  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask arthurgordon" | ||
Floyd | > ] Secret Compartment Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket Floyd | A Real Novel by Edgar Allan Poe Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 141207 / Inform 7 build 6L02 (I6/v6.33 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | Floyd | Secret Compartment Floyd | You are in a dark secret compartment hidden in a ship that you are Floyd | stowing away in. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, by Poe!" | |
| DavidW says, "I think listen and inventory first." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Who's driving?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Sounds good." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I clearly should not drive, as I couldn't even spell the game title, or find it initially. I should have not stayed up so late." | ||
| DavidW asks (of Knight), "any preference?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Secret Compartment Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Did you want to drive?" | |
| DavidW says, "Maybe later." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Secret Compartment Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You are Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, that's helpful." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Secret Compartment Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a ham Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| DavidW says, "I'm at least more awake than I usually am. Oh, a ham." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x ham" | ||
Floyd ] Secret Compartment Floyd | > Floyd | > X HAM Floyd | Floyd | You remember this ham being delicious. Floyd | Floyd | You hear the sounds of a bloody mutiny! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh dear. Stay hidden!" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "We may want to... right." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Secret Compartment Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Hey, your dog is in here! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "maybe smell the ham, see if it has a honey glaze." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x dog" | ||
Floyd ] Secret Compartment Floyd | > Floyd | > X DOG Floyd | Floyd | Your faithful dog is on this boat with you, somehow. Floyd | Floyd | You are going nuts with hunger! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "pet dog" | ||
Floyd ] Secret Compartment Floyd | > Floyd | > PET DOG Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Aw." | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "Shall we eat the ham?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "It seems obvious - at least for the first play of the game." | ||
| DavidW says, "sure. Hams have bones and the dog might like it." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "eat ham" | ||
Floyd ] Secret Compartment Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT HAM Floyd | Floyd | The ham is incredibly disgusting! You eat it regardless! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "At least, cartoon hams have bones." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Secret Compartment Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "No bones left it seems." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Secret Compartment Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Secret Compartment Floyd | You are in a dark secret compartment hidden in a ship that you are Floyd | stowing away on. Floyd | Floyd | You can see your dog here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Check inventory." | |
| Jacqueline exclaims, "In this game there are a lot of exclamations!" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "ask dog about dog" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK DOG ABOUT DOG Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | Your friend shows up and pulls you out of the secret compartment. Floyd | Floyd | Onboard The Ship (Mutiny) Floyd | You are on the ship, which has been mutinized. Your friend is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Huh." | |
| DavidW says, "Hope the friend has a name." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "yeah" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x friend" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | Whoops! Pretty soon a storm kicks up and shipwrecks all y'all! Floyd | Floyd | Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | Everyone is super hungry. There is a hole that leads down to the food. Floyd | Floyd | You can see your friend, your dog and a half-Indian here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Enter hole! Get food!" | |
| Jacqueline exclaims, "This is weird!" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | You are only strong enough to dive down in the hole and not retrieve Floyd | anything. Oh, how sad. Floyd | Floyd | But you need to eat something! Or someone??? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "! ??" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "eat me" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT ME Floyd | Floyd | You're plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "oops, that should have been... ! ???" | |
| DavidW says, "Whistle? Maybe the dog will jump down here." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "friend, d" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > FRIEND, D Floyd | Floyd | The friend has better things to do. Floyd | Floyd | You are so hungry. It's insane. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "whistle" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > WHISTLE Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I don't think we went down. We're still up top." | |
| DavidW says, "ok, eat one of the three." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x indian" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > X INDIAN Floyd | Floyd | I'm pretty sure this guy is half-Indian. I don't remember his name. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x friend" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > X FRIEND Floyd | Floyd | Your best friend helped you stow away on this boat and also brought Floyd | your dog along without telling you. Floyd | Floyd | You are so hungry. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "ask friend about food" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK FRIEND ABOUT FOOD Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "c'mon, choose one to eat." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I guess the dog." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I don't wanna. :(" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. Don't wanna either." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Shall I be the meanie?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat dog" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT DOG Floyd | Floyd | Maybe you eat the dog at this point, or maybe the dog dies some other Floyd | way. I don't remember. We'll say you eat the dog. Floyd | Floyd | But you're still hungry! Hungry enough to eat a fellow human. Floyd | Floyd | You are so hungry. Actually it's kind of ridiculous that you haven't Floyd | starved to death yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Dammit" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "sacrifice me" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > SACRIFICE ME Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I don't suppose we can fish for food either." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | Everyone is super hungry. There is a hole that leads down to the food. Floyd | Floyd | You can see your friend and a half-Indian here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | It is impossible to go anywhere, because it's just ocean in all Floyd | directions. Maybe also sharks? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat shark" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT SHARK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "eat sharks" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT SHARKS Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search wreck" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH WRECK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "buy pizza" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > BUY PIZZA Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "No seafood it seems." | |
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "eat friend" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT FRIEND Floyd | Floyd | The time has come to eat your friend. You drew straws earlier so you Floyd | know that it's your friend who gets to get eaten. Floyd | Floyd | You kill your friend and then you eat your friend's body. We shall Floyd | pass over this moment without dwelling on how grisly a moment it is. | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck)
Floyd | pass over this moment without dwelling on how grisly a moment it is.It
Floyd | is incredibly grisly. This is probably the worst situation that can
Floyd | happen, for a guy to consume another guy as food, even under desperate
Floyd | shipwreck circumstances like these. Your actions are unavoidable and
Floyd | yet unforgiveable. And so gross. So grisly.
Floyd |
Floyd | Okay, I'm done. You're probably strong enough to go down into that
Floyd | hole now.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
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| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | When you dive into the hole you are able to pull up some pickles! Floyd | Floyd | You are so hungry, you could eat... your friend. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "There. Y'all are welcome." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Darn." | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Wait. We already did!" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pickles" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > X PICKLES Floyd | Floyd | Maybe they were cucumbers, up until the shipwreck. Eh? Eh??? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat pickles" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT PICKLES Floyd | Floyd | You and the half-Indian eat the pickles and laugh heartily about how Floyd | delicious they are. Delightful! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Down again?" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Um, sure?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Possibly." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | When you dive into the hole you are able to pull up some pickles! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat pickles" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT PICKLES Floyd | Floyd | You and the half-Indian eat the pickles and laugh heartily about how Floyd | delicious they are. Delightful! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of Game), "wth?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask indian about himself" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK INDIAN ABOUT HIMSELF Floyd | Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask half-indian about himself" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK HALF-INDIAN ABOUT HIMSELF Floyd | Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess this game isn't deeply implemented." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | When you dive into the hole you are able to pull up some pickles! Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Seems so." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | When you dive into the hole you are able to pull up some pickles! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a pickles Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat pickles" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT PICKLES Floyd | Floyd | You and the half-Indian eat the pickles and laugh heartily about how Floyd | delicious they are. Delightful! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Parsers were less nuanced in Poe's time." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | When you dive into the hole you are able to pull up some pickles! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It's always pickles." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | It is impossible to go anywhere, because it's just ocean in all Floyd | directions. Maybe also sharks? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give pickles to indian" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE PICKLES TO INDIAN Floyd | Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "eat half-indian" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT HALF-INDIAN Floyd | Floyd | You can't eat the half-Indian, because he's around for the rest of the Floyd | story. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "I guess that's why it's not an, how did he put it - an official Ryan Veeder release?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "I'm not sure what to do next. We seem to be in a pickle. Or are we?" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter pickle" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > ENTER PICKLE Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Ow." | |
| Jacqueline says, "His message to me said, 'I don’t consider the Arthur Gordon Pym game an Actual Ryan Veeder Release. It was just supposed to be a stream of consciousness ephemeral sort of thing!'" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Prophetic exclamation point there, Ryan." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > U Floyd | Floyd | It is impossible to go anywhere, because it's just ocean in all Floyd | directions. Maybe also sharks? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ocean" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > X OCEAN Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wreck" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > X WRECK Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ship" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > X SHIP Floyd | Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > X ME Floyd | Floyd | You are Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm trying to recall any shipwreck Poe stories, but can't think of any." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "row, row, row our boat" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > ROW, ROW, ROW OUR BOAT Floyd | Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "make limerick" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > MAKE LIMERICK Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > XYZZY Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "swim" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > SWIM Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "All I know are the Tell-tale Heart and the Cask of Amonti-something-o." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "pray" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > PRAY Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "OH! HA!" | |
| Jacqueline | [LINK] | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I... guess I never read this." | ||
| DavidW asks, "There once was a man from Nantucket / Who stowed away on a junket?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We're already apparently gotten a far bit through the book." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "May I share the 30,000 foot summary?" | ||
| DavidW says, "sure. Possibly we shouldn't have hid so long." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, I dunno. I think that was fine." | ||
| Jacqueline | Various adventures and misadventures befall Pym, including shipwreck, mutiny, and cannibalism, before he is saved by the crew of the Jane Guy. Aboard this vessel, Pym and a sailor named Dirk Peters continue their adventures farther south. Docking on land, they encounter hostile black-skinned natives before escaping back to the ocean. The novel ends abruptly as Pym and Peters continue toward the South Pole. | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So maybe we just eat pickles until we are saved by the Jane Guy" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Oh, so just keep eating pickles?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Maybe." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat pickles" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT PICKLES Floyd | Floyd | You and the half-Indian eat the pickles and laugh heartily about how Floyd | delicious they are. Delightful! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | When you dive into the hole you are able to pull up some pickles! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat pickles" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT PICKLES Floyd | Floyd | You and the half-Indian eat the pickles and laugh heartily about how Floyd | delicious they are. Delightful! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | When you dive into the hole you are able to pull up some pickles! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat pickles" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > EAT PICKLES Floyd | Floyd | You and the half-Indian eat the pickles and laugh heartily about how Floyd | delicious they are. Delightful! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | When you dive into the hole you are able to pull up some pickles! Floyd | Floyd | Hey there's a ship coming this way! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ship" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > X SHIP Floyd | Floyd | Actually this ship is covered in corpses! Everyone on this ship died, Floyd | and now their bodies are just waving around in the breeze while they Floyd | putrefy. Grisly. Floyd | Floyd | I don't remember whether this ship shows up before or after you find Floyd | the pickles. Actually, I'm not totally sure they were pickles. I'm Floyd | writing all of this from memory, and it was like a month or two ago Floyd | when I listened to that audiobook. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu exclaims, "Ship!" | |
| DavidW asks, "so... get on ship?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Jeeze" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "My." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I... I was kinda kidding, but..." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "get on ship" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > GET ON SHIP Floyd | Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bodies" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > X BODIES Floyd | Floyd | This ship is covered in corpses! Everyone on this ship died, and now Floyd | their bodies are just waving around in the breeze while they putrefy. Floyd | Grisly. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "Hm." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search corpses" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH CORPSES Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bodies" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE BODIES Floyd | Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > L Floyd | Floyd | Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | Everyone is super hungry. There is a hole that leads down to the food. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a half-Indian here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Search the ship?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search ship" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > SEARCH SHIP Floyd | Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "board ship" | ||
Floyd ] Onboard The Ship (Wreck) Floyd | > Floyd | > BOARD SHIP Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Black Island Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | It is impossible to go anywhere, because it's just ocean in all Floyd | directions. Maybe also sharks? Floyd | Floyd | Well eventually you get rescued by this other ship and they take you Floyd | to this weird island in Antarctica. Floyd | Floyd | Black Island Floyd | I don't know if it's called "Antarctica" in the book. It's supposed to Floyd | be in the area of the south pole, though. Floyd | Floyd | This is an island populated by black people! But they aren't African Floyd | people. They are literally black. It's totally possible that they Floyd | function as a metaphor for African people, of course. I think most Floyd | 21st-century readers are going to go with a race-centric reading, Floyd | although there have been other interpretations. Floyd | Floyd | The chief of the whatever-they're-called wants you to follow him to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a half-Indian, an egg, a polar bear corpse, a weird river Floyd | and a chief here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I am now wearing my 'this is silly' face." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Weird." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "f take all" | ||
| DavidW says, "I am gobsmacked." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||
Floyd ] Black Island Floyd | > Floyd | > TAKE ALL Floyd | Floyd | half-Indian: Taken. Floyd | egg: Taken. Floyd | polar bear corpse: It is too heavy to pick up. Floyd | weird river: Taking the river would make about as much sense as Floyd | anything else, but I'm not gonna let you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Roger says, "I seem to recall it's not considered one of his better works (the original novel I mean)" | |
| Jacqueline says, "ha" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bear" | ||
Floyd ] Black Island Floyd | > Floyd | > X BEAR Floyd | Floyd | There are gigantic polar bears here, and one of them died, and this is Floyd | its body. The black people are terrified even of its corpse, for Floyd | whatever reason! It may be worth mentioning that this polar bear, like Floyd | the mundane, nonfictional polar bears of the Arctic, is white. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x river" | ||
Floyd ] Black Island Floyd | > Floyd | > X RIVER Floyd | Floyd | The water of this island has veins? I don't know. The description in Floyd | the book goes into a lot of detail, but totally fails to convey any Floyd | coherent image. I would reproduce that description here but I promised Floyd | myself I wouldn't look at the text of the book while writing this Floyd | game—and I, Edgar Allan Poe, always keep my promises. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Aren't polar bears only at the North... never mind." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x egg" | ||
Floyd ] Black Island Floyd | > Floyd | > X EGG Floyd | Floyd | The egg is very white! The black people are terrified of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I think we should go west?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "So it would seem." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > W Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Canyon (Ambush) Floyd | The chief and his retinue lead you white guys (and the one half-Indian Floyd | guy) to a canyon. And then there's an ambush! The natives totally get Floyd | the drop on you! And you and the half-Indian are separated from the Floyd | others! Or the others all die maybe. And you end up in a cave! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm just sitting here, shaking my head, and I'm down for whatever." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd ] Cave Floyd | >Oh whoops! Like I was saying, you end up in a cave. Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floyd | This cave extends in various directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a half-Indian here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd ] Cave Floyd | > Floyd | > I Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an egg Floyd | a pickles Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "You have: a pickles." | |
| DavidW says, "yes, from earlier" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Our uneaten friend jumoed out of our inventory." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I was mostly poking fun at the plural issue" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "*jumped" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| DavidW says, "Maybe if we go down from here, we can find sliced bread." | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Pickle sammich?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Better than dog!" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||
Floyd ] Cave Floyd | > Floyd | > D Floyd | Floyd | The half-Indian guy follows you. As you walk through the cave, you Floyd | notice that its passages take the form of a character of the ancient Floyd | Ethiopian alphabet, although this surely is a coincidence. Floyd | Floyd | You end up in another cave. Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floyd | This cave extends in various directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a half-Indian here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I wonder if things had gone substantially differently if I'd decided to just eat our non-friend who is half-Indian who apparently is not afforded a name." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd ] Cave Floyd | > Floyd | > LISTEN Floyd | Floyd | You hear nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||
Floyd ] Cave Floyd | > Floyd | > SMELL Floyd | Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd ] Cave Floyd | > Floyd | > N Floyd | Floyd | The half-Indian guy follows you. This cave is also shaped like another Floyd | Ethiopian letter. How odd! Floyd | Floyd | You end up in a third cave. Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floyd | This cave extends in various directions. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a half-Indian here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Mist Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | The half-Indian guy follows you. Another Ethiopian letter. Still, Floyd | three coincidences in a row doesn't mean anything. Floyd | Anyway you climb out of the cave! You are pursued by the natives! You Floyd | take one of them captive and escape on one of their canoes! You paddle Floyd | out into mysterious mist! Floyd | Floyd | Mist Floyd | The canoe floats through the white mist. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a half-Indian and a captive here. Floyd | Floyd | You feel uneasy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Knight_Otu says, "I don't think our friend had a name either." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Oh. That's a good point." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mist" | ||
Floyd ] Mist Floyd | > Floyd | > X MIST Floyd | Floyd | It's all over the place. But it's not cold, even though you're Floyd | supposedly near the south pole. Floyd | Floyd | TEKELI-LI Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I've been feeling uneasy for a while, to be fair." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x captive" | ||
Floyd ] Mist Floyd | > Floyd | > X CAPTIVE Floyd | Floyd | He is incredibly terrified of how white everything is out here. Around Floyd | now you find out that even his teeth are black. Floyd | Floyd | A white bird flies past, shrieking TEKELI-LI Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd ] Mist Floyd | > Floyd | > S Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | TEKELI-LI TEKELI-LI Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tekeli-li" | ||
Floyd ] Mist Floyd | > Floyd | > TEKELI-LI Floyd | Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bird" | ||
Floyd ] Mist Floyd | > Floyd | > X BIRD Floyd | Floyd | They are freaky birds. Floyd | Floyd | More birds! TEKELI-LI TEKELI-LI Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show egg to bird" | ||
Floyd ] Mist Floyd | > Floyd | > SHOW EGG TO BIRD Floyd | Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd ] Mist Floyd | > Floyd | > E Floyd | Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | TEKELI-LI TEKELI-LI TEKELI-LI Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I have way better things to do, but this does spark a fun idea for a game jam / speed IF for me." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask captive about bird" | ||
Floyd ] Mist Floyd | > Floyd | > ASK CAPTIVE ABOUT BIRD Floyd | Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | The canoe enters a whirlpool! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "z" | ||
Floyd ] Mist Floyd | > Floyd | > Z Floyd | Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | You are still going down the whirlpool! Floyd | Floyd | TEKELI-LI Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It would be kind of funny to do a speed IF where people have to implement a classic novel from memory." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||
Floyd ] Mist Floyd | > Floyd | > JUMP Floyd | Floyd | You jump on the spot. Floyd | Floyd | There's a white man in the center of the whirlpool! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline files that idea away. | |
| Knight_Otu says, "That would be somrthing." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I can't ever type right." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give captive to white man" | ||
Floyd | > Floyd | > GIVE CAPTIVE TO WHITE MAN Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the captive) Floyd | The white man doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | Now you're right up in on the white man! Floyd | Floyd | He is standing in the middle of the whirlpool. He is huge. He has a Floyd | beard. He is totally white. He is beckoning you. | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | beard. He is totally white. He is beckoning you.TEKELI-LI | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | beard. He is totally white. He is beckoning you.TEKELI-LISo, at this Floyd | point in the book, I (Edgar Allan Poe) explain that you (Arthur Gordon Floyd | Pym) died before you could write down what happened next. You Floyd | apparently survived your encounter with the white man, because you Floyd | were around to write everything else in the story and then ask me to Floyd | publish it under my own name, but obviously you should have died at Floyd | that part of the story, so instead you died while writing it down. Floyd | Floyd | The story closes with this fantastic fake Bible quote, and while it Floyd | was very important for me to not read any of the original story while Floyd | writing this groundbreaking interactive version, I do want to make Floyd | sure I reproduce this fake Bible quote correctly, so I'm going to Floyd | break my rule and go look at the original version: | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd | break my rule and go look at the original version: Floyd | Floyd | "I have graven it within the hills, and my vengeance upon the dust Floyd | within the rock." | ||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
Floyd ] Mist
Floyd | within the rock."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | *** THE END. ***
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Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >
| Knight_Otu says, "That was something." | |
| Jacqueline says, "That was... interesting." | ||
| DavidW says, "Like seeing someone else's dream." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Like, I'm glad I did it" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But yeah." | ||
| DavidW says, "That didn't take very long." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. Half an hour-ish." | ||
