  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask dynamitepowers" | ||
Floyd | Do you want to restore a saved game? Please answer yes or no.> Please Floyd | answer yes or no.> Please answer yes or no.> ] Cavern Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | By the velvety purple rings of Uranus! Floyd | Floyd | You stare lasers through the bars of your prison door at Lord Infamy. Floyd | Floyd | "Commander Powers." Infamy's cold eyes taunt you. "This is the last Floyd | time you'll trouble me." He pulls the chromed lever built into the Floyd | control panel. Instantly, your cage drops a meter toward the frigid Floyd | water below. Floyd | Floyd | Infamy strides to the edge of the lake. "You're about to make the Floyd | acquaintance of a few of my pets," he purrs. You can't stop yourself Floyd | from glancing towards the churning waters. Martian razorfish! Floyd | Floyd | "I intend to savor the experience. Every minute, you will be lowered a Floyd | fraction toward your inevitable demise." Infamy smiles sinisterly. Floyd | Floyd | A uniformed minion hurries into the room and whispers into Infamy's Floyd | ear. He looks pained. "It seems I shall have to forgo that pleasure Floyd | after all, Commander. More urgent matters require my attention." Floyd | Floyd | Abruptly, the cage drops again. It sways slightly as it is jerked to a Floyd | halt by the steel cable which suspends it. "Goodbye, Commander. And Floyd | good riddance!" With a swirl of his cape, Infamy sweeps from the room. Floyd | Floyd | "I'll get you yet, Lord Infamy!" you howl after him. Floyd | Floyd | To learn more about the special features of this release of Floyd | Dynamite Powers vs. the Ray of Night!, type MENU. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dynamite Powers vs. the Ray of Night! Floyd | An Interactive Return To Yesteryear by Mike Carletta Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 180828 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Episode 7: Fishing with Dynamite! Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cavern (in the titanium cage) Floyd | Two thirds of this large rock chamber is filled with an underground Floyd | lake. It's churning with activity, and in the seething water, you can Floyd | see flashes of silver. Floyd | Floyd | A closed steel hatch is set into the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | The control panel for the deathtrap is mounted on the rocky shore. A Floyd | menacing chrome lever protrudes from it. Floyd | Floyd | On the shore, your equipment is lying where Infamy's flunkies dumped Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I've never been menaced by a chrome lever before." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Menus rarely work nice on here, but I guess we should look at it." | ||
| DavidW says, "agreed" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "menu" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > MENU Floyd | Floyd | Welcome to Dynamite Powers vs. the Ray of Night! Floyd | Floyd | Access the extras at any time with these commands: Floyd | Floyd | ABOUT Learn the story of Dynamite Powers vs. the Ray of Night! Floyd | COLOR Switch between the monochrome and colorized versions Floyd | ART Display the cover art Floyd | CREDITS Read the credits Floyd | HINTS Access the hint menu Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "That's not bad" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| DavidW says, "I choose ABOUT." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "True." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | Thanks for playing Dynamite Powers vs. the Ray of Night! Floyd | Floyd | Dynamite Powers is Cruel on the Zarfian forgiveness scale. In Floyd | particular, you can save in an unwinnable situation, and it's possible Floyd | to miss information you'll need in a later puzzle. (If you think you Floyd | need more info, take another look around the lab.) Create a new save Floyd | at the beginning of each section to minimize annoyance. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh dear. A cruel game." | |
| DavidW says, "How unusual." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Runs in circle, panicky." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a uniform (being worn) Floyd | an unbreakable nylon fiber rope (imprisoning your wrists behind your Floyd | back) Floyd | a Sentinels of Outer Space insignia (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cage" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > X CAGE Floyd | Floyd | The cage is large enough to confine a human being. It is composed of Floyd | titanium bars so thick that even your mighty muscles would be unable Floyd | to budge them. The bars form a grid too small for you to fit your hand Floyd | through, but large enough for Martian razorfish to pass through Floyd | unimpeded. Floyd | Floyd | The door of your prison is securely locked. Beyond it, you can see the Floyd | shore, and safety. Floyd | Floyd | The cage is suspended four meters above the water. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. Wonder if we've got any voice-activated toys." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Quite possible." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x insignia" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > X INSIGNIA Floyd | Floyd | The insignia of the Sentinels of Outer Space is pinned to your lapel. Floyd | As you gaze at the stylized atom on the pin, you are once again Floyd | reminded why you're proud to be a citizen of the League of Planets. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Outer space part confirmed." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "untie rope" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > UNTIE ROPE Floyd | Floyd | You can't reach the knots. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x uniform" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > X UNIFORM Floyd | Floyd | The uniform of the Sentinels of Outer Space molds itself to your Floyd | impressive physique. The trousers are charcoal and tight enough to Floyd | scandalize the ladies. The tunic is a handsome dove gray, and has Floyd | ivory braid across the chest. The insignia pinned to your lapel Floyd | indicates your membership in the Sentinels of Outer Space. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, sickeningly, the cage plummets another meter towards the Floyd | water. Floyd | Floyd | The cage is now suspended three meters above the water. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Well, Martian Razorfish, too, I'd say." | |
| DavidW says, "eep. We drop by a meter each time." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lever" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > X LEVER Floyd | Floyd | The control panel seems to control the cage's descent. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "That's not good." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x equipment" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > X EQUIPMENT Floyd | Floyd | Your small heap of belongings lies where Infamy's flunkies dropped it. Floyd | If they've damaged anything, they'll face the wrath of Commander Floyd | Dynamite Powers of the Sentinels of Outer Space! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pool" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > X POOL Floyd | Floyd | The underground lake is a natural formation. It's roughly twenty Floyd | meters in diameter, and looks very deep. The cage is suspended in the Floyd | center. Innumerable Martian razorfish flash through it, churning the Floyd | water into foam. Floyd | Floyd | The cage is now suspended three meters above the water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take insignia" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE INSIGNIA Floyd | Floyd | Using an undignified combination of your chin and the bars of the Floyd | cage, you work the insignia free from your lapel. As the pin finally Floyd | pulls free, it tumbles to the cage floor, and narrowly escapes being Floyd | lost over the edge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take insignia" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE INSIGNIA Floyd | Floyd | Putting your back to the bars, you lower yourself to a sitting, then a Floyd | lying, position. With infinite caution, you coax the insignia from the Floyd | cage floor into your mouth. At last, you hold it securely between your Floyd | teeth, with the pin pointed outward. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, sickeningly, the cage plummets another meter towards the Floyd | water. Floyd | Floyd | The cage is now suspended two meters above the water. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Nice." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock door with pin" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > UNLOCK DOOR WITH PIN Floyd | Floyd | Let's see - picking a lock with a pin in your teeth, while hanging Floyd | suspended over a lake of ravenous Martian razorfish. Piece of cake for Floyd | the Sentinels of Outer Space! Floyd | Floyd | Carefully, you insert the end of the pin into the keyhole, and begin Floyd | probing its innards. You align the tumblers, then slowly turn your Floyd | head to disengage the bolt. Floyd | Floyd | Whoops! As the bolt comes free, you sprawl face down through the Floyd | suddenly-opening door. You're able to save yourself, but your Floyd | Sentinels insignia falls into the water below and disappears. Floyd | Shuddering, you work your way back into the cage, then rise to your Floyd | feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Yes, you might be able to cling to the outside of the cage with your Floyd | tied hands. But things don't look any better out there. Better stay Floyd | inside until you have a plan. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu exclaims, "Not our insignia!" | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Can we swing the cage?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "swing cage" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > SWING CAGE Floyd | Floyd | You grasp the bars with your tied hands, and lean back and forth in Floyd | rhythm with the natural period of the cage qua pendulum. You are Floyd | quickly able to build up an arc of 2 meters or so. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Furiously, you continue pumping the cage back and forth. With an Floyd | effort, you build up the length of the arc to 4 meters. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Furiously, you continue pumping the cage back and forth. With an Floyd | effort, you build up the length of the arc to 6 meters. Floyd | Floyd | As the cage slowly pendulums across the lake, it jerks and plummets Floyd | another meter towards the water. Floyd | Floyd | The cage is now suspended one meter above the water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Furiously, you continue pumping the cage back and forth. With an Floyd | effort, you build up the length of the arc to 8 meters. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Furiously, you continue pumping the cage back and forth. With an Floyd | effort, you build up the length of the arc to 10 meters. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Furiously, you continue pumping the cage back and forth. With an Floyd | effort, you build up the length of the arc to 12 meters. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Yes, you might be able to cling to the outside of the cage with your Floyd | tied hands. But things don't look any better out there. Better stay Floyd | inside until you have a plan. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "not the first time I've played a game involving furious pumping" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "swing cage" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > SWING CAGE Floyd | Floyd | Furiously, you continue pumping the cage back and forth. With an Floyd | effort, you build up the length of the arc to 14 meters. Floyd | Floyd | As the cage slowly pendulums across the lake, it jerks and plummets Floyd | another meter towards the water. Floyd | Floyd | The cage is now suspended mere centimeters above the water. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Furiously, you continue pumping the cage back and forth. With an Floyd | effort, you build up the length of the arc to 16 meters. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Furiously, you continue pumping the cage back and forth. With an Floyd | effort, you build up the length of the arc to 18 meters. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The arc of the cage extends almost from the edge of the lake to the Floyd | rock wall. At each end of the arc, your stomach does a small flip as Floyd | you are briefly weightless. In the center of the arc, the Floyd | razorfish-filled water rockets by mere centimeters below your feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Furiously, you continue pumping the cage back and forth. No matter how Floyd | you try, however, you can't seem to increase its arc. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The arc of the cage extends almost from the edge of the lake to the Floyd | rock wall. At each end of the arc, your stomach does a small flip as Floyd | you are briefly weightless. In the center of the arc, the Floyd | razorfish-filled water rockets by mere centimeters below your feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Yes, you might be able to cling to the outside of the cage with your Floyd | tied hands. But things don't look any better out there. Better stay Floyd | inside until you have a plan. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP Floyd | Floyd | You screw up your courage, and fling yourself into space. For an Floyd | instant, you think you're going to fall short, but you land half in Floyd | and half out of the water. Flopping like the fish you're trying to Floyd | escape, you pull your legs onto shore and roll a safe distance from Floyd | the water. The area where you fell is a fountain of seething water, Floyd | foam and fish. Floyd | Floyd | You lay panting on the ground, while your heart and your breathing Floyd | slow. The swinging cage plows into the lake and sends a spray of water Floyd | over your supine form. Moments later, the cage sinks into the lake of Floyd | death, and is gone. Floyd | Floyd | When you've gathered your strength once more, you lever yourself to Floyd | your feet, and look around. Floyd | Floyd | Cavern Floyd | Two thirds of this large rock chamber is filled with an underground Floyd | lake. It's churning with activity, and in the seething water, you can Floyd | see flashes of silver. Floyd | Floyd | A steel cable runs up from the lake and into a featureless ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | A closed steel hatch is set into the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | The control panel for the deathtrap is mounted on the rocky shore. A Floyd | menacing chrome lever protrudes from it. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, your equipment is lying where Infamy's flunkies dumped it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Ju... yes." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x equipment" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > X EQUIPMENT Floyd | Floyd | Your ray gun is here, but it's destroyed and useless. There's a Floyd | new-fangled ballpoint pen, a copy of Detective Comics #27 and lip balm Floyd | in a white-and-black jar. Everything's been damaged beyond repair, and Floyd | you angrily boot it all into the lake. Floyd | Floyd | Wait! Here's your old Boy Scout knife! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut rope with knife" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > CUT ROPE WITH KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the Boy Scout knife) Floyd | You perform an awkward pratfall, then pick up the knife in your bound Floyd | hands. Floyd | Floyd | The knife isn't open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open knife" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | Working by touch, you carefully pry open the larger blade of the Floyd | knife. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut rope with knife" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > CUT ROPE WITH KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | You twist the knife upward, and saw awkwardly at your bonds. Your Floyd | blade makes quick work of the ropes, and they soon fall to the ground. Floyd | You are free once more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take knife" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close knife" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > CLOSE KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | You carefully close the knife. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Cavern Floyd | Two thirds of this large rock chamber is filled with an underground Floyd | lake. It's churning with activity, and in the seething water, you can Floyd | see flashes of silver. Floyd | Floyd | A steel cable runs up from the lake and into a featureless ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | A closed steel hatch is set into the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | The control panel for the deathtrap is mounted on the rocky shore. A Floyd | menacing chrome lever protrudes from it. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see some rope fragments here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > PULL LEVER Floyd | Floyd | You don't have time to waste on a used-up deathtrap! Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger | [LINK] | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hatch" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > X HATCH Floyd | Floyd | It's a door-sized stainless steel hatch with a handwheel. It's closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn wheel" | ||
Floyd ] Cavern Floyd | > Floyd | > TURN WHEEL Floyd | Floyd | You spin the wheel, and the hatch opens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | The hatch leads to a short, dark, ascending tunnel. You blunder your Floyd | way through, eventually emerging through a second hatch. Floyd | Floyd | The Laboratory Floyd | You're in a small chamber above ground. Most of the room is the Floyd | sterile white of laboratories everywhere, but the north wall has a Floyd | large transparent bubble protruding outward. Outside, you can see the Floyd | Martian surface and a distant dome. The only exit is the hatch leading Floyd | back south. Floyd | Floyd | An open steel hatch is set into the south wall. Floyd | Floyd | A cube-like machine squats along the wall next to the bubble. Floyd | Floyd | Along the west wall, a purpose-built table contains some sort of book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOOK Floyd | Floyd | The book seems to be a programming guide for the machine in this room. Floyd | It is uncountable thousands of creamy loose-leaf pages long, Floyd | permanently mounted in a metal bracket affixed to a table. The bracket Floyd | has a small nameplate, which reads "Transmutation: A Mutant's Intro". Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Purpose-built?" | |
| DavidW says, "I guess the author means custom-built." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Could be." | ||
| DavidW says, "It's not a generic table, but one made for holding this book." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read book" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > READ BOOK Floyd | Floyd | Glancing through the book, you see columns on columns of five-digit Floyd | numbers. Picking one at a random entry, you read: Floyd | Floyd | Return code 77375: Edison circuit tripped Floyd | Floyd | This is gibberish! Maybe if you knew what to look up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x machine" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > X MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | The machine is almost a cube, and about five feet on each edge. The Floyd | front of the machine displays three pictures, in a vertical column. Floyd | Each picture displays the head, torso or legs of an alien creature! Floyd | Floyd | The pictures display the head of a Martian kangasaur, the torso of a Floyd | Martian kangasaur and the legs of a Martian kangasaur. To the left of Floyd | each picture is a steel button. Floyd | Floyd | Below the pictures, there's a mechanical readout of five digits. It Floyd | currently displays "00000". Floyd | Floyd | Mounted vertically on the right side of the machine, toward the bubble Floyd | window, are three long tubes of frosted glass. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Do you get the feeling we need to go get that pin back by becoming a Martian razorfish merman?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Maybe. It's a possibility." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push top button" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH TOP BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You press the top button. The machine clanks, then a new picture Floyd | flicks into place next to it. It shows the head of a marshbat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You press the top button. The machine clanks, then a new picture Floyd | flicks into place next to it. It shows the head of a frost turtle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | You press the top button. The machine clanks, then a new picture Floyd | flicks into place next to it. It shows the head of a megastrich. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Like an ostrich, but mega." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x megastrich" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > X MEGASTRICH Floyd | Floyd | The top picture shows the head of a yellow-crested Jovian megastrich. Floyd | Unlike its smaller Earth eponym, the megastrich is a carnivore. It Floyd | chases down its prey with its powerful running legs, kicks it to death Floyd | and (in a manner you'd prefer not to contemplate) spits a potent acid Floyd | to pre-digest it. The purpose of the megastrich's stubby wings remains Floyd | unknown, since no flying species are known to live on Jupiter. Floyd | Floyd | Studying the picture carefully, you note the sharp coal black beak and Floyd | peaked crest. Despite the creature's name, its crest is actually iron. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x kangasaur" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > X KANGASAUR Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the middle picture or the bottom picture? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "middle" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > MIDDLE Floyd | Floyd | The middle picture shows the torso of a violet-bellied Martian Floyd | kangasaur. The kangasaur is the peak predator of this region of Mars, Floyd | chasing the smaller red sand fleas with its powerful leaping hind legs Floyd | and snatching them with its gecko-like tongue. Best of all, the Floyd | kangasaur is a hypoxygen-breather! Floyd | Floyd | Studying the picture carefully, you note the small charcoal forepaws Floyd | and sleek belly. Despite the creature's name, its belly is actually Floyd | slate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up 00000 in book" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP 00000 IN BOOK Floyd | Floyd | Return code 00000: Success Floyd | Floyd | Huh. That's something we could use more of. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Never let a colorblind xenozoologist name the animals." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bubble" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > X BUBBLE Floyd | Floyd | The bubble is a precise quarter sphere made of a tough, transparent Floyd | plastic that protrudes outward from the north wall. It's big enough to Floyd | walk into. In fact, the top is a couple of feet higher than your 6' 2" Floyd | frame. Floyd | Floyd | On close inspection, the sphere appears to be more than a window. Floyd | Where it touches the wall, a bead of softer plastic mounted on the Floyd | wall forms an airtight seal. And where the sphere meets the floor, it Floyd | passes through another seal. Tracing the line with your eyes, you see Floyd | that the floor seal forms a perfect circle, precisely bisected by the Floyd | wall. Inside the circle, the floor is no longer the white tile of the Floyd | main floor, but a soft silver. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the rugged Martian landscape outside. In the distance, Floyd | across some sort of ravine, there's an immense transparent dome. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dome" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOME Floyd | Floyd | The dome is hundreds of yards across. You can see structures inside, Floyd | but you can't make out details. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push top button" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH TOP BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You press the top button. The machine clanks, then a new picture Floyd | flicks into place next to it. It shows the head of a kangasaur. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. Razorfish wasn't an option." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push top" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH TOP Floyd | Floyd | (the top button) Floyd | You press the top button. The machine clanks, then a new picture Floyd | flicks into place next to it. It shows the head of a marshbat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bat" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > X BAT Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x marshbat" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > X MARSHBAT Floyd | Floyd | The top picture shows the head of a blue-eyed Venusian marshbat. Its Floyd | resemblance to an Earth bat is superficial, at best. In the dense Floyd | atmosphere of its native planet, it can fly indefinitely, navigating Floyd | the steamy jungle by echolocation. It doesn't breathe, as such, but Floyd | lands in the rich loam and extracts oxygen through organs in its legs. Floyd | Floyd | Studying the picture carefully, you note the enlarged inky ears and Floyd | intense eyes. Despite the creature's name, its eyes are actually Floyd | gunmetal. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Maybe we need something to eat the fish." | |
| DavidW says, "I'm thinking, if we're all metal, they can't eat us at all." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Hm. Maybe." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push top" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH TOP Floyd | Floyd | (the top button) Floyd | You press the top button. The machine clanks, then a new picture Floyd | flicks into place next to it. It shows the head of a frost turtle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x turtle" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > X TURTLE Floyd | Floyd | The top picture shows the head of a green-shelled Plutonian frost Floyd | turtle, the largest creature yet discovered on Sol's ninth and newest Floyd | planet. In Pluto's frigid night, even oxygen freezes, so the frost Floyd | turtle retains its own atmosphere inside a transparent helmet that it Floyd | can close at will. It navigates the nightmarish mountains of frozen Floyd | gases using suction cup-like graspers on its two front limbs and Floyd | traverses the soft snows of the plains using hind limbs that inflate Floyd | to form snowshoes. Floyd | Floyd | Studying the picture carefully, you note the clear helmet and scaly Floyd | onyx head. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "That may be promising?" | |
| DavidW says, "They're all promising." | ||
| DavidW says, "We'll probably have to become several hybrids in this game." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I meant specifically for surviving the razorfish." | ||
| DavidW says, "None of the four seemed to have safe legs for the fish." | ||
| DavidW says, "Also, I didn't see any" | ||
| DavidW says, "human option on this thing." | ||
| DavidW asks, "How do we restore ourselves to normal afterwards?" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "If the animals are different from their normal version, maybe there's one with steel legs?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Theory - our genetic information replaces the ones wetake on in the cube." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "cf35" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. That's possible." | |
| DavidW says, "yes. experiment." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x machine" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > X MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | The machine is almost a cube, and about five feet on each edge. The Floyd | front of the machine displays three pictures, in a vertical column. Floyd | Each picture displays the head, torso or legs of an alien creature! Floyd | Floyd | The pictures display the head of a Plutonian frost turtle, the torso Floyd | of a Martian kangasaur and the legs of a Martian kangasaur. To the Floyd | left of each picture is a steel button. Floyd | Floyd | Below the pictures, there's a mechanical readout of five digits. It Floyd | currently displays "00000". Floyd | Floyd | Mounted vertically on the right side of the machine, toward the bubble Floyd | window, are three long tubes of frosted glass. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x bottom picture" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOTTOM PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | The bottom picture shows the legs of a violet-bellied Martian Floyd | kangasaur. The kangasaur is the peak predator of this region of Mars, Floyd | chasing the smaller red sand fleas with its powerful leaping hind legs Floyd | and snatching them with its gecko-like tongue. Best of all, the Floyd | kangasaur is a hypoxygen-breather! Floyd | Floyd | Studying the picture carefully, you note the powerful leaping smoky Floyd | gray legs and short pitch black tail. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I assume you push the three buttons to dial up the desired mix, enter the bubble and presto." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push bottom" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH BOTTOM Floyd | Floyd | (the bottom button) Floyd | You press the bottom button. The machine clanks, then a new picture Floyd | flicks into place next to it. It shows the legs of a marshbat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x bottom picture" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOTTOM PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | The bottom picture shows the legs of a blue-eyed Venusian marshbat. Floyd | Its resemblance to an Earth bat is superficial, at best. In the dense Floyd | atmosphere of its native planet, it can fly indefinitely, navigating Floyd | the steamy jungle by echolocation. It doesn't breathe, as such, but Floyd | lands in the rich loam and extracts oxygen through organs in its legs. Floyd | Floyd | Studying the picture carefully, you note the lethal cinereal gray Floyd | talons and sleek waxy gills. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push bottom" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH BOTTOM Floyd | Floyd | (the bottom button) Floyd | You press the bottom button. The machine clanks, then a new picture Floyd | flicks into place next to it. It shows the legs of a frost turtle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x bottom picture" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOTTOM PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | The bottom picture shows the legs of a green-shelled Plutonian frost Floyd | turtle, the largest creature yet discovered on Sol's ninth and newest Floyd | planet. In Pluto's frigid night, even oxygen freezes, so the frost Floyd | turtle retains its own atmosphere inside a transparent helmet that it Floyd | can close at will. It navigates the nightmarish mountains of frozen Floyd | gases using suction cup-like graspers on its two front limbs and Floyd | traverses the soft snows of the plains using hind limbs that inflate Floyd | to form snowshoes. Floyd | Floyd | Studying the picture carefully, you note the enlarged leaden hind Floyd | limbs and short, spiked sable tail. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu exclaims, "leaden!" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x middle" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > X MIDDLE Floyd | Floyd | (the middle picture) Floyd | The middle picture shows the torso of a violet-bellied Martian Floyd | kangasaur. The kangasaur is the peak predator of this region of Mars, Floyd | chasing the smaller red sand fleas with its powerful leaping hind legs Floyd | and snatching them with its gecko-like tongue. Best of all, the Floyd | kangasaur is a hypoxygen-breather! Floyd | Floyd | Studying the picture carefully, you note the small charcoal forepaws Floyd | and sleek belly. Despite the creature's name, its belly is actually Floyd | slate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "enter bubble" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER BUBBLE Floyd | Floyd | As you enter the chamber, the silver floor gives slightly, making a Floyd | satisfying ka-chunk! The machine chatters briefly, then new numbers Floyd | ratchet into place: 69105. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look up 69105" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP 69105 Floyd | Floyd | The programming guide is out of reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the plastic window. Floyd | Floyd | The Laboratory Floyd | You're in a small chamber above ground. Most of the room is the Floyd | sterile white of laboratories everywhere, but the north wall has a Floyd | large transparent bubble protruding outward. Outside, you can see the Floyd | Martian surface and a distant dome. The only exit is the hatch leading Floyd | back south. Floyd | Floyd | An open steel hatch is set into the south wall. Floyd | Floyd | A cube-like machine squats along the wall next to the bubble. Floyd | Floyd | Along the west wall, a purpose-built table contains a programming Floyd | guide. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "look up 69105" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > LOOK UP 69105 Floyd | Floyd | Return code 69105: Insufficiently mad science - add entropy Floyd | Floyd | Huh. What the heck is entropy? Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Hm, do we have to be different in all three pictures?" | |
| DavidW says, "No, I don't think so." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x machine" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > X MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | The machine is almost a cube, and about five feet on each edge. The Floyd | front of the machine displays three pictures, in a vertical column. Floyd | Each picture displays the head, torso or legs of an alien creature! Floyd | Floyd | The pictures display the head of a Plutonian frost turtle, the torso Floyd | of a Martian kangasaur and the legs of a Plutonian frost turtle. To Floyd | the left of each picture is a steel button. Floyd | Floyd | Below the pictures, there's a mechanical readout of five digits. It Floyd | currently displays "69105". Floyd | Floyd | Mounted vertically on the right side of the machine, toward the bubble Floyd | window, are three long tubes of frosted glass. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push middle" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH MIDDLE Floyd | Floyd | (the middle button) Floyd | You press the middle button. The machine clanks, then a new picture Floyd | flicks into place next to it. It shows the torso of a marshbat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push middle" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH MIDDLE Floyd | Floyd | (the middle button) Floyd | You press the middle button. The machine clanks, then a new picture Floyd | flicks into place next to it. It shows the torso of a frost turtle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "enter bubble" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER BUBBLE Floyd | Floyd | As you enter the chamber, the silver floor gives slightly, making a Floyd | satisfying ka-chunk! The machine chatters briefly, then new numbers Floyd | ratchet into place: 69105. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | You get out of the plastic window. Floyd | Floyd | The Laboratory Floyd | You're in a small chamber above ground. Most of the room is the Floyd | sterile white of laboratories everywhere, but the north wall has a Floyd | large transparent bubble protruding outward. Outside, you can see the Floyd | Martian surface and a distant dome. The only exit is the hatch leading Floyd | back south. Floyd | Floyd | An open steel hatch is set into the south wall. Floyd | Floyd | A cube-like machine squats along the wall next to the bubble. Floyd | Floyd | Along the west wall, a purpose-built table contains a programming Floyd | guide. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x middle picture" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > X MIDDLE PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | The middle picture shows the torso of a green-shelled Plutonian frost Floyd | turtle, the largest creature yet discovered on Sol's ninth and newest Floyd | planet. In Pluto's frigid night, even oxygen freezes, so the frost Floyd | turtle retains its own atmosphere inside a transparent helmet that it Floyd | can close at will. It navigates the nightmarish mountains of frozen Floyd | gases using suction cup-like graspers on its two front limbs and Floyd | traverses the soft snows of the plains using hind limbs that inflate Floyd | to form snowshoes. Floyd | Floyd | Studying the picture carefully, you note the rugged ash gray graspers Floyd | and sturdy shell. Despite the creature's name, its shell is actually Floyd | pewter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a Boy Scout knife Floyd | a uniform (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You glance down at yourself. You're wearing the dove gray tunic and Floyd | charcoal trousers of the Sentinels of Outer Space. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x bottom" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOTTOM Floyd | Floyd | (the bottom picture) Floyd | The bottom picture shows the legs of a green-shelled Plutonian frost Floyd | turtle, the largest creature yet discovered on Sol's ninth and newest Floyd | planet. In Pluto's frigid night, even oxygen freezes, so the frost Floyd | turtle retains its own atmosphere inside a transparent helmet that it Floyd | can close at will. It navigates the nightmarish mountains of frozen Floyd | gases using suction cup-like graspers on its two front limbs and Floyd | traverses the soft snows of the plains using hind limbs that inflate Floyd | to form snowshoes. Floyd | Floyd | Studying the picture carefully, you note the enlarged leaden hind Floyd | limbs and short, spiked sable tail. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "You think maybe you should get undressed?" | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Actually, maybe the colors have to match up?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "remove uniform" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > REMOVE UNIFORM Floyd | Floyd | You're no Buster Crabbe, buddy -- let's keep the uniform on! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push bottom" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH BOTTOM Floyd | Floyd | (the bottom button) Floyd | You press the bottom button. The machine clanks, then a new picture Floyd | flicks into place next to it. It shows the legs of a megastrich. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x bottom picture" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > X BOTTOM PICTURE Floyd | Floyd | The bottom picture shows the legs of a yellow-crested Jovian Floyd | megastrich. Unlike its smaller Earth eponym, the megastrich is a Floyd | carnivore. It chases down its prey with its powerful running legs, Floyd | kicks it to death and (in a manner you'd prefer not to contemplate) Floyd | spits a potent acid to pre-digest it. The purpose of the megastrich's Floyd | stubby wings remains unknown, since no flying species are known to Floyd | live on Jupiter. Floyd | Floyd | Studying the picture carefully, you note the muscular heather legs and Floyd | deadly sooty black eviscerating claws. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "right. Let's hope the mad science machine has an auto-tailor." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Just theorizing." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x middle" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > X MIDDLE Floyd | Floyd | (the middle picture) Floyd | The middle picture shows the torso of a green-shelled Plutonian frost Floyd | turtle, the largest creature yet discovered on Sol's ninth and newest Floyd | planet. In Pluto's frigid night, even oxygen freezes, so the frost Floyd | turtle retains its own atmosphere inside a transparent helmet that it Floyd | can close at will. It navigates the nightmarish mountains of frozen Floyd | gases using suction cup-like graspers on its two front limbs and Floyd | traverses the soft snows of the plains using hind limbs that inflate Floyd | to form snowshoes. Floyd | Floyd | Studying the picture carefully, you note the rugged ash gray graspers Floyd | and sturdy shell. Despite the creature's name, its shell is actually Floyd | pewter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push middle" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH MIDDLE Floyd | Floyd | (the middle button) Floyd | You press the middle button. The machine clanks, then a new picture Floyd | flicks into place next to it. It shows the torso of a megastrich. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x middle" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > X MIDDLE Floyd | Floyd | (the middle picture) Floyd | The middle picture shows the torso of a yellow-crested Jovian Floyd | megastrich. Unlike its smaller Earth eponym, the megastrich is a Floyd | carnivore. It chases down its prey with its powerful running legs, Floyd | kicks it to death and (in a manner you'd prefer not to contemplate) Floyd | spits a potent acid to pre-digest it. The purpose of the megastrich's Floyd | stubby wings remains unknown, since no flying species are known to Floyd | live on Jupiter. Floyd | Floyd | Studying the picture carefully, you note the stunted argent wings and Floyd | oyster feathered back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push middle" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH MIDDLE Floyd | Floyd | (the middle button) Floyd | You press the middle button. The machine clanks, then a new picture Floyd | flicks into place next to it. It shows the torso of a kangasaur. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x middle" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > X MIDDLE Floyd | Floyd | (the middle picture) Floyd | The middle picture shows the torso of a violet-bellied Martian Floyd | kangasaur. The kangasaur is the peak predator of this region of Mars, Floyd | chasing the smaller red sand fleas with its powerful leaping hind legs Floyd | and snatching them with its gecko-like tongue. Best of all, the Floyd | kangasaur is a hypoxygen-breather! Floyd | Floyd | Studying the picture carefully, you note the small charcoal forepaws Floyd | and sleek belly. Despite the creature's name, its belly is actually Floyd | slate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push middle" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH MIDDLE Floyd | Floyd | (the middle button) Floyd | You press the middle button. The machine clanks, then a new picture Floyd | flicks into place next to it. It shows the torso of a marshbat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x middle" | ||
Floyd ] The Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > X MIDDLE Floyd | Floyd | (the middle picture) Floyd | The middle picture shows the torso of a blue-eyed Venusian marshbat. Floyd | Its resemblance to an Earth bat is superficial, at best. In the dense Floyd | atmosphere of its native planet, it can fly indefinitely, navigating Floyd | the steamy jungle by echolocation. It doesn't breathe, as such, but Floyd | lands in the rich loam and extracts oxygen through organs in its legs. Floyd | Floyd | Studying the picture carefully, you note the powerful jet black wings Floyd | and dove breast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "enter bubble" | ||
Floyd ] Outside the Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER BUBBLE Floyd | Floyd | As you enter the chamber, the silver floor gives slightly, making a Floyd | satisfying ka-chunk! The machine chatters, then the plastic bubble Floyd | rotates smoothly over your head, sealing into the circular groove Floyd | behind you. Floyd | Floyd | The fluorescent tubes mounted to the machine come to life, bathing you Floyd | in a penetrating radiance. You involuntarily clamp your eyes shut, but Floyd | you can still see the eerie glow. Looking about wildly, you see that Floyd | your body casts no shadow. Floyd | Floyd | "Walston rays!" you think. "But they're only a theory!" Your body Floyd | spasms, and for a moment the world seems to twist like an Escher Floyd | woodcut. When it steadies again, everything is different. Floyd | Floyd | You've transformed into a nightmare jigsaw of a creature! From the Floyd | shoulders up, you've become a Plutonian frost turtle. Your transparent Floyd | vacuum helmet covers your head in a tight seal, but you can sense the Floyd | neck muscles that will reopen it. From shoulders to hips, you have the Floyd | body of a Venusian marshbat. Your gossamer wings fold tight against Floyd | your body, but you can feel the new muscles used to flap them. Below Floyd | the hips, you're now a Jovian megastrich. Your legs hold you as Floyd | lightly as a feather in the weak Martian gravity, and you feel the Floyd | urge to kick them with the sheer power. Floyd | Floyd | New numbers ratchet into place on the front of the machine, and you Floyd | can just make them out: 00000. Floyd | Floyd | The Boy Scout knife falls to the floor. Floyd | Floyd | The bubble begins to turn once more, continuing over your head and Floyd | disappearing into the circular groove. A gap opens to the outside, Floyd | widening until the situation has reversed: a quarter sphere protrudes Floyd | into the interior of the lab, while you stand on the outside, exposed Floyd | to the Martian elements. Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Laboratory Floyd | You're standing in a rugged landscape of boulders and rocky Floyd | outcroppings next to a small, square building. A transparent bubble Floyd | projects inward into the building. Through the window, you can see the Floyd | relative safety of the laboratory you just left. Floyd | Floyd | The Martian surface extends in every direction, looking much the same Floyd | as here, except to the north. There, across some sort of ravine, you Floyd | can see a gargantuan transparent dome. Floyd | Floyd | For a moment, you're frozen with panic. Then your hindbrain kicks in Floyd | and slams your helmet shut. You convulsively breathe in, and realize Floyd | that your reptilian reflexes have preserved enough oxygen inside the Floyd | helmet to keep you alive. Floyd | Floyd | You step out of the airlock, and onto the surface of Mars. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu exclaims, "Success!" | |
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "IT LIVES!" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "But we keep losing equipment..." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh." | ||
| DavidW says, "The thing was an airlock as well. Bizarre." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Very." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take knife" | ||
Floyd ] Outside the Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE KNIFE Floyd | Floyd | You don't have hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "awkward." | |
| DavidW says, "afk" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x dome" | ||
Floyd ] Outside the Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOME Floyd | Floyd | The dome is hundreds of yards across. You can see structures inside, Floyd | but you can't make out details. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x ravine" | ||
Floyd ] Outside the Laboratory Floyd | > Floyd | > X RAVINE Floyd | Floyd | The ravine, if that's what it is, crosses the landscape jaggedly as Floyd | far as the eye can see. You can't see into it at this distance, but Floyd | there's clearly a gap. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "back" | |
| DavidW says, "sorry. was an urgent call of nature" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "No problem." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Just took a look at the scenery." | ||
| DavidW says, "I assume we've be flying over the ravine. If we had the kanga legs, we'd jump over it." | ||
| DavidW says, "er we'll" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Likely, yes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "cf36" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Outside the Laboratory Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Want to drive again?" | |
| DavidW says, "uh, you're doing fine." | ||
| DavidW says, "And you also saved." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Well then, let's head north." | ||
| DavidW says, "I suggest ... yes" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] South Side of the Canal Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You thunkathunk across the Martian plain, fatooming as you go. Floyd | Floyd | South Side of the Canal Floyd | You've arrived on the south side of a broad Martian canal. You can Floyd | still see the laboratory in the distance, and across the canal you can Floyd | see a huge transparent dome. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x canal" | ||
Floyd ] South Side of the Canal Floyd | > Floyd | > X CANAL Floyd | Floyd | Mars is covered with a fine tracing of these canals. They're not Floyd | filled with water, of course - everybody knows there's no water on Floyd | Mars! (Well, except underground.) Instead, they're filled with gray Floyd | sand. You know that this fine powder is like terrestrial quicksand… Floyd | you'd sink in it like a stone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "fly" | ||
Floyd ] North Side of the Canal Floyd | > Floyd | > FLY Floyd | Floyd | In the thick atmosphere of Venus, you could glide for hours on your Floyd | marshbat wings. In the thinner atmosphere of Mars, you struggle aloft Floyd | like an infant taking his first steps, make a short, ungainly flight Floyd | across the canal, and crash-land into the softest pile of rocks. Floyd | Floyd | North Side of the Canal Floyd | This is the north side of the canal. To the south, the laboratory Floyd | building now blends into the background perfectly. Further north, Floyd | looming ever larger, is a titanic transparent dome. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu exclaims, "Fly, my monstrosity!" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Outside the Dome Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You thunkathunk across the Martian plain, fatooming as you go. Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Dome Floyd | At last, you've reached the base of the transparent dome. Up close, Floyd | it's absolutely tremendous - bigger than Michigan Stadium! It's built Floyd | into a circular crater that's hundreds of yards across. Floyd | Floyd | An airlock provides access to the dome here. To the right of the Floyd | airlock, mounted on the dome wall, is a device. Inside the airlock, Floyd | you can see a manatee gray button mounted on a pedestal. Floyd | Floyd | Inside, you can see a catwalk leading further north. Further in, Floyd | there's some equipment of some kind mounted on a platform. Floyd | Floyd | Back to the south, you can make out the canal of sand you crossed. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We don't fly well, but good enough for the task." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x airlock" | ||
Floyd ] Outside the Dome Floyd | > Floyd | > X AIRLOCK Floyd | Floyd | (the glass airlock) Floyd | The bubble design of the airlock is similar to the one in the Floyd | laboratory building: a hemisphere of thick glass seals into a circle Floyd | of soft plastic. Peering through the outer wall, you can see the Floyd | airlock is in its neutral position; that is, it is sealed from both Floyd | the interior and exterior of the dome. The circular floor is native Floyd | Martian rock. Floyd | Floyd | Inside, you see a manatee gray button mounted on a waist-high Floyd | pedestal. Beyond that, you can see a catwalk leading out over empty Floyd | space. Further in, there's equipment of some kind. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x device" | ||
Floyd ] Outside the Dome Floyd | > Floyd | > X DEVICE Floyd | Floyd | The device is mounted on the wall of the dome. It's little more than a Floyd | black rectangle of plastic and metal. On its surface, glowing Floyd | slightly, is the outline of a hand. Oddly, you see no wires. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh dear." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "And we without our hands." | ||
| DavidW says, "You can try touching it anyway." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x button" | ||
Floyd ] Outside the Dome Floyd | > Floyd | > X BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | The pedestal is slender, metallic and about waist-high to a space Floyd | adventurer. On its top surface is a small manatee gray button. Floyd | Floyd | Unexpectedly, your muscles twitch and you feel a faint ringing in your Floyd | ears. Are you coming down with something? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "touch device" | ||
Floyd ] Outside the Dome Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH DEVICE Floyd | Floyd | Intuiting the purpose of the device, you press your wing against the Floyd | surface of the device. Floyd | Floyd | The device emits a brief series of descending tones, like a sad Floyd | trombone. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "No bats allowed. Rude." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "enter airlock" | ||
Floyd ] Outside the Dome Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER AIRLOCK Floyd | Floyd | (the glass airlock) Floyd | There's a sphere of thick glass in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Outside the Dome Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You've transformed into a nightmare jigsaw of a creature! From the Floyd | shoulders up, you've become a Plutonian frost turtle. Your transparent Floyd | vacuum helmet covers your head in a tight seal, but you can sense the Floyd | neck muscles that will reopen it. From shoulders to hips, you have the Floyd | body of a Venusian marshbat. Your gossamer wings fold tight against Floyd | your body, but you can feel the new muscles used to flap them. Below Floyd | the hips, you're now a Jovian megastrich. Your legs hold you as Floyd | lightly as a feather in the weak Martian gravity, and you feel the Floyd | urge to kick them with the sheer power. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "kick device" | ||
Floyd ] Outside the Dome Floyd | > Floyd | > KICK DEVICE Floyd | Floyd | You wind up one sinewy leg and bash the rectangular device. Despite a Floyd | devastating impact, the rectangular device is undamaged. Perhaps you Floyd | should reserve your attack for a less durable target. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "kick airlock" | ||
Floyd ] Outside the Dome Floyd | > Floyd | > KICK AIRLOCK Floyd | Floyd | (the glass airlock) Floyd | Violence *is* the answer to this one! Floyd | Floyd | You wind up one sinewy leg and bash the glass hemisphere. The glass Floyd | fragments into a million pieces, releasing the air inside with a Floyd | whoosh! The shattered pieces are swept past you like a whirlwind of Floyd | razors. They disappear into the landscape, leaving you with only minor Floyd | wounds. Floyd | Floyd | With victory in your grasp, you smile, contorting your frost turtle Floyd | features in ways they were never meant to move. Floyd | Floyd | And as you rejoice, pain suddenly floods through you. Your whole body Floyd | clenches like a fist, then melts like a Dali pocketwatch. When you Floyd | open your eyes again, you're back in your familiar human body. Floyd | Floyd | You immediately begin to choke on Mars' thin, poisonous atmosphere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "enter airlock" | ||
Floyd ] Outside the Dome Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER AIRLOCK Floyd | Floyd | (the glass airlock) Floyd | You stumble into the airlock, avoiding the razor-sharp edges. Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Dome (in the glass airlock) Floyd | You're inside a glass hemisphere that forms an airlock to the giant Floyd | dome. In front of you, an intact quarter sphere separates you from the Floyd | interior of the giant dome. Behind you, a broken quarter sphere Floyd | exposes you to the Martian atmosphere. Floyd | Floyd | There's a manatee gray button mounted on a pedestal in the center of Floyd | the airlock. Floyd | Floyd | You are choking on the poisonous atmosphere! You don't have much Floyd | longer! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||
Floyd ] South End of the Catwalk Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You press the button, which gives a satisfying click! There's a soft Floyd | humming, barely discernible in the thin atmosphere, and the broken Floyd | glass hemisphere begins to rotate smoothly outward. As a gap appears Floyd | at the base of the interior side, air begins to whistle through, Floyd | escaping to the Martian surface. It rapidly increases to gale force, Floyd | forcing you to cling to the button pedestal to avoid being dragged Floyd | back out of the airlock. As the rotation continues, the process Floyd | reverses and the wind diminishes, ending with a hiss as the intact Floyd | quarter sphere clamps into the outside seal. Floyd | Floyd | Cautiously, you take a breath, and feel the oxygen flooding back into Floyd | you. You step out of the window. Floyd | Floyd | South End of the Catwalk Floyd | You gasp and stagger as you enter the next area. You're suspended in Floyd | midair, with the poisonous Martian sky surrounding you in every Floyd | direction. Floyd | Floyd | As the first shock passes, the world slowly shifts back into focus. Floyd | You're standing on a narrow catwalk in a vast open space. Looking up, Floyd | you can see that this expanse is not open to the sky, but covered by Floyd | an enormous glass dome. Far overhead, you see a shrunken sun. Floyd | Floyd | Tearing your eyes from the view above, you look down through the grid Floyd | of the catwalk. You experience a shudder of vertigo as you see an Floyd | infinite expanse of sky below your feet. You close your eyes for a Floyd | moment while you adjust, then re-open them. Floyd | Floyd | The catwalk protrudes over a huge, bowl-shaped mirror. Holding the Floyd | rail of the catwalk and peering down once more, you see a distorted Floyd | reflection of the Martian sky above. Floyd | Floyd | Finally, your eyes turn forward, to the end of the catwalk. A platform Floyd | hangs at the center point of the open space. Several pieces of Floyd | equipment are installed on it. The most prominent is a long obsidian Floyd | tube - like an artillery piece - rising perhaps four meters at an Floyd | angle from the platform. Involuntarily, your eyes trace the length of Floyd | the metal tube, and into the sky beyond, to a tiny gray pinpoint Floyd | hovering near the sun. Floyd | Floyd | Earth! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "um, north?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, ">Shoot earth" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | ||
Floyd ] South End of the Catwalk Floyd | > Floyd | > X MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | It's impossible to focus on the mirrored bowl below you, rather than Floyd | what's reflected in it. In it, you can see a distorted view of the Floyd | Martian sky crossed by the thin line of the catwalk. The central Floyd | platform seems to hang directly beneath your feet. The solar disc is Floyd | nowhere to be seen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x tube" | ||
Floyd ] South End of the Catwalk Floyd | > Floyd | > X TUBE Floyd | Floyd | There's a round platform, surrounded by a railing, in the center of Floyd | the mirror chamber. In its center, an ominous black tube juts at an Floyd | angle toward the Earth. There are equipment consoles surrounding the Floyd | tube, but you can't make out any detail at this distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Sorry, was still reading." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x earth" | ||
Floyd ] South End of the Catwalk Floyd | > Floyd | > X EARTH Floyd | Floyd | Sometimes you wish you could just click your heels three times and say Floyd | "There's no place like home!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "click heels" | ||
Floyd ] South End of the Catwalk Floyd | > Floyd | > CLICK HEELS Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Dorothy Powers" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] South End of the Catwalk Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You glance down at yourself. You're wearing the dove gray tunic and Floyd | charcoal trousers of the Sentinels of Outer Space. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Our uniform survived, somehow." | |
| DavidW says, "Mad science." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | This vertiginous aerie appears to be suspended in an infinite open Floyd | space. In every direction you look, you see only the Martian sky. The Floyd | platform itself is circular and about ten meters in diameter. It's Floyd | surrounded by a wholly inadequate handrail. Floyd | Floyd | A narrow catwalk extends back to the south of the platform, appearing Floyd | to vanish into the sky. The catwalk continues across a gap to the Floyd | north, studded with the cranes, gantries, and scaffolding towers of an Floyd | active construction site. Steel cables, seeming as slender and fragile Floyd | as spider silk, extend at intervals to anchor the catwalks and Floyd | platform to thin air. Floyd | Floyd | A console sits on the west side of the platform, studded with blinking Floyd | lights, gauges, dials, instruments, indicators, and other doohickeys. Floyd | Electrical cables connect the console with the tube. A drawer is set Floyd | into the front of the console. Floyd | Floyd | On the metal console is an Acme Mark III Deluminator Instruction Floyd | Guide. Floyd | Floyd | A metallic tube in the center of the platform towers over you. The Floyd | tube points at the sky at a slight angle to vertical. The base of the Floyd | tube is set into a complicated clockwork mechanism. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "guide and drawer." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x guide" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > X GUIDE Floyd | Floyd | It's a small volume made of battleship gray faux leather. In pearly Floyd | letters, it's titled "Acme Mark III Deluminator Instruction Guide". Floyd | Floyd | There's the humming of circuits opening, then Lord Infamy's voice Floyd | booms from every direction: Floyd | Floyd | "Commander Powers. I see you've escaped my pets. Again." Floyd | Floyd | His voice drips with mock sympathy. "I fear this is only a momentary Floyd | reprieve. I have two legions of my Midnight Horde on board this space Floyd | dreadnought. That's enough to deal with any number of… your ilk." Floyd | You Floyd | can hear the pucker of distaste in his voice. Floyd | Floyd | "Enjoy your last moments of freedom, and," he chuckles mirthlessly, Floyd | "life. Perhaps you can spend it in contemplation of Earth's future… Floyd | an Floyd | eternity adrift in darkness. Floyd | Floyd | "In the meantime, that's the engine of Earth's destruction right Floyd | there! Feel free to examine it… you won't be able to do any harm. Floyd | It's Floyd | the heavy-duty model. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm a tad busy preparing for my ascent. Rest assured, my friends and Floyd | I will stop by as soon as I have a free moment. Then you and I can Floyd | have a nice chat while I show you my new toy. And after that," -- Floyd | Infamy's voice hardens and rises into a shriek-- "after I've destroyed Floyd | your friends, your planet, and everything you hold dear… then we'll Floyd | find out what a planetary deluminator can do to the last Earthman!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x infamy" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > X INFAMY Floyd | Floyd | Lord Infamy isn't here. On the whole, you prefer it that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Right. Misread that." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read guide" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > READ GUIDE Floyd | Floyd | You leaf through until you find the table of contents. You can read Floyd | these sections: Floyd | Floyd | Introduction Floyd | Quick Start Floyd | Operational Overview Floyd | Technical Information Floyd | Safety Instructions Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "He was using a PA system of some sort." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah, when I saw "opening", my mind immediately jumped to a door." | ||
| DavidW says, "Normally used to berate the minions with." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read introduction" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > READ INTRODUCTION Floyd | Floyd | Introduction Floyd | Floyd | Hello, despot! Floyd | Floyd | Congratulations on your purchase of an Acme Mark III Deluminator! Floyd | Floyd | Your new deluminator will provide you and your family with hours of Floyd | delight-ful entertainment for years to come. However, incorrect Floyd | operation can result in planetary extinction, so please read this Floyd | manual carefully and completely before operation. Floyd | Floyd | If you're in a hurry, just read the Quick Start section! Floyd | Floyd | The Acme Technological Deluminator Corporation Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read quick start" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > READ QUICK START Floyd | Floyd | Quick Start Floyd | Floyd | Hello, abecedarian! Floyd | Floyd | In a hurry to create your first "ray of darkness"? Floyd | Floyd | Follow these simple steps: Floyd | Floyd | 1) Mount the Acme Mark III Deluminator and Acme Mark III Tracking Floyd | Platform on a planetary surface, with a clear view of the object you Floyd | wish to deluminate. Remember - you should never deluminate an Floyd | inhabited planet! Floyd | 2) Attach the Acme Mark III Deluminator and Acme Mark III Tracking Floyd | Platform to an operating atomic pile. Floyd | 3) Insert the seven Acme Mark III Lens Filters into the seven lens Floyd | apertures inside the Acme Mark III Deluminator. Be sure that each lens Floyd | filter is placed in the aperture with the corresponding label! Floyd | 4) Aim the Acme Mark III Deluminator using the Acme Mark III Floyd | Tracking Platform. Floyd | 5) Activate the Acme Mark III Deluminator using the big red button. Floyd | Floyd | Have fun! Floyd | Floyd | The Acme Technological Deluminator Corporation Floyd | Floyd | "Kiss the light goodbye!" Infamy shrills through the loudspeakers. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I have to wonder about Acme sometimes. They'll sell just about anything to just about anyone." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Sooo... what are our options..." | ||
| DavidW says, "Read more of the guide. Open the drawer. Find those lenses and pull them out." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > OPEN DRAWER Floyd | Floyd | The drawer slides open with oiled ease. The drawer is divided into Floyd | seven compartments, which are lined with velvet. All of the Floyd | compartments are occupied. Floyd | Floyd | They contain some lenses with glass of different colors (white, black, Floyd | gunmetal, pewter, iron, taupe and slate). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get lenses" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > GET LENSES Floyd | Floyd | lens with white-colored glass: You ease the white-colored lens gently Floyd | out of one of the drawer's velvet lined compartments. Floyd | lens with black-colored glass: You ease the black-colored lens gently Floyd | out of one of the drawer's velvet lined compartments. Floyd | lens with gunmetal-colored glass: You ease the gunmetal-colored lens Floyd | gently out of one of the drawer's velvet lined compartments. Floyd | lens with pewter-colored glass: You ease the pewter-colored lens Floyd | gently out of one of the drawer's velvet lined compartments. Floyd | lens with iron-colored glass: You ease the iron-colored lens gently Floyd | out of one of the drawer's velvet lined compartments. Floyd | lens with taupe-colored glass: You ease the taupe-colored lens gently Floyd | out of one of the drawer's velvet lined compartments. Floyd | lens with slate-colored glass: You ease the slate-colored lens gently Floyd | out of one of the drawer's velvet lined compartments. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I am inconvinced it should be that easy." | |
| DavidW says, "Those colours are very very similar to those on the animals photos." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x black" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > X BLACK Floyd | Floyd | (the lens with black-colored glass) Floyd | The lenses are each about ten centimeters in diameter. This one has Floyd | black-colored glass. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | |
| DavidW asks, "So the lenses haven't been placed yet?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x compartments" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > X COMPARTMENTS Floyd | Floyd | The drawer is set into the front of the metal console. The drawer is Floyd | divided into seven compartments, which are lined with velvet. All of Floyd | the compartments are empty. Floyd | Floyd | "You won't ruin my triumph," Infamy states coldly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I'm not really sure." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "break lenses" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > BREAK LENSES Floyd | Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "break lense" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > BREAK LENSE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "break lens" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > BREAK LENS Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the lower hemispherical complex lens, the upper Floyd | hemispherical complex lens, the lens with slate-colored glass, the Floyd | lens with taupe-colored glass, the lens with iron-colored glass, the Floyd | lens with pewter-colored glass, the lens with gunmetal-colored glass, Floyd | the lens with black-colored glass or the lens with white-colored Floyd | glass? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "white" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > WHITE Floyd | Floyd | The white lens is too beautiful to destroy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu exclaims, "It's either the lens or earth, Dynamite!" | |
| DavidW says, "read the operational overview" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read guide" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > READ GUIDE Floyd | Floyd | You leaf through until you find the table of contents. You can read Floyd | these sections: Floyd | Floyd | Introduction Floyd | Quick Start Floyd | Operational Overview Floyd | Technical Information Floyd | Safety Instructions Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read operational" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > READ OPERATIONAL Floyd | Floyd | Operational Overview Floyd | Floyd | Hello, dilettante! Floyd | Floyd | Curious about how the Acme Mark III Deluminator works? Here's a brief Floyd | overview. If you really want to know all the nitty-gritty, continue on Floyd | to the Technical Information section! Floyd | Floyd | The Acme Mark III Deluminator lets you turn light into darkness as a Floyd | fun, family-friendly activity! Floyd | Floyd | It works in three steps: Floyd | Floyd | 1) The chromatic disintegrator at the bottom of the Acme Mark III Floyd | Deluminator separates natural starlight into its seven component Floyd | beams, each of a different color. Floyd | 2) Each of these beams passes through a different colored filter, Floyd | transforming the beam to black. Floyd | 3) The chromatic integrator at the top of the Acme Mark III Floyd | Deluminator recombines the seven identical black beams into a ray of Floyd | pure darkness! Floyd | Floyd | Have fun, and keep spreading the dark! Floyd | Floyd | The Acme Technological Deluminator Corporation Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read technical" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > READ TECHNICAL Floyd | Floyd | Technical Information Floyd | Floyd | Hello, gearhead! Floyd | Floyd | Eager to dig into the details of how the Acme Mark III Deluminator Floyd | works? Let's start with a little background about light. Floyd | Floyd | If you've ever seen a rainbow, you know that light is composed seven Floyd | different colors: white, red, violet, blue, green, yellow and black. Floyd | Natural starlight can be separated into these component parts using a Floyd | chromatic disintegrator. Floyd | Floyd | The fun starts when you transform the colored beams in different ways. Floyd | For instance, when you filter blue light through a red lens, you'll Floyd | get violet! Floyd | Floyd | Why is this? Well, the colors are arranged in cycles of seven, called Floyd | septaves. They're a lot like the octaves you find in music. You could Floyd | number the colors like this: Floyd | Floyd | 0 = White Floyd | 1 = Red Floyd | 2 = Violet Floyd | 3 = Blue Floyd | 4 = Green Floyd | 5 = Yellow Floyd | 6 = Black Floyd | Floyd | Filtering disintegrated light is like subtracting their numbers. So, Floyd | filtering blue light (3) with a red lens (1) gives you violet light Floyd | (2)! Floyd | Floyd | But what if you filter red light (1) with a blue lens (3)? They Floyd | subtract to (-2), and there's no color for that! Well, after you reach Floyd | the bottom of a septave, another one begins, just like an octave in Floyd | music. So, (-1) is the same as (6), and (-2) is the same as (5). So Floyd | red light (1) filtered through a blue lens (3) creates yellow light Floyd | (5)! Floyd | Floyd | Finally, seven identical beams can be recombined and amplified into a Floyd | coherent ray using a chromatic integrator. Floyd | Floyd | Of course, you don't need to keep track of all these details. Acme Floyd | makes it simple by labeling each lens aperture with the color of the Floyd | lens that should be placed in it. As long as you're careful to follow Floyd | these instructions, the Acme Mark III Deluminator will always emit a Floyd | ray of pure darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Acme Technological Deluminator Corporation Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You know, I saw a youtube video on how someone made a black flame." | |
| DavidW says, "It even cast a shadow." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Oh, Dynamite is colorblind." | ||
| DavidW asks, "He is?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Blue - Gunmetal." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "At least, he sees the colors differently." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Violet - Slate" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh. So violet = slate." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yellow - Iron" | ||
| DavidW says, "Of course, I didn't copy all the text back then" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Green - Pewter" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Is red = taupe, then?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "That's all we have, I think." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I opened my transcript file for those, so that should be it." | ||
| DavidW says, "There's still technical information and safety instructions." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I just did technical, so it's just safety." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read safety" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > READ SAFETY Floyd | Floyd | Safety Instructions Floyd | Floyd | Hello, fussbudget! Floyd | Floyd | Please follow these safety precautions when using your Acme Mark III Floyd | Deluminator: Floyd | Floyd | 1) Do not immerse the deluminator. There is a small danger of Floyd | chromaticution. Floyd | 2) The Acme Mark III Deluminator is designed only for use with type G Floyd | white starlight. Do not use with other star types. Floyd | 3) Never look directly into the chromatic integrator. Floyd | 4) Do not use on inhabited planets. This may cause the extinction of Floyd | life on the deluminated planet. Floyd | 5) Never use the deluminator to generate anything other than pure Floyd | darkness. This may cause the deluminator to overheat. (For other Floyd | colors, try the new Acme Mark IV Illuminator!) Floyd | 6) Do not use the deluminator in the vicinity of a gas leak. Floyd | Floyd | Failure to follow these safety precautions will void the warranty for Floyd | the Acme Mark III Deluminator. Floyd | Floyd | The Acme Technological Deluminator Corporation Floyd | Floyd | "How did you escape my razorfish?" Infamy wonders to himself. "No Floyd | matter. It won't happen again." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "I think we may be safe if we just change a few colors?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x labels" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > X LABELS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x deluminator" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > X DELUMINATOR Floyd | Floyd | (the deluminator tube) Floyd | The tube looks something like an electron microscope, but much larger. Floyd | It towers at least four meters above the platform, and is thick enough Floyd | that your arms won't reach all the way around it. The surface of the Floyd | tube is highly polished obsidian chrome, and you can see your own Floyd | concerned face peering back from its surface. Floyd | Floyd | The tube is set into a clockwork mechanism, which holds it at an Floyd | eighty-two degree angle from the horizontal. Sighting along the barrel Floyd | of the tube, you can see the Earth. At this distance, it's only a Floyd | pinprick of light in the fabric of the sky, but for a moment your Floyd | heart swells with homesickness. Floyd | Floyd | Looking down through the grating, you can see a hemispherical complex Floyd | lens at the lower end of the tube. Craning your neck to see the top, Floyd | you can see a matching lens. Floyd | Floyd | A circular button and a square button are mounted at eye level on the Floyd | north face of the tube. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x complex" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > X COMPLEX Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the lower hemispherical complex lens or the upper Floyd | hemispherical complex lens? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x lower complex" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > X LOWER COMPLEX Floyd | Floyd | There's a complex, multi-faceted lens covering the entire lower end of Floyd | the tube. It's made of transparent crystal, and is approximately Floyd | hemispherical. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x upper complex" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > X UPPER COMPLEX Floyd | Floyd | There's a complex, multi-faceted lens covering the entire upper end of Floyd | the tube. It's made of transparent crystal, and is approximately Floyd | hemispherical. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x technical" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > X TECHNICAL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x integrator" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > X INTEGRATOR Floyd | Floyd | There's a complex, multi-faceted lens covering the entire upper end of Floyd | the tube. It's made of transparent crystal, and is approximately Floyd | hemispherical. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read technical" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > READ TECHNICAL Floyd | Floyd | Technical Information Floyd | Floyd | Hello, gearhead! Floyd | Floyd | Eager to dig into the details of how the Acme Mark III Deluminator Floyd | works? Let's start with a little background about light. Floyd | Floyd | If you've ever seen a rainbow, you know that light is composed seven Floyd | different colors: white, red, violet, blue, green, yellow and black. Floyd | Natural starlight can be separated into these component parts using a Floyd | chromatic disintegrator. Floyd | Floyd | The fun starts when you transform the colored beams in different ways. Floyd | For instance, when you filter blue light through a red lens, you'll Floyd | get violet! Floyd | Floyd | Why is this? Well, the colors are arranged in cycles of seven, called Floyd | septaves. They're a lot like the octaves you find in music. You could Floyd | number the colors like this: Floyd | Floyd | 0 = White Floyd | 1 = Red Floyd | 2 = Violet Floyd | 3 = Blue Floyd | 4 = Green Floyd | 5 = Yellow Floyd | 6 = Black Floyd | Floyd | Filtering disintegrated light is like subtracting their numbers. So, Floyd | filtering blue light (3) with a red lens (1) gives you violet light Floyd | (2)! Floyd | Floyd | But what if you filter red light (1) with a blue lens (3)? They Floyd | subtract to (-2), and there's no color for that! Well, after you reach Floyd | the bottom of a septave, another one begins, just like an octave in Floyd | music. So, (-1) is the same as (6), and (-2) is the same as (5). So Floyd | red light (1) filtered through a blue lens (3) creates yellow light Floyd | (5)! Floyd | Floyd | Finally, seven identical beams can be recombined and amplified into a Floyd | coherent ray using a chromatic integrator. Floyd | Floyd | Of course, you don't need to keep track of all these details. Acme Floyd | makes it simple by labeling each lens aperture with the color of the Floyd | lens that should be placed in it. As long as you're careful to follow Floyd | these instructions, the Acme Mark III Deluminator will always emit a Floyd | ray of pure darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Acme Technological Deluminator Corporation Floyd | Floyd | You hear weapons ratcheting over the loudspeakers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Sounds like we're running out of time." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "So we need to place these lenses, out of order, into some apertures in..the tube?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "enter tube" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER TUBE Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | "Kiss the light goodbye!" Infamy shrills through the loudspeakers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Yes, but I didn't see any apertures. And what do the two buttons do?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x square button" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > X SQUARE BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | It's square. Floyd | Floyd | "Are you comfy over there?" Infamy asks sardonically. It's probably a Floyd | rhetorical question. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Moop." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "cf37" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push square" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH SQUARE Floyd | Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | Infamy croons "In the Still of the Night" to himself. Ah, Cole Porter! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x aperture" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > X APERTURE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x circular button" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > X CIRCULAR BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | It's circular. Floyd | Floyd | Infamy savors his words: "You'll watch helplessly while I fire the Ray Floyd | of Night!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push circular" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH CIRCULAR Floyd | Floyd | A disc slides out of the interior of the column with a pneumatic hiss. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x disc" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > X DISC Floyd | Floyd | The disc is slightly smaller in diameter than the column and is made Floyd | of a black metal with a matte finish. It has seven circular apertures Floyd | in it, arranged in a regular heptagon. The apertures are about ten Floyd | centimeters in diameter. Each has a small label etched into the metal Floyd | below it. Going clockwise from the point closest to the column, the Floyd | labels say "White", "Red", "Violet", "Blue", "Green", "Yellow", and Floyd | "Black". Floyd | Floyd | The apertures are all empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "There they are." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "cf38" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > SAVEOk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put gunmetal in red" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT GUNMETAL IN RED Floyd | Floyd | (the second aperture) Floyd | The lens snicks into place. Floyd | Floyd | "My next deathtrap will be inescapable!" Lord Infamy barks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put slate in green" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT SLATE IN GREEN Floyd | Floyd | The lens snicks into place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put iron in black" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT IRON IN BLACK Floyd | Floyd | (the seventh aperture) Floyd | The lens snicks into place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | some lenses with glass of different colors (taupe, pewter, black and Floyd | white) Floyd | a uniform (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put taupe in white" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT TAUPE IN WHITE Floyd | Floyd | (the lens with taupe-colored glass in the first aperture) Floyd | The lens snicks into place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put pewter in black" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT PEWTER IN BLACK Floyd | Floyd | (the seventh aperture) Floyd | You can only fit one lens in the aperture at a time. Floyd | Floyd | "You won't ruin my triumph," Infamy states coldly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put black in blue" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT BLACK IN BLUE Floyd | Floyd | (the lens with black-colored glass in the fourth aperture) Floyd | The lens snicks into place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put white in violet" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT WHITE IN VIOLET Floyd | Floyd | (the lens with white-colored glass in the third aperture) Floyd | The lens snicks into place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a lens with pewter-colored glass Floyd | a uniform (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x apertures" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > X APERTURES Floyd | Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x disc" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > X DISC Floyd | Floyd | The disc is slightly smaller in diameter than the column and is made Floyd | of a black metal with a matte finish. It has seven circular apertures Floyd | in it, arranged in a regular heptagon. The apertures are about ten Floyd | centimeters in diameter. Each has a small label etched into the metal Floyd | below it. Going clockwise from the point closest to the column, the Floyd | labels say "White", "Red", "Violet", "Blue", "Green", "Yellow", and Floyd | "Black". Floyd | Floyd | Looking closer, you see: Floyd | The first aperture (labeled White) contains a lens with Floyd | taupe-colored glass. Floyd | The second aperture (labeled Red) contains a lens with Floyd | gunmetal-colored glass. Floyd | The third aperture (labeled Violet) contains a lens with Floyd | white-colored glass. Floyd | The fourth aperture (labeled Blue) contains a lens with Floyd | black-colored glass. Floyd | The fifth aperture (labeled Green) contains a lens with Floyd | slate-colored glass. Floyd | The sixth aperture (labeled Yellow) is empty. Floyd | The seventh aperture (labeled Black) contains a lens with Floyd | iron-colored glass. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "put pewter in yellow" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT PEWTER IN YELLOW Floyd | Floyd | The lens snicks into place. Floyd | Floyd | You hear Infamy's hollow laugh echo from all around you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "I think I accidentally moved a lens or two?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push circular" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH CIRCULAR Floyd | Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't know what your strategy is here except 'wrong apertures'." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push square" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH SQUARE Floyd | Floyd | The disc slides back into the column with a pneumatic hiss. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "No strategy beyond wrong apertures." | |
| DavidW says, "Could go for all white light." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "If we need to work out a specific order, we need to go back to the lab save." | ||
| DavidW says, "The idea is to overheat the thing so it's damaged beyond repair, i think." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | This vertiginous aerie appears to be suspended in an infinite open Floyd | space. In every direction you look, you see only the Martian sky. The Floyd | platform itself is circular and about ten meters in diameter. It's Floyd | surrounded by a wholly inadequate handrail. Floyd | Floyd | A narrow catwalk extends back to the south of the platform, appearing Floyd | to vanish into the sky. The catwalk continues across a gap to the Floyd | north, studded with the cranes, gantries, and scaffolding towers of an Floyd | active construction site. Steel cables, seeming as slender and fragile Floyd | as spider silk, extend at intervals to anchor the catwalks and Floyd | platform to thin air. Floyd | Floyd | A console sits on the west side of the platform, studded with blinking Floyd | lights, gauges, dials, instruments, indicators, and other doohickeys. Floyd | Electrical cables connect the console with the tube. A drawer is set Floyd | into the front of the console. Floyd | Floyd | On the metal console is an Acme Mark III Deluminator Instruction Floyd | Guide. Floyd | Floyd | A metallic tube in the center of the platform towers over you. The Floyd | tube points at the sky at a slight angle to vertical. The base of the Floyd | tube is set into a complicated clockwork mechanism. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly Infamy demands: "How did you cross the Martian surface? It's Floyd | impossible!" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Where's the on-button for this thing?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x console" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > X CONSOLE Floyd | Floyd | The console is connected to the metallic tube with electrical cables. Floyd | It is studded with a dizzying array of blinking lights, gauges, dials, Floyd | instruments, indicators, and other doohickeys. To one side of the Floyd | other controls is a single oversized taupe button. Floyd | Floyd | There's a drawer set into the front of the console. Floyd | Floyd | On the metal console is an Acme Mark III Deluminator Instruction Floyd | Guide. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh the taupe one." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push taupe" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH TAUPE Floyd | Floyd | The oversized taupe-colored button sinks flush with the surface of the Floyd | console, then pops back up. Nothing else happens. Floyd | Floyd | "My next deathtrap will be even more lethal," Infamy remarks dryly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x taupe button" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > X TAUPE BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | The button is taupe-colored, and it's really big - about the size of Floyd | your balled-up fist. Having seen it, you know that it's your destiny Floyd | to push this button. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Actually, I think we have all the colors, unless Dynamite sees black as white." | |
| DavidW says, "I'm sure he sees black and white normally." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Blue - Gunmetal, Violet - Slate, Yellow - Iron, Green - Pewter, Red - Taupe." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read technical" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > READ TECHNICAL Floyd | Floyd | Technical Information Floyd | Floyd | Hello, gearhead! Floyd | Floyd | Eager to dig into the details of how the Acme Mark III Deluminator Floyd | works? Let's start with a little background about light. Floyd | Floyd | If you've ever seen a rainbow, you know that light is composed seven Floyd | different colors: white, red, violet, blue, green, yellow and black. Floyd | Natural starlight can be separated into these component parts using a Floyd | chromatic disintegrator. Floyd | Floyd | The fun starts when you transform the colored beams in different ways. Floyd | For instance, when you filter blue light through a red lens, you'll Floyd | get violet! Floyd | Floyd | Why is this? Well, the colors are arranged in cycles of seven, called Floyd | septaves. They're a lot like the octaves you find in music. You could Floyd | number the colors like this: Floyd | Floyd | 0 = White Floyd | 1 = Red Floyd | 2 = Violet Floyd | 3 = Blue Floyd | 4 = Green Floyd | 5 = Yellow Floyd | 6 = Black Floyd | Floyd | Filtering disintegrated light is like subtracting their numbers. So, Floyd | filtering blue light (3) with a red lens (1) gives you violet light Floyd | (2)! Floyd | Floyd | But what if you filter red light (1) with a blue lens (3)? They Floyd | subtract to (-2), and there's no color for that! Well, after you reach Floyd | the bottom of a septave, another one begins, just like an octave in Floyd | music. So, (-1) is the same as (6), and (-2) is the same as (5). So Floyd | red light (1) filtered through a blue lens (3) creates yellow light Floyd | (5)! Floyd | Floyd | Finally, seven identical beams can be recombined and amplified into a Floyd | coherent ray using a chromatic integrator. Floyd | Floyd | Of course, you don't need to keep track of all these details. Acme Floyd | makes it simple by labeling each lens aperture with the color of the Floyd | lens that should be placed in it. As long as you're careful to follow Floyd | these instructions, the Acme Mark III Deluminator will always emit a Floyd | ray of pure darkness. Floyd | Floyd | The Acme Technological Deluminator Corporation Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "read safety" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > READ SAFETY Floyd | Floyd | Safety Instructions Floyd | Floyd | Hello, fussbudget! Floyd | Floyd | Please follow these safety precautions when using your Acme Mark III Floyd | Deluminator: Floyd | Floyd | 1) Do not immerse the deluminator. There is a small danger of Floyd | chromaticution. Floyd | 2) The Acme Mark III Deluminator is designed only for use with type G Floyd | white starlight. Do not use with other star types. Floyd | 3) Never look directly into the chromatic integrator. Floyd | 4) Do not use on inhabited planets. This may cause the extinction of Floyd | life on the deluminated planet. Floyd | 5) Never use the deluminator to generate anything other than pure Floyd | darkness. This may cause the deluminator to overheat. (For other Floyd | colors, try the new Acme Mark IV Illuminator!) Floyd | 6) Do not use the deluminator in the vicinity of a gas leak. Floyd | Floyd | Failure to follow these safety precautions will void the warranty for Floyd | the Acme Mark III Deluminator. Floyd | Floyd | The Acme Technological Deluminator Corporation Floyd | Floyd | "You'll regret the day you crossed Lord Infamy!" Infamy howls. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I guess we need to work out something pure other than black." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "push circular" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH CIRCULAR Floyd | Floyd | A disc slides out of the interior of the column with a pneumatic hiss. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x disc" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > X DISC Floyd | Floyd | The disc is slightly smaller in diameter than the column and is made Floyd | of a black metal with a matte finish. It has seven circular apertures Floyd | in it, arranged in a regular heptagon. The apertures are about ten Floyd | centimeters in diameter. Each has a small label etched into the metal Floyd | below it. Going clockwise from the point closest to the column, the Floyd | labels say "White", "Red", "Violet", "Blue", "Green", "Yellow", and Floyd | "Black". Floyd | Floyd | Looking closer, you see: Floyd | The first aperture (labeled White) contains a lens with Floyd | taupe-colored glass. Floyd | The second aperture (labeled Red) contains a lens with Floyd | gunmetal-colored glass. Floyd | The third aperture (labeled Violet) contains a lens with Floyd | white-colored glass. Floyd | The fourth aperture (labeled Blue) contains a lens with Floyd | black-colored glass. Floyd | The fifth aperture (labeled Green) contains a lens with Floyd | slate-colored glass. Floyd | The sixth aperture (labeled Yellow) contains a lens with Floyd | pewter-colored glass. Floyd | The seventh aperture (labeled Black) contains a lens with Floyd | iron-colored glass. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "The White lens should be filtering black light in the "correct" configuration - 6 - 0 = 6." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "The red lens white light." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Right, it's a simple shift." | ||
| DavidW says, "Seems like it." | ||
| DavidW asks, "may I?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Do." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all lens" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ALL LENS Floyd | Floyd | lens with taupe-colored glass: The lens snaps out of the aperture. Floyd | lens with gunmetal-colored glass: The lens snaps out of the aperture. Floyd | lens with white-colored glass: The lens snaps out of the aperture. Floyd | lens with black-colored glass: The lens snaps out of the aperture. Floyd | lens with slate-colored glass: The lens snaps out of the aperture. Floyd | lens with pewter-colored glass: The lens snaps out of the aperture. Floyd | lens with iron-colored glass: The lens snaps out of the aperture. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put black in white" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT BLACK IN WHITE Floyd | Floyd | (the lens with black-colored glass in the first aperture) Floyd | The lens snicks into place. Floyd | Floyd | "You can't escape the Midnight Horde!" Infamy gloats. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put white in red" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT WHITE IN RED Floyd | Floyd | (the lens with white-colored glass in the second aperture) Floyd | The lens snicks into place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put taupe in violet" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT TAUPE IN VIOLET Floyd | Floyd | (the lens with taupe-colored glass in the third aperture) Floyd | The lens snicks into place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put slate in violet" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT SLATE IN VIOLET Floyd | Floyd | You can only fit one lens in the aperture at a time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put slate in blue" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT SLATE IN BLUE Floyd | Floyd | The lens snicks into place. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, you know who Infamy reminds you of. He sounds like that new Floyd | actor, Vincent Price. You and Rosalind saw him last year in "Tower of Floyd | London". Except without the charm. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put gunmetal in green" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT GUNMETAL IN GREEN Floyd | Floyd | The lens snicks into place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put pewter in yellow" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT PEWTER IN YELLOW Floyd | Floyd | The lens snicks into place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put iron in black" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUT IRON IN BLACK Floyd | Floyd | (the seventh aperture) Floyd | The lens snicks into place. Floyd | Floyd | "My next deathtrap will be even more lethal," Infamy remarks dryly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push square button" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH SQUARE BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | The disc slides back into the column with a pneumatic hiss. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push taupe button" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH TAUPE BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | The oversized taupe-colored button sinks flush with the surface of the Floyd | console and you hear a tiny click. Nothing else happens. Floyd | Floyd | "Any time now…" Infamy comments dryly. A tinge of exasperation Floyd | colors Floyd | Lord Infamy's normally silky voice. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess I did it wrong." | |
| DavidW says, "I'm surprised it doesn't do *something*." | ||
| DavidW says, "I suppose we could try to put them in the correct apertures and do Infamy's work for him." | ||
| DavidW says, "At least see if *that* works." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Let me just doublecheck..." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a uniform (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | Out of one corner of your eye, you think you see the tube shift Floyd | minutely. You swivel your head and study it carefully, but whatever Floyd | happened isn't happening now. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "That looks correct. Odd." | |
| DavidW says, "Unless we goofed somewhere with the gray colors to normal colors correspondences." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Let me pull up my transcript file again then." | ||
| Knight_Otu yellow-crested Jovian megastric ... its crest is actually iron. | ||
| Knight_Otu blue-eyed Venusian marshbat. ... gunmetal. | ||
| Knight_Otu violet-bellied Martian ... slate. | ||
| Knight_Otu green-shelled Plutonian frost ... pewter. | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "And the red button is taupe." | ||
| DavidW says, "hm" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Should we try for a 'correct' placement, just to destroy the Earth and make sure the machine is working?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Sure." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push circular" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH CIRCULAR Floyd | Floyd | There's a brief hum from the tube, but nothing else happens. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, you know who Infamy reminds you of. He sounds like that new Floyd | actor, Vincent Price. You and Rosalind saw him last year in "Tower of Floyd | London". Except without the charm. Floyd | Floyd | Unexpectedly, all of the flickering lights on the console illuminate Floyd | at once, then begin to blink in synchrony. The gauges, dials, and Floyd | other impenetrable instrumentation begin to swing in sympathy. You Floyd | hear Lord Infamy's voice come from the loudspeakers, "Hmmm? What's Floyd | this?" There's a tiny worm of concern in his confident tone that Floyd | you've never heard before. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | (the oversized button) Floyd | The button is already flush with the surface of the console. You can't Floyd | push it any further down. Floyd | Floyd | There's a sudden flare of hidden fires all around the circumference of Floyd | the huge mirror, so bright that it lights up the surrounding Martian Floyd | landscape. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. The disc has to be out when the taupe button is pushed." | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "I suggest we ... we can't really flee, can we?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Odd that." | ||
| DavidW says, "We might try to go." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | But all the action's here! Floyd | Floyd | Fwooosh! Clouds of steam erupt from motivators on the periphery of the Floyd | vast mirror and the entire structure shudders slightly. Now there's a Floyd | definite element of fear in Infamy's voice as he cries out, "What have Floyd | you done?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "We do all the work for him, and he complains?" | |
| DavidW says, "I'd really like an escape plan and a weapon and somewhere fireproof." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Do we just z and hope for the space cavalry to arrest Infamy and take us home?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The hum of capacitors charging comes from every direction. It starts Floyd | as a thrum that you feel through the soles of your shoes, but quickly Floyd | passes from bass to treble, and ends as a long dog whistle. As it Floyd | rises, you feel a prickle of charge fill your body and your hair lift Floyd | away from your head. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Jagged shafts of lightning streak between the outer rim of the mirror Floyd | and the Martian sky as the capacitors discharge! The sound reaches you Floyd | a moment later, not as a boom, but as a sustained crackling in the Floyd | thin atmosphere. The entire structure begins to shudder slightly as Floyd | the titanic energies of the Ray of Night begin to release. Floyd | Floyd | Through the loudspeakers, you hear Infamy gibbering in fear, but can't Floyd | make out his words. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | With a piercing shriek that permeates your body and vibrates your Floyd | bones, the Ray of Night erupts! An almost-solid shaft of pure white Floyd | lances out of the tube towards the gray pinpoint far above. For long Floyd | moments, the Earth is bathed in wholesome white light. Floyd | Floyd | …………………………………… Floyd | Floyd | Far, far away, half a world is illuminated. Some rise from their beds, Floyd | blinking sleep from their eyes. Workers drop their hammers, shovels Floyd | and slide rules. Drivers stop on freeways and emerge from their Floyd | automobiles. Lovers pause in their caresses. Families drop their Floyd | books, forget their radios and rise from their tables. Children forget Floyd | their games and leave their toys. Time pauses, and for frozen moments Floyd | the people of Earth look wonderstruck to the sky and an unexpected Floyd | dawn. Floyd | Floyd | …………………………………… Floyd | Floyd | You marvel after the beam as it plays harmlessly over your home Floyd | planet. Tension drains from you as you realize you've thwarted Lord Floyd | Infamy's plot and defanged the Ray of Night! Floyd | Floyd | For several breaths, you stand stunned in the silent Martian Floyd | landscape. Then Infamy screams from the loudspeakers: "Noooooo!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | You start to do that, but events are moving too quickly now. Floyd | Floyd | The tube is radiating incandescent waves now, and you can feel the Floyd | heat from the grating through your shoes. The black tube beside you Floyd | glows silver, then white hot, and begins to slump into a liquid Floyd | puddle. The complex lenses fracture into kaleidoscopes from the heat, Floyd | showering you with fine glass particles. The platform itself melts and Floyd | dips. The semi-liquid mass sags and falls toward the mirror below. The Floyd | hole left behind glows silver at the edges and is ringed with liquid Floyd | metal. You cling to the handrail to prevent sliding into the gravity Floyd | well. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, a new cataclysm shakes the platform. You stumble against the Floyd | handrail, and hold on for dear life. The oscillations increase in Floyd | amplitude until the whole structure is shaking like Galloping Gertie Floyd | on a windy day. To the north, a gantry crane gives way, and falls Floyd | across the gap to the northern catwalk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Conquest Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Conquest Floyd | Ignoring everything else, you head for the only escape route! Floyd | Floyd | You scramble across the fallen crane, then stumble down the northern Floyd | catwalk as it convulses beneath you, lurching from railing to railing Floyd | like a broken-field runner avoiding tacklers. Behind you, the platform Floyd | itself falls into the abyss with a howl of tortured steel. Floyd | Floyd | At the end of the catwalk is Lord Infamy's mighty imperial Floyd | dreadnought, Conquest. Its powerful coal-fueled engines are Floyd | already warming up, and sparks are spitting from the jet igniters. Floyd | Floyd | The ship's heavy steel mooring lines are falling free, and, far above, Floyd | you can hear sirens sounding and hatches clanging shut as Infamy's Floyd | minions prepare the spaceship for takeoff. Floyd | Floyd | Desperately, you cast about for some way to stop the departure - you Floyd | mustn't let Infamy escape! Then, you spot it; there's an open hatch Floyd | leading into the cargo compartment at the base of the ship! Hidden by Floyd | the choking black smoke billowing from the jet igniters, you make a Floyd | running dive through the hatch and roll into the steel compartment. Floyd | Behind you, the hatch springs shut, and locking pins seal it in place. Floyd | Floyd | Leaping to your feet, you seek desperately for the ladders that will Floyd | take you forward to the crew compartments. Then you realize: this is Floyd | no cargo compartment! You've entered the combustion chamber for the Floyd | spaceship! Floyd | Floyd | Looking up, you see Lord Infamy peering through a hatch into the Floyd | engine compartment, far out of reach. He gestures to unseen workers Floyd | and commands "Fire the jets!" With a smile seeping malice, he slams Floyd | the hatch shut, and you hear the wheel spin and lock. Floyd | Floyd | With only moments before the jets fire and incinerate you, you spin Floyd | around, looking for an escape route. The crew has obviously been using Floyd | this chamber as a recreation area. In their haste to prepare for Floyd | takeoff, they've left a half-finished game of Monopoly on the floor in Floyd | the center of the chamber. A pile of Mars Bars is nearby, as are Floyd | several cans of Krueger's Special Beer, each with a bendy straw Floyd | protruding from it. A "Frying Pan" electric guitar leans against a Floyd | wall. An unopened can of Nescafé freeze-dried coffee and a half-empty Floyd | tube of Burma-Shave lie discarded on the floor. A standing lamp with Floyd | an ultraslate bulb casts an un-Earthly glow over the area. Floyd | Floyd | Fuel jets begin to spew finely-divided coal dust. With a whoomp, the Floyd | jets ignite, illuminating your upturned face and casting harsh, Floyd | shifting shadows. You stare into the flames of imminent death. Then… Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You've won this round! But don't forget to play… Floyd | Floyd | "Boom! Goes the Dynamite!" Floyd | Floyd | Episode 8 of "Dynamite Powers vs. the Ray of Night!" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "well. yay?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I guess we won." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Platform Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Platform Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "And in a reasonable time too." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Conquest Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Conquest Floyd | Ignoring everything else, you head for the only escape route! Floyd | Floyd | You scramble across the fallen crane, then stumble down the northern Floyd | catwalk as it convulses beneath you, lurching from railing to railing Floyd | like a broken-field runner avoiding tacklers. Behind you, the platform Floyd | itself falls into the abyss with a howl of tortured steel. Floyd | Floyd | At the end of the catwalk is Lord Infamy's mighty imperial Floyd | dreadnought, Conquest. Its powerful coal-fueled engines are Floyd | already warming up, and sparks are spitting from the jet igniters. Floyd | Floyd | The ship's heavy steel mooring lines are falling free, and, far above, Floyd | you can hear sirens sounding and hatches clanging shut as Infamy's Floyd | minions prepare the spaceship for takeoff. Floyd | Floyd | Desperately, you cast about for some way to stop the departure - you Floyd | mustn't let Infamy escape! Then, you spot it; there's an open hatch Floyd | leading into the cargo compartment at the base of the ship! Hidden by Floyd | the choking black smoke billowing from the jet igniters, you make a Floyd | running dive through the hatch and roll into the steel compartment. Floyd | Behind you, the hatch springs shut, and locking pins seal it in place. Floyd | Floyd | Leaping to your feet, you seek desperately for the ladders that will Floyd | take you forward to the crew compartments. Then you realize: this is Floyd | no cargo compartment! You've entered the combustion chamber for the Floyd | spaceship! Floyd | Floyd | Looking up, you see Lord Infamy peering through a hatch into the Floyd | engine compartment, far out of reach. He gestures to unseen workers Floyd | and commands "Fire the jets!" With a smile seeping malice, he slams Floyd | the hatch shut, and you hear the wheel spin and lock. Floyd | Floyd | With only moments before the jets fire and incinerate you, you spin Floyd | around, looking for an escape route. The crew has obviously been using Floyd | this chamber as a recreation area. In their haste to prepare for Floyd | takeoff, they've left a half-finished game of Monopoly on the floor in Floyd | the center of the chamber. A pile of Mars Bars is nearby, as are Floyd | several cans of Krueger's Special Beer, each with a bendy straw Floyd | protruding from it. A "Frying Pan" electric guitar leans against a Floyd | wall. An unopened can of Nescafé freeze-dried coffee and a half-empty Floyd | tube of Burma-Shave lie discarded on the floor. A standing lamp with Floyd | an ultraslate bulb casts an un-Earthly glow over the area. Floyd | Floyd | Fuel jets begin to spew finely-divided coal dust. With a whoomp, the Floyd | jets ignite, illuminating your upturned face and casting harsh, Floyd | shifting shadows. You stare into the flames of imminent death. Then… Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You've won this round! But don't forget to play… Floyd | Floyd | "Boom! Goes the Dynamite!" Floyd | Floyd | Episode 8 of "Dynamite Powers vs. the Ray of Night!" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** The End *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last Floyd | command? Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "The estimate was "Longer than two hours"." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I don't think that's quite accurate." | ||
| DavidW says, "And we took 2 and a half." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "And CF usually takes longer than a standard playthrough." | ||
| DavidW says, "well, a bit less than that. We didn't start immediately at 2pm" | ||
| DavidW says, "I guess we were expected to make the wrong choices at the first machine." | ||
| DavidW says, "Or not escape the cage so quickly." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah. That's a possibility." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "And die a few cruel deaths in trying." | ||
| DavidW says, "It turns out that the cage has to be fully down at the pool for there to be enough cable to swing to the shore." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Makes sense." | ||
| DavidW says, "anyway congrats to our victory!" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Now where did we put our fireproof underwear?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Darned if I know." | ||
| DavidW says, "We'll have to ask Rosalind." | ||
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "Anyway, horray!" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm glad the pure white light didn't blind everyone on Earth." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah. I'm guessing the other colors give a slightly different text." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, yeah. We could, in theory, bathe the Earth all in red light or all violet light or whatever." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "But I'm fine with the white light." | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah" | ||
