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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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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask santassleighride" | ||
Floyd ] Rooftop 0/1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Every Christmas it's been a joy to give presents to all the good Floyd | little girls and boys. Hauling presents, climbing down chimneys: it's Floyd | no easy job being the guy who lives to bring joy throughout the world Floyd | on Christmas, but you, Santa, are up to the challenge. Now you've made Floyd | almost all your gift-giving rounds, and the only thing between you and Floyd | a good eleven months of well-deserved rest is the last house, the Floyd | Madisons'. Floyd | Floyd | Before you land your sleigh, you double-check your gift list in your Floyd | magic book to make sure you have all the Madisons' gifts: A Barbie for Floyd | Kelly Madison, a Batman action figure for Justin Madison, a Wii for Floyd | the whole family, a bone for their dog, Tina, and two bags full of Floyd | candy and toys for the kids' stockings. Yep, that's everything! You Floyd | park your sleigh on the Madisons' rooftop, and exit the sleigh. Floyd | (Note that new players should type ABOUT.) Floyd | Floyd | Santa's Sleigh Ride Floyd | A moment in the life of Santa Claus by Molly Geene Floyd | Release 4 / Serial number 081227 / Inform 7 build 5U92 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Rooftop Floyd | Newly fallen snow sits gently on the roof. Nearby, you spot a chimney Floyd | you can climb down. Floyd | Floyd | Your sleigh sits nearby, right where you parked it. Floyd | Floyd | Leading the sleigh is your trusty Reindeer Brigade, without which you Floyd | couldn't make a single Christmas delivery. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd ] Rooftop 0/1 Floyd | Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | Welcome to Santa's Sleigh Ride! This is a very small game, meaning it Floyd | should be beatable in only a few turns if you know what you're doing. Floyd | If you don't know what you're doing, or are otherwise new to Floyd | interactive fiction (IF for short), then this section is for you! Floyd | Floyd | First, you need to know the commands of IF. A good one to know is Floyd | LOOK, which prints out a description of your surroundings. LOOK can be Floyd | shortened to just "L", so if you're a slow typer that's helpful. The Floyd | next useful command is EXAMINE, which you use to look at specific Floyd | objects more closely in the game, such as EXAMINE BATMAN ACTION Floyd | FIGURE. This can, in turn, be shortened to LOOK AT BATMAN or L AT Floyd | BATMAN or even X BATMAN. This can be very helpful, as there are many Floyd | times when the description of a specific object gives helpful advice, Floyd | or at least something amusing. Other IF useful commands tend to vary, Floyd | but you can easily guess most of these from the context (e.g., a Floyd | description of a scene telling you that you can CLIMB DOWN CHIMNEY, or Floyd | a tree to put Christmas presents under). Note that the game can't Floyd | understand everything you type, but I've tried to make it Floyd | understand a fair bit. One last tip: if your hands are cramping up Floyd | from typing all the commands, know that things that belong to someone Floyd | specific (like the two bags of candy) can be shortened to just the Floyd | first letter of that particular person's name, as in J CANDY BAG for Floyd | Justin's candy bag. Also, if you want to know more about the people Floyd | who helped write this game, type CREDITS, and if you need more help, Floyd | type HELP. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "credits" | ||
Floyd ] Rooftop 0/1 Floyd | Floyd | > CREDITS Floyd | Floyd | The main writer of this IF is Molly Geene. She wrote the code for this Floyd | game with Inform 7, a program written by Graham Nelson, with David Floyd | Kinder's Windows front-end. She used the extensions "Bulk Limiter" and Floyd | "Underside" by Eric Eve and "Plurality" by Emily Short. She drew the Floyd | cover art with an anonymous internet reference. She'd like to thank Floyd | all the posters who have helped her over the years at the Usenet group Floyd | rec.arts.int-fiction, including David Kinder and Jim Aiken. She'd also Floyd | like to thank her beta-testers Kevin Cogger and Philip Armstrong, and Floyd | the people at the two forums she shared an early build with, The Floyd | Return of Talking Time and Truth and Beauty Bombs. Finally, she'd like Floyd | to thank Santa Claus, because without him this game wouldn't be Floyd | possible. For bug reports or any other reason she can be reached at Floyd | rosygirl5657@yahoo.com. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Who names their dog 'Tina'? I always find human names weird on animals." | |
| DavidW says, "I assume Underside lets us put presents under trees." | ||
| DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "Maybe it's short for Rin-tin-tina." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Rooftop 0/2 Floyd | Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You're wearing a dapper red hat and suit combo made specially for this Floyd | outing by Mrs. Claus, and you've trimmed your beard just right. You Floyd | look smashing! Floyd | Floyd | Dasher shakes his head. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Rooftop 0/3 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | the magic bag Floyd | Wrapped Wii (for the family) Floyd | Wrapped Barbie (for Kelly) Floyd | Wrapped Batman Action Figure (for Justin) Floyd | Doggy bone (for Tina) Floyd | Kelly's candy bag Floyd | Justin's candy bag Floyd | Floyd | Cupid champs at his bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "So is it just straightforward ENTER CHIMNEY?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chimney" | ||
Floyd ] Rooftop 0/4 Floyd | Floyd | > X CHIMNEY Floyd | Floyd | A warm, cozy chimney. There's just enough room there for you to climb Floyd | down it. Floyd | Floyd | Dasher paws the ground with his hoof. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Rooftop 0/5 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You pinch your nose and jump down the chimney. Floyd | Floyd | But halfway through, you bump into some nasty junk in the chimney. Floyd | Oof! You jump rght back up the chimney. Looks like you have to find Floyd | something to help you clean up the junk. Floyd | Floyd | Donner champs at his bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "That, or down, I would assume." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Another game that will fail to explain the physics of how he makes it down chimneys." | ||
| Peregrine says, "It's magic." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure sure" | ||
| DavidW says, "Okay, so we need something to clean our junk with." | ||
| Peregrine says, "Defunk that junk" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "The game already doesn't explain how he does it in one night." | ||
| DavidW says, "Maybe Comet has some cleanser." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x comet" | ||
Floyd ] Rooftop 0/6 Floyd | Floyd | > X COMET Floyd | Floyd | Comet has antlers, red fur, cloven feet, and in most respects looks Floyd | like your average reindeer. Floyd | Floyd | Dasher shakes his head. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x junk" | ||
Floyd ] Rooftop 0/7 Floyd | Floyd | > X JUNK Floyd | Floyd | Some nasty, awful junk is clogging up the chimney. Floyd | Floyd | Dancer champs at his bit. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, DW, I've missed you." | |
| DavidW says, "heh heh" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x roof" | ||
Floyd ] Rooftop 0/7 Floyd | Floyd | > X ROOF Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sleigh" | ||
Floyd ] Rooftop 0/8 Floyd | Floyd | > X SLEIGH Floyd | Floyd | Your sleigh is full of the things you need to make your rounds. It's Floyd | almost empty now, though, since you've made almost all of your Floyd | deliveries. The only things left in it are the magic book, the warm Floyd | blanket, the cocoa mug and the sweeper stick. Floyd | Floyd | Vixen paws the ground with his hoof. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "STICK!" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take stick" | ||
Floyd ] Rooftop 0/9 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE STICK Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Donner shakes his head. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "clean junk with stick" | ||
Floyd ] Rooftop 1/10 Floyd | Floyd | > CLEAN JUNK WITH STICK Floyd | Floyd | You clear out all the junk with the chimney sweeper. Whoo! That was Floyd | some hard work, but now you can go down the chimney. Floyd | Floyd | Vixen champs at his bit. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "THE magic book?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x magic book" | ||
Floyd ] Rooftop 1/11 Floyd | Floyd | > X MAGIC BOOK Floyd | Floyd | It's a magic book that updates itself automatically with all the names Floyd | of the good little girls and boys. You don't know what you'd do Floyd | without it. Floyd | Floyd | On the last page of the book, it lists the Madisons' gifts: a Batman Floyd | action figure for Justin, a Barbie doll for Kelly, a Wii for the whole Floyd | family, a bone for their dog, Tina, and two bags full of small toys Floyd | and candy to serve as stocking stuffers for both of the kids. Floyd | Floyd | Donner paws the ground with his hoof. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "The naughty and nice book?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "ah" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x blanket" | ||
Floyd ] Rooftop 1/12 Floyd | Floyd | > X BLANKET Floyd | Floyd | A warm, cuddly blanket. Floyd | Floyd | Dancer shakes his head. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mug" | ||
Floyd ] Rooftop 1/13 Floyd | Floyd | > X MUG Floyd | Floyd | A mug with a merry scene of young boys sledding imprinted on it. It's Floyd | empty, of course. You may as well just bring the whole pot with you Floyd | next time. Floyd | Floyd | Donner paws the ground with his hoof. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put stick in sleigh" | ||
Floyd ] Rooftop 1/14 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT STICK IN SLEIGH Floyd | Floyd | You put the sweeper stick into Santa's sleigh. Floyd | Floyd | Dancer shakes his head. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 1/15 Floyd | Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You pinch your nose and jump down the chimney. Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | The living room is lit only by the lights on the Christmas tree. The Floyd | red brick walls give the living room a storybook feel. Floyd | Floyd | The Christmas tree is dazzling, with pretty colored lights and Floyd | ornaments a glitter. Floyd | Floyd | A dog by the tree is growling cautiously at you. Floyd | Floyd | You spy a little boy sleeping on an old worn couch. Floyd | Floyd | Nearby, you can see the fireplace for the chimney you went down. Floyd | Floyd | On the fireplace are Justin's Christmas stocking (empty) and Kelly's Floyd | Christmas stocking (empty). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pet dog" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 1/15 Floyd | Floyd | > PET DOG Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline sips from her 22 oz coffee cup while reading the description of Santa's sad empty mug. | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Someone wanted to see us." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give bone to dog" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 2/16 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE BONE TO DOG Floyd | Floyd | (first taking Doggy bone (for Tina)) Floyd | You give the dog her bone. Suddenly her mood lights up instantly and Floyd | she plays with it as if she were a frisky little puppy. Ho ho ho! What Floyd | a jolly dog! Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put wii under tree" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 3/17 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT WII UNDER TREE Floyd | Floyd | You place the family's Wii under the tree. Ho ho ho! Giving presents Floyd | makes you feel good. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put batman in j stocking" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 3/18 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BATMAN IN J STOCKING Floyd | Floyd | Ho ho ho! Wrapped Batman Action Figure (for Justin) doesn't go there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put batman under tree" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 4/19 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BATMAN UNDER TREE Floyd | Floyd | You place Justin's Batman action figure under the tree. Ho ho ho! Floyd | Giving presents makes you feel good! Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 4/20 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | the magic bag Floyd | Wrapped Barbie (for Kelly) Floyd | Kelly's candy bag Floyd | Justin's candy bag Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put barbie under tree" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 5/21 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT BARBIE UNDER TREE Floyd | Floyd | You place Kelly's Holiday Barbie under the tree. Ho ho ho! Giving Floyd | presents makes you feel good. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put k bag in k stocking" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 6/22 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT K BAG IN K STOCKING Floyd | Floyd | You put Kelly's bag of candy and toys into her Christmas stocking. Ho Floyd | ho ho! Giving presents makes you feel good! Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put j bag in j stocking" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 7/23 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT J BAG IN J STOCKING Floyd | Floyd | You put Justin's bag of candy and toys into his Christmas stocking. Ho Floyd | ho ho! Giving presents makes you feel good. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly, the little boy awakes at the sound of putting away the last Floyd | present. You face the boy and put your finger to your lips. The boy Floyd | nods and dives into the couch front first, pretending to be asleep. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Perhaps I should have looked around more." | |
| DavidW says, "I feel once we go up, the game's over." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Probably" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 7/24 Floyd | Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | Yeah, a magic teleporting spell would be pretty nice to have, wouldn't Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "But I doubt there's much else here." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "score" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 7/24 Floyd | Floyd | > SCORE Floyd | Floyd | You have so far scored 7 out of a possible 7, in 24 turns. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room 7/24 Floyd | Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | You pinch your nose and jump up the chimney. Floyd | Floyd | However, just before you disappear up the chute you hear the little Floyd | boy dashing out of the living room, banging and bashing into many Floyd | things along the way. After you climb into your sleigh and urge on Floyd | your reindeer, you see the little boy with his sister outside the Floyd | house. They are both waving at you, and as you fly through the air Floyd | like a bird in the sky, you shout to them "Merry Christmas to all, Floyd | and to all a good night!" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** Merry Christmas! *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 7 out of a possible 7, in 24 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||
| Roger has disconnected. | ||
| Roger has connected. | DavidW says, "That was short." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "But cute." | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah" | ||
| DavidW asks, "So next game? Or re-run that one again and try to break it?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Nah, just next game, in my opinion." | ||
| DavidW says, "okay" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > QUIT Floyd | debugcheapnitfol quit with exit status: 0 | ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask worldturnedupsidedown" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Our Lords and Knights, and Gentry too, doe mean old fashions Floyd | to forgoe: Floyd | They set a porter at the gate, that none must enter in Floyd | thereat. Floyd | They count it a sin, when poor people come in. Floyd | Hospitality it selfe is drown'd. Floyd | Yet let's be content, and the times lament, you see the world Floyd | turn'd upside down. Floyd | Floyd | -- Anonymous English Civil War tract Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | The World Turned Upside Down Floyd | A Cape side story by Bruno Dias Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 151224 / Inform 7 build 6L38 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Closing Time (behind the bar) Floyd | It's five to three on the last Saturday before Christmas; the green Floyd | glass light fixtures hanging over the bar have been dimmed, dirty Floyd | frost speckles the windows, and the hazy scent of alcoholic vomit Floyd | emanating from the toilets has subdued to a minor note in the far Floyd | background of the olfactory panoply that fills Herrig's. Floyd | Floyd | The last few regulars left in the place have coalesced into a single Floyd | group, huddled around the corner table. Floyd | Floyd | (You can complete this story with only the verbs EXAMINE, WAIT, Floyd | and INTERJECT when prompted; type NOTES at any time to read the Floyd | author's note.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "You don't have to go home, but you can't. Stay. Here." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x regulars" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X REGULARS Floyd | Floyd | There's Skóa, of course, with the hat; and Jamessin smoking sullenly Floyd | in the corner. Chow reads quietly in her wide chair, silently enjoying Floyd | the presence of her friends Ramos (with the centipede familiar) and Floyd | Grin (with the oversized scarf). Floyd | Floyd | The table of regulars laughs together; except, of course, for Grin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x grin" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X GRIN Floyd | Floyd | So named because he doesn't. Grin likes to hang around, listen, figure Floyd | out where the wind is blowing. He has a tendency to disappear for Floyd | weeks at a time. Other than that, all you know about him is that he's Floyd | from someplace warmer than Yeats; right now, in the middle of winter, Floyd | his head barely pokes out of the enormous scarf wrapped several times Floyd | around his neck and face. Floyd | Floyd | Jamessin blows a smoke ring, though it comes out weirdly deformed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Man, having a centipede familiar would stress me out." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I'd always be freaked out about it potentially being smushed." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x smoke ring" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X SMOKE RING Floyd | Floyd | (That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this Floyd | story.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x jamessin" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X JAMESSIN Floyd | Floyd | Jamessin is the youngest one in this crowd, though she's eager to make Floyd | it clear at all times that she's nobody's apprentice. Tonight, Floyd | something has her nervous; she's on her third cigarette now, still Floyd | fiddling with the flame she produces from a slightly singed fingertip. Floyd | Plenty going around to make someone rattled, of course. Floyd | Floyd | Someone's phone squawks with a notification; nobody looks. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine asks, "What, we're not busting a smoke ring? What's the point of fighting crime then?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x skoa" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X SKOA Floyd | Floyd | She is built much like the human version of an ancient birch tree: Floyd | pale, tall, and slightly ominous-looking. This isn't helped by her Floyd | propensity for a sort of post-post businesspunk wardrobe, though Floyd | tonight she chose to break her somber figure by wearing a curious Floyd | fascinator that you can't quite resolve with your eyes. Floyd | Floyd | The floorboards crack and pop underfoot. Floyd | Floyd | The door swings open to let someone in from the outside; given the Floyd | hour, and the events of the last few days, you can't help but set your Floyd | fingers behind the bar into an unpleasant pattern, readying some curse Floyd | or another. But then you see the man's face and your apprehension is Floyd | replaced by mild annoyance. Floyd | Floyd | "We're closed," you say. Floyd | Floyd | "Didn't come here to drink," he replies, giving you the look that Floyd | tells you he's about to rope you into something. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Do we... fight crime?" | |
| Peregrine says, "I don't know, was just joking because it's a Cape side story" | ||
| Peregrine says, "(which incidentally sounds like it should be a musical)" | ||
| DavidW asks, "I guess we're the barkeep in this story?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "So it would seem." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x man" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X MAN Floyd | Floyd | (Ainsley) Floyd | Ainsley is one of those people who always looks like he's lost weight, Floyd | skin hanging slightly too loose off his bones like there used to be Floyd | more of him; but you've never seem him any thicker. Maybe he puffs up Floyd | when he's back across the ocean where he's from. Wears a Floyd | professorial-looking argyle sweater vest and a calculated two-day Floyd | nonbeard. Though you've never seen him do actual magic, of all the Floyd | joints in all the cities in the world he likes to roll into yours, Floyd | once every few months, when he's in town. Floyd | Floyd | Skóa gives Ainsley a curious look from the corner table Floyd | You fail to contain a sigh. "Why are you even here?" Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, just having a look at the old place. Didn't know that I would Floyd | still find it." He talks with an odd lilt that you've been told is Floyd | Welsh. Floyd | Floyd | "What's that supposed to mean?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "Aha, so we watch superheroes trash our bar and look on disapprovingly" | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | "Didn't half the wizards in this city get killed or worse last year?" Floyd | Floyd | You shrug. "They weren't my customers." Floyd | Floyd | "Still. Must have been some trouble." Floyd | Floyd | (You could INTERJECT here) Floyd | Floyd | Ramos nods silently in response to some unseen signal or message from Floyd | his familiar. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "One sec, changing clothes into something warmer, which is almost never a thing in Hawaii." | |
| Peregrine asks, "We could interject. Should we?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't know. Conversational games are NOT may field of expertise." | ||
| DavidW says, "er my" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Back" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "interject" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > INTERJECT Floyd | Floyd | You look askance for a moment, but decide to spill anyway: "So maybe Floyd | there was an attack. So maybe a bunch of rich assholes are in the Floyd | ground or in hospice care now. Maybe some of the people responsible Floyd | were my customers. They're not any more." Floyd | Floyd | "You're only telling me this because you know I know." Floyd | Floyd | You give him a practiced glare. Floyd | Floyd | You notice the random flickering of the lights outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "This feels like a Bruno game." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ramos" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X RAMOS Floyd | Floyd | Gruff-looking and punkish, but ultimately good natured. Of course, Floyd | then there's the chihuahua-sized centipede clinging to his neck and Floyd | shoulder like a suckling infant. You still remember a time before Floyd | familiars turned into a sort of shock fashion competition, though Floyd | Ramos seems to have put an end to that; nobody cared to try harder Floyd | than the giant centipede. Floyd | Floyd | The table of regulars laughs together; except, of course, for Grin. Floyd | Floyd | "Come on, Ainsley," you say, getting plainly frustrated now. "Just Floyd | tell me what this is about." Floyd | Floyd | He cocks his head and stares you down curiously, for a moment. And Floyd | then he pulls out a slightly oversized phone. He flips through Floyd | pictures of what looks like a blur smeared against the night sky; Floyd | after a few of them, though, it resolves itself in your mind as a Floyd | vaguely human figure, leaping across rooftops; or maybe flying. You Floyd | can't quite tell. Floyd | Floyd | "You wouldn't happen to know anything about this, would you?" Floyd | Floyd | (You could INTERJECT here) Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I know you know I know... er wait." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pictures" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > X PICTURES Floyd | Floyd | (That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this Floyd | story.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "interject" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > INTERJECT Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, okay. There's some rumors going around. A lot of them. The Floyd | incident with the keener left a bit of a power vacuum. What was left Floyd | of the cabal is now wrestling to see who comes out on top. Let's just Floyd | say I don't cross the bridges no more." Floyd | Floyd | "I can imagine." Floyd | Floyd | "So there's this person going around Blaise sending people to the Floyd | hospital. Some people think it's just a weird mundane in a costume, Floyd | some people think it's a player. Fucked if I know how to get in touch, Floyd | though." Floyd | Floyd | He purses his lips; the smell of Jamessin's cigarette must be giving Floyd | him cravings. Floyd | Floyd | "Better than nothing, at least. Thanks." Floyd | Floyd | You notice the random flickering of the lights outside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | "What's your real angle here?" Floyd | Floyd | "Trouble back home. I'm putting a team together. Figured whoever's Floyd | been beating up drug dealers is the kind of person who can help." Floyd | Floyd | Your eyes leap into the back of your skull faster than you can stop Floyd | yourself. Floyd | Floyd | "You flew all the way to Yeats to recruit a latex fetishist to go fix Floyd | one of your fuck-ups." Floyd | Floyd | "It's serious. Scary shit I hoped I'd never see again." Floyd | Floyd | (You could INTERJECT here) Floyd | Floyd | Someone's phone squawks with a notification; nobody looks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "interject" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > INTERJECT Floyd | Floyd | You shake your head, more at yourself than at him. "Fine. If it gets Floyd | you off my back. You see the one in the corner with the old book? Floyd | That's Chow. She might know what's up." Floyd | Floyd | "Don't suppose you might serve me a drink, now?" Floyd | Floyd | "Don't push your luck. And I hope you don't plan on staying in town Floyd | for more than a couple days." Floyd | Floyd | "Wouldn't dream of it." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** an ending *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "I have such vague memories of Cape" | |
| DavidW asks, "Is this a sequel to an earlier game?" | ||
| Peregrine says, "it's a sort of DVD extras thing" | ||
| Peregrine says, "(I think)" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Closing Time Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | You give him one last shrug. "Maybe try someone else's bar for once." Floyd | Floyd | He doesn't respond; there's no other bar and he knows that. He just Floyd | walks out dejectedly. You give the countertop one last wipe down, Floyd | sighing. "We're closing," you announce to the people at the corner Floyd | table. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** an ending *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "huh" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | Closing Time Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "notes" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas Floyd | Floyd | > NOTES Floyd | Floyd | This is a very short story written very quickly on occasion of Floyd | December 2015, as a brief thank-you note to everyone who's read, Floyd | supported, or helped my IF work over the course of the preceding year. Floyd | It is small and wholly self-indulgent; as always, you can reach me on Floyd | Twitter @notbrunoagain. Floyd | Floyd | Special thanks in no particular order to Jason McIntosh, Doug Floyd | Orleans, Caleb Wilson, Tory Hoke, Etienne Vouga, Emily Short, David Floyd | Cornelson, Carolyn van Eseltine, Aaron Reed, Neil Butters, Cat Floyd | Manning, Kerstin Hall, and surely many others who have read, played, Floyd | contributed, and helped me in 2015. Floyd | Floyd | Bruno Dias Floyd | December 24th, 2015 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "'self-indulgent', yup, DVD extras" | |
| Peregrine says, "Cape is a non-parser game" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, I retract my comment about the centipede familiar, since it's a giant centipede." | ||
| DavidW says, "This game was shorter than I expected." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Way" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We've played two games in 29 minutes." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "It sure was." | ||
| DavidW says, "I think we need another game." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. I thought two would be enough." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Gosh." | ||
| DavidW says, "So did I." | ||
| Peregrine says, "Maybe Santa's elves can write us a third game." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I've found something." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "One sec." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Post-Christmas Letdown ?" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Possibly. It's winter themed!" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||
Floyd ] Behind a bar, after midnight, one week from Christmas
Floyd |
Floyd | > QUIT
Floyd |
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "y" | ||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?
Floyd | > Y
Floyd | debugcheapnitfol quit with exit status: 0
| ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask deadofwinter" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | This game uses some special effects that can cause problems on older Floyd | interpreters, and especially on interpreters for handhelds. Floyd | Floyd | Answer 'no' if your interpreter doesn't support color or timed input. Floyd | Floyd | Do you want to play the enhanced version? | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "no" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You have made it, finally, to her cave. A week ago, she kidnapped your Floyd | boyfriend from your bed, while you were sleeping. When you awoke, he Floyd | was gone, a beautiful snowflake in his place. That was when you knew Floyd | she had taken him. Floyd | Floyd | 'I see you have found me,' says the Ice Queen amusedly. 'So you want Floyd | your boy back, my dear? Come, follow me inside.' Floyd | Floyd | She bows mockingly, then disappears inside the cave. Floyd | Floyd | DEAD OF WINTER Floyd | SmoochieComp 2001 Entry Floyd | (c) Copyright 2000 Christina Pagniacci Floyd | Please type ABOUT. Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 010104 / Inform v6.21 Library 6/10 Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Ice Queen's Cave Floyd | This is it. The dread Ice Queen's home lies to the north, the dark Floyd | cave mouth beckoning. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "about" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > ABOUT Floyd | Floyd | DEAD OF WINTER uses no conversation verbs in the common Floyd | sense.If you want to talk to someone, use 'TALK TO person'. 'TALK TO' Floyd | can be abbreviated to 'T'. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You are tightly wrapped in cold-protective clothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "So we're nameless ambiguously-gendered adventure person." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "N?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Ice Queen's Cave Floyd | The inside of the cave consists solely of ice. It is mostly empty, the Floyd | most striking feature being the gigantic ice throne the Queen is Floyd | sitting on. Prominently displayed in the middle of the cave is a Floyd | large, clear block of ice inside which Saul has been frozen. Floyd | Floyd | On the throne is the Ice Queen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x saul" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > X SAUL Floyd | Floyd | He is just as you last remember him. Light brown skin, shaved head, Floyd | that short goatee you asked him not to shave off... but he's frozen Floyd | into a block of ice, his eyes are closed, he is not breathing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Our boyfriend, "Saul."" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x queen" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > X QUEEN Floyd | Floyd | The Ice Queen is as black as a moonless midnight, except for her cold Floyd | blue eyes. She stands at least twice as tall as you, wearing a dress Floyd | of black ice that constantly melts and reforms around her body. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "He was the Saul of every party." | |
| Jacqueline says, "So, this was for a smoochie speed. I sense names chosen specifically for their Romance value." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kick ice block" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > KICK ICE BLOCK Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "break block" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > BREAK BLOCK Floyd | Floyd | You won't get him out this way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "t" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > T Floyd | Floyd | What do you want to t? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to queen" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO QUEEN Floyd | Floyd | 'You want him back? Then bring me the Heart of Winter. It is guarded Floyd | by the Dragon, but since you have found me, I am sure you are not Floyd | going to have a problem convincing him to give it to you.' Floyd | Floyd | The Ice Queen gestures, and an exit opens towards the north of the Floyd | cave. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I suspect the author meant the character to be female, but didn't specify. So we're free to choose." | |
| Peregrine says, ">LICK BLOCK" | ||
| DavidW says, "This game feels familiar to me." | ||
| DavidW says, "I seem to remember lava." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Gorge of Despair Floyd | A wide, deep gorge splits the land in half. There is no way across. On Floyd | the other side, in the distance, you can make out a castle. You can Floyd | also walk along the gorge to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | An annoying little demon is fluttering around your head. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x demon" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > X DEMON Floyd | Floyd | A tiny red creature about the size of your palm, with wings and goat Floyd | hooves and yellow eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to demon" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO DEMON Floyd | Floyd | 'You want across this gorge? I can get you there, baby. Just give me Floyd | what you're holding!' Floyd | Floyd | "I'm not..." you start, then realize you are holding something. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a blue crystal Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crystal" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > X CRYSTAL Floyd | Floyd | A blue snowflake, glowing slightly. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, you're not getting this buddy" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | 'Ungrateful wench!' screams the demon, suddenly growing in size. 'You Floyd | do not want my help? Fine! Then try to get out of this mess yourself!' Floyd | Floyd | He turns around, whipping you with his tail. You lose your balance and Floyd | fall... Floyd | Floyd | [=>] | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ...fall, until a large branch stops your descent rather abruptly. Floyd | Floyd | Halfway down the Gorge (on the branch) Floyd | Even from here, you still can't see the bottom of the gorge, but you Floyd | can hear water rushing below. The top seems miles away; the walls are Floyd | mostly bare, except for the branch that miraculously broke your fall Floyd | without injuring you too much in the process. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x branch" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > X BRANCH Floyd | Floyd | A large, bare branch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wall" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > WALL Floyd | Floyd | Which do you mean, the north wall, the south wall, the east wall, the Floyd | west wall, the northeast wall, the northwest wall, the southeast wall Floyd | or the southwest wall? Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Why do I suspect the same would have happened with giving up he vrystal?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x south wall" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > X SOUTH WALL Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "Woot" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Ouch my spelling." | ||
| DavidW says, "I suspect the crystal has Saul's soul or lifeforce in it." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear crystal" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > WEAR CRYSTAL Floyd | Floyd | You can't wear that! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "rub it" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > RUB IT Floyd | Floyd | You achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch it" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TOUCH IT Floyd | Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh wow. You're prolly right, DW>" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP Floyd | Floyd | Mustering all your courage, you jump off the branch. Just like you Floyd | hoped, there is a river down there, but it isn't quite what you Floyd | expected. Floyd | Floyd | The currents drag you along... Floyd | Floyd | River of Storms Floyd | Strong wind currents carry you along, as if you were floating on Floyd | water; instead, you are floating in mid-air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Though it is easy to maneuver on the winds, you would crash into the Floyd | canyon wall. Floyd | Floyd | The currents drag you along... Floyd | Floyd | River of Storms Floyd | Strong wind currents carry you along, as if you were floating on Floyd | water; instead, you are floating in mid-air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | You drift along with the winds... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The currents drag you along... Floyd | Floyd | River of Storms Floyd | Strong wind currents carry you along, as if you were floating on Floyd | water; instead, you are floating in mid-air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | Though it is easy to maneuver on the winds, you would crash into the Floyd | canyon wall. Floyd | Floyd | The currents drag you along... Floyd | Floyd | River of Storms Floyd | Strong wind currents carry you along, as if you were floating on Floyd | water; instead, you are floating in mid-air. Floyd | Floyd | The canyon walls give way to an ice bank to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You swiftly steer towards the ice bank and the currents drop you Floyd | softly onto it. Floyd | Floyd | Ice Bank Floyd | A tiny bank of ice is all that separates the River of Storms from a Floyd | rough path leading up a mountain to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | After a long trip, you arrive at... Floyd | Floyd | Castle Courtyard Floyd | This may have been an impressive castle once, and seemed to be intact Floyd | from the distance, but the courtyard is all that remains; no walls Floyd | remain standing. Strange. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the Dragon here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "HI, DRAGON!" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dragon" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > X DRAGON Floyd | Floyd | The Dragon is a handsome man with incredibly white skin and piercing Floyd | black eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to dragon" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO DRAGON Floyd | Floyd | 'You have come for the Heart of Winter.' Floyd | Floyd | You shudder at the sound of his voice. It is... old and Floyd | otherwordly, yet beautiful. "Y... yes," you manage. Floyd | Floyd | 'I will give it to you, under one condition. Give yourself to me, this Floyd | night. Then you shall have the Heart of Winter. What do you say?' Floyd | Floyd | >> | Jacqueline exclaims, "HelLO, Dragon!" | |
| Jacqueline wiggles her eyebrows. | ||
| Peregrine says, "How scandalous" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I say heck yeah" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||
Floyd | >> Floyd | > YES Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Dragon smiles sadly. 'Come with me, child.' Floyd | Floyd | Afterwards, he leads you into a small chamber. Floyd | Floyd | Small Chamber Floyd | This very small chamber is empty except for a large mirror hanging on Floyd | one wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > X MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | You see yourself in the mirror. Floyd | Floyd | "I only see myself!" you shout, "where is the Heart of Winter?" Floyd | Floyd | The Dragon smiles again. 'You are.' Floyd | Floyd | "I am? But..." Floyd | Floyd | He hushes you with a movement of his hand. 'I think you have someone Floyd | to go back to, do you not?' Floyd | Floyd | At the mention of Saul, shame flushes your face. Yes, you betrayed him Floyd | to save him. Floyd | Floyd | With another wave of the Dragon's hand, you are gone and find Floyd | yourself... Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Ice Queen's Cave Floyd | This is it. The dread Ice Queen's home lies to the north, the dark Floyd | cave mouth beckoning. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Ice Queen's Cave Floyd | The inside of the cave consists solely of ice. It is mostly empty, the Floyd | most striking feature being the gigantic ice throne the Queen is Floyd | sitting on. Prominently displayed in the middle of the cave is a Floyd | large, clear block of ice inside which Saul has been frozen. Floyd | Floyd | On the throne is the Ice Queen. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "That was surprisingly tasteful" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to queen" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO QUEEN Floyd | Floyd | 'Well,' asks the Ice Queen, 'have you brought me the Heart of Winter?' Floyd | Floyd | "Yes." Floyd | Floyd | 'So,' she continues eagerly, 'where is it?' Floyd | Floyd | "I am the Heart of Winter." Floyd | Floyd | 'What? It cannot be!' Her eyes alight with anger, she raises her arms. Floyd | Floyd | 'Heart of Winter, eh? You will be dead of Winter!' Floyd | Floyd | Glistening magic leaves her fingertips, engulfing you... Floyd | Floyd | You feel cold for a second, but nothing else happens. The Queen looks Floyd | at you, her countenance shattered. Floyd | Floyd | Then the magic leaves you and strikes her full force. She screams a Floyd | high-pitched, bloodcurdling scream, then explodes into thousands of Floyd | tiny ice splinters. You close your eyes and crouch to shield your body Floyd | from the shrapnel. Floyd | Floyd | The next thing you know is Saul holding you in a tight embrace, Floyd | kissing you passionately. Floyd | Floyd | And then, you walk out of the cave, and make your way home. Floyd | Floyd | [=>] | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | TWO DEAD IN SNOW CHAOS Floyd | Floyd | The recent snow chaos has caused two more deaths. A young couple, Saul Floyd | O. (23) and an unidentified female, were caught in the storm. Floyd | Apparently, O. lost control of the car and crashed it into a tree. The Floyd | couple froze to death while trying to reach civilisation. It seems Floyd | they knew what was coming; they were found in a tight embrace, lips Floyd | frozen together in a final kiss. Floyd | Floyd | [=>] | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Floyd | debugcheapnitfol quit with exit status: 0 | ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | Knight_Otu says, "Yikes." | |
| DavidW says, "Perhaps that's not the best ending." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Damn" | ||
| Peregrine says, "No dragon romance. Only true romance." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I wish y'all could see my face right now" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Try again and tell the dragon no?" | ||
| Peregrine says (to Jacqueline), "I can *read* your disappointment" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, now is probably a good time to share that the author of this game is logged onto the mud right now." | ||
| Peregrine exclaims, "Not that we were about to say anything mean!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "No, my face is more... slightly bemused, slightly a-mused, slightly something unexplainable." | ||
| Peregrine asks, "it struck a chord... a *banjo* chord?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I do note that the ending does mention does assign a gender to us." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to P), "No, I just mean that Christina Pagniacci is a nom-de-plume." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask deadofwinter" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | This game uses some special effects that can cause problems on older Floyd | interpreters, and especially on interpreters for handhelds. Floyd | Floyd | Answer 'no' if your interpreter doesn't support color or timed input. Floyd | Floyd | Do you want to play the enhanced version? | Peregrine says, "oooh la laa" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Christina Pagniacci is, in face, Gunther." | ||
| Peregrine exclaims, "!!" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "no" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You have made it, finally, to her cave. A week ago, she kidnapped your Floyd | boyfriend from your bed, while you were sleeping. When you awoke, he Floyd | was gone, a beautiful snowflake in his place. That was when you knew Floyd | she had taken him. Floyd | Floyd | 'I see you have found me,' says the Ice Queen amusedly. 'So you want Floyd | your boy back, my dear? Come, follow me inside.' Floyd | Floyd | She bows mockingly, then disappears inside the cave. Floyd | Floyd | DEAD OF WINTER Floyd | SmoochieComp 2001 Entry Floyd | (c) Copyright 2000 Christina Pagniacci Floyd | Please type ABOUT. Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 010104 / Inform v6.21 Library 6/10 Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Ice Queen's Cave Floyd | This is it. The dread Ice Queen's home lies to the north, the dark Floyd | cave mouth beckoning. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "wow" | |
| Jacqueline exclaims, "IKR?!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "In fact, even" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Really? GUNTHER?" | ||
| Peregrine says, "he is a force of nature, after all" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "According to this, anyway:" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Ice Queen's Cave Floyd | The inside of the cave consists solely of ice. It is mostly empty, the Floyd | most striking feature being the gigantic ice throne the Queen is Floyd | sitting on. Prominently displayed in the middle of the cave is a Floyd | large, clear block of ice inside which Saul has been frozen. Floyd | Floyd | On the throne is the Ice Queen. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline | [LINK] | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill queen" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > KILL QUEEN Floyd | Floyd | That doesn't seem like a good idea. She could kill you in a Floyd | split-second; and you're not even sure why she hasn't done that yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kiss saul" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > KISS SAUL Floyd | Floyd | You wish you could, but the ice block is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take block" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BLOCK Floyd | Floyd | You won't get him out this way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push block south" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > PUSH BLOCK SOUTH Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Lick ice in front of Saul's face, tastelessly." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lick block" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > LICK BLOCK Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to queen" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO QUEEN Floyd | Floyd | 'You want him back? Then bring me the Heart of Winter. It is guarded Floyd | by the Dragon, but since you have found me, I am sure you are not Floyd | going to have a problem convincing him to give it to you.' Floyd | Floyd | The Ice Queen gestures, and an exit opens towards the north of the Floyd | cave. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Gorge of Despair Floyd | A wide, deep gorge splits the land in half. There is no way across. On Floyd | the other side, in the distance, you can make out a castle. You can Floyd | also walk along the gorge to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | An annoying little demon is fluttering around your head. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | As you turn to go, the demon suddenly speaks up... Floyd | Floyd | 'You want across this gorge? I can get you there, baby. Just give me Floyd | what you're holding!' Floyd | Floyd | "I'm not..." you start, then realize you are holding something. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a blue crystal Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | 'Ungrateful wench!' screams the demon, suddenly growing in size. 'You Floyd | do not want my help? Fine! Then try to get out of this mess yourself!' Floyd | Floyd | He turns around, whipping you with his tail. You lose your balance and Floyd | fall... Floyd | Floyd | [=>] | Jacqueline asks, "Give it this time?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Or not" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I can't read. I read that KISS SAUL as KILL SAUL and the response just threw me." | ||
| Peregrine says, "haha" | ||
| DavidW says, "I want to say no to the dragon this time." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "ok" | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ...fall, until a large branch stops your descent rather abruptly. Floyd | Floyd | Halfway down the Gorge (on the branch) Floyd | Even from here, you still can't see the bottom of the gorge, but you Floyd | can hear water rushing below. The top seems miles away; the walls are Floyd | mostly bare, except for the branch that miraculously broke your fall Floyd | without injuring you too much in the process. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP Floyd | Floyd | Mustering all your courage, you jump off the branch. Just like you Floyd | hoped, there is a river down there, but it isn't quite what you Floyd | expected. Floyd | Floyd | The currents drag you along... Floyd | Floyd | River of Storms Floyd | Strong wind currents carry you along, as if you were floating on Floyd | water; instead, you are floating in mid-air. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Just say no to dragons." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The currents drag you along... Floyd | Floyd | River of Storms Floyd | Strong wind currents carry you along, as if you were floating on Floyd | water; instead, you are floating in mid-air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The currents drag you along... Floyd | Floyd | River of Storms Floyd | Strong wind currents carry you along, as if you were floating on Floyd | water; instead, you are floating in mid-air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | The currents drag you along... Floyd | Floyd | River of Storms Floyd | Strong wind currents carry you along, as if you were floating on Floyd | water; instead, you are floating in mid-air. Floyd | Floyd | The canyon walls give way to an ice bank to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You swiftly steer towards the ice bank and the currents drop you Floyd | softly onto it. Floyd | Floyd | Ice Bank Floyd | A tiny bank of ice is all that separates the River of Storms from a Floyd | rough path leading up a mountain to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | After a long trip, you arrive at... Floyd | Floyd | Castle Courtyard Floyd | This may have been an impressive castle once, and seemed to be intact Floyd | from the distance, but the courtyard is all that remains; no walls Floyd | remain standing. Strange. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the Dragon here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to dragon" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO DRAGON Floyd | Floyd | 'You have come for the Heart of Winter.' Floyd | Floyd | You shudder at the sound of his voice. It is... old and Floyd | otherwordly, yet beautiful. "Y... yes," you manage. Floyd | Floyd | 'I will give it to you, under one condition. Give yourself to me, this Floyd | night. Then you shall have the Heart of Winter. What do you say?' Floyd | Floyd | >> | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "no" | ||
Floyd | >> Floyd | > NO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Dragon smiles. 'Come with me, child.' Floyd | Floyd | "What? I said no!" Floyd | Floyd | 'I know. I will still give you the Heart of Winter. In fact, I could Floyd | not withhold it from you even if I wanted.' Floyd | Floyd | He leads you into a small chamber. Floyd | Floyd | Small Chamber Floyd | This very small chamber is empty except for a large mirror hanging on Floyd | one wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > X MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | You see yourself in the mirror. Floyd | Floyd | "I only see myself!" you shout, "where is the Heart of Winter?" Floyd | Floyd | The Dragon smiles again. 'You are.' Floyd | Floyd | "I am? But..." Floyd | Floyd | He hushes you with a movement of his hand. 'I think you have someone Floyd | to go back to, do you not?' Floyd | Floyd | With another wave of the Dragon's hand, you are gone and find Floyd | yourself... Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Ice Queen's Cave Floyd | This is it. The dread Ice Queen's home lies to the north, the dark Floyd | cave mouth beckoning. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Ice Queen's Cave Floyd | The inside of the cave consists solely of ice. It is mostly empty, the Floyd | most striking feature being the gigantic ice throne the Queen is Floyd | sitting on. Prominently displayed in the middle of the cave is a Floyd | large, clear block of ice inside which Saul has been frozen. Floyd | Floyd | On the throne is the Ice Queen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to queen" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO QUEEN Floyd | Floyd | 'Well,' asks the Ice Queen, 'have you brought me the Heart of Winter?' Floyd | Floyd | "Yes." Floyd | Floyd | 'So,' she continues eagerly, 'where is it?' Floyd | Floyd | "I am the Heart of Winter." Floyd | Floyd | 'What? It cannot be!' Her eyes alight with anger, she raises her arms. Floyd | Floyd | 'Heart of Winter, eh? You will be dead of Winter!' Floyd | Floyd | Glistening magic leaves her fingertips, engulfing you... Floyd | Floyd | You feel cold for a second, but nothing else happens. The Queen looks Floyd | at you, her countenance shattered. Floyd | Floyd | Then the magic leaves you and strikes her full force. She screams a Floyd | high-pitched, bloodcurdling scream, then explodes into thousands of Floyd | tiny ice splinters. You close your eyes and crouch to shield your body Floyd | from the shrapnel. Floyd | Floyd | The next thing you know is Saul holding you in a tight embrace, Floyd | kissing you passionately. Floyd | Floyd | And then, you walk out of the cave, and make your way home. Floyd | Floyd | [=>] | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | TWO DEAD IN SNOW CHAOS Floyd | Floyd | The recent snow chaos has caused two more deaths. A young couple, Saul Floyd | O. (23) and an unidentified female, were caught in the storm. Floyd | Apparently, O. lost control of the car and crashed it into a tree. The Floyd | couple froze to death while trying to reach civilisation. It seems Floyd | they knew what was coming; they were found in a tight embrace, lips Floyd | frozen together in a final kiss. Floyd | Floyd | [=>] | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Floyd | debugcheapnitfol quit with exit status: 0 | ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | Peregrine says, "seems like the demon is key here" | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Aww. No happy ending?" | ||
| Peregrine says, "give him the crystal" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| DavidW says, "The game is called Dead of Winter." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Seems the only other turning point" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But yeah, the title." | ||
| DavidW says, "But okay" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Tru, tru." | ||
| Peregrine says, "We died... OF WINTER" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask deadofwinter" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | This game uses some special effects that can cause problems on older Floyd | interpreters, and especially on interpreters for handhelds. Floyd | Floyd | Answer 'no' if your interpreter doesn't support color or timed input. Floyd | Floyd | Do you want to play the enhanced version? | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "no" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You have made it, finally, to her cave. A week ago, she kidnapped your Floyd | boyfriend from your bed, while you were sleeping. When you awoke, he Floyd | was gone, a beautiful snowflake in his place. That was when you knew Floyd | she had taken him. Floyd | Floyd | 'I see you have found me,' says the Ice Queen amusedly. 'So you want Floyd | your boy back, my dear? Come, follow me inside.' Floyd | Floyd | She bows mockingly, then disappears inside the cave. Floyd | Floyd | DEAD OF WINTER Floyd | SmoochieComp 2001 Entry Floyd | (c) Copyright 2000 Christina Pagniacci Floyd | Please type ABOUT. Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 010104 / Inform v6.21 Library 6/10 Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Ice Queen's Cave Floyd | This is it. The dread Ice Queen's home lies to the north, the dark Floyd | cave mouth beckoning. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Ice Queen's Cave Floyd | The inside of the cave consists solely of ice. It is mostly empty, the Floyd | most striking feature being the gigantic ice throne the Queen is Floyd | sitting on. Prominently displayed in the middle of the cave is a Floyd | large, clear block of ice inside which Saul has been frozen. Floyd | Floyd | On the throne is the Ice Queen. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "*true, twice." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to queen" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO QUEEN Floyd | Floyd | 'You want him back? Then bring me the Heart of Winter. It is guarded Floyd | by the Dragon, but since you have found me, I am sure you are not Floyd | going to have a problem convincing him to give it to you.' Floyd | Floyd | The Ice Queen gestures, and an exit opens towards the north of the Floyd | cave. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to queen" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO QUEEN Floyd | Floyd | 'Come back when you have the Heart of Winter! And hurry!' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Gorge of Despair Floyd | A wide, deep gorge splits the land in half. There is no way across. On Floyd | the other side, in the distance, you can make out a castle. You can Floyd | also walk along the gorge to the east and west. Floyd | Floyd | An annoying little demon is fluttering around your head. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to demon" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO DEMON Floyd | Floyd | 'You want across this gorge? I can get you there, baby. Just give me Floyd | what you're holding!' Floyd | Floyd | "I'm not..." you start, then realize you are holding something. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a blue crystal Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | That would be suicide. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | 'Ungrateful wench!' screams the demon, suddenly growing in size. 'You Floyd | do not want my help? Fine! Then try to get out of this mess yourself!' Floyd | Floyd | He turns around, whipping you with his tail. You lose your balance and Floyd | fall... Floyd | Floyd | [=>] | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | ...fall, until a large branch stops your descent rather abruptly. Floyd | Floyd | Halfway down the Gorge (on the branch) Floyd | Even from here, you still can't see the bottom of the gorge, but you Floyd | can hear water rushing below. The top seems miles away; the walls are Floyd | mostly bare, except for the branch that miraculously broke your fall Floyd | without injuring you too much in the process. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd | Gorge of Despair Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give crystal to demon" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE CRYSTAL TO DEMON Floyd | Floyd | The demon accepts the crystal, giggling maniacally. Floyd | Floyd | A second later, you find yourself on an... Floyd | Floyd | Ice Bank Floyd | A tiny bank of ice is all that separates the River of Storms from a Floyd | rough path leading up a mountain to the northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > NW Floyd | Floyd | After a long trip, you arrive at... Floyd | Floyd | Castle Courtyard Floyd | This may have been an impressive castle once, and seemed to be intact Floyd | from the distance, but the courtyard is all that remains; no walls Floyd | remain standing. Strange. Floyd | Floyd | You can see the Dragon here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "huh" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to dragon" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO DRAGON Floyd | Floyd | 'You have come for the Heart of Winter.' Floyd | Floyd | You shudder at the sound of his voice. It is... old and Floyd | otherwordly, yet beautiful. "Y... yes," you manage. Floyd | Floyd | 'I will give it to you, under one condition. Give yourself to me, this Floyd | night. Then you shall have the Heart of Winter. What do you say?' Floyd | Floyd | >> | Knight_Otu says, "Oddly helpful demon." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "no" | ||
Floyd | >> Floyd | > NO Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Dragon smiles. 'Come with me, child.' Floyd | Floyd | "What? I said no!" Floyd | Floyd | 'I know. I will still give you the Heart of Winter. In fact, I could Floyd | not withhold it from you even if I wanted.' Floyd | Floyd | He leads you into a small chamber. Floyd | Floyd | Small Chamber Floyd | This very small chamber is empty except for a large mirror hanging on Floyd | one wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mirror" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > X MIRROR Floyd | Floyd | You see yourself in the mirror. Floyd | Floyd | "I only see myself!" you shout, "where is the Heart of Winter?" Floyd | Floyd | The Dragon smiles again. 'You are.' Floyd | Floyd | "I am? But..." Floyd | Floyd | He hushes you with a movement of his hand. 'I think you have someone Floyd | to go back to, do you not?' Floyd | Floyd | With another wave of the Dragon's hand, you are gone and find Floyd | yourself... Floyd | Floyd | Outside the Ice Queen's Cave Floyd | This is it. The dread Ice Queen's home lies to the north, the dark Floyd | cave mouth beckoning. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You're not abandoning Saul to her. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Ice Queen's Cave Floyd | The inside of the cave consists solely of ice. It is mostly empty, the Floyd | most striking feature being the gigantic ice throne the Queen is Floyd | sitting on. Prominently displayed in the middle of the cave is a Floyd | large, clear block of ice inside which Saul has been frozen. Floyd | Floyd | On the throne is the Ice Queen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "so this just saves us time? IFDB seems to hint at a second ending" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to queen" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > TALK TO QUEEN Floyd | Floyd | 'Well,' asks the Ice Queen, 'have you brought me the Heart of Winter?' Floyd | Floyd | "Yes." Floyd | Floyd | 'So,' she continues eagerly, 'where is it?' Floyd | Floyd | "I am the Heart of Winter." Floyd | Floyd | 'What? It cannot be!' Her eyes alight with anger, she raises her arms. Floyd | Floyd | 'Heart of Winter, eh? You will be dead of Winter!' Floyd | Floyd | Glistening magic leaves her fingertips, engulfing you... Floyd | Floyd | The cold freezes you to the core, turning you into an ice statue. You Floyd | cannot breathe, but you cannot die either. Helplessly, you watch as Floyd | the Ice Queen unfreezes Saul and kisses him passionately -- and he Floyd | returns her kiss! Floyd | Floyd | "What's this?" he asks when she releases him, pointing at you. Floyd | Floyd | 'Oh, just an ugly statue. Could you break it for me?' Floyd | Floyd | "Sure, my love." He walks up to you and pushes you over. Floyd | Floyd | You hear the laughter of the ice queen before you shatter. Floyd | Floyd | [=>] | Peregrine says, "oh, that's new" | |
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | Floyd | debugcheapnitfol quit with exit status: 0 | ||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | Peregrine says, "This looks like the bad ending" | |
| Peregrine says, "Poor us, hoping for a happier one" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Well, worse than the other bad ending." | ||
| Peregrine says, "Only Gunther would taunt us with the inevitability of death" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "wowsa, yeah" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I guess there is still the option of saying yeś to demon and dragon." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Not that I expect much change." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That's hilarious how we got the good ending and we were all like, "Nah, let's find the BETTER bad ending."" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "list p" | ||
| Floyd says (to DavidW), "packrat pad paint palebluelight paperchase parade parasites parasitesfinal parrot parrots partyfoul patanoir pathway pathway2 paxapoptosis paxbored paxbrain paxdelusions paxdigging paxfoodmagic paxhelpfulman paxless paxlobster paxmango paxmerk paxmidairmad paxqueuelty paxrighttool paxsafehouse paxscurvy paxvohii paxvortex paxvwspeedif paxwizshop pcontest pcu peelinglucky pegasus penandpaint pentari pepper perditionsflames permagic pesach petalthrone petalthrone-java14 petalthrone-java16 pets pfrank phlegm phoenix photograph photopia piece_v3 pigpancake pinched pintown piracy_2 pirate pizza planetfall planmind plant plundered poet ponderances pots ppocket praser5 prelude2night primrose princesse prodly profesee progressive1 promoted psibeingtheending psibirthofmind psidansenocturne psidashslapney psidayisavedelvis psimammothvacuum psiparty psipostchristmas psiragnarok psisilenceofgods psistupidcreek psithreemor pspy5 pumping punkpnts pytho" | Peregrine says, "That's probably deliberate game design" | |
| DavidW says, "I'm gonna add Post-Christmas Letdown." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh, that's a game?" | ||
| Peregrine says, "Didn't we just play Pre-Christmas Letdown :-D" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I thought you were accusing me of uploading a game that was a post-Christmas game letdown." | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "So yeah, what Peregrine said!" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask postchristmasletdown" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 0/1 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | It's December 26th. Your family has all gone home. Your apartment is a Floyd | disaster. You have an eggnog hangover. You need to get ready for work. Floyd | Too bad the Mouse King has parked himself in front of your closet. Floyd | Floyd | Post-Christmas Letdown Floyd | A Holiday Headache by E. Joyce Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 111231 / Inform 7 build 6F95 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | The room is small, but serviceable. The walls are devoid of any Floyd | posters or pictures - you keep meaning to put some up, but you never Floyd | get around to it. It still looks lived-in, though, which is a polite Floyd | way of saying it's a mess. The door of your closet doesn't quite open Floyd | all the way because of the way the bed is positioned, but what can you Floyd | do? There was nowhere else to put it. Floyd | Floyd | The door to the living room and kitchen area is to the west. Floyd | Floyd | The Mouse King stands at the foot of your bed, in front of the closet, Floyd | with his sword raised. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see your mother's shoes and a gift box (in which are some Floyd | expensive headphones) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "That seems familiar." | |
| Peregrine says, "Yeah, that happens every year, amirite" | ||
| DavidW says, "We might've played it before. It's from one of Tale's speed-ifs." | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't remember it though." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x king" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 0/2 Floyd | Floyd | > X KING Floyd | Floyd | Some stupid giant rodent that stands on its - or rather, his - hind Floyd | legs and has a tiny golden crown perched on his head. He brandishes a Floyd | sword, and his beady eyes glitter unpleasantly. You wonder if he's the Floyd | one who's been getting into your kitchen cabinets and chewing on the Floyd | contents. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I'll just stay back just in case." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shoes" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 0/3 Floyd | Floyd | > X SHOES Floyd | Floyd | Your mother subscribes to the "clean out closet; gift-wrap what you Floyd | find" school of gift-giving. These shoes are the latest result of Floyd | that. They are bright red, rhinestone-encrusted, and very heavy, with Floyd | pointy heels that must be at least five inches high. More weapon than Floyd | shoe, really. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "gift box" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 0/3 Floyd | Floyd | > GIFT BOX Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 0/4 Floyd | Floyd | > X BOX Floyd | Floyd | A nice box patterned with pine trees and snowflakes. Floyd | Floyd | In the gift box are some expensive headphones. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x headphones" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 0/5 Floyd | Floyd | > X HEADPHONES Floyd | Floyd | Your brother bought them for you, little knowing that you sold your Floyd | MP3 player in order to buy him some fancy peripheral for his game Floyd | console. (Come to think of it, he seemed less enthused about that than Floyd | you expected. Funny.) So you've got no use for them now. They are Floyd | very nice headphones, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take shoes" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 0/6 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SHOES Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear shoes" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 0/7 Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR SHOES Floyd | Floyd | They don't look comfortable, and besides, you're pretty sure that old Floyd | Mrs. Sedutto downstairs will flip out if you start clunking around in Floyd | these things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "click heels" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 0/7 Floyd | Floyd | > CLICK HEELS Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put shoes in box" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 0/8 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT SHOES IN BOX Floyd | Floyd | You put your mother's shoes into the gift box. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Aw. Our brother sold his game console to pay for our headphones." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yep." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take headphones" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 0/9 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE HEADPHONES Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take box" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 0/10 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE BOX Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "close box" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 0/11 Floyd | Floyd | > CLOSE BOX Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can close. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 0/12 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are wearing your underwear, and you have a gift box, some Floyd | expensive headphones, and a splitting headache. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x underwear" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 0/13 Floyd | Floyd | > X UNDERWEAR Floyd | Floyd | It's clean, mostly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "mostly" | |
| DavidW says, "The look on my face." | ||
| Peregrine says, "TMI" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give box to king" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 0/14 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE BOX TO KING Floyd | Floyd | He eyes the gift box beadily for a moment, then goes for his sword. Floyd | You snatch your hand away before he cuts it off. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, ">DROP HEADACHE" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x headache" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 0/15 Floyd | Floyd | > X HEADACHE Floyd | Floyd | It's kind of, you know, intangible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop headache" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 0/16 Floyd | Floyd | > DROP HEADACHE Floyd | Floyd | Don't you wish you could. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "heh" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give headache to king" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 0/17 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE HEADACHE TO KING Floyd | Floyd | Hmm. You can't give him your headache, of course, but maybe Floyd | you could give him a headache... Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Nice" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put headache in box" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 0/18 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT HEADACHE IN BOX Floyd | Floyd | It's kind of, you know, intangible. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine asks, "Where did this Mouse King come from?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit king with shoes" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 1/19 Floyd | Floyd | > HIT KING WITH SHOES Floyd | Floyd | (first taking your mother's shoes) Floyd | With power and precision borne of years of weekend amateur softball Floyd | games (or at least as much of that power and precision as you can Floyd | muster right now), you hurl your mother's shoes at the Mouse King. Floyd | Floyd | The shoes hit the Mouse King square in the head. He screeches Floyd | horribly, then flees out the bedroom window. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take shoes" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 1/20 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SHOES Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 1/21 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Bedroom Floyd | The room is small, but serviceable. The walls are devoid of any Floyd | posters or pictures - you keep meaning to put some up, but you never Floyd | get around to it. It still looks lived-in, though, which is a polite Floyd | way of saying it's a mess. The door of your closet doesn't quite open Floyd | all the way because of the way the bed is positioned, but what can you Floyd | do? There was nowhere else to put it. Floyd | Floyd | The door to the living room and kitchen area is to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open closet" | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 1/22 Floyd | Floyd | > OPEN CLOSET Floyd | Floyd | You open the closet, revealing a t-shirt and a pair of jeans. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x t-shirt. x jeans." | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 1/24
Floyd |
Floyd | > X T-SHIRT. X JEANS.
Floyd |
Floyd | It reads, "I Killed My Father And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt".
Floyd | It's the only thing around that's clean. Lucky you work in a call
Floyd | center and they don't bother so much about dress code.
Floyd |
Floyd | They're practically prehistoric - did you buy these things in high
Floyd | school? Oh well, they still fit and they don't have any holes in them.
Floyd | Good enough for government work, as your mother would probably say.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear t-shirt. wear jeans." | ||
Floyd ] Bedroom 2/26
Floyd |
Floyd | > WEAR T-SHIRT. WEAR JEANS.
Floyd |
Floyd | (first taking the t-shirt)
Floyd | You put on the t-shirt.
Floyd |
Floyd | (first taking the pair of jeans)
Floyd | You put on the pair of jeans.
Floyd |
Floyd | There, now you look... well, semi-presentable. You still feel like
Floyd | shit, though. You could use some coffee.
Floyd |
Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Jacqueline says, "That shirt... man." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah. Not something to own." | ||
| DavidW says, "Must be a family heirloom that dad got when he killed gran'dad." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "ha" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Anyway, game us wants coffee and kitchen is west?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room and Kitchen 2/27 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Living Room and Kitchen Floyd | A waist-high counter separates the kitchen at the north end of the Floyd | room from what you charitably think of as the living room. In the Floyd | living room part is a blue couch, a battered old coffee table, and a Floyd | small Christmas tree which leans drunkenly to one side; the only other Floyd | decoration is a calendar hanging on one wall. The kitchen, meanwhile, Floyd | contains all the usual kitchen stuff, of which the only thing that Floyd | interests you right now is the coffee maker. Floyd | Floyd | To the east is the door to your bedroom; your bathroom is west, and Floyd | the front door is south. Floyd | Floyd | A sprig of mistletoe hangs overhead. Floyd | Floyd | A sweater lies on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | The Norse God Baldr is in your kitchen using your coffee machine. And Floyd | it looks like he's only making enough for one person. How rude - Floyd | though it's nothing to using someone else's kitchen without asking in Floyd | the first place. Point is, you can't get your coffee fix while he's Floyd | hogging the machine, dammit. You'll have to make him go away somehow. Floyd | Floyd | Baldr frowns impatiently at the coffee-maker. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine exclaims, "Baldr lives!" | |
| DavidW says, "I'm gonna throw mistletoe at 'im." | ||
| DavidW says, "That's the usual way to kill Balder." | ||
| Peregrine says, "the mytho*logical* course of action" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take mistletoe" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room and Kitchen 2/28 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE MISTLETOE Floyd | Floyd | It's a little too high for you to reach. Floyd | Floyd | Baldr frowns impatiently at the coffee-maker. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sweater" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room and Kitchen 2/29 Floyd | Floyd | > X SWEATER Floyd | Floyd | A Christmas present from your aunt. It is a color you can only Floyd | describe as chartreuse (well, or "bright yellowy-green" but Floyd | "chartreuse" is snappier). Furthermore, it is about five sizes too big Floyd | for you, which you can't help wondering whether your aunt is trying to Floyd | tell you something. Like that you're fat. Which you're not. Point is, Floyd | it's a hideous sweater. Floyd | Floyd | Baldr frowns impatiently at the coffee-maker. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Ow." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take sweater" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room and Kitchen 2/30 Floyd | Floyd | > TAKE SWEATER Floyd | Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Baldr goes through your cabinets, apparently looking for the mugs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw sweater at mistletoe" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room and Kitchen 3/31 Floyd | Floyd | > THROW SWEATER AT MISTLETOE Floyd | Floyd | You throw (the missile) at the mistletoe with deadly perfect aim and Floyd | knock it to the ground, then scoop it up and pocket it. There was Floyd | probably an easier way to do that, but whatever. Floyd | Floyd | Baldr goes through your cabinets, apparently looking for the mugs. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw mistletoe at baldr" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room and Kitchen 4/32 Floyd | Floyd | > THROW MISTLETOE AT BALDR Floyd | Floyd | Remembering your Ragnarok prophecies (you knew that all those books of Floyd | mythology weren't a waste of time!), you wave the mistletoe menacingly Floyd | in Baldr's face. He goes pale - well, paler than he was to begin with Floyd | - and flinches away from it, then shimmers and vanishes. Probably some Floyd | kind of god teleportation thing. Oh well, you have access to the Floyd | coffee machine now, and that's what really matters here. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "make coffee" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room and Kitchen 4/32 Floyd | Floyd | > MAKE COFFEE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drink coffee" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room and Kitchen 5/33 Floyd | Floyd | > DRINK COFFEE Floyd | Floyd | You down the coffee like you're dying of thirst in a desert. Floyd | Floyd | You feel much more human now. Your mouth still tastes like something Floyd | died in it, though. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room and Kitchen 5/34 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are wearing a pair of jeans, a t-shirt, and your underwear, and Floyd | you have a sprig of mistletoe, a sweater, your mother's shoes, a gift Floyd | box, some expensive headphones, and a splitting headache. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear sweater" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room and Kitchen 5/35 Floyd | Floyd | > WEAR SWEATER Floyd | Floyd | You put on the sweater. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room and Kitchen 5/36 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Living Room and Kitchen Floyd | A waist-high counter separates the kitchen at the north end of the Floyd | room from what you charitably think of as the living room. In the Floyd | living room part is a blue couch, a battered old coffee table, and a Floyd | small Christmas tree which leans drunkenly to one side; the only other Floyd | decoration is a calendar hanging on one wall. The kitchen, meanwhile, Floyd | contains all the usual kitchen stuff, of which the only thing that Floyd | interests you right now is the coffee maker. Floyd | Floyd | To the east is the door to your bedroom; your bathroom is west, and Floyd | the front door is south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x underwear" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room and Kitchen 5/37 Floyd | Floyd | > X UNDERWEAR Floyd | Floyd | It's clean, mostly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I just wanted to put that out there again." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x calendar" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room and Kitchen 5/38 Floyd | Floyd | > X CALENDAR Floyd | Floyd | It was a Christmas present from your aunt last year. It has pictures Floyd | of adorable puppies on it, because pictures of adorable puppies are Floyd | one of the few interests that you and your aunt actually share. You Floyd | were sort of hoping she'd give you another calendar this year, but Floyd | instead she gave you that sweater that's like five sizes too big. Oh Floyd | well. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x couch" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room and Kitchen 5/39 Floyd | Floyd | > X COUCH Floyd | Floyd | It's definitely seen better days, but at least you vacuumed it before Floyd | your family came over and no one's even thrown up on it in almost a Floyd | year. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "I was about to ask, when did you expect it to have become fully clean?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room and Kitchen 5/40 Floyd | Floyd | > X TABLE Floyd | Floyd | A certain someone who used to live here took the coffee table with him Floyd | when he moved out (adding insult to injury, although you guess it Floyd | was his coffee table), so you got this one off Craigslist as Floyd | a replacement. It was only $20, and, well, you get what you pay for. Floyd | Works well enough for putting things on, though. Like coffee. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tree" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room and Kitchen 5/41 Floyd | Floyd | > X TREE Floyd | Floyd | Decorated with candy canes and cheap yet shiny plastic ornaments, the Floyd | tree is listing badly, looking like it's about to fall over. It's Floyd | looked like that ever since you put it in the stand, though, so you're Floyd | not too worried. It's like the goddamn Leaning Tower of Pisa or Floyd | something. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "remove sweater" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room and Kitchen 5/42 Floyd | Floyd | > REMOVE SWEATER Floyd | Floyd | You take off the sweater. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wrap tree with sweater" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room and Kitchen 5/42 Floyd | Floyd | > WRAP TREE WITH SWEATER Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Part of me *was* secretly hoping that it would provide a new status update on the cleanliness of the underwear, KO, but I wasn't expecting them to be *more* clean, fwiw." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put sweater on tree" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room and Kitchen 5/43 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT SWEATER ON TREE Floyd | Floyd | Putting things on the Christmas tree would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Eww." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stand" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room and Kitchen 5/43 Floyd | Floyd | > X STAND Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Living Room and Kitchen 5/44 Floyd | Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Living Room and Kitchen Floyd | A waist-high counter separates the kitchen at the north end of the Floyd | room from what you charitably think of as the living room. In the Floyd | living room part is a blue couch, a battered old coffee table, and a Floyd | small Christmas tree which leans drunkenly to one side; the only other Floyd | decoration is a calendar hanging on one wall. The kitchen, meanwhile, Floyd | contains all the usual kitchen stuff, of which the only thing that Floyd | interests you right now is the coffee maker. Floyd | Floyd | To the east is the door to your bedroom; your bathroom is west, and Floyd | the front door is south. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Leave the house?" | |
| Peregrine exclaims, "Coffee maker!" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Or was there a bathroom where we might find an aspirin or breath mint?" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Bathroom?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah, west." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd ] bathroom 5/45 Floyd | Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | bathroom Floyd | All this shiny white tile under fluorescent lighting kind of hurts Floyd | your eyes and makes your headache worse. Anyway, this bathroom is Floyd | equipped with all the normal bathroom stuff - toilet, sink, mirror, Floyd | shower. Floyd | Floyd | Tiny Tim sits on your sink, looking up at you with big, soulful eyes. Floyd | "Happy Christmas, and God bless you," he says. Floyd | Floyd | "I'd like to brush my teeth," you say wearily. Floyd | Floyd | "Of course," says Tiny Tim, "only..." Floyd | Floyd | "Only what?" you say. "Come on, get on with it." Floyd | Floyd | "Only, you see, I haven't any Christmas presents for my dear family, Floyd | and while of course the true spirit of the season requires no present, Floyd | only love and-" Floyd | Floyd | "I said get on with it," you snap. You have no patience right now for Floyd | the ramblings of characters written by authors who were paid by the Floyd | word. Floyd | Floyd | "Well, all right, I'd like a present," he says. You have the feeling Floyd | he's not going to leave until you find him something. Floyd | Floyd | On the sink is your toothbrush. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "Go west, young man" | |
| Peregrine says, "Oh, nice Dickens burn" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "This is so weird." | ||
| Peregrine says, "#WilkieCollinsFanboy" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put headphones in box" | ||
Floyd ] bathroom 5/46 Floyd | Floyd | > PUT HEADPHONES IN BOX Floyd | Floyd | You put the expensive headphones into the gift box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in box" | ||
Floyd ] bathroom 5/47 Floyd | Floyd | > LOOK IN BOX Floyd | Floyd | In the gift box are some expensive headphones. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give box to tim" | ||
Floyd ] bathroom 6/47 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE BOX TO TIM Floyd | Floyd | You hand Tiny Tim the empty gift box that your brother's present came Floyd | in. Tiny Tim smiles brightly. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, but how wonderful!" he says, in the most saccharine of tones. "A Floyd | useful box to put things in! It's really too kind of you to give this Floyd | to me!" You really cannot tell if he's being sarcastic or not. Floyd | Floyd | He hops off the sink and hobbles away to wherever Dickens characters Floyd | go when they're not needed. You breathe a sigh of relief and get on Floyd | with your tooth-brushing. Floyd | Floyd | The rest of your morning routine proves uneventful, and you even Floyd | manage to get to work on time - if only just. Which is great, because Floyd | you're really, really not sure how you'd explain why you were late. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You didn't even regift, you Scrooge, you *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 6 out of a possible 7, in 47 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "That's not right" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] bathroom 5/47 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | bathroom Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give headphones to tim" | ||
Floyd ] bathroom 7/47 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE HEADPHONES TO TIM Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the expensive headphones) Floyd | You hand Tiny Tim the expensive headphones that your brother gave you. Floyd | It's a bit of a wrench to part with them, but, well, what use have you Floyd | got for them now? Floyd | Floyd | Tiny Tim turns them over in his little hands a few times. "Er, they're Floyd | very nice, but... may I ask what exactly they are for?" he says, Floyd | sounding faintly puzzled. Floyd | Floyd | "Uh, they're a sort of hat," you say, not feeling up to explaining the Floyd | concept of portable music players to Victorians this morning. You take Floyd | them from him and put them over your ears. "See? Fashion statement." Floyd | Floyd | You hand the headphones back to him, and he hops off the sink and Floyd | hobbles away to wherever Dickens characters go when they're not Floyd | needed. You breathe a sigh of relief and get on with your Floyd | tooth-brushing. Floyd | Floyd | The rest of your morning routine proves uneventful, and you even Floyd | manage to get to work on time - if only just. Which is great, because Floyd | you're really, really not sure how you'd explain why you were late. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have regifted *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 7 out of a possible 7, in 47 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "llp" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] bathroom 5/47 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | bathroom Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give sweater to tim" | ||
Floyd ] bathroom 7/47 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE SWEATER TO TIM Floyd | Floyd | You hand Tiny Tim the ugly sweater from your aunt; he regards it Floyd | dubiously. "Well," he says, "I suppose my dear mother will like it." Floyd | Floyd | He hops off the sink and hobbles away to wherever Dickens characters Floyd | go when they're not needed. You breathe a sigh of relief and get on Floyd | with your tooth-brushing. Floyd | Floyd | The rest of your morning routine proves uneventful, and you even Floyd | manage to get to work on time - if only just. Which is great, because Floyd | you're really, really not sure how you'd explain why you were late. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have regifted *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 7 out of a possible 7, in 47 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] bathroom 5/47 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | bathroom Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give underwear to tim" | ||
Floyd ] bathroom 5/48 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE UNDERWEAR TO TIM Floyd | Floyd | (first taking your underwear off) Floyd | What would be the point of that? You don't have time to shower, Floyd | anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give headache to tim" | ||
Floyd ] bathroom 5/49 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE HEADACHE TO TIM Floyd | Floyd | It's kind of, you know, intangible. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Really, DW? The underpants?" | |
| Jacqueline shakes her head. | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "Some men would love to have them. (crosses arms smugly)" | ||
Floyd ] bathroom 5/49
Floyd |
Floyd | > SOME MEN WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THEM. (CROSSES ARMS SMUGLY)
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| Knight_Otu says, "Now imagine if it had worked, to boot." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give shoes to tim" | ||
Floyd ] bathroom 7/49 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE SHOES TO TIM Floyd | Floyd | You hand Tiny Tim your mother's shoes; he regards them dubiously. Floyd | "Well," he says, "I suppose my dear mother will like it." Floyd | Floyd | He hops off the sink and hobbles away to wherever Dickens characters Floyd | go when they're not needed. You breathe a sigh of relief and get on Floyd | with your tooth-brushing. Floyd | Floyd | The rest of your morning routine proves uneventful, and you even Floyd | manage to get to work on time - if only just. Which is great, because Floyd | you're really, really not sure how you'd explain why you were late. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have regifted *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 7 out of a possible 7, in 49 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||
Floyd ] bathroom 5/49 Floyd | Floyd | > UNDO Floyd | Floyd | bathroom Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] bathroom 5/50 Floyd | Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are wearing a pair of jeans, a t-shirt, and your underwear, and Floyd | you have a sprig of mistletoe, a sweater, your mother's shoes, a gift Floyd | box, and a splitting headache. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give jeans to tim" | ||
Floyd ] bathroom 5/51 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE JEANS TO TIM Floyd | Floyd | You kinda need to wear those. Your workplace may have a lax dress Floyd | code, but they frown on people showing up to work in their underwear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kiss tim" | ||
Floyd ] bathroom 5/52 Floyd | Floyd | > KISS TIM Floyd | Floyd | Keep your mind on the game. Floyd | Floyd | > | Peregrine says, "I guess we've figured out how to get the high score: regift" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give mistletoe to tim" | ||
Floyd ] bathroom 6/52 Floyd | Floyd | > GIVE MISTLETOE TO TIM Floyd | Floyd | You hand Tiny Tim the sprig of mistletoe that was hanging in your Floyd | living room. Not like you really wanted the stuff in the first place, Floyd | after all. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, but how wonderful!" he says, in the most saccharine of tones. Floyd | "Mistletoe! This is sure to bring Christmas cheer to my family!" You Floyd | really cannot tell if he's being sarcastic or not. Floyd | Floyd | He hops off the sink and hobbles away to wherever Dickens characters Floyd | go when they're not needed. You breathe a sigh of relief and get on Floyd | with your tooth-brushing. Floyd | Floyd | The rest of your morning routine proves uneventful, and you even Floyd | manage to get to work on time - if only just. Which is great, because Floyd | you're really, really not sure how you'd explain why you were late. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You didn't even regift, you Scrooge, you *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 6 out of a possible 7, in 52 turns. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, or UNDO the Floyd | last command? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah, regifting seems to be the way to go here." | |
| Peregrine says, "a game with a moral" | ||
| DavidW says, "I just wish we got rid of our headache." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Don't we all wish that when we have one?" | ||
| Peregrine says, "Made me think of this [LINK]" | ||
| Peregrine says, "(the headache discussion, I mean)" | ||
| DavidW asks, "So, have we played four games now?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "In less than an hour and a half." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Pretty wild." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Remember when games were larger?" | ||
| Peregrine has Zork PTSD | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Still, fun." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Not everything can be Cragne Manor." | ||
| DavidW says, "True" | ||
| Jacqueline says, ";ha" | ||
