look the same as always. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self looks closely at the lab coat. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "This isn't going to work when it's time critical." | |
| Jacqueline says, "So, only two of us." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, we need a driver." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on damper" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:37 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON DAMPER Floyd | Floyd | The radiation damper emits a happy beep, then makes a faint sizzling Floyd | sound before growing quiet. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self looks closely at the emergency cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | > | Plover says, "What are you playing. I was having dinner, so missed most of the CF playt" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open reactor" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:38 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN REACTOR Floyd | Floyd | You touch the temporal reactor, and quickly pull your hand back in Floyd | pain. Although no longer radiated, the temporal reactor is still Floyd | intensely hot. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self looks closely at the head scientist. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take coat" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:39 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE COAT Floyd | Floyd | You manage to pull the coat off of the assistant without hurting him Floyd | more. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self looks closely at the communications array. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Plover says (to Floyd), "vehrough." | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:39 am
Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate
Floyd |
Floyd | > VEHROUGH.
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open reactor with coat" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:40 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN REACTOR WITH COAT Floyd | Floyd | You probably need to wrap the lab coat around your arm or something Floyd | first. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self looks closely at the personal transporter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wrap coat around arm" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:41 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical Floyd | Floyd | > WRAP COAT AROUND ARM Floyd | Floyd | You wrap the lab coat around your arm. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self looks closely at the utility table. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Plover says (to Floyd), "version" | ||
| Iria says (to Floyd), "open reactor" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:41 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical Floyd | Floyd | > VERSION Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Floyd | An Interactive Twist by J.D. Clemens | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open reactor" | ||
Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 061119 / Inform 7 build 3V01 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/11N) Floyd | Identification number: //F4AC2E84-CAF7-4FC0-8D48-DAA23392ACFE// Floyd | Standard interpreter 1.0 (6b) / Library serial number 060709 Floyd | Standard Rules version 1/060430 by Graham Nelson Floyd | Menus by Emily Short Floyd | Case Management by Emily Short Floyd | Changed Implicit Action by Emily Short Floyd | Basic Screen Effects version 2 by Emily Short Floyd | Locksmith version 2 by Emily Short Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:42 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN REACTOR Floyd | Floyd | Your hand protected by the lab coat, you manage to open the reactor Floyd | shielding, leaving a faint shadow of the previous shield. Just inside Floyd | the opening you can see a small receptacle, which looks like it is Floyd | meant to hold a small rod or cone. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self looks closely at the notebook. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:42 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN REACTOR Floyd | Floyd | That's already open. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self looks closely at the radiation damper. Floyd | Floyd | The temporal reactor finally goes critical and explodes again. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | DavidW says, "AARGH" | |
| Iria asks, "Jinx?" | ||
| Plover says (to Floyd), "version" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:42 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical | DavidW asks, "Why are other people typing?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Plover), "You can always tell what we're playing by typing >WHO FLOYD" | ||
| Iria exclaims, "I didn't know only one person was playing at a time!!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry, we did mention the driver thing." | ||
| DavidW says, "Someone else try." | ||
| Plover says (to Floyd), "who" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:42 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical | ||
| Iria says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:42 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Blown up again. You clearly need to fix the reactor to get out of this Floyd | loop. Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | The walls and most of the equipment are charred and twisted, including Floyd | the communications array and a personal transporter. A utility table Floyd | is still bolted to one wall, next to a small cabinet labeled "For Floyd | Emergency Use Only". Floyd | Floyd | The central feature is a large cylindrical machine, with the words Floyd | "Temporal Reactor" stenciled on the front. A closed control panel Floyd | protrudes from the wall next to the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | The head scientist and her assistant are lying on the floor near the Floyd | reactor, severely burned and unconscious. They will certainly die Floyd | without immediate medical help. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self is standing nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Howdy, new-comers: this game is very time-sensitive. Do not type commands. Just make suggestions on the channel." | |
| Jacqueline says, "It's good that there are only two iterations of us. I thought it was going to add another us each time." | ||
| Iria scowls. "I'm ONLY human!" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Is there time to open the reactor and insert the rod by oneself or is it a twoself operation?" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "I think it can work alone. Any objections to me trying?" | ||
| Plover says, "Ahh! So you're playing Mobius. I thought you said that wasn't on Floyd elier." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Iria), "If you arrive to a game 45 minutes late, it's best to recap to see what's going on." | ||
| Iria says (to Jacqueline), "All right." | ||
| DavidW says (to Plover), "It wasn't, but Jacqueline uploaded it." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Plover), "Yeah, it wasn't. I added it." | ||
| DavidW says (to KO), "I have no objections." | ||
| Iria says (to Knight_Otu), "No." | ||
| DavidW says, "This sort of puzzle stresses me out." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get coar" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > GET COAR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get coat" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:34 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > GET COAT Floyd | Floyd | Your hand merely passes through the lab coat. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self retrieves the radiation damper from the utility Floyd | table. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "uh oh." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Agh." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get rod" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:35 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > GET ROD Floyd | Floyd | You manage to pry the rod out of the scientist's hand. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self attaches the radiation damper to the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I guess try to insert the rod with the other us opens the reactor?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "So we need to wait for the reactor to open." | ||
| Iria says, "Mightb e." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:36 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self looks closely at himself. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Except the reactor will open so late." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:37 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self activates the radiation damper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:38 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | (You could also simply wait for death.) Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self touches the reactor, and quickly pulls his hand Floyd | back in pain. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Hah." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:39 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self manages to pull the coat off of the assistant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:40 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:41 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self wraps the lab coat around his arm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:42 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self manages to open the reactor shielding. Floyd | Floyd | > | Iria exclaims, "Now!" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put rod in reactor" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:42 am
Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT ROD IN REACTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | The temporal reactor is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | The temporal reactor finally goes critical and explodes again.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The lab is restored again. Although you are enjoying the peace away Floyd | from your ship, the exploding reactor is starting to become tiresome. Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | The walls and most of the equipment are charred and twisted, including Floyd | the communications array and a personal transporter. A utility table Floyd | is still bolted to one wall, next to a small cabinet labeled "For Floyd | Emergency Use Only". Floyd | Floyd | The central feature is a large cylindrical machine, with the words Floyd | "Temporal Reactor" stenciled on the front. A closed control panel Floyd | protrudes from the wall next to the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | The head scientist and her assistant are lying on the floor near the Floyd | reactor, severely burned and unconscious. They will certainly die Floyd | without immediate medical help. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self is standing nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "So we need to do it alone." | |
| Iria asks, "It would seem that way, wouldn't it?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't know." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to All), "Back in a bit. Need to help Kabo with something." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "wait for death" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am
Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low
Floyd |
Floyd | > WAIT FOR DEATH
Floyd |
Floyd | You settle in and wait.
| DavidW says, "Try to open the reactor faster this time. Oh god." | |
| DavidW says, "Wrong." | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self's hand passes through the space where the lab coat Floyd | once was. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self manages to pry the rod out of the scientist's hand. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | He now unsuccessfully tries to insert something into the closed Floyd | reactor. Floyd | Floyd | The temporal reactor finally goes critical and explodes again. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You are back where you started. Maybe you need to put something in the Floyd | reactor to absorb the radiation. Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | The walls and most of the equipment are charred and twisted, including Floyd | the communications array and a personal transporter. A utility table Floyd | is still bolted to one wall, next to a small cabinet labeled "For Floyd | Emergency Use Only". Floyd | Floyd | The central feature is a large cylindrical machine, with the words Floyd | "Temporal Reactor" stenciled on the front. A closed control panel Floyd | protrudes from the wall next to the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | The head scientist and her assistant are lying on the floor near the Floyd | reactor, severely burned and unconscious. They will certainly die Floyd | without immediate medical help. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self is standing nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get damper" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:34 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > GET DAMPER Floyd | Floyd | You retrieve the radiation damper from the utility table. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put damper on reactor" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:35 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > PUT DAMPER ON REACTOR Floyd | Floyd | You attach the radiation damper to the temporal reactor, being careful Floyd | not to get too close. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get coat" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:36 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > GET COAT Floyd | Floyd | You manage to pull the coat off of the assistant without hurting him Floyd | more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "wrap coat around arm" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:37 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > WRAP COAT AROUND ARM Floyd | Floyd | You wrap the lab coat around your arm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "open reactor" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:37 am
Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN REACTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | As you are about to touch the temporal reactor, you are seared by the
Floyd | intense radiation which has built up in it; you quickly lose
Floyd | consciousness.
Floyd |
Floyd | Although you do not witness it, you assume that the reactor exploded
Floyd | again.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| ||
| Iria pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You are back where you started. Maybe you need to put something in the Floyd | reactor to absorb the radiation. Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | The walls and most of the equipment are charred and twisted, including Floyd | the communications array and a personal transporter. A utility table Floyd | is still bolted to one wall, next to a small cabinet labeled "For Floyd | Emergency Use Only". Floyd | Floyd | The central feature is a large cylindrical machine, with the words Floyd | "Temporal Reactor" stenciled on the front. A closed control panel Floyd | protrudes from the wall next to the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | The head scientist and her assistant are lying on the floor near the Floyd | reactor, severely burned and unconscious. They will certainly die Floyd | without immediate medical help. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self is standing nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Oops, missed a step?" | |
| DavidW says, "No, something new happened." | ||
| DavidW says, "The MRL was still low." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I think I didnt turn the damper on." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, maybe." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I suspect we won't get to turn it on when our previous self attaches it, but we can try." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get rod" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:34 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > GET ROD Floyd | Floyd | You manage to pry the rod out of the scientist's hand. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self retrieves the radiation damper from the utility Floyd | table. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:35 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self attaches the radiation damper to the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "turn on damper" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:36 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON DAMPER Floyd | Floyd | Your hand merely passes through the radiation damper. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self manages to pull the coat off of the assistant. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, you did miss a step. drat." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Maybe after he goes unconscious..." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:37 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self wraps the lab coat around his arm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:38 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | (You could also simply wait for death.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:39 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "turn on damper" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:40 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON DAMPER Floyd | Floyd | Your hand merely passes through the radiation damper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "drop rod" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:41 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical Floyd | Floyd | > DROP ROD Floyd | Floyd | You drop the absorbing rod on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:40 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put rod in reactor" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:41 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical Floyd | Floyd | > PUT ROD IN REACTOR Floyd | Floyd | The temporal reactor is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put rod in reactor" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:42 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical Floyd | Floyd | > PUT ROD IN REACTOR Floyd | Floyd | The temporal reactor is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put rod in reactor" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:42 am
Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUT ROD IN REACTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | The temporal reactor is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | The temporal reactor finally goes critical and explodes again.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You are back where you started. Maybe you need to put something in the Floyd | reactor to absorb the radiation. Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | The walls and most of the equipment are charred and twisted, including Floyd | the communications array and a personal transporter. A utility table Floyd | is still bolted to one wall, next to a small cabinet labeled "For Floyd | Emergency Use Only". Floyd | Floyd | The central feature is a large cylindrical machine, with the words Floyd | "Temporal Reactor" stenciled on the front. A closed control panel Floyd | protrudes from the wall next to the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | The head scientist and her assistant are lying on the floor near the Floyd | reactor, severely burned and unconscious. They will certainly die Floyd | without immediate medical help. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self is standing nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Maybe that'll help." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get damper" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:34 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > GET DAMPER Floyd | Floyd | You retrieve the radiation damper from the utility table. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self manages to pry the rod out of the scientist's hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put damper on reactor" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:35 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > PUT DAMPER ON REACTOR Floyd | Floyd | You attach the radiation damper to the temporal reactor, being careful Floyd | not to get too close. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "turn damper on" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:36 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > TURN DAMPER ON Floyd | Floyd | The radiation damper emits a happy beep, then makes a faint sizzling Floyd | sound before growing quiet. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self's hand passes through the space where the radiation Floyd | damper once was. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get coat" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:37 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > GET COAT Floyd | Floyd | You manage to pull the coat off of the assistant without hurting him Floyd | more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "wrap it around arm" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:38 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > WRAP IT AROUND ARM Floyd | Floyd | You wrap the lab coat around your arm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "open reactor" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:39 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN REACTOR Floyd | Floyd | Your hand protected by the lab coat, you manage to open the reactor Floyd | shielding, leaving a faint shadow of the previous shield. Just inside Floyd | the opening you can see a small receptacle, which looks like it is Floyd | meant to hold a small rod or cone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:40 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self's hand passes through the space where the radiation Floyd | damper once was. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:41 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self unsuccessfully tries to insert something into the Floyd | closed reactor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Yeah, we need to do this alone." | |
| Lionheart arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | Knight_Otu says, "So we need to wait for death the next runthrough, and make sure I don't screw up on the one after that." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x reactor" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:42 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical Floyd | Floyd | > X REACTOR Floyd | Floyd | The shield of the reactor is open, revealing a central chamber too Floyd | bright to study. A small receptacle sits empty just inside the Floyd | opening; it looks like it is meant to hold a small rod or cone. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self unsuccessfully tries to insert something into the Floyd | closed reactor. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm beginning to think this will be more of a tandem thing, like braiding hair." | |
| DavidW says, "Self one will do A. Self two will do B. Self one will do A and C. Self two will do B and D. And so on." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "It's what I would think, yes, but the mechanics don't seem to agree." | ||
| DavidW says, "Well, you keep trying." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "open compartment" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:42 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN COMPARTMENT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "open receptable" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:42 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN RECEPTABLE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:42 am
Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your previous self unsuccessfully tries to insert something into the
Floyd | closed reactor.
Floyd |
Floyd | The temporal reactor finally goes critical and explodes again.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You are back where you started. Maybe you need to put something in the Floyd | reactor to absorb the radiation. Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | The walls and most of the equipment are charred and twisted, including Floyd | the communications array and a personal transporter. A utility table Floyd | is still bolted to one wall, next to a small cabinet labeled "For Floyd | Emergency Use Only". Floyd | Floyd | The central feature is a large cylindrical machine, with the words Floyd | "Temporal Reactor" stenciled on the front. A closed control panel Floyd | protrudes from the wall next to the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | The head scientist and her assistant are lying on the floor near the Floyd | reactor, severely burned and unconscious. They will certainly die Floyd | without immediate medical help. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self is standing nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "We're trying, game." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "wait for death" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am
Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low
Floyd |
Floyd | > WAIT FOR DEATH
Floyd |
Floyd | You settle in and wait.
| ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self retrieves the radiation damper from the utility Floyd | table. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Then he attaches the radiation damper to the reactor. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | A moment later he activates the radiation damper. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Next he manages to pull the coat off of the assistant. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | He now wraps the lab coat around his arm. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | After that he manages to open the reactor shielding. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | He then looks closely at the reactor. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | The temporal reactor finally goes critical and explodes again. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You are back where you started. Maybe you need to put something in the Floyd | reactor to absorb the radiation. Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | The walls and most of the equipment are charred and twisted, including Floyd | the communications array and a personal transporter. A utility table Floyd | is still bolted to one wall, next to a small cabinet labeled "For Floyd | Emergency Use Only". Floyd | Floyd | The central feature is a large cylindrical machine, with the words Floyd | "Temporal Reactor" stenciled on the front. A closed control panel Floyd | protrudes from the wall next to the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | The head scientist and her assistant are lying on the floor near the Floyd | reactor, severely burned and unconscious. They will certainly die Floyd | without immediate medical help. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self is standing nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get damper" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:34 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > GET DAMPER Floyd | Floyd | You retrieve the radiation damper from the utility table. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put damper on reactor" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:35 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > PUT DAMPER ON REACTOR Floyd | Floyd | You attach the radiation damper to the temporal reactor, being careful Floyd | not to get too close. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "turn it on" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:36 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > TURN IT ON Floyd | Floyd | The radiation damper emits a happy beep, then makes a faint sizzling Floyd | sound before growing quiet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get coat" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:37 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > GET COAT Floyd | Floyd | You manage to pull the coat off of the assistant without hurting him Floyd | more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "wrap it around arm" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:38 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > WRAP IT AROUND ARM Floyd | Floyd | You wrap the lab coat around your arm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "open reactor" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:39 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN REACTOR Floyd | Floyd | Your hand protected by the lab coat, you manage to open the reactor Floyd | shielding, leaving a faint shadow of the previous shield. Just inside Floyd | the opening you can see a small receptacle, which looks like it is Floyd | meant to hold a small rod or cone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get rod" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:40 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > GET ROD Floyd | Floyd | You manage to pry the rod out of the scientist's hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put rod in reactor" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:41 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical Floyd | Floyd | > PUT ROD IN REACTOR Floyd | Floyd | You insert the absorbing rod into the receptacle; this should control Floyd | the radiation once the shielding is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "close reactor" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:42 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE REACTOR Floyd | Floyd | You close the reactor shielding; hopefully the reactor is now safe. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Okay, that looks better." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:42 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "contact ship" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:42 am
Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low
Floyd |
Floyd | > CONTACT SHIP
Floyd |
Floyd | There is still no reply.
Floyd |
Floyd | A bright but silent explosion appears from the reactor, and then all
Floyd | goes black.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You are back in the lab, which looks much as it did when you first Floyd | beamed in, but your previous self is still here. You're sure you fixed Floyd | the reactor, so something else must be going on. Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | The walls and most of the equipment are charred and twisted, including Floyd | the communications array and a personal transporter. A utility table Floyd | is still bolted to one wall, next to a small cabinet labeled "For Floyd | Emergency Use Only". Floyd | Floyd | The central feature is a large cylindrical machine, with the words Floyd | "Temporal Reactor" stenciled on the front. A closed control panel Floyd | protrudes from the wall next to the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | The head scientist and her assistant are lying on the floor near the Floyd | reactor, severely burned and unconscious. They will certainly die Floyd | without immediate medical help. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self is standing nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Oh kay." | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "We need to do it twi... but we can't, can we?" | ||
| DavidW says, "We've done nothing with the wrench and haven't opened the cabinet yet." | ||
| Ellison asks, "can one of us move bodies to the transporter?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Transporter is broken, I think." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Wait, no, there's something else." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Right." | ||
| DavidW asks, "The control panel? What's that about?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x panel" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:34 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > X PANEL Floyd | Floyd | The control panel is closed, but hinges at one edge and a small gap at Floyd | the other suggest that you could open it. Presumably the reactor Floyd | controls are inside. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self retrieves the radiation damper from the utility Floyd | table. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:35 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | An angry beep from your TDU warns you of intense radiation buildup in Floyd | the control panel; you hesitate before touching it. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self attaches the radiation damper to the previous Floyd | reactor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get wrench" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:36 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > GET WRENCH Floyd | Floyd | You retrieve the wrench from the utility table. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self activates the radiation damper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "open panel" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:36 am
Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN PANEL
Floyd |
Floyd | As you are about to touch the control panel, you are seared by the
Floyd | intense radiation which has built up in it; you quickly lose
Floyd | consciousness.
Floyd |
Floyd | Although you do not witness it, you assume that the reactor exploded
Floyd | again.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| Knight_Otu says, "DAmnit." | |
| DavidW asks, "Is the control panel part of the reactor or not?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Aw. Damn." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I think it is, but the damper only worked on the previous radiation level." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm back, but just observing, given all I missed." | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Another explosion. Maybe there is a previous version of the reactor, Floyd | just like there is of you. Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | The walls and most of the equipment are charred and twisted, including Floyd | the communications array and a personal transporter. A utility table Floyd | is still bolted to one wall, next to a small cabinet labeled "For Floyd | Emergency Use Only". Floyd | Floyd | The central feature is a large cylindrical machine, with the words Floyd | "Temporal Reactor" stenciled on the front. A closed control panel Floyd | protrudes from the wall next to the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | The head scientist and her assistant are lying on the floor near the Floyd | reactor, severely burned and unconscious. They will certainly die Floyd | without immediate medical help. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self is standing nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get damper" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:34 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > GET DAMPER Floyd | Floyd | You retrieve the radiation damper from the utility table. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self looks closely at the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "oh god. There's two reactors?" | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Two?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Just like there's two of us." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Oh, right, that." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "That was what I meant with we need to do this twice." | ||
| DavidW says, "The game's trying to hint what's wrong." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "But we obviously can't interact with what we've interacted last time." | ||
| DavidW asks, "So the damper and coat and rod is one way of solving it. Is there another way of solving it?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "So there would seem to be two different ways to solve.. right." | ||
| DavidW asks, "The wrench and ... whatever else is in that cabinet?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "However we get that to open." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put damper on panel" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:35 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > PUT DAMPER ON PANEL Floyd | Floyd | You attach the radiation damper to the control panel, being careful Floyd | not to get too close. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "turn it on" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:36 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > TURN IT ON Floyd | Floyd | The radiation damper emits a happy beep, then makes a faint sizzling Floyd | sound before growing quiet. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self retrieves the wrench from the utility table. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "open panel" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:37 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN PANEL Floyd | Floyd | You touch the control panel, and quickly pull your hand back in pain. Floyd | Although no longer radiated, the control panel is still intensely hot. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self touches the control panel, and quickly pulls his Floyd | hand back in pain. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Doh." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:36 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get coat" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:37 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > GET COAT Floyd | Floyd | You manage to pull the coat off of the assistant without hurting him Floyd | more. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self touches the control panel, and quickly pulls his Floyd | hand back in pain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put it on arm" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:38 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > PUT IT ON ARM Floyd | Floyd | You wrap the lab coat around your arm. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self's hand passes through the space where the lab coat Floyd | once was. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "open panel" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:39 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN PANEL Floyd | Floyd | Your hand protected by the lab coat, you manage to open the control Floyd | panel, revealing two buttons. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self reaches for the previous reactor and is seared by Floyd | the intense radiation built up in it; he slumps to the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x buttons" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:40 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > X BUTTONS Floyd | Floyd | (the control panel) Floyd | Inside the control panel you see two buttons, one labeled "Reactor Floyd | Shield" and the other "Emergency Cabinet". Floyd | Floyd | The radiation damper is attached to the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push cabinet button" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:41 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH CABINET BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You press the button and the emergency cabinet slides open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Plover runs out of the room, with a smile on his face. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x cabinet" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:42 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical Floyd | Floyd | > X CABINET Floyd | Floyd | In the cabinet you see a first aid kit, a rations patty, a mini Floyd | blaster, and an absorbing cone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x cone" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:42 am
Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical
Floyd |
Floyd | > X CONE
Floyd |
Floyd | The absorbing cone is a dark metal, and very heavy for its size. You
Floyd | have seen absorbing cones and rods (apparently identical except for
Floyd | their shape) used in reactors to absorb radiation emissions. The rod
Floyd | shape is the more recent model; cones are primarily stored as backups
Floyd | now.
Floyd |
Floyd | The temporal reactor finally goes critical and explodes again.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Here again. Maybe you need some help from your previous self. Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | The walls and most of the equipment are charred and twisted, including Floyd | the communications array and a personal transporter. A utility table Floyd | is still bolted to one wall, next to a small cabinet labeled "For Floyd | Emergency Use Only". Floyd | Floyd | The central feature is a large cylindrical machine, with the words Floyd | "Temporal Reactor" stenciled on the front. A closed control panel Floyd | protrudes from the wall next to the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | The head scientist and her assistant are lying on the floor near the Floyd | reactor, severely burned and unconscious. They will certainly die Floyd | without immediate medical help. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self is standing nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Okay..." | |
| Guenni says, "Sorry for just dropping off like that, but I was hit by a spell of dizzyness." | ||
| Guenni says, "Now I'll let you get on with the space saving. :-)" | ||
| Ellison says (to Guenni), "it's probably the radiation poisoning" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "We need to put the rod into the reactor in one timeline, and te cone in the other." | ||
| DavidW says (to KO), "agreed." | ||
| Ellison asks, "if we explicitly drop something, can the next version of us pick it up? do we have to share items for this?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "We need the damper to do both, as it seems the panel may not get de-radded." | ||
| DavidW asks, "does pushing the reactor sheild button open the reactor itself?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Maybe." | ||
| DavidW says, "If so, the damper is only needed for the panel, I think." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Right, that may be the case." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Or does the self with damper have to zap the panel then the reactor?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Hm." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "If the panel was radiated because we only de-radded the reactor..." | ||
| DavidW says, "Or maybe the coat is used to *close* the reactor." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Maybe." | ||
| DavidW says, "Still too many questions." | ||
| DavidW says, "But we've much closer to an answer, I think." | ||
| DavidW says, "er we're" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Wait, we needed the coat for the panel, as well." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Or maybe we can open it via the wrench, as well...." | ||
| DavidW says, "There could also be something like an ace bandage in the first aid kit." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "True. We didn't have much time to explore the cabinet contents." | ||
| DavidW says, "afk to use bathroom" | ||
| DavidW says, "back" | ||
| DavidW says, "you didn't have to wait." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Did it anyway. Gave me time to plot a bit." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "We can at least see if the panel gets de-radded here." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get rod" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:34 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > GET ROD Floyd | Floyd | You manage to pry the rod out of the scientist's hand. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self retrieves the radiation damper from the utility Floyd | table. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suspect if you let both selves do nothing in consecutive runs, you free up everything." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Technically, one might suffice." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get wrench" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:35 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > GET WRENCH Floyd | Floyd | You retrieve the wrench from the utility table. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self attaches the radiation damper to the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:36 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self activates the radiation damper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "open panel with wrench" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:37 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN PANEL WITH WRENCH Floyd | Floyd | The wrench merely passes through the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self manages to pull the coat off of the assistant. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Dang." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:38 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self wraps the lab coat around his arm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:39 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self manages to open the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push emergency button" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:40 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH EMERGENCY BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | Your hand merely passes through the emergency cabinet button. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self looks closely at the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push shielding button" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:40 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH SHIELDING BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push shield button" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:41 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH SHIELD BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You press the button and the reactor shield slides open, leaving a Floyd | faint shadow of the previous shield. Just inside the opening you can Floyd | see a small receptacle, which looks like it is meant to hold a small Floyd | rod or cone. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self presses the emergency cabinet button and the Floyd | cabinet slides open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put rod in reactor" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:42 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical Floyd | Floyd | > PUT ROD IN REACTOR Floyd | Floyd | You insert the absorbing rod into the receptacle; this should control Floyd | the radiation once the shielding is closed. Floyd | Floyd | As you withdraw your arm, you feel your skin blister from the radiated Floyd | shielding; you feel like you are about to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self looks closely at the emergency cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push shield button" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:42 am
Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH SHIELD BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You press the button and the reactor shield slides closed. Hopefully
Floyd | the reactor is now safe.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your previous self looks closely at the absorbing cone.
Floyd |
Floyd | You finally succumb to the radiation exposure and collapse.
Floyd |
Floyd | Since you are not around to witness it, you are not sure whether the
Floyd | reactor explodes or not.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Yet another explosion. It seems that the time loops somehow erases Floyd | earlier ones, so that only the most recent previous loop affects you. Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | The walls and most of the equipment are charred and twisted, including Floyd | the communications array and a personal transporter. A utility table Floyd | is still bolted to one wall, next to a small cabinet labeled "For Floyd | Emergency Use Only". Floyd | Floyd | The central feature is a large cylindrical machine, with the words Floyd | "Temporal Reactor" stenciled on the front. A closed control panel Floyd | protrudes from the wall next to the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | The head scientist and her assistant are lying on the floor near the Floyd | reactor, severely burned and unconscious. They will certainly die Floyd | without immediate medical help. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self is standing nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Now this might work..." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get damper" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:34 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > GET DAMPER Floyd | Floyd | You retrieve the radiation damper from the utility table. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self manages to pry the rod out of the scientist's hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put damper on panel" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:35 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > PUT DAMPER ON PANEL Floyd | Floyd | You attach the radiation damper to the control panel, being careful Floyd | not to get too close. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self retrieves the wrench from the utility table. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "turn it on" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:36 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > TURN IT ON Floyd | Floyd | The radiation damper emits a happy beep, then makes a faint sizzling Floyd | sound before growing quiet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put it on reactor" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:37 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > PUT IT ON REACTOR Floyd | Floyd | You need to remove the radiation damper from the control panel first. Floyd | Floyd | The wrench, held by your previous self, passes through the space where Floyd | the control panel once was. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:36 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get damper" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:37 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > GET DAMPER Floyd | Floyd | You remove the damper from the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | The wrench, held by your previous self, passes through the space where Floyd | the control panel once was. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put it on reactor" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:38 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > PUT IT ON REACTOR Floyd | Floyd | You attach the radiation damper to the temporal reactor, being careful Floyd | not to get too close. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "turn it on" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:39 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > TURN IT ON Floyd | Floyd | The radiation damper has burned itself out and is no longer Floyd | functional. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Okay...." | |
| DavidW says, "ah. Damper is one use." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "huh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That's annoying" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "wait for death" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:39 am
Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate
Floyd |
Floyd | > WAIT FOR DEATH
Floyd |
Floyd | (You could also simply sleep.)
Floyd |
Floyd | You settle in and wait.
| ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:39 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self's hand passes through the emergency cabinet button. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self somehow reaches through the control panel and Floyd | presses the reactor shield button and you see the faint shadow of the Floyd | previous shield slide open. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:39 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | After that he inserts the absorbing rod into the receptacle of the Floyd | previous reactor and is blistered by the radiated shielding. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:39 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Next he somehow reaches through the control panel and presses the Floyd | reactor shield button and you see the faint shadow of the previous Floyd | shield slide closed. Hopefully his version of the reactor is now safe. Floyd | Floyd | He then succumbs to radiation exposure and collapses. Floyd | Floyd | The temporal reactor finally goes critical and explodes again. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You are back where you started. Maybe there is something besides the Floyd | absorbing rod which can fix the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | The walls and most of the equipment are charred and twisted, including Floyd | the communications array and a personal transporter. A utility table Floyd | is still bolted to one wall, next to a small cabinet labeled "For Floyd | Emergency Use Only". Floyd | Floyd | The central feature is a large cylindrical machine, with the words Floyd | "Temporal Reactor" stenciled on the front. A closed control panel Floyd | protrudes from the wall next to the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | The head scientist and her assistant are lying on the floor near the Floyd | reactor, severely burned and unconscious. They will certainly die Floyd | without immediate medical help. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self is standing nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "wait for death" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am
Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low
Floyd |
Floyd | > WAIT FOR DEATH
Floyd |
Floyd | You settle in and wait.
| ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self retrieves the radiation damper from the utility Floyd | table. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | He then attaches the radiation damper to the control panel. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | He now activates the radiation damper. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Now he removes the damper from the control panel. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | After that he attaches the radiation damper to the previous reactor. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | The temporal reactor finally goes critical and explodes again. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You are back where you started. Maybe there is something besides the Floyd | absorbing rod which can fix the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | The walls and most of the equipment are charred and twisted, including Floyd | the communications array and a personal transporter. A utility table Floyd | is still bolted to one wall, next to a small cabinet labeled "For Floyd | Emergency Use Only". Floyd | Floyd | The central feature is a large cylindrical machine, with the words Floyd | "Temporal Reactor" stenciled on the front. A closed control panel Floyd | protrudes from the wall next to the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | The head scientist and her assistant are lying on the floor near the Floyd | reactor, severely burned and unconscious. They will certainly die Floyd | without immediate medical help. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self is standing nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Give some time to plot a bit better." | |
| DavidW says, "The two selves need to work in tandem, I suspect." | ||
| DavidW says, "While self one is doing 'get damper. put damper on panel. turn on damper'; self two can be busy doing 'get coat. wrap coat on arm. open panel'" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Maybe." | ||
| DavidW says, "Each self can push a different button." | ||
| DavidW says, "Then they go for either the rod or cone simultaneously and put them into the reactor." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That sounds perfect." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Could be. What I have so far seems a suicide for the "primary" self." | ||
| DavidW says, "Make sure the coat user is not the one that pushes the reactor button, so one self closes the reactor manually and the other self closes it via the button." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Hm." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Self a de-rads the panel. Self b opens it with the coat." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Self a probably then waits for death, since they shouldn't interact with the panel directly?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "So self b pushes the emergency button...." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm thinking A pushes both buttons while B opens the reactor manually." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "But if a opens the panel, then they need the coat." | ||
| DavidW says, "no, A doesn't open the panel" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I think that may turn into the suicide "solution" I have." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Then we need an a-1 to open the panel." | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't know what you're thinking of, but it doesn't match my thinking." | ||
| Jacqueline listens to the puzzlepeople. | ||
| DavidW asks, "Shall I try?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I'm pretty sure we can't reach the buttons unless we or our previous incarnation opens the panel..." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'll need to suicide twice first." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Sure." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am
Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You settle down for a nap, hoping this will all go away.
Floyd |
Floyd | Although you do not witness it, you assume that the reactor exploded
Floyd | again.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You are back where you started. Maybe there is something besides the Floyd | absorbing rod which can fix the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | The walls and most of the equipment are charred and twisted, including Floyd | the communications array and a personal transporter. A utility table Floyd | is still bolted to one wall, next to a small cabinet labeled "For Floyd | Emergency Use Only". Floyd | Floyd | The central feature is a large cylindrical machine, with the words Floyd | "Temporal Reactor" stenciled on the front. A closed control panel Floyd | protrudes from the wall next to the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | The head scientist and her assistant are lying on the floor near the Floyd | reactor, severely burned and unconscious. They will certainly die Floyd | without immediate medical help. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self is standing nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am
Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You settle down for a nap, hoping this will all go away.
Floyd |
Floyd | Although you do not witness it, you assume that the reactor exploded
Floyd | again.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| Knight_Otu says, "Actually, I think we were on neutral..." | |
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You are back where you started. Maybe there is something besides the Floyd | absorbing rod which can fix the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | The walls and most of the equipment are charred and twisted, including Floyd | the communications array and a personal transporter. A utility table Floyd | is still bolted to one wall, next to a small cabinet labeled "For Floyd | Emergency Use Only". Floyd | Floyd | The central feature is a large cylindrical machine, with the words Floyd | "Temporal Reactor" stenciled on the front. A closed control panel Floyd | protrudes from the wall next to the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | The head scientist and her assistant are lying on the floor near the Floyd | reactor, severely burned and unconscious. They will certainly die Floyd | without immediate medical help. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self is standing nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "get damper" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:34 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > GET DAMPER Floyd | Floyd | You retrieve the radiation damper from the utility table. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self settles down for a nap. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Not that it matters much." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put damper on panel" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:35 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > PUT DAMPER ON PANEL Floyd | Floyd | You attach the radiation damper to the control panel, being careful Floyd | not to get too close. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on damper" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:36 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON DAMPER Floyd | Floyd | The radiation damper emits a happy beep, then makes a faint sizzling Floyd | sound before growing quiet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:36 am
Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You settle down for a nap, hoping this will all go away.
Floyd |
Floyd | Although you do not witness it, you assume that the reactor exploded
Floyd | again.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You are back where you started. Maybe there is something besides the Floyd | absorbing rod which can fix the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | The walls and most of the equipment are charred and twisted, including Floyd | the communications array and a personal transporter. A utility table Floyd | is still bolted to one wall, next to a small cabinet labeled "For Floyd | Emergency Use Only". Floyd | Floyd | The central feature is a large cylindrical machine, with the words Floyd | "Temporal Reactor" stenciled on the front. A closed control panel Floyd | protrudes from the wall next to the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | The head scientist and her assistant are lying on the floor near the Floyd | reactor, severely burned and unconscious. They will certainly die Floyd | without immediate medical help. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self is standing nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "get coat" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:34 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > GET COAT Floyd | Floyd | You manage to pull the coat off of the assistant without hurting him Floyd | more. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self retrieves the radiation damper from the utility Floyd | table. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wrap coat around arm" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:35 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > WRAP COAT AROUND ARM Floyd | Floyd | You wrap the lab coat around your arm. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self attaches the radiation damper to the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open panel" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:36 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN PANEL Floyd | Floyd | Your hand merely passes through the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self activates the radiation damper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open panel" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:37 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN PANEL Floyd | Floyd | Your hand merely passes through the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self settles down for a nap. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. that didn't work" | |
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "Or maybe you can push the buttons in this state!" | ||
| DavidW says, "I didn't think the panel would be unavailable to B if A used the damper on it." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I guess either interactions puts the off-limits flag on an object." | ||
| DavidW asks, "so A has to use both the damper and the coat?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Possibly. Let's try to push a button, though." | ||
| DavidW says, "The panel isn't open." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "If we pass through the panel..." | ||
| DavidW says, "you drive then" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "press emergency" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:38 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > PRESS EMERGENCY Floyd | Floyd | (the emergency cabinet) Floyd | You are unable to. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:37 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "press emergency button" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:38 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > PRESS EMERGENCY BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You somehow reach through the panel and press the button, and the Floyd | emergency cabinet slides open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get cane" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:38 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > GET CANE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:38 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get cone" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:39 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > GET CONE Floyd | Floyd | You retrieve the absorbing cone from the emergency cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "open reactor" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:39 am
Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate
Floyd |
Floyd | > OPEN REACTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | As you are about to touch the temporal reactor, you are seared by the
Floyd | intense radiation which has built up in it; you quickly lose
Floyd | consciousness.
Floyd |
Floyd | Although you do not witness it, you assume that the reactor exploded
Floyd | again.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| DavidW asks, "So the panel doesn't HAVE to be open to push the buttons?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Doh." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, that's weird." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I think once it's interacted with, we can pass through it on the next run-through." | ||
| DavidW says, "So that could happen with the reactor too... or the cabinet." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I think I may have a new plan..." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yes." | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You are back where you started. You still haven't gotten the reactor Floyd | fixed in both sides of the loop. Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | The walls and most of the equipment are charred and twisted, including Floyd | the communications array and a personal transporter. A utility table Floyd | is still bolted to one wall, next to a small cabinet labeled "For Floyd | Emergency Use Only". Floyd | Floyd | The central feature is a large cylindrical machine, with the words Floyd | "Temporal Reactor" stenciled on the front. A closed control panel Floyd | protrudes from the wall next to the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | The head scientist and her assistant are lying on the floor near the Floyd | reactor, severely burned and unconscious. They will certainly die Floyd | without immediate medical help. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self is standing nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "very strange logic" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "So, dampen the panel, sleep." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "push both buttons." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "put the rod into the reactor, push sield button." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "That's reactor 1" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "then get damper, coat, and cone, open reactor, put cone in it, close reactor." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "That's reactor 2, and no suicide mission." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Does that seem sound?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I guess we can try it, at least." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am
Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You settle down for a nap, hoping this will all go away.
Floyd |
Floyd | Although you do not witness it, you assume that the reactor exploded
Floyd | again.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You are back where you started. You still haven't gotten the reactor Floyd | fixed in both sides of the loop. Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | The walls and most of the equipment are charred and twisted, including Floyd | the communications array and a personal transporter. A utility table Floyd | is still bolted to one wall, next to a small cabinet labeled "For Floyd | Emergency Use Only". Floyd | Floyd | The central feature is a large cylindrical machine, with the words Floyd | "Temporal Reactor" stenciled on the front. A closed control panel Floyd | protrudes from the wall next to the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | The head scientist and her assistant are lying on the floor near the Floyd | reactor, severely burned and unconscious. They will certainly die Floyd | without immediate medical help. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self is standing nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Neutral first." | |
| DavidW says, "It's like trying to read the script for Back to the Future II without the visual cues." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Heh." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "It's weird, definitely." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get damper" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:34 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > GET DAMPER Floyd | Floyd | You retrieve the radiation damper from the utility table. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self settles down for a nap. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "They had the good sense to make sure the two Martys dressed differently." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put damper on panel" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:35 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > PUT DAMPER ON PANEL Floyd | Floyd | You attach the radiation damper to the control panel, being careful Floyd | not to get too close. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "turn it on" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:36 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > TURN IT ON Floyd | Floyd | The radiation damper emits a happy beep, then makes a faint sizzling Floyd | sound before growing quiet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:36 am
Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low
Floyd |
Floyd | > SLEEP
Floyd |
Floyd | You settle down for a nap, hoping this will all go away.
Floyd |
Floyd | Although you do not witness it, you assume that the reactor exploded
Floyd | again.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You are back where you started. You still haven't gotten the reactor Floyd | fixed in both sides of the loop. Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | The walls and most of the equipment are charred and twisted, including Floyd | the communications array and a personal transporter. A utility table Floyd | is still bolted to one wall, next to a small cabinet labeled "For Floyd | Emergency Use Only". Floyd | Floyd | The central feature is a large cylindrical machine, with the words Floyd | "Temporal Reactor" stenciled on the front. A closed control panel Floyd | protrudes from the wall next to the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | The head scientist and her assistant are lying on the floor near the Floyd | reactor, severely burned and unconscious. They will certainly die Floyd | without immediate medical help. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self is standing nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Can the buttons be pushed right away?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Let's see." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push emergency button" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:34 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH EMERGENCY BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You somehow reach through the panel and press the button, and the Floyd | emergency cabinet slides open. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self retrieves the radiation damper from the utility Floyd | table. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "wow" | |
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "Yes!" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get rod" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:35 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > GET ROD Floyd | Floyd | You manage to pry the rod out of the scientist's hand. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self attaches the radiation damper to the control panel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push shield button" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:36 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH SHIELD BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You somehow reach through the panel and press the button, and the Floyd | reactor shield slides open, leaving a faint shadow of the previous Floyd | shield. Just inside the opening you can see a small receptacle, which Floyd | looks like it is meant to hold a small rod or cone. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self activates the radiation damper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put rod in reactor" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:37 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > PUT ROD IN REACTOR Floyd | Floyd | You insert the absorbing rod into the receptacle; this should control Floyd | the radiation once the shielding is closed. Floyd | Floyd | As you withdraw your arm, you feel your skin blister from the radiated Floyd | shielding; you feel like you are about to collapse. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self settles down for a nap. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "close reactor" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:37 am
Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low
Floyd |
Floyd | > CLOSE REACTOR
Floyd |
Floyd | As you are about to touch the temporal reactor, you are seared by the
Floyd | intense radiation which has built up in it; you quickly lose
Floyd | consciousness.
Floyd |
Floyd | Although you do not witness it, you assume that the reactor exploded
Floyd | again.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| Knight_Otu says, "Dammit." | |
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You are back where you started. You still haven't gotten the reactor Floyd | fixed in both sides of the loop. Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | The walls and most of the equipment are charred and twisted, including Floyd | the communications array and a personal transporter. A utility table Floyd | is still bolted to one wall, next to a small cabinet labeled "For Floyd | Emergency Use Only". Floyd | Floyd | The central feature is a large cylindrical machine, with the words Floyd | "Temporal Reactor" stenciled on the front. A closed control panel Floyd | protrudes from the wall next to the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | The head scientist and her assistant are lying on the floor near the Floyd | reactor, severely burned and unconscious. They will certainly die Floyd | without immediate medical help. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self is standing nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:37 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Ah, we can undo out of the next loop." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push shield button" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:37 am
Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low
Floyd |
Floyd | > PUSH SHIELD BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | You somehow reach through the panel and press the button, and the
Floyd | reactor shield slides closed. Hopefully the reactor is now safe.
Floyd |
Floyd | You finally succumb to the radiation exposure and collapse.
Floyd |
Floyd | Since you are not around to witness it, you are not sure whether the
Floyd | reactor explodes or not.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You are back where you started. You still haven't gotten the reactor Floyd | fixed in both sides of the loop. Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | The walls and most of the equipment are charred and twisted, including Floyd | the communications array and a personal transporter. A utility table Floyd | is still bolted to one wall, next to a small cabinet labeled "For Floyd | Emergency Use Only". Floyd | Floyd | The central feature is a large cylindrical machine, with the words Floyd | "Temporal Reactor" stenciled on the front. A closed control panel Floyd | protrudes from the wall next to the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | The head scientist and her assistant are lying on the floor near the Floyd | reactor, severely burned and unconscious. They will certainly die Floyd | without immediate medical help. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self is standing nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get damper" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:34 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > GET DAMPER Floyd | Floyd | You retrieve the radiation damper from the utility table. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self somehow reaches through the control panel and Floyd | presses the emergency cabinet button and the cabinet slides open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put it on reactor" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:35 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > PUT IT ON REACTOR Floyd | Floyd | You attach the radiation damper to the temporal reactor, being careful Floyd | not to get too close. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self manages to pry the rod out of the scientist's hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "turn it on" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:36 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > TURN IT ON Floyd | Floyd | The radiation damper emits a happy beep, then makes a faint sizzling Floyd | sound before growing quiet. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self somehow reaches through the control panel and Floyd | presses the reactor shield button and you see the faint shadow of the Floyd | previous shield slide open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get coat" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:37 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > GET COAT Floyd | Floyd | You manage to pull the coat off of the assistant without hurting him Floyd | more. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self inserts the absorbing rod into the receptacle of Floyd | the previous reactor and is blistered by the radiated shielding. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "wear it" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:38 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR IT Floyd | Floyd | You put on the lab coat. Now if you just had a helmet, some gloves, Floyd | and a thick lead box you would be safe from explosions. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self somehow reaches through the control panel and Floyd | presses the reactor shield button and you see the faint shadow of the Floyd | previous shield slide closed. Hopefully his version of the reactor is Floyd | now safe. Floyd | Floyd | Then he succumbs to radiation exposure and collapses. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:37 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put coat on arm" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:38 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > PUT COAT ON ARM Floyd | Floyd | You wrap the lab coat around your arm. Floyd | Floyd | Your previous self somehow reaches through the control panel and Floyd | presses the reactor shield button and you see the faint shadow of the Floyd | previous shield slide closed. Hopefully his version of the reactor is Floyd | now safe. Floyd | Floyd | Then he succumbs to radiation exposure and collapses. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "open reactor" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:39 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN REACTOR Floyd | Floyd | Your hand protected by the lab coat, you manage to open the reactor Floyd | shielding, leaving a faint shadow of the previous shield. Just inside Floyd | the opening you can see a small receptacle, which looks like it is Floyd | meant to hold a small rod or cone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get cone" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:40 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: moderate Floyd | Floyd | > GET CONE Floyd | Floyd | You retrieve the absorbing cone from the emergency cabinet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put it in reactor" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:41 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: critical Floyd | Floyd | > PUT IT IN REACTOR Floyd | Floyd | You insert the absorbing cone into the receptacle; this should control Floyd | the radiation once the shielding is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "close reactor" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:42 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE REACTOR Floyd | Floyd | You close the reactor shielding; hopefully the reactor is now safe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:42 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: Inconclusive UST: 1:42 am
Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | Instead of the reactor exploding, you feel a strange twisting...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| DavidW says, "oo" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "That sounds promising at least..." | ||
| DavidW says, "very" | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd ] Reality is that which, Floyd ] when you stop believing in it, Floyd ] doesn't go away. Floyd ] Floyd ] - Philip K. Dick Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 3 UST: 1:33 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Although you do not think that the reactor exploded, you find yourself Floyd | back in the original laboratory. Yet things feel different somehow. Floyd | Floyd | Möbius Laboratory Floyd | The walls and most of the equipment are charred and twisted, including Floyd | the communications array and a personal transporter. A utility table Floyd | is still bolted to one wall, next to a small cabinet labeled "For Floyd | Emergency Use Only". Floyd | Floyd | The central feature is a large cylindrical machine, with the words Floyd | "Temporal Reactor" stenciled on the front. A closed control panel Floyd | protrudes from the wall next to the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | The head scientist and her assistant are lying on the floor near the Floyd | reactor, severely burned and unconscious. They will certainly die Floyd | without immediate medical help. Floyd | Floyd | Your other self seems to have disappeared. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "..." | |
| DavidW asks, "contact the ship?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "contact ship" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 3 UST: 1:34 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > CONTACT SHIP Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply from the ship, but that could simply be interference Floyd | from the transport. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Get the first aid kit?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Right. We need to open the panel for that again." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get damper" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 7 UST: 1:35 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > GET DAMPER Floyd | Floyd | You retrieve the radiation damper from the utility table. Floyd | Floyd | A shimmering catches your attention, and to your relief you see the Floyd | rest of your team finally arrive. Floyd | Floyd | "I see you haven't managed to kill yourself yet," the sergeant sneers Floyd | at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Ohai." | |
| DavidW says, ">push boss key" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Since the medic should be around now, do we still want the first aid kit?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't know. Maybe just wait." | ||
| DavidW says, "You saved." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Well, we... right." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 4 UST: 1:36 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Medic Davis quickly assesses the scientist and the assistant. Seeing Floyd | that they need critical care, he calls for an immediate transport and Floyd | all three disappear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 4 UST: 1:37 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Specialist Thorne rushes over to the reactor and attaches a sensor. Floyd | After studying the sensor, he pulls out another gadget and connects it Floyd | to the reactor. Floyd | Floyd | "Luckily I have the right equipment to fix this," he informs the Floyd | sergeant. "Otherwise it would probably have gone critical and Floyd | exploded." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 4 UST: 1:38 am Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | After adjusting some settings, Thorne activates the gadget, which Floyd | makes several beeps before quieting. Thorne looks pleased, retrieves Floyd | his devices, and nods to the sergeant. Floyd | Floyd | "I heard about a guy who got caught in a temporal explosion once. He Floyd | and the reactor got stuck in a loop and the repair crew had to figure Floyd | out how to repair both versions of the reactor. Worse, protocol seemed Floyd | to require that they retrieve both copies of his body, which was a Floyd | real pain." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Oh I guess it would be a pain." | ||
| DavidW says, "uh-oh. There's a dead or rad-sick you somewhere." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "moo" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Lifeforms: 4 UST: 1:38 am
Floyd ] MP stored MRL: low
Floyd |
Floyd | > Z
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes.
Floyd |
Floyd | "All right," barks the sergeant, "I think we're done here." Activating
Floyd | his TDU, "Transport control: Drop Team Beta ready for retrieval."
Floyd |
Floyd | A moment later you feel the usual dizzying sensation...
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
| ||
| Knight_Otu pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Floyd ] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Fortunately, this transport is much less eventful, and you find Floyd | yourself back aboard the Solaris. You had actually begun to Floyd | enjoy the solitude of the lab, but you resign yourself to the drudgery Floyd | and contempt that surely awaits. You decide not to tell any of your Floyd | shipmates about your experience, since they probably wouldn't believe Floyd | you, but at least you know that you were able to single-handedly fix a Floyd | reactor and escape a temporal paradox. Floyd | Floyd | During your ordeal you experienced twenty-three time loops, making you Floyd | about 3 hours and 50 minutes older than your twin brother (if you had Floyd | a twin brother). Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have achieved closure *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, or QUIT? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "haha" | |
| Iria says, "Mission Accomplished." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well done." | ||
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "Woo!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That was really interesting." | ||
| DavidW says (to KO), "Congrats." | ||
| DavidW says, "That was good thinking." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "If we hadn't realized we can grab through things..." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Not surprised that this got puzzle nominations, though it did not win." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I like that it's keeping score about how many loops we went through." | ||
| DavidW has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | DavidW says, "Good game." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "good night!" | ||
| Knight_Otu goes home. | ||
