ClubFloyd Transcript: Spur by Kent Tessman

As played on ifMUD on December 16 2007

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 Spur by Kent Tessman. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting Baf's Guide to the IF Archive.

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 it, 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
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Toyshop and Floyditorium
Bulging toychests make this a child's (or child-at-heart's) dream. Play all day, play all night. A small booth has been erected and is staffed by a friendly robot. The sign over it says, "INFOKOM GAMEZ 5 cents". A small notice on the door reads, "PLEASE RETURN TOYS TO THIS ROOM WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH THEM."
You can see: green button, banana machine, faucets, toy catalogue, a crystal ball, cuddly walrus, clicker, cloak, tic-tac-toe, thermometer, yellow button, waldo whisper object, checkers board, Werewolf rules, bunny burger, grape, specimen jar, signaling device, Mike Tyson, IF Programmer Barbie, IF FLOYD'S DOWN, TELL JOTA -- OR ELSE HE WON'T KNOW, Gak, Autohugger, Photocopier, basketball, midterm monster, frobozz magic dispenser, fun shiny toy, madlibs, orange, soda reading 'Don't drink me!', jukebox, Gene Ray, FREE DONUTS machine, long-stemmed red rose, dfan's quest, miniature ifMUD, Pun Police Whistle, orange door, monkey guru, cork nut, cork nut, cork nut, cork nut, jellybean, mind chess, the 'foobar' cube, apple, a zorkmid, storyharp, ClubFloyd Suggestions
Players: Waldo, Floyd, Jacqueline, inky, maga, Bert, Nitku, DavidW, schep
Visible Exits: northeast (to the Lounge) * Gunther has left the channel.
maga says, "BAD Perry. STAY"
Jacqueline asks, "Huh. What happened?"
Taleslinger arrives, full of funk, but no fun. maga says, "unsure - the client just disconnected"
Jacqueline says, "Ah, that's probably just traditional satellite modem/our wireless LAN behavior, unfortunately."
Jacqueline asks, "Also, isn't it past time?"
Jacqueline sees what happens when she is out of town on business and can't sit there, repeatedly typing the 'time' command to know when to launch the game.
maga says (to Floyd), "load spur"
Floyd |
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Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In retrospect, maybe all that cheap whiskey last night in Grady's
Floyd | wasn't such a brilliant idea.  Not the way the evil, glowing orb of the
Floyd | morning sun is burning a hole through your squinting eyes and right
Floyd | into the back of your head.  And especially since there's a guy with a

Floyd | six-shooter on his belt, ready to draw, standing thirty feet away and
Floyd | facing you.  Your body keeps screaming at you that you should still be
Floyd | in bed.  The dimly lit cage of your memory tells you that all of this
Floyd | has something to do with you standing up for some woman in the saloon
Floyd | last night, and right now you wish like hell you could remember.
Floyd |

Floyd | No one ever said you were lucky, but you are...
Floyd |
Floyd | SPUR
Floyd | A Western Misadventure by Kent Tessman (c) 1995-1997
Floyd | Written using the Hugo Compiler v2.5
Floyd | Release 9 04-27-99

Floyd | (New players should type "help".)
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of

Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over
Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously.  Somewhere in the distance,

Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Hm, also, Taleslinger made the suggestion that we pick a driver this week, due to time-sensitive puzzles."
Bert asks, "Do we want to call roll on who has and hasn't played?"
schep says, "I've played, but remember nearly nothing."
Jacqueline says, "Well, it's always good to know."
Jacqueline says, "I have never heard of this game until today, myself."
maga says, "I've played, but not to completion and many, many years ago"
Bert says, "I've played but not finished. And I remember a little more than nothing, but not a lot."
schep says, "Though this initial scene is stirring a memory."
DavidW says, "I've never played this one."
schep nominates DW to drive.
Jacqueline says, "Who wants to drive - timing."
K-Y arrives, full of fun, but no funk. Jacqueline says (to DW), "I say we shoot 'em."
Jacqueline says, "Or just give him a big hug. Your choice."
DavidW says, "uh, can someone else drive? I'm also looking at my Perl manual."
Bert says, "I say we take our time, look at the scenery, check our inventory, maybe try to engage someone in conversation..."
Jacqueline says, "I would love to, but I am also sort of working right now - it's my day off, but I'm looking over some things for work tomorrow."
Jacqueline asks (of maga), "Why don't you drive?"
Bert says, "I nominate maga to maga t-- timing."
Bert says, "(Maga to maga?)"
maga looks around, notices that everyone else has taken one step back on 'volunteers step forward'
maga says, "okay, okay"
Jacqueline says (to maga), "You're our boy."
(from DavidW) maga says, "it is not french toast"
Bert says (to maga), "XYZZY"
maga says (to Floyd), "xyzzy"
Floyd | You can't use the word "xyzzy".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to DW), "heehee"
Bert says, "Well, this game sucks, then."
Bert has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. Jacqueline says (to maga), "x roy"
schep says, "yeah, let's first see what happens if we do none of the obvious things"
Bert arrives, full of funk, but no fun.
maga says (to Floyd), "shoot roy"
Floyd | Would help if you had your six-shooter in your hand.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

maga says (to Floyd), "x roy"
Floyd | You might want to spend less time staring, and more time thinking about
Floyd | the fact that you're in the middle of a gunfight.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert asks, "What have we got?"
Jacqueline says (to schep), "Yeah, I like that plan."
Nitku says (to floyd), "draw"
Floyd | You pull your six-shooter out of your holster.
Floyd |

Floyd | Roy draws his six-shooter, yanking it from its holster and raising it
Floyd | toward you...
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "We can restart when we're dead on the ground."
Bert asks, "Is Nitku volunteering to drive instead?"
maga says (to Floyd), "shoot roy"
Floyd | You beat Roy to the trigger, shooting him through the heart just as he
Floyd | is aiming at yours.  (And surprising yourself while you're at it that
Floyd | your old gun hit him--your aim must've been off.)  Roy gasps, drops his

Floyd | gun, and falls to the ground, dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "Wait, I thought we weren't going to kill him?"
schep exclaims, "you murderer!"
Bert says (to Jacq), "So did I."
maga asks (of Jacq), "if you wanted restraint, why did you nominate me?"
Jacqueline says, "You're just driving, but not with cotton in your ears."
schep says, "heh. Okay, now find and shoot that guitarist."
Jacqueline says, "..schep"
Jacqueline says (to schep), "heh"
Jacqueline says, "Well, we could restart and someone with more restraint could drive. Like Schep, perhaps."
maga exclaims (at Jacq), "don't try to get me to follow basic instructions before I've had my coffee!"
Bert says, "X GUN"
maga says, "(sorry)"
Jacqueline asks (of schep), "Want to drive?"
schep says, "or maybe search Roy's pockets before he gets smelly and icky"
Jacqueline says (to schep), "haha"
schep says (to Floyd), "search roy"
Floyd | Roy wasn't exactly a tiny guy.  You're not having the best of luck
Floyd | moving him.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan arrives from the south.
Floyd |

Floyd | (Old Dan has to make an effort to swagger around Roy's body.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "x gun"
Floyd | A six-shooter like yours, but a lot nicer, to be honest.  While you

Floyd | paid about three bucks for yours, old Roy here--rest his soul, and all
Floyd | that--must've dropped at least ten.  Maybe even fifteen.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "DAN, GOOD MORNIGN"
schep says (to Floyd), "x my gun"
Floyd | Old faithful, with the emphasis on the "old" part.  And faithful
Floyd | doesn't necessarily mean accurate.
Floyd |
Floyd | A crowd starts to gather around you and the corpse.

Floyd |
Floyd | Little Jimmy comes running past you from the north.  He stops for a
Floyd | second, looks at Roy's stiff, and raises his eyebrows.  "Oooh.  Dead
Floyd | guy."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says, "ps/GN/NG/"
maga says, "(if memory serves, though, there's not much that you can do before you shoot the guy)"
schep says, "(I thought there actually was some way to not kill him and not be killed...)"
Bert says, "THREATEN BYSTANDERS"
maga exclaims, "roy's stiff? that's not a sight appropriate for children!"
schep says (to Floyd), "dan, good morning"
Floyd | You can't use the word "morning".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to maga), "They've gotta learn somewhere."
schep says (to Floyd), "dan, hello"
Floyd | Old Dan doesn't pay any particular attention to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to schep), "We could restart."
Bert asks, "And if not the street, then where?"
schep says (to Floyd), "threaten boy"
Floyd | You can't use the word "threaten".
Floyd |

Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are wearing your holster on your hip where it belongs.  You are
Floyd | also carrying a skeleton key and your six-shooter.
Floyd |

Floyd | Bobby comes running after Little Jimmy.
Floyd |
Floyd | More people come out onto the street to see what happened.  They see
Floyd | the body.  Some of them point at you and begin talking to each other in
Floyd | low voices.
Floyd |

Floyd | Little Jimmy goes running off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "EAT KEY"
schep says (to Floyd), "eat key"
Floyd | You can't eat the skeleton key.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "put my gun in holster"
Floyd | You put your six-shooter in the holster.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bobby chases off after Little Jimmy.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear someone saying to you:  "Look, partner.  I dunno what your
Floyd | beef with ole Roy here was, but you best be getting outta here before

Floyd | the Sheriff shows up."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "GET ALL FROM ROY"
Floyd | Roy Heffer isn't here.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "GET ALL FROM CORPSE"
Floyd | Nothing to get.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "get roy's gun"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | Little Jimmy comes running past you from the south.  He stops for a

Floyd | second, looks at Roy's stiff, and raises his eyebrows.  "Oooh.  Dead
Floyd | guy."
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "Heh. He is no longer Roy."
Bert says, "The Roy that was."
Jacqueline says, "That's deep. Or just a programming work-around."
Jacqueline says, "Well, so maybe we're going to get shot now."
Jacqueline says, "By the sherrif."
Bert says (to Floyd), "get all"
Floyd | Roy Heffer's body:  Only if you want to be spotted carting a dead body
Floyd | around town.  Not recommended.
Floyd | gathering crowd:  You can't take that.

Floyd | Little Jimmy:  Little Jimmy probably wouldn't be too big on that idea.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "And then we'll have to shoot him."
Jacqueline asks, "Where will it end?"
Jacqueline asks, "Can we get Roy's gun?"
schep says, "we did"
Bert says (to Floyd), "get roy's gun"
Floyd | You don't see that.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "huh"
Bert says (to Floyd), "get gun"
Floyd | You pull your six-shooter out of your holster.
Floyd |

Floyd | Bobby comes running after Little Jimmy.
Floyd |
Floyd | Little Jimmy goes running off to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan arrives from the east.
Floyd |

Floyd | (Old Dan has to make an effort to swagger around Roy's body.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |

Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   Little Jimmy is here, cheerfully chomping on some sticky taffy.
Floyd |   Roy Heffer's rapidly cooling body is here.
Floyd |   A crowd is gathering around the corpse.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

schep says (to Floyd), "shoot crowd"
Floyd | You let go a shot, but it misses.  Doesn't matter, anyway.  Even if
Floyd | you'd hit somebody, the rest of the crowd would still swarm around and
Floyd | proceed to beat the ever-lovin' crap outta you, leaving you a bloody,
Floyd | lifeless pulp.  Like they are at the moment, actually.

Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
maga says, "these wandering NPCs are getting on my nerves already"
DavidW asks, "So, we didn't act in self-defense?"
Jacqueline says (to schep), "My."
schep says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street

Floyd |   Little Jimmy is here, cheerfully chomping on some sticky taffy.
Floyd |   Roy Heffer's rapidly cooling body is here.
Floyd |   A crowd is gathering around the corpse.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "eep. That wasn't."
Bert says (to Floyd), "smell body"
Floyd | You don't smell anything unusual.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bobby comes running after Little Jimmy.

Floyd |
Floyd | Little Jimmy goes running off to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan arrives from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | (Old Dan has to make an effort to swagger around Roy's body.)

Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says, "shoot 'em in the feet, see if they're still keen on wanderin'"
schep says (to Floyd), "x dan"
Floyd | Old Dan looks like he's been on a bit of a bender.  One that's lasted

Floyd | about twenty years, to be honest.  His body looks like it's had the
Floyd | hell beaten out of it time and time again.  But there's something about
Floyd | his eyes that--if they would just take a second to focus--seems like
Floyd | there's wisdom hidden somewhere deep in their murky depths.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bobby chases off after Little Jimmy.

Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Bert), "Aw."
Bert says (to Floyd), "crowd, dance"
Floyd | You can't use the word "dance".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are wearing your holster on your hip where it belongs.  You are
Floyd | also carrying a skeleton key and Roy's gun.  Tucked in your holster is
Floyd | your six-shooter.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan arrives from the west.

Floyd |
Floyd | (Old Dan has to make an effort to swagger around Roy's body.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Ah - we have his gun."
schep says, "yeah, I picked it up"
Bert says (to Floyd), "tell dan about roy"
Floyd | Old Dan doesn't seem particularly interested in what you have to say
Floyd | about Roy Heffer.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "talk to dan"
Floyd | Old Dan is listening.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "ask dan about roy"
Floyd | "Once in a while Roy'd buy me drink or something.  Didja have to go and
Floyd | kill him, of all people?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "no"
Floyd | That was a rhetorical question.  (Although you sound rather negative.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Nitku says (to floyd), "ask dan about himself"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean Old Dan.)
Floyd | "I just don't know anything about that, cowboy.  How's about buying me
Floyd | a drink anyway?"
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the north.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Man, this is Alchy Town."
Bert says, "Well. Old Dan is, anyhow."
Bert says (to Floyd), "follow dan"
Floyd | Which way did he go?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Either we should wait for the sheriff ('cause we believe we're in the right), or run away, or go find the girl this was all about."
Jacqueline says (to Bert), "And us, and Roy."
schep says, "yeah, Dan is The Town Drunk."
Jacqueline says, "Ah."
Bert asks, "Were Roy and we drunk?"
Jacqueline says, "Well, we could shoot Dan."
Nitku says, "clever response from the parser" Jacqueline says (to Bert), "Well, we were hung-over."
schep says, "we were drunk last night"
Bert says, "(That's just grammatically Bad.)"
Jacqueline says, "And Roy appears to have been on a twenty-year bender."
Jacqueline says, "Oh wait."
Jacqueline says, "That was Dan."
Jacqueline says, "Gotcha"
schep says, "no, that's Dan again"
Jacqueline says, "Yeah"
Jacqueline says, "So it's just us and Dan. Maybe we SHOULD buy him a drink, then."
Bert says, "Roy has a different excuse for being laid out flat in the street."
maga exclaims, "sing! dance!"
Bert says (to Floyd), "sing"
Floyd | You can't use the word "sing".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "We should go into the saloon in any case. Find out what happened."
Bert says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.

Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |   Roy Heffer's rapidly cooling body is here.
Floyd |   A crowd is gathering around the corpse.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel
Floyd |   Sunlight glares in through the swinging saloonesque doors, only to be
Floyd | swallowed up by the murkiness inside.  Tables and chairs, barstools

Floyd | along the long counter, and a room-length mirror behind the bar.
Floyd | There's a horseshoe tacked to the wall, too.  Stairs go up to the hotel
Floyd | rooms on the second floor.  The billiards room, such as it is, is in
Floyd | the northwest corner.
Floyd |   Grady is behind the bar.
Floyd |

Floyd | Grady studies you as you come in.  "Plannin' on paying your bill
Floyd | anytime soon?"
Floyd |
Floyd | You watch under the swinging doors as several sets of boots show up.
Floyd | The Sheriff's deputies have come looking for you.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "no"
Floyd | That was a rhetorical question.  (Although you sound rather negative.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

maga asks, "have we tried X ME?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd | (in the mirror)
Floyd | Shouldn't have done that.  You look like hell.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask dan about sherrif"
Floyd | You can't use the word "sherrif".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "break mirror"
Floyd | Venting your frustrations on the mirror won't accomplish much.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask grady about sherriff"
Floyd | You can't use the word "sherriff".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask grady about woman"
Floyd | You haven't seen anybody like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "I know there's a spelling of that word somewhere in the world."
schep says (to Floyd), "ask grady about sheriff"
Floyd | Grady doesn't seem to know anything about Sheriff Argyle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "And that would be it."
Jacqueline says, "heehee"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask grady about roy"
Floyd | Grady shrugs.  "I'm glad you plugged him.  Just don't spread the rumors
Floyd | of my joy around.  After what that son of a bitch did to this town?
Floyd | Him and his cattle-stealing old man?  Good goddamn riddance."

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask grady for reward"
Floyd | You can't use the word "reward".
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask grady about Roy's father."
Floyd | You can't use the word "father".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask grady about Roy's old man."
Floyd | You haven't seen any "roy's old", nor are you likely to, even if such a
Floyd | thing exists.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "heh"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x horseshoes"
Floyd | You can't use the word "horseshoes".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "x horseshoe"
Floyd | Your basic lucky-charm horseshoe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask grady about last night"
Floyd | "Forget it, dustball.  After that trouble you caused in here last
Floyd | night--winding up with wasting some guy on the street outside my
Floyd | place?--you ain't getting another drink in here."
Floyd | Grady shrugs.  "I'm glad you plugged him.  Just don't spread the rumors

Floyd | of my joy around.  After what that son of a bitch did to this town?
Floyd | Him and his cattle-stealing old man?  Good goddamn riddance."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "ask grady about drink"
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask grady about dan"
Floyd | "Old Dan?" Grady shakes his head.  "When he's got money, he's my best
Floyd | customer.  When he doesn't, like almost always, he's a pain in my ass."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "some one forgot a break statement"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask grady for a drink"
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x bar"
Floyd | You don't need to refer to that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x mirror"
Floyd | (in the mirror)
Floyd | Shouldn't have done that.  You look like hell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says (to Floyd), "buy drink"
Floyd | "Forget it, dustball.  After that trouble you caused in here last
Floyd | night--winding up with wasting some guy on the street outside my
Floyd | place?--you ain't getting another drink in here."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "sell gun"
Floyd | You can't use the word "sell".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "heh"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x pants"
Floyd | As much as you like them, style probably shouldn't be your number one
Floyd | concern right now.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "buy mirror"
Floyd | Normally you'd have to be in a store to buy something.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "shoot grady"
Floyd | You pull the trigger and shoot Grady.  He falls to the ground, twitches
Floyd | a couple of times, then lies there, getting cold.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan arrives from the west.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel

Floyd |   Grady is behind the bar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "the heck"
Jacqueline says, "Wow, yay."
Bert says (to Floyd), "remove pants"
Floyd | As much as you like them, style probably shouldn't be your number one
Floyd | concern right now.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan arrives from the west.

Floyd |
Floyd | Grady looks up from behind the bar as Old Dan wanders in.  "Out!" he
Floyd | says, pointing toward the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says, "awww"
Jacqueline says (to David), "I was just seein'"
Bert says (to Floyd), "twitch"
Floyd | You can't use the word "twitch".
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says, "Poor Dan."
schep says (to Floyd), "buy drink for dan"
Floyd | That doesn't make any sense.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "kiss dan"
Floyd | Old Dan doesn't seem to share your affection.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the west.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "go up."
Bert says (to Floyd), "up"
Floyd |

Floyd | Upstairs hallway
Floyd |   Rooms on all sides of the landing--their doors closed and probably
Floyd | locked.  The stairs go back downstairs to the saloon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "up"
Floyd | The stairs end here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x doors"
Floyd | You can't use the word "doors".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x door"
Floyd | The room door is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "open it"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean the room door.)
Floyd | The room door is locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "unlock it"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean the room door.)
Floyd | (with the skeleton key)
Floyd | Unlocked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "enter it"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean the room door.)
Floyd | (opening the room door first)
Floyd | As you open the door, it bangs against an empty whiskey bottle that had
Floyd | rolled against it.  The bottle skitters away into the corner of the

Floyd | room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your hotel room
Floyd |   Not too fancy, but then you get what you pay for.  A bed with a
Floyd | mattress that was, as you vaguely remember it, rather wooden.  A wash
Floyd | basin and mirror along one wall.  Curtains closed, covering the single

Floyd | small window.
Floyd |   Looks like someone slipped a piece of paper under the door while you
Floyd | were out.
Floyd |   In the corner of the room is a whiskey bottle, empty and discarded.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW asks, "We have a skeleton key?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "remove pants"
Floyd | You don't see that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says, "We do."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x paper"
Floyd | "Meet me at the stable at 10:00.
Floyd |
Floyd |                            - S."

Floyd |
Floyd | (Not like you have any memory of who S. is.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "time"
Floyd | You can't use the word "time".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "smell bottle"
Floyd | One whiff of the old Dr. Vita-Vim's (even the empty bottle) is enough
Floyd | to set your head a-spinning.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bottle"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "spin bottle"
Floyd | You can't use the word "spin".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "time"
Floyd | You can't use the word "time".

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Hm. Wonder if there's normallly a time in the status bar."
Bert says (to Floyd), "enter bed"
Floyd | You can't get on the bed.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "look under it"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean the bed.)
Floyd | You don't find anything under the bed.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x mattress"
Floyd | Looking at the bed doesn't bring back any fond memories of comfortable
Floyd | sleep.  The bedsheet is still in a crumpled heap at the foot of the

Floyd | bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "search it"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean the bed.)

Floyd | You don't find anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "wear sheet"
Floyd | You can't wear the bedsheet.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bedsheet"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "open curtains"
Floyd | Opened.  Through the closed window you can just peek around the corner
Floyd | of the hotel enough to see Main Street below.  You see a gang of
Floyd | deputies waiting in front of the saloon--waiting for you, that is.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x deputies"
Floyd | The Sheriff's deputies aren't here.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "open window"
Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "leap through window"
Floyd | That doesn't make any sense.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take paper"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "eat oaoer"
Floyd | You can't use the word "oaoer".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "eat paper"
Floyd | You can't eat the handwritten note.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "tie sheet to window"
Floyd | You can't tie the bedsheet to the small window.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "enter window"
Floyd | You're on the second floor, and the ground looks kinda hard.  Not

Floyd | exactly the perfect jumping scenario.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says, "I'd like to save and go talk to the deputies. Or maybe talk to them and be prepared to restart."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "tie sheet to bed"
Floyd | You can't tie the bedsheet to the bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "save"
Floyd | Enter saved game to store:
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf-spur-1"
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1"
Floyd | You can't use the word "cf1".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "tear sheet"
Floyd | You can't use the word "tear".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd |
Floyd | Your hotel room
Floyd |   Not too fancy, but then you get what you pay for.  A bed with a
Floyd | mattress that was, as you vaguely remember it, rather wooden.  A wash
Floyd | basin and mirror along one wall.  Curtains open, revealing the single

Floyd | small window and Main Street below.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "laugh. cry."
Floyd | You can't use the word "laugh".

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Oh hey, the save prompt is working on this game."
Jacqueline says, "Also, whoa lag."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under mattress"
Floyd | You don't find anything under the bed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x basin"
Floyd | The wash basin looks just like you would expect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "s/game/interpreter/"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter window"
Floyd | You're on the second floor, and the ground looks kinda hard.  Not
Floyd | exactly the perfect jumping scenario.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "No, this game."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take mattress"
Floyd | You can't take that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, ";Um."
Jacqueline says, "Well, I mean both, actually."
schep says (to Floyd), "throw mattress out window"
Floyd | You haven't seen any "mattress out", nor are you likely to, even if
Floyd | such a thing exists.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put mattress in window"
Floyd | You can't do that with the small window.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says, "OK, you're the boss, I guess."
Jacqueline says, "It wouldn't prompt us for a save file name last week, though it did save."
Jacqueline says, "Anyway, unimportant."
schep says, "yes, it did prompt us."
Bert asks, "Would it be rude to argue with you?"
schep says, "just only after we input the filename"
Jacqueline says (to schep), "heh"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw mattress"
Floyd | You're not holding that.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "That's exactly what I mean - it didn't ask for a file name, but let's let it go."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter window with mattress"
Floyd | That doesn't make any sense.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW asks, "hm. The mattress doesn't appear to be mobile. Perhaps we're not meant to leave via the window?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "tie sheet to bed"
Floyd | You can't tie the bedsheet to the bed.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "tie sheet"
Floyd | You'll have to be a little more specific about what you'd like to tie
Floyd | the bedsheet to.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd |
Floyd | Your hotel room

Floyd |   Not too fancy, but then you get what you pay for.  A bed with a
Floyd | mattress that was, as you vaguely remember it, rather wooden.  A wash
Floyd | basin and mirror along one wall.  Curtains open, revealing the single
Floyd | small window and Main Street below.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "tie sheet to curtain"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x basin"
Floyd | The wash basin looks just like you would expect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky asks, "did you tear the sheet?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "tear sheet"
Floyd | You can't use the word "tear".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to inky), "couldn't"
Bert says (to Floyd), "rip sheet"
Floyd | You can't use the word "rip".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "x window"
Floyd | Through the open window you can just peek around the corner of the
Floyd | hotel enough to see Main Street below.  You see a gang of deputies
Floyd | waiting in front of the saloon--waiting for you, that is.  As you stick
Floyd | your head out the open window, you see a drainpipe running along the

Floyd | outside of the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "tie sheet to curtain"
Floyd | You can't tie the bedsheet to the curtains.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x drainpipe"
Floyd | The sturdy pipe is attached to the side of the building.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "tie sheet to it"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean the drainpipe.)
Floyd | You tie the bedsheet to the drainpipe.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to David), "Re: leaving via the window, I dunno. Remember how hard we worked to get out the window in Lord Bellwater's Secret a few weeks back..."
inky says, "excellent"
DavidW says, "ah. I missed the drainpipe."
Jacqueline says, "Ah - woot"
Bert says (to Floyd), "climb drainpipe"
Floyd | That wouldn't help you--the pipe doesn't go all the way to the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "enter drainpipe"
Floyd | You can't enter the drainpipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb sheet"
Floyd | As you climb down the bedsheet, it starts to rip.  One small piece of
Floyd | cloth tears away and flutters down below you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow alley

Floyd |   Running along the north side of Grady's--the old wall of the building
Floyd | is directly behind you.  Grady's storage shed is just to the north, and
Floyd | Main Street is back out to the west.  You're well hidden by a stack of
Floyd | old, sun-bleached wooden barrels.   Overhead, you can see your
Floyd | bedsheet, flapping in the wind from where it's still attached to the
Floyd | drainpipe.

Floyd |   The small piece of cloth from the bedsheet is lying on the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "enter bottle. pour bottle into drainpipe"
Floyd | You can't enter the whiskey bottle.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take cloth"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x it"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean the scrap of cloth.)
Floyd | The piece of cloth is about the size of a handkerchief.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "blow nose"
Floyd | You can't use the word "nose".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear cloth"
Floyd | You can't wear the scrap of cloth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x barrels"
Floyd | Messing around the barrels will not get you anywhere.  Honestly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x shed"
Floyd | Your basic slats-thrown-together storage shed.  One door, which is
Floyd | closed.  One window, which is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "open it"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean Grady's storage shed.)
Floyd | The shed door is locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "open window"
Floyd | You can't do that with the shed window.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "break it"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean the shed window.)
Floyd | With what?  Your hand?  Not too damn likely.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

schep says (to Floyd), "unlock shed"
Floyd | You're not holding any key that fits.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x window"
Floyd | Through the window, you can see an assortment of tools and various
Floyd | other implements, including a ten-foot ladder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "break it with cloth"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean the shed window.)
Floyd | Not with that, you won't.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "break it with gun"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean the shed window.)
Floyd | The glass shatters with a crash.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "Nice"
Bert says (to Floyd), "enter window"
Floyd | The window is just a little too small to fit through, not to mention
Floyd | the fact that you'd probably hack yourself to death on the broken
Floyd | glass.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Maybe."
schep says (to Floyd), "put cloth on window"
Floyd | You can't do that with the shed window.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get ladder"
Floyd | You don't see that.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "reach in window"
Floyd | You can't use the word "reach".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "look through window"
Floyd | Through the broken window, you can see an assortment of tools and
Floyd | various other implements, including a ten-foot ladder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "unlock door"
Floyd | You're not holding any key that fits.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "unlock door through window"
schep says (to Floyd), "put cloth in window"
Floyd | That doesn't make any sense.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | You can't do that with the shed window.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "get ladder"
Floyd | You don't see that.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get glass"
Floyd | You can't take that.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says, "hm."
schep says (to Floyd), "clean glass" K-Y says, "This syntax is pretty wishful thinking for 1997"
Floyd | You can't use the word "clean".

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow alley

Floyd |   Running along the north side of Grady's--the old wall of the building
Floyd | is directly behind you.  Grady's storage shed is just to the north, and
Floyd | Main Street is back out to the west.  You're well hidden by a stack of
Floyd | old, sun-bleached wooden barrels.   Overhead, you can see your
Floyd | bedsheet, flapping in the wind from where it's still attached to the
Floyd | drainpipe.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "open barrel"
Floyd | You can't do that with the wooden barrels.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says, ">FENESTRATE ME"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bedsheet"
Floyd | Except that the bedsheet is tied to the drainpipe.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull it"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean the bedsheet.)
Floyd | Pulling the bedsheet doesn't get you anywhere.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb it"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean the bedsheet.)
Floyd |

Floyd | Narrow alley
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd |

Floyd | Narrow alley
Floyd |   Running along the north side of Grady's--the old wall of the building
Floyd | is directly behind you.  Grady's storage shed is just to the north, and
Floyd | Main Street is back out to the west.  You're well hidden by a stack of
Floyd | old, sun-bleached wooden barrels.   Overhead, you can see your
Floyd | bedsheet, flapping in the wind from where it's still attached to the

Floyd | drainpipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "put cloth on glass"
Floyd | Which glass do you mean, the whiskey bottle or the shed window?

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "window"
Floyd | You can't do that with the shed window.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "cover glass with cloth"
Floyd | You can't use the word "cover".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "verbose"
Floyd | Verbose descriptions.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "notify on"
Floyd | You can't use the word "notify".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "score"
Floyd | As in, you'd like to know how you're doing, right?
Floyd |
Floyd | Well, although you did wind up killing Roy Heffer, it was in self
Floyd | defense.
Floyd |

Floyd | On the bright side, you figured out a way to slip out of your hotel
Floyd | room unnoticed.
Floyd |
Floyd | That's what you've managed to get done so far.  Not exactly a
Floyd | spectacular start to the day.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says, "Wait, I thought the reason we saved was so schep could go check out the deputies."
Jacqueline says, "Neat way to do the score command."
schep says, "we could go walk out to Main St."
Bert says, "Yeah. I wish more games would do that."
K-Y says (to Floyd), "west"
Floyd | You find a foothold on the stack of barrels and clamber over.
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street

Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |   To the south, you can see a gang of deputies lounging around outside

Floyd | Grady's Saloon--presumably waiting for you.
Floyd |   Little Jimmy is here, cheerfully chomping on some sticky taffy.
Floyd |   Bobby is here, jumping up and down in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | Little Jimmy goes running off to the north.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
maga says, "ooh, hostages"
Jacqueline says, "haha"
DavidW says, "no, I bet the taffy is important."
schep says (to Floyd), "take bobby"
Floyd | Bobby probably wouldn't be too big on that idea.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to DW), "Good point."
DavidW says, "some 'gum on a stick' puzzle."
Jacqueline says, "Yeah"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask bobby for taffy"
schep says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Bobby ignores you as if he didn't even hear you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bobby chases off after Little Jimmy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd |

Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is

Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you arrive, the deputies jump up from where they've been waiting for
Floyd | you, grab you, and push you to the ground.  They quickly shackle your
Floyd | hands before hauling you back to your feet.  Time to go see the
Floyd | Sheriff...

Floyd |
Floyd | ...and the gallows.
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look

Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |   To the south, you can see a gang of deputies lounging around outside
Floyd | Grady's Saloon--presumably waiting for you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW asks, "shouldn't we meet "S" in the stable?"
Bert says, "Friendly bunch."
Jacqueline says (to Bert), "heh"
Bert says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd | (opening the heavy stable door first)
Floyd | With a grunt, you heave the stable door open.
Floyd |
Floyd | Little Jimmy comes running past you from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | Stable

Floyd |   Smells musty, just like every other stable you've ever been in.
Floyd | There's a meager half-light drifting down from a window in the loft
Floyd | overhead, and the stable door leads back out onto Main Street to the
Floyd | southeast.  If anybody in this town owned a horse, this is where they'd
Floyd | keep it.
Floyd |   The gate to one of the stalls to the north is closed.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to DW), "Sure. Wish we knew what time it was."
Bert says (to Floyd), "grunt"
Floyd | You can't use the word "grunt".

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x stall"
Floyd | The stall gate is closed.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "open it"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean the stall gate.)
Floyd | The gate swings open with a creak.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x stall"
Floyd | The stall gate is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "search it"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean the stall gate.)
Floyd | You don't find anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |
Floyd | Stall
Floyd |   Any question as to where the musty odor of the stable is coming from
Floyd | is answered by coming in here--the pile of old hay on the ground was

Floyd | probably due for a changing a couple of weeks ago.  A few
Floyd | long-since-used pieces of leather tack--a bridle and saddle among
Floyd | them--hang on the wall.  The stall door to the south is open.
Floyd |   Standing sullenly in the corner of the stall is an old black mare.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "look under mare"
Floyd | You don't find anything under the old black mare.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask mare about s"
Floyd | You can't do that with the old black mare.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "show note to mare"
Floyd | Showing a handwritten note to the old black mare doesn't accomplish a
Floyd | whole lot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x mare"
Floyd | Built neither for comfort, nor for speed.  This aging mount would
Floyd | probably be happiest if you just left it alone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "pet mare"
Floyd | You can't use the word "pet".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "search hay"
Floyd | None of that stuff is likely to be of any use to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "get hay"
Floyd | None of that stuff is likely to be of any use to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Hm, I always hate that type of reply."
maga says (to Floyd), "steal mare"
Floyd | You can't take that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride mare"
Floyd | You get on the old black mare.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "But then, I guess it's well-intentioned to keep us from going up the wrong tree."
Bert says (to Floyd), "mare, giddyup"
Floyd | You can't use the word "giddyup".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride mare s"
Floyd | You haven't seen any "mare s", nor are you likely to, even if such a
Floyd | thing exists.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | To walk, you will have to get off of the old black mare.  Otherwise,
Floyd | try "ride" or "gallop" and a direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "ride s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Stable, on an old black mare
Floyd |   Smells musty, just like every other stable you've ever been in.
Floyd | There's a meager half-light drifting down from a window in the loft

Floyd | overhead, and the stable door leads back out onto Main Street to the
Floyd | southeast.  If anybody in this town owned a horse, this is where they'd
Floyd | keep it.
Floyd |   The gate to the stall to the north is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "You didn't saddle it or use a bridle."
maga says (to DW), "we're too rootin' and tootin' for that"
Bert asks, "Wanna go back for them?"
schep asks, "were there any available?"
DavidW says, "We probably won't know where to ride to until we see "S"."
DavidW says (to schep), "On the wall."
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride n"
Floyd |
Floyd | Stall, on an old black mare

Floyd |   Any question as to where the musty odor of the stable is coming from
Floyd | is answered by coming in here--the pile of old hay on the ground was
Floyd | probably due for a changing a couple of weeks ago.  A few
Floyd | long-since-used pieces of leather tack--a bridle and saddle among
Floyd | them--hang on the wall.  The stall door to the south is open.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get all"
Floyd | You can't take the old black mare while you're on it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "get tack"
Floyd | None of that stuff is likely to be of any use to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get saddle"
Floyd | None of that stuff is likely to be of any use to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "saddle mare"
Floyd | You haven't seen any "saddle mare", nor are you likely to, even if such
Floyd | a thing exists.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

maga says, "um"
DavidW says, "oh. Perhaps I was wrong."
schep says (to Floyd), "get bridle"
Floyd | None of that stuff is likely to be of any use to you.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x saddle"
Floyd | None of that stuff is likely to be of any use to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

maga asks, "check the horse. Is she already saddled for some mysterious reason?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "/world test"
Floyd | You can't use the word "/world".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says, "Whoops."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x mare"
Floyd | Built neither for comfort, nor for speed.  This aging mount would
Floyd | probably be happiest if you just left it alone.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Stable, on an old black mare
Floyd |   Smells musty, just like every other stable you've ever been in.

Floyd | There's a meager half-light drifting down from a window in the loft
Floyd | overhead, and the stable door leads back out onto Main Street to the
Floyd | southeast.  If anybody in this town owned a horse, this is where they'd
Floyd | keep it.
Floyd |   The gate to the stall to the north is open.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "read note"
Floyd | "Meet me at the stable at 10:00.
Floyd |
Floyd |                            - S."

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride s"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x watch"
Floyd | You can't ride that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | You can't use the word "watch".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "read sun"
Floyd | You don't see those.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride se"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street, on an old black mare
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.

Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |
Floyd | Little Jimmy comes running past you from the north.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x sky"
Floyd | You can't use the word "sky".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "ask jimmy about taffy"
Floyd | Little Jimmy sings:  "I love taffy!  I love taffy!  I love taffy!  I
Floyd | love taffy!"
Floyd |
Floyd | Bobby comes running after Little Jimmy.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "(Am I the only one doing stuff?)"
Bert says (to Floyd), "steal taffy"
Floyd | You can't reach the sticky taffy from the old black mare.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Well, mostly, but not exclusively."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd | You get off of the old black mare.

Floyd |
Floyd | Little Jimmy goes running off to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan arrives from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take taffy"
Floyd | You don't see that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "steal taffy"
Floyd | You don't see that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Maybe the deputies can't tackle us now that we're in an assault vehicle."
Bert says (to Floyd), "give bottle to dan"
Floyd | "It's empty.  Don't tease me."
Floyd |
Floyd | Bobby chases off after Little Jimmy.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Oh, the little guy left."
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "get on mare"
Floyd | You get on the old black mare.
Floyd |

Floyd | Little Jimmy comes running past you from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | To walk, you will have to get off of the old black mare.  Otherwise,

Floyd | try "ride" or "gallop" and a direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bobby comes running after Little Jimmy.
Floyd |
Floyd | Little Jimmy goes running off to the south.
Floyd |

Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |

Floyd | North end of Main Street, on an old black mare
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.

Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |   Little Jimmy is here, cheerfully chomping on some sticky taffy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "stand"
Floyd | You get off of the old black mare.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bobby comes running after Little Jimmy.
Floyd |

Floyd | Little Jimmy goes running off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "curse jimmy"
Floyd | You can't use the word "curse".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says, "drat, the normal game does have a clock in the status bar. And it starts at 9:02."
Jacqueline says, "Sorry, I can let you drive if you have something in mind."
Bert says (to schep), "Ooops."
Bert exclaims (at Jacq), "No, not at all!"
maga says (to Floyd), "boy howdy"
Floyd | You can't use the word "boy".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to schep), "That's sort of what I figured."
Bert asks (of Jacq), "You got off to steal taffy from Jimmy, then got back on since Jimmy wasn't there, right?"
Jacqueline says, "We should save, btw."
Jacqueline says, "Just in case."
Jacqueline says, "Though I suspect this Hugo game won't crash."
Bert says, "Since Jimmy walked up at that point, I tried to help by trying it again"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "save"
Floyd | Enter saved game to store:
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf2"
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
maga asks (of schep), "urgh. so we have a time-sensitive puzzle and no way of telling the time?"
Jacqueline says, "Possibly, yeah."
Jacqueline says, "Well, probably."
K-Y says, "I remember this now"
schep says, "time is one move per minute, so we almost certainly missed S."
Bert says, "I guess we could just restart, rush to the stable as quickly as possible, and then wait there."
schep says, "I just hope nobody refers to the clock again *after* that."
Bert says (to Floyd), "turns"
Floyd | Better start with a verb.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "count turns"
Floyd | You can't use the word "count".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "what time is it"
Floyd | You can't use the word "time".

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "hm."
Jacqueline asks, "And the score doesn't give the number of moves, does it?"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "score"
Floyd | As in, you'd like to know how you're doing, right?
Floyd |
Floyd | Well, although you did wind up killing Roy Heffer, it was in self
Floyd | defense.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the bright side, you figured out a way to slip out of your hotel

Floyd | room unnoticed.
Floyd |
Floyd | That's what you've managed to get done so far.  Not exactly a
Floyd | spectacular start to the day.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

schep says (to Floyd), "x sun"
Floyd | You don't see those.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Well, I still like the score format, but bah."
schep says (to Floyd), "status"
Floyd | You can't use the word "status".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "diagnose"
Floyd | You can't use the word "diagnose".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "clock"
Floyd | You can't use the word "clock".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Yeah, let's try restarting and rushing to the meeting."
schep says, "I'd be willing to shadow the ClubFloyd game in another window until we meet S."
Bert says (to Floyd), "restart"
Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart (YES or NO)?
Bert says (to Floyd), "yes"
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In retrospect, maybe all that cheap whiskey last night in Grady's
Floyd | wasn't such a brilliant idea.  Not the way the evil, glowing orb of the
Floyd | morning sun is burning a hole through your squinting eyes and right
Floyd | into the back of your head.  And especially since there's a guy with a

Floyd | six-shooter on his belt, ready to draw, standing thirty feet away and
Floyd | facing you.  Your body keeps screaming at you that you should still be
Floyd | in bed.  The dimly lit cage of your memory tells you that all of this
Floyd | has something to do with you standing up for some woman in the saloon
Floyd | last night, and right now you wish like hell you could remember.
Floyd |

Floyd | No one ever said you were lucky, but you are...
Floyd |
Floyd | SPUR
Floyd | A Western Misadventure by Kent Tessman (c) 1995-1997
Floyd | Written using the Hugo Compiler v2.5
Floyd | Release 9 04-27-99

Floyd | (New players should type "help".)
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of

Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over
Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously.  Somewhere in the distance,

Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to schep), "Good plan."
Jacqueline says, "Thanks"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "help"
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Bert says (to Floyd), "help" K-Y says, "I don't recall another reference to the time, but then I got stuck shortly after"
Bert pushes the green 'space' button.
Floyd | Good question.  Seems that you've found yourself in the middle of a
Floyd | gunfight without a clue as to what's going on.  You might want to get
Floyd | used to it (the without a clue feeling) because it's not going to go

Floyd | away anytime soon.
Floyd |
Floyd | The first order of business is to get out of the abovementioned
Floyd | scrape--that's pretty much up to you.  Now, chances are that as a
Floyd | result of saving your hide, things are going to get kind of ugly, and
Floyd | you may have to get into the habit of laying low, at least for a while.

Floyd | That, too, is up to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | But things also aren't going to be that simple.
Floyd |
Floyd | You see, there's obviously a reason that you're standing on Main Street
Floyd | with your hand dangling over your holster and some guy you barely know

Floyd | facing you ten paces away and doing the same.  At least there'd better
Floyd | be.  And if that's the case, you'd best be finding out what it is in a
Floyd | hurry.  Because, guaranteed, things are going to get a whole lot more
Floyd | complicated before long.  (You might want to keep in mind that you're
Floyd | not exactly John Wayne here; expert marksman, quickest draw, and
Floyd | all-round Western hero, you aren't.)

Floyd |
Floyd | And this--you think you're in a pickle now?  Hell, partner.  This is
Floyd | only the beginning.
Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot roy"
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Bert says (to Floyd), "q" Bert says, "Oops."
schep says (to Floyd), "q"
Floyd | Main Street

Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.

Floyd |
Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over
Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously.  Somewhere in the distance,
Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says, "Phew."
schep says, "(it was a nested menu)"
Bert says (to Floyd), "kiss roy"
Floyd | Roy Heffer doesn't seem to share your affection.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot roy"
Floyd | Would help if you had your six-shooter in your hand.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "draw"
Floyd | You pull your six-shooter out of your holster.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy draws his six-shooter, yanking it from its holster and raising it
Floyd | toward you...

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot roy"
Floyd | You beat Roy to the trigger, shooting him through the heart just as he
Floyd | is aiming at yours.  (And surprising yourself while you're at it that

Floyd | your old gun hit him--your aim must've been off.)  Roy gasps, drops his
Floyd | gun, and falls to the ground, dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get all"
Floyd | Roy Heffer's body:  Only if you want to be spotted carting a dead body
Floyd | around town.  Not recommended.
Floyd | Roy's gun:  Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan arrives from the south.
Floyd |

Floyd | (Old Dan has to make an effort to swagger around Roy's body.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |

Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel
Floyd |   Sunlight glares in through the swinging saloonesque doors, only to be
Floyd | swallowed up by the murkiness inside.  Tables and chairs, barstools
Floyd | along the long counter, and a room-length mirror behind the bar.
Floyd | There's a horseshoe tacked to the wall, too.  Stairs go up to the hotel
Floyd | rooms on the second floor.  The billiards room, such as it is, is in

Floyd | the northwest corner.
Floyd |   Grady is behind the bar.
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady studies you as you come in.  "Plannin' on paying your bill
Floyd | anytime soon?"
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "wave to grady"
Floyd | You wave.  Nothing happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady leafs through the hotel ledger.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd |
Floyd | Upstairs hallway

Floyd |   Rooms on all sides of the landing--their doors closed and probably
Floyd | locked.  The stairs go back downstairs to the saloon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "unlock door. open it. w"
Floyd | (with the skeleton key)
Floyd | Unlocked.
Floyd |
Floyd | (Assuming you mean the room door.)
Floyd | As you open the door, it bangs against an empty whiskey bottle that had
Floyd | rolled against it.  The bottle skitters away into the corner of the

Floyd | room.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Your hotel room
Floyd |   Not too fancy, but then you get what you pay for.  A bed with a
Floyd | mattress that was, as you vaguely remember it, rather wooden.  A wash

Floyd | basin and mirror along one wall.  Curtains closed, covering the single
Floyd | small window.
Floyd |   Looks like someone slipped a piece of paper under the door while you
Floyd | were out.
Floyd |   In the corner of the room is a whiskey bottle, empty and discarded.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get all"
Floyd | handwritten note:  Taken.
Floyd | whiskey bottle:  Taken.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get sheet. open curtain. open window"
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "x bed"
Floyd | Looking at the bed doesn't bring back any fond memories of comfortable
Floyd | sleep.  The bedsheet is still in a crumpled heap at the foot of the
Floyd | bed.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get sheet"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "open curtain. open window"
Floyd | Opened.  Through the closed window you can just peek around the corner
Floyd | of the hotel enough to see Main Street below.  Roy Heffer's body is
Floyd | lying in the middle of it, surrounded by a rubbernecking crowd.
Floyd |

Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "tie sheet to drainpipe"
Floyd | You tie the bedsheet to the drainpipe.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "climb sheet. get cloth"
Floyd | As you climb down the bedsheet, it starts to rip.  One small piece of
Floyd | cloth tears away and flutters down below you.

Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow alley
Floyd |   Running along the north side of Grady's--the old wall of the building
Floyd | is directly behind you.  Grady's storage shed is just to the north, and
Floyd | Main Street is back out to the west.  You're well hidden by a stack of
Floyd | old, sun-bleached wooden barrels.   Overhead, you can see your

Floyd | bedsheet, flapping in the wind from where it's still attached to the
Floyd | drainpipe.
Floyd |   The small piece of cloth from the bedsheet is lying on the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | You find a foothold on the stack of barrels and clamber over.
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street

Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |   To the south, you can see a gang of deputies lounging around outside

Floyd | Grady's Saloon--presumably waiting for you.
Floyd |   Bobby is here, jumping up and down in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bobby chases off after Little Jimmy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd | (opening the heavy stable door first)
Floyd | With a grunt, you heave the stable door open.
Floyd |
Floyd | Stable

Floyd |   Smells musty, just like every other stable you've ever been in.
Floyd | There's a meager half-light drifting down from a window in the loft
Floyd | overhead, and the stable door leads back out onto Main Street to the
Floyd | southeast.  If anybody in this town owned a horse, this is where they'd
Floyd | keep it.
Floyd |   The gate to one of the stalls to the north is closed.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "save"
Floyd | Enter saved game to store:
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf3"
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "That's about all we'd accomplished, right/"
schep says, "that and breaking the shed window"
Jacqueline asks (of schep), "What time is it?"
schep says, "I have 9:21, though I don't think I matched perfectly."
Bert says (to Floyd), "open gate. n"
Floyd | The gate swings open with a creak.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Stall
Floyd |   Any question as to where the musty odor of the stable is coming from
Floyd | is answered by coming in here--the pile of old hay on the ground was

Floyd | probably due for a changing a couple of weeks ago.  A few
Floyd | long-since-used pieces of leather tack--a bridle and saddle among
Floyd | them--hang on the wall.  The stall door to the south is open.
Floyd |   Standing sullenly in the corner of the stall is an old black mare.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "Should be ballpark."
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride mare. ride s"
Floyd | You get on the old black mare.
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd | Stable, on an old black mare
Floyd |   The gate to the stall to the north is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "verbose"
Floyd | Verbose descriptions.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "So. Either A) She's already in here."
Bert says, "B) She will be entering through a secret back entrance."
Nitku goes home. Bert says, "C) She will magically appear in the stable at the right time."
Taleslinger asks, "hey folks! did i miss<much?"
Bert says, "Or D) She will have to come in via the front entrance, meaning we can safely wait for her outside."
schep says, "she? and what's wrong with the front .. oh"
inky says (to Taleslinger), "we just shot a guy"
DavidW says, "I'm betting C."
schep says, "yeah, only 35 minutes to waste"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride se"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street, on an old black mare
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty

Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |   To the south, you can see a gang of deputies lounging around outside
Floyd | Grady's Saloon--presumably waiting for you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Little Jimmy comes running past you from the north.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street, on an old black mare
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a

Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying

Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you arrive, the deputies jump up from where they've been waiting for
Floyd | you, grab you, and push you to the ground.  They quickly shackle your
Floyd | hands before hauling you back to your feet.  Time to go see the
Floyd | Sheriff...

Floyd |
Floyd | ...and the gallows.
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street, on an old black mare
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look

Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |   To the south, you can see a gang of deputies lounging around outside
Floyd | Grady's Saloon--presumably waiting for you.
Floyd |   Little Jimmy is here, cheerfully chomping on some sticky taffy.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says, "I guess they can still tackle us with horse."
K-Y says (to Floyd), "ride w"
Bert says (to Floyd), "get off"
Floyd | Empty lot, on an old black mare
Floyd |   Standing where you are, in the middle of a thicket of weeds, you're
Floyd | faced by a wall of impenetrable brush to the north.  Just to the right
Floyd | of the trees, to the northeast, is the entrance the local stable.  Back
Floyd | east is Main Street.
Floyd |

Floyd | Little Jimmy comes running past you from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | You get off of the old black mare.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bobby comes running after Little Jimmy.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get taffy"
Floyd | Little Jimmy bawls as you grab his candy.  "Give me back my taffy!
Floyd | Gimme gimme!" he hollers as he stamps his feet.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get on mare"
Floyd | You get on the old black mare.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride nw"
Floyd | You can't ride that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd |
Floyd | Empty lot, on an old black mare
Floyd |   Standing where you are, in the middle of a thicket of weeds, you're
Floyd | faced by a wall of impenetrable brush to the north.  Just to the right

Floyd | of the trees, to the northeast, is the entrance the local stable.  Back
Floyd | east is Main Street.
Floyd |   Little Jimmy is here, looking sullen.
Floyd |   Bobby is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "ride ne"
Floyd | You can't ride that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says, "(K-Y went west)"
Bert says, "Oh, aha."
Taleslinger asks, "wait, why are the cops chasing us?"
Bert | inky says (to Taleslinger), "we just shot a guy"
Jacqueline says, "We're a murderer. Sorta."
schep says, "because we shot a guy on turn 2 or 3"
* Doe has joined the channel.
K-Y says, "I don't remember how to do this now"
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | To walk, you will have to get off of the old black mare.  Otherwise,
Floyd | try "ride" or "gallop" and a direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride e"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street, on an old black mare
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty

Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |   To the south, you can see a gang of deputies lounging around outside
Floyd | Grady's Saloon--presumably waiting for you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride nw"
Floyd |
Floyd | Stable, on an old black mare
Floyd |   Smells musty, just like every other stable you've ever been in.
Floyd | There's a meager half-light drifting down from a window in the loft

Floyd | overhead, and the stable door leads back out onto Main Street to the
Floyd | southeast.  If anybody in this town owned a horse, this is where they'd
Floyd | keep it.
Floyd |   The gate to the stall to the north is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert asks (of schep), "How are we for time?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "eat taffy"
Floyd | You nibble at the sticky taffy.  It's not too bad.  Gums up your mouth
Floyd | and fingers pretty good while you're at it.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "i" schep says, "about 9:32"
Floyd | You are wearing your holster on your hip where it belongs.  You are
Floyd | holding a whiskey bottle.  You are also carrying a skeleton key, two

Floyd | pistols (your six-shooter and Roy's gun), a handwritten note, a scrap
Floyd | of cloth, and some sticky taffy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky asks, "also, the score makes it sound like we could maybe avoid killing him, doesn't it?"
schep says, "but I didn't get the taffy (those kids are random)"
inky says, "(I don't remember how linear this game is)"
Bert asks, "Do you want to try?"
inky says, "well, I don't actually have any ideas"
Bert asks, "Shoot him in the hand?"
inky asks, "we should meet the S person first and see who they are, shouldn't we?"
Bert asks, "Shoot something which by sheer chance just happens to be precariously suspended over his head?"
inky says, "hee hee"
inky says, "those both seem like good suggestions"
Bert asks, "Shoot his gun?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "wait for s"
Floyd | That doesn't make any sense.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "wait"
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says, "I know I tried to not kill him before and all this seems familiar, so it's probably the only path"
Bert says (to Floyd), "g.g.g"
Floyd | Better start with a verb.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "z.z.z"
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |

Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | A woman slips into the stable behind you.  She stands off to the side,
Floyd | almost in the shadows, regarding you warily.  She looks vaguely
Floyd | familiar.
Floyd |

Floyd | The woman seems relieved.  "Good.  I wasn't sure if you'd actually
Floyd | come," she says.
Floyd |
Floyd | She goes to the stable door and looks outside, making sure that the two
Floyd | of you are alone before she closes it.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "kiss woman"
Floyd | She pushes you away.  "Hey, hayseed.  I don't know what you think
Floyd | you've got coming for helping me out, but if that's it, you can just
Floyd | forget it."

Floyd |
Floyd | "That must mean you remember what I told you last night in Grady's,
Floyd | right?  About Glen Heffer?  I mean before his bastard son showed up and
Floyd | started causing trouble."
Floyd |
Floyd | That's when it hits you:  this is the woman for whose honor--directly

Floyd | or indirectly--you ended up in a gunfight this morning.  Sarah or
Floyd | Sandra or Samantha or something like that.  Sarah.  That's right:
Floyd | Sarah.  Whew.  Nice memory on you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x sarah"
Floyd | Sarah's long brown hair is tucked up under her wide-brimmed cowboy hat.
Floyd | There's a look of seriousness about her face, and strain, as if she's
Floyd | got a little bit too much to deal with right now.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky asks, "what, we killed a guy for her and we don't get any smoochies?"
DavidW says, "not that kind of game, I guess"
Bert says, "I think she contractually obligated to withhold them until the end of the story."
Sargent arrives, full of funk, but no fun. maga says, "maybe if we shaved up real purdy"
inky says, "hee hee"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask sarah about glen"
Floyd | "I guess he can add kidnapper and blackmailer to his list of

Floyd | accomplishments, right after thief, murderer, and son-of-a-bitch."
Floyd |
Floyd | Sarah looks at you skeptically again.  "Okay.  Here's what you have to
Floyd | do," she says.  "You've got a horse.  Good.  You know the road going
Floyd | east just north of town?  Ride east, all the way to the end.  You'll
Floyd | know when you're there because you'll find me waiting for you."

Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says, "ask sarah about last night"
Bert says, "Man. My list of accomplishments only includes 'murderer and window-climber'."
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask sarah about last night"
Floyd | Sarah doesn't seem to know anything about last night.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sarah's face softens a little, and some of her tough facade fades away.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Look, I don't know if you're a hero or just not very smart or what.
Floyd | It was more than enough that you stood up for me against Roy.  Now

Floyd | this.  It's probably more than I can ask, but...thank you."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Sarah), "You and me both, babe."
inky says (to Bert), "hee hee"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask sarah about len"
Floyd | You can't use the word "len".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask sarah about glen"
Floyd | "I guess he can add kidnapper and blackmailer to his list of
Floyd | accomplishments, right after thief, murderer, and son-of-a-bitch."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Jacqueline says, "my"
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask sarah about roy"
Floyd | "Last night in Grady's?  Last night Roy knew exactly what I was talking
Floyd | about, about Uncle Bucky.  Today?  Well, today I'm glad you shot him."
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask sarah about bucky"
Floyd | "He may be a little strange, but, hey, he's my uncle, and he's dear to
Floyd | me--and it's not just because he's got a lot of money.  But I'm not
Floyd | going to let that rotten snake Glen Heffer force me into coming up with

Floyd | ransom money--Uncle Bucky wouldn't want that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "tell sarah about deputies"
Floyd | Sarah doesn't seem particularly interested in what you have to say

Floyd | about the Sheriff's deputies.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "tell sarah about sheriff"
Floyd | Sarah doesn't seem particularly interested in what you have to say

Floyd | about Sheriff Argyle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask sarah about grady"
Floyd | "Hmmm.  I don't really know him that well.  Doesn't seem like the

Floyd | happiest guy, though, does he?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask sarah about hildegarde"
Floyd | You can't use the word "hildegarde".

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask sarah about mare"
Floyd | Sarah doesn't seem to know anything about the old black mare.
Floyd |

Floyd | Sarah moves to the door.  "I've got to go now.  I'll see you there."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask sarah about buffy"
Floyd | You can't use the word "buffy".

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline asks, "Wait, see us *where*, precisely?"
schep says, "along the east road"
Bert says, "East end of the road north of town."
DavidW says, "End of the east road, north of town"
Bert asks, "Did she say when?"
schep says, "no, thankfully"
Bert says, "Hee."
Jacqueline says, "heehee"
Bert asks, "Do we want to prepare in town, or just head out?"
Jacqueline says, "Well, let's save, then ride."
Bert says (to Floyd), "save"
Floyd | Enter saved game to store:

Bert says (to Floyd), "cf4"
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "mosey"
Floyd | You can't use the word "mosey".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert asks, "What kind of a Western is this?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd | To walk, you will have to get off of the old black mare.  Otherwise,
Floyd | try "ride" or "gallop" and a direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "ride se"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street, on an old black mare
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.

Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |   To the south, you can see a gang of deputies lounging around outside
Floyd | Grady's Saloon--presumably waiting for you.
Floyd |

Floyd | Old Dan arrives from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride n"
Floyd |

Floyd | Edge of town, on an old black mare
Floyd |   You can still see Tumbleweed Flats behind you where the road curves
Floyd | around from the south.  A dead, rotted tree stands here, marking the
Floyd | memory of the last living thing between here and where the road
Floyd | disappears into the eastern distance.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says (to Bert), "heh"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x tree"
Floyd | The tree is now gray and rotted.  It marks the point where the road
Floyd | comes up from the southwest and turns east.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | To walk, you will have to get off of the old black mare.  Otherwise,
Floyd | try "ride" or "gallop" and a direction.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Long and dusty road, on an old black mare

Floyd |   Brambles and cactuses all over the place.  Some might call it the
Floyd | desert.  Not all that lucky for you, seeing as you're wandering around
Floyd | in the middle of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride e"
Floyd | The old black mare continues plodding eastward...  (Now would be a good
Floyd | time to decide that a younger, stronger horse would be a good idea.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Long and dusty road, on an old black mare

Floyd |   Brambles and cactuses all over the place.  Some might call it the
Floyd | desert.  Not all that lucky for you, seeing as you're wandering around
Floyd | in the middle of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "hit horse"
Floyd | Venting your frustrations on the old black mare won't accomplish much.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Maybe give the taffy to the poor horse."
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride e"
Floyd | The old black mare continues plodding eastward...
Floyd | Common sense says this old mare ain't gonna make it.  Common sense says
Floyd | go back.
Floyd |

Floyd | Long and dusty road, on an old black mare
Floyd |   Brambles and cactuses all over the place.  Some might call it the
Floyd | desert.  Not all that lucky for you, seeing as you're wandering around
Floyd | in the middle of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "It's sugar, after all."
Bert says (to Floyd), "give taffy to horse"
Floyd | The kind gesture goes unnoticed by the old black mare.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert exclaims, "She canna take much more o' this, Captain!"
schep says, "if we had any common sense, we might not be in this mess"
Bert exclaims, "Is that a vote for kill the mare and restore? I think it is!"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride e"
Floyd | The old black mare continues plodding eastward...
Floyd | The mare wheezes as she plods along.
Floyd |
Floyd | Long and dusty road, on an old black mare
Floyd |   Brambles and cactuses all over the place.  Some might call it the
Floyd | desert.  Not all that lucky for you, seeing as you're wandering around

Floyd | in the middle of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride e"
Floyd | The old black mare continues plodding eastward...

Floyd |
Floyd | Long and dusty road, on an old black mare
Floyd |   Brambles and cactuses all over the place.  Some might call it the
Floyd | desert.  Not all that lucky for you, seeing as you're wandering around
Floyd | in the middle of it.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride e"
Floyd | The old black mare continues plodding eastward...
Floyd | In your wisdom, you have driven the old black mare past the point of
Floyd | exhaustion.  To be a little more exact (and graphic), the poor horse

Floyd | suddenly collapses, moaning and wheezing, sending you tumbling to the
Floyd | ground.  Then she coughs her last and dies.
Floyd |
Floyd | Long and dusty road
Floyd |   Brambles and cactuses all over the place.  Some might call it the
Floyd | desert.  Not all that lucky for you, seeing as you're wandering around

Floyd | in the middle of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "mare"
Floyd | You don't see that.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x mare"
Floyd | You don't see that.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x body"
Floyd | You don't see that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "x corpse"
Floyd | You don't see that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Well, there goes my dinner, right into the ether."
inky says, "I assume we were flung forward into the next room"
schep says, "hello Grunk"
maga says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd |

Floyd | Long and dusty road
Floyd |   Brambles and cactuses all over the place.  Some might call it the
Floyd | desert.  Not all that lucky for you, seeing as you're wandering around
Floyd | in the middle of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

schep says, "well, nothing to do now but head on"
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | You trudge back in the direction of town...
Floyd |
Floyd | Long and dusty road

Floyd |   Brambles and cactuses all over the place.  Some might call it the
Floyd | desert.  Not all that lucky for you, seeing as you're wandering around
Floyd | in the middle of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Long and dusty road
Floyd |   Brambles and cactuses all over the place.  Some might call it the
Floyd | desert.  Not all that lucky for you, seeing as you're wandering around

Floyd | in the middle of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "(Just checking for horpse corses.)"
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | You continue trudging eastward on foot...
Floyd |
Floyd | Long and dusty road
Floyd |   Brambles and cactuses all over the place.  Some might call it the
Floyd | desert.  Not all that lucky for you, seeing as you're wandering around
Floyd | in the middle of it.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | You continue trudging eastward on foot...
Floyd |

Floyd | Long and dusty road
Floyd |   Brambles and cactuses all over the place.  Some might call it the
Floyd | desert.  Not all that lucky for you, seeing as you're wandering around
Floyd | in the middle of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | You continue trudging eastward on foot...
Floyd |
Floyd | Long and dusty road
Floyd |   Brambles and cactuses all over the place.  Some might call it the

Floyd | desert.  Not all that lucky for you, seeing as you're wandering around
Floyd | in the middle of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | You continue trudging eastward on foot...
Floyd |
Floyd | Long and dusty road
Floyd |   Brambles and cactuses all over the place.  Some might call it the
Floyd | desert.  Not all that lucky for you, seeing as you're wandering around
Floyd | in the middle of it.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | You continue trudging eastward on foot...
Floyd | (Having vastly overestimated your own ability to make this little

Floyd | journey on your own, you collapse face-first onto the dirt road.  And
Floyd | then you stop breathing.)
Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,

Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Long and dusty road
Floyd |   Brambles and cactuses all over the place.  Some might call it the

Floyd | desert.  Not all that lucky for you, seeing as you're wandering around
Floyd | in the middle of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "eat taffy"
Floyd | You chomp down about half of the taffy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "eat taffy"
Floyd | You gobble the rest of the taffy.  Yum.  All gone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | You continue trudging eastward on foot...

Floyd | (Having vastly overestimated your own ability to make this little
Floyd | journey on your own, you collapse face-first onto the dirt road.  And
Floyd | then you stop breathing.)
Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |

Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
inky says, "ok, uh"
schep says (to Sarah), "I guess it's the 'just stupid' option"
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Enter saved game to load:
inky asks, "maybe we're supposed to bring water or food for the horse?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf4"
Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |

Floyd | Stable, on an old black mare
Floyd |   Smells musty, just like every other stable you've ever been in.
Floyd | There's a meager half-light drifting down from a window in the loft
Floyd | overhead, and the stable door leads back out onto Main Street to the
Floyd | southeast.  If anybody in this town owned a horse, this is where they'd
Floyd | keep it.

Floyd |   Sarah is here.
Floyd |   The gate to the stall to the north is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky asks, "or wait a turn in between making it ride?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask sarah about horse"
Floyd | Sarah doesn't seem to know anything about the old black mare.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "Sarah, of course, gets to the end of the east road via subway."
Bert says, "She's a friend of Jared."
Bert says, "Well, time to explore."
DavidW says, "Either we need another horse than this one, or upgrade it somehow. Food or adrenaline."
Bert says (to Floyd), "dismount"
Floyd | You get off of the old black mare.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sarah slips out of the stable.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x window"
Floyd | The hayloft is a good ten feet over your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "maybe we need a horse of a different color"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x loft"
Floyd | The hayloft is a good ten feet over your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "hey, just the height of the ladder"
DavidW says, "oh ho"
Bert says (to inky), "That seems a bit to unlikely of a coincidence to actually be significant."
DavidW says, "Get one of the kids to climb in the window."
DavidW says, "of the shed"
Bert says, "I hope it doesn't turn out we missed some stuff in the saloon that we can't do now that we fell out the window."
Bert says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.

Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |   To the south, you can see a gang of deputies lounging around outside
Floyd | Grady's Saloon--presumably waiting for you.

Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "shout at deputies"
Floyd | That doesn't make any sense.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky asks, "can we not climb back up the sheet?"
Bert asks (of Spur), "No, but why should that stop us now?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Knowing full well there's a way over the barrels and crates, you
Floyd | clamber awkwardly over the stack...

Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow alley
Floyd |   Running along the north side of Grady's--the old wall of the building
Floyd | is directly behind you.  Grady's storage shed is just to the north, and
Floyd | Main Street is back out to the west.  You're well hidden by a stack of
Floyd | old, sun-bleached wooden barrels.   Overhead, you can see your

Floyd | bedsheet, flapping in the wind from where it's still attached to the
Floyd | drainpipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to inky), "no"
Bert says (to Floyd), "climb sheet"
Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow alley
Floyd |   Running along the north side of Grady's--the old wall of the building
Floyd | is directly behind you.  Grady's storage shed is just to the north, and

Floyd | Main Street is back out to the west.  You're well hidden by a stack of
Floyd | old, sun-bleached wooden barrels.   Overhead, you can see your
Floyd | bedsheet, flapping in the wind from where it's still attached to the
Floyd | drainpipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "lame"
inky says (to Floyd), "up"
Floyd | You scramble back up the bedsheet to the open window.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your hotel room

Floyd |   Not too fancy, but then you get what you pay for.  A bed with a
Floyd | mattress that was, as you vaguely remember it, rather wooden.  A wash
Floyd | basin and mirror along one wall.  Curtains open, revealing the single
Floyd | small window and Main Street below.
Floyd |   Through the open curtains, you can see your bedsheet fluttering from
Floyd | where it is tied to the drainpipe outside.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "bah"
Bert says, "lame++"
Bert says (to Floyd), "out.d.ask grady about horse"
Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow alley
Floyd |   Running along the north side of Grady's--the old wall of the building
Floyd | is directly behind you.  Grady's storage shed is just to the north, and
Floyd | Main Street is back out to the west.  You're well hidden by a stack of
Floyd | old, sun-bleached wooden barrels.   Overhead, you can see your

Floyd | bedsheet, flapping in the wind from where it's still attached to the
Floyd | drainpipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | The alley is wedged between the hotel to the south and the shed to the
Floyd | north; it basically runs a short ways east-west.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says, "Whoops."
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow alley

Floyd |   Running along the north side of Grady's--the old wall of the building
Floyd | is directly behind you.  Grady's storage shed is just to the north, and
Floyd | Main Street is back out to the west.  You're well hidden by a stack of
Floyd | old, sun-bleached wooden barrels.   Overhead, you can see your
Floyd | bedsheet, flapping in the wind from where it's still attached to the
Floyd | drainpipe.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Your hotel room

Floyd |   Not too fancy, but then you get what you pay for.  A bed with a
Floyd | mattress that was, as you vaguely remember it, rather wooden.  A wash
Floyd | basin and mirror along one wall.  Curtains open, revealing the single
Floyd | small window and Main Street below.
Floyd |   Through the open curtains, you can see your bedsheet fluttering from
Floyd | where it is tied to the drainpipe outside.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Upstairs hallway

Floyd |   Rooms on all sides of the landing--their doors closed and probably
Floyd | locked.  The stairs go back downstairs to the saloon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel
Floyd |   Sunlight glares in through the swinging saloonesque doors, only to be
Floyd | swallowed up by the murkiness inside.  Tables and chairs, barstools
Floyd | along the long counter, and a room-length mirror behind the bar.
Floyd | There's a horseshoe tacked to the wall, too.  Stairs go up to the hotel

Floyd | rooms on the second floor.  The billiards room, such as it is, is in
Floyd | the northwest corner.
Floyd |   You catch glimpses of boots underneath the swinging doors, walking
Floyd | back and forth outside the saloon--the Sheriff's deputies, presumably
Floyd | waiting for you.
Floyd |   Grady is behind the bar.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask grady about horse"
Floyd | Grady doesn't seem to know anything about the old black mare.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask grady about deputies"
Floyd | Grady doesn't seem to know anything about the Sheriff's deputies.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says, "Perhaps a car."
schep says (to Floyd), "ask grady about stable"
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "x horseshoe"
Floyd | Your basic lucky-charm horseshoe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Or a bicycle."
schep says (to Floyd), "ask grady about shed"
Floyd | "What?  The shed is locked.  What about it?  Leave me alone.  What have
Floyd | you ever done for me?"
Floyd |

Floyd | Old Dan arrives from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady looks up from behind the bar as Old Dan wanders in.  "Out!" he
Floyd | says, pointing toward the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "ask grady about ladder"
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take horseshoe"
Floyd | You can't take that.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the west.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel
Floyd |   Sunlight glares in through the swinging saloonesque doors, only to be

Floyd | swallowed up by the murkiness inside.  Tables and chairs, barstools
Floyd | along the long counter, and a room-length mirror behind the bar.
Floyd | There's a horseshoe tacked to the wall, too.  Stairs go up to the hotel
Floyd | rooms on the second floor.  The billiards room, such as it is, is in
Floyd | the northwest corner.
Floyd |   You catch glimpses of boots underneath the swinging doors, walking

Floyd | back and forth outside the saloon--the Sheriff's deputies, presumably
Floyd | waiting for you.
Floyd |   Grady is behind the bar.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask grady about horseshoe"
Floyd | "Hasn't done me much good.  Need a new lucky charm."
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the west.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "I wonder if that is literally true"
Bert says (to W), "Whoops, sorry."
DavidW asks, "maybe we should be talking to Old Dan?"
inky says, "if we should find a clover or something"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask grady about lucky charm"
Floyd | "Hasn't done me much good.  Need a new lucky charm."
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady leafs through the hotel ledger.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Perhaps we should cut off our right pinky finger and give it to Grady as a good luck charm."
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask grady about clover" DavidW asks, "Billiards room?"
Floyd | You haven't seen any "clover", nor are you likely to, even if such a
Floyd | thing exists.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask grady about glurgleblickzt"
Floyd | You can't use the word "glurgleblickzt".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd |
Floyd | Billiards room
Floyd |   One measly pool table comprises the billiards room.  That and a
Floyd | heavily locked door behind which Grady stashes his liquor.  Southeast
Floyd | takes you back out into the saloon.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says, "I sense an involuntarily informative parser."
schep says (to Floyd), "take ball"
Floyd | You should probably be doing something else rather than messing around
Floyd | with the billiards equipment.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "hee hee"
DavidW says, "ah. If we can get liquor for Dan..."
inky says, "then he'll shout "hoo-eee""
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door"
Floyd | The locked door looks just like you would expect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x table"
Floyd | Not a very fine specimen of the billiards world.  One of the four legs
Floyd | is shorter than the other three, giving the balls a tendency to roll
Floyd | into the bottom right pocket.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "x bottom right pocket"
Floyd | The pool table pocket looks just like you would expect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "search it"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean the pool table pocket.)
Floyd | You don't find anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "look in it"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean the pool table pocket.)
Floyd | The pool table pocket is empty.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "hmm, weird"
Bert says (to Floyd), "unlock door"
Floyd | The door is locked up as tight as anything you've ever seen.  There's
Floyd | no way in hell you're ever going to get it open.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under table" Jacqueline says, "I am picturing Dan as played by the same character who played the town drunk (Earl?) on the Andy Griffith Show."
Floyd | You don't find anything under the pool table.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert asks, "That it would be mentioned but not significant?"
schep says (to Floyd), "x bottom left pocket"
Floyd | You can't use the word "left".
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "unlock door with skeleton key"
Floyd | The door is locked up as tight as anything you've ever seen.  There's
Floyd | no way in hell you're ever going to get it open.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "search table"
Floyd | You don't find anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot door"
Floyd | You pull the trigger, and--CLICK.  Your six-shooter is empty.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "x roy's gun"
Floyd | A six-shooter like yours, but a lot nicer, to be honest.  While you
Floyd | paid about three bucks for yours, old Roy here--rest his soul, and all
Floyd | that--must've dropped at least ten.  Maybe even fifteen.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says, "I guess in some sense you're saving space by not having any conversation"
inky says, "er"
Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot door with roy's gun"
Floyd | You put a bullet in the door.  From the next room you hear Grady
Floyd | holler:  "What the Jesus are you doing in there?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Billiards room
Floyd |   One measly pool table comprises the billiards room.  That and a
Floyd | heavily locked door behind which Grady stashes his liquor.  Southeast
Floyd | takes you back out into the saloon.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert exclaims, "Nothing, mom! Don't come in!"
DavidW says, "ha ha ha"
inky says, "surely this room must have some purpose"
Jacqueline says, "Hm. Gotta go - see you later."
inky says (to Floyd), "look under table"
Floyd | You don't find anything under the pool table.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "x balls"
Floyd | You should probably be doing something else rather than messing around
Floyd | with the billiards equipment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "x leg"
Floyd | You can't use the word "leg".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "bye J"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "push table"
Floyd | Pushing the pool table doesn't get you anywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lock"
Floyd | That doesn't make any sense.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert asks (of maga, Jacq), "You guys did actually turn on logging when Perry entered, right?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "stand on table"
Floyd | That doesn't make any sense.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

schep says, "there are probably a few more places to see in town"
maga says (to Bert), "Jacq generally just copy-and-pastes a fuckton of scrollback"
DavidW asks, "hm. Look behind the bar, maybe?"
Bert says (to maga), "Yeah, but if she loses her connection..."
Bert says (to Floyd), "look behind bar"
Floyd | That doesn't make any sense.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel
Floyd |   Sunlight glares in through the swinging saloonesque doors, only to be
Floyd | swallowed up by the murkiness inside.  Tables and chairs, barstools
Floyd | along the long counter, and a room-length mirror behind the bar.
Floyd | There's a horseshoe tacked to the wall, too.  Stairs go up to the hotel

Floyd | rooms on the second floor.  The billiards room, such as it is, is in
Floyd | the northwest corner.
Floyd |   Grady is behind the bar.
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady leafs through the hotel ledger.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "look behind bar"
Floyd | You don't need to refer to that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "x ledger"
Floyd | You can't use the word "ledger".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "I guess maybe we should check out the store."
schep says (to Floyd), "ask grady for key"
Floyd | Which key do you mean, the skeleton key or the shed key?
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says, "Maybe they've got a sale on bicycles."
Bert says (to Floyd), "shed"
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

schep says (to Floyd), "ask grady for shed key"
Floyd | "What?  The shed is locked.  What about it?  Leave me alone.  What have
Floyd | you ever done for me?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "ask grady about favors"
Floyd | You can't use the word "favors".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "So maybe we can get the shed key if we give him a clover."
DavidW says, "I doubt we can reach the general store if the law is outside."
Bert says, "And thus the ladder, and thus the lofty heights above the stable."
Bert says (to W), "Hmm."
Bert asks, "Backdoor?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "u. w. climb sheet"
Floyd |
Floyd | Upstairs hallway
Floyd |   Rooms on all sides of the landing--their doors closed and probably
Floyd | locked.  The stairs go back downstairs to the saloon.

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Your hotel room
Floyd |   Not too fancy, but then you get what you pay for.  A bed with a
Floyd | mattress that was, as you vaguely remember it, rather wooden.  A wash
Floyd | basin and mirror along one wall.  Curtains open, revealing the single

Floyd | small window and Main Street below.
Floyd |   Through the open curtains, you can see your bedsheet fluttering from
Floyd | where it is tied to the drainpipe outside.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow alley

Floyd |   Running along the north side of Grady's--the old wall of the building
Floyd | is directly behind you.  Grady's storage shed is just to the north, and
Floyd | Main Street is back out to the west.  You're well hidden by a stack of
Floyd | old, sun-bleached wooden barrels.   Overhead, you can see your
Floyd | bedsheet, flapping in the wind from where it's still attached to the
Floyd | drainpipe.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | You find a foothold on the stack of barrels and clamber over.
Floyd |

Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.

Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert asks, "Hey, do you not see what I don't see?"
DavidW asks, "The kids?"
maga says (to Jota), "I'm doing the logging this week"
DavidW asks, "oh. No sheriff's men?"
Bert says (to W), "That's what I'm thinking."
Bert says, "Maybe we outwaited them."
Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street

Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.

Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | South end of Main Street
Floyd |   Standing here in the middle of Main Street, you are directly across
Floyd | from the Tumbleweed Flats Sheriff's Department, which is directly to

Floyd | the east.  Not the safest place to hang out, perhaps, considering that
Floyd | the gallows are right on the other side of the street--and you might as
Floyd | well try and avoid that particular inevitability for as long as
Floyd | possible.  Might be a better idea to head north, back up Main Street.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "save"
Floyd | Enter saved game to store:
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf5"
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | Going south from here will get you nowhere.  You really don't need any
Floyd | more of that then you've already got.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Sheriff's building
Floyd |   Cramped quarters, actually.  Barely room enough for the sheriff's
Floyd | desk and a jail cell in the corner.

Floyd |   Sheriff Argyle is sitting behind his desk, munching on a sandwich and
Floyd | reading "Strange Western Lawkeeper Tales".
Floyd |
Floyd | Argyle's eyes bulge out of his head as you stroll in.  He drops his
Floyd | sandwich.  "Jumpin' Jehosophat!  I mean...well, I mean, aren't you the
Floyd | guy who shot Roy Heffer?"

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "no"
Floyd | That was a rhetorical question.  (Although you sound rather negative.)
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "argyle, no"
Floyd | Sheriff Argyle ignores you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "tell argyle about dan"
Floyd | Sheriff Argyle doesn't seem particularly interested in what you have to
Floyd | say about Old Dan.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "ask argyle about horse"
Floyd | The Sheriff eyes you warily.  "Look, I'm not exactly sure what you're
Floyd | hoping to find out here.  This have anything to do with why you smoked
Floyd | Roy?"
Floyd |

Floyd | >
maga says, "shoot him! shoot him shoot him"
Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot argyle"
Floyd | You pull the trigger, and--CLICK.  Your six-shooter is empty.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says, "Didn't even flinch. I'm impressed."
Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot argyle with roy's gun"
Floyd | You pull the trigger and shoot Sheriff Argyle.  He falls to the ground,
Floyd | twitches a couple of times, then lies there, getting cold.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "search corpse"
Floyd | You don't find anything.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get badge"
Floyd | You can't use the word "badge".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "x corpse"
Floyd | One dead sheriff.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "score"
Floyd | As in, you'd like to know how you're doing, right?
Floyd |
Floyd | Well, although you did wind up killing Roy Heffer, it was in self
Floyd | defense.  It would also be interesting to see who would think highly of

Floyd | your stealing Little Jimmy's candy.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the bright side, you figured out a way to slip out of your hotel
Floyd | room unnoticed.
Floyd |
Floyd | That's what you've managed to get done so far.  Getting in over your

Floyd | head, that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says, "ha ha ha"
maga says, "candy theft: worse than cop-killing"
Bert says, "Awesome. This does not impact your personal assessment of yourself one way or the other."
Bert says, "(Restore?)"
schep says, "yeah"
Bert says (to Floyd), "restore"
Floyd | Enter saved game to load:
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf"
Floyd | Unable to restore.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "restore"
Floyd | Enter saved game to load:
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf5"
Floyd | Restored.

Floyd |
Floyd | South end of Main Street
Floyd |   Standing here in the middle of Main Street, you are directly across
Floyd | from the Tumbleweed Flats Sheriff's Department, which is directly to
Floyd | the east.  Not the safest place to hang out, perhaps, considering that
Floyd | the gallows are right on the other side of the street--and you might as

Floyd | well try and avoid that particular inevitability for as long as
Floyd | possible.  Might be a better idea to head north, back up Main Street.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I'm rather exhausted. I may have to crash soon."
schep says (to Floyd), "get noose"
Floyd | You can't use the word "noose".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

schep says, "don't give Floyd any ideas"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask dan about liquor"
Floyd | "I just don't know anything about that, cowboy.  How's about buying me
Floyd | a drink anyway?"
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says, "So, what do we want to do? Interact with the Sheriff, try to find the gallows, checkout out the store, look into the field near the stables..."
Bert asks, "Chat up some NPCs, or something else entirely?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask dan about luck"
Floyd | "I just don't know anything about that, cowboy.  How's about buying me
Floyd | a drink anyway?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says, "the gallows seem Not Important."
Bert says, "(I vote for store.)"
schep says, "Let's see the store."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask dan about horse"
Floyd | "I just don't know anything about that, cowboy.  How's about buying me
Floyd | a drink anyway?"

Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga asks, "we need water to keep our horse alive, maybe?"
Bert says, "We'd want a bucket too, then."
DavidW says, "we need something, yeah"
inky asks, "you were going to look for clovers in the field?"
Bert says, "That's two votes for store."
Bert says (to Floyd), "n.w"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street

Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Lucille's General Store
Floyd |   More clutter than any person in their right mind would know what to
Floyd | do with.  Luckily Lucille has the right idea:  put it all on shelves
Floyd | and call it a General Store.  Among other things, the shelves contain a

Floyd | box of bullets (one dollar), a box of shotgun shells (three dollars),
Floyd | an empty taffy box, a trail kit (one dollar), and a pick-axe (five
Floyd | dollars).
Floyd |   Lucille herself is standing behind the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "x kit"
Floyd | A label reads:  "Everything you need to be prepared.  If you don't get
Floyd | yourself one of these here kits, you're not prepared.  If you're not
Floyd | prepared, you're dead, buddy.  Get it?"  The hard sell, you might say.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask lucille about kit"
Floyd | "What, that thing?  Piece of crap is what it is.  Don't even know why
Floyd | I've got it.  But I ain't giving it away, if that's what you're
Floyd | thinking."

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask lucille about bullets"
Floyd | "Well, you wanna buy it or not?"
Floyd |

Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "buy kit"
Floyd | With what?  You're broke, cowboy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "x taffy"
Floyd | The sticky taffy looks just like you would expect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x kit"
Floyd | A label reads:  "Everything you need to be prepared.  If you don't get
Floyd | yourself one of these here kits, you're not prepared.  If you're not
Floyd | prepared, you're dead, buddy.  Get it?"  The hard sell, you might say.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are wearing your holster on your hip where it belongs.  You are
Floyd | holding a whiskey bottle.  You are also carrying a skeleton key, two
Floyd | pistols (your six-shooter and Roy's gun), a handwritten note, a scrap

Floyd | of cloth, and some sticky taffy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "sell bottle"
Floyd | You can't use the word "sell".

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "give bottle"
Floyd | Try giving something to someone in particular.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "give bottle to lucille"
Floyd | Lucille politely refuses.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan arrives from the east.

Floyd |
Floyd | Lucille rolls her eyes as Dan comes in.  "What do you want now, old
Floyd | timer?" she asks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "show roy's gun to lucille"
Floyd | Lucille doesn't seem too interested in Roy's gun.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the east.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "ask lucille about job"
Floyd | You can't use the word "job".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask lucille about dan"
Floyd | Lucille doesn't seem to know anything about Old Dan.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "ask lucille about money"
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd |
Floyd | Lucille's General Store
Floyd |   More clutter than any person in their right mind would know what to
Floyd | do with.  Luckily Lucille has the right idea:  put it all on shelves
Floyd | and call it a General Store.  Among other things, the shelves contain a

Floyd | box of bullets (one dollar), a box of shotgun shells (three dollars),
Floyd | an empty taffy box, a trail kit (one dollar), and a pick-axe (five
Floyd | dollars).
Floyd |   Lucille herself is standing behind the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to schep), "Yeah, that's the problem."
Taleslinger says (to schep), "what, we're gonna sell ourselves"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask lucille about money"
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "remove pants"
Floyd | You don't see that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Sargent says, "whoops, time to go"
Sargent says, "good luck!"
Sargent says good riddens to this so called 'Friend'
Bert says (to Floyd), "x clutter"
Floyd | Among other things, the shelves contain a box of bullets (one dollar),
Floyd | a box of shotgun shells (three dollars), an empty taffy box, a trail
Floyd | kit (one dollar), and a pick-axe (five dollars).
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "save"
Floyd | Enter saved game to store:
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf5"
Floyd | Saved.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep asks, "doesn't this town have a bank we can hold up?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot lucille with roy's gun"
Floyd | You pull the trigger and shoot Lucille.  She falls to the ground,

Floyd | twitches a couple of times, then lies there, getting cold.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Taleslinger asks, "for a fistful of dollars?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "get kit"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get bullets"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get all"
Floyd | Only if you want to be spotted carting a dead body around town.  Not

Floyd | recommended.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says (to Floyd), "score"
Floyd | As in, you'd like to know how you're doing, right?

Floyd |
Floyd | Well, although you did wind up killing Roy Heffer, it was in self
Floyd | defense.  It would also be interesting to see who would think highly of
Floyd | your stealing Little Jimmy's candy.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the bright side, you figured out a way to slip out of your hotel

Floyd | room unnoticed.
Floyd |
Floyd | That's what you've managed to get done so far.  Getting in over your
Floyd | head, that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "get all from shelves"
Floyd | box of shotgun shells:  Taken.
Floyd | empty taffy box:  You can't take that.
Floyd | pick-axe:  You're carrying too much to take that.
Floyd |

Floyd | Suddenly a half-dozen of the Sheriff's roughest, toughest, and
Floyd | hungriest-for-justice deputies show up.  They level their guns at the
Floyd | murderer (meaning you, of course), and bring you down in a blaze of
Floyd | trigger-pulling.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***

Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
Bert says (to Floyd), "apologize"
Floyd | Enter (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE, (U)NDO, or (Q)UIT:

Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Enter saved game to load:
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf5"
Floyd | Restored.

Floyd |
Floyd | Lucille's General Store
Floyd |   More clutter than any person in their right mind would know what to
Floyd | do with.  Luckily Lucille has the right idea:  put it all on shelves
Floyd | and call it a General Store.  Among other things, the shelves contain a
Floyd | box of bullets (one dollar), a box of shotgun shells (three dollars),

Floyd | an empty taffy box, a trail kit (one dollar), and a pick-axe (five
Floyd | dollars).
Floyd |   Lucille herself is standing behind the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Maybe not the right answer."
Bert says (to Floyd), "give all to lucille"
Floyd | You can't give multiple objects.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are wearing your holster on your hip where it belongs.  You are
Floyd | holding a whiskey bottle.  You are also carrying a skeleton key, two
Floyd | pistols (your six-shooter and Roy's gun), a handwritten note, a scrap
Floyd | of cloth, and some sticky taffy.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says (to Floyd), "x lucille"
Floyd | Lucille is actually not the Lucille in "Lucille's General
Floyd | Store"--Lucille is Lucille's daughter.  She's in her mid-fifties,

Floyd | skinny as a post, and exceptionally stern-looking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "ask lucille about taffy box"
Floyd | "You lnow what it is?  It's that damned John Stratford came in here and

Floyd | bought up all my damned taffy.  Rich old bastard.  Now I got that
Floyd | irritating little kid what's-his-name in here crying for candy.  Damned
Floyd | if I don't claw my own eyes out one of these days."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "give roy's gun to lucille"
Floyd | Lucille politely refuses.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask lucille about stratford"
Floyd | "He's a pompous bastard.  So rich and all, living in that mansion back
Floyd | in the trees, him and that whatever-her-name-is."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "ask lucille about roy's gun"
Floyd | Lucille doesn't seem to know anything about Roy's gun.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask lucille about mansion"
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says, "oho, rich person"
Bert exclaims, "I bet he's rich enough to have a horse!"
schep says (to Floyd), "give taffy to lucille"
Floyd | Lucille politely refuses.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says, "Is there water anywhere? Fill the whiskey bottle with water and give to Dan."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x water"
Floyd | You can't use the word "water".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up

Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x water"
Floyd | You can't use the word "water".
Floyd |

Floyd | >
schep exclaims, "or enough money to buy everything in the store!"
Bert says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.

Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd |
Floyd | Empty lot
Floyd |   Standing where you are, in the middle of a thicket of weeds, you're
Floyd | faced by a wall of impenetrable brush to the north.  Just to the right

Floyd | of the trees, to the northeast, is the entrance the local stable.  Back
Floyd | east is Main Street.
Floyd |   Little Jimmy is here, looking sullen.
Floyd |   Bobby is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

schep says, "apparently there is no water. anywhere."
Bert says (to Floyd), "kiss jimmy"
Floyd | Little Jimmy doesn't seem to share your affection.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

schep says (to Floyd), "jimmy, follow me"
Floyd | Little Jimmy ignores you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x brush"
Floyd | Very dense.  If there's anything behind the trees, you'd have a heck of
Floyd | a time trying to fight your way through the brush to find it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "move brush"
Floyd | You can't move the impenetrable brush.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get brush"
Floyd | You can't take that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "search brush"
Floyd | You don't find anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd | You can't go that way.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | There's no way you'll be able to navigate your way through that thick
Floyd | brush.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "enter brush"
Floyd | You can't enter the impenetrable brush.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are wearing your holster on your hip where it belongs.  You are
Floyd | holding a whiskey bottle.  You are also carrying a skeleton key, two
Floyd | pistols (your six-shooter and Roy's gun), a handwritten note, a scrap

Floyd | of cloth, and some sticky taffy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot brush with roy's gun"
Floyd | You can't shoot the impenetrable brush.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert asks, "Any suggestions?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd |

Floyd | Empty lot
Floyd |   Standing where you are, in the middle of a thicket of weeds, you're
Floyd | faced by a wall of impenetrable brush to the north.  Just to the right
Floyd | of the trees, to the northeast, is the entrance the local stable.  Back
Floyd | east is Main Street.
Floyd |   Little Jimmy is here, looking sullen.

Floyd |   Bobby is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x weeds"
Floyd | They look kind of a mess.  Someone really ought to get busy doing some

Floyd | weed-picking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "pick weeds"
Floyd | You pluck one of the weeds from the ground.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "pick weeds"
Floyd | Probably not such a brilliant idea to keep digging around in the weeds
Floyd | while the world is passing you by.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x weed"
Floyd | Green.  Weedish.  Six leaves.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "search weeds"
Floyd | You don't find anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

K-Y says, "Now I remember"
Bert . o O ( Are you thinking what inky's probably thinking? )
maga says (to Floyd), "smoke weed"
Floyd | You can't use the word "smoke".
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x leaves"
Floyd | Green.  Weedish.  Six leaves.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask bobby about shed"
Floyd | Bobby ignores you as if he didn't even hear you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bobby"
Floyd | The other half of the menacing team that is Little Jimmy and Bobby.  In
Floyd | another eighty years or so, they'd diagnose this kid as having
Floyd | hyperactivity/attention-deficit disorder.  But at the moment, you just
Floyd | find him annoying.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says (to Floyd), "put taffy in gun"
Floyd | Roy's gun is closed.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "eat weed"
Floyd | You can't eat the weed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "open roy's gun"
Floyd | You crack it open.  There are six bullets left.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "give taffy to bobby"
Floyd | Bobby refuses.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert asks, "Did Roy never even get a shot off?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "put taffy in roy's gun"
Floyd | Roy's gun is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says (to Floyd), "open my gun"
Floyd | You crack it open.  It's empty.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says, "woo, we can shoot six more things."
Bert exclaims, "Or one thing six times!"
Bert says, "(There may be a boss fight.)"
Bert says, "(Up up left down up left right shoot jump.)"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "jimmy about father"
Floyd | You can't use the word "father".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask jimmy about stratford"
Floyd | Little Jimmy bawls:  "Taffy!  Taffy!  Gimme back my taffy!"

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "It's a terrible speech impediment."
Bert says (to Floyd), "give brat his taffy"
Floyd | You can't use the word "brat".

Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says, "let's try inky's idea"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x weed"
Floyd | Green.  Weedish.  Six leaves.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "search weeds"
Floyd | You don't find anything.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get leaf"
Floyd | You don't see that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says, "Hrm, maybe not."
Bert says (to Floyd), "get leaf from weed"
Floyd | You don't see that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

DavidW says (to Floyd), "pluck weed"
Floyd | You pluck a leaf from the weed.  It flutters away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says, "six is twice as lucky as four, if you can't do math. Oh, or that."
Bert says, "Oh. Huh."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x weed"
Floyd | Green.  Weedish.  There are five leaves left that you haven't plucked.
Floyd | (Looks kinda like a five-leaf clover.)

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street

Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a

Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying

Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |

Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel
Floyd |   Sunlight glares in through the swinging saloonesque doors, only to be
Floyd | swallowed up by the murkiness inside.  Tables and chairs, barstools
Floyd | along the long counter, and a room-length mirror behind the bar.
Floyd | There's a horseshoe tacked to the wall, too.  Stairs go up to the hotel
Floyd | rooms on the second floor.  The billiards room, such as it is, is in

Floyd | the northwest corner.
Floyd |   Grady is behind the bar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "give weed to grady"
Floyd | "No thanks.  If I wanted a weed, I'd go pick my own.  Now a four-leaf
Floyd | clover:  there's a valuable plant."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "pluck leaf"
Floyd | You pluck another leaf from the weed.  It flutters away.
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady watches you, wondering the hell you're doing.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan arrives from the west.
Floyd |

Floyd | Grady looks up from behind the bar as Old Dan wanders in.  "Out!" he
Floyd | says, pointing toward the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "give weed to grady"
Floyd | "No thanks.  If I wanted a weed, I'd go pick my own.  Now a four-leaf
Floyd | clover:  there's a valuable plant."
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel
Floyd |   Sunlight glares in through the swinging saloonesque doors, only to be
Floyd | swallowed up by the murkiness inside.  Tables and chairs, barstools

Floyd | along the long counter, and a room-length mirror behind the bar.
Floyd | There's a horseshoe tacked to the wall, too.  Stairs go up to the hotel
Floyd | rooms on the second floor.  The billiards room, such as it is, is in
Floyd | the northwest corner.
Floyd |   Grady is behind the bar.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying

Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |

Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel
Floyd |   Sunlight glares in through the swinging saloonesque doors, only to be
Floyd | swallowed up by the murkiness inside.  Tables and chairs, barstools
Floyd | along the long counter, and a room-length mirror behind the bar.
Floyd | There's a horseshoe tacked to the wall, too.  Stairs go up to the hotel
Floyd | rooms on the second floor.  The billiards room, such as it is, is in

Floyd | the northwest corner.
Floyd |   Grady is behind the bar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel
Floyd |   Sunlight glares in through the swinging saloonesque doors, only to be
Floyd | swallowed up by the murkiness inside.  Tables and chairs, barstools
Floyd | along the long counter, and a room-length mirror behind the bar.
Floyd | There's a horseshoe tacked to the wall, too.  Stairs go up to the hotel

Floyd | rooms on the second floor.  The billiards room, such as it is, is in
Floyd | the northwest corner.
Floyd |   Grady is behind the bar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up

Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "pluck leaf"
Floyd | You pluck another leaf from the weed.  It flutters away.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel
Floyd |   Sunlight glares in through the swinging saloonesque doors, only to be

Floyd | swallowed up by the murkiness inside.  Tables and chairs, barstools
Floyd | along the long counter, and a room-length mirror behind the bar.
Floyd | There's a horseshoe tacked to the wall, too.  Stairs go up to the hotel
Floyd | rooms on the second floor.  The billiards room, such as it is, is in
Floyd | the northwest corner.
Floyd |   Grady is behind the bar.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "give weed to grady"
Floyd | "A four-leaf clover?  For me?  I ...well, I don't know what to say.
Floyd | Maybe this'll turn my luck around.  Maybe I misjudged you."  And with

Floyd | that, Grady takes the weed from you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan arrives from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady looks up from behind the bar as Old Dan wanders in.  "Out!" he
Floyd | says, pointing toward the door.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "score"
Floyd | As in, you'd like to know how you're doing, right?
Floyd |

Floyd | Well, although you did wind up killing Roy Heffer, it was in self
Floyd | defense.  It would also be interesting to see who would think highly of
Floyd | your stealing Little Jimmy's candy.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the bright side, you figured out a way to slip out of your hotel
Floyd | room unnoticed.  Plus, if it weren't so seedy and practically

Floyd | dishonest, having wits enough to bamboozle Grady with a weed looking
Floyd | like a four-leaf clover would almost be commendable.
Floyd |
Floyd | That's what you've managed to get done so far.  Getting in over your
Floyd | head, that is.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says, "Yay."
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask grady for shed key"
Floyd | "You want to get into that old shed?  Nothing but junk in there," Grady
Floyd | says.  But then he shrugs and digs out the key anyway, putting it down

Floyd | on the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady leafs through the hotel ledger.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the west.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "take horseshoe"
Floyd | You can't take that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "get key"
Floyd | You don't see that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "ask grady about horseshoe"
Floyd | "Hasn't done me much good.  Need a new lucky charm."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask grady for horseshoe"
Floyd | "Hasn't done me much good.  Need a new lucky charm."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.

Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "n.e"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty

Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | Knowing full well there's a way over the barrels and crates, you
Floyd | clamber awkwardly over the stack...

Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow alley
Floyd |   Running along the north side of Grady's--the old wall of the building
Floyd | is directly behind you.  Grady's storage shed is just to the north, and
Floyd | Main Street is back out to the west.  You're well hidden by a stack of
Floyd | old, sun-bleached wooden barrels.   Overhead, you can see your

Floyd | bedsheet, flapping in the wind from where it's still attached to the
Floyd | drainpipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I guess we just get the shed key"
Bert says (to Floyd), "unlock shed"
Floyd | You're not holding any key that fits.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are wearing your holster on your hip where it belongs.  You are
Floyd | holding a whiskey bottle.  You are also carrying a skeleton key, two
Floyd | pistols (your six-shooter and Roy's gun), a handwritten note, a scrap
Floyd | of cloth, and some sticky taffy.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w.s.e.get key"
Floyd | You find a foothold on the stack of barrels and clamber over.
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street

Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.

Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan arrives from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel
Floyd |   Sunlight glares in through the swinging saloonesque doors, only to be
Floyd | swallowed up by the murkiness inside.  Tables and chairs, barstools
Floyd | along the long counter, and a room-length mirror behind the bar.
Floyd | There's a horseshoe tacked to the wall, too.  Stairs go up to the hotel
Floyd | rooms on the second floor.  The billiards room, such as it is, is in

Floyd | the northwest corner.
Floyd |   Grady is behind the bar.
Floyd |   Sitting on the bar is the key to Grady's shed.
Floyd |
Floyd | You don't see that.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
schep says, "I guess 'collect four horseshoes' isn't the puzzle"
Bert says, "Um."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x key"
Floyd | Which key do you mean, the skeleton key or the shed key?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "shed"
Floyd | It's the key to Grady's shed.  In fact, it's got "Grady's Shed"

Floyd | scrawled on it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "get shed key"
Floyd | Taken.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "There we go."
Bert says (to Floyd), "w.n.e"
Floyd |

Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is

Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street

Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |

Floyd | Knowing full well there's a way over the barrels and crates, you
Floyd | clamber awkwardly over the stack...
Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow alley
Floyd |   Running along the north side of Grady's--the old wall of the building
Floyd | is directly behind you.  Grady's storage shed is just to the north, and

Floyd | Main Street is back out to the west.  You're well hidden by a stack of
Floyd | old, sun-bleached wooden barrels.   Overhead, you can see your
Floyd | bedsheet, flapping in the wind from where it's still attached to the
Floyd | drainpipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "unlock shed"
Floyd | (with the shed key)
Floyd | Unlocked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "open it"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean Grady's storage shed.)
Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "enter it"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean Grady's storage shed.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady's storage shed
Floyd |   It's dark in here.  The only light bleeds in through the window and

Floyd | the open door.  Looks like this is where Grady keeps most of his junk.
Floyd |   Resting on the ground against one wall is a ten-foot wooden ladder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get ladder"
Floyd | You're carrying too much to take that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x junk"
Floyd | Most of the metal stuff is rusted.  Most of the wooden stuff is
Floyd | termite-gnawed.  None of it is of much use to you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep exclaims, "d'oh!"
Bert exclaims, "Oh boy, inventory limits!"
Bert says (to Floyd), "search junk"
Floyd | You don't find anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are wearing your holster on your hip where it belongs.  You are
Floyd | holding a whiskey bottle.  You are also carrying two keys (a skeleton
Floyd | key and the shed key), two pistols (your six-shooter and Roy's gun), a
Floyd | handwritten note, a scrap of cloth, and some sticky taffy.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "put all in holster"
Floyd | You can't put multiple objects.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
maga says, "a sure sign of quality"
Bert says (to Floyd), "put gun in holster"
Floyd | Which gun do you mean, your six-shooter or Roy's gun?
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "mine"
Floyd | You put your six-shooter in the holster.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "get ladder"
Floyd | You're carrying too much to take that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "make bindle out of cloth"
Floyd | You can't use the word "make".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "put roy's gun in pants"
Floyd | You don't see that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "put roy's gun in holster"
Floyd | Your six-shooter is already tucked in your holster.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says, "presumably we don't need the note any more"
Bert says (to Floyd), "put cloth on head"
Floyd | You can't use the word "head".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "drop note"
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get ladder"
Floyd | You're carrying too much to take that.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are wearing your holster on your hip where it belongs.  You are
Floyd | holding a whiskey bottle.  You are also carrying two keys (a skeleton

Floyd | key and the shed key), Roy's gun, a scrap of cloth, and some sticky
Floyd | taffy.  Tucked in your holster is your six-shooter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "drop shed key"
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get ladder"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "s.w.nw.climb ladder"
Floyd |

Floyd | Narrow alley
Floyd |   Running along the north side of Grady's--the old wall of the building
Floyd | is directly behind you.  Grady's storage shed is just to the north, and
Floyd | Main Street is back out to the west.  You're well hidden by a stack of
Floyd | old, sun-bleached wooden barrels.   Overhead, you can see your
Floyd | bedsheet, flapping in the wind from where it's still attached to the

Floyd | drainpipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | You find a foothold on the stack of barrels and clamber over, dragging
Floyd | the ladder after you.
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street

Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd | Stable
Floyd |   Smells musty, just like every other stable you've ever been in.
Floyd | There's a meager half-light drifting down from a window in the loft
Floyd | overhead, and the stable door leads back out onto Main Street to the
Floyd | southeast.  If anybody in this town owned a horse, this is where they'd

Floyd | keep it.
Floyd |   The gate to the stall to the north is open.
Floyd |   An old black mare is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Try leaning the ladder against something for starters.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "lead ladder against mare"
Floyd | You can't use the word "lead".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "lean ladder against mare"
Floyd | You can't lean the ladder against the old black mare.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "lean ladder against loft"
Floyd | You lean the ladder against the loft, just where the hayloft begins.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "climb ladder"
Floyd |
Floyd | Sitting in the hayloft
Floyd |   About ten or so feet off the stable floor.  Too far to jump--better
Floyd | to make wise use of the ladder which is still leaning against the wall.
Floyd | Sunlight shines in through a small square window.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x window"
Floyd | Through the window you can see the branches of a massive oak tree.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x branches"
Floyd | Through the window you can see the branches of a massive oak tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "climb it"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean the window.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Perched on the top branch of an oak tree
Floyd |   In the manner of a crow or vulture or some other sort of

Floyd | top-branch-perching bird.  The loft window is behind you, technically
Floyd | to the southeast, while the ground is perilously far below.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd | You're in a tree.  Think about it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "fly"
Floyd | You can't use the word "fly".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Um."
schep says (to Floyd), "flap arms"
Floyd | You can't use the word "flap".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert asks, "I forget. Why did we want to be here?"
DavidW says, "To find out what's in the loft."
Bert asks, "Are we on the far side of the brambles, maybe?"
Bert asks (of W), "What's in the loft?"
schep says, "maybe it's a way past the ... yeah"
Bert says (to Floyd), "climb tree"
Floyd |
Floyd | Sitting in the hayloft
Floyd |   About ten or so feet off the stable floor.  Too far to jump--better
Floyd | to make wise use of the ladder which is still leaning against the wall.
Floyd | Sunlight shines in through a small square window.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "climb tree"
Floyd |
Floyd | Perched on the top branch of an oak tree
Floyd |   In the manner of a crow or vulture or some other sort of

Floyd | top-branch-perching bird.  The loft window is behind you, technically
Floyd | to the southeast, while the ground is perilously far below.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd | Down, you say?  Well, you begin to shimmy down the tree, precariously
Floyd | clutching onto branches and outcroppings of tough bark--whatever you
Floyd | can reach.  Finally, scraped and bruised all to hell, you find yourself
Floyd | on firm ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hidden meadow

Floyd |   Obviously not a popular picnic spot; in fact, if not for your vantage
Floyd | point perched atop the tree, you would never have known it was here,
Floyd | much less be able to blindly navigate your way through the thick of
Floyd | trees to the south.  The meadow opens up to the west.
Floyd |   Strutting proudly around the meadow is a fiery red stallion.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
schep says, "woah-ho"
Bert exclaims, "Horsie!"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x horse"
Floyd | A finer-looking animal you've never seen.  You could probably ride
Floyd | forever on this horse, and it wouldn't even break a sweat.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says, "oho. Horse mk II (non-dying model)"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride horse"
Floyd | You get on the fiery red stallion.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "shout yee-ha"
Floyd | You can't use the word "yee-ha".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "shout"
Floyd | You let out a hearty bellow.  Nothing else happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "save"
Floyd | Enter saved game to store:
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf6"
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "ride e"
Floyd | You can't ride that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride s"
Floyd | You give the red stallion a couple of pokes in its sides with your
Floyd | spurs, and the animal breaks into a trot.  A couple of seconds later,
Floyd | however, an old man in an ascot and a mop of gray hair (John Stratford,
Floyd | that is) comes chasing after you from the west.

Floyd |
Floyd | "Get off my blimey horse!" he hollers at you in a proper British
Floyd | accent.  Right before jamming a couple of shells into a
Floyd | double-barrelled shotgun and shooting you dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***

Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
Bert says, "(If I could ride that way, I wouldn't need the talcum powder...)"
maga exclaims, "that's not how you use 'blimey'!"
Bert says, "Blimey horse. I'm not sure I've e-- timing."
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Hidden meadow, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   Obviously not a popular picnic spot; in fact, if not for your vantage

Floyd | point perched atop the tree, you would never have known it was here,
Floyd | much less be able to blindly navigate your way through the thick of
Floyd | trees to the south.  The meadow opens up to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "dismount"
Floyd | You get off of the fiery red stallion.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "rustle horse"
Floyd | You can't use the word "rustle".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "steal horse"
Floyd | You can't take that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get horse"
Floyd | You can't take that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says, "he's obviously just pretending to be British... dun-dun-DUNNNH"
Bert says (to Floyd), "put horse in pants"
Floyd | You don't see that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Your parched brain tries as hard as it possibly can to remember what
Floyd | the path through the trees looked like from above, and you start
Floyd | forging a path...
Floyd |
Floyd | Empty lot

Floyd |   Standing where you are, in the middle of a thicket of weeds, you're
Floyd | faced by a wall of impenetrable brush to the north.  Just to the right
Floyd | of the trees, to the northeast, is the entrance the local stable.  Back
Floyd | east is Main Street.
Floyd |   Little Jimmy is here, looking sullen.
Floyd |   Bobby is here, jumping up and down in place.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says, "maybe use 'gallop' instead"
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |

Floyd | Hidden meadow
Floyd |   Obviously not a popular picnic spot; in fact, if not for your vantage
Floyd | point perched atop the tree, you would never have known it was here,
Floyd | much less be able to blindly navigate your way through the thick of
Floyd | trees to the south.  The meadow opens up to the west.
Floyd |   Strutting proudly around the meadow is a fiery red stallion.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "gallop"
Floyd | You're not in anything at the moment.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
maga says, "run like you stole something"
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd |
Floyd | Front porch

Floyd |   Of a mansion, or what might be considered a mansion if it weren't
Floyd | quite so rustic looking.  It's as if someone took a giant tub of Dr.
Floyd | Ricardo's Growth Tonic (which he peddles to the unsuspecting populace
Floyd | whenever he's in town, about every four months or so) and poured it
Floyd | over one of the ramshackle houses--albeit one of the nicer
Floyd | ones--scattered about Tumbleweed Flats.  You can enter the house to the

Floyd | west.
Floyd |   John Stratford is sitting in his rocking chair, smoking his pipe.
Floyd | His trusty shotgun is across his lap.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot stratford with roy's gun"
Floyd | Blam!  Stratford looks surprised as hell as you shoot him.  He pitches
Floyd | forward onto his knees, then tumbles forward onto his face.  He lies
Floyd | that way on the ground at your feet.
Floyd |

Floyd | Now.  What happens next is your introduction to the lovely Juanita
Floyd | Stratford, devoted wife of the (recently) late John Stratford.  She
Floyd | comes racing out of the house with her shotgun--exactly the same make
Floyd | and model as his, how romantic--lines up the barrel between you and
Floyd | her, and starts trigger-pulling.  Love, baby.  And you got in its way.
Floyd |

Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
Bert says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd |
Floyd | Front porch
Floyd |   Of a mansion, or what might be considered a mansion if it weren't
Floyd | quite so rustic looking.  It's as if someone took a giant tub of Dr.
Floyd | Ricardo's Growth Tonic (which he peddles to the unsuspecting populace
Floyd | whenever he's in town, about every four months or so) and poured it

Floyd | over one of the ramshackle houses--albeit one of the nicer
Floyd | ones--scattered about Tumbleweed Flats.  You can enter the house to the
Floyd | west.
Floyd |   John Stratford is sitting in his rocking chair, smoking his pipe.
Floyd | His trusty shotgun is across his lap.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says, "Violence: not the answer to this one."
schep says (to Floyd), "ask stratford about taffy"
Floyd | "Oh, I love that taffy."
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "show taffy to john"
Floyd | "Hey!  Now I do know good taffy, and I do believe that is some!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "trade taffy for horse"
Floyd | You can't use the word "trade".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "sell taffy"
Floyd | You can't use the word "sell".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says (to Bert), "clearly what we need to do is seduce Juanita and *then* shoot John"
maga says (to Floyd), "ask john about juanita"
Floyd | "My dear wife Juanita.  I do love her.  She is everything a man could
Floyd | want.  And one wickedly good shot, to boot."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says, "I dunno; we've got taffy."
Bert says, "It might be easier to seduce John and then shoot Juanita."
DavidW asks, "perhaps simply give the taffy to John?"
Bert asks, "And lose our delicious taffy?"
Bert asks, "What if we need it for applying a fake moustache?"
inky says, "hee hee"
DavidW says, "I never thought of that."
Bert says (to Floyd), "save"
Floyd | Enter saved game to store:

Bert says (to Floyd), "cf6" maga says (to DW), "you'll never make a cowboy"
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "give taffy to john"
Floyd | Stratford looks surprised.  "Why, thank you," he says.  "Who told you
Floyd | that I do so love this taffy?"  He munches on the candy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "ask john for horse"
Floyd | Which horse do you mean, the old black mare or the fiery red stallion?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "red"
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "yes I have!"
Floyd | That doesn't make any sense.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask john for red stallion"
Floyd | Stratford's mouth is too gummed-up with sticky taffy to talk.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "kiss stratford"
Floyd | John Stratford doesn't seem to share your affection.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "I guess my seduction plan failed."
schep says, "well at least he can't shout at us if we steal the stallion now"
schep says, "he can still shoot, but it'll have to be a different message"
maga says (to Bert), "this is why chocolates are more traditional"
Bert says (to Floyd), "e. ride stallion. gallop s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Hidden meadow

Floyd |   Obviously not a popular picnic spot; in fact, if not for your vantage
Floyd | point perched atop the tree, you would never have known it was here,
Floyd | much less be able to blindly navigate your way through the thick of
Floyd | trees to the south.  The meadow opens up to the west.
Floyd |   Strutting proudly around the meadow is a fiery red stallion.
Floyd |

Floyd | You get on the fiery red stallion.
Floyd |
Floyd | You give the red stallion a couple of pokes in its sides with your
Floyd | spurs, and the animal breaks into a trot.  A couple of seconds later,
Floyd | however, an old man in an ascot and a mop of gray hair (John Stratford,
Floyd | that is) comes chasing after you from the west.

Floyd |
Floyd | He tries to shout something at you, but his mouth is gummed up with
Floyd | taffy.  The same goes for his fingers, which are useless so far as
Floyd | pulling the trigger on the shotgun he is aiming at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Empty lot, on a fiery red stallion

Floyd |   Standing where you are, in the middle of a thicket of weeds, you're
Floyd | faced by a wall of impenetrable brush to the north.  Just to the right
Floyd | of the trees, to the northeast, is the entrance the local stable.  Back
Floyd | east is Main Street.
Floyd |   Little Jimmy is here, looking sullen.
Floyd |   Bobby is here, running in circles around Little Jimmy.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert exclaims, "Ha ha ha!"
Bert says, "That is fantastic."
maga says, "what"
inky says, "ha ha"
Bert says, "schep was right."
Bert says (to Floyd), "thank jimmy"
Floyd | You can't use the word "thank".
Floyd |

Floyd | >
schep asks, "time to go find Sarah again?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "tell jimmy that john stratford ate his taffy"
Floyd | You can't use the word "ate".
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
schep says (to Floyd), "give my gun to jimmy"
Floyd | To walk, you will have to get off of the fiery red stallion.

Floyd | Otherwise, try "ride" or "gallop" and a direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Floyd | (taking your six-shooter first)
Floyd | You pull your six-shooter out of your holster.
Floyd |

Floyd | Little Jimmy bawls:  "Taffy!  Taffy!  Gimme back my taffy!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "jimmy, there ain't no more taffy"
Floyd | You can't use the word "there".

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride e"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street, on a fiery red stallion

Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride n"
Floyd |
Floyd | Edge of town, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   You can still see Tumbleweed Flats behind you where the road curves

Floyd | around from the south.  A dead, rotted tree stands here, marking the
Floyd | memory of the last living thing between here and where the road
Floyd | disappears into the eastern distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "save"
Floyd | Enter saved game to store:
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf6"
Floyd | Saved.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | To walk, you will have to get off of the fiery red stallion.
Floyd | Otherwise, try "ride" or "gallop" and a direction.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Long and dusty road, on a fiery red stallion

Floyd |   Brambles and cactuses all over the place.  Some might call it the
Floyd | desert.  Not all that lucky for you, seeing as you're wandering around
Floyd | in the middle of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride e"
Floyd | The red stallion gallops along without faltering, eating up the
Floyd | distance, Tumbleweed Flats disappearing far behind you.
Floyd |
Floyd | End of the road, on a fiery red stallion

Floyd |   The dusty road stretches back to the west as far as the eye can see,
Floyd | and then some.  A steep bank rises up to the southeast; you can't see
Floyd | what might be at the top of it.
Floyd |   Sarah is here, sitting atop her beautiful Arabian horse.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'm glad you made it," Sarah says as she climbs down from her horse.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "tell sarah about red stallion"
Floyd | Sarah doesn't seem particularly interested in what you have to say
Floyd | about the fiery red stallion.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "score"
Floyd | As in, you'd like to know how you're doing, right?
Floyd |

Floyd | Well, although you did wind up killing Roy Heffer, it was in self
Floyd | defense.  It would also be interesting to see who would think highly of
Floyd | your stealing Little Jimmy's candy.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the bright side, you figured out a way to slip out of your hotel
Floyd | room unnoticed.  And putting together that plan to steal Stratford's

Floyd | stallion showed at least a little ingenuity.  Plus, if it weren't so
Floyd | seedy and practically dishonest, having wits enough to bamboozle Grady
Floyd | with a weed looking like a four-leaf clover would almost be
Floyd | commendable.
Floyd |
Floyd | That's what you've managed to get done so far.  Being generally

Floyd | disruptive, that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "stand"
Floyd | You get off of the fiery red stallion.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "kiss sarah"
Floyd | She pushes you away.  "Hey, hayseed.  I don't know what you think
Floyd | you've got coming for helping me out, but if that's it, you can just

Floyd | forget it."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert exclaims, "C'mon, I almost killed a horse for you!"
Bert says, "Not to mention feeding one man's addiction to taffy."
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask sarah about plan"
Floyd | You can't use the word "plan".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask sarah about sarah"
Floyd | Sarah would probably rather not talk about herself.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask sarah about uncle"
Floyd | "He may be a little strange, but, hey, he's my uncle, and he's dear to
Floyd | me--and it's not just because he's got a lot of money.  But I'm not
Floyd | going to let that rotten snake Glen Heffer force me into coming up with
Floyd | ransom money--Uncle Bucky wouldn't want that."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

schep says (to Floyd), "ask sarah about glen"
Floyd | "I guess he can add kidnapper and blackmailer to his list of
Floyd | accomplishments, right after thief, murderer, and son-of-a-bitch."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "dismount"
Floyd | A bit redundant, don't you think?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get on arabian"
Floyd | You get on Sarah's horse.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride w"
Floyd | Sarah asks:  "And why, if you don't mind me asking, don't you just ride
Floyd | your own horse?"
Floyd |
Floyd | >

schep says, "ha ha ha"
Bert says (to Floyd), "mumble"
Floyd | You can't use the word "mumble".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

schep says (to Floyd), "x arabian"
Floyd | A beautiful Arabian, perhaps two years old.  The kind of horse you
Floyd | rarely had the chance to see for yourself--well, before you gummed up
Floyd | Stratford and swiped his stallion, that is.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
maga says (to Floyd), "dismount"
Floyd | You get off of Sarah's horse.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

maga says (to Floyd), "ride sarah"
Floyd | You're not in anything at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
K-Y says, "You ride your own horse AMATNG"
Bert says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd |
Floyd | End of the road
Floyd |   The dusty road stretches back to the west as far as the eye can see,

Floyd | and then some.  A steep bank rises up to the southeast; you can't see
Floyd | what might be at the top of it.
Floyd |   Sarah is here.
Floyd |   Sarah's Arabian is here, snacking contentedly on a small patch of
Floyd | grass.
Floyd |   The fiery red stallion is standing patiently nearby.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask sarah about bank"
Floyd | You can't use the word "bank".
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "hold up bank"
Floyd | You can't use the word "hold".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

maga says (to Floyd), "get on sarah"
Floyd | You can't enter Sarah.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "ask sarah about me"
Floyd | Hopefully you know as much as anyone.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "fondle sarah"
Floyd | You can't use the word "fondle".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "search sarah"
Floyd | Sarah doesn't let you search her.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x sarah's pants"
Floyd | You haven't seen any "sarah's pants", nor are you likely to, even if
Floyd | such a thing exists.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "ask sarah about her breasts"
Floyd | You can't use the word "breasts".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert exclaims, "Woowoo!"
maga says, "hooray"
Bert says, "Fortuantely, this is an American game, so that's *good* news."
schep says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd |
Floyd | End of the road
Floyd |   The dusty road stretches back to the west as far as the eye can see,

Floyd | and then some.  A steep bank rises up to the southeast; you can't see
Floyd | what might be at the top of it.
Floyd |   Sarah is here.
Floyd |   Sarah's Arabian is here, snacking contentedly on a small patch of
Floyd | grass.
Floyd |   The fiery red stallion is standing patiently nearby.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd |
Floyd | Top of a steep bank

Floyd |   From the top of this incline, you can look back to see the dusty road
Floyd | stretching out of sight to the west.  Over the crest of the hill, you
Floyd | can see the Heffer ranch house to the south--quite an impressive sight,
Floyd | to be honest.  A hayfield opens up to the east.
Floyd |   Standing guarding the front of the house is Glen Heffer's
Floyd | mean-looking henchman Large Duane.  Lucky for you he can't see you.

Floyd |
Floyd | Sarah scrambles up the bank after you.  "I hope you know what you're
Floyd | doing," she says.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "sarah, not a clue"
Floyd | You can't use the word "not".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x duane"
Floyd | Large Duane is not a friendly looking fellow.  If he sees you, he'll
Floyd | kill you.  If you had anything to your name, you could bet it all on
Floyd | that fact.  It's also the best argument there is not to mess with him.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot duane with roy's gun"
Floyd | Trying to shoot Large Duane from so far away isn't such a hot idea
Floyd | seeing as what a lousy shot you are.  The same, however, is not true
Floyd | for Large Duane, whose attention you manage to attract.  He draws,
Floyd | aims, and hits you right between the eyes.

Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
Bert says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd |
Floyd | Top of a steep bank
Floyd |   From the top of this incline, you can look back to see the dusty road
Floyd | stretching out of sight to the west.  Over the crest of the hill, you
Floyd | can see the Heffer ranch house to the south--quite an impressive sight,

Floyd | to be honest.  A hayfield opens up to the east.
Floyd |   Standing guarding the front of the house is Glen Heffer's
Floyd | mean-looking henchman Large Duane.  Lucky for you he can't see you.
Floyd |   Sarah is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

schep says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Hayfield
Floyd |   Standing amidst the scattered golden haystacks drying in the hot sun.
Floyd | In fact, the hay is so dry it crackles under your feet as you step on

Floyd | it.  From here, you can either go back west where you came from, or
Floyd | southwest toward the Heffer ranch house.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sarah follows you into the hayfield.  "What are you doing over here?"
Floyd | she asks.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
DavidW says, "I gotta go crash. bbl."
maga exclaims, "fire!"
schep says (to Floyd), "get hay"
Floyd | You can't take that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "focus sun with bottle"
Floyd | You can't use the word "focus".

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "burn hay"
Floyd | Except that you don't have a match.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x hay"
Floyd | The hayfield is full of scattered golden haystacks drying in the hot
Floyd | sun.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "search hay"
Floyd | You don't find anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "smell hay"
Floyd | You don't smell anything unusual.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky asks, "did we ever find out what was in the survival kit?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "asj sarah about match"
Floyd | You can't use the word "asj".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "asj sarah for match"
Floyd | You can't use the word "asj".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Ghogg arrives, full of fun, but no funk. Bert says, "Nope."
inky says, "because it seems like that would be likely to have a match"
Bert says, "We're penniless."
inky says, "oh yeah"
Bert asks, "Know a good source of cash?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "The game doesn't seem to know about this 'sell' concept."
Floyd | You can't use the word "seem".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

schep says, "Mr. Taffy, maybe."
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are wearing your holster on your hip where it belongs.  You are
Floyd | holding a whiskey bottle.  You are also carrying a skeleton key, two
Floyd | pistols (your six-shooter and Roy's gun), and a scrap of cloth.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "it seems like usually old games relied on barter"
Bert says (to Floyd), "..schep Before we steal his horse, you're thinking?"
Floyd | What?

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert asks (of schep), "Before we steal his horse, you're thinking?"
schep says, "dunno"
schep says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of the Heffer ranch house
Floyd |   Nice building, no doubt the product of years of ill-gotten gains.
Floyd | Directly south of you is the front door, which is closed.  You can
Floyd | backtrack to the top of the steep bank to the north, or go northeast
Floyd | into the hayfield.

Floyd |   Large Duane is here, looking large and mean.
Floyd |
Floyd | Large Duane looks up as you come near.  His eyes narrow, and he quickly
Floyd | draws his gun and sends you off to Cowboy Heaven.  What the hell were
Floyd | you thinking, stomping on up to him like that?  Doesn't matter.
Floyd |

Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
schep says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Hayfield
Floyd |   Standing amidst the scattered golden haystacks drying in the hot sun.
Floyd | In fact, the hay is so dry it crackles under your feet as you step on
Floyd | it.  From here, you can either go back west where you came from, or
Floyd | southwest toward the Heffer ranch house.

Floyd |   Sarah is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask sarah for money"
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask sarah for dollar"
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask sarah about money"
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "rob sarah"
Floyd | You can't use the word "rob".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Maybe we can go back to town."
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd |
Floyd | Top of a steep bank
Floyd |   From the top of this incline, you can look back to see the dusty road

Floyd | stretching out of sight to the west.  Over the crest of the hill, you
Floyd | can see the Heffer ranch house to the south--quite an impressive sight,
Floyd | to be honest.  A hayfield opens up to the east.
Floyd |   Standing guarding the front of the house is Glen Heffer's
Floyd | mean-looking henchman Large Duane.  Lucky for you he can't see you.
Floyd |

Floyd | Sarah follows you back to the top of the bank.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |

Floyd | Front of the Heffer ranch house
Floyd |   Nice building, no doubt the product of years of ill-gotten gains.
Floyd | Directly south of you is the front door, which is closed.  You can
Floyd | backtrack to the top of the steep bank to the north, or go northeast
Floyd | into the hayfield.
Floyd |   Large Duane is here, looking large and mean.

Floyd |
Floyd | Large Duane looks up as you come near.  His eyes narrow, and he quickly
Floyd | draws his gun and sends you off to Cowboy Heaven.  What the hell were
Floyd | you thinking, stomping on up to him like that?  Doesn't matter.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***

Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
Bert says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd |

Floyd | Top of a steep bank
Floyd |   From the top of this incline, you can look back to see the dusty road
Floyd | stretching out of sight to the west.  Over the crest of the hill, you
Floyd | can see the Heffer ranch house to the south--quite an impressive sight,
Floyd | to be honest.  A hayfield opens up to the east.
Floyd |   Standing guarding the front of the house is Glen Heffer's

Floyd | mean-looking henchman Large Duane.  Lucky for you he can't see you.
Floyd |   Sarah is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd |

Floyd | End of the road
Floyd |   The dusty road stretches back to the west as far as the eye can see,
Floyd | and then some.  A steep bank rises up to the southeast; you can't see
Floyd | what might be at the top of it.
Floyd |   Sarah's Arabian is here, snacking contentedly on a small patch of
Floyd | grass.

Floyd |   The fiery red stallion is standing patiently nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sarah follows after you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert asks, "Anyone opposed to the notion?"
schep says, "seems like the best idea"
Bert says, "(Or should we restore to when we could talk to Stratford?)"
inky says, "I don't think we have anything else we can do here"
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | Now, come on...you know better than to try to make it on foot.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get on red"
Floyd | You get on the fiery red stallion.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride w"
Floyd | The red stallion gallops along, and before too long delivers you safely

Floyd | to the west end of the long, dusty road.
Floyd |
Floyd | Edge of town, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   You can still see Tumbleweed Flats behind you where the road curves
Floyd | around from the south.  A dead, rotted tree stands here, marking the
Floyd | memory of the last living thing between here and where the road

Floyd | disappears into the eastern distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | (Sarah stayed behind at the east end of the road.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride w"
Floyd | You can't ride that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride sw"
Floyd | You can't ride that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride s"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty

Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan arrives from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up

Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "ride w"
Floyd | You can't ride that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "dismount"
Floyd | You get off of the fiery red stallion.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd |
Floyd | Lucille's General Store
Floyd |   More clutter than any person in their right mind would know what to
Floyd | do with.  Luckily Lucille has the right idea:  put it all on shelves
Floyd | and call it a General Store.  Among other things, the shelves contain a

Floyd | box of bullets (one dollar), a box of shotgun shells (three dollars),
Floyd | an empty taffy box, a trail kit (one dollar), and a pick-axe (five
Floyd | dollars).
Floyd |   Lucille herself is standing behind the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "trade"
Floyd | You can't use the word "trade".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get kit"
Floyd | You'll have to buy the trail kit first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "get taffy box"
Floyd | You can't take that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "distract lucille"
Floyd | You can't use the word "distract".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "open kit"
Floyd | You'll have to buy the trail kit first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says (to Floyd), "x kit"
Floyd | A label reads:  "Everything you need to be prepared.  If you don't get

Floyd | yourself one of these here kits, you're not prepared.  If you're not
Floyd | prepared, you're dead, buddy.  Get it?"  The hard sell, you might say.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert asks, "So, we shoot Lucille, grab the kit, then jump on the horse and run?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "open kit"
Floyd | You'll have to buy the trail kit first.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert exclaims, "Maybe we can beat the deputies!"
schep says, "wonder what happens if we just waltz into the Stratford place now."
maga says, "doubtful"
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street

Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.

Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |   The fiery red stallion is standing patiently nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.

Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd |
Floyd | Empty lot
Floyd |   Standing where you are, in the middle of a thicket of weeds, you're
Floyd | faced by a wall of impenetrable brush to the north.  Just to the right

Floyd | of the trees, to the northeast, is the entrance the local stable.  Back
Floyd | east is Main Street.
Floyd |   Little Jimmy is here, looking sullen.
Floyd |   Bobby is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |
Floyd | Hidden meadow
Floyd |   Obviously not a popular picnic spot; in fact, if not for your vantage
Floyd | point perched atop the tree, you would never have known it was here,

Floyd | much less be able to blindly navigate your way through the thick of
Floyd | trees to the south.  The meadow opens up to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w" schep says, "Preferably with the horse out of sight"
Floyd |
Floyd | Front porch
Floyd |   Of a mansion, or what might be considered a mansion if it weren't
Floyd | quite so rustic looking.  It's as if someone took a giant tub of Dr.
Floyd | Ricardo's Growth Tonic (which he peddles to the unsuspecting populace

Floyd | whenever he's in town, about every four months or so) and poured it
Floyd | over one of the ramshackle houses--albeit one of the nicer
Floyd | ones--scattered about Tumbleweed Flats.  You can enter the house to the
Floyd | west.
Floyd |   John Stratford is here, looking mad as hell.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "stratford, hi"
Floyd | John Stratford ignores you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says, "Of course he does. He can't talk."
schep says (to Floyd), "ride w"
Floyd | You're not in anything at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky asks, "did we try going in his house before?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | Stratford brandishes his shotgun in your general direction.  "Not so
Floyd | fast, tumbleweed," he mutters in his clipped British accent, barely
Floyd | understandable through his mouthful of sticky taffy.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stratford for money"
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "show roy's gun to stratford"
Floyd | John Stratford doesn't seem too interested in Roy's gun.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "give it to him"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean Roy's gun and John Stratford, respectively.)
Floyd | John Stratford refuses.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "in"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd |
Floyd | Front porch
Floyd |   Of a mansion, or what might be considered a mansion if it weren't
Floyd | quite so rustic looking.  It's as if someone took a giant tub of Dr.
Floyd | Ricardo's Growth Tonic (which he peddles to the unsuspecting populace

Floyd | whenever he's in town, about every four months or so) and poured it
Floyd | over one of the ramshackle houses--albeit one of the nicer
Floyd | ones--scattered about Tumbleweed Flats.  You can enter the house to the
Floyd | west.
Floyd |   John Stratford is here, looking mad as hell.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x house"
Floyd | Quite a place, as far as these parts go.  At least compared to the
Floyd | typical pile of slapped-together planks that passes for a house around
Floyd | here.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "enter house"
Floyd | Stratford brandishes his shotgun in your general direction.  "Not so
Floyd | fast, tumbleweed," he mutters in his clipped British accent, barely

Floyd | understandable through his mouthful of sticky taffy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "rob stratford"
Floyd | You can't use the word "rob".

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Hmm."
Bert asks, "Was he this brusk before?"
schep says, "I'm thinking save, restore, and check out this place before robbing him"
Bert says, "OK. Oh, hey also:"
Bert says, "Now that Grady's our friend, maybe he'll serve us."
Bert asks, "We've already got a tab there, right?"
Bert asks, "Should we do that or restore first?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "save"
Floyd | Enter saved game to store:
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf7"
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
K-Y asks, "Did we deal with Old Dan yet?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "restore" schep says, "I'd say restore."
Floyd | Enter saved game to load:

Bert says, "No."
schep says, "nope, that's the new idea"
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf5"
Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |

Floyd | Lucille's General Store
Floyd |   More clutter than any person in their right mind would know what to
Floyd | do with.  Luckily Lucille has the right idea:  put it all on shelves
Floyd | and call it a General Store.  Among other things, the shelves contain a
Floyd | box of bullets (one dollar), a box of shotgun shells (three dollars),
Floyd | an empty taffy box, a trail kit (one dollar), and a pick-axe (five

Floyd | dollars).
Floyd |   Lucille herself is standing behind the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
K-Y says, "That's the only remaining thing I remember"
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are wearing your holster on your hip where it belongs.  You are
Floyd | holding a whiskey bottle.  You are also carrying a skeleton key, two
Floyd | pistols (your six-shooter and Roy's gun), a handwritten note, a scrap
Floyd | of cloth, and some sticky taffy.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Hmm, I think this is before the ladder."
inky says, "(oh, I didn't see it had prices -- yeah, ok, I guess we need actual money)"
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.

Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the south.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
K-Y says, "and I think it involves a location that we haven't seen yet"
Bert says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd | You can't go that way.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Ghogg says, "I do think I remember where money is"
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |

Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd |
Floyd | Empty lot

Floyd |   Standing where you are, in the middle of a thicket of weeds, you're
Floyd | faced by a wall of impenetrable brush to the north.  Just to the right
Floyd | of the trees, to the northeast, is the entrance the local stable.  Back
Floyd | east is Main Street.
Floyd |   Little Jimmy is here, looking sullen.
Floyd |   Bobby is here, running in circles around Little Jimmy.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | There's no way you'll be able to navigate your way through that thick
Floyd | brush.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get weed. pluck leaf. pluck leaf"
Floyd | You pluck one of the weeds from the ground.
Floyd |

Floyd | You pluck a leaf from the weed.  It flutters away.
Floyd |
Floyd | You pluck another leaf from the weed.  It flutters away.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x weed"
Floyd | Green.  Weedish.  There are four leaves left that you haven't plucked.
Floyd | (Looks kinda like a four-leaf clover.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "e.s.e.give weed"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.

Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street

Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.

Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan arrives from the east.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel
Floyd |   Sunlight glares in through the swinging saloonesque doors, only to be

Floyd | swallowed up by the murkiness inside.  Tables and chairs, barstools
Floyd | along the long counter, and a room-length mirror behind the bar.
Floyd | There's a horseshoe tacked to the wall, too.  Stairs go up to the hotel
Floyd | rooms on the second floor.  The billiards room, such as it is, is in
Floyd | the northwest corner.
Floyd |   Grady is behind the bar.

Floyd |
Floyd | Try giving something to someone in particular.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "give weed to grady"
Floyd | "A four-leaf clover?  For me?  I ...well, I don't know what to say.
Floyd | Maybe this'll turn my luck around.  Maybe I misjudged you."  And with
Floyd | that, Grady takes the weed from you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "ask grady for shed key"
Floyd | "You want to get into that old shed?  Nothing but junk in there," Grady
Floyd | says.  But then he shrugs and digs out the key anyway, putting it down
Floyd | on the counter.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "buy drink"
Floyd | "Forget it, dustball.  After that trouble you caused in here last
Floyd | night--winding up with wasting some guy on the street outside my
Floyd | place?--you ain't getting another drink in here."

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Oh well."
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask grady for whiskey"
Floyd | "Forget it, dustball.  After that trouble you caused in here last

Floyd | night--winding up with wasting some guy on the street outside my
Floyd | place?--you ain't getting another drink in here."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "give bottle to grady"
Floyd | Grady politely refuses.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get shed key"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
K-Y says, "Yeah, you get alcohol somewhere else"
Bert says (to Floyd), "w.n.e.unlock door"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.

Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.

Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |
Floyd | Knowing full well there's a way over the barrels and crates, you

Floyd | clamber awkwardly over the stack...
Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow alley
Floyd |   Running along the north side of Grady's--the old wall of the building
Floyd | is directly behind you.  Grady's storage shed is just to the north, and
Floyd | Main Street is back out to the west.  You're well hidden by a stack of

Floyd | old, sun-bleached wooden barrels.   Overhead, you can see your
Floyd | bedsheet, flapping in the wind from where it's still attached to the
Floyd | drainpipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | (with the shed key)
Floyd | Unlocked.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "hmm"
Bert says (to Floyd), "n. get ladder"
Floyd | (opening the shed door first)

Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady's storage shed
Floyd |   It's dark in here.  The only light bleeds in through the window and
Floyd | the open door.  Looks like this is where Grady keeps most of his junk.
Floyd |   Resting on the ground against one wall is a ten-foot wooden ladder.

Floyd |
Floyd | You're carrying too much to take that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says, "I don't suppose the shed key also unlocks the liquor cabinet"
Bert says, "Oho."
Bert says (to Floyd), "s.w.s.e.nw"
Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow alley
Floyd |   Running along the north side of Grady's--the old wall of the building

Floyd | is directly behind you.  Grady's storage shed is just to the north, and
Floyd | Main Street is back out to the west.  You're well hidden by a stack of
Floyd | old, sun-bleached wooden barrels.   Overhead, you can see your
Floyd | bedsheet, flapping in the wind from where it's still attached to the
Floyd | drainpipe.
Floyd |

Floyd | You find a foothold on the stack of barrels and clamber over.
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look

Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a

Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying

Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel

Floyd |   Sunlight glares in through the swinging saloonesque doors, only to be
Floyd | swallowed up by the murkiness inside.  Tables and chairs, barstools
Floyd | along the long counter, and a room-length mirror behind the bar.
Floyd | There's a horseshoe tacked to the wall, too.  Stairs go up to the hotel
Floyd | rooms on the second floor.  The billiards room, such as it is, is in
Floyd | the northwest corner.

Floyd |   Grady is behind the bar.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Billiards room
Floyd |   One measly pool table comprises the billiards room.  That and a
Floyd | heavily locked door behind which Grady stashes his liquor.  Southeast

Floyd | takes you back out into the saloon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "unlock door"
Floyd | The door is locked up as tight as anything you've ever seen.  There's

Floyd | no way in hell you're ever going to get it open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "unlock door with shed key"
Floyd | The door is locked up as tight as anything you've ever seen.  There's

Floyd | no way in hell you're ever going to get it open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "I think that message is perhaps meant literally."
inky says, "hmm"
Bert says (to Floyd), "brief.se.w.n.e.n.verbose" inky says, "ok, sometimes in these cases there is a window round back you can get in by"
Floyd | Brief descriptions.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "se.w.n.e.n.verbose"
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel
Floyd |   Grady is behind the bar.
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the south.

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |
Floyd | Knowing full well there's a way over the barrels and crates, you
Floyd | clamber awkwardly over the stack...

Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow alley
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady's storage shed
Floyd |   Resting on the ground against one wall is a ten-foot wooden ladder.

Floyd |
Floyd | Verbose descriptions.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "verbose. drop note and shed key"
Floyd | Verbose descriptions.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get drop note and shed key. get ladder"
Floyd | That doesn't make any sense.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "drop note and shed key. get ladder"
Floyd | handwritten note:  Dropped.

Floyd | shed key:  Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | You're carrying too much to take that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are wearing your holster on your hip where it belongs.  You are
Floyd | holding a whiskey bottle.  You are also carrying a skeleton key, two
Floyd | pistols (your six-shooter and Roy's gun), a scrap of cloth, and some
Floyd | sticky taffy.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "put my gun in holster"
Floyd | You put your six-shooter in the holster.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says, "We haven't used the cloth yet."
Bert says (to Floyd), "put cloth in bottle"
Floyd | You stuff the piece of cloth into the opening of the bottle.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says, "Um."
Bert shrugs.
Bert says (to Floyd), "get ladder"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
K-Y says, "ohh"
Bert says (to Floyd), "put all in bottle"
Floyd | You can't put multiple objects.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
K-Y says, "Something just clicked"
inky says, "the cloth/bottle thing is the one thing I remember about this game from previous playing"
Bert says, "(There's no booze in the bottle, nor any source of fire...)"
Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow alley
Floyd |   Running along the north side of Grady's--the old wall of the building

Floyd | is directly behind you.  Grady's storage shed is just to the north, and
Floyd | Main Street is back out to the west.  You're well hidden by a stack of
Floyd | old, sun-bleached wooden barrels.   Overhead, you can see your
Floyd | bedsheet, flapping in the wind from where it's still attached to the
Floyd | drainpipe.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | You find a foothold on the stack of barrels and clamber over, dragging
Floyd | the ladder after you.
Floyd |

Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
K-Y says, "and I think I've been doing this wrong before"
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd |

Floyd | Empty lot
Floyd |   Standing where you are, in the middle of a thicket of weeds, you're
Floyd | faced by a wall of impenetrable brush to the north.  Just to the right
Floyd | of the trees, to the northeast, is the entrance the local stable.  Back
Floyd | east is Main Street.
Floyd |   Little Jimmy is here, looking sullen.

Floyd |   Bobby is here, jumping up and down in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e.nw.put ladder on loft"
Floyd |

Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.

Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Stable
Floyd |   Smells musty, just like every other stable you've ever been in.

Floyd | There's a meager half-light drifting down from a window in the loft
Floyd | overhead, and the stable door leads back out onto Main Street to the
Floyd | southeast.  If anybody in this town owned a horse, this is where they'd
Floyd | keep it.
Floyd |   The gate to the stall to the north is open.
Floyd |   An old black mare is here.

Floyd |
Floyd | There's no room on the loft.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "lean ladder on loft"
Floyd | That doesn't make any sense.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "lean ladder against loft"
Floyd | You lean the ladder against the loft, just where the hayloft begins.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "climb ladder"
Floyd |

Floyd | Sitting in the hayloft
Floyd |   About ten or so feet off the stable floor.  Too far to jump--better
Floyd | to make wise use of the ladder which is still leaning against the wall.
Floyd | Sunlight shines in through a small square window.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd |
Floyd | Perched on the top branch of an oak tree
Floyd |   In the manner of a crow or vulture or some other sort of
Floyd | top-branch-perching bird.  The loft window is behind you, technically

Floyd | to the southeast, while the ground is perilously far below.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "climb down"
Floyd | You're in a tree.  Think about it.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert asks (of Spur), "...?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd | Down, you say?  Well, you begin to shimmy down the tree, precariously

Floyd | clutching onto branches and outcroppings of tough bark--whatever you
Floyd | can reach.  Finally, scraped and bruised all to hell, you find yourself
Floyd | on firm ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | Hidden meadow
Floyd |   Obviously not a popular picnic spot; in fact, if not for your vantage

Floyd | point perched atop the tree, you would never have known it was here,
Floyd | much less be able to blindly navigate your way through the thick of
Floyd | trees to the south.  The meadow opens up to the west.
Floyd |   Strutting proudly around the meadow is a fiery red stallion.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "eat horse"
Floyd | You can't eat the fiery red stallion.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd |
Floyd | Front porch
Floyd |   Of a mansion, or what might be considered a mansion if it weren't
Floyd | quite so rustic looking.  It's as if someone took a giant tub of Dr.

Floyd | Ricardo's Growth Tonic (which he peddles to the unsuspecting populace
Floyd | whenever he's in town, about every four months or so) and poured it
Floyd | over one of the ramshackle houses--albeit one of the nicer
Floyd | ones--scattered about Tumbleweed Flats.  You can enter the house to the
Floyd | west.
Floyd |   John Stratford is sitting in his rocking chair, smoking his pipe.

Floyd | His trusty shotgun is across his lap.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "save"
Floyd | Enter saved game to store:

Bert says (to Floyd), "cf8"
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stratford about money"
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stratford about dollar"
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask stratford for money"
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Well, have at 'im, guys."
schep says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | Stratford brandishes his shotgun in your general direction.  "Not so
Floyd | fast, tumbleweed," he mutters in his clipped British accent.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says (to Floyd), "ask stratford about red horse"
Floyd | John Stratford doesn't seem to know anything about the fiery red
Floyd | stallion.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "tell stratford about mare"
Floyd | John Stratford doesn't seem particularly interested in what you have to
Floyd | say about the old black mare.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "smell bottle"
Floyd | The piece of cloth is in the way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert asks, "Hmm. Fumes?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are wearing your holster on your hip where it belongs.  You are
Floyd | holding a whiskey bottle.  A scrap of cloth is stuffed in the mouth of
Floyd | the bottle.  You are also carrying a skeleton key, Roy's gun, and some
Floyd | sticky taffy.  Tucked in your holster is your six-shooter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot bottle with roy's gun"
Floyd | You can't shoot the whiskey bottle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "x stratford"
Floyd | John Stratford is around fifty or so.  He's got a healthy shock of
Floyd | white hair atop his head.  But other than that, his eyes look kinda
Floyd | mean.  And that goes none too well with the shotgun on his lap.  Puts
Floyd | you on your guard to say the least.  You warily watch Stratford warily

Floyd | watching you as he puffs on his pipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "ask stratford about general store"
Floyd | John Stratford doesn't seem to know anything about Lucille's General

Floyd | Store.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "ask stratford about wife"
Floyd | You haven't encountered anybody like that.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "ask stratford about lucille" K-Y says, "I can try to find that other location we're missing"
Floyd | John Stratford doesn't seem to know anything about Lucille.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says, "guess there's nothing else to do here."
Bert asks, "Did we just fail to see an exit, or did we not solve a puzzle?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Hidden meadow
Floyd |   Obviously not a popular picnic spot; in fact, if not for your vantage
Floyd | point perched atop the tree, you would never have known it was here,
Floyd | much less be able to blindly navigate your way through the thick of
Floyd | trees to the south.  The meadow opens up to the west.

Floyd |   Strutting proudly around the meadow is a fiery red stallion.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
K-Y says, "I don't remember"
K-Y says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Your parched brain tries as hard as it possibly can to remember what
Floyd | the path through the trees looked like from above, and you start
Floyd | forging a path...
Floyd |
Floyd | Empty lot

Floyd |   Standing where you are, in the middle of a thicket of weeds, you're
Floyd | faced by a wall of impenetrable brush to the north.  Just to the right
Floyd | of the trees, to the northeast, is the entrance the local stable.  Back
Floyd | east is Main Street.
Floyd |   Little Jimmy is here, looking sullen.
Floyd |   Bobby is here.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
schep says, "might as well restore back to the future"
inky says, "hee hee"
K-Y says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
K-Y says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |

Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.

Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "restore"
Floyd | Enter saved game to load:
Bert says (to Floyd), "2015"
Floyd | Unable to restore.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says, "idea: SHOUT from the hayfield"
Bert says (to Floyd), "restore"
Floyd | Enter saved game to load:

Bert says (to Floyd), "cf7"
Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | Front porch
Floyd |   Of a mansion, or what might be considered a mansion if it weren't

Floyd | quite so rustic looking.  It's as if someone took a giant tub of Dr.
Floyd | Ricardo's Growth Tonic (which he peddles to the unsuspecting populace
Floyd | whenever he's in town, about every four months or so) and poured it
Floyd | over one of the ramshackle houses--albeit one of the nicer
Floyd | ones--scattered about Tumbleweed Flats.  You can enter the house to the
Floyd | west.

Floyd |   John Stratford is here, looking mad as hell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |

Floyd | Hidden meadow
Floyd |   Obviously not a popular picnic spot; in fact, if not for your vantage
Floyd | point perched atop the tree, you would never have known it was here,
Floyd | much less be able to blindly navigate your way through the thick of
Floyd | trees to the south.  The meadow opens up to the west.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Empty lot
Floyd |   Standing where you are, in the middle of a thicket of weeds, you're

Floyd | faced by a wall of impenetrable brush to the north.  Just to the right
Floyd | of the trees, to the northeast, is the entrance the local stable.  Back
Floyd | east is Main Street.
Floyd |   Little Jimmy is here, looking sullen.
Floyd |   Bobby is here, jumping up and down in place.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.

Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Knowing full well there's a way over the barrels and crates, you
Floyd | clamber awkwardly over the stack...
Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow alley

Floyd |   Running along the north side of Grady's--the old wall of the building
Floyd | is directly behind you.  Grady's storage shed is just to the north, and
Floyd | Main Street is back out to the west.  You're well hidden by a stack of
Floyd | old, sun-bleached wooden barrels.   Overhead, you can see your
Floyd | bedsheet, flapping in the wind from where it's still attached to the
Floyd | drainpipe.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x wall"
Floyd | The hotel wall is made up of old wooden planks, which look like they
Floyd | might not be nailed in as securely as they used to be.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x planks" inky asks, "did we search those barrels and crates?"
Floyd | The wooden plank looks just like you would expect.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "oho"
Bert says (to Floyd), "get planks"
Floyd | It's attached to the side of the saloon.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get plank"
Floyd | It's attached to the side of the saloon.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "pull plank"
Floyd | With a grunt, you yank the board free from the side of the saloon.  It
Floyd | falls to the ground with a dull clatter, revealing an opening leading
Floyd | southeast into the wall.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "pry planks"
Floyd | You can't use the word "pry".
Floyd |

Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "pull plank"
Floyd | That's not going to change anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

K-Y says, "That's it, then"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x opening"
Floyd | The opening leads southeast into the darkness beyond the wall of the
Floyd | building.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says, "dammit, it's always pry"
Bert says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady's liquor stash

Floyd |   In the dim light from the alleyway, you can make out the outlines of
Floyd | several shelves of crates and bottles, as well as a heavy door
Floyd | which--you guess--leads out into the billiards room.  Sitting in the
Floyd | shadows in the corner is a big wooden keg.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "hey hey"
maga says, "dude"
inky says (to Floyd), "x shelves"
Floyd | The last thing you need right now is to be messing around with that
Floyd | stuff.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "x bottles"
Floyd | The last thing you need right now is to be messing around with that
Floyd | stuff.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert exclaims, "A secret way into the billards room!"
maga says (to Floyd), "drink all"
Floyd | You can't drink multiple objects.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, ">THROW KEGGER"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x bottles"
Floyd | The last thing you need right now is to be messing around with that
Floyd | stuff.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x keg"
Floyd | As you blow away the dust from the keg, you reveal some crude
Floyd | stenciling that reads:  "Grandma Grady's Wicked XXX."  A tap is fixed
Floyd | to the side of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

maga says, "SAYS WHO I CAN'T"
Bert says (to Floyd), "get keg"
Floyd | It's much too heavy to lift.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "x tap"
Floyd | The crude stenciling reads:  "Grandma Grady's Wicked XXX."  A tap is
Floyd | fixed to the side.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "open tap"
Floyd | You can't do that with the big wooden keg.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "drink from keg"
Floyd | You can't drink the big wooden keg.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "open bottle"
Floyd | You can't do that with the whiskey bottle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "turn tap"
Floyd | That doesn't make any sense.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says (to Floyd), "fill bottle"
Floyd | You fill the bottle with Grandma Grady's Wicked XXX.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "fill bottle"
Floyd | The bottle is already filled with Grandma Grady's Wicked XXX.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "drink bottle"
Floyd | It smells pretty damn strong.  Are you sure you want to try it?
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "yes"
Floyd | That was a rhetorical question.  (Although you sound rather positive.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "drink bottle"
Floyd | You take a tiny sip of Grandma Grady's Wicked XXX, and the next thing
Floyd | you know...
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street

Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |

Floyd | Your head hurts like hell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "ha ha"
Bert asks, "Undo?"
Alex says (to Bert), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that Undo is a command that lusers use."
inky says, "yeah, probably"
schep says, "INV, then undo twice"
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady's liquor stash
Floyd |   In the dim light from the alleyway, you can make out the outlines of
Floyd | several shelves of crates and bottles, as well as a heavy door
Floyd | which--you guess--leads out into the billiards room.  Sitting in the
Floyd | shadows in the corner is a big wooden keg.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "drink bottle"
Floyd | You take a tiny sip of Grandma Grady's Wicked XXX, and the next thing
Floyd | you know...

Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty

Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your head hurts like hell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "although you could see if we're wearing a lampshade or something"
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying a child's rattle.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your head hurts like hell.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Ha."
inky says, "ha ha"
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty

Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |

Floyd | Grady's liquor stash
Floyd |   In the dim light from the alleyway, you can make out the outlines of
Floyd | several shelves of crates and bottles, as well as a heavy door
Floyd | which--you guess--leads out into the billiards room.  Sitting in the
Floyd | shadows in the corner is a big wooden keg.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "save"
Floyd | Enter saved game to store:
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf8"
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "drink bottle"
Floyd | You take a tiny sip of Grandma Grady's Wicked XXX, and the next thing
Floyd | you know...
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.

Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your head hurts like hell.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "shake rattle" inky asks, "are we going to give it to Dan?"
Floyd | Rattle, rattle.
Floyd |

Floyd | Your head hurts like hell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert exclaims, "Good diea!"
Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.

Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |   The fiery red stallion is standing patiently nearby.
Floyd |

Floyd | The sun begins to sink lower in the western sky.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your head hurts like hell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | South end of Main Street
Floyd |   Standing here in the middle of Main Street, you are directly across
Floyd | from the Tumbleweed Flats Sheriff's Department, which is directly to

Floyd | the east.  Not the safest place to hang out, perhaps, considering that
Floyd | the gallows are right on the other side of the street--and you might as
Floyd | well try and avoid that particular inevitability for as long as
Floyd | possible.  Might be a better idea to head north, back up Main Street.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your head hurts like hell.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street

Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.

Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |   The fiery red stallion is standing patiently nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your head hurts like hell.
Floyd |

Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says, "I'm pretty sure it's meant to be a molotov"
Bert says (to Floyd), "give rattle to dan"
Floyd | Old Dan isn't here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd |
Floyd | Lucille's General Store
Floyd |   More clutter than any person in their right mind would know what to
Floyd | do with.  Luckily Lucille has the right idea:  put it all on shelves
Floyd | and call it a General Store.  Among other things, the shelves contain a
Floyd | box of bullets (one dollar), a box of shotgun shells (three dollars),

Floyd | an empty taffy box, a trail kit (one dollar), and a pick-axe (five
Floyd | dollars).
Floyd |   Lucille herself is standing behind the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your head hurts like hell.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a

Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying

Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |   The fiery red stallion is standing patiently nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your head hurts like hell.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the west.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd |
Floyd | Lucille's General Store

Floyd |   More clutter than any person in their right mind would know what to
Floyd | do with.  Luckily Lucille has the right idea:  put it all on shelves
Floyd | and call it a General Store.  Among other things, the shelves contain a
Floyd | box of bullets (one dollar), a box of shotgun shells (three dollars),
Floyd | an empty taffy box, a trail kit (one dollar), and a pick-axe (five
Floyd | dollars).

Floyd |   Lucille herself is standing behind the counter.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your head hurts like hell.
Floyd |

Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says, "but we still don't have a match to light it with, so what the hell"
Bert exclaims, "HOLD STILL!"
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up

Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.

Floyd |   The fiery red stallion is standing patiently nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your head hurts like hell.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the north.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.

Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.

Floyd |
Floyd | Your head hurts like hell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "give rattle to dan"
Floyd | Old Dan politely refuses.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your head hurts like hell.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, ">ASK LUCILLE ABOUT BUFFERED ANALGESIC"
Bert says, "f restore"
Bert says (to Floyd), "restore"
Floyd | Enter saved game to load:

Bert says (to Floyd), "cf8"
Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady's liquor stash
Floyd |   In the dim light from the alleyway, you can make out the outlines of

Floyd | several shelves of crates and bottles, as well as a heavy door
Floyd | which--you guess--leads out into the billiards room.  Sitting in the
Floyd | shadows in the corner is a big wooden keg.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x bottle"
Floyd | The label proclaims:  "Dr. Vita-Vim's Sour Mash."  Some of Grandma
Floyd | Grady's Wicked XXX is sloshing around inside the whiskey bottle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "put cloth in bottle"
Floyd | You stuff the piece of cloth into the opening of the bottle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "shake bottle"
Floyd | You wave the whiskey bottle.  Nothing happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow alley
Floyd |   Running along the north side of Grady's--the old wall of the building
Floyd | is directly behind you.  Grady's storage shed is just to the north, and
Floyd | Main Street is back out to the west.  You're well hidden by a stack of

Floyd | old, sun-bleached wooden barrels.   Overhead, you can see your
Floyd | bedsheet, flapping in the wind from where it's still attached to the
Floyd | drainpipe.
Floyd |   You can squeeze through an opening between two boards in the side of
Floyd | the saloon.
Floyd |   A wooden plank is here.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "shake booty"
Floyd | You can't use the word "booty".
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get plank"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | You find a foothold on the stack of barrels and clamber over.
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.

Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up

Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.

Floyd |   The fiery red stallion is standing patiently nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "x plank"
Floyd | Once attached to the side of Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan arrives from the west.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "give bottle to dan"
Floyd | Before you can even get the hand holding the bottle halfway up, Old Dan
Floyd | grabs the bottle and takes a gigantic swig.  His eyes open so wide you
Floyd | can see through his head.  Then he rockets straight into orbit,

Floyd | disappearing into the stratosphere, leaving only a trail of blue smoke
Floyd | behind him.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "look"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.

Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |   The fiery red stallion is standing patiently nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x bottle"
Floyd | You don't see that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "shucks"
Floyd | You can't use the word "shucks".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "If we wait around a few turns, will he return with a rattle"
Bert asks, "?"
maga says, "a firm message against alcohol abuse if ever there was one"
Bert says, "(Or should I just restore?)"
inky says, "let's wait and see"
Bert says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty

Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "yoohoo"
Floyd | You can't use the word "yoohoo".

Floyd |
Floyd | >
maga says, "yeah, I think game-breaking gag rather than critical game mechanic"
Bert says (to Floyd), "restore"
Floyd | Enter saved game to load:

Bert says (to Floyd), "cf8"
Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady's liquor stash
Floyd |   In the dim light from the alleyway, you can make out the outlines of

Floyd | several shelves of crates and bottles, as well as a heavy door
Floyd | which--you guess--leads out into the billiards room.  Sitting in the
Floyd | shadows in the corner is a big wooden keg.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "hunh"
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are wearing your holster on your hip where it belongs.  You are
Floyd | holding a whiskey bottle.  Some of Grandma Grady's Wicked XXX is
Floyd | sloshing around inside the whiskey bottle.  You are also carrying a

Floyd | skeleton key, two pistols (your six-shooter and Roy's gun), and a scrap
Floyd | of cloth.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky asks, "so is Dan not useful for anything?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "put cloth in bottle"
Floyd | You stuff the piece of cloth into the opening of the bottle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep asks, "maybe SHOW?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "get cloth"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
K-Y says, "Right, I think that's been my mistake every time I played before"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x cloth"
Floyd | The piece of cloth is about the size of a handkerchief.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "smell cloth"
Floyd | You don't smell anything unusual.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "out"
Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow alley
Floyd |   Running along the north side of Grady's--the old wall of the building
Floyd | is directly behind you.  Grady's storage shed is just to the north, and
Floyd | Main Street is back out to the west.  You're well hidden by a stack of
Floyd | old, sun-bleached wooden barrels.   Overhead, you can see your

Floyd | bedsheet, flapping in the wind from where it's still attached to the
Floyd | drainpipe.
Floyd |   You can squeeze through an opening between two boards in the side of
Floyd | the saloon.
Floyd |   A wooden plank is here.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get plank"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | You find a foothold on the stack of barrels and clamber over.
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.

Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up

Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.

Floyd |   The fiery red stallion is standing patiently nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.

Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "show bottle to dan"
Floyd | Old Dan's eyes widen.  He grabs at the bottle, almost throwing himself
Floyd | off-balance.  As he weaves:  "Gimme that!  For the love of God, give me
Floyd | that!"

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "hmm"
Bert says (to Floyd), "taunt dan"
Floyd | You can't use the word "taunt".

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "show bottle to dan"
Floyd | Old Dan's eyes widen.  He grabs at the bottle, almost throwing himself
Floyd | off-balance.  As he weaves:  "Gimme that!  For the love of God, give me

Floyd | that!"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "so he'll follow us, I guess"
Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.

Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |   The fiery red stallion is standing patiently nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "or not"
Bert says, "Or not."
Bert says (to Floyd), "save"
Floyd | Enter saved game to store:
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf8"
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | South end of Main Street
Floyd |   Standing here in the middle of Main Street, you are directly across
Floyd | from the Tumbleweed Flats Sheriff's Department, which is directly to
Floyd | the east.  Not the safest place to hang out, perhaps, considering that

Floyd | the gallows are right on the other side of the street--and you might as
Floyd | well try and avoid that particular inevitability for as long as
Floyd | possible.  Might be a better idea to head north, back up Main Street.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Sheriff's building
Floyd |   Cramped quarters, actually.  Barely room enough for the sheriff's
Floyd | desk and a jail cell in the corner.

Floyd |   Sheriff Argyle is sitting behind his desk, munching on a sandwich and
Floyd | reading "Strange Western Lawkeeper Tales".
Floyd |
Floyd | Argyle's eyes bulge out of his head as you stroll in.  He drops his
Floyd | sandwich.  "Jumpin' Jehosophat!  I mean...well, I mean, aren't you the
Floyd | guy who shot Roy Heffer?"

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "give bottle to argyle"
Floyd | Sheriff Argyle politely refuses.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x sandwich"
Floyd | It's a plain old fried-chicken sandwich.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "get it"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean Argyle's sandwich.)
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | As you turn and start to walk back out the door, Argyle kisses you with
Floyd | his Smith and Wesson .38 right between the shoulder blades.  Cowardly,
Floyd | perhaps, but he is the one still breathing.
Floyd |

Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
inky says, "ha ha"
Bert says (to Floyd), "restore"
Floyd | Enter saved game to load:
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf8"
Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |

Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is

Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |   The fiery red stallion is standing patiently nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd |
Floyd | Lucille's General Store
Floyd |   More clutter than any person in their right mind would know what to
Floyd | do with.  Luckily Lucille has the right idea:  put it all on shelves
Floyd | and call it a General Store.  Among other things, the shelves contain a
Floyd | box of bullets (one dollar), a box of shotgun shells (three dollars),

Floyd | an empty taffy box, a trail kit (one dollar), and a pick-axe (five
Floyd | dollars).
Floyd |   Lucille herself is standing behind the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "give bottle to lucille"
Floyd | Lucille politely refuses.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "ain't nobody takes his sandwich and lives"
Bert says, "Hee."
Bert says, "Harsh, but fair."
Bert says, "So."
Bert says, "We're still unmatched."
Bert says (to Floyd), "score"
Floyd | As in, you'd like to know how you're doing, right?
Floyd |
Floyd | Well, although you did wind up killing Roy Heffer, it was in self
Floyd | defense.  And while you did break into Grady's liquor stash, that
Floyd | doesn't really count as being productive.  It would also be interesting

Floyd | to see who would think highly of your stealing Little Jimmy's candy.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the bright side, you figured out a way to slip out of your hotel
Floyd | room unnoticed.  And putting together that plan to steal Stratford's
Floyd | stallion showed at least a little ingenuity.  Plus, if it weren't so
Floyd | seedy and practically dishonest, having wits enough to bamboozle Grady

Floyd | with a weed looking like a four-leaf clover would almost be
Floyd | commendable.
Floyd |
Floyd | That's what you've managed to get done so far.  Being generally
Floyd | disruptive, that is.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e.e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a

Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |   The fiery red stallion is standing patiently nearby.

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel
Floyd |   Sunlight glares in through the swinging saloonesque doors, only to be
Floyd | swallowed up by the murkiness inside.  Tables and chairs, barstools
Floyd | along the long counter, and a room-length mirror behind the bar.

Floyd | There's a horseshoe tacked to the wall, too.  Stairs go up to the hotel
Floyd | rooms on the second floor.  The billiards room, such as it is, is in
Floyd | the northwest corner.
Floyd |   Grady is behind the bar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "show bottle to grady"
Floyd | Grady's eyes narrow when he sees the whiskey bottle full of his dear
Floyd | old Grandma Grady's Wicked XXX. "Why, you whiskey-thieving
Floyd | yellow-belly..." he mutters.  Right before he grabs the bottle and
Floyd | clubs you over the skull with it.  It shatters, and everything gets

Floyd | real ark...
Floyd |
Floyd | ...until you wake up a good half-hour later with a lump on your head.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your head hurts like hell.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert exclaims, "Oh no! It's going to rain for the next six weeks!"
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel

Floyd |   Sunlight glares in through the swinging saloonesque doors, only to be
Floyd | swallowed up by the murkiness inside.  Tables and chairs, barstools
Floyd | along the long counter, and a room-length mirror behind the bar.
Floyd | There's a horseshoe tacked to the wall, too.  Stairs go up to the hotel
Floyd | rooms on the second floor.  The billiards room, such as it is, is in
Floyd | the northwest corner.

Floyd |   Grady is behind the bar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert asks, "Right. So. Money?"
inky says, "hrm"
Bert asks, "Or do we just throw the bottle at the hay and hope the sun is bright enough to catch it on fire?"
inky asks, "did we search the dead guy's body?"
Bert asks, "Or maybe we get Sarah drunk and hope she forgets about her uncle?"
inky says, "I guess yes, since we got his gun"
inky says, "hee hee"
Bert says (to inky), "We-- right."
inky says, "we could save, kill lucille and look in the kit, then restore"
Bert says (to Floyd), "w.w"
Floyd |

Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is

Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |   The fiery red stallion is standing patiently nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan arrives from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd | Lucille's General Store
Floyd |   More clutter than any person in their right mind would know what to
Floyd | do with.  Luckily Lucille has the right idea:  put it all on shelves
Floyd | and call it a General Store.  Among other things, the shelves contain a
Floyd | box of bullets (one dollar), a box of shotgun shells (three dollars),
Floyd | an empty taffy box, a trail kit (one dollar), and a pick-axe (five

Floyd | dollars).
Floyd |   Lucille herself is standing behind the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "just to see what's in there"
Bert says (to Floyd), "save"
Floyd | Enter saved game to store:
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf8"
Floyd | Saved.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Ghogg asks, "did you want a hint, or are you ok?"
Bert says, "Not sure yet."
inky says, "I think we're ok for the moment"
Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot lucille with roy's gun"
Floyd | You pull the trigger and shoot Lucille.  She falls to the ground,
Floyd | twitches a couple of times, then lies there, getting cold.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "but may want a hint soon"
Bert says (to Floyd), "get kit. open it"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | (Assuming you mean the trail kit.)

Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | The trail kit contains a matchbook, a fork, a spoon, and some beef
Floyd | jerky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Lucille's General Store
Floyd |   More clutter than any person in their right mind would know what to
Floyd | do with.  Luckily Lucille has the right idea:  put it all on shelves

Floyd | and call it a General Store.  Among other things, the shelves contain a
Floyd | box of bullets (one dollar), a box of shotgun shells (three dollars),
Floyd | an empty taffy box, and a pick-axe (five dollars).
Floyd |   Lucille is lying dead on the ground here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "a spoon!"
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a

Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying

Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |   The fiery red stallion is standing patiently nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly a half-dozen of the Sheriff's roughest, toughest, and
Floyd | hungriest-for-justice deputies show up.  They level their guns at the
Floyd | murderer (meaning you, of course), and bring you down in a blaze of

Floyd | trigger-pulling.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?

Bert says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd |
Floyd | Lucille's General Store
Floyd |   More clutter than any person in their right mind would know what to
Floyd | do with.  Luckily Lucille has the right idea:  put it all on shelves

Floyd | and call it a General Store.  Among other things, the shelves contain a
Floyd | box of bullets (one dollar), a box of shotgun shells (three dollars),
Floyd | an empty taffy box, and a pick-axe (five dollars).
Floyd |   Lucille is lying dead on the ground here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Lucille's General Store
Floyd |   More clutter than any person in their right mind would know what to
Floyd | do with.  Luckily Lucille has the right idea:  put it all on shelves

Floyd | and call it a General Store.  Among other things, the shelves contain a
Floyd | box of bullets (one dollar), a box of shotgun shells (three dollars),
Floyd | an empty taffy box, and a pick-axe (five dollars).
Floyd |   Lucille is lying dead on the ground here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Lucille's General Store
Floyd |   More clutter than any person in their right mind would know what to
Floyd | do with.  Luckily Lucille has the right idea:  put it all on shelves

Floyd | and call it a General Store.  Among other things, the shelves contain a
Floyd | box of bullets (one dollar), a box of shotgun shells (three dollars),
Floyd | an empty taffy box, a pick-axe (five dollars), and a trail kit (one
Floyd | dollar).
Floyd |   Lucille is lying dead on the ground here.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "prop lucille up like a puppet"
Floyd | You can't use the word "prop".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Lucille's General Store
Floyd |   More clutter than any person in their right mind would know what to
Floyd | do with.  Luckily Lucille has the right idea:  put it all on shelves

Floyd | and call it a General Store.  Among other things, the shelves contain a
Floyd | box of bullets (one dollar), a box of shotgun shells (three dollars),
Floyd | an empty taffy box, a pick-axe (five dollars), and a trail kit (one
Floyd | dollar).
Floyd |   Lucille herself is standing behind the counter.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "make deal with lucille"
Floyd | You can't use the word "make".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

maga says (to Floyd), "show gun to lucille"
Floyd | Lucille doesn't seem too interested in your six-shooter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "make mad passionate monkey love old-west style to lucille"
Floyd | You can't use the word "make".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x lucille"
Floyd | Lucille is actually not the Lucille in "Lucille's General
Floyd | Store"--Lucille is Lucille's daughter.  She's in her mid-fifties,
Floyd | skinny as a post, and exceptionally stern-looking.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "kiss lucille"
Floyd | Lucille doesn't seem to share your affection.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "(I like to take these things in order.)"
Bert says (to Floyd), "tell lucille there is no spoon"
Floyd | You can't use the word "there".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "hee hee"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask lucille about matchbook"
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are wearing your holster on your hip where it belongs.  You are
Floyd | holding a whiskey bottle.  Some of Grandma Grady's Wicked XXX is
Floyd | sloshing around inside the whiskey bottle.  You are also carrying a
Floyd | skeleton key, two pistols (your six-shooter and Roy's gun), a scrap of

Floyd | cloth, and a wooden plank.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "hit lucille with plank"
Floyd | Venting your frustrations on Lucille won't accomplish much.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "hit bottle with plank"
Floyd | Venting your frustrations on the whiskey bottle won't accomplish much.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "put all in bottle"
Floyd | You can't put multiple objects.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "put cloth in bottle"
Floyd | You stuff the piece of cloth into the opening of the bottle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "throw bottle"
Floyd | You'll have to be a little more specific about what you'd like to throw
Floyd | the whiskey bottle at.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan arrives from the east.

Floyd |
Floyd | Lucille rolls her eyes as Dan comes in.  "What do you want now, old
Floyd | timer?" she asks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the east.
Floyd |

Floyd | Do you want to keep waiting (YES or NO)?
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Lucille's General Store
Floyd |   More clutter than any person in their right mind would know what to
Floyd | do with.  Luckily Lucille has the right idea:  put it all on shelves

Floyd | and call it a General Store.  Among other things, the shelves contain a
Floyd | box of bullets (one dollar), a box of shotgun shells (three dollars),
Floyd | an empty taffy box, a pick-axe (five dollars), and a trail kit (one
Floyd | dollar).
Floyd |   Lucille herself is standing behind the counter.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying

Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "throw bottle at dan"
Floyd | You ultimately decide that throwing the whiskey bottle at Old Dan isn't

Floyd | such a great idea.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "throw bottle at counter"
Floyd | What exactly are you hoping for?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "an explosion"
Floyd | You can't use the word "explosion".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "you could give him the bottle and see if he breaks through the ceiling"
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Lucille's General Store
Floyd |   More clutter than any person in their right mind would know what to
Floyd | do with.  Luckily Lucille has the right idea:  put it all on shelves

Floyd | and call it a General Store.  Among other things, the shelves contain a
Floyd | box of bullets (one dollar), a box of shotgun shells (three dollars),
Floyd | an empty taffy box, a pick-axe (five dollars), and a trail kit (one
Floyd | dollar).
Floyd |   Lucille herself is standing behind the counter.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Lucille's General Store
Floyd |   More clutter than any person in their right mind would know what to

Floyd | do with.  Luckily Lucille has the right idea:  put it all on shelves
Floyd | and call it a General Store.  Among other things, the shelves contain a
Floyd | box of bullets (one dollar), a box of shotgun shells (three dollars),
Floyd | an empty taffy box, a pick-axe (five dollars), and a trail kit (one
Floyd | dollar).
Floyd |   Lucille herself is standing behind the counter.

Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "give bottle to dna"
Floyd | You can't use the word "dna".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "give bottle to dan"
Floyd | Before you can even get the hand holding the bottle halfway up, Old Dan
Floyd | grabs the bottle and takes a gigantic swig.  His eyes open so wide you
Floyd | can see through his head.  Then he rockets straight into orbit,
Floyd | disappearing into the stratosphere, leaving only a trail of blue smoke
Floyd | behind him.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd |
Floyd | Lucille's General Store
Floyd |   More clutter than any person in their right mind would know what to

Floyd | do with.  Luckily Lucille has the right idea:  put it all on shelves
Floyd | and call it a General Store.  Among other things, the shelves contain a
Floyd | box of bullets (one dollar), a box of shotgun shells (three dollars),
Floyd | an empty taffy box, a pick-axe (five dollars), and a trail kit (one
Floyd | dollar).
Floyd |   Lucille herself is standing behind the counter.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask lucille about dan"
Floyd | Lucille doesn't seem to know anything about Old Dan.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says, "dang"
Bert says, "Not easily impressed, is she."
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Lucille's General Store
Floyd |   More clutter than any person in their right mind would know what to
Floyd | do with.  Luckily Lucille has the right idea:  put it all on shelves
Floyd | and call it a General Store.  Among other things, the shelves contain a
Floyd | box of bullets (one dollar), a box of shotgun shells (three dollars),

Floyd | an empty taffy box, a pick-axe (five dollars), and a trail kit (one
Floyd | dollar).
Floyd |   Lucille herself is standing behind the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Lucille's General Store
Floyd |   More clutter than any person in their right mind would know what to
Floyd | do with.  Luckily Lucille has the right idea:  put it all on shelves

Floyd | and call it a General Store.  Among other things, the shelves contain a
Floyd | box of bullets (one dollar), a box of shotgun shells (three dollars),
Floyd | an empty taffy box, a pick-axe (five dollars), and a trail kit (one
Floyd | dollar).
Floyd |   Lucille herself is standing behind the counter.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Lucille's General Store
Floyd |   More clutter than any person in their right mind would know what to

Floyd | do with.  Luckily Lucille has the right idea:  put it all on shelves
Floyd | and call it a General Store.  Among other things, the shelves contain a
Floyd | box of bullets (one dollar), a box of shotgun shells (three dollars),
Floyd | an empty taffy box, a pick-axe (five dollars), and a trail kit (one
Floyd | dollar).
Floyd |   Lucille herself is standing behind the counter.

Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Taleslinger says, "best of luck"
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up

Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |   The fiery red stallion is standing patiently nearby.
Floyd |

Floyd | Old Dan arrives from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Taleslinger says, "bye"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride hose"
Floyd | You can't use the word "hose".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride s"
Floyd | You're not in anything at the moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are wearing your holster on your hip where it belongs.  You are

Floyd | holding a whiskey bottle.  Some of Grandma Grady's Wicked XXX is
Floyd | sloshing around inside the whiskey bottle.  A scrap of cloth is stuffed
Floyd | in the mouth of the bottle.  You are also carrying a skeleton key, two
Floyd | pistols (your six-shooter and Roy's gun), and a wooden plank.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the north.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Taleslinger says, "I wonder what happens if I just type 'quid'".
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride horse"
Floyd | You get on the fiery red stallion.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride s"
Floyd |

Floyd | South end of Main Street, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   Standing here in the middle of Main Street, you are directly across
Floyd | from the Tumbleweed Flats Sheriff's Department, which is directly to
Floyd | the east.  Not the safest place to hang out, perhaps, considering that
Floyd | the gallows are right on the other side of the street--and you might as
Floyd | well try and avoid that particular inevitability for as long as

Floyd | possible.  Might be a better idea to head north, back up Main Street.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride s"
Floyd | Going south from here will get you nowhere.  You really don't need any

Floyd | more of that then you've already got.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride se"
Floyd | You can't ride that way.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride sw"
Floyd | You can't ride that way.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride nw"
Floyd | You can't ride that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "ride ne"
Floyd | You can't ride that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride w"
Floyd | You can't ride that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride n"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of

Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan arrives from the north.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride e"
Floyd | You can't ride that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "ride n"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.

Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride e"
Floyd | You can't ride that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride w"
Floyd |
Floyd | Empty lot, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   Standing where you are, in the middle of a thicket of weeds, you're
Floyd | faced by a wall of impenetrable brush to the north.  Just to the right
Floyd | of the trees, to the northeast, is the entrance the local stable.  Back

Floyd | east is Main Street.
Floyd |   Little Jimmy is here, looking sullen.
Floyd |   Bobby is here, jumping up and down in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride n"
Floyd |
Floyd | Hidden meadow, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   Obviously not a popular picnic spot; in fact, if not for your vantage
Floyd | point perched atop the tree, you would never have known it was here,

Floyd | much less be able to blindly navigate your way through the thick of
Floyd | trees to the south.  The meadow opens up to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride w"
Floyd | You can't ride that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Odd."
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Empty lot, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   Standing where you are, in the middle of a thicket of weeds, you're
Floyd | faced by a wall of impenetrable brush to the north.  Just to the right
Floyd | of the trees, to the northeast, is the entrance the local stable.  Back
Floyd | east is Main Street.

Floyd |   Little Jimmy is here, looking sullen.
Floyd |   Bobby is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride e"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty

Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride nw"
Floyd |

Floyd | Stable, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   Smells musty, just like every other stable you've ever been in.
Floyd | There's a meager half-light drifting down from a window in the loft
Floyd | overhead, and the stable door leads back out onto Main Street to the
Floyd | southeast.  If anybody in this town owned a horse, this is where they'd
Floyd | keep it.

Floyd |   The gate to the stall to the north is open.
Floyd |   The ten-foot ladder is leaning against the loft.
Floyd |   An old black mare is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride nn"
Floyd | You can't use the word "nn".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride n"
Floyd |
Floyd | Stall, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   Any question as to where the musty odor of the stable is coming from
Floyd | is answered by coming in here--the pile of old hay on the ground was
Floyd | probably due for a changing a couple of weeks ago.  A few

Floyd | long-since-used pieces of leather tack--a bridle and saddle among
Floyd | them--hang on the wall.  The stall door to the south is open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Stable, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   Smells musty, just like every other stable you've ever been in.
Floyd | There's a meager half-light drifting down from a window in the loft
Floyd | overhead, and the stable door leads back out onto Main Street to the
Floyd | southeast.  If anybody in this town owned a horse, this is where they'd

Floyd | keep it.
Floyd |   The gate to the stall to the north is open.
Floyd |   The ten-foot ladder is leaning against the loft.
Floyd |   An old black mare is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "ride up"
Floyd | You can't ride that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride se"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.

Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "search crates"
Floyd | You don't find anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert asks, "Did we need a ladder anywhere else?"
inky says (to Floyd), "search barrels"
Floyd | You don't find anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "throw bottle at barrel"
Floyd | What exactly are you hoping for?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert asks, "Is there anything else in our room of possible use?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride e"
Floyd | You can't ride that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "throw roy's gun at barrel"
Floyd | What exactly are you hoping for?
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan arrives from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "we could look around our room again"
Bert says (to Floyd), "dismount"
Floyd | You get off of the fiery red stallion.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "maybe there's a mint on the pillow"
Bert says (to Floyd), "climb sheets"
Floyd | You don't see that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Knowing full well there's a way over the barrels and crates, you
Floyd | clamber awkwardly over the stack...
Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow alley

Floyd |   Running along the north side of Grady's--the old wall of the building
Floyd | is directly behind you.  Grady's storage shed is just to the north, and
Floyd | Main Street is back out to the west.  You're well hidden by a stack of
Floyd | old, sun-bleached wooden barrels.   Overhead, you can see your
Floyd | bedsheet, flapping in the wind from where it's still attached to the
Floyd | drainpipe.

Floyd |   You can squeeze through an opening between two boards in the side of
Floyd | the saloon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "climb sheet"
Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow alley
Floyd |   Running along the north side of Grady's--the old wall of the building
Floyd | is directly behind you.  Grady's storage shed is just to the north, and
Floyd | Main Street is back out to the west.  You're well hidden by a stack of
Floyd | old, sun-bleached wooden barrels.   Overhead, you can see your

Floyd | bedsheet, flapping in the wind from where it's still attached to the
Floyd | drainpipe.
Floyd |   You can squeeze through an opening between two boards in the side of
Floyd | the saloon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "up"
Floyd | You scramble back up the bedsheet to the open window.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your hotel room
Floyd |   Not too fancy, but then you get what you pay for.  A bed with a

Floyd | mattress that was, as you vaguely remember it, rather wooden.  A wash
Floyd | basin and mirror along one wall.  Curtains open, revealing the single
Floyd | small window and Main Street below.
Floyd |   Through the open curtains, you can see your bedsheet fluttering from
Floyd | where it is tied to the drainpipe outside.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get sheet"
Floyd | Except that the bedsheet is tied to the drainpipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "untie sheet"
Floyd | You untie the bedsheet from the drainpipe.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get sheet"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "put sheet in bottle"
Floyd | That's probably not going to work.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get basin"
Floyd | You can't take that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x it"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean the wash basin.)
Floyd | The wash basin looks just like you would expect.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "search it"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean the wash basin.)
Floyd | You don't find anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd |
Floyd | Your hotel room
Floyd |   Not too fancy, but then you get what you pay for.  A bed with a
Floyd | mattress that was, as you vaguely remember it, rather wooden.  A wash
Floyd | basin and mirror along one wall.  Curtains open, revealing the single
Floyd | small window and Main Street below.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x mattressf"
Floyd | You can't use the word "mattressf".
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x mattress"
Floyd | Looking at the bed doesn't bring back any fond memories of comfortable
Floyd | sleep.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "look under it"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean the bed.)
Floyd | You don't find anything under the bed.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "search it"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean the bed.)
Floyd | You don't find anything.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Upstairs hallway
Floyd |   Rooms on all sides of the landing--their doors closed and probably

Floyd | locked.  The stairs go back downstairs to the saloon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd |

Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel
Floyd |   Sunlight glares in through the swinging saloonesque doors, only to be
Floyd | swallowed up by the murkiness inside.  Tables and chairs, barstools
Floyd | along the long counter, and a room-length mirror behind the bar.
Floyd | There's a horseshoe tacked to the wall, too.  Stairs go up to the hotel
Floyd | rooms on the second floor.  The billiards room, such as it is, is in

Floyd | the northwest corner.
Floyd |   Grady is behind the bar.
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady pulls out a cloth and polishes up the bar a little.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "show sheet to grady"
Floyd | Grady doesn't seem too interested in the bedsheet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up

Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan arrives from the north.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Well, we've got another inventory item."
inky says, "true enough"
Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | South end of Main Street
Floyd |   Standing here in the middle of Main Street, you are directly across
Floyd | from the Tumbleweed Flats Sheriff's Department, which is directly to
Floyd | the east.  Not the safest place to hang out, perhaps, considering that
Floyd | the gallows are right on the other side of the street--and you might as

Floyd | well try and avoid that particular inevitability for as long as
Floyd | possible.  Might be a better idea to head north, back up Main Street.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan arrives from the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "(Only tried riding there before.)"
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "wear sheet"
Floyd | You can't wear the bedsheet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |

Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is

Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |

Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.

Floyd |   The fiery red stallion is standing patiently nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride stallion"
Floyd | You get on the fiery red stallion.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | To walk, you will have to get off of the fiery red stallion.
Floyd | Otherwise, try "ride" or "gallop" and a direction.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "gallop n"
Floyd |
Floyd | Edge of town, on a fiery red stallion

Floyd |   You can still see Tumbleweed Flats behind you where the road curves
Floyd | around from the south.  A dead, rotted tree stands here, marking the
Floyd | memory of the last living thing between here and where the road
Floyd | disappears into the eastern distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "x tree"
Floyd | The tree is now gray and rotted.  It marks the point where the road
Floyd | comes up from the southwest and turns east.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "climb tree"
Floyd | You can't climb the dead, rotted tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot tree with roy's gun"
Floyd | You pull the trigger, and put a bullethole in the dead, rotted tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot tree with roy's gun"
Floyd | You pull the trigger, and put another bullethole in the dead, rotted
Floyd | tree.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert asks, "This isn't actually helping, is it?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Edge of town, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   You can still see Tumbleweed Flats behind you where the road curves

Floyd | around from the south.  A dead, rotted tree stands here, marking the
Floyd | memory of the last living thing between here and where the road
Floyd | disappears into the eastern distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Edge of town, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   You can still see Tumbleweed Flats behind you where the road curves
Floyd | around from the south.  A dead, rotted tree stands here, marking the

Floyd | memory of the last living thing between here and where the road
Floyd | disappears into the eastern distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "throw bottle at tree"
Floyd | What exactly are you hoping for?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "i dunno"
Floyd | You can't use the word "dunno".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | To walk, you will have to get off of the fiery red stallion.

Floyd | Otherwise, try "ride" or "gallop" and a direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride n"
Floyd | You can't ride that way.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Long and dusty road, on a fiery red stallion

Floyd |   Brambles and cactuses all over the place.  Some might call it the
Floyd | desert.  Not all that lucky for you, seeing as you're wandering around
Floyd | in the middle of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x desert"
Floyd | You don't need to refer to that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "sand"
Floyd | You can't use the word "sand".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "cactus"
Floyd | Better start with a verb.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x cactus"
Floyd | You don't need to refer to that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x bramble"
Floyd | You don't need to refer to that.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride e"
Floyd | The red stallion gallops along without faltering, eating up the
Floyd | distance, Tumbleweed Flats disappearing far behind you.

Floyd |
Floyd | End of the road, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   The dusty road stretches back to the west as far as the eye can see,
Floyd | and then some.  A steep bank rises up to the southeast; you can't see
Floyd | what might be at the top of it.
Floyd |   Sarah is here.

Floyd |   Sarah's Arabian is here, snacking contentedly on a small patch of
Floyd | grass.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "dismount"
Floyd | You get off of the fiery red stallion.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "show bottle to sarah"
Floyd | "Oh, great.  So what, you're going to drink that and get all fired up
Floyd | for being a hero?  Lucky me."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "yes"
Floyd | That was a rhetorical question.  (Although you sound rather positive.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "give bottle to sarah"
Floyd | "No thanks.  Although God knows we could both probably use it."  She
Floyd | takes a look at you.  Has second thoughts.  "Well, maybe not both of
Floyd | us."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "drink bottle"
Floyd | The piece of cloth is in the way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd |
Floyd | Top of a steep bank
Floyd |   From the top of this incline, you can look back to see the dusty road
Floyd | stretching out of sight to the west.  Over the crest of the hill, you
Floyd | can see the Heffer ranch house to the south--quite an impressive sight,

Floyd | to be honest.  A hayfield opens up to the east.
Floyd |   Standing guarding the front of the house is Glen Heffer's
Floyd | mean-looking henchman Large Duane.  Lucky for you he can't see you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sarah scrambles up the bank after you.  "I hope you know what you're
Floyd | doing," she says.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "throw bottle at hay"
Floyd | You pitch the bottle into the hayfield, where it lands with a dull
Floyd | thud.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Well."
Bert says, "Right."
Bert says, "I think I'm running out of ideas."
schep says, "we need us some money"
Bert asks, "Anyone else got a thought?"
schep says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Hayfield

Floyd |   Standing amidst the scattered golden haystacks drying in the hot sun.
Floyd | In fact, the hay is so dry it crackles under your feet as you step on
Floyd | it.  From here, you can either go back west where you came from, or
Floyd | southwest toward the Heffer ranch house.
Floyd |   A whiskey bottle is here.
Floyd |

Floyd | Sarah follows you into the hayfield.  "What are you doing over here?"
Floyd | she asks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "You'd think Sarah could and would help us."
schep says (to Floyd), "shout"
Floyd | You let out a hearty bellow.  Nothing else happens.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get bottle"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "ask sarah about money"
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "ask sarah about dollar"
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "ask sarah for money"
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "If we could get Dan out here, we could give him the bottle."
Bert says, "That'd make a great distraction."
inky says (to Ghogg), "ok, I think we could use a hint here"
Bert says, "Maybe the whole Sarah thing is an optional subplot, and the real goal is to get the Sheriff's sandwich."
Bert says, "I think the hint offer expired."
Bert says (to Floyd), "score"
Floyd | As in, you'd like to know how you're doing, right?
Floyd |

Floyd | Well, although you did wind up killing Roy Heffer, it was in self
Floyd | defense.  And while you did break into Grady's liquor stash, that
Floyd | doesn't really count as being productive.  It would also be interesting
Floyd | to see who would think highly of your stealing Little Jimmy's candy.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the bright side, you figured out a way to slip out of your hotel

Floyd | room unnoticed.  And putting together that plan to steal Stratford's
Floyd | stallion showed at least a little ingenuity.  Plus, if it weren't so
Floyd | seedy and practically dishonest, having wits enough to bamboozle Grady
Floyd | with a weed looking like a four-leaf clover would almost be
Floyd | commendable.
Floyd |

Floyd | That's what you've managed to get done so far.  Being generally
Floyd | disruptive, that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "score with sarah"
Floyd | That doesn't make any sense.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert asks (of schep), "Does the menuable version have hints?"
inky says, "hmm"
inky says, "well, we could save and restart and try not to kill the guy"
Bert says (to Floyd), "save"
Floyd | Enter saved game to store:
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf9"
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert exclaims, "I hope that's not the key solution here!"
inky says, "maybe he will give us money in gratitude"
Bert says (to Floyd), "restart"
Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart (YES or NO)?
Bert says (to Floyd), "y"
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd | In retrospect, maybe all that cheap whiskey last night in Grady's
Floyd | wasn't such a brilliant idea.  Not the way the evil, glowing orb of the
Floyd | morning sun is burning a hole through your squinting eyes and right
Floyd | into the back of your head.  And especially since there's a guy with a
Floyd | six-shooter on his belt, ready to draw, standing thirty feet away and

Floyd | facing you.  Your body keeps screaming at you that you should still be
Floyd | in bed.  The dimly lit cage of your memory tells you that all of this
Floyd | has something to do with you standing up for some woman in the saloon
Floyd | last night, and right now you wish like hell you could remember.
Floyd |
Floyd | No one ever said you were lucky, but you are...

Floyd |
Floyd | SPUR
Floyd | A Western Misadventure by Kent Tessman (c) 1995-1997
Floyd | Written using the Hugo Compiler v2.5
Floyd | Release 9 04-27-99
Floyd | (New players should type "help".)

Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.

Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over
Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously.  Somewhere in the distance,
Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot roy's gun"
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot roy's hand"
Floyd | That doesn't make any sense.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "run"
Floyd | You can't use the word "run".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "s" inky says, "I guess we could just wait"
Floyd | You try to move, but Roy is faster, and he shoots you in the back
Floyd | before you can get away.
Floyd |

Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
inky says, "ha ha"
Bert says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over
Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously.  Somewhere in the distance,

Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Time passes...

Floyd |
Floyd | Roy draws his six-shooter, yanking it from its holster and raising it
Floyd | toward you...
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you want to keep waiting (YES or NO)?
Bert says (to Floyd), "y"
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy pulls the trigger.  Catches you square in the chest.  Ouch--that
Floyd | smarts!  Not to mention the fact that it kills you.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***

Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
Bert says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd |

Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over
Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously.  Somewhere in the distance,
Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky asks, "wait for him to draw, then shoot?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "hide"
Floyd | You can't use the word "hide".
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x roy"
Floyd | You might want to spend less time staring, and more time thinking about
Floyd | the fact that you're in the middle of a gunfight.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy draws his six-shooter, yanking it from its holster and raising it

Floyd | toward you...
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you want to keep waiting (YES or NO)?
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot roy's gun"
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "shoot six-shooter"
Floyd | Would help if you had your six-shooter in your hand.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x six-shooter"
Floyd | Old faithful, with the emphasis on the "old" part.  And faithful
Floyd | doesn't necessarily mean accurate.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy pulls the trigger.  Catches you square in the chest.  Ouch--that

Floyd | smarts!  Not to mention the fact that it kills you.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?

Bert says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over

Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously.  Somewhere in the distance,
Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over
Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously.  Somewhere in the distance,
Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "draw"
Floyd | You pull your six-shooter out of your holster.
Floyd |

Floyd | Roy pulls the trigger.  Catches you square in the chest.  Ouch--that
Floyd | smarts!  Not to mention the fact that it kills you.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,

Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |

Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over
Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously.  Somewhere in the distance,
Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over

Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously.  Somewhere in the distance,
Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "draw"
Floyd | You pull your six-shooter out of your holster.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy draws his six-shooter, yanking it from its holster and raising it
Floyd | toward you...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot six-shooter"
Floyd | You can't shoot your six-shooter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot roy's six-shooter"
Floyd | You haven't seen any "roy's six-shooter", nor are you likely to, even
Floyd | if such a thing exists.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "I can't? oh no!!"
Bert says (to Floyd), "x roy"
Floyd | You might want to spend less time staring, and more time thinking about
Floyd | the fact that you're in the middle of a gunfight.
Floyd |

Floyd | Roy pulls the trigger.  Catches you square in the chest.  Ouch--that
Floyd | smarts!  Not to mention the fact that it kills you.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,

Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |

Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over
Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously.  Somewhere in the distance,
Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up

Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over

Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously.  Somewhere in the distance,
Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy pulls the trigger.  Catches you square in the chest.  Ouch--that
Floyd | smarts!  Not to mention the fact that it kills you.
Floyd |

Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
inky says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over
Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously.  Somewhere in the distance,
Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "shoot roy"
Floyd | You beat Roy to the trigger, shooting him through the heart just as he
Floyd | is aiming at yours.  (And surprising yourself while you're at it that

Floyd | your old gun hit him--your aim must've been off.)  Roy gasps, drops his
Floyd | gun, and falls to the ground, dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over
Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously.  Somewhere in the distance,
Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot guitarist"
Floyd | You can't use the word "guitarist".
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "shoot hand"
Floyd | That doesn't make any sense.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot sun"
Floyd | You don't need to refer to that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot me"
Floyd | If you were prone to that sort of thing, you would've done that a long
Floyd | time ago.  It's not like desperation is new to you or anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy pulls the trigger.  Catches you square in the chest.  Ouch--that

Floyd | smarts!  Not to mention the fact that it kills you.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?

inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over

Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously.  Somewhere in the distance,
Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "drop gun"
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy pulls the trigger.  Catches you square in the chest.  Ouch--that
Floyd | smarts!  Not to mention the fact that it kills you.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***

Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |

Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over
Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously.  Somewhere in the distance,
Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "talk to roy"
Floyd | Would seem the time for talking is long past.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy pulls the trigger.  Catches you square in the chest.  Ouch--that

Floyd | smarts!  Not to mention the fact that it kills you.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?

Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over

Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously.  Somewhere in the distance,
Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "beg"
Floyd | You can't use the word "beg".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "shoot roy's hand"
Floyd | That doesn't make any sense.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "I am thinking it is him or us."
Bert says, "And there are more of us."
inky says, ">CALL ROY A NO-GOOD YELLOW-BELLIED VARMIT"
inky says, "yeah, it's looking like that"
Bert says (to Floyd), "insult roy"
Floyd | You can't use the word "insult".

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot dan"
Floyd | You haven't seen anybody like that.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "shoot roy's holster"
Floyd | You haven't seen any "roy's holster", nor are you likely to, even if
Floyd | such a thing exists.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot general store"
Floyd | You pull the trigger, and put a bullethole in Lucille's General Store.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy Heffer looks at you like you're out of your gourd.

Floyd |
Floyd | Roy pulls the trigger.  Catches you square in the chest.  Ouch--that
Floyd | smarts!  Not to mention the fact that it kills you.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |

Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street

Floyd |
Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over
Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously.  Somewhere in the distance,
Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot gourd"
Floyd | You can't use the word "gourd".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "hmm, so there are other things to shoot"
inky says (to Floyd), "shoot roy"
Floyd | You beat Roy to the trigger, shooting him through the heart just as he
Floyd | is aiming at yours.  (And surprising yourself while you're at it that
Floyd | your old gun hit him--your aim must've been off.)  Roy gasps, drops his

Floyd | gun, and falls to the ground, dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "look"
Floyd |

Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is

Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |   Roy Heffer's rapidly cooling body is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan arrives from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | (Old Dan has to make an effort to swagger around Roy's body.)

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "throw gun at roy"
Floyd | What exactly are you hoping for?
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "saloon"
Floyd | That doesn't make any sense.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are wearing your holster on your hip where it belongs.  You are
Floyd | also carrying a skeleton key and your six-shooter.
Floyd |
Floyd | A crowd starts to gather around you and the corpse.

Floyd |
Floyd | Little Jimmy comes running past you from the north.  He stops for a
Floyd | second, looks at Roy's stiff, and raises his eyebrows.  "Oooh.  Dead
Floyd | guy."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "x saloon"
Floyd | The sign over the door originally just said "Grady's Saloon", but since
Floyd | then "Billiards" and "Hotel" have been added.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bobby comes running after Little Jimmy.

Floyd |
Floyd | More people come out onto the street to see what happened.  They see
Floyd | the body.  Some of them point at you and begin talking to each other in
Floyd | low voices.
Floyd |
Floyd | Little Jimmy goes running off to the south.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "restart"
Floyd | Are you sure you want to restart (YES or NO)?
Bert says (to Floyd), "y"
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In retrospect, maybe all that cheap whiskey last night in Grady's
Floyd | wasn't such a brilliant idea.  Not the way the evil, glowing orb of the

Floyd | morning sun is burning a hole through your squinting eyes and right
Floyd | into the back of your head.  And especially since there's a guy with a
Floyd | six-shooter on his belt, ready to draw, standing thirty feet away and
Floyd | facing you.  Your body keeps screaming at you that you should still be
Floyd | in bed.  The dimly lit cage of your memory tells you that all of this
Floyd | has something to do with you standing up for some woman in the saloon

Floyd | last night, and right now you wish like hell you could remember.
Floyd |
Floyd | No one ever said you were lucky, but you are...
Floyd |
Floyd | SPUR
Floyd | A Western Misadventure by Kent Tessman (c) 1995-1997

Floyd | Written using the Hugo Compiler v2.5
Floyd | Release 9 04-27-99
Floyd | (New players should type "help".)
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a

Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |

Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over
Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously.  Somewhere in the distance,
Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "yes"
Floyd | That was a rhetorical question.  (Although you sound rather positive.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "shoot sign"
Floyd | Would help if you had your six-shooter in your hand.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "throw gun at roy"
Floyd | You're not holding that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "squint"
Floyd | You can't use the word "squint".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "draw"
Floyd | You pull your six-shooter out of your holster.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "shoot sign"
Floyd | You pull the trigger, and put a bullethole in Grady's Saloon,
Floyd | Billiards, and Hotel.

Floyd |
Floyd | Roy Heffer looks at you like you're out of your gourd.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy draws his six-shooter, yanking it from its holster and raising it
Floyd | toward you...
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says, "dangit"
Bert says (to Floyd), "throw gun at roy"
Floyd | You ultimately decide that throwing your six-shooter at Roy Heffer
Floyd | isn't such a great idea.

Floyd |
Floyd | Roy pulls the trigger.  Catches you square in the chest.  Ouch--that
Floyd | smarts!  Not to mention the fact that it kills you.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |

Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street

Floyd |
Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over
Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously.  Somewhere in the distance,
Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "open gun"
Floyd | You crack it open.  It's empty.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy pulls the trigger.  Catches you square in the chest.  Ouch--that
Floyd | smarts!  Not to mention the fact that it kills you.

Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over
Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously.  Somewhere in the distance,

Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "?!?!"
Bert says (to Floyd), "call time-out"
Floyd | You can't use the word "call".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to inky), "We shot the sign."
inky says, "oh ok"
Bert says (to Floyd), "tremble in fear"
Floyd | You can't use the word "tremble".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "but we did not shoot the deputy"
Bert says (to Floyd), "fear roy"
Floyd | You can't use the word "fear".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "duck"
Floyd | You can't use the word "duck".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot south"
Floyd | You pull the trigger, and--CLICK.  Your six-shooter is empty.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over
Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously.  Somewhere in the distance,
Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street

Floyd |
Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over
Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously.  Somewhere in the distance,
Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over

Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously.  Somewhere in the distance,
Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over
Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously.  Somewhere in the distance,
Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot south"
Floyd | Would help if you had your six-shooter in your hand.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "draw"
Floyd | You pull your six-shooter out of your holster.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot south"
Floyd | You can't shoot the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get south"
Floyd | You can't take that.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy draws his six-shooter, yanking it from its holster and raising it
Floyd | toward you...

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get down"
Floyd | A bit redundant, don't you think?
Floyd |

Floyd | >
schep says (to Floyd), "shoot guitar"
Floyd | You can't do that with the Spanish guitar music.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy pulls the trigger.  Catches you square in the chest.  Ouch--that

Floyd | smarts!  Not to mention the fact that it kills you.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?

Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over

Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously.  Somewhere in the distance,
Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x music"
Floyd | You can't do that with the Spanish guitar music.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy pulls the trigger.  Catches you square in the chest.  Ouch--that
Floyd | smarts!  Not to mention the fact that it kills you.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***

Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |

Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over
Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously.  Somewhere in the distance,
Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "listen to music"
Floyd | It's faint, but you can make out the theme to 'The Good, the Bad, and
Floyd | the Ugly' fairly clearly.
Floyd |

Floyd | Roy pulls the trigger.  Catches you square in the chest.  Ouch--that
Floyd | smarts!  Not to mention the fact that it kills you.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,

Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
inky says, "tee hee"
Bert says, "Right. So."
Bert asks, "Do we seek another source of hints?"
Bert asks, "Or keep at it?"
maga says, "hints from elsewhere, I think"
schep says, "I gotta go. Have fun."
schep has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. maga says, "we're nearing the three-hour mark"
Bert exclaims, "We're running out of players!"
K-Y says, "oh no"
K-Y says, "I may never find out how this ends"
inky says, "we will never give up!"
inky says, "but we may have to get some hints"
inky says, "if Ghogg persists in being idle I guess I can look on the archive or something"
K-Y says, "I imagine if there had been a walkthrough I would have spoiled myself long ago"
K-Y says, "but maybe things are different now"
Bert says, "The in-game menus don't seem to have any hints."
Bert says, "Maybe we can IM Ghogg."
Bert says, "Er, Hugo, I mean."
inky says, "whoah!"
Bert says, "(Dang, that ruined that joke.)"
Bert asks (of inky), "Whoah?"
inky | Keep getting caught by them deputies! I've shot the man and gotten
inky | his $1.25, but I don't know what to do with the money.
Bert says, "Buh."
inky says, "says this thread on rgif"
Bert says (to Floyd), "restart"
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | In retrospect, maybe all that cheap whiskey last night in Grady's
Floyd | wasn't such a brilliant idea.  Not the way the evil, glowing orb of the
Floyd | morning sun is burning a hole through your squinting eyes and right
Floyd | into the back of your head.  And especially since there's a guy with a

Floyd | six-shooter on his belt, ready to draw, standing thirty feet away and
Floyd | facing you.  Your body keeps screaming at you that you should still be
Floyd | in bed.  The dimly lit cage of your memory tells you that all of this
Floyd | has something to do with you standing up for some woman in the saloon
Floyd | last night, and right now you wish like hell you could remember.
Floyd |

Floyd | No one ever said you were lucky, but you are...
Floyd |
Floyd | SPUR
Floyd | A Western Misadventure by Kent Tessman (c) 1995-1997
Floyd | Written using the Hugo Compiler v2.5
Floyd | Release 9 04-27-99

Floyd | (New players should type "help".)
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of

Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy Heffer is standing in front of you, his right hand dangling over
Floyd | his holster, fingers twitching nervously.  Somewhere in the distance,

Floyd | someone strums an out-of-tune Spanish guitar.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "y"
Floyd | Better start with a verb.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "draw"
Floyd | You pull your six-shooter out of your holster.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot roy"
Floyd | You beat Roy to the trigger, shooting him through the heart just as he
Floyd | is aiming at yours.  (And surprising yourself while you're at it that
Floyd | your old gun hit him--your aim must've been off.)  Roy gasps, drops his

Floyd | gun, and falls to the ground, dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x corpse"
Floyd | Dead as a doornail, as they say.  In a few minutes he'll be too stiff

Floyd | to move.  Roy's gun is lying in the dirt where he dropped it when you
Floyd | shot him.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan arrives from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | (Old Dan has to make an effort to swagger around Roy's body.)

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get all from corpse"
Floyd | Nothing to get.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "rob corpse"
Floyd | You can't use the word "rob".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "x pants"
inky says (to Floyd), "x corpse"
Floyd | You don't see that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Floyd | Dead as a doornail, as they say.  In a few minutes he'll be too stiff
Floyd | to move.  Roy's gun is lying in the dirt where he dropped it when you
Floyd | shot him.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x pockets"
Floyd | You can't use the word "pockets".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "search roy"
Floyd | Roy wasn't exactly a tiny guy.  You're not having the best of luck
Floyd | moving him.
Floyd |
Floyd | A crowd starts to gather around you and the corpse.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get money from corpse"
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "look under roy"
Floyd | Roy wasn't exactly a tiny guy.  You're not having the best of luck
Floyd | moving him.
Floyd |
Floyd | More people come out onto the street to see what happened.  They see

Floyd | the body.  Some of them point at you and begin talking to each other in
Floyd | low voices.
Floyd |
Floyd | Little Jimmy comes running past you from the north.  He stops for a
Floyd | second, looks at Roy's stiff, and raises his eyebrows.  "Oooh.  Dead
Floyd | guy."

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "move roy"
Floyd | Roy wasn't exactly a tiny guy.  You're not having the best of luck
Floyd | moving him.

Floyd |
Floyd | Bobby comes running after Little Jimmy.
Floyd |
Floyd | You hear someone saying to you:  "Look, partner.  I dunno what your
Floyd | beef with ole Roy here was, but you best be getting outta here before
Floyd | the Sheriff shows up."

Floyd |
Floyd | Little Jimmy goes running off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "push roy"
Floyd | Pushing Roy Heffer's body doesn't get you anywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bobby chases off after Little Jimmy.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the east.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "search corpse"
Floyd | Roy wasn't exactly a tiny guy.  You're not having the best of luck
Floyd | moving him.
Floyd |

Floyd | Little Jimmy comes running past you from the south.  He stops for a
Floyd | second, looks at Roy's stiff, and raises his eyebrows.  "Oooh.  Dead
Floyd | guy."
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan arrives from the east.
Floyd |

Floyd | (Old Dan has to make an effort to swagger around Roy's body.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot dan"
Floyd | You pull the trigger, and--CLICK.  Your six-shooter is empty.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "ask dan about roy"
Floyd | "Once in a while Roy'd buy me drink or something.  Didja have to go and
Floyd | kill him, of all people?"

Floyd |
Floyd | Bobby comes running after Little Jimmy.
Floyd |
Floyd | Little Jimmy goes running off to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "get roy's gun"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bobby chases off after Little Jimmy.
Floyd |

Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot dan with it"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean Roy's gun.)

Floyd | Old Dan isn't here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |

Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |   Bobby is here.
Floyd |   Roy Heffer's rapidly cooling body is here.
Floyd |   A crowd is gathering around the corpse.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot bobby"
Floyd | What sort of lowlife are you, exactly?
Floyd |

Floyd | Bobby chases off after Little Jimmy.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.

Floyd |   Bobby is here.
Floyd |   Roy Heffer's rapidly cooling body is here.
Floyd |   A crowd is gathering around the corpse.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "dan, move roy"
Floyd | Old Dan helps you heft Roy's body a foot or two to one side.
Floyd |
Floyd | Roy must've dropped his wallet in the dust when you plugged him.  You
Floyd | take it.  (What the hell--you already killed the guy.)  Old Dan looks

Floyd | at you expectantly.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bobby chases off after Little Jimmy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Aw, man." Bert says, "Aw, man."
inky says, "sigh"
Bert says, "I am sure I never saw that when I played before."
inky says, "well, here we go again, I guess"
Bert says, "I, uh, guess... yeah."
K-Y says, "wow"
Bert says (to Floyd), "save"
Floyd | Enter saved game to store:
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf10"
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert is a newbie.
Bert says (to Floyd), "get all"
Floyd | Roy Heffer's body:  Only if you want to be spotted carting a dead body
Floyd | around town.  Not recommended.
Floyd | gathering crowd:  You can't take that.

Floyd | Roy's gun:  Taken.
Floyd | Old Dan:  Old Dan probably wouldn't be too big on that idea.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel
Floyd |   Sunlight glares in through the swinging saloonesque doors, only to be
Floyd | swallowed up by the murkiness inside.  Tables and chairs, barstools
Floyd | along the long counter, and a room-length mirror behind the bar.
Floyd | There's a horseshoe tacked to the wall, too.  Stairs go up to the hotel

Floyd | rooms on the second floor.  The billiards room, such as it is, is in
Floyd | the northwest corner.
Floyd |   Grady is behind the bar.
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady studies you as you come in.  "Plannin' on paying your bill
Floyd | anytime soon?"

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x wallet"
Floyd | Calfskin.  Nice.  Monogrammed with "R.H."  It's closed.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "open it"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean Roy's wallet.)
Floyd | Opened.

Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the wallet are a quarter and a dollar bill.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "give bill to grady"
Floyd | (taking the dollar bill first)
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady refuses.  "You come back with some real money, 'fores I boot your
Floyd | dusty butt outta here."
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x dollar"
Floyd | Good old legal tender, emblazoned with the seal of the Union.
Floyd |
Floyd | You watch under the swinging doors as several sets of boots show up.

Floyd | The Sheriff's deputies have come looking for you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | You can't go that way.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd |
Floyd | Upstairs hallway

Floyd |   Rooms on all sides of the landing--their doors closed and probably
Floyd | locked.  The stairs go back downstairs to the saloon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | The room door is locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "unlock door"
Floyd | (with the skeleton key)
Floyd | Unlocked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | As you open the door, it bangs against an empty whiskey bottle that had
Floyd | rolled against it.  The bottle skitters away into the corner of the
Floyd | room.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your hotel room
Floyd |   Not too fancy, but then you get what you pay for.  A bed with a

Floyd | mattress that was, as you vaguely remember it, rather wooden.  A wash
Floyd | basin and mirror along one wall.  Curtains closed, covering the single
Floyd | small window.
Floyd |   Looks like someone slipped a piece of paper under the door while you
Floyd | were out.
Floyd |   In the corner of the room is a whiskey bottle, empty and discarded.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get sheet and bottle and note"
Floyd | You haven't seen anything like that.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x bed"
Floyd | Looking at the bed doesn't bring back any fond memories of comfortable
Floyd | sleep.  The bedsheet is still in a crumpled heap at the foot of the
Floyd | bed.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get sheet and bottle and note"
Floyd | bedsheet:  Taken.
Floyd | whiskey bottle:  Taken.

Floyd | handwritten note:  Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "open curtain. open window. tie sheet to drainpipe. climb sheet"
Floyd | Opened.  Through the closed window you can just peek around the corner

Floyd | of the hotel enough to see Main Street below.  You see a gang of
Floyd | deputies waiting in front of the saloon--waiting for you, that is.
Floyd |
Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | You tie the bedsheet to the drainpipe.

Floyd |
Floyd | As you climb down the bedsheet, it starts to rip.  One small piece of
Floyd | cloth tears away and flutters down below you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow alley
Floyd |   Running along the north side of Grady's--the old wall of the building

Floyd | is directly behind you.  Grady's storage shed is just to the north, and
Floyd | Main Street is back out to the west.  You're well hidden by a stack of
Floyd | old, sun-bleached wooden barrels.   Overhead, you can see your
Floyd | bedsheet, flapping in the wind from where it's still attached to the
Floyd | drainpipe.
Floyd |   The small piece of cloth from the bedsheet is lying on the ground.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get cloth. get plank"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |

Floyd | It's attached to the side of the saloon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "pull plank"
Floyd | With a grunt, you yank the board free from the side of the saloon.  It

Floyd | falls to the ground with a dull clatter, revealing an opening leading
Floyd | southeast into the wall.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get it"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean the wooden plank.)
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady's liquor stash
Floyd |   In the dim light from the alleyway, you can make out the outlines of
Floyd | several shelves of crates and bottles, as well as a heavy door
Floyd | which--you guess--leads out into the billiards room.  Sitting in the
Floyd | shadows in the corner is a big wooden keg.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "fill bottle from keg"
Floyd | That doesn't make any sense.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "fill bottle"
Floyd | You fill the bottle with Grandma Grady's Wicked XXX.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "put cloth in bottle. nw"
Floyd | You stuff the piece of cloth into the opening of the bottle.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow alley
Floyd |   You can squeeze through an opening between two boards in the side of
Floyd | the saloon.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | You find a foothold on the stack of barrels and clamber over.
Floyd |

Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.

Floyd |   To the south, you can see a gang of deputies lounging around outside
Floyd | Grady's Saloon--presumably waiting for you.
Floyd |   Little Jimmy is here, cheerfully chomping on some sticky taffy.
Floyd |
Floyd | Bobby comes running after Little Jimmy.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get taffy"
Floyd | Little Jimmy bawls as you grab his candy.  "Give me back my taffy!
Floyd | Gimme gimme!" he hollers as he stamps his feet.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "kick jimmy"
Floyd | Venting your frustrations on Little Jimmy won't accomplish much.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd | (opening the heavy stable door first)
Floyd | With a grunt, you heave the stable door open.
Floyd |
Floyd | Stable

Floyd |   Smells musty, just like every other stable you've ever been in.
Floyd | There's a meager half-light drifting down from a window in the loft
Floyd | overhead, and the stable door leads back out onto Main Street to the
Floyd | southeast.  If anybody in this town owned a horse, this is where they'd
Floyd | keep it.
Floyd |   The gate to one of the stalls to the north is closed.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "it'll make us feel better, though"
Bert says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Time passes...

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | A woman slips into the stable behind you.  She stands off to the side,
Floyd | almost in the shadows, regarding you warily.  She looks vaguely

Floyd | familiar.
Floyd |
Floyd | The woman seems relieved.  "Good.  I wasn't sure if you'd actually
Floyd | come," she says.
Floyd |
Floyd | She goes to the stable door and looks outside, making sure that the two

Floyd | of you are alone before she closes it.
Floyd |
Floyd | Do you want to keep waiting (YES or NO)?
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says, "irritating not to be able to see the time"
inky says, "but I guess that works"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask sarah about the future of our relationship"
Floyd | You can't use the word "future".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Not sure there's much we can do without going south anyway. I guess we coulda clovered."
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask sarah about sarah"
Floyd | The strangely familiar woman would probably rather not talk about
Floyd | herself.
Floyd |
Floyd | "That must mean you remember what I told you last night in Grady's,
Floyd | right?  About Glen Heffer?  I mean before his bastard son showed up and
Floyd | started causing trouble."

Floyd |
Floyd | That's when it hits you:  this is the woman for whose honor--directly
Floyd | or indirectly--you ended up in a gunfight this morning.  Sarah or
Floyd | Sandra or Samantha or something like that.  Sarah.  That's right:
Floyd | Sarah.  Whew.  Nice memory on you.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask sarah about glen"
Floyd | "I guess he can add kidnapper and blackmailer to his list of
Floyd | accomplishments, right after thief, murderer, and son-of-a-bitch."
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask sarah about me"
Floyd | Hopefully you know as much as anyone.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sarah looks at you skeptically again.  "Okay.  Here's what you have to

Floyd | do," she says.  "You have a horse, right?  I mean, I'm assuming you do.
Floyd | If you don't, you'll have to get yourself one.  I guess I just figure
Floyd | any cowboy worth his weight in dust has a horse.  You know the road
Floyd | going east just north of town?  Ride east, all the way to the end.
Floyd | You'll know when you're there because you'll find me waiting for you."
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask sarah about uncle"
Floyd | You haven't seen anybody like that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "ask sarah about roy"
Floyd | "Last night in Grady's?  Last night Roy knew exactly what I was talking
Floyd | about, about Uncle Bucky.  Today?  Well, today I'm glad you shot him."
Floyd |
Floyd | Sarah's face softens a little, and some of her tough facade fades away.

Floyd |
Floyd | "Look, I don't know if you're a hero or just not very smart or what.
Floyd | It was more than enough that you stood up for me against Roy.  Now
Floyd | this.  It's probably more than I can ask, but...thank you."
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "ask sarah about bucky"
Floyd | "He may be a little strange, but, hey, he's my uncle, and he's dear to
Floyd | me--and it's not just because he's got a lot of money.  But I'm not
Floyd | going to let that rotten snake Glen Heffer force me into coming up with
Floyd | ransom money--Uncle Bucky wouldn't want that."

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "tell sarah about roy"
Floyd | Sarah doesn't seem particularly interested in what you have to say
Floyd | about Roy Heffer.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "tell sarah about me"
Floyd | Sarah doesn't seem particularly interested in what you have to say
Floyd | about you.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "tell sarah about horse"
Floyd | Sarah doesn't seem particularly interested in what you have to say
Floyd | about the horseshoe.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "kiss sarah"
Floyd | She pushes you away.  "Hey, hayseed.  I don't know what you think
Floyd | you've got coming for helping me out, but if that's it, you can just

Floyd | forget it."
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "feel sarah"
Floyd | Fiddling with Sarah probably isn't the best use of your time at the

Floyd | moment.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "I beg to differ."
maga says, "I'll be the judge of t- yeah"
Bert says (to Floyd), "fiddle while hay burns"
Floyd | You can't use the word "fiddle".
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |   Little Jimmy is here, looking sullen.
Floyd |   Bobby is here.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd |
Floyd | Stable
Floyd |   The gate to one of the stalls to the north is closed.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says, "Yup. Magic."
Bert says (to Floyd), "verbose"
Floyd | Verbose descriptions.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "se.w.pull weeds"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.

Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |   To the south, you can see a gang of deputies lounging around outside
Floyd | Grady's Saloon--presumably waiting for you.

Floyd |   Little Jimmy is here, looking sullen.
Floyd |   Bobby is here, jumping up and down in place.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.  He gives you grouchy look.
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd | Empty lot
Floyd |   Standing where you are, in the middle of a thicket of weeds, you're
Floyd | faced by a wall of impenetrable brush to the north.  Just to the right
Floyd | of the trees, to the northeast, is the entrance the local stable.  Back
Floyd | east is Main Street.
Floyd |

Floyd | Pulling the thicket of weeds doesn't get you anywhere.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "pull weed"
Floyd | Pulling the thicket of weeds doesn't get you anywhere.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "pluck weed"
Floyd | You're not holding that.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get weed"
Floyd | You pluck one of the weeds from the ground.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "pluck leaf. pluck leaf."
Floyd | You pluck a leaf from the weed.  It flutters away.
Floyd |
Floyd | You pluck another leaf from the weed.  It flutters away.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.

Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |   To the south, you can see a gang of deputies lounging around outside
Floyd | Grady's Saloon--presumably waiting for you.

Floyd |   Little Jimmy is here, looking sullen.
Floyd |   Bobby is here, running in circles around Little Jimmy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "s.e.give clover"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.

Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.  He gives you grouchy look.
Floyd |
Floyd | As you arrive, the deputies jump up from where they've been waiting for

Floyd | you, grab you, and push you to the ground.  They quickly shackle your
Floyd | hands before hauling you back to your feet.  Time to go see the
Floyd | Sheriff...
Floyd |
Floyd | ...and the gallows.
Floyd |

Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
Bert says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street

Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |   To the south, you can see a gang of deputies lounging around outside

Floyd | Grady's Saloon--presumably waiting for you.
Floyd |   Little Jimmy is here, looking sullen.
Floyd |   Bobby is here, running in circles around Little Jimmy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Knowing full well there's a way over the barrels and crates, you
Floyd | clamber awkwardly over the stack...
Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow alley

Floyd |   Running along the north side of Grady's--the old wall of the building
Floyd | is directly behind you.  Grady's storage shed is just to the north, and
Floyd | Main Street is back out to the west.  You're well hidden by a stack of
Floyd | old, sun-bleached wooden barrels.   Overhead, you can see your
Floyd | bedsheet, flapping in the wind from where it's still attached to the
Floyd | drainpipe.

Floyd |   You can squeeze through an opening between two boards in the side of
Floyd | the saloon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "climb sheet"
Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow alley
Floyd |   Running along the north side of Grady's--the old wall of the building
Floyd | is directly behind you.  Grady's storage shed is just to the north, and
Floyd | Main Street is back out to the west.  You're well hidden by a stack of
Floyd | old, sun-bleached wooden barrels.   Overhead, you can see your

Floyd | bedsheet, flapping in the wind from where it's still attached to the
Floyd | drainpipe.
Floyd |   You can squeeze through an opening between two boards in the side of
Floyd | the saloon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd | You scramble back up the bedsheet to the open window.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your hotel room
Floyd |   Not too fancy, but then you get what you pay for.  A bed with a

Floyd | mattress that was, as you vaguely remember it, rather wooden.  A wash
Floyd | basin and mirror along one wall.  Curtains open, revealing the single
Floyd | small window and Main Street below.
Floyd |   Through the open curtains, you can see your bedsheet fluttering from
Floyd | where it is tied to the drainpipe outside.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e.d"
Floyd |
Floyd | Upstairs hallway
Floyd |   Rooms on all sides of the landing--their doors closed and probably

Floyd | locked.  The stairs go back downstairs to the saloon.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel
Floyd |   Sunlight glares in through the swinging saloonesque doors, only to be
Floyd | swallowed up by the murkiness inside.  Tables and chairs, barstools

Floyd | along the long counter, and a room-length mirror behind the bar.
Floyd | There's a horseshoe tacked to the wall, too.  Stairs go up to the hotel
Floyd | rooms on the second floor.  The billiards room, such as it is, is in
Floyd | the northwest corner.
Floyd |   You catch glimpses of boots underneath the swinging doors, walking
Floyd | back and forth outside the saloon--the Sheriff's deputies, presumably

Floyd | waiting for you.
Floyd |   Grady is behind the bar.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.  He mutters something about cheap cowboys.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the west.

Floyd |
Floyd | He gives you grouchy look as he goes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "give clover to grady"
Floyd | "A four-leaf clover?  For me?  I ...well, I don't know what to say.
Floyd | Maybe this'll turn my luck around.  Maybe I misjudged you."  And with
Floyd | that, Grady takes the weed from you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "ask grady for shed key"
Floyd | "You want to get into that old shed?  Nothing but junk in there," Grady
Floyd | says.  But then he shrugs and digs out the key anyway, putting it down
Floyd | on the counter.
Floyd |

Floyd | Grady pulls out a cloth and polishes up the bar a little.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get shed key"
Floyd | Taken.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd |
Floyd | Upstairs hallway
Floyd |   Rooms on all sides of the landing--their doors closed and probably

Floyd | locked.  The stairs go back downstairs to the saloon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd |

Floyd | Your hotel room
Floyd |   Not too fancy, but then you get what you pay for.  A bed with a
Floyd | mattress that was, as you vaguely remember it, rather wooden.  A wash
Floyd | basin and mirror along one wall.  Curtains open, revealing the single
Floyd | small window and Main Street below.
Floyd |   Through the open curtains, you can see your bedsheet fluttering from

Floyd | where it is tied to the drainpipe outside.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "climb sheet"
Floyd |

Floyd | Narrow alley
Floyd |   Running along the north side of Grady's--the old wall of the building
Floyd | is directly behind you.  Grady's storage shed is just to the north, and
Floyd | Main Street is back out to the west.  You're well hidden by a stack of
Floyd | old, sun-bleached wooden barrels.   Overhead, you can see your
Floyd | bedsheet, flapping in the wind from where it's still attached to the

Floyd | drainpipe.
Floyd |   You can squeeze through an opening between two boards in the side of
Floyd | the saloon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "open door"
Floyd | The shed door is locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "unlock it"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean the shed door.)
Floyd | (with the shed key)
Floyd | Unlocked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "open it. n"
Floyd | (Assuming you mean the shed door.)
Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd |

Floyd | Grady's storage shed
Floyd |   It's dark in here.  The only light bleeds in through the window and
Floyd | the open door.  Looks like this is where Grady keeps most of his junk.
Floyd |   Resting on the ground against one wall is a ten-foot wooden ladder.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "get ladder"
Floyd | You're carrying too much to take that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are wearing your holster on your hip where it belongs.  You are
Floyd | holding a whiskey bottle.  Some of Grandma Grady's Wicked XXX is
Floyd | sloshing around inside the whiskey bottle.  A scrap of cloth is stuffed
Floyd | in the mouth of the bottle.  You are also carrying two keys (a skeleton

Floyd | key and the shed key), two pistols (your six-shooter and Roy's gun),
Floyd | Roy's wallet, a dollar bill, a handwritten note, a wooden plank, and
Floyd | some sticky taffy.  Inside the wallet is a quarter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "drop note and keys"
Floyd | handwritten note:  Dropped.
Floyd | keys:  skeleton key:  Dropped.
Floyd | shed key:  Dropped.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "put cloth in bottle"
Floyd | You're not holding that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "put dollar in bottle"
Floyd | That's probably not going to work.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "put dollar in wallet"
Floyd | You put the dollar bill in Roy's wallet.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "put all in wallet"
Floyd | You can't put multiple objects.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "put roy's pistol in wallet"
Floyd | Wallets are for money, not for Roy's gun.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "put my pistol in holster"
Floyd | Which pistol do you mean, your six-shooter or Roy's gun?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "mine"
Floyd | You put your six-shooter in the holster.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get ladder"
Floyd | You're carrying too much to take that.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are wearing your holster on your hip where it belongs.  You are
Floyd | holding a whiskey bottle.  Some of Grandma Grady's Wicked XXX is
Floyd | sloshing around inside the whiskey bottle.  A scrap of cloth is stuffed

Floyd | in the mouth of the bottle.  You are also carrying Roy's wallet, Roy's
Floyd | gun, a wooden plank, and some sticky taffy.  Tucked in your holster is
Floyd | your six-shooter.Inside the wallet are a quarter and a dollar bill.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Stupid wallet."
Bert says, "Also, missing space."
Bert says (to Floyd), "drop plank. get ladder"
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |

Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |

Floyd | Narrow alley
Floyd |   Running along the north side of Grady's--the old wall of the building
Floyd | is directly behind you.  Grady's storage shed is just to the north, and
Floyd | Main Street is back out to the west.  You're well hidden by a stack of
Floyd | old, sun-bleached wooden barrels.   Overhead, you can see your
Floyd | bedsheet, flapping in the wind from where it's still attached to the

Floyd | drainpipe.
Floyd |   You can squeeze through an opening between two boards in the side of
Floyd | the saloon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | You find a foothold on the stack of barrels and clamber over, dragging
Floyd | the ladder after you.
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street

Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |   Little Jimmy is here, looking sullen.

Floyd |   Bobby is here, jumping up and down in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd |

Floyd | Stable
Floyd |   Smells musty, just like every other stable you've ever been in.
Floyd | There's a meager half-light drifting down from a window in the loft
Floyd | overhead, and the stable door leads back out onto Main Street to the
Floyd | southeast.  If anybody in this town owned a horse, this is where they'd
Floyd | keep it.

Floyd |   The gate to one of the stalls to the north is closed.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "lean ladder against loft. climb ladder. climb tree. d. w"
Floyd | You lean the ladder against the loft, just where the hayloft begins.

Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Sitting in the hayloft
Floyd |   About ten or so feet off the stable floor.  Too far to jump--better
Floyd | to make wise use of the ladder which is still leaning against the wall.
Floyd | Sunlight shines in through a small square window.

Floyd |
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "d"
Floyd |
Floyd | Stable
Floyd |   Smells musty, just like every other stable you've ever been in.
Floyd | There's a meager half-light drifting down from a window in the loft
Floyd | overhead, and the stable door leads back out onto Main Street to the
Floyd | southeast.  If anybody in this town owned a horse, this is where they'd

Floyd | keep it.
Floyd |   The gate to one of the stalls to the north is closed.
Floyd |   The ten-foot ladder is leaning against the loft.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Sitting in the hayloft
Floyd |   About ten or so feet off the stable floor.  Too far to jump--better
Floyd | to make wise use of the ladder which is still leaning against the wall.

Floyd | Sunlight shines in through a small square window.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "climb tree"
Floyd |

Floyd | Perched on the top branch of an oak tree
Floyd |   In the manner of a crow or vulture or some other sort of
Floyd | top-branch-perching bird.  The loft window is behind you, technically
Floyd | to the southeast, while the ground is perilously far below.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "d. w"
Floyd | Down, you say?  Well, you begin to shimmy down the tree, precariously
Floyd | clutching onto branches and outcroppings of tough bark--whatever you
Floyd | can reach.  Finally, scraped and bruised all to hell, you find yourself
Floyd | on firm ground.

Floyd |
Floyd | Hidden meadow
Floyd |   Obviously not a popular picnic spot; in fact, if not for your vantage
Floyd | point perched atop the tree, you would never have known it was here,
Floyd | much less be able to blindly navigate your way through the thick of
Floyd | trees to the south.  The meadow opens up to the west.

Floyd |   Strutting proudly around the meadow is a fiery red stallion.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | Front porch
Floyd |   Of a mansion, or what might be considered a mansion if it weren't
Floyd | quite so rustic looking.  It's as if someone took a giant tub of Dr.

Floyd | Ricardo's Growth Tonic (which he peddles to the unsuspecting populace
Floyd | whenever he's in town, about every four months or so) and poured it
Floyd | over one of the ramshackle houses--albeit one of the nicer
Floyd | ones--scattered about Tumbleweed Flats.  You can enter the house to the
Floyd | west.
Floyd |   John Stratford is sitting in his rocking chair, smoking his pipe.

Floyd | His trusty shotgun is across his lap.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "give taffy to john"
Floyd | Stratford looks surprised.  "Why, thank you," he says.  "Who told you

Floyd | that I do so love this taffy?"  He munches on the candy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e.get on horse"
Floyd |

Floyd | Hidden meadow
Floyd |   Obviously not a popular picnic spot; in fact, if not for your vantage
Floyd | point perched atop the tree, you would never have known it was here,
Floyd | much less be able to blindly navigate your way through the thick of
Floyd | trees to the south.  The meadow opens up to the west.
Floyd |   Strutting proudly around the meadow is a fiery red stallion.

Floyd |
Floyd | You get on the fiery red stallion.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride s"
Floyd | You give the red stallion a couple of pokes in its sides with your
Floyd | spurs, and the animal breaks into a trot.  A couple of seconds later,
Floyd | however, an old man in an ascot and a mop of gray hair (John Stratford,
Floyd | that is) comes chasing after you from the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | He tries to shout something at you, but his mouth is gummed up with

Floyd | taffy.  The same goes for his fingers, which are useless so far as
Floyd | pulling the trigger on the shotgun he is aiming at you.
Floyd |
Floyd | Your parched brain tries as hard as it possibly can to remember what
Floyd | the path through the trees looked like from above, and you start
Floyd | forging a path...

Floyd |
Floyd | Empty lot, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   Standing where you are, in the middle of a thicket of weeds, you're
Floyd | faced by a wall of impenetrable brush to the north.  Just to the right
Floyd | of the trees, to the northeast, is the entrance the local stable.  Back
Floyd | east is Main Street.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride e"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street, on a fiery red stallion

Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |   Little Jimmy is here, looking sullen.

Floyd |   Bobby is here, running in circles around Little Jimmy.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get off"
Floyd | You get off of the fiery red stallion.

Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan arrives from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | He mutters something about cheap cowboys.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Knowing full well there's a way over the barrels and crates, you
Floyd | clamber awkwardly over the stack...
Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow alley

Floyd |   Running along the north side of Grady's--the old wall of the building
Floyd | is directly behind you.  Grady's storage shed is just to the north, and
Floyd | Main Street is back out to the west.  You're well hidden by a stack of
Floyd | old, sun-bleached wooden barrels.   Overhead, you can see your
Floyd | bedsheet, flapping in the wind from where it's still attached to the
Floyd | drainpipe.

Floyd |   You can squeeze through an opening between two boards in the side of
Floyd | the saloon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |
Floyd | Grady's storage shed
Floyd |   It's dark in here.  The only light bleeds in through the window and
Floyd | the open door.  Looks like this is where Grady keeps most of his junk.
Floyd |   A handwritten note, a skeleton key, the shed key, and a wooden plank
Floyd | are here.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get plank"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Narrow alley
Floyd |   Running along the north side of Grady's--the old wall of the building

Floyd | is directly behind you.  Grady's storage shed is just to the north, and
Floyd | Main Street is back out to the west.  You're well hidden by a stack of
Floyd | old, sun-bleached wooden barrels.   Overhead, you can see your
Floyd | bedsheet, flapping in the wind from where it's still attached to the
Floyd | drainpipe.
Floyd |   You can squeeze through an opening between two boards in the side of

Floyd | the saloon.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | You find a foothold on the stack of barrels and clamber over.

Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty

Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |   Little Jimmy is here, looking sullen.
Floyd |   Bobby is here.
Floyd |   The fiery red stallion is standing patiently nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "save"
Floyd | Enter saved game to store:
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf11"
Floyd | Saved.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street

Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd |
Floyd | Lucille's General Store

Floyd |   More clutter than any person in their right mind would know what to
Floyd | do with.  Luckily Lucille has the right idea:  put it all on shelves
Floyd | and call it a General Store.  Among other things, the shelves contain a
Floyd | box of bullets (one dollar), a box of shotgun shells (three dollars),
Floyd | an empty taffy box, a trail kit (one dollar), and a pick-axe (five
Floyd | dollars).

Floyd |   Lucille herself is standing behind the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "but kit"
Floyd | Better start with a verb.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "buy kit"
Floyd | You plunk down your dollar--Roy's dollar, actually, but he's not going
Floyd | to be needing it--and buy the trail kit.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "open kit"
Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |

Floyd | The trail kit contains a matchbook, a fork, a spoon, and some beef
Floyd | jerky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "light match"
Floyd | You strike a match.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Lucille's General Store
Floyd |   More clutter than any person in their right mind would know what to
Floyd | do with.  Luckily Lucille has the right idea:  put it all on shelves
Floyd | and call it a General Store.  Among other things, the shelves contain a
Floyd | box of bullets (one dollar), a box of shotgun shells (three dollars),

Floyd | an empty taffy box, and a pick-axe (five dollars).
Floyd |   Lucille herself is standing behind the counter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.

Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.  He gives you grouchy look.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "show bottle to dan"
Floyd | Old Dan's eyes widen.  He grabs at the bottle, almost throwing himself
Floyd | off-balance.  As he weaves:  "Gimme that!  For the love of God, give me
Floyd | that!"
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.

Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |   Little Jimmy is here, looking sullen.
Floyd |   Bobby is here, jumping up and down in place.

Floyd |   The fiery red stallion is standing patiently nearby.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get on stallion"
Floyd | You get on the fiery red stallion.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride n"
Floyd |
Floyd | Edge of town, on a fiery red stallion

Floyd |   You can still see Tumbleweed Flats behind you where the road curves
Floyd | around from the south.  A dead, rotted tree stands here, marking the
Floyd | memory of the last living thing between here and where the road
Floyd | disappears into the eastern distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "ride e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Long and dusty road, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   Brambles and cactuses all over the place.  Some might call it the
Floyd | desert.  Not all that lucky for you, seeing as you're wandering around

Floyd | in the middle of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
K-Y asks, "hmm, did Dan want his cut?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride w"
Floyd |
Floyd | Edge of town, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   You can still see Tumbleweed Flats behind you where the road curves
Floyd | around from the south.  A dead, rotted tree stands here, marking the
Floyd | memory of the last living thing between here and where the road
Floyd | disappears into the eastern distance.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride s"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street, on a fiery red stallion

Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty
Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |   Little Jimmy is here, looking sullen.

Floyd |   Bobby is here, running in circles around Little Jimmy.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan arrives from the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | He gives you grouchy look.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "give quarter to dan"
Floyd | (taking the quarter first)
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |

Floyd | "Well, much obliged, partner," Old Dan says as he takes the quarter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "I have no idea if that helped or hindred us."
Bert says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty

Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |   Little Jimmy is here, looking sullen.
Floyd |   Bobby is here, running in circles around Little Jimmy.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |   He has a quarter.

Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up
Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.

Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |   He has a quarter.
Floyd |

Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the south.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride s"
Floyd |

Floyd | South end of Main Street, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   Standing here in the middle of Main Street, you are directly across
Floyd | from the Tumbleweed Flats Sheriff's Department, which is directly to
Floyd | the east.  Not the safest place to hang out, perhaps, considering that
Floyd | the gallows are right on the other side of the street--and you might as
Floyd | well try and avoid that particular inevitability for as long as

Floyd | possible.  Might be a better idea to head north, back up Main Street.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.
Floyd |   He has a quarter.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

K-Y says (to Floyd), "score"
Floyd | As in, you'd like to know how you're doing, right?
Floyd |
Floyd | Well, although you did wind up killing Roy Heffer, it was in self
Floyd | defense.  And while you did break into Grady's liquor stash, that

Floyd | doesn't really count as being productive.  It would also be interesting
Floyd | to see who would think highly of your stealing Little Jimmy's candy.
Floyd |
Floyd | On the bright side, you figured out a way to slip out of your hotel
Floyd | room unnoticed.  And putting together that plan to steal Stratford's
Floyd | stallion showed at least a little ingenuity.  Plus, if it weren't so

Floyd | seedy and practically dishonest, having wits enough to bamboozle Grady
Floyd | with a weed looking like a four-leaf clover would almost be
Floyd | commendable.
Floyd |
Floyd | That's what you've managed to get done so far.  Being generally
Floyd | disruptive, that is.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
K-Y says, "no indication"
Bert says (to Floyd), "get off"
Floyd | You get off of the fiery red stallion.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get quarter"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |

Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the north.
Floyd |
Floyd | He gives you grouchy look as he goes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert shrugs.
Bert says (to Floyd), "get on stallion"
Floyd | You get on the fiery red stallion.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | To walk, you will have to get off of the fiery red stallion.
Floyd | Otherwise, try "ride" or "gallop" and a direction.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "ride n"
Floyd |
Floyd | Main Street, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   The name might be a bit of overkill--after all, Tumbleweed Flats is a
Floyd | town with only one street.  The sun beats down from above, lighting up

Floyd | the dusty haze stretching the length of the street north and south of
Floyd | here.  On either side are rows of weathered wooden buildings.
Floyd | Immediately to the west is Lucille's General Store; to the east is
Floyd | Grady's Saloon, Billiards, and Hotel.
Floyd |   Old Dan, the town drunk, is here, standing in place and swaying
Floyd | slightly.  He gives you grouchy look.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are wearing your holster on your hip where it belongs.  You are
Floyd | holding a whiskey bottle.  Some of Grandma Grady's Wicked XXX is

Floyd | sloshing around inside the whiskey bottle.  A scrap of cloth is stuffed
Floyd | in the mouth of the bottle.  You are also carrying Roy's wallet, Roy's
Floyd | gun, a wooden plank, a trail kit, and a quarter.  Tucked in your
Floyd | holster is your six-shooter.The trail kit contains a matchbook, a fork,
Floyd | a spoon, and some beef jerky.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "put quarter in wallet"
Floyd | You put the quarter in Roy's wallet.
Floyd |
Floyd | Old Dan heads off to the east.

Floyd |
Floyd | He mutters something about cheap cowboys as he goes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride n"
Floyd |
Floyd | North end of Main Street, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   Now leaving the bustling metropolis of Tumbleweed Flats, pop. 59.
Floyd | The local stable is off to the northwest, just north of an empty field.
Floyd | To the east is the north end of the hotel, although it doesn't look
Floyd | like you'd be able to get by the stack of crates and barrels.  A dusty

Floyd | road continues north out of town.
Floyd |   Little Jimmy is here, looking sullen.
Floyd |   Bobby is here, jumping up and down in place.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride n"
Floyd |
Floyd | Edge of town, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   You can still see Tumbleweed Flats behind you where the road curves
Floyd | around from the south.  A dead, rotted tree stands here, marking the

Floyd | memory of the last living thing between here and where the road
Floyd | disappears into the eastern distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Long and dusty road, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   Brambles and cactuses all over the place.  Some might call it the
Floyd | desert.  Not all that lucky for you, seeing as you're wandering around
Floyd | in the middle of it.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride"
Floyd | You'll have to specify a direction as well.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "ride e"
Floyd | The red stallion gallops along without faltering, eating up the
Floyd | distance, Tumbleweed Flats disappearing far behind you.
Floyd |
Floyd | End of the road, on a fiery red stallion

Floyd |   The dusty road stretches back to the west as far as the eye can see,
Floyd | and then some.  A steep bank rises up to the southeast; you can't see
Floyd | what might be at the top of it.
Floyd |   Sarah is here, sitting atop her beautiful Arabian horse.
Floyd |
Floyd | "I'm glad you made it," Sarah says as she climbs down from her horse.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get off"
Floyd | You get off of the fiery red stallion.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd |
Floyd | Top of a steep bank
Floyd |   From the top of this incline, you can look back to see the dusty road

Floyd | stretching out of sight to the west.  Over the crest of the hill, you
Floyd | can see the Heffer ranch house to the south--quite an impressive sight,
Floyd | to be honest.  A hayfield opens up to the east.
Floyd |   Standing guarding the front of the house is Glen Heffer's
Floyd | mean-looking henchman Large Duane.  Lucky for you he can't see you.
Floyd |

Floyd | Sarah scrambles up the bank after you.  "I hope you know what you're
Floyd | doing," she says.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "save"
Floyd | Enter saved game to store:
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf12"
Floyd | Saved.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says, "OK, I believe this is where we left off..."
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are wearing your holster on your hip where it belongs.  You are
Floyd | holding a whiskey bottle.  Some of Grandma Grady's Wicked XXX is
Floyd | sloshing around inside the whiskey bottle.  A scrap of cloth is stuffed

Floyd | in the mouth of the bottle.  You are also carrying Roy's wallet, Roy's
Floyd | gun, a wooden plank, and a trail kit.  Tucked in your holster is your
Floyd | six-shooter.Inside the wallet is a quarter.The trail kit contains a
Floyd | matchbook, a fork, a spoon, and some beef jerky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "light match"
Floyd | You strike a match.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "light cloth"
Floyd | You touch the match to the cloth, and it begins to burn.
Floyd |
Floyd | The match goes out.  You drop it.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "throw bottle at hay"
Floyd | You wind up and toss the bottle with its burning fuse and payload of
Floyd | Grandma Grady's Wicked XXX at one of the haystacks, which catches fire
Floyd | with a WHOOSH and soon builds into a roaring blaze.  Even from here,

Floyd | you can see Large Duane's eyes go wide as saucers when he catches sight
Floyd | of the haystack flaring up like a match head.  He runs like a madman
Floyd | into the hayfield, stomping on patches of flaming grass and kicking
Floyd | dirt onto the fire.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sarah glares at you.  "You are crazy, aren't you?"

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "yes"
Floyd | That was a rhetorical question.  (Although you sound rather positive.)
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says, "And now the phone rings."
inky says, "f tell sarah I am crazy .. like a fox. a fox that's on fire"
Ghogg says, "wow, I guess you guys didn't need hints"
inky says, "I had to look on the newsgroup to see there was money on the body"
Ghogg says, "you were hovering so close"
inky says, "it's pretty tricky to get it"
Bert asks, "Were we all that close at all?"
Bert says, "(Back now.)"
Bert says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd |
Floyd | Beside the house
Floyd |   Nestled between the house and the edge of the hayfield.  There isn't
Floyd | much here except a window.

Floyd |
Floyd | Sarah follows after you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "open window"
Floyd | You can't do that with window.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Ghogg says, "yeah, you were talking about the money and one of you said to search the body and the response was you already did"
Bert says (to Floyd), "enter window"
Floyd | You can't enter window.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Mmm."
Bert says (to Floyd), "x window"
Floyd | Through the window you can see the inside of the house, as well as two
Floyd | men.  One of the men seems to be holding the other hostage--the
Floyd | giveaway being the gun he's holding on him.
Floyd |
Floyd | "Uncle Bucky!" exclaims Sarah.  Then her eyes narrow.  "And that
Floyd | bastard Glen Heffer."

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot glen"
Floyd | Glen Heffer isn't here.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x men"
Floyd | You can't use the word "men".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "break window"
Floyd | Your attempt to break the window attracts the attention of Glen Heffer,
Floyd | Large Duane, and the rest of Heffer's hired guns, who corner you
Floyd | against the house and proceed to do away with you turkey-shoot-style.
Floyd |

Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
Bert says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd |
Floyd | Beside the house
Floyd |   Nestled between the house and the edge of the hayfield.  There isn't
Floyd | much here except a window.
Floyd |   Sarah is here.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are wearing your holster on your hip where it belongs.  You are
Floyd | also carrying Roy's wallet, Roy's gun, a wooden plank, and a trail kit.
Floyd | Tucked in your holster is your six-shooter.Inside the wallet is a

Floyd | quarter.The trail kit contains a matchbook, a fork, a spoon, and some
Floyd | beef jerky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "give spoon to sarah"
Floyd | (taking the spoon first)
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sarah politely refuses.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | You can only go out back to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "enter window"
Floyd | You can't enter window.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "in"
Floyd | Try using the door around front.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x door"
Floyd | You don't see that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | You can only go out back to the northwest.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd |

Floyd | Top of a steep bank
Floyd |   From the top of this incline, you can look back to see the dusty road
Floyd | stretching out of sight to the west.  Over the crest of the hill, you
Floyd | can see the Heffer ranch house to the south--quite an impressive sight,
Floyd | to be honest.  A hayfield opens up to the east.
Floyd |   Large Duane is off to the east, trying to put out the burning

Floyd | haystack!
Floyd |
Floyd | Sarah follows you back out into the open.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x door"
Floyd | You don't see that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of the Heffer ranch house
Floyd |   Nice building, no doubt the product of years of ill-gotten gains.
Floyd | Directly south of you is the front door, which is closed.  You can
Floyd | backtrack to the top of the steep bank to the north, or go northeast

Floyd | into the hayfield.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sarah follows after you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "open door"
Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the house
Floyd |   This is the front hallway or foyer or entrance or whatever you want
Floyd | to call it.  The front door is behind you to the north.  The house
Floyd | opens up into the east wing to the east and the west wing to the west.

Floyd | (Mental note:  you can hear voices coming from either wing).  Going
Floyd | straight south will take you through to the living room, and it looks
Floyd | like the kitchen is off to the southwest--you can see pots, pans, and a
Floyd | cast-iron stove through the archway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sarah walks quietly into the house after you.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Wowsa. Still going."
Bert says, "Yeah. I seem to be the only one left typing, though."
Jacqueline asks, "I have to head out again, but are we still having fun?"
Jacqueline says (to Bert), "Aw."
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | East wing
Floyd |   Walking east from the front entrance, you pass through Glen Heffer's

Floyd | game room, full of animals that made a stop at the taxidermist's on
Floyd | their way here from the wild.  Lots of ivory, skins, furs--the marks of
Floyd | a big-game hunter.  Also lots of weapons, which probably explains the
Floyd | preponderance in this room of guys with guns--Heffer's hired guns, to
Floyd | be exact--who sit around cleaning, reloading, and talking about
Floyd | cleaning and reloading and shooting.

Floyd |
Floyd | The hired guns look up as you come in; hell, they're as surprised as
Floyd | you are.  But they quickly get over it and respond with the clicking of
Floyd | pistol hammers, the whoosh-clack of shotgun loading, and the KABLAM! of
Floyd | several pounds of hot lead being sent in your direction.  (Next time
Floyd | you make a mental note, try to remember where you put it.)

Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
Bert says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the house
Floyd |   This is the front hallway or foyer or entrance or whatever you want
Floyd | to call it.  The front door is behind you to the north.  The house
Floyd | opens up into the east wing to the east and the west wing to the west.

Floyd | (Mental note:  you can hear voices coming from either wing).  Going
Floyd | straight south will take you through to the living room, and it looks
Floyd | like the kitchen is off to the southwest--you can see pots, pans, and a
Floyd | cast-iron stove through the archway.
Floyd |   Sarah is here.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Jacqueline says, "Hm, well, I haven't played this, and I also need to head out, but I'll catch you later - good luck!"
Bert says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd |
Floyd | West wing

Floyd |   This is the eating area of the kitchen to the south; from here you
Floyd | can go back to the front entrance to the east.  This isn't the proper
Floyd | dining room, you guess, seeing as it doesn't seem quite fancy enough.
Floyd | Also seeing as it's currently populated by a host of
Floyd | less-than-immaculately-kept hired guns how are feasting on vittles
Floyd | consisting of tough grilled steak and lots of baked beans.

Floyd |
Floyd | The hired guns look up as you come in; hell, they're as surprised as
Floyd | you are.  But they quickly get over it and respond with the clicking of
Floyd | pistol hammers, the whoosh-clack of shotgun loading, and the KABLAM! of
Floyd | several pounds of hot lead being sent in your direction.  (Next time
Floyd | you make a mental note, try to remember where you put it.)

Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
Bert says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the house
Floyd |   This is the front hallway or foyer or entrance or whatever you want
Floyd | to call it.  The front door is behind you to the north.  The house
Floyd | opens up into the east wing to the east and the west wing to the west.

Floyd | (Mental note:  you can hear voices coming from either wing).  Going
Floyd | straight south will take you through to the living room, and it looks
Floyd | like the kitchen is off to the southwest--you can see pots, pans, and a
Floyd | cast-iron stove through the archway.
Floyd |   Sarah is here.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |   It's a kitchen large enough to prepare grub for the Heffer family and

Floyd | all Glen Heffer's hired help--what most people in Tumbleweed Flats call
Floyd | hired guns.  (And you might want to count the Heffer ranch-house cook
Floyd | among your supporters.  After all, you did lighten his workload by
Floyd | one.)  There's a big cast-iron stove over to one side, and a huge array
Floyd | of pots and pans and other dishes in various stages of use, being used,
Floyd | and getting ready to be used again.  Walking north will take you

Floyd | straight into the west wing, while northeast leads back to the main
Floyd | entrance.  South continues right on out the back door.
Floyd |
Floyd | "What are we doing in the kitchen?" Sarah asks, following you
Floyd | nonetheless.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says, "let's fix up a mess o' grub"
inky says (to Floyd), "x stove"
Floyd | It's a massive, bulky, cast-iron number, taking up most of one corner
Floyd | of the kitchen.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "Mmm, fresh grubs."
inky says (to Floyd), "open stove"
Floyd | You can't do that with the cast-iron stove.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "x pots"
Floyd | Your basic pots and pans.  Although there are a lot of them.  Time to
Floyd | start putting two and two together, partner.  Lots and lots of folks

Floyd | get fed here.  How many of them you think are going to be your friend?
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky asks, "have we been out the back door?"
Bert says, "No."
Bert says (to Floyd), "get pots"
Floyd | The last thing you need right now is to start a-clatterin' away in here
Floyd | trying to make off with the Heffer family's collection of pots and
Floyd | pans.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind the ranch house
Floyd |   The back door and the kitchen door lead back into the house to the

Floyd | north and northwest, respectively.  From here, you can look out over
Floyd | the steep bank you originally came up--almost a cliff, really--at the
Floyd | bottom of which are two horses:  yours and Sarah's.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sarah follows after you.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "jump"
Floyd | You leap over the cliff and into the open air.  Looking down, you can
Floyd | see your horse below you.  You sight your target between your legs as
Floyd | you fall--

Floyd |
Floyd | --PLUNK!  Right in the saddle.
Floyd |
Floyd | End of the road, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   The dusty road stretches back to the west as far as the eye can see,
Floyd | and then some.  A steep bank rises up to the southeast; you can't see

Floyd | what might be at the top of it.
Floyd |   Sarah's Arabian is here, snacking contentedly on a small patch of
Floyd | grass.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says, "We also haven't tried the living room, or whatever it was south of the entry."
inky says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind the ranch house
Floyd |   The back door and the kitchen door lead back into the house to the

Floyd | north and northwest, respectively.  From here, you can look out over
Floyd | the steep bank you originally came up--almost a cliff, really--at the
Floyd | bottom of which are two horses:  yours and Sarah's.
Floyd |   Sarah is here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "excellent"
inky says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | The back door is locked.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says (to Floyd), "nw"
Floyd | (opening the kitchen door first)
Floyd | Opened.
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen

Floyd |   It's a kitchen large enough to prepare grub for the Heffer family and
Floyd | all Glen Heffer's hired help--what most people in Tumbleweed Flats call
Floyd | hired guns.  (And you might want to count the Heffer ranch-house cook
Floyd | among your supporters.  After all, you did lighten his workload by
Floyd | one.)  There's a big cast-iron stove over to one side, and a huge array
Floyd | of pots and pans and other dishes in various stages of use, being used,

Floyd | and getting ready to be used again.  Walking north will take you
Floyd | straight into the west wing, while northeast leads back to the main
Floyd | entrance.  South continues right on out the back door.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sarah walks quickly after you, protesting:  "Shouldn't we be getting
Floyd | the heck out of here?"

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "ne"
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the house

Floyd |   This is the front hallway or foyer or entrance or whatever you want
Floyd | to call it.  The front door is behind you to the north.  The house
Floyd | opens up into the east wing to the east and the west wing to the west.
Floyd | (Mental note:  you can hear voices coming from either wing).  Going
Floyd | straight south will take you through to the living room, and it looks
Floyd | like the kitchen is off to the southwest--you can see pots, pans, and a

Floyd | cast-iron stove through the archway.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sarah follows you back to the front entrance.  "Are you lost?" she
Floyd | asks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "yes"
Floyd | That was a rhetorical question.  (Although you sound rather positive.)
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Living room
Floyd |   A giant fireplace takes up most of the east wall.  Typical
Floyd | living-room furniture and adornments decorate the room--although these

Floyd | are perhaps a little nicer than usual.  The room opens up to the
Floyd | entrance hall to the north; going south will take you out the back door
Floyd | to the rear of the house.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sitting in a chair is an old man, cheerful despite the fact that his
Floyd | hands are tied with coarse rope.  He's having the business end of a

Floyd | pistol brandished at him by another man--Glen Heffer, by his
Floyd | resemblance to the late Roy.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sarah comes into the living room after you and spies the bound man.
Floyd | "Uncle Bucky!"  Then she sees Heffer, and snarls:  "You withered old
Floyd | son of a bitch..."

Floyd |
Floyd | Heffer leaps to his feet and yanks Uncle Bucky roughly to his feet.
Floyd | The two of them make a break for the back door--Heffer running and
Floyd | towing a stumbling Bucky behind him.  The door slams behind them.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sarah spins toward you.  "Did you see that?" she asks.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "no"
Floyd | That was a rhetorical question.  (Although you sound rather negative.)
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "f shoot glen with roy's gun"
Floyd | You can't use the word "f".
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot glen with roy's gun"
Floyd | Glen Heffer isn't here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | (opening the back door first)
Floyd | As soon as you open the door, you are greeted by a flash of light
Floyd | followed by a loud BANG a split-second later.  As your knees buckle and
Floyd | your eyes close, the last thing you see is Glen Heffer's smoking

Floyd | pistol.  A rule of thumb for the next life:  Never open a door behind
Floyd | which is waiting someone who wants to kill you.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,

Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
Bert says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd |
Floyd | Living room
Floyd |   A giant fireplace takes up most of the east wall.  Typical

Floyd | living-room furniture and adornments decorate the room--although these
Floyd | are perhaps a little nicer than usual.  The room opens up to the
Floyd | entrance hall to the north; going south will take you out the back door
Floyd | to the rear of the house.
Floyd |   Sarah is here.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |
Floyd | Inside the house
Floyd |   This is the front hallway or foyer or entrance or whatever you want

Floyd | to call it.  The front door is behind you to the north.  The house
Floyd | opens up into the east wing to the east and the west wing to the west.
Floyd | (Mental note:  you can hear voices coming from either wing).  Going
Floyd | straight south will take you through to the living room, and it looks
Floyd | like the kitchen is off to the southwest--you can see pots, pans, and a
Floyd | cast-iron stove through the archway.

Floyd |
Floyd | Sarah follows you back to the front entrance.  "Are you lost?" she
Floyd | asks.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "sw"
Floyd |
Floyd | Kitchen
Floyd |   It's a kitchen large enough to prepare grub for the Heffer family and
Floyd | all Glen Heffer's hired help--what most people in Tumbleweed Flats call

Floyd | hired guns.  (And you might want to count the Heffer ranch-house cook
Floyd | among your supporters.  After all, you did lighten his workload by
Floyd | one.)  There's a big cast-iron stove over to one side, and a huge array
Floyd | of pots and pans and other dishes in various stages of use, being used,
Floyd | and getting ready to be used again.  Walking north will take you
Floyd | straight into the west wing, while northeast leads back to the main

Floyd | entrance.  South continues right on out the back door.
Floyd |
Floyd | "What are we doing in the kitchen?" Sarah asks, following you
Floyd | nonetheless.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind the ranch house
Floyd |   The back door and the kitchen door lead back into the house to the
Floyd | north and northwest, respectively.  From here, you can look out over

Floyd | the steep bank you originally came up--almost a cliff, really--at the
Floyd | bottom of which are two horses:  yours and Sarah's.
Floyd |   Glen Heffer is here, alternately waving his pistol menacingly back
Floyd | and forth between you and Uncle Bucky, whom he's got by the collar.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sarah follows after you.

Floyd |
Floyd | Heffer levels the barrel of his gun betwixt your eyes.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot glen with roy's gun"
Floyd | You take aim at Old Man Heffer and--
Floyd |
Floyd | --miss!  Your bullet comes close enough to rustle old Glen's hair, but
Floyd | it misses just the same.  Unluckily for you, Glen himself is unruffled
Floyd | enough to return the favor and send some lead in your direction.  Three
Floyd | shots.

Floyd |
Floyd | But he misses, too.
Floyd |
Floyd | Glen's bullets send you dancing out of the way, almost diving into the
Floyd | dirt.  And then Sarah lifts up her pistol and cleanly puts Glen Heffer
Floyd | away.  His body hits the ground with a thud.  Uncle Bucky is still

Floyd | standing there, hands bound, face white, and eyes wide.  "Sarah,
Floyd | honey..." he says.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sarah turns to look at you.  "Now what?" she asks.  "Are you going to
Floyd | get us out of here?"
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Ghogg says, "rockin'"
inky says, "outshot by a girl, man"
Ghogg says, "you might want to save"
Bert says (to Floyd), "save"
Floyd | Enter saved game to store:
inky says, "good idea"
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf12"
Floyd | Saved.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky asks, "do we jump now?"
Bert says, "I guess she just brought us along as a distraction."
inky says, "hee hee"
Ghogg says, "yeah, I think you might be able to ride off in the sunset"
Bert says (to Floyd), "jump"
Floyd | You leap over the cliff and into the open air.  Looking down, you can
Floyd | see your horse below you.  You sight your target between your legs as
Floyd | you fall--

Floyd |
Floyd | --PLUNK!  Right in the saddle.
Floyd |
Floyd | End of the road, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   The dusty road stretches back to the west as far as the eye can see,
Floyd | and then some.  A steep bank rises up to the southeast; you can't see

Floyd | what might be at the top of it.
Floyd |   Sarah's Arabian is here, snacking contentedly on a small patch of
Floyd | grass.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Ghogg says, "(I am totally forgetting this part)"
inky says (to Floyd), "z"
Floyd | Time passes...
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "ride w"
Floyd | The red stallion gallops along, and before too long delivers you safely
Floyd | to the west end of the long, dusty road.
Floyd |
Floyd | Edge of town, on a fiery red stallion

Floyd |   You can still see Tumbleweed Flats behind you where the road curves
Floyd | around from the south.  A dead, rotted tree stands here, marking the
Floyd | memory of the last living thing between here and where the road
Floyd | disappears into the eastern distance.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "hmm"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Long and dusty road, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   Brambles and cactuses all over the place.  Some might call it the

Floyd | desert.  Not all that lucky for you, seeing as you're wandering around
Floyd | in the middle of it.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get off"
Floyd | You get off of the fiery red stallion.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "get on horse"
Floyd | You get on the fiery red stallion.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride e"
Floyd | The red stallion gallops along without faltering, eating up the
Floyd | distance, Tumbleweed Flats disappearing far behind you.

Floyd |
Floyd | End of the road, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   The dusty road stretches back to the west as far as the eye can see,
Floyd | and then some.  A steep bank rises up to the southeast; you can't see
Floyd | what might be at the top of it.
Floyd |   Sarah's Arabian is here, snacking contentedly on a small patch of

Floyd | grass.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Ghogg asks, "maybe tell sarah to jump?"
Bert says (to Floyd), "get off"
Floyd | You get off of the fiery red stallion.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "se"
Floyd |
Floyd | Top of a steep bank
Floyd |   From the top of this incline, you can look back to see the dusty road
Floyd | stretching out of sight to the west.  Over the crest of the hill, you
Floyd | can see the Heffer ranch house to the south--quite an impressive sight,
Floyd | to be honest.  A hayfield opens up to the east.

Floyd |   Standing guarding the front of the house is Glen Heffer's
Floyd | mean-looking henchman Large Duane.  Lucky for you he can't see you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Front of the Heffer ranch house
Floyd |   Nice building, no doubt the product of years of ill-gotten gains.
Floyd | Directly south of you is the front door, which is open wide.  You can
Floyd | backtrack to the top of the steep bank to the north, or go northeast
Floyd | into the hayfield.

Floyd |   Large Duane is here, looking large and mean.
Floyd |
Floyd | Large Duane looks up as you come near.  His eyes narrow, and he quickly
Floyd | draws his gun and sends you off to Cowboy Heaven.  What the hell were
Floyd | you thinking, stomping on up to him like that?  Doesn't matter.
Floyd |

Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
Bert says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | Enter saved game to load:
Bert says (to Floyd), "cf12"
Floyd | Restored.
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind the ranch house

Floyd |   The back door and the kitchen door lead back into the house to the
Floyd | north and northwest, respectively.  From here, you can look out over
Floyd | the steep bank you originally came up--almost a cliff, really--at the
Floyd | bottom of which are two horses:  yours and Sarah's.
Floyd |   Uncle Bucky is here, looking stunned and bewildered.
Floyd |   Sarah is here.

Floyd |   Glen Heffer is lying dead on the ground here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "x glen"
Floyd | You peer long and hard at old man Heffer's body, but he doesn't move.

Floyd | Not even a twitch.  Definitely dead.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "search glen"
Floyd | You don't find anything.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "sarah, move glen"
Floyd | Sarah ignores you.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "x bucky"
Floyd | A short, rather rotund little fella, with a big ole straw hat on his
Floyd | noggin.  He tends to look around with sort of a stunned look on his
Floyd | face.  That and a big smile--the kind that just says:  "Howdy!"  His

Floyd | hands are bound behind his back by some coarse rope.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "untie bucky"
Floyd | Trying to untie Uncle Bucky doesn't get you anywhere.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "untie rope"
Floyd | You'll never get the rope untied--it's knotted too tightly.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "shoot rope"
Floyd | You can't shoot (buckyrope).
Floyd |
Floyd | >

inky says, "ha ha"
Bert says, "Haha."
Bert says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are wearing your holster on your hip where it belongs.  You are
Floyd | also carrying Roy's wallet, Roy's gun, a wooden plank, a trail kit, and

Floyd | a spoon.  Tucked in your holster is your six-shooter.Inside the wallet
Floyd | is a quarter.The trail kit contains a matchbook, a fork, and some beef
Floyd | jerky.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "cut rope with fork"
Floyd | You're not holding that.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says (to Floyd), "cut rope with spoon"
Floyd | A destructive and somewhat less than completely useful course of
Floyd | action.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Bert says (to Floyd), "shoot rope with roy's gun"
Floyd | You can't shoot (buckyrope).
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "sarah, untie bucky"
Floyd | Sarah ignores you.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind the ranch house
Floyd |   The back door and the kitchen door lead back into the house to the
Floyd | north and northwest, respectively.  From here, you can look out over
Floyd | the steep bank you originally came up--almost a cliff, really--at the

Floyd | bottom of which are two horses:  yours and Sarah's.
Floyd |   Uncle Bucky is here, looking stunned and bewildered.
Floyd |   Sarah is here.
Floyd |   Glen Heffer is lying dead on the ground here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >

Ghogg says, "here, try this"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ask bucky about sarah"
Floyd | "Oh, Sarah's a nice girl.  I mean, comin' to rescue me and all.
Floyd | Oh--and you, too.  Thanks a lot there, pardner."
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Ghogg says (to floyd), "push bucky"
Floyd | You give Uncle Bucky a friendly shove, and he tumbles over the edge of
Floyd | the steep bank.
Floyd |

Floyd | "What are you doing?" Sarah exclaims, as she rushes forward.  Then she
Floyd | stops.  "Oh," she says.  You peek over the edge beside her.  Uncle
Floyd | Bucky is sitting square in the middle of Sarah's saddle, some thirty
Floyd | feet or more below.
Floyd |
Floyd | Sarah shrugs.  "Here goes."  Then she hops over the edge and follows

Floyd | Bucky down.
Floyd |
Floyd | Suddenly Large Duane bursts in on the two of you.  "You!" he shouts,
Floyd | pointing at you, of course.  "You show up, cook the hayfield, trick me
Floyd | into running around like a fool, come in here, do in my boss..."
Floyd |

Floyd | He pauses.  "Aw, to hell with it," he mutters.  "Yer just too much damn
Floyd | trouble."
Floyd |
Floyd | With that, Large Duane pulls back the hammer on his pistol, points it
Floyd | right at you, and pulls the trigger.
Floyd |

Floyd | *** YOU HAVE DIED ***
Floyd |
Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
Ghogg says, "hmm"
inky says, "what the heck"
Ghogg exclaims, "so close!"
inky says, "maybe we just delayed a turn too long"
Bert says (to Floyd), "u"
Floyd |

Floyd | Behind the ranch house
Floyd |   The back door and the kitchen door lead back into the house to the
Floyd | north and northwest, respectively.  From here, you can look out over
Floyd | the steep bank you originally came up--almost a cliff, really--at the
Floyd | bottom of which are two horses:  yours and Sarah's.
Floyd |   Uncle Bucky is here, looking stunned and bewildered.

Floyd |   Sarah is here.
Floyd |   Glen Heffer is lying dead on the ground here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind the ranch house
Floyd |   The back door and the kitchen door lead back into the house to the
Floyd | north and northwest, respectively.  From here, you can look out over
Floyd | the steep bank you originally came up--almost a cliff, really--at the
Floyd | bottom of which are two horses:  yours and Sarah's.

Floyd |   Uncle Bucky is here, looking stunned and bewildered.
Floyd |   Sarah is here.
Floyd |   Glen Heffer is lying dead on the ground here.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind the ranch house
Floyd |   The back door and the kitchen door lead back into the house to the
Floyd | north and northwest, respectively.  From here, you can look out over

Floyd | the steep bank you originally came up--almost a cliff, really--at the
Floyd | bottom of which are two horses:  yours and Sarah's.
Floyd |   Uncle Bucky is here, looking stunned and bewildered.
Floyd |   Sarah is here.
Floyd |   Glen Heffer is lying dead on the ground here.
Floyd |

Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "undo"
Floyd |
Floyd | Behind the ranch house
Floyd |   The back door and the kitchen door lead back into the house to the

Floyd | north and northwest, respectively.  From here, you can look out over
Floyd | the steep bank you originally came up--almost a cliff, really--at the
Floyd | bottom of which are two horses:  yours and Sarah's.
Floyd |   Uncle Bucky is here, looking stunned and bewildered.
Floyd |   Sarah is here.
Floyd |   Glen Heffer is lying dead on the ground here.

Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "push bucky"
Floyd | You give Uncle Bucky a friendly shove, and he tumbles over the edge of
Floyd | the steep bank.

Floyd |
Floyd | "What are you doing?" Sarah exclaims, as she rushes forward.  Then she
Floyd | stops.  "Oh," she says.  You peek over the edge beside her.  Uncle
Floyd | Bucky is sitting square in the middle of Sarah's saddle, some thirty
Floyd | feet or more below.
Floyd |

Floyd | Sarah shrugs.  "Here goes."  Then she hops over the edge and follows
Floyd | Bucky down.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
Bert says (to Floyd), "jump"
Floyd | You leap over the cliff and into the open air.  Looking down, you can
Floyd | see your horse below you.  You sight your target between your legs as
Floyd | you fall--
Floyd |
Floyd | --PLUNK!  Right in the saddle.
Floyd |

Floyd | End of the road, on a fiery red stallion
Floyd |   The dusty road stretches back to the west as far as the eye can see,
Floyd | and then some.  A steep bank rises up to the southeast; you can't see
Floyd | what might be at the top of it.
Floyd |   Sarah is on her horse, with Uncle Bucky perched precariously in the
Floyd | saddle behind her.

Floyd |
Floyd | Sarah gives you an approving nod.  "Nice one," she says.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
inky says, "back before we were trying to fork her uncle"
Ghogg says, "heh"
Bert says (to Floyd), "ride w"
Floyd | You dig in the spurs and gallop westward along the road back to
Floyd | Tumbleweed Flats.  Sarah races after you, with Uncle Bucky, his hands
Floyd | still tied, bouncing helplessly on the saddle behind her.  Looks like a

Floyd | rescue, cowboy.
Floyd |
Floyd | You pass across a wide mesa and slow to a stop.  Time for a
Floyd | well-deserved rest.  Sarah rides up behind you, and both she and Uncle
Floyd | Bucky dismount.  You stand there sihouetted by the light of the Western
Floyd | sunset, the four of you:  you, Sarah, Bucky, and a cactus.

Floyd |
Floyd | So, how did you do?  Well, although you did wind up killing Roy Heffer,
Floyd | it was in self defense.  And while you did break into Grady's liquor
Floyd | stash, that doesn't really count as being productive.  It would also be
Floyd | interesting to see who would think highly of your stealing Little
Floyd | Jimmy's candy.  You've also managed to completely torch a hayfield.

Floyd | That's something, isn't it?
Floyd |
Floyd | On the bright side, you figured out a way to slip out of your hotel
Floyd | room unnoticed.  And putting together that plan to steal Stratford's
Floyd | stallion showed at least a little ingenuity.  Plus, if it weren't so
Floyd | seedy and practically dishonest, having wits enough to bamboozle Grady

Floyd | with a weed looking like a four-leaf clover would almost be
Floyd | commendable.  Maybe you deserve some points for managing to construct a
Floyd | bomb out of an empty whiskey bottle and the most volatile hootch on the
Floyd | planet.  (Or maybe not.)  But maybe it's the score that tells the story
Floyd | in the end--you:  2, the Heffer family:  0.
Floyd |

Floyd | So somewhere along the way you managed to become a genuine Western
Floyd | hero, up there with John Wayne and Roy Rogers and the best of them--no
Floyd | small feat, that.
Floyd |
Floyd | *** YOU'VE WON THE GAME! ***
Floyd |

Floyd | The game has ended.  Do you want to (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE a saved game,
Floyd | (U)NDO your last turn, or (Q)UIT?
Ghogg exclaims, "woohoo!"
Bert says, "Yay"
Ghogg says, "nice job"
inky says, "hooray"
K-Y says, "yay"
inky says, "also, it is weird to still print the score like that at the end of the game"
Ghogg says, "also, now I want another western game, darn it"
Bert says, "Man. It's got plenty of good stuff, but this game definitely shows why we don't write old-skool games like they used to."
inky says, "well, there's tryst of fate"
inky says, "hmm"
inky says, "it's true the western genre is a little sparse"
Bert says (to Floyd), "a"
Floyd | Enter (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE, (U)NDO, or (Q)UIT:
Ghogg asks, "did floyd ever crash?"
inky says, "no, which is a good point"
Bert says (to Floyd), "No. This was a Hugo game."
Floyd | Enter (R)ESTART, R(E)STORE, (U)NDO, or (Q)UIT:
inky says, "so I guess it really is a nitfol bug after all"
Bert says, "No. This was a Hugo game."
Bert says, "Yeah."
Ghogg says, "yeah, I figured it might be"
inky says, "well, I'd been thinking it was a ulimit thing, but obviously not"
Bert says (to inky), "Well, I wouldn't assume that."
inky says, "hmm"
inky asks, "I guess there could be a nitfol bug that causes it to trigger a ulimit?"
Bert says, "I think it's entirely possible that it's a ulimit thing that's happening because of a nitfol bug."
inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge.
Bert has disconnected.
Bert goes home.
K-Y says (to Floyd), "q"
Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?"
K-Y has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge.
Ghogg has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. Ghogg says, "perhaps we should try a tads game next week, although I'm not sure which one"
Ghogg says, "maybe Lethe Flow Phoenix so we can all gripe about the hunger puzzle"
inky says, "I always recommend sunset over savannah, but I assume most people have played that by now"
inky says, "ha ha"
Ghogg says, "I believe I've forgotten how to solve Sunset's puzzles"
Ghogg says, "with the exception of diving"



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