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| 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, 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, jukebox, FREE DONUTS machine, long-stemmed red rose, dfan's quest, miniature ifMUD, Pun Police Whistle, orange door, monkey guru, mind chess, the 'hey there, playerfish!' cube, apple, a zorkmid, storyharp, ClubFloyd Suggestions, save button, specimen jar, soda reading 'Don't drink me!', Gene Ray, jellybean | ||||
| Players: Waldo, Floyd, Jaybird | ||||
| Visible Exits: northeast (to the Lounge) | Ellison says, "wod, Adventions... funny but difficult games" | |||
| Ellison says, "wow" | ||||
| maga arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | Jacqueline says, "Fifteen minutes (well, 14) yet. Just getting Perry in place." | |||
| Fang asks, "Is last week's transcript up anywhere?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "No, not yet." | ||||
| DavidW says, "hm. I didn't give her a time. She's probably going by the IFWiki article ." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm still *ahem* waiting on an old transcript, and want to do them as a batch." | ||||
| Jacqueline smiles at No One In Particular. | ||||
| DavidW says, "Yes, sorry. I haven't found the time yet." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "No worries." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But yeah, Fang, that's the reason they're not up. It'll be easier for me to do all the backlog at once, and I'm waiting on one." | ||||
| Fyrion arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| Fyrion has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | Fyrion says, "I missed today's session? Oopsie." | |||
| DavidW says (to Fyrion), "no, we haven't started yet." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to David), "If it's really not in your schedule and you need me to edit it, I can try to see if I can figure it out. Just thought it might be easier for you to do it, since you were there." | ||||
| Fang arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||||
| Jacqueline arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
| DavidW arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| Jacqueline hollers, "Ten minutes until ClubFloyd. We shall be playing Firebird today!" | ||||
| Ellison arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | DavidW says, "yeah, I'll get to it. It just seems sometimes that I'm one of the few people that keeps Baf's, IFDB, and IFWiki semi-up-to-date." | |||
| Fyrion says, "Oops." | ||||
| Fyrion arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Jacqueline says (to DavidW), "Oh, I realize. We're really lucky to have you doing all that." | |||
| Fyrion says, "Oh, and greetings fellow Club Floyd players. And our one and only CF hostess Jacqueline." | ||||
| inky arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
| McMartin arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | Are you sure you want to quit? | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | Jacqueline asks (of DW), "Got your tea ready?" | |||
| DavidW says, "more or less. I'm drinking the coffee first." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Coffee with hot chocolate in it." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "mmm. Yeah, I have coffee... but not a mocha.;..McMartin Had your lunch?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Oops - forgot the symbol to break those lines!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hope McMartin managed to get lunch in time." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Grabbing more blank paper; was playing FORK earlier this weekend." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "FORK?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Fellowship of Return of the King?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "FORK: The Great Underground Dining Room. It came out in December, and I only found out recently." | ||||
| Ellison says, "hehe" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of Ellison), "Isn't it scary that that's how my brane parsed that?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, we're about to start. Please keep all discussion on #clubfloyd for clarity. Thanks!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load firebird" | ||||
Floyd | GlkTADS - A text-only TADS 2.5.3 Interpreter. Floyd | TADS copyright (c) 1993, 2000 by Michael J. Roberts. Floyd | Maintained by Stephen Granade <sgranade@phy.duke.edu> Floyd | Floyd | You are the tsar's son, Prince Ivan: young and handsome, but with Floyd | the dark, brooding nature of a Russian. You're the most eligible Floyd | bachelor in the realm, but also the most reticent around the opposite Floyd | sex. To escape the endless procession of beautiful women vying for Floyd | your attention, you retreat alone to the forest to hunt and to brood. Floyd | Although it is the middle of the afternoon, little light penetrates Floyd | the thick canopy of leaves above you. You have stopped on a Floyd | north-south path to contemplate this thought: "The soul of another is Floyd | a dark forest." Floyd | You carry a bow and a quiver slung over one shoulder. There is a Floyd | huge chip on the other shoulder. Floyd | Floyd | Firebird Floyd | Interactive Fiction by Bonnie Montgomery Floyd | Copyright (C) 1998; all rights reserved. Floyd | Version 1.01 Floyd | November 2, 1998 Floyd | Developed with the loving technical support of Chris Nebel using Floyd | TADS, the Text Adventure Development System. Floyd | Floyd | Type "instructions" for general help in playing text adventures. Floyd | Type "about" for special information about "Firebird." Floyd | Floyd | Deep in a Russian Forest, Under a Large Tree Floyd | You are standing under a large tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says (to Jacqeline), "hehe, I am trying to come up with some kind of Tolkien-oriented response but I guess I am not as big a geek as you (jk)" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "snrk" | ||||
| maga says, "dark, handsome *and* not much of a one for the ladies" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | PREREQUISITES Floyd | Floyd | None. No special knowledge of Russian folklore is necessary to play Floyd | the game or solve its not too difficult puzzles. If you're familiar Floyd | with some version of the Firebird legend, that may or may not help you Floyd | along. Scholars from Vladimir Propp to Joseph Campbell have observed Floyd | that the basic plot of the hero's story is unvarying; the storyteller Floyd | merely chooses from available motifs to fill in the framework. Some of Floyd | the motifs I've selected are traditionally Russian, others are anything Floyd | but, making this story what I hope to be a fresh retelling. Floyd | Floyd | FREEWARE OR CHARITYWARE Floyd | Floyd | This game is free. I encourage you to share it with others, but you Floyd | may not charge any money for it beyond the cost of the media it is Floyd | stored on. Floyd | Floyd | If you enjoy "Firebird," please consider a monetary donation to a Floyd | charitable organization to show your appreciation. Here are some Floyd | suggestions: Floyd | Floyd | 1. An organization in your area that helps resettle Russian Floyd | immigrants. Floyd | Floyd | 2. A local arts organization that has recently or will soon program Floyd | Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite." Floyd | Floyd | 3. A donation to make the 36-inch Lick Telescope Dome accessible Floyd | for classes, concerts, and visitor programs. Make checks payable to UC Floyd | Santa Cruz Foundation, 74 River Street, 1st Floor, Santa Cruz, CA, USA Floyd | 95060-4593. Floyd | Floyd | See "PERSONAL NOTES" below to read why I suggest these causes. Floyd | Floyd | If you do make a donation, I would love to learn what cause my work Floyd | benefited. Please send me an e-mail at firebird@pobox.com. Of course, Floyd | no matter what, I am happy to hear your comments and field your Floyd | questions on "Firebird." Floyd | Floyd | ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Floyd | Floyd | First and foremost, thanks to my collaborator, friend, and husband, Floyd | Chris Nebel. He ably provided programming tutelage, debugging Floyd | assistance, and advice on game design. On those more than a few Floyd | occasions when my imagination outstripped my programming abilities, Floyd | Chris rolled up his sleeves and came up with the code that would make Floyd | the story come alive as I intended. Floyd | Floyd | Thanks also to Dave Baggett, who has always greeted news of the game's Floyd | progress with encouraging words. Above and beyond the call of duty, he Floyd | risked eyestrain one night playtesting the first beta as we traveled Floyd | I-5 in California to a destination south of Tracy, north of Valencia. Floyd | Floyd | My betatesters taught me so much in seeing the game through the Floyd | player's eyes. You really can't say you've written interactive fiction Floyd | until your work has gone through playtesting. Big thanks go to: Floyd | Floyd | Kevin Bolduan Floyd | John Francis Floyd | Wendy-Ann Francis Floyd | Liz Cyr Jones Floyd | Jane Kerr Floyd | Michael Kinyon Floyd | Greg Thomas Floyd | Christine Simoes Tilden Floyd | Floyd | Version 1.01 fixes a number of bugs reported by and adds features Floyd | requested by Sam Barlow, Jason Dyer, Stephen Granade, and Paul O'Brian. Floyd | Many thanks to them for taking the time to write to me. Floyd | Floyd | The peasants' "amusing national anecdotes" are reprinted with Floyd | permission from Russian Fairy Tales (Guterman, Norbert, trans.). New Floyd | York: Pantheon Books, 1945. Floyd | Floyd | Type "credits" for a list of code modules by other IF authors that were Floyd | used in tbe preparation of "Firebird." I most gratefully thank them Floyd | for making their work available. Floyd | Floyd | PERSONAL NOTES Floyd | Floyd | I began this game in the summer of 1994 after editing some program Floyd | notes for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's performance of Floyd | Stravinsky's "Firebird Suite." To help in my research, Chris loaned me Floyd | a book of Russian folk tales that had been a present from his Floyd | grandparents. Floyd | As time passed, we learned more about how Russian folk tales had Floyd | been a part of Chris's family history. His maternal grandfather was an Floyd | astronomer who immigrated from Russia. During the 1930s, he was Floyd | working atop Mount Hamilton overlooking California's Santa Clara Valley Floyd | (now also known as Silicon Valley). He took an interest in the teacher Floyd | who schooled the children living up there. They spent many an evening Floyd | telling and retelling these old Russian tales, and before long they Floyd | were married. Russian folk tales thus played a part both in their Floyd | courtship and in ours. What's more, circumstances have brought Chris Floyd | and I from Maryland to Silicon Valley to live within sight of Mount Floyd | Hamilton and the historic Lick Observatory. Floyd | Floyd | Bonnie Montgomery Floyd | firebird@pobox.com Floyd | March 9, 1998 (version 1.0) Floyd | November 2, 1998 (version 1.01) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline struggles to read all that quickly before the next command is typed... | |||
| Ellison says, "funny how that personal note means a little bit more after what we recently learned from DavidW" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm not familiar with the Firebird story at all, so hopefully this will all be new and fresh for me." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Huh. I like how she encourages people to donate to charities in her about text." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I may have to 'steal' that idea..." | ||||
| Fyrion asks, "Who would you want donations sent to, Jacqueline?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You look like no one other than yourself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chip" | ||||
Floyd | It's just a figure of speech! Must you examine everything? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "yes". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Fyrion), "Well, I guess it would depend on the game." | |||
| Fyrion says, "Ahh OK" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tree" | ||||
Floyd | Which tree do you mean, the large tree, or the forest? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "large" | ||||
Floyd | Some animal is making its presence known in the branches of this tree. Floyd | Is it your prey? You might be able to climb up the tree to get a Floyd | better look. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "brood" | ||||
Floyd | You lose yourself momentarily in moody and morbid meditation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | In a hollow voice, you mispronounce the only word in Czech you can Floyd | remember. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "yay, I love when that kind of stguff is in there" | |||
| DavidW asks (of Ellison), "How the heck?" | ||||
| maga says, "hee hee hee" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But say, for something like the Fire Tower, I'd encourage people to donate to conservation groups. For something like my current WIP, I might encourage people donate to programs which involve children in art or provide art in public places." | ||||
| Ellison says, "you went to the forest to hunt and to brood" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "Nice guess!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh, right." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "climb tree" | ||||
Floyd | There really is nothing to grab onto. The bark breaks off in your Floyd | hands and you tumble to the ground. It was not, however, an entirely Floyd | fruitless effort: you have disturbed the animal in the tree. A bird Floyd | flutters down and lights in a more visible spot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bird" | ||||
Floyd | Voila! Your prey du jour. The flicker is identifiable by its red head Floyd | and black and white body. This species is common to North America but Floyd | unknown to Russia, except, oddly, in this isolated forest. It would Floyd | fit in the palm of your hand. Shooting it with an arrow is challenging Floyd | sport, but don't expect it to make much of a meal. Good thing the Floyd | caterers are waiting with dinner at the edge of the forest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a bow and a quiver. The quiver seems to contain an arrow. Floyd | Floyd | The flicker suddenly takes wing and disappears into the forest. Quick, Floyd | follow it! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| McMartin says (to Floyd), "follow flicker" | ||||
Floyd | The Path's East Branch Floyd | The forest primeval. The north-south path branches off to the east. Floyd | A flicker is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "... posting photos to the Intertubes, no doubt" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I wonder if this quiver is like Legolas' quiver in the LotR movies... it has only one arrow, but no matter how many arrows we shoot the quiver will always have that arrow." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take arrow" | ||||
Floyd | You return the arrow to its quiver. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | The Path's East Branch Floyd | The forest primeval. The north-south path branches off to the east. Floyd | A flicker is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "Wait what" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to McMartin), "heh. I thought you'd mischanneled for a second before I got the joke." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load bow" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "load". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put arrow in bow" | ||||
Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot flicker" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to shoot it with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "arrow" | ||||
Floyd | You really ought to aim at something first. Floyd | Floyd | The flicker suddenly takes wing and disappears into the forest. Quick, Floyd | follow it! Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "wow, Bonnie had an actual Infocom person playtest her game" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "follow flicker" | ||||
Floyd | Off the Beaten Path Floyd | The warm light of a gently burning fire beckons to you from the Floyd | east. You pick out the outlines of a hut just beyond it. Return to Floyd | the forest path by walking west. Floyd | A flicker is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "Liz Cyr-Jones... after whom the 'cyr' command in Arthur was named" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "aim arrow at flicker" | ||||
Floyd | You carefully take aim at the flicker. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shoot arrow at flicker" | ||||
Floyd | The hapless bird collapses with a surprised "Awk!", and falls dead to Floyd | the ground, impaled on your arrow. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "hooray death" | |||
| inky says (to Ellison), "oh? hunh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to maga), "snrk" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take arrow" | ||||
Floyd | You return the arrow to its quiver. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bird" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bird" | ||||
Floyd | Poor, defenseless, dead flicker. You never wanted to kill it. You Floyd | were just responding to societal pressures. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ha" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fire" | ||||
Floyd | It's a gently flickering pinpoint of light. Probably a campfire, but Floyd | who knows? Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "And the voices in your head" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hut" | ||||
Floyd | You can see a small thatched roof, but that's all the evidence you have Floyd | that you are seeing a hut ahead. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to McMartin), "Definitely." | |||
| DavidW asks, "Shall we check out the hut?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | An Old Woman by the Fire Floyd | You have stepped into a clearing from a path to the west. A fire Floyd | burns steadily outside of a small thatched hut. Floyd | An old woman is sitting by the fire. Her back is turned, and you do Floyd | not think she has noticed that you are here. You stand silently behind Floyd | her, watching in fascination as she places a crumb into an empty bag Floyd | that she holds in her lap. A moment later, she pulls a loaf of bread Floyd | from the bag! She repeats the process a second time and then a third. Floyd | She must be a witch, known to you from your Russian upbringing as a Floyd | baba yaga. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "We can kill its occupants, perhaps." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, wait." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hm. I guess instead of shooting her we should just burn her at a stake." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "I wonder if the bird can be restored with the bag?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Hm - good thought." | ||||
| maga says, "SHOOT HER SHE'S GOT A CRUMB" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks (of DW), "You want to talk to her?" | ||||
| Ellison says, ".maga haha" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yeah, I vote talk to her" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "talk to woman" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to ask her about? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Although I bet the program would oblige maga." | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "bird" | ||||
Floyd | "That is not within my scope of practice," the baba yaga pronounces Floyd | gravely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "greet yaga" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "greet". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "show bird to woman" | ||||
Floyd | The baba yaga isn't impressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask yaga about bag" | ||||
Floyd | "Put what you will in the bag. If it will be useful to you in another Floyd | form, it will be given to you." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask woman about woman" | ||||
Floyd | "What you see is what I am. A crone with a bag." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask woman about hut" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "ask woman about flicker" | ||||
Floyd | "That is not within my scope of practice," the baba yaga pronounces Floyd | gravely. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | "That is not within my scope of practice," the baba yaga pronounces Floyd | gravely. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "a bag hag, if you will" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put bird in bag" | ||||
Floyd | The baba yaga warns you off that course of action. "The bag does not Floyd | have the power to bring back the dead." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "ask woman about russia" | ||||
Floyd | The peasants aren't much use to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask woman about marriage" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "marriage". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask woman about love" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "love". Floyd | Floyd | > | inky :C | |||
| maga says, "The Peasants Aren't Much Use To You: the national motto of Russia" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "So I guess that won't work." | ||||
| inky says (to maga), "ha ha" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get feather" | ||||
Floyd | I don't see any feather here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "put arrow in bag" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put arrow in bag" | ||||
Floyd | "Certainly this weapon is powerful enough for your purposes," says the Floyd | baba yaga, pulling the bag away from you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Storme says (to maga), "ha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a bow, a quiver, and a dead flicker. The quiver seems to Floyd | contain an arrow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put quiver in bag" | ||||
Floyd | The baba yaga yawns. "I think you would find that a rather boring and Floyd | unproductive transformation." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put bow in bag" | ||||
Floyd | "Certainly this weapon is powerful enough for your purposes," says the Floyd | baba yaga, pulling the bag away from you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "enter bag" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know how to enter the magical bag. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put fire in bag" | ||||
Floyd | Stop fooling around trying to put the fire. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "ie, we can't put anything in?" | |||
| inky says, "I guess we have to come back later when we have some stuff" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "put wang in bag" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "wang". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, I know!" | |||
| DavidW says (to inky), "perhaps we don't have the right object." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "See, the bird won't make a good meal 'cause it's so small. Let's field dress it and then put just its legs in the bag! It worked with the bread crumb..." | ||||
| inky says (to maga), "transform your wang xnbdaja" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "You can never have enough flicker legs." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Best meat on the whole flicker." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pluck flicker" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "pluck". Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "haha" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Or we could try something else." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "burn flicker" | ||||
Floyd | Burning the dead flicker would serve no purpose. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "cook flicker" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "cook". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "darn" | |||
| McMartin says, "I guess I didn't realize that a flicker was a type of bird instead of just a change in the scenery" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a bow, a quiver, and a dead flicker. The quiver seems to Floyd | contain an arrow. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we should look around a bit more." | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "yeah, maybe we need to look around" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "yeah". Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "it's my friend" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah." | ||||
| Ellison says, "dam, sorry" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Beaver), "It is okay." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. You can leave by going west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Off the Beaten Path Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "ha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, now in VERBOSE mode. Floyd | Off the Beaten Path Floyd | The warm light of a gently burning fire beckons to you from the Floyd | east. You pick out the outlines of a hut just beyond it. Return to Floyd | the forest path by walking west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | A Light Beckons Through the Darkness Floyd | The forest primeval. The path continues north and south. To the Floyd | east you spy a light shining through the trees. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | The Path's East Branch Floyd | The forest primeval. The north-south path branches off to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Darker and Deeper Floyd | The forest primeval. A mulched path leads northeast. Return to the Floyd | north-south path by walking west. Floyd | A wizened old man is here, his long beard flowing onto the ground. Floyd | He is sitting on a stone counting the leaves covering the forest floor. Floyd | He looks up at you and says, "Greetings, young man. Are you here to Floyd | shirk a task or to find one?" Floyd | Shirking a task sounds more like your preferred activity, but you Floyd | are loath to admit it to this stranger. "Neither really," you answer, Floyd | "I'm just here." Floyd | "There's very little I have to say to a young man who is 'just Floyd | here.'" He casts you a dubious glance and shoos you off. "Perhaps Floyd | there are some other dark recesses of the forest you have not explored Floyd | fully, hmmm?" Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "HINT HINT" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x man" | ||||
Floyd | He looks as old as God and probably about as wise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x leaves" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "leaves". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x stone" | ||||
Floyd | I don't see any stone here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | The old man knows best. You're not ready to go this way yet. Run off Floyd | and explore the rest of the forest first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask man about himself" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "himself". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask man about man" | ||||
Floyd | The old man shakes his head, saying, "When I see that you are ready, I Floyd | will tell you everything I know." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask man about flicker" | ||||
Floyd | The old man shakes his head, saying, "When I see that you are ready, I Floyd | will tell you everything I know." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "guess we need to explore more." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. The old man redirects you. "Go west," he says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | The Path's East Branch Floyd | The forest primeval. The north-south path branches off to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You can't go that way. Travel by walking north, south, or east. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "whoops, sorry, go ahead" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x path" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "path". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | At the Path's Southwest Branch Floyd | The forest primeval. Branching off from the main north-south path Floyd | is a small trail to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Deeper and Darker Floyd | Scores of ancient trees with massive trunks and numberless gnarled Floyd | branches prevent any light from reaching the forest floor. A chill Floyd | runs through you as you imagine every creature hidden in the shadows, Floyd | one more threatening than the next. You feel your way on a mulched Floyd | path leading west. You can return to the main path by walking Floyd | northeast. Floyd | The path is lined with a neatly trimmed boxwood shrubbery. You Floyd | think, "What threat could come from someone who cares so much about Floyd | landscaping?" Your mind quickly serves up the memory of an unstable Floyd | gardener in your father's employ during your childhood who considered Floyd | children and moles equal nuisances in the garden. You remember a near Floyd | escape when the gardener attempted to whack you with a sledgehammer. Floyd | Suddenly the path and boxwood shrubbery seem hardly any comfort at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x shrubbery" | ||||
Floyd | It's a low shrubbery, about a foot off the ground. Dense, small, waxy Floyd | leaves cover the surface. The shrubbery has been trimmed square. How Floyd | you identified it as boxwood I'll never know. You're pretty unschooled Floyd | in horticulture. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh" | |||
| Ellison says, "whack-a-prince was always my favorite carnival game" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search it" | ||||
Floyd | Stop fooling around trying to search the boxwood shrubbery. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You are lost in the memory of that hammer-wielding maniac. All you can Floyd | think of is running from him in terror screaming, "Stop it, stop it!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb shrubbery" | ||||
Floyd | Stop fooling around trying to climb the boxwood shrubbery. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hide" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "hide". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x shadows" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "shadows". Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "Yeah, stop slacking and start slacking productively" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "scream". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "yell" | ||||
Floyd | Your throat is a bit sore now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "run" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "run". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "think" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "think". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "dance". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You start to take a step, repeating to yourself over and over, "I must Floyd | not brood, I must not brood." Seems to be helping, but who knows? It Floyd | is statistically possible for there to be another murderous maniac Floyd | waiting for you along the path. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "brood" | Ellison says, "I figure we just need to keep on trying" | |||
Floyd | You lose yourself momentarily in moody and morbid meditation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "don't brood" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "don't". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | "I must not brood" has become your mantra. You repeat it over and Floyd | over. Your legs make giant strides over the path, mulch scattering in Floyd | all directions under your footsteps. The adrenaline courses through Floyd | every cell of your body as with some relief you enter a clearing and Floyd | encounter... Floyd | Floyd | An Immense Stone Wall Floyd | The east-west path terminates at a large stone wall, which curves Floyd | away to the northwest and southwest. Floyd | You see a bronze plaque here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| McMartin says (to Floyd), "conquer fear" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "conquer". Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hey, you're right" | |||
| McMartin says (to Floyd), "read plaque" | ||||
Floyd | Hard to read, very stylized, but you make out "So wide, you can't get Floyd | around it. So high, you can't get over it. So ..." The rest is Floyd | illegible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| McMartin says (to Floyd), "go under wall" | ||||
Floyd | I don't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "a puzzle!" | |||
| McMartin says (to Floyd), "go through wall" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know how to go through the large stone wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wall" | ||||
Floyd | It is a gleaming white monstrosity. The walls are stuccoed and quite Floyd | sheer. You look up and can barely see the top. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "I think we probably have to say the answer to the puzzle for the wall to change" | |||
| McMartin says, "I'm guessing so deep you can't go under it or so hard you can't go through it" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Bet there's a beautiful princess (ew, yuck) behind the wall." | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "say "wall"" | ||||
| Marvin arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
Floyd | Okay, "wall". Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "OOOOOOH WONDERFUL LORD" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Belatedly, as I stepped away for a moment: hahaha whack-a-prince" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Jacqueline), "yay" | ||||
| inky says, "we can also just walk around the wall" | ||||
| Ellison says (to DavidW), "ha" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Trudging around the wall, which reveals itself to be a large but Floyd | unbroken circle, you arrive at the only interesting locale to be found Floyd | in this vicinity. Floyd | Floyd | A Future Flower Bed Floyd | Someone seems to have been preparing a flower bed here, flush Floyd | against the wall. The planting has yet to be done. It must have been Floyd | a Herculean effort to dig: all around you the ground is hard and quite Floyd | rocky. The wall curves around to the northeast and northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "dig under wall" | ||||
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ooh. We'll need a seed or acorn or sprig of ivy." | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "ooh". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Ooh - a circular wall with no entrance? Very Frances-Hodgson-Burnett." | |||
| McMartin says, "It's where you hide all the other whacked princes, clearly" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | I don't see any window here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tower" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "tower". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "bury flicker" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "bury". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inky), "That is so touching." | |||
| Ellison says, "if this was the fully-registered version of inky's Jack text game, we'd have some magic beans" | ||||
| DavidW says, "There could be magic beans." | ||||
| DavidW says, "That would be ideal." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I did that with the very first bird I accidently hit with my car - pulled over to the side of the road to bury it. A cop stopped to see what I was doing, and I told him, and he looked at me like I was insane but left me alone and drove away." | ||||
| Ellison says, "ha, that's cool" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | You almost completely circumnavigate the circular stone wall to find Floyd | yourself at... Floyd | Floyd | An Immense Stone Wall Floyd | The east-west path terminates at a large stone wall, which curves Floyd | away to the northwest and southwest. Floyd | You see a bronze plaque here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "move plaque" | ||||
Floyd | You can't move the bronze plaque. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| McMartin says (to Floyd), "pull plaque" | ||||
Floyd | Pulling the bronze plaque doesn't have any effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| McMartin says (to Floyd), "push plaque" | ||||
Floyd | Pushing the bronze plaque doesn't do anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "climb wall" | ||||
Floyd | It is so high you can't get over it. In fact, you can't get ON it much Floyd | at all either. There is nothing to grab onto, sending you tumbling to Floyd | the ground for the second time today. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "we need to go elsewhere" | |||
| Ellison says, "lead on" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "What Ell said." | ||||
| DavidW says, "cute about the 'second time today' bit" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Deeper and Darker Floyd | Scores of ancient trees with massive trunks and numberless gnarled Floyd | branches prevent any light from reaching the forest floor. A chill Floyd | runs through you as you imagine every creature hidden in the shadows, Floyd | one more threatening than the next. You feel your way on a mulched Floyd | path leading west. You can return to the main path by walking Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | At the Path's Southwest Branch Floyd | The forest primeval. Branching off from the main north-south path Floyd | is a small trail to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Deep in a Russian Forest, Under a Large Tree Floyd | You are standing under a large tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You trudge out of the forest. Whether it is a long time or a short Floyd | time, it matters not. Speedily a tale is spun, with much less speed a Floyd | deed is done. Floyd | Floyd | Back to Civilization Floyd | You've reached the edge of this grand, untamed forest. A short walk Floyd | to the north are a collection of fawning underlings, waiting to make Floyd | their daily petitions to you for your continued patronage. In a glade Floyd | an even shorter walk to the north, however, lurks a far more horrible Floyd | threat: a dozen young noble women, each eager to plant a kiss on your Floyd | cheek. You notice that they are all wearing lipstick. Ack! You know Floyd | you'll break out in hives if that waxy mess touches your regal skin. Floyd | The path leads south back into the forest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JustineBirdlime arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "shoot underlings" | Ellison says, "haha" | |||
| DavidW says, "eeeek" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "underlings". Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| DavidW says, "run away!" | ||||
| maga says, "COOTIES" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Deep in a Russian Forest, Under a Large Tree Floyd | You are standing under a large tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. You can go north out of the forest, south Floyd | deeper into the forest, or up the tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb tree" | ||||
Floyd | The bark breaks off in your hands and you tumble to the ground. This Floyd | time it truly was a fruitless effort. You pick yourself up and brush Floyd | off the dirt from your clothes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tree" | ||||
Floyd | Which tree do you mean, the large tree, or the forest? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x large" | ||||
Floyd | Which large do you mean, the chip, or the large tree? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x large tree" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing else of interest in the tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "er, what?" | |||
| inky asks, "did we try to climb it earlier?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes." | ||||
| Ellison says, "this may be the tree we flushed the flicker out of" | ||||
| DavidW says, "We have a figurative large chip on our shoulder, and yes, we did try to climb it earlier." | ||||
| inky says, "oh ok" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That's when we disturbed the flicker." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x large chip" | ||||
Floyd | It's just a figure of speech! Must you examine everything? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop it" | ||||
Floyd | You can't drop the chip. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "er, climb the tree, not the chip" | |||
| DavidW says, "We never tried putting the chip in the bag. :)" | ||||
| JustineBirdlime hollers, "This is a test of the ifMUD silent alarm system." | ||||
| BrenBarn hollers, "All systems are go." | ||||
| DavidW hollers, "Say "toyshop"" | ||||
| DavidW gets bored and wanders off to the Toyshop. | ||||
| DavidW arrives, ready to play with the toys. | Jacqueline says (to DW), "I *hate* when I do that." | |||
| Ellison says, "so we have seen every location? if so, I think we should keep our eyes open for places we could find seeds of some sort" | ||||
| Dan_Wood hollers, "KEEP IT DOWN, we're trying to idle!" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x bark" | ||||
Floyd | I don't see any bark here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Justine is Bonnie" | |||
| Ellison says, "also, that silent alarm system is pretty funny" | ||||
| inky says, "we can go back and talk to the old guy" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah. We may have met his expectations by now (though I somehow doubt it)" | ||||
| JustineBirdlime asks, "hello, where are we in the game?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "We've seen the old man, baba yaga, icky girls, and an immense stone wall, and killed an innocent flicker." | ||||
| Ellison says, "we beat our fear of insane gardeners but not of lipstick" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Also @joinc #clubfloyd" | * JustineBirdlime has joined the channel. | |||
| Jacqueline says (to JustineBirdlime), "Welcome." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We talk on this channel to keep the discussion separate from the game for clarity." | ||||
| Ellison says (to JustineBirdlime), "from here on, you can type ;blah blah blah" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Glad you could join us." | ||||
| JustineBirdlime says, "Thanks. I've never been in ifmud before." | JustineBirdlime asks, "blah blah blah, like that?" | |||
| Ellison says, "yup, you're a champ" | ||||
| K-Y arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | DavidW says, "yes, you got it" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | At the Path's Southwest Branch Floyd | The forest primeval. Branching off from the main north-south path Floyd | is a small trail to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "btw, I'm Mr_SqueakyOs when on KoL. And I apologize for not giving you the new start time." | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The Path's East Branch Floyd | The forest primeval. The north-south path branches off to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | A Light Beckons Through the Darkness Floyd | The forest primeval. The path continues north and south. To the Floyd | east you spy a light shining through the trees. Floyd | Floyd | > | JustineBirdlime asks, "even though I wrote this game, it's been so many years. I have trouble remembering. Have we gone south yet?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I think the light was the fire." | ||||
| Emily arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | A Catering Camp Floyd | Sigh! Everyday existence is so tiresome. The regal catering Floyd | service has readied a sumptuous feast for you here at the edge of the Floyd | forest. Dozens of gleaming silver chafing dishes await your Floyd | inspection, but the smell of hot food sickens you. A massive copper Floyd | samovar holds freshly brewed coffee. Golden serving pieces have been Floyd | splendidly arrayed before you, but you know you could never be allowed Floyd | to pick them up and serve yourself. If only your station in life Floyd | allowed you to pack a lunch. A roast beef sandwich and a cup of coffee Floyd | eaten alone in the woods would be ideal. Ugh, those peasant serving Floyd | girls. So crass. Always cracking their gum and calling you "Hon." Floyd | You can turn north back into the forest. Floyd | The head caterer approaches you, bows low, and says, "Master, how Floyd | good to see you. I trust you had a successful outing in the forest? Floyd | What do you have to give me?" Floyd | You ignore the caterer's obsequious greeting and attempt to push Floyd | past him. Gently but firmly, he grabs you by the shoulders and looks Floyd | sternly into your eyes. "Master, as you remember, your father's Floyd | instructions were not to serve you dinner until you brought back your Floyd | kill." You silently recall the circumstances under which these Floyd | instructions were given. Your father has found you insufficiently Floyd | motivated to improve your hunting skills and would prefer your Floyd | starvation if you do not start landing some game. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "No, this is new." | |||
| Ellison says, "haha, 'hon'" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give flicker to caterer" | ||||
Floyd | The caterer claps his hands in delight and happily accepts the Floyd | bloody mass of feathers. Floyd | "Congratulations on your successful hunt, sir," he cries. "Your Floyd | father will be pleased. He wanted me to tell you that he has left an Floyd | urgent message for you just north of the forest. But first, by all Floyd | means, eat something. I will prepare this flicker for you Floyd | immediately." Floyd | You tell the caterer not to bother. "Just get me a roast beef Floyd | sandwich and coffee quickly. And don't assign Flo as my server." The Floyd | caterer obliges and ushers you to... Floyd | Floyd | Your Next Meal Floyd | It's you, the food-service peasants, and a long wooden table. Floyd | Sitting on the long wooden table is a mask. Floyd | A strangely familiar busboy is here, busily cleaning the table. Floyd | A strangely unfamiliar serving wench is here, awaiting your Floyd | inspection. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | JustineBirdlime asks, "give flicker to caterer?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x wench" | ||||
Floyd | Who is she? Why haven't you noticed her before? This young woman is Floyd | beautiful! Her loveliness is unmarred by any make-up. Her hair falls Floyd | in natural waves around her shoulders. She approaches quietly and Floyd | respectfully, lays out a place setting, and sets a sandwich and coffee Floyd | before you. She withdraws from your presence before you can even speak Floyd | or look into her eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x busboy" | ||||
Floyd | No wonder he looks familiar. It's your older brother, Vasilii. Your Floyd | father sent him in search of the Firebird after your brother Dimitri Floyd | had failed. The Firebird eluded him as well. You thought your father Floyd | had banished Vasilii to a distant tsardom, but you imagine that being Floyd | reduced to the status of busboy is a very real exile for your Floyd | ambitious, princely brother. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says (to Justine), "I played this game back in the day and remember liking it but have forgotten most everything except how it was split up in sections" | |||
| JustineBirdlime says, "hon, I was living in Baltimore when I wrote most of this game..." | ||||
| maga says, "what, we suddenly like girls now? amazing what a manly hunting session and beef-based meals can do for a young man" | ||||
| DavidW says (to maga), "heh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think it's the lack of artifice he's attracted to." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get mask" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||||
Floyd | The mask caricatures your eldest brother Dimitri. Your father sent him Floyd | three years ago to retrieve the magical Firebird from a nearby forest. Floyd | Said Firebird had been stealing apples from one of your dad's rare 24K Floyd | gold apple trees. Since this was causing a considerable financial Floyd | setback, your father said that if Dimitri brought back the Firebird, Floyd | the tsardom would be his. Dimitri came back empty-handed, lost his Floyd | chance at the big promotion, and hasn't been able to get a date since. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||||
Floyd | On the long wooden table you see a cup of coffee, a plate, a spoon, a Floyd | fork, a knife, a napkin, and an ambiguous utensil. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "utensil" | ||||
Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x utensil" | ||||
Floyd | Fork? Spoon? Melon baller? Difficult to say really. Its markings Floyd | only reveal that it is made of silver. You figure that it must be good Floyd | for something. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get all from table" | ||||
Floyd | cup of coffee: Taken. Floyd | plate: Taken. Floyd | spoon: Taken. Floyd | fork: Taken. Floyd | knife: Taken. Floyd | napkin: Taken. Floyd | ambiguous utensil: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | JustineBirdlime says, "I think he likes girls, just ones without makeup" | |||
| DavidW says, "a utensil that your aunt gave you but you don't know what it is" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask vasilii about mask" | ||||
Floyd | You won't glean much information asking Vasilii about the mask. Floyd | Floyd | > | K-Y says, "Back when I played this I was never sure what was an anarchonism" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask vasilii about father" | ||||
Floyd | You won't glean much information asking Vasilii about your father. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask vasilii about dmitrii" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "dmitrii". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask vasilii about wench" | ||||
Floyd | You won't glean much information asking Vasilii about Elena. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask vasilii about dimitri" | ||||
Floyd | "Such a shame about Dimitri. The whole tsardom is laughing at him. At Floyd | least I live in anonymity. If he enters the monastery, as I expect he Floyd | shall, he will at last have some peace." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky says, "no information except her name" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Elena! Now we have a name for our beloved-to-be." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x plate" | ||||
Floyd | A china plate decorated with little bunnies and chipmunks. A childhood Floyd | relic. On the plate you see a roast beef sandwich. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sandwich" | ||||
Floyd | It's a roast beef sandwich, prepared, of course, just as you prefer: Floyd | seeded rye bread, horseradish, and raw onions. That should help keep Floyd | the babes at bay. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ha ha" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "eat sandwich" | ||||
Floyd | That was delicious! Floyd | Floyd | > | JustineBirdlime says, "I have no memory of what this utensil is" | |||
| maga says, "sammich -> bag of plenty -> infinite sammiches -> peace and prosperity for all Russia" | ||||
| maga says, "or just eat it, that works too" | ||||
| DavidW says (to maga), "oops" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Your Next Meal Floyd | It's you, the food-service peasants, and a long wooden table. Floyd | Your older brother Vasilii is here, busily cleaning the table. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "we can't eat anything until we put it in the magic bag!" | |||
| Ellison says, "I can't remember if there were unwinnable states in this game, but we may want to save from time to time just to be safe" | ||||
| DavidW says, "But I bet we can't leave the setting until we've eaten." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Ellison), "good point. We should save." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
Floyd | Enter data file to store: | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we need to eat our meal to continue. Probably triggers something." | |||
| Ellison says, "well, okay... but save the crumbs!" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | A Catering Camp Floyd | Sigh! Everyday existence is so tiresome. The regal catering Floyd | service has readied a sumptuous feast for you here at the edge of the Floyd | forest. Dozens of gleaming silver chafing dishes await your Floyd | inspection, but the smell of hot food sickens you. A massive copper Floyd | samovar holds freshly brewed coffee. Golden serving pieces have been Floyd | splendidly arrayed before you, but you know you could never be allowed Floyd | to pick them up and serve yourself. If only your station in life Floyd | allowed you to pack a lunch. A roast beef sandwich and a cup of coffee Floyd | eaten alone in the woods would be ideal. Ugh, those peasant serving Floyd | girls. So crass. Always cracking their gum and calling you "Hon." Floyd | You can turn north back into the forest. Floyd | The head caterer is directing his staff through another Floyd | pass-the-plate drill. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Well, we've saved the game, so either is fine." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | A Light Beckons Through the Darkness Floyd | The forest primeval. The path continues north and south. To the Floyd | east you spy a light shining through the trees. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "see, pshaw" | |||
| DavidW says, "oh. inky proved me wrong" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Off the Beaten Path Floyd | The warm light of a gently burning fire beckons to you from the Floyd | east. You pick out the outlines of a hut just beyond it. Return to Floyd | the forest path by walking west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | An Old Woman by the Fire Floyd | You have stepped into a clearing from a path to the west. A fire Floyd | burns steadily outside of a small thatched hut. Floyd | A baba yaga is sitting by the fire, a magical bag in her lap. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put sandwich in bag" | ||||
Floyd | The baba yaga yawns. "I think you would find that a rather boring and Floyd | unproductive transformation." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put napkin in bag" | ||||
Floyd | You drop the napkin into the bag and pull out a comfy blanket! Floyd | Floyd | > | JustineBirdlime asks, "put utensil in bag?" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "put utensil in bag" | ||||
Floyd | "What IS that thing?" the baba yaga exclaims as you bring out the Floyd | unknown utensil. Since you can give her no definite answer, the baba Floyd | yaga convinces you that it is best not to put it into the bag. The bag Floyd | cannot transform something it does not recognize. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x blanket" | ||||
Floyd | It's very comfy, very large, and very warm. There's nothing in the Floyd | comfy blanket. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put fork in bag" | ||||
Floyd | You drop the fork into the bag and pull out what seems to be the same Floyd | fork. The witch, noticing the look of confusion on your face explains, Floyd | "It may look unchanged, but do not believe appearances. Perhaps you Floyd | will discover its special use some day." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x fork" | ||||
Floyd | It looks like an ordinary mysteriously transformed fork to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a bow, a quiver, a mask, a cup of coffee, a plate, a spoon, a Floyd | knife, a comfy blanket, an ambiguous utensil, and a mysteriously Floyd | transformed fork. The quiver seems to contain an arrow. Sitting on Floyd | the plate is a roast beef sandwich. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put spoon in bag" | ||||
Floyd | You drop the spoon into the bag and pull out a shovel! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "huh" | |||
| inky says, "hey hey" | ||||
| Ellison says, "haha" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get sandwich" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put plate in bag" | ||||
Floyd | The plate with the bunnies and the chipmunks? Life won't be the same Floyd | without it, but you bravely drop the plate into the bag. You are Floyd | surprised to pull out a shield! Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says (to inky), "good job!" | |||
| JustineBirdlime says, "oh well. I think all the cutlery transforms" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put cup in bag" | ||||
Floyd | The baba yaga moves the bag away from you. "That cup still has some Floyd | coffee in it!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drink coffee" | ||||
Floyd | Good to the last drop! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "eat sandwich" | ||||
Floyd | That was delicious! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put cup in bag" | ||||
Floyd | You consider your course of action for a split second. You've had this Floyd | cup since you were a baby! How will you ever do without it? You Floyd | bravely drop the cup into the bag and pull out a bucket! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x blanket" | ||||
Floyd | It's very comfy, very large, and very warm. There's nothing in the Floyd | comfy blanket. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put knife in bag" | ||||
Floyd | You drop the knife into the bag and pull out a sword! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put blanket in bag" | ||||
Floyd | The baba yaga yawns. "I think you would find that a rather boring and Floyd | unproductive transformation." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a bow, a quiver, a mask, a comfy blanket, an ambiguous Floyd | utensil, a mysteriously transformed fork, a shovel, a shield, a bucket, Floyd | and a sword. The quiver seems to contain an arrow. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "now we're rockin'" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put mask in bag" | ||||
Floyd | The baba yaga yawns. "I think you would find that a rather boring and Floyd | unproductive transformation." Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The spoon became a shovel? I missed that one." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear shield" | ||||
Floyd | You can't wear the shield. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x shield" | ||||
Floyd | It looks like an ordinary shield to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sword" | ||||
Floyd | It looks like an ordinary sword to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put mask in bag" | ||||
Floyd | The baba yaga yawns. "I think you would find that a rather boring and Floyd | unproductive transformation." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear bucket" | ||||
Floyd | You can't wear the bucket. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "wield shield" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "wield". Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "maybe we can trade the shovel for some magic seeds to plant in the diggable soft soil up against the wall" | |||
| McMartin says (to Floyd), "steal bucket" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "steal". Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We still have a message to get from our father to the north." | |||
| Ellison says, "(jk)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Yes. I vote we work on that next." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Off the Beaten Path Floyd | The warm light of a gently burning fire beckons to you from the Floyd | east. You pick out the outlines of a hut just beyond it. Return to Floyd | the forest path by walking west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. You can leave by going east or west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | A Light Beckons Through the Darkness Floyd | The forest primeval. The path continues north and south. To the Floyd | east you spy a light shining through the trees. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | The Path's East Branch Floyd | The forest primeval. The north-south path branches off to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | At the Path's Southwest Branch Floyd | The forest primeval. Branching off from the main north-south path Floyd | is a small trail to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | JustineBirdlime says, "wear mask to get past honeys to the north" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Deep in a Russian Forest, Under a Large Tree Floyd | You are standing under a large tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You trudge out of the forest. Whether it is a long time or a short Floyd | time, it matters not. Speedily a tale is spun, with much less speed a Floyd | deed is done. Floyd | Floyd | Back to Civilization Floyd | You've reached the edge of this grand, untamed forest. A short walk Floyd | to the north are a collection of fawning underlings, waiting to make Floyd | their daily petitions to you for your continued patronage. In a glade Floyd | an even shorter walk to the north, however, lurks a far more horrible Floyd | threat: a dozen young noble women, each eager to plant a kiss on your Floyd | cheek. You notice that they are all wearing lipstick. Ack! You know Floyd | you'll break out in hives if that waxy mess touches your regal skin. Floyd | The path leads south back into the forest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear mask" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now wearing the mask. Boy, do you look like a loser. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | The Opposite Sex Floyd | This small glade is a favorite gathering place for your current set Floyd | of groupies. Although they are all attractive and of good families, Floyd | you would rather impale yourself on a pike than marry one of them. Floyd | They're swarming everywhere, their constant chattering an irritating Floyd | drone to your ears. Floyd | Floyd | The women, mistaking you for your brother Dimitri, stop short, groan Floyd | loudly, and immediately beat a path back to town. Taking off the mask, Floyd | you marvel at the blissful privacy your brother must enjoy. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points. *** Floyd | Floyd | To the north you can see an encampment of underlings; to the south, the Floyd | primeval forest beckons. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | An Encampment of Underlings Floyd | Some days more than a dozen men wait on you to offer their greetings Floyd | and make their requests. Thankfully, today there are only a few: Floyd | You expect to see your masseur here, but instead there is an awfully Floyd | goofy-looking fellow fooling with a floppy hat and fiddling with a fake Floyd | mustache. Floyd | Your allergist is here, wanting to give you another in a series of Floyd | treatments to decrease your sensitivity to beeswax. Floyd | One of your father's pages is here. He bows low, hands you a Floyd | message, and announces that a groom is waiting with one of your fastest Floyd | horses at an inn just north of here. You brush him aside and turn your Floyd | attention to the message, which reads: Floyd | Floyd | "My dear son Ivan, Floyd | I have spent many a sleepless night contemplating the fate of this Floyd | tsardom. Who will inherit my reign? Not Dimitri. I sent him in Floyd | search of the Firebird, and he returned to me without ever having laid Floyd | eyes on the creature. His current shame is richly justified in view of Floyd | the minuscule effort he put into the task. Floyd | Your brother Vasilii's failure to capture the Firebird was perhaps Floyd | even more disgraceful. After having seen the Firebird, he did not Floyd | persevere in his pursuit. Floyd | That leaves you as my final hope, the last son able to lay claim to Floyd | the reign of this land. I have feared that you would not be able to Floyd | leave the well-tended gardens of your own thoughts long enough to Floyd | accomplish any task I set before you. If you are reading this message, Floyd | then you have survived the two tests I arranged for you. First, you Floyd | have killed something, anything. Second, you have had to outwit Floyd | someone, anyone. I am not at all convinced that you will succeed, but Floyd | at least I feel confident now that you will not make me look like a Floyd | complete fool to other tsars. Floyd | Son, if you bring the magical Firebird back to me, you will inherit Floyd | my tsardom and have your choice of a bride. If you fail and return to Floyd | me alive, you will marry a noblewoman of MY choice. I think you have Floyd | some idea of the group from which I will pick. Happy hunting! Floyd | Floyd | Love, Dad" Floyd | Floyd | > | JustineBirdlime says, "x masseur" | |||
| DavidW says, "now, now, no more hints just yet" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x fellow" | ||||
Floyd | Just as you suspected. Your brother Dimitri is incognito, posing as Floyd | your masseur. He's wearing a fake mustache and a floppy hat. If you Floyd | thought his caricature looked peculiar, he looks like a complete Floyd | goofball now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "allergist" | ||||
Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x allergist" | ||||
Floyd | You have been plagued by allergies all your life. As a child your list Floyd | of sensitivities was quite long, including feathers, fur, and eggs. Floyd | Because this man has patiently administered to you an endless series of Floyd | treatments, you can handle all of these things and live relatively Floyd | normally. You are still extremely sensitive to beeswax and to bee Floyd | venom, facts you were perhaps reacquainted with recently. [1] Your Floyd | allergist is assuring you that you will soon notice a decrease in your Floyd | symptoms. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask allergist about treatments" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "treatments". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask allergist about treatment" | ||||
Floyd | "The 'sting of the bee' is a treatment of my own devise," the allergist Floyd | patiently explains. "You've received this treatment nine times three Floyd | times already. I'm surprised you need it explained again." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note 1" | ||||
Floyd | [1]: Beeswax is a compound commonly used in the manufacture of lipstick Floyd | available in this area. This kept you at quite a distance from your Floyd | mother, who, being rather vain, insisted on wearing lipstick even after Floyd | she was told that you were violently allergic to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | JustineBirdlime says, "fair enough. The game is starting to come back to me." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask dimitri about dimitri" | ||||
Floyd | "I don't know much about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask dimitri about firebird" | ||||
Floyd | "I don't know much about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask dimitri about father" | ||||
Floyd | "I don't know much about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask dimitri about mask" | ||||
Floyd | "I don't know much about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "show mask to dimitri" | ||||
Floyd | "Very funny!" Dimitri looks a little embarrassed to see the mask. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show letter to dimitri" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "letter". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show message to dimitri" | ||||
Floyd | You can't seem to attract Dimitri's attention by showing him the Floyd | message from your father. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask dimitri about elena" | ||||
Floyd | "I don't know much about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm really enjoying this, Bonnie. Tightly-coded and well-written. Amusing, and yet with a serious side. I'm not sure how I feel about some modern-feeling elements that seem a touch out of place, but that's really my only complaint, and it's an amorphous complaint at best." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask dimitri about moustache" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "moustache". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask allergist for treatment" | ||||
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask allergist about sting of bee" | ||||
Floyd | There are words after your command that I couldn't use. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask allergist about sting" | ||||
Floyd | "The 'sting of the bee' is a treatment of my own devise," the allergist Floyd | patiently explains. "You've received this treatment nine times three Floyd | times already. I'm surprised you need it explained again." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "is there a way we can actually get the treatment?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask allergist for treatment" | ||||
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "ask allergist for sting" | ||||
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "allergist, give treatment" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want the allergist to give it to? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "me" | ||||
Floyd | Your allergist prepares your arm and deftly pricks the needle in the Floyd | proper place. You think about how well he has cared for you over the Floyd | years but do not bother to thank him once the procedure is over. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hooray" | |||
| inky says, "aha" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "thank allergist" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "thank". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "allergist, thank you" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "thank". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "high-five allergist" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "high-five". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dimitri, give hat to me" | ||||
Floyd | Dimitri doesn't seem able to process that last remark of yours. Floyd | Floyd | > | JustineBirdlime says, "I'm glad you're enjoying it, Jacqueline. It has a strong dose of Adventions-style irreverence, which may be the modern-feeling element you mention. When I first began writing this game in 1994, Adventions games were the only ones I had ever played." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hat" | ||||
Floyd | It looks like an ordinary floppy hat to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I'm actually not familiar with Adventions, I'm afraid." | |||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||||
| inky says, "I guess since we have a quest now we can go talk to the old man" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "I think we should visit the old man next?" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "think". Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says (to JustineBirdlime), "I had not realized at the time that you were married to the Adventions guy. those were funny games, although I haven't beaten any" | |||
| inky says, "or since we have a shovel we can go dig in the garden" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Visit the old man, then maybe get the horse." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Let's dig in the garden first; the old man did tell us to explore, afterall." | ||||
| Ellison says (to inky), "sounds like a plan" | ||||
| Ellison says, "we're about to see a man about a horse" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "ok, garden, then old man, then horse?" | ||||
| Ellison says, "sure" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "mmkay" | ||||
| JustineBirdlime says, "Adventions = David Baggett and David Leary" | ||||
| DavidW says (to inky), "you drive" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The Opposite Sex Floyd | This small glade is a favorite gathering place for your current set Floyd | of groupies. Although they are all attractive and of good families, Floyd | you would rather impale yourself on a pike than marry one of them. Floyd | Fortunately, none of them seem to be around at the moment. The sight Floyd | of "Dimitri" must have scared them away from this spot for a while. To Floyd | the north you can see an encampment of underlings; to the south, the Floyd | primeval forest beckons. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Fleeing Civilization Floyd | You've reached the edge of this grand, untamed forest. A short walk Floyd | to the north are a collection of fawning underlings, waiting to make Floyd | their daily petitions to you for your continued patronage. The path Floyd | leads south back into the forest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Deep in a Russian Forest, Under a Large Tree Floyd | You are standing under a large tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | At the Path's Southwest Branch Floyd | The forest primeval. Branching off from the main north-south path Floyd | is a small trail to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | JustineBirdlime says, "time to go get Barack Obama elected. Be back later" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Deeper and Darker Floyd | Scores of ancient trees with massive trunks and numberless gnarled Floyd | branches prevent any light from reaching the forest floor. A chill Floyd | runs through you as you imagine every creature hidden in the shadows, Floyd | one more threatening than the next. You feel your way on a mulched Floyd | path leading west. You can return to the main path by walking Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "have fun" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | An Immense Stone Wall Floyd | The east-west path terminates at a large stone wall, which curves Floyd | away to the northwest and southwest. Floyd | You see a bronze plaque here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Trudging around the wall, which reveals itself to be a large but Floyd | unbroken circle, you arrive at the only interesting locale to be found Floyd | in this vicinity. Floyd | Floyd | A Future Flower Bed Floyd | Someone seems to have been preparing a flower bed here, flush Floyd | against the wall. The planting has yet to be done. It must have been Floyd | a Herculean effort to dig: all around you the ground is hard and quite Floyd | rocky. The wall curves around to the northeast and northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||||
Floyd | (the newly dug bed) Floyd | (with the shovel) Floyd | With amazing ease, you burrow through the loose earth and create a Floyd | tunnel to the other side of the wall! You find yourself in... Floyd | Floyd | A Lovely Garden Floyd | You've made it under the immense stone wall. Its walls surround you Floyd | on all sides. You can explore the garden by walking to the north or Floyd | east. Go down the tunnel to leave. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hey hey" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | A Burbling Fountain Floyd | Once upon a time there was a fountain. Its bubbling flow splashed Floyd | onto the surface of the water below, creating little ripples that Floyd | sparkled gaily in the sunlight. Floating beneath the fountain were Floyd | some lily pads... Floyd | And sitting on a lily pad you find a frog. You can't be sure, but Floyd | you think you see something written on the frog's chest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read frog" | ||||
Floyd | It says KISS ME. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I could have guessed that" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "kiss frog" | ||||
Floyd | Blech! You've got to be kidding! Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hee hee" | |||
| inky says, "I seem to recall LGOP had an elaborate frog-kissing puzzle" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get frog" | ||||
Floyd | The frog's chest says KISS ME. Maybe you should try a little Floyd | tenderness first. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "awww" | |||
| DavidW says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pad" | ||||
Floyd | Much flatter than a frog, but just as green. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x fountain" | ||||
Floyd | The sound of the burbling water is most intriguing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drink water" | ||||
Floyd | Better not. Do you think a frog would drink out of your bath water? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "flatter frog" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "flatter". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "frog, hello" | ||||
Floyd | The frog mutely acknowledges your presence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "whisper sweet nothings to frog" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "whisper". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "smile at fro" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "smile". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "smile at frog" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "smile". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "hm." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take frog" | ||||
Floyd | The frog's chest says KISS ME. Maybe you should try a little Floyd | tenderness first. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kiss me" | ||||
Floyd | You plant a big wet one on yourself. Smack! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pet frog" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "pet". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask frog about me" | ||||
Floyd | The frog looks at you blankly. Doctor Dolittle you're not. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hug frog" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "hug". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "close eyes" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "eyes". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear mask" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, you're now wearing the mask. Boy, do you look like a loser. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "kiss frog" | ||||
Floyd | Ugh! You won't kiss a girl, but you'll kiss this frog? Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "kiss frog" | ||||
Floyd | Fine, fine, kiss the frog. Floyd | Floyd | You grasp the frog in your hands and bring it to your lips. Gak! Floyd | You even use your tongue! You are shocked to discover that your kiss Floyd | has transformed the frog into a heavily breathing man with a dangerous Floyd | glint in his eye. Floyd | Floyd | Run! It's a sledgehammer-wielding maniac! Floyd | Floyd | You feel the sweet, hot breath of your attacker on the back of your Floyd | neck. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I think this game is amphomophobic" | |||
| Ellison says, "haha" | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha ha ha" | ||||
| Fyrion says, "LOL" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, that was random." | ||||
| inky says, "we were worried abotu the sledgehammer-wielding gardener earlier, remember" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | A Lovely Garden Floyd | You've made it under the immense stone wall. Its walls surround you Floyd | on all sides. You can explore the garden by walking to the north or Floyd | east. Go down the tunnel to leave. Floyd | Floyd | Keep moving! Your head is within inches of a sledgehammer's blow! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Within a Budding Grove Floyd | Finally, trees that are easy to climb! The bark is sturdy, the Floyd | limbs low, the angle of ascent easy. The blossoming trees are just Floyd | past full bloom and the fruit is starting to emerge from the bud. Floyd | Floyd | Keep moving! Your head is within inches of a sledgehammer's blow! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb tree" | ||||
Floyd | First one branch, then another. You're doing great. Oops, lost your Floyd | footing! You tumble to the ground with a regal thud for the fourth Floyd | time today. Floyd | Floyd | You feel the sweet, hot breath of your attacker on the back of your Floyd | neck. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Either walk west or climb up the tree. Floyd | Floyd | The sledgehammer comes down on your head. Your last wish is that you Floyd | would have had time to contemplate the irony of your fate. Floyd | Floyd | *** Having died, you have lost your place in the royal succession. *** Floyd | Floyd | In a total of 175 turns, you have achieved a score of 9 points out of a Floyd | possible 72. Floyd | Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, quit, or undo the current Floyd | command. Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, QUIT, or UNDO: > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Within a Budding Grove Floyd | Finally, trees that are easy to climb! The bark is sturdy, the Floyd | limbs low, the angle of ascent easy. The blossoming trees are just Floyd | past full bloom and the fruit is starting to emerge from the bud. Floyd | A raging maniac is here, ready to pound your skull into mush with a Floyd | sledgehammer. Run! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x maniac" | ||||
Floyd | No time for close examination. Just run, man! Floyd | Floyd | The sledgehammer comes down on your head. Your last wish is that you Floyd | would have had time to contemplate the irony of your fate. Floyd | Floyd | *** Having died, you have lost your place in the royal succession. *** Floyd | Floyd | In a total of 175 turns, you have achieved a score of 9 points out of a Floyd | possible 72. Floyd | Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, quit, or undo the current Floyd | command. Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, QUIT, or UNDO: > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Within a Budding Grove Floyd | Finally, trees that are easy to climb! The bark is sturdy, the Floyd | limbs low, the angle of ascent easy. The blossoming trees are just Floyd | past full bloom and the fruit is starting to emerge from the bud. Floyd | A raging maniac is here, ready to pound your skull into mush with a Floyd | sledgehammer. Run! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | A Lovely Garden Floyd | You've made it under the immense stone wall. Its walls surround you Floyd | on all sides. You can explore the garden by walking to the north or Floyd | east. Go down the tunnel to leave. Floyd | Floyd | Keep moving! Your head is within inches of a sledgehammer's blow! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You squirm down the dark passage and emerge outside the wall. Floyd | Floyd | A Future Flower Bed Floyd | Behold your handiwork! You have replaced the freshly dug flower bed Floyd | with an even more freshly dug tunnel, which leads down under the wall. Floyd | You can also walk around the wall to the northeast or northwest. Floyd | Floyd | Keep moving! Your head is within inches of a sledgehammer's blow! Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "man, this dude's persistent" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | An Immense Stone Wall Floyd | The east-west path terminates at a large stone wall, which curves Floyd | away to the northwest and southwest. Floyd | You see a bronze plaque here. Floyd | Floyd | Keep moving! Your head is within inches of a sledgehammer's blow! Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Wait - I think we could have climbed those trees." | |||
| inky says, "I tried!" | ||||
| inky says, "then I fell down1" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Did you? Oh." | ||||
| DavidW says, "maybe later" | ||||
| inky says, "perhaps we have to study climbing from somebody" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Deeper and Darker Floyd | Scores of ancient trees with massive trunks and numberless gnarled Floyd | branches prevent any light from reaching the forest floor. A chill Floyd | runs through you as you imagine every creature hidden in the shadows, Floyd | one more threatening than the next. You feel your way on a mulched Floyd | path leading west. You can return to the main path by walking Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | Keep moving! Your head is within inches of a sledgehammer's blow! Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "man, how far is this guy going to follow us?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attack man with sword" | ||||
Floyd | You whack the screaming maniac in the head a split second before he can Floyd | do the same to you. He stops in his tracks, shakes his head, and Floyd | thanks you for knocking some sense into him. He hands you his Floyd | sledgehammer and wanders off. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha ha" | |||
| Ellison says, "haha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yay" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hooray" | ||||
| McMartin says, "SWORDED" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x hammer" | ||||
Floyd | It looks like an ordinary sledgehammer to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok, lemme go back to the garden" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | An Immense Stone Wall Floyd | The east-west path terminates at a large stone wall, which curves Floyd | away to the northwest and southwest. Floyd | You see a bronze plaque here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Trudging around the wall, which reveals itself to be a large but Floyd | unbroken circle, you arrive at the only interesting locale to be found Floyd | in this vicinity. Floyd | Floyd | A Future Flower Bed Floyd | Behold your handiwork! You have replaced the freshly dug flower bed Floyd | with an even more freshly dug tunnel, which leads down under the wall. Floyd | You can also walk around the wall to the northeast or northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | As you squirm down into the dark tunnel, you remember the stories your Floyd | nurse told you when you were little: vast empires hidden underground, Floyd | always accessible by a tunnel such as this one, usually protected by a Floyd | grate. However, this is not the fantasy world of your youth, and in Floyd | fact you emerge on the other side of the wall. Floyd | Floyd | A Lovely Garden Floyd | You've made it under the immense stone wall. Its walls surround you Floyd | on all sides. You can explore the garden by walking to the north or Floyd | east. Go down the tunnel to leave. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Within a Budding Grove Floyd | Finally, trees that are easy to climb! The bark is sturdy, the Floyd | limbs low, the angle of ascent easy. The blossoming trees are just Floyd | past full bloom and the fruit is starting to emerge from the bud. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tree" | ||||
Floyd | If you're not so cocky, you might make it up this tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb tree" | ||||
Floyd | First one branch, then another. You're doing great. With sure, Floyd | careful movements, you find yourself... Floyd | Floyd | Sitting on a Lower Branch Floyd | Ah, the sweet fragrance of a flowering fruit tree! The perfume Floyd | revives you as you rest on this branch. You can now get a better look Floyd | at those blossoms, but be careful. Bees are buzzing all around them. Floyd | You nervously remember how allergic you are to bee venom. Perhaps you Floyd | can escape the bees by climbing to a higher branch. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oho, bees" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x blossoms" | ||||
Floyd | The blossoms are yielding to a golden fruit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "fruit" | ||||
Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x fruit" | ||||
Floyd | Wow, you've never seen fruit give off such a warm glow. You touch some Floyd | of the nuggets and discover that the skin is hard and unyielding. Even Floyd | you, the horticulture imbecile, realize that unripe fruit is hard, but Floyd | this stuff is really hard. It's an actual 24K gold nugget! You wonder Floyd | if these trees might not also be gold apple variety and surmise that Floyd | someone might have planted this orchard from the apples stolen from Floyd | your father's trees. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oho more" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get fruit" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a bow, a quiver, a mask (being worn), a comfy blanket, an Floyd | ambiguous utensil, a mysteriously transformed fork, a shovel, a shield, Floyd | a bucket, a sword, a message from your father, a sledgehammer, and a Floyd | gold nugget. The quiver seems to contain an arrow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Confident of the effects of your latest treatment, you evade the bees Floyd | quietly and make your way up the tree. Floyd | Floyd | On a Higher Branch Floyd | You have almost reached the top of the tree, certainly as high as Floyd | you can climb. Within your reach, there is a huge pile of twigs and Floyd | leaves piled together precariously in the fork between two branches. Floyd | Sitting on the large nest is a magazine. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "er" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x magazine" | ||||
Floyd | It's the latest issue of "Pulchritudinous Pullet, The Magazine for Floyd | Avian Elegance." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read magazine" | ||||
Floyd | It's nestled too far down in the twigs for you to see more than the Floyd | cover. Floyd | Floyd | You find yourself lost in thought. A soft rustle of leaves causes Floyd | you to alert to your surroundings. Looking up, you find that a large Floyd | feathered creature has perched in the nest. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hee hee" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get magazine" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to get into the nest in order to reach it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter nest" | ||||
Floyd | The Firebird gently warns you not to try to get into the nest. It Floyd | wasn't meant to support your weight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x firebird" | ||||
Floyd | It can only be the Firebird. She doesn't look as if she would put up Floyd | much of a struggle. You imagine carrying her back to your father and Floyd | making a hearty meal of her. A plucked feather in each room of the Floyd | palace would brightly light the space. No more need of candles or Floyd | torches. Oh, and your father's tsardom to boot. So many possibilities Floyd | suggest themselves in thoughts of capturing the Firebird. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| inky says, "on the one hand, we could capture the firebird and bring her back with us and assure ourselves of fame and fortune" | ||||
| inky says, "on the other hand, there's the endangered species act" | ||||
| Ellison says, "haha" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee yay" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "This is probably the only time you'll hear me say this: who cares about the ESA?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask firebird about magazine" | ||||
Floyd | You won't glean much information asking the Firebird about the Floyd | magazine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
Floyd | Enter data file to store: | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask firebird about firebird" | ||||
Floyd | "I wasn't always this way. Once I was simply a woman. Katschei the Floyd | wizard put me in this shape and made me his thief. Ask me sometime Floyd | again, and perhaps I will tell you the rest of the story." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask firebird about katschei" | ||||
Floyd | "Katschei built that high-walled garden, I'll tell you that much. The Floyd | less you know about Katschei right now, the better." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask firebird about baba yaga" | ||||
Floyd | You won't glean much information asking the Firebird about the baba Floyd | yaga. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask firebird about elena" | ||||
Floyd | You won't glean much information asking the Firebird about Elena. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "ask firebird about story" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "story". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "ask firebird about firebird" | ||||
Floyd | "I wasn't always this way. Once I was simply a woman. Katschei the Floyd | wizard put me in this shape and made me his thief. Ask me sometime Floyd | again, and perhaps I will tell you the rest of the story." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask firebird about katschei" | ||||
Floyd | "Katschei built that high-walled garden, I'll tell you that much. The Floyd | less you know about Katschei right now, the better." Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "sorry, I just wanted the REST OF THE STORY" | |||
| inky says, "hee hee" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask firebird about apple" | ||||
Floyd | You won't glean much information asking the Firebird about the gold Floyd | nugget. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "firebird, follow me" | ||||
Floyd | "I'm sorry, I can't do that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "firebird, give magazine to me" | ||||
Floyd | "I'm sorry, I can't do that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show message to firebird" | ||||
Floyd | The Firebird isn't impressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell firebird about messge" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "messge". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "oops messge" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "messge". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "message" | ||||
Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell firebird about message" | ||||
Floyd | It doesn't look as though the Firebird is interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask firebird about apples" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "apples". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask firebird about apple" | ||||
Floyd | You won't glean much information asking the Firebird about the gold Floyd | nugget. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask firebird about father" | ||||
Floyd | You won't glean much information asking the Firebird about your father. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask firebird about thief" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "thief". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask firebird about nest" | ||||
Floyd | "Don't try to get into the nest, dear. It wasn't meant to support your Floyd | weight." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask firebird about eggs" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "eggs". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask firebird about task" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "task". Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I still want to revisit the old man." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask firebird about theivery" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "theivery". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Me too." | |||
| inky says, "okey doke" | ||||
| inky asks, "do we want to try to capture the firebird first?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure where he is in the game, though. My mapping is incomplete when we play en masse." | ||||
| inky says, "he's roughly down, east, south, east, I think" | ||||
| DavidW says (to inky), "Go ahead and try. We might need a cage, y'know." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get firebird" | ||||
Floyd | Her sharp talons give you pause. Better to trap her in something that Floyd | will protect you from them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a bow, a quiver, a mask (being worn), a comfy blanket, an Floyd | ambiguous utensil, a mysteriously transformed fork, a shovel, a shield, Floyd | a bucket, a sword, a message from your father, a sledgehammer, and a Floyd | gold nugget. The quiver seems to contain an arrow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put blanket on firebird" | ||||
Floyd | You throw the comfy blanket over the Firebird. Before she can react, Floyd | you've flipped her over, gathered the ends of the blanket together, and Floyd | slung the makeshift sack over your back. The Firebird struggles but Floyd | cannot free herself. The soft thickness of the blanket protects you Floyd | from her sharp talons. She begins to whimper, "Please let me go, young Floyd | man!" Floyd | | Ellison says, "I think he's east of the room north of the room where you go east to get to the fire" | |||
Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "heh heh" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Sitting on a Lower Branch Floyd | Ah, the sweet fragrance of a flowering fruit tree! The perfume Floyd | revives you as you rest on this branch. You can now get a better look Floyd | at those blossoms, but be careful. Bees are buzzing all around them. Floyd | You nervously remember how allergic you are to bee venom. Perhaps you Floyd | can escape the bees by climbing to a higher branch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Within a Budding Grove Floyd | Finally, trees that are easy to climb! The bark is sturdy, the Floyd | limbs low, the angle of ascent easy. The blossoming trees are just Floyd | past full bloom and the fruit is starting to emerge from the bud. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a bow, a quiver, a mask (being worn), a comfy blanket, an Floyd | ambiguous utensil, a mysteriously transformed fork, a shovel, a shield, Floyd | a bucket, a sword, a message from your father, a sledgehammer, and a Floyd | gold nugget. The quiver seems to contain an arrow. The comfy blanket Floyd | seems to contain the Firebird. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird says, "Let me go and I'll tell you a secret." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | A Lovely Garden Floyd | You've made it under the immense stone wall. Its walls surround you Floyd | on all sides. You can explore the garden by walking to the north or Floyd | east. Go down the tunnel to leave. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask firebird about secret" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "secret". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You squirm down the dark passage and emerge outside the wall. Floyd | Floyd | A Future Flower Bed Floyd | Behold your handiwork! You have replaced the freshly dug flower bed Floyd | with an even more freshly dug tunnel, which leads down under the wall. Floyd | You can also walk around the wall to the northeast or northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | An Immense Stone Wall Floyd | The east-west path terminates at a large stone wall, which curves Floyd | away to the northwest and southwest. Floyd | You see a bronze plaque here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Deeper and Darker Floyd | Scores of ancient trees with massive trunks and numberless gnarled Floyd | branches prevent any light from reaching the forest floor. A chill Floyd | runs through you as you imagine every creature hidden in the shadows, Floyd | one more threatening than the next. You feel your way on a mulched Floyd | path leading west. You can return to the main path by walking Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh, I have an idea" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | At the Path's Southwest Branch Floyd | The forest primeval. Branching off from the main north-south path Floyd | is a small trail to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The Path's East Branch Floyd | The forest primeval. The north-south path branches off to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You hear muffled sobs from inside the blanket. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Darker and Deeper Floyd | The forest primeval. A mulched path leads northeast. Return to the Floyd | north-south path by walking west. Floyd | A wizened old man is here, his long beard flowing onto the ground. Floyd | He is sitting on a stone counting the leaves covering the forest floor. Floyd | He looks up at you and says, "Greetings, young man. Are you here to Floyd | shirk a task or to find one?" Floyd | You answer that you are looking to gain your father's tsardom. "You Floyd | are on the right path, but you are not ready yet for this part of your Floyd | quest," says the old man. "Perhaps there are some other dark recesses Floyd | of the forest you have not explored fully, hmmm?" Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm, not here quite yet" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | The Path's East Branch Floyd | The forest primeval. The north-south path branches off to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | A Light Beckons Through the Darkness Floyd | The forest primeval. The path continues north and south. To the Floyd | east you spy a light shining through the trees. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Off the Beaten Path Floyd | The warm light of a gently burning fire beckons to you from the Floyd | east. You pick out the outlines of a hut just beyond it. Return to Floyd | the forest path by walking west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | An Old Woman by the Fire Floyd | You have stepped into a clearing from a path to the west. A fire Floyd | burns steadily outside of a small thatched hut. Floyd | A baba yaga is sitting by the fire, a magical bag in her lap. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put firebird in bag" | ||||
Floyd | You can't do that to the Firebird without freeing her. It's taking all Floyd | your strength just to keep her in the blanket. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "dang" | |||
| DavidW asks, "So, not interested in the secret?" | ||||
| inky says, "well ok fine" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "free firebird" | ||||
Floyd | You gently place the blanket containing the Firebird on the ground. Floyd | The Firebird flaps her wings and frees herself. Standing and Floyd | stretching, she thanks you for your mercy. She is true to her word: Floyd | "Now, young man, I will tell you a secret. It's true that I have Floyd | stolen your father's golden apples. But I am not the cause of the Floyd | problem, only the agent. I promise you I will now help you find the Floyd | real culprit." Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points. *** Floyd | Floyd | "You are about to embark on a journey to the east," the Firebird Floyd | explains, "but you do not have all the equipment you might need. Would Floyd | you like me to give you a list?" Floyd | Floyd | You curtly answer the Firebird: (YES or NO) > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird quickly inventories your belongings and dictates to you Floyd | a list of necessities. You scribble them down and stow the list on Floyd | your person. Floyd | "Before you embark on your adventure, you will need to take along Floyd | provisions," the Firebird counsels. "Lead the way to the caterers, Floyd | please!" Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird is whistling the greatest hits of Stravinsky. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x list" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | THINGS TO TAKE: Floyd | Floyd | ( ) a matchbook Floyd | ( ) a coin Floyd | Floyd | Glancing over the list, you see you still need to pick up 2 things. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird preens her feathers. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hey, this is fancy" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Off the Beaten Path Floyd | The warm light of a gently burning fire beckons to you from the Floyd | east. You pick out the outlines of a hut just beyond it. Return to Floyd | the forest path by walking west. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. You can leave by going east or west. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird buffs her polished talons with the tip of her wing Floyd | feathers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | A Light Beckons Through the Darkness Floyd | The forest primeval. The path continues north and south. To the Floyd | east you spy a light shining through the trees. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The Firebird stops and whispers to you, "Ivan, I cannot follow you into Floyd | the clearing. Vasilii is there. If he sees me, he may kill you in Floyd | order to claim my capture for himself. Just have some sandwiches made; Floyd | get anything you like. And have them send along some rice pudding. Floyd | It's my favorite, and I haven't had it in so long." Floyd | As you make your way south, the Firebird calls out after you, "Ivan, Floyd | if you find anything on your list there, be sure to bring it back. You Floyd | might not want to go back again." Floyd | Floyd | A Catering Camp Floyd | Sigh! Everyday existence is so tiresome. The regal catering Floyd | service has readied a sumptuous feast for you here at the edge of the Floyd | forest. Dozens of gleaming silver chafing dishes await your Floyd | inspection, but the smell of hot food sickens you. A massive copper Floyd | samovar holds freshly brewed coffee. Golden serving pieces have been Floyd | splendidly arrayed before you, but you know you could never be allowed Floyd | to pick them up and serve yourself. If only your station in life Floyd | allowed you to pack a lunch. A roast beef sandwich and a cup of coffee Floyd | eaten alone in the woods would be ideal. Ugh, those peasant serving Floyd | girls. So crass. Always cracking their gum and calling you "Hon." Floyd | You can turn north back into the forest. Floyd | The caterer responds promptly to your request for provisions. Too Floyd | promptly really, because he whisks you to the table before you can say, Floyd | "And don't assign me Flo..." Floyd | Floyd | Your Next Meal Floyd | It's you, the food-service peasants, and a long wooden table. Floyd | Your older brother Vasilii is here, busily cleaning the table. Floyd | An older serving woman appears at your right elbow. "I hear you Floyd | actually bagged some game today. What did you do, read it your own Floyd | poetry until it coughed up its innards?" Floyd | This is the caterer's most senior serving wench, Flo. She's known Floyd | you as long as the caterer has, and she never lets you forget it. She Floyd | has an opinion about everything you ever have or haven't done in your Floyd | whole life. You've wanted to send her away many a time for the beating Floyd | you think she deserves as the impudent peasant she is, but your father Floyd | has always forbidden it. He thinks some honest criticism is good for Floyd | you, and he's never been in disagreement with Flo's opinions. Oh, it Floyd | would be good to be tsar and take a switch to her. Floyd | You keep your cool for now. "Wench, I am embarking on a long Floyd | journey. I require these provisions: two sandwiches, one roast beef Floyd | on rye, one sprout and avocado on whole grain. (You assume the Floyd | Firebird is a vegetarian.) Also, bring me some rice pudding." Floyd | Flo raises an eyebrow. "Rice pudding? I have never known you to Floyd | ask for rice pudding!" she screeches. Floyd | Vasilii pricks up his ears as he labors nearby. "He's ALLERGIC to Floyd | rice pudding," he thinks, eyeing you suspiciously. Floyd | As insulting as Flo can be, she would never disobey you. In a few Floyd | minutes, Flo places some provisions into your hands. As she leaves, Floyd | she wishes you godspeed on your journey. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky asks, "but where do we find the matchbook and coin we need?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "We haven't seen all of Civilization yet." | ||||
| inky asks, "oh, we haven't?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Also, we can ask our brothers." | ||||
| inky asks, "where else can we go?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask vasili about coin" | ||||
Floyd | You won't glean much information asking Vasilii about the coin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask vasili about matchbook" | ||||
Floyd | You won't glean much information asking Vasilii about the matchbook. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Your Next Meal Floyd | It's you, the food-service peasants, and a long wooden table. Floyd | Your older brother Vasilii is here, busily cleaning the table. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think we can go north of Dimitri" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. You can leave by going north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | A Catering Camp Floyd | Sigh! Everyday existence is so tiresome. The regal catering Floyd | service has readied a sumptuous feast for you here at the edge of the Floyd | forest. Dozens of gleaming silver chafing dishes await your Floyd | inspection, but the smell of hot food sickens you. A massive copper Floyd | samovar holds freshly brewed coffee. Golden serving pieces have been Floyd | splendidly arrayed before you, but you know you could never be allowed Floyd | to pick them up and serve yourself. If only your station in life Floyd | allowed you to pack a lunch. A roast beef sandwich and a cup of coffee Floyd | eaten alone in the woods would be ideal. Ugh, those peasant serving Floyd | girls. So crass. Always cracking their gum and calling you "Hon." Floyd | You can turn north back into the forest. Floyd | The head caterer is directing his staff through another Floyd | pass-the-plate drill. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Travel by walking north or south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | A Light Beckons Through the Darkness Floyd | The forest primeval. The path continues north and south. To the Floyd | east you spy a light shining through the trees. Floyd | The Firebird sees the rice pudding in your hand. "Excellent Floyd | work, young man. May I have my pudding now?" Floyd | You produce the dreadful stuff and happily give it to her. Floyd | "Wonderful," she exclaims, "make sure you have everything on your list, Floyd | then you can be on your way!" Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | The Path's East Branch Floyd | The forest primeval. The north-south path branches off to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | At the Path's Southwest Branch Floyd | The forest primeval. Branching off from the main north-south path Floyd | is a small trail to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Deep in a Russian Forest, Under a Large Tree Floyd | You are standing under a large tree. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You trudge out of the forest. Whether it is a long time or a short Floyd | time, it matters not. Speedily a tale is spun, with much less speed a Floyd | deed is done. Floyd | Floyd | Back to Civilization Floyd | You've reached the edge of this grand, untamed forest. A short walk Floyd | to the north are a collection of fawning underlings, waiting to make Floyd | their daily petitions to you for your continued patronage. The path Floyd | leads south back into the forest. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | The Opposite Sex Floyd | This small glade is a favorite gathering place for your current set Floyd | of groupies. Although they are all attractive and of good families, Floyd | you would rather impale yourself on a pike than marry one of them. Floyd | Fortunately, none of them seem to be around at the moment. The sight Floyd | of "Dimitri" must have scared them away from this spot for a while. To Floyd | the north you can see an encampment of underlings; to the south, the Floyd | primeval forest beckons. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | An Encampment of Underlings Floyd | Some days more than a dozen men wait on you to offer their greetings Floyd | and make their requests. Thankfully, today there are only a few: Floyd | You expect to see your masseur here, but instead there is an awfully Floyd | goofy-looking fellow fooling with a floppy hat and fiddling with a fake Floyd | mustache. Floyd | Your allergist is here, reading the latest issue of "Pollen Parade." Floyd | The page is lying in the grass, illiterate and blissful as he Floyd | contemplates the sky. Floyd | Floyd | The page and the allergist stand and gawk at the sight of your Floyd | companion, the Firebird. Dimitri glances up briefly, but that is all Floyd | the attention he seems willing or able to focus on the event. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| JustineBirdlime goes home. | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. You can leave by going north or south. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird notes with disgust that she has a chip in her talon Floyd | polish. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | On the Way to the Inn Floyd | You're on a path that links the encampment of underlings to the Floyd | south with an inn to the north. Floyd | You see a coin here. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh ho ho" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get coin" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird is whistling the greatest hits of Stravinsky. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||||
Floyd | It's a small denomination copper coin. Your dad's chin juts forward Floyd | proudly in profile. He looked just like that the other day when he was Floyd | signing execution orders for a few dozen thieves. Your dad really Floyd | approaches his job with gusto, you must give him that! Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird preens her feathers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "flip coin" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know how to flip the coin. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird buffs her polished talons with the tip of her wing Floyd | feathers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Outside of an Inn Floyd | You have arrived at a local hostelry and tavern known as the Cheese Floyd | and Pig. How it ever got the name no one really knows, because they Floyd | serve no cheese products and no pork products. It's just vodka and Floyd | manly conversation. To the south is the way back to the encampment. Floyd | You see a refuse pile here. Floyd | A groom is here tending one of your horses. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | Peasants parade in and out of the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pile" | ||||
Floyd | There's currently nothing on the refuse pile but rotting vegetables, Floyd | empty bottles, and things too vile for close inspection. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird notes with disgust that she has a chip in her talon Floyd | polish. Floyd | Floyd | Peasants parade in and out of the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search pile" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing on the refuse pile. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird is whistling the greatest hits of Stravinsky. Floyd | Floyd | Peasants parade in and out of the tavern. A pair of rustic fellows Floyd | tumble out, each gnawing on a turnip. One says to the other, "Have you Floyd | heard this one? Once a turnip said: 'I taste very good with honey.' Floyd | 'Go along, you boaster,' replied the honey, 'I taste good without Floyd | you.'" His friend claps him on the back and chuckles, "Ah, our amusing Floyd | national anecdotes!" They toss the turnip greens onto the refuse pile Floyd | and disappear behind the inn. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x groom" | ||||
Floyd | A rather rough young man, good with horses but not much of a Floyd | conversationalist. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird preens her feathers. Floyd | Floyd | Peasants parade in and out of the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "hooray" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask groom about horse" | ||||
Floyd | The groom opens his mouth to reveal he has no tongue. Oh yes, you Floyd | recall, he was the one who spoke so impertinently to your father last Floyd | month. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird buffs her polished talons with the tip of her wing Floyd | feathers. Floyd | Floyd | Peasants parade in and out of the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take turnip" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird notes with disgust that she has a chip in her talon Floyd | polish. Floyd | Floyd | Peasants parade in and out of the tavern. The innkeeper appears at the Floyd | door and pitches a flask onto the refuse pile. "Brandy indeed!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take flask" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird is whistling the greatest hits of Stravinsky. Floyd | Floyd | Peasants parade in and out of the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x flask" | ||||
Floyd | Scrawled on a dirty label pasted to the flask are the words "l'eau de Floyd | vie." You know it from your French master's tutelage to be the word Floyd | for "brandy." This phrase translates literally as "the water of life." Floyd | You doubt, however, that it is brandy. In small print is the warning, Floyd | which translated reads "for external use only." Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird preens her feathers. Floyd | Floyd | Peasants parade in and out of the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x turnip" | ||||
Floyd | It looks like an ordinary bunch of turnip greens to me. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird buffs her polished talons with the tip of her wing Floyd | feathers. Floyd | Floyd | Peasants parade in and out of the tavern. Two peasants saunter up to Floyd | the tavern. The one says to the other, "I was at that wedding too. I Floyd | drank beer and mead; they flowed down my beard but did not go into my Floyd | mouth." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | Inspecting the inside of the inn is not worth getting a beating from Floyd | that burly bunch. Let the peasants have their fun in privacy. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird notes with disgust that she has a chip in her talon Floyd | polish. Floyd | Floyd | Peasants parade in and out of the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "hmm, so where would the matchbook be?" | |||
| Fang has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x horse" | ||||
Floyd | It's a sleek stallion, fast and powerful. You notice something odd Floyd | written on the horse's rump. It says, "Jesus saves, and so should Floyd | you." You wonder what that must mean. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird is whistling the greatest hits of Stravinsky. Floyd | Floyd | Peasants parade in and out of the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm. Matchbooks are often given out on the bar of a pub." | |||
| inky says, "yeah" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Back in the days of legal indoor smoking, that is." | ||||
| DavidW says, "no saddlebag" | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x list" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | THINGS TO TAKE: Floyd | Floyd | ( ) a matchbook Floyd | (x) a coin Floyd | Floyd | Glancing over the list, you see you still need to pick up 1 thing. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird preens her feathers. Floyd | Floyd | Peasants parade in and out of the tavern. A farmer tells his comrade a Floyd | story. "Two old beggars, husband and wife, were walking along a road Floyd | and approached a village. The old man said: 'I will ask for some Floyd | milk.' His wife answered: 'And I will crumb some bread into the Floyd | milk.' The man seized her and began to beat her, saying: 'Don't crumb Floyd | bread into the milk, it will get sour; don't crumb bread into the milk, Floyd | it will get sour.' But when they came to the village no one gave them Floyd | milk." Floyd | The two farmers have a hearty laugh at the exploits of the beggars. Floyd | [2] Their chortles are heard long after they disappear from sight Floyd | behind the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note 2" | ||||
Floyd | [2]: Is this perhaps funnier with a snoot full of vodka? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Baba Yaga might have a match, I suppose." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I am not sure what I love more: these stories, or the way they amuse maga so much." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Did we do anything with the page?" | ||||
| inky asks, "the groom? or is there a page?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "South a bit" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | On the Way to the Inn Floyd | You're on a path that links the encampment of underlings to the Floyd | south with an inn to the north. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | An Encampment of Underlings Floyd | Some days more than a dozen men wait on you to offer their greetings Floyd | and make their requests. Thankfully, today there are only a few: Floyd | You expect to see your masseur here, but instead there is an awfully Floyd | goofy-looking fellow fooling with a floppy hat and fiddling with a fake Floyd | mustache. Floyd | Your allergist is here, reading the latest issue of "Pollen Parade." Floyd | The page is lying in the grass, illiterate and blissful as he Floyd | contemplates the sky. Floyd | Floyd | The page and the allergist stand and gawk at the sight of your Floyd | companion, the Firebird. Dimitri glances up briefly, but that is all Floyd | the attention he seems willing or able to focus on the event. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x page" | ||||
Floyd | One of your father's pages. A young boy with a cherubic face. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird buffs her polished talons with the tip of her wing Floyd | feathers. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmmm" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask page about matchbook" | ||||
Floyd | You won't glean much information asking the page about the matchbook. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird notes with disgust that she has a chip in her talon Floyd | polish. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask page about firebird" | ||||
Floyd | You won't glean much information asking the page about the Firebird. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird is whistling the greatest hits of Stravinsky. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a bow, a quiver, a mask (being worn), a comfy blanket, an Floyd | ambiguous utensil, a mysteriously transformed fork, a shovel, a shield, Floyd | a bucket, a sword, a message from your father, a sledgehammer, a gold Floyd | nugget, a list, a corned beef sandwich, a flicker sandwich, a coin, a Floyd | bunch of turnip greens, and a white flask. The quiver seems to contain Floyd | an arrow. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird preens her feathers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give flask to page" | ||||
Floyd | The page rejects the offer. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird buffs her polished talons with the tip of her wing Floyd | feathers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask allergist about matchbook" | ||||
Floyd | You won't glean much information asking the allergist about the Floyd | matchbook. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird notes with disgust that she has a chip in her talon Floyd | polish. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha, we have a flicker sandwich" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "flicker sandwich" | ||||
Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x flicker sandwich" | ||||
Floyd | The meat from your prey makes such a small sandwich that it is served Floyd | on a saltine cracker. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird is whistling the greatest hits of Stravinsky. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask dimitri about matchbook" | ||||
Floyd | "I don't know much about that." Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird preens her feathers. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heehee" | |||
| inky says, "in theory we could try to transform more of these items" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes." | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh. Good point." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pollen" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "pollen". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pollen" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "pollen". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x magazine" | ||||
Floyd | An Encampment of Underlings Floyd | Some days more than a dozen men wait on you to offer their greetings Floyd | and make their requests. Thankfully, today there are only a few: Floyd | You expect to see your masseur here, but instead there is an awfully Floyd | goofy-looking fellow fooling with a floppy hat and fiddling with a fake Floyd | mustache. Floyd | Your allergist is here, reading the latest issue of "Pollen Parade." Floyd | The page is lying in the grass, illiterate and blissful as he Floyd | contemplates the sky. Floyd | The Firebird is here. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird buffs her polished talons with the tip of her wing Floyd | feathers. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | I don't see any magazine here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sky" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "sky". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. You can leave by going north or south. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird notes with disgust that she has a chip in her talon Floyd | polish. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| McMartin says (to floyd), "give chip to firebird" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask firebird about chip" | ||||
Floyd | The Firebird rejects the offer. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird is whistling the greatest hits of Stravinsky. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You won't glean much information asking the Firebird about the chip. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird preens her feathers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask firebird about feather" | ||||
Floyd | You won't glean much information asking the Firebird about the feather. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird buffs her polished talons with the tip of her wing Floyd | feathers. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin asks, "Do we still have the huge chip on our shoulder?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x large chip" | ||||
Floyd | It's just a figure of speech! Must you examine everything? Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird notes with disgust that she has a chip in her talon Floyd | polish. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "uh-huh" | |||
| McMartin says, "Clearly we have something in common with the firebird" | ||||
| DavidW says, "let's visit Baba Yaga." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The Opposite Sex Floyd | This small glade is a favorite gathering place for your current set Floyd | of groupies. Although they are all attractive and of good families, Floyd | you would rather impale yourself on a pike than marry one of them. Floyd | Fortunately, none of them seem to be around at the moment. The sight Floyd | of "Dimitri" must have scared them away from this spot for a while. To Floyd | the north you can see an encampment of underlings; to the south, the Floyd | primeval forest beckons. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Fleeing Civilization Floyd | You've reached the edge of this grand, untamed forest. A short walk Floyd | to the north are a collection of fawning underlings, waiting to make Floyd | their daily petitions to you for your continued patronage. The path Floyd | leads south back into the forest. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Deep in a Russian Forest, Under a Large Tree Floyd | You are standing under a large tree. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | At the Path's Southwest Branch Floyd | The forest primeval. Branching off from the main north-south path Floyd | is a small trail to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The Path's East Branch Floyd | The forest primeval. The north-south path branches off to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | A Light Beckons Through the Darkness Floyd | The forest primeval. The path continues north and south. To the Floyd | east you spy a light shining through the trees. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Off the Beaten Path Floyd | The warm light of a gently burning fire beckons to you from the Floyd | east. You pick out the outlines of a hut just beyond it. Return to Floyd | the forest path by walking west. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | An Old Woman by the Fire Floyd | You have stepped into a clearing from a path to the west. A fire Floyd | burns steadily outside of a small thatched hut. Floyd | A baba yaga is sitting by the fire, a magical bag in her lap. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put flask in bag" | ||||
Floyd | The baba yaga yawns. "I think you would find that a rather boring and Floyd | unproductive transformation." Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird is whistling the greatest hits of Stravinsky. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a bow, a quiver, a mask (being worn), a comfy blanket, an Floyd | ambiguous utensil, a mysteriously transformed fork, a shovel, a shield, Floyd | a bucket, a sword, a message from your father, a sledgehammer, a gold Floyd | nugget, a list, a corned beef sandwich, a flicker sandwich, a coin, a Floyd | bunch of turnip greens, and a white flask. The quiver seems to contain Floyd | an arrow. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird preens her feathers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put greens in bag" | ||||
Floyd | The baba yaga yawns. "I think you would find that a rather boring and Floyd | unproductive transformation." Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird buffs her polished talons with the tip of her wing Floyd | feathers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put coin in bag" | ||||
Floyd | The baba yaga yawns. "I think you would find that a rather boring and Floyd | unproductive transformation." Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird notes with disgust that she has a chip in her talon Floyd | polish. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put nugget in bag" | inky says, "hmm, what else" | |||
Floyd | The baba yaga yawns. "I think you would find that a rather boring and Floyd | unproductive transformation." Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird is whistling the greatest hits of Stravinsky. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put flicker sandwich in bag" | ||||
Floyd | The baba yaga yawns. "I think you would find that a rather boring and Floyd | unproductive transformation." Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird preens her feathers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask baba about matchbook" | ||||
Floyd | "That is not within my scope of practice," the baba yaga pronounces Floyd | gravely. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird buffs her polished talons with the tip of her wing Floyd | feathers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put fork in bag" | ||||
Floyd | The baba yaga yawns. "I think you would find that a rather boring and Floyd | unproductive transformation." Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird notes with disgust that she has a chip in her talon Floyd | polish. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put firebird in bag" | ||||
Floyd | The baba yaga chides you for your attempt. "Do not try to put a living Floyd | person in the bag. The experience would drive them to madness!" Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird is whistling the greatest hits of Stravinsky. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put hammer in bag" | ||||
Floyd | "Certainly this weapon is powerful enough for your purposes," says the Floyd | baba yaga, pulling the bag away from you. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird preens her feathers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put message in bag" | ||||
Floyd | The baba yaga yawns. "I think you would find that a rather boring and Floyd | unproductive transformation." Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird buffs her polished talons with the tip of her wing Floyd | feathers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take feather" | ||||
Floyd | Her sharp talons give you pause. Better to trap her in something that Floyd | will protect you from them. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird notes with disgust that she has a chip in her talon Floyd | polish. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "firebird, give feather to me" | ||||
Floyd | "I'm sorry, I can't do that." Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird is whistling the greatest hits of Stravinsky. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask firebird about polish" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "polish". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask firebird about talons" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "talons". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Old man?" | |||
| inky says, "yeah maybe" | ||||
| DavidW says, "hm. Maybe." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Off the Beaten Path Floyd | The warm light of a gently burning fire beckons to you from the Floyd | east. You pick out the outlines of a hut just beyond it. Return to Floyd | the forest path by walking west. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. You can leave by going east or west. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird preens her feathers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | A Light Beckons Through the Darkness Floyd | The forest primeval. The path continues north and south. To the Floyd | east you spy a light shining through the trees. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | The Path's East Branch Floyd | The forest primeval. The north-south path branches off to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | "This is where we part company for now, young man." Floyd | You're astonished. "But I thought you were going to show me who was Floyd | stealing my father's golden apples!" Floyd | "You'll figure that out. You don't need me tagging along. You'll Floyd | just need your own good sense," she plucks out a long tail feather, Floyd | "and one of my feathers." Floyd | "Is it magical?" you ask as you examine it. It gives off a Floyd | pleasant orange glow. Floyd | "Hardly. But it is luminescent. Never poo-poo the practicality of Floyd | a light source." Floyd | You skeptically look first at the feather, then at the Firebird. "I Floyd | have no idea what I'm going off to find, you know," you protest. Floyd | "I know." The Firebird smiles at you with great confidence. "We'll Floyd | meet up again later. Until then, have faith in yourself and in those Floyd | who offer help along the way." She gives you a peck on the cheek and Floyd | takes flight out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | For better or worse, you plunge into the deep, dark forest alone. Floyd | Floyd | Darker and Deeper Floyd | The forest primeval. A mulched path leads northeast. Return to the Floyd | north-south path by walking west. Floyd | Your feather illumines the face of the wizened old man sitting here. Floyd | "Ah, I imagine you now think you are ready to embark on a journey. You Floyd | are going in the right direction, but all the same you will never reach Floyd | your destination." Floyd | "Why not?" you ask. Floyd | "Because," the old man answers, "you must first pass three rivers. Floyd | At each river is a ferry, and the price each ferryman asks is a great Floyd | one; the first will strike off your right hand, the second your left Floyd | foot, and the third your head." Floyd | You gravely consider his words. "A man can only die once," you Floyd | decide; you thank him and prepare to begin your journey to the Floyd | northeast. Floyd | The old man stops you. "You are brave and courteous and perhaps you Floyd | will cross the three rivers. If you do, go on straight to the east Floyd | until you reach a high mountain, on which you will find the four Floyd | palaces of Katschei the wizard. If you are looking for something Floyd | precious, it is very likely that he has stolen it." Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmmm" | |||
| inky says, "I can't tell if we should really go on or not" | ||||
| McMartin asks, "Maybe save first?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x list" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | THINGS TO TAKE: Floyd | Floyd | ( ) a matchbook Floyd | (x) a coin Floyd | Floyd | Glancing over the list, you see you still need to pick up 1 thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "it really seems like we should pick up everything on the list first" | |||
| DavidW says, "yeah" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Darker and Deeper Floyd | The forest primeval. A mulched path leads northeast. Return to the Floyd | north-south path by walking west. Floyd | An old man is here sitting on a stone counting all the leaves on the Floyd | forest floor. | DavidW says, "afk to get a sandwich, bbiab" | |||
Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | The Path's East Branch Floyd | The forest primeval. The north-south path branches off to the east. Floyd | The Firebird is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I'm going to go look at the tavern again" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes. I think we need the matches first." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | At the Path's Southwest Branch Floyd | The forest primeval. Branching off from the main north-south path Floyd | is a small trail to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Deep in a Russian Forest, Under a Large Tree Floyd | You are standing under a large tree. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You trudge out of the forest. Whether it is a long time or a short Floyd | time, it matters not. Speedily a tale is spun, with much less speed a Floyd | deed is done. Floyd | Floyd | Back to Civilization Floyd | You've reached the edge of this grand, untamed forest. A short walk Floyd | to the north are a collection of fawning underlings, waiting to make Floyd | their daily petitions to you for your continued patronage. The path Floyd | leads south back into the forest. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | The Opposite Sex Floyd | This small glade is a favorite gathering place for your current set Floyd | of groupies. Although they are all attractive and of good families, Floyd | you would rather impale yourself on a pike than marry one of them. Floyd | Fortunately, none of them seem to be around at the moment. The sight Floyd | of "Dimitri" must have scared them away from this spot for a while. To Floyd | the north you can see an encampment of underlings; to the south, the | Jacqueline asks, "I Guess we can't have asked that man about the matches?" | |||
Floyd | primeval forest beckons. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "I must admit I've been playing Smash Brothers in the background and thus paying only half attention" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x glade" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "glade". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | An Encampment of Underlings Floyd | Some days more than a dozen men wait on you to offer their greetings Floyd | and make their requests. Thankfully, today there are only a few: Floyd | You expect to see your masseur here, but instead there is an awfully Floyd | goofy-looking fellow fooling with a floppy hat and fiddling with a fake Floyd | mustache. Floyd | Your allergist is here, reading the latest issue of "Pollen Parade." Floyd | The page is lying in the grass, illiterate and blissful as he Floyd | contemplates the sky. Floyd | Floyd | The page and the allergist stand and gawk at the sight of your Floyd | companion, the Firebird. Dimitri glances up briefly, but that is all Floyd | the attention he seems willing or able to focus on the event. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline boots McMartin the Slacker from the channel. | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "fellow" | ||||
Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x fellow" | ||||
Floyd | Dimitri is your eldest brother but that does not mean that he is wiser Floyd | or more experienced than you. Perhaps there is some wisdom to his Floyd | world-view, but it would take much enlightenment on your part to see Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird buffs her polished talons with the tip of her wing Floyd | feathers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | On the Way to the Inn Floyd | You're on a path that links the encampment of underlings to the Floyd | south with an inn to the north. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Outside of an Inn Floyd | You have arrived at a local hostelry and tavern known as the Cheese Floyd | and Pig. How it ever got the name no one really knows, because they Floyd | serve no cheese products and no pork products. It's just vodka and Floyd | manly conversation. To the south is the way back to the encampment. Floyd | You see a refuse pile here. Floyd | A groom is here tending one of your horses. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | Peasants parade in and out of the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask groom about horse" | ||||
Floyd | The groom opens his mouth to reveal he has no tongue. Oh yes, you Floyd | recall, he was the one who spoke so impertinently to your father last Floyd | month. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird notes with disgust that she has a chip in her talon Floyd | polish. Floyd | Floyd | Peasants parade in and out of the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "point at tavern" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to aim? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask groom about matchbook" | ||||
Floyd | The groom opens his mouth to reveal he has no tongue. Oh yes, you Floyd | recall, he was the one who spoke so impertinently to your father last Floyd | month. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird is whistling the greatest hits of Stravinsky. Floyd | Floyd | Peasants parade in and out of the tavern. Another two peasants Floyd | approach the tavern, the one regaling the other with an anecdote: "A Floyd | peasant bought a quart of wine, drank it, and felt no effects. He Floyd | bought a pint, and still he was not drunk. He drank a half-pint and Floyd | became drunk. Then he began to feel sorry for himself: 'Why did I buy Floyd | the quart and the pint? I should have bought the half-pint to begin Floyd | with. That would have done the job!'" The other nearly chokes on a Floyd | swig from his flask as he tries to control his amusement. He deposits Floyd | the flask onto the refuse pile and joins his brother in the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a bow, a quiver, a mask (being worn), a comfy blanket, an Floyd | ambiguous utensil, a mysteriously transformed fork, a shovel, a shield, Floyd | a bucket, a sword, a message from your father, a sledgehammer, a gold Floyd | nugget, a list, a corned beef sandwich, a flicker sandwich, a coin, a Floyd | bunch of turnip greens, and a white flask. The quiver seems to contain Floyd | an arrow. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird preens her feathers. Floyd | Floyd | Peasants parade in and out of the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get flask" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird buffs her polished talons with the tip of her wing Floyd | feathers. Floyd | Floyd | Peasants parade in and out of the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a bow, a quiver, a mask (being worn), a comfy blanket, an Floyd | ambiguous utensil, a mysteriously transformed fork, a shovel, a shield, Floyd | a bucket, a sword, a message from your father, a sledgehammer, a gold Floyd | nugget, a list, a corned beef sandwich, a flicker sandwich, a coin, a Floyd | bunch of turnip greens, a white flask, and a black flask. The quiver Floyd | seems to contain an arrow. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird notes with disgust that she has a chip in her talon Floyd | polish. Floyd | Floyd | Peasants parade in and out of the tavern. A solitary man emerges from Floyd | the tavern. He lights his pipe, tosses a matchbook onto the refuse Floyd | pile, and disappears behind the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "?!?!?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get matchbook" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird is whistling the greatest hits of Stravinsky. Floyd | Floyd | Peasants parade in and out of the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "Well then" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x black flash" | ||||
Floyd | I don't see any black flash here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x black flask" | ||||
Floyd | The flask seems to have passed through many hands. On its grimy label Floyd | are written the words "l'eau de mort," which you translate as "the Floyd | water of death." Like its sister flask, it warns you that it is for Floyd | external use only. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird preens her feathers. Floyd | Floyd | Peasants parade in and out of the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I guess we were really just supposed to hang out here forever" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
Floyd | Enter data file to store: | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||
Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x list" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | THINGS TO TAKE: Floyd | Floyd | (x) a matchbook Floyd | (x) a coin Floyd | Floyd | It looks like you're done! Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird buffs her polished talons with the tip of her wing Floyd | feathers. Floyd | Floyd | Peasants parade in and out of the tavern. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Lessgo." | |||
| inky says, "ok, here we go" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | On the Way to the Inn Floyd | You're on a path that links the encampment of underlings to the Floyd | south with an inn to the north. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | An Encampment of Underlings Floyd | Some days more than a dozen men wait on you to offer their greetings Floyd | and make their requests. Thankfully, today there are only a few: Floyd | You expect to see your masseur here, but instead there is an awfully Floyd | goofy-looking fellow fooling with a floppy hat and fiddling with a fake Floyd | mustache. Floyd | Your allergist is here, reading the latest issue of "Pollen Parade." Floyd | The page is lying in the grass, illiterate and blissful as he Floyd | contemplates the sky. Floyd | Floyd | The page and the allergist stand and gawk at the sight of your Floyd | companion, the Firebird. Dimitri glances up briefly, but that is all Floyd | the attention he seems willing or able to focus on the event. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The Opposite Sex Floyd | This small glade is a favorite gathering place for your current set Floyd | of groupies. Although they are all attractive and of good families, Floyd | you would rather impale yourself on a pike than marry one of them. Floyd | Fortunately, none of them seem to be around at the moment. The sight Floyd | of "Dimitri" must have scared them away from this spot for a while. To Floyd | the north you can see an encampment of underlings; to the south, the Floyd | primeval forest beckons. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Fleeing Civilization Floyd | You've reached the edge of this grand, untamed forest. A short walk Floyd | to the north are a collection of fawning underlings, waiting to make Floyd | their daily petitions to you for your continued patronage. The path Floyd | leads south back into the forest. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Deep in a Russian Forest, Under a Large Tree Floyd | You are standing under a large tree. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | At the Path's Southwest Branch Floyd | The forest primeval. Branching off from the main north-south path Floyd | is a small trail to the southwest. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The Path's East Branch Floyd | The forest primeval. The north-south path branches off to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | "This is where we part company for now, young man." Floyd | You're astonished. "But I thought you were going to show me who was Floyd | stealing my father's golden apples!" Floyd | "You'll figure that out. You don't need me tagging along. You'll Floyd | just need your own good sense," she plucks out a long tail feather, Floyd | "and one of my feathers." Floyd | "Is it magical?" you ask as you examine it. It gives off a Floyd | pleasant orange glow. Floyd | "Hardly. But it is luminescent. Never poo-poo the practicality of Floyd | a light source." Floyd | You skeptically look first at the feather, then at the Firebird. "I Floyd | have no idea what I'm going off to find, you know," you protest. Floyd | "I know." The Firebird smiles at you with great confidence. "We'll Floyd | meet up again later. Until then, have faith in yourself and in those Floyd | who offer help along the way." She gives you a peck on the cheek and Floyd | takes flight out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | For better or worse, you plunge into the deep, dark forest alone. Floyd | Floyd | Darker and Deeper Floyd | The forest primeval. A mulched path leads northeast. Return to the Floyd | north-south path by walking west. Floyd | Your feather illumines the face of the wizened old man sitting here. Floyd | "Ah, I imagine you now think you are ready to embark on a journey. You Floyd | are going in the right direction, but all the same you will never reach Floyd | your destination." Floyd | "Why not?" you ask. Floyd | "Because," the old man answers, "you must first pass three rivers. Floyd | At each river is a ferry, and the price each ferryman asks is a great Floyd | one; the first will strike off your right hand, the second your left Floyd | foot, and the third your head." Floyd | You gravely consider his words. "A man can only die once," you Floyd | decide; you thank him and prepare to begin your journey to the Floyd | northeast. Floyd | The old man stops you. "You are brave and courteous and perhaps you Floyd | will cross the three rivers. If you do, go on straight to the east Floyd | until you reach a high mountain, on which you will find the four Floyd | palaces of Katschei the wizard. If you are looking for something Floyd | precious, it is very likely that he has stolen it." Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. The old man redirects you. "Go west or Floyd | northeast," he says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | You make your way ahead on a path to adventure. Floyd | Floyd | Before you go any further, you consider saying a prayer to preserve Floyd | your salvation against the perils ahead. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to save your soul? (YES or NO) > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | Enter data file to store: | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | On the West Bank of the First River Floyd | You've reached the first of three rivers. A small ferry is tied to Floyd | a rickety dock. The path back to the familiar and known is to the Floyd | west. Floyd | A ferryman waits here for his next passenger. Floyd | "I'm not his next passenger," you think, "more likely, his next Floyd | victim." Floyd | The man is menacingly huge: he carries a sword at his side and is Floyd | clad all in copper armor. He glares at you with one big eye in the Floyd | center of his forehead. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "heh heh" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x man" | ||||
Floyd | He's a big, menacing cyclops. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask man about boat" | ||||
Floyd | "You want to ride, you pay the fare. That's all we need to talk Floyd | about," says the ferryman through a grimace. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask man about fare" | ||||
Floyd | "You want to ride, you pay the fare. That's all we need to talk Floyd | about," says the ferryman through a grimace. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin asks, "Didn't PUTPBAA do that?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pay fare" | ||||
Floyd | By the ferryman's code of conduct, he should have to ferry you across Floyd | the river before demanding any payment. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I see you found the matchbook" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter boat" | ||||
Floyd | You demand that the ferryman take you across the river. Floyd | "Will you pay me my price?" asks the huge ferryman. Floyd | "Time enough to talk of price when you have done me your service," Floyd | you reply. Floyd | Floyd | The ferryman pushes off from shore with his giant stick. He gives you Floyd | a disgusted look as he makes powerful movements that set the ferry Floyd | gliding across the river. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Don't pay the ferryman. Don't even fix a price." | |||
| inky says, "yeah, somebody dropped it outside the tavern" | ||||
| McMartin says, "BURN HIM WITH THE MATCHBOOK" | ||||
| inky says, "along with a black flask labelled the waters of death" | ||||
| inky says, "(to go with the white flask from earlier)" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "swim" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to swim? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "in water" | ||||
Floyd | Which water do you mean, the water of life, or the water of death? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "swim river" | ||||
Floyd | The ferryman blocks you before you can dive into the river. "Oh, no Floyd | you don't, bub," he growls. "Union rules say you have to use the Floyd | ferry. And if you think I'M unpleasant, you should see my union boss!" Floyd | Floyd | You ignore the ferryman's menacing glance as you gaze out at the river Floyd | and plan a strategy for when you land. You notice that the ferryman Floyd | keeps glancing at the coin you're carrying. He seems to be fascinated Floyd | by it. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hee hee" | |||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||||
| inky says, "this guy is all in copper and likes the coin" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x coin" | ||||
Floyd | It's a small denomination copper coin. Your dad's chin juts forward Floyd | proudly in profile. He looked just like that the other day when he was Floyd | signing execution orders for a few dozen thieves. Your dad really Floyd | approaches his job with gusto, you must give him that! Floyd | Floyd | The ferryman brings the boat up to a dock on the other side of the Floyd | river. You both disembark from the craft, and he demands payment. Floyd | Your Plan A (escape) seems to have been foiled: the ferryman's Floyd | vigilant eye monitors your every move. Floyd | You ask nonchalantly, "What is there to pay?" Floyd | "Stretch forth your right hand," growls the ferryman as he draws his Floyd | sword. Floyd | Floyd | On the East Bank of the First River Floyd | You're on the east side of the first river. To the east is further Floyd | adventure. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "which is also copper" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "show coin to man" | ||||
Floyd | You show the coin to the ferryman, who salivates at the sight of it. Floyd | "You wouldn't be willing to part with that, would you?" he asks. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I guess I should give it to him" | |||
| inky says, "unless someone has a better idea" | ||||
| McMartin asks, "Or maybe put it on our hand so he doesn't cut it off?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Save is our frend, so." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hold coin" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "hold". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put coin in hand" | ||||
Floyd | Which hand do you mean, your right hand, or your left hand? Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin asks, "Or can we just walk off?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "right" | ||||
Floyd | You can't put anything into your right hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. A path leads east; the river lies to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | The ferryman spies you with his one eye. You're not going anywhere Floyd | until you pay your fare. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh well" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hold out right hand" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "hold". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "stretch out right hand" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "stretch". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "stretch forth right hand" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "stretch". Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You could throw the coin into the river." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give right hand to man" | ||||
Floyd | The ferryman raises his sword and very happily brings it down upon your Floyd | right hand. He picks up the hand and eats it with relish. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | On the East Bank of the First River Floyd | You're on the east side of the first river. To the east is further Floyd | adventure. Floyd | A ferryman is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha what the hell" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put coin in river" | ||||
Floyd | You can't put anything into the river. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw coin in river" | ||||
Floyd | You can't put anything into the river. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give coin to ferryman" | ||||
Floyd | You offer the coin to the ferryman, who greedily takes it for his own Floyd | close inspection. He's hypnotized by the copper in the thing and Floyd | appears to be distracted for now. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hm" | |||
| McMartin asks, "Flee east?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "now run away" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attack man with sword" | ||||
Floyd | You whip out your own blade and smote the ferryman with a blow that Floyd | cleaves through the copper plates of his armor. He topples to the Floyd | ground at your feet. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "nah, you always kill these guys in stories" | |||
| DavidW says, "or that" | ||||
| Ellison says, "haha" | ||||
| inky says, "that teaches them not to do it again" | ||||
| McMartin says, "Ah, violence." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "woohoo" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x man" | ||||
Floyd | He's a dead man, taking up gigantic amounts of horizontal rather than Floyd | vertical space. He may still be carrying some of your stuff. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get coin" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm too much of a pacifist, I guess." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search man" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin exclaims, "And this way we get to re-use the coin!" | |||
| inky says, "hmm yeah" | ||||
| inky says, "though I predict we will need a silver or gold item next" | ||||
| McMartin says, "Thrifty *and* monster-slaying." | ||||
| inky says, "I wonder if we have one" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x silver" | ||||
Floyd | I don't see any silver here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x fork" | ||||
Floyd | It looks like an ordinary mysteriously transformed fork to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin asks, "Maybe we can set them on fire?" | |||
| inky says, "maybe the fork is silver" | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You make your way ahead on a path to adventure. Floyd | Floyd | On the West Bank of the Second River Floyd | You've reached the second of three rivers. A large ferry is tied to Floyd | a rickety dock. The path back to the first river is to the west. Floyd | Here is a second ferryman, lying in wait for his next fare. Even Floyd | more gigantic than the first man, he is armed with an even larger Floyd | sword. His silver armor protects him as he stares you down with two Floyd | big eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "well, COPPER-plated guy liked the COPPER coin. Next guy might have different armor." | |||
| McMartin exclaims, "And so he does!" | ||||
| inky says, "also, the previous guy had one eye and this guy has two eyes" | ||||
| inky says, "I guess the third guy will have three eyes" | ||||
| McMartin says, "Or glasses" | ||||
| inky says, "or two eyes and a nose or something" | ||||
| inky says, "hee hee" | ||||
| McMartin exclaims, "Exponentially increasing eyes!" | ||||
| inky says, "two eyes and a monocle" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Ferrymen's Union rules dictate that you use the ferry to take you Floyd | across the river. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask man about ferry" | ||||
Floyd | "You want to ride, you pay the fare. That's all we need to talk Floyd | about," says the ferryman through a grimace. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Travel either by walking west or getting on the Floyd | ferry. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter ferry" | ||||
Floyd | You demand that the ferryman take you across the river. Floyd | "Will you pay me my price?" asks the huge ferryman. Floyd | "Time enough to talk of price when you have done me your service," Floyd | you reply. Floyd | Floyd | The ferryman pushes off from shore with his giant stick. He gives you Floyd | a disgusted look as he makes powerful movements that set the ferry Floyd | gliding across the river. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | You ignore the ferryman's menacing glance as you gaze out at the river Floyd | and plan a strategy for when you land. You notice that the ferryman Floyd | keeps glancing at the ambiguous utensil you're carrying. He seems to Floyd | be fascinated by it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Do we have silver?" | |||
| inky says, "I guess so!" | ||||
| McMartin says, "SUBTLE HINT" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "The -right" | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh. I see." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | The ferryman brings the boat up to a dock on the other side of the Floyd | river. You both disembark from the craft, and he demands payment. Floyd | Your Plan A (escape) seems to have been foiled: the ferryman's Floyd | vigilant eyes monitor your every move. Floyd | You ask nonchalantly, "What is there to pay?" Floyd | "Stretch forth your left foot," growls the ferryman as he draws his Floyd | sword. Floyd | Floyd | On the East Bank of the Second River Floyd | You're on the east side of the second river. To the east is further Floyd | adventure. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give left foot to man" | ||||
Floyd | The ferryman raises his sword and very happily brings it down upon your Floyd | left foot. He picks it up and shouts, "Just what I needed, a ruler! Floyd | Get it? ONE FOOT!" Just what YOU need right now, a punster. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | On the East Bank of the Second River Floyd | You're on the east side of the second river. To the east is further Floyd | adventure. Floyd | A ferryman is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "show fork to man" | ||||
Floyd | "Who wants that?" The ferryman points to the ambiguous utensil Floyd | instead. "Now that is something worth looking at!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "show utensil to man" | ||||
Floyd | You show the ambiguous utensil to the ferryman, who salivates at the Floyd | sight of it. "You wouldn't be willing to part with that, would you?" Floyd | he asks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give utensil to man" | ||||
Floyd | You offer the ambiguous utensil to the ferryman, who greedily takes it Floyd | for his own close inspection. He's hypnotized by the silver in the Floyd | thing and appears to be distracted for now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attack man" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to attack him with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sword" | ||||
Floyd | The ferryman easily deflects your blow, just missing your left foot in Floyd | the process. If only you could distract that one roving eye... Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oho hmm" | |||
| McMartin says (to floyd), "put fork in eye" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "eye". Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "maybe we need two silver items?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a bow, a quiver, a mask (being worn), a comfy blanket, a Floyd | mysteriously transformed fork, a shovel, a shield, a bucket, a sword, a Floyd | message from your father, a sledgehammer, a gold nugget, a list, a Floyd | corned beef sandwich, a flicker sandwich, a bunch of turnip greens, a Floyd | white flask, a black flask, a matchbook, a feather (providing light), Floyd | and a coin. The quiver seems to contain an arrow. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "(oh, and we have the gold nugger for the third guy)" | |||
| McMartin says, "Just as well, it might have just forked my own eye" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x eye" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "eye". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give coin to man" | ||||
Floyd | Taking advantage of the ferryman's distraction, you pass the coin to Floyd | him, whispering soothingly, "This has silver on it too." Mesmerized, Floyd | the ferryman seizes the coin and searches for signs of silver anywhere Floyd | on the thing. You seem to have succeeded in distracting another of the Floyd | ferryman's eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attack man" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to attack him with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fyrion goes home. | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sword" | ||||
Floyd | You whip out your own blade and smote the ferryman with a blow that Floyd | cleaves through the silver plates of his armor. He topples to the Floyd | ground at your feet. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha, sucker" | |||
| Ellison says, "funny" | ||||
| DavidW says, "and clever" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search body" | ||||
Floyd | I don't see any body here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search man" | ||||
Floyd | You thoroughly search the dead ferryman and reclaim an ambiguous Floyd | utensil and a coin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You make your way ahead on a path to adventure. Floyd | Floyd | On the West Bank of the Third River Floyd | You've reached the third of three rivers. A huge ferry is tied to a Floyd | rickety dock. The path back to the second river is to the west. Floyd | A third ferryman is here, a wild man, as tall as a giant and as Floyd | thick as a haystack, with a shield, helmet, and breastplate all of Floyd | gold, and with an oak club in his hand. Behind the wisps of thinning Floyd | hair on his forehead, you glimpse a third eye, which is most certainly Floyd | focused right on you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask man about ferry" | ||||
Floyd | "You want to ride, you pay the fare. That's all we need to talk Floyd | about," says the ferryman through a grimace. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x man" | ||||
Floyd | He's an immense, club-wielding triclops! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter ferry" | ||||
Floyd | You demand that the ferryman take you across the river. Floyd | "Will you pay me my price?" asks the huge ferryman. Floyd | "Time enough to talk of price when you have done me your service," Floyd | you reply. Floyd | Floyd | The ferryman pushes off from shore with his giant stick. He gives you Floyd | a disgusted look as he makes powerful movements that set the ferry Floyd | gliding across the river. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I wonder if you can win this game with all your limbs chopped off" | |||
| Ellison says, "sure, it's just a flesh wound" | ||||
| McMartin says, "If you lose both hands I bet it's harder to sword people" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | You ignore the ferryman's menacing glance as you gaze out at the river Floyd | and plan a strategy for when you land. You notice that the ferryman Floyd | keeps glancing at the gold nugget you're carrying. He seems to be Floyd | fascinated by it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "show nugget to man" | ||||
Floyd | You really should let him ferry you across the river before you give Floyd | him anything. Floyd | Floyd | The ferryman brings the boat up to a dock on the other side of the Floyd | river. You both disembark from the craft, and he demands payment. Floyd | Your Plan A (escape) seems to have been foiled: the ferryman's Floyd | vigilant eyes monitor your every move. Floyd | You ask nonchalantly, "What is there to pay?" Floyd | "Stretch forth your neck," growls the ferryman as he brandishes his Floyd | oak club. Floyd | Floyd | On the East Bank of the Third River Floyd | You're on the east side of the third river. To the east is further Floyd | adventure. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "One would hope." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "show nugget to man" | ||||
Floyd | You show the gold nugget to the ferryman, who salivates at the sight of Floyd | it. "You wouldn't be willing to part with that, would you?" he asks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give nugget to man" | ||||
Floyd | You offer the gold nugget to the ferryman, who greedily takes it for Floyd | his own close inspection. He's hypnotized by the gold in the thing and Floyd | appears to be distracted for now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give utensil to man" | ||||
Floyd | Taking advantage of the ferryman's distraction, you pass the ambiguous Floyd | utensil to him, whispering soothingly, "This has gold on it too." Floyd | Mesmerized, the ferryman seizes the ambiguous utensil and searches for Floyd | signs of gold anywhere on the thing. You seem to have succeeded in Floyd | distracting another of the ferryman's eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "(That it'd be hard to sword people with no hands, I mean.)" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give coin to man" | ||||
Floyd | Taking advantage of the ferryman's distraction, you pass the coin to Floyd | him, whispering soothingly, "This has gold on it too." Mesmerized, the Floyd | ferryman seizes the coin and searches for signs of gold anywhere on the Floyd | thing. You seem to have succeeded in distracting another of the Floyd | ferryman's eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attack man with sword" | ||||
Floyd | You whip out your own blade and smote the ferryman with a blow that Floyd | cleaves through the gold plates of his armor. He topples to the ground Floyd | at your feet. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search man" | ||||
Floyd | You thoroughly search the dead ferryman and reclaim a gold nugget, an Floyd | ambiguous utensil, and a coin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Marvin has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | inky says, "for the fourth guy we will need our platinum visa" | |||
| inky says, "ok, the old man gave us directions but I don't actually remember them" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | On the East Bank of the Third River Floyd | You're on the east side of the third river. To the east is further Floyd | adventure. Floyd | A dead ferryman is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | On a Path to Adventure Floyd | You are beyond the three rivers. To the east is further adventure; Floyd | to the west is the bank of the third river. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | On the Road Across the Open Steppe Floyd | You've left the forest and rivers behind you to the west. The Floyd | wilderness of the Russian steppe spreads out in all directions ahead of Floyd | you. White winter wheat waves gracefully as the wind sweeps over the Floyd | open land. A dirt road wends its way from east to west. At the east Floyd | end of the road you see a mountain. Floyd | Your eyes discern a faint animal trail to the north. Floyd | Floyd | You feel a sharp prick in your back and turn to find your brother Floyd | Vasilii armed to the teeth with kitchen knives and ready to attack. Floyd | You unsuccessfully try to hide the Firebird's feather. "That's it! I Floyd | just knew that the Firebird was with you. Where is she? Where is she Floyd | hiding?" The tip of a knife blade grazes one of your ribs. "No Floyd | matter. I'll have time to look for her after I've finished with you. Floyd | The tsardom is going to be mine, Ivan -- over your dead body!" He Floyd | laughs wildly. "Get ready to taste cold kitchen cutlery, brother Floyd | mine!" Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hoo bou" | |||
| McMartin says, "It loses something in the translation, methinks" | ||||
| McMartin exclaims, "Delicious frozen utensils!" | ||||
| McMartin says (to floyd), "taste cold steel" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "taste". Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "Darn" | |||
| Ellison says, "maybe we can point him towards the animal trail and have him be eaten by a bear" | ||||
| inky says, "yeah, I guess we can try running away" | ||||
| inky says, "I assume killing our brothers is probably a bad move" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead south, east, and northeast. [3] Floyd | Floyd | You attempt to escape from your murderous brother. He stays right on Floyd | your heels. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note 3" | ||||
Floyd | [3]: Getting lost? I don't see why. You read trails quite well. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "noooo a maze" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read trail" | ||||
Floyd | You study the trail for a moment. It says, "Always take the trails in Floyd | a northerly direction to find the ocean, a southerly direction to find Floyd | the steppe. If you find yourself in a place where the air smells salty Floyd | and the only exit is southeast, go se, s, e, n, and nw to find the Floyd | ocean. If you're in a salty-smelling place and the only exit is Floyd | southwest, go sw, s, w, n, nw to find the ocean." Yes, you read trails Floyd | VERY well. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hee hee hee" | |||
| Ellison says, "haha" | ||||
| inky says, "it looks like our brother is just going to run after us like the sledgehammer guy was" | ||||
| inky says, "so I guess I will hit him with a sledgehammer" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit brother with sledgehammer" | McMartin asks, "Maybe we can lure him to the ocean and feed him to the sharks?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Sounds good." | ||||
Floyd | "Boy, this sledgehammer is unwieldy," you think. "You would have to be Floyd | a maniac not to notice how heavy and clumsy it is." You lay it aside Floyd | before Vasilii can see how unsuccessfully you use this weapon. Vasilii Floyd | raises a butcher knife. You raise your shield and deflect the blow. Floyd | The butcher's knife is loosed from his hand and disappears.Vasilii Floyd | takes an experimental jab at you with a large kitchen knife. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "ANTIMATTER SHIELD" | |||
| inky says, "ok, that was weird" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "block" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "block". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "deflect" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "deflect". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attack vasili with hammer" | ||||
Floyd | "Boy, this sledgehammer is unwieldy," you think. "You would have to be Floyd | a maniac not to notice how heavy and clumsy it is." You lay it aside Floyd | before Vasilii can see how unsuccessfully you use this weapon. Vasilii Floyd | raises a butcher knife. You raise your shield and deflect the blow. Floyd | The butcher's knife is loosed from his hand and disappears.Emboldened Floyd | by your lack of response, Vasilii lunges at you with his knife, and Floyd | skewers you through the heart. Floyd | Floyd | Dead, Dead, Dead Floyd | Floyd | *** Having died, you have lost your place in the royal succession. *** Floyd | Floyd | Vasilii doesn't dance for long. He soon sets to searching through your Floyd | belongings, taking every weapon and every scrap of food you have. He Floyd | takes your mysteriously transformed fork and puts it in the road Floyd | leading to the mountain. The fork sizzles and sparks, then explodes Floyd | into a shimmering doorway. Vasilii passes through the doorway and Floyd | emerges through an identical door that has appeared just outside of the Floyd | forest. Using the Firebird's feather to light his way, he plunges into Floyd | the forest to hunt her down. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "whoops" | |||
| inky says, "ok, this is weird" | ||||
| K-Y says, "wait, the game keeps going, doesn't it" | ||||
| Ellison says, "guess we have to trick him into using the sledgehammer, maybe" | ||||
| inky says, "it kind of looks like a bug" | ||||
| DavidW says, "weird" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "huh" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Good move. In fact, your only move, since you're dead. Floyd | Floyd | Vasilii dashes through the forest, headed for the great stone wall Floyd | where he last saw the Firebird. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Good move. In fact, your only move, since you're dead. Floyd | Floyd | Vasilii finds the hole you dug under the wall and scrambles through it Floyd | to the other side. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Good move. In fact, your only move, since you're dead. Floyd | Floyd | Vasilii stops for a moment by the pond and makes a picnic lunch out of Floyd | the food he stole from you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Good move. In fact, your only move, since you're dead. Floyd | Floyd | Vasilii explores the orchard. He speedily climbs a tree, snatches as Floyd | many fruit nuggets as he can find, and clambers up into the Firebird's Floyd | nest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | Jacqueline says, "Interesting." | |||
Floyd | Floyd | Good move. In fact, your only move, since you're dead. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird's nest does not support Vasilii's weight. He crashes to Floyd | the ground, bringing the nest down with him. He is lucky to sustain Floyd | only a sprained ankle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Good move. In fact, your only move, since you're dead. Floyd | Floyd | Vasilii limps back out of the orchard and through the tunnel. He is Floyd | headed out of the forest to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Good move. In fact, your only move, since you're dead. Floyd | Floyd | Vasilii arrives at the encampment. The allergist tends to Vasilii's Floyd | injuries as best as he can. Vasilii cannot capture Dimitri's attention Floyd | long enough to tell him that you are dead. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Good move. In fact, your only move, since you're dead. Floyd | Floyd | Vasilii is back in the forest again, moving a bit slower, but still Floyd | alert to signs of the Firebird. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Good move. In fact, your only move, since you're dead. Floyd | Floyd | Vasilii spies the Firebird in a tree. He flushes her out and Floyd | slaughters her. Floyd | Floyd | Vasilii drags the Firebird back to your father, demanding the tsardom Floyd | as his own. When your father learns that Vasilii killed you and used Floyd | what you had accomplished to claim the Firebird for himself, he refuses Floyd | to grant Vasilii his tsardom and sends your brother back into servitude Floyd | with the caterer. Disgruntled and bitter, your brother trains an army Floyd | of food-service workers as soldiers and uses them as cannon fodder in a Floyd | successful overthrow of the tsardom. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | -- THE END -- Floyd | Floyd | In a total of 385 turns, you have achieved a score of 27 points out of Floyd | a possible 72. Floyd | Floyd | Unless you really liked the ending of "Hamlet," this is not a Floyd | satisfactory finale: You're dead, the Firebird's dead, your father's Floyd | dead, your brother reigns after a violent overthrow of the tsardom. Floyd | Here's a hint: don't give your brother a reason to kill you. Don't Floyd | give him anything, don't be the first one to strike a blow, and keep Floyd | moving until he calms down. Floyd | Alternatively, you could just kill Vasilii. What bright future do Floyd | you expect for him anyway? Floyd | Floyd | (If you should find yourself dead again, RESTORE, RESTART, UNDO, and Floyd | QUIT are available to you in the afterlife.) In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead south, east, and northeast. [3] Floyd | Your brother Vasilii is here, ready to make mince meat of you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fyrion arrives, full of fun and funk. | inky says, "ha ha ha" | |||
| McMartin exclaims, "The glorious food-service revolution!" | ||||
| inky says, "ok, this was really goofy" | ||||
| McMartin exclaims, "That's an awesome ending!" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note 3" | ||||
Floyd | [3]: Getting lost? I don't see why. You read trails quite well. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | Jacqueline says, "heehee - yay" | |||
Floyd | You have a bow, a quiver, a mask (being worn), a comfy blanket, a Floyd | mysteriously transformed fork, a shovel, a shield, a bucket, a sword, a Floyd | message from your father, a sledgehammer, a list, a corned beef Floyd | sandwich, a flicker sandwich, a bunch of turnip greens, a white flask, Floyd | a black flask, a matchbook, a feather (providing light), a gold nugget, Floyd | an ambiguous utensil, and a coin. The quiver seems to contain an Floyd | arrow. Emboldened by your lack of response, Vasilii lunges at you with Floyd | his knife, and skewers you through the heart. Floyd | Floyd | Dead, Dead, Dead Floyd | Floyd | *** Having died, you have lost your place in the royal succession. *** Floyd | Floyd | Vasilii doesn't dance for long. He soon sets to searching through your Floyd | belongings, taking every weapon and every scrap of food you have. He Floyd | takes your mysteriously transformed fork and puts it in the road Floyd | leading to the mountain. The fork sizzles and sparks, then explodes Floyd | into a shimmering doorway. Vasilii passes through the doorway and Floyd | emerges through an identical door that has appeared just outside of the Floyd | forest. Using the Firebird's feather to light his way, he plunges into Floyd | the forest to hunt her down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead south, east, and northeast. [3] Floyd | Your brother Vasilii is here, ready to make mince meat of you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "that was neat" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead south, east, southeast and southwest. [3] Floyd | Floyd | You attempt to escape from your murderous brother. He stays right on Floyd | your heels. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I guess it sounds like we really are supposed to run away then" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read trails" | ||||
Floyd | You study the trail for a moment. It says, "Always take the trails in Floyd | a northerly direction to find the ocean, a southerly direction to find Floyd | the steppe. If you find yourself in a place where the air smells salty Floyd | and the only exit is southeast, go se, s, e, n, and nw to find the Floyd | ocean. If you're in a salty-smelling place and the only exit is Floyd | southwest, go sw, s, w, n, nw to find the ocean." Yes, you read trails Floyd | VERY well. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I'm not sure exactly where to go from here" | |||
| McMartin says, "Killing is only OK for nonhumans" | ||||
| inky says, "since there are no northerly trails" | ||||
| DavidW asks (of inky), "I guess head for steppe?" | ||||
| inky says, "yeah, can't hurt" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead north, east, west, and northeast. [3] Floyd | Floyd | You attempt to escape from your murderous brother. He stays right on Floyd | your heels. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hunh, weird, no southern exit from here" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "note 3" | ||||
Floyd | [3]: Getting lost? I don't see why. You read trails quite well. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin asks, "Maybe NE?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||||
Floyd | You don't smell anything unusual. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead south, west, southwest, southeast, and Floyd | northeast. [3] Floyd | Floyd | You attempt to escape from your murderous brother. He stays right on Floyd | your heels. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead north, south, east, west, northeast, and Floyd | southwest. [3] Floyd | Floyd | Vasilii doesn't take his eyes off you. He keeps his hand close to his Floyd | weaponry. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead north, south, northwest, and southwest. [3] Floyd | Floyd | Vasilii doesn't take his eyes off you. He keeps his hand close to his Floyd | weaponry. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead south, west, northwest, and southwest. [3] Floyd | Floyd | Vasilii eyes you with suspicion and just a touch of confusion. "Why Floyd | has he led me on this long chase? Why doesn't he just attack?" Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hey, making progress" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead south, northeast, and southeast. [3] Floyd | Floyd | Vasilii eyes you with suspicion and just a touch of confusion. "Why Floyd | has he led me on this long chase? Why doesn't he just attack?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. The trail leads southwest. It smells salty here. [3] Floyd | Floyd | Your brother has no idea what you're up to, but now that he's come this Floyd | far, he's not going to miss your next step for anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yes, so it would seem." | |||
| McMartin says, "Ding" | ||||
| inky says, "and from here we have directions" | ||||
| DavidW says, "ooh, salty" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read trails" | ||||
Floyd | You study the trail for a moment. It says, "Always take the trails in Floyd | a northerly direction to find the ocean, a southerly direction to find Floyd | the steppe. If you find yourself in a place where the air smells salty Floyd | and the only exit is southeast, go se, s, e, n, and nw to find the Floyd | ocean. If you're in a salty-smelling place and the only exit is Floyd | southwest, go sw, s, w, n, nw to find the ocean." Yes, you read trails Floyd | VERY well. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead south, northeast, and southeast. [3] Floyd | Floyd | Your brother has no idea what you're up to, but now that he's come this Floyd | far, he's not going to miss your next step for anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead north, south, east, west, and southeast. Floyd | [3] Floyd | Floyd | Your brother confesses that he has misjudged you. You are obviously Floyd | more capable. His adventure never got him out of the forest at all. Floyd | He disposes of his collection of knives and resolves to follow you as Floyd | an ally and brother. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead north, east, west, and southeast. [3] Floyd | Floyd | Your brother Vasilii follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead south and northwest. [3] Floyd | Floyd | Your brother Vasilii follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | By the Sea Floyd | Waves crash on the beach. The surf rolls over your feet. A short Floyd | distance offshore to the north you see an island. A trail back into Floyd | the wilderness is to the southeast. Floyd | You see a pike here. Floyd | Floyd | Your brother Vasilii follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hahaha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pike" | ||||
Floyd | You often say that you'd rather impale yourself on a pike than be Floyd | forced to do any of a number of disagreeable things. What you have Floyd | here is not that kind of pike. Instead, it's a rather dull, squishy Floyd | fish, not a sharp, pointed stick. Its little gills and mouth are Floyd | vainly struggling to extract some oxygen from the air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get pike" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put pike in ocean" | ||||
Floyd | You throw the pike back into the water. The wealth of oceanic soluble Floyd | oxygen revives the poor thing. It leaps out of the water in a display Floyd | of piscine gratitude and swims off into deeper waters. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "as we all know you help animals in russian folk tales so later they will help you out" | |||
| McMartin says, "Unless they look funny, in which case you kill them" | ||||
| DavidW says, "of course." | ||||
| inky says, "well yeah" | ||||
| inky says, "everything except flickers" | ||||
| DavidW says, "(Fox Dragon Bread)" | ||||
| inky says (to DavidW), "good point" | ||||
| inky says (to DavidW), "maybe we should have saved the sandwich instead of eating it" | ||||
| inky says, "hmm, there's an island to the north" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You plunge into the ocean. The salt water stings your eyes and grains Floyd | of sand rub your skin raw. A wave twice your height and three times Floyd | your strength crashes into you and sends you right back to shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok maybe not" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You plunge into the ocean. The salt water stings your eyes and grains Floyd | of sand rub your skin raw. A wave twice your height and three times Floyd | your strength crashes into you and sends you right back to shore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | By the Sea Floyd | Waves crash on the beach. The surf rolls over your feet. A short Floyd | distance offshore to the north you see an island. A trail back into Floyd | the wilderness is to the southeast. Floyd | Your brother Vasilii is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x island" | ||||
Floyd | All you can see of the island from here are rocks and trees. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig beach" | ||||
Floyd | (with the shovel) Floyd | I don't see any beach here. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin asks, "Have we tried talking to Vasilli?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig sand" | ||||
Floyd | (with the shovel) Floyd | I don't know the word "sand". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "talk to vasili" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to ask him about? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "hm." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "firebird" | ||||
Floyd | "I had only a single glimpse of it," Vasilii reported. "There's a huge Floyd | wall deep in the forest. I saw the Firebird fly over the wall, but I Floyd | couldn't find a way to get over it myself. The Firebird is not very Floyd | large, no bigger than a peacock, but you're sure to spot it by its Floyd | glowing golden plumage." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Not yet, methinks." | |||
| inky says, "we could also just go back to the steppes and go east" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Wow, lag for me." | ||||
| inky says, "since in theory (I think) we're going east to see the guy who trapped the firebird" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x matchbook" | ||||
Floyd | An ordinary imprinted book of matches. The matchbook contains 7 Floyd | matches. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||||
Floyd | The cover reads "The Cheese and Pig: Sobriety is Overrated..." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "yay" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I think there's a pub in maga's parents' town by that name." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "(jk, unfortunately)" | ||||
| inky says, "I wonder if the cheese and pig is an unnkulia reference" | ||||
| DavidW says, "In Unnkulia, you're always trying to make a fried egg for the monk." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Hm. So... what now, comrades?" | ||||
| Ellison says, "I say we get steppe'n like inky suggested" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask brother about fork" | ||||
Floyd | You won't glean much information asking Vasilii about the "fork". Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "alrighty" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing's happening there. Either go north toward the island or Floyd | southeast back into the wilderness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead south and northwest. [3] Floyd | Floyd | Your brother Vasilii follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead north, east, west, and southeast. [3] Floyd | Floyd | Your brother Vasilii follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead north, south, northeast, and northwest. [3] Floyd | Floyd | Your brother Vasilii follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead north, south, east, west, northeast, and Floyd | southwest. [3] Floyd | Floyd | Your brother Vasilii follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead north, south, west, and northwest. [3] Floyd | Floyd | Your brother Vasilii follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah. Until we get a boat or a big fish to ferry us to the island." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | On the Road Across the Open Steppe Floyd | You've left the forest and rivers behind you to the west. The Floyd | wilderness of the Russian steppe spreads out in all directions ahead of Floyd | you. White winter wheat waves gracefully as the wind sweeps over the Floyd | open land. A dirt road wends its way from east to west. At the east Floyd | end of the road you see a mountain. Floyd | Your eyes discern a faint animal trail to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Your brother Vasilii follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | At the Base of the Mountain Floyd | The east-west road ends at the base of the mountain. It is so high Floyd | that its top is propped against the sky. You can scarcely lift your Floyd | eyes to its summit. You can travel around the base by walking to the Floyd | northeast or the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | Your brother Vasilii follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | You think back to the stone wall. Immense? Ha! Nothing like this. Floyd | You decide to turn back before you are totally lost. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Trying to Walk Past the Mountain Floyd | This is one huge mountain. Travel here is restricted to the Floyd | northeast or northwest. You notice a large, flat, rusty patch of rock Floyd | that stands out from the rest of the mountain. Floyd | Floyd | Your brother Vasilii follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x rock" | ||||
Floyd | It's not a rock at all. It's a door made out of rusted iron. It looks Floyd | as if it hasn't been touched in centuries. It's closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | Opened. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | In a Dark Cave Floyd | This is a small cave with little of interest. It is damp, rocky, Floyd | and littered with debris. The only exit is back out through the door. Floyd | Floyd | Your brother Vasilii follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x debris" | ||||
Floyd | Some bits are small and light, and some bits are bigger and probably Floyd | couldn't be moved even with a shovel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||||
Floyd | (the debris) Floyd | (with the shovel) Floyd | Moving some of the debris reveals an iron claw. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "a what?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x claw" | ||||
Floyd | It's a sort of iron crampon with leather straps. It can be worn on one Floyd | of your hands or feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh ah" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get claw" | ||||
Floyd | You already have the iron claw! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||||
Floyd | (the debris) Floyd | (with the shovel) Floyd | Moving some of the debris reveals a second iron claw. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||||
Floyd | (the debris) Floyd | (with the shovel) Floyd | Moving some of the debris reveals a third iron claw. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||||
Floyd | (the debris) Floyd | (with the shovel) Floyd | Moving some of the debris reveals a fourth iron claw. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||||
Floyd | (the debris) Floyd | (with the shovel) Floyd | Moving the rest of the debris yields nothing more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. You can leave by going out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Trying to Walk Past the Mountain Floyd | This is one huge mountain. Travel here is restricted to the Floyd | northeast or northwest. You notice a large, flat, rusty patch of rock Floyd | that stands out from the rest of the mountain. Floyd | Floyd | Your brother Vasilii follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear claws" | ||||
Floyd | iron claw: You bind the iron claw to your right foot. Floyd | iron claw: You bind the iron claw to your left foot. Floyd | iron claw: You bind the iron claw to your left hand. Floyd | iron claw: You bind the iron claw to your right hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I wonder what happens at this point if you're missing limbs" | |||
| Ellison says, "we should be able to climb the mountain now, I guess" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | This is not a good vantage point from which to start a climb. Perhaps Floyd | northwest of here would be better. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | You trip over your clawed feet and tumble to the ground for the fifth Floyd | time today. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "o/~ Climb every mountain, ford every stream o/~" | |||
| inky says, "nooo" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "remove claws" | ||||
Floyd | iron claw: You remove the iron claw from your right hand. Floyd | iron claw: You remove the iron claw from your left hand. Floyd | iron claw: You remove the iron claw from your left foot. Floyd | iron claw: You remove the iron claw from your right foot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | At the Base of the Mountain Floyd | The east-west road ends at the base of the mountain. It is so high Floyd | that its top is propped against the sky. You can scarcely lift your Floyd | eyes to its summit. You can travel around the base by walking to the Floyd | northeast or the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | Your brother Vasilii follows you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear claws" | ||||
Floyd | iron claw: You bind the iron claw to your right foot. Floyd | iron claw: You bind the iron claw to your left foot. Floyd | iron claw: You bind the iron claw to your left hand. Floyd | iron claw: You bind the iron claw to your right hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "haha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Vasilii looks up at the mountain. "I don't think so. I'll just wait Floyd | here." Floyd | Floyd | Slowly and carefully you claw your way up the mountain. You clamber at Floyd | last onto a ledge. Floyd | Floyd | An Edifice Built into the Rock Face Floyd | A tremendous palace has been built on this ledge. You may continue Floyd | up the mountain or explore this architectural oddity just north of Floyd | where you're resting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "remove claws" | ||||
Floyd | iron claw: You remove the iron claw from your right hand. Floyd | iron claw: You remove the iron claw from your left hand. Floyd | iron claw: You remove the iron claw from your left foot. Floyd | iron claw: You remove the iron claw from your right foot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Of what is this palace built? Its mottled green exterior makes a Floyd | ringing sound when you strike it. There are no windows and only one Floyd | door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x palace" | ||||
Floyd | Of what is this palace built? Its mottled green exterior makes a Floyd | ringing sound when you strike it. There are no windows and only one Floyd | door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | Where is the handle? Where is the keyhole? You see neither, only a Floyd | mail slot in the middle of the door and a curious round device a few Floyd | feet above the slot. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x device" | ||||
Floyd | A blue glass dome a few inches in diameter. It seems to be mounted to Floyd | the door by a casing that surrounds it and is screwed into a socket in Floyd | the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ding-dong, avon lady" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unscrew dome" | ||||
Floyd | You give a slight turn to the casing. At once a blinding blue light Floyd | floods your body. You feel every last piece of you begin to vibrate Floyd | and shake loose from the adjacent piece. You quickly lose Floyd | consciousness. When you come to yourself again, you find you are back Floyd | at the road to the Cheese and Pig Inn. It seems as if you were Floyd | disassembled down to your elemental constituents and reassembled here. Floyd | Something seems to have gone wrong with the process, however, because Floyd | you are now missing your right hand. Floyd | Floyd | On the Way to the Inn Floyd | You're on a path that links the encampment of underlings to the Floyd | south with an inn to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "whoops" | |||
| inky says, "probably an error" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | An Edifice Built into the Rock Face Floyd | A tremendous palace has been built on this ledge. You may continue Floyd | up the mountain or explore this architectural oddity just north of Floyd | where you're resting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in slot" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing in the slot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look through slot" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see anything through the slot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know how to open the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know how to knock the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "push device" | ||||
Floyd | Pushing the curious device doesn't do anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ring bell" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "ring". Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "maybe put something in slot?" | |||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a bow, a quiver, a mask (being worn), a comfy blanket, a Floyd | mysteriously transformed fork, a shovel, a shield, a bucket, a sword, a Floyd | message from your father, a sledgehammer, a list, a corned beef Floyd | sandwich, a flicker sandwich, a bunch of turnip greens, a white flask, Floyd | a black flask, a matchbook, a feather (providing light), a gold nugget, Floyd | an ambiguous utensil, a coin, and four iron claws. The quiver seems to Floyd | contain an arrow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put greens in slot" | ||||
Floyd | The slot spits the bunch of turnip greens back out at you. Ptuui! Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hee hee" | |||
| DavidW says, "ha" | ||||
| inky says, "suggestive that there is something that can be put in, though" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put feather in slot" | ||||
Floyd | The slot spits the feather back out at you. Ptuui! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put coin in slot" | ||||
Floyd | The coin drops into the slot. A flickering blue glow issues from the Floyd | glass dome. The glow soon strengthens to a blinding azure beam that Floyd | floods your body. You feel every bit of your being vibrate and shake Floyd | loose from its adjacent piece. You quickly lose consciousness. When Floyd | you come to yourself again, you find you have been transported into... Floyd | Floyd | Inside the Copper Palace Floyd | You are in the great hall, a high-ceilinged space that some might Floyd | use for feasting and celebrating; however, the wizard Katschei has Floyd | chosen instead to use it for hoarding a store of treasure. Copper Floyd | cooking vessels and bags of copper coins are heaped everywhere. Some Floyd | of the pots have been polished clean; the rest are a tarnished green. Floyd | You notice movement among the piles of copper vessels. As you Floyd | prepare to draw a weapon and confront Katschei, you are surprised to Floyd | find that it is instead a bird in camouflage. But not entirely a bird. Floyd | Instead of wings, the creature has the arms of a woman. She is hard at Floyd | work using her human arms and hands to polish the tarnished copper. Floyd | Why don't you try to catch her attention by saying "bird, hello"? Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hunh" | |||
| inky says, "I guess another parallel with the ferrymen" | ||||
| inky says, "I wonder how we were supposed to guess that, though" | ||||
| inky says, "oh, I guess it's mottled green" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bird" | ||||
Floyd | A large creature just short of your height. It is birdlike, with Floyd | coppery feathers, but it has graceful female arms where wings would be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "bird, hello" | ||||
Floyd | The bird appears intrigued by the mask's face and studies Dimitri Floyd | sympathetically (a unique reaction in your experience). You see that Floyd | she is timid, however, and will not answer you as long as she cannot Floyd | tell who you really are. You take off the mask. Floyd | "Hello, sir," she replies demurely, "you are not my master the Floyd | wizard." You introduce yourself politely and tell her that you are Floyd | looking for her master. "He is not here today," she whispers and goes Floyd | back to her work. You sense that she would like to tell you more, but Floyd | her shyness keeps her silent. There are so many things you want to ask Floyd | her about: her imprisonment, her work, the Firebird, the wizard Floyd | Katschei [4], but you will have to draw her out in conversation to Floyd | learn more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note 4" | ||||
Floyd | [4]: Engage her in further conversation by asking her questions in the Floyd | form "ask bird about ..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask bird about firebird" | ||||
Floyd | "The Firebird brings me more copper to polish." She hands you a small Floyd | copper pot. "She said that, if you ever came to visit me, I should Floyd | give you this." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pot" | ||||
Floyd | A censer, also known as a thurible, is a squat domed vessel used for Floyd | burning incense. You remember the priest swinging a censer towards the Floyd | altar during the liturgy, using the smoke as a visual metaphor for Floyd | prayer: both rise heavenward to God. Its copper clad exterior is Floyd | newly polished. There are decorative holes cut in the metal to let the Floyd | smoke escape. The inside of the pot is sooty and fragrant from Floyd | previous burnings. Floyd | Usually there is a chain attached to a censer, but this one has Floyd | none. Floyd | Floyd | The coppery bird overcomes her shyness momentarily to tell you, Floyd | unprompted, of her history: "I am a tsar's daughter. On the day I was Floyd | to be wed, a terrible black cloud descended down from this mountain. Floyd | Katschei stepped out of the cloud and demanded that my father give me Floyd | to him. When my father refused, Katschei slew him, all my kinsmen, and Floyd | the groom. No attack seemed to hurt him at all. Katschei swept me Floyd | away in the cloud and brought me to a palace made entirely of pearl. I Floyd | stayed there a week, and he was there all the while." She trembled as Floyd | she remembered it. "At the end of the week, he said that I was not Floyd | worthy to stay with him in the pearl palace. He brought me to this Floyd | place, imprisoned me in this horrible form, and put me to work as his Floyd | servant. He comes to visit me one day every year and punishes me if I Floyd | haven't polished enough pieces." Floyd | Floyd | Your continued presence is making the coppery bird nervous. "I Floyd | appreciate your company," she says, "but I should not be distracted Floyd | from my work. The Firebird says you may be able to free me from this Floyd | captivity. Please go on your way, sir, and do your best." She starts Floyd | to push you back outside through the mail slot. Before you can protest Floyd | that you are much too large to fit, your regal butt is tumbling to the Floyd | ground on the other side of the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Maybe there's more palaces and more captives higher up the mountain?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Perhaps with similar themes as the ferrymen?" | ||||
| inky says, "yeah, I guess so" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | An Edifice Built into the Rock Face Floyd | A tremendous palace has been built on this ledge. You may continue Floyd | up the mountain or explore this architectural oddity just north of Floyd | where you're resting. Floyd | You see a bunch of turnip greens and a feather (providing light) Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | bunch of turnip greens: Taken. Floyd | feather: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear claws" | ||||
Floyd | iron claw: You bind the iron claw to your right foot. Floyd | iron claw: You bind the iron claw to your left foot. Floyd | iron claw: You bind the iron claw to your left hand. Floyd | iron claw: You bind the iron claw to your right hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | A Sooty Palace on a Ledge Floyd | A tremendous palace has been built on this ledge. You may continue Floyd | up the mountain or explore this architectural oddity just north of Floyd | where you're resting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "remove claws" | ||||
Floyd | iron claw: You remove the iron claw from your right hand. Floyd | iron claw: You remove the iron claw from your left hand. Floyd | iron claw: You remove the iron claw from your left foot. Floyd | iron claw: You remove the iron claw from your right foot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x palace" | ||||
Floyd | Another puzzling palace. Windowless, a single door. You perceive a Floyd | metallic glow beneath the sooty gray exterior. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "clean palace" | ||||
Floyd | You clean a bit of the palace with your spit and the edge of your Floyd | garment. Hmm, very little of this appears to be dirt; it's mostly Floyd | black tarnish. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put utensil in slot" | ||||
Floyd | The ambiguous utensil drops into the slot. A flickering blue glow Floyd | issues from the glass dome. The glow soon strengthens to a blinding Floyd | azure beam that floods your body. You feel every bit of your being Floyd | vibrate and shake loose from its adjacent piece. You quickly lose Floyd | consciousness. When you come to yourself again, you find you have been Floyd | transported into... Floyd | Floyd | Inside the Silver Palace Floyd | You have been transported to the counting house of the palace. Bags Floyd | of coins and boxes of silver eating utensils are stacked neatly over Floyd | all the available floor space. Floyd | Sitting atop a high stool is a bird with silver feathers. At first Floyd | you think that the bird is sitting on a woman, but upon closer Floyd | inspection you see that the woman's bare legs and feet belong to the Floyd | bird. With one foot, the bird is picking up loose coins and utensils Floyd | with her toes and placing them in boxes or bags. The other foot is Floyd | keeping count of the treasure on a large abacus. Floyd | "State your business!" the bird demands, never once taking her eyes Floyd | off her work. Floyd | "I am Ivan, the son of a tsar. I have come to find Katschei the Floyd | wizard, because he has wronged my father." Floyd | "Join the club, hon!" she snorts. "Katschei wronged my father's Floyd | whole tsardom into oblivion on the day he captured me." She continues Floyd | her counting. You are hypnotized by her nimble feet, and the two of Floyd | you fall silent. You muse to yourself about her manner: "She's gruff Floyd | all right, but I don't sense any malice from her. An efficient woman Floyd | of good will. Even that 'hon' sounds all right coming from her." Floyd | She looks up at you expectantly. Better pick up the conversational Floyd | thread with a few questions. [5] Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky asks, "so the previous woman was a bird except for her arms, and this is a bird except for her legs?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note 5" | ||||
Floyd | [5]: Try the conversational openers that were effective in the copper Floyd | palace. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask bird about Katschei" | ||||
Floyd | "Don't fool around with Katschei if you can avoid it. The soldiers of Floyd | my father's tsardom tried every weapon against him, and he came away Floyd | from the battle completely unscathed. Wish I could say the same for my Floyd | father's people." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask bird about firebird" | ||||
Floyd | "The Firebird supplies me with more inventory each week. Keep your Floyd | hands off it, okay? Oh, she did say you could have this." She tosses Floyd | you a length of silver chain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask bird about work" | ||||
Floyd | "What you see is what I do! I count this stuff and keep the books!" Floyd | Floyd | The silvery bird is a little impatient for you to ask more about her, Floyd | so she launches into her life story before you can even ask her: Floyd | "Katschei came down off this mountain one day and brought me back with Floyd | him to a palace made of pearl. After staying with him a month there, Floyd | he grew tired of me and locked me up in this place. He turned me into Floyd | a bird, all except for my legs, and gave me this stupid job. Do I look Floyd | like an accountant to you? And these feet were not meant for work like Floyd | this. What a humiliation! Even worse, he visits once a month to check Floyd | up on the books. He gives me grief if the ledgers aren't neat. How Floyd | does he expect me to keep books writing with my feet?" She makes an Floyd | illegible mark in her records with a quill pen. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, enough already," the silver bird says as she alights from her Floyd | stool. "I gave you what the Firebird asked. Get going, hero. If you Floyd | can get me out of here, great!" She gives you a peck on the cheek and Floyd | kicks you back out of the slot in the door and into the dirt outside Floyd | the palace. How did she do that? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chain" | ||||
Floyd | A length of silver chain about as long as your armspan. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put chain on pot" | ||||
Floyd | You hook the chain to either side of the censer to make a little swing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x utensil" | ||||
Floyd | I don't see any utensil here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "aha, nice" | |||
| Ellison says, "I'm thinking we'll probably need to find a pearl back in the ocean area at some point" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Nice." | ||||
| DavidW says, "We'll possibly get incense from a third palace, unlocked with the gold nugget." | ||||
| Ellison says, "either that, or an altar boy" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "swing pot" | ||||
Floyd | You enthusiastically swing the censer back and forth on the chain. Floyd | Next time, for more specific effects, try swinging the censer towards a Floyd | destination. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear claws" | ||||
Floyd | iron claw: You bind the iron claw to your right foot. Floyd | iron claw: You bind the iron claw to your left foot. Floyd | iron claw: You bind the iron claw to your left hand. Floyd | iron claw: You bind the iron claw to your right hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | A Palace of Gleaming Gold Floyd | A tremendous palace has been built on this ledge. You may continue Floyd | up the mountain or explore this architectural oddity just north of Floyd | where you're resting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x palace" | ||||
Floyd | A gleaming palace made entirely of gold. Again, no windows. Only a Floyd | door. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "finally someone who keeps their palace clean" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "remove claws" | ||||
Floyd | iron claw: You remove the iron claw from your right hand. Floyd | iron claw: You remove the iron claw from your left hand. Floyd | iron claw: You remove the iron claw from your left foot. Floyd | iron claw: You remove the iron claw from your right foot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put nugget in slot" | ||||
Floyd | The gold nugget drops into the slot. A flickering blue glow issues Floyd | from the glass dome. The glow soon strengthens to a blinding azure Floyd | beam that floods your body. You feel every bit of your being vibrate Floyd | and shake loose from its adjacent piece. You quickly lose Floyd | consciousness. When you come to yourself again, you find you have been Floyd | transported into... Floyd | Floyd | Inside the Golden Palace Floyd | You are in the library of the palace. Books with pages edged with Floyd | gold leaf are standing spine-in on the shelves, creating a blaze of Floyd | gold, row by row. The furniture, the candlelabras, the walls Floyd | themselves, all of gold. Floyd | The Firebird suddenly swoops down into the room from a skylight high Floyd | above you in this vaulted chamber. "Well, my boy," she says as she Floyd | settles down on a perch, "you traveled swiftly and arrived here ahead Floyd | of me. I trust you have met the two captive birds in the other Floyd | palaces. I'm sure you have many questions for me: about my capture, Floyd | about me, about Katschei...ask away." Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Gold doesn't tarnish." | |||
| inky says, "oh yeah" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "rock" | ||||
| Ellison says, "don't be foolish about gold now" | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh. The firebird itself is the captive one here. Shoulda known." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask firebird about capture" | ||||
Floyd | "I was nursing you one day when you were only a few weeks old... " Floyd | Your eyes widen in surprise at this unexpected preface to her tale. Floyd | "A storm had blown up quickly, and a bolt of lightning struck the Floyd | castle just outside the window to my bedchamber. I covered myself and Floyd | you to protect you from the loud crash of thunder, and when I looked Floyd | up, a dark gigantic figure was perched on the windowsill. It was Floyd | Katschei. He had ridden that thunderbolt into my chamber. He seized Floyd | me, and was about to jump out the window with both of us. I had only a Floyd | moment to act, and in that moment I threw you out of his grasp and onto Floyd | a pile of blankets on the bed. In an instant, he swept me away in a Floyd | cloud. The last thing I heard were your cries and screams." Floyd | "Were you my wet nurse?" you ask. Floyd | "No, I was...I am...your mother." Floyd | "But I was not a motherless child," you protest in confusion. Floyd | "To keep peace in the tsardom, your father brought in another woman Floyd | to take my place in secret. But I am your mother. Truly." A tear Floyd | forms in the corner of her eye. "After Katschei had transformed me Floyd | into a firebird, he made me his thief: I was sent to steal for him all Floyd | the copper and silver and gold and pearl that nine times nine tsardoms Floyd | possessed. I have been very busy all these years. As much as I could, Floyd | I visited your father's garden, in hope that he would start sending you Floyd | boys out to capture me. Dimitri was soon old enough to be given the Floyd | task. But I wouldn't be found so easily by him, or by Vasilii. Floyd | Although I love them, I wanted you to be the one to rescue me. Because Floyd | so much has been taken from you, I wanted much to be given to you in Floyd | return for your years of suffering." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "wait wait what the heck" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "So that explains our brooding." | ||||
| inky says, "I guess this settles the issue of whether we marry Elena or the firebird" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "brood" | ||||
Floyd | You lose yourself momentarily in moody and morbid meditation. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask firebird about katschei" | ||||
Floyd | "There is no way to kill him by conventional means. His soul is not in Floyd | his body. Where his soul is hidden is his closely held secret. I have Floyd | never been able to find it out. He lives in the pearl palace, a place Floyd | I am not allowed to visit anymore. If he has imprisoned a woman there, Floyd | perhaps she has been able to find out his secret. Floyd | "It is imperative that you gain entry to the pearl palace. You must Floyd | find a way to put the creature that guards the palace to sleep." She Floyd | surveys your inventory. She says, "Hmm. You seem to have everything Floyd | you need to carry out the task, except for this most important Floyd | component." Floyd | "Use these properly, and the serpent will soon be fast asleep. Make Floyd | a mistake, and yours will be the sleep of the dead." The Firebird Floyd | hands you three bunches of fragrant medicinal herbs. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inky), "Well, depends on what you're into." | |||
| DavidW says, "Actually, birds don't care about incest." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask firebird about herbs" | ||||
Floyd | You won't glean much information asking the Firebird about the loose Floyd | medicinal herbs. Floyd | Floyd | The Firebird starts to usher you slowly out of the room. "Those are Floyd | all the answers I have for now, dear." She pushes you toward the slot Floyd | in the door. "Time for action, not reflection." You slide through the Floyd | narrow slot and find yourself outside the golden palace. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin exclaims, "Search your feelings! You know it to be true!" | |||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says, "(x2)" | ||||
| Ellison says, "haha" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x herbs" | ||||
Floyd | A supply of fragrant herbs. There are three bunches of herb. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "it would have been nice if she could tell us how to use them to avoid ending up dead" | |||
| inky says, "THANKS MOM" | ||||
| Ellison says, "haha" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear claws" | ||||
Floyd | iron claw: You bind the iron claw to your right foot. Floyd | iron claw: You bind the iron claw to your left foot. Floyd | iron claw: You bind the iron claw to your left hand. Floyd | iron claw: You bind the iron claw to your right hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | At the Top of the Mountain Floyd | Finally at the top of the mountain, you can look in all directions Floyd | and see practically the whole world. The mountain top is flat and Floyd | reaches out farther than you can see. A path leads into a thicket of Floyd | trees to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Swing your partner, dozey doh." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "remove claws" | ||||
Floyd | iron claw: You remove the iron claw from your right hand. Floyd | iron claw: You remove the iron claw from your left hand. Floyd | iron claw: You remove the iron claw from your left foot. Floyd | iron claw: You remove the iron claw from your right foot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x world" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "world". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "er" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "er". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Following a Path Floyd | You're in a small stand of woods, following a path that branches to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "er" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "er". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | In a Lovely Green Meadow Floyd | The path is back to the west. Travel around the palace to the Floyd | northeast or southeast. The palace and its barrier lie directly to the Floyd | east. Floyd | The woods open out into a wide meadow. The breeze barely ruffles Floyd | the tips of the long grass. You are bathed in the luminous glow of the Floyd | structure that sits at the center of the meadow: could the entire Floyd | palace be built of pearl? Encircling the palace's foundation is the Floyd | creature of which the Firebird spoke. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "fancy fancy" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put herbs in censer" | ||||
Floyd | You put a bunch of herbs into the censer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x palace" | ||||
Floyd | How could a palace be made entirely from pearls? How many pearls would Floyd | have to be mortised together to create a standing structure of this Floyd | height? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "serpent" | ||||
Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x serpent" | ||||
Floyd | It is the body of a serpent. Its bulk creates a wall of scaly flesh Floyd | the height of two tall men. With rhythmic expansions and contractions, Floyd | you can see that the creature is alive and breathing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I guess we'll have to find its head" | |||
| inky says, "or maybe we could just attack it with our sword" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "When did we last save? The ocean?" | ||||
| inky says, "yeah, probably" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
Floyd | Enter data file to store: | Ellison says, "might as well burn the incense and wave it first" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||
Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Ellison), "well, we probably need to locate the snake's head first." | |||
| Ellison says, "I don't think it will be the complicated but I could be wrong!" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attack serpent" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to attack it with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sword" | ||||
Floyd | The serpent's thick scales are impervious to your blows. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "LAME" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "swing censer at snake" | ||||
Floyd | There are somewhat more dramatic effects when smoke is coming out of Floyd | the censer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb snake" | ||||
Floyd | You attempt to climb over the vigilant serpent. He senses your touch Floyd | and quickly begins to slither into position to attack. Before he can Floyd | get very far you beat a quick retreat to a distant part of the meadow. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inky), "heehee" | |||
| Ellison says, "I thought the fact that he is 'breathing' was signal enough" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Wow. Surprised that >CLIMB SNAKE is in there. Nice." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "light censer" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know how to light the censer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "light incense" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know how to light the censer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| McMartin says (to floyd), "hit snake with sledgehammer" | ||||
Floyd | The serpent's thick scales are impervious to your blows. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "burn censer" | ||||
Floyd | You can't burn anything without fire. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "burn a match, then burn the herbs" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "light match" | ||||
Floyd | (taking a match from the matchbook first) Floyd | The match starts burning brightly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "burn censer" | ||||
Floyd | Burning the censer would serve no purpose. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "light incense with match" | ||||
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "burn incense with match" | ||||
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "arghshshs" | |||
| DavidW says, "It's not incense." | ||||
| McMartin asks, "PUT HERBS IN CENSER. BURN HERBS?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "burn herbs" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "burn herbs" | ||||
Floyd | You drop the match into the censer. Smoke from the burning herb begins Floyd | to flow out of the censer's holes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You attempt to climb over the vigilant serpent. He senses your touch Floyd | and quickly begins to slither into position to attack. Before he can Floyd | get very far you beat a quick retreat to a distant part of the meadow. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky says, "details details" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "wave censer" | ||||
Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "swing censer at snake" | ||||
Floyd | The smoke cannot reach the serpent's head. Its tough hide is Floyd | insensitive to the effects of the smoke. Floyd | Floyd | The herb in the censer has burned itself out, and the smoke has Floyd | dissipated. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | In a Lovely Green Meadow Floyd | The path is back to the west. Travel around the palace to the Floyd | northeast or southeast. The palace and its barrier lie directly to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "ZOMG CENSERSHIP" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "swing censer" | inky says, "ok, yeah, I guess we do in fact need to find the head" | |||
Floyd | You enthusiastically swing the censer back and forth on the chain. Floyd | Your nonspecific efforts create a huge cloud of enveloping smoke. You Floyd | can't help but breathe the smoking herbs; they have an incredibly Floyd | sedative effect on your physiology. Next time, try swinging the censer Floyd | towards a destination. Floyd | Floyd | *** Having died, you have lost your place in the royal succession. *** Floyd | Floyd | In a total of 503 turns, you have achieved a score of 42 points out of Floyd | a possible 72. Floyd | Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, quit, or undo the current Floyd | command. Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, QUIT, or UNDO: > | DavidW says, "ack" | |||
| inky says (to McMartin), "yay" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
Floyd | Enter data file to load: | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||
Floyd | In a Lovely Green Meadow Floyd | The path is back to the west. Travel around the palace to the Floyd | northeast or southeast. The palace and its barrier lie directly to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | In a Lovely Green Meadow Floyd | Travel around the palace to the southeast or southwest. The palace Floyd | and its barrier lie directly to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You attempt to climb over the vigilant serpent. He senses your touch Floyd | and quickly begins to slither into position to attack. Before he can Floyd | get very far you beat a quick retreat to a distant part of the meadow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | In a Lovely Green Meadow Floyd | The head of the serpent is in sight. Travel around the palace to Floyd | the northwest or southwest. The palace and its barrier lie directly to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "yay McMartin, boo death." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), " x snake" | ||||
Floyd | You can see the head of a serpent: its unblinking eye following your Floyd | distant movements, its mouth holding the tip of its tail. There is no Floyd | place to enter the palace without climbing over the creature. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "here we go" | |||
| DavidW says, "The herbs are already in the censer. I put them there earlier." | ||||
| Ellison says, "awright" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "burn herbs" | ||||
Floyd | You can't burn anything without fire. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "light match" | ||||
Floyd | (taking a match from the matchbook first) Floyd | The match starts burning brightly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "burn herbs" | ||||
Floyd | You drop the match into the censer. Smoke from the burning herb begins Floyd | to flow out of the censer's holes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "swing censer at serpent" | ||||
Floyd | The smoke wafts over the meadow and envelops the serpent's head. His Floyd | vigilant eye begins to waver, then close. His tail slips out of his Floyd | gaping mouth, and he begins to drool a little. Looks like it's safe to Floyd | climb over him. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You carefully climb over the sleeping giant. Floyd | Floyd | The Courtyard of the Pearl Palace Floyd | The serpent is hugged tight against the walls of the palace. The Floyd | only places to go are either back over the serpent or go inside. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points. *** Floyd | Floyd | The herb in the censer has burned itself out, and the smoke has Floyd | dissipated. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "he's totally stoned" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "w00t" | ||||
| inky asks, "man, have you ever looked at your scales -- I mean, really looked at them?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x palace" | ||||
Floyd | How could a palace be made entirely from pearls? How many pearls would Floyd | have to be mortised together to create a standing structure of this Floyd | height? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | In a Pearly Ante Chamber Floyd | The walls, the ceiling, and nearly all the objects in the room are Floyd | covered in row upon row of perfectly round, white pearls. It is a Floyd | monochromatic, pixellated visual nightmare. The only architectural Floyd | features that relieve the monotony are at the far end of the room: a Floyd | door frame and doorknob covered in black pearls. Floyd | The room's single occupant takes you out of the nightmare and into a Floyd | dream. A young woman is here, as beautiful to you as Venus emerging Floyd | out of the ocean from an oyster. Out of the hundreds of thousands of Floyd | pearls in this room, she is indeed the only one of great price. Her Floyd | loveliness has made you speechless. She is also silent at first, Floyd | studying you intently. "I do not know who you are, sir, but you must Floyd | be very clever and very brave to have made your way to my chamber. Floyd | What is your name?" she asks. Floyd | "Ivan," you almost whisper, still taking her in. Floyd | "I am Pearl," she laughs. "That is the name Katschei gave me. I Floyd | don't know what my parents called me." Floyd | "Then Katschei brought you here when you were very young?" Floyd | "As an infant, I imagine. I do not know a time when I was not Floyd | here." Floyd | "Then how do you know he is not your father?" Floyd | "Because he has always boasted that he took me from a tsar and a Floyd | tsarina. The only child they ever had, he says. He claims that he was Floyd | a suitor to my mother, but she rejected him, so many years later he Floyd | stole me to be raised as his bride." Floyd | "Did he raise you himself?" Floyd | "Oh, no. There were many nurses and governesses and tutors here Floyd | when I was a child. But as the days grow closer to our wedding, he has Floyd | been guarding me very closely, and no one is here except him and his Floyd | knights." She motions toward the door leading further into the palace. Floyd | You both hear the gruff laughter of battle-toughened men. "He raised Floyd | me to be his ideal bride, but I think he did a very poor job. I cannot Floyd | abide him." Floyd | Seeing her gentleness you have no trouble believing this. You press Floyd | on to a more curious subject. "Is Katschei a bird? Does he want a Floyd | bird bride?" You have only recently noticed her wings and lower body Floyd | are that of a bird. Floyd | "This is a recent transfiguration. He placed me in this form to Floyd | make me undesirable to any man who might try to steal me from him." Floyd | "Once again, he did a poor job." She turns her eyes away modestly Floyd | from you and your amorous words. Floyd | "If you do wish to spoil his wedding plans, I will tell you another Floyd | of Katschei's failings." Floyd | "Please do tell me." Floyd | "He chose to confide in me the secret of his immortality and Floyd | strength." Floyd | "Is this the secret of where his soul is kept?" Floyd | "Yes. How do you know so much already?" Floyd | You tell her about the Firebird and the other two captive birds and Floyd | what they have revealed to you. Floyd | "It is all true. His body is imperishable. His soul is in an egg, Floyd | a quite well-hidden egg. The egg is in a duck, and the duck is in a Floyd | hare, and the hare nests in a great hollow log that floats in a pond in Floyd | a forest of the island Bouyan. I wish I could tell you where to find Floyd | the island, but I do not know that." Floyd | "Very curiously hidden. And say I retrieved the egg. Would simply Floyd | breaking it destroy Katschei?" Floyd | "Yes, but it must be broken in his sight. You must find the egg and Floyd | return. Katschei is very likely to be here feasting with his knights. Floyd | You may have to fight the knights to reach him, so be sure to come Floyd | ready for battle." Floyd | "I will do as you say, as swiftly as I can." Floyd | "Please do be swift. The wedding is approaching very quickly." She Floyd | shows you her wedding gown, which she is decorating very delicately Floyd | with pearls. You wonder aloud how she can do it at all with those Floyd | wings. "With much difficulty," she answers with a smile. Floyd | You resolve aloud to return with the egg as soon as you can. In Floyd | your own thoughts you swear very solemnly not to let Katschei touch Floyd | this unspoiled beauty. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "whoa text" | |||
| inky says, "ker-textdump" | ||||
| inky says, "I guess the important point is his soul is in an egg, which is in a duck, which is in a hare, which is in a log, which is on a pond, which is in a forest, which is in an island" | ||||
| inky says, "it's one of those russian turduckens" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "haha" | ||||
| inky says, "so I guess the island must be that island off-shore" | ||||
| DavidW says, "must be" | ||||
| inky says, "since that is the only island we know about" | ||||
| inky asks, "so should I just run all the way back?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I guess so. Our brother might be of help somehow." | ||||
| inky says, "oh yeah" | ||||
| inky says, "well, he's got to marry some of these ladies to take them off our hands" | ||||
| inky says, "I mean, how many women does one guy need" | ||||
| DavidW says, "ha" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "brief" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, now in TERSE mode. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can only go out from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | The Courtyard of the Pearl Palace Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You climb back over the slumbering serpent and, in doing so, rouse him Floyd | from his sleep. Floyd | Floyd | In a Lovely Green Meadow Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | In a Lovely Green Meadow Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | In a Lovely Green Meadow Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Following a Path Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | At the Top of the Mountain Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear claws" | ||||
Floyd | iron claw: You bind the iron claw to your right foot. Floyd | iron claw: You bind the iron claw to your left foot. Floyd | iron claw: You bind the iron claw to your left hand. Floyd | iron claw: You bind the iron claw to your right hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | A Palace of Gleaming Gold Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | A Sooty Palace on a Ledge Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | An Edifice Built into the Rock Face Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | "So, what happened up there?" Vasilii asks. For a moment, you can Floyd | think only of the wonderful Pearl, and your eyes glaze a bit. Then you Floyd | notice your brother getting impatient, and you relate the news about Floyd | Katschei, the egg, and the horde of knights with whom you will have to Floyd | do battle. Floyd | "Battle, eh? Horde of knights, eh?" Vasilii looks thoughtful. Floyd | "Sounds like you'll need help. Except I won't be much use right now -- Floyd | I ditched all my kitchen knives... I know! There are some guys I Floyd | worked with who'll be perfect! You'll see! I'll have them here by the Floyd | time you get back with that egg!" Floyd | With that, he sprints off and is gone before you can say another Floyd | word. You wonder who he could possibly have in mind -- Vasilii never Floyd | worked with any of your father's knights, and while Flo's sarcasm can Floyd | be withering, you doubt she'd be much good in a fight. Floyd | Floyd | At the Base of the Mountain Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Ellison says, "haha" | ||||
| inky says, "I assume he is going to re-muster his army of chefs" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, now in VERBOSE mode. Floyd | At the Base of the Mountain Floyd | The east-west road ends at the base of the mountain. It is so high Floyd | that its top is propped against the sky. You can scarcely lift your Floyd | eyes to its summit. You can travel around the base by walking to the Floyd | northeast or the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You trip over your clawed feet and tumble to the ground for the sixth Floyd | time today. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "remove claws" | ||||
Floyd | iron claw: You remove the iron claw from your right hand. Floyd | iron claw: You remove the iron claw from your left hand. Floyd | iron claw: You remove the iron claw from your left foot. Floyd | iron claw: You remove the iron claw from your right foot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | On the Road Across the Open Steppe Floyd | You've left the forest and rivers behind you to the west. The Floyd | wilderness of the Russian steppe spreads out in all directions ahead of Floyd | you. White winter wheat waves gracefully as the wind sweeps over the Floyd | open land. A dirt road wends its way from east to west. At the east Floyd | end of the road you see a mountain. Floyd | Your eyes discern a faint animal trail to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead north, south, west, and northwest. [3] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead south, west, southwest, southeast, and Floyd | northeast. [3] Floyd | Floyd | > | (from DavidW) Flo says, "Katschei, kiss mah grits!" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead north, south, east, west, northeast, and Floyd | southwest. [3] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead north, south, northwest, and southwest. [3] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha ha" | |||
| inky says, "that would rule" | ||||
| inky says, "army of sarcastic diner ladies" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead south, west, northwest, and southwest. [3] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead south, northeast, and southeast. [3] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. The trail leads southwest. It smells salty here. [3] Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "I distinctly remember some IF in which the evil Torturer-Chefs demonstrated that they knew both the English and French meanings of 'pain'" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read trails" | ||||
Floyd | You study the trail for a moment. It says, "Always take the trails in Floyd | a northerly direction to find the ocean, a southerly direction to find Floyd | the steppe. If you find yourself in a place where the air smells salty Floyd | and the only exit is southeast, go se, s, e, n, and nw to find the Floyd | ocean. If you're in a salty-smelling place and the only exit is Floyd | southwest, go sw, s, w, n, nw to find the ocean." Yes, you read trails Floyd | VERY well. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw.s.w.n.nw" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead south, northeast, and southeast. [3] Floyd | Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead north, south, east, west, and southeast. Floyd | [3] Floyd | Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead north, east, west, and southeast. [3] Floyd | Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead south and northwest. [3] Floyd | Floyd | By the Sea Floyd | Waves crash on the beach. The surf rolls over your feet. A short Floyd | distance offshore to the north you see an island. A trail back into Floyd | the wilderness is to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, now in VERBOSE mode. Floyd | By the Sea Floyd | Waves crash on the beach. The surf rolls over your feet. A short Floyd | distance offshore to the north you see an island. A trail back into Floyd | the wilderness is to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok, here we are" | |||
| inky says, "now I dunno" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "call pike" | inky says, "I guess we can just try swimming again" | |||
Floyd | I don't know the word "call". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "whistle" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "whistle". Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "We need one of those pretty birds to fly us across." | |||
| inky says, "say here pikey pikey" | ||||
| JustineBirdlime arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | DavidW says, "heh" | |||
| Ellison says, "weclome back, JustineBirdlime" | ||||
| inky says, "we have been to all the palaces and are now trying to get to this island" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You plunge into the ocean. The salt water stings your eyes and grains Floyd | of sand rub your skin raw. The discomfort barely registers on your Floyd | consciousness as you swim straight toward the island. You let the Floyd | waves wash you right onto the shore of... Floyd | Floyd | Island Floyd | Here is a small, thickly forested island, perhaps the island Bouyan. Floyd | A barrier of tall rocks impede your progress around the beach to the Floyd | northeast and the northwest. To the south is the ocean. Explore the Floyd | forest to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hunh" | |||
| DavidW says, "I don't suppose we can portage the triclops's ferry boat." | ||||
| inky says, "clearly love has nerved us to swim better" | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh. okay." | ||||
| inky says, "I wonder what the pike was good for then" | ||||
| Ellison says, "maybe the return voyage" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | In the Forest Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | You see a bear here. Floyd | His paw is caught underneath a fallen tree, and he is crying out in Floyd | pain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x bear" | ||||
Floyd | He's furry and brown and HUGE! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It'll become clear, I'm sure." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "move tree" | ||||
Floyd | Which tree do you mean, the fallen tree, or the forest? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "fallen" | ||||
Floyd | You can't move the fallen tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push it" | ||||
Floyd | Pushing the fallen tree doesn't do anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pull it" | ||||
Floyd | Pulling the fallen tree doesn't have any effect. In desperation, the Floyd | bear gnaws off his paw. He takes his bloody stump of a paw and drags Floyd | himself back into the dense forest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | In the Forest Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | You see a bear here. Floyd | His paw is caught underneath a fallen tree, and he is crying out in Floyd | pain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | In the Forest Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | You see a bear here. Floyd | His paw is caught underneath a fallen tree, and he is crying out in Floyd | pain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | In the Forest Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | You see a bear here. Floyd | His paw is caught underneath a fallen tree, and he is crying out in Floyd | pain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lift tree" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "lift". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a bow, a quiver, a mask, a comfy blanket, a mysteriously Floyd | transformed fork, a shovel, a shield, a bucket, a sword, a message from Floyd | your father, a sledgehammer, a list, a corned beef sandwich, a flicker Floyd | sandwich, a white flask, a black flask, a matchbook, four iron claws, a Floyd | censer, a bunch of turnip greens, a feather (providing light), a length Floyd | of silver chain, and some medicinal herbs. The quiver seems to contain Floyd | an arrow. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "hmm, how do we help the bear?" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "pry tree" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "pry". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move tree" | ||||
Floyd | Which tree do you mean, the fallen tree, or the forest? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fallen" | ||||
Floyd | You can't move the fallen tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cut fallen tree with sword" | ||||
Floyd | You take to the fallen tree with your sword, thinking to yourself, Floyd | "What a great sword! It cuts through anything." You hack at the Floyd | rotting wood near the bear's paw, splitting the tree in two and freeing Floyd | the bear. He shakes his paw out a bit to get the blood going. With a Floyd | grateful grunt, he lumbers back into the forest. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "hahaha" | ||||
| Ellison says, "nice" | ||||
| DavidW says, "That's two creatures aided. Now there's gotta be a third to fit the pattern." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | In the Forest Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | You see an otter here. Floyd | The poor animal has somehow been stranded on dry land. His fur is Floyd | matted and dry, and he weakly mews for food, water, and protection. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "It cuts through a tree in a single blow, yet then is still able to slice this tomato!" | |||
| inky says, "aw" | ||||
| (from inky) Jacqueline says "Now how much would you pay? But wait, don't answer yet" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Exactly/" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x otter" | ||||
Floyd | There is nothing cuter than an otter. Nothing. Period. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a bow, a quiver, a mask, a comfy blanket, a mysteriously Floyd | transformed fork, a shovel, a shield, a bucket, a sword, a message from Floyd | your father, a sledgehammer, a list, a corned beef sandwich, a flicker Floyd | sandwich, a white flask, a black flask, a matchbook, four iron claws, a Floyd | censer, a bunch of turnip greens, a feather (providing light), a length Floyd | of silver chain, and some medicinal herbs. The quiver seems to contain Floyd | an arrow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give sandwich to otter" | ||||
Floyd | Which sandwich do you mean, the corned beef sandwich, or the flicker Floyd | sandwich? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "corned" | ||||
Floyd | The otter happily gulps down the corned beef sandwich. The meal Floyd | strengthens him somewhat, but he is still not strong enough to return Floyd | to his natural habitat himself. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha ha" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put blanket on otter" | ||||
Floyd | There's no good surface on the otter. Floyd | The otter has been without food and water for too long. He expires Floyd | from dehydration. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "?!?!" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | In the Forest Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | You see an otter here. Floyd | The poor animal has somehow been stranded on dry land. His fur is Floyd | matted and dry, and he weakly mews for food, water, and protection. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inky), "Type >BUY in the next five minutes, and we'll send you a set of twenty small daggers at no extra charge." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | In the Forest Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | You see an otter here. Floyd | The poor animal has somehow been stranded on dry land. His fur is Floyd | matted and dry, and he weakly mews for food, water, and protection. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "eep" | |||
| inky says, "these daemons are tough" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give white flask to otter" | ||||
Floyd | That couldn't possibly be of use to the otter. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| DavidW says, "I don't think we filled the bucket with water anywhere." | ||||
| inky asks, "was I supposed to have filled the bucket somewhere?" | ||||
| inky says, "ok, lemme undo, I guess" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | In the Forest Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | You see an otter here. Floyd | The poor animal has somehow been stranded on dry land. His fur is Floyd | matted and dry, and he weakly mews for food, water, and protection. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | In the Forest Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | You see an otter here. Floyd | The poor animal has somehow been stranded on dry land. His fur is Floyd | matted and dry, and he weakly mews for food, water, and protection. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | In the Forest Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | You see an otter here. Floyd | The poor animal has somehow been stranded on dry land. His fur is Floyd | matted and dry, and he weakly mews for food, water, and protection. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Ocean water probably isn't too good, but..." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | In the Forest Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | In the Forest Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | You see a bear here. Floyd | His paw is caught underneath a fallen tree, and he is crying out in Floyd | pain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | In the Forest Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | You see a bear here. Floyd | His paw is caught underneath a fallen tree, and he is crying out in Floyd | pain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | Ellison says, "otherwise, maybe if we open the flasks" | |||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | In the Forest Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | You see a bear here. Floyd | His paw is caught underneath a fallen tree, and he is crying out in Floyd | pain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | In the Forest Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | You see a bear here. Floyd | His paw is caught underneath a fallen tree, and he is crying out in Floyd | pain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Island Floyd | Here is a small, thickly forested island, perhaps the island Bouyan. Floyd | A barrier of tall rocks impede your progress around the beach to the Floyd | northeast and the northwest. To the south is the ocean. Explore the Floyd | forest to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "fill bucket" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "fill". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put water in bucket" | ||||
Floyd | Which water do you mean, the water of life, or the water of death? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "life" | ||||
Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Island Floyd | Here is a small, thickly forested island, perhaps the island Bouyan. Floyd | A barrier of tall rocks impede your progress around the beach to the Floyd | northeast and the northwest. To the south is the ocean. Explore the Floyd | forest to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x ocean" | ||||
Floyd | It's wet, it's salty, it's the ocean all right. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put bucket in ocean" | ||||
Floyd | The bucket drifts out of sight on the next wave. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Island Floyd | Here is a small, thickly forested island, perhaps the island Bouyan. Floyd | A barrier of tall rocks impede your progress around the beach to the Floyd | northeast and the northwest. To the south is the ocean. Explore the Floyd | forest to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok, I dunno what I'm doing" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "It's high time you finally admit it." | ||||
| JustineBirdlime says, "I'm trying to remember if you can pick up the otter..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Fact is, though, we don't know, either." | ||||
| Ellison says, "either putting the water of life in the bucket and giving that or maybe just 'give water of life to otter'" | ||||
| inky says, "ok, yeah, we could just try picking it up and put it in the pond" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | In the Forest Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | You see a bear here. Floyd | His paw is caught underneath a fallen tree, and he is crying out in Floyd | pain. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Was there a pond?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cut fallen tree with sword" | ||||
Floyd | You take to the fallen tree with your sword, thinking to yourself, Floyd | "What a great sword! It cuts through anything." You hack at the Floyd | rotting wood near the bear's paw, splitting the tree in two and freeing Floyd | the bear. He shakes his paw out a bit to get the blood going. With a Floyd | grateful grunt, he lumbers back into the forest. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "well, not that we've seen" | |||
| inky says, "but I assume there will be" | ||||
| inky says, "(the pearl princess said there was one here)" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | In the Forest Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | You see an otter here. Floyd | The poor animal has somehow been stranded on dry land. His fur is Floyd | matted and dry, and he weakly mews for food, water, and protection. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get otter" | ||||
Floyd | You can't bear to leave the little guy alone in his weakened condition. Floyd | Gosh, he's cute. Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | A Thicket of Vines Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | You see a hawk here. Floyd | The hawk has flown into a thicket of vines and has become imprisoned Floyd | in the tangle of foliage. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "man, these animals are so dumb" | |||
| Ellison says, "ha" | ||||
| inky asks, "what would they do if we weren't around?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cut foliage" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "foliage". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | A Thicket of Vines Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | You see a hawk here. Floyd | The hawk has flown into a thicket of vines and has become imprisoned Floyd | in the tangle of foliage. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cut vines" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to attack it with? Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "I think we should go back and help the otter" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sword" | ||||
Floyd | You think to yourself, "I have faith in this sword, I really do." You Floyd | begin your attack on the vines, but soon discover that as easily Floyd | entangled as the hawk has become in the vines, your sword get tangled Floyd | in the thicket as well. You extricate it before the thicket swallows Floyd | it whole. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says (to Ellison), "no, I picked him up" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You have a bow, a quiver, a mask, a comfy blanket, a mysteriously Floyd | transformed fork, a shovel, a shield, a bucket, a sword, a message from Floyd | your father, a sledgehammer, a list, a corned beef sandwich, a flicker Floyd | sandwich, a white flask, a black flask, a matchbook, four iron claws, a Floyd | censer, a bunch of turnip greens, a feather (providing light), a length Floyd | of silver chain, some medicinal herbs, and an otter. The quiver seems Floyd | to contain an arrow. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "oh, I misread that, osrry" | |||
| Ellison says, "anyhow, let's try killing the foliage with the water of death" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pour black flask on vines" | ||||
Floyd | You sprinkle a bit of the water of death on the thicket. Nothing Floyd | happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "LAME" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "light match" | ||||
Floyd | (taking a match from the matchbook first) Floyd | The match starts burning brightly. The poor panicked bird has finally Floyd | exhausted himself. He draws his wings close to his body and dies. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "hehe, sorry" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | A Thicket of Vines Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | You see a hawk here. Floyd | The hawk has flown into a thicket of vines and has become imprisoned Floyd | in the tangle of foliage. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | A Thicket of Vines Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | You see a hawk here. Floyd | The hawk has flown into a thicket of vines and has become imprisoned Floyd | in the tangle of foliage. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | A Thicket of Vines Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | You see a hawk here. Floyd | The hawk has flown into a thicket of vines and has become imprisoned Floyd | in the tangle of foliage. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | A Thicket of Vines Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | You see a hawk here. Floyd | The hawk has flown into a thicket of vines and has become imprisoned Floyd | in the tangle of foliage. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | In the Forest Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | A Thicket of Vines Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | You see a hawk here. Floyd | The hawk has flown into a thicket of vines and has become imprisoned Floyd | in the tangle of foliage. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "untangle vines" | ||||
Floyd | You set to work methodically, patiently removing the vines from around Floyd | the hawk. You are somewhat surprised that the panicked hawk is Floyd | allowing you to come so close to him. Sometimes you even must touch Floyd | him to get at the vines. As you work, you notice that the bird has Floyd | calmed. As the last vine is removed, the hawk bursts out of the Floyd | thicket into flight. His thankful call is the last evidence of the Floyd | hawk as he disappears into the skies. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok, that was easy" | |||
| JustineBirdlime says, "This vine puzzle was rightfully criticized, if I remember. It might be a "guess the verb" situation." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | A Pond in the Clearing Floyd | You have come upon a pond nestled in a forest clearing. The air is Floyd | still. The water makes no sound. The trees lining the pond are Floyd | particularly large, their massive roots plunging into the pond at the Floyd | water's edge. You can walk around the pond by going northeast or Floyd | northwest. Floyd | The pond seems to contain a log. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hey hey, now we're talkin'" | |||
| DavidW says, "oh, here's the fabled log." | ||||
| inky says, "ok, I think there's a rabbit in the log, a duck in the rabbit, and an egg in the duck" | ||||
| Ellison says, "and the fabled pond" | ||||
| inky says, "or something like that" | ||||
| inky says, "I assume the animals will do all the work" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put otter in pond" | ||||
Floyd | You toss the otter into the pond. The poor otter jumps a foot out of Floyd | the pond, lets out a shriek, and lands back in your arms. You test the Floyd | water with your finger and find that the water is highly acidic. Just Floyd | acidic, no, that's an understatement. It BURNS! Sorry, otter friend. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha ha" | |||
| DavidW says, "ack!" | ||||
| inky says, "poor guy" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "ack!" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "give water of life to otter" | ||||
Floyd | That couldn't possibly be of use to the otter. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pour water of life in the pond" | ||||
Floyd | The water of life quickly sinks out of sight. Boy, this pond is deep! Floyd | Floyd | A drop of rain splatters on your arm, soon followed by another. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Hope there's no acid breathing shark in there! (OOTS)" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | A Pond in the Clearing Floyd | You have come upon a pond nestled in a forest clearing. The air is Floyd | still. The water makes no sound. The trees lining the pond are Floyd | particularly large, their massive roots plunging into the pond at the Floyd | water's edge. You can walk around the pond by going northeast or Floyd | northwest. Floyd | The pond seems to contain a log. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says (to DW), "yay" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x log" | ||||
Floyd | It's a large branchless section of tree trunk, about eight feet long. Floyd | Floyd | A drop of rain splatters on your arm, soon followed by another. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm, rain" | |||
| inky says, "maybe that'll dilute it" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | A Glimpse of the Beach Floyd | The pond is unremarkable here, but you see a break in the trees to Floyd | the northeast. Travel around the pond to the southwest or the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | The pond seems to contain a log. Floyd | Floyd | It is raining harder and harder. The level of the pond is beginning to Floyd | rise. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "or maybe it'll flood over and kill us" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x log" | ||||
Floyd | It's a large branchless section of tree trunk, about eight feet long. Floyd | Floyd | It is raining harder and harder. The level of the pond is beginning to Floyd | rise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Did we feed the otter yet?" | |||
| inky says, "no, I could give him the sandwich again" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give sandwich to otter" | ||||
Floyd | Which sandwich do you mean, the corned beef sandwich, or the flicker Floyd | sandwich? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "corned" | ||||
Floyd | The otter happily gulps down the corned beef sandwich. The meal Floyd | strengthens him somewhat, but he is still not strong enough to return Floyd | to his natural habitat himself. Floyd | Floyd | The rain is coming down in buckets. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "touch pond" | ||||
Floyd | It feels just like a pond. Floyd | Floyd | The rain seems to be letting up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | A Glimpse of the Beach Floyd | The pond is unremarkable here, but you see a break in the trees to Floyd | the northeast. Travel around the pond to the southwest or the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | The pond seems to contain a log. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put otter in pond" | ||||
Floyd | You toss the otter into the pond. The poor otter jumps a foot out of Floyd | the pond, lets out a shriek, and lands back in your arms. You test the Floyd | water with your finger and find that the water is highly acidic. Just Floyd | acidic, no, that's an understatement. It BURNS! Sorry, otter friend. Floyd | Floyd | The rain seems to be letting up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | A Glimpse of the Beach Floyd | The pond is unremarkable here, but you see a break in the trees to Floyd | the northeast. Travel around the pond to the southwest or the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | The pond seems to contain a log. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put otter in bucket" | ||||
Floyd | The otter squirms away from you and spoils your aim. He lands at your Floyd | feet. Floyd | Floyd | The rain seems to be letting up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | A Glimpse of the Beach Floyd | The pond is unremarkable here, but you see a break in the trees to Floyd | the northeast. Travel around the pond to the southwest or the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | The pond seems to contain a log. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | A Glimpse of the Beach Floyd | The pond is unremarkable here, but you see a break in the trees to Floyd | the northeast. Travel around the pond to the southwest or the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | The pond seems to contain a log. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I don't really get what the point of the rain is" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "drop bucket" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | The rain is coming down in buckets. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bucket" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing in the bucket. Floyd | Floyd | The rain seems to be letting up. Floyd | | inky says, "if it doesn't dilute the water" | |||
Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "fill bucket" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "fill". Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "oh, to fill the bucket?" | |||
| DavidW says, "It doesn't fill the bucket either." | ||||
| Ellison says, "that was my attempt" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes... Floyd | Floyd | The storm is over as quickly as it came. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I thought it might." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in bucket" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing in the bucket. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm, I guess not" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | A Glimpse of the Beach Floyd | The pond is unremarkable here, but you see a break in the trees to Floyd | the northeast. Travel around the pond to the southwest or the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | You see a bucket here. The pond seems to contain a log. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | A Glimpse of the Beach Floyd | The pond is unremarkable here, but you see a break in the trees to Floyd | the northeast. Travel around the pond to the southwest or the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | You see a bucket here. The pond seems to contain a log. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "there's this thing to the northeast we could investigate" | |||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | A Glimpse of the Beach Floyd | The pond is unremarkable here, but you see a break in the trees to Floyd | the northeast. Travel around the pond to the southwest or the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | You see a bucket here. The pond seems to contain a log. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | A Glimpse of the Beach Floyd | The pond is unremarkable here, but you see a break in the trees to Floyd | the northeast. Travel around the pond to the southwest or the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | The pond seems to contain a log. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "get rain with bucket" | ||||
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "ok" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give turnip to otter" | ||||
Floyd | The otter happily gulps down the bunch of turnip greens. The meal Floyd | strengthens him somewhat, but he is still not strong enough to return Floyd | to his natural habitat himself. Floyd | Floyd | The rain is coming down in buckets. Floyd | Floyd | > | JustineBirdlime says, "I thought there was some landmark as you traveled around the pond that was relevant." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give sandwich to otter" | ||||
Floyd | Which sandwich do you mean, the corned beef sandwich, or the flicker Floyd | sandwich? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "flicker" | ||||
Floyd | The otter happily gulps down the flicker sandwich. The meal Floyd | strengthens him somewhat, but he is still not strong enough to return Floyd | to his natural habitat himself. Floyd | Floyd | The rain seems to be letting up. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "yeah, I guess we could go southwest too" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give beef sandwich to otter" | ||||
Floyd | The otter happily gulps down the corned beef sandwich. The meal Floyd | strengthens him somewhat, but he is still not strong enough to return Floyd | to his natural habitat himself. Floyd | Floyd | The storm is over as quickly as it came. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "This is a game of many sammiches." | |||
| inky says, "or northwest or something" | ||||
| inky says (to Jacqueline), "or the same sandwiches repeatedly" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "did I waste food on the otter I shouldn't have?" | ||||
| Ellison says, "ah, we can go back to a save point if it matters" | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | You walk to the opposite side of the pond. Floyd | Floyd | At the Base of an Ancient Tree Floyd | You are in the shade of an ancient tree to the east of the edge of Floyd | the pond. Travel around the pond to the southeast or the northeast. Floyd | The pond seems to contain a log. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "yeah, I assume we haven't done anything irrevocable here" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tree" | ||||
Floyd | Which tree do you mean, the ancient tree, or the forest? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ancient" | ||||
Floyd | It's a huge specimen with large low branches that extend out over the Floyd | surface of the pond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb it" | ||||
Floyd | By now well practiced in climbing trees, you easily scramble out toward Floyd | the end of one of the low branches. Floyd | Floyd | On a Branch over Troubled Water Floyd | You are sitting on a branch that hangs over the pond. The log is Floyd | floating right under the branch. You dangle your arm down and find Floyd | that it brushes against your fingertips. Floyd | The pond seems to contain a log. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh ho ho" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x log" | ||||
Floyd | It's a large branchless section of tree trunk, about eight feet long. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb on long" | ||||
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb on log" | ||||
Floyd | I don't recognize that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | At the Base of an Ancient Tree Floyd | You are in the shade of an ancient tree to the east of the edge of Floyd | the pond. Travel around the pond to the southeast or the northeast. Floyd | The pond seems to contain a log. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | On a Branch over Troubled Water Floyd | You are sitting on a branch that hangs over the pond. The log is Floyd | floating right under the branch. You dangle your arm down and find Floyd | that it brushes against your fingertips. Floyd | The pond seems to contain a log. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter log" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know how to enter the log. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push log" | ||||
Floyd | You are able to push the log onto dry land under the tree. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | At the Base of an Ancient Tree Floyd | You are in the shade of an ancient tree to the east of the edge of Floyd | the pond. Travel around the pond to the southeast or the northeast. Floyd | You see a log here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "log" | ||||
Floyd | There's no verb in that sentence! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in log" | ||||
Floyd | It's solid log. You can't see inside at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cut log with sword" | ||||
Floyd | You hack away at the log but cannot chip a piece of bark from it, even Floyd | with your handy sharp sword. As you pause a moment to wipe the sweat Floyd | from your brow, the bear you befriended earlier rushes out from the Floyd | wood and tears the log to shreds with his great paws. Out of the log Floyd | leaps a giant hare, dazed and a bit disoriented. He reels for a moment Floyd | just within your grasp. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get hare" | ||||
Floyd | You reach out to grab the hare, but with a mighty kick of its back legs Floyd | the hare escapes into the forest. You make a dash to follow it. Floyd | Floyd | In the Forest Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | Floyd | In your pursuit of the hare, you do not see a hunter's snare hidden in Floyd | the grass. It trips you up, and you take a nasty fall. You come back Floyd | in the next life as a small, vulnerable otter. Floyd | Floyd | *** Having died, you have lost your place in the royal succession. *** Floyd | Floyd | In a total of 558 turns, you have achieved a score of 54 points out of Floyd | a possible 72. Floyd | Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, quit, or undo the current Floyd | command. Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, QUIT, or UNDO: > | inky says, "noooo" | |||
| inky says, "ok, I guess the upshot here is we need to help otto" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | At the Base of an Ancient Tree Floyd | You are in the shade of an ancient tree to the east of the edge of Floyd | the pond. Travel around the pond to the southeast or the northeast. Floyd | There is a huge hare here, slightly dazed but ready for a quick Floyd | escape. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | At the Base of an Ancient Tree Floyd | You are in the shade of an ancient tree to the east of the edge of Floyd | the pond. Travel around the pond to the southeast or the northeast. Floyd | You see a log here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | At the Base of an Ancient Tree Floyd | You are in the shade of an ancient tree to the east of the edge of Floyd | the pond. Travel around the pond to the southeast or the northeast. Floyd | You see a log here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | On a Branch over Troubled Water Floyd | You are sitting on a branch that hangs over the pond. The log is Floyd | nearby resting on land under the tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | On a Branch over Troubled Water Floyd | You are sitting on a branch that hangs over the pond. The log is Floyd | floating right under the branch. You dangle your arm down and find Floyd | that it brushes against your fingertips. Floyd | The pond seems to contain a log. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | On a Branch over Troubled Water Floyd | You are sitting on a branch that hangs over the pond. The log is Floyd | floating right under the branch. You dangle your arm down and find Floyd | that it brushes against your fingertips. Floyd | The pond seems to contain a log. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | On a Branch over Troubled Water Floyd | You are sitting on a branch that hangs over the pond. The log is Floyd | floating right under the branch. You dangle your arm down and find Floyd | that it brushes against your fingertips. Floyd | The pond seems to contain a log. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | On a Branch over Troubled Water Floyd | You are sitting on a branch that hangs over the pond. The log is Floyd | floating right under the branch. You dangle your arm down and find Floyd | that it brushes against your fingertips. Floyd | The pond seems to contain a log. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | On a Branch over Troubled Water Floyd | You are sitting on a branch that hangs over the pond. The log is Floyd | floating right under the branch. You dangle your arm down and find Floyd | that it brushes against your fingertips. Floyd | The pond seems to contain a log. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | At the Base of an Ancient Tree Floyd | You are in the shade of an ancient tree to the east of the edge of Floyd | the pond. Travel around the pond to the southeast or the northeast. Floyd | The pond seems to contain a log. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | You walk to the opposite side of the pond. Floyd | Floyd | A Glimpse of the Beach Floyd | The pond is unremarkable here, but you see a break in the trees to Floyd | the northeast. Travel around the pond to the southwest or the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | The pond seems to contain a log. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "funny, that picking up the otter gets rid of the daemon" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | A Sheltering Cove Floyd | A barrier of tall rocks has created a cove here on the island's Floyd | shore. The waves lap gently on the beach. All manner of marine life Floyd | thrive in the pools the craggy rocks create. Floyd | Return to the pond by walking southwest back into the forest. Floyd | Floyd | Your little otter friend squirms impatiently in your arms. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put otter in cove" | ||||
Floyd | The cove isn't much use to you. Floyd | Floyd | An otter pokes its head out of the water, looks at you somewhat Floyd | expectantly, and ducks back down into the pond again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put otter in pond" | ||||
Floyd | I don't see any pond here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put otter in water" | ||||
Floyd | You lay the otter down in the surf. The larger otter approaches as it Floyd | sees you bring the little otter down to the water. With its tiny Floyd | hands, it takes the little one away from you and swims off out of Floyd | sight. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "there we go" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | A Glimpse of the Beach Floyd | The pond is unremarkable here, but you see a break in the trees to Floyd | the northeast. Travel around the pond to the southwest or the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | The pond seems to contain a log. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "the mystery of the rain remains unsolved, though" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | A Pond in the Clearing Floyd | You have come upon a pond nestled in a forest clearing. The air is Floyd | still. The water makes no sound. The trees lining the pond are Floyd | particularly large, their massive roots plunging into the pond at the Floyd | water's edge. You can walk around the pond by going northeast or Floyd | northwest. Floyd | The pond seems to contain a log. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | A Glimpse of the Beach Floyd | The pond is unremarkable here, but you see a break in the trees to Floyd | the northeast. Travel around the pond to the southwest or the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | The pond seems to contain a log. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | A Pond in the Clearing Floyd | You have come upon a pond nestled in a forest clearing. The air is Floyd | still. The water makes no sound. The trees lining the pond are Floyd | particularly large, their massive roots plunging into the pond at the Floyd | water's edge. You can walk around the pond by going northeast or | DavidW says, "The rain might be atmosphere. :)" | |||
Floyd | northwest. Floyd | The pond seems to contain a log. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | At the Base of an Ancient Tree Floyd | You are in the shade of an ancient tree to the east of the edge of Floyd | the pond. Travel around the pond to the southeast or the northeast. Floyd | The pond seems to contain a log. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "climb ancient tree" | ||||
Floyd | By now well practiced in climbing trees, you easily scramble out toward Floyd | the end of one of the low branches. Floyd | Floyd | On a Branch over Troubled Water Floyd | You are sitting on a branch that hangs over the pond. The log is Floyd | floating right under the branch. You dangle your arm down and find Floyd | that it brushes against your fingertips. Floyd | The pond seems to contain a log. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "atmosphere, my old nemesis" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push log" | ||||
Floyd | You are able to push the log onto dry land under the tree. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | At the Base of an Ancient Tree Floyd | You are in the shade of an ancient tree to the east of the edge of Floyd | the pond. Travel around the pond to the southeast or the northeast. Floyd | You see a log here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cut log with sword" | ||||
Floyd | You hack away at the log but cannot chip a piece of bark from it, even Floyd | with your handy sharp sword. As you pause a moment to wipe the sweat Floyd | from your brow, the bear you befriended earlier rushes out from the Floyd | wood and tears the log to shreds with his great paws. Out of the log Floyd | leaps a giant hare, dazed and a bit disoriented. He reels for a moment Floyd | just within your grasp. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get hare" | ||||
Floyd | You reach out to grab the hare, but with a mighty kick of its back legs Floyd | the hare escapes into the forest. You make a dash to follow it. Floyd | Floyd | A Glimpse of the Beach Floyd | The pond is unremarkable here, but you see a break in the trees to Floyd | the northeast. Travel around the pond to the southwest or the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | Floyd | Having made a miraculous recovery, your little otter friend emerges Floyd | from the surf, runs down the hare, and tears it to pieces. Out of the Floyd | bowels of the hare a duck flaps out and lands near your feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky says, "OTTER VERSUS BUNNY" | ||||
| Ellison says, "haha" | ||||
| inky says, "nature's fury unleashed in all its savagery" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get duck" | ||||
Floyd | You reach out to scoop up the duck, but it takes wing before you can Floyd | grab it. You follow it as it makes its way out to sea. Floyd | Floyd | A Sheltering Cove Floyd | A barrier of tall rocks has created a cove here on the island's Floyd | shore. The waves lap gently on the beach. All manner of marine life Floyd | thrive in the pools the craggy rocks create. Floyd | Return to the pond by walking southwest back into the forest. Floyd | Floyd | The duck is about to fly just out of your sight over the ocean, when Floyd | you see your hawk friend dart after it into the sky and seize it. The Floyd | duck lays an egg, which falls into the ocean. You run to the edge of Floyd | the cove to search the ocean. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search ocean" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | You scan the ocean for any sign of the egg. You wade out into the Floyd | surf, but find nothing. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly you feel a tug on your pant leg. You look down and find that Floyd | the pike you saved so long ago has now returned to help you. He holds Floyd | the egg in his mouth. You gently take it from him, and he dives back Floyd | into the sea. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hooray!" | |||
| DavidW says, "yes!" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
Floyd | Enter data file to store: | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||||
Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | A Sheltering Cove Floyd | A barrier of tall rocks has created a cove here on the island's Floyd | shore. The waves lap gently on the beach. All manner of marine life Floyd | thrive in the pools the craggy rocks create. Floyd | Return to the pond by walking southwest back into the forest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | A Glimpse of the Beach Floyd | The pond is unremarkable here, but you see a break in the trees to Floyd | the northeast. Travel around the pond to the southwest or the Floyd | northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | A Pond in the Clearing Floyd | You have come upon a pond nestled in a forest clearing. The air is Floyd | still. The water makes no sound. The trees lining the pond are Floyd | particularly large, their massive roots plunging into the pond at the Floyd | water's edge. You can walk around the pond by going northeast or Floyd | northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. You can leave by going south, northeast, or Floyd | northwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | A Thicket of Vines Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | In the Forest Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | In the Forest Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "swim" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to swim? Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison asks, "wait, so did the bear help us?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Island Floyd | Here is a small, thickly forested island. A barrier of tall rocks Floyd | impede your progress around the beach to the northeast and the Floyd | northwest. To the south is the ocean. Explore the forest to the Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "yeah, he opened the log" | |||
| DavidW says, "yes." | ||||
| inky says, "we tried to cut it but were too weak" | ||||
| Ellison says, "ah, I missed that" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter ocean" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know how to enter the ocean. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "swim" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to swim? Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "grah" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | The rocks are too slick to negotiate successfully. You fall down the Floyd | seventh time today, this time, as a novel twist, into the water. You Floyd | drag yourself back onto dry land. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | In the Forest Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | In the Forest Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oops wait" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | In the Forest Floyd | It's another forest locale. Explore deeper into the forest to the Floyd | north or find the ocean to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Island Floyd | Here is a small, thickly forested island. A barrier of tall rocks Floyd | impede your progress around the beach to the northeast and the Floyd | northwest. To the south is the ocean. Explore the forest to the Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You wade out into the surf and catch a wave that sends you right back Floyd | to the mainland. Floyd | Floyd | By the Sea Floyd | Waves crash on the beach. The surf rolls over your feet. A short Floyd | distance offshore to the north you see an island. A trail back into Floyd | the wilderness is to the southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "What about opening the egg?" | |||
| inky says, "there we go" | ||||
| inky says, "the pearl lady said not to open it until we're in the guy's presence" | ||||
| Ellison says, "we're not supposed to open it until we're in front of dude" | ||||
| inky says, "I don't know where we is" | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh. I missed that." | ||||
| inky says, "but I guess we go back to the palace" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead south and northwest. [3] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead north, east, west, and southeast. [3] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead north, south, northeast, and northwest. [3] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead north, south, east, west, northeast, and Floyd | southwest. [3] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | In the Wilderness Floyd | You are wandering in the wilderness, having only faint animal trails Floyd | to guide you. Trails lead north, south, west, and northwest. [3] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | On the Road Across the Open Steppe Floyd | You've left the forest and rivers behind you to the west. The Floyd | wilderness of the Russian steppe spreads out in all directions ahead of Floyd | you. White winter wheat waves gracefully as the wind sweeps over the Floyd | open land. A dirt road wends its way from east to west. At the east Floyd | end of the road you see a mountain. Floyd | Your eyes discern a faint animal trail to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | True to his word, Vasilii has returned with help: a dozen strong, Floyd | stalwart... teppanyaki chefs??? You've met them before; your father Floyd | hired them recently in a cooking exchange program with Japan. While Floyd | their skill at juggling knives, pepper mills, and other cooking Floyd | implements is certainly dazzling to behold, you have serious doubts Floyd | about their ability to do any damage to anything that isn't sitting Floyd | motionless on a grill. Floyd | The chefs all stand at attention as you approach, and Vasilii beams Floyd | with pride. "See? What did I tell you? With these guys on your side, Floyd | you can't lose!" Floyd | You suppress a sudden urge to rant. "Vasilii? A word with you, Floyd | please?" Floyd | "What? I know, the sushi knives are a bit much, but they wouldn't Floyd | leave without them." He notices your look. "All right, all right! I Floyd | know what you're thinking, but I'm serious! You haven't seen them Floyd | train! There's nothing like it!" Floyd | "Vasilii," you explain patiently, "they're CHEFS. They prepare Floyd | FOOD. I mean, what are they going to do--grind pepper into the Floyd | knights' eyes to blind them, then carve them into neat little filets Floyd | and serve them with a spicy ginger sauce?" Floyd | You hadn't realized the chefs were listening, but there is a sudden Floyd | flurry of conversation among them. One steps forward. "An excellent Floyd | strategy, koutaishi-sama," he proclaims in a thick Japanese accent. Floyd | "With you leading us, we must be victory!" Floyd | You try not to roll your eyes as you put on your best Floyd | glorious-leader expression. You still have your doubts, but Floyd | maybe--just maybe--these teppanyaki chefs will be up to the job. "All Floyd | right, everyone," you announce loudly, "we've got a wizard to kill. Floyd | Let's go!" Floyd | With a cheer from Vasilii and a loud "BANZAI!" from the chefs, they Floyd | all ready their climbing gear and in moments are ready to depart. Floyd | Floyd | At the Base of the Mountain Floyd | The east-west road ends at the base of the mountain. It is so high Floyd | that its top is propped against the sky. You can scarcely lift your Floyd | eyes to its summit. You can travel around the base by walking to the Floyd | northeast or the southeast. Floyd | Your brother Vasilii is here. Floyd | A bunch of teppanyaki chefs is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hey, it's iron chef" | |||
| JustineBirdlime says, "My ex Chris Nebel wrote that text about the teppanyaki chefs." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear claws" | ||||
Floyd | iron claw: You bind the iron claw to your right foot. Floyd | iron claw: You bind the iron claw to your left foot. Floyd | iron claw: You bind the iron claw to your left hand. Floyd | iron claw: You bind the iron claw to your right hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "yeah, this game had some pop culture foresight" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | An Edifice Built into the Rock Face Floyd | A tremendous palace has been built on this ledge. You may continue Floyd | up the mountain or explore this architectural oddity just north of Floyd | where you're resting. Floyd | Floyd | Your brother Vasilii follows you. The chefs follow you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | A Sooty Palace on a Ledge Floyd | A tremendous palace has been built on this ledge. You may continue Floyd | up the mountain or explore this architectural oddity just north of Floyd | where you're resting. Floyd | Floyd | Your brother Vasilii follows you. The chefs follow you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | A Palace of Gleaming Gold Floyd | A tremendous palace has been built on this ledge. You may continue Floyd | up the mountain or explore this architectural oddity just north of Floyd | where you're resting. Floyd | Floyd | Your brother Vasilii follows you. The chefs follow you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | At the Top of the Mountain Floyd | Finally at the top of the mountain, you can look in all directions Floyd | and see practically the whole world. The mountain top is flat and Floyd | reaches out farther than you can see. A path leads into a thicket of Floyd | trees to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Your brother Vasilii follows you. The chefs follow you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You trip over your clawed feet and tumble to the ground for the eighth Floyd | time today. You hear a suppressed snicker from somewhere back in the Floyd | pack of chefs. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "nooo" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "remove claws" | DavidW says, "ha ha" | |||
Floyd | iron claw: You remove the iron claw from your right hand. Floyd | iron claw: You remove the iron claw from your left hand. Floyd | iron claw: You remove the iron claw from your left foot. Floyd | iron claw: You remove the iron claw from your right foot. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "haha" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I love how it keeps count." | ||||
| inky says, "this is worse than the parking brake in fine tuned" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Following a Path Floyd | You're in a small stand of woods, following a path that branches to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | Your brother Vasilii follows you. The chefs follow you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | In a Lovely Green Meadow Floyd | The path is back to the west. Travel around the palace to the Floyd | northeast or southeast. The palace and its barrier lie directly to the Floyd | east. Floyd | Floyd | Your brother Vasilii follows you. The chefs follow you. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I love how the game keeps a pratfall counter." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | In a Lovely Green Meadow Floyd | Travel around the palace to the southeast or southwest. The palace Floyd | and its barrier lie directly to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Your brother Vasilii follows you. The chefs follow you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| vaporware arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | In a Lovely Green Meadow Floyd | The head of the serpent is in sight. Travel around the palace to Floyd | the northwest or southwest. The palace and its barrier lie directly to Floyd | the west. Floyd | Floyd | Your brother Vasilii follows you. The chefs follow you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attack serpent with sword" | ||||
Floyd | The serpent's thick scales are impervious to your blows. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "dang" | |||
| inky says, "surely the fury of our chef army can defeat the serpent" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "light match" | ||||
Floyd | (taking a match from the matchbook first) Floyd | The match starts burning brightly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "burn herbs" | ||||
Floyd | Local law prohibits open burning of this powerful herb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put herbs in censer" | ||||
Floyd | You put a bunch of herbs into the censer. Floyd | Floyd | The match burns down to your fingertips. Ouch! You throw the spent Floyd | thing somewhere out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "we were given three bunches of herbs" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "light match" | ||||
Floyd | (taking a match from the matchbook first) Floyd | The match starts burning brightly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "burn herbs" | ||||
Floyd | You drop the match into the censer. Smoke from the burning herb begins Floyd | to flow out of the censer's holes. Floyd | Floyd | > | JustineBirdlime says, "At the time I was writing this game, we were watching subtitled Iron Chef on a local Bay Area UHF station on Saturday nights." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "swing censer at snake" | ||||
Floyd | The smoke wafts over the meadow and envelops the serpent's head. His Floyd | vigilant eye begins to waver, then close. His tail slips out of his Floyd | gaping mouth, and he begins to drool a little. Looks like it's safe to Floyd | climb over him. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "aHA" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You carefully climb over the sleeping giant. Floyd | Floyd | The Courtyard of the Pearl Palace Floyd | The serpent is hugged tight against the walls of the palace. The Floyd | only places to go are either back over the serpent or go inside. Floyd | Floyd | Your brother Vasilii follows you. The chefs follow you. Floyd | Floyd | The herb in the censer has burned itself out, and the smoke has Floyd | dissipated. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We only have 7 matches. Don't waste 'em." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | In a Pearly Ante Chamber Floyd | The walls, the ceiling, and nearly all the objects in the room are Floyd | covered in row upon row of perfectly round, white pearls. It is a Floyd | monochromatic, pixellated visual nightmare. The only architectural Floyd | features that relieve the monotony are at the far end of the room: a Floyd | door frame and doorknob covered in black pearls. Floyd | Pearl is here, sewing pearls onto her wedding gown with great Floyd | difficulty. Floyd | Floyd | Your brother Vasilii follows you. The chefs follow you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "show egg to pearl" | ||||
Floyd | Pearl gives you a big kiss of congratulations. "Was it really where Floyd | Katschei said it was?" she asks. Floyd | "Indeed, and it was a bear getting it out of the log," you reply Floyd | with a grin. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha sigh" | |||
| DavidW says, "ha ha ugh" | ||||
| Ellison says (to JustineBirdlime), "nice" | ||||
| inky says, "ok, I will open this door" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
Floyd | Enter data file to store: | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf7" | ||||
Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | Pearl notices your attempt to open the door. She opens it for you and Floyd | kisses you for good luck. "Fight bravely!" she whispers into your Floyd | ear. Floyd | Floyd | In the Great Hall of the Pearl Palace Floyd | Katschei's great hall is a place of feasting and boasting. Floyd | Katschei is at the head of the long banquet table, separated from Floyd | you by his legion of knights that flank him on either side. Floyd | Three times nine of Katschei's most battle-tested knights [6] have Floyd | gathered in this hall to feast and to defend their lord. Floyd | Floyd | Your brother Vasilii follows you. The chefs follow you. You stand Floyd | proudly to face the knights and Katschei with your formidable army. Floyd | The chefs surround you, faces set with fiercesome expressions and their Floyd | cutlery held in ceremonial battle stances. The knights are somewhat Floyd | confused at the purpose of this arriving force. Floyd | "Are you bringing the next course?" Katschei sputters. Floyd | At once a chef screams out in Japanese: "Pepper shower attack!" Floyd | (Vasilii is at your elbow to translate.) The chefs pull out their Floyd | pepper mills, leap onto the table, and, with aggressive grinding Floyd | action, fill their opponents' eyes with a shower of ground pepper. Floyd | The knights leap up, lurching about, trying to find their footing Floyd | and their weaponry through the stinging pain in their peppery eyes. Floyd | Another chef cries: "Teppanyaki Technique--Perfected!" Another: Floyd | "Ginger Final Attack!" (again, according to Vasilii's translation). Floyd | Most of the chefs go to work with their cutlery: the first wave with Floyd | giant cleavers, hacking off limbs. The second wave moves in with the Floyd | carving knives, flaying off large slices of knight flesh. A third Floyd | group takes on the fine slicing. Floyd | Meanwhile, the "special forces" are preparing the final attack. Floyd | They have set up some pots on makeshift fires and pull from their bags Floyd | long ginger roots, bottles of rice vinegar, and other condiments. The Floyd | finished flesh is tossed from one set of chefs to the cooking team, who Floyd | are giving the meat a quick marinade in the sauce. Floyd | When all of the knights have been disabled, the chefs start Floyd | chanting, "kuroi tamago, kuroi tamago!" Vasilii leans over to you, "I Floyd | think they mean it's time to break the egg, Ivan." Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points. *** Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "haha" | |||
| inky says, "wow" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note 6" | ||||
Floyd | [6]: This means, bizarrely enough, that there are twenty-nine knights, Floyd | not twenty-seven as you might expect. In the old Russian tales, people Floyd | would always travel "across three times nine lands to the thirtieth Floyd | tsardom." Evidently, the old Russians were not big on math. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "break egg" | ||||
Floyd | You're determined to make this into as much of a performance for the Floyd | chefs as the show they've put on for you. Katschei rages and prepares Floyd | to rush you. You take the egg and squeeze it in your hand, ever so Floyd | slightly. The fierce light begins to dim in the wizard's eyes. The Floyd | chefs murmur as one, "Ooooo!" Floyd | You toss the egg from the right hand to the left, hurling Katschei Floyd | violently from one corner of the room to the other. An "Aaahhh!" Floyd | arises from the chef's throats. Floyd | You slam the egg to the ground with tremendous force. As it Floyd | shatters, Katschei recoils in horror, his eyes turning back in his Floyd | head. Your surroundings begin to shimmer and melt away. You are too Floyd | confused to know where you are or what is happening to you. A strong Floyd | wind begins to blow you around like a piece of paper. You are lost in Floyd | this kaleidoscope maelstrom for a timeless interval. Suddenly, all is Floyd | quiet and dark. A moment later, you hear the chatter of happy voices Floyd | around you. You open your eyes and discover that you are now in ... Floyd | Floyd | The Cathedral of Our Lady Floyd | You are in a magnificent yet completely familiar place. You have Floyd | known the Cathedral of Our Lady since you were very small. You have Floyd | marveled at the grandness of the architecture and taken comfort in the Floyd | small gestures of the priest in preparing the host for communion. Floyd | Today the nave is even more beautiful to behold. Swags of greens hang Floyd | between the columns, and flowers have been banked up around the altar Floyd | in abundance. You don't think this is a major feast day. When you Floyd | look around at who else is there, however, you start to get an idea of Floyd | what celebration is intended. Floyd | Floyd | Vasilii is at your side, gawking in amazement at the woman standing Floyd | next to your father. Floyd | Floyd | "It's Mom!" Vasilii exclaims. You had left out that one piece of Floyd | information in relating to Vasilii what had happened inside the Floyd | palaces. She is no longer the Firebird, no longer a bird at all; now Floyd | she will only be your little mother. She approaches and embraces you Floyd | both. "Thank you, my boys," she whispers through tears. Floyd | Floyd | Your father comes up to greet you. "Ivan," he exclaims, wrapping you Floyd | in his embrace, "you've done it. Destroyed Katschei and returned your Floyd | mother to us." Floyd | "And Vasilii! Did you aid your brother in battle?" Vasilii tells Floyd | your dad all about the great teppanyaki battle. "Um... yes, my boy. Floyd | Very clever thinking. I must admit that this time you got it right." Floyd | Floyd | Your parents are gesturing for you to look behind you. Pearl! She too Floyd | is freed of her bird form, but couldn't be any lovelier than the Floyd | creature you beheld at first sight. She is wearing the wedding gown Floyd | you saw her working on in the ante chamber. "I finished it finally," Floyd | she says. Floyd | Floyd | Alongside her is a young woman whose arms you already know, but whose Floyd | face is new. She was the captive of the copper palace, now freed of Floyd | her avian shackles. You greet her and attempt to introduce her to Floyd | Pearl. "But I don't know your name," you confess. "I am Copper," she Floyd | replies. Floyd | Floyd | A girl in a silvery gown is standing on the other side of Pearl. You Floyd | cannot see her feet under her gown, but you imagine she was the bird Floyd | captive in the silver palace. She gives you a wink. Yes, that's her. Floyd | "And would you be Silver?" you ask her. "Yes, indeed, sugar!" Floyd | Floyd | Your brother Dimitri is here, no longer incognito. You can't tell yet Floyd | whether he's noticed your mother. Your allergist is at Dimitri's side, Floyd | trying to help him focus on the most important details of the scene. Floyd | Dimitri is more than a little bit unfocused. Floyd | Floyd | The head caterer has just come in from outside, where he is supervising Floyd | his staff in the preparation of a feast. Floyd | Floyd | The caterer's young serving wench is right behind him. She runs past Floyd | the caterer and straight up to Pearl. She bows low. "My lady, I look Floyd | like a serving girl, but I am in fact your younger sister, Elena." Floyd | "How can that be? My parents had but one child!" Floyd | "They were successful then in keeping my birth a secret from Floyd | Katschei." Floyd | "How did you come to this tsardom and to this low position?" Floyd | "When I was old enough, I asked our parents' permission to go off Floyd | and search for you. They would not allow a girl to adventure, even for Floyd | as noble a task. So I disguised myself as a peasant and escaped one Floyd | night." Floyd | "But you were not able to find me?" Floyd | "I had found Katschei's mountain and a route through the wilderness Floyd | from the forest by the time I heard that Ivan was being sent on the Floyd | task. When Vasilii told me he was going to find Ivan, I told him my Floyd | route to the steppe." Floyd | You overhear their conversation. "So that's how Vasilii was able to Floyd | sneak up on me!" you think to yourself. Floyd | There is no doubting that Pearl and Elena are sisters, so strong is Floyd | the resemblance. Pearl introduces you. "Ivan, without Elena I would Floyd | have never been able to find my parents again." Floyd | Floyd | Flo is here, dressed in her peasant best, beaming at you with Floyd | uncharacteristic pride. Floyd | Floyd | The teppanyaki chefs are here, gathered around a big pile of rags. Floyd | Floyd | It's no pile of rags: it's the baba yaga from the forest! She is Floyd | using her magical bag as a gift-wrapping service. You can hear her Floyd | schtick all the way from the front of the church: "You may put Floyd | whatever you dare in the bag. Choose carefully, my friends, for what Floyd | you put in the bag will never again be what it was." This is not Floyd | scaring the teppanyaki chefs much; they really only understand Floyd | Japanese, and the results are not very frightening; only gaily wrapped Floyd | presents are emerging from the bag. Floyd | Floyd | Finally, the archbishop of your father's tsardom is standing at the Floyd | altar. A tall elder with a long white beard, he is dressed today in Floyd | his best ceremonial robes. Floyd | Floyd | *** Your score just went up by 3 points. *** Floyd | Floyd | Your father takes you by the arm and mounts the few steps to the altar. Floyd | He calls for attention and instantly commands it. "Subjects, this is a Floyd | joyous day for me and for the tsardom. My son, Ivan, has destroyed the Floyd | wizard Katschei and freed his captives. One of the women held captive Floyd | was his mother, my wife. The others were all daughters stolen from the Floyd | rulers of nearby tsardoms, who will also rejoice when they hear this Floyd | news. To celebrate this occasion, I announce the betrothal of Ivan to Floyd | Katschei's bride-to-be, Pearl. Ivan, you and Pearl will be tsar and Floyd | tsarina over this tsardom in three years' time. As the first privilege Floyd | I will grant you as future tsar, you may choose a wife for each of your Floyd | brothers." [7] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "holy crapadoodle" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "ha" | ||||
| inky says, "that is a lot of text" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note 7" | ||||
Floyd | [7]: To marry them off, type the command in the form, "Dimitri, marry Floyd | Flo" (or whomever you choose). Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "also, as I recall, Bonnie put out a marry.t extension to let you put marrying people in your games" | |||
| Jacqueline wonders if inky says things like, "holy crapadoodle" in real life. | ||||
| inky says, "I stick to goodness gracious me in polite company" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "aw" | ||||
| DavidW says, "wow. That's a lot of text to absorb." | ||||
| JustineBirdlime says, "Yes, there is a marry.t extension that Chris was quite proud of. I think he posted it." | ||||
| inky says, "anyway, apparently we can marry our brothers off" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
Floyd | Enter data file to store: | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf8" | ||||
Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dimitri, marry vasili" | ||||
Floyd | Dimitri dutifully agrees to enter into a domestic partnership with Floyd | Vasilii. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha!" | |||
| DavidW says, "hm. I suppose Elana and .. ha ha" | ||||
| Ellison says, "hahaha" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I was not expecting that at all." | ||||
| inky says, "me neither" | ||||
| maga says, "those crazy Orthodox ceremonies" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I was gonna suggest Elena for Vasilii." | ||||
| JustineBirdlime says, "What can I say? Gay marriage was an issue in 1998 too." | ||||
| inky says, "oh, I see" | ||||
| inky says, "I thought Elena was *our* sister" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "vasili, marry elena" | ||||
Floyd | Vasilii is already spoken for. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | The Cathedral of Our Lady Floyd | You are in a magnificent yet completely familiar place. You have Floyd | known the Cathedral of Our Lady since you were very small. You have Floyd | marveled at the grandness of the architecture and taken comfort in the Floyd | small gestures of the priest in preparing the host for communion. Floyd | Today the nave is even more beautiful to behold. Swags of greens hang Floyd | between the columns, and flowers have been banked up around the altar Floyd | in abundance. Floyd | Your brother Vasilii is here. Floyd | Your mother, the former Firebird, is here, joyful in her return to Floyd | her place as tsarina and as your mother. Floyd | Your father is here, proud at witnessing your success and joyful Floyd | that his wife has been returned to him. Floyd | Pearl is standing near the altar, flanked by the girls who had been Floyd | held captive in the copper and silver palaces. Floyd | Copper is here, conversing quietly with Silver and Pearl. Floyd | Silver is very animated in her conversation with the other two Floyd | girls. She's certainly not a shy person. Floyd | Dimitri is here, a little overstimulated by all the people and the Floyd | surroundings. Floyd | Your allergist is here trying to focus Dimitri's attention on the Floyd | momentous events occurring in this room. Floyd | The caterer is taking a break from his preparations outside to see Floyd | how events are progressing in the cathedral. Floyd | Elena is here, a tsar's daughter (and Pearl's sister) in the Floyd | disguise of a serving wench. Floyd | Flo is here, dressed in her peasant best, beaming at you with Floyd | uncharacteristic pride. Floyd | The teppanyaki chefs are fascinated by the baba yaga's magical bag. Floyd | They are taking turns putting their battle knives and pepper mills into Floyd | the bag to give them to you as wedding presents. You sincerely hope Floyd | that they are wiping them off first. Floyd | The baba yaga is here, using her magical bag as a gift-wrapping Floyd | service. Floyd | The archbishop is here, waiting to start the wedding mass. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | The Cathedral of Our Lady Floyd | You are in a magnificent yet completely familiar place. You have Floyd | known the Cathedral of Our Lady since you were very small. You have Floyd | marveled at the grandness of the architecture and taken comfort in the Floyd | small gestures of the priest in preparing the host for communion. Floyd | Today the nave is even more beautiful to behold. Swags of greens hang Floyd | between the columns, and flowers have been banked up around the altar Floyd | in abundance. Floyd | Your brother Vasilii is here. Floyd | Your mother, the former Firebird, is here, joyful in her return to Floyd | her place as tsarina and as your mother. Floyd | Your father is here, proud at witnessing your success and joyful Floyd | that his wife has been returned to him. Floyd | Pearl is standing near the altar, flanked by the girls who had been Floyd | held captive in the copper and silver palaces. Floyd | Copper is here, conversing quietly with Silver and Pearl. Floyd | Silver is very animated in her conversation with the other two Floyd | girls. She's certainly not a shy person. Floyd | Dimitri is here, a little overstimulated by all the people and the Floyd | surroundings. Floyd | Your allergist is here trying to focus Dimitri's attention on the Floyd | momentous events occurring in this room. Floyd | The caterer is taking a break from his preparations outside to see Floyd | how events are progressing in the cathedral. Floyd | Elena is here, a tsar's daughter (and Pearl's sister) in the Floyd | disguise of a serving wench. Floyd | Flo is here, dressed in her peasant best, beaming at you with Floyd | uncharacteristic pride. Floyd | The teppanyaki chefs are fascinated by the baba yaga's magical bag. Floyd | They are taking turns putting their battle knives and pepper mills into Floyd | the bag to give them to you as wedding presents. You sincerely hope Floyd | that they are wiping them off first. Floyd | The baba yaga is here, using her magical bag as a gift-wrapping Floyd | service. Floyd | The archbishop is here, waiting to start the wedding mass. Floyd | Floyd | > | JustineBirdlime says, "But I see I called it a domestic partnership. I was not anticipating full married status for gays." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "vasili, marry elena" | ||||
Floyd | Vasilii dutifully agrees to marry Elena. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "let's hook Flo up" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "dimitri, marry baba yaga" | ||||
Floyd | Dimitri dutifully agrees to marry the baba yaga. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| DavidW says, "Either Copper, Silver, or Baba Yaga for Dimitri." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "archbishop, marry flo" | ||||
Floyd | Church law allows the archbishop to perform marriages, not get married. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "caterer, marry flo" | ||||
Floyd | The caterer consents to marry Flo. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Ellison says, "haha" | ||||
| inky says, "MARRIAGE FOR EVERYONE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "silver, marry chefs" | ||||
Floyd | This tsardom isn't ready for the concept of group marriage. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hee hee" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "chefs, marry copper" | ||||
Floyd | This tsardom isn't ready for the concept of group marriage. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "timing" | |||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "silver, marry altar" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "altar". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "silver, marry allergist" | ||||
Floyd | Silver consents to marry the allergist. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "father, marry mother" | ||||
Floyd | "Thanks for the suggestion, son, but I'm way ahead of you on that one." Floyd | He gives your mother an affectionate squeeze. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "that's our thanks to the allergist!" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "allergist, marry silver" | ||||
Floyd | Silver is already spoken for. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "This is great!" | |||
| maga says, "timing AGAIN" | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "copper, marry bag" | ||||
Floyd | Copper gives you an odd look. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "copper, marry copper" | ||||
Floyd | That would be awfully narcissistic. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "yay" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x page" | ||||
Floyd | I don't see any page here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "it is awesome this much loving detail has been invested in this" | |||
| Ellison says, "yeah, this marriage section could be its own Textfire game" | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says, "Wedding Planner!" | ||||
| Ellison says, "haha" | ||||
| DavidW says, "archbishop, start ceremony" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "archbishop, start ceremony" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "start". Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "whoah" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask archbishop about ceremony" | ||||
| McMartin says (to floyd), "archbishop, marry us" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "ceremony". Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | I don't know the word "us". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask archbishop about marriage" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "marriage". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask archbishop about marrying" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "marrying". Floyd | Floyd | > | McMartin says, "Whoops" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "marry" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to marry? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "archbishop, make it so" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "make". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "kiss pearl" | ||||
Floyd | You plant a big wet one on Pearl. Smack! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Sometime This Century: Your Wedding Floyd | You are in a magnificent yet completely familiar place. You have Floyd | known the Cathedral of Our Lady since you were very small. You have Floyd | marveled at the grandness of the architecture and taken comfort in the Floyd | small gestures of the priest in preparing the host for communion. Floyd | Today the nave is even more beautiful to behold. Swags of greens hang Floyd | between the columns, and flowers have been banked up around the altar Floyd | in abundance. Floyd | Your brother Vasilii is here. Floyd | Your mother, the former Firebird, is here, joyful in her return to Floyd | her place as tsarina and as your mother. Floyd | Your father is here, proud at witnessing your success and joyful Floyd | that his wife has been returned to him. Floyd | Pearl is standing near the altar, flanked by the girls who had been Floyd | held captive in the copper and silver palaces. Floyd | Copper is here, conversing quietly with Silver and Pearl. Floyd | Silver is very animated in her conversation with the other two Floyd | girls. She's certainly not a shy person. Floyd | Dimitri is here, a little overstimulated by all the people and the Floyd | surroundings. Floyd | Your allergist is here trying to focus Dimitri's attention on the Floyd | momentous events occurring in this room. Floyd | The caterer is taking a break from his preparations outside to see Floyd | how events are progressing in the cathedral. Floyd | Elena is here, a tsar's daughter (and Pearl's sister) in the Floyd | disguise of a serving wench. Floyd | Flo is here, dressed in her peasant best, beaming at you with Floyd | uncharacteristic pride. Floyd | The teppanyaki chefs are fascinated by the baba yaga's magical bag. Floyd | They are taking turns putting their battle knives and pepper mills into Floyd | the bag to give them to you as wedding presents. You sincerely hope Floyd | that they are wiping them off first. Floyd | The baba yaga is here, using her magical bag as a gift-wrapping Floyd | service. Floyd | The archbishop is here, waiting to start the wedding mass. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "archbishop, marry us" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "us". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "archbishop, marry" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want the archbishop to marry? Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "thought maybe we just had to cut to the end" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "hahaha" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get married" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "married". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "archbishop, marry God" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "god". Floyd | | Jacqueline asks, "Who should the archbishop wed?" | |||
Floyd | > | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "archbishop, marry all" | ||||
Floyd | busboy: Vasilii is already spoken for. Floyd | your mother: Church law allows the archbishop to perform marriages, Floyd | not get married. Floyd | your father: Church law allows the archbishop to perform marriages, Floyd | not get married. Floyd | Pearl: Church law allows the archbishop to perform marriages, not get Floyd | married. Floyd | Copper: Church law allows the archbishop to perform marriages, not get Floyd | married. Floyd | Silver: Silver is already spoken for. Floyd | masseur: He cannot get Dimitri's attention long enough to propose. Floyd | allergist: The allergist is already spoken for. Floyd | caterer: The caterer is already spoken for. Floyd | Pearl's sister Elena: Elena is already spoken for. Floyd | Flo: Flo is already spoken for. Floyd | teppanyaki chefs: Church law allows the archbishop to perform Floyd | marriages, not get married. Floyd | baba yaga: The baba yaga is already spoken for. Floyd | archbishop: That would be awfully narcissistic. Floyd | Floyd | > | JustineBirdlime says, "Or you could call the game "Renegade Mormon Compound," with some alteration of the rules." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah." | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "masseur, marry pearl" | ||||
Floyd | Dimitri is already spoken for. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "archbishop, begin" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "begin". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "archbishop, give mass" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "mass". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| vaporware says (to Floyd), "copper, marry pearl" | ||||
Floyd | "I won't marry anyone but you, Ivan!" Pearl declares firmly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get married" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "married". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask archbishop for marriage" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "marriage". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | Jacqueline says, "Hm." | |||
Floyd | You have a bow, a quiver, a mask, a comfy blanket, a mysteriously Floyd | transformed fork, a shovel, a shield, a bucket, a sword, a message from Floyd | your father, a sledgehammer, a list, a white flask, a black flask, a Floyd | matchbook, four iron claws, a censer, a feather (providing light), a Floyd | length of silver chain, and some medicinal herbs. The quiver seems to Floyd | contain an arrow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x archbishop" | ||||
Floyd | Leader of the church in your tsardom, counsellor to your family for Floyd | decades. Floyd | Floyd | > | JustineBirdlime asks, "Does the command Marry Pearl work?" | |||
| inky says, "it is weird to suddenly stall out here" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "marry pearl" | ||||
Floyd | Nuptial Bliss, Beneficient Reign Floyd | Pearl becomes your bride. The feasting is long and boisterous. On Floyd | the second day of feasting, the teppanyaki chefs outdo themselves in Floyd | giving the guests the show and the meal of their lives. There were few Floyd | casualties, and, luckily, none were among the guests. Floyd | Soon after your marriage you are able to travel to Pearl's home Floyd | tsardom. Her parents receive you, Pearl, and Elena with great joy. Floyd | They are happy to see that both of their daughters are settled in your Floyd | tsardom. Floyd | In three years' time, you indeed become tsar and Pearl your tsarina. Floyd | Your father retires with your mother to make up for their many long Floyd | years' separation. Your reign is a happy one with Pearl at your side. Floyd | As there is no male heir in Pearl's line, after several years, her Floyd | parents also retire and join their tsardom to yours. Floyd | Vasilii becomes your trusted advisor and friend, Dimitri does no Floyd | great additional damage, and together you three do justice to your Floyd | family's name as beneficient and kind men. Floyd | Floyd | In a total of 627 turns, you have achieved a score of 72 points out of Floyd | a possible 72. Floyd | Floyd | You have reached the end of the game, but luckily, in an adventure Floyd | game life, you can live it over again. Don't care for Japanese food? Floyd | You can defeat Katschei's knights without Vasilii and his chefs. Kill Floyd | Vasilii and see if you can enlist a more compact and efficient fighting Floyd | force. Floyd | You can even avoid marriage altogether if you get in touch with your Floyd | dark side. Choose the AMUSING option to get some hints on how to play Floyd | through these alternate endings and to find some other responses Floyd | throughout the game you may not have seen. Floyd | If you've gamed enough, but haven't had enough of these tales, here Floyd | are few books in which to enjoy more Russian folk stories: Floyd | Floyd | Duddington, Natalie, trans. Russian Folk Tales. New York: Funk & Floyd | Wagnalls, 1969. Floyd | Guterman, Norbert, trans. Russian Fairy Tales. New York: Pantheon Floyd | Books, 1945. Floyd | Onassis, Jacqueline, ed. The Firebird and Other Russian Fairy Floyd | Tales. New York: The Viking Press, 1978. Floyd | Simonov, Pyotr. Essential Russian Mythology. London: Thorsons, Floyd | 1997. Floyd | Wheeler, Post. Russian Wonder Tales. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, Floyd | 1957. Floyd | Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, undo the last move, see some Floyd | amusing alternatives to try the next time you play, or quit. | ||||
| Ellison says (to Floyd), "ask archbishop about mass" | DavidW says, "There must be a way to continue." | |||
Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, UNDO, AMUSING, or QUIT: > Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, UNDO, AMUSING, or QUIT: > | inky says, "hooray" | |||
| inky says (to JustineBirdlime), "thanks!" | ||||
| McMartin says, "Yay, happy endings" | ||||
| McMartin says (to floyd), "amusing" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Have you: Floyd | Floyd | shot the flicker multiple times? Floyd | Floyd | gone back to your father without the Firebird? Floyd | Floyd | brought a dead Firebird back to him? Floyd | Floyd | proposed to a horse? Floyd | Floyd | talked to the groom? Floyd | Floyd | referred to the water of life as "brandy"? Floyd | Floyd | kissed the maniac or led him to the baba yaga? Floyd | Floyd | eaten the rice pudding? Floyd | Floyd | kissed a ferryman? Floyd | Floyd | paid each ferryman's fare? Floyd | Floyd | flaunted the rules of the Ferrymen's Union? Floyd | Floyd | tried to wear claws as an amputee? Floyd | Floyd | grown back your stumps with the water of death? Floyd | Floyd | killed Vasilii? Floyd | Floyd | let Vasilii kill you? Floyd | Floyd | put a fork in the road? Floyd | Floyd | smelled the censer? Floyd | Floyd | not helped all the animals on the island (or helped only one or Floyd | two)? Floyd | Floyd | let the bear chew off his paw, then regrown it with the water of Floyd | death? Floyd | Floyd | put the otter in the pond? Floyd | Floyd | tripped in the presence of the chefs? Floyd | Floyd | fought the knights alone, then retreated to rethink your strategy? Floyd | Floyd | fought the knights with the maniac? Floyd | Floyd | given the egg to Katschei? or tried to marry him? Floyd | Floyd | commanded same-sex marriages to occur in the cathedral? Floyd | Floyd | tried to marry your mother (or anybody besides Pearl) in the Floyd | cathedral? Floyd | Floyd | examined Flo's grits? Floyd | Floyd | examined the chip (or your shoulder) at the beginning and end of the Floyd | game? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, undo the last move, see some Floyd | amusing alternatives to try the next time you play, or quit. Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, UNDO, AMUSING, or QUIT: > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "amusing" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Have you: Floyd | Floyd | shot the flicker multiple times? Floyd | Floyd | gone back to your father without the Firebird? Floyd | Floyd | brought a dead Firebird back to him? Floyd | Floyd | proposed to a horse? Floyd | Floyd | talked to the groom? Floyd | Floyd | referred to the water of life as "brandy"? Floyd | Floyd | kissed the maniac or led him to the baba yaga? Floyd | Floyd | eaten the rice pudding? Floyd | Floyd | kissed a ferryman? Floyd | Floyd | paid each ferryman's fare? Floyd | Floyd | flaunted the rules of the Ferrymen's Union? Floyd | Floyd | tried to wear claws as an amputee? Floyd | Floyd | grown back your stumps with the water of death? Floyd | Floyd | killed Vasilii? Floyd | Floyd | let Vasilii kill you? Floyd | Floyd | put a fork in the road? Floyd | Floyd | smelled the censer? Floyd | Floyd | not helped all the animals on the island (or helped only one or Floyd | two)? Floyd | Floyd | let the bear chew off his paw, then regrown it with the water of Floyd | death? Floyd | Floyd | put the otter in the pond? Floyd | Floyd | tripped in the presence of the chefs? Floyd | Floyd | fought the knights alone, then retreated to rethink your strategy? Floyd | Floyd | fought the knights with the maniac? Floyd | Floyd | given the egg to Katschei? or tried to marry him? Floyd | Floyd | commanded same-sex marriages to occur in the cathedral? Floyd | Floyd | tried to marry your mother (or anybody besides Pearl) in the Floyd | cathedral? Floyd | Floyd | examined Flo's grits? Floyd | Floyd | examined the chip (or your shoulder) at the beginning and end of the Floyd | game? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You may restore a saved game, start over, undo the last move, see some Floyd | amusing alternatives to try the next time you play, or quit. Floyd | Please enter RESTORE, RESTART, UNDO, AMUSING, or QUIT: > | inky says, "whoops, sorry" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (Undoing one command) Floyd | Floyd | Sometime This Century: Your Wedding Floyd | You are in a magnificent yet completely familiar place. You have Floyd | known the Cathedral of Our Lady since you were very small. You have Floyd | marveled at the grandness of the architecture and taken comfort in the Floyd | small gestures of the priest in preparing the host for communion. Floyd | Today the nave is even more beautiful to behold. Swags of greens hang Floyd | between the columns, and flowers have been banked up around the altar Floyd | in abundance. Floyd | Your brother Vasilii is here. Floyd | Your mother, the former Firebird, is here, joyful in her return to Floyd | her place as tsarina and as your mother. Floyd | Your father is here, proud at witnessing your success and joyful Floyd | that his wife has been returned to him. Floyd | Pearl is standing near the altar, flanked by the girls who had been Floyd | held captive in the copper and silver palaces. Floyd | Copper is here, conversing quietly with Silver and Pearl. Floyd | Silver is very animated in her conversation with the other two Floyd | girls. She's certainly not a shy person. Floyd | Dimitri is here, a little overstimulated by all the people and the Floyd | surroundings. Floyd | Your allergist is here trying to focus Dimitri's attention on the Floyd | momentous events occurring in this room. Floyd | The caterer is taking a break from his preparations outside to see Floyd | how events are progressing in the cathedral. Floyd | Elena is here, a tsar's daughter (and Pearl's sister) in the Floyd | disguise of a serving wench. Floyd | Flo is here, dressed in her peasant best, beaming at you with Floyd | uncharacteristic pride. Floyd | The teppanyaki chefs are fascinated by the baba yaga's magical bag. Floyd | They are taking turns putting their battle knives and pepper mills into Floyd | the bag to give them to you as wedding presents. You sincerely hope Floyd | that they are wiping them off first. Floyd | The baba yaga is here, using her magical bag as a gift-wrapping Floyd | service. Floyd | The archbishop is here, waiting to start the wedding mass. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x large chip" | ||||
Floyd | Funny, it's not there any longer... Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Great game. Can't believe I'd never heard of it. So glad to know it now." | |||
| inky says, "yay" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x flo's grits" | ||||
Floyd | I don't know the word "flo's". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x grits" | ||||
Floyd | Please, please, don't ask Flo to kiss them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "kiss grits" | ||||
Floyd | "Hey," screams Flo, "that's my line!" Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "yay" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "flo, kiss grits" | ||||
Floyd | "Hey," screams Flo, "that's my line!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says (to JustineBirdlime), "yup, it was definitely fun to visit this again. thanks for writing it" | |||
| Ellison says, "haha" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "We didn't use the waters of life or death at all, did we?" | ||||
| olethros asks, "what is this still going on?" | ||||
| Ellison says, "nope" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Perhaps unsurprisingly, maga has just asked me about wtf Flo's grits are all about." | ||||
| inky says, "the amusing makes it sound like you can regrow limbs with them" | ||||
| DavidW says, "sounds like, yeah." | ||||
| DavidW says, "That was really great. Everything I was hoping to see, too." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I want to try to get that 1-2-3 thing in my own game." | ||||
| olethros says, "a movie about weddings" | ||||
| JustineBirdlime says, "Thanks for letting me know you were playing it. Knowing that it's out there and still played is a great ego boost." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Thanks for writing it." | ||||
| McMartin says, "Yay games" | ||||
| inky says, "yeah, this was good" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes, thanks for writing it. It's obvious that it was quite a bit of work!" | ||||
| Ellison asks, "which 1-2-3 thing?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Also, if you like the cover art, tell Emily you approve of it being used for the game." | ||||
| JustineBirdlime says, "Chris Nebel and I live two blocks away from each other in San Jose. Our daughter Katie is eight. He was over this morning for Easter Egg hunt in the backyard. He'll be happy to hear you enjoyed some of his code." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Ellison), "Triples. The three brothers. The three ferrymen. The three castles and their prisoners. That sort of thing." | ||||
| Ellison says (to DavidW), "gotcha. yeah, good stuff" | ||||
| JustineBirdlime says, "That pattern of three is very common in folk tales." | ||||
| Ellison says (to JustineBirdlime), "I liked that you had a response to 'brood'... implementing verbs mentioned in the text is always good" | ||||
| DavidW says (to JustineBirdlime), "Jacqueline will eventually post the transcript of this session on her site. I'll kmail the url to you when that happens." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "Interesting. I use that line of thinking in my games w/r/t all nouns, but never thought about it for verbs." | ||||
| JustineBirdlime says, "Watching you play the game I see so many unimplemented verbs. Glad I caught some interesting ones." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm trying to write my own fairy tale game called The Fox, The Dragon, and The Stale Loaf of Bread, but I haven't written too much of it as yet." | ||||
| DavidW says, "But I definitely want that triple business in there." | ||||
| JustineBirdlime says, "DavidW, thanks again for alerting me. I'm glad I joined the clan." | ||||
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