  
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 progressive1" | ||
Floyd ] Classroom 1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Four p.m. and they're all gone, every last one of them. Little brats Floyd | made of spittle and claws. Paint-spilling, dirt-tracking, Floyd | crayon-smearing babies in kindergarteners' clothing. The day you took Floyd | your job was the day you lost your mind. Floyd | Floyd | Not that you have other prospects, though. This is what you've got and Floyd | it isn't all that safe. And besides, it gets better now. Now you make Floyd | order from chaos. Now you spin gold from straw. You're going to wipe Floyd | every last bit of color and clutter off the face of this room and get Floyd | out by five-thirty sharp. Floyd | Floyd | IF Progressive Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by The IF Progessive Team Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 090623 / Inform 7 build 5U92 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Classroom Floyd | Is there a national conspiracy to make young eyes pop out by age five Floyd | from overstimulation? Must be. Every last inch of wall space here, Floyd | save for the window, is plastered with needless decor: nature Floyd | caricatures, inspirational glurge, posters with cartoon letters and Floyd | plus signs. The floor's no better; the brats didn't pick up when Miss Floyd | Lauren told them to pick up and now it's cluttered with gaudy plastic. Floyd | The books are tossed into the carpet square pile and someone's dripped Floyd | tempera paint onto every table. You could go on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Classroom 2 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | What's there to see? Short hair that the kids nevertheless keep Floyd | fussing with, sensible clothes on a stocky frame. Arms, legs, hands, Floyd | feet. Nothing to set you apart. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Classroom 3 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | You look up and then you see it. There's a balloon, floating through Floyd | the window and stopping right in front of your face - no, not stopping Floyd | exactly. Stopping would be too tidy. It's hovering. Balloons shouldn't Floyd | do that. They should stay put on strings. You're sure this Floyd | has to be some kind of fire hazard. Floyd | Floyd | > | PerrySimm reads DavidW's comment, cries. | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Poor Perry." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Perry), "There, there." | ||
| DavidW says (to Perry), "oh, please don't cry" | ||
| wordsmith says, "too funny" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x balloon" | ||
Floyd ] Classroom 4 Floyd | Floyd | > X BALLOON Floyd | Floyd | When did America decide balloon inflation, of all things, was too hard Floyd | for them? It's got too much air and is liable to pop any minute. All Floyd | the better to accentuate the sub-tie-dye coloring catastrophe. Oranges Floyd | clashing with purples, reds superimposed on top of greens and blues Floyd | turning them into bright but somehow murky muddle. You thought only Floyd | Mylar could support this many godawful neons, but apparently you were Floyd | wrong. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take plastic" | ||
Floyd ] Classroom 5 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PLASTIC Floyd | Floyd | You pick up a toy and stack it in the bin, but by the time you get Floyd | back to the pile there just seem to be more. What fool decided to make Floyd | toys reproduce? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take book" | ||
Floyd ] Classroom 6 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BOOK Floyd | Floyd | You dig through the pile a bit, but it just collapses in on itself. Floyd | Ugh. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search pile" | ||
Floyd ] Classroom 7 Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH PILE Floyd | Floyd | You dig through the pile a bit, but it just collapses in on itself. Floyd | Ugh. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "clean paint" | ||
Floyd ] Classroom 8 Floyd | Floyd | > CLEAN PAINT Floyd | Floyd | It's no use; the tables just become a light apricot. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. I get the feeling that we abandon this classroom to its fate." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||
Floyd ] Classroom 8 Floyd | Floyd | > EXITS Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open window" | ||
Floyd ] Classroom 9 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN WINDOW Floyd | Floyd | Two opens don't make a closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Classroom 10 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Classroom 11 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Classroom Floyd | Every last inch of wall space here, save for the window, is plastered Floyd | with needless decor: nature caricatures, inspirational glurge, posters Floyd | with cartoon letters and plus signs. The floor's no better; the brats Floyd | didn't pick up when Miss Lauren told them to pick up and now it's Floyd | cluttered with gaudy plastic. The books are tossed into the carpet Floyd | square pile and someone's dripped tempera paint onto every table. And Floyd | there's more, it seems, every second. Leaves and dirt by the doorway. Floyd | Shredded paper that's not in the waste bin. Floyd | Floyd | A balloon hovers around your face, insect-like. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "What of the balloon?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take balloon" | ||
Floyd ] Classroom 12 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BALLOON Floyd | Floyd | "Don't touch that!" someone almost shrieks. A kid? No, too old. A Floyd | teacher? Too unfamiliar. You have no idea who this is. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "g" | ||
Floyd ] Classroom 13 Floyd | Floyd | > G Floyd | Floyd | Screw the voice. This is your classroom right now. You pick up the Floyd | balloon, grimacing a bit at the noisy latex. It shifts in your arms Floyd | worse than any of the kids ever did. Maybe the voice was right, you Floyd | mutter, watching the balloon's skin go fainter. Floyd | Floyd | "Isn't it wonderful? Everything is better with balloons. Now listen to Floyd | me. Today we're going to have some fun!" You're've never heard anyone Floyd | talk this loudly, not even to kids. It's unnerving. "Let's play a Floyd | game. Let's go play outside! Just walk right on out of there. To the Floyd | south." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "We do what strange talking balloons tell us to, right?" | |
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "But I wanna go north!" | ||
| wordsmith exclaims, "Absolutely!" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Classroom 14 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Aww." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 15 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | Really, this was just a glorified hallway. You used to like places Floyd | like this. Tiles and cinderblocks. No-nonsense, nothing gaudy. They do Floyd | just what they promise: take you from room to room without asserting Floyd | themselves. But something's gone terrible wrong. The whole floor is Floyd | lousy with confetti, thick as snow and almost painful to look at. Floyd | Floyd | "Looks a lot better now, doesn't it?" shouts the voice. You've never Floyd | heard such a loud question. "Now get out. Fast." You notice the door Floyd | to the east is ajar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x confetti" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 16 Floyd | Floyd | > X CONFETTI Floyd | Floyd | Every kind you could possibly imagine and then some you couldn't: cut Floyd | construction paper, punched plastic, tinsel hearts and music notes, Floyd | squiggles, dots, like an explosion in a crayon factory. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search it" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 17 Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH IT Floyd | Floyd | You sift through the confetti, but find nothing but more of it. What Floyd | were you hoping for? Gold? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Hallway 18 Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | That was a rhetorical question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Behind School 19 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Behind School Floyd | The students aren't usually allowed back here. You can go north, Floyd | south, or east. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "That voice really doesn't get us." | |
| DavidW says, "We can go north now." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Outside School 20 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside School Floyd | You've never been to this area before. A brown door is east, and south Floyd | is behind the school (technically south is also outside the school, Floyd | but we have to tell them apart somehow). Floyd | Floyd | An angry crow darts around. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It took me a bit to catch up." | |
| Knight_Otu grumbles about it being too late, too little. | ||
| Jacqueline says, "This is... weird." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crow" | ||
Floyd ] Outside School 21 Floyd | Floyd | > X CROW Floyd | Floyd | The crow obviously has a bad attitude. It caws noisily at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "caw" | ||
Floyd ] Outside School 21 Floyd | Floyd | > CAW Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take crow" | ||
Floyd ] Outside School 22 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CROW Floyd | Floyd | The crow obviously has a bad attitude. It caws noisily at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask crow about cheese" | ||
Floyd ] Outside School 23 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK CROW ABOUT CHEESE Floyd | Floyd | The crow obviously has a bad attitude. It caws noisily at you. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "heh" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask balloon about crow" | ||
Floyd ] Outside School 23 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK BALLOON ABOUT CROW Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Outside School 24 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Balloon didn't stay with us." | |
| wordsmith asks, "Aesop's Fox and the Crow?" | ||
| DavidW says (to ws), "yeah, I was guessing." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x balloon" | ||
Floyd ] Outside School 24 Floyd | Floyd | > X BALLOON Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||
Floyd ] Outside School 25 Floyd | Floyd | > X DOOR Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the brown door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||
Floyd ] Outside School 26 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | (first unlocking the brown door) Floyd | You lack a key that fits the brown door. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "South again?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I guess." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Behind School 27 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Behind School Floyd | The students aren't usually allowed back here. You can go north, Floyd | south, or east. Floyd | Floyd | Floating into the area is a pink balloon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take balloon" | ||
Floyd ] Behind School 28 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BALLOON Floyd | Floyd | A waft of air blows the pink balloon out of your reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Under Tree 29 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Under Tree Floyd | It is peaceful under the tree. You can go north to behind the school. Floyd | Floyd | A lush tree grows, reaching into the sky. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tree" | ||
Floyd ] Under Tree 30 Floyd | Floyd | > X TREE Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the lush tree. Floyd | Floyd | Floating into the area is a pink balloon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] In Tree 31 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In Tree Floyd | You cling precariously up here among the green leaves, and can get to Floyd | the roof to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "count leaves" | ||
Floyd ] In Tree 31 Floyd | Floyd | > COUNT LEAVES Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x leaves" | ||
Floyd ] In Tree 32 Floyd | Floyd | > X LEAVES Floyd | Floyd | You find a paper page among the leaves. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take page" | ||
Floyd ] In Tree 33 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PAGE Floyd | Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||
Floyd ] In Tree 34 Floyd | Floyd | > READ IT Floyd | Floyd | Not much to read there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] In Tree 35 Floyd | Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | You shudder at the sight of triangles and equations -- MATH! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] In Tree 36 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a paper page Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Roof 37 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Roof Floyd | A quiet albeit windy retreat. Floyd | Floyd | A metal machine, taller than you are, is here with a math book wedged Floyd | underneath it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x machine" | ||
Floyd ] Roof 38 Floyd | Floyd | > X MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | It is too tall for you to reach its top. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||
Floyd ] Roof 39 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOK Floyd | Floyd | Propping up a machine is as good a use for math as any, in your Floyd | opinion. It seems to have a page missing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put page in book" | ||
Floyd ] Roof 40 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PAGE IN BOOK Floyd | Floyd | You wedge all the pages back into the book. The metal machine shifts Floyd | only slightly, but something falls off the top! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Roof 41 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Roof Floyd | A quiet albeit windy retreat. Floyd | Floyd | A metal machine, taller than you are, is here with a math book wedged Floyd | underneath it. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a wooden slingshot here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take slingshot" | ||
Floyd ] Roof 42 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SLINGSHOT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd ] Roof 43 Floyd | Floyd | > X IT Floyd | Floyd | It must have been seized from a grubby little terrorist wannabe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb machine" | ||
Floyd ] Roof 44 Floyd | Floyd | > CLIMB MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push machine" | ||
Floyd ] Roof 45 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] In Tree 46 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In Tree Floyd | You cling precariously up here among the green leaves, and can get to Floyd | the roof to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Under Tree 47 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Under Tree Floyd | It is peaceful under the tree. You can go north to behind the school. Floyd | Floyd | A lush tree grows, reaching into the sky. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "We're turning into one of those rascals, aren't we?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Behind School 48 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Behind School Floyd | The students aren't usually allowed back here. You can go north, Floyd | south, or east. Floyd | Floyd | A pink balloon floats here. Floyd | Floyd | The pink balloon floats away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Muddy Area 49 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Muddy Area Floyd | You try to keep your shoes as clean as possible here. The only way is Floyd | back west. Floyd | Floyd | A pink balloon floats here. Floyd | Floyd | A shallow hole has been dug by some small archaeologist. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||
Floyd ] Muddy Area 50 Floyd | Floyd | > X HOLE Floyd | Floyd | You retrieve two small marbles from it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Behind School 51 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Behind School Floyd | The students aren't usually allowed back here. You can go north, Floyd | south, or east. Floyd | Floyd | Floating into the area is a pink balloon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load slingshot" | ||
Floyd ] Behind School 51 Floyd | Floyd | > LOAD SLINGSHOT Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put marble in slingshot" | ||
Floyd ] Behind School 52 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT MARBLE IN SLINGSHOT Floyd | Floyd | Hmm, I take it you want to shoot something with this device? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd ] Behind School 53 Floyd | Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | That was a rhetorical question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot balloon with slingshot" | ||
Floyd ] Behind School 54 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOOT BALLOON WITH SLINGSHOT Floyd | Floyd | You take careful aim at the pink balloon and ... THWACK!! A direct hit Floyd | pops the balloon and something falls out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Behind School 55 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Behind School Floyd | The students aren't usually allowed back here. You can go north, Floyd | south, or east. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a toilet roll here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take roll" | ||
Floyd ] Behind School 56 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ROLL Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x roll" | ||
Floyd ] Behind School 57 Floyd | Floyd | > X ROLL Floyd | Floyd | Used to clean things, especially the backside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Behind School 58 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a toilet roll Floyd | a small marble Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Outside School 59 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside School Floyd | You've never been to this area before. A brown door is east, and south Floyd | is behind the school (technically south is also outside the school, Floyd | but we have to tell them apart somehow). Floyd | Floyd | An angry crow darts around. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith asks, "Hmm, are we going to TP the tree next?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot crow with slingshot" | ||
Floyd ] Outside School 60 Floyd | Floyd | > SHOOT CROW WITH SLINGSHOT Floyd | Floyd | You take careful aim at the angry crow and ... MISS!! Floyd | Floyd | It looks ticked-off now, and starts circling the area! Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "We're getting the big big treasures." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take marble" | ||
Floyd ] Outside School 60 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE MARBLE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm very sad that >COUNT LEAVES was not recognized. heh" | |
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "score" | ||
Floyd ] Outside School 60 Floyd | Floyd | > SCORE Floyd | Floyd | There is no score in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Outside School 60 Floyd | Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I agree that TPing the tree is worth a try." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "How do you get it to reprint the author and title and stuff?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "version" | ||
Floyd ] Outside School 60 Floyd | Floyd | > VERSION Floyd | Floyd | IF Progressive Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by The IF Progessive Team Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 090623 / Inform 7 build 5U92 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Identification number: //3481086E-14E7-4943-9558-AC198ADC87FE// Floyd | Standard interpreter 1.0 (6b) / Library serial number 080126 Floyd | Standard Rules version 2/080430 by Graham Nelson Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "author" | ||
Floyd ] Outside School 60 Floyd | Floyd | > AUTHOR Floyd | Floyd | Scene 2, "Terrorist Wannabe", was written by Rick Dague. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Behind School 61 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Behind School Floyd | The students aren't usually allowed back here. You can go north, Floyd | south, or east. Floyd | Floyd | The crow is still flying around excitedly! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Under Tree 62 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Under Tree Floyd | It is peaceful under the tree. You can go north to behind the school. Floyd | Floyd | A lush tree grows, reaching into the sky. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the crow lining up for a run at you! Watch out! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] In Tree 63 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In Tree Floyd | You cling precariously up here among the green leaves, and can get to Floyd | the roof to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The angry crow makes its move! Floyd | Floyd | The bird dives at your head and dropping a "bomb" -- DIRECT HIT!! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bomb" | ||
Floyd ] In Tree 64 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOMB Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the green mess. Floyd | Floyd | Something stinks! Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "EW." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wipe mess with roll" | ||
Floyd ] In Tree 64 Floyd | Floyd | > WIPE MESS WITH ROLL Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to wipe the green mess. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says (to Jacq), "ifdb lists the authors as: by Sarah Morayati, Rick Dague, Dan Shiovitz, Carl Muckenhoupt, Marius M�ller, Mark J. Musante, and Tom Blawgus" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take mess with roll" | ||
Floyd ] In Tree 64 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE MESS WITH ROLL Floyd | Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to take the green mess. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "use roll" | ||
Floyd ] In Tree 64 Floyd | Floyd | > USE ROLL Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] In Tree 65 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a green mess Floyd | a toilet roll Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | Something stinks! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop mess" | ||
Floyd ] In Tree 66 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP MESS Floyd | Floyd | You tear some paper off of the toilet roll and the mess cleans right Floyd | up. Plus you find something in the goo! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] In Tree 67 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a bronze key Floyd | a toilet roll Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x key" | ||
Floyd ] In Tree 68 Floyd | Floyd | > X KEY Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the bronze key. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Clean me... or that." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Under Tree 69 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Under Tree Floyd | It is peaceful under the tree. You can go north to behind the school. Floyd | Floyd | A lush tree grows, reaching into the sky. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Behind School 70 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Behind School Floyd | The students aren't usually allowed back here. You can go north, Floyd | south, or east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Outside School 71 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside School Floyd | You've never been to this area before. A brown door is east, and south Floyd | is behind the school (technically south is also outside the school, Floyd | but we have to tell them apart somehow). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock door with key" | ||
Floyd ] Outside School 72 Floyd | Floyd | > UNLOCK DOOR WITH KEY Floyd | Floyd | You unlock the brown door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Dark Entryway 73 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | (first opening the brown door) Floyd | Floyd | Dark Entryway Floyd | The light is dim, and exits are west and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "author" | ||
Floyd ] Dark Entryway 73 Floyd | Floyd | > AUTHOR Floyd | Floyd | Scene 3, "Job Fair", was written by Dan Shiovitz. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Dark Entryway 73
Floyd |
Floyd | > E
Floyd |
Floyd | You take a few steps before the floor collapses.
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| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Dark Entryway 73 Floyd | It seems like a good idea to scream, so you do so. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push space" | ||
Floyd ] Dark Entryway 73 Floyd | But that gets boring after a while, and you start wondering what's Floyd | going to happen. | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Dark Entryway 73 Floyd | Maybe this is no ordinary fall, but some kind of trip through a Floyd | magical portal into another world! | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Dark Entryway 73 Floyd | Hey, this is just like Alice in Wonderland! | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Somewhere Rustly 74 Floyd | You're practicing saying "Yes, your majesty, I would care for Floyd | another cup of tea, thank you kindly," when your downward motion is Floyd | suddenly arrested by a large pile of dead leaves. Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere Rustly Floyd | At least, you assume this is leaves. It's dark enough that you can't Floyd | really tell anything except it's a big pile and you're in the middle Floyd | of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "That's a long fall." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "count leaves" | ||
Floyd ] Somewhere Rustly 74 Floyd | Floyd | > COUNT LEAVES Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Boo." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pile" | ||
Floyd ] Somewhere Rustly 75 Floyd | Floyd | > X PILE Floyd | Floyd | It's a big pile of .. stuff. That rustles. Good thing you don't have Floyd | any cattle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search pile" | ||
Floyd ] Somewhere Rustly 76 Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH PILE Floyd | Floyd | It's too dark to do anything with the pile, really. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "North?" | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Sure?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Shredding Room 77 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You struggle to your feet, strewing rustly stuff everywhere. Somewhere Floyd | in the process of doing so you bump against a light switch or Floyd | something, and things become brighter. Floyd | Floyd | Shredding Room Floyd | This room is mostly occupied by a large pile of shredded paper. There Floyd | aren't any obvious exits, but the north wall is entirely occupied by Floyd | the backside of a large machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x machine" | ||
Floyd ] Shredding Room 78 Floyd | Floyd | > X MACHINE Floyd | Floyd | The machine takes up the entire north wall. Given the circumstances Floyd | and the large label it is easy to identify this as an enormous Floyd | shredder. There is a small hatch near floor level, and a large funnely Floyd | sort of thing up top. Floyd | Floyd | You hear a noise from above your head, and look up just in time to see Floyd | a small metal object falling from the sky. It bounces painfully off Floyd | your head and disappears into the pile of shredded paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "cattle rustling..." | |
| wordsmith groans | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search pile" | ||
Floyd ] Shredding Room 79 Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH PILE Floyd | Floyd | You'd think this would be like trying to find a, uh, small metal thing Floyd | in a large pile of other stuff, but in fact it's not that bad, since Floyd | this particular bit of metal talks. "--Come on come on I'm right over Floyd | here this is totally obv--" it is saying as you pick it up. "Finally! Floyd | It's about time you found me!" Floyd | "Uh, what?" you say. Floyd | "It's me! Roz!" And you finally realize it's the same voice as Floyd | earlier. "You popped my balloon! It took me forever to get down here!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x roz" | ||
Floyd ] Shredding Room 80 Floyd | Floyd | > X ROZ Floyd | Floyd | It's a pyramid-shaped piece of metal which, surprisingly, can talk. Floyd | For instance, right now it says "Quit starin' at me and get on with Floyd | things!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hatch" | ||
Floyd ] Shredding Room 81 Floyd | Floyd | > X HATCH Floyd | Floyd | The hatch is labelled "MAINTENANCE". It's closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||
Floyd ] Shredding Room 82 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | You open the hatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter it" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 83 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER IT Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way through the hatch and eventually come out the Floyd | other side. Floyd | Floyd | Conference Hall Floyd | This is a big open area. Hundreds of beings of all heights, colors, Floyd | eyestalkitude and tentaclosity are wandering around, visiting little Floyd | booths, and waving bits of paper, but mostly they're standing in line. Floyd | Floyd | The room (and the crowd) stretches out in all directions except south, Floyd | where the whole wall is taken up by the giant shredder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crowd" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 84 Floyd | Floyd | > X CROWD Floyd | Floyd | Some have fur, some have claws, some have tails, some have ears, some Floyd | have green skin, some have blue skin. But judging by the papers Floyd | they're holding, what they all have is a determination to get a job. Floyd | Floyd | "What does he mean, overqualified?" says a furred lizard-thing, Floyd | angrily, to its scaled bear-thing companion. "I have a mere sixteen Floyd | years of experience!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I need to use the word 'tentaclosity' more often." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x papers" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 84 Floyd | Floyd | > X PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 85 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 86 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | A nearby vendor suddenly leaps out of her booth. "I hate this job!" Floyd | she shouts. "I'm finding a new one!" She disappears into the crowd, Floyd | leaving the empty booth abandoned behind her. You look over at it, Floyd | curiously. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Too bad the eburnean pond kraken is in the wilds already, then." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x booth" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 87 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOTH Floyd | Floyd | This display booth is empty, at least of people. A colorful sign on Floyd | the booth says "THE AMAZING UNSHRED-O-MATIC" and sitting on the booth Floyd | is what you presume to be the unshred-o-matic in question. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to KO), "yay" | |
| Jacqueline says, "How convenient, booth." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x unshred" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 88 Floyd | Floyd | > X UNSHRED Floyd | Floyd | It seems to be composed mainly of a bin, some unblades, and a button. Floyd | Floyd | "No, no, that won't do at all," says an interviewer at one of the Floyd | booths to a gelatinous blob. "I'm afraid chuffling certification is an Floyd | absolute requirement for any job here." The blob jiggles unhappily and Floyd | oozes away. The interviewer shrugs and shoves the blob's resume into a Floyd | nearby tube, where it's immediately sucked out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Get shreds from the other room, put them in this machine, then get in line?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "author" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 88 Floyd | Floyd | > AUTHOR Floyd | Floyd | Scene 3, "Job Fair", was written by Dan Shiovitz. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yeah" | |
| DavidW asks, "Shall I?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Shredding Room 89 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way through the hatch and eventually come out the Floyd | other side. Floyd | Floyd | Shredding Room Floyd | This room is mostly occupied by a large pile of shredded paper. There Floyd | aren't any obvious exits, but the north wall is entirely occupied by Floyd | the backside of a large machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take paper" | ||
Floyd ] Shredding Room 90 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PAPER Floyd | Floyd | You pick up all the larger pieces you can find. There are four. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 91 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way through the hatch and eventually come out the Floyd | other side. Floyd | Floyd | Conference Hall Floyd | This is a big open area. Hundreds of beings of all heights, colors, Floyd | eyestalkitude and tentaclosity are wandering around, visiting little Floyd | booths, and waving bits of paper, but mostly they're standing in line. Floyd | Floyd | The room (and the crowd) stretches out in all directions except south, Floyd | where the whole wall is taken up by the giant shredder. Nearby you Floyd | notice a small, unstaffed booth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put paper in unshred" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 91 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PAPER IN UNSHRED Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 92 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a khaki-colored resume piece Floyd | an ecru-colored resume piece Floyd | a beige-colored resume piece Floyd | a cream-colored resume piece Floyd | a Roz pyramid Floyd | a bronze key Floyd | a toilet roll Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | A mime uses its tentacles to give an impromptu demonstration of being Floyd | trapped in an invisible rocket ship and walking against a tractor Floyd | beam. Its interviewer is unimpressed, however, and consigns the mime's Floyd | resume to a shredder tube. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x khaki" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 93 Floyd | Floyd | > X KHAKI Floyd | Floyd | This fragment of a resume is printed on khaki-colored paper. Glancing Floyd | over it, you make out a few phrases that seem relevant: Floyd | "Certifications: Pommelation (Basic and Advanced), Chuffling, Floyd | Black-Belt Lean Six Sigma", "Blood type: O" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ecru" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 94 Floyd | Floyd | > X ECRU Floyd | Floyd | This fragment of a resume is printed on ecru-colored paper. Glancing Floyd | over it, you make out a few phrases that seem relevant: "Years of Floyd | experience: 1", "Ever since I was a mere pod, my ambition to be a Floyd | Waffgasketeer has been ..", "Hobbies: Trandozian bass, flapjacks" Floyd | Floyd | "Only four years?" a green chimpanzee says to a blue chimpanzee. Floyd | "They'll never take anyone with that little." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x beige" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 95 Floyd | Floyd | > X BEIGE Floyd | Floyd | This fragment of a resume is printed on beige-colored paper. Glancing Floyd | over it, you make out a few phrases that seem relevant: "It is my Floyd | fondest hope that as a Jark Inverter I will ..", "Education: Yalneeple Floyd | College of Higher Kurfting, "D4", "With my fifteen years of experience Floyd | .." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cream" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 96 Floyd | Floyd | > X CREAM Floyd | Floyd | This fragment of a resume is printed on cream-colored paper. Glancing Floyd | over it, you make out a few phrases that seem relevant: "0 Floyd | (approximate)", "Scent glands: removed (references available on Floyd | request)", "Languages known: none." Floyd | Floyd | Two aliens get into an argument over who was next in line. The debate Floyd | is resolved when the smaller one unhinges its jaw surprisingly far and Floyd | eats the other. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "What a weird place." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put beige in unshred" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 97 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BEIGE IN UNSHRED Floyd | Floyd | You put the beige-colored resume piece into the unshred-o-matic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x unshred" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 98 Floyd | Floyd | > X UNSHRED Floyd | Floyd | It seems to be composed mainly of a bin, some unblades, and a button. Floyd | In the unshredder you see beige-colored resume piece. Floyd | Floyd | An armadillo-like alien has a conversation with a vendor in a nearby Floyd | booth about their new line of metallic post-it notes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put all paper in unshred" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 98 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT ALL PAPER IN UNSHRED Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put cream in unshred" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 99 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT CREAM IN UNSHRED Floyd | Floyd | You put the cream-colored resume piece into the unshred-o-matic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 100 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You push the unshredder button. The unshredder hums in a pleased Floyd | fashion, then sucks in all the scraps in its bin. There is a brief Floyd | rrihw, and then a tan resume comes out the top of the unshredder. You Floyd | pick it up and discard the remaining resume pieces. Floyd | Floyd | An armadillo-like alien has a conversation with a vendor in a nearby Floyd | booth about their new line of metallic post-it notes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I always love Dan's writing. This is no exception." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take tan" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 101 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE TAN Floyd | Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tan" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 102 Floyd | Floyd | > X TAN Floyd | Floyd | The resume lists a number of hobbies and qualifications you don't Floyd | really understand, but you do manage to make out a claim of 15 years Floyd | of experience and a request for a position as a Jark Inverter. Floyd | Floyd | Two aliens get into an argument over who was next in line. The debate Floyd | is resolved when the smaller one unhinges its jaw surprisingly far and Floyd | eats the other. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "rrihw, heh" | |
| Jacqueline says, "hee" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "get in line" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 103 Floyd | Floyd | > GET IN LINE Floyd | Floyd | You get into the line, and wait. And wait, and wait. Eventually you Floyd | reach the front, where you are scrutinized by a sort of mutant Floyd | crab-zebra thing. "GIVE ME THAT RESUME!" it roars, snatching it from Floyd | you. Then it produces a pair of surprisingly small spectacles and Floyd | settles them on its eyestalks as it reads over your resume. "Good .. Floyd | good .. nice genetic structure .. excellent center of mass .." Floyd | Suddenly it stops and looks up at you. "YOU DON'T HAVE THE Floyd | CERTIFICATION FOR THIS JOB". With one enormous claw, it shoves your Floyd | resume into a nearby tube which, you fear, leads directly to the Floyd | shredder. "GET OUT OF HERE!" To the accompaniment of menacing pincer Floyd | snaps and glares from the other interviewees, you slink out of the Floyd | line. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "We needed Chuffling, on the Khaki fragment..." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Shredding Room 104 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way through the hatch and eventually come out the Floyd | other side. Floyd | Floyd | Shredding Room Floyd | This room is mostly occupied by a large pile of shredded paper. There Floyd | aren't any obvious exits, but the north wall is entirely occupied by Floyd | the backside of a large machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take paper" | ||
Floyd ] Shredding Room 105 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PAPER Floyd | Floyd | You pick up all the larger pieces you can find. There are four. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Shredding Room 106 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a khaki-colored resume piece Floyd | an ecru-colored resume piece Floyd | a beige-colored resume piece Floyd | a cream-colored resume piece Floyd | a Roz pyramid Floyd | a bronze key Floyd | a toilet roll Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 107 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way through the hatch and eventually come out the Floyd | other side. Floyd | Floyd | Conference Hall Floyd | This is a big open area. Hundreds of beings of all heights, colors, Floyd | eyestalkitude and tentaclosity are wandering around, visiting little Floyd | booths, and waving bits of paper, but mostly they're standing in line. Floyd | Floyd | The room (and the crowd) stretches out in all directions except south, Floyd | where the whole wall is taken up by the giant shredder. Nearby you Floyd | notice a small, unstaffed booth. Floyd | Floyd | "What does he mean, overqualified?" says a furred lizard-thing, Floyd | angrily, to its scaled bear-thing companion. "I have a mere sixteen Floyd | years of experience!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x khaki" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 108 Floyd | Floyd | > X KHAKI Floyd | Floyd | This fragment of a resume is printed on khaki-colored paper. Glancing Floyd | over it, you make out a few phrases that seem relevant: Floyd | "Certifications: Pommelation (Basic and Advanced), Chuffling, Floyd | Black-Belt Lean Six Sigma", "Blood type: O" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "beige" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 108 Floyd | Floyd | > BEIGE Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x beige" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 109 Floyd | Floyd | > X BEIGE Floyd | Floyd | This fragment of a resume is printed on beige-colored paper. Glancing Floyd | over it, you make out a few phrases that seem relevant: "It is my Floyd | fondest hope that as a Jark Inverter I will ..", "Education: Yalneeple Floyd | College of Higher Kurfting, "D4", "With my fifteen years of experience Floyd | .." Floyd | Floyd | "No, no, that won't do at all," says an interviewer at one of the Floyd | booths to a gelatinous blob. "I'm afraid chuffling certification is an Floyd | absolute requirement for any job here." The blob jiggles unhappily and Floyd | oozes away. The interviewer shrugs and shoves the blob's resume into a Floyd | nearby tube, where it's immediately sucked out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cream" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 110 Floyd | Floyd | > X CREAM Floyd | Floyd | This fragment of a resume is printed on cream-colored paper. Glancing Floyd | over it, you make out a few phrases that seem relevant: "0 Floyd | (approximate)", "Scent glands: removed (references available on Floyd | request)", "Languages known: none." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Khaki and cream?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put khaki in unshred" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 111 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT KHAKI IN UNSHRED Floyd | Floyd | You put the khaki-colored resume piece into the unshred-o-matic. Floyd | Floyd | A mime uses its tentacles to give an impromptu demonstration of being Floyd | trapped in an invisible rocket ship and walking against a tractor Floyd | beam. Its interviewer is unimpressed, however, and consigns the mime's Floyd | resume to a shredder tube. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put cream in unshred" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 112 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT CREAM IN UNSHRED Floyd | Floyd | You put the cream-colored resume piece into the unshred-o-matic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 113 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You push the unshredder button. The unshredder hums in a pleased Floyd | fashion, then sucks in all the scraps in its bin. There is a brief Floyd | rrihw, and then a tan resume comes out the top of the unshredder. You Floyd | pick it up and discard the remaining resume pieces. Floyd | Floyd | "Only four years?" a green chimpanzee says to a blue chimpanzee. Floyd | "They'll never take anyone with that little." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tan" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 114 Floyd | Floyd | > X TAN Floyd | Floyd | The resume lists a number of hobbies and qualifications you don't Floyd | really understand, but you do manage to make out multiple Floyd | certifications. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "get in line" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 115 Floyd | Floyd | > GET IN LINE Floyd | Floyd | You get into the line, and wait. And wait, and wait. Eventually you Floyd | reach the front, where you are scrutinized by a sort of mutant Floyd | crab-zebra thing. "GIVE ME THAT RESUME!" it roars, snatching it from Floyd | you. Then it produces a pair of surprisingly small spectacles and Floyd | settles them on its eyestalks as it reads over your resume. "Good .. Floyd | good .. nice genetic structure .. excellent center of mass .." Floyd | Suddenly it stops and looks up at you. "YOU'RE TOO INEXPERIENCED!". Floyd | With one enormous claw, it shoves your resume into a nearby tube Floyd | which, you fear, leads directly to the shredder. "GET OUT OF HERE!" To Floyd | the accompaniment of menacing pincer snaps and glares from the other Floyd | interviewees, you slink out of the line. Floyd | Floyd | An armadillo-like alien has a conversation with a vendor in a nearby Floyd | booth about their new line of metallic post-it notes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "meeh" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Shredding Room 116 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way through the hatch and eventually come out the Floyd | other side. Floyd | Floyd | Shredding Room Floyd | This room is mostly occupied by a large pile of shredded paper. There Floyd | aren't any obvious exits, but the north wall is entirely occupied by Floyd | the backside of a large machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take paper" | ||
Floyd ] Shredding Room 117 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PAPER Floyd | Floyd | You pick up all the larger pieces you can find. There are four. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 118 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way through the hatch and eventually come out the Floyd | other side. Floyd | Floyd | Conference Hall Floyd | This is a big open area. Hundreds of beings of all heights, colors, Floyd | eyestalkitude and tentaclosity are wandering around, visiting little Floyd | booths, and waving bits of paper, but mostly they're standing in line. Floyd | Floyd | The room (and the crowd) stretches out in all directions except south, Floyd | where the whole wall is taken up by the giant shredder. Nearby you Floyd | notice a small, unstaffed booth. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Khaki and beige would give us 15 years of experience I think." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 119 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a khaki-colored resume piece Floyd | an ecru-colored resume piece Floyd | a beige-colored resume piece Floyd | a cream-colored resume piece Floyd | a Roz pyramid Floyd | a bronze key Floyd | a toilet roll Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | A mime uses its tentacles to give an impromptu demonstration of being Floyd | trapped in an invisible rocket ship and walking against a tractor Floyd | beam. Its interviewer is unimpressed, however, and consigns the mime's Floyd | resume to a shredder tube. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ecru" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 120 Floyd | Floyd | > X ECRU Floyd | Floyd | This fragment of a resume is printed on ecru-colored paper. Glancing Floyd | over it, you make out a few phrases that seem relevant: "Years of Floyd | experience: 1", "Ever since I was a mere pod, my ambition to be a Floyd | Waffgasketeer has been ..", "Hobbies: Trandozian bass, flapjacks" Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "I think khaki + cream + beige." | |
| DavidW says, "I don't know if we can do three." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put knaki in unshred" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 120 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT KNAKI IN UNSHRED Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "o khaki" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 121 Floyd | Floyd | > O KHAKI Floyd | Floyd | You put the khaki-colored resume piece into the unshred-o-matic. Floyd | Floyd | "Only four years?" a green chimpanzee says to a blue chimpanzee. Floyd | "They'll never take anyone with that little." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put cream in unshred" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 122 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT CREAM IN UNSHRED Floyd | Floyd | You put the cream-colored resume piece into the unshred-o-matic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put beige in unshred" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 123 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BEIGE IN UNSHRED Floyd | Floyd | You put the beige-colored resume piece into the unshred-o-matic. Floyd | Floyd | Two aliens get into an argument over who was next in line. The debate Floyd | is resolved when the smaller one unhinges its jaw surprisingly far and Floyd | eats the other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 124 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You push the unshredder button. The unshredder hums in a pleased Floyd | fashion, then sucks in all the scraps in its bin. There is a brief Floyd | rrihw, and then a tan resume comes out the top of the unshredder. You Floyd | pick it up and discard the remaining resume pieces. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "If not, khaki + beige." | |
| DavidW says, "I like how rrihw is reverse whirr" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tan" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 125 Floyd | Floyd | > X TAN Floyd | Floyd | The resume lists a number of hobbies and qualifications you don't Floyd | really understand, but you do manage to make out a claim of 15 years Floyd | of experience, a request for a position as a Jark Inverter, and Floyd | multiple certifications. Floyd | Floyd | "What does he mean, overqualified?" says a furred lizard-thing, Floyd | angrily, to its scaled bear-thing companion. "I have a mere sixteen Floyd | years of experience!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith crosses fingers | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "get in line" | ||
Floyd ] Metal Box Room 126 Floyd | Floyd | > GET IN LINE Floyd | Floyd | You get into the line, and wait. And wait, and wait. Eventually you Floyd | reach the front, where you are scrutinized by a sort of mutant Floyd | crab-zebra thing. "GIVE ME THAT RESUME!" it roars, snatching it from Floyd | you. Then it produces a pair of surprisingly small spectacles and Floyd | settles them on its eyestalks as it reads over your resume. "Good .. Floyd | good .. nice genetic structure .. excellent center of mass .." Floyd | Suddenly it stops and looks up at you. "YOU'LL DO." Before you can Floyd | react, it has grabbed you and shoved you through the door behind it. Floyd | "HR WILL BE IN TOUCH" is the last thing you hear as the door closes Floyd | again. Floyd | Floyd | Metal Box Room Floyd | Metal Box Room. Floyd | Floyd | "Thank goodness I'm here!," Roz says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Metal Box Room 127 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Metal Box Room Floyd | Metal Box Room. Floyd | Floyd | "Yessir, if it weren't for me, you wouldn't have any way of getting Floyd | out," Roz says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "author" | ||
Floyd ] Metal Box Room 127 Floyd | Floyd | > AUTHOR Floyd | Floyd | Scene 4, "Telepyramids", was written by Carl Muckenhoupt. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "The thing I'm really loving is how the requirements are all over the place. Overqualified, underqualified, etc... it expresses the frustrations of job-hunting really well." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about room" | ||
Floyd ] Metal Box Room 128 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT ROOM Floyd | Floyd | "Sorry, what? I was thinking about what I'm going to do for my next Floyd | game." Floyd | Floyd | "If you want help getting out of here, just ask," Roz says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz for help" | ||
Floyd ] Metal Box Room 128 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ FOR HELP Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "Oh, except we got a job!" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about help" | ||
Floyd ] Metal Box Room 129 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT HELP Floyd | Floyd | "Stop talking and do something interesting!" Floyd | Floyd | "Ask me, that is," Roz says. "If you weren't sure." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about getting out of here" | ||
Floyd ] Metal Box Room 130 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT GETTING OUT OF HERE Floyd | Floyd | "That's boring." Floyd | Floyd | "And if you wanted to know, say, what subject to ask me about," Roz Floyd | says. "I'd suggest, oh, Roz." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Roz, that would be nicer if you hadn't started this mess." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about roz" | ||
Floyd ] Metal Box Room 131 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT ROZ Floyd | Floyd | "I'm Roz! I'm a control unit! I can talk to Sally and Leon and all the Floyd | other units and they have to do what I say." Floyd | Floyd | "Ok, well, I don't want to be pushy," says Roz. "Nothing worse than a Floyd | pushy talking pyramid." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about sally" | ||
Floyd ] Metal Box Room 132 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT SALLY Floyd | Floyd | "Sally's a teleportation unit. If you want to go visit her, just say Floyd | her name and I'll tell her to bring us in." Floyd | Floyd | "Yep, gonna shut up now. Not gonna say a thing more unless you ask." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about leon" | ||
Floyd ] Metal Box Room 133 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT LEON Floyd | Floyd | "Leon's a supply unit. He helps me all the time by giving me things Floyd | for playing games with, like confetti and poison gas and marbles and Floyd | explosives and balloons and razor blades." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I don't like your games, Roz..." | |
| DavidW says, "Like a quartermaster, I guess." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sally" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 134 Floyd | Floyd | > SALLY Floyd | Floyd | The Roz pyramid brightly says "Roger that!" Floyd | You have a moment of vertigo, and suddenly you're elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | Guts of the Machine Floyd | This is a cramped hollow inside some kind of mechanism. Cogwheels Floyd | poke your ribs as the smell of machine oil assaults your nostrils. A Floyd | rusty hatch is latched shut. Floyd | Floyd | And yet, someone must be spending a lot of time in here, because Floyd | there's a small cot resting on a couple of planks. Floyd | Floyd | On the small cot are a Sally pyramid and a dream diary. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sally" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 135 Floyd | Floyd | > X SALLY Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the Sally pyramid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x diary" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 136 Floyd | Floyd | > X DIARY Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the dream diary. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read diary" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 137 Floyd | Floyd | > READ DIARY Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | "I've been having really weird dreams since I started sleeping in the Floyd | machine on top of the old abandoned school, so I thought I should try Floyd | to write them down and figure out what they mean. I'll start with the Floyd | dream I had las night: I was in some kind of lab or military complex Floyd | or something in a dystopian future, and they were doing something with Floyd | corn. The corn was very sinister, very menacing. I think it Floyd | represented death. In the end I escaped the whole thing in a Floyd | rocketship, which is a blatant phallic symbol. So I guess that's about Floyd | sex as a bid for immortality or something? I dunno, my subconscious Floyd | has weird ideas sometimes." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ha" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "author" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 137 Floyd | Floyd | > AUTHOR Floyd | Floyd | Scene 4, "Telepyramids", was written by Carl Muckenhoupt. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh of course" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read diary" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 138 Floyd | Floyd | > READ DIARY Floyd | Floyd | "Day 2. Last night's dream was one of those shifting ones than never Floyd | really settles on a theme. At first I was a spy or something, and I Floyd | was trying to escape from enemies in a hotel which was also a lab Floyd | which was also a sultan's palace, or something like that. And I Floyd | escaped them by rail through some kind of fantasy kingdom accompanied Floyd | by a weasel. I'm having trouble finding symbols here. I guess the Floyd | sense of running away from things was strong, but only in the Floyd | beginning." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Recaps of IF Whispers." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read diary" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 139 Floyd | Floyd | > READ DIARY Floyd | Floyd | "Day 3. I was back in my old house, the one from before I moved to the Floyd | machine, but it was empty, and the world was ruled by insectoid Floyd | aliens, but I just accepted that as good, because they had Floyd | mind-control powers or something. I escaped by riding a missile Floyd | (another blatant phallic symbol), and wound up on the moon, in another Floyd | of those strange laboratories which seem to be the most common feature Floyd | of my dreams these days. Maybe this is has something to do with those Floyd | four days I can't remember? I was guided some of the time by a Floyd | disembodied voice, which is traditionally supposed to be a Floyd | manifestation of the divine or something. I hope I don't start hearing Floyd | it in real life." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Oh, is it?" | |
| DavidW says, "yup" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "It is!" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read diary" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 140 Floyd | Floyd | > READ DIARY Floyd | Floyd | "Day 4. I was in the desert, which shifted between being a Floyd | post-apocalyptic wasteland and the outskirts of Las Vegas and I think Floyd | Egypt at one point. I was looking for a treasure, which turned out to Floyd | be a goddess, and a blatantly erotic one too. Putting her at the end Floyd | of a search in the desert is probably a sorry commentary on my sex Floyd | life. The only other thing I remember was a disgusting dog who kept Floyd | showing up and hindered me at every turn. I think he represented my Floyd | father." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ha ha" | |
| Jacqueline says, "ha" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Indeed" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read diary" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 141 Floyd | Floyd | > READ DIARY Floyd | Floyd | "Day 5. I don't remember a lot about this dream, but I have a feeling Floyd | it was more coherent than the others. I was back in the old school, Floyd | cleaning up after the children, and there was a disembodied voice that Floyd | wanted me to stop working there. But then the voice turned out to be Floyd | coming from a small metal pyramid, just like the one I use as a Floyd | pillow. There were lots of pyramids like that, and they had names like Floyd | Sally and Jojo. That's all I remember." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "jojo" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read diary" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 142 Floyd | Floyd | > READ DIARY Floyd | Floyd | The rest of the pages are blank. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about jojo" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 143 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT JOJO Floyd | Floyd | "Jojo, she left us. Wanted a solitary life, on one of those empty Floyd | backwater planets. Guess you could visit her, if you need a vacation." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Can we teleport to her?" | |
| DavidW says, "I think so" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jojo" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 144 Floyd | Floyd | > JOJO Floyd | Floyd | The Roz pyramid brightly says "Teleport activating now!" Floyd | You have a moment of vertigo, and suddenly you're elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | Hut Floyd | This hut, wherever it may be, is made of thick glass, distorting the Floyd | outside to something like a watercolor painting. A foam rubber Floyd | mattress and a wardrobe seem to be the only bits of furniture. The Floyd | doorway outside is south. Floyd | Floyd | In the middle of the hut sits an old-fashioned oven. It is connected Floyd | by loose wires, through a hole in the ceiling, to some sort of dish on Floyd | top of the hut. Floyd | Floyd | In a corner sits a robot. It looks like an old TV-set with metal Floyd | tentacles attached. Inside, through a glass window, you can see one of Floyd | the pyramids. Floyd | It holds a scrap of green, continous paper in one of the tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a bowl (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't know if we were done with Sally but we can return, I'm sure." | |
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Tentacular!" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x jojo" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 145 Floyd | Floyd | > X JOJO Floyd | Floyd | (the robot) Floyd | You see nothing special about the robot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x paper" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 146 Floyd | Floyd | > X PAPER Floyd | Floyd | You can't make it out as long as it's in the robots claw. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "author" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 146 Floyd | Floyd | > AUTHOR Floyd | Floyd | Scene 5, "Jojo gets a cookie", was written by Taleslinger. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bowl" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 147 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOWL Floyd | Floyd | A small bowl, perhaps for mixing dough in it? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x oven" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 148 Floyd | Floyd | > X OVEN Floyd | Floyd | It is old, spotted with rust, but surprisingly clean. It has a single Floyd | button. In it you see nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jojo about cookie" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 149 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JOJO ABOUT COOKIE Floyd | Floyd | (the robot about that) Floyd | The robot seems to ignore you purposefully. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jojo about paper" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 150 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JOJO ABOUT PAPER Floyd | Floyd | (the robot about that) Floyd | The robot seems to ignore you purposefully. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about oven" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 151 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT OVEN Floyd | Floyd | "Sorry, what? I was thinking about what I'm going to do for my next Floyd | game." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about next game" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 152 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT NEXT GAME Floyd | Floyd | "I like to play! It's not what I was designed for, but I have a lot of Floyd | free time. My favorite game is the one where you find someone who's Floyd | unhappy and you threaten their life in a way that forces them to Floyd | choose between changing what they're unhappy about or dying, and you Floyd | see which they choose. It's great because either way their unhappiness Floyd | is over." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I pretty much would anticipate a bot that Tale wrote would ignore me." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Jesus that got dark." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 153 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Hut Floyd | This hut, wherever it may be, is made of thick glass, distorting the Floyd | outside to something like a watercolor painting. A foam rubber Floyd | mattress and a wardrobe seem to be the only bits of furniture. The Floyd | doorway outside is south. Floyd | Floyd | In the middle of the hut sits an old-fashioned oven. It is connected Floyd | by loose wires, through a hole in the ceiling, to some sort of dish on Floyd | top of the hut. Floyd | Floyd | In a corner sits a robot. It looks like an old TV-set with metal Floyd | tentacles attached. Inside, through a glass window, you can see one of Floyd | the pyramids. Floyd | It holds a scrap of green, continous paper in one of the tentacles. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a bowl (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wires" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 154 Floyd | Floyd | > X WIRES Floyd | Floyd | These loose wires, judging by their color, seem to stem from all kind Floyd | of sources, varying in thickness and level of insulation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dish" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 155 Floyd | Floyd | > X DISH Floyd | Floyd | The hut, judging from the random sparks, draws enegry from the air Floyd | somehow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wardrobe" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 156 Floyd | Floyd | > X WARDROBE Floyd | Floyd | It's a blue, wooden wardrobe. It looks too small to store all of the Floyd | stuff one may need, but maybe it's bigger on the inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 157 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN IT Floyd | Floyd | It's locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "ask jojo for paper" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 158 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK JOJO FOR PAPER Floyd | Floyd | (the robot for the scrap) Floyd | The robot seems to ignore you purposefully. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mattress" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 159 Floyd | Floyd | > X MATTRESS Floyd | Floyd | It's a comfy looking mattress." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search it" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 160 Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH IT Floyd | Floyd | There is nothing on the mattress. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lie on it" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 160 Floyd | Floyd | > LIE ON IT Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 161 Floyd | Floyd | > SLEEP Floyd | Floyd | You're hardly tired, and besides, bedtime is ten p.m. sharp. No Floyd | earlier, no later. Your biological clock is a delicate thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under mattress" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 162 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER MATTRESS Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "get paper" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 163 Floyd | Floyd | > GET PAPER Floyd | Floyd | You carefully remove the paper from the claw. The robot doesn't seem Floyd | to mind. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take mattress" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 164 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE MATTRESS Floyd | Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read paper" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 165 Floyd | Floyd | > READ PAPER Floyd | Floyd | Not much to read there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x paper" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 166 Floyd | Floyd | > X PAPER Floyd | Floyd | I WANT COOKIE - CAN GIVE YOU SOMETHING- RECIPE - CUKROVINCA FLOUR - AN Floyd | EGG - A JARK- Floyd | "Wow" says Roz, "she off the hook." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bowl" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 167 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BOWL Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "time" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 167 Floyd | Floyd | > TIME Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I assume we find all three ingredients, put in bowl, put bowl in oven, make cookie?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "You#re plotting murders, but the robot wanting a cookie is off the hook. Right." | ||
| wordsmith says (to DW), "I think so." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Sounds about right." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about egg" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 168 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT EGG Floyd | Floyd | "That's boring." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about jark" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 169 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT JARK Floyd | Floyd | Curious things, aren't they? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about flour" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 170 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT FLOUR Floyd | Floyd | "Sorry, what? I was thinking about what I'm going to do for my next Floyd | game." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "leon" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 170 Floyd | Floyd | > LEON Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about leon" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 171 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT LEON Floyd | Floyd | "Leon's a supply unit. He helps me all the time by giving me things Floyd | for playing games with, like confetti and poison gas and marbles and Floyd | explosives and balloons and razor blades." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sally" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 172 Floyd | Floyd | > SALLY Floyd | Floyd | The Roz pyramid brightly says "Aye-aye!" Floyd | You have a moment of vertigo, and suddenly you're elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | Guts of the Machine Floyd | This is a cramped hollow inside some kind of mechanism. Cogwheels Floyd | poke your ribs as the smell of machine oil assaults your nostrils. A Floyd | rusty hatch is latched shut. Floyd | Floyd | And yet, someone must be spending a lot of time in here, because Floyd | there's a small cot resting on a couple of planks. Floyd | Floyd | On the small cot is a Sally pyramid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask sally about leon" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 172 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK SALLY ABOUT LEON Floyd | Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cot" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 173 Floyd | Floyd | > X COT Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the small cot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hatch" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 174 Floyd | Floyd | > X HATCH Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the rusty hatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open hatch" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 175 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN HATCH Floyd | Floyd | You open the rusty hatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "in" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 176 Floyd | Floyd | > IN Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Roof 177 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Roof Floyd | A quiet albeit windy retreat. Floyd | Floyd | A metal machine, taller than you are, is here with a math book wedged Floyd | underneath it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Huh." | |
| DavidW says, "Goodness." | ||
| DavidW says, "I wasn't expecting to get back here." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "truth" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Roof 178 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter hatch" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 179 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER HATCH Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Guts of the Machine Floyd | This is a cramped hollow inside some kind of mechanism. Cogwheels Floyd | poke your ribs as the smell of machine oil assaults your nostrils. A Floyd | rusty hatch leads out into the fresh air. Floyd | Floyd | And yet, someone must be spending a lot of time in here, because Floyd | there's a small cot resting on a couple of planks. Floyd | Floyd | On the small cot is a Sally pyramid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wheels" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 179 Floyd | Floyd | > WHEELS Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cogwheels" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 180 Floyd | Floyd | > X COGWHEELS Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the cogwheels. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under cot" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 181 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER COT Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take sally" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 182 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SALLY Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "I guess we visit Leon?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sally, leon" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 182
Floyd |
Floyd | > SALLY, LEON
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't talk to the Sally pyramid.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake sally" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 182 Floyd | Floyd | > SHAKE SALLY Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "leon" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 182 Floyd | Floyd | > LEON Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "It's not clear we can go to Leon (unlike Sally and Jojo)." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jojo" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 183 Floyd | Floyd | > JOJO Floyd | Floyd | The Roz pyramid brightly says "Roger that!" Floyd | You have a moment of vertigo, and suddenly you're elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | Hut Floyd | This hut, wherever it may be, is made of thick glass, distorting the Floyd | outside to something like a watercolor painting. A foam rubber Floyd | mattress and a wardrobe seem to be the only bits of furniture. The Floyd | doorway outside is south. Floyd | Floyd | In the middle of the hut sits an old-fashioned oven. It is connected Floyd | by loose wires, through a hole in the ceiling, to some sort of dish on Floyd | top of the hut. Floyd | Floyd | In a corner sits a robot. It looks like an old TV-set with metal Floyd | tentacles attached. Inside, through a glass window, you can see one of Floyd | the pyramids. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 182 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Guts of the Machine Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put sally on cot" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 183 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT SALLY ON COT Floyd | Floyd | You put the Sally pyramid on the small cot. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith asks, "Maybe we can get things from Leon though? Maybe with Roz's help?" | |
| DavidW says, "If we teleport with Sally, we can't return here." | ||
| DavidW clears the save counter. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > SAVE Floyd | %% Enter a save filename to write: Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 183 Floyd | Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks (of wordsmith), "yes, yes, but how to get to Leon?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask Roz to ask Leon for egg" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 183 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ TO ASK LEON FOR EGG Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Good question." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz for egg" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 183 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ FOR EGG Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Roof 184 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Roof Floyd | A quiet albeit windy retreat. Floyd | Floyd | A metal machine, taller than you are, is here with a math book wedged Floyd | underneath it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] In Tree 185 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In Tree Floyd | You cling precariously up here among the green leaves, and can get to Floyd | the roof to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Under Tree 186 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Under Tree Floyd | It is peaceful under the tree. You can go north to behind the school. Floyd | Floyd | A lush tree grows, reaching into the sky. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Behind School 187 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Behind School Floyd | The students aren't usually allowed back here. You can go north, Floyd | south, or east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Muddy Area 188 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Muddy Area Floyd | You try to keep your shoes as clean as possible here. The only way is Floyd | back west. Floyd | Floyd | A shallow hole has been dug by some small archaeologist. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||
Floyd ] Muddy Area 189 Floyd | Floyd | > X HOLE Floyd | Floyd | There's nothing else in the hole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take mud" | ||
Floyd ] Muddy Area 189 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE MUD Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Muddy Area 190 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Behind School 191 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Behind School Floyd | The students aren't usually allowed back here. You can go north, Floyd | south, or east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Outside School 192 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside School Floyd | You've never been to this area before. A brown door is east, and south Floyd | is behind the school (technically south is also outside the school, Floyd | but we have to tell them apart somehow). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Dark Entryway 193 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dark Entryway Floyd | The light is dim, and exits are west and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Shredding Room 194 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Well, the floor to the east is basically an open pit now, but you know Floyd | the fall is survivable. So after a brief hesitation, you fling Floyd | yourself in. Floyd | Floyd | Shredding Room Floyd | This room is mostly occupied by a large pile of shredded paper. There Floyd | aren't any obvious exits, but the north wall is entirely occupied by Floyd | the backside of a large machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x paper" | ||
Floyd ] Shredding Room 195 Floyd | Floyd | > X PAPER Floyd | Floyd | (the scrap) Floyd | I WANT COOKIE - CAN GIVE YOU SOMETHING- RECIPE - CUKROVINCA FLOUR - AN Floyd | EGG - A JARK- Floyd | "Wow" says Roz, "she off the hook." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Shredding Room 196 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a bowl Floyd | a scrap Floyd | a dream diary Floyd | a Roz pyramid Floyd | a bronze key Floyd | a toilet roll Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 197 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way through the hatch and eventually come out the Floyd | other side. Floyd | Floyd | Conference Hall Floyd | This is a big open area. Hundreds of beings of all heights, colors, Floyd | eyestalkitude and tentaclosity are wandering around, visiting little Floyd | booths, and waving bits of paper, but mostly they're standing in line. Floyd | Floyd | The room (and the crowd) stretches out in all directions except south, Floyd | where the whole wall is taken up by the giant shredder. Nearby you Floyd | notice a small, unstaffed booth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put diary in unshred" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 198 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT DIARY IN UNSHRED Floyd | Floyd | You put the dream diary into the unshred-o-matic. Floyd | Floyd | "No, no, that won't do at all," says an interviewer at one of the Floyd | booths to a gelatinous blob. "I'm afraid chuffling certification is an Floyd | absolute requirement for any job here." The blob jiggles unhappily and Floyd | oozes away. The interviewer shrugs and shoves the blob's resume into a Floyd | nearby tube, where it's immediately sucked out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 199 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You push the unshredder button. Nothing happens besides an angry buzz, Floyd | probably because the unshredder has something in it that it doesn't Floyd | know how to unshred. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take diary" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 200 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE DIARY Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | An armadillo-like alien has a conversation with a vendor in a nearby Floyd | booth about their new line of metallic post-it notes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put paper in unshred" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 201 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT PAPER IN UNSHRED Floyd | Floyd | You put the scrap into the unshred-o-matic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 202 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | You push the unshredder button. Nothing happens besides an angry buzz, Floyd | probably because the unshredder has something in it that it doesn't Floyd | know how to unshred. Floyd | Floyd | "What does he mean, overqualified?" says a furred lizard-thing, Floyd | angrily, to its scaled bear-thing companion. "I have a mere sixteen Floyd | years of experience!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take scrap" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 203 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SCRAP Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jojo" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 204 Floyd | Floyd | > JOJO Floyd | Floyd | The Roz pyramid brightly says "Roger that!" Floyd | You have a moment of vertigo, and suddenly you're elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | Hut Floyd | This hut, wherever it may be, is made of thick glass, distorting the Floyd | outside to something like a watercolor painting. A foam rubber Floyd | mattress and a wardrobe seem to be the only bits of furniture. The Floyd | doorway outside is south. Floyd | Floyd | In the middle of the hut sits an old-fashioned oven. It is connected Floyd | by loose wires, through a hole in the ceiling, to some sort of dish on Floyd | top of the hut. Floyd | Floyd | In a corner sits a robot. It looks like an old TV-set with metal Floyd | tentacles attached. Inside, through a glass window, you can see one of Floyd | the pyramids. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "darn" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 205 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x outside" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 206 Floyd | Floyd | > X OUTSIDE Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "South." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock wardrobe with key" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 207 Floyd | Floyd | > UNLOCK WARDROBE WITH KEY Floyd | Floyd | That doesn't seem to be something you can unlock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open wardrobe" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 208 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN WARDROBE Floyd | Floyd | It's locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 209 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You step outside and find yourself under a clear, disturbingly puple Floyd | sky, where yellow lightning flashes silently in dark, grey clouds. The Floyd | air is humid and humming with life. Almost invisible, transparent Floyd | insects swirl round your head, and in the distance, some unseen birds Floyd | chirp and flutter.The hut and it's surroundings seem to be inside some Floyd | sort of transparent energy dome. Floyd | Floyd | The Pen Floyd | Short, green grass extends to the foot of the protective dome. In the Floyd | middle of this meadow sits a pen. Mountains border on the dome to the Floyd | east, and there seems to be a small pond to the west. Floyd | Floyd | A stout, plump lizard sits in the middle of pen, eyeing you warily. Floyd | Floyd | The lizard backs away suddenly, as if scared by your movements, and Floyd | starts to hiss. Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "An ink pen or a pig pen or what?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lizard" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 210 Floyd | Floyd | > X LIZARD Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the lizard. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Puple sure is disturbing. (Sorry, Tale.)" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pen" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 210 Floyd | Floyd | > X PEN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] The Lair of the Jark 211 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Lair of the Jark Floyd | You are near a pond of yellowish water. Floyd | Floyd | Dead at your feet lies some sort of black creature. Floyd | Floyd | And there it sits, in the middle of the pond - the Jark. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x jark" | ||
Floyd ] The Lair of the Jark 212 Floyd | Floyd | > X JARK Floyd | Floyd | A jark is a jark is a jark. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pond" | ||
Floyd ] The Lair of the Jark 212 Floyd | Floyd | > X POND Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "author" | ||
Floyd ] The Lair of the Jark 212 Floyd | Floyd | > AUTHOR Floyd | Floyd | Scene 5, "Jojo gets a cookie", was written by Taleslinger. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x black" | ||
Floyd ] The Lair of the Jark 212 Floyd | Floyd | > X BLACK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x creature" | ||
Floyd ] The Lair of the Jark 213 Floyd | Floyd | > X CREATURE Floyd | Floyd | The creature is small, shorter than you, and pitch black. It has an Floyd | oblong head, no ears, tiny black eyes, and sharp, black teeth clearly Floyd | visible behind a lipless mouth. It has a name tag saying hr. Ah, the Floyd | guy they told you about at the job center. He's clearly dead, though, Floyd | and therefore somewhat unhelpful. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ha. oh no" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take tag" | ||
Floyd ] The Lair of the Jark 213 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE TAG Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take hr" | ||
Floyd ] The Lair of the Jark 214 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE HR Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] The Lair of the Jark 215 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | HR Floyd | a scrap Floyd | a dream diary Floyd | a bowl Floyd | a Roz pyramid Floyd | a bronze key Floyd | a toilet roll Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] The Lair of the Jark 216 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | The Lair of the Jark Floyd | You are near a pond of yellowish water. Floyd | Floyd | And there it sits, in the middle of the pond - the Jark. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear hr" | ||
Floyd ] The Lair of the Jark 217 Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR HR Floyd | Floyd | You can't wear that! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take jark" | ||
Floyd ] The Lair of the Jark 217 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE JARK Floyd | Floyd | You touch the Jark, and die a jarkingly, horrible death, additionally Floyd | discgracing your whole field of work. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] The Lair of the Jark 217 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | The Lair of the Jark Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "So, what was our job again?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "whoa" | ||
| wordsmith says, "Jark Inverter..." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give hr to jark" | ||
Floyd ] The Lair of the Jark 217 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE HR TO JARK Floyd | Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "invert jark" | ||
Floyd ] The Lair of the Jark 218 Floyd | Floyd | > INVERT JARK Floyd | Floyd | You skillfully invert the Jark, rendering it harmless. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "There you go" | |
| wordsmith exclaims, "yea!" | ||
| DavidW says, "wha!" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd ] The Lair of the Jark 219 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK Floyd | Floyd | The Lair of the Jark Floyd | You are near a pond of yellowish water. Floyd | Floyd | And there it sits, in the middle of the pond - the Jark. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline looks smug. | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take jark" | ||
Floyd ] The Lair of the Jark 220 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE JARK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put jark in bowl" | ||
Floyd ] The Lair of the Jark 221 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT JARK IN BOWL Floyd | Floyd | You put the Jark into the bowl. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x scrap" | ||
Floyd ] The Lair of the Jark 222 Floyd | Floyd | > X SCRAP Floyd | Floyd | I WANT COOKIE - CAN GIVE YOU SOMETHING- RECIPE - CUKROVINCA FLOUR - AN Floyd | EGG - A JARK- Floyd | "Wow" says Roz, "she off the hook." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about cukrovinca flour" | ||
Floyd ] The Lair of the Jark 223 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT CUKROVINCA FLOUR Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, it's made from rocks. Not healthy for humans, I've heard. But Floyd | neither is poison gas, eh?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Have we seen rocks?" | |
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "ask roz for CUKROVINCA FLOUR" | ||
Floyd ] The Lair of the Jark 223 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ FOR CUKROVINCA FLOUR Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Ask the supply robot?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Probably a lot, but I don't recall any being called out." | ||
| DavidW says, "We can't reach Leon" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "oh" | ||
| wordsmith says, "Leon gets things for Roz, but maybe not for us." | ||
| DavidW says, "If we get rocks, we can put them into the shredder." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sally" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 224 Floyd | Floyd | > SALLY Floyd | Floyd | The Roz pyramid brightly says "Teleport activating now!" Floyd | You have a moment of vertigo, and suddenly you're elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | Guts of the Machine Floyd | This is a cramped hollow inside some kind of mechanism. Cogwheels Floyd | poke your ribs as the smell of machine oil assaults your nostrils. A Floyd | rusty hatch leads out into the fresh air. Floyd | Floyd | And yet, someone must be spending a lot of time in here, because Floyd | there's a small cot resting on a couple of planks. Floyd | Floyd | On the small cot is a Sally pyramid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 225 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Roof 226 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Roof Floyd | A quiet albeit windy retreat. Floyd | Floyd | A metal machine, taller than you are, is here with a math book wedged Floyd | underneath it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] In Tree 227 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In Tree Floyd | You cling precariously up here among the green leaves, and can get to Floyd | the roof to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x nest" | ||
Floyd ] In Tree 227 Floyd | Floyd | > X NEST Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Under Tree 228 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Under Tree Floyd | It is peaceful under the tree. You can go north to behind the school. Floyd | Floyd | A lush tree grows, reaching into the sky. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Behind School 229 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Behind School Floyd | The students aren't usually allowed back here. You can go north, Floyd | south, or east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Outside School 230 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside School Floyd | You've never been to this area before. A brown door is east, and south Floyd | is behind the school (technically south is also outside the school, Floyd | but we have to tell them apart somehow). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crow" | ||
Floyd ] Outside School 230 Floyd | Floyd | > X CROW Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x nest" | ||
Floyd ] Outside School 230 Floyd | Floyd | > X NEST Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jojo" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 231 Floyd | Floyd | > JOJO Floyd | Floyd | The Roz pyramid brightly says "Aye-aye!" Floyd | You have a moment of vertigo, and suddenly you're elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | Hut Floyd | This hut, wherever it may be, is made of thick glass, distorting the Floyd | outside to something like a watercolor painting. A foam rubber Floyd | mattress and a wardrobe seem to be the only bits of furniture. The Floyd | doorway outside is south. Floyd | Floyd | In the middle of the hut sits an old-fashioned oven. It is connected Floyd | by loose wires, through a hole in the ceiling, to some sort of dish on Floyd | top of the hut. Floyd | Floyd | In a corner sits a robot. It looks like an old TV-set with metal Floyd | tentacles attached. Inside, through a glass window, you can see one of Floyd | the pyramids. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 232 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Pen Floyd | Short, green grass extends to the foot of the protective dome. In the Floyd | middle of this meadow sits a pen. Mountains border on the dome to the Floyd | east, and there seems to be a small pond to the west. Floyd | Floyd | A stout, plump lizard sits in the middle of pen, eyeing you warily. Floyd | Floyd | The lizard backs away suddenly, as if scared by your movements, and Floyd | starts to hiss. Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lizard" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 233 Floyd | Floyd | > X LIZARD Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the lizard. Floyd | Floyd | The lizard looks at you longingly and starts to hiss. Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Area 234 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Rocky Area Floyd | Some rocks have fallen from the Mountains outside the dome, building Floyd | one of those rocky landscapes where climbing children hopefully fall Floyd | and break their little necks. Stupid brats. Floyd | Floyd | A smaller rock lies a few feet apart from the others. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take rock" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Area 235 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ROCK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "There's rocks." | |
| DavidW says, "Tale got the east/west thing inverted." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rock" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Area 236 Floyd | Floyd | > X ROCK Floyd | Floyd | It's a rock the size of a fist, powdery, but hard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Rocky Area 237 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 238 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Pen Floyd | Short, green grass extends to the foot of the protective dome. In the Floyd | middle of this meadow sits a pen. Mountains border on the dome to the Floyd | east, and there seems to be a small pond to the west. Floyd | Floyd | A stout, plump lizard sits in the middle of pen, eyeing you warily. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 239 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | The lizard snaps at its own tail. Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in lizard" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 240 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN LIZARD Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "invert lizard" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 241 Floyd | Floyd | > INVERT LIZARD Floyd | Floyd | You can only do that to Jarks! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open lizard" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 242 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN LIZARD Floyd | Floyd | She's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "ask roz about lizard" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 243 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT LIZARD Floyd | Floyd | "I don't want to talk about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Lizard might be pregnant with an egg, I'm thinking." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sally" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 244 Floyd | Floyd | > SALLY Floyd | Floyd | The Roz pyramid brightly says "Roger that!" Floyd | You have a moment of vertigo, and suddenly you're elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | Guts of the Machine Floyd | This is a cramped hollow inside some kind of mechanism. Cogwheels Floyd | poke your ribs as the smell of machine oil assaults your nostrils. A Floyd | rusty hatch leads out into the fresh air. Floyd | Floyd | And yet, someone must be spending a lot of time in here, because Floyd | there's a small cot resting on a couple of planks. Floyd | Floyd | On the small cot is a Sally pyramid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] Roof 245 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Roof Floyd | A quiet albeit windy retreat. Floyd | Floyd | A metal machine, taller than you are, is here with a math book wedged Floyd | underneath it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] In Tree 246 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In Tree Floyd | You cling precariously up here among the green leaves, and can get to Floyd | the roof to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Under Tree 247 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Under Tree Floyd | It is peaceful under the tree. You can go north to behind the school. Floyd | Floyd | A lush tree grows, reaching into the sky. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Behind School 248 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Behind School Floyd | The students aren't usually allowed back here. You can go north, Floyd | south, or east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Outside School 249 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Outside School Floyd | You've never been to this area before. A brown door is east, and south Floyd | is behind the school (technically south is also outside the school, Floyd | but we have to tell them apart somehow). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Dark Entryway 250 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Dark Entryway Floyd | The light is dim, and exits are west and east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Shredding Room 251 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Knowing there's a cushy landing, you leap down into the pit. Floyd | Floyd | Shredding Room Floyd | This room is mostly occupied by a large pile of shredded paper. There Floyd | aren't any obvious exits, but the north wall is entirely occupied by Floyd | the backside of a large machine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x funnel" | ||
Floyd ] Shredding Room 252 Floyd | Floyd | > X FUNNEL Floyd | Floyd | It's presumably for spewing paper fragments out of the shredder and Floyd | into the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 253 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way through the hatch and eventually come out the Floyd | other side. Floyd | Floyd | Conference Hall Floyd | This is a big open area. Hundreds of beings of all heights, colors, Floyd | eyestalkitude and tentaclosity are wandering around, visiting little Floyd | booths, and waving bits of paper, but mostly they're standing in line. Floyd | Floyd | The room (and the crowd) stretches out in all directions except south, Floyd | where the whole wall is taken up by the giant shredder. Nearby you Floyd | notice a small, unstaffed booth. Floyd | Floyd | "Only four years?" a green chimpanzee says to a blue chimpanzee. Floyd | "They'll never take anyone with that little." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put rock in shredder" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 254 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT ROCK IN SHREDDER Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze the rock into one of the tubes, ignoring the looks from Floyd | the surrounding beings. The shredder makes some horrible gnashing Floyd | noises, but you think you heair a faint sputtering from the Shredder Floyd | room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Shredding Room 255 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way through the hatch and eventually come out the Floyd | other side. Floyd | Floyd | Shredding Room Floyd | This room is mostly occupied by a large pile of shredded paper. There Floyd | aren't any obvious exits, but the north wall is entirely occupied by Floyd | the backside of a large machine. Floyd | Floyd | A neat heap of Cukrovinca flour is on top of the other heap. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take flour" | ||
Floyd ] Shredding Room 256 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE FLOUR Floyd | Floyd | You easily scoop it into your hand. Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "nice" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put flour in bowl" | ||
Floyd ] Shredding Room 257 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT FLOUR IN BOWL Floyd | Floyd | You put Cukrovinca flour into the bowl. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Shredding Room 258 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | HR Floyd | a scrap Floyd | a dream diary Floyd | a bowl Floyd | Cukrovinca flour Floyd | a Jark Floyd | a Roz pyramid Floyd | a bronze key Floyd | a toilet roll Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I'm floured." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 259 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You squeeze your way through the hatch and eventually come out the Floyd | other side. Floyd | Floyd | Conference Hall Floyd | This is a big open area. Hundreds of beings of all heights, colors, Floyd | eyestalkitude and tentaclosity are wandering around, visiting little Floyd | booths, and waving bits of paper, but mostly they're standing in line. Floyd | Floyd | The room (and the crowd) stretches out in all directions except south, Floyd | where the whole wall is taken up by the giant shredder. Nearby you Floyd | notice a small, unstaffed booth. Floyd | Floyd | "No, no, that won't do at all," says an interviewer at one of the Floyd | booths to a gelatinous blob. "I'm afraid chuffling certification is an Floyd | absolute requirement for any job here." The blob jiggles unhappily and Floyd | oozes away. The interviewer shrugs and shoves the blob's resume into a Floyd | nearby tube, where it's immediately sucked out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "get in line" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 260 Floyd | Floyd | > GET IN LINE Floyd | Floyd | You get into the line, and wait. And wait, and wait. Eventually you Floyd | reach the front, where you are scrutinized by a sort of mutant Floyd | crab-zebra thing. "WHERE'S YOUR RESUME?" it roars. "GET OUT OF HERE!" Floyd | To the accompaniment of menacing pincer snaps and glares from the Floyd | other interviewees, you slink out of the line. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hr" | ||
Floyd ] Conference Hall 261 Floyd | Floyd | > X HR Floyd | Floyd | The creature is small, shorter than you, and pitch black. It has an Floyd | oblong head, no ears, tiny black eyes, and sharp, black teeth clearly Floyd | visible behind a lipless mouth. It has a name tag saying hr. Ah, the Floyd | guy they told you about at the job center. He's clearly dead, though, Floyd | and therefore somewhat unhelpful. Floyd | Floyd | Two aliens get into an argument over who was next in line. The debate Floyd | is resolved when the smaller one unhinges its jaw surprisingly far and Floyd | eats the other. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jojo" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 262 Floyd | Floyd | > JOJO Floyd | Floyd | The Roz pyramid brightly says "Gotcha, boss!" Floyd | You have a moment of vertigo, and suddenly you're elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | Hut Floyd | This hut, wherever it may be, is made of thick glass, distorting the Floyd | outside to something like a watercolor painting. A foam rubber Floyd | mattress and a wardrobe seem to be the only bits of furniture. The Floyd | doorway outside is south. Floyd | Floyd | In the middle of the hut sits an old-fashioned oven. It is connected Floyd | by loose wires, through a hole in the ceiling, to some sort of dish on Floyd | top of the hut. Floyd | Floyd | In a corner sits a robot. It looks like an old TV-set with metal Floyd | tentacles attached. Inside, through a glass window, you can see one of Floyd | the pyramids. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith asks, "So, an egg. Crow's egg? Lizard egg?" | |
| Roger says, "it's sort of interesting how pretty much every collaborative IF like this has an explosion of objects" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 263 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Pen Floyd | Short, green grass extends to the foot of the protective dome. In the Floyd | middle of this meadow sits a pen. Mountains border on the dome to the Floyd | east, and there seems to be a small pond to the west. Floyd | Floyd | A stout, plump lizard sits in the middle of pen, eyeing you warily. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give hr to lizard" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 264 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE HR TO LIZARD Floyd | Floyd | The lizard doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about hr" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 265 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT HR Floyd | Floyd | Famous Jark inverter. Helped some dude escape somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about lizard" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 266 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT LIZARD Floyd | Floyd | "Stop talking and do something interesting!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about egg" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 267 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT EGG Floyd | Floyd | "Sorry, what? I was thinking about what I'm going to do for my next Floyd | game." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 268 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hut Floyd | This hut, wherever it may be, is made of thick glass, distorting the Floyd | outside to something like a watercolor painting. A foam rubber Floyd | mattress and a wardrobe seem to be the only bits of furniture. The Floyd | doorway outside is south. Floyd | Floyd | In the middle of the hut sits an old-fashioned oven. It is connected Floyd | by loose wires, through a hole in the ceiling, to some sort of dish on Floyd | top of the hut. Floyd | Floyd | In a corner sits a robot. It looks like an old TV-set with metal Floyd | tentacles attached. Inside, through a glass window, you can see one of Floyd | the pyramids. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x robot" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 269 Floyd | Floyd | > X ROBOT Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the robot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open robot" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 270 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN ROBOT Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x jojo" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 271 Floyd | Floyd | > X JOJO Floyd | Floyd | (the robot) Floyd | You see nothing special about the robot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter robot" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 272 Floyd | Floyd | > ENTER ROBOT Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pyramid" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 273 Floyd | Floyd | > X PYRAMID Floyd | Floyd | (the Roz pyramid) Floyd | It's a pyramid-shaped piece of metal which, surprisingly, can talk. Floyd | For instance, right now it says "Quit starin' at me and get on with Floyd | things!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 274 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Pen Floyd | Short, green grass extends to the foot of the protective dome. In the Floyd | middle of this meadow sits a pen. Mountains border on the dome to the Floyd | east, and there seems to be a small pond to the west. Floyd | Floyd | A stout, plump lizard sits in the middle of pen, eyeing you warily. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit lizard" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 275 Floyd | Floyd | > HIT LIZARD Floyd | Floyd | You try a little shadow boxing in the direction of the lizard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "milk lizard" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 275 Floyd | Floyd | > MILK LIZARD Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "midwife lizard" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 275 Floyd | Floyd | > MIDWIFE LIZARD Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "doctor lizard" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 275 Floyd | Floyd | > DOCTOR LIZARD Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill lizard" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 276 Floyd | Floyd | > KILL LIZARD Floyd | Floyd | You try a little shadow boxing in the direction of the lizard. Floyd | Floyd | The lizard snaps at its own tail. Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tail" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 276 Floyd | Floyd | > X TAIL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take lizard" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 277 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE LIZARD Floyd | Floyd | I don't suppose the lizard would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask lizard about egg" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 278 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK LIZARD ABOUT EGG Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask lizard about lizard" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 279 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK LIZARD ABOUT LIZARD Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "ideas?" | |
| wordsmith says, "DW is working through the list of '1,000 things you can do to a lizard.'" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 280 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | HR Floyd | a scrap Floyd | a dream diary Floyd | a bowl Floyd | Cukrovinca flour Floyd | a Jark Floyd | a Roz pyramid Floyd | a bronze key Floyd | a toilet roll Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "throw roz at lizard" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 281 Floyd | Floyd | > THROW ROZ AT LIZARD Floyd | Floyd | You lack the nerve when it comes to the crucial moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "give roz to lizard" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 282 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE ROZ TO LIZARD Floyd | Floyd | The lizard doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "invert lizard" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 283 Floyd | Floyd | > INVERT LIZARD Floyd | Floyd | You can only do that to Jarks! Floyd | Floyd | The lizard blinks. Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "Thought so." | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Maybe the lizard is hungry?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| DavidW says, "Maybe yes. I tried giving HR." | ||
| DavidW says, "I haven't seen anything else that might be food." | ||
| DavidW says, "although maybe the key since the crow shat it." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "give key to lizard" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 284 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE KEY TO LIZARD Floyd | Floyd | The lizard doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Maybe we can do 'Leon' only in the presence of Sally?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give roll to lizard" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 285 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE ROLL TO LIZARD Floyd | Floyd | The lizard doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search hr" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 286 Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH HR Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take name tag" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 286 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE NAME TAG Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pen" | ||
Floyd ] The Pen 286 Floyd | Floyd | > X PEN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||
Floyd ] 286 Floyd | Floyd | > DIG Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x lizard" | ||
Floyd ] 287 Floyd | Floyd | > X LIZARD Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the lizard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "drop hr" | ||
Floyd ] 288 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP HR Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "get hr" | ||
Floyd ] 289 Floyd | Floyd | > GET HR Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Is there more in the unshred booth?" | |
| DavidW asks, "Should we try reading the entire math book or returning to the classroom?" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "I don't think so, but maybe?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I agree that feeding the lizard seems the most promising way to get an egg." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I'll be back in a bit." | ||
| wordsmith says, "I don't have any other ideas yet." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, or give it a nest." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sally" | ||
Floyd ] 290 Floyd | Floyd | > SALLY Floyd | Floyd | The Roz pyramid brightly says "Aye-aye!" Floyd | You have a moment of vertigo, and suddenly you're elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | Guts of the Machine | Jacqueline says, "But that's probably not the solution" | |
Floyd | This is a cramped hollow inside some kind of mechanism. Cogwheels
Floyd | poke your ribs as the smell of machine oil assaults your nostrils. A
Floyd | rusty hatch leads out into the fresh air.
Floyd |
Floyd | And yet, someone must be spending a lot of time in here, because
Floyd | there's a small cot resting on a couple of planks.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the small cot is a Sally pyramid.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hatch" | ||
Floyd ] 291 Floyd | Floyd | > X HATCH Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the rusty hatch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||
Floyd ] 292 Floyd | Floyd | > SMELL Floyd | Floyd | It smells nasty in here. The sooner you get back out into the fresh Floyd | air, the happier you'll be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x oil" | ||
Floyd ] 292 Floyd | Floyd | > X OIL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x planks" | ||
Floyd ] 293 Floyd | Floyd | > X PLANKS Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the planks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move planks" | ||
Floyd ] 294 Floyd | Floyd | > MOVE PLANKS Floyd | Floyd | Those are fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cot" | ||
Floyd ] 295 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE COT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop cot" | ||
Floyd ] 296 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP COT Floyd | Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] 297 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Roof Floyd | A quiet albeit windy retreat. Floyd | Floyd | A metal machine, taller than you are, is here with a math book wedged Floyd | underneath it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read book" | ||
Floyd ] 298 Floyd | Floyd | > READ BOOK Floyd | Floyd | Not much to read there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||
Floyd ] 299 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOOK Floyd | Floyd | Propping up a machine is as good a use for math as any, in your Floyd | opinion. It seems to have a page missing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take book" | ||
Floyd ] 300 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BOOK Floyd | Floyd | As you move the book, the metal machine rocks scarily. You instantly Floyd | desist. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] 301 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In Tree Floyd | You cling precariously up here among the green leaves, and can get to Floyd | the roof to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||
Floyd ] 302 Floyd | Floyd | > JUMP Floyd | Floyd | Not after four p.m., no way. This is the time where you can act Floyd | dignified again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] 303 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] 304 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Under Tree Floyd | It is peaceful under the tree. You can go north to behind the school. Floyd | Floyd | A lush tree grows, reaching into the sky. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] 305 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] 306 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Behind School Floyd | The students aren't usually allowed back here. You can go north, Floyd | south, or east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] 307 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | Really, this was just a glorified hallway. You used to like places Floyd | like this. Tiles and cinderblocks. No-nonsense, nothing gaudy. They do Floyd | just what they promise: take you from room to room without asserting Floyd | themselves. But something's gone terrible wrong. The whole floor is Floyd | lousy with confetti, thick as snow and almost painful to look at. The Floyd | door is ajar, swinging a bit in the breeze. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] 308 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] 309 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] 310 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Classroom Floyd | Every last inch of wall space here, save for the window, is plastered Floyd | with needless decor: nature caricatures, inspirational glurge, posters Floyd | with cartoon letters and plus signs. The floor's no better; the brats Floyd | didn't pick up when Miss Lauren told them to pick up and now it's Floyd | cluttered with gaudy plastic. The books are tossed into the carpet Floyd | square pile and someone's dripped tempera paint onto every table. And Floyd | there's more, it seems, every second. Leaves and dirt by the doorway. Floyd | Shredded paper that's not in the waste bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||
Floyd ] 311 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | small metal pyramid: Taken. Floyd | Cukrovinca flour: You easily scoop it into your hand. Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Jark: Taken. Floyd | leaves: Not without your gloves, and you're not sure where you left Floyd | those. Of course. Floyd | paper: That's hardly portable. Floyd | books: You dig through the pile a bit, but it just collapses in on Floyd | itself. Ugh. Floyd | tables: They're hardly portable. Floyd | window: That's hardly portable. Floyd | posters: You'd love to. It'd be nice to see the walls look crisp Floyd | again. But yo u're forbidden to, and close enough to being fired as it Floyd | is. Floyd | toys: You pick up a toy and stack it in the bin, but by the time you Floyd | get back to the pile there just seem to be more. What fool decided to Floyd | make toys reproduce? Floyd | bin: You're not really in good enough standing with Miss Lauren to try Floyd | replacing it again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] 310 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Classroom Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in bin" | ||
Floyd ] 311 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN BIN Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "paper" | ||
Floyd ] Classroom 311 Floyd | Floyd | > PAPER Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] 311 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Classroom Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x paper" | ||
Floyd ] 312 Floyd | Floyd | > X PAPER Floyd | Floyd | (the scrap) Floyd | I WANT COOKIE - CAN GIVE YOU SOMETHING- RECIPE - CUKROVINCA FLOUR - AN Floyd | EGG - A JARK- Floyd | "Wow" says Roz, "she off the hook." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] 313 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hallway Floyd | Really, this was just a glorified hallway. You used to like places Floyd | like this. Tiles and cinderblocks. No-nonsense, nothing gaudy. They do Floyd | just what they promise: take you from room to room without asserting Floyd | themselves. But something's gone terrible wrong. The whole floor is Floyd | lousy with confetti, thick as snow and almost painful to look at. The Floyd | door is ajar, swinging a bit in the breeze. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take confetti" | ||
Floyd ] 314 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE CONFETTI Floyd | Floyd | There's too much of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search it" | ||
Floyd ] 315 Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH IT Floyd | Floyd | You sift through the confetti, but find nothing but more of it. What Floyd | were you hoping for? Gold? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "no" | ||
Floyd ] 316 Floyd | Floyd | > NO Floyd | Floyd | That was a rhetorical question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] 317 Floyd | Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Behind School Floyd | The students aren't usually allowed back here. You can go north, Floyd | south, or east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sally" | ||
Floyd ] 318 Floyd | Floyd | > SALLY Floyd | Floyd | The Roz pyramid brightly says "Roger that!" Floyd | You have a moment of vertigo, and suddenly you're elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | Guts of the Machine Floyd | This is a cramped hollow inside some kind of mechanism. Cogwheels Floyd | poke your ribs as the smell of machine oil assaults your nostrils. A Floyd | rusty hatch leads out into the fresh air. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a small cot (on which is a Sally pyramid) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "leon" | ||
Floyd ] Guts of the Machine 318 Floyd | Floyd | > LEON Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] 318 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Guts of the Machine Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] 319 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | HR Floyd | a scrap Floyd | a dream diary Floyd | a bowl Floyd | Cukrovinca flour Floyd | a Jark Floyd | a Roz pyramid Floyd | a bronze key Floyd | a toilet roll Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about diary" | ||
Floyd ] 320 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT DIARY Floyd | Floyd | "I don't want to talk about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about scrap" | ||
Floyd ] 321 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT SCRAP Floyd | Floyd | "Stop talking and do something interesting!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about cookie" | ||
Floyd ] 322 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT COOKIE Floyd | Floyd | "As I said, Jojo went a little flaky in exile." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about jojo" | ||
Floyd ] 323 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT JOJO Floyd | Floyd | "Jojo, she left us. Wanted a solitary life, on one of those empty Floyd | backwater planets. Guess you could visit her, if you need a vacation. Floyd | I think I should've mentioned her oath of silence. Sorry." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about oath of silence" | ||
Floyd ] 324 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT OATH OF SILENCE Floyd | Floyd | "Sorry, what? I was thinking about what I'm going to do for my next Floyd | game." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about oath" | ||
Floyd ] 325 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT OATH Floyd | Floyd | "Stop talking and do something interesting!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about leon" | ||
Floyd ] 326 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT LEON Floyd | Floyd | "Leon's a supply unit. He helps me all the time by giving me things Floyd | for playing games with, like confetti and poison gas and marbles and Floyd | explosives and balloons and razor blades." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about razor blades" | ||
Floyd ] 327 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT RAZOR BLADES Floyd | Floyd | "Those things are so useful!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about balloons" | ||
Floyd ] 328 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT BALLOONS Floyd | Floyd | "I don't think you noticed what was in that balloon back in the Floyd | classroom." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about about confetti" | ||
Floyd ] 329 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT ABOUT CONFETTI Floyd | Floyd | "Confetti is so pretty. I like all the colors mixed together." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about poison gas" | ||
Floyd ] 330 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT POISON GAS Floyd | Floyd | "I don't think you noticed what was in that balloon back in the Floyd | classroom." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about marbles" | ||
Floyd ] 331 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT MARBLES Floyd | Floyd | "You're a wicked shot with those things! I'll have to tell Leon to get Floyd | us some more." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz for marbles" | ||
Floyd ] 331 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ FOR MARBLES Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about marbles" | ||
Floyd ] 332 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT MARBLES Floyd | Floyd | "You're a wicked shot with those things! I'll have to tell Leon to get Floyd | us some more." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz to get marbles" | ||
Floyd ] 332 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ TO GET MARBLES Floyd | Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz for leon" | ||
Floyd ] 332 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ FOR LEON Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about leon" | ||
Floyd ] 333 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT LEON Floyd | Floyd | "Leon's a supply unit. He helps me all the time by giving me things Floyd | for playing games with, like confetti and poison gas and marbles and Floyd | explosives and balloons and razor blades." Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "Ooh, I got it." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "go to leon" | ||
Floyd ] 333 Floyd | Floyd | > GO TO LEON Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks (of ws), "oh?" | |
| wordsmith says, "Go back to lizard, and hiss at it." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jojo" | ||
Floyd ] 334 Floyd | Floyd | > JOJO Floyd | Floyd | The Roz pyramid brightly says "Gotcha, boss!" Floyd | You have a moment of vertigo, and suddenly you're elsewhere. Floyd | Floyd | Hut Floyd | This hut, wherever it may be, is made of thick glass, distorting the Floyd | outside to something like a watercolor painting. A foam rubber Floyd | mattress and a wardrobe seem to be the only bits of furniture. The Floyd | doorway outside is south. Floyd | Floyd | In the middle of the hut sits an old-fashioned oven. It is connected Floyd | by loose wires, through a hole in the ceiling, to some sort of dish on Floyd | top of the hut. Floyd | Floyd | In a corner sits a robot. It looks like an old TV-set with metal Floyd | tentacles attached. Inside, through a glass window, you can see one of Floyd | the pyramids. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] 335 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Pen Floyd | Short, green grass extends to the foot of the protective dome. In the Floyd | middle of this meadow sits a pen. Mountains border on the dome to the Floyd | east, and there seems to be a small pond to the west. Floyd | Floyd | A stout, plump lizard sits in the middle of pen, eyeing you warily. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hiss" | ||
Floyd ] 336 Floyd | Floyd | > HISS Floyd | Floyd | You hiss. The lizard suddenly gives you bedroom eyes and lays an egg. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "WHOA" | |
| wordsmith says, "heh" | ||
| DavidW asks, "How'd you guess that?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take egg" | ||
Floyd ] 337 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE EGG Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The lizard backs away suddenly, as if scared by your movements, and Floyd | starts to hiss. Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put egg in bowl" | ||
Floyd ] 338 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT EGG IN BOWL Floyd | Floyd | You insert the last ingredient and shake the bowl a bit. Wow, thanks Floyd | to the astonishing qualities of the jark, you now have some delicious Floyd | dough. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dough" | ||
Floyd ] 339 Floyd | Floyd | > X DOUGH Floyd | Floyd | It's some dough, greenish in color. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] 340 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hut Floyd | This hut, wherever it may be, is made of thick glass, distorting the Floyd | outside to something like a watercolor painting. A foam rubber Floyd | mattress and a wardrobe seem to be the only bits of furniture. The Floyd | doorway outside is south. Floyd | Floyd | In the middle of the hut sits an old-fashioned oven. It is connected Floyd | by loose wires, through a hole in the ceiling, to some sort of dish on Floyd | top of the hut. Floyd | Floyd | In a corner sits a robot. It looks like an old TV-set with metal Floyd | tentacles attached. Inside, through a glass window, you can see one of Floyd | the pyramids. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "I just started playing on my own, and I remembered it hissed at us..." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put bowl in oven" | ||
Floyd ] 341 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BOWL IN OVEN Floyd | Floyd | The oven is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open oven" | ||
Floyd ] 342 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN OVEN Floyd | Floyd | You open the oven. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put bowl in oven" | ||
Floyd ] 343 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BOWL IN OVEN Floyd | Floyd | You put the bowl into the oven. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close oven" | ||
Floyd ] 344 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE OVEN Floyd | Floyd | You close the oven. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on oven" | ||
Floyd ] 345 Floyd | Floyd | > TURN ON OVEN Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x oven" | ||
Floyd ] 346 Floyd | Floyd | > X OVEN Floyd | Floyd | It is old, spotted with rust, but surprisingly clean. It has a single Floyd | button. In it you see a bowl. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button" | ||
Floyd ] 347 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON Floyd | Floyd | The oven starts to hum. Hidden speakers play a nice little melody, and Floyd | 20 uneventful minutes later, there's a *bing*. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open oven" | ||
Floyd ] 348 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN OVEN Floyd | Floyd | You open the oven, revealing a bowl. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in bowl" | ||
Floyd ] 349 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN BOWL Floyd | Floyd | In the bowl is a cookie. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bowl" | ||
Floyd ] 350 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BOWL Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cookie" | ||
Floyd ] 351 Floyd | Floyd | > X COOKIE Floyd | Floyd | Hm, it looks delicious beyond words. So there you go then. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give cookie to jojo" | ||
Floyd ] 352 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE COOKIE TO JOJO Floyd | Floyd | (the robot) Floyd | (first taking the cookie) Floyd | One of the tentacles graps the cookie eagerly. Something inside the Floyd | machines starts to rattle and click, and then an unseen opening spits Floyd | out more green continous paper. It reads Floyd | THANKS - NOW CAN FEED LIZARD - DUCK. Floyd | As you try to bring the image of the lizard together with a duck, the Floyd | wardrobe behind you squeaks and something hits you quit hard in the Floyd | back of the head. Floyd | "Tarquin!" shouts Roz in your hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith says, "Here was the clue: 'The lizard looks at you longingly and starts to hiss.'" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wardrobe" | ||
Floyd ] 353 Floyd | Floyd | > X WARDROBE Floyd | Floyd | It's a blue, wooden wardrobe. It looks too small to store all of the Floyd | stuff one may need, but maybe it's bigger on the inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in it" | ||
Floyd ] 354 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN IT Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] 355 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Hut Floyd | This hut, wherever it may be, is made of thick glass, distorting the Floyd | outside to something like a watercolor painting. A foam rubber Floyd | mattress and a wardrobe seem to be the only bits of furniture. The Floyd | doorway outside is south. Floyd | Floyd | In the middle of the hut sits an old-fashioned oven. It is connected Floyd | by loose wires, through a hole in the ceiling, to some sort of dish on Floyd | top of the hut. Floyd | Floyd | In a corner sits a robot. It looks like an old TV-set with metal Floyd | tentacles attached. Inside, through a glass window, you can see one of Floyd | the pyramids. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a small metal pyramid here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x metal pyramid" | ||
Floyd ] 356 Floyd | Floyd | > X METAL PYRAMID Floyd | Floyd | (the small metal pyramid) Floyd | You see nothing special about the small metal pyramid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tarquin" | ||
Floyd ] Hut 356 Floyd | Floyd | > TARQUIN Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] 356 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Hut Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tarquin" | ||
Floyd ] 357 Floyd | Floyd | > X TARQUIN Floyd | Floyd | You see nothing special about the small metal pyramid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||
Floyd ] 358 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE IT Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly a swirl of energy engulfs you, and an HR-tinged voice beckons Floyd | your very being. Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Floyd | Bare white painted walls make up three sides of this room. The Floyd | fourth, which happens to be the northern wall, is taken up by a large Floyd | pair of glass doors. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a large pair of glass doors here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Back." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "author" | ||
Floyd ] 358 Floyd | Floyd | > AUTHOR Floyd | Floyd | Scene 6, "Bureaucracy", was written by Mark J. Musante. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about tarquin" | ||
Floyd ] 359 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT TARQUIN Floyd | Floyd | "Good old Tarquin.He's the smart one. Well, not as smart as me. Floyd | Anyway, he tried to investigate the machine, but I can't reach him Floyd | anymore." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x doors" | ||
Floyd ] 360 Floyd | Floyd | > X DOORS Floyd | Floyd | Although they're glass, they're frosted over so you can't see through Floyd | them. There is a giant letter H on the left door, and a giant letter Floyd | R on the right. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] 361 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a bowl Floyd | HR Floyd | a scrap Floyd | a dream diary Floyd | a Roz pyramid Floyd | a bronze key Floyd | a toilet roll Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] 362 Floyd | Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open doors" | ||
Floyd ] 363 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN DOORS Floyd | Floyd | You open the large pair of glass doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||
Floyd ] 364 Floyd | Floyd | > OUT Floyd | Floyd | But you aren't in anything at the moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] 365 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | HR Central Floyd | This is the nerve center of the Human Resources operation. The room's Floyd | vastness is matched only by the amount of noise being generated. Floyd | People are walking everywhere and you're constantly ducking and Floyd | weaving to avoid being bumped into. You think you can see a disused Floyd | cubicle off to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a large pair of glass doors here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||
Floyd ] 366 Floyd | Floyd | > NE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cubicle Floyd | This cubicle has seen better days, but at least it's out of the way of Floyd | all the madness outside. A desk and a couple of chairs are here. Floyd | Floyd | You can see an office chair (empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x desk" | ||
Floyd ] 367 Floyd | Floyd | > X DESK Floyd | Floyd | A large green metal desk. There's nothing on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put hr on chair" | ||
Floyd ] 368 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT HR ON CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on the office chair would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on chair" | ||
Floyd ] 369 Floyd | Floyd | > SIT ON CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | You get into the office chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under desk" | ||
Floyd ] 370 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK UNDER DESK Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put hr on desk" | ||
Floyd ] 371 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT HR ON DESK Floyd | Floyd | You put HR on the desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take hr" | ||
Floyd ] 372 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE HR Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm" | |
| DavidW says, "I feel like I missed a step." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "search desk" | ||
Floyd ] 373 Floyd | Floyd | > SEARCH DESK Floyd | Floyd | There is nothing on the desk. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. | |
| Jacqueline says, "I know them feels." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] 374 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | HR Floyd | a bowl Floyd | a scrap Floyd | a dream diary Floyd | a Roz pyramid Floyd | a bronze key Floyd | a toilet roll Floyd | a wooden slingshot Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith asks (of Jacq), "Is there a reason we're getting the "too many activities" messages?" | |
| DavidW says, "Tarquin didn't come with us." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I think it's because [noun] is a possible verb in this game." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ws), "I don't know, it's just a highly-relatable error message for my life." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] 375 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | HR Central (in the office chair) Floyd | This is the nerve center of the Human Resources operation. The room's Floyd | vastness is matched only by the amount of noise being generated. Floyd | People are walking everywhere and you're constantly ducking and Floyd | weaving to avoid being bumped into. You think you can see a disused Floyd | cubicle off to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a large pair of glass doors here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x people" | ||
Floyd ] 375 Floyd | Floyd | > X PEOPLE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] 376 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You push off into the throng of passers-by, and skilfully guide your Floyd | new hot-rod through the vast HR cubicle maze. Or, y'know, maybe the Floyd | workers here are just avoiding the maniac on the chair. Eventually Floyd | you make a wrong turn and the wheels catch on the threshold of an Floyd | office doorway. The chair tips over and you're dumped onto the floor. Floyd | Floyd | As you slowly get up, you hear the door swing shut behind you. Floyd | Floyd | HR Office Floyd | Unlike the cubicles outside, this office has a real door and a real Floyd | window. The noise of the HR worker bees outside is almost completely Floyd | shut out. You look around in wonder, and see a desk, a chair, some Floyd | paintings on the wall, and a fake potted plant. Floyd | Floyd | Before you can react, a question is shot at you like an arrow that's, Floyd | um, question-mark shaped. Floyd | Floyd | "Who the hell are you?" asks the questioner in a booming voice. Floyd | Floyd | You spin around to see a large and imposing man turn towards you, a Floyd | sweaty hand clicking the door carefully shut. You stammer out an Floyd | introduction and the man relaxes (just a little). Floyd | Floyd | "Ah," he says. "I am Mr Hokensox. Your resume was sent along by one Floyd | of our lobster-horses." Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, I thought it was a crab-zebra," you venture. Floyd | Floyd | "Ah, no, although they do like to get stripe tattoos, don't they? Floyd | Have a seat and we'll get your forms sorted and set up your Floyd | orientation schedule." Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a small wooden chair here. Floyd | Floyd | > | wordsmith exclaims, "wow!" | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "But we already have a seat, don't we?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Oh, dumped out of it, I see." | ||
| DavidW says, "We did but we got dumped." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on chair" | ||
Floyd ] 377 Floyd | Floyd | > SIT ON CHAIR Floyd | Floyd | (the small wooden chair) Floyd | You sit uncomfortably down in the wooden chair and look up at Mr. Floyd | Hokensox. Floyd | Floyd | He peers more at the papers in his hand and says, "I see that you Floyd | used to be a teacher. You should fit in quite well here. We have Floyd | numerous people who act like kids. Ha ha." Floyd | Floyd | You smile weakly, thinking that you have landed somwhere very much Floyd | like where you left. Floyd | Floyd | "Hmm... Okay, please have these forms filled out by your orientation, Floyd | which starts in one hour." Floyd | Floyd | Mr. Hockensox hands you forms XY11, UT18 and TB06. Floyd | "Now," says Mr Hokensox, "let me show you to your new workplace." Floyd | Floyd | Mr Hokensox puffs around the desk and unlocks the door. He leads you Floyd | out into the main office again, and then through a maze of cubicles. Floyd | You try to concentrate on the path you take, but soon you're Floyd | hopelessly lost. He stops abruptly in front of a cubicle that looks Floyd | like every other one. "Here you are, cubicle number 78-33183. I'll Floyd | leave you to get settled in and fill out those forms. If you have any Floyd | questions, don't hesitate to ask." Floyd | Floyd | Before you can draw in a breath, Mr Hokensox turns and leaves with Floyd | such a speed that defies his size, leaving you alone clutching your Floyd | forms. Floyd | Floyd | Cubicle 78-33183 Floyd | Four grey walls. At least the school had some more color than this. Floyd | They haven't even had time to put a desk in here yet, nor a chair. Floyd | The corridor leads out to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x xy11" | ||
Floyd ] 378 Floyd | Floyd | > X XY11 Floyd | Floyd | It's a blank sheet of paper with XY11 at the top scribbled in crayon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fill out xy11" | ||
Floyd ] Cubicle 78-33183 378 Floyd | Floyd | > FILL OUT XY11 Floyd | Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | *** Run-time problem P12: Too many activities are going on at once. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] 378 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Cubicle 78-33183 Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ut18" | ||
Floyd ] 379 Floyd | Floyd | > X UT18 Floyd | Floyd | It's a blank sheet of paper with UT18 at the top scribbled in magic Floyd | marker. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tb06" | ||
Floyd ] 380 Floyd | Floyd | > X TB06 Floyd | Floyd | It's a blank sheet of paper with TB06 at the top scribbled in finger Floyd | paint. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about forms" | ||
Floyd ] 381 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT FORMS Floyd | Floyd | "That's boring." Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "It's like we never left the school." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about ut18" | ||
Floyd ] 382 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT UT18 Floyd | Floyd | "Stop talking and do something interesting!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||
Floyd ] 383 Floyd | Floyd | > SW Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "se" | ||
Floyd ] 384 Floyd | Floyd | > SE Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Nondescript Corridor Floyd | There is nothing but cubicles as far as you can see to the north and Floyd | southwest. Your cubicle lies to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] 385 Floyd | Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You head north through the maze and find yourself at a wall, which you Floyd | follow. A little farther down the wall, you find an opening, which Floyd | you duck into. Floyd | Floyd | As you take in the filth and splendor that is the break room, you hear Floyd | from behind you, "Oh hi! You must be the new person!" Floyd | Floyd | You spin around to see someone (something?) walking toward you. It's Floyd | hard to tell behind the pile of papers this person is carrying. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm Ferd. I've been assigned as your orientation guide!" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ferd" | ||
Floyd ] 386 Floyd | Floyd | > X FERD Floyd | Floyd | Almost as wide as he is tall, Ferd looks at you with a very wide grin Floyd | that seems to take up most of his face. It's hard to see the rest of Floyd | him because of the pile of paper he's carrying. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask ferd about forms" | ||
Floyd ] 387 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK FERD ABOUT FORMS Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask ferd about ut18" | ||
Floyd ] 388 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK FERD ABOUT UT18 Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | Ferd suddenly belches in an uncomfortable-looking way, then taps his Floyd | chest (or so you assume, behind the pile of papers). "Guess my Floyd | ticker's acting up again," he says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x papers" | ||
Floyd ] 388 Floyd | Floyd | > X PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take papers" | ||
Floyd ] 388 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE PAPERS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push ferd" | ||
Floyd ] 389 Floyd | Floyd | > PUSH FERD Floyd | Floyd | That would be less than courteous. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask ferd about hr" | ||
Floyd ] 390 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK FERD ABOUT HR Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask ferd about ferd" | ||
Floyd ] 391 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK FERD ABOUT FERD Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | "I hope it doesn't explode again," Ferd says. "Destroyed most of the Floyd | planet I was on. They had to clean up for years!" Floyd | "Oh no!" Roz says. "This is a job for George!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask roz about george" | ||
Floyd ] 392 Floyd | Floyd | > ASK ROZ ABOUT GEORGE Floyd | Floyd | "Sorry, what? I was thinking about what I'm going to do for my next Floyd | game." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "george" | ||
Floyd ] 392
Floyd |
Floyd | > GEORGE
Floyd |
Floyd | The Roz pyramid says "Here goes nothin'!" You have a moment of
Floyd | vertigo.
| ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Break Room 392 Floyd | An enormous metal pyramid suddenly appears in mid-air and falls on Floyd | Ferd, squashing him flat. There is a muffled explosion but it barely Floyd | takes out any walls and, at least in some sense, Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have won *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "!" | |
| Roger says, "good job team" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "That sure was weird." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "yes" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And sudden" | ||
| DavidW says, "uh-huh" | ||
| wordsmith says, "The ending was rather sudden..." | ||
| DavidW says, "I wonder if we missed some stuff." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Possibly." | ||
| DavidW asks, "So we actually won this pyramid scheme?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Hah." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "hee" | ||
| wordsmith smiles | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Well, we are stuck in a mind-numbing cubicle job it seems, rather than being a schoolteacher or a jark inverter now, so I guess we win some, we lose a lot?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Who knows? We might quit and become a mime on Venus." | ||
| wordsmith says, "Or in a sense we saved the world... from a catastrophe because of Ferd's ticker." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "we are likely either over- or under-qualified for that, David." | ||
| wordsmith says, "Not to mention lacking the necessary certifications..." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "And I'm sure we lack... right." | ||
| DavidW asks, "So, good - if weird - game. I assume we're done for today?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm good, yeah." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm very glad you suggested that." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "We're at two hours, yeah." | ||
| DavidW says, "thanks everyone" | ||
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "Thanks, and good night!" | ||
