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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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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "load sleepmask dontmindmyhead" | ||
| CF ] 7:32 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Just take your coat off and come join us in the dining room, we're | ||
| CF | all about to start," Julia says as she already steps out of the | ||
| CF | vestibule. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Coming here tonight was definitely a terrible idea. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [If you are new to parser fiction, type HELP] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Don't Mind My Apocalypse Head | ||
| CF | An interactive nightmare by Bruno Dias | ||
| CF | Release 1 / Serial number 170403 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib | ||
| CF | 6/12N) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Vestibule | ||
| CF | The vestibule, that most Freudian of rooms, is the liminal space | ||
| CF | between the front door and the interior of the house proper. This one, | ||
| CF | like the rest of the house, is wood-paneled and vaguely beaux-arts in | ||
| CF | a way that can only be described as "tweedy." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You try not to catch yourself on the full-length mirror. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can also see a coat hook here. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Guenni says (to ClubFloyd), "x me" | ||
| CF ] 7:33 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X ME | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You get tired of staring at yourself, and your eyes wander over to the | ||
| CF | full-length mirror instead: A nice, big mirror on a wooden frame. Of | ||
| CF | course. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You spot your reflection clearly on the full-length mirror, and | ||
| CF | also the reflection of your additional, unseen head: It has inky | ||
| CF | black pits for eyes, but it still seems to stare right at you. "Breach | ||
| CF | the seals. Open the gate," it says, in a cracked voice that's not | ||
| CF | quite your own. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | The head in the mirror belongs to a version of yourself from a | ||
| CF | previous iteration of the universe. One that seemingly ended really | ||
| CF | poorly, given that it's clearly possessed by some kind of | ||
| CF | world-rending evil. You're really in no state to attend a dinner | ||
| CF | party, but you'd already RSVP'd. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, "Well, I am glad somebody is trying to impress us with his vocabulary." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Well that went weird fast." | ||
| DavidW says, "IF is definitely the place for vocab fun." | ||
| Guenni says, "i" | ||
| Guenni says (to ClubFloyd), "i" | ||
| CF ] 7:34 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > I | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You are carrying: | ||
| CF | a coat (being worn) | ||
| CF | your phone | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Guenni says (to ClubFloyd), "x phone" | ||
| CF ] 7:35 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X PHONE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A mid-range Android. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Guenni says (to ClubFloyd), "x coat" | ||
| CF ] 7:36 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X COAT | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | (the coat) | ||
| CF | A grey peacoat; a bit grandiose, but appropriate to the autumn chill. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | MoyTW says, "Hmm. Time's ticking." | |
| Guenni says, "possibly" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "At least we're relaxed." | ||
| MoyTW says, "We've spent four minutes so far hanging out in the most Freudian of rooms." | ||
| Guenni says (to ClubFloyd), "remove coat" | ||
| CF ] 7:37 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > REMOVE COAT | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | (the coat) | ||
| CF | You take off your coat and hang it. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, "Maybe his has a Cthulu mechanic were you can go insane and lose." | |
| Guenni says (to ClubFloyd), "l" | ||
| CF ] 7:38 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > L | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Vestibule | ||
| CF | The vestibule, that most Freudian of rooms, is the liminal space | ||
| CF | between the front door and the interior of the house proper. This one, | ||
| CF | like the rest of the house, is wood-paneled and vaguely beaux-arts in | ||
| CF | a way that can only be described as "tweedy." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You try not to catch yourself on the full-length mirror. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can also see a coat hook (on which is a coat) here. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | MoyTW asks, "Uh, exits?" | |
| Guenni says, "That was the idea." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm still waking up. I didn't see the exits." | ||
| MoyTW says (to ClubFloyd), "exits" | ||
| CF ] 7:38 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EXITS | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | That's not a verb I recognise. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "I feel like a hallway is more Freudian than a vestibule, but whatever." | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "In, perhaps?" | ||
| Guenni says (to ClubFloyd), "enter" | ||
| CF ] 7:39 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > ENTER | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You must supply a noun. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Guenni says (to ClubFloyd), "enter rooms" | ||
| CF ] 7:39 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > ENTER ROOMS | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [That is either not here, or you don't need to refer to it over | ||
| CF | the course of this story.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "n" | ||
| CF ] 7:40 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > N | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You find your way to the dining room... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | A large bay window lets in no light through the thick drapes; a brass | ||
| CF | chandelier that Julia hasn't been able to get rid of clashes a bit | ||
| CF | with the modernist minimalism of the furniture. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the dining chairs are Julia, Raul, Francis and Janet. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the table are a sterling silver epergne (on which are some | ||
| CF | marbles), some silverware, some plates (on which are some seafood | ||
| CF | vol-au-vents) and some glasses. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia looks at you thoughtfully from her chair at the head of the | ||
| CF | table. "Please," she says, "take a seat." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You do so, and she adds: "I see you didn't bring a date. That's a | ||
| CF | shame." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Guenni says (to ClubFloyd), "x juila" | ||
| CF ] 7:40 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X JUILA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [That is either not here, or you don't need to refer to it over | ||
| CF | the course of this story.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Knight_Otu says, "I'm... hm." | |
| Guenni says (to ClubFloyd), "x julia" | ||
| CF ] 7:41 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Proudly grey-haired and staring at the word from behind wire-rim | ||
| CF | glasses. Julia teaches classics, or so you understand to be the case, | ||
| CF | though as far as you know she gives only seminars, not lectures, and | ||
| CF | spends most of her time on various obscure side projects. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Please, dig in. I think you'll enjoy this one," Julia says. Francis | ||
| CF | pokes at the dish in front of him with a fork: "What is it?" "Why | ||
| CF | don't you take a bite and tell me?" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Guenni says (to ClubFloyd), "eat" | ||
| CF ] 7:42 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | (the phone) | ||
| CF | Your eyes run across the silverware you're using: | ||
| CF | A full set of silverware, including mirror-polished knives, forks, | ||
| CF | spoons, and so on, carefully placed next to everyone's plates. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the silverware: "Worms issue from the mouth! Black ichor! | ||
| CF | Falling and falling!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | That's plainly inedible. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis uses his fork to collapse the construction on his plate. "Is | ||
| CF | it... crab?" Julia just smiles and takes a bite out of her own plate. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | MoyTW asks, "...? I think we're supposed to be hitting space?" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "What's the difference between a seminar and a lecture?" | ||
| MoyTW asks, "Or enter? or something?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "No, I think we were supposed to eat food, but the game supplied the wrong noun." | ||
| Guenni says, "Seminars are kind of like school lessons. Lectures are just like monolugues by the teacher." | ||
| MoyTW says, "I think students talk in seminars but not in lectures." | ||
| Guenni says (to ClubFloyd), "eat food" | ||
| CF ] 7:43 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT FOOD | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a look at the seafood vol-au-vents before digging in: | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A vol-au-vent is a little bucket made out of puff pastry; this one is | ||
| CF | filled with some kind of pinkish material that you strongly suspect is | ||
| CF | some type of seafood, but you can't identify which. It's also topped | ||
| CF | with three thin, artistically-arranged chives. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a few bites out of the seafood vol-au-vents. | ||
| CF | The filling consists of pale bits of vaguely crustacean flesh floating | ||
| CF | in vaguely sea-tasting sauce; it's either lobster in a crab sauce, or | ||
| CF | crab in a lobster sauce. It runs all over your plate the moment you | ||
| CF | crack the exterior of the puff pastry. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis turns to Raul: "So how's the teaching going?" "Fine. How's the | ||
| CF | business going?" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm. Okay. The PC made it sound like one was inherently not as impressive as the other. Weird." | |
| Guenni says (to ClubFloyd), "x raul" | ||
| CF ] 7:44 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X RAUL | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Balding, spindly, European (but you're not sure from where). Raul | ||
| CF | mostly takes credit for the work of his grad students and gives | ||
| CF | lectures on physics that consistently get accused of being "boring" on | ||
| CF | RateMyProfessor. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis replies: "Really well, actually. We just applied for another | ||
| CF | patent last week." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | MoyTW says, "I mean, I'm not an academic, or high-class. I don't even know what a vol-au-vent is. So maybe the PC has some class knowledge there." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "It would be impressive to keep some types of student silent for a lecture." | ||
| Guenni exclaims, "Heh!" | ||
| Guenni says (to ClubFloyd), "x janet" | ||
| CF ] 7:45 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X JANET | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis' long-term partner and the one other person in this dinner | ||
| CF | party without more than one post-graduate degree. You don't really | ||
| CF | know what her deal is. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "I love this," Janet pipes in. "Is it lobster?" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, "Vol-au-vent is an excessively boring and useless way of adding a bit of pastry to a meal. I only know it because I lived in Belgium for a while." | |
| Jacqueline exclaims, "But... but... PASTRY!" | ||
| Guenni says, "I would object to the fishy filling. Strongly." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Not me." | ||
| Touchy says, "You can fill it with whatever. The Belgians usually have chicken it." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, are we just supposed to eat dinner and socialize?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I know I'd find the only fishbone in the meal." | ||
| Guenni says, "Now I'm with Jacqueline." | ||
| MoyTW asks, "Isn't that what a dinner party is?" | ||
| Guenni says (to ClubFloyd), "x francis" | ||
| CF ] 7:46 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X FRANCIS | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis quit academia to join some kind of biotech startup, and he | ||
| CF | looks exactly like someone who quit academia to join a biotech startup | ||
| CF | should look like: Smug in a fleece. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Keep guessing," Julia continues. "I think Raul had some really good | ||
| CF | lectures last term, didn't you?" She pats her husband on the shoulder, | ||
| CF | for emphasis. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy asks, "Do we all drink wine to get in the mood for this game?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "It's 8:38am, but I do have some sparkling wine planned for brunch later." | ||
| DavidW says, "And try to avoid looking at shiny reflective things." | ||
| Guenni says (to ClubFloyd), "ask francis about patent" | ||
| CF ] 7:47 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > ASK FRANCIS ABOUT PATENT | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Scallops. It's gotta be scallops," Francis finally realizes. "Got it | ||
| CF | in two," Julia replies. Raul seems almost relieved that's over. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Guenni says (to ClubFloyd), "z" | ||
| CF ] 7:48 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > Z | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You stare at the ceiling. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia: "What's that patent about again?" Francis seems positively | ||
| CF | delighted to explain. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Guenni says, "Looks like sit and watch..." | |
| Touchy says, "20;40 here" | ||
| Touchy says, "Didn't know it was exactly 12 hours to Hawaii." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "hahaha - I kind of like the visual of us, with our head, staring at the ceiling while these people around us prattle on." | ||
| DavidW says, "What was that eper-whatever" | ||
| DavidW says, "My handwriting isnt clear." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Touchy), "12 hours this time of year, yeah." | ||
| DavidW asks, "with the marbles?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "eat food" | ||
| CF ] 7:49 pm Soup 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT FOOD | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You finish eating the seafood vol-au-vents. | ||
| CF | It's a bit large for an amuse-bouche, to be honest, but you did skip | ||
| CF | lunch today. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis launches into his explanation. It goes over your head but you | ||
| CF | think you catch the word "telomers". He's interrupted, of course, when | ||
| CF | Julia asks if everyone is ready for the soup. Everyone is about as | ||
| CF | excited as you can get for soup, which is to say not very much at all. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Your phone chirps as a notification comes in. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia steps away with the plates and returns with the next course: A | ||
| CF | soup. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Knight_Otu says, "Epergne." | |
| Guenni asks, "I don't remember any marbles???" | ||
| Touchy says, "Don't look at the phone." | ||
| MoyTW exclaims, "Hey I like soup game!" | ||
| DavidW says, "What's an epergne? That's a word I don't know." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I'm a fan of soup. I don't know what this game is going on about." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I have no idea." | ||
| Jacqueline asks (of Touchy), "Don't look at the phone?" | ||
| MoyTW says, "Google says: "an ornamental centerpiece for a dining table, typically used for holding fruit or flowers."" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Might be reflective." | ||
| Allen says, "'big fan of soup'. Clearly antifa" | ||
| DavidW says, "Oh. So we shouldn't eat the centerpiece. Probably." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Allen), "Sigh. Took me a second to even know what you were talking about." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x soup" | ||
| CF ] 7:50 pm Soup 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X SOUP | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A bright orange broth. Seasonal. Safe. Surprisingly clear, actually, | ||
| CF | almost like consomm��... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the squash soup: "You cannot save them! Nobody can be saved!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "This is good soup," Janet says delightedly. "Is this yam?" "Squash," | ||
| CF | Julia replies. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy asks (of Allen), "What ARE you talking about?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Take it to #politics" | ||
| Allen says (to Touchy), "US politics, be thankful you don't know" | ||
| Guenni says, "I still don't know. "Antifa" in german is defnitely something different." | ||
| Touchy says (to Guenni), "I doubt it." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Perhaps eat the soup?" | ||
| Guenni says (to ClubFloyd), "eat soup" | ||
| CF ] 7:51 pm Soup 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT SOUP | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a few bites out of the squash soup. | ||
| CF | The taste is so subtle that you could be forgiven for thinking it | ||
| CF | doesn't actually taste of very much at all. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You're getting a bit anxious about that unread notification. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis tries to get back on track explaining what his company does, | ||
| CF | but nobody seems too interested. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline clears the save counter. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "SAVE" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "cf1" | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > SAVE | ||
| CF | %% Enter a save filename to write: | ||
| CF ] 7:51 pm Soup 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > SAVEOk. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "I want to do something awkward, or possibly very violent. Just to mix it up a bit." | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "scream" | ||
| CF ] 7:52 pm Soup 8 (Mortifying) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > SCREAM | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You turn to the empty space over your shoulder and scream: "SHUT UP!" | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has increased by five points.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia suddenly turns to you: "So how's the job search going?" You try | ||
| CF | to talk for a moment about what you're working on now, but end up | ||
| CF | trailing off. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "YES" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Awkward." | ||
| Touchy says, "haha" | ||
| Guenni says (to ClubFloyd), "look at phone" | ||
| CF ] 7:53 pm Soup 8 (Mortifying) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > LOOK AT PHONE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A mid-range Android. The notification light is pulsing. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You clear away the notifications; there's nothing important. Looks | ||
| CF | like someone liked one of your tweets. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis faces you: "You could come work with us at Agrosynth. You did | ||
| CF | your dissertation on plant genetics, right?" "Minoan archeology," you | ||
| CF | reply reflexively. "Ah, my mistake." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | MoyTW asks, "Well I guess it got their attention?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "It took us to 8" | ||
| MoyTW says, "Or it just progresses the script and they'd do that anyways." | ||
| Guenni says (to ClubFloyd), "drop spoon" | ||
| CF ] 7:54 pm Soup 8 (Mortifying) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > DROP SPOON | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You haven't got those. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "I seem to remember Julia did some Minoan work back in the day," Raul | ||
| CF | notes. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "I... have no idea if that's a good thing or not, to be at 8" | |
| Touchy says, "no." | ||
| DavidW says, "We don't have a goal yet." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "It might not be." | ||
| MoyTW asks, "...keep doing things and see if they kick us out?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "kiss julia" | ||
| CF ] 7:55 pm Soup 8 (Mortifying) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > KISS JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia might not like that. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia: "Really, it wasn't anything important. A side project at best." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "jump" | ||
| CF ] 7:56 pm Soup 8 (Mortifying) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > JUMP | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You jump on the spot. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can tell that some tension is hanging in the air, just for a | ||
| CF | moment. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "aw" | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "scream" | ||
| CF ] 7:56 pm Soup 13 ( | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > SCREAM | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You turn to the empty space over your shoulder and scream: "SHUT UP!" | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has increased by five points.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Janet: "Really, we should do this more often. It's been so hard to get | ||
| CF | together with friends lately." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You try to say something, but you're basically paralyzed by | ||
| CF | mortification at this point. Coming here was a terrible idea, and you | ||
| CF | realize that you're going to scurry home feeling like a damn fool. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Ending A | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | *** You have been mortified. *** | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last | ||
| CF | command or read the PARATEXT? | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Well." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So, that is not the winning approach." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "restart" | ||
| CF ] 7:32 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Just take your coat off and come join us in the dining room, we're | ||
| CF | all about to start," Julia says as she already steps out of the | ||
| CF | vestibule. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Coming here tonight was definitely a terrible idea. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [If you are new to parser fiction, type HELP] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Don't Mind My Apocalypse Head | ||
| CF | An interactive nightmare by Bruno Dias | ||
| CF | Release 1 / Serial number 170403 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib | ||
| CF | 6/12N) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Vestibule | ||
| CF | The vestibule, that most Freudian of rooms, is the liminal space | ||
| CF | between the front door and the interior of the house proper. This one, | ||
| CF | like the rest of the house, is wood-paneled and vaguely beaux-arts in | ||
| CF | a way that can only be described as "tweedy." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You try not to catch yourself on the full-length mirror. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can also see a coat hook here. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW says, "I suspect you can scream at a target as well." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I want to look at us again, as I'm not sure I comprehended what I saw." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x me" | ||
| CF ] 7:33 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X ME | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You get tired of staring at yourself, and your eyes wander over to the | ||
| CF | full-length mirror instead: A nice, big mirror on a wooden frame. Of | ||
| CF | course. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You spot your reflection clearly on the full-length mirror, and | ||
| CF | also the reflection of your additional, unseen head: It has inky | ||
| CF | black pits for eyes, but it still seems to stare right at you. "Breach | ||
| CF | the seals. Open the gate," it says, in a cracked voice that's not | ||
| CF | quite your own. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | The head in the mirror belongs to a version of yourself from a | ||
| CF | previous iteration of the universe. One that seemingly ended really | ||
| CF | poorly, given that it's clearly possessed by some kind of | ||
| CF | world-rending evil. You're really in no state to attend a dinner | ||
| CF | party, but you'd already RSVP'd. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Guenni says, "Be back in a minute. Go ahead." | |
| Jacqueline says, "AH! The second head is visible only to us." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "That, or it's just in our head(s)." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So is our goal to breach the seals and open the gate?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to KO), "Yeah" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I'm not sure we want to be three-headed in the next universe." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x coat hook" | ||
| CF ] 7:34 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X COAT HOOK | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | For hanging coats on. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW says, "We could just be on drugs." | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "hang coat" | ||
| CF ] 7:34 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > HANG COAT | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | What do you want to hang the coat on? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "coat hook" | ||
| CF ] 7:34 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > COAT HOOK | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | I didn't understand that sentence. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "hang coat on coat hook" | ||
| CF ] 7:35 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > HANG COAT ON COAT HOOK | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | (the coat on the coat hook) | ||
| CF | You take off your coat and hang it. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x coat" | ||
| CF ] 7:36 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X COAT | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | (the coat hook) | ||
| CF | You get tired of staring at the coat hook, and your eyes wander over | ||
| CF | to the full-length mirror instead: A nice, big mirror on a wooden | ||
| CF | frame. Of course. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You spot your reflection clearly on the full-length mirror, and | ||
| CF | also the reflection of your additional, unseen head: "Worms issue | ||
| CF | from the mouth! Black ichor! Falling and falling!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "eep" | |
| Touchy asks, "What is paratext?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "search coat" | ||
| CF ] 7:37 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > SEARCH COAT | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | (the coat hook) | ||
| CF | On the coat hook is a coat. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "Now I'm worried I left something critical in the coat pockets." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Also, darn disambiguation." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Maybe we can get the coat back?" | ||
| MoyTW says, "Paratext is stuff around the text. Like, uh, feelies & the copy protection manual." | ||
| Jacqueline | Paratext is a concept in literary interpretation. The main text of published authors (e.g. the story, non-fiction description, poems, etc.) is often surrounded by other material supplied by the authors, editors, printers, and publishers, which is known as the paratext. | ||
| MoyTW says, "Oh! JK Rowling's Twitter is paratext." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "I missed the word, where was 'paratext'?" | ||
| Touchy says, "Thanks Jaquipedia" | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, like quotes from other authros." | ||
| Touchy says, "In the options when we lost..." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah" | ||
| DavidW says, "PARATEXT was an option at the ending." | ||
| DavidW says, "Like ENDNOTES" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, I'm sure the game will end again, soon enough." | ||
| Touchy asks, "So the goal is to make it through the party?" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "I guess?" | ||
| Touchy says, "kk" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I kind of want to never look at the notifications on our phone, to see if one of our heads explodes in anxiety." | ||
| Guenni grins | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, um, north? Get this party started?" | ||
| Touchy says (to ClubFloyd), "n" | ||
| CF ] 7:38 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > N | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You find your way to the dining room... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | A large bay window lets in no light through the thick drapes; a brass | ||
| CF | chandelier that Julia hasn't been able to get rid of clashes a bit | ||
| CF | with the modernist minimalism of the furniture. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the dining chairs are Julia, Raul, Francis and Janet. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the table are a sterling silver epergne (on which are some | ||
| CF | marbles), some silverware, some plates (on which are some seafood | ||
| CF | vol-au-vents) and some glasses. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia looks at you thoughtfully from her chair at the head of the | ||
| CF | table. "Please," she says, "take a seat." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You do so, and she adds: "I see you didn't bring a date. That's a | ||
| CF | shame." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x glasses" | ||
| CF ] 7:39 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X GLASSES | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Nice-looking stemless wine glasses. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the glasses: "You cannot save them! Nobody can be saved!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Please, dig in. I think you'll enjoy this one," Julia says. Francis | ||
| CF | pokes at the dish in front of him with a fork: "What is it?" "Why | ||
| CF | don't you take a bite and tell me?" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Why exactly were you expecting a date, Julia?" | |
| Touchy says (to ClubFloyd), "sit" | ||
| CF ] 7:40 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > SIT | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | (on the phone) | ||
| CF | That's not something you can sit down on. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis uses his fork to collapse the construction on his plate. "Is | ||
| CF | it... crab?" Julia just smiles and takes a bite out of her own plate. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "take glass" | ||
| CF ] 7:41 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TAKE GLASS | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You're not in the practice of filching other people's possessions | ||
| CF | while you're a guest at their house. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis turns to Raul: "So how's the teaching going?" "Fine. How's the | ||
| CF | business going?" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, "Very modern game, all assumed nouns are "phone'" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Um... game? This is a party. Let me have a glass of wine." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Touchy), "hahaha" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes. I'm sure it's an intentional statement on modern times." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, ">Scream at phone" | ||
| Touchy says (to ClubFloyd), "x chairs" | ||
| CF ] 7:42 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X CHAIRS | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | L-shaped blocks of wood and foam covered in cream-white fabric, | ||
| CF | supported on four blocky legs of darkly stained wood. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the dining chairs are Julia, Raul, Francis and Janet. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis replies: "Really well, actually. We just applied for another | ||
| CF | patent last week." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Touchy says (to ClubFloyd), "sit down" | ||
| CF ] 7:42 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > SIT DOWN | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | I didn't understand that sentence. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Touchy says (to ClubFloyd), "sit on chair" | ||
| CF ] 7:43 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > SIT ON CHAIR | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | But you're already on the dining chairs. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "I love this," Janet pipes in. "Is it lobster?" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, "oh" | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "stand" | ||
| CF ] 7:44 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > STAND | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You could EXCUSE yourself to go to the bathroom. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Keep guessing," Julia continues. "I think Raul had some really good | ||
| CF | lectures last term, didn't you?" She pats her husband on the shoulder, | ||
| CF | for emphasis. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "oho" | |
| Touchy exclaims, "nice!" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "That might be good if we need to calm down?" | ||
| MoyTW asks, "We can snoop, now?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Or see a bathroom miror" | ||
| DavidW says, "mirror" | ||
| MoyTW says, "Snoop, snoop, snoop! See if we can find their medicine cabinet." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "I do like to hear the voice." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "excuse" | ||
| CF ] 7:45 pm Bathroom 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EXCUSE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You politely excuse yourself to go to the bathroom. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Bathroom | ||
| CF | This is the secondary, downstairs bathroom, so there's just a sink and | ||
| CF | a toilet, and a small high window to let in some moonlight. The floor | ||
| CF | and wall tiles are a jadeish shade of green, and they thankfully | ||
| CF | aren't reflective enough for you to see yourself in them. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can see a bathroom mirror (closed) here. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW says, "The silverware and marbles are probably relective too." | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x mirror" | ||
| CF ] 7:46 pm Bathroom 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X MIRROR | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A nice-looking bathroom mirror cabinet. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You spot your reflection clearly on the bathroom mirror, and also | ||
| CF | the reflection of your additional, unseen head: "Knock down the | ||
| CF | doors and listen as hell makes itself heard!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x reflection in toilet" | ||
| CF ] 7:46 pm Bathroom 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X REFLECTION IN TOILET | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [That is either not here, or you don't need to refer to it over | ||
| CF | the course of this story.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "Sigh" | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "pee" | ||
| CF ] 7:46 pm Bathroom 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > PEE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | That's not a verb I recognise. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x toilet" | ||
| CF ] 7:46 pm Bathroom 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X TOILET | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [That is either not here, or you don't need to refer to it over | ||
| CF | the course of this story.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline adds this to the list of games with underimplemented bathrooms. | |
| Guenni says (to ClubFloyd), "open cabinet" | ||
| CF ] 7:46 pm Bathroom 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > OPEN CABINET | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [That is either not here, or you don't need to refer to it over | ||
| CF | the course of this story.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "breathe" | ||
| CF ] 7:46 pm Bathroom 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > BREATHE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | That's not a verb I recognise. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "relax" | ||
| CF ] 7:46 pm Bathroom 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > RELAX | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | That's not a verb I recognise. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW says, "try open mirror" | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "open mirror" | ||
| CF ] 7:47 pm Bathroom 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > OPEN MIRROR | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You open the bathroom mirror, revealing a bag of cotton balls. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Your phone chirps as a notification comes in. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW asks, "Put cotton balls in ears?" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Do we avoid the phone this game?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "take cotton" | ||
| CF ] 7:48 pm Bathroom 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TAKE COTTON | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You haven't fallen so low as to steal whole bags of cotton balls from | ||
| CF | other people's bathrooms. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "put cotton in ears" | ||
| CF ] 7:48 pm Bathroom 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > PUT COTTON IN EARS | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [That is either not here, or you don't need to refer to it over | ||
| CF | the course of this story.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "take a cotton ball" | ||
| CF ] 7:48 pm Bathroom 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TAKE A COTTON BALL | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | I only understood you as far as wanting to take the bag of cotton | ||
| CF | balls. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Knight_Otu asks, "Open the bag?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "open bag" | ||
| CF ] 7:49 pm Bathroom 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > OPEN BAG | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | It isn't something you can open. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You're getting a bit anxious about that unread notification. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Knight_Otu says, "Hrm." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Why would they be here?" | ||
| DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x bag" | ||
| CF ] 7:50 pm Bathroom 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X BAG | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Fluffy. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, "hehehe" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "wear cotton" | ||
| CF ] 7:51 pm Bathroom 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > WEAR COTTON | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | (first taking the bag of cotton balls) | ||
| CF | You haven't fallen so low as to steal whole bags of cotton balls from | ||
| CF | other people's bathrooms. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You're getting visibly agitated about not looking at your phone. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, "n1" | |
| DavidW says, "Perhaps we found the bag earlier then needed for an option." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, let's not look at the phone, please." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yeah" | ||
| Touchy says, "maybe we need something to dip them into" | ||
| DavidW asks, "wash hands?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "wash hands" | ||
| CF ] 7:51 pm Bathroom 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > WASH HANDS | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | That's not a verb I recognise. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "contemplate ennui" | ||
| CF ] 7:51 pm Bathroom 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > CONTEMPLATE ENNUI | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | That's not a verb I recognise. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline asks, "Should we go back to the party?" | |
| DavidW asks, "What actually is in here again?" | ||
| Guenni says, "guess so" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Watch them ask if we fell in." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "i" | ||
| CF ] 7:52 pm Bathroom 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > I | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You are carrying: | ||
| CF | your phone | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You really, really wanna look at that notification. What if Margo | ||
| CF | texted? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW asks, "If we can't pee or wash our hands, what sort of bathroom is this?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "l" | ||
| CF ] 7:53 pm Bathroom 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > L | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Bathroom | ||
| CF | This is the secondary, downstairs bathroom, so there's just a sink and | ||
| CF | a toilet, and a small high window to let in some moonlight. The floor | ||
| CF | and wall tiles are a jadeish shade of green, and they thankfully | ||
| CF | aren't reflective enough for you to see yourself in them. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can see a bathroom mirror (in which is a bag of cotton balls) | ||
| CF | here. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You really, really wanna look at that notification. What if Margo | ||
| CF | texted? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x window" | ||
| CF ] 7:53 pm Bathroom 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X WINDOW | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [That is either not here, or you don't need to refer to it over | ||
| CF | the course of this story.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "drop phone in toilet" | ||
| CF ] 7:53 pm Bathroom 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > DROP PHONE IN TOILET | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [That is either not here, or you don't need to refer to it over | ||
| CF | the course of this story.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW says, "There's no toilet at all." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "If we can't drop our phone in the toilet, is it even a bathroom?" | ||
| Guenni says, "Heh" | ||
| Guenni says (to ClubFloyd), "drop phone" | ||
| CF ] 7:54 pm Bathroom 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > DROP PHONE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You prefer to keep your phone close to where your heart used to be. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You really, really wanna look at that notification. What if Margo | ||
| CF | texted? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "x tiles" | ||
| CF ] 7:54 pm Bathroom 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X TILES | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [That is either not here, or you don't need to refer to it over | ||
| CF | the course of this story.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh aw our heart. Damn." | |
| DavidW says (to ClubFloyd), "move bag" | ||
| CF ] 7:55 pm Bathroom 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > MOVE BAG | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Nothing obvious happens. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You really, really wanna look at that notification. What if Margo | ||
| CF | texted? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, "hm...so not reading the text seems fine" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I feel like not looking at the phone is not going to do anything except repeat at us." | ||
| Guenni says, "I'm afraid the phone anxiety doesn't get worse than that." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "think about margo" | ||
| CF ] 7:55 pm Bathroom 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > THINK ABOUT MARGO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | I only understood you as far as wanting to think. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Guenni says (to ClubFloyd), "out" | ||
| CF ] 7:56 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > OUT | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You find your way to the dining room... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | A large bay window lets in no light through the thick drapes; a brass | ||
| CF | chandelier that Julia hasn't been able to get rid of clashes a bit | ||
| CF | with the modernist minimalism of the furniture. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the dining chairs are Julia, Raul, Francis and Janet. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the table are a sterling silver epergne (on which are some | ||
| CF | marbles), some silverware, some plates (on which are some squash soup) | ||
| CF | and some glasses. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You really, really wanna look at that notification. What if Margo | ||
| CF | texted? | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Raul just coughs into his soup. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You become self-conscious of the fact that you're not eating. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You sit yourself down. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Knight_Otu says, "Maybe it won't get worse unless we're in front of people." | |
| Touchy says, "I'd prefer reading it here to reading it in front of everyone." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "OHO - Awkwardness ticking up" | ||
| Guenni says (to ClubFloyd), "eat soup" | ||
| CF ] 7:57 pm Main course 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT SOUP | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a look at the squash soup before digging in: | ||
| CF | A bright orange broth. Seasonal. Safe. Surprisingly clear, actually, | ||
| CF | almost like consomm��... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the squash soup: "We all fall down! We all fall through!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a few bites out of the squash soup. | ||
| CF | The taste is so subtle that you could be forgiven for thinking it | ||
| CF | doesn't actually taste of very much at all. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You really, really wanna look at that notification. What if Margo | ||
| CF | texted? | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia politely asks if everyone is ready for the main course. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Not much for soup tonight?", Julia says pointedly at you. You stammer | ||
| CF | something in reply. | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia steps away with the plates and returns with the main course, | ||
| CF | some sort of sous-vide cooked fish. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW says, "oh, yeah, maybe the phone is easier to use in the bathroom." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Let's not look at it afterall - maybe the phone thing is working." | ||
| MoyTW says, "Julia seems very not nice." | ||
| Touchy says, "Bloody academics" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x silverware" | ||
| CF ] 7:58 pm Main course 7 (Extremely | ||
| CF | awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X SILVERWARE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A full set of silverware, including mirror-polished knives, forks, | ||
| CF | spoons, and so on, carefully placed next to everyone's plates. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the silverware: "Blood from the eyes! Rats! Rats!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You realize that blood is dripping from your left nostril. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You really, really wanna look at that notification. What if Margo | ||
| CF | texted? | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "This looks... interesting," Francis says, lifting a strand of | ||
| CF | vegetable matter on the tip of his fork. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Your phone chirps as a notification comes in. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia stares at your face for a moment. "Oh, dear; maybe you should go | ||
| CF | get that cleaned up." | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Guenni says, "That dinner would be very awkward for me as well." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I think we need a cotton ball now" | ||
| MoyTW asks, "Uh. Are we...are we bleeding now?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yeah, maybe." | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "But we could also just sit here!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And bleeeeeeed." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That'd be awkward as heck." | ||
| DavidW says, "The cotton could go in our nose." | ||
| Touchy says, "Jacqueline hasnt had her coffee yet. The demons are still in control." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. I'm sure that's what it's for, now." | ||
| MoyTW says, "Bleed all over Julia's fancy dinner tablecloths." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "bleed" | ||
| CF ] 7:58 pm Main course 7 (Extremely | ||
| CF | awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > BLEED | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | That's not a verb I recognise. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "aw" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "We're not that far from another game, ending, are we?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x silverware" | ||
| CF ] 7:58 pm Main course 9 (Very mortifying) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X SILVERWARE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A full set of silverware, including mirror-polished knives, forks, | ||
| CF | spoons, and so on, carefully placed next to everyone's plates. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the silverware: "Yithlak! Say his name! Call him into being! | ||
| CF | Yithlak! Yithlak!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You really, really wanna look at that notification. What if Margo | ||
| CF | texted? | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Janet pulls out her phone. "I should Pinterest this, it looks | ||
| CF | gorgeous." But then she gets self-conscious, and puts her phone away. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "There's some cotton in the downstairs bathroom", Julia adds. | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You try to say something, but you're basically paralyzed by | ||
| CF | mortification at this point. Coming here was a terrible idea, and you | ||
| CF | realize that you're going to scurry home feeling like a damn fool. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Ending A | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | *** You have been mortified. *** | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last | ||
| CF | command or read the PARATEXT? | ||
| CF | > | Guenni says, "Ok, off until the blood has somewhat stopped." | |
| Touchy asks, "So KO at 10?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Apparently." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "I'd guess it's ... huh, I'd have guessed 10?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, for a second I thought Janet wanted to Pinterest us. But no." | ||
| DavidW says, "It is 10, I think." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "We were at 9 it seems?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh yeah. Not even 10" | ||
| Touchy says, "true" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "paratext" | ||
| CF ] Instructions | ||
| CF ] | ||
| CF ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu | ||
| CF ] P = Previous ENTER = Select | ||
| CF | > About this Story | ||
| CF | About the Author | ||
| CF | Amusing things to Try | Touchy exclaims, "I can read!" | |
| DavidW says, "We went up twice that last turn." | ||
| DavidW says, "We were at 11." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "And we were at 7?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah, okay. Yeah." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "q" | ||
| CF ] 7:58 pm Main course 9 (Very mortifying) | ||
| CF | Dining Room (on the dining chairs) | ||
| CF | A large bay window lets in no light through the thick drapes; a brass | ||
| CF | chandelier that Julia hasn't been able to get rid of clashes a bit | ||
| CF | with the modernist minimalism of the furniture. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the table are a sterling silver epergne (on which are some | ||
| CF | marbles), some silverware, some plates (on which are some sous-vide | ||
| CF | fish) and some glasses. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the dining chairs you can see Julia, Raul, Francis and Janet. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last | ||
| CF | command or read the PARATEXT? | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline asks, "So, do we want to do a well-behaved run through?" | |
| Touchy says, "yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Look at texts, address nose bleeds, listen politely to banter?" | ||
| Touchy says, "so we eat all courses and read our notification on the toilet" | ||
| DavidW says, "I assume there are endings where we aren't mortified." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "restart" | ||
| CF ] 7:32 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Just take your coat off and come join us in the dining room, we're | ||
| CF | all about to start," Julia says as she already steps out of the | ||
| CF | vestibule. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Coming here tonight was definitely a terrible idea. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [If you are new to parser fiction, type HELP] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Don't Mind My Apocalypse Head | ||
| CF | An interactive nightmare by Bruno Dias | ||
| CF | Release 1 / Serial number 170403 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib | ||
| CF | 6/12N) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Vestibule | ||
| CF | The vestibule, that most Freudian of rooms, is the liminal space | ||
| CF | between the front door and the interior of the house proper. This one, | ||
| CF | like the rest of the house, is wood-paneled and vaguely beaux-arts in | ||
| CF | a way that can only be described as "tweedy." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You try not to catch yourself on the full-length mirror. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can also see a coat hook here. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yeah. I'm assuming that our goal is to avoid mortification." | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "i" | ||
| CF ] 7:33 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > I | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You are carrying: | ||
| CF | a coat (being worn) | ||
| CF | your phone | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "put phone in coat" | ||
| CF ] 7:34 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > PUT PHONE IN COAT | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | (the coat) | ||
| CF | You prefer to keep your phone close to where your heart used to be. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "Sorry, sorry. I forgot. I'll behave." | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "n" | ||
| CF ] 7:35 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > N | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You should hang your coat on the hook before joining the others. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "hang coat on coat hook" | ||
| CF ] 7:36 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > HANG COAT ON COAT HOOK | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | (the coat on the coat hook) | ||
| CF | You can't help but look into the mirror as you take the coat off... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A nice, big mirror on a wooden frame. Of course. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You spot your reflection clearly on the full-length mirror, and | ||
| CF | also the reflection of your additional, unseen head: It has inky | ||
| CF | black pits for eyes, but it still seems to stare right at you. "Breach | ||
| CF | the seals. Open the gate," it says, in a cracked voice that's not | ||
| CF | quite your own. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | The head in the mirror belongs to a version of yourself from a | ||
| CF | previous iteration of the universe. One that seemingly ended really | ||
| CF | poorly, given that it's clearly possessed by some kind of | ||
| CF | world-rending evil. You're really in no state to attend a dinner | ||
| CF | party, but you'd already RSVP'd. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take off your coat and hang it. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "n" | ||
| CF ] 7:37 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > N | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You find your way to the dining room... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | A large bay window lets in no light through the thick drapes; a brass | ||
| CF | chandelier that Julia hasn't been able to get rid of clashes a bit | ||
| CF | with the modernist minimalism of the furniture. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the dining chairs are Julia, Raul, Francis and Janet. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the table are a sterling silver epergne (on which are some | ||
| CF | marbles), some silverware, some plates (on which are some seafood | ||
| CF | vol-au-vents) and some glasses. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia looks at you thoughtfully from her chair at the head of the | ||
| CF | table. "Please," she says, "take a seat." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You do so, and she adds: "I see you didn't bring a date. That's a | ||
| CF | shame." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Knight_Otu says, "Can we turn off the phone? Probably not, I guess." | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "turn off phone" | ||
| CF ] 7:38 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TURN OFF PHONE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | It isn't something you can switch. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Please, dig in. I think you'll enjoy this one," Julia says. Francis | ||
| CF | pokes at the dish in front of him with a fork: "What is it?" "Why | ||
| CF | don't you take a bite and tell me?" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "This time if I do anything bad accidentally, we can undo." | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "eat food" | ||
| CF ] 7:39 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT FOOD | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a look at the seafood vol-au-vents before digging in: | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A vol-au-vent is a little bucket made out of puff pastry; this one is | ||
| CF | filled with some kind of pinkish material that you strongly suspect is | ||
| CF | some type of seafood, but you can't identify which. It's also topped | ||
| CF | with three thin, artistically-arranged chives. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a few bites out of the seafood vol-au-vents. | ||
| CF | The filling consists of pale bits of vaguely crustacean flesh floating | ||
| CF | in vaguely sea-tasting sauce; it's either lobster in a crab sauce, or | ||
| CF | crab in a lobster sauce. It runs all over your plate the moment you | ||
| CF | crack the exterior of the puff pastry. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis uses his fork to collapse the construction on his plate. "Is | ||
| CF | it... crab?" Julia just smiles and takes a bite out of her own plate. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "Julia never does say if it's crab or lobster or something else." | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "eat food" | ||
| CF ] 7:40 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT FOOD | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Your eyes run across the silverware you're using: | ||
| CF | A full set of silverware, including mirror-polished knives, forks, | ||
| CF | spoons, and so on, carefully placed next to everyone's plates. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the silverware: "Worms issue from the mouth! Black ichor! | ||
| CF | Falling and falling!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You finish eating the seafood vol-au-vents. | ||
| CF | It's a bit large for an amuse-bouche, to be honest, but you did skip | ||
| CF | lunch today. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis turns to Raul: "So how's the teaching going?" "Fine. How's the | ||
| CF | business going?" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Knight_Otu says, "A bite out of her own plate? Must have good teeth." | |
| DavidW says, "She says it's scallops." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Oh, does she?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I thought someone else guessed scallops. My bad." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "She does. It gets guessed by someone and she confirms." | ||
| DavidW says, "Well someone says so and she more or less confirms it, sorta." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "ah" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "drink" | ||
| CF ] 7:41 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > DRINK | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | (the phone) | ||
| CF | There's nothing suitable to drink here. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis replies: "Really well, actually. We just applied for another | ||
| CF | patent last week." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "heh." | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "drink wine" | ||
| CF ] 7:41 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > DRINK WINE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [That is either not here, or you don't need to refer to it over | ||
| CF | the course of this story.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Knight_Otu says, "Always with the phone." | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "listen" | ||
| CF ] 7:42 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > LISTEN | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You try to just focus on the conversation. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "I love this," Janet pipes in. "Is it lobster?" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW says, "The wine might get poured later, if we ever get that far." | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x janet" | ||
| CF ] 7:43 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X JANET | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis' long-term partner and the one other person in this dinner | ||
| CF | party without more than one post-graduate degree. You don't really | ||
| CF | know what her deal is. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Keep guessing," Julia continues. "I think Raul had some really good | ||
| CF | lectures last term, didn't you?" She pats her husband on the shoulder, | ||
| CF | for emphasis. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x raul" | ||
| CF ] 7:44 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X RAUL | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Balding, spindly, European (but you're not sure from where). Raul | ||
| CF | mostly takes credit for the work of his grad students and gives | ||
| CF | lectures on physics that consistently get accused of being "boring" on | ||
| CF | RateMyProfessor. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Scallops. It's gotta be scallops," Francis finally realizes. "Got it | ||
| CF | in two," Julia replies. Raul seems almost relieved that's over. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x francis" | ||
| CF ] 7:45 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X FRANCIS | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis quit academia to join some kind of biotech startup, and he | ||
| CF | looks exactly like someone who quit academia to join a biotech startup | ||
| CF | should look like: Smug in a fleece. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia: "What's that patent about again?" Francis seems positively | ||
| CF | delighted to explain. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x julia" | DavidW says, "I could use some food." | |
| CF ] 7:46 pm Soup 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Proudly grey-haired and staring at the word from behind wire-rim | ||
| CF | glasses. Julia teaches classics, or so you understand to be the case, | ||
| CF | though as far as you know she gives only seminars, not lectures, and | ||
| CF | spends most of her time on various obscure side projects. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis launches into his explanation. It goes over your head but you | ||
| CF | think you catch the word "telomers". He's interrupted, of course, when | ||
| CF | Julia asks if everyone is ready for the soup. Everyone is about as | ||
| CF | excited as you can get for soup, which is to say not very much at all. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Your phone chirps as a notification comes in. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia steps away with the plates and returns with the next course: A | ||
| CF | soup. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, "So I guess we like neither Raul nor rancis" | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x phone" | ||
| CF ] 7:47 pm Soup 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X PHONE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A mid-range Android. The notification light is pulsing. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You clear away the notifications; there's nothing important. Looks | ||
| CF | like you're supposed to have taken your medication already. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "This is good soup," Janet says delightedly. "Is this yam?" "Squash," | ||
| CF | Julia replies. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW asks, "Medication?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "take meds" | ||
| CF ] 7:47 pm Soup 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TAKE MEDS | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [That is either not here, or you don't need to refer to it over | ||
| CF | the course of this story.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "tame medication" | ||
| CF ] 7:47 pm Soup 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TAME MEDICATION | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | That's not a verb I recognise. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Knight_Otu says, "Hm." | |
| Jacqueline says, "oops" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "OH WELL" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Do we have medication or not?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Seems we forgot to bring it. Awkward." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "eat soup" | ||
| CF ] 7:48 pm Soup 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT SOUP | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a look at the squash soup before digging in: | ||
| CF | A bright orange broth. Seasonal. Safe. Surprisingly clear, actually, | ||
| CF | almost like consomm��... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the squash soup: "You cannot save them! Nobody can be saved!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a few bites out of the squash soup. | ||
| CF | The taste is so subtle that you could be forgiven for thinking it | ||
| CF | doesn't actually taste of very much at all. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis tries to get back on track explaining what his company does, | ||
| CF | but nobody seems too interested. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW says, "A TYPO DIDN"T TELL US ANYTHING" | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "oh, true." | ||
| CF ] 7:48 pm Soup 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > OH, TRUE. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "take medication" | ||
| CF ] 7:48 pm Soup 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TAKE MEDICATION | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [That is either not here, or you don't need to refer to it over | ||
| CF | the course of this story.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "THERE" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "I mean, it's not listed in our inventory." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "eat soup" | ||
| CF ] 7:49 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT SOUP | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You finish eating the squash soup. | ||
| CF | After a few more slurps, you come to the coclusion that it tastes | ||
| CF | "brown". | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia suddenly turns to you: "So how's the job search going?" You try | ||
| CF | to talk for a moment about what you're working on now, but end up | ||
| CF | trailing off. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "hrm" | |
| DavidW says, "It may have another name. This game seems poor at alternate commands." | ||
| DavidW says, "And it may be a victim of gnostogenesis." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I am not sure how we recover from the awkwardness Julia brings out in us." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Cut her out of our life?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I prefer screaming at her, but we decided not to do that this time." | ||
| MoyTW says, "Maybe we just have to deal." | ||
| MoyTW asks, "Let's just see how far we can get?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "By just doing nothing to make it worse? Yeah. That's this play's approach." | ||
| DavidW says, "You only screamed at empty space. You never tried screaming AT her." | ||
| Touchy says, "Yeah, maybe there are avoidable and unavoidable sources of awkwardness" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "All in good time." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Should I 'talk about job'?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Try it." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk about job" | ||
| CF ] 7:50 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK ABOUT JOB | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis faces you: "You could come work with us at Agrosynth. You did | ||
| CF | your dissertation on plant genetics, right?" "Minoan archeology," you | ||
| CF | reply reflexively. "Ah, my mistake." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "ah" | |
| DavidW says, "We seem still unable to join the chat." | ||
| Touchy asks, "Is there a z?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 7:51 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "I seem to remember Julia did some Minoan work back in the day," Raul | ||
| CF | notes. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says (to Touchy), "There is." | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "eat soup" | ||
| CF ] 7:52 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT SOUP | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You've already finished the squash soup. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia: "Really, it wasn't anything important. A side project at best." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "z" | ||
| CF ] 7:53 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > Z | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You look down at the floor. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can tell that some tension is hanging in the air, just for a | ||
| CF | moment. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW says, "We're never looked at the marbles or chandelier or drapes." | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x chandelier" | ||
| CF ] 7:53 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X CHANDELIER | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [That is either not here, or you don't need to refer to it over | ||
| CF | the course of this story.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x drapes" | ||
| CF ] 7:53 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X DRAPES | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [That is either not here, or you don't need to refer to it over | ||
| CF | the course of this story.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x marbles" | ||
| CF ] 7:54 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X MARBLES | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Glass in various bright colors and stone in interesting shades of grey | ||
| CF | and brown. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the marbles: "Knock down the doors and listen as hell makes | ||
| CF | itself heard!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Janet: "Really, we should do this more often. It's been so hard to get | ||
| CF | together with friends lately." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline asks, "Z or x silverware and listen to the voice until the next course of food?" | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "I guess?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x silverware" | ||
| CF ] 7:55 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X SILVERWARE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A full set of silverware, including mirror-polished knives, forks, | ||
| CF | spoons, and so on, carefully placed next to everyone's plates. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the silverware: "We all fall down! We all fall through!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Raul just coughs into his soup. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, "uhm...or x the people? that seemed free" | |
| Touchy says, "then again this advances the dialog with the extra head" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, but I've examined them all..." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Touchy), "Yeah, I kind of want to hear what all the horrible voice has to say." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x marbles" | ||
| CF ] 7:56 pm Main course 4 (Mildly awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X MARBLES | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Glass in various bright colors and stone in interesting shades of grey | ||
| CF | and brown. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the marbles: "Blood from the eyes! Rats! Rats!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You realize that blood is dripping from your left nostril. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia politely asks if everyone is ready for the main course. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia stares at your face for a moment. "Oh, dear; maybe you should go | ||
| CF | get that cleaned up." | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia steps away with the plates and returns with the main course, | ||
| CF | some sort of sous-vide cooked fish. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay. Going to be good and go take care of this nose thing." | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "excuse" | ||
| CF ] 7:57 pm Bathroom 4 (Mildly awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EXCUSE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You politely excuse yourself to go to the bathroom. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Bathroom | ||
| CF | This is the secondary, downstairs bathroom, so there's just a sink and | ||
| CF | a toilet, and a small high window to let in some moonlight. The floor | ||
| CF | and wall tiles are a jadeish shade of green, and they thankfully | ||
| CF | aren't reflective enough for you to see yourself in them. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can see a bathroom mirror (closed) here. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Your phone chirps as a notification comes in. | ||
| CF | You realize it's not on you; you must have put it down on the table | ||
| CF | somewhere. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Blood drips from your nose. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "open mirror" | ||
| CF ] 7:58 pm Bathroom 4 (Mildly awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > OPEN MIRROR | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can't help but look at the mirror before opening it: A | ||
| CF | nice-looking bathroom mirror cabinet. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You spot your reflection clearly on the bathroom mirror, and also | ||
| CF | the reflection of your additional, unseen head: "Yithlak! Say his | ||
| CF | name! Call him into being! Yithlak! Yithlak!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You open the bathroom mirror, revealing a bag of cotton balls. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You grab one of the cotton balls and shove some of it up your nostril | ||
| CF | to staunch the bleeding. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, "very loud notification" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Indeed." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh. Yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "How do we get back?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "return" | ||
| CF ] 7:59 pm Main course 4 (Mildly awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > RETURN | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You find your way to the dining room... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | A large bay window lets in no light through the thick drapes; a brass | ||
| CF | chandelier that Julia hasn't been able to get rid of clashes a bit | ||
| CF | with the modernist minimalism of the furniture. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the dining chairs are Julia, Raul, Francis and Janet. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the table are your phone (presumably), a sterling silver epergne | ||
| CF | (on which are some marbles), some silverware, some plates (on which | ||
| CF | are some sous-vide fish) and some glasses. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You're getting a bit anxious about that unread notification. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "We get everything there from a CSA subscription," Raul says. "Even | ||
| CF | the fish." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Rain starts up outside, audibly battering the roof of the house. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You sit yourself down. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "read phone" | ||
| CF ] 8:00 pm Main course 4 (Mildly awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > READ PHONE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You're not sure of where your phone is. Maybe if you look around at | ||
| CF | the other stuff on the table. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | I hope you won't have too much trouble getting home in the rain.", | ||
| CF | Julia says, noting the drops banging against the window. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW asks, "I suppose YITHLAK could lead to another ending?" | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x table" | ||
| CF ] 8:01 pm Main course 4 (Mildly awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X TABLE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Made out of the unidentifiable dark-stained wood material as the chair | ||
| CF | legs, and devoid of ornamental detail. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the table are your phone, a sterling silver epergne (on which are | ||
| CF | some marbles), some silverware, some plates (on which are some | ||
| CF | sous-vide fish) and some glasses. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You're getting visibly agitated about not looking at your phone. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Francis and I were really into sous-vide last year," Janet points | ||
| CF | out. "But now we're more into hearth cooking. Ever since the thing | ||
| CF | with the clams." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "take phone" | ||
| CF ] 8:02 pm Main course 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TAKE PHONE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You're not sure of where your phone is. Maybe if you look around at | ||
| CF | the other stuff on the table. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You really, really wanna look at that notification. What if Margo | ||
| CF | texted? | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Only on weekends, of course. During the week I'm on all Soylent now," | ||
| CF | Francis points out. "I mean, excepting dinner parties." He adds a | ||
| CF | little laugh. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "I SAW MY PHONE" | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 8:01 pm Main course 4 (Mildly awkward) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Knight_Otu says, "Erm." | |
| MoyTW says, "Game, what are you doing." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x phone" | ||
| CF ] 8:02 pm Main course 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X PHONE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You're not sure of where your phone is. Maybe if you look around at | ||
| CF | the other stuff on the table. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You really, really wanna look at that notification. What if Margo | ||
| CF | texted? | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Only on weekends, of course. During the week I'm on all Soylent now," | ||
| CF | Francis points out. "I mean, excepting dinner parties." He adds a | ||
| CF | little laugh. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 8:01 pm Main course 4 (Mildly awkward) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 8:00 pm Main course 4 (Mildly awkward) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "Ideas" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "?" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Do we need to SEARCH TABLE?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "search table" | ||
| CF ] 8:01 pm Main course 4 (Mildly awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > SEARCH TABLE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the table are your phone, a sterling silver epergne, some | ||
| CF | silverware, some plates and some glasses. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You're getting visibly agitated about not looking at your phone. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Francis and I were really into sous-vide last year," Janet points | ||
| CF | out. "But now we're more into hearth cooking. Ever since the thing | ||
| CF | with the clams." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW says, "Game wants you to look AT OTHER THINGS ON THE TABLE" | |
| Touchy says, "or look at the bloody epergne" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x epergne" | ||
| CF ] 8:02 pm Main course 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X EPERGNE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | An epergne, you have recently learned, is a table centerpiece with | ||
| CF | suspended trays meant to hold food or flowers or what have you; this | ||
| CF | one, in a sort of postmodern-zen deco move, is actually loaded with a | ||
| CF | variety of glass marbles and interestingly-shaped river rocks. It is, | ||
| CF | regardless, an old traditional piece of polished silverware. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the sterling silver epergne are some marbles. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the sterling silver epergne: "You will see! You will all see!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia catches you staring off into space. "Are you alright? You seem a | ||
| CF | little peaked." | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You really, really wanna look at that notification. What if Margo | ||
| CF | texted? | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Only on weekends, of course. During the week I'm on all Soylent now," | ||
| CF | Francis points out. "I mean, excepting dinner parties." He adds a | ||
| CF | little laugh. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW says, "Jeez" | |
| Touchy asks, "this is a test: can you spell epgergne, yet?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 8:01 pm Main course 4 (Mildly awkward) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW asks, "Why are you undoing?" | |
| Touchy says, "because we are stacking awkward for not finding our phone fast enough" | ||
| DavidW says, "We'll never get to the look at X things trigger if we keep undoing." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Because it's escalating my anxiety when I can see my phone is RIGHT THERE." | ||
| Touchy asks, "oh you think we have to look at several?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Ugh. That is so terrible. Okay. I'll X all the things." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x epergne" | ||
| CF ] 8:02 pm Main course 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X EPERGNE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | An epergne, you have recently learned, is a table centerpiece with | ||
| CF | suspended trays meant to hold food or flowers or what have you; this | ||
| CF | one, in a sort of postmodern-zen deco move, is actually loaded with a | ||
| CF | variety of glass marbles and interestingly-shaped river rocks. It is, | ||
| CF | regardless, an old traditional piece of polished silverware. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the sterling silver epergne are some marbles. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the sterling silver epergne: "You will see! You will all see!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia catches you staring off into space. "Are you alright? You seem a | ||
| CF | little peaked." | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You really, really wanna look at that notification. What if Margo | ||
| CF | texted? | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Only on weekends, of course. During the week I'm on all Soylent now," | ||
| CF | Francis points out. "I mean, excepting dinner parties." He adds a | ||
| CF | little laugh. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x silverware" | ||
| CF ] 8:03 pm Main course 7 (Extremely | ||
| CF | awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X SILVERWARE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A full set of silverware, including mirror-polished knives, forks, | ||
| CF | spoons, and so on, carefully placed next to everyone's plates. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the silverware: "We are the maggots feasting on god's corpse! | ||
| CF | We are the darkness that consumes!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You really, really wanna look at that notification. What if Margo | ||
| CF | texted? | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Oh, interesting. How's the Soylent been treating you?", Raul asks. | ||
| CF | "Pretty well! I mean once you get over the bloating in the first week | ||
| CF | or so.", Francis replies. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW says, "This is a find our ticket in that Sand game of Zarf's. The phone will be in the last place we look. And we never goddamn look at the stuff." | |
| Jacqueline says, "We are at 7" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We looked at all of it, though. Earlier." | ||
| Touchy says (to ClubFloyd), "x table" | ||
| CF ] 8:04 pm Main course 8 (Mortifying) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X TABLE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Made out of the unidentifiable dark-stained wood material as the chair | ||
| CF | legs, and devoid of ornamental detail. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the table are your phone, a sterling silver epergne (on which are | ||
| CF | some marbles), some silverware, some plates (on which are some | ||
| CF | sous-vide fish) and some glasses. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You really, really wanna look at that notification. What if Margo | ||
| CF | texted? | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A few thoughtful nods cross around the table. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x plates" | ||
| CF ] 8:04 pm Main course 9 (Very mortifying) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X PLATES | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | These are made out of mercifully matte black ceramic. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the plates are some sous-vide fish. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Aha! There's your phone, right next to the plates. You snatch it up. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You really, really wanna look at that notification. What if Margo | ||
| CF | texted? | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "So what's for dessert?" Janet pipes up, shifting the remains of her | ||
| CF | fish around on the plate. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You try to say something, but you're basically paralyzed by | ||
| CF | mortification at this point. Coming here was a terrible idea, and you | ||
| CF | realize that you're going to scurry home feeling like a damn fool. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Ending A | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | *** You have been mortified. *** | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last | ||
| CF | command or read the PARATEXT? | ||
| CF | > | DavidW says, "That didn't count." | |
| DavidW says, "We hadn't lost our phone then." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 8:04 pm Main course 8 (Mortifying) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, "we looked at everything but the glasses" | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 8:03 pm Main course 7 (Extremely | ||
| CF | awkward) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, you looked at the table, which ate a turn." | |
| Touchy says, "i know, i know" | ||
| Touchy says, "we needed a list..or I did" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x plates" | ||
| CF ] 8:04 pm Main course 8 (Mortifying) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X PLATES | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | These are made out of mercifully matte black ceramic. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the plates are some sous-vide fish. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Aha! There's your phone, right next to the plates. You snatch it up. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You really, really wanna look at that notification. What if Margo | ||
| CF | texted? | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A few thoughtful nods cross around the table. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW says, "there, you found it." | |
| DavidW says, "Examine the phone." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "ugh" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x phone" | ||
| CF ] 8:05 pm Main course 8 (Mortifying) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X PHONE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A mid-range Android. The notification light is pulsing. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You clear away the notifications; there's nothing important. Looks | ||
| CF | like someone liked one of your tweets. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "So what's for dessert?" Janet pipes up, shifting the remains of her | ||
| CF | fish around on the plate. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, "I still think we could have looked at the plates right away." | |
| DavidW says, "maybe" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Possibly - and then not had a score of 8, you mean?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Next time" | ||
| Touchy says, "yeah, next time" | ||
| Guenni says, "At least we made it nearly to dessert." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "eat food" | ||
| CF ] 8:06 pm Dessert 9 (Very mortifying) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT FOOD | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a look at the sous-vide fish before digging in: | ||
| CF | This is neither salmon nor tuna nor white fish, so you're at a loss | ||
| CF | for what it is, but it seems like it was cooked sous-vide and then | ||
| CF | blowtorched to within an inch of its life. It's coated in some kind of | ||
| CF | brownish glaze. The side dish for this is some mix of purple, yellow, | ||
| CF | and red-orange vegetables that have been spiralized then roasted. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a few bites out of the sous-vide fish. | ||
| CF | Julia was clearly hoping this fish would get a nice crispy crust from | ||
| CF | the blowtorch, but it just wasn't going to happen; it falls apart at | ||
| CF | the fork pretty sadly. The vegetables on the side are actually just | ||
| CF | fancy-colored carrots. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "It's a surprise. But I think I'll bring it over in a moment," Julia | ||
| CF | replies. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "You barely touched your fish!", Julia points out. You try to pretend | ||
| CF | that's not the case. | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia steps away with the plates and returns with a tray holding a | ||
| CF | large, mirror-glazed cake. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW says, "ha ha" | |
| DavidW says, "of course the cake is reflective" | ||
| DavidW says, "Tray probably is too." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Gee." | ||
| Touchy asks, "Do we need to eat some dishes multiple times?" | ||
| Guenni says, "possibly." | ||
| DavidW says (to Touchy), "yes, of course" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Touchy), "Probably" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "I think each twice?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x cake" | ||
| CF ] 8:06 pm Dessert 9 (Very mortifying) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X CAKE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | It's covered in a marbled, light green shell that looks more like | ||
| CF | glossy plastic than food. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the mirror-glazed cake: "There is no hope! Never was any | ||
| CF | hope!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis leans back on his chair, wearing the expression of a well-fed | ||
| CF | bull frog. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You try to say something, but you're basically paralyzed by | ||
| CF | mortification at this point. Coming here was a terrible idea, and you | ||
| CF | realize that you're going to scurry home feeling like a damn fool. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Ending A | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | *** You have been mortified. *** | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last | ||
| CF | command or read the PARATEXT? | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "hrm" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "Okay, I'm going to eat breakfast. Someone else drive a more optimized run?" | ||
| Touchy says, "Okay, ideas: 1. look at plates immediately" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Eat twice of each course." | ||
| Touchy says, "2. try to time nosebleed so we're already i n bathroom" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Hrm - if our nose even will bleed in the bathroom, but sure." | ||
| Guenni says, "Worth a try." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Who will drive?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "I don't remember seeing what triggers the nosebleed?" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "The nosebleed may be linked to the head saying that blood thing?" | ||
| Guenni says, "I'm not sure it was that specific." | ||
| DavidW says, "I think in one version, we should at least try saying YITHLAK to get another ending." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to KO), "I wondered that myself" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at DW), "True!" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "restart" | ||
| CF ] 7:32 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Just take your coat off and come join us in the dining room, we're | ||
| CF | all about to start," Julia says as she already steps out of the | ||
| CF | vestibule. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Coming here tonight was definitely a terrible idea. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [If you are new to parser fiction, type HELP] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Don't Mind My Apocalypse Head | ||
| CF | An interactive nightmare by Bruno Dias | ||
| CF | Release 1 / Serial number 170403 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib | ||
| CF | 6/12N) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Vestibule | ||
| CF | The vestibule, that most Freudian of rooms, is the liminal space | ||
| CF | between the front door and the interior of the house proper. This one, | ||
| CF | like the rest of the house, is wood-paneled and vaguely beaux-arts in | ||
| CF | a way that can only be described as "tweedy." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You try not to catch yourself on the full-length mirror. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can also see a coat hook here. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "yithlak" | ||
| CF ] 7:32 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > YITHLAK | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Yithlak! Yithlak!", the words come unbidden to your mouth, "The | ||
| CF | shadow of night creeping over god's corpse! The ten thousand diseased | ||
| CF | hearts!" It goes on like this for about half an hour. In the end, they | ||
| CF | find you drooling on the floor of the vestibule. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Ending F | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | *** You have tried to bite off more than you can chew. | ||
| CF | *** | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last | ||
| CF | command or read the PARATEXT? | ||
| CF | > | MoyTW says, "Nice." | |
| Jacqueline says, "ha" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Probably a bit different for each room." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "oh dear" | ||
| DavidW says, "So at least four endings we haven't seen" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 7:32 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Vestibule | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "search coat" | ||
| CF ] 7:33 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > SEARCH COAT | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | (the coat) | ||
| CF | You find nothing of interest. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW says, "The paratext may say how many endings there are." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I remember the first playthrough, when I was happy to see we were playing a game where we were 'relaxed'" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Such innocent times." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "put coat on hook" | ||
| CF ] 7:34 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > PUT COAT ON HOOK | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | (the coat on the coat hook) | ||
| CF | You can't help but look into the mirror as you take the coat off... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A nice, big mirror on a wooden frame. Of course. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You spot your reflection clearly on the full-length mirror, and | ||
| CF | also the reflection of your additional, unseen head: It has inky | ||
| CF | black pits for eyes, but it still seems to stare right at you. "Breach | ||
| CF | the seals. Open the gate," it says, in a cracked voice that's not | ||
| CF | quite your own. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | The head in the mirror belongs to a version of yourself from a | ||
| CF | previous iteration of the universe. One that seemingly ended really | ||
| CF | poorly, given that it's clearly possessed by some kind of | ||
| CF | world-rending evil. You're really in no state to attend a dinner | ||
| CF | party, but you'd already RSVP'd. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take off your coat and hang it. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x head" | ||
| CF ] 7:35 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X HEAD | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | The head is there and yet not there; you can't really reach it or see | ||
| CF | it, except when it stands over the shoulder of your reflection and | ||
| CF | tells you things... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW asks, "Relaxed in a game with 'apocalypse' in the title?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "n" | ||
| CF ] 7:36 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > N | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You find your way to the dining room... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | A large bay window lets in no light through the thick drapes; a brass | ||
| CF | chandelier that Julia hasn't been able to get rid of clashes a bit | ||
| CF | with the modernist minimalism of the furniture. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the dining chairs are Julia, Raul, Francis and Janet. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the table are a sterling silver epergne (on which are some | ||
| CF | marbles), some silverware, some plates (on which are some seafood | ||
| CF | vol-au-vents) and some glasses. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia looks at you thoughtfully from her chair at the head of the | ||
| CF | table. "Please," she says, "take a seat." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You do so, and she adds: "I see you didn't bring a date. That's a | ||
| CF | shame." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "yithlak" | ||
| CF ] 7:36 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > YITHLAK | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Yithlak", Julia says thoughtfully. "Yithlak, yithlak. Where have I | ||
| CF | heard the name before?" Francis joins in: "Yithlak." "Yithlak. Yithlak | ||
| CF | Yithlak." Pretty soon all the party guests are chanting along with | ||
| CF | you, and you can feel the darkness closing in around your eyes, and it | ||
| CF | is so soothing when, through the bay window, you see the sky split | ||
| CF | apart and start disgorging spiders; it is so blissful that you respond | ||
| CF | by issuing forth spiders from your own mouth in response... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Ending E | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | *** You have brought about the demise of this universe. | ||
| CF | *** | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last | ||
| CF | command or read the PARATEXT? | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "I'm constantly trying to be relaxed in real life, despite 'apocalypse' also being in that title, so yeah." | |
| DavidW says, "I see." | ||
| DavidW says, "YITHLAK in bathroom may be yet another ending." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Probably." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Goodness" | ||
| Touchy says, "Come on, Julia. Just because you cannot see our date doesn't mean we didn't bring one." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "ha" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 7:36 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Knight_Otu says, "Heh." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "excuse" | ||
| CF ] 7:37 pm Bathroom 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EXCUSE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You politely excuse yourself to go to the bathroom. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Bathroom | ||
| CF | This is the secondary, downstairs bathroom, so there's just a sink and | ||
| CF | a toilet, and a small high window to let in some moonlight. The floor | ||
| CF | and wall tiles are a jadeish shade of green, and they thankfully | ||
| CF | aren't reflective enough for you to see yourself in them. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can see a bathroom mirror (closed) here. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "yithlak" | ||
| CF ] 7:37 pm Bathroom 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > YITHLAK | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Yithlak! Yithlak!", the words come unbidden to your mouth, "The | ||
| CF | shadow of night creeping over god's corpse! The ten thousand diseased | ||
| CF | hearts!" It goes on like this for about half an hour. In the end, they | ||
| CF | find you drooling on the floor of the bathroom. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Ending F | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | *** You have tried to bite off more than you can chew. | ||
| CF | *** | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last | ||
| CF | command or read the PARATEXT? | ||
| CF | > | DavidW says, "oh. Same as in foyer" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Same ending as the vestibule." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "restart" | ||
| CF ] 7:32 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Just take your coat off and come join us in the dining room, we're | ||
| CF | all about to start," Julia says as she already steps out of the | ||
| CF | vestibule. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Coming here tonight was definitely a terrible idea. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [If you are new to parser fiction, type HELP] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Don't Mind My Apocalypse Head | ||
| CF | An interactive nightmare by Bruno Dias | ||
| CF | Release 1 / Serial number 170403 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib | ||
| CF | 6/12N) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Vestibule | ||
| CF | The vestibule, that most Freudian of rooms, is the liminal space | ||
| CF | between the front door and the interior of the house proper. This one, | ||
| CF | like the rest of the house, is wood-paneled and vaguely beaux-arts in | ||
| CF | a way that can only be described as "tweedy." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You try not to catch yourself on the full-length mirror. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can also see a coat hook here. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x mirror" | ||
| CF ] 7:33 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X MIRROR | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A nice, big mirror on a wooden frame. Of course. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You spot your reflection clearly on the full-length mirror, and | ||
| CF | also the reflection of your additional, unseen head: It has inky | ||
| CF | black pits for eyes, but it still seems to stare right at you. "Breach | ||
| CF | the seals. Open the gate," it says, in a cracked voice that's not | ||
| CF | quite your own. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | The head in the mirror belongs to a version of yourself from a | ||
| CF | previous iteration of the universe. One that seemingly ended really | ||
| CF | poorly, given that it's clearly possessed by some kind of | ||
| CF | world-rending evil. You're really in no state to attend a dinner | ||
| CF | party, but you'd already RSVP'd. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "g" | ||
| CF ] 7:34 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > G | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A nice, big mirror on a wooden frame. Of course. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You spot your reflection clearly on the full-length mirror, and | ||
| CF | also the reflection of your additional, unseen head: "Worms issue | ||
| CF | from the mouth! Black ichor! Falling and falling!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "g" | ||
| CF ] 7:35 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > G | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A nice, big mirror on a wooden frame. Of course. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You spot your reflection clearly on the full-length mirror, and | ||
| CF | also the reflection of your additional, unseen head: "You cannot | ||
| CF | save them! Nobody can be saved!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "g" | ||
| CF ] 7:36 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > G | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A nice, big mirror on a wooden frame. Of course. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You spot your reflection clearly on the full-length mirror, and | ||
| CF | also the reflection of your additional, unseen head: "Knock down | ||
| CF | the doors and listen as hell makes itself heard!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "g" | ||
| CF ] 7:37 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > G | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A nice, big mirror on a wooden frame. Of course. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You spot your reflection clearly on the full-length mirror, and | ||
| CF | also the reflection of your additional, unseen head: "We all fall | ||
| CF | down! We all fall through!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "g" | ||
| CF ] 7:38 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > G | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A nice, big mirror on a wooden frame. Of course. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You spot your reflection clearly on the full-length mirror, and | ||
| CF | also the reflection of your additional, unseen head: "Blood from | ||
| CF | the eyes! Rats! Rats!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You realize that blood is dripping from your left nostril. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Blood drips from your nose. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Knight_Otu says, "Yeah, it must be that text." | |
| DavidW asks, "What if we give our coat to Julia instead of hanging it ourselves?" | ||
| DavidW asks, "Do we avoid this mirror that way?" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "I think she's out before we even get to type?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "g" | ||
| CF ] 7:39 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > G | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A nice, big mirror on a wooden frame. Of course. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You spot your reflection clearly on the full-length mirror, and | ||
| CF | also the reflection of your additional, unseen head: "Yithlak! | ||
| CF | Say his name! Call him into being! Yithlak! Yithlak!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Blood drips from your nose. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW asks, "So, could we drop our coat?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "g" | ||
| CF ] 7:40 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > G | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A nice, big mirror on a wooden frame. Of course. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You spot your reflection clearly on the full-length mirror, and | ||
| CF | also the reflection of your additional, unseen head: "You will | ||
| CF | see! You will all see!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Blood drips from your nose. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "drop coat" | ||
| CF ] 7:41 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > DROP COAT | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | (the coat) | ||
| CF | (first taking the coat off) | ||
| CF | You take off your coat and hang it. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dropped. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Blood drips from your nose. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW says, "oh" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x mirror" | ||
| CF ] 7:42 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X MIRROR | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A nice, big mirror on a wooden frame. Of course. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You spot your reflection clearly on the full-length mirror, and | ||
| CF | also the reflection of your additional, unseen head: "We are the | ||
| CF | maggots feasting on god's corpse! We are the darkness that consumes!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Blood drips from your nose. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "g" | ||
| CF ] 7:43 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > G | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A nice, big mirror on a wooden frame. Of course. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You spot your reflection clearly on the full-length mirror, and | ||
| CF | also the reflection of your additional, unseen head: "There is no | ||
| CF | hope! Never was any hope!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Blood drips from your nose. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "g" | ||
| CF ] 7:43 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > G | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A nice, big mirror on a wooden frame. Of course. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You spot your reflection clearly on the full-length mirror, and | ||
| CF | also the reflection of your additional, unseen head: "The worm | ||
| CF | awakens! It stirs inside your belly!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You have the most horrible sensation that all your teeth have | ||
| CF | shattered inside your mouth, and you're spitting out bits of grit and | ||
| CF | pebbles that used to be your teeth. You think you're bleeding but | ||
| CF | you're not sure from where. Darkness fills in the edges of your | ||
| CF | vision. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | They find you on the floor an hour later, coughing up for no apparent | ||
| CF | reason, eyes bloodshot. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Ending B | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | *** You have stared too long into the abyss. *** | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last | ||
| CF | command or read the PARATEXT? | ||
| CF | > | DavidW says, "That's new." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "It is." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "huh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We died relaxed, though." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So that's nice." | ||
| Touchy says, "Ladies and gentlemen, DW and KO, our experts for finding all the bad endings." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Or, not dead, but ... yeah." | ||
| MoyTW says, "ha." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "So there probably is also a reflection ending in the dining room." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "hee" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Ask the protagonist of Cragne Manor. How many times did I kill her?" | ||
| DavidW says, "sure, we could look at the silverware endlessly. Or the marbles or glass." | ||
| DavidW says (to KO), "42" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I somehow doubt that's the answer,and yet it is. Paradoxical." | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "Anyone else want the wheel?" | ||
| DavidW) Alex awwks (to Knight_Otu), "Seven!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I am eating, so not just now." | ||
| Touchy says, "Same here" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "restart" | ||
| CF ] 7:32 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Just take your coat off and come join us in the dining room, we're | ||
| CF | all about to start," Julia says as she already steps out of the | ||
| CF | vestibule. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Coming here tonight was definitely a terrible idea. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [If you are new to parser fiction, type HELP] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Don't Mind My Apocalypse Head | ||
| CF | An interactive nightmare by Bruno Dias | ||
| CF | Release 1 / Serial number 170403 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib | ||
| CF | 6/12N) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Vestibule | ||
| CF | The vestibule, that most Freudian of rooms, is the liminal space | ||
| CF | between the front door and the interior of the house proper. This one, | ||
| CF | like the rest of the house, is wood-paneled and vaguely beaux-arts in | ||
| CF | a way that can only be described as "tweedy." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You try not to catch yourself on the full-length mirror. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can also see a coat hook here. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW says, "I'd love to be eating, but I'm not." | |
| Jacqueline says, "(This is a great game to read while eating, eh, Touchy?)" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "drop coat" | ||
| CF ] 7:33 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > DROP COAT | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | (the coat) | ||
| CF | (first taking the coat off) | ||
| CF | You can't help but look into the mirror as you take the coat off... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A nice, big mirror on a wooden frame. Of course. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You spot your reflection clearly on the full-length mirror, and | ||
| CF | also the reflection of your additional, unseen head: It has inky | ||
| CF | black pits for eyes, but it still seems to stare right at you. "Breach | ||
| CF | the seals. Open the gate," it says, in a cracked voice that's not | ||
| CF | quite your own. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | The head in the mirror belongs to a version of yourself from a | ||
| CF | previous iteration of the universe. One that seemingly ended really | ||
| CF | poorly, given that it's clearly possessed by some kind of | ||
| CF | world-rending evil. You're really in no state to attend a dinner | ||
| CF | party, but you'd already RSVP'd. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take off your coat and hang it. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dropped. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, "I had to get snacks because of all the eating in the game..." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "l" | ||
| CF ] 7:34 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > L | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Vestibule | ||
| CF | The vestibule, that most Freudian of rooms, is the liminal space | ||
| CF | between the front door and the interior of the house proper. This one, | ||
| CF | like the rest of the house, is wood-paneled and vaguely beaux-arts in | ||
| CF | a way that can only be described as "tweedy." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You try not to catch yourself on the full-length mirror. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can also see a coat and a coat hook here. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Knight_Otu says, "I think the game didn't anticipate dropping the coat." | |
| DavidW asks, "There was one mention of a lack of a heart when we tried to ditch the phone?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x heart" | ||
| CF ] 7:34 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X HEART | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [That is either not here, or you don't need to refer to it over | ||
| CF | the course of this story.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Knight_Otu says, "Well, it isn't there." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "n" | ||
| CF ] 7:35 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > N | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You should hang your coat on the hook before joining the others. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW asks, "Can we go south and leave?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "s" | ||
| CF ] 7:36 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > S | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You should hang your coat on the hook before joining the others. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "hang coat" | ||
| CF ] 7:36 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > HANG COAT | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Which do you mean, the coat or the coat hook? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "get coat" | ||
| CF ] 7:36 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > GET COAT | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Which do you mean, the coat or the coat hook? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW asks, "All directions lead to dining?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "restart" | ||
| CF ] 7:36 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > RESTART | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Are you sure you want to restart? | Knight_Otu asks, "Maybe?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "yes" | ||
| CF ] 7:32 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Just take your coat off and come join us in the dining room, we're | ||
| CF | all about to start," Julia says as she already steps out of the | ||
| CF | vestibule. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Coming here tonight was definitely a terrible idea. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [If you are new to parser fiction, type HELP] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Don't Mind My Apocalypse Head | ||
| CF | An interactive nightmare by Bruno Dias | ||
| CF | Release 1 / Serial number 170403 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib | ||
| CF | 6/12N) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Vestibule | ||
| CF | The vestibule, that most Freudian of rooms, is the liminal space | ||
| CF | between the front door and the interior of the house proper. This one, | ||
| CF | like the rest of the house, is wood-paneled and vaguely beaux-arts in | ||
| CF | a way that can only be described as "tweedy." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You try not to catch yourself on the full-length mirror. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can also see a coat hook here. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "put coat on hook" | ||
| CF ] 7:33 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > PUT COAT ON HOOK | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | (the coat on the coat hook) | ||
| CF | You can't help but look into the mirror as you take the coat off... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A nice, big mirror on a wooden frame. Of course. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You spot your reflection clearly on the full-length mirror, and | ||
| CF | also the reflection of your additional, unseen head: It has inky | ||
| CF | black pits for eyes, but it still seems to stare right at you. "Breach | ||
| CF | the seals. Open the gate," it says, in a cracked voice that's not | ||
| CF | quite your own. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | The head in the mirror belongs to a version of yourself from a | ||
| CF | previous iteration of the universe. One that seemingly ended really | ||
| CF | poorly, given that it's clearly possessed by some kind of | ||
| CF | world-rending evil. You're really in no state to attend a dinner | ||
| CF | party, but you'd already RSVP'd. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take off your coat and hang it. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "d" | ||
| CF ] 7:34 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > D | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You find your way to the dining room... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | A large bay window lets in no light through the thick drapes; a brass | ||
| CF | chandelier that Julia hasn't been able to get rid of clashes a bit | ||
| CF | with the modernist minimalism of the furniture. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the dining chairs are Julia, Raul, Francis and Janet. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the table are a sterling silver epergne (on which are some | ||
| CF | marbles), some silverware, some plates (on which are some seafood | ||
| CF | vol-au-vents) and some glasses. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia looks at you thoughtfully from her chair at the head of the | ||
| CF | table. "Please," she says, "take a seat." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You do so, and she adds: "I see you didn't bring a date. That's a | ||
| CF | shame." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Knight_Otu says, "Apparently." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "leave" | ||
| CF ] 7:35 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > LEAVE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You could EXCUSE yourself to go to the bathroom. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Please, dig in. I think you'll enjoy this one," Julia says. Francis | ||
| CF | pokes at the dish in front of him with a fork: "What is it?" "Why | ||
| CF | don't you take a bite and tell me?" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "eat food" | ||
| CF ] 7:36 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT FOOD | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a look at the seafood vol-au-vents before digging in: | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A vol-au-vent is a little bucket made out of puff pastry; this one is | ||
| CF | filled with some kind of pinkish material that you strongly suspect is | ||
| CF | some type of seafood, but you can't identify which. It's also topped | ||
| CF | with three thin, artistically-arranged chives. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a few bites out of the seafood vol-au-vents. | ||
| CF | The filling consists of pale bits of vaguely crustacean flesh floating | ||
| CF | in vaguely sea-tasting sauce; it's either lobster in a crab sauce, or | ||
| CF | crab in a lobster sauce. It runs all over your plate the moment you | ||
| CF | crack the exterior of the puff pastry. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis uses his fork to collapse the construction on his plate. "Is | ||
| CF | it... crab?" Julia just smiles and takes a bite out of her own plate. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "g" | ||
| CF ] 7:37 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > G | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Your eyes run across the silverware you're using: | ||
| CF | A full set of silverware, including mirror-polished knives, forks, | ||
| CF | spoons, and so on, carefully placed next to everyone's plates. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the silverware: "Worms issue from the mouth! Black ichor! | ||
| CF | Falling and falling!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You finish eating the seafood vol-au-vents. | ||
| CF | It's a bit large for an amuse-bouche, to be honest, but you did skip | ||
| CF | lunch today. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis turns to Raul: "So how's the teaching going?" "Fine. How's the | ||
| CF | business going?" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, "nonono" | |
| Touchy says, "eat more" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "g" | ||
| CF ] 7:38 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > G | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You've already finished the seafood vol-au-vents. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis replies: "Really well, actually. We just applied for another | ||
| CF | patent last week." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x silverware" | ||
| CF ] 7:39 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X SILVERWARE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A full set of silverware, including mirror-polished knives, forks, | ||
| CF | spoons, and so on, carefully placed next to everyone's plates. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the silverware: "You cannot save them! Nobody can be saved!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "I love this," Janet pipes in. "Is it lobster?" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x silverware" | ||
| CF ] 7:40 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X SILVERWARE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A full set of silverware, including mirror-polished knives, forks, | ||
| CF | spoons, and so on, carefully placed next to everyone's plates. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the silverware: "Knock down the doors and listen as hell makes | ||
| CF | itself heard!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Keep guessing," Julia continues. "I think Raul had some really good | ||
| CF | lectures last term, didn't you?" She pats her husband on the shoulder, | ||
| CF | for emphasis. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x silverware" | ||
| CF ] 7:41 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X SILVERWARE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A full set of silverware, including mirror-polished knives, forks, | ||
| CF | spoons, and so on, carefully placed next to everyone's plates. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the silverware: "We all fall down! We all fall through!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Scallops. It's gotta be scallops," Francis finally realizes. "Got it | ||
| CF | in two," Julia replies. Raul seems almost relieved that's over. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x silverware" | ||
| CF ] 7:42 pm Amuse-bouche 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X SILVERWARE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A full set of silverware, including mirror-polished knives, forks, | ||
| CF | spoons, and so on, carefully placed next to everyone's plates. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the silverware: "Blood from the eyes! Rats! Rats!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You realize that blood is dripping from your left nostril. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia: "What's that patent about again?" Francis seems positively | ||
| CF | delighted to explain. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia stares at your face for a moment. "Oh, dear; maybe you should go | ||
| CF | get that cleaned up." | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "excuse" | ||
| CF ] 7:43 pm Bathroom 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EXCUSE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You politely excuse yourself to go to the bathroom. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Bathroom | ||
| CF | This is the secondary, downstairs bathroom, so there's just a sink and | ||
| CF | a toilet, and a small high window to let in some moonlight. The floor | ||
| CF | and wall tiles are a jadeish shade of green, and they thankfully | ||
| CF | aren't reflective enough for you to see yourself in them. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can see a bathroom mirror (closed) here. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Your phone chirps as a notification comes in. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Blood drips from your nose. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "open mirror" | ||
| CF ] 7:44 pm Bathroom 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > OPEN MIRROR | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can't help but look at the mirror before opening it: A | ||
| CF | nice-looking bathroom mirror cabinet. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You spot your reflection clearly on the bathroom mirror, and also | ||
| CF | the reflection of your additional, unseen head: "Yithlak! Say his | ||
| CF | name! Call him into being! Yithlak! Yithlak!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You open the bathroom mirror, revealing a bag of cotton balls. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You grab one of the cotton balls and shove some of it up your nostril | ||
| CF | to staunch the bleeding. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x phone" | ||
| CF ] 7:45 pm Bathroom 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X PHONE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A mid-range Android. The notification light is pulsing. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You clear away the notifications; there's nothing important. Looks | ||
| CF | like you're supposed to have taken your medication already. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "in" | ||
| CF ] 7:46 pm Soup 4 (Mildly awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > IN | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You find your way to the dining room... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | A large bay window lets in no light through the thick drapes; a brass | ||
| CF | chandelier that Julia hasn't been able to get rid of clashes a bit | ||
| CF | with the modernist minimalism of the furniture. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the dining chairs are Julia, Raul, Francis and Janet. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the table are a sterling silver epergne (on which are some | ||
| CF | marbles), some silverware, some plates (on which are some squash soup) | ||
| CF | and some glasses. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia suddenly turns to you: "So how's the job search going?" You try | ||
| CF | to talk for a moment about what you're working on now, but end up | ||
| CF | trailing off. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You sit yourself down. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Knight_Otu says, "Every direction leads everywhere." | |
| DavidW says, "I see." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That's convenient, if weird." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah, especially with "in"." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "eat soup" | ||
| CF ] 7:47 pm Soup 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT SOUP | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a look at the squash soup before digging in: | ||
| CF | A bright orange broth. Seasonal. Safe. Surprisingly clear, actually, | ||
| CF | almost like consomm��... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the squash soup: "You will see! You will all see!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia catches you staring off into space. "Are you alright? You seem a | ||
| CF | little peaked." | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a few bites out of the squash soup. | ||
| CF | The taste is so subtle that you could be forgiven for thinking it | ||
| CF | doesn't actually taste of very much at all. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis faces you: "You could come work with us at Agrosynth. You did | ||
| CF | your dissertation on plant genetics, right?" "Minoan archeology," you | ||
| CF | reply reflexively. "Ah, my mistake." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "eat soup" | ||
| CF ] 7:48 pm Soup 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT SOUP | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You finish eating the squash soup. | ||
| CF | After a few more slurps, you come to the coclusion that it tastes | ||
| CF | "brown". | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "I seem to remember Julia did some Minoan work back in the day," Raul | ||
| CF | notes. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x plates" | ||
| CF ] 7:49 pm Soup 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X PLATES | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | These are made out of mercifully matte black ceramic. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the plates are some squash soup. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia: "Really, it wasn't anything important. A side project at best." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x epergne" | ||
| CF ] 7:50 pm Soup 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X EPERGNE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | An epergne, you have recently learned, is a table centerpiece with | ||
| CF | suspended trays meant to hold food or flowers or what have you; this | ||
| CF | one, in a sort of postmodern-zen deco move, is actually loaded with a | ||
| CF | variety of glass marbles and interestingly-shaped river rocks. It is, | ||
| CF | regardless, an old traditional piece of polished silverware. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the sterling silver epergne are some marbles. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the sterling silver epergne: "We are the maggots feasting on | ||
| CF | god's corpse! We are the darkness that consumes!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can tell that some tension is hanging in the air, just for a | ||
| CF | moment. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x epergne" | ||
| CF ] 7:51 pm Soup 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X EPERGNE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | An epergne, you have recently learned, is a table centerpiece with | ||
| CF | suspended trays meant to hold food or flowers or what have you; this | ||
| CF | one, in a sort of postmodern-zen deco move, is actually loaded with a | ||
| CF | variety of glass marbles and interestingly-shaped river rocks. It is, | ||
| CF | regardless, an old traditional piece of polished silverware. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the sterling silver epergne are some marbles. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the sterling silver epergne: "There is no hope! Never was any | ||
| CF | hope!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Janet: "Really, we should do this more often. It's been so hard to get | ||
| CF | together with friends lately." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x epergne" | ||
| CF ] 7:51 pm Soup 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X EPERGNE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | An epergne, you have recently learned, is a table centerpiece with | ||
| CF | suspended trays meant to hold food or flowers or what have you; this | ||
| CF | one, in a sort of postmodern-zen deco move, is actually loaded with a | ||
| CF | variety of glass marbles and interestingly-shaped river rocks. It is, | ||
| CF | regardless, an old traditional piece of polished silverware. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the sterling silver epergne are some marbles. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the sterling silver epergne: "The worm awakens! It stirs | ||
| CF | inside your belly!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Shut up!", you finally scream at the sterling silver epergne. In no | ||
| CF | time at all you're tearing off your hair as you stare at the | ||
| CF | silverware, knocking your chair over behind you. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Ending C | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | *** You have driven yourself mad in front of the dinner | ||
| CF | guests. *** | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last | ||
| CF | command or read the PARATEXT? | ||
| CF | > | MoyTW says, "...huh." | |
| Jacqueline says, "There we go." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I agree with Janet. We really should do this more often." | ||
| DavidW says, "There must be at least one more ending past dessert." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Probably." | ||
| DavidW says, "Maybe call Moira." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Margo?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "restart" | ||
| CF ] 7:32 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Just take your coat off and come join us in the dining room, we're | ||
| CF | all about to start," Julia says as she already steps out of the | ||
| CF | vestibule. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Coming here tonight was definitely a terrible idea. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [If you are new to parser fiction, type HELP] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Don't Mind My Apocalypse Head | ||
| CF | An interactive nightmare by Bruno Dias | ||
| CF | Release 1 / Serial number 170403 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib | ||
| CF | 6/12N) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Vestibule | ||
| CF | The vestibule, that most Freudian of rooms, is the liminal space | ||
| CF | between the front door and the interior of the house proper. This one, | ||
| CF | like the rest of the house, is wood-paneled and vaguely beaux-arts in | ||
| CF | a way that can only be described as "tweedy." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You try not to catch yourself on the full-length mirror. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can also see a coat hook here. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "call margo" | ||
| CF ] 7:32 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > CALL MARGO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | That's not a verb I recognise. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "phone margo" | ||
| CF ] 7:32 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > PHONE MARGO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | That's not a verb I recognise. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW says, "oh sorry, Margo" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x phone" | ||
| CF ] 7:33 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X PHONE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A mid-range Android. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW asks, "TEXT Margo?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "text margo" | ||
| CF ] 7:33 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TEXT MARGO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | That's not a verb I recognise. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | MoyTW exclaims, "For all the emphasis the game puts on your phone you think it'd at least have special text for those actions!" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| Guenni says, "How we avoid the staring as much as possible. Or did I miss a reason why that's not possible." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "close eyes" | ||
| CF ] 7:33 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > CLOSE EYES | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [That is either not here, or you don't need to refer to it over | ||
| CF | the course of this story.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says (to Guenni), "Sometimes when you take other actions you look at things anyway." | |
| Touchy says, "I got confused by the eating which made us look at the silverware earlier." | ||
| Guenni asks, "So how we just wait as much as possible?" | ||
| Touchy says, "Looking at people seemed to work pretty well." | ||
| MoyTW asks, "We get shamed by Julia then. Or, like, you mean, do the minimum of eating and mostly just stare at people?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "If we don't eat, things get too awkward." | ||
| Touchy says, "We definitely need to eat." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "put coat on hook" | ||
| CF ] 7:34 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > PUT COAT ON HOOK | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | (the coat on the coat hook) | ||
| CF | You can't help but look into the mirror as you take the coat off... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A nice, big mirror on a wooden frame. Of course. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You spot your reflection clearly on the full-length mirror, and | ||
| CF | also the reflection of your additional, unseen head: It has inky | ||
| CF | black pits for eyes, but it still seems to stare right at you. "Breach | ||
| CF | the seals. Open the gate," it says, in a cracked voice that's not | ||
| CF | quite your own. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | The head in the mirror belongs to a version of yourself from a | ||
| CF | previous iteration of the universe. One that seemingly ended really | ||
| CF | poorly, given that it's clearly possessed by some kind of | ||
| CF | world-rending evil. You're really in no state to attend a dinner | ||
| CF | party, but you'd already RSVP'd. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take off your coat and hang it. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Guenni asks, "Ok, so we eat but don't stare intentionally?" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "out" | ||
| CF ] 7:35 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > OUT | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You find your way to the dining room... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | A large bay window lets in no light through the thick drapes; a brass | ||
| CF | chandelier that Julia hasn't been able to get rid of clashes a bit | ||
| CF | with the modernist minimalism of the furniture. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the dining chairs are Julia, Raul, Francis and Janet. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the table are a sterling silver epergne (on which are some | ||
| CF | marbles), some silverware, some plates (on which are some seafood | ||
| CF | vol-au-vents) and some glasses. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia looks at you thoughtfully from her chair at the head of the | ||
| CF | table. "Please," she says, "take a seat." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You do so, and she adds: "I see you didn't bring a date. That's a | ||
| CF | shame." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, "ok -1 for date..probably unavoidable" | |
| DavidW says, "Maybe stuff a creampuff in our other head's mouth to shut it up." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "This is weird that every direction leads everywhere." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "eat soup" | ||
| CF ] 7:35 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT SOUP | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [That is either not here, or you don't need to refer to it over | ||
| CF | the course of this story.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "eat food" | ||
| CF ] 7:36 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT FOOD | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a look at the seafood vol-au-vents before digging in: | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A vol-au-vent is a little bucket made out of puff pastry; this one is | ||
| CF | filled with some kind of pinkish material that you strongly suspect is | ||
| CF | some type of seafood, but you can't identify which. It's also topped | ||
| CF | with three thin, artistically-arranged chives. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a few bites out of the seafood vol-au-vents. | ||
| CF | The filling consists of pale bits of vaguely crustacean flesh floating | ||
| CF | in vaguely sea-tasting sauce; it's either lobster in a crab sauce, or | ||
| CF | crab in a lobster sauce. It runs all over your plate the moment you | ||
| CF | crack the exterior of the puff pastry. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Please, dig in. I think you'll enjoy this one," Julia says. Francis | ||
| CF | pokes at the dish in front of him with a fork: "What is it?" "Why | ||
| CF | don't you take a bite and tell me?" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "eat food" | ||
| CF ] 7:37 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT FOOD | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Your eyes run across the silverware you're using: | ||
| CF | A full set of silverware, including mirror-polished knives, forks, | ||
| CF | spoons, and so on, carefully placed next to everyone's plates. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the silverware: "Worms issue from the mouth! Black ichor! | ||
| CF | Falling and falling!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You finish eating the seafood vol-au-vents. | ||
| CF | It's a bit large for an amuse-bouche, to be honest, but you did skip | ||
| CF | lunch today. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis uses his fork to collapse the construction on his plate. "Is | ||
| CF | it... crab?" Julia just smiles and takes a bite out of her own plate. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "guess scallops" | ||
| CF ] 7:37 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > GUESS SCALLOPS | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | That's not a verb I recognise. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "say scallops" | ||
| CF ] 7:37 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > SAY SCALLOPS | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Whom do you want to say that to? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline smiles. | |
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "julia" | ||
| CF ] 7:38 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis turns to Raul: "So how's the teaching going?" "Fine. How's the | ||
| CF | business going?" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Knight_Otu says, "Can't steal the correct guess." | |
| Touchy says, "maybe trying to speak also advances time" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to raul" | ||
| CF ] 7:39 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO RAUL | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis replies: "Really well, actually. We just applied for another | ||
| CF | patent last week." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to raul" | ||
| CF ] 7:40 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO RAUL | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "I love this," Janet pipes in. "Is it lobster?" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, "dinner party 101" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to raul" | ||
| CF ] 7:41 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO RAUL | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Keep guessing," Julia continues. "I think Raul had some really good | ||
| CF | lectures last term, didn't you?" She pats her husband on the shoulder, | ||
| CF | for emphasis. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "Nice" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to raul" | ||
| CF ] 7:42 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO RAUL | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Scallops. It's gotta be scallops," Francis finally realizes. "Got it | ||
| CF | in two," Julia replies. Raul seems almost relieved that's over. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to raul" | ||
| CF ] 7:43 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO RAUL | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia: "What's that patent about again?" Francis seems positively | ||
| CF | delighted to explain. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to raul" | ||
| CF ] 7:44 pm Soup 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO RAUL | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis launches into his explanation. It goes over your head but you | ||
| CF | think you catch the word "telomers". He's interrupted, of course, when | ||
| CF | Julia asks if everyone is ready for the soup. Everyone is about as | ||
| CF | excited as you can get for soup, which is to say not very much at all. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Your phone chirps as a notification comes in. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia steps away with the plates and returns with the next course: A | ||
| CF | soup. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| olethros has arrived. | Touchy says, "ok just read it" | |
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x phone" | ||
| CF ] 7:45 pm Soup 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X PHONE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A mid-range Android. The notification light is pulsing. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You clear away the notifications; there's nothing important. Looks | ||
| CF | like you're supposed to have taken your medication already. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "This is good soup," Janet says delightedly. "Is this yam?" "Squash," | ||
| CF | Julia replies. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | MoyTW says, "That's our hero, just constantly sitting, trying to talk but feeling too intimidated to actually break into the conversation." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "eat soup" | ||
| CF ] 7:46 pm Soup 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT SOUP | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a look at the squash soup before digging in: | ||
| CF | A bright orange broth. Seasonal. Safe. Surprisingly clear, actually, | ||
| CF | almost like consomm��... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the squash soup: "You cannot save them! Nobody can be saved!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a few bites out of the squash soup. | ||
| CF | The taste is so subtle that you could be forgiven for thinking it | ||
| CF | doesn't actually taste of very much at all. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis tries to get back on track explaining what his company does, | ||
| CF | but nobody seems too interested. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "He's fighting quite a battle, though." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "eat soup" | ||
| CF ] 7:47 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT SOUP | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You finish eating the squash soup. | ||
| CF | After a few more slurps, you come to the coclusion that it tastes | ||
| CF | "brown". | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia suddenly turns to you: "So how's the job search going?" You try | ||
| CF | to talk for a moment about what you're working on now, but end up | ||
| CF | trailing off. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to janet" | ||
| CF ] 7:48 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JANET | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis faces you: "You could come work with us at Agrosynth. You did | ||
| CF | your dissertation on plant genetics, right?" "Minoan archeology," you | ||
| CF | reply reflexively. "Ah, my mistake." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to janet" | ||
| CF ] 7:49 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JANET | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "I seem to remember Julia did some Minoan work back in the day," Raul | ||
| CF | notes. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to janet" | ||
| CF ] 7:50 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JANET | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia: "Really, it wasn't anything important. A side project at best." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to janet" | ||
| CF ] 7:51 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JANET | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can tell that some tension is hanging in the air, just for a | ||
| CF | moment. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to janet" | ||
| CF ] 7:52 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JANET | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Janet: "Really, we should do this more often. It's been so hard to get | ||
| CF | together with friends lately." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to janet" | ||
| CF ] 7:53 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JANET | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Raul just coughs into his soup. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Knight_Otu says, "Cough into your elbow, Raul." | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to janet" | ||
| CF ] 7:54 pm Main course 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JANET | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia politely asks if everyone is ready for the main course. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia steps away with the plates and returns with the main course, | ||
| CF | some sort of sous-vide cooked fish. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, "Pre-covid-game" | |
| MoyTW says, "Still better into your elbow than into your soup." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I mean, even back in the day." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I seem to recall 'coughing into your elbow' not gaining popularity everywhere at once." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "(He says, like it's ancient history)" | ||
| MoyTW says, "The hospitals used to have "Cough into your elbow not your hands" signs up all throughout my childhood." | ||
| MoyTW says, "'least so far as I can remember." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I was in the UK visiting family and remember being shocked that they were still coughing into hands at one point." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "I think that was 2015?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "eat fish" | ||
| CF ] 7:55 pm Main course 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT FISH | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a look at the sous-vide fish before digging in: | ||
| CF | This is neither salmon nor tuna nor white fish, so you're at a loss | ||
| CF | for what it is, but it seems like it was cooked sous-vide and then | ||
| CF | blowtorched to within an inch of its life. It's coated in some kind of | ||
| CF | brownish glaze. The side dish for this is some mix of purple, yellow, | ||
| CF | and red-orange vegetables that have been spiralized then roasted. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a few bites out of the sous-vide fish. | ||
| CF | Julia was clearly hoping this fish would get a nice crispy crust from | ||
| CF | the blowtorch, but it just wasn't going to happen; it falls apart at | ||
| CF | the fork pretty sadly. The vegetables on the side are actually just | ||
| CF | fancy-colored carrots. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "This looks... interesting," Francis says, lifting a strand of | ||
| CF | vegetable matter on the tip of his fork. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Your phone chirps as a notification comes in. | ||
| CF | You realize it's not on you; you must have put it down on the table | ||
| CF | somewhere. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x plates" | ||
| CF ] 7:56 pm Main course 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X PLATES | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | These are made out of mercifully matte black ceramic. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the plates are some sous-vide fish. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Janet pulls out her phone. "I should Pinterest this, it looks | ||
| CF | gorgeous." But then she gets self-conscious, and puts her phone away. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, "ok..." | |
| Guenni says, "My problm with the ellbow coughing is: You can wash your hands imideately, your pullover, not so much." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x epergne" | ||
| CF ] 7:57 pm Main course 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X EPERGNE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | An epergne, you have recently learned, is a table centerpiece with | ||
| CF | suspended trays meant to hold food or flowers or what have you; this | ||
| CF | one, in a sort of postmodern-zen deco move, is actually loaded with a | ||
| CF | variety of glass marbles and interestingly-shaped river rocks. It is, | ||
| CF | regardless, an old traditional piece of polished silverware. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the sterling silver epergne are some marbles. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the sterling silver epergne: "Knock down the doors and listen | ||
| CF | as hell makes itself heard!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You're getting a bit anxious about that unread notification. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "We get everything there from a CSA subscription," Raul says. "Even | ||
| CF | the fish." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Rain starts up outside, audibly battering the roof of the house. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW says, "yeah, it's not always the plates." | |
| Touchy says, "either random or DW was right" | ||
| Touchy asks, "which...never happens in IF...right?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x glasses" | ||
| CF ] 7:58 pm Main course 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X GLASSES | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Nice-looking stemless wine glasses. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Aha! There's your phone, right next to the glasses. You snatch it up. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the glasses: "We all fall down! We all fall through!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | I hope you won't have too much trouble getting home in the rain.", | ||
| CF | Julia says, noting the drops banging against the window. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW says, "oh, sometimes I'm right." | |
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x phone" | ||
| CF ] 7:59 pm Main course 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X PHONE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A mid-range Android. The notification light is pulsing. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You clear away the notifications; there's nothing important. Looks | ||
| CF | like an email newsletter you forgot to unsubscribe from arrived. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Francis and I were really into sous-vide last year," Janet points | ||
| CF | out. "But now we're more into hearth cooking. Ever since the thing | ||
| CF | with the clams." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, "That was a very complicated compliment. You're an IF machine." | |
| DavidW grins. | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "eat fish" | ||
| CF ] 8:00 pm Main course 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT FISH | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You finish eating the sous-vide fish. | ||
| CF | After some forking, the glaze has melded completely with the | ||
| CF | gelatinous flesh of the fish; the whole thing tastes like miso, but | ||
| CF | with a sort of gel consistency. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Only on weekends, of course. During the week I'm on all Soylent now," | ||
| CF | Francis points out. "I mean, excepting dinner parties." He adds a | ||
| CF | little laugh. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:01 pm Main course 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Oh, interesting. How's the Soylent been treating you?", Raul asks. | ||
| CF | "Pretty well! I mean once you get over the bloating in the first week | ||
| CF | or so.", Francis replies. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:02 pm Main course 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A few thoughtful nods cross around the table. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:03 pm Main course 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "So what's for dessert?" Janet pipes up, shifting the remains of her | ||
| CF | fish around on the plate. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, ""He adds a little laugh." that does sound like a dinnerp arty" | |
| Touchy says, "My own awkwardness is rising." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:04 pm Dessert 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "It's a surprise. But I think I'll bring it over in a moment," Julia | ||
| CF | replies. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia steps away with the plates and returns with a tray holding a | ||
| CF | large, mirror-glazed cake. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "eat cake" | ||
| CF ] 8:05 pm Dessert 4 (Mildly awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT CAKE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a look at the mirror-glazed cake before digging in: | ||
| CF | It's covered in a marbled, light green shell that looks more like | ||
| CF | glossy plastic than food. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the mirror-glazed cake: "Blood from the eyes! Rats! Rats!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You realize that blood is dripping from your left nostril. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Maybe wait until Julia has cut into it. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis leans back on his chair, wearing the expression of a well-fed | ||
| CF | bull frog. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia stares at your face for a moment. "Oh, dear; maybe you should go | ||
| CF | get that cleaned up." | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "excuse" | ||
| CF ] 8:06 pm Bathroom 4 (Mildly awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EXCUSE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You politely excuse yourself to go to the bathroom. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Bathroom | ||
| CF | This is the secondary, downstairs bathroom, so there's just a sink and | ||
| CF | a toilet, and a small high window to let in some moonlight. The floor | ||
| CF | and wall tiles are a jadeish shade of green, and they thankfully | ||
| CF | aren't reflective enough for you to see yourself in them. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can see a bathroom mirror (closed) here. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Blood drips from your nose. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia carefully cuts, and serves, slices of the cake. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, "ok wait a second" | |
| Knight_Otu asks, "We see that from over here?" | ||
| Touchy says, "i mean we re doing pretty well" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| DavidW says, "open the mirror" | ||
| Touchy says, "but if we had excused ourselves first then looked at the mirror..." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We are doing well, that is true." | ||
| MoyTW says, "I think this game has a very weak sense of which room we're in." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Or which direction we need to go." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I didn't keep track of how long until the nosebleed." | ||
| Guenni says, "Longer than before." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "open mirror" | ||
| CF ] 8:07 pm Bathroom 4 (Mildly awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > OPEN MIRROR | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can't help but look at the mirror before opening it: A | ||
| CF | nice-looking bathroom mirror cabinet. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You spot your reflection clearly on the bathroom mirror, and also | ||
| CF | the reflection of your additional, unseen head: "Yithlak! Say his | ||
| CF | name! Call him into being! Yithlak! Yithlak!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You open the bathroom mirror, revealing a bag of cotton balls. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You grab one of the cotton balls and shove some of it up your nostril | ||
| CF | to staunch the bleeding. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "YITHLAK" | |
| Jacqueline says, "(Do not say his name.)" | ||
| DavidW holds up eleven fingers and asks, "how many heads do I have?" | ||
| Knight_Otu asks, "One less than hands?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "starboard" | ||
| CF ] 8:07 pm Bathroom 4 (Mildly awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > STARBOARD | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | That's not a verb I recognise. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Knight_Otu says, "Okay, not every every direction." | |
| Guenni grins | ||
| Touchy exclaims, "What? Stop shipping!" | ||
| DavidW says, "let's not miss the cake eating" | ||
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "Okay, okay!" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "ne" | ||
| CF ] 8:08 pm Dessert 4 (Mildly awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > NE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You find your way to the dining room... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | A large bay window lets in no light through the thick drapes; a brass | ||
| CF | chandelier that Julia hasn't been able to get rid of clashes a bit | ||
| CF | with the modernist minimalism of the furniture. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the dining chairs are Julia, Raul, Francis and Janet. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the table are a silver tray (on which is a mirror-glazed cake), a | ||
| CF | sterling silver epergne (on which are some marbles), some silverware, | ||
| CF | some plates (on which are some green-white cake) and some glasses. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "You guys have to come over more often, if it'll get Julia to make | ||
| CF | more cakes," Raul says. Polite laughs from the guests. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You sit yourself down. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "eat cake" | ||
| CF ] 8:09 pm Dessert 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT CAKE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | (the green-white cake) | ||
| CF | You take a look at the green-white cake before digging in: | ||
| CF | On the inside, it's a pretty standard sponge cake, except both the | ||
| CF | cream filling and the cake itself are flecked with some kind of | ||
| CF | greenish substance. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a few bites out of the green-white cake. | ||
| CF | The greenish substance is basil. This is a basil cake. It's very sweet | ||
| CF | but still reminiscent of marinara sauce. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Janet pokes at her cake. "Is that cake gluten-free?" "No," Julia | ||
| CF | replies, and she abruptly drops her fork. You can't help but feel like | ||
| CF | the awkwardness of the moment splashes back on you. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "hahaha. Sorry, I'd missed the STARBOARD attempt. That was good." | |
| MoyTW asks, "A...basil cake?" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "We had nothing to do with the cake not being gluten free, PC. It's fine!" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "And yet, we take splash damage." | ||
| Touchy says, "lemon sorbet with basil is nice" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to KO), "Apparently." | ||
| Touchy says, "It�'s AOE awkwardness" | ||
| DavidW says, "eat more cake please." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "eat cake" | ||
| CF ] 8:10 pm Dessert 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT CAKE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | (the green-white cake) | ||
| CF | You finish eating the green-white cake. | ||
| CF | Honestly, Julia was a little over-generous with the slicing there. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "This is good. Is this basil? That's so clever," Francis says, already | ||
| CF | more than halfway through a generous slice. "I think I'll have some | ||
| CF | more actually..." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says (to Touchy), "heh" | |
| Guenni says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to raul" | ||
| CF ] 8:11 pm Dessert 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO RAUL | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Well I'm glad. It's just so hard to get people to come over these | ||
| CF | days," Julia says. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "We're only at 5 though. This is good." | |
| DavidW says, "perhaps just wait" | ||
| Touchy says, "This is fine." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| Guenni says (to ClubFloyd), "z" | ||
| CF ] 8:12 pm Dessert 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > Z | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You close your eyes and take a breath. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "I miss Margo," Julia adds thoughtfully. "Oh. Sorry," she adds, | ||
| CF | realizing you're there. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "She thinks it was hard to get people come over for a dinner party back then. heh" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Try now." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Oh is Margo DEAD?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "DAMMIT, JULIA" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I'm guessing separated." | ||
| Touchy says, "I don't think so...how would she text" | ||
| MoyTW says, "No she's alive enough that we could get a text from her." | ||
| Guenni says, "No, since a text was hoped for." | ||
| Touchy says, "Well, I'm glad we all paid attention. heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, yes. But we also believe in Yithlak, folks." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Unless the second head allows texting from the afterlife." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "That'd be a nice feature." | ||
| Guenni says, "Could be interesting." | ||
| DavidW) Kalthif says, "we text from the before-life too." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway, yeah. I'm assuming we are estranged from Margo for some reason, and not happy about it, and Julia is a meanie." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I wouldn't be so keen on the apocalypse and madness. Got enough of that in the world today." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. I've also met my quota, KO. I hear ya." | ||
| Guenni nods. | ||
| Guenni says (to ClubFloyd), "z" | ||
| CF ] 8:13 pm Dessert 7 (Extremely | ||
| CF | awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > Z | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Your eyes start to wander, eventually landing on the mirror-glazed | ||
| CF | cake: It's covered in a marbled, light green shell that looks more | ||
| CF | like glossy plastic than food. Some slices have been cut out of it. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the mirror-glazed cake: "You will see! You will all see!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia catches you staring off into space. "Are you alright? You seem a | ||
| CF | little peaked." | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "I mean I promise Janet and I will be around, even after the move," | ||
| CF | Francis says. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "NO" | |
| olethros was told that in order to be published he had to cut his hair and sing in Swedish. | MoyTW exclaims, "Just try and talk!" | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 8:12 pm Dessert 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:13 pm Dessert 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "I mean I promise Janet and I will be around, even after the move," | ||
| CF | Francis says. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | MoyTW exclaims, "Don't give yourself time to think about your terrifying other self!" | |
| Jacqueline says (to Guenni), "Sorry. I didn't mean to scream." | ||
| Touchy exclaims, "Stick to the talking hack!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I don't know if we're supposed to be using this approach, but I love that it's working." | ||
| Guenni says, "You just spoke my thoughts. :-)" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:14 pm End of the Evening 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "I'll hold you to that!", Julia replies with a slightly hollow laugh | ||
| CF | as she gets up. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia takes away the cake, mercifully concluding the dinner. "Well. | ||
| CF | What did you think?", she asks as she returns from the kitchen. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Knight_Otu says, "I do suspect it's intentional." | |
| DavidW says, "Examining the plates is also safe, I think." | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims, "Dinner is over!" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:15 pm End of the Evening 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Lovely as always," Francis responds. "Really, you're so good at | ||
| CF | this." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Guenni says (to ClubFloyd), "g" | ||
| CF ] 8:16 pm End of the Evening 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > G | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Oh, I dabble," Julia replies. "Have to keep myself busy, you know." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline asks, "Should I just keep trying to talk?" | |
| DavidW asks, "maybe?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:17 pm End of the Evening 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | The guests lean back on their chairs, letting their stomach contents | ||
| CF | settle over a lingering moment. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:18 pm End of the Evening 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "So. Is anyone for coffee, maybe a drink?", Julia asks. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Rumbling thunder seems to shake the house. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, "haha" | |
| MoyTW says, "oh god it's still going" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "No! No coffee! No drink! We just want to go go home....." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I was so proud of us." | ||
| MoyTW says, "Let us out, let us out, LET USSS OUUUTTTT" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Now I am worried." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:19 pm End of the Evening 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "I think we better be getting on, actually. I have an early flight | ||
| CF | tomorrow," Francis responds. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Knight_Otu says, "Whew." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, yeah. Better be getting on." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:20 pm End of the Evening 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "He's going over to Austin for a sort of pre-pre South by Southwest | ||
| CF | thing," Janet continues. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "ha. pre-pre SXSW" | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:21 pm End of the Evening 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "I mean really it's just a networking event," Francis adds, already | ||
| CF | getting up from his chair. "But you know, gotta act like a founder | ||
| CF | now, and all that." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:22 pm End of the Evening 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Right, of course. Well it was so nice to see you two," Julia | ||
| CF | responds. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:23 pm End of the Evening 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia and Raul stand up to say their goodbyes as Janet and Francis get | ||
| CF | up to leave. "Well isn't that something," Raul adds emptily as he gets | ||
| CF | back on his seat. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:24 pm End of the Evening 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia turns to you: "So, how did you like the dinner?" You manage to | ||
| CF | say something about it being lovely. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, "oh no..." | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:25 pm End of the Evening 7 (Extremely | ||
| CF | awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Will you be staying for drinks?", Raul asks you. "I can't, really, I | ||
| CF | have a bit of an early day in the morning," you respond. "Ah, what a | ||
| CF | shame. Another time maybe," Julia says. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You get the distinct sense you should be gone by now. | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "leave" | ||
| CF ] 8:26 pm End of the Evening 7 (Extremely | ||
| CF | awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > LEAVE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Just EXCUSE yourself to leave this awful dinner. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Raul fidgets. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | MoyTW says, "Wait can we just, like, leave." | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "excuse" | ||
| CF ] 8:26 pm End of the Evening 7 (Extremely | ||
| CF | awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EXCUSE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You mumble something about having to get going, and manage to | ||
| CF | extricate yourself from the goodbyes in record time. Soon, you're | ||
| CF | breaking out of the vestibule and stepping towards your car in glee; | ||
| CF | the humid chill of the air has fogged the windows, preventing them | ||
| CF | from showing your reflection. You have escaped with most of your face, | ||
| CF | and your sanity, intact. | MoyTW says, "Ooooh, nice." | |
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Ending D | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | *** You have made it through the evening. *** | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last | ||
| CF | command or read the PARATEXT? | ||
| CF | > | MoyTW exclaims, "Hooray!" | |
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "WE LIVE!" | ||
| DavidW says, "yay!" | ||
| Touchy says, ";ok but we got to 7" | ||
| DavidW says, "parakeet please" | ||
| Touchy says, "not sure we could have done this any other way" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I was worried about that thunder rumbling." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "We could have probably pulled off a 6, but I'm not sure less?" | ||
| Guenni exclaims, "Toeroe!!!" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "paratext" | ||
| CF ] Instructions | ||
| CF ] | ||
| CF ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu | ||
| CF ] P = Previous ENTER = Select | ||
| CF | > About this Story | ||
| CF | About the Author | ||
| CF | Amusing things to Try | ||
| Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
| CF ] About this Story | ||
| CF | Don't Mind My Apocalypse Head, written late in March of 2017, is a | ||
| CF | social anxiety body horror short story based on a couple of remarkably | ||
| CF | unpleasant dreams. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Special thanks to my Patreon supporters who make this kind of | ||
| CF | small-scale work possible: Isak Grozny, Devin Raposo, Emily Short, | ||
| CF | Liza Daily, and Doug Orleans. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can become a supporter at [LINK] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Please press SPACE to continue. | Jacqueline says, "Ugh. Bad dreams indeed." | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "n" | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
| CF ] Instructions | ||
| CF ] | ||
| CF ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu | ||
| CF ] P = Previous ENTER = Select | ||
| CF | > About this Story | ||
| CF | About the Author | ||
| CF | Amusing things to Try | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "n" | ||
| CF ] Instructions | ||
| CF ] | ||
| CF ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu | ||
| CF ] P = Previous ENTER = Select | ||
| CF | About this Story | ||
| CF | > About the Author | ||
| CF | Amusing things to Try | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
| CF ] About the Author | ||
| CF | Bruno Dias writes interactive fiction, games, and nonfiction from | ||
| CF | somewhere in S��o Paulo, Brazil. He can be found @NotBrunoAgain on the | ||
| CF | terrible bird website, or @brunodias on mastodon.social. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
| CF ] Instructions | ||
| CF ] | ||
| CF ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu | ||
| CF ] P = Previous ENTER = Select | ||
| CF | About this Story | ||
| CF | > About the Author | ||
| CF | Amusing things to Try | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "n" | ||
| CF ] Instructions | ||
| CF ] | ||
| CF ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu | ||
| CF ] P = Previous ENTER = Select | ||
| CF | About this Story | ||
| CF | About the Author | ||
| CF | > Amusing things to Try | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
| CF ] Amusing things to Try | ||
| CF | 1/12: If you have completed the story already, have you tried... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Press SPACE to return to the menu or H to reveal another hint. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "h" | ||
| CF | 1/12: If you have completed the story already, have you tried... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 2/12: Looking repeatedly into something reflective? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Press SPACE to return to the menu or H to reveal another hint. | Jacqueline says, "yes" | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "h" | ||
| CF | 1/12: If you have completed the story already, have you tried... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 2/12: Looking repeatedly into something reflective? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 3/12: Not doing anything about the nosebleed? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Press SPACE to return to the menu or H to reveal another hint. | Jacqueline asks, "Hrm. Did we?" | |
| MoyTW says, "No." | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't think we tried that" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I guess technically no." | ||
| Jacqueline makes a note. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "h" | ||
| CF | 1/12: If you have completed the story already, have you tried... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 2/12: Looking repeatedly into something reflective? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 3/12: Not doing anything about the nosebleed? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 4/12: Passing out from blood loss, while at the dinner table? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Press SPACE to return to the menu or H to reveal another hint. | Jacqueline says, "Oh I should stop and go back to the game, apparently." | |
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
| CF ] Instructions | ||
| CF ] | ||
| CF ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu | ||
| CF ] P = Previous ENTER = Select | ||
| CF | About this Story | ||
| CF | About the Author | ||
| CF | > Amusing things to Try | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "q" | ||
| CF ] 8:26 pm End of the Evening 7 (Extremely | ||
| CF | awkward) | ||
| CF | Dining Room (on the dining chairs) | ||
| CF | A large bay window lets in no light through the thick drapes; a brass | ||
| CF | chandelier that Julia hasn't been able to get rid of clashes a bit | ||
| CF | with the modernist minimalism of the furniture. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the table are a silver tray, a sterling silver epergne (on which | ||
| CF | are some marbles), some silverware, some plates and some glasses. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the dining chairs you can see Julia and Raul. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last | ||
| CF | command or read the PARATEXT? | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "restore" | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > RESTORE | ||
| CF | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "cf1" | ||
| CF ] 7:51 pm Soup 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | Ok. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 7:52 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia suddenly turns to you: "So how's the job search going?" You try | ||
| CF | to talk for a moment about what you're working on now, but end up | ||
| CF | trailing off. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "g" | ||
| CF ] 7:53 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > G | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You're getting visibly agitated about not looking at your phone. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis faces you: "You could come work with us at Agrosynth. You did | ||
| CF | your dissertation on plant genetics, right?" "Minoan archeology," you | ||
| CF | reply reflexively. "Ah, my mistake." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "look at phone" | ||
| CF ] 7:54 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > LOOK AT PHONE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A mid-range Android. The notification light is pulsing. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You clear away the notifications; there's nothing important. Looks | ||
| CF | like someone liked one of your tweets. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "I seem to remember Julia did some Minoan work back in the day," Raul | ||
| CF | notes. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 7:55 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia: "Really, it wasn't anything important. A side project at best." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh wait, I need to not talk." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "I need to trigger the phrase, don't I?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x silverware" | ||
| CF ] 7:56 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X SILVERWARE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A full set of silverware, including mirror-polished knives, forks, | ||
| CF | spoons, and so on, carefully placed next to everyone's plates. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the silverware: "Knock down the doors and listen as hell makes | ||
| CF | itself heard!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can tell that some tension is hanging in the air, just for a | ||
| CF | moment. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x silverware" | ||
| CF ] 7:57 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X SILVERWARE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A full set of silverware, including mirror-polished knives, forks, | ||
| CF | spoons, and so on, carefully placed next to everyone's plates. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the silverware: "We all fall down! We all fall through!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Janet: "Really, we should do this more often. It's been so hard to get | ||
| CF | together with friends lately." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Guenni says, "I think the game decides about the bleeding time." | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x silverware" | ||
| CF ] 7:58 pm Soup 4 (Mildly awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X SILVERWARE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A full set of silverware, including mirror-polished knives, forks, | ||
| CF | spoons, and so on, carefully placed next to everyone's plates. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the silverware: "Blood from the eyes! Rats! Rats!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You realize that blood is dripping from your left nostril. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Raul just coughs into his soup. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia stares at your face for a moment. "Oh, dear; maybe you should go | ||
| CF | get that cleaned up." | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "There we go" | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 7:59 pm Main course 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia politely asks if everyone is ready for the main course. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "There's some cotton in the downstairs bathroom", Julia adds. | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Not much for soup tonight?", Julia says pointedly at you. You stammer | ||
| CF | something in reply. | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia steps away with the plates and returns with the main course, | ||
| CF | some sort of sous-vide cooked fish. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:00 pm Main course 7 (Extremely | ||
| CF | awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "This looks... interesting," Francis says, lifting a strand of | ||
| CF | vegetable matter on the tip of his fork. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Your phone chirps as a notification comes in. | ||
| CF | You realize it's not on you; you must have put it down on the table | ||
| CF | somewhere. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia stares at your ongoing nosebleed. | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Knight_Otu says, "It's the "Blood from the eyes" line." | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x plate" | ||
| CF ] 8:01 pm Main course 8 (Mortifying) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X PLATE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | These are made out of mercifully matte black ceramic. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the plates are some sous-vide fish. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Aha! There's your phone, right next to the plates. You snatch it up. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Janet pulls out her phone. "I should Pinterest this, it looks | ||
| CF | gorgeous." But then she gets self-conscious, and puts her phone away. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia stares at your ongoing nosebleed. | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x phone" | ||
| CF ] 8:01 pm Main course 9 (Very mortifying) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X PHONE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A mid-range Android. The notification light is pulsing. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You clear away the notifications; there's nothing important. Looks | ||
| CF | like an email newsletter you forgot to unsubscribe from arrived. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "We get everything there from a CSA subscription," Raul says. "Even | ||
| CF | the fish." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Rain starts up outside, audibly battering the roof of the house. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia stares at your ongoing nosebleed. | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You try to say something, but you're basically paralyzed by | ||
| CF | mortification at this point. Coming here was a terrible idea, and you | ||
| CF | realize that you're going to scurry home feeling like a damn fool. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Ending A | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | *** You have been mortified. *** | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last | ||
| CF | command or read the PARATEXT? | ||
| CF | > | DavidW says, "It just increases our mortification every turn." | |
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, so it just ends because we're mortified by Julia looking at us." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "So if we bleed out, it has to be in the bathroom, maybe?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "restore" | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > RESTORE | ||
| CF | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "cf1" | ||
| CF ] 7:51 pm Soup 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | Ok. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Knight_Otu says, "I guess we first need to know how long the nosebleed takes to make us pass out, and time our return to the table correctly." | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x silverware" | ||
| CF ] 7:52 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X SILVERWARE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A full set of silverware, including mirror-polished knives, forks, | ||
| CF | spoons, and so on, carefully placed next to everyone's plates. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the silverware: "Knock down the doors and listen as hell makes | ||
| CF | itself heard!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia suddenly turns to you: "So how's the job search going?" You try | ||
| CF | to talk for a moment about what you're working on now, but end up | ||
| CF | trailing off. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x silverware" | ||
| CF ] 7:53 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X SILVERWARE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A full set of silverware, including mirror-polished knives, forks, | ||
| CF | spoons, and so on, carefully placed next to everyone's plates. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the silverware: "We all fall down! We all fall through!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You're getting visibly agitated about not looking at your phone. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis faces you: "You could come work with us at Agrosynth. You did | ||
| CF | your dissertation on plant genetics, right?" "Minoan archeology," you | ||
| CF | reply reflexively. "Ah, my mistake." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x silverware" | ||
| CF ] 7:54 pm Soup 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X SILVERWARE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A full set of silverware, including mirror-polished knives, forks, | ||
| CF | spoons, and so on, carefully placed next to everyone's plates. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the silverware: "Blood from the eyes! Rats! Rats!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You realize that blood is dripping from your left nostril. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You really, really wanna look at that notification. What if Margo | ||
| CF | texted? | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "I seem to remember Julia did some Minoan work back in the day," Raul | ||
| CF | notes. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia stares at your face for a moment. "Oh, dear; maybe you should go | ||
| CF | get that cleaned up." | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "excuse" | ||
| CF ] 7:55 pm Bathroom 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EXCUSE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You politely excuse yourself to go to the bathroom. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Bathroom | ||
| CF | This is the secondary, downstairs bathroom, so there's just a sink and | ||
| CF | a toilet, and a small high window to let in some moonlight. The floor | ||
| CF | and wall tiles are a jadeish shade of green, and they thankfully | ||
| CF | aren't reflective enough for you to see yourself in them. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can see a bathroom mirror (closed) here. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You really, really wanna look at that notification. What if Margo | ||
| CF | texted? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Blood drips from your nose. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, "I suppose we could try to get a nosebleed in the bathroom" | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x phone" | ||
| CF ] 7:56 pm Bathroom 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X PHONE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A mid-range Android. The notification light is pulsing. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You clear away the notifications; there's nothing important. Looks | ||
| CF | like an email newsletter you forgot to unsubscribe from arrived. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Blood drips from your nose. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "What do you want to bet that..." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "If we wait in the bathroom long enough, the second text will happen, but our phone will be on the table?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Quite possible." | ||
| DavidW says, "no bet" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I mean, it's fine. I'm not here to trigger bugs, but." | ||
| Touchy says, "Yeah, not taking that one either." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x phone" | ||
| CF ] 7:57 pm Bathroom 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X PHONE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You get tired of staring at the phone, and your eyes wander over to | ||
| CF | the bathroom mirror instead: A nice-looking bathroom mirror cabinet. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You spot your reflection clearly on the bathroom mirror, and also | ||
| CF | the reflection of your additional, unseen head: "Yithlak! Say his | ||
| CF | name! Call him into being! Yithlak! Yithlak!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Blood drips from your nose. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x floor" | ||
| CF ] 7:57 pm Bathroom 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X FLOOR | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [That is either not here, or you don't need to refer to it over | ||
| CF | the course of this story.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, "You can win the CF bug-bounty medal." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "How can I advance time without looking at myself in here?" | ||
| Touchy says, "But I have to look up how to create ifmud items again." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Although maybe it doesn't matter?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "sing" | ||
| CF ] 7:57 pm Bathroom 10 ( | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > SING | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You launch into a spontaneous rendition of "Modern Major General", | ||
| CF | which you realize two bars in was an atrocious idea, so you trail off. | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has increased by five points.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Blood drips from your nose. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You try to say something, but you're basically paralyzed by | ||
| CF | mortification at this point. Coming here was a terrible idea, and you | ||
| CF | realize that you're going to scurry home feeling like a damn fool. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Ending A | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | *** You have been mortified. *** | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last | ||
| CF | command or read the PARATEXT? | ||
| CF | > | Knight_Otu says, "Oops." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "What the?" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 7:57 pm Bathroom 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Bathroom | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, "huh" | |
| Touchy says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 7:57 pm Bathroom 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [That is either not here, or you don't need to refer to it over | ||
| CF | the course of this story.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "smell" | ||
| CF ] 7:58 pm Bathroom 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > SMELL | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You smell nothing unexpected. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Blood drips from your nose. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW asks, "listen?" | |
| Jacqueline exclaims, "SMELL!" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Smell works." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Listen might as well." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "smell" | ||
| CF ] 7:59 pm Bathroom 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > SMELL | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You smell nothing unexpected. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Blood drips from your nose. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, "...." | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "smell" | ||
| CF ] 8:00 pm Bathroom 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > SMELL | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You smell nothing unexpected. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Your phone chirps as a notification comes in. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Blood drips from your nose. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x phone" | ||
| CF ] 8:01 pm Bathroom 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X PHONE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A mid-range Android. The notification light is pulsing. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You clear away the notifications; there's nothing important. Looks | ||
| CF | like you're supposed to have taken your medication already. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Blood drips from your nose. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, "okok jacq just keep smelling the bathroom" | |
| Jacqueline exclaims, "hahaha I WILL!" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "smell" | ||
| CF ] 8:02 pm Bathroom 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > SMELL | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You smell nothing unexpected. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Rain starts up outside, audibly battering the roof of the house. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You start to feel kind of light-headed. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Blood drips from your nose. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "There we go!" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Light headed now." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "smell" | ||
| CF ] 8:03 pm Bathroom 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > SMELL | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You smell nothing unexpected. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You feel seriously light-headed | ||
| CF | Blood drips from your nose. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "Must be quite the nose bleed." | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "smell" | ||
| CF ] 8:03 pm Bathroom 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > SMELL | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You smell nothing unexpected. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Your body doesn't seem to want to stay upright, and you crumple into a | ||
| CF | lump on the floor, blood streaking from your face. They'll find you, | ||
| CF | pale and unconscious, about an hour later. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Ending H | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | *** You have passed out from blood loss. *** | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last | ||
| CF | command or read the PARATEXT? | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, one sec." | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 8:03 pm Bathroom 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Bathroom | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "return" | ||
| CF ] 8:03 pm Main course 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > RETURN | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You find your way to the dining room... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | A large bay window lets in no light through the thick drapes; a brass | ||
| CF | chandelier that Julia hasn't been able to get rid of clashes a bit | ||
| CF | with the modernist minimalism of the furniture. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the dining chairs are Julia, Raul, Francis and Janet. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the table are a sterling silver epergne (on which are some | ||
| CF | marbles), some silverware, some plates (on which are some sous-vide | ||
| CF | fish) and some glasses. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Francis and I were really into sous-vide last year," Janet points | ||
| CF | out. "But now we're more into hearth cooking. Ever since the thing | ||
| CF | with the clams." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia pointedly glances at your plate, reminding you that you haven't | ||
| CF | touched your food. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Your head suddenly seems enormously heavy, and you find your face | ||
| CF | crumpling into the sous-vide fish. Soon, blessed unconsciousness takes | ||
| CF | over. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Ending G | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | *** You have bled out at the dinner table. *** | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last | ||
| CF | command or read the PARATEXT? | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline raises her hands in victory. | |
| DavidW says, "hooray!" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "paratext" | ||
| CF ] Instructions | ||
| CF ] | ||
| CF ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu | ||
| CF ] P = Previous ENTER = Select | ||
| CF | > About this Story | ||
| CF | About the Author | ||
| CF | Amusing things to Try | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "n" | ||
| CF ] Instructions | ||
| CF ] | ||
| CF ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu | ||
| CF ] P = Previous ENTER = Select | ||
| CF | About this Story | ||
| CF | > About the Author | ||
| CF | Amusing things to Try | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "n" | ||
| CF ] Instructions | ||
| CF ] | ||
| CF ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu | ||
| CF ] P = Previous ENTER = Select | ||
| CF | About this Story | ||
| CF | About the Author | ||
| CF | > Amusing things to Try | Knight_Otu says, "For once it isn't be killing the protagonist." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "*me" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "press space" | ||
| CF ] Instructions | ||
| CF ] | ||
| CF ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu | ||
| CF ] P = Previous ENTER = Select | ||
| CF | About this Story | ||
| CF | > About the Author | ||
| CF | Amusing things to Try | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "n" | ||
| CF ] Instructions | ||
| CF ] | ||
| CF ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu | ||
| CF ] P = Previous ENTER = Select | ||
| CF | About this Story | ||
| CF | About the Author | ||
| CF | > Amusing things to Try | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "press space" | ||
| CF ] Instructions | ||
| CF ] | ||
| CF ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu | ||
| CF ] P = Previous ENTER = Select | ||
| CF | About this Story | ||
| CF | > About the Author | ||
| CF | Amusing things to Try | Jacqueline says, "oh" | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "n" | ||
| CF ] Instructions | ||
| CF ] | ||
| CF ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu | ||
| CF ] P = Previous ENTER = Select | ||
| CF | About this Story | ||
| CF | About the Author | ||
| CF | > Amusing things to Try | ||
| Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "press space" | ||
| CF ] Instructions | ||
| CF ] | ||
| CF ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu | ||
| CF ] P = Previous ENTER = Select | ||
| CF | About this Story | ||
| CF | > About the Author | ||
| CF | Amusing things to Try | Jacqueline says, "I... weird." | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "n" | ||
| CF ] Instructions | ||
| CF ] | ||
| CF ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu | ||
| CF ] P = Previous ENTER = Select | ||
| CF | About this Story | ||
| CF | About the Author | ||
| CF | > Amusing things to Try | ||
| Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. | ||
| Jacqueline presses the yellow enter button. | Jacqueline says, "I made it work previously." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I thought by pressing space." | ||
| DavidW says, "You pushed space" | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
| CF ] Amusing things to Try | ||
| CF | 1/12: If you have completed the story already, have you tried... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Press SPACE to return to the menu or H to reveal another hint. | Jacqueline says, "Weird. Sorry." | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "h" | ||
| CF | 1/12: If you have completed the story already, have you tried... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 2/12: Looking repeatedly into something reflective? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Press SPACE to return to the menu or H to reveal another hint. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "h" | ||
| CF | 1/12: If you have completed the story already, have you tried... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 2/12: Looking repeatedly into something reflective? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 3/12: Not doing anything about the nosebleed? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Press SPACE to return to the menu or H to reveal another hint. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "h" | ||
| CF | 1/12: If you have completed the story already, have you tried... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 2/12: Looking repeatedly into something reflective? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 3/12: Not doing anything about the nosebleed? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 4/12: Passing out from blood loss, while at the dinner table? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Press SPACE to return to the menu or H to reveal another hint. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "h" | ||
| CF | 1/12: If you have completed the story already, have you tried... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 2/12: Looking repeatedly into something reflective? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 3/12: Not doing anything about the nosebleed? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 4/12: Passing out from blood loss, while at the dinner table? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 5/12: Attacking someone? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Press SPACE to return to the menu or H to reveal another hint. | Jacqueline asks, "How did we never attack anyone??" | |
| DavidW says, "Attacking people is mortifying behaviour." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "This time I just wanna stay and get all the hints. That okay?" | ||
| DavidW says, "sure" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Sure." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "h" | ||
| CF | 1/12: If you have completed the story already, have you tried... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 2/12: Looking repeatedly into something reflective? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 3/12: Not doing anything about the nosebleed? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 4/12: Passing out from blood loss, while at the dinner table? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 5/12: Attacking someone? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 6/12: Attacking Francis, specifically? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Press SPACE to return to the menu or H to reveal another hint. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "h" | ||
| CF | 1/12: If you have completed the story already, have you tried... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 2/12: Looking repeatedly into something reflective? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 3/12: Not doing anything about the nosebleed? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 4/12: Passing out from blood loss, while at the dinner table? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 5/12: Attacking someone? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 6/12: Attacking Francis, specifically? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 7/12: Saying the name of the dark entity your evil head worships? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Press SPACE to return to the menu or H to reveal another hint. | Jacqueline says, "Yep" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Yep" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "oops. Yep yep." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "h" | ||
| CF | 1/12: If you have completed the story already, have you tried... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 2/12: Looking repeatedly into something reflective? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 3/12: Not doing anything about the nosebleed? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 4/12: Passing out from blood loss, while at the dinner table? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 5/12: Attacking someone? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 6/12: Attacking Francis, specifically? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 7/12: Saying the name of the dark entity your evil head worships? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 8/12: Letting things get too awkward to live? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Press SPACE to return to the menu or H to reveal another hint. | Jacqueline says, "Yep" | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "h" | ||
| CF | 1/12: If you have completed the story already, have you tried... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 2/12: Looking repeatedly into something reflective? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 3/12: Not doing anything about the nosebleed? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 4/12: Passing out from blood loss, while at the dinner table? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 5/12: Attacking someone? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 6/12: Attacking Francis, specifically? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 7/12: Saying the name of the dark entity your evil head worships? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 8/12: Letting things get too awkward to live? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 9/12: If you need help with making it more awkward, consider... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Press SPACE to return to the menu or H to reveal another hint. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "h" | ||
| CF | 1/12: If you have completed the story already, have you tried... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 2/12: Looking repeatedly into something reflective? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 3/12: Not doing anything about the nosebleed? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 4/12: Passing out from blood loss, while at the dinner table? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 5/12: Attacking someone? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 6/12: Attacking Francis, specifically? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 7/12: Saying the name of the dark entity your evil head worships? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 8/12: Letting things get too awkward to live? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 9/12: If you need help with making it more awkward, consider... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 10/12: Singing, praying, screaming, crying, or farting? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Press SPACE to return to the menu or H to reveal another hint. | Touchy says, "2/5" | |
| Jacqueline says, "Farting is not a default verb, is it? Kudos." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Touchy), "Yeah. 2 out of 5." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "h" | ||
| CF | 1/12: If you have completed the story already, have you tried... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 2/12: Looking repeatedly into something reflective? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 3/12: Not doing anything about the nosebleed? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 4/12: Passing out from blood loss, while at the dinner table? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 5/12: Attacking someone? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 6/12: Attacking Francis, specifically? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 7/12: Saying the name of the dark entity your evil head worships? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 8/12: Letting things get too awkward to live? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 9/12: If you need help with making it more awkward, consider... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 10/12: Singing, praying, screaming, crying, or farting? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 11/12: Ignoring your phone? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Press SPACE to return to the menu or H to reveal another hint. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "h" | ||
| CF | 1/12: If you have completed the story already, have you tried... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 2/12: Looking repeatedly into something reflective? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 3/12: Not doing anything about the nosebleed? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 4/12: Passing out from blood loss, while at the dinner table? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 5/12: Attacking someone? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 6/12: Attacking Francis, specifically? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 7/12: Saying the name of the dark entity your evil head worships? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 8/12: Letting things get too awkward to live? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 9/12: If you need help with making it more awkward, consider... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 10/12: Singing, praying, screaming, crying, or farting? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 11/12: Ignoring your phone? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | 12/12: Looking repeatedly at someone? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Press SPACE to return to the menu. | Jacqueline asks, "Hm. Like, at the same person?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "I don't think we did." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay. Stuff to try." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure what that would do." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah, we never stared." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "space" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "space" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "q" | ||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||
| CF ] Instructions | ||
| CF ] | ||
| CF ] N = Next Q = Quit Menu | ||
| CF ] P = Previous ENTER = Select | ||
| CF | About this Story | ||
| CF | About the Author | ||
| CF | > Amusing things to Try | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "q" | ||
| CF ] 8:03 pm Main course 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | A large bay window lets in no light through the thick drapes; a brass | ||
| CF | chandelier that Julia hasn't been able to get rid of clashes a bit | ||
| CF | with the modernist minimalism of the furniture. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the dining chairs are Julia, Raul, Francis and Janet. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the table are a sterling silver epergne (on which are some | ||
| CF | marbles), some silverware, some plates (on which are some sous-vide | ||
| CF | fish) and some glasses. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last | ||
| CF | command or read the PARATEXT? | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "restore" | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > RESTORE | ||
| CF | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "cf1" | ||
| CF ] 7:51 pm Soup 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | Ok. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW says, "Maybe we can make other people's noses bleed if we stare too much." | |
| Jacqueline says, "aiee" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "attack julia" | ||
| CF ] 7:52 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > ATTACK JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | It's poor manners to kill a host in her own house, and also you have | ||
| CF | way too much social anxiety to thrive in prison. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia suddenly turns to you: "So how's the job search going?" You try | ||
| CF | to talk for a moment about what you're working on now, but end up | ||
| CF | trailing off. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "attack raul" | ||
| CF ] 7:53 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > ATTACK RAUL | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | It's poor manners to kill a host in his own house, and also you have | ||
| CF | way too much social anxiety to thrive in prison. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You're getting visibly agitated about not looking at your phone. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis faces you: "You could come work with us at Agrosynth. You did | ||
| CF | your dissertation on plant genetics, right?" "Minoan archeology," you | ||
| CF | reply reflexively. "Ah, my mistake." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "attack janet" | ||
| CF ] 7:54 pm Soup 4 (Mildly awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > ATTACK JANET | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Of all these people, she's the one you wanna throttle? | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You really, really wanna look at that notification. What if Margo | ||
| CF | texted? | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "I seem to remember Julia did some Minoan work back in the day," Raul | ||
| CF | notes. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "attack francis" | ||
| CF ] 7:54 pm Soup 4 (Mildly awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > ATTACK FRANCIS | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You know what. Fine. He does look very punchable. You practically | ||
| CF | clamber over the table and sock him right in the throat. What happens | ||
| CF | next is too confusing, but your terrible extra head is staring back at | ||
| CF | you in glee from the epergne while Raul holds you down... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Ending I | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | *** You have done something impossibly rude. *** | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last | ||
| CF | command or read the PARATEXT? | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline exclaims, "Ending I!" | |
| MoyTW says, "Okay that got a laugh outta me." | ||
| DavidW asks, "So there's an ending H we missed?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't want to be in Bruno's dream head." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Apparently." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "restore" | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > RESTORE | ||
| CF | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "cf1" | ||
| CF ] 7:51 pm Soup 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | Ok. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "pray" | ||
| CF ] 7:51 pm Soup 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > PRAY | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | I think the head made it very clear that God is dead. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Knight_Otu asks, "I *think* we had H?" | |
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "cry" | ||
| CF ] 7:52 pm Soup 4 (Mildly awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > CRY | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You start tearing up. | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia suddenly turns to you: "So how's the job search going?" You try | ||
| CF | to talk for a moment about what you're working on now, but end up | ||
| CF | trailing off. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "cry" | ||
| CF ] 7:53 pm Soup 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > CRY | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You sob a little. | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You're getting visibly agitated about not looking at your phone. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis faces you: "You could come work with us at Agrosynth. You did | ||
| CF | your dissertation on plant genetics, right?" "Minoan archeology," you | ||
| CF | reply reflexively. "Ah, my mistake." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "cry" | ||
| CF ] 7:53 pm Soup 11 ( | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > CRY | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You're a sobbing, blubbering mess. | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has increased by five points.] | ||
| CF | You really, really wanna look at that notification. What if Margo | ||
| CF | texted? | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "I seem to remember Julia did some Minoan work back in the day," Raul | ||
| CF | notes. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You try to say something, but you're basically paralyzed by | ||
| CF | mortification at this point. Coming here was a terrible idea, and you | ||
| CF | realize that you're going to scurry home feeling like a damn fool. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Ending A | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | *** You have been mortified. *** | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last | ||
| CF | command or read the PARATEXT? | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, ";:wonders when this game was released, and looks at the version, and thinks to herself, "I wonder what we shall do, decades from now, when Inform's numbering conven" | |
| Jacqueline says, "oops. That was in my paste buffer from earlier." | ||
| Guenni says, "Ok folks. Have to get up somewhat early tomorrow. Off to hopefully-not-to -bad-dreamland." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I like how Raul here is just watching us sob uncontrollably and just goes on about the conversation about how Julia did some Minoan work, back in the day." | ||
| DavidW says (to Guenni), "pleasant dreams" | ||
| Jacqueline exclaims (at Guenni), "G'night!" | ||
| MoyTW says, "Night." | ||
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "Good night!" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "restore" | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > RESTORE | ||
| CF | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "cf1" | ||
| CF ] 7:51 pm Soup 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | Ok. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Guenni hollers, "Night everyone!" | ||
| Guenni goes home. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "fart" | ||
| CF ] 7:52 pm Soup 4 (Mildly awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > FART | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Toot. | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia suddenly turns to you: "So how's the job search going?" You try | ||
| CF | to talk for a moment about what you're working on now, but end up | ||
| CF | trailing off. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "fart" | ||
| CF ] 7:53 pm Soup 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > FART | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Phhhth. | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You're getting visibly agitated about not looking at your phone. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis faces you: "You could come work with us at Agrosynth. You did | ||
| CF | your dissertation on plant genetics, right?" "Minoan archeology," you | ||
| CF | reply reflexively. "Ah, my mistake." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x phone" | ||
| CF ] 7:54 pm Soup 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X PHONE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A mid-range Android. The notification light is pulsing. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You clear away the notifications; there's nothing important. Looks | ||
| CF | like someone liked one of your tweets. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "I seem to remember Julia did some Minoan work back in the day," Raul | ||
| CF | notes. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "fart" | ||
| CF ] 7:55 pm Soup 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > FART | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Ghhsh. | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia: "Really, it wasn't anything important. A side project at best." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "fart" | ||
| CF ] 7:56 pm Soup 7 (Extremely | ||
| CF | awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > FART | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Phhhth. | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can tell that some tension is hanging in the air, just for a | ||
| CF | moment. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "fart" | ||
| CF ] 7:57 pm Soup 8 (Mortifying) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > FART | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Ghhsh. | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Janet: "Really, we should do this more often. It's been so hard to get | ||
| CF | together with friends lately." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline asks, "I think that's all the farts?" | |
| DavidW says, "That ain't just tension in the air." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "restore" | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > RESTORE | ||
| CF | %% Enter a save filename to read: | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "cf1" | ||
| CF ] 7:51 pm Soup 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | Ok. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x julia" | ||
| CF ] 7:52 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Proudly grey-haired and staring at the word from behind wire-rim | ||
| CF | glasses. Julia teaches classics, or so you understand to be the case, | ||
| CF | though as far as you know she gives only seminars, not lectures, and | ||
| CF | spends most of her time on various obscure side projects. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia suddenly turns to you: "So how's the job search going?" You try | ||
| CF | to talk for a moment about what you're working on now, but end up | ||
| CF | trailing off. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x julia" | ||
| CF ] 7:53 pm Soup 4 (Mildly awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia catches you staring at her, tilting her head at you. | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You're getting visibly agitated about not looking at your phone. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis faces you: "You could come work with us at Agrosynth. You did | ||
| CF | your dissertation on plant genetics, right?" "Minoan archeology," you | ||
| CF | reply reflexively. "Ah, my mistake." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x julia" | ||
| CF ] 7:54 pm Soup 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia catches you staring at her, tilting her head at you. | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You really, really wanna look at that notification. What if Margo | ||
| CF | texted? | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "I seem to remember Julia did some Minoan work back in the day," Raul | ||
| CF | notes. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x julia" | ||
| CF ] 7:55 pm Soup 8 (Mortifying) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia catches you staring at her, tilting her head at you. | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You really, really wanna look at that notification. What if Margo | ||
| CF | texted? | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia: "Really, it wasn't anything important. A side project at best." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, so that's a quick way to ratchet up with awkwardness." | |
| Jacqueline asks, "I ... think that's it?" | ||
| DavidW says, "Except for whatever ending H is." | ||
| Touchy says, "seems like it" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I guess." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Oh darn. Right." | ||
| DavidW says, "And I'm annoyed that the paratext didn't say how many endings there are." | ||
| Jacqueline nods. "That's fair." | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm fine with stopping here." | ||
| Touchy says, "definitely" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I am as well." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, me too. Yithlack help us - no telling how long it would take to find that other ending." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "q" | ||
| CF ] 7:55 pm Soup 8 (Mortifying) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > Q | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Are you sure you want to quit? | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "y" | ||
| CF | Are you sure you want to quit? | ||
| CF | > Y | ||
| CF | cheapglulxe quit with exit status: 0 | ||
| CF asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | DavidW says, "Ending H could me overstaying our welcome after the dinner." | |
| Jacqueline says, "OH" | ||
| DavidW says, "er could be" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Could be." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "OH YEAH" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, damn. Now I wanna." | ||
| DavidW says, "heh" | ||
| DavidW says, "I'm not driving, but feel free." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "What's the game name, again?" | ||
| DavidW says, "dontmindmyhead" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "load sleepmask dontmindmyhead" | ||
| CF ] 7:32 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Just take your coat off and come join us in the dining room, we're | ||
| CF | all about to start," Julia says as she already steps out of the | ||
| CF | vestibule. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Coming here tonight was definitely a terrible idea. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [If you are new to parser fiction, type HELP] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Don't Mind My Apocalypse Head | ||
| CF | An interactive nightmare by Bruno Dias | ||
| CF | Release 1 / Serial number 170403 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib | ||
| CF | 6/12N) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Vestibule | ||
| CF | The vestibule, that most Freudian of rooms, is the liminal space | ||
| CF | between the front door and the interior of the house proper. This one, | ||
| CF | like the rest of the house, is wood-paneled and vaguely beaux-arts in | ||
| CF | a way that can only be described as "tweedy." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You try not to catch yourself on the full-length mirror. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can also see a coat hook here. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "put coat on coat hook" | ||
| CF ] 7:33 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > PUT COAT ON COAT HOOK | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | (the coat on the coat hook) | ||
| CF | You can't help but look into the mirror as you take the coat off... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A nice, big mirror on a wooden frame. Of course. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You spot your reflection clearly on the full-length mirror, and | ||
| CF | also the reflection of your additional, unseen head: It has inky | ||
| CF | black pits for eyes, but it still seems to stare right at you. "Breach | ||
| CF | the seals. Open the gate," it says, in a cracked voice that's not | ||
| CF | quite your own. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | The head in the mirror belongs to a version of yourself from a | ||
| CF | previous iteration of the universe. One that seemingly ended really | ||
| CF | poorly, given that it's clearly possessed by some kind of | ||
| CF | world-rending evil. You're really in no state to attend a dinner | ||
| CF | party, but you'd already RSVP'd. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take off your coat and hang it. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "n" | ||
| CF ] 7:34 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > N | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You find your way to the dining room... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | A large bay window lets in no light through the thick drapes; a brass | ||
| CF | chandelier that Julia hasn't been able to get rid of clashes a bit | ||
| CF | with the modernist minimalism of the furniture. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the dining chairs are Julia, Raul, Francis and Janet. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the table are a sterling silver epergne (on which are some | ||
| CF | marbles), some silverware, some plates (on which are some seafood | ||
| CF | vol-au-vents) and some glasses. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia looks at you thoughtfully from her chair at the head of the | ||
| CF | table. "Please," she says, "take a seat." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You do so, and she adds: "I see you didn't bring a date. That's a | ||
| CF | shame." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "eat food" | ||
| CF ] 7:35 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT FOOD | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a look at the seafood vol-au-vents before digging in: | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A vol-au-vent is a little bucket made out of puff pastry; this one is | ||
| CF | filled with some kind of pinkish material that you strongly suspect is | ||
| CF | some type of seafood, but you can't identify which. It's also topped | ||
| CF | with three thin, artistically-arranged chives. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a few bites out of the seafood vol-au-vents. | ||
| CF | The filling consists of pale bits of vaguely crustacean flesh floating | ||
| CF | in vaguely sea-tasting sauce; it's either lobster in a crab sauce, or | ||
| CF | crab in a lobster sauce. It runs all over your plate the moment you | ||
| CF | crack the exterior of the puff pastry. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Please, dig in. I think you'll enjoy this one," Julia says. Francis | ||
| CF | pokes at the dish in front of him with a fork: "What is it?" "Why | ||
| CF | don't you take a bite and tell me?" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "eat food" | ||
| CF ] 7:36 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT FOOD | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Your eyes run across the silverware you're using: | ||
| CF | A full set of silverware, including mirror-polished knives, forks, | ||
| CF | spoons, and so on, carefully placed next to everyone's plates. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the silverware: "Worms issue from the mouth! Black ichor! | ||
| CF | Falling and falling!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You finish eating the seafood vol-au-vents. | ||
| CF | It's a bit large for an amuse-bouche, to be honest, but you did skip | ||
| CF | lunch today. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis uses his fork to collapse the construction on his plate. "Is | ||
| CF | it... crab?" Julia just smiles and takes a bite out of her own plate. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 7:37 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis turns to Raul: "So how's the teaching going?" "Fine. How's the | ||
| CF | business going?" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 7:38 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis replies: "Really well, actually. We just applied for another | ||
| CF | patent last week." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 7:39 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "I love this," Janet pipes in. "Is it lobster?" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 7:40 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Keep guessing," Julia continues. "I think Raul had some really good | ||
| CF | lectures last term, didn't you?" She pats her husband on the shoulder, | ||
| CF | for emphasis. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 7:41 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Scallops. It's gotta be scallops," Francis finally realizes. "Got it | ||
| CF | in two," Julia replies. Raul seems almost relieved that's over. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 7:42 pm Amuse-bouche 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia: "What's that patent about again?" Francis seems positively | ||
| CF | delighted to explain. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 7:43 pm Soup 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis launches into his explanation. It goes over your head but you | ||
| CF | think you catch the word "telomers". He's interrupted, of course, when | ||
| CF | Julia asks if everyone is ready for the soup. Everyone is about as | ||
| CF | excited as you can get for soup, which is to say not very much at all. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Your phone chirps as a notification comes in. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia steps away with the plates and returns with the next course: A | ||
| CF | soup. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "check phone" | ||
| CF ] 7:44 pm Soup 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > CHECK PHONE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A mid-range Android. The notification light is pulsing. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You clear away the notifications; there's nothing important. Looks | ||
| CF | like you're supposed to have taken your medication already. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "This is good soup," Janet says delightedly. "Is this yam?" "Squash," | ||
| CF | Julia replies. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "eat food" | ||
| CF ] 7:45 pm Soup 2 (A little awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT FOOD | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a look at the squash soup before digging in: | ||
| CF | A bright orange broth. Seasonal. Safe. Surprisingly clear, actually, | ||
| CF | almost like consomm��... | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the squash soup: "You cannot save them! Nobody can be saved!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a few bites out of the squash soup. | ||
| CF | The taste is so subtle that you could be forgiven for thinking it | ||
| CF | doesn't actually taste of very much at all. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis tries to get back on track explaining what his company does, | ||
| CF | but nobody seems too interested. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "eat food" | ||
| CF ] 7:46 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT FOOD | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You finish eating the squash soup. | ||
| CF | After a few more slurps, you come to the coclusion that it tastes | ||
| CF | "brown". | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia suddenly turns to you: "So how's the job search going?" You try | ||
| CF | to talk for a moment about what you're working on now, but end up | ||
| CF | trailing off. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 7:47 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis faces you: "You could come work with us at Agrosynth. You did | ||
| CF | your dissertation on plant genetics, right?" "Minoan archeology," you | ||
| CF | reply reflexively. "Ah, my mistake." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 7:48 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "I seem to remember Julia did some Minoan work back in the day," Raul | ||
| CF | notes. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 7:49 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia: "Really, it wasn't anything important. A side project at best." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 7:50 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can tell that some tension is hanging in the air, just for a | ||
| CF | moment. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 7:51 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Janet: "Really, we should do this more often. It's been so hard to get | ||
| CF | together with friends lately." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 7:52 pm Soup 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Raul just coughs into his soup. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 7:53 pm Main course 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia politely asks if everyone is ready for the main course. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia steps away with the plates and returns with the main course, | ||
| CF | some sort of sous-vide cooked fish. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "eat food" | ||
| CF ] 7:54 pm Main course 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT FOOD | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a look at the sous-vide fish before digging in: | ||
| CF | This is neither salmon nor tuna nor white fish, so you're at a loss | ||
| CF | for what it is, but it seems like it was cooked sous-vide and then | ||
| CF | blowtorched to within an inch of its life. It's coated in some kind of | ||
| CF | brownish glaze. The side dish for this is some mix of purple, yellow, | ||
| CF | and red-orange vegetables that have been spiralized then roasted. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a few bites out of the sous-vide fish. | ||
| CF | Julia was clearly hoping this fish would get a nice crispy crust from | ||
| CF | the blowtorch, but it just wasn't going to happen; it falls apart at | ||
| CF | the fork pretty sadly. The vegetables on the side are actually just | ||
| CF | fancy-colored carrots. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "This looks... interesting," Francis says, lifting a strand of | ||
| CF | vegetable matter on the tip of his fork. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Your phone chirps as a notification comes in. | ||
| CF | You realize it's not on you; you must have put it down on the table | ||
| CF | somewhere. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x plates" | ||
| CF ] 7:55 pm Main course 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X PLATES | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | These are made out of mercifully matte black ceramic. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | On the plates are some sous-vide fish. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Janet pulls out her phone. "I should Pinterest this, it looks | ||
| CF | gorgeous." But then she gets self-conscious, and puts her phone away. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x plate" | ||
| CF ] 7:56 pm Main course 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X PLATE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You get tired of staring at the plates, and your eyes wander over to | ||
| CF | the glasses instead: Nice-looking stemless wine glasses. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Aha! There's your phone, right next to the glasses. You snatch it up. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the glasses: "Knock down the doors and listen as hell makes | ||
| CF | itself heard!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You're getting a bit anxious about that unread notification. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "We get everything there from a CSA subscription," Raul says. "Even | ||
| CF | the fish." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Rain starts up outside, audibly battering the roof of the house. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x phone" | ||
| CF ] 7:57 pm Main course 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > X PHONE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A mid-range Android. The notification light is pulsing. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You clear away the notifications; there's nothing important. Looks | ||
| CF | like an email newsletter you forgot to unsubscribe from arrived. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | I hope you won't have too much trouble getting home in the rain.", | ||
| CF | Julia says, noting the drops banging against the window. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "eat food" | ||
| CF ] 7:58 pm Main course 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT FOOD | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You finish eating the sous-vide fish. | ||
| CF | After some forking, the glaze has melded completely with the | ||
| CF | gelatinous flesh of the fish; the whole thing tastes like miso, but | ||
| CF | with a sort of gel consistency. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Francis and I were really into sous-vide last year," Janet points | ||
| CF | out. "But now we're more into hearth cooking. Ever since the thing | ||
| CF | with the clams." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 7:59 pm Main course 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Only on weekends, of course. During the week I'm on all Soylent now," | ||
| CF | Francis points out. "I mean, excepting dinner parties." He adds a | ||
| CF | little laugh. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:00 pm Main course 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Oh, interesting. How's the Soylent been treating you?", Raul asks. | ||
| CF | "Pretty well! I mean once you get over the bloating in the first week | ||
| CF | or so.", Francis replies. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:01 pm Main course 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | A few thoughtful nods cross around the table. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:02 pm Main course 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "So what's for dessert?" Janet pipes up, shifting the remains of her | ||
| CF | fish around on the plate. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:03 pm Dessert 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "It's a surprise. But I think I'll bring it over in a moment," Julia | ||
| CF | replies. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia steps away with the plates and returns with a tray holding a | ||
| CF | large, mirror-glazed cake. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "eat food" | ||
| CF ] 8:03 pm Dessert 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT FOOD | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [That is either not here, or you don't need to refer to it over | ||
| CF | the course of this story.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "eat cake" | ||
| CF ] 8:04 pm Dessert 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT CAKE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a look at the mirror-glazed cake before digging in: | ||
| CF | It's covered in a marbled, light green shell that looks more like | ||
| CF | glossy plastic than food. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You catch a distorted glimpse of your additional head, reflected | ||
| CF | on the mirror-glazed cake: "We all fall down! We all fall | ||
| CF | through!" | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Maybe wait until Julia has cut into it. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis leans back on his chair, wearing the expression of a well-fed | ||
| CF | bull frog. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW says, "She needs to cut it first" | |
| Jacqueline says, "apparently, yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 8:03 pm Dessert 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:04 pm Dessert 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Francis leans back on his chair, wearing the expression of a well-fed | ||
| CF | bull frog. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:05 pm Dessert 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "That's gorgeous," says Janet. "It's pretty good, yeah," Francis adds. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia carefully cuts, and serves, slices of the cake. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "eat cake" | ||
| CF ] 8:06 pm Dessert 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT CAKE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | (the green-white cake) | ||
| CF | You take a look at the green-white cake before digging in: | ||
| CF | On the inside, it's a pretty standard sponge cake, except both the | ||
| CF | cream filling and the cake itself are flecked with some kind of | ||
| CF | greenish substance. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You take a few bites out of the green-white cake. | ||
| CF | The greenish substance is basil. This is a basil cake. It's very sweet | ||
| CF | but still reminiscent of marinara sauce. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Thanks! It's easier than it looks, really," Julia says as she looms | ||
| CF | over the cake. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "eat cake" | ||
| CF ] 8:07 pm Dessert 3 (Somewhat awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EAT CAKE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | (the green-white cake) | ||
| CF | You finish eating the green-white cake. | ||
| CF | Honestly, Julia was a little over-generous with the slicing there. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "You guys have to come over more often, if it'll get Julia to make | ||
| CF | more cakes," Raul says. Polite laughs from the guests. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:08 pm Dessert 4 (Mildly awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Janet pokes at her cake. "Is that cake gluten-free?" "No," Julia | ||
| CF | replies, and she abruptly drops her fork. You can't help but feel like | ||
| CF | the awkwardness of the moment splashes back on you. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:09 pm Dessert 4 (Mildly awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "This is good. Is this basil? That's so clever," Francis says, already | ||
| CF | more than halfway through a generous slice. "I think I'll have some | ||
| CF | more actually..." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:10 pm Dessert 4 (Mildly awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Well I'm glad. It's just so hard to get people to come over these | ||
| CF | days," Julia says. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:11 pm Dessert 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "I miss Margo," Julia adds thoughtfully. "Oh. Sorry," she adds, | ||
| CF | realizing you're there. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:12 pm Dessert 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "I mean I promise Janet and I will be around, even after the move," | ||
| CF | Francis says. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:13 pm End of the Evening 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "I'll hold you to that!", Julia replies with a slightly hollow laugh | ||
| CF | as she gets up. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia takes away the cake, mercifully concluding the dinner. "Well. | ||
| CF | What did you think?", she asks as she returns from the kitchen. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:14 pm End of the Evening 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Lovely as always," Francis responds. "Really, you're so good at | ||
| CF | this." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:15 pm End of the Evening 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Oh, I dabble," Julia replies. "Have to keep myself busy, you know." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:16 pm End of the Evening 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | The guests lean back on their chairs, letting their stomach contents | ||
| CF | settle over a lingering moment. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:17 pm End of the Evening 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "So. Is anyone for coffee, maybe a drink?", Julia asks. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Rumbling thunder seems to shake the house. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:18 pm End of the Evening 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "I think we better be getting on, actually. I have an early flight | ||
| CF | tomorrow," Francis responds. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:19 pm End of the Evening 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "He's going over to Austin for a sort of pre-pre South by Southwest | ||
| CF | thing," Janet continues. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:20 pm End of the Evening 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "I mean really it's just a networking event," Francis adds, already | ||
| CF | getting up from his chair. "But you know, gotta act like a founder | ||
| CF | now, and all that." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:21 pm End of the Evening 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Right, of course. Well it was so nice to see you two," Julia | ||
| CF | responds. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:22 pm End of the Evening 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia and Raul stand up to say their goodbyes as Janet and Francis get | ||
| CF | up to leave. "Well isn't that something," Raul adds emptily as he gets | ||
| CF | back on his seat. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:23 pm End of the Evening 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia turns to you: "So, how did you like the dinner?" You manage to | ||
| CF | say something about it being lovely. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:24 pm End of the Evening 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Will you be staying for drinks?", Raul asks you. "I can't, really, I | ||
| CF | have a bit of an early day in the morning," you respond. "Ah, what a | ||
| CF | shame. Another time maybe," Julia says. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You get the distinct sense you should be gone by now. | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "I feel like we'll just awkward it up by sitting here, but let's find out." | |
| Touchy asks, "can we remember margo?" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't think so, but I'll try (I think we already tried)." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "remember margo" | ||
| CF ] 8:24 pm End of the Evening 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > REMEMBER MARGO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | That's not a verb I recognise. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "think about margo" | ||
| CF ] 8:24 pm End of the Evening 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > THINK ABOUT MARGO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | I only understood you as far as wanting to think. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:25 pm End of the Evening 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia looks like she might say something, then doesn't. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:26 pm End of the Evening 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia coughs politely. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Knight_Otu says, "I tried think about, but not remember, I believe." | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:27 pm End of the Evening 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | an additional head looks like he might say something, then doesn't. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "ha" | |
| Touchy says, "heh" | ||
| DavidW says, "ha ha" | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:28 pm End of the Evening 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia fidgets. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:29 pm End of the Evening 7 (Extremely | ||
| CF | awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Raul coughs politely. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You get the distinct sense you should be gone by now. | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:30 pm End of the Evening 7 (Extremely | ||
| CF | awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia looks like she might say something, then doesn't. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:31 pm End of the Evening 7 (Extremely | ||
| CF | awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | an additional head fidgets. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:32 pm End of the Evening 7 (Extremely | ||
| CF | awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | an additional head coughs politely. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:33 pm End of the Evening 7 (Extremely | ||
| CF | awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | an additional head looks like he might say something, then doesn't. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:34 pm End of the Evening 8 (Mortifying) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | an additional head leans back on his chair thoughtfully. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You get the distinct sense you should be gone by now. | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:35 pm End of the Evening 8 (Mortifying) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia coughs politely. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:36 pm End of the Evening 8 (Mortifying) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia fidgets. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:37 pm End of the Evening 8 (Mortifying) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | an additional head looks like he might say something, then doesn't. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:38 pm End of the Evening 8 (Mortifying) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | an additional head coughs politely. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:39 pm End of the Evening 9 (Very mortifying) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | an additional head leans back on his chair thoughtfully. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You get the distinct sense you should be gone by now. | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Knight_Otu says, "I guess it really just awkwards up." | |
| DavidW says, "yeah. No new ending here." | ||
| Touchy says, "mhm" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm glad the additional head is just being thoughtful." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "talk to julia" | ||
| CF ] 8:39 pm End of the Evening 9 (Very mortifying) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > TALK TO JULIA | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Really, you couldn't get a word in edgewise even if you had the mental | ||
| CF | fortitude to try. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Julia looks like she might say something, then doesn't. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You try to say something, but you're basically paralyzed by | ||
| CF | mortification at this point. Coming here was a terrible idea, and you | ||
| CF | realize that you're going to scurry home feeling like a damn fool. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Ending A | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | *** You have been mortified. *** | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last | ||
| CF | command or read the PARATEXT? | ||
| CF | > | Touchy says, "and he has his own chair now" | |
| DavidW says, "yeah, glad we saw that." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to Touchy), "heh. Yeah." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "So... that is not the extra ending. Weird." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Evil creepy heads want seats, too." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I wonder if we had left at the perfect time, which I think is basically an optimized run, if that would be an ending. I rather doubt it." | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 8:39 pm End of the Evening 9 (Very mortifying) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 8:38 pm End of the Evening 8 (Mortifying) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 8:37 pm End of the Evening 8 (Mortifying) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 8:36 pm End of the Evening 8 (Mortifying) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 8:35 pm End of the Evening 8 (Mortifying) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 8:34 pm End of the Evening 8 (Mortifying) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 8:33 pm End of the Evening 7 (Extremely | ||
| CF | awkward) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 8:32 pm End of the Evening 7 (Extremely | ||
| CF | awkward) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 8:31 pm End of the Evening 7 (Extremely | ||
| CF | awkward) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 8:30 pm End of the Evening 7 (Extremely | ||
| CF | awkward) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 8:29 pm End of the Evening 7 (Extremely | ||
| CF | awkward) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "One sec, let me look at something." | |
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 8:28 pm End of the Evening 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 8:27 pm End of the Evening 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 8:26 pm End of the Evening 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 8:25 pm End of the Evening 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 8:24 pm End of the Evening 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 8:24 pm End of the Evening 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 8:24 pm End of the Evening 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 8:23 pm End of the Evening 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "leave" | ||
| CF ] 8:24 pm End of the Evening 6 (Very awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > LEAVE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Just EXCUSE yourself to leave this awful dinner. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Will you be staying for drinks?", Raul asks you. "I can't, really, I | ||
| CF | have a bit of an early day in the morning," you respond. "Ah, what a | ||
| CF | shame. Another time maybe," Julia says. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You get the distinct sense you should be gone by now. | ||
| CF | [Your awkwardness has gone up by one point.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo" | ||
| CF ] 8:23 pm End of the Evening 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > UNDO | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Dining Room | ||
| CF | [Previous turn undone.] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "excuse" | ||
| CF ] 8:23 pm End of the Evening 5 (Pretty awkward) | ||
| CF | > | ||
| CF | > EXCUSE | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You mumble something about having to get going, and manage to | ||
| CF | extricate yourself from the goodbyes in record time. Soon, you're | ||
| CF | breaking out of the vestibule and stepping towards your car in glee; | ||
| CF | the humid chill of the air has fogged the windows, preventing them | ||
| CF | from showing your reflection. You have escaped with most of your face, | ||
| CF | and your sanity, intact. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Ending D | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | *** You have made it through the evening. *** | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, UNDO the last | ||
| CF | command or read the PARATEXT? | ||
| CF | > | Jacqueline says, "Nope" | |
| Jacqueline asks, "As far as I can tell... that's I think the least awkward we can be?" | ||
| Touchy asks, "If we repeatedly excuse ourselves during dinner we only go to the bathroom?" | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "I'd guess so." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We did not try spending the whole dinner in the bathroom, to be fair." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "But I'm not up for that one." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm good now, I think." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "And I need to give my eyes a break from the screen/" | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "Thank you, DW - This was ... fun?" | ||
| DavidW says, "heh. I'm so glad." | ||
| DavidW says, "Maybe I'll have my port of Sound of One Hand Clapping done for next week and you guys can try that." | ||
| DavidW says, "It's an old AdvSys game." | ||
| DavidW says, "But I'm porting it to Inform." | ||
| MoyTW says, "Well, thanks all, that was fun." | ||
| Touchy says, "yeah" | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Huh. I didn't realize that game was that old, and that it wasn't in a modern standard system." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "(Sound of One Hand Clapping, I mean.)" | ||
| DavidW says, "It's from 1993." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. I see that now." | ||
| Jacqueline asks, "What inspired you to port it?" | ||
| DavidW says, "My Explorded project did." | ||
| Touchy asks, "What�'s that?" | ||
| Touchy asks, "And what is up with those encoding issues?" | ||
| DavidW says, "My idea with Explorded is to present a game in a way that explains the game logic but it readable like a playthrough." | ||
| DavidW says, "So it's some fusion between psuedo-source code and a playthrough." | ||
| DavidW says, "And I mocked up a version for one of my own games, The Angel Curse." | ||
| DavidW says, "But I felt that didn't fully test the idea." | ||
| DavidW says, "So I thought, what game do I really want to see that way, and Sound of One Hand Clapping was my answer." | ||
| DavidW says, "I didn't manage to actually Explord SoOHC properly. It was more interesting to port it." | ||
| MoyTW asks, "Do you have, like, the source, or is it a decompilation/from walkthrough port?" | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't have the AdvSys source at all. I just played the game to death trying to see how the game worked completely." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "wow" | ||
| MoyTW says, "Hahaha! That's pretty impressive." | ||
| DavidW says, "It was worse than just doing a walkthrough. You have to test all sorts of crazy things like filling a container to see what its carrying capacity is." | ||
| DavidW says, "I even found a few bugs in the original game." | ||
| DavidW says, "anyway, [LINK] shows what my initial idea for Explorded was all about." | ||
| Knight_Otu exclaims, "I should log off for the night. Good night, and stay safe, everyone!" | ||
| Knight_Otu goes home. | ||
| Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "restart" | ||
| CF ] 7:32 pm Vestibule 1 (Relaxed) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | "Just take your coat off and come join us in the dining room, we're | ||
| CF | all about to start," Julia says as she already steps out of the | ||
| CF | vestibule. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Coming here tonight was definitely a terrible idea. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | [If you are new to parser fiction, type HELP] | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Don't Mind My Apocalypse Head | ||
| CF | An interactive nightmare by Bruno Dias | ||
| CF | Release 1 / Serial number 170403 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib | ||
| CF | 6/12N) | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | Vestibule | ||
| CF | The vestibule, that most Freudian of rooms, is the liminal space | ||
| CF | between the front door and the interior of the house proper. This one, | ||
| CF | like the rest of the house, is wood-paneled and vaguely beaux-arts in | ||
| CF | a way that can only be described as "tweedy." | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You try not to catch yourself on the full-length mirror. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | You can also see a coat hook here. | ||
| CF | | ||
| CF | > | DavidW says, "Thanks for the game, all. I'm heading back to the lounge." | |
| Jacqueline says, "I think we did get all the endings." | ||
| Jacqueline says, "We thought we'd missed H, but we did not." | ||
