ClubFloyd Transcript:
The Purple Pearl (Transcript A) by Amanda Walker
As played on ifMUD on August 6, 2023

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.

Below is a transcript of The Purple Pearl (Transcript A) written by Amanda Walker. The Purple Pearl is a unique two-player work of interactive fiction. As such, there are two different transcripts for this session, one for Group A (this transcript) and one for Group B (the other transcript). You may want to read these transcript in two different windows, side by side. The same chat text appears in both transcripts.

The Purple Pearl was an entry in ParserComp 2023, in which it tied for first place. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting IFDB.


WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page.


ToyShop & Floyditorium
#ClubFloyd Discussion



Pinkunz asks, "DW Didn't you mention Amanda's game?"
Pinkunz asks, "Using two floyds?"
DavidW asks, "oh, yes, um, what was that? Purple Pearl?"
Pinkunz says, "Yes."
DavidW says, "I guess we could play that. We'd need two drivers and two transcripts."
Pinkunz says, "It actually tied for 1st in ParserComp yesterday."
Jacqueline says, "I wonder if that will work, give that the same file would be accessed by both bots..."
Pinkunz says, "Which is super unusual for a multiplayer game."
DavidW says, "No, two files"
Jacqueline says, "Oh. Okay."
DavidW says, "purplepearla and purplepearlb"
Pinkunz says, "Yeah, We should probably draw straws or something."
DavidW says, "And we have #clubfloyd to cross communicate with."
Pinkunz asks, "How many of us are here?"
Jacqueline says, "So... we have to do two transcripts"
DavidW says, "I assume I'll be one of the drivers."
DavidW says, "And I'm already transcribing."
DavidW says, "So I should go to the toyroom."
Jacqueline says, "Get out of here."
Perry says, "LEAVE"
Pinkunz says, "I'll join him."
DavidW gets bored and wanders off to the Toyshop. gadzoks says, "Had to leave for a sec."
Pinkunz disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. DavidW says, "Now we need to decide who is A and who is B."
Jacqueline asks (of DW), "So which one are you loading?"
Jacqueline says, "Timing."
Jacqueline says, "You can pick."
DavidW asks, "um. May I pick A, then?"
Perry says, "No you may not."
Pinkunz asks, "So, we'll have two gameplay transcripts, but one shared chat channel transcript, right?"
Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yes."
Jacqueline says, "We'll do B."
DavidW says, "okay, thanks"
Jacqueline says (to Pinkuz), "When we post, we'll have to post two transcripts, but the chat line in them will be the same."
Jacqueline says, "I don't have it in me to integrate them."
Jacqueline says, "Though technically it could be done."
Jacqueline says, "Just not with our script."
Jacqueline says, "Okay. I'm loading up B."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "load sleepmask purplepearla"
Floyd | %% Critical error.
Floyd | %% Message: image_draw: graphics not supported.
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |   
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]
Floyd | This game assumes that you have a partner playing Part B. You
Floyd | should be in direct communication with your partner during your play,
Floyd | either in person, over the phone, or by text or a messaging system. It
Floyd | is expected that you will tell each other what you have and what you
Floyd | need. You will need to work together to complete the game.
Floyd |
Floyd | When your partner wants to send you an object, they should give
Floyd | you a partner code. Every time your partner sends you a partner code,
Floyd | type CODE and then the 3-digit code. Every time your game gives you a
Floyd | partner code, give it to your partner.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is no way to lose or lock this game in an unwinnable
Floyd | position.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is a hint system, but it contains hints only for your
Floyd | partner. If you want a hint, your partner has your hints, so you'll
Floyd | need to ask them for help. To get a hint for your partner, type HINT
Floyd | at any time.
Floyd |
Floyd | Type HELP to come back to this information.
Floyd |
Floyd | Type PLAY for general directions for playing parser IF.
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
Jacqueline says, "I don't have it in me to integrate them."
Jacqueline says, "Though technically it could be done."
Jacqueline says, "Just not with our script."
Jacqueline says, "Okay. I'm loading up B."
Pinkunz says (to Jacq), "That���s fair."
DavidW says, "oh weird. There's a code system for transferring objects and if we want hints, the other player has the access!"
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | What is your name? >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "David"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | What is your name? >
Floyd | > DAVID
Floyd |
Floyd | What is your partner's name? >
Pinkunz says, "Yeah, the whole point is to get both sides ti collaborate."
Jacqueline says, "Oh, that's particularly neat about the hint thing."
DavidW says, "I'm calling myself David. It wants to know what name you're calling yourself."
Pinkunz asks, "I suggest the names follow the drivers?"
Jacqueline asks, "I thought we'd be Club and Floyd! But we can be Jacq. Who wants to be on Team Jacq?"
Jacqueline enters Jacq.
DavidW says, "Sorry, I'd typed in David before seeing the second prompt."
DavidW says, "thanks"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "Jacq"
Floyd | What is your partner's name? >
Floyd | > JACQ
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | The day started like any other recent day in the Kingdom... bad luck.
Floyd | The land has been under a curse since the blessing of the Kingdom, the
Floyd | Purple Pearl of Luck, was stolen. The neighboring kingdom is ruled by
Floyd | Bradd, brother to your King Myron, and the two have been warring over
Floyd | the Purple Pearl for decades, stealing it back and forth from each
Floyd | other. A year ago, Bradd stole the Pearl and your best spies and
Floyd | warriors have been unable to take it back, and nothing has gone right
Floyd | since. Milk comes curdled from the cows. Chickens lay rocks. Young
Floyd | people weep. The sun doesn't shine. And not one person has come home
Floyd | from the attempt to take back the pearl in the last year.
Floyd |
Floyd | Today, the King's herald has called a public meeting, and here you are
Floyd | as the trumpets sound to hear the King's announcement.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Hear ye, hear ye!" yells the herald. "By order of King Myron,
Floyd | recruits are sought for a new program to take back our Blessing!"
Floyd |
Floyd | The crowd roars its approval.
Floyd |
Floyd | The herald continues, "WHO VOLUNTEERS?" and your hand shoots up in an
Floyd | impulse born of patriotism and dreams of valor. Before you know it,
Floyd | you are being ushered into a small room in the courtyard of the
Floyd | palace, and before you can say or do anything, you feel the prick of a
Floyd | needle in your arm.
Floyd |
Floyd | The world whirls and falls away....
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue.
Jacqueline says, "Zero worries. I was kind of kidding."
Jacqueline says, "We just always seem to name ourselves Floyd or something."
Jacqueline says, "Also, damn. The chickens are laying rocks."
Jacqueline says, "That's not good. Sounds painful."
DavidW pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Player A-The Purple Pearl: A Two Player Adventure
Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Amanda W
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 230630 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.34 lib
Floyd | 6/12N)
Floyd |
Floyd | Stone Cell
Floyd | You wake on a cold floor. There's something on your face. You snatch
Floyd | it off and examine it with bleary eyes: a note. Woozily, you rise and
Floyd | survey your surroundings, wondering what the hell you were thinking to
Floyd | raise your hand. Too late now-- King Myron won't look favorably on a
Floyd | volunteer who changes their mind.
Floyd |
Floyd | You're in a cell made of stone.
Floyd |
Floyd | A painting with writing on it is on one wall next to a very small
Floyd | window.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the opposite wall is a brass panel with three switches beneath it
Floyd | and a black button next to it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The third wall has a claw machine against it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fourth wall is made of bricks, and has a pink square inlaid in it.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is an opening in the ceiling. A bucket hangs from the opening,
Floyd | out of reach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I'm in a Stone Cell."
Pinkunz says, "There���s a note"
Jacqueline says, "We are also in a stone cell. I think I read slower than you, in between my pauses to type snark."
DavidW says, "gimme a chance to write note notes. There's a lot here."
gadzoks says, "Speaking of notes, there's one on our face."
Pinkunz says, "It's a dense puzzler."
DavidW says, "same here"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x note"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X NOTE
Floyd |
Floyd | A note that reads:
Floyd |
Floyd | Welcome to the challenge! We WILL take back our Pearl with your help.
Floyd | We have sent many battle-hardened warriors to take it back over the
Floyd | last year, and none have returned. We have decided to send teams of
Floyd | two, tested in their ability to work together. You have a partner in
Floyd | another location. Your job is to figure out how to communicate with
Floyd | them to escape my dungeons. If only one of you escapes, your team is a
Floyd | failure. If you both escape, you will have the honor of retrieving the
Floyd | Pearl for the glory of the Kingdom! If you fail, here you will rot.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your partner's name is Jacq.
Floyd |
Pinkunz says, "Think integrated escape rooms."
Floyd | Your first task is to open the brass panel on the wall. To open it:
Floyd |
Floyd | Picture our Pearl so rare;
Floyd | Switch clues can be found there.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Perry says, "We Were Here vibes."
Jacqueline says, "There's a note here as well, and a bunch of stuff. Panels and switches and buttons and holes."
Jacqueline says, "I'm going to read our note."
Jacqueline asks, "Who is here with me?"
Perry says, "Mee"
DavidW says, "My first task is to open the panel. Our shared goal is we both need to escape."
Jacqueline says, "I've got both the Perries."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x picture"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PICTURE
Floyd |
Floyd | A painting on the wall of the Purple Pearl on a pedestal, with King
Floyd | Myron and his brother King Bradd, each with a hand on the pearl. A
Floyd | stylized cat prowls in each of the four corners of the painting. The
Floyd | text on the painting says:
Floyd |
Floyd | Down in the temple of cats
Floyd | In the middle of the castle
Floyd | Upon a pedestal: our pearl.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Pinkunz asks, "Can we snatch Gadzoks if they're willing? Even out the teams?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x panel"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PANEL
Floyd |
Floyd | A brass panel on the wall, with 3 brass switches underneath it in a
Floyd | row.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can FLIP or SWITCH the switches.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
gadzoks says, "Sure."
Pinkunz asks, "Or does it not matter?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x switch"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SWITCH
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, Switch 1, Switch 2 or Switch 3?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x switch 1"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SWITCH 1
Floyd |
Floyd | A switch that can be switched to the down, middle, or up position. It
Floyd | is currently in the down position.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can SWITCH or FLIP a switch.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "For a second I was like, WHOA WHOA WHOA it knows ther other team is named David what the hell this is spooky as -- oh wait, I told the game that."
Perry says, "Hahaha"
Jacqueline says, "We have Roger."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "flip 1"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FLIP 1
Floyd |
Floyd | You switch the switch to the middle position.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Pinkunz says, "lol"
gadzoks arrives, full of neither funk nor fun.
DavidW says (to Floyd), "flip 1"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FLIP 1
Floyd |
Floyd | You switch the switch to the up position.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your nose.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x 2"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X 2
Floyd |
Floyd | A switch that can be switched to the down, middle, or up position. It
Floyd | is currently in the down position.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can SWITCH or FLIP a switch.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your ear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "flip 2"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FLIP 2
Floyd |
Floyd | You switch the switch to the middle position.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your ear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "We have to open a brass panel as well."
gadzoks says, "GThought we were going to be 3/2 on either side."
Jacqueline | Picture our Pearl so rare; Switch clues can be found there.
DavidW says, "The clue on the picture suggests that I need to flip the switches to DOWN, MIDDLE, UP positions."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x 3"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X 3
Floyd |
Floyd | A switch that can be switched to the down, middle, or up position. It
Floyd | is currently in the down position.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can SWITCH or FLIP a switch.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your neck.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "flip 3"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FLIP 3
Floyd |
Floyd | You switch the switch to the middle position.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your ear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "flip 3"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FLIP 3
Floyd |
Floyd | You switch the switch to the up position.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your nose.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Pinkunz asks, "Smoosh fly?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fly"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X FLY
Floyd |
Floyd | A fat fly, droning around the room.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x switches"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SWITCHES
Floyd |
Floyd | Which do you mean, Switch 1, Switch 2 or Switch 3?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x switch 1"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X SWITCH 1
Floyd |
Floyd | A switch that can be switched to the down, middle, or up position. It
Floyd | is currently in the up position.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your nose.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "flip 1"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FLIP 1
Floyd |
Floyd | You switch the switch to the down position.
Floyd |
Floyd | The brass panel slides back into the wall, revealing a hole with a
Floyd | cylinder in it!
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your nose.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Pinkunz exclaims, "Very good!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cylinder"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CYLINDER
Floyd |
Floyd | A clear cylinder. You've seen these newfangled things before; it's a
Floyd | pneumatic tube system. You put something in the cylinder, then press
Floyd | the button to send it.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the cylinder is a card.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your nose.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take card"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE CARD
Floyd |
Floyd | You open the cylinder and remove the card.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your ear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
gadzoks asks (of Pinkunz), "Maybe it's a talking fly?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x card"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CARD
Floyd |
Floyd |  It reads:
Floyd |
Floyd | "Great job! When you find something you think your partner can use,
Floyd | send it to them in the cylinder.
Floyd |
Floyd | Here's a hint for what to do next: Spin it: pearls, people, cats."
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Pinkunz says, "Oh, the painting has all of those."
Jacqueline says, "We have a gray square in the middle of the floor with a birdcage on it, btw."
Pinkunz says, "Probably the amounts of each in that order."
DavidW says, "I've opened my panel. It contains one end of a pnuematic tube with a card in it."
DavidW says, "We don't have a birdcage."
Jacqueline asks, "Where did you get the clue for the lever pattern?"
Jacqueline says, "We also have a glass-fronted vending maching."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "I examined the picture."
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I EXAMINED THE PICTURE.
Floyd |
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to take inventory.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "An opening in our ceiling."
Pinkunz says (to DavidW), "Is there a dial? I don't recall the room description."
DavidW says, "I have a claw machine."
DavidW says, "There's a bucket hanging from my ceiling."
Jacqueline says, "A round hole with a black button and a small window on the same wall."
Jacqueline asks, "We do have a brazz panel with three switches. Should we try to do ours same as yours?"
DavidW says, "oops, I told Floyd 'I examined the picture.' instead of the channel."
gadzoks says, "There's no fly in their cell either, I think."
DavidW says, "Only if it has the same poem."
Jacqueline says, "I shared our poem."
Jacqueline says, "No fly, I don't think."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Stone Cell
Floyd | A stone cell.
Floyd |
Floyd | A painting with writing on it is on one wall next to a very small
Floyd | window.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the opposite wall is a hole with three switches beneath it and a
Floyd | black button next to it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The third wall has a claw machine against it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fourth wall is made of bricks, and has a pink square inlaid into
Floyd | the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is an opening in the ceiling. A bucket hangs from the opening,
Floyd | out of reach.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x painting"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PAINTING
Floyd |
Floyd | A painting on the wall of the Purple Pearl on a pedestal, with King
Floyd | Myron and his brother King Bradd, each with a hand on the pearl. A
Floyd | stylized cat prowls in each of the four corners of the painting. The
Floyd | text on the painting says:
Floyd |
Floyd | Down in the temple of cats
Floyd | In the middle of the castle
Floyd | Upon a pedestal: our pearl.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your ear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Perry says (to Jacqueline), "we should probably look around a bit."
DavidW says, "My painting said 'Down in the temple of cats / In the middle of the castle / Upon a pedestal: our pearl.'"
Pinkunz says, "2 men, 4 cats, 1 pearl."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x card"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CARD
Floyd |
Floyd |  It reads:
Floyd |
Floyd | "Great job! When you find something you think your partner can use,
Floyd | send it to them in the cylinder.
Floyd |
Floyd | Here's a hint for what to do next: Spin it: pearls, people, cats."
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your ear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Pinkunz says, "241"
DavidW asks, "I'm sorry, what?"
Pinkunz says, "Wait, wrong order."
gadzoks says, "Hint for what to do next: 'Spin it: pearls, people, cats'."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Stone Cell
Floyd | A stone cell.
Floyd |
Floyd | A painting with writing on it is on one wall next to a very small
Floyd | window.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the opposite wall is a hole with three switches beneath it and a
Floyd | black button next to it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The third wall has a claw machine against it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fourth wall is made of bricks, and has a pink square inlaid into
Floyd | the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is an opening in the ceiling. A bucket hangs from the opening,
Floyd | out of reach.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your neck.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Pinkunz says, "The clue: Spin it, Pearls, People, Cats."
Pinkunz says, "The painting has 1 pearl, 2 people, 4 cats."
Pinkunz asks, "That would be 124, right?"
Jacqueline says, "We alsohave a painting with writing on it. 'Upon the throne or down in the fray, our king, amidst us always"
DavidW asks, "It does?"
Pinkunz says, "Look at the painting again"
gadzoks says (to DavidW), "There's the pearl, the king and his brother, then a cat in each corner."
DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "That should mean UP, DOWN, MIDDLE for you."
Jacqueline says, "In the painting, the King has two cats on a leash. Purple pearls are painted at each of the four corners of the painting."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x painting"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PAINTING
Floyd |
Floyd | A painting on the wall of the Purple Pearl on a pedestal, with King
Floyd | Myron and his brother King Bradd, each with a hand on the pearl. A
Floyd | stylized cat prowls in each of the four corners of the painting. The
Floyd | text on the painting says:
Floyd |
Floyd | Down in the temple of cats
Floyd | In the middle of the castle
Floyd | Upon a pedestal: our pearl.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Pinkunz asks (of Jacq), "Do you have a dial over there?"
Jacqueline says, "We do"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x machine"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X MACHINE
Floyd |
Floyd | A claw machine with a solid base, glass top, and an empty tray in the
Floyd | base. Through the glass, you can see a number of white packages in the
Floyd | machine. There's a lever on the machine. If you pull the lever, the
Floyd | dangling claw will reach down, grab one of the packages, and deposit
Floyd | it in the tray. Theoretically.
Floyd |
Floyd | A light by the lever is glowing red.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Pinkunz says, "Try 124 or 241."
Pinkunz says, "I don't know who's painting goes to which dial."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dial"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DIAL
Floyd |
Floyd | A dial which can be spun to any combination of numbers.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can SPIN the dial to any 3 digit number.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your neck.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "spin dial to 124"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SPIN DIAL TO 124
Floyd |
Floyd | The pink square flips over in the wall. The other side has a
Floyd | cube-shaped cavity below six colored buttons in two rows: red, orange,
Floyd | and yellow on the top row, and lime, lavender, and puce on the bottom
Floyd | row. There's a gray button below the colored buttons that is labeled
Floyd | "RESET."
Floyd |
Floyd | The claw machine beeps loudly.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your neck.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Perry says, "I'd guess it goes to our partners'."
Pinkunz says, "I don't see a dial here, but I assume there's one hidden somewhere."
Perry says, "Er, partner's."
Jacqueline says, "Oh, we did the switches and they disappeared."
Pinkunz says, "Oh, wait, we do have a dial."
Jacqueline says, "A niche has been revealed."
Jacqueline says, "In the niche is a rock."
Pinkunz asks (of DW), "Was that dial in the room description?"
Jacqueline says, "Sorry, we do not have a dial."
DavidW says, "I have no idea where my dial is, but I spun it to 124, and the pink square opened up."
Pinkunz says, "Also, the claw machine beeped."
Jacqueline says, "I must have read that from what you said or something. Not sure."
Jacqueline says, "We have a hefty round rock and also a glass vending machine. I'm just saying."
DavidW says, "It revealed a cube-shaped cavity with six colored buttons. and a RESET button."
Pinkunz asks, "Does the claw machine have a button or reward slot?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x machine"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X MACHINE
Floyd |
Floyd | A claw machine with a solid base, glass top, and an empty tray in the
Floyd | base. Through the glass, you can see a number of white packages in the
Floyd | machine. There's a lever on the machine. If you pull the lever, the
Floyd | dangling claw will reach down, grab one of the packages, and deposit
Floyd | it in the tray. Theoretically.
Floyd |
Floyd | A light by the lever is glowing green.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | The claw machine beeps loudly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull lever"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PULL LEVER
Floyd |
Floyd | You pull the lever, and the claw in the machine drops down, grabs a
Floyd | white package, and drops it in the tray. The light by the lever turns
Floyd | red.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your neck.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
gadzoks says, "'A cube-shaped cavity below 6 colored buttons in 2 ROWS:"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take package"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE PACKAGE
Floyd |
Floyd | (the white package)
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your nose.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X IT
Floyd |
Floyd | A white package.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your neck.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN IT
Floyd |
Floyd | You open the package and find a silver coin inside, which you take.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your ear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Pinkunz exclaims, "We're rich!"
DavidW says, "I got a silver coin from my claw machine."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x coin"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X COIN
Floyd |
Floyd | A silver coin stamped with a likeness of King Myron's profile.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your ear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Pinkunz asks, "Do you guys have a coin slot somewhere over there?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Stone Cell
Floyd | A stone cell.
Floyd |
Floyd | A painting with writing on it is on one wall next to a very small
Floyd | window.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the opposite wall is a hole with three switches beneath it and a
Floyd | black button next to it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The third wall has a claw machine against it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fourth wall is made of bricks, and has a pink square inlaid into
Floyd | the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is an opening in the ceiling. A bucket hangs from the opening,
Floyd | out of reach.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your neck.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I've tried putting our rock in the round hole and pushing the button, which did nothing, and tried throwing the rock at the glass vending machine, but it bounced off."
Pinkunz says, "Because we have a coin and a tube thing to send it to you, hypothetically."
Jacqueline says, "We have a vending machine, so presumably a coin slot."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "What shape is your rock?"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WHAT SHAPE IS YOUR ROCK?
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "What shape is your rock?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tube"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X TUBE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cylinder"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CYLINDER
Floyd |
Floyd | A clear cylinder. You've seen these newfangled things before; it's a
Floyd | pneumatic tube system. You put something in the cylinder, then press
Floyd | the button to send it.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your ear.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put coin in it"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT COIN IN IT
Floyd |
Floyd | You open the cylinder, put the silver coin in it, and close it again.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "There are white packages in the vending machine, a plate with two rows of knowbs above a tray at the base of the machine, with a slot in the side."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push button"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH BUTTON
Floyd |
Floyd | (the black button)
Floyd | With a whoosh, the cylinder is sucked away into the hole.
Floyd |
Floyd | Partner code is 481.
Floyd |
Floyd | Every time you see a partner code like this one, give it to your
Floyd | partner. If they give you a code, enter CODE and then the number.
Floyd |
Floyd | A fly buzzes by your eye.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
gadzoks says, "'cube-shaped cavity below six colored buttons in two rows: red, orange,"
Jacqueline says, "Our rock is round."
gadzoks says, "Err."
DavidW says, "I've sent a coin to you. type: CODE 481"
Pinkunz exclaims, "Teamwork!"
Jacqueline says, "Crikey"
Perry says, "What happens if you do CODE 481 again..."
Pinkunz says, "This is cool."
Perry says, "Awwww"
Pinkunz says, "lol"
Pinkunz says, "Infinite coins hack."
DavidW says, "I don't want to risk it."
Pinkunz asks (of Perry), "What happened?"
Perry says, ""That partner code is no longer valid.""
Jacqueline says, "No, we did it and is said the code is no longer valid, yeah."
Pinkunz says, "Awwww"
Jacqueline says, "The game says it can't be made unwinnable, so."
Pinkunz says, "I guess that means you can't eat the coin."
Jacqueline says, "So, we put the coin in our vending machine and the light changed from red to green."
DavidW asks, "wait, if the game can't be made unwinnable, it's okay for me to kill this fly then?"
Jacqueline says, "Presumably."
Perry exclaims, "That's mean!"
Jacqueline says, "You monster."
DavidW says, "I will desist then."
Jacqueline says, "Nah, go for it."
Jacqueline says, "Don't let us shame you out of violence."
Pinkunz says, "The fly has been harassing us every single turn."
DavidW says, "Maybe I'll find a honeycake with poo spinkles for it instead."
Pinkunz says, "Nah, kill it."
Jacqueline consideres making a snowflake joke, but decides not to.
DavidW asks (of Pinkunz), "really?"
Pinkunz says, "Definitely."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kill fly"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > KILL FLY
Floyd |
Floyd | You smack the fly as it drones by, and it falls dead to the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fly"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X FLY
Floyd |
Floyd | A fat, dead fly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE IT
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Pinkunz says, "Huh, it let us do it."
gadzoks asks, "Eat it?"
DavidW says, "okay, we have a fat dead fly."
gadzoks says, "Not sure how long we've been in here."
Jacqueline says, "ew"
Pinkunz says, "Just need a fly fishing rod."
Jacqueline asks, "Do you want our rock?"
DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "Just wait until you have a spider and we need to send the fly to you."
Pinkunz asks, "What does the rock look like?"
gadzoks says, "For the record, I was against killing the fly."
Jacqueline says, "It is round and hefty."
DavidW says, "I want to know if you got anything from your machine yet."
Pinkunz exclaims, "Wait! We have a bucket!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bucket"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BUCKET
Floyd |
Floyd | A bucket hangs from the ceiling by a delicate thread, out of reach.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Pinkunz asks (of DW), "Throw rock in bucket?"
gadzoks asks, "Pull thread?"
gadzoks asks, "Or is that out of reach too?"
Jacqueline says, "We got a green light, but need to turn some of the knobs."
gadzoks says, "Assuming it is."
Jacqueline says, "I kind of want to toss the rock out the window, just to see if I can."
Pinkunz asks, "Rock adds weight, breaks thread?"
DavidW says, "Thread and bucket are out of reach, but yeah, a rock might be helpful, if thrown."
DavidW says, "Please send the rock to me."
Jacqueline says, "Game says it can't be made unwinnable..."
gadzoks asks (of Jacqueline), "Are the knobs colored?"
Perry exclaims, "It's our rock! You can't have it!"
Jacqueline says, "No, they're labled A - Z top row, 0 - 9 bottom row"
Pinkunz watches both parties do their damdest to break allegedly unbreakable game.
Perry says, "hahahaha"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat fly"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > EAT FLY
Floyd |
Floyd | You suspect that this is not a snack.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Roger says, "hmmm are there any fully-implemented Bingo games in IF"
DavidW | > eat fly |
DavidW | You suspect that this is not a snack.
Perry says, "What happens if we receive an item while we have an item unsent in the cylinder"
Jacqueline asks, "Wait, how do I get the code to send you the rock?"
DavidW says (to Roger), "I don't remember any."
Pinkunz says, "I mean, maybe not a snack for *us*."
gadzoks says (to Jacqueline), "I think you put it in the cylinder, then get the code."
DavidW says, "Put the rock into the cylinder, then push the button."
Pinkunz says, "I think you have to find a way to send us the rock in your cell."
Jacqueline says, "Oh."
gadzoks exclaims, "Clearly we have to send it back... THROUGH TIME!"
Perry says, "The cylinder's so needy."
DavidW says, "It should be explained on the card from your cylinder"
Jacqueline says, "CODE 276"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "code 276"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CODE 276
Floyd |
Floyd | With a WHOOSH and a thunk, the clear cylinder comes flying out of the
Floyd | hole and shatters on the ground. There was a rock inside it and the
Floyd | rock lies on the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Pinkunz exclaims, "Thanks!"
DavidW says, "Thanks!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take rock" Perry says, "Oh we ignored that card I think."
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE ROCK
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline exclaims, "WELCOME!"
Pinkunz says, "Oh..."
gadzoks exclaims, "Pull brick!"
Pinkunz says, "We broke the pneumatic cylinder thing."
Jacqueline asks, "What card?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push brick"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH BRICK
Floyd |
Floyd | (the brick)
Floyd | You reach out to push the brick and then stop, because there's writing
Floyd | on it:
Floyd |
Floyd | Silence
Floyd | Isn't
Floyd | Necessarily
Floyd | Good
Floyd |
Floyd | You take in the words and then push the brick. It slides into the
Floyd | wall, leaving a depression. It's probably poking through the wall on
Floyd | the other side now. Partner code 748
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Perry exclaims, "HA!"
gadzoks says, "Wait, no. Put it back."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "code 748"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CODE 748
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a valid code.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "We have a brick but you all gotta push it out."
gadzoks says, "Possible hint: SILENCE ISN'T NECESSARILY GOOD"
DavidW says, "CODE 748"
gadzoks says, "But imagine that as a poem."
Perry says, "Oh we didn't see a card."
DavidW says, "Jacq: CODE 748"
Jacqueline says, "We are in neighboring cells, I guess. CAN YOU HEAR US"
Pinkunz says (to DW), "First letters"
Pinkunz says, "S. I. N. G."
Perry says, "All in all"
Jacqueline says, "The brick is stuck in the wall."
DavidW says (to Pinkunz), "I saw that yes. I want Jacq to respond to the code."
Jacqueline says, "It's just another brick in the wall, maybe."
Perry says, "It's just another brick in the wall"
Pinkunz says (to DW), "Sorry."
Perry says, "wooo"
Perry goes to play /The Wall/.
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sing"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SING
Floyd |
Floyd | You belt out the kingdom's anthem, "The King's Pearl." You're really
Floyd | feeling it, and you end on a high note and twirl around and bow
Floyd | deeply.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear a croaking noise and look up, startled, to see a frog sitting
Floyd | in the middle of the floor, croaking appeciatively. Where did he come
Floyd | from? Your song must have brought him out of hiding.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "We used the code, and the brick popped out, but we can't take it."
gadzoks asks, "Does it have a poem on it?"
DavidW says, "Read your brick."
Jacqueline |Come
DavidW says, "We sang and got a frog."
Perry says, "CLAP"
Jacqueline |Laugh
gadzoks exclaims, "Our singing summoned a frog!"
Jacqueline |And
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x flog"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X FLOG
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline |Play
Jacqueline |BURMA SHAVE
Pinkunz says, "And we have a fly."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "frog"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > FROG
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x frog"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X FROG
Floyd |
Floyd | A green frog with big eyes. Oddly, it has a tiny basket strapped to
Floyd | its back.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "(just kidding about the Burma Shave bit.)"
Pinkunz asks, "Frog's dinner?"
Roger says, "I don't know why, I swallowed the fly"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x basket"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BASKET
Floyd |
Floyd | A tiny basket strapped to the frog.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "f x cube"
Jacqueline says, "um"
Perry says, "Wait, clap takes an object."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give fly to frog"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > GIVE FLY TO FROG
Floyd |
Floyd | You gingerly reach out and drop the fly in front of the frog. It
Floyd | flicks its long tongue out, grabs the fly, and gulps, then sits
Floyd | passively in front of you, head lowered.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "We have a small colorless cube"
Perry asks, "clap... them alien cheeks?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take basket"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE BASKET
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't need a tiny basket. Maybe you could put something in it,
Floyd | though.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I could use a cube, please."
Jacqueline gives Perry the side eye.
DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw rock into bucket"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > THROW ROCK INTO BUCKET
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't reach the bucket.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Perry exclaims, "It's a meme, okay?!"
Jacqueline asks, "I need the cylinder?"
Pinkunz asks (of DW), "I'm guessing the Frog is our delivery man?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put rock in bucket"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT ROCK IN BUCKET
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't reach the bucket.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "Can you send me an empty cylinder?"
Pinkunz asks, "Did we ever pick up the rock?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a rock
Floyd |   a card
Floyd |   a note
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "Dunno. Did you?"
Pinkunz says (to Jacq), "We don't have one."
Perry says, "Liars."
Pinkunz says, "Yes, but not right now."
Jacqueline asks, "Did you use the code I sent to get the rock?"
Perry says (to Jacqueline), "let's escape without them."
DavidW says, "Sorry, I'm missing what's happening with all the cross-chatter."
Jacqueline says, "You said thank you."
Pinkunz says, "Yeah, it's confusing with this many people."
DavidW says, "I have a rock, card, and note. There's also a frog with a basket on its back."
Perry says, "The rock should have come with a cylinder"
DavidW says, "I would like Jacq to send her cube to me, please."
Jacqueline says, "I can't send the cube without a cylider."
Perry says, "Ohhh that's a clever easter egg."
Pinkunz says, "The cylinder shattered on the ground."
gadzoks says, "The cylinder broke on entry. Send a stronger one next time."
DavidW says (to Jacqueline), "You had a cylinder."
Perry asks (of Jacqueline), "do you see it?"
Perry says, "We don't have a CYLINDER"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cylinder"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CYLINDER
Floyd |
Floyd | The shattered pieces of the clear cylinder. It's useless now.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Perry says, "Er, cylinder. Thanks autocomplete for making me yell."
DavidW says, "oh shit. I missed that."
Jacqueline says, "I do ot have a cylinder - I used it to send you the rock."
Jacqueline says, "*not"
Pinkunz says, "It is shards on the ground right now."
Jacqueline says, "Well, that sucks."
Pinkunz says, "Just confirmes."
Perry says, "So we can't send you stuff."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "okay, well drat."
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OKAY, WELL DRAT.
Floyd |
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "okay, well drat"
gadzoks says, "Just like our hopes and dreams."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lever"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X LEVER
Floyd |
Floyd | A lever on the side of the claw machine. A light under the lever is
Floyd | glowing red.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull brick"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PULL BRICK
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't pull the brick back to you. It's stuck. You do remember what
Floyd | it said, though:
Floyd |
Floyd | Silence
Floyd | Isn't
Floyd | Necessarily
Floyd | Good.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Perry says, "I think our score goes up for each Pink Floyd reference we make."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sing"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SING
Floyd |
Floyd | You sing a little tune, but nothing happens.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
gadzoks says, "When we used the dial there was a list of colored knobs."
Pinkunz asks (of DW), "would you do a generic look again?"
gadzoks asks, "Have we seen anything like that in here?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push brick"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH BRICK
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't push the brick any further.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Perry and Roger, don't tell them that I'm crying now."
Perry says, "Good crying or bad crying."
gadzoks says, "6 colored buttons in 2 rows."
Perry says, "Yeah we had something like that gadzoks"
Jacqueline says, "Well, crying about you all breaking that very convenient cylinder we were sharing."
gadzoks says, "Jacqueline said there were numbered knobs, but no colors."
DavidW says, "The colored buttons are in where the pink square was."
Pinkunz says, "We'd give you a hug, but we're locked in the adjacent room."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Stone Cell
Floyd | A stone cell.
Floyd |
Floyd | A painting with writing on it is on one wall next to a very small
Floyd | window.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the opposite wall is a hole with three switches beneath it and a
Floyd | black button next to it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The third wall has a claw machine against it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fourth wall is made of bricks, and has a pink square inlaid into
Floyd | the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is an opening in the ceiling. A bucket hangs from the opening,
Floyd | out of reach.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a frog and shattered bits here.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
gadzoks says, "Maybe they correspond to the same thing."
Perry says, "Oh, yeah I misremembered. But it's twenty-six knobs."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in pink"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK IN PINK
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pink"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PINK
Floyd |
Floyd | In the pink square is a cube-shaped cavity below six colored buttons
Floyd | in two rows: red, orange, and yellow on the top row, and lime,
Floyd | lavender, and puce on the bottom row. There's a gray button below the
Floyd | colored buttons that is labeled "RESET."
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Perry says, "Er, thirty-six knobs. Each letter and digit."
gadzoks says, "Top row: red, orange, and yellow.."
gadzoks says, "Bottom row: lime, lavender, and puce"
Perry says, "I guess R, O, Y"
Perry says, "Oops never mind. Two l's."
DavidW says, "I assume we're meant to push our buttons in a color order, but it's not ROYGBIV this time."
Perry asks (of Jacqueline), "mind if I twiddle buttons?"
DavidW says, "R O Y Li Lv Pc."
Jacqueline says, "Yeah, we have two rows. Top row is A-Z, second row 0-9"
Jacqueline says (to Perry), "Sure"
Pinkunz says (to DW), "I think we have to insert the cube before we can push buttons."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x window"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | A very small window. It's not even big enough to put your head
Floyd | through. It provides fresh air, sunlight, and a view of the castle's
Floyd | turrets. You're quite high up, it seems.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Perry says, "Huh. Turning 'R' indicated we did something right, but turning 'O' made the machine mad at us."
DavidW asks, "Maybe spell out 'red'?"
Perry says, "No. But Apparently 'D' is also a valid starting letter."
DavidW says, "hm."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Stone Cell
Floyd | A stone cell.
Floyd |
Floyd | A painting with writing on it is on one wall next to a very small
Floyd | window.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the opposite wall is a hole with three switches beneath it and a
Floyd | black button next to it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The third wall has a claw machine against it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fourth wall is made of bricks, and has a pink square inlaid into
Floyd | the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is an opening in the ceiling. A bucket hangs from the opening,
Floyd | out of reach.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a frog and shattered bits here.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bricks"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BRICKS
Floyd |
Floyd | A wall made of bricks. A pink square is set into it.
Floyd |
Floyd | There's a depression in the wall where you pushed a brick.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x depression"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DEPRESSION
Floyd |
Floyd | A depression in the wall where you pushed the brick in. You remember
Floyd | what it said:
Floyd |
Floyd | Silence
Floyd | Isn't
Floyd | Necessarily
Floyd | Good.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x frog"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X FROG
Floyd |
Floyd | A green frog with big eyes. Oddly, it has a tiny basket strapped to
Floyd | its back. It's sitting passively in front of you with its head
Floyd | lowered.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in basket"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK IN BASKET
Floyd |
Floyd | The tiny basket is empty.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Pinkunz asks (of DW), "Could this be a guess-the-verb problem?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kiss frog"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > KISS FROG
Floyd |
Floyd | The frog might not like that.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Pinkunz says, "You tried throw rock in bucket and put rock in bucket."
DavidW says, "I think I'm meant to put something in the basket, but not the rock."
Pinkunz asks, "What if you just hit the bucket?"
Perry says, "Our birdcage has a cute pigeon in it with the cage labeled 'HOMER'."
Jacqueline says, "Oh huh. There's a pigeon in our damn birdcage."
Pinkunz asks, "Throw rock AT bucket?"
Jacqueline says, "Only just learned that, sorry."
DavidW says, "Although... the rock isn't helping us much."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw rock at bucket"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > THROW ROCK AT BUCKET
Floyd |
Floyd | The rock hits the bucket with a satisying CLANG, breaking the delicate
Floyd | thread that holds it, and the bucket falls to the floor. The rock also
Floyd | falls to the floor and breaks into dust.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Perry asks, "If we give the rock to the pigeon does it become a rock pigeon?"
Jacqueline says, "We have a label on the birdcage that says HOMER"
DavidW says, "oh, the rock did help!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bucket"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BUCKET
Floyd |
Floyd | A bucket.
Floyd |
Floyd | In the bucket is a hex key.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "What happened?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take hex key"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE HEX KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
gadzoks says, "We have a key and you don't! So there."
Perry says, "Cheaters."
gadzoks says, "Bye, losers."
Pinkunz says, "Crappy rock broke already. Team Jacq sending us substandard rocks."
Jacqueline says, "And substandard cylinders, it would seem."
Perry exclaims, "Well we aren't gonna give you our good rock!"
DavidW says, "I threw the rock and the bucket and the bucket fell. The rock is shattered. A hex key was inside the bucket."
Jacqueline says, "You're right. It's all our fault."
gadzoks says, "(The key does open the cell, I hope...)"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x key"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X KEY
Floyd |
Floyd | A metal hex key.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Roger&Perry), "I'm glad we made them leave."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
gadzoks says, "It's made of metal."
DavidW says, "There's no door"
gadzoks says, "Oh. I take it all back."
Perry says, "We have an ear cavity whispering 'Before, before, before'."
Pinkunz asks, "If the frog is a delivery frog, will the key fit in his basket?"
Perry says, "Jacqueline's brbing."
DavidW says (to Pinkunz), "I think so, yes."
Pinkunz says, "Because I can't think what else the frog could be used for."
gadzoks asks, "Was also thinking about that, but where would it go?"
DavidW says, "I was going to ask if Jacq needs a hex key before sending it."
gadzoks says, "Maybe it's a REALLY small frog."
Pinkunz asks, "Previously unseen hole in the wall?"
Perry says, "I don't thiiiink so."
Perry says, "The hole in the wall is what the cylinders land in I think."
gadzoks asks, "B4?"
DavidW says (to Perry), "Try spelling out BEFORE with your knobs."
Pinkunz says (to DW), "That seems prudent."
Perry says (to DW), "Nope."
Perry says, "But 'B' is a valid starting letter."
Pinkunz says, "Although the game is supposedly unstuckable."
gadzoks asks, "Second button in top row, fourth in bottom row?"
gadzoks says, "Though that's only one button, so probably not."
DavidW says, "Or BBBB (B four times)"
Perry says, "Top row is the letters, so 'B4'."
DavidW asks, "B4B4B4 ?"
Perry says, "OH"
Perry says, "Hang on"
Perry says, "Gonna try to just look aroudn until Jacq gets back"
Pinkunz says, "Take your time."
Jacqueline says, "Back but readig the backscroll."
Perry says, "But I was overthinking it. It's a vending machine, it's all letter-number combinations."
Pinkunz asks (of DW), "Do you mind if I x around?"
gadzoks asks, "Anything in here we haven't examined in more detail?"
DavidW says (to Pinkunz), "go ahead"
Perry says, "So B4 is probably correct."
gadzoks exclaims, "Send it to us!"
Perry says, "Also the vending machine has packages in it."
Pinkunz says, "f x hole" Perry exclaims, "Yay!"
DavidW says, "I might've missed things, yes."
Pinkunz says (to Floyd), "x hole"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X HOLE
Floyd |
Floyd | A small round hole in the wall with a black button next to it.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "We have an egg."
Pinkunz says (to Floyd), "x ceiling"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CEILING
Floyd |
Floyd | An opening in the ceiling. It's big enough for a person, but is too
Floyd | high up to reach.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Perry says, "Okay, we got an oval package. The vending machine's light turned from green to red. The package had an egg."
Jacqueline says, "I solved the vending machine."
Pinkunz says (to Floyd), "look"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK
Floyd |
Floyd | Stone Cell
Floyd | A stone cell.
Floyd |
Floyd | A painting with writing on it is on one wall next to a very small
Floyd | window.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the opposite wall is a brass panel with three switches beneath it
Floyd | and a black button next to it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The third wall has a claw machine against it.
Floyd |
Floyd | The fourth wall is made of bricks, and has a pink square inlaid into
Floyd | the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | There is an opening in the ceiling.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a bucket, a frog and shattered bits here.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Perry says, "Also our plaque changed to be a drawing of a mouth, with puckered kissy lips."
DavidW asks, "huh. Give your egg to the pigeon, I suppose?"
Jacqueline says, "The purple plaque has changed. It is now a drawing of a mouth, lips puckered for a kiss."
Perry says, "The pigeon is mean."
Jacqueline says, "The pigeon has viciously attacked us."
Jacqueline says, "Thanks, David."
Perry says, "It's because you weren't nice like me."
gadzoks asks, "Kiss pigeon?"
Perry says, "Ow."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x painting"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PAINTING
Floyd |
Floyd | A painting on the wall of the Purple Pearl on a pedestal, with King
Floyd | Myron and his brother King Bradd, each with a hand on the pearl. A
Floyd | stylized cat prowls in each of the four corners of the painting. The
Floyd | text on the painting says:
Floyd |
Floyd | Down in the temple of cats
Floyd | In the middle of the castle
Floyd | Upon a pedestal: our pearl.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "move it"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > MOVE IT
Floyd |
Floyd | It is fixed in place.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Pinkunz asks, "Do you have need of a hex key, Jacq?"
Perry says, "Oh I did a thing"
Perry says, "Kissing random stuff was the answer."
Jacqueline says, "So, Perry is over here kissing things and it worked."
DavidW says, "Kissing Bandit."
Pinkunz says, "Huh."
DavidW asks, "What did your lips unlock?"
Pinkunz says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a hex key
Floyd |   a card
Floyd |   a note
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "We, um, have a crack. With black gunk in it. We need to clean our crack."
Jacqueline says, "Yes, I know."
Perry says, "It raised our gray square to become a metal box with the birdcage on top of it."
Pinkunz asks, "Huh... Could you clean your crack with a key?"
Jacqueline | CF | > KISS PIGEON
Jacqueline | CF |
Jacqueline | CF | Ew. You think not.
Perry says, "I usually use toilet paper."
Jacqueline | @end paste
Jacqueline | ;er
Jacqueline says, "ha"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bucket"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE BUCKET
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in ti"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK IN TI
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in bucket"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK IN BUCKET
Floyd |
Floyd | The bucket is empty.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
gadzoks says, "Put bucket on head."
Jacqueline says, "Anyway, he kissed the lips on the plaque itself."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bucket"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BUCKET
Floyd |
Floyd | A bucket.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Pinkunz says (to Perry), "You use what you got."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kiss painting"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > KISS PAINTING
Floyd |
Floyd | The painting might not like that.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Perry), "Stay away from me."
Perry says, "Oh, we need a key."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear bucket"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > WEAR BUCKET
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't wear that!
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "We do need a hex key"
Pinkunz says, "Okay."
Jacqueline says, "We have a safe."
Jacqueline says, "The box was a safe."
Pinkunz asks (of DW), "Frog basket?"
Perry asks (of Jacqueline), "What, you're weirded out that I use toilet paper?"
Jacqueline says, "Thanks, semi-reliable narrator."
DavidW says, "okay, I'll put the key in the frog's basket and hope it hops to you."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put key in basket"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT KEY IN BASKET
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the hex key in the tiny basket and gesture toward the hole in
Floyd | the wall. The frog leaps into the hole and is gone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Partner code 106
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "CODE 106"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CODE 106
Floyd |
Floyd | That code is for your partner.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "gosh"
gadzoks says, "CODE 106"
DavidW says, "CODE 106"
Jacqueline says, "I want to see this frog, though, so yeah."
Perry says, "AAHHHHH"
Jacqueline says, "Howdy, froggie."
Pinkunz asks, "Pigeon eats Frog?"
Jacqueline says, "NOOOOOOOOOOO"
Perry says, "FROGGGYYYYY"
Perry says, "WHHHYYYYY"
Jacqueline says, "Frog jumped out the damn window."
Jacqueline says, "We are up SO. HIGH."
DavidW asks, "Did you get the key?"
Pinkunz exclaims, "What!?!"
Roger says, "relax he just went a-courtin"
Perry says (to Pinkunz), "Bet you thought you were right for a second."
Jacqueline says, "Yes, we have the key."
gadzoks says, "There's probably a windowsill just below."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x window"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X WINDOW
Floyd |
Floyd | A very small window. It's not even big enough to put your head
Floyd | through. It provides fresh air, sunlight, and a view of the castle's
Floyd | turrets. You're quite high up, it seems.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Perry says, "Your key broke the box."
gadzoks exclaims, "Hah!"
Jacqueline says, "We unlocked the safe, the key is destroyed."
DavidW says, "Our painting never changed by the way."
Perry says, "Oh. I thought the box broke into pieces, not the box."
Jacqueline says, "We have seeds - gona feed the pigeon."
Perry says, "t not the key, I mean."
Perry says, "We have a painting that's next to a changing plaque. The painting hasn't changed I don't think."
DavidW says, "I'm tempted to push random coloured buttons for lack of anything to do here."
Pinkunz says, "What is with these flimsy objects. Text Adventures not making game objects like they used to! ;-P"
DavidW says, "We can't wear our bucket."
Perry says, "We have a delivery pigeon for you now."
Jacqueline says, "We have fed the pigeon. It is nice now. It has a bag around its neck. I guess we can send you something."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x plaque"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X PLAQUE
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Perry says, "I guess you can get your darn cube n ow."
DavidW says, "oh. I don't have a plaque in this cell."
Jacqueline asks, "Want the egg or the cube?"
Perry says, "Now, even."
Pinkunz exclaims, "The cube!"
DavidW says, "The cube, please."
Perry asks, "I wonder what happens if we give you the wrong thing. Will the pigeon not run away then?"
Jacqueline says, "CODE 346"
Pinkunz exclaims, "Thank you!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "code 346"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CODE 346
Floyd |
Floyd | A pigeon flies through the window and lands on the edge of the window.
Floyd | It drops a small cube, shakes its tail, and flies back out of the
Floyd | window.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "thanks!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cube"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE CUBE
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
gadzoks exclaims, "About time!"
Perry says, "The pigeon left us with a coin and a feather."
DavidW says, "The pigeon flew out our window."
Jacqueline says, "See if we send you anything else ever again, gadzoks."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cube"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X CUBE
Floyd |
Floyd | A small colorless cube.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Perry), "Kinky"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put cube in cavity"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUT CUBE IN CAVITY
Floyd |
Floyd | You put the small cube in the cavity, and it fits perfectly. The cube
Floyd | begins to strobe with color: lime, red, puce, lavender, yellow.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Perry says, "Wow."
Jacqueline says, "I'm not judging."
Pinkunz says, "Huh."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push lime"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH LIME
Floyd |
Floyd | An encouraging beep comes from the buttons.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push red"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH RED
Floyd |
Floyd | An encouraging beep comes from the buttons.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push puce"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH PUCE
Floyd |
Floyd | An encouraging beep comes from the buttons.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Pinkunz asks, "In the stobe color pattern?"
gadzoks says, "; Yeah."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push lavender"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH LAVENDER
Floyd |
Floyd | An encouraging beep comes from the buttons.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push yellow"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PUSH YELLOW
Floyd |
Floyd | The pink square flips sideways and is now a smooth pink square in the
Floyd | wall. The colored buttons are gone.
Floyd |
Floyd | The claw machine beeps loudly.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Oh, Homer's feather has a sharp tip."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x machine"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X MACHINE
Floyd |
Floyd | A claw machine with a solid base, glass top, and an empty tray in the
Floyd | base. Through the glass, you can see a number of white packages in the
Floyd | machine. There's a lever on the machine. If you pull the lever, the
Floyd | dangling claw will reach down, grab one of the packages, and deposit
Floyd | it in the tray. Theoretically.
Floyd |
Floyd | A light by the lever is glowing green.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | The claw machine beeps loudly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull lever"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > PULL LEVER
Floyd |
Floyd | You pull the lever, and the claw in the machine drops down, grabs a
Floyd | white package, and drops it in the tray. The light by the lever turns
Floyd | red.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Perry says, "Jacqueline, look away."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take package"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE PACKAGE
Floyd |
Floyd | (the white package)
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Pinkunz says, "We put our cube it the cavity and then pushed its buttons."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X IT
Floyd |
Floyd | A white package.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Oh cool."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open package"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN PACKAGE
Floyd |
Floyd | (the white package)
Floyd | You open the white package and find a potion inside.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
gadzoks exclaims, "We got drugs!"
Perry says, "We broke our egg and got a scroll."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x potion"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X POTION
Floyd |
Floyd | A green potion in a small flask.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "You didn't give me a chance to look away. I saw what you did,"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "read it"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > READ IT
Floyd |
Floyd | A green potion in a small flask.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
gadzoks asks, "Drink it?"
Jacqueline says, "Spin it: cats, people, pearls"
Pinkunz says, "We were rewarded with a special green potion from the claw machine."
Perry asks, "C++?"
DavidW says, "We have a green potion in a small flask. No writing."
Roger says, "some cats do enjoy that"
Pinkunz says (to Jacq), "Your painting"
Jacqueline says, "...Yeah."
Pinkunz says, "How many of each, in that order."
gadzoks exclaims, "Let's employ SCIENCE and drink it!"
Jacqueline asks, "But how to say it?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell potion"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SMELL POTION
Floyd |
Floyd | You smell nothing unexpected.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
gadzoks says, "I volunteer."
Perry says, "Two, one, four."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drink potion"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > DRINK POTION
Floyd |
Floyd | You square your shoulders and drink the potion. You feel a popping
Floyd | sensation in your ears, and suddenly your arms grow very long.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
gadzoks asks, "Reach ceiling?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x arms"
Floyd ]  Stone Cell
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X ARMS
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Roger says, "the traditional way to spin a cat is to strap a piece of buttered toast to its back"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd ]  Tiny Room
Floyd | >
Floyd | > U
Floyd |
Floyd | You grab the edges of the opening with your long arms and haul
Floyd | yourself up into the room above.
Floyd |
Floyd | Tiny Room
Floyd | A very small, cramped room with a narrow door to the north and an
Floyd | opening in the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your arms suddenly shrink back to their normal size. You won't be able
Floyd | to get back down.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
gadzoks says, "Not sure there was anything in there."
Jacqueline says (to Roger), "I have no toast."
gadzoks exclaims, "We escaped!"
Perry says, "OI"
Pinkunz exclaims, "Hah! We escaped!"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door"
Floyd ]  Tiny Room
Floyd | >
Floyd | > OPEN DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | It seems to be locked.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "oh! So we also must escape now."
gadzoks exclaims, "First!"
Perry says, "You're gonna lose now"
gadzoks asks, "Jelly?"
Perry says, "Well you get executed if we fail to escape"
Perry says, "So no"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door"
Floyd ]  Tiny Room
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | A narrow door to the north with no knob.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
gadzoks says, "The door probably needs the key that THEY broke."
Pinkunz says, "Still first."
gadzoks asks, "Anything else in here?"
gadzoks asks, "Break door?"
DavidW says, "There's just the locked door to the north."
Perry says (to Jacqueline), "I think the spinning was for them,"
Roger says, "maybe 'turn'"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "break door"
Floyd ]  Tiny Room
Floyd | >
Floyd | > BREAK DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Perry), "oh"
gadzoks asks, "Look under door?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x brick"
Floyd ]  Tiny Room
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X BRICK
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Roger says, "or does it mean anagrams or something"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under door"
Floyd ]  Tiny Room
Floyd | >
Floyd | > LOOK UNDER DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
gadzoks asks, "Do we still have any potion left?"
DavidW says, "That sunlight message is annoying"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd ]  Tiny Room
Floyd | >
Floyd | > I
Floyd |
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a bucket
Floyd |   a card
Floyd |   a note
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Perry says, "DavidW is a vampire confirmed."
Pinkunz says, "I think we only got stuck in a different room."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Tiny Room
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Tiny Room
Floyd | A very small, cramped room with a narrow door to the north and an
Floyd | opening in the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "You all can't just gloat. You wouldn't have escaped without us."
gadzoks says, "More stuck."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x opening"
Floyd ]  Tiny Room
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X OPENING
Floyd |
Floyd | An opening in the floor, looking down into the stone cell.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd ]  Tiny Room
Floyd | >
Floyd | > D
Floyd |
Floyd | It's a long way down. You'd injure yourself.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "sing"
Floyd ]  Tiny Room
Floyd | >
Floyd | > SING
Floyd |
Floyd | You sing a little tune, but nothing happens.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "Oh, should we write on something?"
Pinkunz says, "Still first. ;-)"
Pinkunz says, "/s"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "knock on door"
Floyd ]  Tiny Room
Floyd | >
Floyd | > KNOCK ON DOOR
Floyd |
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "Should we write ELATE somewhere?"
Perry says, "Hmm"
DavidW says, "EL8"
Perry says, "Ahhh"
Pinkunz says, "Ha, David's right."
Perry says, "Nope"
Perry says, "E18 maybe"
Jacqueline says, "L8"
Perry exclaims, "L8!"
DavidW asks, "E8 or L8?"
Perry says, "L8"
Pinkunz says, "Or on the right track anyway."
Perry says, "We have a better potion than you"
Perry says, "We no longer have a potion"
Jacqueline says, "We escaped sorta"
Perry says, "Ah"
Pinkunz asks, "So we both sorta esacped?"
Perry asks, "What was y'all's spin hint?"
DavidW says, "I'm in a Tiny Room with a locked door. We used elongated arms to go up."
Pinkunz says, "124"
Perry exclaims (at Jacqueline), "We floated up!!"
Jacqueline says, "We are not tellig you our spin hint."
Jacqueline says, "Not since you all were so mean."
Perry says, "Oh. Misread who said that."
DavidW says, "The spin clue was for us."
Pinkunz says, "Executions all around."
Jacqueline says, "Oh, wait."
Jacqueline says, "hahahaha"
Perry asks, "Didn't you give us a spin hint a while ago?"
DavidW says, "It opened the pink square."
Jacqueline says, "Yes."
Pinkunz asks, "Is there a dial up here?"
Jacqueline says, "Weirdly, we have our little painting here again, same thing, but a drawing of it. Cruder."
DavidW says, "well, at the time, we didn't know who needed to spin."
Roger says, "we are elated in the most literal way possible, to my great approval"
Jacqueline says, "We have a dial, yeah."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dial"
Floyd ]  Tiny Room
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X DIAL
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Perry says, "Ah, Pinkunz gave us pearls, people, cats"
DavidW says, "No dial here."
Pinkunz says, "Yeah, definitely no dial here."
Jacqueline says, "Go for the dials."
gadzoks exclaims, "I sent it earlier, but you ignored it!"
DavidW says, "The dial was downstairs. We did that already. Ages ago."
Jacqueline says, "We have a dial, David."
Jacqueline asks, "Can I, Perry?"
Roger says, "we have dial but no tone"
Perry says, "Yeah"
Pinkunz asks, "How many peeps, cats, and pearls in your crude painting?"
Jacqueline says, "oh"
Perry says (to Jacqueline), "Try to 421"
Perry says, "Hm"
Roger says, "that other one, 346"
Jacqueline says, "oh"
Jacqueline says, "No, it's this, I think."
gadzoks asks, "1 king, 2 cats, 4 pearls, wasn't it?"
Jacqueline says, "Or not."
Pinkunz says (to Gadzoks), "That was ours."
DavidW says, "We had 1 pearl, 2 kings, 4 cats."
Perry asks (of Jacqueline), "346?"
Perry says, "Uhhhh"
gadzoks says, "We had 2 people, 1 pearl, 4 cats."
DavidW says, "l"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Tiny Room
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Tiny Room
Floyd | A very small, cramped room with a narrow door to the north and an
Floyd | opening in the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd ]  Tiny Room
Floyd | >
Floyd | > X ME
Floyd |
Floyd | You are David, looking a little more haggard than usual since
Floyd | foolishly volunteering for this mission, being drugged, and waking up
Floyd | in a stone cell.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I feel like ours should be 4 pearls, 1 person, 2 cats."
Pinkunz says (to DW), "I think we���re at their mercy at the moment."
gadzoks asks, "Can I check stuff while we wait?"
Jacqueline asks, "Sure?"
DavidW says, "sure"
gadzoks says, "Don't have any ideas though."
gadzoks says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Tiny Room
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Tiny Room
Floyd | A very small, cramped room with a narrow door to the north and an
Floyd | opening in the floor.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "You all said pearls, people, cats?"
gadzoks says, "Correct."
DavidW says, "There's not much to look at. Me, door, opening, note, card, bucket."
Pinkunz says, "We can't double check because we're no longer in the same room."
Perry says, "Finally got it haha"
gadzoks exclaims, "Not much? That's a WHOEL 6 things!"
Perry says, "CODE 067"
Jacqueline says, "CODE 067"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "code 067"
Floyd ]  Tiny Room
Floyd | >
Floyd | > CODE 067
Floyd |
Floyd | The narrow door CLUNKS and opens.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Perry says, "We were just overthinking what thing to use"
DavidW says, "thanks!"
Jacqueline asks, "It was our spin, that I guess you all also used?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd ]  Hall
Floyd | >
Floyd | > N
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | The eastern end of a stone hall. The narrow door you came through is
Floyd | south, and a solid wood door is next to it. There's a bar across the
Floyd | solid wood door. A sign on the wall says "Exit" with an arrow pointing
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Pinkunz says, "We're free"
Jacqueline says, "Great. Free us back."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bar"
Floyd ]  Hall
Floyd | >
Floyd | > TAKE BAR
Floyd |
Floyd | You lift the bar from the brackets and toss it aside.
Floyd |
Floyd | Partner code 725.
Floyd |
Floyd | The door opens, and a person comes through it into the stone hall and
Floyd | blinks at you. Your partner! You smile and say, "Jacq?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Jacq nods and says "And you're David. Great to finally meet you!" and
Floyd | you say, "Yep. Ready to go get our pearl back?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Jacq says, "Oh, yeah, I'm ready. Let's do it." And you link arms with
Floyd | Jacq and walk west down the stone hall, ready for the next adventure.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | **** The End ***
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to read the author's note? >
Pinkunz asks, "Hypothetically, could we just leave?"
Perry says, "Yes"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "code 725"
Floyd ]  Hall
Floyd | Would you like to read the author's note? >
Floyd | > CODE 725
Floyd |
Floyd | Please answer yes or no.>
DavidW says, "code 725"
Perry says, "But we were told you shouldn't do that. We're supposed to help each other"
Pinkunz says, "I was just curious if the game allowed it, tbh."
Perry says, "WHOA"
Jacqueline says, "We free"
Perry says, "WE SHOT YOU"
Jacqueline says (to Perry), "ha"
DavidW says, "no you didn't"
Pinkunz says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Hall
Floyd | Please answer yes or no.>
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Please answer yes or no.>
Pinkunz says (to Floyd), "y"
Floyd ]  Hall
Floyd | Please answer yes or no.>
Floyd | > Y
Floyd |
Floyd | Since I enjoy playing IF concurrently with my bestie, I've always
Floyd | wished there was more parser IF that could be played by two people.
Floyd | Milo van Mesdag's two-player game, The Last Night of
Floyd | Alexisgrad put the idea of a two-player parser game on the front
Floyd | burner of my mind. Rusty Lake's non-IF two-player game The Past
Floyd | Within gave me a lot of ideas about how to make such a game
Floyd | without needing the two games to be actually linked to each other. I'd
Floyd | appreciate feedback from players on how this model could be improved--
Floyd | email me at beachwalkera@gmail.com with any comments, transcripts, or
Floyd | suggestions.
Floyd |
Floyd | Thanks to my fabulous beta testers: BJ Best, Henry Best (the Bests
Floyd | really lived up to their surname as they did last minute testing!),
Floyd | Jade, Zed Lopez, Travis Moy, Eva Radke, and Edo Rajh.
Floyd |
Floyd | Thanks to Milo van Mesdag and Rusty Lake for inspiring me.
Floyd |
Floyd | And thanks most of all to my sweet love, Tom, for everything.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |     *** The End ***
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT or UNDO the last
Floyd | command?
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "No. No we did not."
gadzoks asks, "Maybe we can undo after saying yes?"
Pinkunz says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd ]  Hall
Floyd |
Floyd | > UNDO
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | [Previous turn undone.]
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Pinkunz says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd ]  Hall
Floyd | >
Floyd | > L
Floyd |
Floyd | Hall
Floyd | The eastern end of a stone hall. The narrow door you came through is
Floyd | south, and a solid wood door is next to it. There's a bar across the
Floyd | solid wood door. A sign on the wall says "Exit" with an arrow pointing
Floyd | west.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "I guess we'll read the author's note."
Pinkunz says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd ]  Hall
Floyd | >
Floyd | > W
Floyd |
Floyd | You can't just leave alone! You need to find your partner before
Floyd | leaving, or you fail the test.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A ray of sunlight comes through the window and highlights a single
Floyd | brick in the brick wall that was in shadow before. It's poking out of
Floyd | the wall slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Pinkunz says, "Okay, just curious."
Perry says (to Jacqueline), "Gonna try something."
Pinkunz says, "The game doesn't let us abandon you."
Pinkunz says, "Just undid and tried."
DavidW says, "That was fun, but I feel mildly cheated since at no point in the game did we see any actual pearl."
Jacqueline says, "That was a lovely bit of fun."
gadzoks exclaims, "I totally helped!"
Pinkunz says, "I feel this would have been an excellent IntroComp game."
Perry says, "Okay guess you can't sequence break by using a code that you shouldn't know."
Jacqueline says, "Well, that or I wonder if the names we enter align the codes."
Perry says, "That was my other guess, yeah"
Pinkunz says, "Since it feels like the adventure just began."
Perry says, "Which would be quite clever"
gadzoks says, "SInce playing Day of the Tentacle back in the day I've always wanted to make a multiplayer IF game."
Jacqueline says, "Yeah"
DavidW says, "I think I'd make the codes at least four digits or you could just run through them all."
Jacqueline says, "This was very fun and omg we finished within two hours for once."
Jacqueline throws confetti.
Perry says, "IMO it was way too easy for my liking."
DavidW says, "cheers echo"
Pinkunz says, "You could ask only for the player's name, and then encode that information into the tale end of the player codes."
Perry says, "OH"
Jacqueline says (to Perry), "Hm. I think it was fine."
Perry says, "That's an amazing idea Pinkunz"
Pinkunz says, "Which then tells the other parser the name of the other player surreptitiously."
Perry says, "Yessss"
Pinkunz says, "Which would freak both players out."
Perry says, "Though math like that on the Z-machine can be painful sometimes"
Perry says, "But that should be doable; it's not like it'd rely on floating point."
Pinkunz says, "Just code A-Z as 00-25"
Jacqueline exclaims, "L8! B4!"
Perry says, "Would need to add a digit or two to keep the space for the codes themselves."
DavidW says, "U1!"
Perry says, "Or could have each code's last ≈ 3 bits encode part of each letter."
Pinkunz says, "Not a huge problem. I could see players tolerating up to 8-ish numbers before getting annoyed."
Perry says, "I dunno, three digit numbers can keep pacing nice."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit"
Floyd ]  Hall
Floyd | >
Floyd | > QUIT
Floyd |
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?
Perry says, "Plus it makes it less clear that they're also encoding your partner's name"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes"
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit?
Floyd | > YES
Floyd | cheapglulxe quit with exit status: 0
Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" Perry says, "Ohhh"
Perry says, "Except error detection"
Pinkunz says, "If you wanted to be super clever, you could encode game events into the code."
Perry says, "So you'd need a parity bit probably in case you get the last digit wrong"
Pinkunz has arrived. Perry says, "Otherwise if I do 127 instead of 128 stuff would get funky"
gadzoks has arrived. Pinkunz says, "I liked it, fwiw."
Perry says, "Me too. Just wanted harder puzzles. And more puzzles."
Pinkunz says, "I think it has a TON of unrealized potential."
Perry says, "100%"
DavidW says, "It would be nice to see more two-player games in this format."
gadzoks says, "Yeah, a longer game done the same way would be fun."
Pinkunz asks, "A-synchronous?"
Perry says, "Tempted to try implementing a POC in Dialog now."
Pinkunz asks, "Because others have done server games, right?"
Pinkunz says, "Like MoyTW's game in the 2022 SpringThing."
Pinkunz says, "Seems like this eliminates alot of syncing and maintenance headaches. It is also more robust from an archival viewpoint."
DavidW says, "I'm gonna stop my log."
Perry says, "Probably the hardest thing about this is scaling up to harder puzzles that are a bit more generous in the order of steps you take and what you send over."




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