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Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "load ecdysis"
CF \| Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
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CF \| tadsr - A text-only TADS 2.5.10 Interpreter.
CF \| Copyright (c) 1993, 2006 by Michael J. Roberts.
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Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button.
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CF \| You wake, a pounding headache loud in your inner ear, the back of your
CF \| head itching and tingling, your mouth full of cotton. The pain drives
CF \| away your dreams, weird visions of alien landscapes and strange
CF \| geometries that your awakening mind can no longer comprehend...
CF \|
CF \| Ecdysis Version 1.6
CF \| Inspired by the Last Entry in H.P. Lovecraft's CommonPlace Book
CF \| Implemented by Peter Nepstad
CF \| Illuminated Lantern Publishing
CF \| [LINK]
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CF \| [Type ABOUT for more information.]
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CF \| Bedroom, on the bed
CF \| The room is illuminated only by the skylight over the bed, which you
CF \| left open for the cool night air. Helen sleeps peacefully beside you.
CF \| Your side of the bed is soaked with sweat.
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CF \| >		MoyTravis says, "Oh it's a Lovecraft Thing."
		Jacqueline says, "Aw. [LINK] gives a 403."
		Jacqueline says, "Beautiful Helen. I'll bet she dies soon."
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "change sheets"
CF \| I don't know the word "change".
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CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "about"
CF \| Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890 - 1937), an American writer, is
CF \| considered one of the fathers of 20th Century weird and fantastic
CF \| fiction. He is the author of over sixty short stories, a novel, as
CF \| well as poems. Although Lovecraft had a hard life and died young, he
CF \| is known today as both a pioneer and genius.
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CF \| Peter Nepstad is the author of several works of Interactive Fiction,
CF \| including 1893: A WORLD'S FAIR MYSTERY, one of the few commercial
CF \| Interactive Fiction released in the past 10 years. All of his works
CF \| are available online from Illuminated Lantern Publishing at
CF \| [LINK]
CF \|
CF \| Lovecraft's Commonplace Book is a written compilation of ideas: from
CF \| 1919 to 1934, Lovecraft wrote down fragments, plot ideas and scenario
CF \| outlines, all concrete elements he could put to use at any given time.
CF \| The texts contain suggestions for story-writing as well as a list of
CF \| 'horror fundamentals', intended to stimulate the imagination.
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CF \| Ecdysis is based on idea #221 of the Commonplace Book: "Insects or
CF \| other entities from space attack and penetrate a man's head and cause
CF \| him to remember alien and exotic things--possible displacement of
CF \| personality."
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CF \| This is Version 1.0, released on June 15, 2007, Copyright (c) Peter
CF \| Nepstad, All Rights Reserved. Developed using TADS 2.
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CF \| >		Roger says, "now it is we who are the personality-displacers"
		Knight_Otu says, "As we often are."
		Roger says, ">HELEN, GET UP AND MAKE SANDWICH"
		Jacqueline says (to Roger), "..."
		Jacqueline says, "Though speaking of food, I have breakfast."
		Jacqueline asks, "Could someone else please drive for at least a few?"
		Roger says, "Surely"
Roger says (to floyd), "HELEN, AWAKE"
CF \| I don't know the word "awake".
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "HELEN, WAKE"
CF \| Helen doesn't appear interested.
CF \|
CF \| Your head is pounding, a rushing noise fills your ears. You've got to
CF \| get up and get some aspirin from the bathroom.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "examine helen"
CF \| She is sleeping.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "kick helen"
CF \| I don't know the word "kick".
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "BOOOO"
Roger says (to floyd), "stand"
CF \| You step on something as you rise unsteadily off the bed. It breaks
CF \| under your weight and a shard of some kind cuts into the sole of your
CF \| foot. The pain is intense, driving you back down.
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "well okay then"
Roger says (to floyd), "examine me"
CF \| You feel tired and disoriented. Your head is throbbing, and so is your
CF \| foot, which you can put pressure on only slightly without causing pain.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "Glass lego on the floor."
Roger says (to floyd), "examine floor"
CF \| The floor reassures you somehow.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, "Glass d4s."
		Roger says, "lies"
Roger says (to floyd), "examine foot"
CF \| Some kind of shard is stuck in your foot and it hurts.
CF \|
CF \| Your scalp itches fiendishly.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "examine shard"
CF \| A small, sharp piece of a shell of some kind.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "take shard"
CF \| You carefully pull the shard out of your foot. Dark blood slowly drips
CF \| from the open wound.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to examine), "shard"
Roger says (to floyd), "examine shard"
CF \| It is what remains of a small shell, covered in strange geometric
CF \| patterns that you have never seen before, yet look strangely familiar.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "ah"
		Jacqueline says (to KO), "You'll go to bed soon after we play this, right? I'll bet this is a great thing to play just before bed."
Roger says (to floyd), "examine wound"
CF \| I don't know the word "wound".
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "examine foot"
CF \| Your foot is bleeding a little and hurts when you put your weight on
CF \| it.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, "I can stay awake a while longer."
Roger says (to floyd), "show shard to helen"
CF \| Helen isn't impressed.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "stand"
CF \| You stand. The room spins for a moment as if somehow realigning itself
CF \| to you.
CF \|
CF \| Bedroom
CF \| The room is illuminated only by the skylight over the bed. Helen is
CF \| still sleeping soundly. The lamp on your bedside table is off, and the
CF \| bedroom door closed.
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CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "turn on lamp"
CF \| You hesitate for a moment for fear of waking Helen, then reach down and
CF \| turn on the light. You remember the bedside lamp being a dim, small
CF \| light; but it seems to glow like the sun, filling the room with
CF \| dazzling light and turning everything white. Your eyes burn in agony
CF \| and you see a rainbow of colors against the back of your eyelids, which
CF \| you keep firmly shut while you fumble for the switch, and turn the lamp
CF \| back off.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "examine table"
CF \| I don't know the word "table".
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "examine skylight"
CF \| A perfectly clear night, thousands of stars stretching out into
CF \| infinity. The endless cosmos makes you feel small, cold, and afraid,
CF \| and lost; lost for time beyond reckoning. You feel panic rising in
CF \| your throat, as if the starlight is reaching in through the skylight,
CF \| to tear you from your home to drift forever.
CF \|
CF \| Your vision blurs, the pain makes it impossible to concentrate.
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "get yourself together, man"
Roger says (to floyd), "open door"
CF \| Your sweaty hands fumble with the knob for a while but finally get the
CF \| door open, and stagger out into the...
CF \|
CF \| Hallway
CF \| The short hallway leads to the bathroom, the children's room, and
CF \| your bedroom. A flight of stairs leads down to the first floor.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "look under bed"
CF \| I don't see any bed here.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "bathroom"
CF \| There's no verb in that sentence!
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "go bathroom"
CF \| I don't recognize that sentence.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, "Pesky autoteleport doors."
Roger says (to floyd), "examine bathroom"
CF \| The bathroom door is open.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "enter bathroom"
CF \| Bathroom
CF \| The medicine cabinet is over the sink. Your face, barely glimpsed
CF \| in the half-darkness, looks strangely distorted, foreign, in the
CF \| cabinet mirror. The only exit is back out to the hallway.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "Oh no. We had kids. Helen, why did you have kids with us? We're a mess."
Roger says (to floyd), "examine mirror"
CF \| Your eyes...It is your eyes that make your face seem so strangely
CF \| distorted. Your pupils have opened unnaturally wide, deep black pits
CF \| grotesquely gaping open like mouths ready to feed. Even here, in this
CF \| interior room, with no windows, your eyes lap up the diaphanous light
CF \| filtered in from under the doors and through the windows.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, "For starters, we're way too many people."
Roger says (to floyd), "open cabinet"
CF \| Opening the medicine cabinet reveals an aspirin bottle.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "take it"
CF \| You can't have the medicine cabinet.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "take bottlwe"
CF \| I don't know the word "bottlwe".
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "take bottle"
CF \| You grab the aspirin bottle off the shelf. The pills inside rattle
CF \| noisily.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says (to KO), "heh"
Roger says (to floyd), "shake bottle"
CF \| Pushing the aspirin bottle doesn't do anything.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "read bottle"
CF \| I don't know how to read the aspirin bottle.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "open bottle"
CF \| Opened.
CF \|
CF \| A cold, stabbing pain penetrates the back of your skull. It is without
CF \| a doubt the worst headache you have ever experienced. You need to get
CF \| some aspirin from the cabinet in the bathroom, and you need it now.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "look in bottle"
CF \| In the aspirin bottle you see pills.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "take pills"
CF \| You clumsily take the pills out of the bottle, put them in your mouth,
CF \| and swallow them.
CF \|
CF \| The pills can't have had any effect yet, but you feel your headache is
CF \| receeding slightly, and a new pain, in your stomach, begins to grow.
CF \| Hunger pains.
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CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "g"
CF \| You can't repeat that command.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "out"
CF \| Hallway
CF \| The short hallway leads to the bathroom, the children's room, and
CF \| your bedroom. A flight of stairs leads down to the kitchen.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "enter children's room"
CF \| (Opening the bedroom door)
CF \| Children's Bedroom
CF \| Helen's kids. Little Mary is sleeping peacefully. Michael has
CF \| thrown off his blanket some time in the night, and it lies in a heap on
CF \| the floor. He tosses and turns uncomfortably. The starlight shining
CF \| through their small window seems like daylight, it is so bright. The
CF \| only exit is back out to the hallway.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "take blanket"
CF \| You pick up the blanket. Michael thrashes around in bed, as if having
CF \| a nightmare. He looks small and fragile and helpless.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "put blanket on michael"
CF \| You cover him with the blanket. He grabs it and snuggles in to it
CF \| happily.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "I'm better Peter Nepstad wouldn't be kind enough to put this poor man out of his misery with a hunger daemon that ends the game in three turns like Planetfall."
Roger says (to floyd), "examine mary"
CF \| Mary is Helen's two year old girl, a spoiled, fussy, but endearing
CF \| child.
CF \|
CF \| Your head is throbbing, you are sweating profusely, and you are feeling
CF \| quite hungry.
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "Mom's spaghetti"
Roger says (to floyd), "out"
CF \| Hallway
CF \| The short hallway leads to the bathroom, the children's room, and
CF \| your bedroom. A flight of stairs leads down to the kitchen.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "down"
CF \| Somehow, making it only halfway down the stairs takes a supreme effort
CF \| and what seems like an eternity. Your foot is sensitive to too much
CF \| pressure, your head throbs, your hunger increases, and with each step
CF \| you seem to get hotter and hotter...
CF \|
CF \| Landing
CF \| You are standing on the landing midway down the stairs, where you
CF \| hung a few pictures not long ago.
CF \|
CF \| Your pajamas are drenched in sweat and stick uncomfortably to your
CF \| skin, heavy and restrictive.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "examine pictures"
CF \| One of the pictures is of Helen and the kids, before you met. They are
CF \| in the park, on a picnic. The other picture is a portrait you had
CF \| taken on your graduation. Things look so simple in the pictures, so
CF \| irretrievably distant.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, "I do note that the kids were described only as Helen's."
		Roger says, "I guess that's why she's hanging out with this loser"
		Jacqueline says, "Yeah"
		Knight_Otu says, "Well there's the explanation."
Roger says (to floyd), "examine portrait"
CF \| I don't know the word "portrait".
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "Sorry that I assumed that they were ours."
		Roger says, "s'alright"
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "remove clothes"
CF \| You pull off your pajamas, popping buttons and tearing in the process,
CF \| and throw them aside. Now that you are completely naked, your sweat,
CF \| which is almost mucus-like in consistency, seems to coat your entire
CF \| body in a protective sheath.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "er"
		Jacqueline says, "I mean, ew"
		Jacqueline says, "Also, I just realized that I stripped in front of the kids. My bad."
		Roger says, "no we're down on the landing now"
		Jacqueline says, "Oh, phew."
		Roger says, "good thinking"
Roger says (to floyd), "examine sweat"
CF \| You are sweating profusely because of the heat, and who knows what
CF \| else.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "sweat"
CF \| There's no verb in that sentence!
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "down"
CF \| Pit
CF \| At the bottom of the stairs, in the middle of the foyer, a huge
CF \| tunnel has been dug where no tunnel was before. It is impossible to
CF \| imagine how it could have been dug there, in the night, and by what
CF \| hand it might have taken shape. The pit does not go directly down, but
CF \| instead, descends in a steep but manageable grade. The floor and all
CF \| sides of the pit seem to be wet. Mounds of dirt are heaped nearby,
CF \| blocking off the rest of the house.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline exclaims, "!"
		Roger says, "another tragic case of sleep-digging"
Roger says (to floyd), "examine pit"
CF \| The tunnel goes down, under your house, a tremendous depth. It has a
CF \| gradual slope, and looks very much like the tunnels you inhabited of
CF \| old.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, "That's gonns be inconvenient."
Roger says (to floyd), "examine dirt"
CF \| The mounds completely block off the rest of the house. There is
CF \| nowhere to go but down.
CF \|
CF \| You are ravenously hungry.
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CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "eat dirt"
CF \| The earthen mounds don't appear appetizing.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "d"
CF \| You take careful steps, and descend into the...
CF \|
CF \| Tunnel
CF \| The tunnel continues its gradual descent.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "d"
CF \| The tunnel narrows considerably, and gets more steep and more slippery.
CF \| You can only continue down if you lie down, and try to slide into the
CF \| narrow tunnel. It looks very invitingly dark and snug.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "d"
CF \| The tunnel narrows considerably, and gets more steep and more slippery.
CF \| You can only continue down if you lie down, and try to slide into the
CF \| narrow tunnel. It looks very invitingly dark and snug.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline asks, "...the tunnels we inhabited of old??"
		MoyTravis says, "This MC's pretty sanguine about the mysterious pit in his house, to be honest."
		Roger says, "in our frat"
		Jacqueline says, "Sorry, I'm acting as though I've never read any Lovecraft. I'll try to calm down."
Roger says (to floyd), "examine tunnel"
CF \| I don't see any tunnel here.
CF \|
CF \| >		MoyTravis says, "Unless it's, like, you know, his basement project."
Roger says (to floyd), "slide"
CF \| I don't understand that sentence.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "slide into tunnel"
CF \| I don't understand that sentence.
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "slide into dm"
Roger says (to floyd), "enter tunnel"
CF \| I don't see any tunnel here.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "looko"
CF \| I don't know the word "looko".
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "look"
CF \| Tunnel
CF \| The tunnel continues its gradual descent.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "d"
CF \| The tunnel narrows considerably, and gets more steep and more slippery.
CF \| You can only continue down if you lie down, and try to slide into the
CF \| narrow tunnel. It looks very invitingly dark and snug.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "Electric slide... maybe we gotta go in sideways like a line dance."
Roger says (to floyd), "lie down"
CF \| (the ground)
CF \| You lie down on the tunnel floor, and find that you can move easily on
CF \| your stomach, by pushing forward with your arms and legs. Your sweat
CF \| acts as a natural lubricant to the tunnel walls.
CF \|
CF \| For a moment, your vision blurs, then returns, more sensitive than ever
CF \| to light, and now, even heat appears to be visible.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "There you go"
Roger says (to floyd), "d"
CF \| You slide down, enveloped in the wet, warm, passage, pulling yourself
CF \| deeper and deeper inside...
CF \|
CF \| Tunnel
CF \| The tunnel continues down into the center of the meteorite, toward
CF \| the hive nest.
CF \|
CF \| >		MoyTravis says, "and then John was the demons"
		Jacqueline says, "So, mostly this game is just leveraging all of the wet / moist / mucous squick."
		Roger says, "It's hard to get good leverage with all this lubrication"
Roger says (to floyd), "examine meteorite"
CF \| I don't see any meteorite here.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, "More like pop-culture image of a snake than demons."
Roger says (to floyd), "examine nest"
CF \| I don't see any nest here.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "examine me"
CF \| You propel yourself forward using your tentacles, and draw things with
CF \| them to your powerful jaws for crushing and chewing. Your slick,
CF \| narrow body is beginning to harden in its middle, creating a shell from
CF \| minerals leaking from your pores.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "More like reverse birth."
		MoyTravis says, "Wait, no. It's "and then john was the insects""
		Jacqueline says, "Yeah"
Roger says (to floyd), "up"
CF \| The tunnel is too narrow to allow you to turn around.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "back"
CF \| I don't know the word "back".
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "d"
CF \| You slide easily down the passage...
CF \|
CF \| Hive Nest
CF \| The center of the meteorite, the hive nest. Tz'ikk'k lies dead on
CF \| the ground, defeated moments ago by your powerful jaws to claim mating
CF \| rights for Sh'usggg'ul, who crouches over the male drone now, devouring
CF \| his brain. His larvae have slithered further down the tunnel, but you
CF \| must not allow them to escape or they will surely return for their
CF \| revenge.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline exclaims, "Oh no! Tz'ikk'k!"
		Jacqueline cries.
		Jacqueline says, "Oh, wait. No."
		Roger says, "He had three more days until drone retirement"
		Jacqueline says, "We killed Tz'ikk'k. It's all good. He deserved it for sure."
Roger says (to floyd), "mate"
CF \| I don't understand that sentence.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu asks, "Like those security guards?"
Roger says (to floyd), "eat brain"
CF \| I don't know the word "brain".
CF \|
CF \| >		MoyTravis says, "I mean I guess these aliens have different sexual dimorphism but traditionally for ants, like, the males don't really hang around."
		Jacqueline says (to KO), "Yes. And now we shall kill all of his little larvae before they too can grow up to become security guards."
		MoyTravis says, ""His larvae" is a weird formulation."
Roger says (to floyd), "x larvae"
CF \| The larvae have retreated down the tunnel.
CF \|
CF \| You understand minutely the earth under which you lie, the hair
CF \| follicles on your body seem to be probing the ground and transmitting
CF \| information to you.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "d"
CF \| You pursue the retreating larvae...
CF \|
CF \| Tunnel
CF \| Down has become up and up has become down, as you pass through the
CF \| center of the meteor in search of your prey.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "d"
CF \| You pursue the larvae, following their slime trails and their screams
CF \| of fear...
CF \|
CF \| Tunnel
CF \| The larvae are huddled near a wall here by an opening into space.
CF \| But instead of inky blackness and distant stars, you see a blue and
CF \| white orb, growing larger, and beyond that, a blazing star far brighter
CF \| than any you have ever seen. The hive mind conjures up a vision of
CF \| another huge star, millenia ago, around which another great planet
CF \| orbited, before its destruction -- your ancestral home. The larvae,
CF \| who appear to have been blinded, nevertheless find an opening and
CF \| squirm past you while you are dazzled by the light.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "I really feel for the people who read any transcripts of ours post-Dr Horror without knowing why we make so many security guard death jokes."
		MoyTravis says, "These are some real, you know, mobile larvae."
		Roger says, "well sure they're all lubed up"
Roger says (to floyd), "examine orb"
CF \| The meteorite is heading toward a large blue and white orb.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, "Sometimes games just have that effect."
Roger says (to floyd), "enter orb"
CF \| It's too far away.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "enter d"
CF \| I don't understand that sentence.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "d"
CF \| You pursue the larvae, following their trails to...
CF \|
CF \| Dead End
CF \| The larvae have stopped moving, trapped between you and another,
CF \| darker opening out into space, directly above them, which looks
CF \| hauntingly familiar. You are ravenous with hunger. The smaller of the
CF \| two larvae is nearest you, the larger, closer to the opening.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "eat large larva"
CF \| You coil up your body, then extend it in a sudden movement, striking
CF \| with your jaws on its soft underbelly while pinning it to the ground
CF \| with your appendages. Finally you must crack open the larva by
CF \| striking it against the walls of the tunnel to get at the soft brain
CF \| parts, which you consume with relish.
CF \|
CF \| The other larva thrashes helplessly back and forth, unable to escape,
CF \| forced to watch you devour its broodmate.
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "nom nom nom"
		Jacqueline says (to Roger), "Lubed Larvae... Larval Lube... There's, like, a band name in there somewhere."
Roger says (to floyd), "eat larva"
CF \| You grab the small larva and twist it, shake it, and smash it against
CF \| the walls of the tunnel until it stops moving. Then you consume the
CF \| creature, tearing it apart with your jaws and powerful tentacles.
CF \| Viscera runs down your face. And suddenly there is light, a blinding
CF \| light, as if the meteor has hurled into the sun, and a shrieking, a
CF \| screaming, like nothing you have ever heard. And for a brief moment
CF \| you understand that it is Helen screaming, standing behind you, and you
CF \| are lying on the ground in the children's bedroom, smeared with gore;
CF \| and the children, the -- you try sliding past her, scraping your naked
CF \| body against splintered boards, but you find you cannot return to the
CF \| tunnels, nor can you return to the world of men, and your mind instead
CF \| forever roams out in the vastness of space.
CF \|
CF \| * You Are Lost *
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| If you wish to continue playing, you may restore a saved game, start
CF \| over, quit, or undo the current command.
CF \| Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, QUIT, or UNDO: >
Roger says (to floyd), "undo"
CF \| (Undoing one command)
CF \|
CF \| Dead End
CF \| The larvae have stopped moving, trapped between you and another,
CF \| darker opening out into space, directly above them, which looks
CF \| hauntingly familiar. You are ravenous with hunger. You have cracked
CF \| open one of the larva and eaten its brain. The other remains nearby,
CF \| trapped.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "See, if this weren't Lovecraftian we'd all be like, 'Wait, he went down a moist tunnel in his living room floor and now he's eating larvae in space isn't this weird?'"
		MoyTravis says, "ooooh noooooooooo"
		Roger says, "perhaps"
		MoyTravis says, "how terrible"
		Knight_Otu says, "Oh dear."
		Jacqueline says, "Okay, I wrote that before the horrific ending."
		Roger says, "the name Helen is reminding me of that newish adultish cartoon YOLO: Crystal Fantasy and how this pretty much fits right in"
		Jacqueline says, "So let me know belated react: ooooh nooooooooo how terrible oh dear"
Roger says (to floyd), "up"
CF \| It's too late for that.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "l"
CF \| Dead End
CF \| The larvae have stopped moving, trapped between you and another,
CF \| darker opening out into space, directly above them, which looks
CF \| hauntingly familiar. You are ravenous with hunger. You have cracked
CF \| open one of the larva and eaten its brain. The other remains nearby,
CF \| trapped.
CF \|
CF \| You hunger, and must feed in order to have strength for mating.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "enter opening"
CF \| It's too late for that.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "x larva"
CF \| Which larva do you mean, the small larva, or the dead larva?
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to x), "dead larva"		Jacqueline says, "I think we already ate one, Roger. Though I'm not sure there's any way to avoid eating Helen's children. It just is what it is, sometimes."
Roger says (to floyd), "x dead larva"
CF \| The larva has been brutally consumed by the new hive prime to build
CF \| energy stores for mating.
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "hrm possibly. At least it"
		Roger says, "is a quick runthrough"
		Jacqueline says, "I wonder if I should maybe put a warning on this transcript."
		MoyTravis says, "That do be how it be when you're in Lovecraft country."
Roger says (to floyd), "eat larva"
CF \| You grab the small larva and twist it, shake it, and smash it against
CF \| the walls of the tunnel until it stops moving. Then you consume the
CF \| creature, tearing it apart with your jaws and powerful tentacles.
CF \| Viscera runs down your face. And suddenly there is light, a blinding
CF \| light, as if the meteor has hurled into the sun, and a shrieking, a
CF \| screaming, like nothing you have ever heard. And for a brief moment
CF \| you understand that it is Helen screaming, standing behind you, and you
CF \| are lying on the ground in the children's bedroom, smeared with gore;
CF \| and the children, the -- you try sliding past her, scraping your naked
CF \| body against splintered boards, but you find you cannot return to the
CF \| tunnels, nor can you return to the world of men, and your mind instead
CF \| forever roams out in the vastness of space.
CF \|
CF \| * You Are Lost *
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| If you wish to continue playing, you may restore a saved game, start
CF \| over, quit, or undo the current command.
CF \| Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, QUIT, or UNDO: >
Roger says (to floyd), "restart"
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| [Press any Key to Begin...]		Knight_Otu asks, "Just wonder?"
Roger pushes the green 'space' button.
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| You wake, a pounding headache loud in your inner ear, the back of your
CF \| head itching and tingling, your mouth full of cotton. The pain drives
CF \| away your dreams, weird visions of alien landscapes and strange
CF \| geometries that your awakening mind can no longer comprehend...
CF \|
CF \| Ecdysis Version 1.6
CF \| Inspired by the Last Entry in H.P. Lovecraft's CommonPlace Book
CF \| Implemented by Peter Nepstad
CF \| Illuminated Lantern Publishing
CF \| [LINK]
CF \|
CF \| [Type ABOUT for more information.]
CF \|
CF \| Bedroom, on the bed
CF \| The room is illuminated only by the skylight over the bed, which you
CF \| left open for the cool night air. Helen sleeps peacefully beside you.
CF \| Your side of the bed is soaked with sweat.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says (to KO), "heh"
		Jacqueline says, "Actually, I have a new request."
		Roger says, "okay someone else can look for a different path"
		Jacqueline says, "If we hit a game where we think we need the warning, please say so in the chat."
		Jacqueline says, "Because that way, six months later, I can search for the word 'warning'"
		Knight_Otu says, "I think you had that idea before."
		Jacqueline says, "That would have been helpful when processing transcripts - and if anyone with a good memory is willing to click on the titles of recent transcripts to make sure there are warnings where they're merited, I would be very grateful."
		Knight_Otu says, "I seem to recall hearing it before at least."
		Jacqueline says, "I did put a few warnings in, but not too many."
		Jacqueline says (to KO), "If I have the idea six or seven times then we'll probably start doing it."
		Jacqueline asks (of Roger), "So, um, gonna not eat Helen's kiddos this play through?"
		Jacqueline says, "Oh, you want someone else to."
		Roger says, "I'd rather, yeah"
		Jacqueline says, "I don't think it's possible to not eat those fat little larvae, but I can try."
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "look at floor"
CF \| The floor reassures you somehow.
CF \|
CF \| Your head is pounding, a rushing noise fills your ears. You've got to
CF \| get up and get some aspirin from the bathroom.
CF \|
CF \| >		MoyTravis says, "I thought that was the point, to be honest."
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "crawl over helen"
CF \| I don't understand that sentence.
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "maybe if you avoid the aspirin entirely, or something"
		Roger exclaims, "or eat the kids really early!"
		Jacqueline says, "haha"
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "push helen out of bed"
CF \| I don't recognize that sentence.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "get up"
CF \| You step on something as you rise unsteadily off the bed. It breaks
CF \| under your weight and a shard of some kind cuts into the sole of your
CF \| foot. The pain is intense, driving you back down.
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, "Maybe not take the whole bottle worth of pills at once."
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "remove shard"
CF \| You carefully pull the shard out of your foot. Dark blood slowly drips
CF \| from the open wound.
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "Warning: Graphic Lactation oh wait that's a different game"
		Jacqueline says, "hahaha"
		Jacqueline says, "This game is bad, that game was worse. In the best way, though... sort of."
		Jacqueline says, "Memorable, anyway."
		Knight_Otu says, "Can't all be Cragne Manor."
		Jacqueline says, "No, they sure can't."
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "get up"
CF \| You stand. The room spins for a moment as if somehow realigning itself
CF \| to you.
CF \|
CF \| Bedroom
CF \| The room is illuminated only by the skylight over the bed. Helen is
CF \| still sleeping soundly. The lamp on your bedside table is off, and the
CF \| bedroom door closed.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "open door"
CF \| Your sweaty hands fumble with the knob for a while but finally get the
CF \| door open, and stagger out into the...
CF \|
CF \| Hallway
CF \| The short hallway leads to the bathroom, the children's room, and
CF \| your bedroom. A flight of stairs leads down to the first floor.
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger asks, "maybe there's some way to wake up the kids and get them to run away?"
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "go to children's room"
CF \| (Opening the bedroom door)
CF \| Children's Bedroom
CF \| Helen's kids. Little Mary is sleeping peacefully. Michael has
CF \| thrown off his blanket some time in the night, and it lies in a heap on
CF \| the floor. He tosses and turns uncomfortably. The starlight shining
CF \| through their small window seems like daylight, it is so bright. The
CF \| only exit is back out to the hallway.
CF \|
CF \| Your scalp itches fiendishly.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "wake Michael"
CF \| He murmurs a bit, feels around for his blanket, but does not wake up.
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "dang our knob-fumbling"
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "take blanket"
CF \| You pick up the blanket. Michael thrashes around in bed, as if having
CF \| a nightmare. He looks small and fragile and helpless.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "go to hallway"
CF \| Hallway
CF \| The short hallway leads to the bathroom, the children's room, and
CF \| your bedroom. A flight of stairs leads down to the first floor.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "d"
CF \| Another sharp stab of pain serves to remind you of your headache,
CF \| almost causing you to tumble down the stairs. Perhaps a couple aspirin
CF \| will help make such a descent more manageable.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "tie feet with blanket"
CF \| I don't know the word "tie".
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "remove clothes"
CF \| I don't see any clothes here.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "huh"
		Jacqueline asks, "That isn't a word until it needs to be?"
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "go to bathroom"
CF \| Bathroom
CF \| The medicine cabinet is over the sink. Your face, barely glimpsed
CF \| in the half-darkness, looks strangely distorted, foreign, in the
CF \| cabinet mirror. The only exit is back out to the hallway.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, "We're not drugged up yet I guess."
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "open mirror"
CF \| I don't know how to open the mirror.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "open cabinet"
CF \| Opening the medicine cabinet reveals an aspirin bottle.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "take aspirin"
CF \| You grab the aspirin bottle off the shelf. The pills inside rattle
CF \| noisily.
CF \|
CF \| Your vision blurs, the pain makes it impossible to concentrate.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "open aspirin"
CF \| Opened.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "take two aspirin"
CF \| I don't know the word "two".
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "take aspirin"
CF \| You open the bottle, clumsily take the pills out, put them in your
CF \| mouth, and swallow them, without water.
CF \|
CF \| The pills can't have had any effect yet, but you feel your headache is
CF \| receeding slightly, and a new pain, in your stomach, begins to grow.
CF \| Hunger pains.
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "It lacks the agency that makes IF Horror effective, in my opinion"
		Jacqueline says, "Yeah, it's basically using IF as a slow reveal."
		Roger says, "I blame Helen for not making us a sandwich"
		Jacqueline says, "Making the player pull the curtain back, inch by inch."
		Jacqueline says (to Roger), "I thought Lovecraft was just racist, not racist + misogynistic... but admittedly I haven't read up on this much."
		Jacqueline says, "IMO, insects can make their own damn sammiches."
		Roger says, "I can't think of any female characters in any of his stories, off the top of my head. I guess Old Witch Keziah"
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "lock door"
CF \| It can't be locked.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "out"
CF \| Hallway
CF \| The short hallway leads to the bathroom, the children's room, and
CF \| your bedroom. A flight of stairs leads down to the kitchen.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "go to bedroom"
CF \| Bedroom
CF \| The room is illuminated only by the skylight over the bed. Helen is
CF \| still sleeping soundly. The lamp on your bedside table is off, and the
CF \| bedroom door open, the hallway just visible beyond in the near dark.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "put blanket on Helen"
CF \| There's no good surface on Helen.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "heh"
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "out"
CF \| You stagger out into the...
CF \|
CF \| Hallway
CF \| The short hallway leads to the bathroom, the children's room, and
CF \| your bedroom. A flight of stairs leads down to the kitchen.
CF \|
CF \| Your head is throbbing, you are sweating profusely, and you are feeling
CF \| quite hungry.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "d"
CF \| Somehow, making it only halfway down the stairs takes a supreme effort
CF \| and what seems like an eternity. Your foot is sensitive to too much
CF \| pressure, your head throbs, your hunger increases, and with each step
CF \| you seem to get hotter and hotter...
CF \|
CF \| Landing
CF \| You are standing on the landing midway down the stairs, where you
CF \| hung a few pictures not long ago.
CF \|
CF \| Your pajamas are drenched in sweat and stick uncomfortably to your
CF \| skin, heavy and restrictive.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "d"
CF \| You try to take a step, but your pajamas feel tight and heavy and are
CF \| somehow restricting your movement. It is as if you are swollen all
CF \| over, and the pajamas are constricting your circulation.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline frowns. "Well, I don't like that."
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "remove clothes"
CF \| You pull off your pajamas, popping buttons and tearing in the process,
CF \| and throw them aside. Now that you are completely naked, your sweat,
CF \| which is almost mucus-like in consistency, seems to coat your entire
CF \| body in a protective sheath.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "wear blanket"
CF \| You can't wear the blanket.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "d"
CF \| Pit
CF \| At the bottom of the stairs, in the middle of the foyer, a huge
CF \| tunnel has been dug where no tunnel was before. It is impossible to
CF \| imagine how it could have been dug there, in the night, and by what
CF \| hand it might have taken shape. The pit does not go directly down, but
CF \| instead, descends in a steep but manageable grade. The floor and all
CF \| sides of the pit seem to be wet. Mounds of dirt are heaped nearby,
CF \| blocking off the rest of the house.
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "well that's sort of a blanket statement innit"
		Jacqueline says, "heh"
		Jacqueline says, "Apparently there is no good surface on me for a blanket."
		Roger says, "we are too slimy"
		Jacqueline says, "We really are."
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "dig"
CF \| What do you want to dig in?
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "dirt"
CF \| What do you want to dig in it with?
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "um"
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "blanket"
CF \| I don't know how to dig in the earthen mounds.
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "nice try"
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "dig dirt with hands"
CF \| I don't know how to dig in the earthen mounds.
CF \|
CF \| You are ravenously hungry.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline asks, "I really don't think there are other endings. Anyone see any way to get off the train?"
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "d"
CF \| You take careful steps, and descend into the...
CF \|
CF \| Tunnel
CF \| The tunnel continues its gradual descent.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "d"
CF \| The tunnel narrows considerably, and gets more steep and more slippery.
CF \| You can only continue down if you lie down, and try to slide into the
CF \| narrow tunnel. It looks very invitingly dark and snug.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, "I'd have said trying to go to bed again."
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "u"
CF \| The tunnel is too slippery to go back up.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "dammit"
		Jacqueline says, "I did go back in there but I didn't think to get in bed."
		Knight_Otu says, "Unlikely though."
		Jacqueline says, "I'll try that after we eat the children again."
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "d"
CF \| The tunnel narrows considerably, and gets more steep and more slippery.
CF \| You can only continue down if you lie down, and try to slide into the
CF \| narrow tunnel. It looks very invitingly dark and snug.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "lie down"
CF \| (the ground)
CF \| You lie down on the tunnel floor, and find that you can move easily on
CF \| your stomach, by pushing forward with your arms and legs. Your sweat
CF \| acts as a natural lubricant to the tunnel walls.
CF \|
CF \| For a moment, your vision blurs, then returns, more sensitive than ever
CF \| to light, and now, even heat appears to be visible.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, "Maybe there are other ways to sate the hunger, or enter the spce opening without eating the kids."
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "l"
CF \| Tunnel
CF \| The tunnel continues its gradual descent.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "l"
CF \| Tunnel
CF \| The tunnel continues its gradual descent.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "Hrm. Was hoping the heat vision would do something"
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "d"
CF \| You slide down, enveloped in the wet, warm, passage, pulling yourself
CF \| deeper and deeper inside...
CF \|
CF \| Tunnel
CF \| The tunnel continues down into the center of the meteorite, toward
CF \| the hive nest.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "d"
CF \| You slide easily down the passage...
CF \|
CF \| Hive Nest
CF \| The center of the meteorite, the hive nest. Tz'ikk'k lies dead on
CF \| the ground, defeated moments ago by your powerful jaws to claim mating
CF \| rights for Sh'usggg'ul, who crouches over the male drone now, devouring
CF \| his brain. His larvae have slithered further down the tunnel, but you
CF \| must not allow them to escape or they will surely return for their
CF \| revenge.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x sh'usggg'ul"
CF \| Sh'usggg'ul is engorged with blood and appears nearly ready to mate.
CF \|
CF \| You understand minutely the earth under which you lie, the hair
CF \| follicles on your body seem to be probing the ground and transmitting
CF \| information to you.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "mate with sh'usggg'ul"
CF \| Sh'usggg'ul rejects your advances. You must first feast on the
CF \| offspring of her former mate to gain the strength, or you will not
CF \| survive!
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "Well, I don't like that either."
		Roger says, "awww man we got chub blocked"
		Jacqueline looks at Roger.
		Jacqueline keeps looking at Roger.
		Roger asks, "what if I tempt you with this fetching blanket?"
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "do blanket mating dance"
CF \| I don't know the word "do".
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "eat tz'ikk'k"
CF \| His corpse is owned by his former mate who completes their relationship
CF \| by consuming him. You must feast on his offspring, if you hope to have
CF \| enough strength to take his place.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "Tickets, please! Please have your tickets out as the conductor comes through to validate them."
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "d"
CF \| You pursue the retreating larvae...
CF \|
CF \| Tunnel
CF \| Down has become up and up has become down, as you pass through the
CF \| center of the meteor in search of your prey.
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "see this is the toxic masculinity that I keep complaining to the hive mind about"
		Jacqueline says, "heh"
		Roger says, "okay so now we're going back up through our house, I guess"
		Roger says, "eventually"
		Jacqueline says, "Yeah"
		Roger says, "possibly we can take advantage of that"
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "u"
CF \| You pursue the larvae, following their slime trails and their screams
CF \| of fear...
CF \|
CF \| Tunnel
CF \| The larvae are huddled near a wall here by an opening into space.
CF \| But instead of inky blackness and distant stars, you see a blue and
CF \| white orb, growing larger, and beyond that, a blazing star far brighter
CF \| than any you have ever seen. The hive mind conjures up a vision of
CF \| another huge star, millenia ago, around which another great planet
CF \| orbited, before its destruction -- your ancestral home. The larvae,
CF \| who appear to have been blinded, nevertheless find an opening and
CF \| squirm past you while you are dazzled by the light.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "I don't think it mattered what I typed there."
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "undo"
CF \| (Undoing one command)
CF \|
CF \| Tunnel
CF \| Down has become up and up has become down, as you pass through the
CF \| center of the meteor in search of your prey.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "d"
CF \| You pursue the larvae, following their slime trails and their screams
CF \| of fear...
CF \|
CF \| Tunnel
CF \| The larvae are huddled near a wall here by an opening into space.
CF \| But instead of inky blackness and distant stars, you see a blue and
CF \| white orb, growing larger, and beyond that, a blazing star far brighter
CF \| than any you have ever seen. The hive mind conjures up a vision of
CF \| another huge star, millenia ago, around which another great planet
CF \| orbited, before its destruction -- your ancestral home. The larvae,
CF \| who appear to have been blinded, nevertheless find an opening and
CF \| squirm past you while you are dazzled by the light.
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger asks, "okay is this the bedroom with the skylight?"
		Jacqueline says, "Yeah"
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "look at light"
CF \| I don't see any light here.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "aw, man"
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "z"
CF \| Time passes...
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "z"
CF \| Time passes...
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "z"
CF \| Time passes...
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x larvae"
CF \| The larvae have retreated up the tunnel.
CF \|
CF \| You hunger, and must feed in order to have strength for mating.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x opening"
CF \| The meteorite is heading toward a large blue and white orb.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline asks (of KO), "What do you reckon that means?"
		Knight_Otu asks, "We've gone crazy?"
		Jacqueline says, "heh. Well, yes."
		Jacqueline says, "But I meant the blue & white orb."
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "enter opening"
CF \| It's too far away.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline asks, "Is that just a lamp? Or the moon? or ?"
		Knight_Otu says, "I have no idea."
		Jacqueline says, "Like, the kids being 'huddled near a wall here by an opening into space' was rather clever."
		Jacqueline says, "So I was curious what else is being described like that."
		Roger says, "oh maybe that bedside lamp is turned on"
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "turn off lamp"
CF \| I don't see any lamp here.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "touch orb"
CF \| It's too far away.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "hit orb"
CF \| (with the broken shell)
CF \| It's too far away.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "Oh, we have the shell."
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "throw blanet at orb"
CF \| I don't know the word "blanet".
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "throw blanket at orb"
CF \| It's too far away.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x orb"
CF \| The meteorite is heading toward a large blue and white orb.
CF \|
CF \| As your sweat rubs off in the tunnels, your body continues to secrete
CF \| more of the sweet, mucous-like substance.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "Thanks for the update, game."
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x star"
CF \| I don't see any star here.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "listen"
CF \| What do you want to listen to?
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "hive"
CF \| I don't see any hive here.
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "I reckon there's just no getting off this heck-bound train"
		Jacqueline says, "I'm trying to remind myself that this was likely done as a short jam sort of thing, but I'm sad that I keep poking at it and finding holes like there being no star."
		Knight_Otu says, "Hm"
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "l"
CF \| Tunnel
CF \| The meteor is plummetting toward a planet. But your desire to mate
CF \| is stronger than your fear of death, and your hunger consumes all else.
CF \| The larvae have retreated, down a tunnel away from the opening.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "enter space"
CF \| It's too far away.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "d"
CF \| You pursue the larvae, following their trails to...
CF \|
CF \| Dead End
CF \| The larvae have stopped moving, trapped between you and another,
CF \| darker opening out into space, directly above them, which looks
CF \| hauntingly familiar. You are ravenous with hunger. The smaller of the
CF \| two larvae is nearest you, the larger, closer to the opening.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "larvae, hello"
CF \| Which larvae do you mean, the small larva, or the large larva?
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, "Maybe this opeing."
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "large larva, run"
CF \| I don't know the word "run".
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "take large larva"
CF \| You can't have the large larva.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "But I want it. I want to throw it into space."
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "pet small larva"
CF \| I don't know the word "pet".
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "kiss small larva"
CF \| You try touching the small larva with your tongue, as if that will
CF \| provide some sort of additional sensory information that you wish to
CF \| process.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "I knew better than to do that."
		MoyTravis says, "Okay that's pretty funny."
		Jacqueline says, "And yet I did it anyway."
		Roger says, "yeah that was a good try"
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "hug larva"
CF \| I don't know the word "hug".
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "There's some stuff I'm typing in this game that I never thought I'd ever type."
		Jacqueline asks, "Ideas?"
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x opening"
CF \| On this side of the meteor, it is darker, and the sky looks as it
CF \| was...as it was...on Earth? From a...window? If only you could
CF \| remember...
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "enter opening"
CF \| You suddenly wish to rush out into space, and destroy yourself. But
CF \| why? If only you could remember...
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "ClubFloyd: Spinning Small Games into Two Full Hours since 2007."
		Roger says, "oho"
		MoyTravis says, "I think the game wants you to get to the Shocking Twist."
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "g"
CF \| You suddenly wish to rush out into space, and destroy yourself. But
CF \| why? If only you could remember...
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "hmmm maybe a way out"
		Jacqueline says, "oho"
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "i"
CF \| You have a broken shell and a blanket.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "remember window"
CF \| Nothing comes to mind.
CF \|
CF \| >		MoyTravis says, "Eat the shell."
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "remember skylght"
CF \| I don't know the word "skylght".
CF \|
CF \| >		MoyTravis exclaims, "Eat the blanket!"
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "eat blanket"
CF \| The blanket doesn't appear appetizing.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "smell blanket"
CF \| You smell nothing unexpected.
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "booo"
		Jacqueline exclaims, "Use the blanket to make a larva burrito!"
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "stab me with shell"
CF \| You cannot find your throat, to cut, nor your hands, to grasp the
CF \| shard.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "remember kids"
CF \| Nothing comes to mind.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "remember helen"
CF \| The name has no meaning to you now.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "cry"
CF \| I don't know the word "cry".
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "shout"
CF \| Your throat is so dry nothing but a raspy whisper comes out.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "rememberSh'usggg'ul"
CF \| I don't know the word "remembersh'usggg'ul".
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "remember Sh'usggg'ul"
CF \| Nothing comes to mind.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, "Hrm."
		Jacqueline says, "Yeah. Hrm."
Roger says (to floyd), "examine picture"
CF \| I don't see any picture here.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "examine mirror"
CF \| I don't see any mirror here.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "examine window"
CF \| On this side of the meteor, it is darker, and the sky looks as it
CF \| was...as it was...on Earth? From a...window? If only you could
CF \| remember...
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "open window"
CF \| I don't know how to open the opening.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "enter window"
CF \| You suddenly wish to rush out into space, and destroy yourself. But
CF \| why? If only you could remember...
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "u"
CF \| You suddenly wish to rush out into space, and destroy yourself. But
CF \| why? If only you could remember...
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "d"
CF \| There is no need to leave until you have eaten the larvae.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "w"
CF \| There is no need to leave until you have eaten the larvae.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "decide that you are no longer hungry"
CF \| I don't know the word "decide".
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "eat me"
CF \| Yourself doesn't appear appetizing.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu asks, "It feels there may be a way out, but maybe we are past it?"
Roger says (to floyd), "remember michael"
CF \| The name has no meaning to you now.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "remember helen"
CF \| The name has no meaning to you now.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "remember me"
CF \| You don't need to remember what is right in front of you!
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "examine me"
CF \| You propel yourself forward using your tentacles, and draw things with
CF \| them to your powerful jaws for crushing and chewing. Your slick,
CF \| narrow body is beginning to harden in its middle, creating a shell from
CF \| minerals leaking from your pores.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "examine my shell"
CF \| I don't see any my shell here.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "examine tentacles"
CF \| I don't know the word "tentacles".
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "examine jaws"
CF \| I don't know the word "jaws".
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x mary"
CF \| I don't see any mary here.
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "well fudge"
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "remember mary"
CF \| The name has no meaning to you now.
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "Emily Short's review says:"
		Roger \| Postscript: thanks to some prompting from Peter Nepstad, I was able to find a second ending to �Ecdysis� after all
		Jacqueline says, "I mean, we could restart, try the going back to bed thing, and then, KO, if that fails, could you do the next attempt past that? I'm not sure what I missed, but if you think we're past a point of choice that I missed..."
		Jacqueline says (to Roger), "Gosh darn it but maybe okay dang sigh fine"
		Roger says, "but that also means even Emily didn't figure it out all on her own"
		Jacqueline says, "heh"
		Roger says, "I feel we've squeezed most of the goodness out of this one, but that's just me"
		Jacqueline asks, "Did you have to put it quite that way, Roger?"
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "x me"
CF \| You propel yourself forward using your tentacles, and draw things with
CF \| them to your powerful jaws for crushing and chewing. Your slick,
CF \| narrow body is beginning to harden in its middle, creating a shell from
CF \| minerals leaking from your pores.
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "starve"
CF \| I don't know the word "starve".
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x cfs"
CF \| I don't know the word "cfs".
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "oops"
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "l"
CF \| Dead End
CF \| The larvae have stopped moving, trapped between you and another,
CF \| darker opening out into space, directly above them, which looks
CF \| hauntingly familiar. You are ravenous with hunger. The smaller of the
CF \| two larvae is nearest you, the larger, closer to the opening.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "open opening"
CF \| I don't know how to open the opening.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "push large larva"
CF \| Pushing the large larva doesn't do anything.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "It's a long shot, but I'm texting Emily. haha"
Roger says (to floyd), "give blanket to large larva"
CF \| I don't know how to give anything to the large larva.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "I will be shocked if she recalls the hint."
		Jacqueline asks, "But who knows?"
		Jacqueline says, "Because otherwise, I agree that we're done here."
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "restart"
CF \| Are you sure you want to start over? (YES or NO) >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "n"
CF \| Okay.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "save"
CF \| File to save game in >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "donoteatlarvae"
CF \| Saved.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "restart"
CF \| Are you sure you want to start over? (YES or NO) >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "y"
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| [Press any Key to Begin...]
Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button.
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| You wake, a pounding headache loud in your inner ear, the back of your
CF \| head itching and tingling, your mouth full of cotton. The pain drives
CF \| away your dreams, weird visions of alien landscapes and strange
CF \| geometries that your awakening mind can no longer comprehend...
CF \|
CF \| Ecdysis Version 1.6
CF \| Inspired by the Last Entry in H.P. Lovecraft's CommonPlace Book
CF \| Implemented by Peter Nepstad
CF \| Illuminated Lantern Publishing
CF \| [LINK]
CF \|
CF \| [Type ABOUT for more information.]
CF \|
CF \| Bedroom, on the bed
CF \| The room is illuminated only by the skylight over the bed, which you
CF \| left open for the cool night air. Helen sleeps peacefully beside you.
CF \| Your side of the bed is soaked with sweat.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "get up"
CF \| You step on something as you rise unsteadily off the bed. It breaks
CF \| under your weight and a shard of some kind cuts into the sole of your
CF \| foot. The pain is intense, driving you back down.
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| Your head is pounding, a rushing noise fills your ears. You've got to
CF \| get up and get some aspirin from the bathroom.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "remove shard"
CF \| You carefully pull the shard out of your foot. Dark blood slowly drips
CF \| from the open wound.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x shard"
CF \| It is what remains of a small shell, covered in strange geometric
CF \| patterns that you have never seen before, yet look strangely familiar.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x patterns"
CF \| I don't see any patterns here.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "get up"
CF \| You stand. The room spins for a moment as if somehow realigning itself
CF \| to you.
CF \|
CF \| Bedroom
CF \| The room is illuminated only by the skylight over the bed. Helen is
CF \| still sleeping soundly. The lamp on your bedside table is off, and the
CF \| bedroom door closed.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "open door"
CF \| Your sweaty hands fumble with the knob for a while but finally get the
CF \| door open, and stagger out into the...
CF \|
CF \| Hallway
CF \| The short hallway leads to the bathroom, the children's room, and
CF \| your bedroom. A flight of stairs leads down to the first floor.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "go to bathroom'"
CF \| I don't know the word "bathroom'".
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "go to bathroom"
CF \| Bathroom
CF \| The medicine cabinet is over the sink. Your face, barely glimpsed
CF \| in the half-darkness, looks strangely distorted, foreign, in the
CF \| cabinet mirror. The only exit is back out to the hallway.
CF \|
CF \| Your scalp itches fiendishly.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "open cabinet"
CF \| Opening the medicine cabinet reveals an aspirin bottle.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "take aspirin"
CF \| You grab the aspirin bottle off the shelf. The pills inside rattle
CF \| noisily.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "take aspirin"
CF \| You open the bottle, clumsily take the pills out, put them in your
CF \| mouth, and swallow them, without water.
CF \|
CF \| The pills can't have had any effect yet, but you feel your headache is
CF \| receeding slightly, and a new pain, in your stomach, begins to grow.
CF \| Hunger pains.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "out"
CF \| Hallway
CF \| The short hallway leads to the bathroom, the children's room, and
CF \| your bedroom. A flight of stairs leads down to the kitchen.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "go to bedroom"
CF \| Bedroom
CF \| The room is illuminated only by the skylight over the bed. Helen is
CF \| still sleeping soundly. The lamp on your bedside table is off, and the
CF \| bedroom door open, the hallway just visible beyond in the near dark.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "go to bed"
CF \| I don't know how to enter the bed.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "get in bed"
CF \| You have no desire to go underneath the skylight, to be touched by
CF \| starlight, to once again behold the vertiginous abyss of space.
CF \|
CF \| >		Knight_Otu says, "So much for going back to bed."
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "kiss helen"
CF \| You kiss Helen softly on her cheek.
CF \|
CF \| Your head is throbbing, you are sweating profusely, and you are feeling
CF \| quite hungry.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "So, I think I have a hint"
		Jacqueline says, "Not from Em, just from a thread on JayIsGames."
		Jacqueline says, "And we were on the right track."
		Roger asks, "oh do we cover a window with the blanket?"
		Jacqueline says, "No, probably not - but the trick is to make him remember things."
		Roger says, "oh"
		Jacqueline says, "Which is subtly hinted at in the game, to be fair."
		Roger says, "Think of all the things to have to live for, buddy, like Helen's sandwiches"
		Jacqueline says, "But I tried remembering various things and that didn't work, so I kind of abandoned it."
		Jacqueline asks (of Roger), "What if Helen is actually a terrible cook?"
		Jacqueline asks, "Such a bad cook that she can't even make a good sammich?"
		MoyTravis asks, "Did we try the specific names of the kids?"
		Knight_Otu says, "I'm suer we did."
		MoyTravis asks, "I think we did "remember kids" but - oh, wait, like. After we transform how about looking at their picture again?"
		Jacqueline says, "Okay, and I went a little further down the rabbit hole and I think I now know the answer and fwiw, I think the save I made is probably a decent place to try it."
		MoyTravis says, "Or mid-transformation. Or something."
		Roger says, "sure let's go for it"
		Jacqueline says, "So I will let you all play until you ask me for more info."
		Jacqueline asks (of Roger), "Want me to restore that?"
		Roger says, "I feel ready"
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "restore"
CF \| File to restore game from >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "donoteatlarvae"
CF \| Restored.
CF \|
CF \| Dead End
CF \| The larvae have stopped moving, trapped between you and another,
CF \| darker opening out into space, directly above them, which looks
CF \| hauntingly familiar. You are ravenous with hunger. The smaller of the
CF \| two larvae is nearest you, the larger, closer to the opening.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline pushes the keyboard to Roger.
Roger says (to floyd), "remember larva"
CF \| Nothing comes to mind.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "remember michael"
CF \| The name has no meaning to you now.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "remember kids"
CF \| Nothing comes to mind.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "remember children"
CF \| Nothing comes to mind.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "remember offspring"
CF \| I don't know the word "offspring".
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "remember me"
CF \| You don't need to remember what is right in front of you!
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "remember space"
CF \| A planet, colonized by the hive...your ancestral home...until it broke
CF \| apart, and the sun died, and water flooded the tunnels, killing so
CF \| many, and few, very few, survived on large hunks of the planet, sent
CF \| drifting into the endless darkness...
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "remember earth"
CF \| Earth. Your home. Home...
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "remember home"
CF \| Earth. Your home. Home...
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "remember bedroom"
CF \| Nothing comes to mind.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "remember humans"
CF \| I don't know the word "humans".
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "examine shell"
CF \| I don't see any shell here.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "remember shell"
CF \| Comfort, warmth, shelter. Home...
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "remember foot"
CF \| You don't need to remember what is right in front of you!
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "remember hive"
CF \| The center of all things, the arena of death, the birthing
CF \| chamber...your body moistens in anticipation...
CF \|
CF \| >
Knight_Otu says (to ClubFloyd), "remember graduation"
CF \| I don't know the word "graduation".
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "remember mating"
CF \| I don't know the word "mating".
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline exclaims, "Heard back from Emily!"
		Roger says, "whew"
		Jacqueline says, "She does not recall."
		Jacqueline says, "Sorry for that little emotional roller coaster."
		Roger asks, "oh. Oh well. Is there any more hinting?"
		Jacqueline says, "But I think I do know the answer, and I think you are very close."
Roger says (to floyd), "HINT"
CF \| You are on your own. Alone...
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "remember bed"
CF \| Nothing comes to mind.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "remember lamp"
CF \| The light burns. Must hide from the light.
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "You actually did one thing that made me think you were about to get it."
Roger says (to floyd), "stamp foot"
CF \| I don't know the word "stamp".
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "jump"
CF \| You suddenly wish to rush out into space, and destroy yourself. But
CF \| why? If only you could remember...
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "remember space"
CF \| A planet, colonized by the hive...your ancestral home...until it broke
CF \| apart, and the sun died, and water flooded the tunnels, killing so
CF \| many, and few, very few, survived on large hunks of the planet, sent
CF \| drifting into the endless darkness...
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "remember light"
CF \| A planet, colonized by the hive...your ancestral home...until it broke
CF \| apart, and the sun died, and water flooded the tunnels, killing so
CF \| many, and few, very few, survived on large hunks of the planet, sent
CF \| drifting into the endless darkness...
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "remember darkness"
CF \| I don't know the word "darkness".
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "remember death"
CF \| I don't know the word "death".
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "hmm I think I need a bit more of a hint now"
		Jacqueline says, "Hm. How direct to be..."
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "l"
CF \| Dead End
CF \| The larvae have stopped moving, trapped between you and another,
CF \| darker opening out into space, directly above them, which looks
CF \| hauntingly familiar. You are ravenous with hunger. The smaller of the
CF \| two larvae is nearest you, the larger, closer to the opening.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x space"
CF \| On this side of the meteor, it is darker, and the sky looks as it
CF \| was...as it was...on Earth? From a...window? If only you could
CF \| remember...
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "meteor"
CF \| There's no verb in that sentence!
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "x meteor"
CF \| I don't see any meteor here.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "remember meteor"
CF \| A planet, colonized by the hive...your ancestral home...until it broke
CF \| apart, and the sun died, and water flooded the tunnels, killing so
CF \| many, and few, very few, survived on large hunks of the planet, sent
CF \| drifting into the endless darkness...
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "Okay, the thing you need to do is hinted at on this current page of text."
		Jacqueline says, "And you are so, so close."
Roger says (to floyd), "examine window"
CF \| On this side of the meteor, it is darker, and the sky looks as it
CF \| was...as it was...on Earth? From a...window? If only you could
CF \| remember...
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "examine sky"
CF \| On this side of the meteor, it is darker, and the sky looks as it
CF \| was...as it was...on Earth? From a...window? If only you could
CF \| remember...
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "open window"
CF \| I don't know how to open the opening.
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline warmerrrrr
Roger says (to floyd), "enter window"
CF \| You suddenly wish to rush out into space, and destroy yourself. But
CF \| why? If only you could remember...
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "coooooolerrrr"
Roger says (to floyd), "remember why"
CF \| I don't know the word "why".
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "remember earth"
CF \| Earth. Your home. Home...
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "yeeeesssss"
Roger says (to floyd), "go home"
CF \| I don't recognize that sentence.
CF \|
CF \| >
Roger says (to floyd), "remember home"
CF \| Earth. Your home. Home...
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "'remember earth' was what I think we needed to do..."
Roger says (to floyd), "remember earth"
CF \| Earth. Your home. Home...
CF \|
CF \| Suddenly before your eyes the larvae change form, and you see yourself
CF \| in the Children's bedroom, and Mary is sleeping nearest the door, and
CF \| Michael by the window, and then you see only the larvae again and you
CF \| hunger and you only understand that you must eat, and you must not eat,
CF \| and your time is running out.
CF \|
CF \| >		Roger says, "booooo"
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "remember mary"
CF \| Little Mary, so precocious...small thing, easily held...
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "remember michael"
CF \| Blue blanket...snuggled in bed...
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "remember helen"
CF \| Sleeping beside you...new life...smiling...laughing...with the kids...
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "remember home"
CF \| Earth. Your home. Home...
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "remember home"
CF \| Earth. Your home. Home...
CF \|
CF \| >
Jacqueline says (to ClubFloyd), "remember home"
CF \| Earth. Your home. Home...
CF \|
CF \| >		Jacqueline says, "God dangit, game."
Roger says (to floyd), "enter window"
CF \| You coil up your body, then extend it in a sudden movement, throwing
CF \| yourself out of the meteor as it begins breaking up in its descent.
CF \| The meteor burns up, crumbles in the atmosphere, your tuck into your
CF \| shell as you fall, and fall, and fall, into a skylight in the roof of
CF \| the building from which you have just jumped out of the second floor
CF \| window. You break your neck on the ground, and both of you at last
CF \| die, to join your hive mates, to protect your family.
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| * You Are Free *
CF \|
CF \|
CF \| You may restore a saved game, start over, quit, or undo the current
CF \| command.
CF \| Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, QUIT, or UNDO: >		Jacqueline exclaims, "OH!"
		Roger says, "well alright I /guess/ that is kind of okay, but ennhhh repeated actions as a solution, even when reasonable, have never really rubbed me the right way"
		Knight_Otu says, "Whew."
		Jacqueline exclaims, "Well, there we go! 'Happy' ending!"
		Jacqueline says, "Well, that was certainly a game."
		Knight_Otu says, "It certainly was."
		Roger says, "might be worthwhile to make our way through the rest of that jam, at some point"
		Jacqueline says, "I mean, it was good, but yeah, I wish the execution would have provided a few more side trails."
		Jacqueline says (to Roger), "Hm, good point."
		MoyTravis says, "Hooray."
		Jacqueline says, "Thanks, all - that was a good session."
		MoyTravis says, "Yeah, that was a fun time."
		Jacqueline says, "Thanks, Peter Nepstad, wherever you are these days."
		Roger says, "indeed"
		Jacqueline says (to Roger), "I'll take a look at the rest of the jam, see what's Floydable, and update the CFS."
		Jacqueline exclaims, "Have a great week, all!"
MoyTravis goes home.		Knight_Otu exclaims, "Good night, and stay safe!"