  
 
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction. Below is a transcript of The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet, written by Graham Nelson. The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet was originally released as part of the 1996 IF Competition, where it took first place. It went on to be a Xyzzy awards finalist for Best Game, Best Individual Puzzle, Best Puzzles, and Best Writing. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki. WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page. |
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| Doe says (to Jacq), "yo" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Wow, Doe." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Hi!" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "How goes?" | ||||
| Doe says, "okay, updating my iffy web pages, so I can put them back up" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Excellent." | ||||
| Doe says, "yeah, AOL yanked my ftp space out from under me without telling me" | ||||
| Doe says, "not really surprised" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "I heard about that. You had it all backed up, right?" | ||||
| Jacqueline crosses her fingers. | ||||
| Doe says, "oh, yeah, even your what kind of doe photo are you" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "ha" | ||||
| Doe says, "which I have to put back up someday, hmmm, I should do it when I do all this" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It's a big undertaking, yeah." | ||||
| DavidW arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
| inky arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| Doe arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||||
| Doe says,"I'll just watch" | ||||
| Jacqueline says,"Hm, well, I won't be able to play right at first, unfortunately." | ||||
| Jacqueline says,"But will in short order." | ||||
| Jacqueline says,"I'll be here to get stuff kicked off, though, and I'm logging." | ||||
| Taleslinger arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||||
| Lucea arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| Lucea asks, "are we playing something?" | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "No, it's the Cabal meeting." | ||||
| inky says, "well, not for another three minutes" | ||||
| Jacqueline says,"Heh." | ||||
| Doe says, "I've only played this particular game half way I think" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Lucea), "Yes, we're playing The Meteor, the Stone, and the Long Glass of Sherbet." | ||||
| Lucea says, "Ah, OK" | ||||
| Taleslinger asks, "I can't understand Long Glass of Sherbert. Is that a drink?" | ||||
| Lucea says, "(I might have to leave in a few minutes, though. I don't want to mess up another transcript with having to go afk every 2 minutes)" | ||||
| Doe says (to Tales), "yes" | ||||
| Doe says (to Tales), "and there is no cabal :-)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says,"Okay, it's time." | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "Of course not." | ||||
| Doe says, "heh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says,"Please restrict conversation to the #ClubFloyd channel from this point on." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load sherbet" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [pausing to show unread error message] | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Meteor, The Stone And A Long Glass Of Sherbet Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [Please press SPACE to begin.] | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Another day wasted as guest of the Empress, a wretchedly long tour of Floyd | the breath-taking Boreal Falls, conducted as ever by the Lady Amilia. Floyd | As if she weren't bad enough, an honour guard of soldiers, their Floyd | breast-plates red in the setting sun, march ahead of the procession Floyd | and protect you from seeing anything unrehearsed. It's a dog's life Floyd | being an Ambassador. Floyd | Floyd | The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet Floyd | The Interactive Memoirs of a Diplomat Floyd | Copyright (c) 1996 by Angela M. Horns Floyd | Winning entry in the 1996 Interactive Fiction Competition Floyd | (Please type "help" if you would like instructions.) Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 961216 / Inform v6.10 Library 6/3 Floyd | Standard interpreter 1.0 Floyd | Floyd | Watling Street (in the cushioned basket) Floyd | The ancient paved road stretches for miles to the south, turning very Floyd | slowly to the northeast along a mossy stone wall. From up here on your Floyd | elephant's wickerwork basket, you're just level with the branches of Floyd | the old Imperial hunting woods inside the wall. Floyd | Floyd | Having been stuck in this cushioned basket with the Lady Amilia every Floyd | day for a fortnight, you're just desperate to get away. Floyd | Floyd | The procession of elephants shuffles on, their enormous soles slapping Floyd | onto the flagstones with a dull, regular boom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x amelia" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a fedora hat (being worn) Floyd | a hand telescope Floyd | Floyd | "I'm sure I've told you the scandal with the new Lord Chamberlain?..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x amilia" | ||||
Floyd | The terrifying thing about the Lady Amilia, a young woman who would Floyd | grace any court ball, is that even after an entire day like this she Floyd | shows no sign whatever of being bored. Even now she is reading the Floyd | guide book with apparent concentration, though you can't ever remember Floyd | her turning a page. Floyd | Floyd | "...such a disappointment for all concerned, quite honestly..." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, ">ASK AMILIA WHY SHE DOESN'T SPELL HER NAME THE NORMAL WAY" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x hat" | ||||
Floyd | (Amilia's hat) Floyd | Amilia is wearing a simply fatuous hat, a light summer shade which Floyd | would look quite presentable if it weren't for the waxwork grapes, Floyd | apples, plums, damsons and so on around the brim. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "my hat" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x my hat" | ||||
Floyd | (Amilia's hat) Floyd | Amilia is wearing a simply fatuous hat, a light summer shade which Floyd | would look quite presentable if it weren't for the waxwork grapes, Floyd | apples, plums, damsons and so on around the brim. Floyd | Floyd | "...which only means one thing..." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "..." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x fedora" | ||||
Floyd | A broad-brimmed light summer hat, ideal for shading your face from the Floyd | setting sun. Floyd | Floyd | A silken boy runs up from the rear of the procession, hands you each a Floyd | glass of sherbet and then allows himself to be caught up again before Floyd | boarding the last carriage at the rear of the elephant-train. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jota asks, "Oh, did it start already?" | |||
| inky says, "I guess it's a fedora and not a hat" | ||||
| Bert arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "show fedora to amilia" | ||||
Floyd | Lady Amilia is unimpressed. Floyd | Amilia fans herself with the guide book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask amilia about guide book" | ||||
Floyd | What Amilia doesn't know would fill a whole game in itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get book" | ||||
Floyd | Those seem to belong to Lady Amilia. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "throw glass at amilia" | ||||
Floyd | Oh, if only you could. A pity that the resulting incident could plunge Floyd | an entire continent into war, with the mighty Empire crushing your Floyd | tiny Duchy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "Hey, Sherbet." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x boy" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert says, "How Grahamic." | |||
| inky says, "I wonder what it means for the boy to be a silken boy" | ||||
| inky asks, "is he wrapped up in silk? or made from silk? or polished to silky smoothness?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x branches" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x woods" | ||||
Floyd | The walls do seem very secure. Surely a minor local law would have Floyd | been enough to keep the local peasants away? Floyd | Floyd | But then, by now you're quite sure it isn't just an ordinary hunting Floyd | estate. A pity this will probably be the closest you'll ever be Floyd | allowed to get... Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x branch" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x elephant" | ||||
Floyd | The magnificent grey beast is wrinkled and has a wise look (but then, Floyd | after an entire day of Amilia's conversation, your average potato Floyd | would have a wise look). His two great ears flap a little up at the Floyd | front sides of the basket, his trunk curls and pokes at the air. Floyd | Floyd | "Have I told you the rumour about the Empire's best racing donkey?..." Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe asks, "he's silken looking?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x basket" | ||||
Floyd | The basket has the usual complement of cushions, but if there were Floyd | anything among them you'd have bumped into it hours ago. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a glass of sherbet Floyd | a fedora hat (being worn) Floyd | a hand telescope Floyd | Floyd | "...such a terribly exciting moment for everybody..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search cushion" | ||||
Floyd | The basket has the usual complement of cushions, but if there were Floyd | anything among them you'd have bumped into it hours ago. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look through telescope" | ||||
Floyd | You must say what to look at through the telescope. Floyd | Floyd | "...just as my Mother always warned me..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "search amilia" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | Amilia fans herself with the guide book. Floyd | Floyd | At a whistle from the soldiers up ahead, the procession comes to an Floyd | ungainly halt. Floyd | Floyd | Customs Post (in the cushioned basket) Floyd | As the road passes around the corner of the woods and turns east, it Floyd | also passes a customs post. You're ten feet up, and the tasseled Floyd | pennant flag flutters down from the pole to curl around the basket in Floyd | the light breeze. Floyd | Floyd | The whole procession of elephants and carts is halted, and there is Floyd | much commotion. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "drink" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look at amilia through telescope" | ||||
Floyd | Lady Amilia is too close to you to make that worthwhile. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look at flag through telescope" | ||||
Floyd | The pennant flag is too close to you to make that worthwhile. Floyd | Floyd | "Have I told you how I couldn't get a single pair of shoes to fit, Floyd | last week?..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look at forest through telescope" | ||||
Floyd | You raise the brass telescope expertly to your eye, a dashing gesture Floyd | which never fails to make Amilia clap her hands with pleasure. Floyd | Somehow, though, Amilia also manages to nudge your arm so that you Floyd | can't get a clear look at the woods. Floyd | Floyd | "Don't fret," says Amilia, "we're only stopping a moment, it's just a Floyd | silly old routine I suppose, I mean they can see we aren't smugglers Floyd | or anything..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask amilia about smugglers" | ||||
Floyd | What Amilia doesn't know would fill a whole game in itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lucea says (to floyd), "x amilia" | ||||
Floyd | The terrifying thing about the Lady Amilia, a young woman who would Floyd | grace any court ball, is that even after an entire day like this she Floyd | shows no sign whatever of being bored. Even now she is reading the Floyd | guide book with apparent concentration, though you can't ever remember Floyd | her turning a page. Floyd | Floyd | The procession sluggishly resumes, taking some time to accelerate Floyd | again. You dread to imagine what a hill start would be like. Floyd | Floyd | Watling Street (in the cushioned basket) Floyd | The ancient highway stretches east as far as the eye can see, running Floyd | parallel with the mossy stone wall enclosing the hunting woods to the Floyd | south. The wall appears unbroken. To the north, vast meadowlands sweep Floyd | into a lush, cultivated valley. Floyd | Floyd | The procession of elephants shuffles on, their enormous soles slapping Floyd | onto the flagstones with a dull, regular boom. Floyd | Floyd | "...such a dreadful shame, all things considered..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "x wall" | ||||
Floyd | (the mossy wall) Floyd | The walls do seem very secure. Surely a minor local law would have Floyd | been enough to keep the local peasants away? Floyd | Floyd | But then, by now you're quite sure it isn't just an ordinary hunting Floyd | estate. A pity this will probably be the closest you'll ever be Floyd | allowed to get... Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "I wonder if we need a driver for this, given the "oops unwinable" mentality of Graham's other games." | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "look at wall through telescope" | ||||
Floyd | (the mossy wall through the hand telescope) Floyd | The mossy wall is too close to you to make that worthwhile. Floyd | Floyd | The procession runs over a small culvert bridge, which presents no Floyd | problem to the elephants. You glance down, and can't help thinking Floyd | something's wrong somewhere. Floyd | Floyd | "...I expect somebody was sorry, really..." Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "as I remember this one is hard until you do something or something happens" | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "look at estate through telescope" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I imagine we can make it unwinnable but I don't think having a single person leading will help much" | |||
| Taleslinger asks, "amilia about wall" | inky says, "probably better just to save frequently" | |||
| Lucea says, "I don't think it's unwinnable yet" | ||||
| inky clears the save counter. | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "ask amilia about wall" | ||||
Floyd | What Amilia doesn't know would fill a whole game in itself. Floyd | Floyd | Amilia fans herself with the guide book. Floyd | Floyd | Just for a moment, you catch a flickering glimpse of a bird up in the Floyd | higher branches of the woods. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "sorry, couldn't figure out if just inky was supposed to do it" | |||
| inky asks, "what me?" | ||||
| inky says, "I'm not supposed to do anything" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), " x bird" | ||||
Floyd | It's too far away to make out at all clearly, and it keeps moving. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "heh" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), " look at bird through telescope" | ||||
Floyd | You raise the brass telescope expertly to your eye, a dashing gesture Floyd | which never fails to make Amilia clap her hands with pleasure. Floyd | Although you only get one clear glimpse of the bird, its distinctive Floyd | speckled green and blue feathers must make it one of the legendary Floyd | Birds of Paradise. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm sure I've told you my mother's recipe for rhubarb pudding?..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tell amilia about bird" | ||||
Floyd | "Is that so? Heavens!" Floyd | Floyd | "...such a charming face, that's what I say..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask amilia about bird" | ||||
Floyd | What Amilia doesn't know would fill a whole game in itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "so I can give a command>" | |||
| Doe asks, "?" | ||||
| inky says, "of course" | ||||
| inky says, "type 'f command'" | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "drink sherbet" | ||||
Floyd | You sip at the fine sherbet, careful not to drink it all at once. It Floyd | has been chilled in a wooden cask of ice, and is the best news all Floyd | day. Floyd | Floyd | Giggling nervously, for she has been waiting for you to take a sip, Floyd | Amilia downs her sherbet with a quick snort (unfortunately literally, Floyd | and she sneezes). Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ew" | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "say eww" | ||||
Floyd | [To address somebody, please type "name, what you want to say". For Floyd | example: "amilia, hello".] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "amilia, eww" | ||||
Floyd | Amilia is baffled, but then she so often is. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "snog amilia" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "kiss amilia" | ||||
Floyd | Thank heavens, an Ambassador's duties only go so far. Floyd | Floyd | "...I expect somebody was sorry, really..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "nod" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | That was a rhetorical question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "yawn" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||||
Floyd | You aren't feeling especially drowsy. Floyd | Floyd | Amilia fans herself with the guide book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Watling Street (in the cushioned basket) Floyd | The ancient highway stretches east as far as the eye can see, running Floyd | parallel with the mossy stone wall enclosing the hunting woods to the Floyd | south. The wall appears unbroken. To the north, vast meadowlands sweep Floyd | into a lush, cultivated valley. Floyd | Floyd | A bird seems to be darting about in the tree-tops, vaguely following Floyd | the procession. Floyd | Floyd | The procession of elephants shuffles on, their enormous soles slapping Floyd | onto the flagstones with a dull, regular boom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "ask amilia about guidebook" | ||||
Floyd | What Amilia doesn't know would fill a whole game in itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "ask amilia about guide book" | ||||
Floyd | What Amilia doesn't know would fill a whole game in itself. Floyd | Floyd | "Surely I can't be the first to tell you about those scandalous Floyd | goings-on at the Royal Farm?..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give telescope to amilia" | ||||
Floyd | "Super!" Floyd | Floyd | She squints into the telescope, but picks the wrong end, and then Floyd | hands it back with a half-puzzled look. "Marvellous invention, what?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask amilia for guide book" | ||||
Floyd | "It's a jolly super guide book!" says Amilia gratuitously, as she Floyd | kindly passes it over. Fortified by years of training in the Floyd | diplomatic service, you thank her. Floyd | Floyd | "...such a horrid way to spend a Wednesday in the season..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "stand" | ||||
Floyd | It wouldn't be safe to dismount while the procession is under way. Floyd | Floyd | "...a nod's as good as a wink, after all..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "amilia, look at bird through telescope" | ||||
Floyd | Amilia thinks she disapproves of that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x guide book" | inky says, "wow, ask .. for" | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "take guide book" | ||||
Floyd | Enormously detailed with the useless and irrelevant, the Empress gave Floyd | it to you hoping you'd waste time studying it in detail. You have Floyd | vowed never to do so, but it's still handy for passing the odd dull Floyd | moment by looking up some specific local feature. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look up bird in book" | ||||
Floyd | The Northland Empire supports a rich and varied avian life. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look up bird of paradise in book" | ||||
Floyd | The Guide Book has a lovingly detailed section on birds of paradise, Floyd | which there is no time to read now. Apart from the plumage, it seems Floyd | these birds are distinguished by their mating call, a chirrup followed Floyd | by a coo. They live to be twenty years old, always return to their Floyd | first nest in midsummer and steal each others' eggs, but nobody knows Floyd | why. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "chirrup" | ||||
Floyd | Amilia hangs her head half on one side and flutters her eyelids, Floyd | puzzled. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "coo" | ||||
Floyd | Amilia really is bewildered now. But your mating call does seem to Floyd | have done the trick! The bird of paradise flutters down over the wall Floyd | to dance eagerly around your basket. Floyd | Floyd | Although clearly peeved by the lack of a significant other here, the Floyd | beautifully-plumed bird does (to your immense satisfaction) begin Floyd | pecking away at the wax fruit on the Lady Amilia's hat. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky says, "ok, I didn't actually remember that part" | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "Hehe." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x bird" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the Bird of Paradise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look through telescope at forest" | ||||
Floyd | You raise the brass telescope expertly to your eye. Somehow, though, Floyd | Amilia also manages to nudge your arm so that you can't get a clear Floyd | look at the woods. | Doe says, "I love Graham's little touches" | |||
Floyd | Floyd | Amilia hisses at the bird, without effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "dammit" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Watling Street (in the cushioned basket) Floyd | The ancient highway stretches east as far as the eye can see, running Floyd | parallel with the mossy stone wall enclosing the hunting woods to the Floyd | south. The wall appears unbroken. To the north, vast meadowlands sweep Floyd | into a lush, cultivated valley. Floyd | Floyd | The Bird of Paradise is still worrying away at Amilia's hat, so for Floyd | once your tour guide has her eyes off you. Floyd | Floyd | The procession of elephants shuffles on, their enormous soles slapping Floyd | onto the flagstones with a dull, regular boom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get feather" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | a glass of sherbet Floyd | a fedora hat (being worn) Floyd | a hand telescope Floyd | Floyd | Amilia hisses at the bird, without effect. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x elephant" | ||||
Floyd | The magnificent grey beast is wrinkled and has a wise look (but then, Floyd | after an entire day of Amilia's conversation, your average potato Floyd | would have a wise look). His two great ears flap a little up at the Floyd | front sides of the basket, his trunk curls and pokes at the air. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | It wouldn't be safe to dismount while the procession is under way. Floyd | Floyd | No matter what Amilia tries, the bird continues to hover. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x ears" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the right ear or the left ear? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "give sherbert to bird" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "give sherbet to bird" | ||||
Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull right ear" | ||||
Floyd | Amilia is too preoccupied to notice you doing this, giving the Floyd | elephant's ear a good tug. But he must be half-asleep on his feet, Floyd | after this long trudging day, and he shows no signs yet of waking up Floyd | for you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pour sherbet on elephant" | ||||
Floyd | As the icy liquid cascades over the elephant's great head, he bucks Floyd | and jumps, shaking his ears, thoroughly waking up. You have his Floyd | attention now all right. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull right ear" | ||||
Floyd | The elephant gives a huge trumpet and begins to charge right, straight Floyd | into the stone wall! The basket careers along with him, suddenly Floyd | lurches onto his side and is rapidly crushed between an elephant and a Floyd | hard place. Floyd | Floyd | Hopefully, you and Amilia will be sent to different departments of the Floyd | afterlife. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 2 out of a possible 30, in 56 turns, the kind Floyd | of score one would expect of an Embassy Clerk. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Watling Street Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says (to DavidW), "cool" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull left ear" | ||||
Floyd | The elephant gives a huge trumpet and begins to charge left down into Floyd | the meadowland! The basket is tossed around at high speed as you and Floyd | Amilia are taken for a nerve-wracking ride. Floyd | Floyd | By the time the bearers have got him under control again, the whole Floyd | procession has slewn out of line and is all over the valley. Casks are Floyd | overturned, cartwheels have rolled loose, axles have broken, the Floyd | animals are restive, and darkness is coming on. The expedition will Floyd | have to stop here for the night. Floyd | Floyd | Customs House Bedroom Floyd | The finest quarters they could find for a visiting Ambassador, at such Floyd | short notice: and much better than you'd have expected from a Floyd | provincial customs post. Presumably some very rich collector of Floyd | antiquities once slept here... The only exit is to east. Floyd | Floyd | The room is almost filled with a four-poster bed, caparisoned gaudily Floyd | as a warhorse. Floyd | Floyd | On the four-poster bed is The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Floyd | Northlands and Surrounding Provinces. Floyd | Floyd | A jade figurine nestles in an alcove, beneath a painting of Floyd | unparalleled beauty. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "got us off the elephant" | |||
| DavidW says, "yes." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Woo. I never made it past the elephant." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I didn't want you guys stuck there for a hour." | ||||
| Doe says (to Jacq), "me either, now that I recall it" | ||||
| Doe says, "aha, thanks" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'll go back to lurking for a bit. I'm still playing The Moon Watch." | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says, "ok, I wasn't sure if you were remembering that puzzle or not" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I did" | ||||
| inky says, "I was not solving it since I knew more or less how it worked" | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh. sorry." | ||||
| inky says, "oh no" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x painting" | ||||
Floyd | It depicts a wide cavern with a polished stone ledge on one shore of a Floyd | subterranean lake, dimly lit from above and ringed in with rock faces. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I mean, if we're going to get through this in two hours we had better not get stuck on the first puzzle for an hour" | |||
| DavidW says, "right" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x faces" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Lucea says, "I was not solving it becaues I didn't quite remember it. also I'm supposed to be working" | |||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x lake" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "that was enough elephant stuff anyway" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Customs House Bedroom Floyd | The finest quarters they could find for a visiting Ambassador, at such Floyd | short notice: and much better than you'd have expected from a Floyd | provincial customs post. Presumably some very rich collector of Floyd | antiquities once slept here... The only exit is to east. Floyd | Floyd | The room is almost filled with a four-poster bed, caparisoned gaudily Floyd | as a warhorse. Floyd | Floyd | On the four-poster bed is The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Floyd | Northlands and Surrounding Provinces. Floyd | Floyd | A jade figurine nestles in an alcove, beneath a painting of Floyd | unparalleled beauty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get guide" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x figurine" | ||||
Floyd | An exquisite antiquity. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger asks, "Did anyone apart from me not knoe the solution?" | |||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||||
Floyd | Nice try, but there's nothing under the bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | Nice try, but there's nothing under the bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "are we really getting points for stealing things from our bedroom?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x figurine" | ||||
Floyd | An exquisite antiquity. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't get out, because soldiers ("for your protection,
Floyd | Ambassador") are guarding the door.
Floyd |
Floyd | >
| ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up figurine in guide book" | ||||
Floyd | Annoyingly there's no index and you can't find what you want. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 4 out of a possible 30, in 67 turns, the kind Floyd | of score one would expect of a Third Secretary. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "eat guide" | ||||
Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "look up xyzzy in guide book" | ||||
Floyd | Annoyingly there's no index and you can't find what you want. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||||
Floyd | It looks highly inviting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "look up painting in guide book" | ||||
Floyd | Annoyingly there's no index and you can't find what you want. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Customs House Bedroom Floyd | The finest quarters they could find for a visiting Ambassador, at such Floyd | short notice: and much better than you'd have expected from a Floyd | provincial customs post. Presumably some very rich collector of Floyd | antiquities once slept here... The only exit is to east. Floyd | Floyd | The room is almost filled with a four-poster bed, caparisoned gaudily Floyd | as a warhorse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||||
Floyd | It looks highly inviting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x painting" | ||||
Floyd | It depicts a wide cavern with a polished stone ledge on one shore of a Floyd | subterranean lake, dimly lit from above and ringed in with rock faces. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look behind painting" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "x bed" | ||||
Floyd | It looks highly inviting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "move painting" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pull painting" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "move bed" | ||||
Floyd | Those are fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "x post" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "or, wait, maybe we are supposed to sleep" | |||
| DavidW says, "maybe" | ||||
| Doe says, "hmmm, yes bed is inviting" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lie on bed" | ||||
Floyd | You get into bed. Floyd | Floyd | Customs House Bedroom (on the four-poster bed) Floyd | A magnificent design is woven into the inside of the tapestry roof of Floyd | the bed, and the whole effect is sumptuous and comfortable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x roof" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x design" | ||||
Floyd | The design of a topiary garden, whose bushes and shaped hedges depict Floyd | a dragon, a unicorn, a great serpent and a huge misshapen dog. It is Floyd | signed "Leblank". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x design" | ||||
Floyd | The design of a topiary garden, whose bushes and shaped hedges depict Floyd | a dragon, a unicorn, a great serpent and a huge misshapen dog. It is Floyd | signed "Leblank". Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "heh" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sleep" | ||||
Floyd | You relax into a strange, dream-laced sleep. The Boreal Falls... Lady Floyd | Amilia, giggling wildly with a hysterical edge... your secret Floyd | briefing, back at the Duchy, when you were warned not to take anything Floyd | in the Empire at face value... and mages, sorcerers, enchanters, Floyd | powerful men from the Old Time... Floyd | Floyd | ...and suddenly you sit bolt upright, at the distant but unnerving Floyd | sound of the blowing of a horn. It's deep into the night but you're Floyd | now perfectly awake. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Customs House Bedroom (on the four-poster bed) Floyd | A magnificent design is woven into the inside of the tapestry roof of Floyd | the bed, and the whole effect is sumptuous and comfortable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You get off the four-poster bed. Floyd | Floyd | Customs House Bedroom Floyd | Floyd | The room is almost filled with a four-poster bed, caparisoned gaudily Floyd | as a warhorse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Customs House Bedroom Floyd | The finest quarters they could find for a visiting Ambassador, at such Floyd | short notice: and much better than you'd have expected from a Floyd | provincial customs post. Presumably some very rich collector of Floyd | antiquities once slept here... The only exit is to east. Floyd | Floyd | The room is almost filled with a four-poster bed, caparisoned gaudily Floyd | as a warhorse. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | (The soldiers who guarded this door must have gone off duty some hours Floyd | ago.) Floyd | Floyd | Upstairs Landing Floyd | Stairs descend to the ground floor, and one doorway leads west, into Floyd | your bedroom. Floyd | Floyd | The rich brocade curtains of the window here are drawn. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "now we're talkin'" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x curtains" | ||||
Floyd | Perhaps you should open the curtains and then see what you can see. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open curtains" | ||||
Floyd | You open the curtains, and look out on a deserted Watling Street, the Floyd | mossy wall, the woods beyond. Somewhere in the distance, from the Floyd | centre of the woods, is an unearthly green glow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x woods" | ||||
Floyd | You can't make out much from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x glow" | ||||
Floyd | You can't make out much from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I should sleep with my telescope at all times, just in case" | |||
| Doe says (to floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | You are in the kitchen of the white-painted Customs House. The table Floyd | here looks as if it hasn't been used for the preparation of food in Floyd | years. A passage leads to the west and a dark staircase can be seen Floyd | leading upward. There is a fine, modern charcoal-stove and to the Floyd | east, the front door is closed. Floyd | Floyd | On the kitchen table is a small wickerwork hamper (which is closed). Floyd | Floyd | A joint of cured ham hangs from a hook in the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get ham" | ||||
Floyd | You just, right up on tiptoe, succeed in dislodging the ham from its Floyd | hook. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get hamper" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Perhaps a tall glass of sherbet fell from the sky!" | |||
| inky says, "this will provide us an alibi -- we'll claim we needed a midnight snack" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x stove" | ||||
Floyd | This immaculate black iron stove, just the size of the fireplace, has Floyd | been very well cleaned and has that elusive "never used" look. It is a Floyd | modern, de luxe charcoal stove, embellished with iron hoops and Floyd | designs around the edge. The stove is currently closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open stove" | ||||
Floyd | You open the stove. There is no charcoal inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search stove" | ||||
Floyd | The black-iron stove is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x designs" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x design" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "open hamper" | ||||
Floyd | Thoughtfully, someone has provided you with breakfast. Floyd | Floyd | In the small wickerwork hamper are some provisions - an apple, a hunk Floyd | of cheese and a clove of garlic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | You are in a stately and well-aged living room. There is a doorway to Floyd | the east, leading back into the kitchen, a trophy case, and a large Floyd | oriental rug in the center of the room. Floyd | Floyd | A brass lantern rests on top of the trophy case. Floyd | Floyd | You are very relieved to see that your Ambassador's trunk is still Floyd | here, just where you left it last night. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "put ham in hamper" | ||||
Floyd | You put the joint of cured ham into the small wickerwork hamper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get lantern" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x trunk" | ||||
Floyd | This little trunk (one foot by one foot by six inches) is an Floyd | immaculate example of Duchy craftsmanship at its finest. The latch Floyd | mechanism is so intricate that only its owner can open it. Turning out Floyd | fine products like this is the very lifeblood of your native land. Floyd | Floyd | So why do you keep suspecting that somebody has opened and searched Floyd | it? Surely only a wizard could have done so, and the days of the Floyd | wizards are long gone, back even before the foundation of the Old Floyd | Underground Empire! Unless... the rumours are true. Has magic been Floyd | rediscovered here? Floyd | Floyd | You'd better find out, because in a world of magic no-one's going to Floyd | want mechanisms like this any more. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open trunk" | ||||
Floyd | Expertly sliding your fingers along the sequence of hidden catches, Floyd | you trigger the mechanism and the trunk-lid gracefully raises. Floyd | Floyd | In the Ambassador's trunk are a hand telescope, your formal Floyd | credentials and a coil of light rope. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x rope" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the coil of light rope. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x credentials" | ||||
Floyd | "To whom it may concern... granted plenipotentiary powers Floyd | notwithstanding... most excellent and serene Highness..." and so on. Floyd | The froth which covers any diplomat's life. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "man, no description on the rope" | |||
| Doe says (to floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | trophy case: That's hardly portable. Floyd | oriental rug: That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "it is hard to believe everyone was surprised this was graham at the time" | |||
| Doe asks (of inky), "where they?" | ||||
| inky says, "that is my recollection" | ||||
| inky says, "perhaps it is incorrect" | ||||
| Doe says, "yeah, think you're right" | ||||
| Doe says, "but the writing, I think becAuse it was fairly short" | ||||
| inky says, "actually the cultural norms of locks with a society that has rezrov are kind of interesting" | ||||
| inky says, "like locks become all courtesy locks like on the bathroom" | ||||
| inky says, "not things intended to actually keep people out" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | There's a hook in the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open front door" | ||||
Floyd | They seem to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "verose" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||||
Floyd | The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet is now in its Floyd | "verbose" mode, which always gives long descriptions of locations Floyd | (even if you've been there before). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x front door" | ||||
Floyd | As secure as you could ever hope for. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | You are in a stately and well-aged living room. There is a doorway to Floyd | the east, leading back into the kitchen, a trophy case, and a large Floyd | oriental rug in the center of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x trophy case" | ||||
Floyd | According to a plaque, it's a genuine early Empire trophy case, a real Floyd | antique. At that time, it was fashionable to collect precious items Floyd | and display them in one's own home, in just such a case. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||||
Floyd | As you open the old trophy case, which is so stiff it can't have been Floyd | opened in years, something shiny falls out into your hand. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe asks, "is she actually going to take a trunk around with her?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | your Ambassador's trunk (which is open) Floyd | a hand telescope Floyd | your formal credentials Floyd | a coil of light rope Floyd | a brass lantern Floyd | a small wickerwork hamper (which is open) Floyd | some provisions - a joint of cured ham, an apple, a hunk of cheese Floyd | and a clove of garlic Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | two ancient treasures: Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "are we? of course" | |||
| inky says, "we're adventurers" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x scarab" | ||||
Floyd | A finely-worked filigree gold and jewelled scarab. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "heh" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look under rug" | ||||
Floyd | With a great effort, the rug is moved to one side of the room, Floyd | revealing a seamless wooden floor. Floyd | Floyd | Somewhat embarrassed, you move the rug back again. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "dangit" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Living Room Floyd | You are in a stately and well-aged living room. There is a doorway to Floyd | the east, leading back into the kitchen, a trophy case, and a large Floyd | oriental rug in the center of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | You are in the kitchen of the white-painted Customs House. The table Floyd | here looks as if it hasn't been used for the preparation of food in Floyd | years. A passage leads to the west and a dark staircase can be seen Floyd | leading upward. There is a fine, modern charcoal-stove and to the Floyd | east, the front door is closed. Floyd | Floyd | There's a hook in the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "This game is influenced by Zork, somewhat." | |||
| inky says, "heh" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "move stove" | ||||
Floyd | You can hardly move the stove, and anyway it's already backed onto the Floyd | fireplace and won't push inward. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the kitchen table. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x fireplace" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pull stove" | ||||
Floyd | The stove budges fractionally, but is so heavy that you can hardly get Floyd | it to move at all by hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | your Ambassador's trunk (which is open) Floyd | a hand telescope Floyd | your formal credentials Floyd | a coil of light rope Floyd | a brass lantern Floyd | a small wickerwork hamper (which is open) Floyd | some provisions - a joint of cured ham, an apple, a hunk of cheese Floyd | and a clove of garlic Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | two ancient treasures: Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe asks, "we get the shiny thing?" | |||
| inky says, "yeah, the scarab" | ||||
| Doe says, "okay" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 6 out of a possible 30, in 122 turns, the kind Floyd | of score one would expect of a Third Secretary. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 0 out of a possible 30, in 24 turns, the kind Floyd | of score one would expect of the Embassy Stablehand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "harsh but fair" | |||
| Doe says, "okay, another room or out" | ||||
| inky says, "well, I don't know where to go" | ||||
| inky says, "the front doors are locked, though maybe we can pick the lock" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | your Ambassador's trunk (which is open) Floyd | a hand telescope Floyd | your formal credentials Floyd | a coil of light rope Floyd | a brass lantern Floyd | a small wickerwork hamper (which is open) Floyd | some provisions - a joint of cured ham, an apple, a hunk of cheese Floyd | and a clove of garlic Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | two ancient treasures: Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | You are in the kitchen of the white-painted Customs House. The table Floyd | here looks as if it hasn't been used for the preparation of food in Floyd | years. A passage leads to the west and a dark staircase can be seen Floyd | leading upward. There is a fine, modern charcoal-stove and to the Floyd | east, the front door is closed. Floyd | Floyd | There's a hook in the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh!" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tie rope to stove" | ||||
Floyd | You make a secure little knot. It is now tied to the black-iron stove. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "pull hook" | ||||
Floyd | The hook's too high for you to touch, even on tiptoe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put rope on hook" | ||||
Floyd | You need to be holding the length of light rope before you can put it Floyd | on top of something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tie rope to hook" | ||||
Floyd | The rope's already tied to the black-iron stove. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pull rope" | ||||
Floyd | You pull hard on the rope, and the stove budges fractionally, but the Floyd | enormous friction of its flat base on the floor stops you from getting Floyd | anywhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | your Ambassador's trunk (which is open) Floyd | a hand telescope Floyd | your formal credentials Floyd | a brass lantern Floyd | a small wickerwork hamper (which is open) Floyd | some provisions - a joint of cured ham, an apple, a hunk of cheese Floyd | and a clove of garlic Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | two ancient treasures: Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x ham" | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "climb rope" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the joint of cured ham. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | But the rope leads neither up nor down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cheese" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the hunk of cheese. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take rope" | ||||
Floyd | You can't take the rope; it's tied to the black-iron stove. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "greese" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "grease" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put cheese on floor" | ||||
Floyd | You haven't got that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "rub cheese on floor" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to rub the hunk of cheese. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "rub cheese" | ||||
Floyd | You achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put rope over hook" | ||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lift stove" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put rope on hook" | ||||
Floyd | You need to be holding the length of light rope before you can put it Floyd | on top of something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hrm" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "untie rope" | ||||
Floyd | You untie the rope. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "yeah a pully to move the stove" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take rope" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put rope on hook" | ||||
Floyd | The hook's too high for you to touch, even on tiptoe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on table" | ||||
Floyd | That would be unhygienic. Anyway, the table is not underneath anything Floyd | interesting, so no benefit would accrue. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "move table" | ||||
Floyd | The kitchen table seems securely fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "move bench" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x chair" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on oven" | ||||
Floyd | There's no room to comfortably do so. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "durf" | |||
| Doe says (to floyd), "drop trunk" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on case" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "close trunk" | ||||
Floyd | You close the clasps carefully, and the trunk seals itself. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand on trunk" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "good call" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | You are in the kitchen of the white-painted Customs House. The table Floyd | here looks as if it hasn't been used for the preparation of food in Floyd | years. A passage leads to the west and a dark staircase can be seen Floyd | leading upward. There is a fine, modern charcoal-stove and to the Floyd | east, the front door is closed. Floyd | Floyd | There's a hook in the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see your Ambassador's trunk (which is closed) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "hmmm" | |||
| inky says, "aw c'mon" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop basket" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "stand on it" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "stand on trunk" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a length of light rope Floyd | a brass lantern Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | two ancient treasures: Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I don't remember it being this irritating" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw rope at hook" | ||||
Floyd | You throw the rope up. Its two ends are now hanging from the hook. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "woot" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tie rope to oven" | ||||
Floyd | You make a secure little knot. It now runs from the black-iron stove Floyd | up and over the hook, from which the loose end dangles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull rope" | ||||
Floyd | Pulling hard on the rope, you have enough leverage to slightly lift Floyd | the stove, and it comes aside towards the centre of the kitchen. Floyd | Floyd | Behind the stove, it seems, was a much older chimney, an original Floyd | feature of the Customs House. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get hamper and trunk" | ||||
Floyd | small wickerwork hamper: Taken. Floyd | Ambassador's trunk: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take trunk" | ||||
Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x chimney" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the original chimney. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in it" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "pull rope" | ||||
Floyd | A second pull does no good. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get rope" | ||||
Floyd | You can't take the rope; it's tied to the black-iron stove. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "untie rope" | ||||
Floyd | You untie the rope. Its two ends are now hanging from the hook. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get rope" | ||||
Floyd | (first pulling the rope off the hook) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter chimney" | ||||
Floyd | As dazzling as you may be in the conference chamber, down a chimney Floyd | you're as mortal as anyone else. It looks extremely dangerous to climb Floyd | down in darkness without anything holding you safe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "aha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tie rope to stove" | ||||
Floyd | You make a secure little knot. It is now tied to the black-iron stove. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "light lamp" | ||||
Floyd | You light the lantern. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | The stairs lead back up, and there's a doorway west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter chimney" | ||||
Floyd | As dazzling as you may be in the conference chamber, down a chimney Floyd | you're as mortal as anyone else. It looks extremely dangerous to climb Floyd | down in darkness without anything holding you safe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tie rope to me" | ||||
Floyd | You tie the rope around you. One end is tied around you, and the other Floyd | to the black-iron stove. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter chimney" | ||||
Floyd | You pull hard on the rope, and the stove budges fractionally, but the Floyd | enormous friction of its flat base on the floor stops you from getting Floyd | anywhere. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "uhhh" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You abseil down the chimney, securely held by the rope, though you Floyd | have to untie yourself to drop down the last foot or so. Floyd | Floyd | Cellars Floyd | At the foot of the chimney are low and grimy cellars, built of Floyd | decaying brickwork and seemingly unused for years. There are no Floyd | bottles, or crates, unless they're stored through the passage to the Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | Your length of rope is here. Its tail is just visible at the foot of Floyd | the chimney. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "geez whatever" | |||
| DavidW says, "It's an old game." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x brickwork" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I guess so" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x brickwork" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bricks" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "we used to put up wiht a lot more difficult puzzles" | |||
| DavidW says, "we did" | ||||
| Doe says, "then puzzleless if came along and we got lazy" | ||||
| Doe says (to DavidW), "yeah, like INfocom" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "hm. Is it simply not listing any exits?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | There are no other obvious exits, only south or back up the chimney. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Low Junction Floyd | This is a low junction among cavities in the foundation stones of the Floyd | ancient Watling Street, which must run just overhead. Floyd | Floyd | A north-south passage narrows considerably and descends to the south Floyd | under a long lintel-stone; a side passage, northwest, is much more Floyd | earthy. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "watling street?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x lintel" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the lintel-stone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x stones" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bubbling Pool Floyd | This is a red-brown earthy bole, a cavity in hardened soil with but a Floyd | single crawl leading out to the southeast. The ground is covered with Floyd | autumn leaves, russet and variegated. Floyd | Floyd | In the centre is a bubbling pool of spring water, glinting with shades Floyd | and flickers of green phosphoresence. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Watling street was the street we were on with the elephant, I think." | |||
| inky says, "aha" | ||||
| inky says, "man, it makes me a little nervous to think elephants were walking over ground that wasn't totally solid" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pool" | ||||
Floyd | You can make out nothing inside the pool. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x leaves" | ||||
Floyd | The leaves have the weight of many autumns, many winds, in their Floyd | delicate hue. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "yeah right, as if there is nothing in this pool" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search pool" | ||||
Floyd | You can make out nothing inside the pool. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "count leaves" | ||||
Floyd | There are 16,339 leaves. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Fang arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | Fang asks, "what are we playing, and how long ago did we start?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Obviously, we need to add more leaves. :)" | ||||
| inky says, "meteor, stone, long class of sherbet" | ||||
| Doe asks, "btw, do we have an objective?" | ||||
| inky says, "er, glass" | ||||
| inky says, "and we started 38 minutes ago" | ||||
| inky says (to Doe), "I don't think so" | ||||
| Doe says, "I ahven't seen one" | ||||
| inky says (to Doe), "it's one of those "our character has a mission but didn't bother to tell us" games" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Doe), "Finding that glowing thing, perhaps. Also, find out if magic has returned." | ||||
| Doe says, "I thought so :-) heh" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bubbling Pool Floyd | This is a red-brown earthy bole, a cavity in hardened soil with but a Floyd | single crawl leading out to the southeast. The ground is covered with Floyd | autumn leaves, russet and variegated. Floyd | Floyd | In the centre is a bubbling pool of spring water, glinting with shades Floyd | and flickers of green phosphoresence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| crumple arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search leaves" | ||||
Floyd | Turning through the leaves, you come across a precious platinum egg! Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by two points.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drink water" | ||||
Floyd | The water is imbued with something... what? A taste of blackcurrant Floyd | and the scent of morning fire-ash. Whatever it is, it's naturally Floyd | carbonated and you hiccup. Floyd | Floyd | In fact, you feel quite light-headed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x egg" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the platinum egg. Floyd | Floyd | You're beginning to feel dangerously unsteady on your feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "whoops, maybe that was dumb" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | ...And suddenly, there is the Power! It crackles through your whole Floyd | body, sparking at your fingernails and toenails, sending shivers along Floyd | your limbs. You feel suddenly afraid to imagine, afraid that you can Floyd | no longer tell imagination from reality. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "woooooo" | |||
| inky says, "maybe maybe not" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "zap stuff" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "hmmm, we became maagical" | |||
| DavidW | Unless... the rumours are true. Has magic been rediscovered here? You'd better find out, because in a world of magic no-one's going to want mechanisms like this any more. | ||||
| Doe says, "must be something magical we can do" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "x egg" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the platinum egg. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | your Ambassador's trunk (which is closed) Floyd | a small wickerwork hamper (which is open) Floyd | some provisions - a joint of cured ham, an apple, a hunk of cheese Floyd | and a clove of garlic Floyd | a brass lantern (providing light) Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | three ancient treasures: Floyd | a platinum egg Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "x scarab" | ||||
Floyd | A finely-worked filigree gold and jewelled scarab. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "x figurine" | ||||
Floyd | An exquisite antiquity. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe asks, "rub something?" | |||
| inky says, "my recollection is that we can memorize and cast spells enchanter-style" | ||||
| inky says, "so let's go look for a scroll" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The only passage out of this earthy bole is southeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Low Junction Floyd | This is a low junction among cavities in the foundation stones of the Floyd | ancient Watling Street, which must run just overhead. Floyd | Floyd | A north-south passage narrows considerably and descends to the south Floyd | under a long lintel-stone; a side passage, northwest, is much more Floyd | earthy. Floyd | Floyd | Still not quite yourself, you trip over slightly, banging your head on Floyd | the lintel. Involuntarily you curse out the word "jilnix", a word Floyd | you're almost certain you've never heard before! Floyd | Floyd | There is a horrid surge of power as you feel your mind creating a Floyd | surge of motion. A dark cloud of bat-like insects clashes with the Floyd | clear air around you, purposeless and malevolent. Only by great effort Floyd | of will can you abolish them. Floyd | Floyd | One thing seems clear. The Old Magic has returned. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "aha, cool" | |||
| inky says, "...like that" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spells" | ||||
Floyd | The jilnix spell is indelibly etched on your memory. Other than that, Floyd | you have no spells memorised. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x jilnix" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "!" | |||
| inky asks, "isn't that supposed to work?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "what is jilnix" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "jilnix" | ||||
Floyd | As your brows frown, the air around you gathers with vile winged Floyd | insects, fluttering angrily about you for a moment. But nothing Floyd | results from this, and they dissipate again. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Perhaps you can't examine your memory, only from a spellbook or scroll." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x memory" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "recall jilnix" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Maybe insects eat leaves?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Bubbling Pool Floyd | This is a red-brown earthy bole, a cavity in hardened soil with but a Floyd | single crawl leading out to the southeast. The ground is covered with Floyd | autumn leaves, russet and variegated. Floyd | Floyd | In the centre is a bubbling pool of spring water, glinting with shades Floyd | and flickers of green phosphoresence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "jilnix" | ||||
Floyd | As your brows frown, the air around you gathers with vile winged Floyd | insects, fluttering angrily about you for a moment. But nothing Floyd | results from this, and they dissipate again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Low Junction Floyd | This is a low junction among cavities in the foundation stones of the Floyd | ancient Watling Street, which must run just overhead. Floyd | Floyd | A north-south passage narrows considerably and descends to the south Floyd | under a long lintel-stone; a side passage, northwest, is much more Floyd | earthy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You duck your head under the lintel-stone. Floyd | Floyd | Passage Under the Wall Floyd | A narrow passage, running north to south under solid sandstone blocks Floyd | which must make up the base of the wall. Further south, the passage Floyd | runs onto what seems to be a ledge, and you have a sense of space Floyd | opening up from below. Floyd | Floyd | The Old Underground Empire awaits! Floyd | Floyd | A watchful oil-snake coils and uncoils itself restlessly, occupying Floyd | its territory but making no move towards you as yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "jilnix" | ||||
Floyd | As your brows frown, the air around you gathers with vile winged Floyd | insects, fluttering angrily about you for a moment. But nothing Floyd | results from this, and they dissipate again. | DavidW asks, "Did anyone search the leaves?" | |||
Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "yeah, we found the egg" | |||
| DavidW says, "ah. okay" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x snake" | ||||
Floyd | It has a lean and hungry look. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "jilnix snake" | ||||
Floyd | As your brows frown, the air around you gathers with vile winged Floyd | insects, which surge forward to plague the oil-snake. It recoils Floyd | (literally) backward, retreating south through the passage until out Floyd | of sight! Your insects dissipate, their work done. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "ah ha" | |||
| DavidW says (to Fang), "woot!" | ||||
| Fang says, "I guess the spells work with subjects, then" | ||||
| inky says, "excellent" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Topmost Ledge Floyd | This is a slate-littered shelf high up at the northwest eaves of a Floyd | dark, vaulted cave, from which a meadow-fresh breeze blows. The ledge Floyd | broadens down a slab "staircase" to the east but wastes away into a Floyd | tight squeeze southwest. Natural passages extend like tendrils into Floyd | the rock all around this cavern, but only one is accessible from here, Floyd | back north under the lintel. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging down toward the dim, distant cave floor is a flourishing, Floyd | inverted cedar, its roots grappling the roof, its nearest outflung Floyd | branch a good 10 feet across the abyss from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "look at hole" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "whoops, sorry" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Under the Wall Floyd | A narrow passage, running north to south under solid sandstone blocks Floyd | which must make up the base of the wall. Further south, the passage Floyd | runs onto what seems to be a ledge, and you have a sense of space Floyd | opening up from below. Floyd | Floyd | The Old Underground Empire awaits! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "maybe not significant space" | |||
| Doe says, "go ahead" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Topmost Ledge Floyd | This is a slate-littered shelf high up at the northwest eaves of a Floyd | dark, vaulted cave, from which a meadow-fresh breeze blows. The ledge Floyd | broadens down a slab "staircase" to the east but wastes away into a Floyd | tight squeeze southwest. Natural passages extend like tendrils into Floyd | the rock all around this cavern, but only one is accessible from here, Floyd | back north under the lintel. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging down toward the dim, distant cave floor is a flourishing, Floyd | inverted cedar, its roots grappling the roof, its nearest outflung Floyd | branch a good 10 feet across the abyss from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "right" | |||
| inky says, "this is a weird room description" | ||||
| Taleslinger asks, "isn't cedar a cheese?" | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "x tree" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the inverted cedar. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I guess we can go e or sw" | |||
| DavidW says, "Cedars are trees." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Low Crawl Floyd | It looks as if this low passage from the northeast peters out into a Floyd | dead end not far west, but a muddy slide-passage descends to the Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | A flat stick, curved around a right angle, rests on the ground here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x stick" | ||||
Floyd | A flat curved stick, but one that has been well-crafted to some end. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get stick" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw stick" | ||||
Floyd | There's not really enough room in this cramped space to throw the Floyd | stick, since you'd really need to pull your arm right back and swing Floyd | hard. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Cheddar is a cheese." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look south" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "sounds like a hockey stick" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "play hockey" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "oops, my bad." | |||
| inky says, "boomerang, I am guessing" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Half Cave Floyd | This is only half a cave; the eastern half, to be exact. It's a dark Floyd | place full of crevices (you would have missed the slide passage back Floyd | north if you hadn't already known about it); chief among them a Floyd | distinctive triangular cavity, 1 foot or so high, and blocked by a Floyd | rough quartz window. Floyd | Floyd | What divides this cave is a solid, floor-to-ceiling stone wall running Floyd | north to south, masoned with mortar and seemingly recent. You feel Floyd | quite certain that the cave continues. Floyd | Floyd | A shard of pottery glints slightly in the mud floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "boomerangs are like lockpicks in that they are much easier to use in IF games than in real life" | |||
| DavidW says, "heh. yes." | ||||
| Doe says, "yup, heh" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x pottery" | ||||
Floyd | The remains of a pot perhaps two feet across and two thousand years Floyd | old. (Held up to the light, it has a faint glint from having being Floyd | baked with mica.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "x pottery" | ||||
Floyd | The remains of a pot perhaps two feet across and two thousand years Floyd | old. (Held up to the light, it has a faint glint from having being Floyd | baked with mica.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "get it" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Unlike swimming, where it's always easier in real life." | |||
| Doe says, "swimining is hard to do well in I" | ||||
| Doe says, "IF" | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "rope-climbing is easier in IF" | ||||
| Doe says, "oh, right, MUCH easier" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Half Cave Floyd | This is only half a cave; the eastern half, to be exact. It's a dark Floyd | place full of crevices (you would have missed the slide passage back Floyd | north if you hadn't already known about it); chief among them a Floyd | distinctive triangular cavity, 1 foot or so high, and blocked by a Floyd | rough quartz window. Floyd | Floyd | What divides this cave is a solid, floor-to-ceiling stone wall running Floyd | north to south, masoned with mortar and seemingly recent. You feel Floyd | quite certain that the cave continues. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x wall" | ||||
Floyd | (the masoned wall) Floyd | You see nothing special about the masoned wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "And abseiling chimneys." | |||
| inky says, "hrm, interesting" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | The window itself, perhaps, was the work of primitive cave dwellers Floyd | long ago. Whoever they were, they seem to have cut some kind of cavity Floyd | to the east, behind the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cavity" | ||||
Floyd | Tantalisingly, you can only see darkness within. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | The quartz window in the east wall is only 1 foot high, in addition to Floyd | being apparently unbreakable. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "casting spells" | |||
| inky asks, "a quartz window was the work of primitive cave dwellers?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "jilnix cavity" | DavidW says (to inky), "please" | |||
Floyd | The cavity can't be reached from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "jilnix window" | ||||
Floyd | As your brows frown, the air around you gathers with vile winged Floyd | insects, which surge forward to plague the quartz window. But nothing Floyd | results from this, and they dissipate again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put lamp in window" | ||||
Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "open window" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look through window" | ||||
Floyd | Tantalisingly, you can only see darkness within. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "push window" | ||||
Floyd | The quartz is rough, and also tough. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "pull it" | ||||
Floyd | The quartz is rough, and also tough. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "maybe a one spell one use thing" | |||
| DavidW says, "I think, iirc, that we need a light source on the other side first." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | inky says, "that would make sense" | |||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a shard of pottery Floyd | a flat curved stick Floyd | your Ambassador's trunk (which is closed) Floyd | a small wickerwork hamper (which is open) Floyd | some provisions - a joint of cured ham, an apple, a hunk of cheese Floyd | and a clove of garlic Floyd | a brass lantern (providing light) Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | three ancient treasures: Floyd | a platinum egg Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe asks, "which way back to tree?" | |||
| inky says, "n, then ne" | ||||
| inky asks, "are there any other exits?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Thanks to the wall, the slide passage is the only way out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Low Crawl Floyd | It looks as if this low passage from the northeast peters out into a Floyd | dead end not far west, but a muddy slide-passage descends to the Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "n. ne" | ||||
Floyd | The increasingly earthy rock blocks your way. The only viable routes Floyd | are west, south and northeast. Floyd | Floyd | Topmost Ledge Floyd | This is a slate-littered shelf high up at the northwest eaves of a Floyd | dark, vaulted cave, from which a meadow-fresh breeze blows. The ledge Floyd | broadens down a slab "staircase" to the east but wastes away into a Floyd | tight squeeze southwest. Natural passages extend like tendrils into Floyd | the rock all around this cavern, but only one is accessible from here, Floyd | back north under the lintel. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging down toward the dim, distant cave floor is a flourishing, Floyd | inverted cedar, its roots grappling the roof, its nearest outflung Floyd | branch a good 10 feet across the abyss from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "climb tree" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach the tree from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh hmm" | |||
| inky says, "I didn't know about the west exit back there" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The only obvious ways to proceed from here are north or along the Floyd | ledge, either down to the east or into the tight squeeze to the Floyd | southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "I think the branch is signifcant" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw branch" | ||||
Floyd | The inverted cedar is already on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Low Crawl Floyd | It looks as if this low passage from the northeast peters out into a Floyd | dead end not far west, but a muddy slide-passage descends to the Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shambles Floyd | An earthy rockfall, soaked through with water into wet clay, makes Floyd | this passage lose all coherence. A kind of chimney-like crack leads Floyd | upward, and the crawl eases slightly to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Roughly underneath the chimney-crack is a mound of garbage, dropped in Floyd | from above. Potato-peel, broken tools and so on seem to make up the Floyd | bulk of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | The muddy earth is too tight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tools" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the garbage heap. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "search heap" | ||||
Floyd | The moment you reach out to touch the mound, it comes alive with Floyd | woodlice and ants, making you pull your finger back as if stung. Floyd | Whatever the mound's secrets, they're well guarded. Floyd | Floyd | A moment later, it's as if nothing had happened. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "jilnix heap" | ||||
Floyd | As your brows frown, the air around you gathers with vile winged Floyd | insects, which surge forward to plague the garbage heap. They set Floyd | about the garbage heap with relish, doing battle royal with the native Floyd | woodlice and ants. Only when finally triumphant do they dissipate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search heap" | ||||
Floyd | Rummaging through the garbage, you turn up all manner of things: odd Floyd | socks with holes in, iron bedstead-parts, rotting turnips and so on. Floyd | Floyd | And then you come across a bound volume of parchment (wrapped loosely Floyd | in old sackcloth), filled with curious writings. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "yay bugs" | |||
| inky says, "oh hell yeah" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shambles Floyd | An earthy rockfall, soaked through with water into wet clay, makes Floyd | this passage lose all coherence. A kind of chimney-like crack leads Floyd | upward, and the crawl eases slightly to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Roughly underneath the chimney-crack is a mound of garbage, dropped in Floyd | from above. Potato-peel, broken tools and so on seem to make up the Floyd | bulk of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "okay spells are multiuse" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x crack" | ||||
Floyd | You can just make out starlight, so it must open onto the ground Floyd | above. You can't help feeling it was indeed constructed to be a Floyd | chimney, terribly long ago and with primitive tools at best. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "booyah" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | The chimney-crack becomes just too tight for you, and you sag back Floyd | down, muddier and wiser. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha, muddier and wiser" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | Experimental Spell Book #5 Floyd | a shard of pottery Floyd | a flat curved stick Floyd | your Ambassador's trunk (which is closed) Floyd | a small wickerwork hamper (which is open) Floyd | some provisions - a joint of cured ham, an apple, a hunk of cheese Floyd | and a clove of garlic Floyd | a brass lantern (providing light) Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | three ancient treasures: Floyd | a platinum egg Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Jilnix is multiuse. Don't assume others will be." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the parchment book or The Guide For Travellers To Floyd | The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Provinces? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "parchment" | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "x parchment" | ||||
Floyd | A note tucked into the book falls out and into your hand. Floyd | Floyd | Experimental Spell Book #5 Floyd | Floyd | The chiaro spell (cause inanimate object to radiate light). Floyd | The jilnix spell (summon small plague of insects). Floyd | The piroo spell (unfasten object). Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Experimental Spell Book #5 Floyd | Floyd | The chiaro spell (cause inanimate object to radiate light). Floyd | The jilnix spell (summon small plague of insects). Floyd | The piroo spell (unfasten object). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read note" | ||||
Floyd | Graceful, almost effeminate handwriting on the note declares that as Floyd | the parchment book is defective (having failed the target of binding Floyd | up to 50 spells), it is to be disposed of. Floyd | Floyd | Since magic-imbued paper will not burn, the instructions go on to Floyd | insist that the book must be securely buried. Floyd | Floyd | Presumably, whoever received this note thought that dropping the book Floyd | into the rubbish dump at one corner of the Imperial hunting woods was Floyd | quite secure enough. Floyd | Floyd | (There is something troublingly familiar about the handwriting, Floyd | perhaps from your briefings last month. But you can't put your finger Floyd | on it.) Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "gee, whose handwriting could it be" | |||
| inky says, "taking a careful survey of all the NPCs in the game I am going to guess it's the elephant" | ||||
| Fang exclaims, "it's the author's!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "hm. That unfastening spell might get us the rope back. At the cost of losing our way back up there." | ||||
| inky says, "oh, good call" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize chiaro" | ||||
Floyd | You commit the chiaro spell to memory. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize chiaro" | ||||
Floyd | You commit the chiaro spell to memory once again. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hum" | |||
| inky asks, "can we light up the mirror with chiaro?" | ||||
| Lucea is gonna get back baby bad balls to you, love, cretin. | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "memorize piroo" | ||||
Floyd | You commit the piroo spell to memory. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "er, window" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "chiaro pottery" | ||||
Floyd | There is an almost blinding flash as the shard of pottery takes on a Floyd | glow! Not for a long moment is the light level tolerable. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You can try, but I bet the window itself is a poor choice." | |||
| Doe says, "yeah, go through window more likely" | ||||
| Fang says, "I get the feeling the pottery is probably to be used for this" | ||||
| DavidW says, "no, it's quartz. Not glass." | ||||
| Fang says, "since it seems otherwise useless" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x chiaro" | ||||
Floyd | chiaro spell (cause inanimate object to radiate light). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | the "destruction order" Floyd | Experimental Spell Book #5 Floyd | a shard of pottery (providing light) Floyd | a flat curved stick Floyd | your Ambassador's trunk (which is closed) Floyd | a small wickerwork hamper (which is open) Floyd | some provisions - a joint of cured ham, an apple, a hunk of cheese Floyd | and a clove of garlic Floyd | a brass lantern (providing light) Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | three ancient treasures: Floyd | a platinum egg Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "x pottery" | ||||
Floyd | The remains of a pot perhaps two feet across and two thousand years Floyd | old. (Held up to the light, it has a faint glint from having being Floyd | baked with mica.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Can we go up from here?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | The chimney-crack becomes just too tight for you, and you sag back Floyd | down, muddier and wiser. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "there might be a way to do it" | |||
| Doe says, "nyah, get the rope" | ||||
| inky says, "on the principle that it exists" | ||||
| inky asks, "anyway, yeah, let's save and then get the rope?" | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "pirou rope" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shambles Floyd | An earthy rockfall, soaked through with water into wet clay, makes Floyd | this passage lose all coherence. A kind of chimney-like crack leads Floyd | upward, and the crawl eases slightly to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Roughly underneath the chimney-crack is a mound of garbage, dropped in Floyd | from above. Potato-peel, broken tools and so on seem to make up the Floyd | bulk of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Low Crawl Floyd | It looks as if this low passage from the northeast peters out into a Floyd | dead end not far west, but a muddy slide-passage descends to the Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Topmost Ledge Floyd | This is a slate-littered shelf high up at the northwest eaves of a Floyd | dark, vaulted cave, from which a meadow-fresh breeze blows. The ledge Floyd | broadens down a slab "staircase" to the east but wastes away into a Floyd | tight squeeze southwest. Natural passages extend like tendrils into Floyd | the rock all around this cavern, but only one is accessible from here, Floyd | back north under the lintel. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging down toward the dim, distant cave floor is a flourishing, Floyd | inverted cedar, its roots grappling the roof, its nearest outflung Floyd | branch a good 10 feet across the abyss from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I guess there's the one east too" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You edge along the northern wall of the cave, descending the rocky Floyd | stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Dark Doorway Floyd | Just where the shelf flattens at the foot of rocky steps (climbing Floyd | westward), a square-cut doorway has been hewn into the north wall. The Floyd | ledge, which begins to curve southeast, is at its broadest here, yet Floyd | your feeling of vertigo hardly abates. Floyd | Floyd | The inverted cedar hangs impossibly from the roof some way to the Floyd | southwest, 30 feet away. Floyd | Floyd | A watchful oil-snake coils and uncoils itself restlessly, occupying Floyd | its territory but making no move towards you as yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | The oil-snake oozes and rears itself up to bar your way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "thought you were going to save And get rope" | |||
| inky says, "well, I wanted to look this way first" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "jilnix snake" | ||||
Floyd | As your brows frown, the air around you gathers with vile winged Floyd | insects, which surge forward to plague the oil-snake. But it's not to Floyd | be fooled a second time. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "k" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "spells" | ||||
Floyd | The jilnix spell is indelibly etched on your memory. Other than that, Floyd | you have the piroo spell and chiaro spell memorised. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "these other spells don't really help, do they?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x piroo" | ||||
Floyd | piroo spell (unfasten object). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "piroo snake" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing happens, perhaps because the oil-snake was already unfastened. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "piroo snake" | ||||
Floyd | You speak the word, but it seems that isn't enough to make the magical Floyd | forces gather. Perhaps if you could voice the spell more quickly, with Floyd | more assuredness... you would need to have learnt the spell in Floyd | advance, though. Floyd | Floyd | Odd how at any one time, you can remember the details of some spells Floyd | but not others. Floyd | Floyd | [Type the "spells" command to see which you can remember at any given Floyd | moment.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "I'd get the rope, attach rope to branch of tree, and climb tree" | |||
| Doe says, "or something like that" | ||||
| DavidW says, "If there's a reverse-spell spell, maybe reversed-piroo with tie the snake into a knot." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize piroo" | ||||
Floyd | You commit the piroo spell to memory. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says (to DavidW), "oho" | |||
| DavidW says, "er, will tie" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Topmost Ledge Floyd | This is a slate-littered shelf high up at the northwest eaves of a Floyd | dark, vaulted cave, from which a meadow-fresh breeze blows. The ledge Floyd | broadens down a slab "staircase" to the east but wastes away into a Floyd | tight squeeze southwest. Natural passages extend like tendrils into Floyd | the rock all around this cavern, but only one is accessible from here, Floyd | back north under the lintel. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging down toward the dim, distant cave floor is a flourishing, Floyd | inverted cedar, its roots grappling the roof, its nearest outflung Floyd | branch a good 10 feet across the abyss from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Under the Wall Floyd | A narrow passage, running north to south under solid sandstone blocks Floyd | which must make up the base of the wall. Further south, the passage Floyd | runs onto what seems to be a ledge, and you have a sense of space Floyd | opening up from below. Floyd | Floyd | The Old Underground Empire awaits! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "oorip snake" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Low Junction Floyd | This is a low junction among cavities in the foundation stones of the Floyd | ancient Watling Street, which must run just overhead. Floyd | Floyd | A north-south passage narrows considerably and descends to the south Floyd | under a long lintel-stone; a side passage, northwest, is much more Floyd | earthy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cellars Floyd | At the foot of the chimney are low and grimy cellars, built of Floyd | decaying brickwork and seemingly unused for years. There are no Floyd | bottles, or crates, unless they're stored through the passage to the Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | Your length of rope is here. Its tail is just visible at the foot of Floyd | the chimney. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "piroo rope" | ||||
Floyd | The rope falls obligingly to your feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get rope" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Without the aid of the rope, there is no obvious way to get back up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Low Junction Floyd | This is a low junction among cavities in the foundation stones of the Floyd | ancient Watling Street, which must run just overhead. Floyd | Floyd | A north-south passage narrows considerably and descends to the south Floyd | under a long lintel-stone; a side passage, northwest, is much more Floyd | earthy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You duck your head under the lintel-stone. Floyd | Floyd | Passage Under the Wall Floyd | A narrow passage, running north to south under solid sandstone blocks Floyd | which must make up the base of the wall. Further south, the passage Floyd | runs onto what seems to be a ledge, and you have a sense of space Floyd | opening up from below. Floyd | Floyd | The Old Underground Empire awaits! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Topmost Ledge Floyd | This is a slate-littered shelf high up at the northwest eaves of a Floyd | dark, vaulted cave, from which a meadow-fresh breeze blows. The ledge Floyd | broadens down a slab "staircase" to the east but wastes away into a Floyd | tight squeeze southwest. Natural passages extend like tendrils into Floyd | the rock all around this cavern, but only one is accessible from here, Floyd | back north under the lintel. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging down toward the dim, distant cave floor is a flourishing, Floyd | inverted cedar, its roots grappling the roof, its nearest outflung Floyd | branch a good 10 feet across the abyss from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw stick" | ||||
Floyd | You throw the flat curved stick out into the vast air of the cave, Floyd | where it quickly spins out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You played Balances, yes? You remember lleps." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly and without warning, the flat curved stick spins back in from Floyd | the cave and gives you a nasty bruise on the head. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hee hee" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get boomerang" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a boomerang Floyd | a length of light rope Floyd | the "destruction order" Floyd | Experimental Spell Book #5 Floyd | a shard of pottery (providing light) Floyd | your Ambassador's trunk (which is closed) Floyd | a small wickerwork hamper (which is open) Floyd | some provisions - a joint of cured ham, an apple, a hunk of cheese Floyd | and a clove of garlic Floyd | a brass lantern (providing light) Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | three ancient treasures: Floyd | a platinum egg Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "heh" | |||
| Doe says (to floyd), "tie rope to branch" | ||||
Floyd | There's no good way of tying it to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "tie rope to stick" | ||||
Floyd | There's no good way of tying it to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "drat, was going to tie rope to boomerang and throw boomerang" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tie rope to boomerang" | ||||
Floyd | There's no good way of tying it to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm, that does seem like it should work" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tree" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the inverted cedar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tie rope to cedar" | ||||
Floyd | There's no good way of tying it to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jump to cedar" | ||||
Floyd | You take a short run-up and leap across, just managing to catch the Floyd | nearest branch! Painfully slowly, you haul yourself in. Floyd | Floyd | Top Branches Floyd | You are perched inside the dense, broad first branches down from the Floyd | cedar's roots, which splay across the rocky ceiling like buttresses on Floyd | a perpendicular gothic column. Through the dappled green cover, you Floyd | can just make out the long ledge, but it's too far up to jump across. Floyd | Floyd | A tree-house has been constructed here, though it's little more than a Floyd | wooden lean-to on a log platform. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a bow and an arrow here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| GDorn disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take bow and arrow" | ||||
Floyd | bow: Taken. Floyd | arrow: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "wow, awesome" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tie rope to arrow" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x arrow" | ||||
Floyd | There's no good way of tying it to that. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You see nothing special about the arrow. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "a treehouse in an upside-down tree" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x bow" | ||||
Floyd | A short-bow, reasonably accurate across short distances though little Floyd | good for rapid fire. Well-balanced, if far from being state of the Floyd | art. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x arrow" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the arrow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x bow" | ||||
Floyd | A short-bow, reasonably accurate across short distances though little Floyd | good for rapid fire. Well-balanced, if far from being state of the Floyd | art. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yeah. I forgot about that" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x treehouse" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the tree house. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter house" | ||||
Floyd | Strangely, every side appears to be solid with vine-bound planks and Floyd | logs, even the obvious place where a doorway should be. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "weird" | |||
| inky says, "is there a spell to let you -- hm" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "piroo vines" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize piroo" | ||||
Floyd | You haven't got that spell committed to memory. [Type "spells" to see Floyd | what you do remember.] Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You commit the piroo spell to memory. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "piroo house" | ||||
Floyd | As the spell takes effect, vines begin to shrink and strain all over Floyd | the treehouse. Just as your magic is about to expire, the cords break Floyd | and the doorway opens up onto a dark interior. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "get in" | ||||
Floyd | (the ledge) Floyd | The ledge is too far off. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I wonder if the reversal spell is inside!" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter house" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Treehouse Floyd | Inside the wooden lean-to is a surprising illusion of space and Floyd | comfort, which you'd never guess is perched in an upside-down cedar. Floyd | There are no windows, but finely built wooden chairs suggest some kind Floyd | of meeting-place. Floyd | Floyd | A golden fir-cone rolls about on one of the chairs. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see two arrows here. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get cone" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get arrow" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | (the arrow) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x chairs" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x chair" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x cone" | ||||
Floyd | Only an inch across, but beautiful and valuable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "eat cone" | ||||
Floyd | That's plainly inedible. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "sit" | ||||
Floyd | (on yourself) Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The cone must be another treasure." | |||
| Fang says, "haha" | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | three arrows Floyd | a bow Floyd | a boomerang Floyd | a length of light rope Floyd | the "destruction order" Floyd | Experimental Spell Book #5 Floyd | a shard of pottery (providing light) Floyd | your Ambassador's trunk (which is closed) Floyd | a small wickerwork hamper (which is open) Floyd | some provisions - a joint of cured ham, an apple, a hunk of cheese Floyd | and a clove of garlic Floyd | a brass lantern (providing light) Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | four ancient treasures: Floyd | a golden fir-cone Floyd | a platinum egg Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x destruction order" | ||||
Floyd | Graceful, almost effeminate handwriting on the note declares that as Floyd | the parchment book is defective (having failed the target of binding Floyd | up to 50 spells), it is to be disposed of. Floyd | Floyd | Since magic-imbued paper will not burn, the instructions go on to Floyd | insist that the book must be securely buried. Floyd | Floyd | Presumably, whoever received this note thought that dropping the book Floyd | into the rubbish dump at one corner of the Imperial hunting woods was Floyd | quite secure enough. Floyd | Floyd | (There is something troublingly familiar about the handwriting, Floyd | perhaps from your briefings last month. But you can't put your finger Floyd | on it.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "I suppose we tie the rope to the tree and climb down further?" | |||
| Doe says (to floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Treehouse Floyd | Inside the wooden lean-to is a surprising illusion of space and Floyd | comfort, which you'd never guess is perched in an upside-down cedar. Floyd | There are no windows, but finely built wooden chairs suggest some kind Floyd | of meeting-place. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "that seems reasonable" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "look under chair" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "yeah, or just try d" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "d#" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Top Branches Floyd | You are perched inside the dense, broad first branches down from the Floyd | cedar's roots, which splay across the rocky ceiling like buttresses on Floyd | a perpendicular gothic column. Through the dappled green cover, you Floyd | can just make out the long ledge, but it's too far up to jump across. Floyd | Floyd | A tree-house has been constructed here, though it's little more than a Floyd | wooden lean-to on a log platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "d" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Branches Near the Cave Floor Floyd | The cedar's foliage thins out and this is the lowest point at which Floyd | the trunk will bear your weight. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, hangs down the rest of the way. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, rests against the tip of the cedar, leading up into its Floyd | branches. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | That would be straight into the pool. Try walking around it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x pool" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the stream. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "drink pool" | ||||
Floyd | The water tastes strongly of minerals, but is not unpleasant, though Floyd | it is extremely cold. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger asks, "have we trued going further up?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "u. u. u. u" | ||||
Floyd | | inky says, "going up in the tree instead of down? we haven't" | |||
Floyd | Branches Near the Cave Floor Floyd | The cedar's foliage thins out and this is the lowest point at which Floyd | the trunk will bear your weight. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, hangs down the rest of the way. Floyd | Floyd | Top Branches Floyd | You are perched inside the dense, broad first branches down from the Floyd | cedar's roots, which splay across the rocky ceiling like buttresses on Floyd | a perpendicular gothic column. Through the dappled green cover, you Floyd | can just make out the long ledge, but it's too far up to jump across. Floyd | Floyd | A tree-house has been constructed here, though it's little more than a Floyd | wooden lean-to on a log platform. Floyd | The trunk becomes too smooth up near the roots. Floyd | The trunk becomes too smooth up near the roots. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "'up' is where we came from" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, caught up now on the transcript." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "d. d. d. d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Branches Near the Cave Floor Floyd | The cedar's foliage thins out and this is the lowest point at which Floyd | the trunk will bear your weight. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, hangs down the rest of the way. Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, rests against the tip of the cedar, leading up into its Floyd | branches. Floyd | This is the base of the cave. Floyd | This is the base of the cave. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "gonna go make and eat a quick lunch. bbiab" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the improvised ladder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "lots of directions to go" | |||
| Taleslinger says, "have to ... heh ... have to hang up laundry" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the improvised ladder. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "enh, what the heck" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Furrow and Workings Floyd | The furrow has been burrowed and extended by primitive mine workings, Floyd | hewn chiefly by hand or at best stone tools. But the seam has been Floyd | exhausted, and the striations in the rock scraped clean of ore. Floyd | Floyd | What looks like a small drum lies discarded here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x drum" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an improvised ladder Floyd | three arrows Floyd | a bow Floyd | a boomerang Floyd | a length of light rope Floyd | the "destruction order" Floyd | Experimental Spell Book #5 Floyd | a shard of pottery (providing light) Floyd | your Ambassador's trunk (which is closed) Floyd | a small wickerwork hamper (which is open) Floyd | some provisions - a joint of cured ham, an apple, a hunk of cheese Floyd | and a clove of garlic Floyd | a brass lantern (providing light) Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | four ancient treasures: Floyd | a golden fir-cone Floyd | a platinum egg Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | It resembles a tambourine without chimes. Some kind of coarse gauze is Floyd | stretched taut along the bottom of a wooden drum-frame. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get drum" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tap drum" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "play drum" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit drum" | ||||
Floyd | A hollow Bong! results. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit drum" | ||||
Floyd | A hollow Bong! results. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The furrow is a dead-end, opening out only to northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x furrow" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "seam" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x ore" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Furrow and Workings Floyd | The furrow has been burrowed and extended by primitive mine workings, Floyd | hewn chiefly by hand or at best stone tools. But the seam has been Floyd | exhausted, and the striations in the rock scraped clean of ore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I dunno, maybe there really is no other point to this room" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x scree-fall" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x scree" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shattered Temple Rampart Floyd | Heaped up against the southern cave wall like a sloping rampart, and Floyd | rising 50 feet above the stream, the scree fall is made up not of Floyd | fallen stones but of masonry, broken terracotta tiles, wrecked Floyd | alabaster murals and those marbly bits you can't ever remember the Floyd | name of: as if the veil of a temple has been rent in twain. But what Floyd | the catastrophe can have been, and where the building stood, you Floyd | cannot say. Floyd | Floyd | A black scroll, like a roll of remembrance, is curled around the top Floyd | few feet of scree. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "maybe" | |||
| inky says, "oh ho ho" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tiles" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the masonry and rubble. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search tiles" | ||||
Floyd | The scree is stable, but not that stable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "count tiles" | ||||
Floyd | Arithmetical correctness gone mad. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x scroll" | ||||
Floyd | The scroll reads "azzev spell (view the past)". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get scroll" | ||||
Floyd | Just as you're about to pull out the scroll, a tiny but significant Floyd | shift of stones give you pause. The scree fall is on the very edge of Floyd | an avalanche! You'd need to be a lot more than arm's length away to Floyd | survive that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x scroll" | ||||
Floyd | The scroll reads "azzev spell (view the past)". Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "azzev" | ||||
Floyd | You haven't got that spell committed to memory. [Type "spells" to see Floyd | what you do remember.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw boomerang" | ||||
Floyd | There's not really enough room in this cramped space to throw the Floyd | stick, since you'd really need to pull your arm right back and swing Floyd | hard. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "maybe get out of the room" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tie rope to scree" | ||||
Floyd | There's no good way of tying it to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "drop ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "climb ladder" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "memorize azzev" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be not enough to be able to read a copy of the spell. No, Floyd | the writing has to be part of the fabric of a spell book you have in Floyd | your hands, so that the magic can flow from the binding into your own Floyd | spine. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I figured that." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "there's still the window" | |||
| Doe says, "upstairs" | ||||
| inky says, "there are some other exits we haven't taken, yeah" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an improvised ladder Floyd | a drum (which is empty) Floyd | three arrows Floyd | a bow Floyd | a boomerang Floyd | a length of light rope Floyd | the "destruction order" Floyd | Experimental Spell Book #5 Floyd | a shard of pottery (providing light) Floyd | your Ambassador's trunk (which is closed) Floyd | a small wickerwork hamper (which is open) Floyd | some provisions - a joint of cured ham, an apple, a hunk of cheese Floyd | and a clove of garlic Floyd | a brass lantern (providing light) Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | four ancient treasures: Floyd | a golden fir-cone Floyd | a platinum egg Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "hit scroll with ladder" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hit the black, memorial Floyd | scroll. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "but can we really not solve this?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "shoot scroll" | ||||
Floyd | You loose off an arrow at the black, memorial scroll, but miss. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get arrow" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | (the arrow) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Shattered Temple Rampart Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "That sounds like a challenge, inky." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Shattered Temple Rampart Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe asks, "solve what?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an improvised ladder Floyd | a drum (which is empty) Floyd | three arrows Floyd | a bow Floyd | a boomerang Floyd | a length of light rope Floyd | the "destruction order" Floyd | Experimental Spell Book #5 Floyd | a shard of pottery (providing light) Floyd | your Ambassador's trunk (which is closed) Floyd | a small wickerwork hamper (which is open) Floyd | some provisions - a joint of cured ham, an apple, a hunk of cheese Floyd | and a clove of garlic Floyd | a brass lantern (providing light) Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | four ancient treasures: Floyd | a golden fir-cone Floyd | a platinum egg Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "The avalanche thing." | |||
| inky says, "getting the scroll without triggering the avalanche" | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shattered Temple Rampart Floyd | Heaped up against the southern cave wall like a sloping rampart, and Floyd | rising 50 feet above the stream, the scree fall is made up not of Floyd | fallen stones but of masonry, broken terracotta tiles, wrecked Floyd | alabaster murals and those marbly bits you can't ever remember the Floyd | name of: as if the veil of a temple has been rent in twain. But what Floyd | the catastrophe can have been, and where the building stood, you Floyd | cannot say. Floyd | Floyd | A black scroll, like a roll of remembrance, is curled around the top Floyd | few feet of scree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "throw boomerang at scroll" | ||||
Floyd | There isn't really room to throw it at the black, memorial scroll in Floyd | this cramped space. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "jilnix scroll" | ||||
Floyd | As your brows frown, the air around you gathers with vile winged Floyd | insects, which surge forward to plague the black, memorial scroll. But Floyd | nothing results from this, and they dissipate again. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "oh, I thought we got it" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Nope, we'd probably die." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We have to be at more than arm's length." | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an improvised ladder Floyd | a drum (which is empty) Floyd | three arrows Floyd | a bow Floyd | a boomerang Floyd | a length of light rope Floyd | the "destruction order" Floyd | Experimental Spell Book #5 Floyd | a shard of pottery (providing light) Floyd | your Ambassador's trunk (which is closed) Floyd | a small wickerwork hamper (which is open) Floyd | some provisions - a joint of cured ham, an apple, a hunk of cheese Floyd | and a clove of garlic Floyd | a brass lantern (providing light) Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | four ancient treasures: Floyd | a golden fir-cone Floyd | a platinum egg Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "throw pottery at scroll" | ||||
Floyd | Futile. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "piroo scroll" | ||||
Floyd | You haven't got that spell committed to memory. [Type "spells" to see Floyd | what you do remember.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "memorize piroo" | ||||
Floyd | You commit the piroo spell to memory. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "piroo scroll" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing happens, perhaps because the black, memorial scroll was Floyd | already unfastened. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "I guess that's everything?" | |||
| Doe says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shattered Temple Rampart Floyd | Heaped up against the southern cave wall like a sloping rampart, and Floyd | rising 50 feet above the stream, the scree fall is made up not of Floyd | fallen stones but of masonry, broken terracotta tiles, wrecked Floyd | alabaster murals and those marbly bits you can't ever remember the Floyd | name of: as if the veil of a temple has been rent in twain. But what Floyd | the catastrophe can have been, and where the building stood, you Floyd | cannot say. Floyd | Floyd | A black scroll, like a roll of remembrance, is curled around the top Floyd | few feet of scree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "x rampart" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x scree" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the masonry and rubble. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "let's leave and try again later" | |||
| Doe says (to floyd), "put ladder on stones" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline shrugs. | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay." | ||||
| Doe says, "fine by me" | ||||
| Doe says, "thnis will be a tricky one" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enclosed Stream Floyd | The cave floor closes off into an enclosed stream-bed here, forcing Floyd | you into a stoop. Floyd | Floyd | The stream runs much faster here, as the bony hand of the cave-wall Floyd | clenches around it. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "the bony hand of the cave-wall" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x stream" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the stream. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | As good-looking as ever. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says (to inky), "yes good pt re hand" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Further east, the cave roof descends until it touches the stream Floyd | water-level. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drink water" | ||||
Floyd | The water tastes strongly of minerals, but is not unpleasant, though Floyd | it is extremely cold. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floy), "put hand in stream" | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "touch stream" | ||||
Floyd | You feel nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "touch wall" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the north wall, the south wall, the east wall, the Floyd | west wall, the northeast wall, the northwest wall, the southeast wall Floyd | or the southwest wall? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "cross stream" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to be more specific about which way to go. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "swim" | ||||
Floyd | The water is bone-chillingly cold, and even undressing near it would Floyd | give you goose-pimples. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "well, I've gotten no where" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Further east, the cave roof descends until it touches the stream Floyd | water-level. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enclosed Stream Floyd | The cave floor closes off into an enclosed stream-bed here, forcing Floyd | you into a stoop. Floyd | Floyd | The stream runs much faster here, as the bony hand of the cave-wall Floyd | clenches around it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The cave is tighter here, and you can't squeeze any further in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enclosed Stream Floyd | The cave floor closes off into an enclosed stream-bed here, forcing Floyd | you into a stoop. Floyd | Floyd | The stream runs much faster here, as the bony hand of the cave-wall Floyd | clenches around it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Furrow and Workings Floyd | The furrow has been burrowed and extended by primitive mine workings, Floyd | hewn chiefly by hand or at best stone tools. But the seam has been Floyd | exhausted, and the striations in the rock scraped clean of ore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x cone" | ||||
Floyd | Only an inch across, but beautiful and valuable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an improvised ladder Floyd | a drum (which is empty) Floyd | three arrows Floyd | a bow Floyd | a boomerang Floyd | a length of light rope Floyd | the "destruction order" Floyd | Experimental Spell Book #5 Floyd | a shard of pottery (providing light) Floyd | your Ambassador's trunk (which is closed) Floyd | a small wickerwork hamper (which is open) Floyd | some provisions - a joint of cured ham, an apple, a hunk of cheese Floyd | and a clove of garlic Floyd | a brass lantern (providing light) Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | four ancient treasures: Floyd | a golden fir-cone Floyd | a platinum egg Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "x guide" | ||||
Floyd | Enormously detailed with the useless and irrelevant, the Empress gave Floyd | it to you hoping you'd waste time studying it in detail. You have Floyd | vowed never to do so, but it's still handy for passing the odd dull Floyd | moment by looking up some specific local feature. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Sorry, as I was away, but have we tried the ladder here" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "put ladder against wall" | ||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "use ladder" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "yeah, but the wording might not have been right, the ladder came from here, I meant at the scree" | |||
| inky says, "here? this is where it was originally" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put ladder on cedar" | ||||
Floyd | You hang the ladder so that it runs from the cave floor up to the tip Floyd | of the tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "take cone" | ||||
Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "yeah" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Wait." | ||||
| Jacqueline scrolls back. | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Is this a disambiguation issue, or am I missing something?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I know we have a cone, but..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, rests against the tip of the cedar, leading up into its Floyd | branches. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cedar" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the inverted cedar. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Ah." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, got it." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I was confusing it for what's already in our inventory." | ||||
| inky says, "this game is old-school enough that it doesn't have a lot of the vocab you would expect" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Carry on." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, rests against the tip of the cedar, leading up into its Floyd | branches. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | That would be straight into the pool. Try walking around it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pool" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the stream. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | You cross the stream and walk around the pool. Floyd | Floyd | North Edge of Pool Floyd | The stream's pool washes up almost to your feet, close to the Floyd | forbiddingly craggy and overhung northern wall of the cave, but the Floyd | water does leave room for a broad path around the periphery; and this Floyd | is its northern limb. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously down, its tip suspended some Floyd | 20 feet to the south, across the stream. Floyd | Floyd | A single, graceful green water-lily plumes at the calm surface of the Floyd | pool. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see an arrow here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get arrow" | ||||
Floyd | (the arrow) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x lily" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the water lily. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get lily" | ||||
Floyd | You'd have to wade through icy water to reach it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "look under lily" | ||||
Floyd | You'd have to wade through icy water to reach it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "smell lily" | ||||
Floyd | You'd have to wade through icy water to reach it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | You cross the stream and walk around the pool. Floyd | Floyd | North Edge of Pool Floyd | The stream's pool washes up almost to your feet, close to the Floyd | forbiddingly craggy and overhung northern wall of the cave, but the Floyd | water does leave room for a broad path around the periphery; and this Floyd | is its northern limb. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously down, its tip suspended some Floyd | 20 feet to the south, across the stream. Floyd | Floyd | A single, graceful green water-lily plumes at the calm surface of the Floyd | pool. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pool" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the stream. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drink water" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the stream or the water lily? Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe asks, "we try shooting the scroll off with an arrow?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x lily" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the water lily. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I don't remember, maybe" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shoot lily" | ||||
Floyd | The water-lily gulps upward and swallows the arrow with a vicious Floyd | snap! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | North Edge of Pool Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "whoah" | |||
| inky says, "I wasn't expecting that one" | ||||
| Doe says, "some lily" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "jilnix lily" | ||||
Floyd | As your brows frown, the air around you gathers with vile winged Floyd | insects, which surge forward to plague the water lily. The carnivorous Floyd | lily makes very quick work of them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x lily" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the water lily. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get ham" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw ham at lily" | ||||
Floyd | The water-lily gulps upward and swallows the joint of cured ham with a Floyd | vicious snap! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | North Edge of Pool Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a joint of cured ham Floyd | four arrows Floyd | an improvised ladder Floyd | a drum (which is empty) Floyd | a bow Floyd | a boomerang Floyd | a length of light rope Floyd | the "destruction order" Floyd | Experimental Spell Book #5 Floyd | a shard of pottery (providing light) Floyd | your Ambassador's trunk (which is closed) Floyd | a small wickerwork hamper (which is open) Floyd | some provisions - an apple, a hunk of cheese and a clove of garlic Floyd | a brass lantern (providing light) Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | four ancient treasures: Floyd | a golden fir-cone Floyd | a platinum egg Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get garlic" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw garlic at lily" | ||||
Floyd | The water-lily gulps upward and swallows the clove of garlic with a Floyd | vicious snap! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | North Edge of Pool Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, the fact that it ate the arrow was surprising, and the fact that it ate a ham is funny." | |||
| inky says, "yeah" | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "throw apple at lily" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the apple) Floyd | The water-lily gulps upward and swallows the apple with a vicious Floyd | snap! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | North Edge of Pool Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "the lily might be a good way to get rid of something if we had to" | |||
| DavidW says, "back" | ||||
| Taleslinger asks, "maybe it needs to eat a bunch of stuff?" | ||||
| Doe says, "nyah, doubt it" | ||||
| Doe says, "might juswt be a scenery feature" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Seems like it might just be a good way to lose stuff." | ||||
| Doe says, "yeah" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "touch lily" | ||||
Floyd | You'd have to wade through icy water to reach it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jilnix lily" | ||||
Floyd | As your brows frown, the air around you gathers with vile winged Floyd | insects, which surge forward to plague the water lily. The carnivorous Floyd | lily makes very quick work of them. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "possibly there'll be a bomb or something that shows up" | |||
| DavidW says, "heh" | ||||
| Taleslinger asks, "maybe the boomerang?" | ||||
| Doe says, "troll chasing us :-)" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw boomerang" | ||||
Floyd | You throw the boomerang out into the vast air of the cave, where it Floyd | quickly spins out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly and without warning, the boomerang spins back in from the Floyd | cave and gives you a nasty bruise on the head. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "leAd to lily" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get boomerang" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "unless the lily can get full" | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "throw boomerang at lily" | ||||
Floyd | There isn't really room to throw it at the water lily in this cramped Floyd | space. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "but I don't see what that gains" | |||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "curse lily" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "we can't go in water anyway" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't think we'd want to actually touch the thing." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "We might get devoured." | ||||
| DavidW says, "hm. Perhaps the lily ate something (treasure, scroll, whatever) pre-game, and maybe something else gives it indigestion, and it'll vomit its prize up to us." | ||||
| inky says, "yeah" | ||||
| Gerynar has disconnected. | ||||
| Gerynar spins around in circles, faster and faster, until he disapears in a brilliant flash of plaid light. | Jacqueline asks, "Or we can go back in time to see what it ate?" | |||
| inky asks, "oh, the reverse time thing?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Although the bomb disposal idea sounds also plausible." | ||||
| inky says, "yeah, that seems reasonable" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | North Edge of Pool Floyd | The stream's pool washes up almost to your feet, close to the Floyd | forbiddingly craggy and overhung northern wall of the cave, but the Floyd | water does leave room for a broad path around the periphery; and this Floyd | is its northern limb. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously down, its tip suspended some Floyd | 20 feet to the south, across the stream. Floyd | Floyd | A single, graceful green water-lily plumes at the calm surface of the Floyd | pool. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | The sheer black rock blocks your way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | The sheer black rock blocks your way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "exits" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inky), "Yeah, the spell we haven't got yet." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | That would be into the pool! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "I suspect there are otehr non-lily tings still to do" | |||
| inky says, "ok, let's see" | ||||
| inky says, "I would guess we can deal with the snake now" | ||||
| inky says, "although I don't know with what" | ||||
| inky says, "maybe the bow" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put ladder on cedar" | ||||
Floyd | You hang the ladder so that it runs from the cave floor up to the tip Floyd | of the tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I haven't been mapping. I'm not sure where to explore." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Branches Near the Cave Floor Floyd | The cedar's foliage thins out and this is the lowest point at which Floyd | the trunk will bear your weight. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, hangs down the rest of the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Top Branches Floyd | You are perched inside the dense, broad first branches down from the Floyd | cedar's roots, which splay across the rocky ceiling like buttresses on Floyd | a perpendicular gothic column. Through the dappled green cover, you Floyd | can just make out the long ledge, but it's too far up to jump across. Floyd | Floyd | A tree-house has been constructed here, though it's little more than a Floyd | wooden lean-to on a log platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Although branches radiate in all compass directions, your first Floyd | impression is that none of them lead anywhere in particular. Certainly Floyd | this one doesn't. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh, wait, I don't know how to get off" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x snake" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||
Floyd | Since the ledge is above you, there's no safe way to jump back across. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oops" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x ledge" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the ledge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw rope at ledge" | ||||
Floyd | The ledge is too far off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shoot arrow at ledge" | ||||
Floyd | The arrow clatters against the stone ledge and then falls out of Floyd | sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Top Branches Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tie rope to arrow" | ||||
Floyd | There's no good way of tying it to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Branches Near the Cave Floor Floyd | The cedar's foliage thins out and this is the lowest point at which Floyd | the trunk will bear your weight. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, hangs down the rest of the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Top Branches Floyd | You are perched inside the dense, broad first branches down from the Floyd | cedar's roots, which splay across the rocky ceiling like buttresses on Floyd | a perpendicular gothic column. Through the dappled green cover, you Floyd | can just make out the long ledge, but it's too far up to jump across. Floyd | Floyd | A tree-house has been constructed here, though it's little more than a Floyd | wooden lean-to on a log platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Can we make the ladder into a bridge?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put ladder on ledge" | ||||
Floyd | You hang the ladder so that it runs across the abyss from the cedar's Floyd | broadest branches to the ledge. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "nice!" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Top Branches Floyd | You are perched inside the dense, broad first branches down from the Floyd | cedar's roots, which splay across the rocky ceiling like buttresses on Floyd | a perpendicular gothic column. Through the dappled green cover, you Floyd | can just make out the long ledge, but it's too far up to jump across. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, spans the abyss up to the ledge. Floyd | Floyd | A tree-house has been constructed here, though it's little more than a Floyd | wooden lean-to on a log platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Topmost Ledge Floyd | This is a slate-littered shelf high up at the northwest eaves of a Floyd | dark, vaulted cave, from which a meadow-fresh breeze blows. The ledge Floyd | broadens down a slab "staircase" to the east but wastes away into a Floyd | tight squeeze southwest. Natural passages extend like tendrils into Floyd | the rock all around this cavern, but only one is accessible from here, Floyd | back north under the lintel. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging down toward the dim, distant cave floor is a flourishing, Floyd | inverted cedar, its roots grappling the roof, its nearest outflung Floyd | branch a good 10 feet across the abyss from here. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, spans the abyss down to the cedar branches. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "woo" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You edge along the northern wall of the cave, descending the rocky Floyd | stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Dark Doorway Floyd | Just where the shelf flattens at the foot of rocky steps (climbing Floyd | westward), a square-cut doorway has been hewn into the north wall. The Floyd | ledge, which begins to curve southeast, is at its broadest here, yet Floyd | your feeling of vertigo hardly abates. Floyd | Floyd | The inverted cedar hangs impossibly from the roof some way to the Floyd | southwest, 30 feet away. Floyd | Floyd | A watchful oil-snake coils and uncoils itself restlessly, occupying Floyd | its territory but making no move towards you as yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok, so let's see" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw boomerang at snake" | ||||
Floyd | There isn't really room to throw it at the oil-snake in this cramped Floyd | space. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shoot arrow at snake" | ||||
Floyd | You loose off an arrow at the oil-snake, but miss. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You loose off an arrow at the oil-snake, but miss. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You loose off an arrow at the oil-snake, but miss. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | arrow: Taken. Floyd | arrow: Taken. Floyd | arrow: Taken. Floyd | cave floor: That's hardly portable. Floyd | inverted cedar: You can't reach the tree from here. Floyd | oil-snake: I don't suppose the oil-snake would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "mumble" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x floor" | ||||
Floyd | (the cave floor) Floyd | You see nothing special about the cave floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | four arrows Floyd | a boomerang Floyd | some provisions - a clove of garlic and a joint of cured ham Floyd | a drum (which is empty) Floyd | a bow Floyd | a length of light rope Floyd | the "destruction order" Floyd | Experimental Spell Book #5 Floyd | a shard of pottery (providing light) Floyd | your Ambassador's trunk (which is closed) Floyd | a small wickerwork hamper (which is open) Floyd | some provisions - an apple and a hunk of cheese Floyd | a brass lantern (providing light) Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | four ancient treasures: Floyd | a golden fir-cone Floyd | a platinum egg Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give ham to snake" | ||||
Floyd | The snake snatches and swallows whole the joint of cured ham, its neck Floyd | distending to fit. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Dark Doorway Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give arrow to snake" | DavidW asks, "Obviously, Snakey is blocking the exit until we're almost ready to win, no?" | |||
Floyd | The snake is not that hungry. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger asks, "maybe put the ham in the hamper, then drop it?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Dark Doorway Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "oh, is this the exit?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "To ham in a hamper?" | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "snrk" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Is he blocking the way back to the oven?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put ham in hamper" | ||||
Floyd | You put the joint of cured ham into the small wickerwork hamper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop hamper" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says (to DavidW), "no -- well, I dunno" | |||
| inky says, "this is a couple rooms south of there" | ||||
| inky says, "but it's possible it leads back to the house anyway" | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "x snake" | ||||
Floyd | It has a lean and hungry look. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dark Doorway Floyd | Just where the shelf flattens at the foot of rocky steps (climbing Floyd | westward), a square-cut doorway has been hewn into the north wall. The Floyd | ledge, which begins to curve southeast, is at its broadest here, yet Floyd | your feeling of vertigo hardly abates. Floyd | Floyd | The inverted cedar hangs impossibly from the roof some way to the Floyd | southwest, 30 feet away. Floyd | Floyd | A watchful oil-snake coils and uncoils itself restlessly, occupying Floyd | its territory but making no move towards you as yet. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a small wickerwork hamper (in which are some Floyd | provisions - a joint of cured ham, an apple and a hunk of cheese) Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I assumed it was a room on the current level, but it might lead upstairs" | |||
| Taleslinger asks, "Oil snake -> set it on fire?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I didn't map, so I'm confused." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x lantern" | ||||
Floyd | The brass lantern is currently switched on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x snake" | ||||
Floyd | It has a lean and hungry look. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "consult guide about oil-snake" | ||||
Floyd | The oil snake infests the foundations of many Northland houses. It is Floyd | said to bring bad luck, presumably because its bite is deadly poison. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "heh" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "consult guide about lily" | ||||
Floyd | Annoyingly there's no index and you can't find what you want. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "consult guide about water-lily" | ||||
Floyd | Annoyingly there's no index and you can't find what you want. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "consult guide about water lily" | ||||
Floyd | Annoyingly there's no index and you can't find what you want. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I prefer to map, but can't during ClubFloyd. There's no time." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "consult guide about OUE" | ||||
Floyd | Annoyingly there's no index and you can't find what you want. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger asks, "will there ever be a non-deadly snake or a non-deadly spider in any game?" | |||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Jacqueline whispers, "And I never map because I assume DavidW is mapping." | ||||
| Alex whispers, "Okay, And Jacqueline never map because Jacqueline assume DavidW is mapping." | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "consult guide about graham" | ||||
Floyd | Annoyingly there's no index and you can't find what you want. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| No user matching 'alex' is here. | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Floyd), "consult guide about nelsen" | ||||
Floyd | Annoyingly there's no index and you can't find what you want. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I wrote a game with a spider that makes you hallucinate rather than die, but I guess that doesn't count" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Weird. I was being silly, but Alex whispered back." | |||
| You paged Alex: forget that | ||||
| Alex pages: Okay, And Jacqueline never map because Jacqueline assume DavidW is not mapping. | inky says, "I more or less know the map here" | |||
| inky says, "I am reasonably sure we've covered all the rooms we have available" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I have told him to forget it, but I didn't realize he'd do that." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get hamper" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dark Doorway Floyd | Just where the shelf flattens at the foot of rocky steps (climbing Floyd | westward), a square-cut doorway has been hewn into the north wall. The Floyd | ledge, which begins to curve southeast, is at its broadest here, yet Floyd | your feeling of vertigo hardly abates. Floyd | Floyd | The inverted cedar hangs impossibly from the roof some way to the Floyd | southwest, 30 feet away. Floyd | Floyd | A watchful oil-snake coils and uncoils itself restlessly, occupying Floyd | its territory but making no move towards you as yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "There was a mortared wall that looked newish. Have we tried to bust through it?" | |||
| inky says, "no, I can walk us there" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Topmost Ledge Floyd | This is a slate-littered shelf high up at the northwest eaves of a Floyd | dark, vaulted cave, from which a meadow-fresh breeze blows. The ledge Floyd | broadens down a slab "staircase" to the east but wastes away into a Floyd | tight squeeze southwest. Natural passages extend like tendrils into Floyd | the rock all around this cavern, but only one is accessible from here, Floyd | back north under the lintel. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging down toward the dim, distant cave floor is a flourishing, Floyd | inverted cedar, its roots grappling the roof, its nearest outflung Floyd | branch a good 10 feet across the abyss from here. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, spans the abyss down to the cedar branches. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Low Crawl Floyd | It looks as if this low passage from the northeast peters out into a Floyd | dead end not far west, but a muddy slide-passage descends to the Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "actually, hang on one sec" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Topmost Ledge Floyd | This is a slate-littered shelf high up at the northwest eaves of a Floyd | dark, vaulted cave, from which a meadow-fresh breeze blows. The ledge Floyd | broadens down a slab "staircase" to the east but wastes away into a Floyd | tight squeeze southwest. Natural passages extend like tendrils into Floyd | the rock all around this cavern, but only one is accessible from here, Floyd | back north under the lintel. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging down toward the dim, distant cave floor is a flourishing, Floyd | inverted cedar, its roots grappling the roof, its nearest outflung Floyd | branch a good 10 feet across the abyss from here. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, spans the abyss down to the cedar branches. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You edge along the northern wall of the cave, descending the rocky Floyd | stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Dark Doorway Floyd | Just where the shelf flattens at the foot of rocky steps (climbing Floyd | westward), a square-cut doorway has been hewn into the north wall. The Floyd | ledge, which begins to curve southeast, is at its broadest here, yet Floyd | your feeling of vertigo hardly abates. Floyd | Floyd | The inverted cedar hangs impossibly from the roof some way to the Floyd | southwest, 30 feet away. Floyd | Floyd | A watchful oil-snake coils and uncoils itself restlessly, occupying Floyd | its territory but making no move towards you as yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Long Curved Ledge Floyd | This long parapet thins to nothing further on, appearing to lead Floyd | nowhere after all: the nearest other ledge being 50 feet vertically Floyd | below. Floyd | Floyd | Approximately 70 feet due west of here are the roof-braced roots of Floyd | the inverted cedar, giving you a magnificent view of this botanic Floyd | marvel. Floyd | Floyd | There's an iron ring fixed to the wall, the kind used to tie up Floyd | horses, though how anyone could possibly get a horse up here you can't Floyd | imagine. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "aha, there was an exit here" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x roots" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the inverted cedar. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "consult guide about cedar" | ||||
Floyd | Annoyingly there's no index and you can't find what you want. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tie rope to ring" | ||||
Floyd | You make a secure little knot. One end is tied to the ring, the other Floyd | hangs down from the ledge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "down" | ||||
Floyd | Since the rope is not long enough and would leave you a good 20 feet Floyd | short, you decide against carefully lowering yourself down. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "aw c'mon" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "swing rope" | ||||
Floyd | There's nothing sensible to swing here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "we need some vines or something" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Or some courage." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Or some stupidity." | ||||
| Doe says, "or a ladder" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I mean, twenty feet. Seems like there's only a 50/50 chance we'd break something." | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "tie rope to ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hee hee" | |||
| DavidW says, "The ladder is back at the other ledge." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "brb" | ||||
| Doe says, "ah" | ||||
| Doe says, "ladder rope combo might be long enough" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Tying the rope to the ladder seems like a plan, yeah." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | The ledge runs northwest (if anything, more north than west). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dark Doorway Floyd | Just where the shelf flattens at the foot of rocky steps (climbing Floyd | westward), a square-cut doorway has been hewn into the north wall. The Floyd | ledge, which begins to curve southeast, is at its broadest here, yet Floyd | your feeling of vertigo hardly abates. Floyd | Floyd | The inverted cedar hangs impossibly from the roof some way to the Floyd | southwest, 30 feet away. Floyd | Floyd | A watchful oil-snake coils and uncoils itself restlessly, occupying Floyd | its territory but making no move towards you as yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Topmost Ledge Floyd | This is a slate-littered shelf high up at the northwest eaves of a Floyd | dark, vaulted cave, from which a meadow-fresh breeze blows. The ledge Floyd | broadens down a slab "staircase" to the east but wastes away into a Floyd | tight squeeze southwest. Natural passages extend like tendrils into Floyd | the rock all around this cavern, but only one is accessible from here, Floyd | back north under the lintel. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging down toward the dim, distant cave floor is a flourishing, Floyd | inverted cedar, its roots grappling the roof, its nearest outflung Floyd | branch a good 10 feet across the abyss from here. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, spans the abyss down to the cedar branches. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You edge along the northern wall of the cave, descending the rocky Floyd | stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Dark Doorway Floyd | Just where the shelf flattens at the foot of rocky steps (climbing Floyd | westward), a square-cut doorway has been hewn into the north wall. The Floyd | ledge, which begins to curve southeast, is at its broadest here, yet Floyd | your feeling of vertigo hardly abates. Floyd | Floyd | The inverted cedar hangs impossibly from the roof some way to the Floyd | southwest, 30 feet away. Floyd | Floyd | A watchful oil-snake coils and uncoils itself restlessly, occupying Floyd | its territory but making no move towards you as yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Long Curved Ledge Floyd | This long parapet thins to nothing further on, appearing to lead Floyd | nowhere after all: the nearest other ledge being 50 feet vertically Floyd | below. Floyd | Floyd | Approximately 70 feet due west of here are the roof-braced roots of Floyd | the inverted cedar, giving you a magnificent view of this botanic Floyd | marvel. Floyd | Floyd | There's an iron ring fixed to the wall, the kind used to tie up Floyd | horses, though how anyone could possibly get a horse up here you can't Floyd | imagine. Floyd | Floyd | Your length of rope is here. One end is tied to the ring, the other Floyd | hangs down from the ledge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tie rope to ladder" | ||||
Floyd | The rope's already tied to the iron ring. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "this rope is suspiciously only able to be tied to two things in certain situations" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "untie rope" | ||||
Floyd | You untie the rope. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yes" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tie ladder to ring" | ||||
Floyd | You would achieve nothing by this. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tie rope to ladder" | ||||
Floyd | There's no good way of tying it to that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "bah" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an improvised ladder Floyd | a small wickerwork hamper (which is open) Floyd | some provisions - a joint of cured ham, an apple and a hunk of Floyd | cheese Floyd | four arrows Floyd | a boomerang Floyd | a clove of garlic Floyd | a drum (which is empty) Floyd | a bow Floyd | the "destruction order" Floyd | Experimental Spell Book #5 Floyd | a shard of pottery (providing light) Floyd | your Ambassador's trunk (which is closed) Floyd | a brass lantern (providing light) Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | four ancient treasures: Floyd | a golden fir-cone Floyd | a platinum egg Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open trunk" | ||||
Floyd | Expertly sliding your fingers along the sequence of hidden catches, Floyd | you trigger the mechanism and the trunk-lid gracefully raises. Floyd | Floyd | In the Ambassador's trunk are a hand telescope and your formal Floyd | credentials. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x telescope" | ||||
Floyd | One thing about your home, the Duchy: you may not be a very powerful Floyd | realm, but you certainly are fine inventors and craftsmen. Take this Floyd | ten-inch brass "telescope", for example. Distant objects that you look Floyd | at through the telescope actually seem closer to you! Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I wonder what good this telescope is now" | |||
| DavidW asks, "We have a drum?" | ||||
| inky says, "yeah, we picked it up somewhere" | ||||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||||
| inky says, "I wonder if we could trigger the avalanche with it" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit drum" | ||||
Floyd | A hollow Bong! results. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x roots" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the inverted cedar. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. If the boomerang with emitting light, would you see more of what's around when you throw it?" | |||
| DavidW says, "er, was emitting" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in drum" | ||||
Floyd | The drum is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm. Technically sound doesn't set off avalanches." | |||
| DavidW says, "But ... but... IF." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But in IF, all variations of real world physics might be possible." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Worth a try." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "spells" | ||||
Floyd | The jilnix spell is indelibly etched on your memory. Other than that, Floyd | you have the chiaro spell memorised. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "chiaro boomerang" | ||||
Floyd | There is an almost blinding flash as the boomerang takes on a glow! Floyd | Not for a long moment is the light level tolerable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw boomerang" | ||||
Floyd | You throw the boomerang out into the vast air of the cave, where it Floyd | quickly spins out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Long Curved Ledge Floyd | This long parapet thins to nothing further on, appearing to lead Floyd | nowhere after all: the nearest other ledge being 50 feet vertically Floyd | below. Floyd | Floyd | Approximately 70 feet due west of here are the roof-braced roots of Floyd | the inverted cedar, giving you a magnificent view of this botanic Floyd | marvel. Floyd | Floyd | There's an iron ring fixed to the wall, the kind used to tie up Floyd | horses, though how anyone could possibly get a horse up here you can't Floyd | imagine. Floyd | Floyd | Your length of rope is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly and without warning, the boomerang spins back in from the Floyd | cave and gives you a nasty bruise on the head. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get boomerang" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "drat" | |||
| Bert says, "Some people have also argued that the 'jilnix' spell may also not be supported by modern scientific theory." | ||||
| inky asks, "wait, sound doesn't set off avalanches?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Nope." | ||||
| inky says, "geez, what a disappointment" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sorry." | ||||
| Bert says, "Butterfly wings do." | ||||
| DavidW says, "yay" | ||||
| inky asks, "but explosions still work, right?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Bert), "Right." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dark Doorway Floyd | Just where the shelf flattens at the foot of rocky steps (climbing Floyd | westward), a square-cut doorway has been hewn into the north wall. The Floyd | ledge, which begins to curve southeast, is at its broadest here, yet Floyd | your feeling of vertigo hardly abates. Floyd | Floyd | The inverted cedar hangs impossibly from the roof some way to the Floyd | southwest, 30 feet away. Floyd | Floyd | A watchful oil-snake coils and uncoils itself restlessly, occupying Floyd | its territory but making no move towards you as yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Topmost Ledge Floyd | This is a slate-littered shelf high up at the northwest eaves of a Floyd | dark, vaulted cave, from which a meadow-fresh breeze blows. The ledge Floyd | broadens down a slab "staircase" to the east but wastes away into a Floyd | tight squeeze southwest. Natural passages extend like tendrils into Floyd | the rock all around this cavern, but only one is accessible from here, Floyd | back north under the lintel. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging down toward the dim, distant cave floor is a flourishing, Floyd | inverted cedar, its roots grappling the roof, its nearest outflung Floyd | branch a good 10 feet across the abyss from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh yeah, explosions, sure." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put ladder on cedar" | ||||
Floyd | You hang the ladder so that it runs across the abyss from the cedar's Floyd | broadest branches to the ledge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The only obvious ways to proceed from here are north or along the Floyd | ledge, either down to the east or into the tight squeeze to the Floyd | southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "anyway, there's that wall" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | The only obvious ways to proceed from here are north or along the Floyd | ledge, either down to the east or into the tight squeeze to the Floyd | southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Low Crawl Floyd | It looks as if this low passage from the northeast peters out into a Floyd | dead end not far west, but a muddy slide-passage descends to the Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Half Cave Floyd | This is only half a cave; the eastern half, to be exact. It's a dark Floyd | place full of crevices (you would have missed the slide passage back Floyd | north if you hadn't already known about it); chief among them a Floyd | distinctive triangular cavity, 1 foot or so high, and blocked by a Floyd | rough quartz window. Floyd | Floyd | What divides this cave is a solid, floor-to-ceiling stone wall running Floyd | north to south, masoned with mortar and seemingly recent. You feel Floyd | quite certain that the cave continues. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read book" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, Experimental Spell Book #5 or The Guide For Floyd | Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Provinces? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "spell" | ||||
Floyd | Experimental Spell Book #5 Floyd | Floyd | The chiaro spell (cause inanimate object to radiate light). Floyd | The jilnix spell (summon small plague of insects). Floyd | The piroo spell (unfasten object). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize chiaro" | ||||
Floyd | You commit the chiaro spell to memory. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize piroo" | ||||
Floyd | You commit the piroo spell to memory. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "chiaro window" | ||||
Floyd | There is an almost blinding flash as the quartz window takes on a Floyd | glow! Not for a long moment is the light level tolerable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | The window itself, perhaps, was the work of primitive cave dwellers Floyd | long ago. Whoever they were, they seem to have cut some kind of cavity Floyd | to the east, behind the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cavity" | ||||
Floyd | Tantalisingly, you can only see darkness within. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "yarr" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize chiaro" | ||||
Floyd | You commit the chiaro spell to memory. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "chiaro cavity" | ||||
Floyd | The cavity can't be reached from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "open window" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "break window" | ||||
Floyd | The quartz is rough, and also tough. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "not to mention buff" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Half Cave Floyd | This is only half a cave; the eastern half, to be exact. It's a dark Floyd | place full of crevices (you would have missed the slide passage back Floyd | north if you hadn't already known about it); chief among them a Floyd | distinctive triangular cavity, 1 foot or so high, and blocked by a Floyd | rough quartz window. Floyd | Floyd | What divides this cave is a solid, floor-to-ceiling stone wall running Floyd | north to south, masoned with mortar and seemingly recent. You feel Floyd | quite certain that the cave continues. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "spell I bet is for window" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x wall" | ||||
Floyd | (the masoned wall) Floyd | You see nothing special about the masoned wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "break wall" | ||||
Floyd | (the masoned wall) Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "on scroll" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Thanks to the wall, the slide passage is the only way out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Though the cave undoubtedly extends west, the wall means you are Floyd | unable to follow it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Low Crawl Floyd | It looks as if this low passage from the northeast peters out into a Floyd | dead end not far west, but a muddy slide-passage descends to the Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oops" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cavity" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "well, was there more to do there?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Half Cave Floyd | This is only half a cave; the eastern half, to be exact. It's a dark Floyd | place full of crevices (you would have missed the slide passage back Floyd | north if you hadn't already known about it); chief among them a Floyd | distinctive triangular cavity, 1 foot or so high, and blocked by a Floyd | rough quartz window. Floyd | Floyd | What divides this cave is a solid, floor-to-ceiling stone wall running Floyd | north to south, masoned with mortar and seemingly recent. You feel Floyd | quite certain that the cave continues. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wall" | ||||
Floyd | (the masoned wall) Floyd | You see nothing special about the masoned wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mortar" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the masoned wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "beats me, I'd shoot an arrow at the scroll" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "break wall" | ||||
Floyd | (the masoned wall) Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ghogg arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | DavidW asks, "There's a scroll?" | |||
| Doe says, "I know we threw a stick at it" | ||||
| inky says, "back on the rubble, she means" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I thought we tried that, Doe." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I didn't see the scroll." | ||||
| Doe asks, "did you try shooting an arrow?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I didn't, no, but I thought someone did. Perhaps not." | ||||
| Doe says, "I don't remember it" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DavidW), "Yeah, that's why we want to trigger an avalanche." | ||||
| inky says, "ok, let's see" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Low Crawl Floyd | It looks as if this low passage from the northeast peters out into a Floyd | dead end not far west, but a muddy slide-passage descends to the Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says (to DavidW), "let's see down the tree and n or something" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Topmost Ledge Floyd | This is a slate-littered shelf high up at the northwest eaves of a Floyd | dark, vaulted cave, from which a meadow-fresh breeze blows. The ledge Floyd | broadens down a slab "staircase" to the east but wastes away into a Floyd | tight squeeze southwest. Natural passages extend like tendrils into Floyd | the rock all around this cavern, but only one is accessible from here, Floyd | back north under the lintel. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging down toward the dim, distant cave floor is a flourishing, Floyd | inverted cedar, its roots grappling the roof, its nearest outflung Floyd | branch a good 10 feet across the abyss from here. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, spans the abyss down to the cedar branches. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Top Branches Floyd | You are perched inside the dense, broad first branches down from the Floyd | cedar's roots, which splay across the rocky ceiling like buttresses on Floyd | a perpendicular gothic column. Through the dappled green cover, you Floyd | can just make out the long ledge, but it's too far up to jump across. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, spans the abyss up to the ledge. Floyd | Floyd | A tree-house has been constructed here, though it's little more than a Floyd | wooden lean-to on a log platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Or, more to the point, a rockslide." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Branches Near the Cave Floor Floyd | The cedar's foliage thins out and this is the lowest point at which Floyd | the trunk will bear your weight. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Why is the scroll not takeable?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put ladder on trunk" | ||||
Floyd | There's nowhere suitable to lean the ladder here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | The ladder's no longer in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put ladder on cedar" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "uhh" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | The ladder's no longer in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "wtdf" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put ladder on floor" | ||||
Floyd | (the cave floor) Floyd | You hang the ladder so that it runs from the cave floor up to the tip Floyd | of the tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, rests against the tip of the cedar, leading up into its Floyd | branches. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shattered Temple Rampart Floyd | Heaped up against the southern cave wall like a sloping rampart, and Floyd | rising 50 feet above the stream, the scree fall is made up not of Floyd | fallen stones but of masonry, broken terracotta tiles, wrecked Floyd | alabaster murals and those marbly bits you can't ever remember the Floyd | name of: as if the veil of a temple has been rent in twain. But what Floyd | the catastrophe can have been, and where the building stood, you Floyd | cannot say. Floyd | Floyd | A black scroll, like a roll of remembrance, is curled around the top Floyd | few feet of scree. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "here we are" | |||
| inky says, "so the issue is" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get scroll" | ||||
Floyd | Just as you're about to pull out the scroll, a tiny but significant Floyd | shift of stones give you pause. The scree fall is on the very edge of Floyd | an avalanche! You'd need to be a lot more than arm's length away to Floyd | survive that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. I never saw this room. I must've been at lunch." | |||
| Doe says (to floyd), "shoot arrow at scroll" | ||||
Floyd | You loose off an arrow at the black, memorial scroll, but miss. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You loose off an arrow at the black, memorial scroll, but miss. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Shattered Temple Rampart Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | [Can't "undo" twice in succession. Sorry!] Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "might lose all our arrows" | |||
| DavidW says, "ok. You need to spray the scree with gelatin or some glue, I'd guess." | ||||
| Doe says, "I keep thinking of sticky stuff too" | ||||
| Doe says, "like on arrow" | ||||
| Taleslinger asks, "Can we cause the avalanche and dig the blasted thing out?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Although, hm. The distant reach approach seems to be what's being hinted at." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Shattered Temple Rampart Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "count arrows" | ||||
Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a boomerang (providing light) Floyd | a small wickerwork hamper (which is open) Floyd | some provisions - a joint of cured ham, an apple and a hunk of Floyd | cheese Floyd | four arrows Floyd | a clove of garlic Floyd | a drum (which is empty) Floyd | a bow Floyd | the "destruction order" Floyd | Experimental Spell Book #5 Floyd | a shard of pottery (providing light) Floyd | your Ambassador's trunk (which is open) Floyd | a hand telescope Floyd | your formal credentials Floyd | a brass lantern (providing light) Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | four ancient treasures: Floyd | a golden fir-cone Floyd | a platinum egg Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "play drum" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "yell" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shout" | ||||
Floyd | [To address somebody, please type "name, what you want to say". For Floyd | example: "amilia, hello".] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit drum" | ||||
Floyd | A hollow Bong! results. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw boomerang at scroll" | ||||
Floyd | There isn't really room to throw it at the black, memorial scroll in Floyd | this cramped space. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw cheese at scroll" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the hunk of cheese) Floyd | Futile. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Shattered Temple Rampart Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "IRTA hit bonh" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "er, hit bong" | ||||
| inky says, "there's no point, the bong's hollow" | ||||
| inky says, "so it must have nothing inside" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "what location is outside from here?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "scree" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, rests against the tip of the cedar, leading up into its Floyd | branches. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "actually sticky stuff on boomerang" | |||
| Jacqueline says, ">X BONG" | ||||
| Jacqueline | It reads 'Phelps wuz here' | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x shingle" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x boomerang" | ||||
Floyd | A flat curved stick, but one that has been well-crafted to some end. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x boulders" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "usually if a boomerang is in a game it has a use" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw boomerang" | ||||
Floyd | You throw the boomerang out into the vast air of the cave, where it Floyd | quickly spins out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x scree" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Sorry, that week is *so* February." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | Suddenly and without warning, the boomerang spins back in from the Floyd | cave and gives you a nasty bruise on the head. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get boomerang" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "er, joke." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Man. I got a poor night's sleep, and it shows." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x scroll" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "If a light source is left near the scroll, can we see the scroll from further away?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Dunno." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "And fhrow the boomerang from there?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "er, throw" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a boomerang (providing light) Floyd | a small wickerwork hamper (which is open) Floyd | some provisions - a joint of cured ham, an apple and a hunk of Floyd | cheese Floyd | four arrows Floyd | a clove of garlic Floyd | a drum (which is empty) Floyd | a bow Floyd | the "destruction order" Floyd | Experimental Spell Book #5 Floyd | a shard of pottery (providing light) Floyd | your Ambassador's trunk (which is open) Floyd | a hand telescope Floyd | your formal credentials Floyd | a brass lantern (providing light) Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | four ancient treasures: Floyd | a golden fir-cone Floyd | a platinum egg Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shattered Temple Rampart Floyd | Heaped up against the southern cave wall like a sloping rampart, and Floyd | rising 50 feet above the stream, the scree fall is made up not of Floyd | fallen stones but of masonry, broken terracotta tiles, wrecked Floyd | alabaster murals and those marbly bits you can't ever remember the Floyd | name of: as if the veil of a temple has been rent in twain. But what Floyd | the catastrophe can have been, and where the building stood, you Floyd | cannot say. Floyd | Floyd | A black scroll, like a roll of remembrance, is curled around the top Floyd | few feet of scree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop shard" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, rests against the tip of the cedar, leading up into its Floyd | branches. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x scroll" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shattered Temple Rampart Floyd | Heaped up against the southern cave wall like a sloping rampart, and Floyd | rising 50 feet above the stream, the scree fall is made up not of Floyd | fallen stones but of masonry, broken terracotta tiles, wrecked Floyd | alabaster murals and those marbly bits you can't ever remember the Floyd | name of: as if the veil of a temple has been rent in twain. But what Floyd | the catastrophe can have been, and where the building stood, you Floyd | cannot say. Floyd | Floyd | A black scroll, like a roll of remembrance, is curled around the top Floyd | few feet of scree. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a shard of pottery (providing light) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take shard" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I think this is a "confined" area and the boomerang doesn't fly here" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "jilnix scroll" | ||||
Floyd | As your brows frown, the air around you gathers with vile winged Floyd | insects, which surge forward to plague the black, memorial scroll. But Floyd | nothing results from this, and they dissipate again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | The scree fall would be a desperate scramble down in any direction but Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x scree" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the masonry and rubble. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search scree" | ||||
Floyd | The scree is stable, but not that stable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit screen" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "kick scree" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit scree" | ||||
Floyd | Violence isn't the answer to this one. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw shard at scroll" | ||||
Floyd | Futile. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "A trained mouse could get it for us." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Hahaha" | ||||
| inky asks, "if it were drunk?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I have not seen any vodka." | ||||
| Doe says, "we seriously need a hint" | ||||
| inky says, "I wonder if we could catch the snake and use it to poison the plant" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Is maga following this? Maybe he knows a spell to make alcohol spontaneously appear." | ||||
| Doe says (to inky), "hmm" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "boozex" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "why do stills always appear / every time you are near" | |||
| Doe says (to inky), "that's a lot convoluted even for Graham" | ||||
| Doe says, "er a little" | ||||
| inky says, "I think this game might have hints if we really do get stuck" | ||||
| Doe asks, "can one take some mud?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm about ready to grab my old notes." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, rests against the tip of the cedar, leading up into its Floyd | branches. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | You cross the stream and walk around the pool. Floyd | Floyd | North Edge of Pool Floyd | The stream's pool washes up almost to your feet, close to the Floyd | forbiddingly craggy and overhung northern wall of the cave, but the Floyd | water does leave room for a broad path around the periphery; and this Floyd | is its northern limb. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously down, its tip suspended some Floyd | 20 feet to the south, across the stream. Floyd | Floyd | A single, graceful green water-lily plumes at the calm surface of the Floyd | pool. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get mud" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I feel so lost without a map." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | That would be into the pool! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, rests against the tip of the cedar, leading up into its Floyd | branches. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enclosed Stream Floyd | The cave floor closes off into an enclosed stream-bed here, forcing Floyd | you into a stoop. Floyd | Floyd | The stream runs much faster here, as the bony hand of the cave-wall Floyd | clenches around it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw boomerang" | ||||
Floyd | There's not really enough room in this cramped space to throw the Floyd | stick, since you'd really need to pull your arm right back and swing Floyd | hard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, rests against the tip of the cedar, leading up into its Floyd | branches. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw boomerang" | ||||
Floyd | You throw the boomerang out into the vast air of the cave, where it Floyd | quickly spins out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | That would be straight into the pool. Try walking around it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | You cross the stream and walk around the pool. Floyd | Floyd | North Edge of Pool Floyd | The stream's pool washes up almost to your feet, close to the Floyd | forbiddingly craggy and overhung northern wall of the cave, but the Floyd | water does leave room for a broad path around the periphery; and this Floyd | is its northern limb. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously down, its tip suspended some Floyd | 20 feet to the south, across the stream. Floyd | Floyd | A single, graceful green water-lily plumes at the calm surface of the Floyd | pool. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, rests against the tip of the cedar, leading up into its Floyd | branches. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a boomerang (providing light) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get boomerang" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "throw boomerang" | ||||
Floyd | You throw the boomerang out into the vast air of the cave, where it Floyd | quickly spins out of sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | You cross the stream and walk around the pool. Floyd | Floyd | North Edge of Pool Floyd | The stream's pool washes up almost to your feet, close to the Floyd | forbiddingly craggy and overhung northern wall of the cave, but the Floyd | water does leave room for a broad path around the periphery; and this Floyd | is its northern limb. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously down, its tip suspended some Floyd | 20 feet to the south, across the stream. Floyd | Floyd | A single, graceful green water-lily plumes at the calm surface of the Floyd | pool. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Has all the water been checked for submerged goodies?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search water" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the stream or the water lily? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "stream" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | That would be into the pool! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stream" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the stream. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in stream" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "What about the other water locations?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | That would be into the pool! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, rests against the tip of the cedar, leading up into its Floyd | branches. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a boomerang (providing light) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get boomerang" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enclosed Stream Floyd | The cave floor closes off into an enclosed stream-bed here, forcing Floyd | you into a stoop. Floyd | Floyd | The stream runs much faster here, as the bony hand of the cave-wall Floyd | clenches around it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stream" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the stream. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in stream" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hand" | ||||
Floyd | One thing about your home, the Duchy: you may not be a very powerful Floyd | realm, but you certainly are fine inventors and craftsmen. Take this Floyd | ten-inch brass "telescope", for example. Distant objects that you look Floyd | at through the telescope actually seem closer to you! Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. Perhaps we could've spotted the treehouse before jumping into the tree roots." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, rests against the tip of the cedar, leading up into its Floyd | branches. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shattered Temple Rampart Floyd | Heaped up against the southern cave wall like a sloping rampart, and Floyd | rising 50 feet above the stream, the scree fall is made up not of Floyd | fallen stones but of masonry, broken terracotta tiles, wrecked Floyd | alabaster murals and those marbly bits you can't ever remember the Floyd | name of: as if the veil of a temple has been rent in twain. But what Floyd | the catastrophe can have been, and where the building stood, you Floyd | cannot say. Floyd | Floyd | A black scroll, like a roll of remembrance, is curled around the top Floyd | few feet of scree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look at scroll with telescope" | ||||
Floyd | The black, memorial scroll is too close to you to make that Floyd | worthwhile. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "maybe the scroll can be read wihtout taken" | |||
| Doe says, "drat" | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "Man, one could make great puzzles with the solutions proposed on CLubFloyd." | ||||
| inky says, "there was an earlier comment that we can't memorize it without holding it" | ||||
| DavidW says (to inky), "Nice try, though" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yeah, I tried memorizing it." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "No dice." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x murals" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the masonry and rubble. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "mumble" | |||
| inky says, "ok, maybe we missed an exit someplace" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, rests against the tip of the cedar, leading up into its Floyd | branches. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | The cave wall is impenetrable in that direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Furrow and Workings Floyd | The furrow has been burrowed and extended by primitive mine workings, Floyd | hewn chiefly by hand or at best stone tools. But the seam has been Floyd | exhausted, and the striations in the rock scraped clean of ore. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "this is where the drum was; I assume there's nothing else here" | |||
| DavidW says, "I don't remember." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x furrow" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x seam" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rock" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Taleslinger says, "ifwiki says in-game hints" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, rests against the tip of the cedar, leading up into its Floyd | branches. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enclosed Stream Floyd | The cave floor closes off into an enclosed stream-bed here, forcing Floyd | you into a stoop. Floyd | Floyd | The stream runs much faster here, as the bony hand of the cave-wall Floyd | clenches around it. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "there might be something here we didn't think of" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a boomerang (providing light) Floyd | a shard of pottery (providing light) Floyd | a small wickerwork hamper (which is open) Floyd | some provisions - a joint of cured ham, an apple and a hunk of Floyd | cheese Floyd | four arrows Floyd | a clove of garlic Floyd | a drum (which is empty) Floyd | a bow Floyd | the "destruction order" Floyd | Experimental Spell Book #5 Floyd | your Ambassador's trunk (which is open) Floyd | a hand telescope Floyd | your formal credentials Floyd | a brass lantern (providing light) Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | four ancient treasures: Floyd | a golden fir-cone Floyd | a platinum egg Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put cheese in river" | ||||
Floyd | You need to be holding the hunk of cheese before you can put it into Floyd | something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get cheese" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put cheese in river" | ||||
Floyd | The hunk of cheese washes away with the stream. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Enclosed Stream Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x floor" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cave" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a boomerang (providing light) Floyd | a shard of pottery (providing light) Floyd | a small wickerwork hamper (which is open) Floyd | some provisions - a joint of cured ham and an apple Floyd | four arrows Floyd | a drum (which is empty) Floyd | a bow Floyd | the "destruction order" Floyd | Experimental Spell Book #5 Floyd | your Ambassador's trunk (which is open) Floyd | a hand telescope Floyd | your formal credentials Floyd | a brass lantern (providing light) Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | four ancient treasures: Floyd | a golden fir-cone Floyd | a platinum egg Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | some provisions - a hunk of cheese and a clove of garlic Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spells" | ||||
Floyd | The jilnix spell is indelibly etched on your memory. Other than that, Floyd | you have the chiaro spell and piroo spell memorised. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "Are we still stuck?" | |||
| inky says, "yep" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Kinda, yeah." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, rests against the tip of the cedar, leading up into its Floyd | branches. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I was wondering about the stream current. If the lily does vomit something, if might float downstream before we can grab it." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x scree" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Enclosed Stream Floyd | The cave floor closes off into an enclosed stream-bed here, forcing Floyd | you into a stoop. Floyd | Floyd | The stream runs much faster here, as the bony hand of the cave-wall Floyd | clenches around it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Further east, the cave roof descends until it touches the stream Floyd | water-level. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put ladder in river" | ||||
Floyd | There's nowhere suitable to lean the ladder here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Put the ladder on the scree?" | |||
| Fang says, "Hmm, I think we might want to try that, yeah" | ||||
| Fang says, "I did it with drop earlier but it didn't work" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shattered Temple Rampart Floyd | Heaped up against the southern cave wall like a sloping rampart, and Floyd | rising 50 feet above the stream, the scree fall is made up not of Floyd | fallen stones but of masonry, broken terracotta tiles, wrecked Floyd | alabaster murals and those marbly bits you can't ever remember the Floyd | name of: as if the veil of a temple has been rent in twain. But what Floyd | the catastrophe can have been, and where the building stood, you Floyd | cannot say. Floyd | Floyd | A black scroll, like a roll of remembrance, is curled around the top Floyd | few feet of scree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put ladder on scree" | ||||
Floyd | There's nowhere suitable to lean the ladder here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "maybe we should try a a different verb" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put ladder on scroll" | ||||
Floyd | There's nowhere suitable to lean the ladder here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "place ladder on scree" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "what about the crack?" | |||
| inky says, "I think put has worked ok before" | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "ladder on masonary" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x crack" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "whereever that was" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | an improvised ladder Floyd | a boomerang (providing light) Floyd | a shard of pottery (providing light) Floyd | a small wickerwork hamper (which is open) Floyd | some provisions - a joint of cured ham and an apple Floyd | four arrows Floyd | a drum (which is empty) Floyd | a bow Floyd | the "destruction order" Floyd | Experimental Spell Book #5 Floyd | your Ambassador's trunk (which is open) Floyd | a hand telescope Floyd | your formal credentials Floyd | a brass lantern (providing light) Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | four ancient treasures: Floyd | a golden fir-cone Floyd | a platinum egg Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | some provisions - a hunk of cheese and a clove of garlic Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "I dropped my put" | |||
| Fang says, "where's the rope?>" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Damn this is a lot of stuff to carry around." | ||||
| Doe says (to Jacq), "she's one strong woman" | ||||
| Taleslinger asks, "Otherwise we'd be complaining about the stupid inventory limit, wouldn't we?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x rope" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hm, the rope might be tied to the ring" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You can scale the scree no further. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I'm not actually sure the PC is gendered" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | As good-looking as ever. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "poke scroll with ladder" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "who am I" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "diagnose" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I had the impression is was a dude." | |||
| Doe says, "oh, I thuoght being so chatting with Amelia it was a woman" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shattered Temple Rampart Floyd | Heaped up against the southern cave wall like a sloping rampart, and Floyd | rising 50 feet above the stream, the scree fall is made up not of Floyd | fallen stones but of masonry, broken terracotta tiles, wrecked Floyd | alabaster murals and those marbly bits you can't ever remember the Floyd | name of: as if the veil of a temple has been rent in twain. But what Floyd | the catastrophe can have been, and where the building stood, you Floyd | cannot say. Floyd | Floyd | A black scroll, like a roll of remembrance, is curled around the top Floyd | few feet of scree. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I thought it was that Amilia liked us." | |||
| inky says, "well, we're a diplomat" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pray" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing practical results from your prayer. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "so we have to rattle on a bit" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "shout" | ||||
Floyd | [To address somebody, please type "name, what you want to say". For Floyd | example: "amilia, hello".] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Isn't there something in the book about how if you eat sherbet with someone you're betrothed to them?" | |||
| Doe says (to floyd), "help" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hints Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > Instructions: How to play this game Floyd | Briefings: A diplomatic background Floyd | Hints: During the Procession Floyd | The Customs House Floyd | Amongst the Foundations Floyd | Ledge and Surroundings Floyd | Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | Hints: Casting Spells Floyd | Hints: General Floyd | | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hints Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Instructions: How to play this game Floyd | > Briefings: A diplomatic background Floyd | Hints: During the Procession Floyd | The Customs House Floyd | Amongst the Foundations Floyd | Ledge and Surroundings Floyd | Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | Hints: Casting Spells Floyd | Hints: General Floyd | | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "Q" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Shattered Temple Rampart Floyd | Heaped up against the southern cave wall like a sloping rampart, and Floyd | rising 50 feet above the stream, the scree fall is made up not of Floyd | fallen stones but of masonry, broken terracotta tiles, wrecked Floyd | alabaster murals and those marbly bits you can't ever remember the Floyd | name of: as if the veil of a temple has been rent in twain. But what Floyd | the catastrophe can have been, and where the building stood, you Floyd | cannot say. Floyd | Floyd | A black scroll, like a roll of remembrance, is curled around the top Floyd | few feet of scree. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "well, there if we need them" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "consult guide about sherbet" | ||||
Floyd | A delightful fruit cocktail. A popular superstition holds that a Floyd | gentleman is fated to marry the first lady he drinks sherbet with. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "consult guide about scree" | ||||
Floyd | Annoyingly there's no index and you can't find what you want. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "ok, so are we going to check the hints or not?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I am fine with that." | ||||
| Doe says, "okay, by me, but just one re scroll" | ||||
| inky says, "(given that we're at two hours I am going to vote yes unless someone has an idea)" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hint" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hints Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > Instructions: How to play this game Floyd | Briefings: A diplomatic background Floyd | Hints: During the Procession Floyd | The Customs House Floyd | Amongst the Foundations Floyd | Ledge and Surroundings Floyd | Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | Hints: Casting Spells Floyd | Hints: General Floyd | | Fang says, "suggest we get back to the place with the garbage heap" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hints Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Instructions: How to play this game Floyd | > Briefings: A diplomatic background Floyd | Hints: During the Procession Floyd | The Customs House Floyd | Amongst the Foundations Floyd | Ledge and Surroundings Floyd | Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | Hints: Casting Spells Floyd | Hints: General Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hints Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Instructions: How to play this game Floyd | Briefings: A diplomatic background Floyd | > Hints: During the Procession Floyd | The Customs House Floyd | Amongst the Foundations Floyd | Ledge and Surroundings Floyd | Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | Hints: Casting Spells Floyd | Hints: General Floyd | | Fang says, "and try the ladder there" | |||
| Doe says, "try cAve floor" | ||||
| inky says, "I believe we tried and it didn't fit" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I thought the problem was the shaft was too narrow for us." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hints Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Instructions: How to play this game Floyd | Briefings: A diplomatic background Floyd | Hints: During the Procession Floyd | > The Customs House Floyd | Amongst the Foundations Floyd | Ledge and Surroundings Floyd | Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | Hints: Casting Spells Floyd | Hints: General Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hints Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Instructions: How to play this game Floyd | Briefings: A diplomatic background Floyd | Hints: During the Procession Floyd | The Customs House Floyd | > Amongst the Foundations Floyd | Ledge and Surroundings Floyd | Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | Hints: Casting Spells Floyd | Hints: General Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hints Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Instructions: How to play this game Floyd | Briefings: A diplomatic background Floyd | Hints: During the Procession Floyd | The Customs House Floyd | Amongst the Foundations Floyd | > Ledge and Surroundings Floyd | Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | Hints: Casting Spells Floyd | Hints: General Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hints Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Instructions: How to play this game Floyd | Briefings: A diplomatic background Floyd | Hints: During the Procession Floyd | The Customs House Floyd | Amongst the Foundations Floyd | Ledge and Surroundings Floyd | > Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | Hints: Casting Spells Floyd | Hints: General Floyd | | ||||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hints Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Instructions: How to play this game Floyd | Briefings: A diplomatic background Floyd | Hints: During the Procession Floyd | The Customs House Floyd | Amongst the Foundations Floyd | Ledge and Surroundings Floyd | > Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | Hints: Casting Spells Floyd | Hints: General Floyd | | Fang says, "we need to fetch the rope, anyways" | |||
| inky says, "uh" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "I don't actually know how to push enter" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hints Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Instructions: How to play this game Floyd | Briefings: A diplomatic background Floyd | Hints: During the Procession Floyd | The Customs House Floyd | Amongst the Foundations Floyd | Ledge and Surroundings Floyd | > Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | Hints: Casting Spells Floyd | Hints: General Floyd | | Doe says, "hmmm, maybe that gives away too much, ledge is what we want" | |||
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = prev Floyd | ious menu Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > I can't get back up. Floyd | The treehouse is impenetrable. Floyd | The scree slope is too unstable! Floyd | The arched doorway seems very dangerous. Floyd | What's the drum for? Floyd | Does the water-lily play a part? Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | (Press H for more, or SPACE to return.) Floyd | Floyd | The means for doing so are further down. Floyd | | inky says, "ah nice" | |||
| Doe says, "there we go" | ||||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = prev Floyd | ious menu Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > I can't get back up. Floyd | The treehouse is impenetrable. Floyd | The scree slope is too unstable! Floyd | The arched doorway seems very dangerous. Floyd | What's the drum for? Floyd | Does the water-lily play a part? Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = prev Floyd | ious menu Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I can't get back up. Floyd | > The treehouse is impenetrable. Floyd | The scree slope is too unstable! Floyd | The arched doorway seems very dangerous. Floyd | What's the drum for? Floyd | Does the water-lily play a part? Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = prev Floyd | ious menu Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I can't get back up. Floyd | The treehouse is impenetrable. Floyd | > The scree slope is too unstable! Floyd | The arched doorway seems very dangerous. Floyd | What's the drum for? Floyd | Does the water-lily play a part? Floyd | | ||||
| inky presses the yellow enter button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | (Press H for more, or SPACE to return.) Floyd | Floyd | You need a way to pull the scroll out at the same time as getting Floyd | away. Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "h" | ||||
Floyd | So that your movement is what does the pulling. Floyd | | inky asks, "we already tried tying the rope to it, didn't we?" | |||
| Fang says, "so we need the rope" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push space" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = prev Floyd | ious menu Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I can't get back up. Floyd | The treehouse is impenetrable. Floyd | > The scree slope is too unstable! Floyd | The arched doorway seems very dangerous. Floyd | What's the drum for? Floyd | Does the water-lily play a part? Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hints Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Instructions: How to play this game Floyd | Briefings: A diplomatic background Floyd | Hints: During the Procession Floyd | The Customs House Floyd | Amongst the Foundations Floyd | Ledge and Surroundings Floyd | > Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | Hints: Casting Spells Floyd | Hints: General Floyd | | DavidW asks, "Tie the rope to what?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Shattered Temple Rampart Floyd | Heaped up against the southern cave wall like a sloping rampart, and Floyd | rising 50 feet above the stream, the scree fall is made up not of Floyd | fallen stones but of masonry, broken terracotta tiles, wrecked Floyd | alabaster murals and those marbly bits you can't ever remember the Floyd | name of: as if the veil of a temple has been rent in twain. But what Floyd | the catastrophe can have been, and where the building stood, you Floyd | cannot say. Floyd | Floyd | A black scroll, like a roll of remembrance, is curled around the top Floyd | few feet of scree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put ladder on cedar" | ||||
Floyd | You hang the ladder so that it runs from the cave floor up to the tip Floyd | of the tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Branches Near the Cave Floor Floyd | The cedar's foliage thins out and this is the lowest point at which Floyd | the trunk will bear your weight. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, hangs down the rest of the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "ourselves?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Top Branches Floyd | You are perched inside the dense, broad first branches down from the Floyd | cedar's roots, which splay across the rocky ceiling like buttresses on Floyd | a perpendicular gothic column. Through the dappled green cover, you Floyd | can just make out the long ledge, but it's too far up to jump across. Floyd | Floyd | A tree-house has been constructed here, though it's little more than a Floyd | wooden lean-to on a log platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put ladder on ledge" | ||||
Floyd | You hang the ladder so that it runs across the abyss from the cedar's Floyd | broadest branches to the ledge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Topmost Ledge Floyd | This is a slate-littered shelf high up at the northwest eaves of a Floyd | dark, vaulted cave, from which a meadow-fresh breeze blows. The ledge Floyd | broadens down a slab "staircase" to the east but wastes away into a Floyd | tight squeeze southwest. Natural passages extend like tendrils into Floyd | the rock all around this cavern, but only one is accessible from here, Floyd | back north under the lintel. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging down toward the dim, distant cave floor is a flourishing, Floyd | inverted cedar, its roots grappling the roof, its nearest outflung Floyd | branch a good 10 feet across the abyss from here. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, spans the abyss down to the cedar branches. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You edge along the northern wall of the cave, descending the rocky Floyd | stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Dark Doorway Floyd | Just where the shelf flattens at the foot of rocky steps (climbing Floyd | westward), a square-cut doorway has been hewn into the north wall. The Floyd | ledge, which begins to curve southeast, is at its broadest here, yet Floyd | your feeling of vertigo hardly abates. Floyd | Floyd | The inverted cedar hangs impossibly from the roof some way to the Floyd | southwest, 30 feet away. Floyd | Floyd | A watchful oil-snake coils and uncoils itself restlessly, occupying Floyd | its territory but making no move towards you as yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You edge southeast along the ledge. Floyd | Floyd | Long Curved Ledge Floyd | This long parapet thins to nothing further on, appearing to lead Floyd | nowhere after all: the nearest other ledge being 50 feet vertically Floyd | below. Floyd | Floyd | Approximately 70 feet due west of here are the roof-braced roots of Floyd | the inverted cedar, giving you a magnificent view of this botanic Floyd | marvel. Floyd | Floyd | There's an iron ring fixed to the wall, the kind used to tie up Floyd | horses, though how anyone could possibly get a horse up here you can't Floyd | imagine. Floyd | Floyd | Your length of rope is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get rope" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "You're making a bungle cord?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | The ledge runs northwest (if anything, more north than west). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Dark Doorway Floyd | Just where the shelf flattens at the foot of rocky steps (climbing Floyd | westward), a square-cut doorway has been hewn into the north wall. The Floyd | ledge, which begins to curve southeast, is at its broadest here, yet Floyd | your feeling of vertigo hardly abates. Floyd | Floyd | The inverted cedar hangs impossibly from the roof some way to the Floyd | southwest, 30 feet away. Floyd | Floyd | A watchful oil-snake coils and uncoils itself restlessly, occupying Floyd | its territory but making no move towards you as yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Topmost Ledge Floyd | This is a slate-littered shelf high up at the northwest eaves of a Floyd | dark, vaulted cave, from which a meadow-fresh breeze blows. The ledge Floyd | broadens down a slab "staircase" to the east but wastes away into a Floyd | tight squeeze southwest. Natural passages extend like tendrils into Floyd | the rock all around this cavern, but only one is accessible from here, Floyd | back north under the lintel. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging down toward the dim, distant cave floor is a flourishing, Floyd | inverted cedar, its roots grappling the roof, its nearest outflung Floyd | branch a good 10 feet across the abyss from here. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, spans the abyss down to the cedar branches. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Top Branches Floyd | You are perched inside the dense, broad first branches down from the Floyd | cedar's roots, which splay across the rocky ceiling like buttresses on Floyd | a perpendicular gothic column. Through the dappled green cover, you Floyd | can just make out the long ledge, but it's too far up to jump across. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, spans the abyss up to the ledge. Floyd | Floyd | A tree-house has been constructed here, though it's little more than a Floyd | wooden lean-to on a log platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Branches Near the Cave Floor Floyd | The cedar's foliage thins out and this is the lowest point at which Floyd | the trunk will bear your weight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Top Branches Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | Fang says, "that might work" | |||
Floyd | Floyd | Branches Near the Cave Floor Floyd | The cedar's foliage thins out and this is the lowest point at which Floyd | the trunk will bear your weight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | The ladder's no longer in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe asks, "you didn't get a hint?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put ladder on floor" | ||||
Floyd | (the cave floor) Floyd | You hang the ladder so that it runs from the cave floor up to the tip Floyd | of the tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, rests against the tip of the cedar, leading up into its Floyd | branches. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shattered Temple Rampart Floyd | Heaped up against the southern cave wall like a sloping rampart, and Floyd | rising 50 feet above the stream, the scree fall is made up not of Floyd | fallen stones but of masonry, broken terracotta tiles, wrecked Floyd | alabaster murals and those marbly bits you can't ever remember the Floyd | name of: as if the veil of a temple has been rent in twain. But what Floyd | the catastrophe can have been, and where the building stood, you Floyd | cannot say. Floyd | Floyd | A black scroll, like a roll of remembrance, is curled around the top Floyd | few feet of scree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tie rope to scroll" | ||||
Floyd | You make a secure little knot. It is now tied to the black, memorial Floyd | scroll. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh come ON" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Just out of curiosity, do we know how far along we are?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tie rope to me" | ||||
Floyd | You tie the rope around you. One end is tied around you, and the other Floyd | to the black, memorial scroll. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "this puzzle is so dumb I cannot even tell you" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get scroll" | ||||
Floyd | Just as you're about to pull out the scroll, a tiny but significant Floyd | shift of stones give you pause. The scree fall is on the very edge of Floyd | an avalanche! You'd need to be a lot more than arm's length away to Floyd | survive that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "okay" | |||
| Fang says, "yeah" | ||||
| inky says, "hrm" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I didn't understand what you... oh you gotta be kidding" | ||||
| inky says, "ok, I guess I take that back" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The scree fall would be a desperate scramble down in any direction but Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "it does say the issue is with *pulling out* the scroll, not with touching it" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The rope plucks out the scroll as you run north... but you are Floyd | overtaken by a thundering avalanche with the same idea! Your burial is Floyd | almost instant. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 16 out of a possible 30, in 630 turns, the Floyd | kind of score one would expect of a Diplomat. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Can we just walk away." | |||
| Doe says, "I don't get that" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Nope." | ||||
| inky asks, "wait, what?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Evidently we can't." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Shattered Temple Rampart Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe asks, "can we get a hint?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||
Floyd | You jump on the spot, fruitlessly. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok, I don't understand why that didn't work" | |||
| inky says (to Doe), "the hint said to do this" | ||||
| inky says (to Doe), "(more or less)" | ||||
| Doe says, "I scrolled back and didn't see it" | ||||
| Fang says, "presumeable the next hint is 'Just kidding'" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Don't tie it to yourself." | ||||
| Doe says, "tie rope to scroll? then to something else then too" | ||||
| Fang says, "followed by 'The scroll is not important'" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "untie rope" | ||||
Floyd | You untie the rope. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "'Eat the ladder'" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a boomerang (providing light) Floyd | a shard of pottery (providing light) Floyd | a small wickerwork hamper (which is open) Floyd | some provisions - a joint of cured ham and an apple Floyd | four arrows Floyd | a drum (which is empty) Floyd | a bow Floyd | the "destruction order" Floyd | Experimental Spell Book #5 Floyd | your Ambassador's trunk (which is open) Floyd | a hand telescope Floyd | your formal credentials Floyd | a brass lantern (providing light) Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | four ancient treasures: Floyd | a golden fir-cone Floyd | a platinum egg Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | some provisions - a hunk of cheese and a clove of garlic Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get rope" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tie rope to scroll" | ||||
Floyd | You make a secure little knot. It is now tied to the black, memorial Floyd | scroll. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pull rope" | ||||
Floyd | Just as you're about to pull out the scroll, a tiny but significant Floyd | shift of stones give you pause. The scree fall is on the very edge of Floyd | an avalanche! You'd need to be a lot more than arm's length away to Floyd | survive that. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "If the rope is only tied to the scroll, that might make the rope long enough." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, rests against the tip of the cedar, leading up into its Floyd | branches. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pull rope" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shattered Temple Rampart Floyd | Heaped up against the southern cave wall like a sloping rampart, and Floyd | rising 50 feet above the stream, the scree fall is made up not of Floyd | fallen stones but of masonry, broken terracotta tiles, wrecked Floyd | alabaster murals and those marbly bits you can't ever remember the Floyd | name of: as if the veil of a temple has been rent in twain. But what Floyd | the catastrophe can have been, and where the building stood, you Floyd | cannot say. Floyd | Floyd | A black scroll, like a roll of remembrance, is curled around the top Floyd | few feet of scree. Floyd | Floyd | Your length of rope is here. It is now tied to the black, memorial Floyd | scroll. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The scree fall would be a desperate scramble down in any direction but Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "get rope" | ||||
Floyd | You can't take the rope; it's tied to the black, memorial scroll. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take rope" | ||||
Floyd | You can't take the rope; it's tied to the black, memorial scroll. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Out of curiosity, do we know how far along we are? The waitress here seems to hate me." | |||
| inky says, "oops, sorry, you go ahead" | ||||
| inky says, "what the hell" | ||||
| DavidW says, "damn" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 16 out of a possible 30, in 641 turns, the kind Floyd | of score one would expect of a Diplomat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a boomerang (providing light) Floyd | a shard of pottery (providing light) Floyd | a small wickerwork hamper (which is open) Floyd | some provisions - a joint of cured ham and an apple Floyd | four arrows Floyd | a drum (which is empty) Floyd | a bow Floyd | the "destruction order" Floyd | Experimental Spell Book #5 Floyd | your Ambassador's trunk (which is open) Floyd | a hand telescope Floyd | your formal credentials Floyd | a brass lantern (providing light) Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | four ancient treasures: Floyd | a golden fir-cone Floyd | a platinum egg Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | some provisions - a hunk of cheese and a clove of garlic Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "pull rope" | ||||
Floyd | Just as you're about to pull out the scroll, a tiny but significant Floyd | shift of stones give you pause. The scree fall is on the very edge of Floyd | an avalanche! You'd need to be a lot more than arm's length away to Floyd | survive that. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says (to Jacq), "so I think probably another 40 minutes at least" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "I... hm... I can't go to the library until top of the next hour anyway, so, I guess it doesn't matter." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "d" | Jacqueline says, "Oh, okay. Perfect." | |||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, rests against the tip of the cedar, leading up into its Floyd | branches. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "She will just have to hate me." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "o" | ||||
Floyd | Sorry, that can't be corrected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a boomerang (providing light) Floyd | a shard of pottery (providing light) Floyd | a small wickerwork hamper (which is open) Floyd | some provisions - a joint of cured ham and an apple Floyd | four arrows Floyd | a drum (which is empty) Floyd | a bow Floyd | the "destruction order" Floyd | Experimental Spell Book #5 Floyd | your Ambassador's trunk (which is open) Floyd | a hand telescope Floyd | your formal credentials Floyd | a brass lantern (providing light) Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | four ancient treasures: Floyd | a golden fir-cone Floyd | a platinum egg Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | some provisions - a hunk of cheese and a clove of garlic Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Branches Near the Cave Floor Floyd | The cedar's foliage thins out and this is the lowest point at which Floyd | the trunk will bear your weight. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, hangs down the rest of the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, rests against the tip of the cedar, leading up into its Floyd | branches. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe asks, "we get the scroll?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shattered Temple Rampart Floyd | Heaped up against the southern cave wall like a sloping rampart, and Floyd | rising 50 feet above the stream, the scree fall is made up not of Floyd | fallen stones but of masonry, broken terracotta tiles, wrecked Floyd | alabaster murals and those marbly bits you can't ever remember the Floyd | name of: as if the veil of a temple has been rent in twain. But what Floyd | the catastrophe can have been, and where the building stood, you Floyd | cannot say. Floyd | Floyd | A black scroll, like a roll of remembrance, is curled around the top Floyd | few feet of scree. Floyd | Floyd | Your length of rope is here. It is now tied to the black, memorial Floyd | scroll. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "no" | |||
| Fang says, "sorry, got confused for a moment" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tie rope to boomerang" | ||||
Floyd | The rope's already tied to the black, memorial scroll. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "untie rope" | ||||
Floyd | You untie the rope. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe asks, "can I see the hint again?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get rope" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "help" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hints Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > Instructions: How to play this game Floyd | Briefings: A diplomatic background Floyd | Hints: During the Procession Floyd | The Customs House Floyd | Amongst the Foundations Floyd | Ledge and Surroundings Floyd | Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | Hints: Casting Spells Floyd | Hints: General Floyd | | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hints Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Instructions: How to play this game Floyd | > Briefings: A diplomatic background Floyd | Hints: During the Procession Floyd | The Customs House Floyd | Amongst the Foundations Floyd | Ledge and Surroundings Floyd | Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | Hints: Casting Spells Floyd | Hints: General Floyd | | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hints Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Instructions: How to play this game Floyd | Briefings: A diplomatic background Floyd | > Hints: During the Procession Floyd | The Customs House Floyd | Amongst the Foundations Floyd | Ledge and Surroundings Floyd | Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | Hints: Casting Spells Floyd | Hints: General Floyd | | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hints Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Instructions: How to play this game Floyd | Briefings: A diplomatic background Floyd | Hints: During the Procession Floyd | > The Customs House Floyd | Amongst the Foundations Floyd | Ledge and Surroundings Floyd | Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | Hints: Casting Spells Floyd | Hints: General Floyd | | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hints Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Instructions: How to play this game Floyd | Briefings: A diplomatic background Floyd | Hints: During the Procession Floyd | The Customs House Floyd | > Amongst the Foundations Floyd | Ledge and Surroundings Floyd | Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | Hints: Casting Spells Floyd | Hints: General Floyd | | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "n.n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hints Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Instructions: How to play this game Floyd | Briefings: A diplomatic background Floyd | Hints: During the Procession Floyd | The Customs House Floyd | Amongst the Foundations Floyd | > Ledge and Surroundings Floyd | Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | Hints: Casting Spells Floyd | Hints: General Floyd | | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hints Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Instructions: How to play this game Floyd | Briefings: A diplomatic background Floyd | Hints: During the Procession Floyd | The Customs House Floyd | Amongst the Foundations Floyd | Ledge and Surroundings Floyd | > Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | Hints: Casting Spells Floyd | Hints: General Floyd | | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "return" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Hints Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Instructions: How to play this game Floyd | Briefings: A diplomatic background Floyd | Hints: During the Procession Floyd | The Customs House Floyd | Amongst the Foundations Floyd | Ledge and Surroundings Floyd | > Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | Hints: Casting Spells Floyd | Hints: General Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW presses the yellow enter button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = prev Floyd | ious menu Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > I can't get back up. Floyd | The treehouse is impenetrable. Floyd | The scree slope is too unstable! Floyd | The arched doorway seems very dangerous. Floyd | What's the drum for? Floyd | Does the water-lily play a part? Floyd | | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "n.n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = prev Floyd | ious menu Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I can't get back up. Floyd | > The treehouse is impenetrable. Floyd | The scree slope is too unstable! Floyd | The arched doorway seems very dangerous. Floyd | What's the drum for? Floyd | Does the water-lily play a part? Floyd | | ||||
| Doe says (to floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = prev Floyd | ious menu Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I can't get back up. Floyd | The treehouse is impenetrable. Floyd | > The scree slope is too unstable! Floyd | The arched doorway seems very dangerous. Floyd | What's the drum for? Floyd | Does the water-lily play a part? Floyd | | DavidW says, "'push return'" | |||
| Doe says (to floyd), "push return" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = prev Floyd | ious menu Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I can't get back up. Floyd | > The treehouse is impenetrable. Floyd | The scree slope is too unstable! Floyd | The arched doorway seems very dangerous. Floyd | What's the drum for? Floyd | Does the water-lily play a part? Floyd | | Taleslinger says, "okay gotta run" | |||
| Taleslinger has disconnected. | ||||
| Taleslinger slowly disappears. | DavidW says, "Not to Floyd" | |||
| Doe says (to floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = prev Floyd | ious menu Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I can't get back up. Floyd | The treehouse is impenetrable. Floyd | > The scree slope is too unstable! Floyd | The arched doorway seems very dangerous. Floyd | What's the drum for? Floyd | Does the water-lily play a part? Floyd | | DavidW says, "Mud command" | |||
| Doe says (to floyd), "push yellow return button" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = prev Floyd | ious menu Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I can't get back up. Floyd | > The treehouse is impenetrable. Floyd | The scree slope is too unstable! Floyd | The arched doorway seems very dangerous. Floyd | What's the drum for? Floyd | Does the water-lily play a part? Floyd | | DavidW says, "NOT TO FLOYD" | |||
| Doe says, "someone help" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = prev Floyd | ious menu Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I can't get back up. Floyd | The treehouse is impenetrable. Floyd | > The scree slope is too unstable! Floyd | The arched doorway seems very dangerous. Floyd | What's the drum for? Floyd | Does the water-lily play a part? Floyd | | ||||
| inky presses the yellow enter button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | (Press H for more, or SPACE to return.) Floyd | Floyd | You need a way to pull the scroll out at the same time as getting Floyd | away. Floyd | | Doe says, "okay, that isn't the rope per se, but I get it" | |||
| inky asks, "do we want another hin?" | ||||
| inky says, "t" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I suppose so" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "h" | ||||
Floyd | So that your movement is what does the pulling. Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "h" | ||||
Floyd | You need, then, to be attached to the scroll. Floyd | | inky says, "..." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "h" | ||||
Floyd | In face, tied with the rope. Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "h" | ||||
Floyd | But if you go the same way as the avalanche, you can expect to be Floyd | overtaken... Floyd | | inky says, "uh, ok" | |||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = prev Floyd | ious menu Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | I can't get back up. Floyd | The treehouse is impenetrable. Floyd | > The scree slope is too unstable! Floyd | The arched doorway seems very dangerous. Floyd | What's the drum for? Floyd | Does the water-lily play a part? Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Hints Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Instructions: How to play this game Floyd | Briefings: A diplomatic background Floyd | Hints: During the Procession Floyd | The Customs House Floyd | Amongst the Foundations Floyd | Ledge and Surroundings Floyd | > Cedar and Cave Floor Floyd | Hints: Casting Spells Floyd | Hints: General Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Shattered Temple Rampart Floyd | Heaped up against the southern cave wall like a sloping rampart, and Floyd | rising 50 feet above the stream, the scree fall is made up not of Floyd | fallen stones but of masonry, broken terracotta tiles, wrecked Floyd | alabaster murals and those marbly bits you can't ever remember the Floyd | name of: as if the veil of a temple has been rent in twain. But what Floyd | the catastrophe can have been, and where the building stood, you Floyd | cannot say. Floyd | Floyd | A black scroll, like a roll of remembrance, is curled around the top Floyd | few feet of scree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tie rope to scroll" | ||||
Floyd | You make a secure little knot. It is now tied to the black, memorial Floyd | scroll. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tie rope to me" | ||||
Floyd | You tie the rope around you. One end is tied around you, and the other Floyd | to the black, memorial scroll. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | The scree fall would be a desperate scramble down in any direction but Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "So we go some direction but not north?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The scree fall would be a desperate scramble down in any direction but Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The rope plucks out the scroll as you run north... but you are Floyd | overtaken by a thundering avalanche with the same idea! Your burial is Floyd | almost instant. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 16 out of a possible 30, in 655 turns, the Floyd | kind of score one would expect of a Diplomat. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Shattered Temple Rampart Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "drop ladder" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "untie rope" | ||||
Floyd | You untie the rope. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The scree fall would be a desperate scramble down in any direction but Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "wait" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, rests against the tip of the cedar, leading up into its Floyd | branches. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "get ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shattered Temple Rampart Floyd | Heaped up against the southern cave wall like a sloping rampart, and Floyd | rising 50 feet above the stream, the scree fall is made up not of Floyd | fallen stones but of masonry, broken terracotta tiles, wrecked Floyd | alabaster murals and those marbly bits you can't ever remember the Floyd | name of: as if the veil of a temple has been rent in twain. But what Floyd | the catastrophe can have been, and where the building stood, you Floyd | cannot say. Floyd | Floyd | A black scroll, like a roll of remembrance, is curled around the top Floyd | few feet of scree. Floyd | Floyd | Your length of rope is here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pull rope" | ||||
Floyd | You pull the rope. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get rope" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "tie rope to scroll" | ||||
Floyd | You make a secure little knot. It is now tied to the black, memorial Floyd | scroll. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pull rope" | ||||
Floyd | Just as you're about to pull out the scroll, a tiny but significant Floyd | shift of stones give you pause. The scree fall is on the very edge of Floyd | an avalanche! You'd need to be a lot more than arm's length away to Floyd | survive that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "tie rope to me" | ||||
Floyd | You tie the rope around you. One end is tied around you, and the other Floyd | to the black, memorial scroll. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The rope plucks out the scroll as you run north... but you are Floyd | overtaken by a thundering avalanche with the same idea! Your burial is Floyd | almost instant. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 16 out of a possible 30, in 665 turns, the Floyd | kind of score one would expect of a Diplomat. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Shattered Temple Rampart Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You can scale the scree no further. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "jump" | ||||
Floyd | You jump on the spot, fruitlessly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "drop ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "climb ladder" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think much is to be achieved by that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Your default channel is currently "if/clubfloyd". | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "get ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe asks, "is there anyway to go but down?" | |||
| inky says, "not as far as I see, but the hints suggest yes" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Maybe a way needs to be made available." | ||||
| Doe says, "hmmm" | ||||
| Fang says, "that's what I'm trying with the ladder" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shattered Temple Rampart Floyd | Heaped up against the southern cave wall like a sloping rampart, and Floyd | rising 50 feet above the stream, the scree fall is made up not of Floyd | fallen stones but of masonry, broken terracotta tiles, wrecked Floyd | alabaster murals and those marbly bits you can't ever remember the Floyd | name of: as if the veil of a temple has been rent in twain. But what Floyd | the catastrophe can have been, and where the building stood, you Floyd | cannot say. Floyd | Floyd | A black scroll, like a roll of remembrance, is curled around the top Floyd | few feet of scree. Floyd | Floyd | Your length of rope is here. One end is tied around you, and the other Floyd | to the black, memorial scroll. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shattered Temple Rampart Floyd | Heaped up against the southern cave wall like a sloping rampart, and Floyd | rising 50 feet above the stream, the scree fall is made up not of Floyd | fallen stones but of masonry, broken terracotta tiles, wrecked Floyd | alabaster murals and those marbly bits you can't ever remember the Floyd | name of: as if the veil of a temple has been rent in twain. But what Floyd | the catastrophe can have been, and where the building stood, you Floyd | cannot say. Floyd | Floyd | A black scroll, like a roll of remembrance, is curled around the top Floyd | few feet of scree. Floyd | Floyd | Your length of rope is here. One end is tied around you, and the other Floyd | to the black, memorial scroll. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The scree fall would be a desperate scramble down in any direction but Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You can scale the scree no further. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "lean ladder against west wall" | ||||
Floyd | There's nowhere suitable to lean the ladder here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You skitter nervously down the very steep western side of the scree. Floyd | Floyd | The rope plucks out the scroll... and your sideways leap is only just Floyd | in time to clear the thundering avalanche of masonry which results! Floyd | Floyd | Furrow and Workings Floyd | The furrow has been burrowed and extended by primitive mine workings, Floyd | hewn chiefly by hand or at best stone tools. But the seam has been Floyd | exhausted, and the striations in the rock scraped clean of ore. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a black, memorial scroll here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "?!?!?" | |||
| Fang says, "oh, duh." | ||||
| Fang says (to inky), "we only tried n and s" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "man" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But yay" | ||||
| Fang says, "hahaha" | ||||
| inky asks, "what, really?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "This is what not mapping does." | ||||
| inky says, "I suppose" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take scroll" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||||
Floyd | The scroll reads "azzev spell (view the past)". Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "this is what the author being a jerk does" | |||
| Fang says, "the previous times, we were escaping the scree by trying to walk into the south wall" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "gnusto azzev" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "mumble" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf7" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize azzev" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be not enough to be able to read a copy of the spell. No, Floyd | the writing has to be part of the fabric of a spell book you have in Floyd | your hands, so that the magic can flow from the binding into your own Floyd | spine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put azzev in book" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, Experimental Spell Book #5 or The Guide For Floyd | Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Provinces? Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "untie rope" | ||||
Floyd | > Floyd | You loose the rope from your waist. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put azzev in spell book" | ||||
Floyd | Your spell book begins to glow softly. Almost imperceptibly, the Floyd | binding swells and closes over the edge of the black, memorial scroll, Floyd | which straightens and becomes the new azzev spell page. The book's Floyd | brightness fades as the corners settle to perfect right angles. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take rope" | ||||
Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize azzev" | ||||
Floyd | You commit the azzev spell to memory. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "azzev" | ||||
Floyd | A cloud of green smoke gathers and swirls in the air like cream poured Floyd | into soup, and a vision briefly appears... Floyd | Floyd | You see the painfully slow carving-out of the seam, by miners Floyd | centuries gone; and the anguish on their faces as the ore runs out, Floyd | never to be found again. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "ok, that's gotta be tough to get without hinting" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The furrow is a dead-end, opening out only to northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shattered Temple Rampart Floyd | Heaped up against the southern cave wall like a sloping rampart, and Floyd | rising 40 feet above the stream, the scree fall is made up not of Floyd | fallen stones but of masonry, broken terracotta tiles, wrecked Floyd | alabaster murals and those marbly bits you can't ever remember the Floyd | name of: as if the veil of a temple has been rent in twain. But what Floyd | the catastrophe can have been, and where the building stood, you Floyd | cannot say. Floyd | Floyd | The avalanche has cleared away part of the scree, leaving open behind Floyd | it a crudely arched doorway into the southern cave wall. Above the Floyd | doorway, a skull and crossbones has been carved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize azzev" | DavidW says, "Lily. Azzev the lily." | |||
Floyd | You commit the azzev spell to memory. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You commit the azzev spell to memory once again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "azzev" | ||||
Floyd | A cloud of green smoke gathers and swirls in the air like cream poured Floyd | into soup, and a vision briefly appears... Floyd | Floyd | The scree slope being built, by teams of slaves, under an overseer Floyd | terrified that the doorway would ever be revealed again, but in a Floyd | desperate hurry... constantly glancing over his shoulder at the Floyd | corridor behind him... and the slope being completed, and his final Floyd | act laying the black scroll at its apex, to stand warning down all Floyd | time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Your default channel is currently "private/moose". | Doe says, "hey, you got the scroll" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize azzev" | ||||
Floyd | You commit the azzev spell to memory once again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shattered Temple Rampart Floyd | Heaped up against the southern cave wall like a sloping rampart, and Floyd | rising 40 feet above the stream, the scree fall is made up not of Floyd | fallen stones but of masonry, broken terracotta tiles, wrecked Floyd | alabaster murals and those marbly bits you can't ever remember the Floyd | name of: as if the veil of a temple has been rent in twain. But what Floyd | the catastrophe can have been, and where the building stood, you Floyd | cannot say. Floyd | Floyd | The avalanche has cleared away part of the scree, leaving open behind Floyd | it a crudely arched doorway into the southern cave wall. Above the Floyd | doorway, a skull and crossbones has been carved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x doorway" | ||||
Floyd | A closer look at the doorway reveals that its internal faces are Floyd | coated with a runny, nasty-looking paste which drips out of tiny Floyd | pores. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ooh. Doorway" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x skull" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get paste" | ||||
Floyd | That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "suspicious" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "taste paste" | ||||
Floyd | You taste nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x paste" | ||||
Floyd | A closer look at the doorway reveals that its internal faces are Floyd | coated with a runny, nasty-looking paste which drips out of tiny Floyd | pores. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | As you pass through the archway, clouds of vapour and drips of arsenic Floyd | seep into your nose and ears! Death is immediate. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have died *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 16 out of a possible 30, in 696 turns, the Floyd | kind of score one would expect of a Diplomat. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game or QUIT? Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Shattered Temple Rampart Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "wow" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put arrow in doorway" | ||||
Floyd | The use of poisoned projectiles is strictly prohibited by the Protocol Floyd | of Collioure, one of the great triumphs of your early career. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh bag" | |||
| inky says, "er, bah" | ||||
| Fang says, "I remember this scene being used to demonstrate 'polite' games" | ||||
| Doe says, "someone suggest earlier looking back in history to see if the lily ate anything" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put ham in doorway" | Fang says, "or something" | |||
Floyd | You need to be holding the joint of cured ham before you can put it Floyd | into something else. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "azzev the lily. I wanna know what it swallowed." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get ham" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put ham in doorway" | ||||
Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put cheese in doorway" | ||||
Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "poison ham" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to be more exact about how to do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says (to DavidW), "guess that was you" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "poison ham with arsenic" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to poison the joint of cured Floyd | ham. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "poison ham with doorway" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to poison the joint of cured Floyd | ham. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put ham in door" | ||||
Floyd | That can't contain things. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take paste" | ||||
Floyd | That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put ham on doorway" | ||||
Floyd | Putting things on the crudely arched doorway would achieve nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "poison ham" | ||||
Floyd | You'll have to be more exact about how to do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "touch doorway with ham" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to touch the crudely arched Floyd | doorway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a length of light rope Floyd | an improvised ladder Floyd | a boomerang (providing light) Floyd | a shard of pottery (providing light) Floyd | a small wickerwork hamper (which is open) Floyd | an apple Floyd | four arrows Floyd | a drum (which is empty) Floyd | a bow Floyd | the "destruction order" Floyd | Experimental Spell Book #5 Floyd | your Ambassador's trunk (which is open) Floyd | a hand telescope Floyd | your formal credentials Floyd | a brass lantern (providing light) Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | four ancient treasures: Floyd | a golden fir-cone Floyd | a platinum egg Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | some provisions - a joint of cured ham, a hunk of cheese and a clove Floyd | of garlic Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "azzev lily" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | That would be straight into the pool. Try walking around it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | You cross the stream and walk around the pool. Floyd | Floyd | North Edge of Pool Floyd | The stream's pool washes up almost to your feet, close to the Floyd | forbiddingly craggy and overhung northern wall of the cave, but the Floyd | water does leave room for a broad path around the periphery; and this Floyd | is its northern limb. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously down, its tip suspended some Floyd | 20 feet to the south, across the stream. Floyd | Floyd | A single, graceful green water-lily plumes at the calm surface of the Floyd | pool. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "azzev lily" | ||||
Floyd | The spell backfires, and you somehow feel it wrong to apply it to Floyd | individual objects. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "azzev" | ||||
Floyd | A cloud of green smoke gathers and swirls in the air like cream poured Floyd | into soup, and a vision briefly appears... Floyd | Floyd | Green lilies proliferating in the depths of the pool. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize azzev" | ||||
Floyd | You commit the azzev spell to memory. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "I suspect we should try the treehouse" | |||
| DavidW asks, "oh. It's a room-based spell?" | ||||
| inky says, "yeah" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Fang), "agreed" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | That would be into the pool! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floor Floyd | An expanse of shingle and boulders sloping haphazardly across an Floyd | irregularly-shaped floor a hundred feet across, only smoothed out at Floyd | its centre by a stream which pools just to the north. A furrow in the Floyd | rocky walls leads southwest, alongside a scree-fall which lies roughly Floyd | south; while the cave narrows into a canyon to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The cone of the cedar hangs vertiginously over you, its tip perhaps 9 Floyd | feet off the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It was a 'meeting place'." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put ladder on cedar" | ||||
Floyd | You hang the ladder so that it runs from the cave floor up to the tip Floyd | of the tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Branches Near the Cave Floor Floyd | The cedar's foliage thins out and this is the lowest point at which Floyd | the trunk will bear your weight. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, hangs down the rest of the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Top Branches Floyd | You are perched inside the dense, broad first branches down from the Floyd | cedar's roots, which splay across the rocky ceiling like buttresses on Floyd | a perpendicular gothic column. Through the dappled green cover, you Floyd | can just make out the long ledge, but it's too far up to jump across. Floyd | Floyd | A tree-house has been constructed here, though it's little more than a Floyd | wooden lean-to on a log platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "in" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Treehouse Floyd | Inside the wooden lean-to is a surprising illusion of space and Floyd | comfort, which you'd never guess is perched in an upside-down cedar. Floyd | There are no windows, but finely built wooden chairs suggest some kind Floyd | of meeting-place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "azzev" | ||||
Floyd | A cloud of green smoke gathers and swirls in the air like cream poured Floyd | into soup, and a vision briefly appears... Floyd | Floyd | An old man rocks back and forth in a chair, puffing smoke rings from a Floyd | long briar pipe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "azzev" | ||||
Floyd | You haven't got that spell committed to memory. [Type "spells" to see Floyd | what you do remember.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize azzev" | ||||
Floyd | You commit the azzev spell to memory. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You commit the azzev spell to memory once again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x old man" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "g" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "azzev" | ||||
Floyd | A cloud of green smoke gathers and swirls in the air like cream poured Floyd | into soup, and a vision briefly appears... Floyd | Floyd | An old man rocks back and forth in a chair, puffing smoke rings from a Floyd | long briar pipe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize azzev" | ||||
Floyd | You commit the azzev spell to memory once again. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "well, that's lame" | |||
| DavidW says, "bah" | ||||
| Fang says, "bah" | ||||
| Fang exclaims, "he wasn't even meeting anyone!" | ||||
| Fang asks, "how about the window?" | ||||
| inky says, "good call" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Top Branches Floyd | You are perched inside the dense, broad first branches down from the Floyd | cedar's roots, which splay across the rocky ceiling like buttresses on Floyd | a perpendicular gothic column. Through the dappled green cover, you Floyd | can just make out the long ledge, but it's too far up to jump across. Floyd | Floyd | A tree-house has been constructed here, though it's little more than a Floyd | wooden lean-to on a log platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Branches Near the Cave Floor Floyd | The cedar's foliage thins out and this is the lowest point at which Floyd | the trunk will bear your weight. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, hangs down the rest of the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get ladder" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Top Branches Floyd | You are perched inside the dense, broad first branches down from the Floyd | cedar's roots, which splay across the rocky ceiling like buttresses on Floyd | a perpendicular gothic column. Through the dappled green cover, you Floyd | can just make out the long ledge, but it's too far up to jump across. Floyd | Floyd | A tree-house has been constructed here, though it's little more than a Floyd | wooden lean-to on a log platform. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | The ladder's no longer in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put ladder on ledge" | ||||
Floyd | You hang the ladder so that it runs across the abyss from the cedar's Floyd | broadest branches to the ledge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Topmost Ledge Floyd | This is a slate-littered shelf high up at the northwest eaves of a Floyd | dark, vaulted cave, from which a meadow-fresh breeze blows. The ledge Floyd | broadens down a slab "staircase" to the east but wastes away into a Floyd | tight squeeze southwest. Natural passages extend like tendrils into Floyd | the rock all around this cavern, but only one is accessible from here, Floyd | back north under the lintel. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging down toward the dim, distant cave floor is a flourishing, Floyd | inverted cedar, its roots grappling the roof, its nearest outflung Floyd | branch a good 10 feet across the abyss from here. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, spans the abyss down to the cedar branches. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | The only obvious ways to proceed from here are north or along the Floyd | ledge, either down to the east or into the tight squeeze to the Floyd | southwest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Low Crawl Floyd | It looks as if this low passage from the northeast peters out into a Floyd | dead end not far west, but a muddy slide-passage descends to the Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Half Cave Floyd | This is only half a cave; the eastern half, to be exact. It's a dark Floyd | place full of crevices (you would have missed the slide passage back Floyd | north if you hadn't already known about it); chief among them a Floyd | distinctive triangular cavity, 1 foot or so high, and blocked by a Floyd | rough quartz window. Floyd | Floyd | What divides this cave is a solid, floor-to-ceiling stone wall running Floyd | north to south, masoned with mortar and seemingly recent. You feel Floyd | quite certain that the cave continues. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "azzev" | ||||
Floyd | A cloud of green smoke gathers and swirls in the air like cream poured Floyd | into soup, and a vision briefly appears... Floyd | Floyd | The wall being masoned, but quite recently, by Northlands soldiers Floyd | working on the other side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Thanks to the wall, the slide passage is the only way out. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "man, so far getting this new spell has been a major disappointment" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Low Crawl Floyd | It looks as if this low passage from the northeast peters out into a Floyd | dead end not far west, but a muddy slide-passage descends to the Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize azzev" | ||||
Floyd | You commit the azzev spell to memory once again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shambles Floyd | An earthy rockfall, soaked through with water into wet clay, makes Floyd | this passage lose all coherence. A kind of chimney-like crack leads Floyd | upward, and the crawl eases slightly to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Roughly underneath the chimney-crack is a mound of garbage, dropped in Floyd | from above. Potato-peel, broken tools and so on seem to make up the Floyd | bulk of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "azzev" | ||||
Floyd | A cloud of green smoke gathers and swirls in the air like cream poured Floyd | into soup, and a vision briefly appears... Floyd | Floyd | Seas of garbage rain down through the crack onto the mound, rapidly Floyd | decomposing or washing away so that the process fights itself to a Floyd | standstill. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize azzev" | ||||
Floyd | You commit the azzev spell to memory once again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "memorize azzev" | ||||
Floyd | You commit the azzev spell to memory a third time. You have so much Floyd | rushing around in your head, though, that something may easily have Floyd | been lost in the confusion. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Low Crawl Floyd | It looks as if this low passage from the northeast peters out into a Floyd | dead end not far west, but a muddy slide-passage descends to the Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | The increasingly earthy rock blocks your way. The only viable routes Floyd | are west, south and northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Shambles Floyd | An earthy rockfall, soaked through with water into wet clay, makes Floyd | this passage lose all coherence. A kind of chimney-like crack leads Floyd | upward, and the crawl eases slightly to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Roughly underneath the chimney-crack is a mound of garbage, dropped in Floyd | from above. Potato-peel, broken tools and so on seem to make up the Floyd | bulk of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Low Crawl Floyd | It looks as if this low passage from the northeast peters out into a Floyd | dead end not far west, but a muddy slide-passage descends to the Floyd | south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Topmost Ledge Floyd | This is a slate-littered shelf high up at the northwest eaves of a Floyd | dark, vaulted cave, from which a meadow-fresh breeze blows. The ledge Floyd | broadens down a slab "staircase" to the east but wastes away into a Floyd | tight squeeze southwest. Natural passages extend like tendrils into Floyd | the rock all around this cavern, but only one is accessible from here, Floyd | back north under the lintel. Floyd | Floyd | Hanging down toward the dim, distant cave floor is a flourishing, Floyd | inverted cedar, its roots grappling the roof, its nearest outflung Floyd | branch a good 10 feet across the abyss from here. Floyd | Floyd | An improvised ladder of sticks, lashed together with vines and Floyd | creepers, spans the abyss down to the cedar branches. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe asks, "do we know what the spell does?" | |||
| Doe says, "right, we do" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x azzev" | ||||
Floyd | azzev spell (view the past). Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "vision of the past" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You edge along the northern wall of the cave, descending the rocky Floyd | stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Dark Doorway Floyd | Just where the shelf flattens at the foot of rocky steps (climbing Floyd | westward), a square-cut doorway has been hewn into the north wall. The Floyd | ledge, which begins to curve southeast, is at its broadest here, yet Floyd | your feeling of vertigo hardly abates. Floyd | Floyd | The inverted cedar hangs impossibly from the roof some way to the Floyd | southwest, 30 feet away. Floyd | Floyd | A watchful oil-snake coils and uncoils itself restlessly, occupying Floyd | its territory but making no move towards you as yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "azzev" | ||||
Floyd | A cloud of green smoke gathers and swirls in the air like cream poured Floyd | into soup, and a vision briefly appears... Floyd | Floyd | A very ancient time, when the tree has not grown: the doorway is being Floyd | cut with enervating slowness. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe asks, "used it on window yet?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Dude, 'You have so much rushing around in your head, though, that something may easily have been lost in the confusion' is the story of my life." | ||||
| inky says, "yeah, it didn't tell us anything" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lintel" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Long Curved Ledge Floyd | This long parapet thins to nothing further on, appearing to lead Floyd | nowhere after all: the nearest other ledge being 50 feet vertically Floyd | below. Floyd | Floyd | Approximately 70 feet due west of here are the roof-braced roots of Floyd | the inverted cedar, giving you a magnificent view of this botanic Floyd | marvel. Floyd | Floyd | There's an iron ring fixed to the wall, the kind used to tie up Floyd | horses, though how anyone could possibly get a horse up here you can't Floyd | imagine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "azzev" | ||||
Floyd | A cloud of green smoke gathers and swirls in the air like cream poured Floyd | into soup, and a vision briefly appears... Floyd | Floyd | The tree, sprouting confidentally downwards. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Long Curved Ledge Floyd | This long parapet thins to nothing further on, appearing to lead Floyd | nowhere after all: the nearest other ledge being 50 feet vertically Floyd | below. Floyd | Floyd | Approximately 70 feet due west of here are the roof-braced roots of Floyd | the inverted cedar, giving you a magnificent view of this botanic Floyd | marvel. Floyd | Floyd | There's an iron ring fixed to the wall, the kind used to tie up Floyd | horses, though how anyone could possibly get a horse up here you can't Floyd | imagine. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "confidentally?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "spells" | ||||
Floyd | The jilnix spell is indelibly etched on your memory. Other than that, Floyd | you have the azzev spell, chiaro spell and piroo spell memorised. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe says, "I get stuff lost in the translation all the time :-)" | |||
| Fang asks, "where haven't we looked?" | ||||
| inky asks, "where haven't we cast the spell, you mean?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look at cedar with telescope" | ||||
Floyd | You raise the brass telescope expertly to your eye. There seems to be Floyd | a crude wooden house built into it halfway down. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "maybe we can't poison the ham... but we can poison something the snake will eat" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look at house with telescope" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a length of light rope Floyd | a boomerang (providing light) Floyd | a shard of pottery (providing light) Floyd | a small wickerwork hamper (which is open) Floyd | an apple Floyd | four arrows Floyd | a drum (which is empty) Floyd | a bow Floyd | the "destruction order" Floyd | Experimental Spell Book #5 Floyd | your Ambassador's trunk (which is open) Floyd | a hand telescope Floyd | your formal credentials Floyd | a brass lantern (providing light) Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | four ancient treasures: Floyd | a golden fir-cone Floyd | a platinum egg Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | some provisions - a joint of cured ham, a hunk of cheese and a clove Floyd | of garlic Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You edge northwest along the ledge. Floyd | Floyd | Dark Doorway Floyd | Just where the shelf flattens at the foot of rocky steps (climbing Floyd | westward), a square-cut doorway has been hewn into the north wall. The Floyd | ledge, which begins to curve southeast, is at its broadest here, yet Floyd | your feeling of vertigo hardly abates. Floyd | Floyd | The inverted cedar hangs impossibly from the roof some way to the Floyd | southwest, 30 feet away. Floyd | Floyd | A watchful oil-snake coils and uncoils itself restlessly, occupying Floyd | its territory but making no move towards you as yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | The oil-snake oozes and rears itself up to bar your way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "se" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Long Curved Ledge Floyd | This long parapet thins to nothing further on, appearing to lead Floyd | nowhere after all: the nearest other ledge being 50 feet vertically Floyd | below. Floyd | Floyd | Approximately 70 feet due west of here are the roof-braced roots of Floyd | the inverted cedar, giving you a magnificent view of this botanic Floyd | marvel. Floyd | Floyd | There's an iron ring fixed to the wall, the kind used to tie up Floyd | horses, though how anyone could possibly get a horse up here you can't Floyd | imagine. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I can never decide if 'oozes' is an awesome word, or horrible." | |||
| DavidW asks, "We haven't gone down from here yet, right?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x ring" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the iron ring. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "tie rope to ring" | ||||
Floyd | You make a secure little knot. One end is tied to the ring, the other Floyd | hangs down from the ledge. Floyd | Floyd | > | Doe asks, "doing something in another window, so your azzeving everything?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Since the rope is not long enough and would leave you a good 20 feet Floyd | short, you decide against carefully lowering yourself down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "tie ladder to rope" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "yeah, the rope wasn't -- yeah" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "get rope" | ||||
Floyd | You can't take the rope; it's tied to the iron ring. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We can't tie the rope to the ladder" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "untie rope" | ||||
Floyd | You untie the rope. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put ladder down" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "look down" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "hmph" | |||
| Doe says, "well, maybe that's not it" | ||||
| Doe says, "maybe it's too obvious :-)" | ||||
| DavidW says, "maybe we can turn the snake into a 2nd rope" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "measure rope" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "not impossible" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm, interesting idea." | |||
| inky says, "but I dunno how we calculate it" | ||||
| inky says, "er" | ||||
| inky says, "how we kill it" | ||||
| Fang says, "haha" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Snakes into ropes go back to Moses, even." | ||||
| Fang asks, "well, try poisoning an apple?" | ||||
| (from Jacqueline) inky says, "sorry, I can totally kill math problems, and I get confused on the meaning of that word.' | ||||
| DavidW says, "That's for Snow White" | ||||
| inky says, "it didn't let me poison the ham, but maybe it's possible to poison the apple, sure" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You edge northwest along the ledge. Floyd | Floyd | Dark Doorway Floyd | Just where the shelf flattens at the foot of rocky steps (climbing Floyd | westward), a square-cut doorway has been hewn into the north wall. The Floyd | ledge, which begins to curve southeast, is at its broadest here, yet Floyd | your feeling of vertigo hardly abates. Floyd | Floyd | The inverted cedar hangs impossibly from the roof some way to the Floyd | southwest, 30 feet away. Floyd | Floyd | A watchful oil-snake coils and uncoils itself restlessly, occupying Floyd | its territory but making no move towards you as yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show apple to snake" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the apple) Floyd | The oil-snake is unimpressed. Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give apple to snake" | ||||
Floyd | The snake snatches and swallows whole the apple, its neck distending Floyd | to fit. Floyd | Floyd | But something mysterious is wrong! It chokes, seizing up horribly and Floyd | thrashing about, its great body squeezing away from you until it Floyd | topples over the lip of the ledge, plunging out of sight to its Floyd | presumed demise. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "whoah!" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Dark Doorway Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "because" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give ham to snake" | ||||
Floyd | The snake snatches and swallows whole the joint of cured ham, its neck Floyd | distending to fit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Dark Doorway Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x apple" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the apple. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| DavidW says, "buh" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "eat apple" | ||||
Floyd | Just in time, you stop yourself from taking a bite as you notice Floyd | little puncture-marks and a faint discolouration. This apple has been Floyd | poisoned! Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "interesting" | |||
| Fang says, "haha" | ||||
| DavidW says, "ah" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "aha" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cheese" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the hunk of cheese. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "eat cheese" | ||||
Floyd | You eat the hunk of cheese. Not bad. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Dark Doorway Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I wonder if they were trying to poison us (for diplomatic reasons)" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Where did that apple come from? Was that in *our* provisions?" | ||||
| inky says, "yeah" | ||||
| Fang asks, "can this game be made unwinnable?" | ||||
| inky says, "apple and cheese in the maper" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yipes" | ||||
| inky says, "quite possibly" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf8" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give apple to snake" | ||||
Floyd | The snake snatches and swallows whole the poisoned apple, its neck Floyd | distending to fit. Floyd | It chokes, seizing up horribly and thrashing about, its great body Floyd | squeezing away from you until it topples over the lip of the ledge, Floyd | plunging out of sight to its presumed demise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pale Corridor Floyd | This is a pale corridor filled with a cold, pearly light, ranging from Floyd | near-darkness at the southern end to a bright glow from the east. Floyd | Floyd | You are in the almost ghostly presence of a gaunt, long-haired man, an Floyd | Adventurer who looks as if he has just stepped out of a weaving of a Floyd | scene from the old Empire. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x man" | ||||
Floyd | If legends may be believed, although basically trustworthy he would do Floyd | almost anything for treasure. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "azzev" | ||||
Floyd | A cloud of green smoke gathers and swirls in the air like cream poured Floyd | into soup, and a vision briefly appears... Floyd | Floyd | Even in your vision, the Adventurer stalks, untired and yet Floyd | unsatisfied. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "azzev" | ||||
Floyd | You haven't got that spell committed to memory. [Type "spells" to see Floyd | what you do remember.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "memorize azzev" | ||||
Floyd | You commit the azzev spell to memory. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pale Corridor Floyd | This is a pale corridor filled with a cold, pearly light, ranging from Floyd | near-darkness at the southern end to a bright glow from the east. Floyd | Floyd | You are in the almost ghostly presence of a gaunt, long-haired man, an Floyd | Adventurer who looks as if he has just stepped out of a weaving of a Floyd | scene from the old Empire. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "adventurer, hello" | ||||
Floyd | The Adventurer is already serving under one geas, and you have little Floyd | chance of talking him out of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I guess he has a ghostly presence because he's a ghost" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | It seems the Adventurer is under a geas to protect the corridor's Floyd | eastward continuation. Floyd | Floyd | "The Chamber is private to my Master!" he booms, in a voice not his Floyd | own. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask adventurer about chamber" | ||||
Floyd | He has no answers for the modern day. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I suppose you give all treasure items to Ghost Guy and we get in." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask adventurer about master" | ||||
Floyd | He has no answers for the modern day. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a boomerang (providing light) Floyd | a shard of pottery (providing light) Floyd | a small wickerwork hamper (which is open but empty) Floyd | four arrows Floyd | a drum (which is empty) Floyd | a bow Floyd | the "destruction order" Floyd | Experimental Spell Book #5 Floyd | your Ambassador's trunk (which is open) Floyd | a hand telescope Floyd | your formal credentials Floyd | a brass lantern (providing light) Floyd | The Guide For Travellers To The Lower Northlands and Surrounding Floyd | Provinces Floyd | four ancient treasures: Floyd | a golden fir-cone Floyd | a platinum egg Floyd | a jewelled scarab Floyd | a jade figurine Floyd | some provisions - a joint of cured ham, a hunk of cheese and a clove Floyd | of garlic Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give egg to man" | ||||
Floyd | The Adventurer's eyes gleam. Treasure! He wants only more and more of Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "scarab to adventurer" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give scarab to adventurer" | ||||
Floyd | The Adventurer's eyes gleam. Treasure! He wants only more and more of Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give jade to adventurer" | ||||
Floyd | The Adventurer's eyes gleam. Treasure! He wants only more and more of Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give golden to adventurer" | ||||
Floyd | The Adventurer's eyes gleam. Treasure! He wants only more and more of Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | It seems the Adventurer is under a geas to protect the corridor's Floyd | eastward continuation. Floyd | Floyd | "The Chamber is private to my Master!" he booms, in a voice not his Floyd | own. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "give figurine to adventur | ||||