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| Nitku arrives, full of fun and funk. | DavidW says, "okay, Perry's recording." | |||
| Fang arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||||
| olethros arrives, full of funk, but no fun. | ||||
| olethros says, "oh oh oh" | ||||
| olethros asks, "where are we escaping from?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "let's play and see." | ||||
| inky says, "we're escapading, not escaping" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load escapade" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "We'll have to split up. I'll go after the bombers, you find the Floyd | fastest way out of here. Tell the President he has to evacuate, Floyd | immediately!" Floyd | Floyd | Those were the last words you heard from Captain McBrawn before he rode Floyd | away hanging on the skid of a helicopter with one hand, his muscular Floyd | arm gleaming in the light of the setting sun. It is up to you now to Floyd | find your way to the President of the World and warn him of the Floyd | impending attack. Finally, some responsibility after all these years! Floyd | Floyd | You descend from the rooftop planning the trip to the drop-off point. Floyd | At the base of the building the Screaming Communists capture you. Floyd | Figures. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. Floyd | | ||||
| olethros says, "ow ow ow" | ||||
| olethros says, "f call president on the phone and tell him to get the heck out of there" | DavidW says, "hee 'gleaming in the light of the setting sun'" | |||
| olethros pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | A group of stern, vicious looking Screaming Communists march through Floyd | the barren land, dragging you behind them. Their destination is a Floyd | gloomy medieval castle. The commander shouts orders to one of the Floyd | soldiers who grabs you by the collar of your sweater and escorts you Floyd | inside. Floyd | Floyd | After a long climb through dark corridors and endless staircases the Floyd | guard throws you in a dark, cold cell and slams the door shut. A chill Floyd | runs down your spine and desperation starts to creep in. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Escapade! Floyd | An Interactive Fiction by Juhana Leinonen Floyd | Release 2 / Serial number 090329 / Inform 7 build 5U92 (I6/v6.31 lib Floyd | 6/12N) Floyd | This game is free software. Type LICENSE for details. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The moonlight gives dim illumination to the front part of the cell, Floyd | leaving the opposite wall completely in the dark. There's an unlit Floyd | light bulb hanging from the ceiling and a heavy steel door on the wall Floyd | opposite to the barred window, but the room is otherwise featureless. Floyd | Floyd | You can barely make out the outlines of some dark shapes in one dark Floyd | corner of the cell. Floyd | Floyd | (For more information about the game, type ABOUT.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says, "f call president on the phone and tell him to get the heck out of there" | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "call president on the phone and tell him to get the heck out of there" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "You'd think we'd have known they'd be there, what with the screaming and everything" | |||
| olethros asks, "wait wait, we are already captured?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You're the hero of the day, the man everyone looks up to, the Floyd | uncontested champion of the Free World, the celebrated superstar - Floyd | Captain McBrawn. Floyd | Floyd | Or at least you would like to be. The truth is that you are Scotty, Floyd | Captain McBrawn's short and a bit round sidekick. You have followed him Floyd | on his adventures and helped him mostly by staying out of his way, but Floyd | now you have a mission of your own. Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a photograph and wearing your adventuring clothes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a photograph and wearing your adventuring clothes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x photograph" | ||||
Floyd | It's a postcard sized signed photograph of Captain McBrawn. You carry Floyd | it with you everywhere you go and it's beginning to show the wear and Floyd | tear. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "hahaha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x shapes" | ||||
Floyd | There's something very unnerving in the darkest corner of the cell... Floyd | You can see the outlines of a round lumpy object and another, taller Floyd | figure almost your size. Floyd | Floyd | It's as if the taller shape just moved a bit. You hold back a whimper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | The cell is ominously silent. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x clothes" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x shapes" | Nitku says, "There's some keyword highlighting which Floyd can't handle so you might want to set the OPTIONS" | |||
Floyd | You are wearing a pair of green pocketless pants and a gray wool Floyd | sweater. Your adventuring clothes - that's what mom said when she Floyd | bought them. They've turned out being not very well suited for the Floyd | purpose though. They're very thick and a bit too big. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You daren't look anymore. Maybe they'll go away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "options" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | > bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "p" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | > bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | > bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | > yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | > yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | > blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | > blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | > green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | > green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | > red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | > red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | > -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | > -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | > /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | > /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | > *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | > *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The moonlight gives dim illumination to the front part of the cell, Floyd | leaving the opposite wall completely in the dark. There's an unlit Floyd | light bulb hanging from the ceiling and a heavy steel door on the wall Floyd | opposite to the barred window, but the room is otherwise featureless. Floyd | Floyd | You can barely make out the outlines of some dark shapes in one dark Floyd | corner of the cell. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "I was fine with slash" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x shapes" | ||||
Floyd | You daren't look anymore. Maybe they'll go away. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "take it to #fanfic" | |||
| DavidW says, "This game's been Floydified with stars!" | ||||
| Ellison says, "haha" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||||
Floyd | The rectangle on the cell door slides open and a pair of beady eyes Floyd | appear behind it. "WHAT is all this RACKET?" a loud voice behind the Floyd | door says. Floyd | Floyd | "Help! You have to get me out of here!" you beg. Floyd | Floyd | "HA! HA! WHY would I do THAT? I'M THE GUARD, I'M SUPPOSED TO KEEP YOU Floyd | INSIDE!" the voice roars. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar arrives, full of fun and funk. | olethros says, "hehehe" | |||
| olethros says, "this game holds many funnies" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x clothes" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "explain communism" | ||||
Floyd | You are wearing a pair of green pocketless pants and a gray wool Floyd | sweater. Your adventuring clothes - that's what mom said when she Floyd | bought them. They've turned out being not very well suited for the Floyd | purpose though. They're very thick and a bit too big. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "uh, I don't think it saved the settings" | |||
| Nitku says, "I think you have to push enter before q" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "options" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | > bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "p" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | > bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | > bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting | Fang says, "argh" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n. n. n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | > yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | > yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting | Nitku says, "(sorry about that)" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | > blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | > blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | > green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | > green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | > red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | > red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | > -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | > -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | > /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | > /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | > *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: keyword Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | > *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting | ||||
| Fang presses the yellow enter button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: *keyword* Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | > *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: *keyword* Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | > *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The moonlight gives dim illumination to the front part of the cell, Floyd | leaving the opposite wall completely in the dark. There's an unlit Floyd | light bulb hanging from the ceiling and a heavy steel door on the wall Floyd | opposite to the barred window, but the room is otherwise featureless. Floyd | Floyd | You can barely make out the outlines of some dark shapes in one dark Floyd | corner of the cell. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I think he said you have to push enter first" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "options" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: *keyword* Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | > bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: *keyword* Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | > yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: *keyword* Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | > yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: *keyword* Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | > blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: *keyword* Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | > blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting | Fang asks, "I did?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: *keyword* Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | > green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: *keyword* Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | > green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting | DavidW asks, "btw, how did we learn the OPTIONS verb?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: *keyword* Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | > red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: *keyword* Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | > red keywords Floyd | -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: *keyword* Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | > -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: *keyword* Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | > -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting | ||||
| inky presses the yellow enter button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: -keyword- Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | > -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | When the game prints a word that can be used as a discussion topic with Floyd | other characters, it will be highlighted for the first time. Here's an Floyd | example of a highlighted word using your current settings: -keyword- Floyd | Floyd | Select a new highlight style below and press Q to return. Note that not Floyd | all interpreters support every highlighting style; choose the one that Floyd | works for you. Floyd | Floyd | bold keywords Floyd | yellow keywords Floyd | blue keywords Floyd | green keywords Floyd | red keywords Floyd | > -dashed- keywords Floyd | /slashed/ keywords Floyd | *starred* keywords Floyd | no keyword highlighting | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The moonlight gives dim illumination to the front part of the cell, Floyd | leaving the opposite wall completely in the dark. There's an unlit Floyd | light bulb hanging from the ceiling and a heavy steel door on the wall Floyd | opposite to the barred window, but the room is otherwise featureless. Floyd | Floyd | You can barely make out the outlines of some dark shapes in one dark Floyd | corner of the cell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x clothes" | ||||
Floyd | You are wearing a pair of green pocketless pants and a gray wool Floyd | sweater. Your adventuring clothes - that's what mom said when she Floyd | bought them. They've turned out being not very well suited for the Floyd | purpose though. They're very thick and a bit too big. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says (to DavidW), "I said it" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask guard to turn on lights" | ||||
Floyd | There is no reply. Floyd | Floyd | "WELL if you DIDN'T HAVE anything else," the guard shouts and closes Floyd | the eyehole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x shapes" | ||||
Floyd | You daren't look anymore. Maybe they'll go away. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pocket" | ||||
Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | The moonlight gives dim illumination to the front part of the cell, Floyd | leaving the opposite wall completely in the dark. There's an unlit Floyd | light bulb hanging from the ceiling and a heavy steel door on the wall Floyd | opposite to the barred window, but the room is otherwise featureless. Floyd | Floyd | You can barely make out the outlines of some dark shapes in one dark Floyd | corner of the cell. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sweater" | ||||
Floyd | You are wearing a pair of green pocketless pants and a gray wool Floyd | sweater. Your adventuring clothes - that's what mom said when she Floyd | bought them. They've turned out being not very well suited for the Floyd | purpose though. They're very thick and a bit too big. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "remove sweater" | ||||
Floyd | You strip naked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You are Scotty, Captain McBrawn's short and a bit round sidekick. You Floyd | have followed him on his adventures and helped him mostly by staying Floyd | out of his way, but now you have a mission of your own. Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a photograph and wearing nothing. Floyd | Floyd | Also, your adventuring clothes are on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "touch shapes" | ||||
Floyd | You don't have the courage. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | The cell is ominously silent. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||||
Floyd | The air smells weird, like the cell has never been cleaned. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "smell" | ||||
Floyd | The air smells weird, like the cell has never been cleaned. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "hello" | ||||
Floyd | "Hello? Anyone?" you say quietly but get no answer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x floor" | ||||
Floyd | The stone floor is a dirty and cold. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x walls" | ||||
Floyd | The gray stone walls surround you from all directions. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||||
Floyd | The ceiling is far above the ground. There's a largish square up in the Floyd | ceiling on one side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x square" | ||||
Floyd | There's a largish square up in the ceiling on one side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push it" | ||||
Floyd | The largish square is out of reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bulb" | ||||
Floyd | The light bulb is hanging low on an electrical wire. It is unlit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x picture" | ||||
Floyd | It's a postcard sized signed photograph of Captain McBrawn. You carry Floyd | it with you everywhere you go and it's beginning to show the wear and Floyd | tear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||||
Floyd | The moonlight isn't sufficient enough for that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | The window is nothing but a hole in the wall with three iron bars Floyd | running across it. Through it you see a beautiful moonlit night sky. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bars" | ||||
Floyd | Three iron bars prevent anyone from climbing out the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | The moonlight gives dim illumination to the front part of the cell, Floyd | leaving the opposite wall completely in the dark. There's an unlit Floyd | light bulb hanging from the ceiling and a heavy steel door on the wall Floyd | opposite to the barred window, but the room is otherwise featureless. Floyd | Floyd | You can barely make out the outlines of some dark shapes in one dark Floyd | corner of the cell. Floyd | Floyd | The light is just enough for you to see the adventuring clothes on the Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull bars" | ||||
Floyd | You can't pry them loose. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "I think we need to do something with the guard?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x bulb" | ||||
Floyd | The light bulb is hanging low on an electrical wire. It is unlit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull bulb" | ||||
Floyd | The bulb comes easily out from its socket. It was screwed in only very Floyd | slightly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | ||||
Floyd | The rectangle on the cell door slides open and a pair of beady eyes Floyd | appear behind it. "WHAT is all this RACKET?" a loud voice behind the Floyd | door says. After a short pause the voice goes: "WHAT THE... are you Floyd | NAKED IN THERE?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "guard, yes" | ||||
Floyd | The guard refuses. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask guard about light" | ||||
Floyd | (the light bulb) Floyd | "Could you please switch the light on?" you ask politely. "WHAT ARE you Floyd | TALKING ABOUT?" the guard yells. "The power IS ALREADY ON!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask guard about bed" | ||||
Floyd | "I do not UNDERSTAND you!" the guard shouts. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put bulb in socket" | ||||
Floyd | You screw the lamp tighter into the socket and it lights up. Floyd | Floyd | The light reveals the rest of the cell - an air duct running above the Floyd | window, a simple rug on the floor, a hole that's probably meant to be Floyd | used as a toilet and not much more. Floyd | Floyd | Except a small, grinning, black monster in the corner next to a bulky Floyd | sack. Floyd | Floyd | "WHAT the... HELP!" you scream. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x monster" | ||||
Floyd | You move across the room toward the creature. The lamp hanging from the Floyd | ceiling is just on the right height to bonk you on the forehead on your Floyd | way. (ktonk!) Floyd | Floyd | The creature is small, shorter than you, and pitch black. It has an Floyd | oblong head, no ears, tiny black eyes, and sharp, black teeth clearly Floyd | visible behind a lipless mouth. Floyd | Floyd | A constant dripping of spit from between its teeth forms a small Floyd | greenish puddle of saliva by its feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tell guard about monster" | ||||
Floyd | You lean closer to the door and whisper: "There is some... thing in the Floyd | cell with me!" Floyd | Floyd | "You are IMAGINING things!" the guard yells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "say gollum" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "point to monster" | ||||
Floyd | (with the photograph) Floyd | You point the photograph at the creature. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "read photograph" | ||||
Floyd | "To Sotty, Cpt. Harrison McBrawn." Good ol' Captain. Still doesn't Floyd | remember your name. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask monster about guard" | ||||
Floyd | "I guess that was all," you say to the guard before talking to H.R. Floyd | "JUST DON'T BOTHER ME ANYMORE," the guard yells and slides the eyehole Floyd | shut. Floyd | Floyd | Before getting into detailed discussion, your first reaction is to Floyd | tackle the surprising situation with the delicacy you have applied to Floyd | most things in your life. "What the duck is that!?" you yell and point Floyd | at the creature. Much to your (additional) surprise, it replies. "Well, Floyd | that's not what I would call a friendly greeting, monkey boy!" Floyd | Floyd | You dare to go a bit closer. "H.R.'s the name, and -trading- is my Floyd | game!" It pats the sack it has next to it. "I have everything a man of Floyd | your standing would need, from kitchen utensils to trebuchets. Looks Floyd | like I got your attention, little man - if you're interested, ask me Floyd | for a -free sample-!" Floyd | Floyd | It takes a while for the words to sink in. Not the least because the Floyd | creature's voice combines hisses, clicks and high-pitched whirs which Floyd | makes it quite hard to understand. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "there's the keyword highlighting" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "creature" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x creature" | ||||
Floyd | The creature is small, shorter than you, and pitch black. It has an Floyd | oblong head, no ears, tiny black eyes, and sharp, black teeth clearly Floyd | visible behind a lipless mouth. Floyd | Floyd | A constant dripping of spit from between its teeth forms a small Floyd | greenish puddle of saliva by its feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask hr about trading" | ||||
Floyd | "So... You're a trader?" you ask. "Yessir, that I am!" the creature Floyd | replies. "I am well known everywhere in -Castle Schweinehund-, swapping Floyd | items you no longer need for quality merchandise! Just show me what you Floyd | got and I'll see if there's something I could trade you for it." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask creature for free sample" | ||||
Floyd | "So, what's the free sample?" you venture. Floyd | Floyd | "The free sample, eh?" H.R. says and flashes a smile. "The minute I saw Floyd | you I said to myself 'H.R., there is a man who goes to the supermarket Floyd | just for the free taste samples.'" It reaches for the sack and pulls Floyd | out a squarish metallic object which it hands to you. "Here ya go, Floyd | sport. Knock your teeth out." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask hr about Castle Schweinehund" | ||||
Floyd | "What is this place anyhow? Where are we?" Floyd | Floyd | "This is Castle Schweinehund," H.R. tells you. "Story goes that the Floyd | -previous owners- built it on an ancient burial ground and used it to Floyd | perform occultist rituals, opening portals to other worlds and so on. Floyd | Sounds like old wives' tales to me," it says and runs its hand across Floyd | its tail. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask hr about previous owners" | ||||
Floyd | "Who were the previous owners?" Floyd | Floyd | "I'm not sure exactly. They were quite loud as well but not to the Floyd | extent of the current ones." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x metal" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to examine: the metal plate, or the squarish metallic Floyd | object? Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "slow down, inky" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "object" | ||||
Floyd | After closer inspection the squarish metallic object turns out to be a Floyd | slightly rusted Skindude(tm) multitool. It has two hollow halves Floyd | connected with a hinge on one end. The halves can be opened to reveal Floyd | knives, files, pliers and other tools inside. Excellent. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "whoops, sorry" | |||
| DavidW asks, "'Skindude'?" | ||||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take clothes" | ||||
Floyd | (first dropping the Skindude(tm) multitool to make room) Floyd | You lift the adventuring clothes to your arms. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "leatherman, I think" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take skindude" | ||||
Floyd | (first dropping the adventuring clothes to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. Inventory limit." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take clothes" | ||||
Floyd | (first dropping the Skindude(tm) multitool to make room) Floyd | You lift the adventuring clothes to your arms. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "wear clothes" | ||||
Floyd | "Thank heavens," H.R. sighs when you put on your clothes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "show skindude to hr" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the Skindude(tm) multitool) Floyd | You decide to hold on to it for a bit longer. It might still come Floyd | useful. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "we're not savages" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x puddle" | ||||
Floyd | A sizzling greenish puddle of saliva is forming by the feet of the Floyd | creature. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "show clothes to hr" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the clothes off) Floyd | "Can I get anything for these?" you ask and offer your clothes to the Floyd | creature. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. looks at the clothes in disdain. "If I took them, it would mean Floyd | you couldn't put them back on. And that's very unacceptable." Floyd | Floyd | "Aww, don't sulk," H.R. says when it sees your expression. "Let's make Floyd | a deal: you put your clothes back on and I'll give you something nice. Floyd | Ok?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear clothes" | ||||
Floyd | You put your clothes back on. Floyd | Floyd | "That's more like it! Here you go," H.R. says and digs through the Floyd | sack. It hands you a small tube. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tube" | ||||
Floyd | It is a small tube of glue remover. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hr about saliva" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to ask H.R. about: the puddle of saliva, or the acidic Floyd | spit? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spit" | ||||
Floyd | That's a nasty habit. Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, and your -spit- isn't as cool as mine," H.R. comments. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask hr about vent" | ||||
Floyd | "Where does that vent lead?" Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, it runs through the entire castle," H.R. tells you. "And it Floyd | reaches the outside in several places, of course." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hr about acidic spit" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to ask H.R. about: the puddle of saliva, or the acidic Floyd | spit? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x vent" | ||||
Floyd | The aluminum air duct runs from one wall to another. It's quite large Floyd | but not set very high, just few centimeters above your head. There's a Floyd | small grate in the bottom of it. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. burps and covers its mouth with its hand. "Sorry. Had Mexicans for Floyd | lunch." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hr about puddle" | ||||
Floyd | You don't find anything to say about that topic right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "show photo to hr" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the photograph) Floyd | "Look, here's Captain McBrawn. Doesn't he look heroic and brave?" Floyd | Floyd | "Wait, where's his head?" H.R. asks. "It's right there behind his Floyd | biceps," you say. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a photograph and some glue remover and wearing your Floyd | adventuring clothes. Floyd | Floyd | Also, a Skindude(tm) multitool is on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "hmm... I'm sure that bug wasn't there before" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x multitool" | ||||
Floyd | It's a slightly rusted Skindude(tm) multitool, with all sorts of useful Floyd | tools inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "ask hr about spit" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to ask H.R. about: the puddle of saliva, or the acidic Floyd | spit? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open multitool" | ||||
Floyd | You pull the halves apart and the Skindude(tm) opens with a creak. A Floyd | swarm of rust flakes flies from the hinges. Looks like almost Floyd | everything inside is rusted through; the only tool that looks even Floyd | remotely useful is the screwdriver. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "ask hr about acidic spit" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to ask H.R. about: the puddle of saliva, or the acidic Floyd | spit? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "ask hr about acidic" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to ask H.R. about: the puddle of saliva, or the acidic Floyd | spit? Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "hmmm" | |||
| Nitku says, "I'm not sure why it does that now." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open vent with screwdriver" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the Skindude(tm) multitool) Floyd | It's not locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||||
Floyd | It's a smelly little hole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in hole" | ||||
Floyd | Fortunately it seems to be empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "hahaha ew" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | The door is made of heavy reinforced steel plates, attached with large Floyd | bolts. The hinges are on the left side and on the right side is the Floyd | keyhole. Floyd | Floyd | There's a small rectangular metal plate in the middle of the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "oh ok, you have to use the abbreviation (A SPIT or T SPIT)" | |||
| maga asks, "who's played and who hasn't?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x plate" | ||||
Floyd | You move across the room to get closer to the metal plate. The lamp Floyd | hits you on the forehead again. (ktonk) Floyd | Floyd | There's a metal plate embedded in the door on the eye level, about Floyd | three centimeters high and thirty centimeters wide. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. taps the floor with its foot. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I have not played." | |||
| Fang says, "me either" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x lamp" | ||||
Floyd | The light bulb is hanging low on an electrical wire. It is lit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open metal plate" | ||||
Floyd | There's no obvious mechanism to open it from this side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x wire" | ||||
Floyd | The wire hangs from the ceiling from a fragile looking attachment and Floyd | leads to the cross section of the ceiling and two walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x plate" | ||||
Floyd | There's a metal plate embedded in the door on the eye level, about Floyd | three centimeters high and thirty centimeters wide. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unscrew plate" | ||||
Floyd | It doesn't move. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. yawns. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pry plate" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hinges" | ||||
Floyd | The hinges of the door are screwed into the wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "pry open plate with screwdriver" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open plate with screwdriver" | ||||
Floyd | There's no lock on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | You jump up and down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | The cell walls are of gray stone and a small barred window leads Floyd | outside to freedom. A silvery air vent runs right above the window and Floyd | there's a hole in the floor under it in the corner, apparently to be Floyd | used as a toilet. A light bulb hangs from the ceiling illuminating the Floyd | cell. A simple rug is on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. stands there next to a large burlap sack. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unscrew hinges with screwdriver" | ||||
Floyd | You take the Skindude(tm) multitool and loosen the screws on the Floyd | hinges. Floyd | Floyd | After a good push the door falls open without its hinges. You run Floyd | through it and turn left in the corridor - and end up in the arms of Floyd | the guard. "HOW THE... DID THE DOOR JUST FALL DOWN?" he shouts. Floyd | Floyd | The guard grabs you and takes you to what's probably a break room. Floyd | There are a dozen Screaming Communists sitting there, watching you Floyd | suspiciously and shouting a word or two at times. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. Floyd | | ||||
| Lucea arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | "Congratulations on your escape," H.R. mocks you when they return you Floyd | to the cell. The door seems to be fixed now. Floyd | Floyd | You wave the screwdriver victoriously. "They didn't take this away! Floyd | I'll just unscrew the hinges again!" Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, by the way, they bolted the hinges while you were away. Sorry, Floyd | what were you saying?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Firion arrives, full of fun and funk. | DavidW says, "ha ha" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x rug" | ||||
Floyd | The rug has bright stripes in all the colors of a neon rainbow. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take rug" | ||||
Floyd | (first dropping the Skindude(tm) multitool and the glue remover to make Floyd | room) Floyd | You roll the rug and lift it to your arms. Floyd | Floyd | Glancing down on the floor where the rug used to be you notice a Floyd | trapdoor in the floor! Floyd | Floyd | "What a shocking revelation," H.R. says. Floyd | Floyd | > | Firion asks, "What game this week?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Escapade!" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show rug to hr" | ||||
Floyd | You remember the low-hanging lamp mere milliseconds before it hits you Floyd | on the forehead. (ktonk) Floyd | Floyd | "Would you trade this with me?" you ask. Floyd | Floyd | "Hmm... It is a nice rug, in a way, but I've seen much nicer ones in my Floyd | days. It doesn't even fly," H.R. sneers. "But since you're my best Floyd | customer in this cell at the moment, I'll get you something nice for Floyd | it. Let's see... a Jack Mills novel... no... a trophy... hmm..." Floyd | Floyd | The creature pulls from its sack a large cube-like thingamabob, hands Floyd | it to you and puts the rug away. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm wondering if this is an escape-many-many-times game." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cube" | ||||
Floyd | The cube-like thingamabob has a window on one side where you can see Floyd | some tubes in Y shape inside. Red labels are pasted all over the Floyd | device, the one on top saying "FLUX CAPACITOR". The two dials are Floyd | labeled "POWER" and "SPEED" and there's a pin with a picture of a Floyd | lightning bolt next to it. It is very heavy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x cube" | ||||
Floyd | The flux capacitor has a window on one side where you can see some Floyd | tubes in Y shape inside. Red labels are pasted all over the device, the Floyd | one on top saying "FLUX CAPACITOR". The two dials are labeled "POWER" Floyd | and "SPEED" and there's a pin with a picture of a lightning bolt next Floyd | to it. It is very heavy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Firion asks, "Like those games where you try to figure out how to get out of one of those rooms by going from a to b to c to d while looking at miniscule things?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "btw, did we look at the rug before we gave it away?" | ||||
| olethros says, "good thinking, we could fly away on it" | ||||
| Fang says, "I did x it" | ||||
| DavidW says, "well, it coulda had a map of the castle, for all I know." | ||||
| Fang says, "before I picked it up, anywyas" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | glue remover: (first dropping the flux capacitor to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Skindude(tm) multitool: Taken. Floyd | toilet hole: Taken. Wait, what? Floyd | Floyd | (bulky items, i.e. the flux capacitor, were ignored) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "show flux capacitor to hr" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the flux capacitor) Floyd | You decide to hold on to it for a bit longer. It might still come Floyd | useful. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a flux capacitor and a photograph and wearing your Floyd | adventuring clothes. Floyd | Floyd | Also, some glue remover, a Skindude(tm) multitool, and a toilet hole Floyd | are on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "it seems like we can't trade away stuff we need" | |||
| inky says, "though maybe that is just wishful thinking" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Is the hole *really* portable?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show multitool to hr" | ||||
Floyd | "I don't want this. It's rusted through," you complain. "It was free," Floyd | H.R. snaps. "Oh well, I guess I could find something else... " It Floyd | rummages through its sack. "Let's see... a cake... no... a brass Floyd | lamp... hmm... Here, you can have this." Floyd | Floyd | It hands you a dusty old book. Floyd | Floyd | (first dropping the flux capacitor to make room) Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take hole" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put hole on door" | ||||
Floyd | (ktonk) Floyd | Floyd | You slap the hole against the door. It sticks there and through it you Floyd | can see the corridor on the other side. Floyd | Floyd | "That seems... unlikely," you say"I've seen stranger things around Floyd | here," H.R. shrugs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter hole" | ||||
Floyd | It's way too small to fit through. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "wtf?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "reach through hole" | ||||
Floyd | You put your hand through the hole in the door. Yes, the key is in the Floyd | lock and at your reach! Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky says, "I guess it's a portable hole" | ||||
| inky says, "awesome!" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn key" | ||||
Floyd | You reach through the toilet hole and reach for the keyhole on the Floyd | other side. You are delighted to find the key in the lock! Floyd | Floyd | The key turns easily and you open the door very very carefully. You Floyd | sneak into the corridor and close the door again. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock door with key" | ||||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | The guard stands behind the door with his arms crossed. Floyd | Floyd | "Do you REALLY THINK I wouldn't NOTICE A HAND REACHING THROUGH THE Floyd | DOOR?" he roars. Floyd | Floyd | "Well I kinda assumed so," you say. Floyd | Floyd | He squints his eyes and takes a step forward. You open the door again, Floyd | step inside and close the door. Floyd | Floyd | The guard grabs the hole and pulls it off. "NO MORE TRICKS!" he yells. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm, I wonder if that was bad" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Due to some mysterious bump in time-space continuum, you find yourself Floyd | in the exact situation you were just a minute ago. Floyd | Floyd | "Talk about Deus ex Machina," H.R. remarks. Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||||
Floyd | It's a smelly little hole. Incredibly enough it seems to be a portable Floyd | model. Floyd | Floyd | The toilet hole is currently attached to the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get hole" | ||||
Floyd | You peel the hole off the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hey, why are you bad people undo-ing progress?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have escaped once by unscrewing the hinges on the door. Floyd | Floyd | "I bet if I put you in a paper bag and gave you scissors you couldn't Floyd | find your way out," H.R. speculates. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "I don't think it's possible to become unwinnable" | |||
| inky asks, "oops, are we not supposed to?" | ||||
| inky says, "oh, ok" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put hole on door" | ||||
Floyd | You slap the hole against the door. It sticks there and through it you Floyd | can see the corridor on the other side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "reach through door" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you could put your hand through. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "reach through hole" | ||||
Floyd | You put your hand through the hole in the door. Yes, the key is in the Floyd | lock and at your reach! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn key" | ||||
Floyd | You reach through the toilet hole and reach for the keyhole on the Floyd | other side. You are delighted to find the key in the lock! Floyd | Floyd | The key turns easily and you open the door very very carefully. You Floyd | sneak into the corridor and close the door again. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. Floyd | | ||||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | The guard stands behind the door with his arms crossed. Floyd | Floyd | "Do you REALLY THINK I wouldn't NOTICE A HAND REACHING THROUGH THE Floyd | DOOR?" he roars. Floyd | Floyd | "Well I kinda assumed so," you say. Floyd | | DavidW says, "I *think* we need to attempt escape multiple times to proceed." | |||
Floyd | He squints his eyes and takes a step forward. You open the door again, Floyd | step inside and close the door. Floyd | Floyd | The guard grabs the hole and pulls it off. "NO MORE TRICKS!" he yells. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "okey doke" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have escaped twice: Floyd | - by unscrewing the hinges on the door Floyd | - by unlocking the door through the hole Floyd | Floyd | "I bet if I put you in a paper bag and gave you scissors you couldn't Floyd | find your way out," H.R. speculates. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have escaped twice: Floyd | - by unscrewing the hinges on the door Floyd | - by unlocking the door through the hole Floyd | Floyd | "I bet if I put you in a paper bag and gave you scissors you couldn't Floyd | find your way out," H.R. speculates. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a dusty old book and a photograph and wearing your Floyd | adventuring clothes. Floyd | Floyd | Also, a flux capacitor and some glue remover are on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||||
Floyd | It says "ENCYCLOP?DIA ESCAP?DIA: The Definite Guide to Getting Out of Floyd | All Kinds of Trouble" in large block letters on the cover. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "read book" | ||||
Floyd | Instead of finding pages full of useful information you find that all Floyd | the pages apart from one have been glued together and the book has been Floyd | carved hollow to create a secret compartment inside. In the compartment Floyd | there's a drinking glass and a small bottle of brown liquid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x liquid" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to examine: the glue remover, the puddle of saliva, or Floyd | the whiskey bottle? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "bottle" | ||||
Floyd | According to the label the bottle contains Meisterj?ger, a strong Floyd | liquor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "use glue remover on book" | ||||
Floyd | "Use" is too vague; you need to be more specific. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "apply glue remover to book" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fill glass with acid" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "remove label" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to remove: the whiskey bottle, the flux capacitor, or Floyd | the sticker? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sticker" | ||||
Floyd | The sticker has a small red circle and the words "Push to open" printed Floyd | on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hr, spit on hinges" | ||||
Floyd | (ktonk) Floyd | Floyd | "Nope," the creature says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take acid with glass" | ||||
Floyd | That command is too complex; you might want to try to just take the Floyd | puddle of saliva. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "uh, where is that sticker?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take puddle" | ||||
Floyd | You scoop some of the spit from the floor into the glass. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "what sticker?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pour spit on hinges" | ||||
Floyd | (the acidic spit on the hinges) Floyd | You move across the room, now remembering that devilish lamp and going Floyd | around it! Take that, lamp! Floyd | Floyd | (first taking the acidic spit) Floyd | You pour a few drops of the spit on the hinges. The spit sizzles away Floyd | in trails of smoke, leaving brown spots where it landed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pour spit on bars" | ||||
Floyd | (ktonk) Floyd | Floyd | (first trying to take the puddle of saliva) Floyd | You scoop some of the spit from the floor into the glass. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pour spit on bars" | ||||
Floyd | (the acidic spit on the iron bars) Floyd | (first taking the acidic spit) Floyd | Carefully applying the creature's spit on both ends of the bars, one Floyd | after another they corrode off and fall on the cell floor. You climb Floyd | out through the window. It's hard to see in the dark, but the ground Floyd | doesn't seem to be that far away so you just jump. Floyd | Floyd | "Freedom! Freedom! Free--" you rejoice just before landing in a moat. Floyd | Your are in the water by the neck and your feet are stuck in the mud. Floyd | "Uh... Hello? Someone? ..." Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push space" | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | The Screaming Communists find you after a couple of hours, pull you out Floyd | from the moat and return you back to the cell. Floyd | Floyd | "How was the freedom?" H.R. asks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have escaped three times: Floyd | - by unscrewing the hinges on the door Floyd | - by unlocking the door through the hole Floyd | - by climbing through the window Floyd | Floyd | "On the other hand you have been caught four times now," H.R. remarks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "tell hr about freedom" | ||||
Floyd | That noun did not make sense in this context. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW clears the save counter. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push save" | ||||
Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "read book" | ||||
Floyd | There's only one readable passage. Floyd | Floyd | FLASHLIGHT Floyd | Floyd | A flashlight is an essential tool in any dark or low-light environment. Floyd | It is a device that consists of a lamp inside a parable-shaped casing Floyd | surrounded by a reflective surface to focus the light to a single Floyd | direction. Floyd | Floyd | Flashlights can been used as communication devices, typically by Floyd | flashing the light in pre-agreed sequences. There are documented Floyd | cases[citation needed] of using a flashlight or a searchlight as a Floyd | signalling device by attaching a template in front of the light source Floyd | to create shapes in the surface the light is pointed at. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ha ha citaation needed" | |||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||||
Floyd | It's an ENCYCLOP?DIA ESCAP?DIA shaped box with barely any of the Floyd | articles left to read. There's a whiskey bottle inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We need to make a bat signal" | |||
| inky says, "awesome" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x lamp" | ||||
Floyd | The light bulb is hanging low on an electrical wire. It is lit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x glue remover" | ||||
Floyd | It is a small tube of glue remover. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "point lamp at window" | ||||
Floyd | (the barred window) Floyd | (first taking the light bulb) Floyd | "Stupid bulb, you're gonna get it," you mutter and yank the bulb from Floyd | its socket. The wire snaps and you're left with a bulb attached to Floyd | nothing but its socket. Floyd | Floyd | Miraculously enough the bulb is still lit even when it's not connected Floyd | to anything. "Hmm," H.R. muses. Floyd | Floyd | You point the light bulb at the barred window. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "uhh" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take bottle" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We kinda need the template as well." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x label" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to examine: the flux capacitor, the sticker, or the Floyd | whiskey bottle? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sticker" | ||||
Floyd | The sticker has a small red circle and the words "Push to open" printed Floyd | on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "where is this sticker?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I have no idea" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take sticker" | ||||
Floyd | It's glued fast. It doesn't come off with bare hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "Hmm, that's probably too obscure. I'll help there..." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | It's a wooden trapdoor set in the floor. It looks like there's some Floyd | sort of sticker on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | You push hard on random places a couple of times, but it doesn't open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push sticker" | ||||
Floyd | There's a click and the trapdoor drops open. Underneath you see another | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "push sticker" | ||||
Floyd | room very similar to this one. Floyd | Floyd | "Hey hey!" you rejoice. "Oh joy," H.R. cheers laconically. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You jump down the trapdoor to the room below, thumping down on your Floyd | feet and facing a stone wall. "Now, let's see if this room is easier to Floyd | escape than the last one," you say to yourself. "I very much doubt it," Floyd | says the creature's voice next to you. Floyd | Floyd | "How the grue did you get here before me?" you cry. "I didn't, monkey Floyd | boy. You dropped down the hatch in the ceiling the moment you went Floyd | through the trapdoor," it grunts. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open glue remover" | ||||
Floyd | You open the cap and close it again. No need to keep it opened before Floyd | it's used. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "remove sticker with glue remover" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the glue remover) Floyd | The glue remover is effective immediately and the sticker comes off Floyd | easily. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x sticker" | ||||
Floyd | The sticker has a small red circle and the words "Push to open" printed Floyd | on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "put the sticker on the DOOR" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put sticker on door" | ||||
Floyd | You slap the sticker on the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push sticker" | ||||
Floyd | There's a click and the cell door swings violently open. You don't stop Floyd | to wonder how and why it worked when you take off. Floyd | "HEY!" the guard yells behind you. You keep running through the Floyd | corridors and manage to lose him from your tail. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. Floyd | | ||||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | The castle's twisty corridors are like a maze and very soon you are Floyd | completely lost. After wandering for some time longer you come across a Floyd | trapdoor in the floor. "Can't hurt to try this one too," you think to Floyd | yourself. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. Floyd | | DavidW says, "HOORAY" | |||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | You drop down the trapdoor and find yourself staring at H.R.'s oblong Floyd | face. You're back in the cell. Floyd | "What the... how the..." you stutter. Floyd | "Tee hee," H.R. giggles. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | The cell walls are of gray stone and a small barred window leads Floyd | outside to freedom. A silvery air vent runs right above the window. The Floyd | light bulb you carry illuminates the cell. Floyd | Floyd | There's an open trapdoor on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. waves at you. Floyd | Floyd | On the floor are some iron bars and a flux capacitor. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh, hmm, bars" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x bars" | ||||
Floyd | The bars used to be in the window before you corroded them off. They Floyd | seem to have replaced the bars in the window but left the old ones Floyd | behind. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get bars" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | Dark clouds gather in the sky and block the moonlight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x bars" | ||||
Floyd | The bars used to be in the window before you corroded them off. They Floyd | seem to have replaced the bars in the window but left the old ones Floyd | behind. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show bars to hr" | ||||
Floyd | The creature shrugs. "Meh. Those kind of things don't sell." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | The door is made of heavy reinforced steel plates, attached with large Floyd | bolts. The hinges are on the left side and on the right side is the Floyd | keyhole. Floyd | Floyd | There's a small rectangular metal plate in the middle of the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit door with bars" | ||||
Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put bulb in book" | ||||
Floyd | You put the light bulb into the encyclopedia. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put book on window" | ||||
Floyd | (the barred window) Floyd | You put the encyclopedia on the barred window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open book" | ||||
Floyd | That's already open. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "er, what?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "close book" | ||||
Floyd | You close the encyclopedia. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open book" | ||||
Floyd | You open the encyclopedia, revealing a light bulb. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "I'm trying the signalling thing" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pages" | ||||
Floyd | FLASHLIGHT Floyd | Floyd | A flashlight is an essential tool in any dark or low-light environment. Floyd | It is a device that consists of a lamp inside a parable-shaped casing Floyd | surrounded by a reflective surface to focus the light to a single Floyd | direction. Floyd | Floyd | Flashlights can been used as communication devices, typically by Floyd | flashing the light in pre-agreed sequences. There are documented Floyd | cases[citation needed] of using a flashlight or a searchlight as a Floyd | signalling device by attaching a template in front of the light source Floyd | to create shapes in the surface the light is pointed at. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x photograph" | ||||
Floyd | It's a postcard sized signed photograph of Captain McBrawn. You carry Floyd | it with you everywhere you go and it's beginning to show the wear and Floyd | tear. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. digs a paper tissue from its bag and tries to wipe some spit from Floyd | around its mouth. The tissue sizzles and melts away leaving just a Floyd | faint trace of smoke. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tear photograph" | ||||
Floyd | Never! Even the very thought makes you weep gently. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh boo hoo", H.R. says and in exaggerated motions pretends to rub its Floyd | eyes with fists. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put photograph in front of lamp" | ||||
Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put photograph in book" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put photograph on lamp" | ||||
Floyd | You put the photograph into the encyclopedia. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | (first taking the photograph) Floyd | Putting things on the light bulb would probably not get you any closer Floyd | to escaping. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put photograph on bulb" | ||||
Floyd | Putting things on the light bulb would probably not get you any closer Floyd | to escaping. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put photograph in front of bulb" | ||||
Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x flux" | ||||
Floyd | The flux capacitor has a window on one side where you can see some Floyd | tubes in Y shape inside. Red labels are pasted all over the device, the Floyd | one on top saying "FLUX CAPACITOR". The two dials are labeled "POWER" Floyd | and "SPEED" and there's a pin with a picture of a lightning bolt next Floyd | to it. It is very heavy. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x speed" | ||||
Floyd | The speed dial points at zero. Curiously there's a large red line at Floyd | about 88 miles per hour mark. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | It is tightly locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "push sticker" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | The cell walls are of gray stone and a small barred window leads Floyd | outside to freedom. A silvery air vent runs right above the window. The Floyd | light bulb illuminates the cell. Floyd | Floyd | There's an open trapdoor on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. leans against its sack. Floyd | Floyd | On the barred window is an encyclopedia (in which is a light bulb). Floyd | Floyd | On the floor is a flux capacitor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hr about delorean" | ||||
Floyd | You're about to ask, but you're not sure how to word the question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put capacitor in trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the flux capacitor) Floyd | (first dropping the iron bars, the whiskey bottle, and the drinking Floyd | glass to make room) Floyd | The flux capacitor falls down the trapdoor and lands back in front of Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x power" | ||||
Floyd | The power dial goes from zero to 1.21 gigawatts. It's currently Floyd | pointing at zero. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I was hoping it'd be caught in an infinite loop" | |||
| Fang says, "me too" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hr about sack" | ||||
Floyd | "What's in the bag?" you ask. Floyd | Floyd | "That's where I keep my ware," H.R. responds. "You'll find out what's Floyd | there when you trade something." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a photograph and wearing your adventuring clothes. Floyd | Floyd | Also, a flux capacitor, a drinking glass, a whiskey bottle, and some Floyd | iron bars are on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "show bars to hr" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the iron bars) Floyd | "I think I have one of those already," H.R. says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x glass" | ||||
Floyd | (the drinking glass) Floyd | The drinking glass is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "attach wire to capacitor" | ||||
Floyd | Sparks fly to the air when you touch the socket on the flux capacitor Floyd | with the exposed wire. There's a loud click from inside the machinery Floyd | and the tubes behind the front window light up and start blinking like Floyd | christmas lights. Floyd | Floyd | The needle on the power dial turns to point at 1.21 gigawatts. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. burps and covers its mouth with its hand. "Sorry. Had Mexicans for Floyd | lunch." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "nice!" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put capacity in trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put capacitor in trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the flux capacitor) Floyd | (first dropping the iron bars to make room) Floyd | The flux capacitor falls down the trapdoor and lands back in front of Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "we could try dropping it out the window" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "throw capacitor out window" | ||||
Floyd | That command is too complex; you might want to try to just throw the Floyd | flux capacitor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "throw capacitor" | ||||
Floyd | The flux capacitor is already here. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "er, I don't know what the capacitor is capable of doing?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hr about flux" | ||||
Floyd | "What the shuck is this?" Floyd | Floyd | "It's a... well, you find out yourself," H.R. replies. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "haven't you seen Back to the Future?" | |||
| inky says, "it's a time travel device" | ||||
| inky says, "it's, yeah, the main widget in the back to the future movies' time-travelling car" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yes, I have seen BttF, but I still don't know what it is." | ||||
| inky says, "(you may recall the bit where it has to get up to 88 miles per hour)" | ||||
| Fang says, "if you get it up to 88 mph, expect to see some serious shit" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "But don't we need a car?" | ||||
| olethros asks, "drop it?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Or a train?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "drop capacitor out window" | ||||
Floyd | That command is too complex; you might want to try to just drop the Floyd | flux capacitor. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says (to DavidW), "I dunno" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put capacity in window" | ||||
Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put capacitor in window" | ||||
Floyd | (the barred window) Floyd | (first taking the flux capacitor) Floyd | That is not something you could put stuff into. Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, watch those stranded prepositions," H.R. points out. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "we need greater window capacity!" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x windows" | ||||
Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | (the barred window) Floyd | The window is nothing but a hole in the wall with thick slab of Floyd | transparent plexiglas installed to it. Through it you see a beautiful Floyd | moonlit night sky. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Or a hamster wheel and a roadrunner?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x plexiglas" | ||||
Floyd | The Screaming Communists have replaced the iron bars with thick Floyd | transparent plexiglas while you were away. At least it'll keep the cold Floyd | away better than before. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Gerynar has disconnected. | ||||
| Gerynar spins around in circles, faster and faster, until he disapears in a brilliant flash of plaid light. | olethros asks, "what is 'screaming communists' making fun of?" | |||
| Fang says, "hmm, maybe we should have done this first" | ||||
| olethros asks, "or a reference to?" | ||||
| inky says, "non-screaming communists" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||||
Floyd | The rectangle on the cell door slides open and a pair of beady eyes Floyd | appear behind it. "WHAT is all this RACKET?" a loud voice behind the Floyd | door says. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "oh, you will find inky that, in the end, they _all_ scream" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show capacitor to guard" | ||||
Floyd | The guard doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Doug arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kiss guard" | ||||
Floyd | Keep your mind on the game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show book to guard" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the encyclopedia) Floyd | The guard doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | The guard grunts and closes the eyehole. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "So, romancing the guard isn't an option." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "drink whiskey" | ||||
Floyd | It's too strong for your tastes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||||
Floyd | The rectangle on the cell door slides open and a pair of beady eyes Floyd | appear behind it. "WHAT is all this RACKET?" a loud voice behind the Floyd | door says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "poke eyes" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show whiskey to guard" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the whiskey bottle) Floyd | "Would you be interested in a... little drink?" you say and dangle the Floyd | bottle in front of the eyehole. "Uh, is that MEISTERJ?GER? I most Floyd | certainly SHOULD NOT... Maybe a little bit, JUST TO KEEP ME WARM ... Floyd | JUST SLIP it through the HOLE, will you?" "It won't fit through," you Floyd | remark. "I must open the door... But KEEP IT QUIET, WILL YOU?" Floyd | Floyd | There's a click from the keyhole and the door opens slightly. You slip Floyd | the bottle to the guard who snatches it from your hand and slams the Floyd | door shut. In his excitement he doesn't remember to lock the door! You Floyd | wait for a moment and open it very carefully. Floyd | Floyd | The guard is enjoying his prize and doesn't notice you slipping through Floyd | the door. You navigate through the castle corridors until you stop Floyd | behind a door where you hear conversation behind it. Floyd | Floyd | "DID YOU HEAR that FEDOR has found a BOTTLE OF MEISTERJ?GER?" a voice Floyd | yells. Floyd | Floyd | "Meisterj?ger? AND HE'S NOT SHARING?" another voice shouts. Several Floyd | other voices murmur in unison. It gets harder to hear, but it seems Floyd | they all decide to pay a visit to Fedor and his bottle. By the time Floyd | you've deduced this, the door opens and twenty Screaming Communists Floyd | march out. Floyd | Floyd | "FEDOR, you OLD DRUNK we've come to DRINK FOR YOUR HEALTH and we've Floyd | BROUGHT YOU A PRESENT," they shout as they shove you to his lap. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. Floyd | | Nitku says, "At first they were the Nazi Communists" | |||
| * Doug has joined the channel. | ||||
| inky says, "hooray" | ||||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | The sounds of the Screaming Communists gradually die out when the Floyd | bottle is finally empty and you're back in the cell with H.R. Floyd | Floyd | "Welcome back," it says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have escaped five times: Floyd | - by unscrewing the hinges on the door Floyd | - by unlocking the door through the hole Floyd | - by climbing through the window Floyd | - by opening the cell door with the sticker Floyd | - by bribing the guard with whiskey Floyd | Floyd | "Impressive. Now, to escape without getting caught..." H.R. muses. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "hehehe" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying an encyclopedia (in which is a light bulb) and a Floyd | photograph and wearing your adventuring clothes. Floyd | Floyd | Also, a flux capacitor, some iron bars, and a drinking glass are on the Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x glass" | ||||
Floyd | (the drinking glass) Floyd | The drinking glass is empty. Floyd | Floyd | There's a knock on the door. Not waiting for a response the guard opens Floyd | the door and shouts: "Your DINNER IS HERE!" He throws a plate in the Floyd | cell with a silvery package on it and locks the door again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "hit capacitor with bar" | ||||
Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x package" | ||||
Floyd | It's a small bundle of tin foil. Judging by the pungent smell there Floyd | might be some food inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "presumably there's this flashlight one and the flux capacitor one" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open package" | ||||
Floyd | You open the tin foil, revealing fried fish. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x fish" | ||||
Floyd | They have fried the fish whole but it still looks quite raw. It is Floyd | reddish in color; it might be a red herring. Floyd | "I'm quite sure it is not," H.R. doubts. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get fish" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "show fish to hr" | ||||
Floyd | "Do you want this?" you ask. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh no I couldn't... YES I CAN," H.R. shrieks and grabs the foil from Floyd | your hands. Pieces of fish and drops of saliva fly around as the Floyd | creature devours your meal. The gruesome show ends in H.R. silently Floyd | burping and throwing the now empty foil over its shoulder. "Wow, that Floyd | really hit the spot. Yeah, maybe you'd like something in return?" Floyd | Floyd | It puts its hand in the sack and majestically pulls out tiny nail Floyd | scissors and hands them to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Due to some mysterious bump in time-space continuum, you find yourself Floyd | in the exact situation you were just a minute ago. Floyd | Floyd | "No reason to get that dramatic," H.R. says. "It's just UNDO." Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "eat fish" | ||||
Floyd | You can't bring yourself to eating it. Floyd | Floyd | "What, you can't eat the sweet, sweet fish? You're one mysterious Floyd | dude," the creature says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "show fish to hr" | ||||
Floyd | "Do you want this?" you ask. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh no I couldn't... YES I CAN," H.R. shrieks and grabs the foil from Floyd | your hands. Pieces of fish and drops of saliva fly around as the Floyd | creature devours your meal. The gruesome show ends in H.R. silently Floyd | burping and throwing the now empty foil over its shoulder. "Wow, that Floyd | really hit the spot. Yeah, maybe you'd like something in return?" Floyd | Floyd | It puts its hand in the sack and majestically pulls out tiny nail Floyd | scissors and hands them to you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get foil" | ||||
Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get scissors" | ||||
Floyd | You already have those. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying some nail scissors, a tin foil, an encyclopedia (in Floyd | which is a light bulb), and a photograph and wearing your adventuring Floyd | clothes. Floyd | Floyd | Also, a flux capacitor, some iron bars, and a drinking glass are on the Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. digs a paper tissue from its bag and tries to wipe some spit from Floyd | around its mouth. The tissue sizzles and melts away leaving just a Floyd | faint trace of smoke. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x foil" | ||||
Floyd | It's a crumpled sheet of tin foil. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cut foil with scissors" | ||||
Floyd | Cutting that wouldn't solve anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open foil" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cut foil" | ||||
Floyd | That's already open. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Cutting that wouldn't solve anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put foil on bulb" | ||||
Floyd | Putting things on the light bulb would probably not get you any closer Floyd | to escaping. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "wrap capacitor in foil" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tear foil" | ||||
| Doug has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can tear. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. scratches its head. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut photograph" | ||||
Floyd | After hesitating for a while you carefully cut out Captain McBrawn's Floyd | image from the photograph. It takes a good while with the nearly Floyd | useless dull scissors. Floyd | Floyd | You look at the McBrawn's silhouette, which is perfectly cut out but Floyd | the photograph and the autograph is ruined. The sacrifice makes a Floyd | silent tear roll on your cheek. Floyd | Floyd | "I knew a girl like you once," H.R. remarks. "She was five and she Floyd | liked ponies. I bet you like ponies too, don't you." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | olethros says, "yay signal" | |||
Floyd | H.R. gives you a thumbs-up and a grin. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "nice" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put silhouette on lamp" | ||||
Floyd | Putting things on the light bulb would probably not get you any closer Floyd | to escaping. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask hr about ponies" | ||||
Floyd | H.R. seems to have been distracted and missed your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hrm" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x photograph" | ||||
Floyd | It's a silhouette of Captain McBrawn cut from a photograph. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put silhouette on window" | ||||
Floyd | (the barred window) Floyd | You put the photograph on the barred window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "point lamp at window" | ||||
Floyd | (the barred window) Floyd | (first taking the light bulb) Floyd | You point the light bulb at the barred window. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wave bulb" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "uh" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "point lamp at silhouette" | ||||
Floyd | You point the light bulb at the photograph. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | You wait for a while. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "turn on lamp" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | That's already on. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You wait for a while. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. digs a paper tissue from its bag and tries to wipe some spit from Floyd | around its mouth. The tissue sizzles and melts away leaving just a Floyd | faint trace of smoke. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read page" | ||||
Floyd | FLASHLIGHT Floyd | Floyd | A flashlight is an essential tool in any dark or low-light environment. Floyd | It is a device that consists of a lamp inside a parable-shaped casing Floyd | surrounded by a reflective surface to focus the light to a single Floyd | direction. Floyd | Floyd | Flashlights can been used as communication devices, typically by Floyd | flashing the light in pre-agreed sequences. There are documented Floyd | cases[citation needed] of using a flashlight or a searchlight as a Floyd | signalling device by attaching a template in front of the light source Floyd | to create shapes in the surface the light is pointed at. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "signal" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "attach silhouette to lamp" | ||||
Floyd | You can't attach them together. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "attach silhouette" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to attach the photograph to? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "attach silhouette to window" | ||||
Floyd | (the barred window) Floyd | You can't attach them together. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put foil on lamp" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "attach silhouette to bulb" | ||||
Floyd | Putting things on the light bulb would probably not get you any closer Floyd | to escaping. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You can't attach them together. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put foil in lamp" | ||||
Floyd | That is not something you could put stuff into. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. yawns. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "attach silhouette to bulb" | ||||
Floyd | You can't attach them together. Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "fold foil" | ||||
Floyd | > Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a light bulb, some nail scissors, a tin foil, and an Floyd | encyclopedia and wearing your adventuring clothes. Floyd | Floyd | Also, a flux capacitor, some iron bars, and a drinking glass are on the Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put bulb in book" | ||||
Floyd | You put the light bulb into the encyclopedia. Floyd | Floyd | > | * Doug has left the channel. | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x glass" | ||||
Floyd | (the drinking glass) Floyd | The drinking glass is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put foil on glass" | ||||
Floyd | (the drinking glass) Floyd | Putting things on the drinking glass would probably not get you any Floyd | closer to escaping. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "attach silhouette to book" | ||||
Floyd | You can't attach them together. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put foil in glass" | ||||
Floyd | (the drinking glass) Floyd | You put the tin foil into the glass and straighten it against the glass Floyd | walls. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. burps and covers its mouth with its hand. "Sorry. Had Mexicans for Floyd | lunch." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "attach silhouette to glass" | ||||
Floyd | (the drinking glass) Floyd | You can't attach them together. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put lamp in glass" | ||||
Floyd | (the drinking glass) Floyd | (the tin foil) Floyd | (first taking the light bulb) Floyd | You put the light bulb inside the glass and the tin foil concentrates Floyd | and reflects the light into a bright beam of light. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "ok" | |||
| DavidW says, "aha" | ||||
| Fang says, "woah" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put silhouette on glass" | ||||
Floyd | (the makeshift flashlight) Floyd | (first taking the photograph) Floyd | You put Captain McBrawn's silhouette on top of the drinking glass. Floyd | Floyd | The beam of light emitting from the drinking glass casts a shadow on Floyd | the wall shaped like the Captain. Floyd | Floyd | "Nananananananana CAP-TAAIN!" H.R. sings. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "point flashlight at window" | ||||
Floyd | (the barred window) Floyd | Captain McBrawn's silhouette reflects clearly to the clouds above. You Floyd | hold the glass in your hand for several minutes, then support it in the Floyd | window sill and leave it there. Floyd | Floyd | "What happens now?" H.R. asks. Floyd | Floyd | "We wait. Captain McBrawn will be here any minute now." H.R. shrugs and Floyd | stays silent. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. Floyd | | ||||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | You wait, and wait, and wait. You pace the room from one end to the Floyd | other again and again. Finally the light bulb flickers ominously and Floyd | finally burns out completely. Floyd | Floyd | A dreadful darkness falls into the cell but it doesn't last long when Floyd | the moon comes back from behind the clouds and lights the room with an Floyd | eerie glow. You give a defeated sigh. H.R. gives you a melancholic Floyd | look. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. Floyd | Floyd | A bit later you hear muffled sounds from the corridor. They seem to get Floyd | louder and louder and you can make out screams and thuds and thumps. Floyd | You glance hopefully at H.R. who grins and gives you a thumbs-up. Floyd | Floyd | *khaZAM!* Floyd | Floyd | The door practically EXPLODES inwards when the guard's unconscious body Floyd | flies through it and bright light flows in the cell. You recognize the Floyd | shadow of the man standing in the door frame. Floyd | Floyd | Yes. It is Captain McBrawn. Floyd | Floyd | "Fear NOT! For I, Captain McBrawn, am here!" He comes in and stands Floyd | tall in front of you, hands by his waist and holding his sculpture-like Floyd | chin high. "Let us leave this dreadful place!" Floyd | Floyd | You lower your head. "I have to confess... You told me to go find the Floyd | President. I didn't get there. The Screaming Communists captured me Floyd | right away and I failed the mission." The Captain laughs warmly. "Do Floyd | not worry! I foiled their evil plot with little trouble and came Floyd | looking for you. The searchlight was very clever of you." Floyd | Floyd | "Well, I had some help..." you say and point at H.R. - but it's gone. Floyd | You're almost sure you see the tip of its tail disappearing in the Floyd | ventilation duct. The Captain isn't paying much attention. "Let's go Floyd | home," he says. Floyd | Floyd | You step over the knocked-out guard and leave. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have escaped *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You managed to find 6 escapes out of total 11 possible. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, review your Floyd | SCORE, or see all available ESCAPES (includes spoilers)? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "woot!" | |||
| inky says, "hunh" | ||||
| inky says, "somehow I assumed we wouldn't get to escape for real until the last one" | ||||
| olethros says, "yay" | ||||
| DavidW says, "We didn't manage an airduct escape." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "should we undo?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You escaped six times: Floyd | - by unscrewing the hinges on the door Floyd | - by unlocking the door through the hole Floyd | - by climbing through the window Floyd | - by opening the cell door with the sticker Floyd | - by bribing the guard with whiskey Floyd | - by calling Captain McBrawn to the rescue Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, review your Floyd | SCORE, or see all available ESCAPES (includes spoilers)? Floyd | > | olethros asks, "is McBrawn the only successful method?" | |||
| Nitku says, "Yeah, the flashlight escape is always the last one." | ||||
| inky says, "I guess you have to solve a couple others before they'll bring in dinner" | ||||
| Fang asks, "spoil or no spoil?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "well, how many escapes did we miss? 'Score' isn't saying." | ||||
| Fang says, "five" | ||||
| inky says, "it said 11 somewhere before" | ||||
| inky says, "(er, that we got 6/11)" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Let's try to find at least a couple more." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Please give one of the answers above. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, review your Floyd | SCORE, or see all available ESCAPES (includes spoilers)? Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Due to some mysterious bump in time-space continuum, you find yourself Floyd | in the exact situation you were just a minute ago. Floyd | Floyd | "You do know that whatever you do, you can't really get stuck?" H.R. Floyd | remarks. Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "aha, smart" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have escaped five times: Floyd | - by unscrewing the hinges on the door Floyd | - by unlocking the door through the hole Floyd | - by climbing through the window Floyd | - by opening the cell door with the sticker Floyd | - by bribing the guard with whiskey Floyd | Floyd | "Impressive. Now, to escape without getting caught..." H.R. muses. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show foil to hr" | ||||
Floyd | "What do you suppose I would do with an empty sheet of tin foil?" H.R. Floyd | asks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying some nail scissors and an encyclopedia and wearing Floyd | your adventuring clothes. Floyd | Floyd | Also, a flux capacitor, some iron bars, and a makeshift searchlight are Floyd | on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x bars" | ||||
Floyd | The bars used to be in the window before you corroded them off. They Floyd | seem to have replaced the bars in the window but left the old ones Floyd | behind. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "swing capacitor" | ||||
Floyd | That wouldn't solve anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hr about car" | ||||
Floyd | You're about to ask, but you're not sure how to word the question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get bars" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. digs a paper tissue from its bag and tries to wipe some spit from Floyd | around its mouth. The tissue sizzles and melts away leaving just a Floyd | faint trace of smoke. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put bars in spit" | ||||
Floyd | Those are not something you could put stuff into. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put bars in pool" | ||||
Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pool" | ||||
Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | The cell walls are of gray stone and a small barred window leads Floyd | outside to freedom. A silvery air vent runs right above the window. The Floyd | light bulb illuminates the cell. Floyd | Floyd | There's an open trapdoor on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. stands there next to a large burlap sack. | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "hit door with bars" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | On the floor are a dinner plate, a flux capacitor, and a makeshift Floyd | searchlight. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dinner plate" | ||||
Floyd | The dinner plate is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x vent" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show plate to gr" | ||||
Floyd | The aluminum air duct runs from one wall to another. It's quite large Floyd | but not set very high, just few centimeters above your head. There's a Floyd | small grate in the bottom of it. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Please be more specific - what do you want to show? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "play drums" | ||||
Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show plate to hr" | ||||
Floyd | (the dinner plate to H.R.) Floyd | (first taking the dinner plate) Floyd | You decide to hold on to it for a bit longer. It might still come Floyd | useful. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x grate" | ||||
Floyd | The aluminum air duct runs from one wall to another. It's quite large Floyd | but not set very high, just few centimeters above your head. There's a Floyd | small grate in the bottom of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open grate" | ||||
Floyd | You open the grate on the air duct. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw dinner plate at window" | ||||
Floyd | (the barred window) Floyd | That wouldn't solve anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter duct" | ||||
Floyd | You try to squeeze through the opening, but it's just a bit too small Floyd | for you to fit through. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "remove clothing" | ||||
Floyd | You strip naked. Floyd | Floyd | "That's so very much unnecessary," H.R. remarks dryly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter duct" | ||||
Floyd | Even without clothes the opening is just slightly too small to fit Floyd | through. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hrm" | |||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "exhale" | inky asks, "can we grease ourselves?" | |||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shrink" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "maybe" | |||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "widen opening" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x saliva" | ||||
Floyd | A sizzling greenish puddle of saliva is forming by the feet of the Floyd | creature. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Any butter or oil around?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x fish" | ||||
Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x plate" | ||||
Floyd | (the dinner plate) Floyd | The dinner plate is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "lick it" | ||||
Floyd | You have eaten a lot of strange stuff, but the dinner plate is not Floyd | something you want to put in your mouth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unravel sweater" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x clothes" | ||||
Floyd | They are a pair of green pocketless pants and a gray wool sweater. Your Floyd | adventuring clothes - that's what mom said when she bought them. Floyd | They've turned out being not very well suited for the purpose though. Floyd | They're very thick and a bit too big. Floyd | Floyd | "I hear your mom lost some weight so they changed her classification to Floyd | dwarf planet," H.R. quips. Floyd | Floyd | "Hey! Don't talk like that about my mom!" you yell at it. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cut sweater" | ||||
Floyd | Cutting those wouldn't solve anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a dinner plate, some iron bars, some nail scissors, Floyd | and an encyclopedia and wearing nothing. Floyd | Floyd | Also, your adventuring clothes, a flux capacitor, and a makeshift Floyd | searchlight are on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "exercise" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "jog" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "man, who takes pocketless pants on an adventure" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "blow out" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "attach wire to door" | ||||
Floyd | You tuck the live end of the wire into the keyhole. Floyd | Floyd | "Aww, that's just nasty," H.R. says. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||||
Floyd | The rectangle on the cell door slides open and a pair of beady eyes Floyd | appear behind it. "WHAT is all this RACKET?" a loud voice behind the Floyd | door says. After a short pause the voice goes: "Why you... ARE YOU Floyd | STILL NAKED?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "guard, open door" | ||||
Floyd | The guard refuses. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask guard about door" | ||||
Floyd | "Could you please open the door?" you ask. Floyd | Floyd | "HA! HA! HA HA HA! HA! HA HA!" is all he replies. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push key" | ||||
Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x keyhole" | ||||
Floyd | There's a tiny keyhole in the cell door. Too bad you don't have the Floyd | key. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "attach wire to plate" | ||||
Floyd | (the dinner plate) Floyd | You can't attach them together. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "attach wire to door plate" | ||||
Floyd | That command is too complex; you might want to try to just attach Floyd | electrical wire to the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "attach wire to door" | ||||
Floyd | You make sure the wire is securely inside the keyhole. Floyd | Floyd | The guard grunts and closes the eyehole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hide" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "knock" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lie on floor" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to knock? Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lie down" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||||
Floyd | The rectangle on the cell door slides open and a pair of beady eyes Floyd | appear behind it. "WHAT is all this RACKET?" a loud voice behind the Floyd | door says. After a short pause the voice goes: "Why you... ARE YOU Floyd | STILL NAKED?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lie" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||||
Floyd | "WHAT?" the guard yells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||||
Floyd | "WHAT?" the guard yells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put on cloths" | ||||
Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put on clothes" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the adventuring clothes) Floyd | You put on the adventuring clothes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show plate to guard" | ||||
Floyd | (the dinner plate to the guard) Floyd | (first taking the dinner plate) Floyd | The guard doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give plate to guard" | ||||
Floyd | (the dinner plate to the guard) Floyd | The guard doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | The guard grunts and closes the eyehole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "attach bar to door" | ||||
Floyd | You can't attach them together. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put foil on eyehole" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the tin foil) Floyd | Putting things on the metal plate would probably not get you any closer Floyd | to escaping. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put bar in keyhole" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the iron bars) Floyd | Those are not something you could put stuff into. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "vomit" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put foil on wire" | ||||
Floyd | Putting things on electrical wire would probably not get you any closer Floyd | to escaping. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "can we do that thing where you push the key out of the keyhole onto the mat?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put foil under door" | ||||
Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under door" | ||||
Floyd | There's no gap at all between the door and the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm guessing that's a 'no'." | |||
| inky says, "I guess not" | ||||
| inky asks, "can we push the key out?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying some iron bars, a tin foil (in which is a light bulb), Floyd | and a dinner plate and wearing your adventuring clothes. Floyd | Floyd | Also, an encyclopedia, some nail scissors, a flux capacitor, and a Floyd | drinking glass (in which is a photograph) are on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put scissors in keyhole" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the nail scissors) Floyd | Those are not something you could put stuff into. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in keyhole" | ||||
Floyd | Through the keyhole you see a small part of the corridor behind the Floyd | door. Sweet freedom! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear foil" | ||||
Floyd | You contemplate on making a foil hat to prevent unwanted telepathy, but Floyd | decide you don't have the time. Floyd | Floyd | "The elevator doesn't go all the way up, does it?" H.R. wonders. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I guess not" | |||
| inky says (to DavidW), "ha ha" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear plate" | ||||
Floyd | (the dinner plate) Floyd | That is not clothing! Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "maybe we need to start again" | |||
| Fang says, "like, some of the escapes are no longer available" | ||||
| Nitku says, "No, you can still get full 11 from here" | ||||
| Fang says, "hmm" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "attach wire to door" | ||||
Floyd | You make sure the wire is securely inside the keyhole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x lamp" | ||||
Floyd | The light bulb is lit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x torch" | ||||
Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x eyehole" | ||||
Floyd | There's a metal plate embedded in the door on the eye level, about Floyd | three centimeters high and thirty centimeters wide. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. taps the floor with its foot. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put bulb in glass" | ||||
Floyd | (the drinking glass) Floyd | (first taking the light bulb) Floyd | There is no more room in the drinking glass. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "point bulb at glass" | ||||
Floyd | (the drinking glass) Floyd | You point the light bulb at the drinking glass. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "Though the game is more linear than it might seem (you have to find some escapes before others become possible)" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||||
Floyd | The rectangle on the cell door slides open and a pair of beady eyes Floyd | appear behind it. "WHAT is all this RACKET?" a loud voice behind the Floyd | door says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "point bulb at guard" | ||||
Floyd | You point the light bulb at the guard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit guard" | ||||
Floyd | You would possibly hurt yourself more than the guard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take photo" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | The guard grunts and closes the eyehole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put bulb in glass" | ||||
Floyd | (the drinking glass) Floyd | The lamp fits nicely inside the drinking glass. The glass bends and Floyd | reflects the light, creating beautiful patterns of light and shadow on Floyd | the cell walls. The top of the glass throws a weak beam of light on the Floyd | ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. burps and covers its mouth with its hand. "Sorry. Had Mexicans for Floyd | lunch." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hr about mexicans" | ||||
Floyd | "I've never been to Mexico." Floyd | Floyd | "Huhwhat?" H.R. exclaims. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||||
Floyd | The rectangle on the cell door slides open and a pair of beady eyes Floyd | appear behind it. "WHAT is all this RACKET?" a loud voice behind the Floyd | door says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show glass to guard" | ||||
Floyd | (the drinking glass to the guard) Floyd | (first taking the drinking glass) Floyd | The guard doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put bulb in glass" | ||||
Floyd | (the drinking glass) Floyd | The light bulb is already in the drinking glass. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hr about grue" | ||||
Floyd | "I have nothing to say now," you say to the guard before talking to Floyd | H.R. "WHATEVER," the guard yells and slides the eyehole shut. Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, yes, run along now," H.R. says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put foil on glass" | ||||
Floyd | (the drinking glass) Floyd | Putting things on the drinking glass would probably not get you any Floyd | closer to escaping. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hr about grue" | ||||
Floyd | H.R. seems to have been distracted and missed your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put foil in glass" | ||||
Floyd | (the drinking glass) Floyd | There is no more room in the drinking glass. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "how did we make the torch again?" | |||
| Fang says, "I'm thinking of shocking Captain McBrawn" | ||||
| inky says, "put the foil in the glass first, then the bulb" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take bulb" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put foil in glass" | ||||
Floyd | (the drinking glass) Floyd | You put the tin foil into the glass and straighten it against the glass Floyd | walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put bulb in glass" | ||||
Floyd | (the drinking glass) Floyd | (the tin foil) Floyd | You put the light bulb inside the glass and the tin foil concentrates Floyd | and reflects the light into a bright beam of light. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||||
Floyd | The rectangle on the cell door slides open and a pair of beady eyes Floyd | appear behind it. "WHAT is all this RACKET?" a loud voice behind the Floyd | door says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "shine light at guard" | ||||
Floyd | (the light bulb at the guard) Floyd | (first taking the light bulb) Floyd | You point the light bulb at the guard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Due to some mysterious bump in time-space continuum, you find yourself Floyd | in the exact situation you were just a minute ago. Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Due to some mysterious bump in time-space continuum, you find yourself Floyd | in the exact situation you were just a minute ago. Floyd | Floyd | "Talk about Deus ex Machina," H.R. remarks. Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oops" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "scream. point flashlight at guard" | ||||
Floyd | The rectangle on the cell door slides open and a pair of beady eyes Floyd | appear behind it. "WHAT is all this RACKET?" a loud voice behind the Floyd | door says. Floyd | Floyd | You point the makeshift flashlight at the guard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "point glass at guard" | ||||
Floyd | (the makeshift flashlight at the guard) Floyd | You point the makeshift flashlight at the guard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||||
Floyd | "WHAT?" the guard yells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||||
Floyd | "WHAT?" the guard yells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "which?" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "point flashlight at eyes" | ||||
Floyd | You point the makeshift flashlight at the guard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask guard for food" | ||||
Floyd | "SPEAK UP!" the guard shouts. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell guard about monster" | ||||
Floyd | "No, I mean it! Look at it, there the monster is!" Floyd | Floyd | The guard squints. "NOPE. CAN'T see ANYTHING," he shouts. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask guard about toilet" | ||||
Floyd | "WHAT?" the guard shouts. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask guard about guard" | ||||
Floyd | "So... you're a guard, huh? How's that working for you?" Floyd | Floyd | The eyes behind the door squint. "Are you COMING ON TO ME?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | "OK THEN," the guard roars. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ha ha" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask guard about guard" | ||||
Floyd | "So... you're a guard, huh? How's that working for you?" Floyd | Floyd | The eyes behind the door squint. "Are you COMING ON TO ME?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask guard about me" | ||||
Floyd | "Don't you know who I am!?" you demand. Floyd | "NO," the guard replies. Floyd | Floyd | "Well... uh... I'm Scotty," you say. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask guard about captain" | ||||
Floyd | (the photograph) Floyd | "You should better let me go peacefully before it's too late! This here Floyd | is Captain McBrawn and he'll be coming to rescue me and then you will Floyd | be in big trouble!" Floyd | Floyd | "OOH, I'M TREMBLING," the guard shouts. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask guard about escape" | ||||
Floyd | "I'm going to break out and save the President!" Floyd | Floyd | "HA! I SPIT at your PRESIDENT!" the guard yells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spit at guard" | ||||
Floyd | That command is too complex; you might want to try to just spit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang asks, "guard about president" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask guard about president" | ||||
Floyd | "I'm going to break out and save the President!" Floyd | Floyd | "HA! I SPIT at your PRESIDENT!" the guard yells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "spit" | ||||
Floyd | That's a nasty habit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "ask guard about spit" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to ask the guard about: the puddle of saliva, or the Floyd | acidic spit? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask guard about saliva" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to ask the guard about: the puddle of saliva, or the Floyd | acidic spit? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "ask guard about vokda" | ||||
Floyd | "SPEAK UP!" the guard shouts. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask guard about acidic spit" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to ask the guard about: the puddle of saliva, or the Floyd | acidic spit? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "a spit" | ||||
Floyd | (the acidic spit) Floyd | Nothing particular about that topic comes to mind. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask guard about escape" | ||||
Floyd | "I'm going to break out and save the President!" Floyd | Floyd | "HA! I SPIT at your PRESIDENT!" the guard yells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "spit at guard" | ||||
Floyd | That command is too complex; you might want to try to just spit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask guard about whiskey" | ||||
Floyd | "WHAT?" the guard shouts. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask guard about window" | ||||
Floyd | (the barred window) Floyd | You're about to ask, but you're not sure how to word the question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask guard about exercise" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing particular about that topic comes to mind. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask guard about book" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to ask the guard about: the encyclopedia, or the Jack Floyd | Mills novel? Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "jack mills novel?" | |||
| Nitku says, "It was mentioned a while back" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask guard about encyclopedia" | ||||
Floyd | "I do not UNDERSTAND you!" the guard shouts. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "we have a novel?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask guard about novel" | ||||
Floyd | "WHAT?" the guard shouts. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x novel" | ||||
Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask hr about jack mills" | ||||
Floyd | "I guess that was all," you say to the guard before talking to H.R. Floyd | "ALL RIGHT THEN," the guard yells and slides the eyehole shut. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh, you have other books too?" you ask. Floyd | Floyd | "Yeah, but you wouldn't like this one. It doesn't have any pictures," Floyd | H.R. says. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "it looks like HR has it in his sack" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show encyclopedia to hr" | ||||
Floyd | One page comes off the encyclopedia and flutters on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | "Can I have something else instead?" you carefully ask. "Not enough Floyd | pictures, eh? Well, I'll trade it in but I can't give you anything as Floyd | nice this time. Let's see... an orange garden hose... no... an electric Floyd | mixer... hmm... This'll do." Floyd | Floyd | It gives you a can of motor oil. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x oil" | ||||
Floyd | The can contains motor oil, meant to reduce friction of moving parts. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put oil on me" | ||||
Floyd | That would surely ruin your clothes. Mom would never get the oil out. Floyd | Floyd | "Your mom is so ugly they moved Halloween to her birthday," H.R. says. Floyd | Floyd | "That's just so not cool!" you cry. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Now we have oil." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "remove clothes" | ||||
Floyd | You strip naked. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh for crying out loud!" H.R. yells. "That's really not something I Floyd | would have wanted to see." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put oil on me" | ||||
Floyd | You pour the oil on you and douse yourself with it. Every inch of Floyd | yourself. Every drop of the oil gets used. The result is one slick and Floyd | slippery Scotty. Floyd | Floyd | "My eyes! Is there no mercy for my poor retinas?" H.R. cries. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter vent" | ||||
Floyd | The motor oil covers your body like sweat on a hot summer night. You Floyd | slither inside the air duct and pull yourself deeper and deeper inside. Floyd | Darkness and cold aluminum encloses you from all sides as you twist and Floyd | turn through the tunnels. Finally there's some light looming from ahead Floyd | and you slide faster toward it. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. Floyd | | DavidW says, "ha" | |||
| olethros says, "I love the silly metaphors" | ||||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Just before you reach the end of the duct a dark shape blocks the light Floyd | and you're back in near darkness. You force yourself to a halt and Floyd | stare the figure in the eyes. Floyd | Floyd | "Hey, it's H.R.! What are you doing here?" you ask but the creature Floyd | doesn't reply. It opens its mouth, and the second, and the third. And Floyd | it hisses. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. Floyd | | ||||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | You back away in record speed and drop down the grate back to the cell. Floyd | Floyd | "I see you met my -cousin Herbert-," H.R. assumes. "Now please put some Floyd | clothes on!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You are Scotty, Captain McBrawn's short and a bit round sidekick. You Floyd | have followed him on his adventures and helped him mostly by staying Floyd | out of his way, but now you have a mission of your own. Floyd | Floyd | You are carrying a makeshift flashlight, a photograph, some nail Floyd | scissors, some iron bars, and a dinner plate and wearing nothing. Floyd | Floyd | Also, your adventuring clothes and a flux capacitor are on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear clothes" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the adventuring clothes) Floyd | You put your clothes on. Floyd | Floyd | "I and my eyes thank you, good sir," H.R. says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x grate" | ||||
Floyd | The aluminum air duct runs from one wall to another. It's quite large Floyd | but not set very high, just few centimeters above your head. There's a Floyd | small opened grate in the bottom of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "ask hr about cousin" | ||||
Floyd | "Wait, you knew there was a monster in the air ducts?" you cry. "Sure. Floyd | It's cousin Herbert, hired by the -Screaming Communists- to keep the Floyd | vents safe," H.R. says. Floyd | Floyd | "Then why didn't you say anything before I went in there!?" Floyd | H.R. shrugs. "I thought Herbie might have been hungry." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask hr about herbert" | ||||
Floyd | "Wait, you knew there was a monster in the air ducts?" you cry. "Sure. Floyd | It's cousin Herbert, hired by the Screaming Communists to keep the Floyd | vents safe," H.R. says. Floyd | Floyd | "Then why didn't you say anything before I went in there!?" Floyd | H.R. shrugs. "I thought Herbie might have been hungry." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask hr about screaming" | ||||
Floyd | (the Screaming Communists) Floyd | "What do you think of the Screaming Communists?" you ask H.R.. Floyd | Floyd | "They're a bit loud for my tastes. And they're not the ideal business Floyd | partners, either. They tend to rather shoot you and take your stuff Floyd | instead of trading." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take grate" | ||||
Floyd | That is not something you would carry around. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. yawns. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a photograph and wearing your adventuring clothes. Floyd | Floyd | Also, a dinner plate, some iron bars, some nail scissors, a makeshift Floyd | flashlight, and a flux capacitor are on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x photograph" | ||||
Floyd | It's a silhouette of Captain McBrawn cut from a photograph. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show scissors to hr" | ||||
Floyd | "Thanks, but I don't need this anymore." Floyd | Floyd | "What am I, a library?" the creature snaps. "Very well, I'll trade it Floyd | in. Let's see... a battering ram... no... some deck chairs from the Floyd | Titanic... hmm... Oh, I don't know what this is so maybe you can have Floyd | it then." Floyd | Floyd | H.R. throws you a small vial. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x vial" | ||||
Floyd | The glass vial is very small and delicate. There's some purple liquid Floyd | inside it and the words "DRINK ME" written on it with beautiful Floyd | cursive. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. scratches its head. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drink vial" | ||||
Floyd | You take a sip from the vial. It has a very faint taste, something Floyd | flowery, but you can't quite put your finger on it. Then suddenly the Floyd | vial starts to get larger and larger; your clothes seem to grow bigger Floyd | and the walls and the ceiling seem to move further apart from each Floyd | other. Floyd | Floyd | You climb out from under your clothes that are now too huge to wear. Floyd | The cell and everything in it seems to have grown at least tenfold. Floyd | H.R. is a towering monster far away. Floyd | Floyd | "Or could it be that you have just shrunk a lot smaller?" the creature Floyd | booms. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. Floyd | | ||||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Very soon you find out that the effect doesn't last very long: you Floyd | stretch back to your original size. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have escaped six times: Floyd | - by unscrewing the hinges on the door Floyd | - by unlocking the door through the hole Floyd | - by climbing through the window Floyd | - by opening the cell door with the sticker Floyd | - by bribing the guard with whiskey Floyd | - by sliding inside the air duct Floyd | Floyd | "Impressive. Now, to escape without getting caught..." H.R. muses. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x vial" | ||||
Floyd | The glass vial is very small and delicate. There's some purple liquid Floyd | inside it and the words "DRINK ME" written on it with beautiful Floyd | cursive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||||
Floyd | The rectangle on the cell door slides open and a pair of beady eyes Floyd | appear behind it. "WHAT is all this RACKET?" a loud voice behind the Floyd | door says. After a short pause the voice goes: "Why you... ARE YOU Floyd | STILL NAKED?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Maybe the guard will drink it?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show clothes to guard" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the adventuring clothes) Floyd | The guard doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give vial to guard" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the potion vial) Floyd | The guard doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "show vial to guard" | ||||
Floyd | The guard doesn't seem interested. Floyd | Floyd | The guard grunts and closes the eyehole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||||
Floyd | The rectangle on the cell door slides open and a pair of beady eyes Floyd | appear behind it. "WHAT is all this RACKET?" a loud voice behind the Floyd | door says. After a short pause the voice goes: "Why you... ARE YOU Floyd | STILL NAKED?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask guard about clothes" | ||||
Floyd | "I do not UNDERSTAND you!" the guard shouts. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask guard about communism" | ||||
Floyd | "SPEAK UP!" the guard shouts. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask guard about screaming" | ||||
Floyd | (the Screaming Communists) Floyd | "What does it actually mean being a Screaming Communist?" Floyd | Floyd | "You get to SCREAM! And THREATEN PEOPLE! By SCREAMING! AND I LIKE IT!" Floyd | he replies. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "maybe drink the vial while speaking to the guard?" | |||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "shout at guard" | ||||
Floyd | "WHAT?" the guard yells. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "attach wire to door" | ||||
Floyd | You make sure the wire is securely inside the keyhole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "drink vial" | ||||
Floyd | You take a sip from the vial and the world starts to grow smaller and Floyd | smaller. Very soon you are so small you can't see the guard's eyes Floyd | anymore - and apparently he can't see you either. Floyd | Floyd | "NOW WHERE did you GO!?" the guard yells. "OH BUGGER, I'm going to GET Floyd | FLOGGED if I let him ESCAPE!" Floyd | Floyd | He opens the door and peeks inside. "HEY! WHERE DID YOU GO!" You take Floyd | advantage of the situation and start running through the door. Floyd | Floyd | You run and run and run for what feels like eternity. Then the potion's Floyd | effect starts to wear out and you grow quickly to your normal size. You Floyd | managed to cover almost two meters from the door. Running with legs the Floyd | size of a toothpick doesn't get one very far. You stand there, naked, Floyd | grinning to the guard who leaps at you and throws you back inside. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. Floyd | | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "press space" | DavidW says, "heh" | |||
| olethros says, "oh my" | ||||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | "YOU STAY HERE and I'll take THIS WITH ME so NO TRICKS ANYMORE!" the Floyd | guard shouts and takes the potion vial before slamming the door shut. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have escaped seven times: Floyd | - by unscrewing the hinges on the door Floyd | - by unlocking the door through the hole Floyd | - by climbing through the window Floyd | - by opening the cell door with the sticker Floyd | - by bribing the guard with whiskey Floyd | - by sliding inside the air duct Floyd | - by cheating the guard by becoming tiny Floyd | Floyd | "Impressive. Now, to escape without getting caught..." H.R. muses. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "the wire doesn't seem to do anything" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | The cell walls are of gray stone and a small barred window leads Floyd | outside to freedom. A silvery air vent runs right above the window. The Floyd | light bulb illuminates the cell. Floyd | Floyd | There's an open trapdoor on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | The creature wags its tail slowly from side to side. Floyd | Floyd | On the floor are your adventuring clothes, a photograph, a dinner Floyd | plate, some iron bars, a makeshift flashlight, an article, and a flux Floyd | capacitor. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Not that time." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "read article" | ||||
Floyd | FLASHLIGHT Floyd | Floyd | A flashlight is an essential tool in any dark or low-light environment. Floyd | It is a device that consists of a lamp inside a parable-shaped casing Floyd | surrounded by a reflective surface to focus the light to a single Floyd | direction. Floyd | Floyd | Flashlights can been used as communication devices, typically by Floyd | flashing the light in pre-agreed sequences. There are documented Floyd | cases[citation needed] of using a flashlight or a searchlight as a Floyd | signalling device by attaching a template in front of the light source Floyd | to create shapes in the surface the light is pointed at. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x plate" | ||||
Floyd | (the dinner plate) Floyd | The dinner plate is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attach wires to door" | ||||
Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attach wire to door" | ||||
Floyd | You make sure the wire is securely inside the keyhole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show plate to hr" | ||||
Floyd | (the dinner plate to H.R.) Floyd | (first taking the dinner plate) Floyd | You decide to hold on to it for a bit longer. It might still come Floyd | useful. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drink vial" | ||||
Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oops, never mind" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hr about citation needed" | ||||
Floyd | "Dunno about that," H.R. says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask hr about wikipedia" | ||||
Floyd | You're about to ask, but you're not sure how to word the question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show article to hr" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the article) Floyd | "Thanks, but you should keep it," H.R. says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hr about citation" | ||||
Floyd | H.R. seems to have been distracted and missed your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show wire to hr" | ||||
Floyd | (first trying to take electrical wire) Floyd | You pull the wire out from the keyhole. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. digs a paper tissue from its bag and tries to wipe some spit from Floyd | around its mouth. The tissue sizzles and melts away leaving just a Floyd | faint trace of smoke. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show wire to hr" | ||||
Floyd | (first trying to take electrical wire) Floyd | It won't come out any further. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lick wire" | ||||
Floyd | Wondering if the wire has any power, you touch it with your tongue. Floyd | Floyd | *kZAP* Floyd | Floyd | "Ih HOEH hae oheh!" you discover. "The lamp's on, but nobody's in the Floyd | lighthouse, is there?" H.R. wonders. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "touch hr with wire" | ||||
Floyd | *kZAP* Floyd | Floyd | H.R. spasms and blinks white light for a while. Trails of smoke rise Floyd | from its body. Floyd | Floyd | "Careful with that! Floyd | " it says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||||
Floyd | The rectangle on the cell door slides open and a pair of beady eyes Floyd | appear behind it. "WHAT is all this RACKET?" a loud voice behind the Floyd | door says. After a short pause the voice goes: "Why you... ARE YOU Floyd | STILL NAKED?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "touch guard with wire" | ||||
Floyd | "Stop WAVING THAT THING in front of me!" the guard screams. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "touch door with wire" | ||||
Floyd | That wouldn't solve anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "touch guard with wire" | ||||
Floyd | "Stop WAVING THAT THING in front of me!" the guard screams. Floyd | Floyd | The guard grunts and closes the eyehole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lick wire" | ||||
Floyd | Wondering if the wire still has any power, you touch it with your Floyd | tongue. Floyd | Floyd | *kZAP* Floyd | Floyd | "Ih HOEH hae oheh!" you discover. "The elevator doesn't go all the way Floyd | up, does it?" H.R. wonders. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh, too late" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show capacity to hr" | ||||
Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show capacitor to hr" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the flux capacitor) Floyd | You decide to hold on to it for a bit longer. It might still come Floyd | useful. Floyd | Floyd | The numbness on your tongue subsides and some sense returns to it. "Too Floyd | bad that doesn't apply to the rest of your head," H.R. quips. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hrm" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lick wire" | ||||
Floyd | Wondering if the wire still has any power, you touch it with your Floyd | tongue. Floyd | Floyd | *kZAP* Floyd | Floyd | "Ih HOEH hae oheh!" you discover. "You're not the brightest lamp of the Floyd | Christmas lights, are you?" H.R. wonders. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lick plate" | ||||
Floyd | (the dinner plate) Floyd | You have eaten a lot of strange stuff, but the dinner plate is not Floyd | something you want to put in your mouth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take foil" | ||||
Floyd | (first dropping the flux capacitor to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "what do we want to lick before time runs out?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lick puddle" | ||||
Floyd | That would just be too disgusting. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put acid in glass" | ||||
Floyd | (the drinking glass) Floyd | (first trying to take the puddle of saliva) Floyd | You scoop some of the spit from the floor into the glass. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "pour acid on plate" | ||||
Floyd | (the acidic spit on the dinner plate) Floyd | (first taking the acidic spit) Floyd | You pour a few drops of the spit on the dinner plate. The spit sizzles Floyd | away in trails of smoke, leaving brown spots where it landed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lick plexiglass" | ||||
Floyd | You have eaten a lot of strange stuff, but the plexiglas is not Floyd | something you want to put in your mouth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lick hr" | ||||
Floyd | "Would you mind if I licked you a bit?" Floyd | Floyd | "Yes. Yes I very much would," H.R. objects. Floyd | Floyd | The numbness on your tongue subsides and some sense returns to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lick wire" | ||||
Floyd | Wondering if the wire still has any power, you touch it with your Floyd | tongue. Floyd | Floyd | *kZAP* Floyd | Floyd | "Ih HOEH hae oheh!" you discover. "There's no battery in your remote, Floyd | is there?" H.R. wonders. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lick wire" | ||||
Floyd | Wondering if the wire still has any power, you touch it with your Floyd | tongue. Floyd | Floyd | *kZAP* Floyd | Floyd | "Ih HOEH hae oheh!" you discover. "The elevator doesn't go all the way Floyd | up, does it?" H.R. wonders. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros asks, "why do we want to lick? just because we licked the wire?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put wire in ose" | ||||
Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put wire in nose" | ||||
Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "I think that this is irrelevant" | |||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "put wire on balls" | ||||
Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "yeah probably" | |||
| maga says (to olethros), "this ain't Rendition, d00d" | ||||
| inky says, "it's irritating we can't get the flux capacitor to work" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "We haven't used the plate or flux capacitor or other bars yet, have we?" | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "put wire on flux capacitor" | ||||
Floyd | (first trying to take electrical wire) Floyd | It won't come out any further. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros asks, "further?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "break plate" | ||||
Floyd | (the dinner plate) Floyd | You would possibly hurt yourself more than the dinner plate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "smash plate" | ||||
Floyd | (the dinner plate) Floyd | You would possibly hurt yourself more than the dinner plate. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "attach plate to flux" | ||||
Floyd | (the dinner plate to the flux capacitor) Floyd | You can't attach them together. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "put capacitor on wire" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the flux capacitor) Floyd | Putting things on electrical wire would probably not get you any closer Floyd | to escaping. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "attach capacitor to wire" | ||||
Floyd | You can't attach them together. Floyd | Floyd | The numbness on your tongue subsides and some sense returns to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "spin plate" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "etch plate" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "throw plate" | ||||
Floyd | (the dinner plate) Floyd | The dinner plate is already here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put plate in trapdoor" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | (the dinner plate in the trapdoor) Floyd | (first taking the dinner plate) Floyd | (first dropping the flux capacitor to make room) Floyd | The dinner plate falls down the trapdoor and lands back in front of Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attach wire to barsa" | ||||
Floyd | It's a wooden trapdoor set in the floor. Looking closely you can see a Floyd | small switch on the side of it. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attach wire to bars" | ||||
Floyd | You can't attach them together. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. burps and covers its mouth with its hand. "Sorry. Had Mexicans for Floyd | lunch." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x switch" | ||||
Floyd | The small switch on the trapdoor has been pushed to one side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "push switch" | ||||
Floyd | It won't go any further. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull switch" | ||||
Floyd | You flip the switch and the trapdoor slides effortlessly to the middle Floyd | of the room. Where it used to be only solid stone floor remains. Floyd | Floyd | "How curious," you muse. H.R. raises the spot above its eye where Floyd | people usually have eyebrows. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "pull switch" | ||||
Floyd | The trapdoor slides to the right side of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "push switch" | ||||
Floyd | The trapdoor slides to the middle of the room. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. digs a paper tissue from its bag and tries to wipe some spit from Floyd | around its mouth. The tissue sizzles and melts away leaving just a Floyd | faint trace of smoke. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x power" | ||||
Floyd | The power dial goes from zero to 1.21 gigawatts. It's currently Floyd | pointing at the maximum. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put capacitor in trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the flux capacitor) Floyd | The flux capacitor falls down the trapdoor and lands back in front of Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push switch" | ||||
Floyd | The trapdoor slides to the left side of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put capacitor in trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the flux capacitor) Floyd | The flux capacitor falls down the trapdoor and lands back in front of Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||||
Floyd | The ceiling is far above the ground. The trapdoor hangs open in the Floyd | ceiling on the opposite side of itself. Which is a bit strange, but Floyd | hey. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x ceiling trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | That command is too complex; you might want to try to just examine the Floyd | ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "pull switch" | ||||
Floyd | The trapdoor slides to the middle of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "pull switch" | ||||
Floyd | The trapdoor slides to the right side of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put capacitor in trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the flux capacitor) Floyd | The flux capacitor falls down the trapdoor and lands back in front of Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||||
Floyd | The ceiling is far above the ground. The trapdoor hangs open in the Floyd | ceiling on the opposite side of itself. Which is a bit strange, but Floyd | hey. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push switch" | ||||
Floyd | The trapdoor slides to the middle of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||||
Floyd | The ceiling is far above the ground. The trapdoor hangs open in the Floyd | ceiling on the opposite side of itself. Which is a bit strange, but Floyd | hey. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hrm" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "turn switch" | ||||
Floyd | That wouldn't solve anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "pull switch" | ||||
Floyd | The trapdoor slides to the right side of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "pull switch" | ||||
Floyd | It won't go any further. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "is the ceiling one not moving around or what? I am confused" | |||
| DavidW asks, "hold on. How many places can the trapdoor be?" | ||||
| Fang says, "three" | ||||
| Lucea disappears through an invisible gap in the MUD. You think you may have heard the sounds of chatting before the gap closed again. | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You jump down the trapdoor and land back into the cell. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ok. We want the lower one directly under the upper one." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||||
Floyd | The ceiling is far above the ground. The trapdoor hangs open in the Floyd | ceiling on the opposite side of itself. Which is a bit strange, but Floyd | hey. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "look down" | ||||
Floyd | (the floor) Floyd | The stone floor is a dirty and cold. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | It's a wooden trapdoor set in the floor. Looking closely you can see a Floyd | small switch on the side of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "push switch" | ||||
Floyd | The trapdoor slides to the middle of the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put capacitor in trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the flux capacitor) Floyd | The flux capacitor falls down the trapdoor and lands back in front of Floyd | you. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "doesn't seem to work, though" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "throw capacitor" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | The flux capacitor is already here. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | It's a wooden trapdoor set in the floor. Looking closely you can see a Floyd | small switch on the side of it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x flux" | ||||
Floyd | The flux capacitor has a window on one side where you can see some Floyd | tubes in Y shape inside. Red labels are pasted all over the device, the Floyd | one on top saying "FLUX CAPACITOR". The two dials are labeled "POWER" Floyd | and "SPEED" and there's a pin with a picture of a lightning bolt next Floyd | to it. It is very heavy. Floyd | Floyd | The tubes inside are blinking bright white light and the device hums Floyd | silently. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x power" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "attach wire to trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | The power dial goes from zero to 1.21 gigawatts. It's currently Floyd | pointing at the maximum. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You can't attach them together. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "attach wire to switch" | ||||
Floyd | You can't attach them together. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "lick wire" | ||||
Floyd | Wondering if the wire still has any power, you touch it with your Floyd | tongue. Floyd | Floyd | *kZAP* Floyd | Floyd | "Ih HOEH hae oheh!" you discover. "There's no mayo in your sandwich, is Floyd | there?" H.R. wonders. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x upper trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "lick trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | You have eaten a lot of strange stuff, but the trapdoor is not Floyd | something you want to put in your mouth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "lick switch" | ||||
Floyd | You have eaten a lot of strange stuff, but the switch is not something Floyd | you want to put in your mouth. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm confused. I don't know where the upper half is." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask hr about trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | "Ha hoh? Hew mah howeh huh." Floyd | Floyd | "Sorry, but I don't speak Dimwit," H.R. says. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "hmmmm" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | H.R. looks at you. Floyd | Floyd | On the floor are a flux capacitor, a dinner plate, a tin foil (in which Floyd | is a light bulb), a drinking glass, your adventuring clothes, a Floyd | photograph, and some iron bars. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||||
Floyd | The rectangle on the cell door slides open and a pair of beady eyes Floyd | appear behind it. "WHAT is all this RACKET?" a loud voice behind the Floyd | door says. After a short pause the voice goes: "Why you... ARE YOU Floyd | STILL NAKED?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Better not to try that while the guard is watching. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Have we aligned them or not?" | |||
| inky says, "probably not" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask guard about guard" | ||||
Floyd | "So... you're a guard, huh? How's that working for you?" Floyd | Floyd | The eyes behind the door squint. "Are you COMING ON TO ME?" Floyd | Floyd | The numbness on your tongue subsides and some sense returns to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "lick wire" | ||||
Floyd | Wondering if the wire still has any power, you touch it with your Floyd | tongue. Floyd | Floyd | *kZAP* Floyd | Floyd | "Ih HOEH hae oheh!" you discover. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "but I thought I'd just try entering it while it's in the various positions" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask guard about door" | ||||
Floyd | "Could you please open the door?" you ask. Floyd | Floyd | "HA! HA! HA HA HA! HA! HA HA!" is all he replies. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The guard eyes you through the eyehole. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. stands there next to a large burlap sack. Floyd | Floyd | On the floor are a flux capacitor, a dinner plate, a tin foil (in which Floyd | is a light bulb), a drinking glass, your adventuring clothes, a Floyd | photograph, and some iron bars. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Better not to try that while the guard is watching. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "ouch." | |||
| Nitku says, "Yeah, ENTER TRAPDOOR is broken it seems" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | You wait for a while. Floyd | Floyd | The guard grunts and closes the eyehole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You jump down the trapdoor and find yourself back in the cell. Since Floyd | the trapdoor is in the middle of the room, you fall through it again. Floyd | And again. And again. Floyd | Floyd | "Uh.. A little help here?" you ask after falling for some while. The Floyd | surroundings are just one big blur and it's giving you a headache. "Oh, Floyd | all right, you big baby," the creature says and shuffles towards the Floyd | trapdoor. It flips the switch and the trapdoor slides to one side. Floyd | Floyd | Your fall comes to an abrupt end as you smash on the floor. "Owee," you Floyd | cry and climb on your feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "excellent, so that does work" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "push switch" | ||||
Floyd | It won't go any further. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pull switch" | ||||
Floyd | The trapdoor slides to the middle of the room. Floyd | Floyd | The numbness on your tongue subsides and some sense returns to it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get capacitor" | ||||
Floyd | You lift the flux capacitor to your arms. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You jump down the trapdoor holding the flux capacitor. Floyd | The speed dial's needle on the flux capacitor approaches the 88 mph Floyd | mark quickly as you fall faster and faster. Colorful sparks fly to the Floyd | air from the device and when it reaches the mark, there's a blinding Floyd | bright flash of white light. Floyd | Floyd | You crash on the floor. Or, rather, ground - the stone floor is gone. Floyd | Along with the rest of the castle. Floyd | Floyd | This is definitely the same place. You recognize the surroundings as Floyd | the same, but there's nothing but some construction materials lying Floyd | around. Floyd | Floyd | Dark clouds are gathering above. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. Floyd | | DavidW says, "ok, so the middle position is the infinite one." | |||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | *kZAP* Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. Floyd | | ||||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | A lightning bolt strikes the flux capacitor and there's another bright Floyd | flash. Stupefied you stand in the cell again, smoke rising from your Floyd | ears. Floyd | Floyd | "Mmm. Smoked monkey," H.R. says and licks the part of its face where Floyd | lips usually are. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have escaped eight times: Floyd | - by unscrewing the hinges on the door Floyd | - by unlocking the door through the hole Floyd | - by climbing through the window Floyd | - by opening the cell door with the sticker Floyd | - by bribing the guard with whiskey Floyd | - by sliding inside the air duct Floyd | - by cheating the guard by becoming tiny Floyd | - by travelling through time Floyd | Floyd | "Impressive. Now, to escape without getting caught..." H.R. muses. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "still missing two" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show capacitor to hr" | ||||
Floyd | "I don't need this anymore." Floyd | Floyd | H.R. sighs. "Of course you don't need it anymore, it's a funking Floyd | smoldering piece of twisted metal after you got your hands to it!" It Floyd | yanks the thing from your hands. "I'll get you something, but just so Floyd | you'll know I'm not happy about this. I have mouths to feed! Let's Floyd | see... a teleporter... no... an Internet... hmm... Aha, this just takes Floyd | up room." Floyd | Floyd | The creature pulls out an improbably large structure of wood and metal. Floyd | It's many times larger than the sack. "I guess I did have a -trebuchet- Floyd | there!" Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hr about trebuchet" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "trebuchet" | ||||
Floyd | "What is that and how am I supposed to use it?" Floyd | Floyd | "It's a tre-bu-chet. You use it to storm castles." It sees the empty Floyd | look in your face and sighs. "Ok, I think I have a manual here Floyd | somewhere." It puts its hand in the sack and pulls out a leaflet which Floyd | it hands to you. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x leaflet" | ||||
Floyd | It's a manual leaflet for operating the trebuchet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||||
Floyd | "Thank you for purchasing a WallBreaker(tm) catapult! You are now the Floyd | proud owner of a finest piece of modern medieval siege equipment. Floyd | Floyd | To operate your WallBreaker(tm) catapult: Floyd | 1) load the mechanism by turning the winch until the arm has come all Floyd | the way down. Floyd | 2) insert ammunition (sold separately) on the cup located at the end Floyd | of the arm. Floyd | 3) pull the lever. Floyd | 4) repeat until the enemy's defensive structures have fallen. Floyd | 5) storm the castle with your army." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "turn winch" | ||||
Floyd | The winch is missing its handles. You can't get a good grip. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The bars" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "attach bars to winch" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x trebuchet" | ||||
Floyd | You can't attach them together. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | The catapult is a huge wooden structure on four cracked and worn Floyd | wheels. There's a lever on the side and a mechanism that is apparently Floyd | meant to throw objects at a great distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x mechanism" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to examine: the catapult, or the winch? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "attach bars to trebuchet" | ||||
Floyd | You can't attach them together. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x winch" | ||||
Floyd | A round wooden disc connects to the machinery with an axle, where it Floyd | winds the mechanism. It seems to be missing its handles. There are just Floyd | holes in regular intervals around the rim of the disc. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "put bars in holes" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the iron bars) Floyd | You insert the bars into the holes in the winch. They fit perfectly. Floyd | Floyd | "Isn't that just convenient," H.R. remarks. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "Ok I just realized there's one escape you can't get to anymore, because it has to be done at the same time with another escape earlier. So the trebuchet will be the last one." | |||
| Fang says, "aw." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn winch" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the winch with all your might and the catapult's mechanism Floyd | screams and wails as the arm tensions and lowers down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "enter trebuchet" | Fang says, "I guess the wire and the whiskey" | |||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sit on trebuchet" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can sit down on. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. burps and covers its mouth with its hand. "Sorry. Had Mexicans for Floyd | lunch." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x trebuchet" | ||||
Floyd | The catapult is a huge wooden structure on four cracked and worn Floyd | wheels. There's a lever on the side and a mechanism that is apparently Floyd | meant to throw objects at a great distance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put plate on trebuchet" | ||||
Floyd | (the dinner plate on the catapult) Floyd | (first taking the dinner plate) Floyd | You wedge the plate into the catapult's arm. It looks like it should Floyd | hold nicely. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pull lever" | ||||
Floyd | The catapult's arm snaps forward with tremendous force and stops Floyd | abruptly at the highest peak. Floyd | Floyd | "Whee," H.R. says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Due to some mysterious bump in time-space continuum, you find yourself Floyd | in the exact situation you were just a minute ago. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. digs a portable karaoke set from its bag and sings: "If I could Floyd | turn back time..." It then puts the machine back in the bag. Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hrm, I don't get how this works" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "sit on plate" | ||||
Floyd | (the dinner plate) Floyd | You climb on the dinner plate and ponder the situation. "Let's see... I Floyd | need something heavy to bring down the wall. Something heavy and Floyd | large..." Floyd | Floyd | You hear H.R. whirr and click with its mouth. "I wonder what this Floyd | does," it says. Floyd | Floyd | You glance down and see that it fiddles with the catapult's release Floyd | lever. "Don't..." you have time to say before it yanks the lever fully Floyd | back. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. Floyd | | inky says, "hee hee" | |||
| DavidW says, "hee" | ||||
| Fang says, "like this" | ||||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | "YYYAAAAEEEOOUU" *crash* Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. Floyd | | ||||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | You have only a faint recollection of what happens next: there seems to Floyd | be a lot of screaming and hassle around you. And sharp pain, well, Floyd | everywhere. Eventually you find yourself back in the cell, still a bit Floyd | dazzled. Floyd | Floyd | "Wow, that was spectacular," H.R. says. "You brought almost the entire Floyd | wall down. Too bad you weren't conscious enough to make much use of the Floyd | situation." Floyd | Floyd | "The Screaming Communists on the other hand were very efficient. They Floyd | built the wall again and removed the catapult to prevent any further Floyd | 'accidents'," it continues. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ha ha" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have escaped nine times: Floyd | - by unscrewing the hinges on the door Floyd | - by unlocking the door through the hole Floyd | - by climbing through the window Floyd | - by opening the cell door with the sticker Floyd | - by bribing the guard with whiskey Floyd | - by sliding inside the air duct Floyd | - by cheating the guard by becoming tiny Floyd | - by travelling through time Floyd | - by catapulting yourself through the wall Floyd | Floyd | "Impressive. Now, to escape without getting caught..." H.R. muses. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "so, only the flashlight one is left for us?" | |||
| Nitku says, "yeah" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "who wants to do the honours? Fang?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a manual and an article and wearing nothing. Floyd | Floyd | Also, a tin foil (in which is a light bulb), a drinking glass, your Floyd | adventuring clothes, and a photograph are on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "you do it" | |||
| Fang says, "I can't remember the verbs" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show manual to hr" | ||||
Floyd | "No thanks," the creature says. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ok. Signalling the Captain sans clothing." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take foil" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put foil in glass" | ||||
Floyd | You put the tin foil with the light bulb inside into the glass and Floyd | straighten the foil against the glass walls. The foil concentrates the Floyd | light into a bright beam of light. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "attach wire to door" | ||||
Floyd | You tuck the live end of the wire into the keyhole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put silhouette on glass" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the photograph) Floyd | You put Captain McBrawn's silhouette on top of the drinking glass. Floyd | Floyd | The beam of light emitting from the drinking glass casts a shadow on Floyd | the wall shaped like the Captain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "point flashlight at window" | ||||
Floyd | Captain McBrawn's silhouette reflects clearly to the clouds above. You Floyd | hold the glass in your hand for several minutes, then support it in the Floyd | window sill and leave it there. Floyd | Floyd | "What happens now?" H.R. asks. "Is this the cue for you to put on your Floyd | clothes?" Floyd | Floyd | "No! We wait. Captain McBrawn will be here any minute now." H.R. shrugs Floyd | and stays silent. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | You wait, and wait, and wait. You pace the room from one end to the Floyd | other again and again. Finally the light bulb flickers ominously and Floyd | finally burns out completely. Floyd | Floyd | A dreadful darkness falls into the cell but it doesn't last long when Floyd | the moon comes back from behind the clouds and lights the room with an Floyd | eerie glow. You give a defeated sigh. H.R. gives you a melancholic Floyd | look. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. Floyd | | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | A bit later you hear muffled sounds from the corridor. They seem to get Floyd | louder and louder and you can make out screams and thuds and thumps. Floyd | You glance hopefully at H.R. who grins and gives you a thumbs-up. Floyd | Floyd | *khaZAM!* Floyd | Floyd | The door practically EXPLODES inwards when the guard's unconscious body Floyd | flies through it and bright light flows in the cell. You recognize the Floyd | shadow of the man standing in the door frame. Floyd | Floyd | Yes. It is Captain McBrawn. Floyd | Floyd | "Fear NOT! For I, Captain McBrawn, am here!" He comes in and stands Floyd | tall in front of you, hands by his waist and holding his sculpture-like Floyd | chin high. "Let us leave this dreadful place!" Floyd | Floyd | You lower your head. "I have to confess... You told me to go find the Floyd | President. I didn't get there. The Screaming Communists captured me Floyd | right away and I failed the mission." The Captain laughs warmly. "Do Floyd | not worry! I foiled their evil plot with little trouble and came Floyd | looking for you. The searchlight was very clever of you." Floyd | Floyd | "Well, I had some help..." you say and point at H.R. - but it's gone. Floyd | You're almost sure you see the tip of its tail disappearing in the Floyd | ventilation duct. The Captain isn't paying much attention. "Let's go Floyd | home," he says. Floyd | Floyd | You step over the knocked-out guard and leave. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have escaped *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | You managed to find 10 escapes out of total 11 possible. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, review your Floyd | SCORE, or see all available ESCAPES (includes spoilers)? Floyd | > | Fang says, "guess the captain will never see us that way" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "escapes" | ||||
Floyd | You can escape the cell in following ways: Floyd | Floyd | - unscrew the door hinges with the free sample Floyd | - pour H.R.'s spit on the window bars Floyd | - attach the toilet hole to the door and unlock it Floyd | - accelerate to 88 mph while holding the flux capacitor Floyd | - trap the cell door's lock with an exposed live wire Floyd | - bribe the guard with the whiskey bottle Floyd | - enter the air ducts Floyd | - move the trapdoor opening sticker to the cell door Floyd | - cheat the guard by drinking the magic potion Floyd | - repair the trebuchet and break the door down with it Floyd | - build a searchlight and call McBrawn for help Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, QUIT, review your Floyd | SCORE, or see all available ESCAPES (includes spoilers)? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh well" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | The cell walls are of gray stone and a small barred window leads Floyd | outside to freedom. A silvery air vent runs right above the window. A Floyd | light bulb hangs from the ceiling illuminating the cell. Floyd | Floyd | There's a closed trapdoor on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. waves at you. Floyd | Floyd | On the floor are some iron bars, a flux capacitor, and some glue Floyd | remover. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying a drinking glass, an encyclopedia (in which is a Floyd | whiskey bottle), and a photograph and wearing your adventuring clothes. Floyd | Floyd | Also, a flux capacitor and some glue remover are on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "attach wire to door" | ||||
Floyd | (ktonk) Floyd | Floyd | (first trying to take electrical wire) Floyd | "I warned you!" you yell and pull the bulb as hard as you can. The wire Floyd | snaps and you're left with a bulb attached to nothing but its socket. Floyd | Floyd | Miraculously enough the bulb is still lit even when it's not connected Floyd | to anything. "Hmm," H.R. muses. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "attach wire to door" | ||||
Floyd | You tuck the live end of the wire into the keyhole. Floyd | Floyd | "Aww, that's just nasty," H.R. says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take whiskey" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "scream" | ||||
Floyd | The rectangle on the cell door slides open and a pair of beady eyes Floyd | appear behind it. "WHAT is all this RACKET?" a loud voice behind the Floyd | door says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show whiskey to guard" | ||||
Floyd | "Would you be interested in a... little drink?" you say and dangle the Floyd | bottle in front of the eyehole. "Uh, is that MEISTERJ?GER? I most Floyd | certainly SHOULD NOT... Maybe a little bit, JUST TO KEEP ME WARM ... Floyd | JUST SLIP it through the HOLE, will you?" "It won't fit through," you Floyd | remark. "I must open the door... But KEEP IT QUIET, WILL YOU?" Floyd | Floyd | There's a click from the keyhole and the door opens slightly. You slip Floyd | the bottle to the guard who snatches it from your hand and slams the Floyd | door shut. In his excitement he doesn't remember to lock the door! You Floyd | wait for a moment and open it very carefully. Floyd | Floyd | The guard is enjoying his prize and doesn't notice you slipping through Floyd | the door. You navigate through the castle corridors until you stop Floyd | behind a door where you hear conversation behind it. Floyd | Floyd | "DID YOU HEAR that FEDOR has found a BOTTLE OF MEISTERJ?GER?" a voice Floyd | yells. Floyd | Floyd | "Meisterj?ger? AND HE'S NOT SHARING?" another voice shouts. Several Floyd | other voices murmur in unison. It gets harder to hear, but it seems Floyd | they all decide to pay a visit to Fedor and his bottle. By the time Floyd | you've deduced this, the door opens and twenty Screaming Communists Floyd | march out. Floyd | Floyd | "FEDOR, you OLD DRUNK we've come to DRINK FOR YOUR HEALTH and we've Floyd | BROUGHT YOU A PRESENT," they shout as they shove you to his lap. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. Floyd | | DavidW says, "hm" | |||
| Fang says, "that didn't work" | ||||
| DavidW says, "It didn't." | ||||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | "ALL RIGHT, IN WE GO," Fedor shouts and inserts a key in the cell door Floyd | lock. Floyd | Floyd | *kZAP* Floyd | Floyd | He gets a hefty shock from the keyhole, releasing you from his grip. Floyd | You bolt away - but bump into the other guards. "FORGOT US, did you? Floyd | STOP SPASMING FEDOR and do your JOB!" Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. Floyd | | inky says, "maybe when he puts the dinner in" | |||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Fang says, "wait, yes it did" | ||||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | The sounds of the Screaming Communists gradually die out when the Floyd | bottle is finally empty and you're back in the cell with H.R. Floyd | Floyd | "Welcome back," it says. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have escaped five times: Floyd | - by unscrewing the hinges on the door Floyd | - by unlocking the door through the hole Floyd | - by climbing through the window Floyd | - by bribing the guard with whiskey Floyd | - by boobytrapping the door Floyd | Floyd | "Impressive. Now, to escape without getting caught..." H.R. muses. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hunh, I guess we did in fact get credit twice" | |||
| DavidW says, "hooray" | ||||
| Fang asks, "I guess that's it?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yup." | ||||
| olethros says, "nice" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Great game. Very enjoyable." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "hint" | ||||
Floyd | Warning! You are about to spoil the game for yourself! If you are Floyd | absolutely sure you need a hint, type HINT again. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "man it was excruciating watching you find a crapload of bugs" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "hint" | ||||
Floyd | "I bet there's something here you could trade with me," H.R. says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "hint" | ||||
Floyd | "Often after you've used some item you can trade it in," H.R. says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "hint" | ||||
Floyd | "Just try giving me anything you carry or what is in the cell," H.R. Floyd | says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "hint" | ||||
Floyd | "Just try giving me anything you carry or what is in the cell," H.R. Floyd | says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "hint" | ||||
Floyd | "Just try giving me anything you carry or what is in the cell," H.R. Floyd | says. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "are these hints contextual?" | |||
| Nitku says, "yes" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "restore" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "hint" | ||||
Floyd | Warning! You are about to spoil the game for yourself! If you are Floyd | absolutely sure you need a hint, type HINT again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "hint" | ||||
Floyd | "I bet there's something here you could trade with me," H.R. says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | The cell walls are of gray stone and a small barred window leads Floyd | outside to freedom. A silvery air vent runs right above the window. The Floyd | light bulb illuminates the cell. Floyd | Floyd | There's an open trapdoor on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. waves at you. Floyd | Floyd | On the floor are a flux capacitor, some iron bars, and a drinking Floyd | glass. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying an encyclopedia (in which is a light bulb) and a Floyd | photograph and wearing your adventuring clothes. Floyd | Floyd | Also, a flux capacitor, some iron bars, and a drinking glass are on the Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | There's a knock on the door. Not waiting for a response the guard opens Floyd | the door and shouts: "Your DINNER IS HERE!" He throws a plate in the Floyd | cell with a silvery package on it and locks the door again. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "hint" | ||||
Floyd | "Often after you've used some item you can trade it in," H.R. says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "heteronormativity off" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available, sugar puffs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Due to some mysterious bump in time-space continuum, you find yourself Floyd | in the exact situation you were just a minute ago. Floyd | Floyd | "No reason to get that dramatic," H.R. says. "It's just UNDO." Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Due to some mysterious bump in time-space continuum, you find yourself Floyd | in the exact situation you were just a minute ago. Floyd | Floyd | "No reason to get that dramatic," H.R. says. "It's just UNDO." Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attach wire to door" | ||||
Floyd | You tuck the live end of the wire into the keyhole. Floyd | Floyd | "Aww, that's just nasty," H.R. says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | You wait for a while. Floyd | Floyd | "Booooring," H.R. says and yawns. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | You wait for a while. Floyd | Floyd | "Booooring," H.R. says and yawns. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x dinner" | ||||
Floyd | There's a tin foil on the plate. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "whoops" | |||
| DavidW says, "haha heteronormality off response" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Due to some mysterious bump in time-space continuum, you find yourself Floyd | in the exact situation you were just a minute ago. Floyd | Floyd | "You do know that whatever you do, you can't really get stuck?" H.R. Floyd | remarks. Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Due to some mysterious bump in time-space continuum, you find yourself Floyd | in the exact situation you were just a minute ago. Floyd | Floyd | "Talk about Deus ex Machina," H.R. remarks. Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Due to some mysterious bump in time-space continuum, you find yourself Floyd | in the exact situation you were just a minute ago. Floyd | Floyd | "You do know that whatever you do, you can't really get stuck?" H.R. Floyd | remarks. Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Due to some mysterious bump in time-space continuum, you find yourself Floyd | in the exact situation you were just a minute ago. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. digs a portable karaoke set from its bag and sings: "If I could Floyd | turn back time..." It then puts the machine back in the bag. Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Due to some mysterious bump in time-space continuum, you find yourself Floyd | in the exact situation you were just a minute ago. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. digs a portable karaoke set from its bag and sings: "If I could Floyd | turn back time..." It then puts the machine back in the bag. Floyd | Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x dinner" | ||||
Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attach wire to door" | ||||
Floyd | You tuck the live end of the wire into the keyhole. Floyd | Floyd | "Aww, that's just nasty," H.R. says. Floyd | Floyd | There's a knock on the door. The guard doesn't wait for a response but Floyd | starts turning the key in the lock and shouts: "Your DINNER IS..." Floyd | Floyd | *kZap* Floyd | Floyd | The electrical wire gives a good shock to the guard and he flies Floyd | backwards to the opposite wall. You go see if the door opened - and it Floyd | did! You take off into the corridors. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. Floyd | | ||||
| inky pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | After wandering around the castle for some while you realize you have Floyd | no idea where you are. The corridors and staircases create a maze where Floyd | you just can't know where you're going. Floyd | Floyd | You turn around a corner and bump into the guard who is still a bit Floyd | dazed. He reacts quickly now and grabs a hold of you. "And STAY THERE!" Floyd | he shouts when he throws you back in the cell. Floyd | Floyd | A plate with a tin foil bundle on it has been left in the cell. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have escaped six times: Floyd | - by unscrewing the hinges on the door Floyd | - by unlocking the door through the hole Floyd | - by climbing through the window Floyd | - by opening the cell door with the sticker Floyd | - by bribing the guard with whiskey Floyd | - by boobytrapping the door Floyd | Floyd | "Impressive. Now, to escape without getting caught..." H.R. muses. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "But the wire trick didn't work with the drink-me vial." | |||
| inky says, "oh, it didn't? hunh" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I don't think so. Unless it wasn't set up and I just thought it was." | ||||
| Nitku says, "Yeah I guess I forgot to implement some door-openings." | ||||
| Nitku says, "It should work with the vial too." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | H.R.'s voice says, "Oh come on! Talk about beating a dead horse!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "plugh" | ||||
Floyd | H.R.'s voice says, "Oh come on! Talk about beating a dead horse!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "plover" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "escape" | ||||
Floyd | Yes, that would be the general idea. You just have to be a bit more Floyd | specific. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "escape cell" | ||||
Floyd | That command is too complex; you might want to try to just escape. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hr about game" | ||||
Floyd | H.R. seems to have been distracted and missed your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ash hr about zork" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hr about zork" | ||||
Floyd | "Dunno about that," H.R. says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hr about cell" | ||||
Floyd | "What is this place anyhow? Where are we?" Floyd | Floyd | "This is Castle Schweinehund," H.R. tells you. "Story goes that the Floyd | previous owners built it on an ancient burial ground and used it to Floyd | perform occultist rituals, opening portals to other worlds and so on. Floyd | Sounds like old wives' tales to me," it says and runs its hand across Floyd | its tail. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hr about rituals" | ||||
Floyd | H.R. seems to have been distracted and missed your question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hr about magic" | ||||
Floyd | "Yes, yes, run along now," H.R. says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hr about author" | ||||
Floyd | You don't find anything to say about that topic right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "credits" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > About Escapade! Floyd | How to play Floyd | Talking with characters Floyd | Settings Floyd | License | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About Escapade! Floyd | > How to play Floyd | Talking with characters Floyd | Settings Floyd | License Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About Escapade! Floyd | > How to play Floyd | Talking with characters Floyd | Settings Floyd | License | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About Escapade! Floyd | How to play Floyd | > Talking with characters Floyd | Settings Floyd | License Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About Escapade! Floyd | How to play Floyd | > Talking with characters Floyd | Settings Floyd | License | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About Escapade! Floyd | How to play Floyd | Talking with characters Floyd | > Settings Floyd | License Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About Escapade! Floyd | How to play Floyd | Talking with characters Floyd | > Settings Floyd | License | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About Escapade! Floyd | How to play Floyd | Talking with characters Floyd | Settings Floyd | > License Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About Escapade! Floyd | How to play Floyd | Talking with characters Floyd | Settings Floyd | > License | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
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| Fang asks, "why the hell do we want to know about the license?" | |||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About Escapade! Floyd | How to play Floyd | Talking with characters Floyd | Settings Floyd | > License Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About Escapade! Floyd | How to play Floyd | Talking with characters Floyd | Settings Floyd | > License | DavidW says, "oh, I was curious. I saw that it was Open Source at ifdb." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About Escapade! Floyd | How to play Floyd | Talking with characters Floyd | Settings Floyd | > License Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About Escapade! Floyd | How to play Floyd | Talking with characters Floyd | Settings Floyd | > License | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "p" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About Escapade! Floyd | How to play Floyd | Talking with characters Floyd | > Settings Floyd | License Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About Escapade! Floyd | How to play Floyd | Talking with characters Floyd | > Settings Floyd | License | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "p" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About Escapade! Floyd | How to play Floyd | > Talking with characters Floyd | Settings Floyd | License Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About Escapade! Floyd | How to play Floyd | > Talking with characters Floyd | Settings Floyd | License | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "p" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About Escapade! Floyd | > How to play Floyd | Talking with characters Floyd | Settings Floyd | License Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About Escapade! Floyd | > How to play Floyd | Talking with characters Floyd | Settings Floyd | License | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "p" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > About Escapade! Floyd | How to play Floyd | Talking with characters Floyd | Settings Floyd | License Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > About Escapade! Floyd | How to play Floyd | Talking with characters Floyd | Settings Floyd | License | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Escapade! was an entry to the One Room Game Competition 2008 where it Floyd | finished second out of seven games and was later nominated for three Floyd | XYZZY awards. Floyd | Floyd | If you get stuck, there's a HINT command and a walkthrough included in Floyd | a separate file. The hints and the walkthrough will cover only the Floyd | minimum solution, so there will still be some optional puzzles you have Floyd | to find the solution without help. Floyd | Floyd | The source code is distributed with the game. You can also download it Floyd | from http://www.nitku.net/if/escapade/. You are free to modify the game Floyd | or use snippets from the code; see LICENSE for details. Floyd | Floyd | There's a good chance of a post-competition release. If you find bugs Floyd | or you have other suggestions, please email me. Floyd | I'm also interested in seeing transcripts of playthroughs. Floyd | Floyd | CREDITS Floyd | Floyd | The game was programmed with Inform 7 by Graham Nelson and others, Floyd | using extensions by Eric Eve, David Fisher, Jon Ingold, Juhana Floyd | Leinonen, Michael Martin, Andrew Owen, and Emily Short. Floyd | Floyd | And last but not least, a big thank you to the playtesters: Floyd | Taleslinger, Mike Tarbert, Christian Moura, George Oliver, Jim Aikin, Floyd | S. John Ross, and Roger Carbol. Thank you to everyone who later sent Floyd | transcripts of their plays. This would have been a lesser game without Floyd | your help. Floyd | Floyd | -- Juhana Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please press SPACE to continue. | ||||
| DavidW pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > About Escapade! Floyd | How to play Floyd | Talking with characters Floyd | Settings Floyd | License Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | > About Escapade! Floyd | How to play Floyd | Talking with characters Floyd | Settings Floyd | License | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The cell walls are of gray stone and a small barred window leads Floyd | outside to freedom. A silvery air vent runs right above the window. The Floyd | light bulb illuminates the cell. Floyd | Floyd | There's an open trapdoor on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | The creature wags its tail slowly from side to side. Floyd | Floyd | On the floor are a dinner plate (on which is a tin foil), a flux Floyd | capacitor, some iron bars, and a drinking glass. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "anything else to try? Or are we done?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Any objects unlicked?" | ||||
| Nitku says, "If you want more yo mama jokes, you can try doing stuff with your clothes" | ||||
| DavidW says, "ha ha" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kiss clothes" | ||||
Floyd | Keep your mind on the game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "screw clothes" | ||||
Floyd | That wouldn't solve anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fold clothes" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give clothes to hr" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the clothes off) Floyd | "Look, we made a deal and you should keep it. I don't take extortion Floyd | lightly," H.R. snaps. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put clothes in trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | The adventuring clothes fall down the trapdoor and land back in front Floyd | of you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "smell clotyhes" | ||||
Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "touch clothes" | ||||
Floyd | Mmm. Mom has used the good fabric softener. Floyd | Floyd | "I hear your mom lost some weight so they changed her classification to Floyd | dwarf planet," H.R. quips. Floyd | Floyd | "Hey! Don't talk like that about my mom!" you yell at it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "eat clothes" | ||||
Floyd | Let's leave that to orcs and such. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "smell clothes" | ||||
Floyd | They smell like... you. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search clotehs" | ||||
Floyd | There's no such thing here now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search clothes" | ||||
Floyd | They are a pair of green pocketless pants and a gray wool sweater. Your Floyd | adventuring clothes - that's what mom said when she bought them. Floyd | They've turned out being not very well suited for the purpose though. Floyd | They're very thick and a bit too big. Floyd | Floyd | "Your mom is so ugly they moved Halloween to her birthday," H.R. says. Floyd | Floyd | "That's just so not cool!" you cry. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ha" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x them" | ||||
Floyd | They are a pair of green pocketless pants and a gray wool sweater. Your Floyd | adventuring clothes - that's what mom said when she bought them. Floyd | They've turned out being not very well suited for the purpose though. Floyd | They're very thick and a bit too big. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read them" | ||||
Floyd | There are no care labels. Mom knows how to wash them even without. Floyd | Floyd | "Your mom is so poor her picture is on the food stamp," H.R. says. Floyd | Floyd | "Shut up, you... whatever you are," you snap at the thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "clean them" | ||||
Floyd | They're clean enough. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "squeeze them" | ||||
Floyd | They're all dry already. Floyd | Floyd | H.R. digs a paper tissue from its bag and tries to wipe some spit from Floyd | around its mouth. The tissue sizzles and melts away leaving just a Floyd | faint trace of smoke. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wash them" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw them" | ||||
Floyd | The adventuring clothes are already here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wave them" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pray to them" | ||||
Floyd | That verb is not available. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||||
Floyd | You proudly hum Captain McBrawn's theme song and regain a good dose of Floyd | courage and morale. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "Ok I think that's all you can get from the clothes :)" | |||
| DavidW says, "heh. okay." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm done." | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "fuck" | ||||
Floyd | Such language! What would your mother think of you? Floyd | Floyd | "Your mom is so clumsy, when she falls down she misses the ground," Floyd | H.R. says. Floyd | Floyd | "Why are you being so mean," you cry. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hr about mom" | ||||
Floyd | "Yes, yes, run along now," H.R. says. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "pause" | ||||
Floyd | The game is now paused. Type any command to continue. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm, so is there time to play dewdrops? I don't remember how long it is" | |||
| inky says (to Nitku), "ha ha" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think Dewdrops can be played in an hour." | ||||
| DavidW says, "It's not a long game, but tricky." | ||||
| inky says, "hmm, let's do it then" | ||||
| DavidW says, "okay" | ||||
| inky says, "since that seems like too short to stand on its own" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | The life of the President depends on you! Are you sure you want to Floyd | quit? | olethros says, "yay, pause" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load dewdrops" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Darkness; below, percussion throbs softly. You shift from foot to foot, Floyd | conscious of too much open space around you. Floyd | Floyd | Ahead and on either side, the voice of the chorus rises; as they speak, Floyd | the lights slowly go up. Floyd | Floyd | CHORUS: Floyd | Now does the hour grow close; where feet lack time, Floyd | And Spaniards rage before the Cockrel's gate, Floyd | The condemned sinner, soul turned sick of vice, Floyd | Shall craft before your eyes most unclean magics, Floyd | Open him a gate to Hell's black womb, Floyd | Release demons, and bid them convey Floyd | Our heroes to fair France; there to signal Floyd | Embattl'd men to a final desperate measure. Floyd | The final act is begun; the play is in your hands. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Within a Wreath of Dewdrops Floyd | or, A Poisoned Zenith Floyd | A play by Alphonse de l'Entaille Floyd | For 24 Hours of Inform '04 Floyd | Copyright (c) 2004, 2005 Floyd | Floyd | For acknowledgments, hints, and miscellanea, type "about" Floyd | Floyd | The author can be contacted at alphonse.de.l.entaille@gmail.com Floyd | Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 050115 / Inform v6.21 Library 6/10 Floyd | Floyd | Stage (A German Forest) Floyd | You are onstage, a wide expanse of blank floor facing onto darkness. Floyd | Nestled behind a curtain's edge is the exit leading offstage. Floyd | Floyd | The backdrop features an unconvincing painting of pine-covered Floyd | mountains and a dark, ominous sky in which a double-headed eagle is Floyd | carrying off a schnitzel. Floyd | Floyd | [ To go backstage, type 'backstage' or simply 'bs' ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "depends on which president" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to fang), "of the WORLD!" | DavidW says, "This game is by maga and Jacqueline, by the way." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "become isquiesque" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You are currently out of character. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "hahah carrying off a schnitzel" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "isquiesque" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x backdrop" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x eagle" | ||||
Floyd | The backdrop features an unconvincing painting of pine-covered Floyd | mountains and a dark, ominous sky in which a double-headed eagle is Floyd | carrying off a schnitzel. Floyd | Floyd | CHORUS: Floyd | The hour draws close when France shall rise or fall; Floyd | The board writhes to last moves; alone, each piece is lost. Floyd | Each has emerged, as we've shown by our Art; Floyd | Our three are gathered: each must fill their part. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | High above a forested peak, a proud double-headed eagle is carrying off Floyd | its natural prey, the schnitzel. Such unspeakable grandeur, such Floyd | natural beauty, such cack-handed brushwork. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "man, this really sounds like maga and Jacq" | |||
| maga says, "I think I did about 75% of the writing and Jacq did all the coding" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "bs" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Backstage Floyd | A room of indefinite size, hemmed in with high curtains, hanging ropes, Floyd | and cluttered with wardrobes and make-up tables. Various props lie Floyd | scattered about the room. Through the curtains, an entrance leads Floyd | onstage. Floyd | Floyd | On one wall, someone has hung a flyer. Floyd | Floyd | [ To go back onstage, type 'onstage' or simply 'os' ] Floyd | Floyd | You can see a cloth, a petticoat, a stick and a board here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x flyer" | ||||
Floyd | A flyer is plastered across one wall: Floyd | Floyd | ____________________________________________________ Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | THE ROYAL DE L'ENTAILLE SOCIETY Floyd | Floyd | presents Floyd | Floyd | *** WITHIN A WREATH OF DEWDROPS *** Floyd | Floyd | * JOHN ACTOR as MAURICE * EVA ZAHA as ELISE * Floyd | Floyd | * and DUSTIN Q. CELEBRITY as THE WIZARD MCFAUD * Floyd | Floyd | ____________________________________________________ Floyd | Floyd | At the center of the advertisement is a dramatic painting of a Floyd | rapier-waving hero and a heaving-bodiced heroine, with a city on fire Floyd | behind them. It's all rather exciting, really. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros asks, "a *board*, not a *beard*?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x board" | ||||
Floyd | A wooden board, roughly square and about two and a half feet to a side. Floyd | A metal handle is affixed to the centre. It's been coated in dark Floyd | varnish to make it look a bit less like balsawood. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I guess it's a shield" | |||
| DavidW says, "hmmmmm (I shouldn't say)" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "get all" | ||||
Floyd | cloth: Taken. Floyd | petticoat: Taken. Floyd | stick: Taken. Floyd | board: Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You are currently out of character. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x cloth" | ||||
Floyd | It's a rectangle of cloth, so worn-out from being dyed, bleached and Floyd | redyed that you are no longer able to make out what its colour is. Over Floyd | the years it has seen service as a loin cloth, a pirate's sail, a Floyd | shroud, the ghost of Hamlet's father, and as a poorly-rendered special Floyd | effect of falling leaves. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I tested the game, so I should just watch and maybe hint." | |||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "x script" | ||||
Floyd | The chorus are an omniscient lot who remain out of sight but are always Floyd | there to provide foreshadowing of things to come. Were it not for them, Floyd | you would most certainly have forgotten to raise your tunic at the Floyd | appropriate moment in The Stride of Hermes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "os" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Stage (A German Forest) Floyd | You are onstage, a wide expanse of blank floor facing onto darkness. Floyd | Nestled behind a curtain's edge is the exit leading offstage. Floyd | Floyd | The backdrop features an unconvincing painting of pine-covered Floyd | mountains and a dark, ominous sky in which a double-headed eagle is Floyd | carrying off a schnitzel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "wear all" | ||||
Floyd | You can't use multiple objects with that verb. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "wear tunic" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "wear cloth" | ||||
Floyd | Costume changes onstage? This is experimental theatre, but there are Floyd | limits. It would perhaps be better to do that sort of thing backstage, Floyd | so as not to break the illusion. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "err petticoat" | |||
| olethros asks, "is there time?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "bs" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Backstage Floyd | A room of indefinite size, hemmed in with high curtains, hanging ropes, Floyd | and cluttered with wardrobes and make-up tables. Various props lie Floyd | scattered about the room. Through the curtains, an entrance leads Floyd | onstage. Floyd | Floyd | On one wall, someone has hung a flyer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear cloth" | ||||
Floyd | You swirl the cloth around your shoulders like a cloak, tilt your chin Floyd | upwards at an arrogant angle, and take a few strutting steps. After a Floyd | brief moment of concentration, you feel properly in character. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros asks, "as in, does number of moves matter?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | [ To go back onstage, type 'onstage' or simply 'os' ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "os" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Stage (A German Forest) Floyd | You are onstage, a wide expanse of blank floor facing onto darkness. Floyd | Nestled behind a curtain's edge is the exit leading offstage. Floyd | Floyd | The backdrop features an unconvincing painting of pine-covered Floyd | mountains and a dark, ominous sky in which a double-headed eagle is Floyd | carrying off a schnitzel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wave stick" | ||||
Floyd | You feel a bit foolish waving the sword. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a shield Floyd | a sword Floyd | a petticoat Floyd | a cloak (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You are playing the part of Captain Maurice Orignaux, honourable dandy Floyd | of the Paris City Guard. Equally capable of composing timeless sonnets Floyd | on the spur of the moment or slitting a Tartar's nose in a tavern Floyd | brawl, Maurice is generally considered to be Entaille's paradigmatic Floyd | hero. Some critics have defined this paradigm as 'a two-dimensional Floyd | pugilist in tight hose' but you have always considered Maurice a Floyd | character of many contradictions and shades of subtlety, brought out Floyd | most clearly in his banter with Carelio and Longuin in the famous Floyd | oyster-eating scene. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You are playing the part of Captain Maurice Orignaux, honourable dandy Floyd | of the Paris City Guard. Equally capable of composing timeless sonnets Floyd | on the spur of the moment or slitting a Tartar's nose in a tavern Floyd | brawl, Maurice is generally considered to be Entaille's paradigmatic Floyd | hero. Some critics have defined this paradigm as 'a two-dimensional Floyd | pugilist in tight hose' but you have always considered Maurice a Floyd | character of many contradictions and shades of subtlety, brought out Floyd | most clearly in his banter with Carelio and Longuin in the famous Floyd | oyster-eating scene. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| olethros says, "hahaha" | ||||
| olethros says, "a tartar's nose eh" | ||||
| olethros says, "(does that mean slitting with a knife, or punching wide open?)" | ||||
| inky says, "anyway, hrm" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chorus" | ||||
Floyd | The chorus are an omniscient lot who remain out of sight but are always Floyd | there to provide foreshadowing of things to come. Were it not for them, Floyd | you would most certainly have forgotten to raise your tunic at the Floyd | appropriate moment in The Stride of Hermes. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "presumably we are supposed to be in the right character" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x audience" | ||||
Floyd | There may well be an audience out there, but you can't see them for the Floyd | glare of the lights. Best to just assume that they're there, and that Floyd | somewhere in their midst is a theatre critic who is watching you with a Floyd | discerning eye. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "but I don't know what the right one is" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "listen to chorus" | ||||
Floyd | The chorus is tied to the script, but repeats its lines again, for your Floyd | benefit: Floyd | Floyd | CHORUS: Floyd | The hour draws close when France shall rise or fall; Floyd | The board writhes to last moves; alone, each piece is lost. Floyd | Each has emerged, as we've shown by our Art; Floyd | Our three are gathered: each must fill their part. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "maybe we should wear the other cloth" | |||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "bs" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Backstage Floyd | A room of indefinite size, hemmed in with high curtains, hanging ropes, Floyd | and cluttered with wardrobes and make-up tables. Various props lie Floyd | scattered about the room. Through the curtains, an entrance leads Floyd | onstage. Floyd | Floyd | On one wall, someone has hung a flyer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "wear petticoat" | ||||
Floyd | After a moment or two of hopping about, you work your way into the Floyd | petticoat. Hunching your shoulders over, clawing your fingers and Floyd | adopting a lecherous squint, you assume a new role. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You are playing the part of Herr Dr. Lysander Herculaneum Prufrock Floyd | Gramercy McFaud, German theological scholar and on first-names terms Floyd | with the Prince of Darkness. Originally your scheme was to ensnare Floyd | Elise, but the purity of her humble beauty laid a seed of doubt in your Floyd | black heart that was brilliantly explored in a long and profound Floyd | soliloquy at the close of Act IV. When Maurice appeared to rescue her, Floyd | you could no longer stomach the vileness of your existence and, though Floyd | doomed to Hell yourself, vowed to give aid to the heroes in an even Floyd | longer and more profound soliloquy in the middle of Act V. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "writhe board" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ah hmm" | |||
| inky says, "that seems like what we might be in now" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "os" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Stage (A German Forest) Floyd | You are onstage, a wide expanse of blank floor facing onto darkness. Floyd | Nestled behind a curtain's edge is the exit leading offstage. Floyd | Floyd | The backdrop features an unconvincing painting of pine-covered Floyd | mountains and a dark, ominous sky in which a double-headed eagle is Floyd | carrying off a schnitzel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||||
Floyd | Your big song number, Oh, I Am So Atrocious was three scenes ago. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| olethros says, "hahahaha" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||||
Floyd | Although method-acting can yield invaluable insights into the Floyd | characters you portray, none of them involve what an octogenarian Floyd | German demonologist might consider a snappy dance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a board Floyd | a staff Floyd | a petticoat (being worn) Floyd | a cloak (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x staff" | ||||
Floyd | You cut this staff from a blasted oak in a miserable October rainstorm, Floyd | and in a dark hour engraved deep symbols on its surface with a flint Floyd | knife to transform it into a Beacon of the Nether Gate, an abomination Floyd | before God whose very touch shrivels the humours. It also has a minor Floyd | hex on it that facilitates cheating at polo. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wave staff" | ||||
Floyd | You feel a bit foolish waving the staff. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "wield staff" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "...ok, I dunno" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "act" | ||||
Floyd | You hobble about, leering, wringing your hands and cackling softly in Floyd | appallingly bad Latin. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I'm not sure if we're supposed to do anything beyond that" | |||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "read next line" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to read in? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "speak" | ||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Stage (A German Forest) Floyd | You are onstage, a wide expanse of blank floor facing onto darkness. Floyd | Nestled behind a curtain's edge is the exit leading offstage. Floyd | Floyd | The backdrop features an unconvincing painting of pine-covered Floyd | mountains and a dark, ominous sky in which a double-headed eagle is Floyd | carrying off a schnitzel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "wave board" | ||||
Floyd | You feel a bit foolish waving the board. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "wear board" | ||||
Floyd | It's not in your size, I'm afraid. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a board Floyd | a staff Floyd | a petticoat (being worn) Floyd | a cloak (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros asks, "wait I guess there is another character, wearing just a petticoat?" | |||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "bs" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Backstage Floyd | A room of indefinite size, hemmed in with high curtains, hanging ropes, Floyd | and cluttered with wardrobes and make-up tables. Various props lie Floyd | scattered about the room. Through the curtains, an entrance leads Floyd | onstage. Floyd | Floyd | On one wall, someone has hung a flyer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "remove cloak" | ||||
Floyd | You unfurl the cloth from your shoulders. Concentrating, you stick your Floyd | chest out, stand contrapposto and bat your eyelashes. You're now in Floyd | character. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "the girl" | |||
| olethros says, "heehee" | ||||
| olethros says, "f x me" | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | You are playing the part of Elise, a beautiful and chaste Floyd | garlic-farmer's daughter and the darling of the Paris garrison. Floyd | Scholars generally consider that the real-life Elise was a toothless Floyd | Gascon whore whose only significant achievement was inaccurately Floyd | throwing a rotten aubergine at Charles the Affable, but de l'Entaille Floyd | was much-given to careless research and intentional romanticising. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a board Floyd | a stick Floyd | a petticoat (being worn) Floyd | a cloth Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "os" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Stage (A German Forest) Floyd | You are onstage, a wide expanse of blank floor facing onto darkness. Floyd | Nestled behind a curtain's edge is the exit leading offstage. Floyd | Floyd | The backdrop features an unconvincing painting of pine-covered Floyd | mountains and a dark, ominous sky in which a double-headed eagle is Floyd | carrying off a schnitzel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||||
Floyd | Elise isn't given any songs in the original text, although there was a Floyd | fashion in the eighteenth century to write in lengthy and hideous Floyd | warblings for her, with titles like The Mistle-Thrush Sings In My Heart Floyd | and Sweetest Fondness. Thankfully, these died out with the appearance Floyd | of the theatre critic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "act" | ||||
Floyd | In order to convey your poetic pulchritude to the audience, you mime a Floyd | series of gracefully girlish actions: Lost In Innocent Pensiveness, Floyd | Delighted by a Pretty Bird, and Oh My, Sir, But I Couldn't. None of Floyd | these do a great deal to advance the plot, but you do succeed in making Floyd | yourself feel like a complete wet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "advance plot" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "mmm" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen to chorus" | ||||
Floyd | The chorus is tied to the script, but repeats its lines again, for your Floyd | benefit: Floyd | Floyd | CHORUS: Floyd | The hour draws close when France shall rise or fall; Floyd | The board writhes to last moves; alone, each piece is lost. Floyd | Each has emerged, as we've shown by our Art; Floyd | Our three are gathered: each must fill their part. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "help" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About "Within a Wreath of Dewdrops" Floyd | N = next subject P = previous Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = resume game Floyd | Floyd | For your reading pleasure: Floyd | Floyd | > Acknowledgments Floyd | What's going on here? Floyd | I'm having trouble navigating! Floyd | If you insist, some hints Floyd | | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Stage (A German Forest) Floyd | You are onstage, a wide expanse of blank floor facing onto darkness. Floyd | Nestled behind a curtain's edge is the exit leading offstage. Floyd | Floyd | The backdrop features an unconvincing painting of pine-covered Floyd | mountains and a dark, ominous sky in which a double-headed eagle is Floyd | carrying off a schnitzel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "break board" | ||||
Floyd | Easy as it would be to smash, it's necessary for the play. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "drop it" | ||||
Floyd | You place the board upon the floor, handle-side up... it looks Floyd | suspiciously like a trapdoor! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "act" | olethros says, "I believe we are missing a fundamental insight" | |||
Floyd | In order to convey your poetic pulchritude to the audience, you mime a Floyd | series of gracefully girlish actions: Lost In Innocent Pensiveness, Floyd | Delighted by a Pretty Bird, and Oh My, Sir, But I Couldn't. None of Floyd | these do a great deal to advance the plot, but you do succeed in making Floyd | yourself feel like a complete wet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "open trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | You pull open the trapdoor. Beneath, you can make out nothing but Floyd | darkness. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros asks, "what?" | |||
| DavidW says, "This is portal hole night at ClubFloyd." | ||||
| DavidW says, "er, portable" | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "x stage" | ||||
Floyd | (the floor) Floyd | The floor is a featureless expanse facing out into darkness. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku asks, "Will we drop back to the stage if we go down?" | |||
| olethros asks, "where was the trapdoor mentioned?" | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "ask chorus about trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | The chorus is tied to the script, but repeats its lines again, for your Floyd | benefit: Floyd | Floyd | CHORUS: Floyd | The hour draws close when France shall rise or fall; Floyd | The board writhes to last moves; alone, each piece is lost. Floyd | Each has emerged, as we've shown by our Art; Floyd | Our three are gathered: each must fill their part. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | As you step through the trapdoor, you sense movement in the inky black Floyd | around you; you are descending into darkness, with nothing underfoot, Floyd | but it feels as if wires are holding you up. Floyd | Floyd | Beneath the Stage in a Dark and Spooky Place Floyd | You are surrounded by darkness; nothing underfoot and a tiny light far Floyd | overhead. Something allows you to dangle in space; whenever you move, Floyd | you feel slight upwards pressure on your joints, and feel yourself sway Floyd | a little. Floyd | Floyd | A few feet from you, a wooden demon is hanging limply from his wires. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "The board became one when we dropped it" | |||
| DavidW says, "You put the trapdoor there yourself." | ||||
| olethros says, "oh I missed that line" | ||||
| DavidW says, "The one that was a 'shield' in another character's hands." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x demon" | ||||
Floyd | At the very sight of the demon's hideous features, you are overcome by Floyd | the frailties of your sex and execute a commendable swoon. However, you Floyd | then take in a detail which gives you pause: the poor ickle thing has a Floyd | sandbag tied to its ankle. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "untie sandbag" | ||||
Floyd | You poke and jab ineffectually at the sandbag to no avail. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a stick Floyd | a petticoat (being worn) Floyd | a cloth Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x stick" | ||||
Floyd | A light but sturdy stick, about a metre and a half long. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hit sandbag with stick" | ||||
Floyd | You poke and jab ineffectually at the sandbag to no avail. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "open sandbag" | ||||
Floyd | The sandbag is tethered securely to the demon's ankle, just out of Floyd | reach. You kick and swipe feebly, but to no avail. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x ankle" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Perhaps a maiden is too feminine for such dramatics." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "remove coat" | ||||
Floyd | It's a little difficult to attempt anything as involved as that when Floyd | you're hanging here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "bs" | ||||
Floyd | You attempt to go in another direction, but since you don't have any Floyd | purchase on anything, this proves impractical. Looks like your best bet Floyd | is to go up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "u. bs" | ||||
Floyd | You flail ineffectually at thin air. Although this does little, an Floyd | upward force at the top of your head seems to pull you upwards, back Floyd | toward the light. Floyd | Floyd | Stage (A German Forest) Floyd | You are onstage, a wide expanse of blank floor facing onto darkness. Floyd | Nestled behind a curtain's edge is the exit leading offstage. Floyd | Floyd | The backdrop features an unconvincing painting of pine-covered Floyd | mountains and a dark, ominous sky in which a double-headed eagle is Floyd | carrying off a schnitzel. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a trapdoor here. Floyd | Floyd | Backstage Floyd | A room of indefinite size, hemmed in with high curtains, hanging ropes, Floyd | and cluttered with wardrobes and make-up tables. Various props lie Floyd | scattered about the room. Through the curtains, an entrance leads Floyd | onstage. Floyd | Floyd | On one wall, someone has hung a flyer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "remove coat" | ||||
Floyd | You step out of the petticoat, and out of role. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "wear cloth" | ||||
Floyd | You swirl the cloth around your shoulders like a cloak, tilt your chin Floyd | upwards at an arrogant angle, and take a few strutting steps. After a Floyd | brief moment of concentration, you feel properly in character. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "os. d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Stage (A German Forest) Floyd | You are onstage, a wide expanse of blank floor facing onto darkness. Floyd | Nestled behind a curtain's edge is the exit leading offstage. Floyd | Floyd | The backdrop features an unconvincing painting of pine-covered Floyd | mountains and a dark, ominous sky in which a double-headed eagle is Floyd | carrying off a schnitzel. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a trapdoor here. Floyd | You open the trapdoor, revealing a dark hole that beckons to you in an Floyd | unpleasant manner. As you step cautiously through the trapdoor, you Floyd | sense movement in the inky black around you; you are descending into Floyd | darkness, with nothing underfoot, but it feels as if wires are holding Floyd | you up. Floyd | Floyd | Beneath the Stage in a Dark and Spooky Place Floyd | You are surrounded by darkness; nothing underfoot and a tiny light far Floyd | overhead. Something allows you to dangle in space; whenever you move, Floyd | you feel slight upwards pressure on your joints, and feel yourself sway Floyd | a little. Floyd | Floyd | A few feet from you, a wooden demon is hanging limply from his wires. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "untie sandbag" | ||||
Floyd | You can't quite manage to take it, but it looks as though you might be Floyd | able to cut it free with your sword. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "cut it" | ||||
Floyd | With one swing of your blade, the rope is cut and the sandbag drops Floyd | away into empty darkness. The demon creakily shakes its leg. Floyd | Floyd | MAURICE: Floyd | Now I have honour, and thee, releas't, Floyd | Put up thy sword, most naughty beast! Floyd | Floyd | The demon swivels to face you, as if to respond; its lower jaw clatters Floyd | up and down. The only sound is of clacking wood and creaking wires. Floyd | Then it reaches above its head, clumsily selects a particular wire, and Floyd | yanks forcefully on it. You immediately find yourself being hauled Floyd | upwards... Floyd | Floyd | Stage (A German Forest) Floyd | You are onstage, a wide expanse of blank floor facing onto darkness. Floyd | Nestled behind a curtain's edge is the exit leading offstage. Floyd | Floyd | The backdrop features an unconvincing painting of pine-covered Floyd | mountains and a dark, ominous sky in which a double-headed eagle is Floyd | carrying off a schnitzel. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a trapdoor here. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros says, "this game is super" | |||
| inky says, "I am perplexed by how we're supposed to know what to do" | ||||
| maga says, "yeah, that's the main weakness of the thing" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "listen to chorus" | ||||
Floyd | The chorus is tied to the script, but repeats its lines again, for your Floyd | benefit: Floyd | Floyd | CHORUS: Floyd | The hour draws close when France shall rise or fall; Floyd | The board writhes to last moves; alone, each piece is lost. Floyd | Each has emerged, as we've shown by our Art; Floyd | Our three are gathered: each must fill their part. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "act" | ||||
Floyd | You strut up and down the stage, grinning roguishly, and wondering how Floyd | long you can keep this up. Floyd | Floyd | CHORUS: Floyd | The noxious Teuton, by each saint accursed, Floyd | Prepareth now dark devilments; from Dis' black gut Floyd | He means to call forth monsters. Dare his hand Floyd | Unbar the gate that blessed hands did seal? Floyd | Floyd | > | olethros asks, "trial and error?" | |||
| maga says, "pointers are hard to manage within a time limit" | ||||
| inky says, "though f act" | ||||
| inky says, "er" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "act" | ||||
Floyd | You strut up and down the stage, grinning roguishly, and wondering how Floyd | long you can keep this up. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "the idea was that the chorus would do most of this" | |||
| inky says, "that was my assumption" | ||||
| DavidW says, "hm. I think the wizard might stop the devil from loosing monsters next." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "bs" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Backstage Floyd | A room of indefinite size, hemmed in with high curtains, hanging ropes, Floyd | and cluttered with wardrobes and make-up tables. Various props lie Floyd | scattered about the room. Through the curtains, an entrance leads Floyd | onstage. Floyd | Floyd | On one wall, someone has hung a flyer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear petticoat" | ||||
Floyd | After a moment or two of hopping about, you work your way into the Floyd | petticoat. Hunching your shoulders over, clawing your fingers and Floyd | adopting a lecherous squint, you assume a new role. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | [ To go back onstage, type 'onstage' or simply 'os' ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "os" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Stage (A German Forest) Floyd | You are onstage, a wide expanse of blank floor facing onto darkness. Floyd | Nestled behind a curtain's edge is the exit leading offstage. Floyd | Floyd | The backdrop features an unconvincing painting of pine-covered Floyd | mountains and a dark, ominous sky in which a double-headed eagle is Floyd | carrying off a schnitzel. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a trapdoor here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "act" | ||||
Floyd | You hobble about, leering, wringing your hands and cackling softly in Floyd | appallingly bad Latin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wave staff" | ||||
Floyd | You feel a bit foolish waving the staff. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | A thunder-machine roars offstage and the lights redden and dim. With a Floyd | burst of dry ice, a magnificent demon erupts from the trapdoor! You Floyd | clear your throat: the audience are due for some more of Entaille's Floyd | third-rate blank verse. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | BIKHRIR: Floyd | Why summons't thou me to this most bleak land, Floyd | Where men are virtuous and sausages plentiful? Floyd | Floyd | MCFAUD: Floyd | Did I not with thy master make of it a compact, Floyd | Binding your service to my hand's desire, Floyd | And can I not discard this if I will? Floyd | Floyd | BIKHRIR: Floyd | No; Floyd | It is signed, Lysander, Floyd | In the gore of your damned carcass. Floyd | Floyd | MCFAUD: Floyd | Then let my doom provide another's hope, Floyd | And at once to Paris these my friends convey. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Bikrir, grumbling loudly, stomps to the backdrop and, making a magic Floyd | pass, extracts a paint-bucket and brush. In a few moments, he has Floyd | coated the entire surface in a completely different talentless daub, Floyd | and springs back down the trapdoor. Floyd | Floyd | A second burst of dry ice signals his disappearance (and, incidentally, Floyd | that of the trapdoor also). Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Stage (The Walls of Paris) Floyd | You are onstage, a wide expanse of blank floor facing onto darkness. Floyd | Nestled behind a curtain's edge is the exit leading offstage. Floyd | Floyd | The backdrop features a hastily-rendered painting of a medieval town, Floyd | complete with the Eiffel Tower, the Champs-Elysses, a vineyard and Floyd | Gerard Depardieu as an onion-selling cyclist. In the distance, the Floyd | flags of the invading Spanish wave menacingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| DavidW says, "Theatre is amazing." | ||||
| olethros says, "hahahaha" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | You heard nothing unexpected. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "act" | ||||
Floyd | You hobble about, leering, wringing your hands and cackling softly in Floyd | appallingly bad Latin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "bs" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Backstage Floyd | A room of indefinite size, hemmed in with high curtains, hanging ropes, Floyd | and cluttered with wardrobes and make-up tables. Various props lie Floyd | scattered about the room. Through the curtains, an entrance leads Floyd | onstage. Floyd | Floyd | On one wall, someone has hung a flyer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "remove petticoat" | ||||
Floyd | Stepping out of the petticoat, you tilt your chin upwards at an Floyd | arrogant angle and take a few strutting steps. After a brief moment of Floyd | concentration, you feel properly in character. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "os" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Stage (The Walls of Paris) Floyd | You are onstage, a wide expanse of blank floor facing onto darkness. Floyd | Nestled behind a curtain's edge is the exit leading offstage. Floyd | Floyd | The backdrop features a hastily-rendered painting of a medieval town, Floyd | complete with the Eiffel Tower, the Champs-Elysses, a vineyard and Floyd | Gerard Depardieu as an onion-selling cyclist. In the distance, the Floyd | flags of the invading Spanish wave menacingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "act" | ||||
Floyd | You strut up and down the stage, grinning roguishly, and wondering how Floyd | long you can keep this up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "listen to chorus" | ||||
Floyd | The chorus is tied to the script, but repeats its lines again, for your Floyd | benefit: Floyd | Floyd | CHORUS: Floyd | The noxious Teuton, by each saint accursed, Floyd | Prepareth now dark devilments; from Dis' black gut Floyd | He means to call forth monsters. Dare his hand Floyd | Unbar the gate that blessed hands did seal? Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "grah" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wave sword" | ||||
Floyd | You feel a bit foolish waving the sword. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a sword Floyd | a petticoat Floyd | a cloak (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "man what" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Stage (The Walls of Paris) Floyd | You are onstage, a wide expanse of blank floor facing onto darkness. Floyd | Nestled behind a curtain's edge is the exit leading offstage. Floyd | Floyd | The backdrop features a hastily-rendered painting of a medieval town, Floyd | complete with the Eiffel Tower, the Champs-Elysses, a vineyard and Floyd | Gerard Depardieu as an onion-selling cyclist. In the distance, the Floyd | flags of the invading Spanish wave menacingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "bs" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Backstage Floyd | A room of indefinite size, hemmed in with high curtains, hanging ropes, Floyd | and cluttered with wardrobes and make-up tables. Various props lie Floyd | scattered about the room. Through the curtains, an entrance leads Floyd | onstage. Floyd | Floyd | On one wall, someone has hung a flyer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear petticoat" | ||||
Floyd | After a moment or two of hopping about, you work your way into the Floyd | petticoat. Hunching your shoulders over, clawing your fingers and Floyd | adopting a lecherous squint, you assume a new role. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | [ To go back onstage, type 'onstage' or simply 'os' ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "os" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Stage (The Walls of Paris) Floyd | You are onstage, a wide expanse of blank floor facing onto darkness. Floyd | Nestled behind a curtain's edge is the exit leading offstage. Floyd | Floyd | The backdrop features a hastily-rendered painting of a medieval town, Floyd | complete with the Eiffel Tower, the Champs-Elysses, a vineyard and Floyd | Gerard Depardieu as an onion-selling cyclist. In the distance, the Floyd | flags of the invading Spanish wave menacingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "listen to chorus" | ||||
Floyd | The chorus is tied to the script, but repeats its lines again, for your Floyd | benefit: Floyd | Floyd | CHORUS: Floyd | The noxious Teuton, by each saint accursed, Floyd | Prepareth now dark devilments; from Dis' black gut Floyd | He means to call forth monsters. Dare his hand Floyd | Unbar the gate that blessed hands did seal? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "act" | ||||
Floyd | You hobble about, leering, wringing your hands and cackling softly in Floyd | appallingly bad Latin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | I don't see a trapdoor around here. Do you? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | [ To go backstage, type 'backstage' or simply 'bs' ] Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think n/s works" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | [ To go backstage, type 'backstage' or simply 'bs' ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "bs" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Backstage Floyd | A room of indefinite size, hemmed in with high curtains, hanging ropes, Floyd | and cluttered with wardrobes and make-up tables. Various props lie Floyd | scattered about the room. Through the curtains, an entrance leads Floyd | onstage. Floyd | Floyd | On one wall, someone has hung a flyer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x flyer" | ||||
Floyd | A flyer is plastered across one wall: Floyd | Floyd | ____________________________________________________ Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | THE ROYAL DE L'ENTAILLE SOCIETY Floyd | Floyd | presents Floyd | Floyd | *** WITHIN A WREATH OF DEWDROPS *** Floyd | Floyd | * JOHN ACTOR as MAURICE * EVA ZAHA as ELISE * Floyd | Floyd | * and DUSTIN Q. CELEBRITY as THE WIZARD MCFAUD * Floyd | Floyd | ____________________________________________________ Floyd | Floyd | At the center of the advertisement is a dramatic painting of a Floyd | rapier-waving hero and a heaving-bodiced heroine, with a city on fire Floyd | behind them. It's all rather exciting, really. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Also, if I remember correctly, it's the maiden's turn to act next." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x props" | ||||
Floyd | The room is cluttered with any number of props, but none of them Floyd | particularly catch your eye. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "remove cloak" | ||||
Floyd | You unfurl the cloth from your shoulders. Concentrating, you stick your Floyd | chest out, stand contrapposto and bat your eyelashes. You're now in Floyd | character. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "os" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Stage (The Walls of Paris) Floyd | You are onstage, a wide expanse of blank floor facing onto darkness. Floyd | Nestled behind a curtain's edge is the exit leading offstage. Floyd | Floyd | The backdrop features a hastily-rendered painting of a medieval town, Floyd | complete with the Eiffel Tower, the Champs-Elysses, a vineyard and Floyd | Gerard Depardieu as an onion-selling cyclist. In the distance, the Floyd | flags of the invading Spanish wave menacingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "act" | ||||
Floyd | In order to convey your poetic pulchritude to the audience, you mime a Floyd | series of gracefully girlish actions: Lost In Innocent Pensiveness, Floyd | Delighted by a Pretty Bird, and Oh My, Sir, But I Couldn't. None of Floyd | these do a great deal to advance the plot, but you do succeed in making Floyd | yourself feel like a complete wet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||||
Floyd | What? You're a refined and delicate flower, not some thigh-flashing Floyd | dancehall slut! Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "listen to chorus" | ||||
Floyd | The chorus is tied to the script, but repeats its lines again, for your Floyd | benefit: Floyd | Floyd | CHORUS: Floyd | The noxious Teuton, by each saint accursed, Floyd | Prepareth now dark devilments; from Dis' black gut Floyd | He means to call forth monsters. Dare his hand Floyd | Unbar the gate that blessed hands did seal? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | Time passes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wave" | ||||
Floyd | You wave, feeling a bit foolish. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wave stick" | ||||
Floyd | You feel a bit foolish waving the stick. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "point" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a stick Floyd | a petticoat (being worn) Floyd | a cloth Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x stick" | ||||
Floyd | A light but sturdy stick, about a metre and a half long. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Stage (The Walls of Paris) Floyd | You are onstage, a wide expanse of blank floor facing onto darkness. Floyd | Nestled behind a curtain's edge is the exit leading offstage. Floyd | Floyd | The backdrop features a hastily-rendered painting of a medieval town, Floyd | complete with the Eiffel Tower, the Champs-Elysses, a vineyard and Floyd | Gerard Depardieu as an onion-selling cyclist. In the distance, the Floyd | flags of the invading Spanish wave menacingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "os" | ||||
Floyd | But you're already onstage. Quick! Do something entertaining! Floyd | [ To go backstage, type 'backstage' or simply 'bs' ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||||
Floyd | What? You're a refined and delicate flower, not some thigh-flashing Floyd | dancehall slut! Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "act" | ||||
Floyd | In order to convey your poetic pulchritude to the audience, you mime a Floyd | series of gracefully girlish actions: Lost In Innocent Pensiveness, Floyd | Delighted by a Pretty Bird, and Oh My, Sir, But I Couldn't. None of Floyd | these do a great deal to advance the plot, but you do succeed in making Floyd | yourself feel like a complete wet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "bs" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Backstage Floyd | A room of indefinite size, hemmed in with high curtains, hanging ropes, Floyd | and cluttered with wardrobes and make-up tables. Various props lie Floyd | scattered about the room. Through the curtains, an entrance leads Floyd | onstage. Floyd | Floyd | On one wall, someone has hung a flyer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "remove petticoat" | ||||
Floyd | You step out of the petticoat, and out of role. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear cloak" | ||||
Floyd | You swirl the cloth around your shoulders like a cloak, tilt your chin Floyd | upwards at an arrogant angle, and take a few strutting steps. After a Floyd | brief moment of concentration, you feel properly in character. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "os" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Stage (The Walls of Paris) Floyd | You are onstage, a wide expanse of blank floor facing onto darkness. Floyd | Nestled behind a curtain's edge is the exit leading offstage. Floyd | Floyd | The backdrop features a hastily-rendered painting of a medieval town, Floyd | complete with the Eiffel Tower, the Champs-Elysses, a vineyard and Floyd | Gerard Depardieu as an onion-selling cyclist. In the distance, the Floyd | flags of the invading Spanish wave menacingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "act" | ||||
Floyd | You strut up and down the stage, grinning roguishly, and wondering how Floyd | long you can keep this up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wave sword" | ||||
Floyd | You feel a bit foolish waving the sword. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||||
Floyd | You beat out an impromptu tap-dance to buy time, but audible yawns from Floyd | the darkness cause you to reconsider. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||||
Floyd | Your big song number, And I Waggled All Their Britches, was an act and Floyd | a half ago. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| maga says, "you probably want to be checking out the scenery" | ||||
| DavidW says, "The chorus really should've gone to a new verse by now." | ||||
| DavidW says, "but yeah. Scenery has a hint." | ||||
| maga says, "yeah, I'm not sure why they haven't and I can't remember if that's a bug or an oversight" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Stage (The Walls of Paris) Floyd | You are onstage, a wide expanse of blank floor facing onto darkness. Floyd | Nestled behind a curtain's edge is the exit leading offstage. Floyd | Floyd | The backdrop features a hastily-rendered painting of a medieval town, Floyd | complete with the Eiffel Tower, the Champs-Elysses, a vineyard and Floyd | Gerard Depardieu as an onion-selling cyclist. In the distance, the Floyd | flags of the invading Spanish wave menacingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x backdrop" | ||||
Floyd | The backdrop features a hastily-rendered painting of a medieval town, Floyd | complete with the Eiffel Tower, the Champs-Elysses, a vineyard and Floyd | Gerard Depardieu as an onion-selling cyclist. In the distance, the Floyd | flags of the invading Spanish wave menacingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x flags" | ||||
Floyd | The malicious and wily Spanish army lurks on the horizon, flags Floyd | billowing in the breeze, preparing to strike. Their victory would be an Floyd | unspeakable human tragedy for the people of France, who would then be Floyd | ruled by an autocratic self-serving hereditary tyrant, differing from Floyd | the current autocratic self-serving hereditary tyrant in that he would Floyd | be a dirty Spaniard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cyclist" | ||||
Floyd | The demon's unerring brush has depicted M. Depardieu atop a shaky Floyd | bicycle, a look of exaggerated astonishment and panic on his face as he Floyd | rescues onions from the advancing Spanish hordes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x vineyard" | ||||
Floyd | Thick-limbed peasants, relaxing beneath sun-kissed grape trellises, Floyd | wave wine glasses about in a drunken fashion. What they are doing in Floyd | central Paris is anybody's guess. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "rescue onion" | ||||
Floyd | It is indeed unfortunate, but Gerard is only part of the backdrop. Mere Floyd | scenery. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tower" | ||||
Floyd | Characteristic landmarks of the medieval Paris skyline. Or at least, so Floyd | the set designer seemed to believe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x champs" | ||||
Floyd | Characteristic landmarks of the medieval Paris skyline. Or at least, so Floyd | the set designer seemed to believe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x spaniards" | ||||
Floyd | The malicious and wily Spanish army lurks on the horizon, flags Floyd | billowing in the breeze, preparing to strike. Their victory would be an Floyd | unspeakable human tragedy for the people of France, who would then be Floyd | ruled by an autocratic self-serving hereditary tyrant, differing from Floyd | the current autocratic self-serving hereditary tyrant in that he would Floyd | be a dirty Spaniard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "attack spaniard" | ||||
Floyd | You raise your sword, and with a wild whoop, charge the Spanish lines. Floyd | You instantly think better of it when you nail your head on the Floyd | backdrop. You'll certainly be feeling that tomorrow. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "heh" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x town" | ||||
Floyd | Characteristic landmarks of the medieval Paris skyline. Or at least, so Floyd | the set designer seemed to believe. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "anyway, I dunno, I don't see the clue" | |||
| inky says, "unless I need to be the other character or something" | ||||
| DavidW says, "flags" | ||||
| maga finds notes. man, I wasted a lot of time on stuff nobody's going to see | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x flags" | ||||
Floyd | The malicious and wily Spanish army lurks on the horizon, flags Floyd | billowing in the breeze, preparing to strike. Their victory would be an Floyd | unspeakable human tragedy for the people of France, who would then be Floyd | ruled by an autocratic self-serving hereditary tyrant, differing from Floyd | the current autocratic self-serving hereditary tyrant in that he would Floyd | be a dirty Spaniard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "bs" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Backstage Floyd | A room of indefinite size, hemmed in with high curtains, hanging ropes, Floyd | and cluttered with wardrobes and make-up tables. Various props lie Floyd | scattered about the room. Through the curtains, an entrance leads Floyd | onstage. Floyd | Floyd | On one wall, someone has hung a flyer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a sword Floyd | a petticoat Floyd | a cloak (being worn) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "remove cloak" | ||||
Floyd | You unfurl the cloth from your shoulders, and let yourself relax. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tie cloth to stick" | ||||
Floyd | You carefully knot the corners of the cloth around the stick. It now Floyd | makes a passable flag. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wear petticoat" | ||||
Floyd | After a moment or two of hopping about, you work your way into the Floyd | petticoat. Concentrating, you stick your chest out, stand contrapposto Floyd | and bat your eyelashes. You're now in character. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "os" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Stage (The Walls of Paris) Floyd | You are onstage, a wide expanse of blank floor facing onto darkness. Floyd | Nestled behind a curtain's edge is the exit leading offstage. Floyd | Floyd | The backdrop features a hastily-rendered painting of a medieval town, Floyd | complete with the Eiffel Tower, the Champs-Elysses, a vineyard and Floyd | Gerard Depardieu as an onion-selling cyclist. In the distance, the Floyd | flags of the invading Spanish wave menacingly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "wave flag" | ||||
Floyd | Assuming a dynamic stance, feet wide and shoulders square, you raise Floyd | the flag above your head (music swells in the orchestra pit) and begin Floyd | to sweep it about vigorously. A murmur slowly rises from the chorus, Floyd | and then the stage is swamped with armoured extras and dodgy swordplay. Floyd | Floyd | The choreography has you standing around waving the flag in the middle Floyd | of this for the better part of four minutes. Eventually, arms aching Floyd | and throat sore, you stagger offstage as the narrator delivers the Floyd | closing speech. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** You have won *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Rating: ***** Floyd | Floyd | "A tour de force; a definitive performance. Quite astounding." - Floyd | Montmartre Prancy Elitist Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game, see some suggestions for AMUSING things to do or QUIT? Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yay" | |||
| inky says, "hooray" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "amusing" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Did you... Floyd | Floyd | - Rescue the eagle? Floyd | - Rescue the schnitzel? Floyd | - Eat the schnitzel? Floyd | - Attack the Spanish as our Hero? Floyd | - Kiss your sword? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Did you try these in each role... Floyd | Floyd | - Sing, Dance, Act, or Pray onstage? Floyd | - Kissing Gerard Depardieu? Floyd | - Kissing yourself? Floyd | - Examine the petticoat? Floyd | - Rescueing yourself? Floyd | - Kiss the demon? Floyd | - Smell yourself? Floyd | - Touch yourself? Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game, see some suggestions for AMUSING things to do or QUIT? Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "my. How did we miss all that?" | |||
| DavidW says, "of course, 'rescue' is not a standard verb." | ||||
| maga says, "because they're things that betatesters do but players generally don't" | ||||
| inky says, "well, I think it was clued somewhere" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I really love the premise and writing in this game." | ||||
| maga says, "actually, looking through my notes it seems as if the major hint for the final puzzle appears right at the game's beginning" | ||||
| maga says, "which is lame" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "btw, what's the meaning of the game's title?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Or was it just something that sounded right?" | ||||
| maga says, "basically I brainstormed the pranciest titles I could come up with" | ||||
| maga says, "my favourite rejected version is The Maiden, the Wolf and the Chanterelle Potage" | ||||
| DavidW says, "heh heh" | ||||
| maga says, "anyway, thanks for playing it, guys" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm glad the trapdoor was discovered so quickly. I remember being stumped there when testing, never thinking to drop the darn thing." | ||||
| olethros says, "what happens when you x it as girl" | ||||
| olethros asks, "?" | ||||
| maga says, "just a board" | ||||
| inky has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | maga says, "if this had been done as, y'know, a proper full-length game I'd have liked every object to have a role and a game function for every character" | |||
| Firion 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, "anyway, it looks like we're done for today. Thank you, everyone, for coming, and let's try to think up which game to play next week." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "quit" | ||||
Floyd | | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | inky says, "yeah, I think this could also be pretty cool as a bigger game" | |||
| inky arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | olethros says, "indeed" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "clubfl" | ||||
| Floyd says (to inky), "Floyd doesn't know that trick." | inky says, "let's see" | |||
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