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Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Shelter from the Storm Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | NOTE: Most IF games are narrated in the second person and the present Floyd | tense (e.g. "You are empty-handed"). Shelter from the Storm lets you Floyd | choose which person (first, second or third), and tense (present or Floyd | past) you would like the game to be narrated in. Please select your Floyd | option by selecting S from the menu below before starting a new game. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | S -- Select Person and Tense Floyd | Floyd | I -- Instructions (recommended for new players) Floyd | Floyd | R -- Restore an Existing Saved Game Floyd | Floyd | Q -- Quit Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please type S, I, R, or Q Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | DavidW asks (of RonN), "hm. Got any 3-D glasses?" | |||
| Fang asks, "what are we playing?" | ||||
| Fang arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | Jacqueline asks, "Gosh. Person *and* tense?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Fang), "Shelter from the Storm." | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please select one of the following to set the person and tense in which Floyd | Shelter from the Storm will be narrated: Floyd | Floyd | 1. First person, present tense (e.g. "I am empty-handed") Floyd | Floyd | 2. Second person, present tense (e.g. "You are empty-handed") Floyd | Floyd | 3. Third person, present tense (e.g. "Jack is empty-handed") Floyd | Floyd | 4. First person, past tense (e.g. "I was empty-handed") Floyd | Floyd | 5. Second person, past tense (e.g. "You were empty-handed") Floyd | Floyd | 6. Third person, past tense (e.g. "Jack was empty-handed") Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | NOTE If you later change your mind you can change your choice at any Floyd | time during play using the commands FIRST PERSON, SECOND PERSON and Floyd | THIRD PERSON to change person, and the commands PRESENT TENSE and PAST Floyd | TENSE to change tense. Floyd | Floyd | | Ellison says (to RonN), "I think if you use a client like SimpleMU, you can write color scripts and stuff. I haven't looked into it at all myself." | |||
| DavidW says, "Eric is *clever*." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Yes. Yes, he is." | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "So, which do we want, and can we change it back if we hates it?" | ||||
| djfletch arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | Nitku says, "We can change it mid-game" | |||
| Aric says, "I'd like to register a vote for 3rd/past" | ||||
| Fang asks, "First person, present?" | ||||
| maga says, "4 or 6" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'll second Aric's suggestion." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I'm for either 4 or 6." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, that's a lot for option 6." | ||||
| Fang says, "4" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "6" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Shelter from the Storm Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | N -- Start New Game Floyd | Floyd | S -- Select Person and Tense Floyd | Floyd | I -- Instructions (recommended for new players) Floyd | Floyd | R -- Restore an Existing Saved Game Floyd | Floyd | Q -- Quit Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please type N, S, I, R, or Q Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | Fang says, "oh, well" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | Help Menu Floyd | Floyd | 1. How to Play Interactive Fiction Floyd | 2. About Shelter from the Storm Floyd | 3. Extra Navigation Commands - GO TO and CONTINUE Floyd | 4. If you get stuck - THINK and THINK HARDER Floyd | 5. Credits Floyd | Floyd | Select a topic number, or press 'p' for the previous menu or 'q' to Floyd | quit: | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "2" | ||||
Floyd | 2 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About Shelter from the Storm Floyd | Floyd | Works of Interactive Fiction are typically narrated in the second Floyd | person and present tense (e.g. "You see a gold ring here"). From time Floyd | to time there have been discussions whether this convention represents Floyd | the best way of conveying an interactive narrative. Shelter from the Floyd | Storm allows you, the player, to experiment with this by choosing the Floyd | person (and the tense) in which the game is narrated. The opening Floyd | screen of the game asks you to choose the person and tense of the game Floyd | before you start, but you can also change your choice during the course Floyd | of play. In particular during play you can change between first, Floyd | second and third person with the commands: Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | FIRST PERSON Floyd | SECOND PERSON Floyd | THIRD PERSON Floyd | Floyd | You can also change between present and past tense with the commands: Floyd | Floyd | PAST TENSE Floyd | PRESENT TENSE Floyd | Floyd | Apart from that Shelter from the Storm is designed as a fairly Floyd | conventional piece of Interactive Fiction, with not much emphasis on Floyd | puzzles. The game should be fairly straightforward, but if you need a Floyd | nudge you can use the commands THINK and THINK HARDER. Floyd | Floyd | [The End] | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Help Menu Floyd | Floyd | 1. How to Play Interactive Fiction Floyd | 2. About Shelter from the Storm Floyd | 3. Extra Navigation Commands - GO TO and CONTINUE Floyd | 4. If you get stuck - THINK and THINK HARDER Floyd | 5. Credits Floyd | Floyd | Select a topic number, or press 'p' for the previous menu or 'q' to Floyd | quit: | DavidW says, "I see that GO TO and CONTINUE from Nightfall are also here." | |||
| Nitku says, "I like THINK HARDER" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "5" | ||||
Floyd | 5 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Credits Floyd | Floyd | Shelter from the Storm by Eric Eve Floyd | Floyd | First and foremost, all credit to Michael J. Roberts for creating TADS Floyd | 3, and Michel Nizette for his work on devising a neat tense-switching Floyd | mechanism, which was subsequently incorporated into the adv3 library; Floyd | without their work this project would have been impossible. Floyd | Floyd | But just as important, many thanks to my sterling team of beta-testers: Floyd | Jim Aikin, Radical Al, Parham Doustdar, Keaton Graves, Jonathan Li, Floyd | Reiko, Michael Neal Tenuis, and Jack Welch. Without them a huge number Floyd | of tense/person switching typos would have gone uncorrected, as well as Floyd | a number of more serious bugs (including various cunning ways of Floyd | getting the game into an unwinnable state). As a result of all their Floyd | efforts this game is a far more polished offering than it otherwise Floyd | would have been. The blunders that remain are, of course, no one's Floyd | fault but my own. Floyd | Floyd | [The End] | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "3" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | Jacqueline says, "heh. Yeah. THINK HARDER is good." | |||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Help Menu Floyd | Floyd | 1. How to Play Interactive Fiction Floyd | 2. About Shelter from the Storm Floyd | 3. Extra Navigation Commands - GO TO and CONTINUE Floyd | 4. If you get stuck - THINK and THINK HARDER Floyd | 5. Credits Floyd | Floyd | Select a topic number, or press 'p' for the previous menu or 'q' to Floyd | quit: | Ellison says, "I'd prefer THINK YOU NUMBSKULL" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "3" | ||||
Floyd | 3 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Extra Navigation Commands - GO TO and CONTINUE Floyd | Floyd | As with virtually all works of Interactive Fiction, you can move round Floyd | the world of Shelter from the Storm using standard compass-movement Floyd | commands like NORTH, EAST, UP and DOWN. In addition you can use the Floyd | commands GO TO and CONTINUE to move around. Floyd | Floyd | The command GO TO X or FIND X (the two mean the same thing) sends you Floyd | in the direction of X. X can either be a previously-visited room, or a Floyd | previously-seen object (in which case GO TO X will send you to the last Floyd | location where you saw X). Floyd | Floyd | The GO TO command takes you only on the first step of your journey. To Floyd | continue your journey you can use the command CONTINUE (which can be Floyd | abbreviated to C). Note that a CONTINUE command does not have to come Floyd | immediately after a GO TO or CONTINUE command. You could, for example, Floyd | enter the command GO TO KITCHEN and then enter a whole series of Floyd | commands for examining and interacting with your next location before Floyd | issuing a CONTINUE or C command to carry on towards the kitchen. Floyd | Floyd | [The End] | ||||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Help Menu Floyd | Floyd | 1. How to Play Interactive Fiction Floyd | 2. About Shelter from the Storm Floyd | 3. Extra Navigation Commands - GO TO and CONTINUE Floyd | 4. If you get stuck - THINK and THINK HARDER Floyd | 5. Credits Floyd | Floyd | Select a topic number, or press 'p' for the previous menu or 'q' to Floyd | quit: | Nitku says (to Ellison), "I'd prefer THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS" | |||
| Ellison says, "heh" | ||||
| Fang asks, "can't we just >PRAY?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Fang), "maybe" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "THINK HARDER NUMBSKULL will only work in third person present, to be fair." | ||||
| Fang says, "PRAY HARDER, NUMBSKULLS" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, this is all shiny, but maybe we should actually play the game now." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm in favour of PRAY being used as a hint command." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||
Floyd | q Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Shelter from the Storm Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | N -- Start New Game Floyd | Floyd | S -- Select Person and Tense Floyd | Floyd | I -- Instructions (recommended for new players) Floyd | Floyd | R -- Restore an Existing Saved Game Floyd | Floyd | Q -- Quit Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please type N, S, I, R, or Q Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | Aric says, "xyzzy harder" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||
| Floyd asks, "That game over already? It was just getting good. Wanna play another?" | ||||
| K-Y arrives, full of fun and funk. | Fang says, "ooops" | |||
| Nitku says, "oopsie" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Boo" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Not q again! Oops" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load storm" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Shelter from the Storm Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | NOTE: Most IF games are narrated in the second person and the present Floyd | tense (e.g. "You are empty-handed"). Shelter from the Storm lets you Floyd | choose which person (first, second or third), and tense (present or Floyd | past) you would like the game to be narrated in. Please select your Floyd | option by selecting S from the menu below before starting a new game. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | S -- Select Person and Tense Floyd | Floyd | I -- Instructions (recommended for new players) Floyd | Floyd | R -- Restore an Existing Saved Game Floyd | Floyd | Q -- Quit Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please type S, I, R, or Q Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | DavidW asks, "Time to make tea?" | |||
| Jacqueline fixes it. | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "6" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please select one of the following to set the person and tense in which Floyd | Shelter from the Storm will be narrated: Floyd | Floyd | 1. First person, present tense (e.g. "I am empty-handed") Floyd | Floyd | 2. Second person, present tense (e.g. "You are empty-handed") Floyd | Floyd | 3. Third person, present tense (e.g. "Jack is empty-handed") Floyd | Floyd | 4. First person, past tense (e.g. "I was empty-handed") Floyd | Floyd | 5. Second person, past tense (e.g. "You were empty-handed") Floyd | Floyd | 6. Third person, past tense (e.g. "Jack was empty-handed") Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | NOTE If you later change your mind you can change your choice at any Floyd | time during play using the commands FIRST PERSON, SECOND PERSON and Floyd | THIRD PERSON to change person, and the commands PRESENT TENSE and PAST Floyd | TENSE to change tense. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Shelter from the Storm Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | N -- Start New Game Floyd | Floyd | S -- Select Person and Tense Floyd | Floyd | I -- Instructions (recommended for new players) Floyd | Floyd | R -- Restore an Existing Saved Game Floyd | Floyd | Q -- Quit Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Please type N, S, I, R, or Q Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | DavidW says, "oh, I guess not" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "No! heh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Shelter from the Storm Floyd | Floyd | Few things can be worse than breaking down on a dark night in a strange Floyd | place, and even more when it looks like it's just starting to rain, and Floyd | you're in danger of being late for your first posting. Unfortunately, Floyd | that was precisely what had just happened to Jack that night. Floyd | Floyd | Jack was on his way to the camp he had been ordered to, but he Floyd | suspected that he must have taken a wrong turn somewhere -- easy enough Floyd | to do with so many signposts taken down in case of a German invasion. Floyd | Then just to cap it all, his car had just broken down, leaving him Floyd | stuck out in in the middle of nowhere (or somewhere on the outskirts of Floyd | Salisbury Plain, which amounted to much the same thing), still miles Floyd | away from where he was meant to be. Floyd | Floyd | Long Road Floyd | Jack was standing in the middle of a long road running roughly Floyd | east-west between thick hedgerows. His car lay abandoned about a few Floyd | hundred yards up the road to the east. Further to the east the road Floyd | ran across miles of open countryside (as Jack knew because he'd just Floyd | driven across it). Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "how long is this, BTW?" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Fang), "No clue." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Never played it." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | Jack was a man of about twenty, dressed in khaki battledress. Floyd | Floyd | It was just starting to rain. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "I do not think that it is immense" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x battledress" | ||||
Floyd | It was khaki, of course, and still a little rough in that Jack hadn't Floyd | got round to getting his tailor to work on it, as some officers did; he Floyd | was still rather conscious of the single pip of a second lieutenant on Floyd | each shoulder. Floyd | Floyd | There was a temporary lull in the rain, but it didn't last long. Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "Emily described it as a fairly small piece, iirc" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x Jack" | ||||
Floyd | Jack was a man of about twenty, dressed in khaki battledress. Floyd | Floyd | It continued to drizzle. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN asks, "we are in England during WW2?" | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | Jack was carrying nothing, and was wearing a beret and khaki Floyd | battledress. Floyd | Floyd | The rain looked like it could soon become quite unpleasant. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Sounds like it." | |||
| Fang says, "seems like it" | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x beret" | ||||
Floyd | It was a khaki beret with a Royal Engineers cap badge. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x badge" | ||||
Floyd | Jack knew what it looked like without having to look: a bursting bomb Floyd | with the motto Ubique. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Is there anything from the car we should get?" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "exits all" | ||||
Floyd | The list of exits will now be shown in both the status line and in each Floyd | room description. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | Jack was carrying nothing, and was wearing a beret and khaki Floyd | battledress. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to car" | ||||
Floyd | He'd just come from there, and he knew there was no point trying Floyd | further east, since he had just driven through miles of open Floyd | countryside. Jack's only chance of finding something seemed to lie in Floyd | the other direction. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to DW), "Quite possibly." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, or not." | ||||
| DavidW says, "oh well. No flashlight for us." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Jack walked about half a mile down the road until he arrived at a gap Floyd | in the hedgerow. Floyd | Floyd | Road by Drive Entrance Floyd | The road continued more or less straight east and west from here, with Floyd | thick hedge on both sides, except just to the north where there was a Floyd | gap that looked like the end of someone's drive. Unfortunately, the Floyd | small wooden sign by the side of the gap looked far from welcoming. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, East, West Floyd | Floyd | The rain started to get heavier. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "dance" | ||||
Floyd | The word "dance" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | (If this was an accidental misspelling, you can correct it by typing Floyd | OOPS followed by the corrected word now. Any time the story points out Floyd | an unknown word, you can correct a misspelling using OOPS as your next Floyd | command.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x sign" | ||||
Floyd | The wooden sign was firmly planted in the ground next to the hedge. On Floyd | it was inscribed "Wendle Manor" in relatively ancient lettering, with Floyd | "Private - Keep Out!" added subsequently in angry red print. Floyd | Floyd | It was definitely starting to rain more heavily. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says (to DW), "It wouldn't have batteries anyhow." | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x hedge" | ||||
Floyd | There were thick hedgerows on both sides of the road; too thick to Floyd | penetrate and too high to climb, apart from the wide gap just to the Floyd | north. Floyd | Floyd | A gust of wind blew some rain into Jack's face. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "You know, we're British. We should freakin' be used to rain and not keep whining about it." | |||
| maga says (to Floyd), "shit" | ||||
Floyd | (sit) Floyd | (You can use the TYPO command to disable the typo-correction feature.) Floyd | Floyd | (on the ground) Floyd | Jack sat on the ground. Floyd | Floyd | The rain was getting worse. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "well we're definitly in English weather." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, s/we/Jack." | ||||
| Fang says (to maga), "haha" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Perhaps we should seek SHELTER FROM THE STORM?" | ||||
| maga says (to Jacq), "are you kidding? Brits do little *except* whine about it" | ||||
| Aric asks, "does anyone mind if I try switching to present tense?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to maga), "Heh." | ||||
| maga says, "go for it" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure, Aric." | ||||
| Aric says (to Floyd), "present tense" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, the game is now in the present tense. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | (first standing up) Floyd | Ignoring the sign, Jack walks briskly up the drive. After all, there Floyd | is a war on, and he has his own small contribution to make, if only he Floyd | can reach his camp, so right now his plight seems to override some Floyd | country gentlefolk's overblown desire for privacy. Jack just hopes Floyd | that whoever lives here sees it that way too. Floyd | Floyd | Drive Floyd | A great old house stands before Jack, with dark ivy creeping up its Floyd | weathered walls, and a sheltered porch jutting invitingly out into the Floyd | drive, which leads southwards back to the road. A path that presumably Floyd | leads into the garden runs round the house to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, Northeast Floyd | Floyd | Jack's arrival in the drive coincides with a distant flash of Floyd | lightning; the thunder-clap follows about ten seconds later. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Drive Floyd | A great old house stands before Jack, with dark ivy creeping up its Floyd | weathered walls, and a sheltered porch jutting invitingly out into the Floyd | drive, which leads southwards back to the road. A path that presumably Floyd | leads into the garden runs round the house to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, Northeast Floyd | Floyd | The rain is getting still heavier. Jack had better get inside quite Floyd | soon if he wants to avoid getting soaked. Floyd | Floyd | > | Aric says, "for some reason that seems much more natural" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "That's... jarring." | ||||
| Fang asks, "what about first person?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter porch" | ||||
Floyd | Porch Floyd | The brick-built porch is a small, semi-enclosed area that at least Floyd | affords some shelter from the rain, though little from the cold. It's Floyd | almost completely bare, apart from the front door immediately to the Floyd | north; to the south lies the way out back into the drive. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South Floyd | Floyd | As Jack steps into the porch, the rainfall intensifies by twofold or Floyd | threefold, and a moment later there's a simultaneous searing flash of Floyd | lightning and tumultuous crack of thunder. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Switing tenses is jarring, that is. I think I'll be fine with whatever, so long as we settle on something." | |||
| Fang asks, "can I try first person?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | The front door is made of solid wood, with no sign of a window. Next Floyd | to the door is an old-fashioned bell pull and an off-putting notice. Floyd | Floyd | The rain continues to pelt down furiously just outside the porch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "firstperson" | ||||
Floyd | (first person) Floyd | Floyd | Okay, the game is now in the first person. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read notice" | ||||
Floyd | It reads: NO HAWKERS, NO CIRCULARS, NO UNNECESSARY CALLERS. Floyd | Floyd | The rain seems to be trying to outdo the days of Noah. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN asks, "circulars?" | |||
| Fang asks, "hmm, is it just changing the tenses, or is there new flavour text?" | ||||
| Fang says (to RonN), "Spam" | ||||
| RonN asks, "is that a fat joke?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to RonN), "Flyers. Junk mail." | ||||
| RonN says, "ah" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Porch Floyd | The brick-built porch is a small, semi-enclosed area that at least Floyd | affords some shelter from the rain, though little from the cold. It's Floyd | almost completely bare, apart from the front door immediately to the Floyd | north; to the south lies the way out back into the drive. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South Floyd | Floyd | There's no let up in the downpour. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ring bell" | ||||
Floyd | I pull the bell and hear a ringing from somewhere inside the house. Floyd | Floyd | Lightning flashes across the sky, accompanied by loud thunder. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | ||||
Floyd | I feel it would be politer to give whoever's inside a chance to respond Floyd | to my first attempt. Floyd | Floyd | I can't hear any immediate response to my summons, but it's a large Floyd | house and I realize that it might take someone a while to reach the Floyd | front door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "shit" | ||||
Floyd | (sit) Floyd | Floyd | (on the floor) Floyd | I sit on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | I hear someone moving around inside the house - the sound of footsteps Floyd | approaching the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of maga), "Why?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Why so profane?" | ||||
| Fang says, "yeah, it seems like there's entirely different text, depending on perspective" | ||||
| maga exclaims, "I was hoping for a droll 'real adventurers' response of some kind! The guy's in the military!" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "You just want to see if it changes from shit to shat, or?" | ||||
| Ellison says (to maga), "don't sit where you eat, man. don't sit where you eat." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, I'm now standing. Floyd | Floyd | The front door finally opens. | Jacqueline says (to Ellison), "heh" | |||
Floyd | Floyd | A somewhat stern-looking woman, presumably the housekeeper from her Floyd | dress and demeanour, appears in the doorway. "Yes?" she says, in Floyd | heavily accented English. "Vot is it you vant? Can you not read?" Floyd | She indicates the sign by the door with a fierce stare and a tap of her Floyd | hand. Floyd | Floyd | (My immediate thoughts are to either explain my plight, or talk about Floyd | the weather.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "explain" | ||||
Floyd | "My car's just broken down," I explain, "half a mile or so down the Floyd | road. I should be reporting to my camp tonight, only -- well, I Floyd | wondered if I might use your phone." Floyd | Floyd | "I am sorry," she replies, "but Mr Croxley does not want any callers - Floyd | not for any reason. You will have to find a telephone somewhere else." Floyd | Floyd | (I feel I could either ask where else to find a phone, try pleading Floyd | harder, or ask her about Mr Croxley.) Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "AIE GERMANS" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "xyzzy" | ||||
Floyd | A large puff of black and red smoke appears, out of which steps a Floyd | confused and terrified Adolf Hitler. Now forced by my powerful magic Floyd | to obey my every whim, Hitler ends the war, surrenders Germany and all Floyd | its conquered territories to the British Empire in perpetuity, and Floyd | devotes the rest of his life to advocating social justice for Floyd | downtrodden peasant farmers in South America. Floyd | Floyd | That's a load of old rubbish, of course. If only things were so easy, Floyd | but magic words are singularly ineffectual in modern warfare, so the Floyd | only result of uttering "xyzzy" is to leave me feeling rather foolish. Floyd | Floyd | The housekeeper glares at me, waiting for me to speak up or go - Floyd | preferably the latter, if her expression is anything to go by. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks (of DavidW), "what?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Hahaha. I was thinking 'heavily accented English?' OF COURSE IT IS ENGLAND AND THEY ALL HAVE ACCENTS!" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "tell her about wall" | ||||
Floyd | "Mr Croxley not seeing visitors, whatever you say," she replies. Floyd | Floyd | (I feel I could either ask where else to find a phone, try pleading Floyd | harder, or ask her about Mr Croxley.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks (of Fang), "What what?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "tell her about war" | RonN says, "i'm getting the first-person narration confused with the chatroom commentary..." | |||
Floyd | "This not my problem; you must try somewhere else," she suggests. Floyd | Floyd | (I feel I could either ask where else to find a phone, try pleading Floyd | harder, or ask her about Mr Croxley.) Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "except her accent has vanished now" | |||
| Fang says, "the war is everyone's problem, lady" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So, >THINK is not just a nice command like >REMEMBER, it's a plea for a hint, right? I don't want a hint." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "plead harder" | ||||
Floyd | "Look, I'm really sorry to bother you and all that, but I really am in Floyd | a bit of a fix here," I plead. "As I said, my car's broken down and Floyd | there doesn't seem to be anywhere else for miles around. This is my Floyd | first posting and I really need to get to my camp. Can't you just let Floyd | me in for half a minute to make a quick phone call?" Floyd | Floyd | "The Croxleys are not receiving visitors," she replies stonily. Floyd | "Please go now." Floyd | Floyd | (I feel I could either ask where else to find a phone, try pleading Floyd | harder, demand that she let me in, or ask her about Mr Croxley.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to maga), "Hm, good point." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask woman about croxley" | ||||
Floyd | "Why are the Croxleys so anxious to avoid visitors?" I ask. Floyd | Floyd | "It has been a very difficult time for them," she tells me. "So many Floyd | tragic deaths in the family! They wish to be left alone with their Floyd | grief - so, please go away!" Floyd | Floyd | (I feel I could either ask where else to find a phone, try pleading Floyd | harder, or demand that she let me in.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "demand" | ||||
Floyd | "Now look here, there's a war on and I'm a British army officer in need Floyd | of assistance," I insist, my outward pomposity masking a growing inward Floyd | desperation. "I demand that you let me in - in the name of the King! Floyd | Otherwise I shall have to assume that..." Floyd | Floyd | "Ach - all right, all right!" she interrupts, her shoulders visibly Floyd | sagging. "Everywhere it is the same; everywhere men in uniform come Floyd | knocking on doors to bully the Jews! You better come in." With Floyd | evident reluctance she stands aside to let me pass. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "oh, jewish, hmm" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter" | ||||
Floyd | I follow the housekeeper inside. Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The hall is quite dimly lit, with dark, oak-panelled doors to east and Floyd | west, the front door to the south, and a passage (effectively a Floyd | continuation of the hall) leading off to the north. Against the west Floyd | wall, next to a small table, a venerable grandfather clock faces a pair Floyd | of stern Victorian portraits staring down from the opposite wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the small table is a telephone. Floyd | Floyd | The housekeeper closes the front door after I follow her inside. She Floyd | points across the hall and tells me, "The telephone is just there. You Floyd | may make your call - quickly, please, so that you do not disturb Floyd | anyone." Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| maga says (to Floyd), "x housekeeper" | Jacqueline says, "Man. >FEEL LIKE POO FOR BEING MEAN" | |||
| Aric says, "I'm impressed by the range of verbs it recognizes" | ||||
Floyd | She is, I would guess, somewhere in her late thirties or earlier Floyd | forties, a rather morose looking woman with thick black curly hair and Floyd | dark, unsmiling eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "#belated I think a lot of the person and tense switching are T3 built-ins" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about germany" | ||||
Floyd | "The phone is there," she points firmly. "Just make your call." Floyd | Floyd | "The telephone is just over there," the housekeeper tells me, pointing Floyd | to the handset. "Just pick it up to make your call." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "though of course as the author you still have to do the work to write your text flexibly" | |||
| inky says, "but the libraries are compliant already, I believe" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pick up phone" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "call germany" | ||||
Floyd | I pick up the receiver, but the line is dead. I try pressing the hook Floyd | several times, but to no avail; the telephone remains obstinately Floyd | unresponsive, so I drop the receiver back on its hook. Floyd | Floyd | "So - do you just stare at the telephone or do you make your call?" the Floyd | housekeeper demands. "Be quick, please, before you disturb the Floyd | Croxleys; they should not find you here." Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | I see no germany here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Oh, interesting repeat there." | |||
| RonN says, "i agree, Aric" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell housekeeper about phone" | ||||
Floyd | "I can't get this phone to work," I complain. Floyd | Floyd | "Ach - you're an officer and you cannot even use the phone?" she Floyd | replies. "You should try harder!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "dial harder" | ||||
Floyd | The story doesn't understand that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pick up phone" | ||||
Floyd | I pick up the receiver a second time, but the telephone remains just as Floyd | dead as before, so I replace it again. Floyd | Floyd | "What is the matter?" the housekeeper asks, seeing the way I am staring Floyd | at the receiver. Floyd | Floyd | (I think I should either tell her about the telephone, or complain.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "haha" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell her" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to tell her about? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "She is being mean back, and we deserve it." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "telephone" | ||||
Floyd | (the camp) Floyd | I try the phone yet again, but it remains obstinately unresponsive. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "complain" | ||||
Floyd | "This phone isn't working," I complain. Floyd | Floyd | "That is odd - it was working half an hour ago," she replies. "Now I Floyd | try it." She picks up the phone and listens to the receiver with an Floyd | intense frown, and then starts beating the hook far harder than I did. Floyd | Floyd | Just as she drops the useless receiver back on its hook, there's a Floyd | second, louder, click as a door opens to the west. Through it walks a Floyd | strikingly attractive young woman. For a bare moment she pauses in her Floyd | stride as she and I stare at each other, me in frank admiration, the Floyd | young woman in apparent irritation. Then, turning to the housekeeper Floyd | she asks, "What's happening here? Why did you let this man in, Hilda?" Floyd | Floyd | "I am sorry, Miss Croxley, but he insist," the housekeeper explains. Floyd | "He demands to use our telephone - in the King's name, he say! - but Floyd | the telephone is kaput." Floyd | Floyd | "That must be the storm, bringing the wires down," the young woman Floyd | mutters. Then she turns to me and asks, "And who are you, lieutenant, Floyd | to come barging in here 'in the King's name'?" Floyd | Floyd | (At this point I could either introduce myself, apologize for the Floyd | intrusion, or explain my plight.) Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hunh" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "apologize" | ||||
Floyd | "I'm really sorry to intrude like this, Miss Croxley," I apologize, Floyd | "especially as I understand there's been a bereavement in the Floyd | family..." Floyd | Floyd | "Several," she interrupts me bleakly. "But it's not your sympathies I Floyd | want, lieutenant, just an explanation of what gives you the right to Floyd | demand entry into our home." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I couldn't tell someone was a lieutenant just by looking at them" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "introduce" | ||||
Floyd | "I'm Jack Percy," I reply. "My car broke down, about a mile down the Floyd | road from here, and I'm meant to be reporting for duty this evening." Floyd | Floyd | "That could be a problem," she remarks, her frown starting to soften. Floyd | "Somehow I don't think you'll be going anywhere tonight - not in this, Floyd | not without your car. I'm Angela Croxley by the way," she adds, Floyd | offering me her hand. Floyd | Floyd | (It seems best to either apologize for intruding, or shake her hand.) Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "but I guess during WWII people might know better" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "kiss hand" | ||||
Floyd | I see no hand here. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "dang" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake her hand" | ||||
Floyd | I shake her hand, saying, "Sorry to intrude on you like this, Miss Floyd | Croxley." Floyd | Floyd | "Don't mention it, lieutenant," she assures me. "There's nowhere else Floyd | for miles you could have come. Now..." Floyd | Floyd | At this point there's a loud creak from upstairs. Seeing me glance up, Floyd | she says, a little hastily, "It's an old house, it does that sometimes. Floyd | Now, the question is, what are we going to do with you, Mr Percy? Well Floyd | - I suppose you must be hungry after your travails. Can we get you Floyd | something to eat?" Floyd | Floyd | (My immediate thoughts are to either say yes or no, thank her, or ask Floyd | her about the creaking sound.) Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "yeah, people have handy identifying stripes so that snipers can pick the officers more easily" | |||
| Fang says, "okay, let's try not to seduce her" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to maga), "snrk" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "thank her" | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "thank her" | ||||
Floyd | "Thank you very much, that would be just what the doctor ordered!" I Floyd | declare. Floyd | Floyd | "My pleasure," she smiles, "I'm afraid we ate our main meal at lunch Floyd | and we shan't be eating dinner, what with the rationing and all that, Floyd | but Hilda will take you to the kitchen and fix you a bite to eat, won't Floyd | you, Hilda?" Floyd | Floyd | "As you say, Miss Croxley," the housekeeper replies without evident Floyd | enthusiasm. Floyd | Floyd | "I'll be in the drawing room," Angela Croxley tells me. "Come and find Floyd | us when you're done with Hilda, and we'll work out what's to be done Floyd | with you." She flashes me a brief smile and walks back out through the Floyd | west door. Floyd | Floyd | Hilda meanwhile walks over to the front door and locks it, before Floyd | turning to me and saying, "This way!", indicating that I am to follow Floyd | her to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | That command can't be used right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Hilda leads the way down the passage. Floyd | Floyd | Hall Passage South Floyd | This is the widest part of the hall, where it opens out to accommodate Floyd | the flight of stairs that leads up to the east. On the other side of Floyd | the hall a dark panelled door stands closed to the west, while the hall Floyd | itself continues to both north and south. Floyd | Floyd | Hilda is waiting for me to follow her down the passage to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, West, Up Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Hilda leads the way down the passage. Floyd | Floyd | Hall Passage North Floyd | The hall passage comes to an end outside a brown door to the north. Floyd | Other doors lead east and west, while the passage runs south towards Floyd | the main entrance hall. Floyd | Floyd | Hilda is waiting for me to follow her through the door to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "did we even x angela?" | |||
| Fang asks, "or were we too busy looking at our shoes?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Conversation kills examine." | ||||
| RonN says, "it said she young and beautiful or something. What else we need to know? :)" | ||||
| Fang asks, "is anyone mapping this place?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "You can have one or the other, but not both." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Fang), "a bit" | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the east door) Floyd | I follow Hilda through the door into the kitchen. Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen looks large enough to accommodate the platoon of culinary Floyd | staff who may have worked here before the war. Circumstances are now Floyd | reduced, however, leaving the place rather bare: a large wooden table Floyd | at one end, with a single hard wooden chair right next to it, now Floyd | comprises the bulk of the furniture. A long, old-fashioned cooking Floyd | range runs along the east wall, while doors lead off to west, south and Floyd | north, a calendar being attached to the last of these. Floyd | Floyd | Hilda stops in the middle of the kitchen and turns to face me. Floyd | Floyd | "You are wondering what a German woman is doing in this house," she Floyd | remarks. "I tell you. I am a Jew, and Germany is no good for Jews Floyd | now. I leave Germany two years ago and come here. Too many Jews Floyd | disappearing back home, and very bad things happen to them. So that Floyd | why I come here. Now I find you something to eat." Floyd | Floyd | She goes over to the oven, takes out a saucepan, and puts it on the Floyd | stove. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, West Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "we have a GO TO command; i don't think a map is needed" | |||
| Fang says, "I was just wondering if the entire family is from Germany, or not" | ||||
| Fang says (to RonN), "well, we might want to explore exhaustively" | ||||
| Fang says, "so we need to know exits we missed" | ||||
| RonN says, "'bare'. There's that word again." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think Hilda may want to talk about Germany or herself." | ||||
| maga says, "she does seem to be very keen that we know she's Jewish" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yes" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hilda" | maga says, "which makes me suspicious" | |||
Floyd | She is, I would guess, somewhere in her late thirties or earlier Floyd | forties, a rather morose looking woman with thick black curly hair and Floyd | dark, unsmiling eyes. She's busily preparing something for me to eat. Floyd | Floyd | Hilda adjusts the cooker. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hilda about jews" | ||||
Floyd | "You found things bad in Germany?" I ask. Floyd | Floyd | "Very bad. Far worse for Jews than anyone here can imagine," she tells Floyd | me, "and getting worse all the time!" Floyd | Floyd | Hilda fiddles with a loaf of bread. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "hmm, you think she's actually a spy?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask hilda about germany" | ||||
Floyd | She's already told me that things in Germany are unimaginably bad for Floyd | Jews and getting worse. Floyd | Floyd | Hilda stirs something in the pot. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "that would be cool" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask hilda about herself" | ||||
Floyd | "How do you come to be working here?" I ask. Floyd | Floyd | "I need position. I see advertisement in paper. I come to interview. Floyd | They give me job," she replies. "Mr Croxley needed someone to look Floyd | after the house after his wife was killed," she adds. Floyd | Floyd | Hilda takes something out of a cupboard. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "in that case this food is probably poison" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask about wife" | ||||
Floyd | "What happened to Mrs Croxley?" I ask. Floyd | Floyd | "Terrible!" she replies. "Mrs Croxley go to London to visit her Floyd | sister, about two months ago. There was an air-raid. A bomb fell on Floyd | the house where she was staying, and they were all killed. Mr Croxley Floyd | has many reasons to hate Germans." Floyd | Floyd | Hilda takes the pot off the oven and pours the contents into a bowl, Floyd | which she places in front of me along with two slices of dry brown Floyd | bread. "Is not much," she says, "but there is a war on, and the Floyd | rationing..." Floyd | Floyd | I thank her for the soup, and drink it gratefully, dunking the dry Floyd | bread into it to make it more palatable. Once I have finished she Floyd | takes the bowl away again and begins to clear up. Floyd | Floyd | "You know where to find Mr Croxley?" she asks. "Back down the hall and Floyd | the last door on the right." Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "hate german... or hate the war" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "say Haben Sie brechen das Telefon?" | ||||
Floyd | The word "Haben" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about angela" | ||||
Floyd | "You should go and find Mr Croxley," she tells me. "He will be Floyd | expecting you." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about mr croxley" | ||||
Floyd | "I am not wishing to talk now; I have many things to do," she replies. Floyd | "You must go and find Mr Croxley." Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "that translates as 'do you have Teflon in your pants?'" | |||
| DavidW says, "I think we go w, s, w." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x her" | ||||
Floyd | She is, I would guess, somewhere in her late thirties or earlier Floyd | forties, a rather morose looking woman with thick black curly hair and Floyd | dark, unsmiling eyes. She's busily clearing up the remains of my Floyd | frugal supper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen looks large enough to accommodate the platoon of culinary Floyd | staff who may have worked here before the war. Circumstances are now Floyd | reduced, however, leaving the place rather bare: a large wooden table Floyd | at one end, with a single hard wooden chair right next to it, now Floyd | comprises the bulk of the furniture. A long, old-fashioned cooking Floyd | range runs along the east wall, while doors lead off to west, south and Floyd | north, a calendar being attached to the last of these. Floyd | Floyd | Hilda is busily clearing up the remains of my frugal supper. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, West Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "thank hilda" | ||||
Floyd | The story doesn't understand that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks (of maga), ""so I can slip you out of them"?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x calendar" | ||||
Floyd | It is one of those plain calendars that simply lists the days of the Floyd | current month in a square grid; it is currently showing October 1940. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "very early in the war." | |||
| Fang says (to DavidW), "clever" | ||||
| Fang asks, "has France fallen by this point?" | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "go to croxley" | ||||
Floyd | (going west) Floyd | Floyd | Hall Passage North Floyd | The hall passage comes to an end outside a brown door to the north. Floyd | Other doors lead east and west, while the passage runs south towards Floyd | the main entrance hall. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West Floyd | Floyd | (To continue on your way use the command CONTINUE or C). Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "My knowledge of history is poor." | |||
| dhakajack says, "France fell in May 1940" | ||||
| RonN says (to davidw), "ditto" | ||||
| Fang says, "[LINK]" | ||||
| RonN asks, "eh?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "heh. 'f c' -> f Celsius is 32 Fahrenheit ?" | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "continue" | ||||
Floyd | (going south) Floyd | Floyd | Hall Passage South Floyd | This is the widest part of the hall, where it opens out to accommodate Floyd | the flight of stairs that leads up to the east. On the other side of Floyd | the hall a dark panelled door stands closed to the west, while the hall Floyd | itself continues to both north and south. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, West, Up Floyd | Floyd | (To continue on your way use the command CONTINUE or C). Floyd | Floyd | There's another creak from upstairs, followed by the sound of footsteps Floyd | and a door closing. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says (to davidw), "I see" | |||
| Fang says, "looks like after france fell, before invasion of USSR" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Weird. That's not over-ridden by the gamemode." | ||||
| Fang exclaims, "Britain stands alone!" | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "continue" | ||||
Floyd | (going south) Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The hall is quite dimly lit, with dark, oak-panelled doors to east and Floyd | west, the front door to the south, and a passage (effectively a Floyd | continuation of the hall) leading off to the north. Against the west Floyd | wall, next to a small table, a venerable grandfather clock faces a pair Floyd | of stern Victorian portraits staring down from the opposite wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the small table is a telephone. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West Floyd | Floyd | I have arrived at the place where I last saw Angela Croxley. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "(US is still uninvolved)" | |||
| RonN says, "bother. wrong corxley" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Fang), "Thank you. Now I have The Farmer in the Dell stuck in my head." | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "go to mr croxley" | ||||
Floyd | I see no mr croxley here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "continue". Floyd | Floyd | Hall Passage South Floyd | This is the widest part of the hall, where it opens out to accommodate Floyd | the flight of stairs that leads up to the east. On the other side of Floyd | the hall a dark panelled door stands closed to the west, while the hall Floyd | itself continues to both north and south. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, West, Up Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Hall Passage North Floyd | The hall passage comes to an end outside a brown door to the north. Floyd | Other doors lead east and west, while the passage runs south towards Floyd | the main entrance hall. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Hall Passage South Floyd | This is the widest part of the hall, where it opens out to accommodate Floyd | the flight of stairs that leads up to the east. On the other side of Floyd | the hall a dark panelled door stands closed to the west, while the hall Floyd | itself continues to both north and south. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, West, Up Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "I'm guessing west?" | |||
| RonN exclaims, "try 'em all!" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the west door) Floyd | Floyd | Lounge Floyd | The pale gold wallpaper in the lounge looks rather splendid, but the Floyd | furniture seems surprisingly spartan for such a grand house. Indeed, Floyd | there is little here apart from four upright chairs and a low wooden Floyd | table, all rather dwarfed by the size of the room. There are also Floyd | doors to north and east. Floyd | Floyd | On the low wooden small table is a magazine. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, East Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x magazine" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be some kind of theatrical magazine, dated September 1940. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the theatrical magazine) Floyd | I leaf quickly through the magazine, and find it to be full of play Floyd | reviews and actors' gossip, which really isn't my kind of thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "oh, not magazine = ammunition" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the north door) Floyd | Floyd | Dining Room Floyd | A polished wooden dining table, large enough to seat eight or ten with Floyd | comfort, dominates the centre of the room, though only four chairs are Floyd | placed round it, while a heavy old sideboard stands to one side. Doors Floyd | lead out to east and south. Floyd | Floyd | On the sideboard is a dinner plate. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: South, East Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the west door) Floyd | Floyd | Hall Passage North Floyd | The hall passage comes to an end outside a brown door to the north. Floyd | Other doors lead east and west, while the passage runs south towards Floyd | the main entrance hall. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Hall Passage South Floyd | This is the widest part of the hall, where it opens out to accommodate Floyd | the flight of stairs that leads up to the east. On the other side of Floyd | the hall a dark panelled door stands open to the west, while the hall Floyd | itself continues to both north and south. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, West, Up Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The hall is quite dimly lit, with dark, oak-panelled doors to east and Floyd | west, the front door to the south, and a passage (effectively a Floyd | continuation of the hall) leading off to the north. Against the west Floyd | wall, next to a small table, a venerable grandfather clock faces a pair Floyd | of stern Victorian portraits staring down from the opposite wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the small table is a telephone. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Drawing Room Floyd | The drawing room looks commodious and comfortable, but its faded green Floyd | wallpaper suggests that it hasn't been decorated in a while. The Floyd | principal furniture is arranged in a broad-U: two large armchairs Floyd | placed opposite each other with a settee ranged in between at right Floyd | angles to both of them so that it faces the fireplace. The door back Floyd | out to the hall stands to the east, behind one of the chairs. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantelpiece are three photographs. Floyd | Floyd | Angela Croxley is sitting on the sofa. Floyd | Floyd | A man I take to be Angela's father is sitting in the further armchair, Floyd | facing the door. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: East He rises from his chair at my entrance and extends Floyd | his hand. Floyd | Floyd | "Arthur Croxley," he introduces himself. "How do you do. I trust Floyd | Hilda looked after you properly?" Floyd | Floyd | (My immediate thoughts are to either say yes, or shake his hand.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "ah ha" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "aha" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x angela" | ||||
Floyd | She's undoubtedly a strikingly attractive young woman, what some might Floyd | call an English rose. She's somewhere in her twenties, perhaps a few Floyd | years older than I, and has a pleasant, open, round face framed by a Floyd | generous bounty of wavy blonde hair. She is sitting on the sofa. Floyd | Floyd | "Hilda - she looked after you properly?" Mr Croxley prompts me. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "we up your score by one point" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x arthur" | ||||
Floyd | He is probably about sixty, or maybe in his late fifties, with a rather Floyd | suave air about him. Floyd | Floyd | "Hilda - she looked after you properly?" Mr Croxley prompts me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Aric goes home. | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | "Yes indeed," I reply, "just what the doctor ordered, thank you." Floyd | Floyd | "Good," he nods. "Now, do take a seat. We've just been discussing Floyd | what to do with you. I'm afraid it really isn't at all convenient for Floyd | us to put you up overnight." Floyd | Floyd | "But," Angela breaks in, "we can hardly just turn you out on a night Floyd | like this! So we thought that we'd wait a bit to see if they mend the Floyd | phones, and if not, and the worst came to the worst, you could sleep Floyd | down here on the sofa - that will be all right, won't it Mr Percy?" Floyd | Floyd | (Amongst other things, I could say yes or no, or thank her.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "okay, she totally has the hots for us" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x photograph" | ||||
Floyd | Which photograph do you mean, the photograph of an RAF pilot, the Floyd | photograph of a soldier, or the photograph of a woman? Floyd | Floyd | > | maga says, "rowr" | |||
| inky says, "not if she's a vampire" | ||||
| maga says, "then she has the cold-and-sparklies for us" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to maga), "Use the teflon pants line on her." | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| RonN asks, "wiat, who's percy?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to maga), "heehee" | ||||
| inky says (to RonN), "our last name" | ||||
| DavidW says (to RonN), "We are. Jack Percy." | ||||
| Fang says, "well, they are blond" | ||||
| RonN says, "oh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Jack Percy, guy with the very stock British name." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "thank her" | ||||
Floyd | "Thank you, that would be very kind," I reply. Floyd | Floyd | "Good, that's settled then," she declares. Floyd | Floyd | Mr Croxley sits on the further armchair. "Very well, then," Mr Croxley Floyd | sighs. "Lieutenant, since it seems you're destined to spend the Floyd | evening with us, do please take a seat. So, tell me, where were you Floyd | trying to get to?" Floyd | Floyd | (My immediate thoughts are to either refuse to answer, or tell him Floyd | about my camp.) Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "time to shit" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "ha" | ||||
| Nitku says, "Now I can't stop picturing him as Percy from Blackadder" | ||||
| Fang asks, "um, are these things confidential?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "One would think." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "sit" | ||||
Floyd | (on the spare armchair) Floyd | I sit on the spare armchair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "sit". Floyd | Floyd | Drawing Room Floyd | The drawing room looks commodious and comfortable, but its faded green Floyd | wallpaper suggests that it hasn't been decorated in a while. The Floyd | principal furniture is arranged in a broad-U: two large armchairs Floyd | placed opposite each other with a settee ranged in between at right Floyd | angles to both of them so that it faces the fireplace. The door back Floyd | out to the hall stands to the east, behind one of the chairs. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantelpiece are three photographs. Floyd | Floyd | Angela Croxley is sitting on the sofa. Floyd | Floyd | Mr Croxley is sitting on the further armchair. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: East Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "shit" | ||||
Floyd | (sit) Floyd | Floyd | (on the spare armchair) Floyd | I sit on the spare armchair. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "unfortunately it doesn't tell us how much we tell him about the camp" | |||
| inky says, "though I guess if the other option is refuse, the implication is a fair amount" | ||||
| Fang says, "oh, let's blabber. It's only polite" | ||||
| maga says, "and of course we have our regiment's badge on display, so OMG TROOP MOVEMENTS" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Enh, heck, we already told Hilda about the camp." | ||||
| RonN says, "we might even get a plot out of it" | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "hi arthur" | ||||
Floyd | The story doesn't understand that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell arthur about camp" | ||||
Floyd | "I've been posted to a camp on Salisbury Plain," I tell him, "but Floyd | that's really as much as I'm at liberty to say." Floyd | Floyd | "Quite so, lieutenant, careless talk and all that," he approves. Floyd | "Well, at least it shouldn't be too far for you to reach in the Floyd | morning." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | Mr Croxley does not respond. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "whistle" | ||||
Floyd | The word "whistle" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "sing" | ||||
Floyd | I don't want to inflict my singing on anyone else. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask arthur about himself" | ||||
Floyd | "So tell me, sir, what do you do?" I ask. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh nothing very exciting, I assure you," he replies with a Floyd | self-deprecating smile. "I'm just a country solicitor - wills, Floyd | conveyancing, that sort of thing." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask arthur about hilda" | ||||
Floyd | "I'm a little surprised to find you employing a German housekeeper," I Floyd | remark. "I thought they were locking up German nationals as enemy Floyd | aliens!" Floyd | Floyd | "Not all of them," he replies. "Hilda is Jewish - she came to this Floyd | country a year or two back. Things got very bad for German Jews after Floyd | Kristallnacht, and I gather most of the rest of her family managed to Floyd | get themselves arrested one way or another. I hardly think there's any Floyd | risk of her being a closet Nazi!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "a him about sign" | ||||
Floyd | I talk about that with him for a while, but the conversation is hardly Floyd | memorable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask arthur about angela" | ||||
Floyd | "Tell me about your daughter," I suggest. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm sure she's quite capable of telling you about herself," he points Floyd | out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x raf pilot" | ||||
Floyd | The photograph shows a blond man in his early twenties wearing an RAF Floyd | uniform with pilot's wings. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "ask him about upstairs" | ||||
Floyd | This topic doesn't seem to interest him much, so my attempt at Floyd | conversation proves somewhat desultory. Floyd | | RonN says, "he's a solicitor that doesn't like solicitors. Hmmph." | |||
Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask angela about angela" | ||||
Floyd | "Tell me about yourself, Miss Croxley, what do you do these days?" I Floyd | ask. Floyd | Floyd | "These last few months I've just been helping my father sort things Floyd | out," she replies. "What with my mother dying, and Tony, and Adam... Floyd | well, there's a lot of sorting out to do, and as you can imagine my Floyd | father needs a bit of support right now." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "geez" | |||
| inky says, "that is a lot of deaths" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask angela about house" | ||||
Floyd | She rather deftly changes the subject, so I quickly find myself talking Floyd | about something quite different. Floyd | Floyd | "Do you see those photographs, Mr Percy?" Mr Croxley asks suddenly, Floyd | nodding towards the mantelpiece. "They're the cost of this war, you Floyd | know!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x photographs" | ||||
Floyd | Two are of young men in uniform, one army, the other RAF. The third is Floyd | of a middle-aged woman. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "hmmm" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask mr about photographs" | ||||
Floyd | "The photographs on the mantelpiece - are they members of your family?" Floyd | I enquire. Floyd | Floyd | "Yes," he replies, a little brusquely. "Mary was my wife. She was Floyd | killed in an air-raid in London two months ago. The boy in RAF Floyd | uniform, that's my older son Adam. He was shot down over Kent in July Floyd | - he didn't make it, I'm afraid. The other boy is my younger son Tony. Floyd | He got trapped at Dunkirk and didn't make it either." Floyd | Floyd | (Amongst other things, I could say how sorry I am.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "say sorry" | ||||
Floyd | "I'm so sorry for your loss, sir," I say. "To have lost any one of Floyd | them would be terrible enough, but all three in the space of a few Floyd | months - I hardly know what to say!" Floyd | Floyd | "There's nothing you can say - you or anyone else," he replies grimly, Floyd | "but you'll understand why we're not over-eager to entertain hordes of Floyd | visitors right now." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "obviously the house is either haunted or has a creepy monster in the attic, right?" | |||
| inky says, "so presumably we'll wait til they go to sleep and then sneak up there" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "yay" | ||||
| Fang says (to inky), "or a whole brigade of spies" | ||||
| inky says, "unless they intend to drug our tea and then feed us to it" | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "about" | ||||
Floyd | Help Menu Floyd | Floyd | 1. How to Play Interactive Fiction Floyd | 2. About Shelter from the Storm Floyd | 3. Extra Navigation Commands - GO TO and CONTINUE Floyd | 4. If you get stuck - THINK and THINK HARDER Floyd | 5. Credits Floyd | Floyd | Select a topic number, or press 'p' for the previous menu or 'q' to Floyd | quit: | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "2" | ||||
Floyd | 2 Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About Shelter from the Storm Floyd | Floyd | Works of Interactive Fiction are typically narrated in the second Floyd | person and present tense (e.g. "You see a gold ring here"). From time Floyd | to time there have been discussions whether this convention represents Floyd | the best way of conveying an interactive narrative. Shelter from the Floyd | Storm allows you, the player, to experiment with this by choosing the Floyd | person (and the tense) in which the game is narrated. The opening Floyd | screen of the game asks you to choose the person and tense of the game Floyd | before you start, but you can also change your choice during the course Floyd | of play. In particular during play you can change between first, Floyd | second and third person with the commands: Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | FIRST PERSON Floyd | SECOND PERSON Floyd | THIRD PERSON Floyd | Floyd | You can also change between present and past tense with the commands: Floyd | Floyd | PAST TENSE Floyd | PRESENT TENSE Floyd | Floyd | Apart from that Shelter from the Storm is designed as a fairly Floyd | conventional piece of Interactive Fiction, with not much emphasis on Floyd | puzzles. The game should be fairly straightforward, but if you need a Floyd | nudge you can use the commands THINK and THINK HARDER. Floyd | Floyd | [The End] | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask arthur about wendle manor" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | | ||||
| Fang pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Help Menu Floyd | Floyd | 1. How to Play Interactive Fiction Floyd | 2. About Shelter from the Storm Floyd | 3. Extra Navigation Commands - GO TO and CONTINUE Floyd | 4. If you get stuck - THINK and THINK HARDER Floyd | 5. Credits Floyd | Floyd | Select a topic number, or press 'p' for the previous menu or 'q' to Floyd | quit: | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||
Floyd | q Floyd | Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask arthur about wendle manor" | ||||
Floyd | "This is quite a house you have here, sir," I remark. Floyd | Floyd | "It is quite a pile, isn't it?" he replies. "It's been in the family Floyd | for years, but it feels like the three of us are rattling around in it Floyd | rather now. When my sons were living here too, it was different - but Floyd | those days are gone for good." Floyd | Floyd | I hear the crunch of gravel as a car comes to a halt up on the drive Floyd | just outside. Mr Croxley throws a mildly irritated glance at the Floyd | window, as if to say "Who could that be?" Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "sorry, i was looking for the back-of-the-box blurb" | |||
| Fang says, "hmmm" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, I'm now standing. Floyd | Floyd | "Please do take a seat," Mr Croxley insists, waving towards the vacant Floyd | armchair. Floyd | Floyd | There's the sound of a car door slamming, and a few moments later the Floyd | front door bell rings. Angela Croxley starts to get up, but her father Floyd | motions her to stay put, saying "Hilda will get it; that's what we pay Floyd | her for." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "they sure get a lot of visitors for people who don't want any visitors" | |||
| DavidW says, "well, only 3 people in the house, he claims." | ||||
| Fang says, "it looks like they are trying to prevent us from seeing who this visitor is" | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | From the sound of the wind and rain it seems there's quite a storm Floyd | brewing. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm sure you'll get more than enough exercise once you've arrived at Floyd | your camp," Mr Croxley suggests, "so why don't you give your legs a Floyd | rest while you have the chance?" Floyd | Floyd | Footsteps clatter up the hall as someone - presumably the housekeeper - Floyd | goes to answer the front door. There follows a brief rattle as the Floyd | front door is opened, then an equally brief exchange of voices. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "shall we go look?" | |||
| RonN says, "~meh~" | ||||
| Fang says, "it might get us killed" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | The window is hidden behind the curtains. Floyd | Floyd | "I really can't have you standing over me all evening," Mr Croxley Floyd | complains. "Do please sit down, Mr Percy." Floyd | Floyd | There's a quick knock and Hilda pokes her head round the door. "Sorry Floyd | to disturb you, Mr Croxley," she says, "but there's a Mr Graham here to Floyd | see you." Floyd | Floyd | Mr Croxley frowns in mild irritation and then gives a curt nod. "Very Floyd | well, then, Hilda, I'd better see him in the study." Rising to his Floyd | feet he adds, "If you'll excuse me for a few minutes, Mr Percy, I'm Floyd | sure Angela can keep you amused." Floyd | Floyd | With a second curt nod, this time to his daughter, he strides from the Floyd | room. Floyd | Floyd | "I'm sure my father won't be long," Angela Croxley assures me, with Floyd | just the hint of a smile. "In the meantime, why don't you tell me more Floyd | about yourself, Mr Percy? Have you been in the army long?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "sit" | ||||
Floyd | (on the spare armchair) Floyd | I sit on the spare armchair. Floyd | Floyd | "Did you not hear me, Mr Percy?" Angela Croxley asks, "I asked if you Floyd | had been the army long - so, have you?" Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "here's our big make-out chance" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "no" | ||||
Floyd | "No, not really," I reply. "I joined the TA in '37 and then got called Floyd | up when the TA was embodied last year. I spent a few months under Floyd | canvas in muddy fields doing nothing particular, and then got selected Floyd | for OCTU[1]. I've only just received my commission." Floyd | Floyd | "What made you join the Territorials in '37?" she enquires. Floyd | Floyd | (My immediate thoughts are to either blame Hitler, or say it was my Floyd | friends.) Floyd | Floyd | (A number in [square brackets] like the one above refers to a footnote, Floyd | which you can read by typing FOOTNOTE followed by the number: FOOTNOTE Floyd | 1, for example. Footnotes usually contain added background information Floyd | that might be interesting but isn't essential to the story. If you'd Floyd | prefer not to see footnotes at all, you can control their appearance by Floyd | typing FOOTNOTES.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Keep us amused, eh? Awright." | |||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "friends" | ||||
Floyd | "Oh, a whole lot of my friends were joining the local platoon, so I Floyd | thought I'd go along too," I tell her. Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "note 1" | ||||
Floyd | "I see," she remarks with a gentle smile, "though somehow I suspect Floyd | there may have been a bit more to it than that. So, have you been Floyd | enjoying the army?" Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | OCTU = Officer Cadet Training Unit, a unit for training the Floyd | commissioned officers needed for Britain's rapidly expanding wartime Floyd | army (which obviously couldn't all be supplied by Sandhurst). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "no" | ||||
Floyd | "No, not really," I reply, "but it has its moments. In any case, Floyd | nothing seems that tough after boarding for five years at a public Floyd | school, believe me! Besides..." Floyd | Floyd | Just at that moment the drawing door opens again and Mr Croxley takes a Floyd | step into the room. "Angela, I wonder if you could join us for a Floyd | moment?" he asks, then turning to me he adds, "We'll be back in just a Floyd | jiffy, Mr Percy, if you wouldn't mind waiting here. I expect Graham Floyd | will be able to offer you a lift when we're done." Floyd | Floyd | Angela Croxley rises to her feet then follows her father out of the Floyd | room, pausing by the door to look back and flash me an apologetic Floyd | smile, saying, "See you in a minute; be good!" Floyd | Floyd | And then they are both gone, leaving me alone in the drawing room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "man" | |||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||||
| inky says, "ok, I guess we'd better sneak upstairs" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look behind curtain" | ||||
Floyd | I know better than to mess with the blackout at night; I don't want to Floyd | attract German bombers. Floyd | Floyd | I distinctly hear the sound of someone walking about upstairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "now's our chance to snoop" | |||
| inky says, "since presumably we're going to get kicked out soon" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "how do we get upstairs?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look" | ||||
Floyd | Drawing Room (sitting on the spare armchair) Floyd | The drawing room looks commodious and comfortable, but its faded green Floyd | wallpaper suggests that it hasn't been decorated in a while. The Floyd | principal furniture is arranged in a broad-U: two large armchairs Floyd | placed opposite each other with a settee ranged in between at right Floyd | angles to both of them so that it faces the fireplace. The door back Floyd | out to the hall stands to the east, behind the chair on which I'm Floyd | sitting. Floyd | Floyd | On the mantelpiece are three photographs. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: East Floyd | Floyd | Somewhere upstairs a door closes. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Stairs are up from Hall Passage South" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | (first standing up) Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The hall is quite dimly lit, with dark, oak-panelled doors to east and Floyd | west, the front door to the south, and a passage (effectively a Floyd | continuation of the hall) leading off to the north. Against the west Floyd | wall, next to a small table, a venerable grandfather clock faces a pair Floyd | of stern Victorian portraits staring down from the opposite wall. Floyd | Floyd | On the small table is a telephone. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "there was an up in the N corridor" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Hall Passage South Floyd | This is the widest part of the hall, where it opens out to accommodate Floyd | the flight of stairs that leads up to the east. On the other side of Floyd | the hall a dark panelled door stands open to the west, while the hall Floyd | itself continues to both north and south. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, West, Up Floyd | Floyd | I hear the sound of someone coughing upstairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | I climb the staircase up to the floor above. Floyd | Floyd | Landing North Floyd | At first sight, this part of the landing has a rather higgledy-piggledy Floyd | appearance, with doors leading off in all directions, the space being Floyd | divided by the stair banister, and the landing continuing past the Floyd | banister to the south. As I get my bearings I observe that the doors Floyd | lead off to north, northeast, east and west. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Down Floyd | Floyd | I hear the sound of a toilet flushing just to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "a PHANTOM TOILET" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | (first trying to open the east door) Floyd | The east door seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "we need to hide" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the north door) Floyd | Floyd | Master Bedroom Floyd | My first impression is of the sheer size of this room, almost enough Floyd | for a couple of football pitches, I think. Of course that is a wild Floyd | exaggeration, but it is large for a bedroom, with plenty of empty Floyd | floorspace left over even with a large double bed and heavy chest of Floyd | drawers occupying their share. Looking around further little else Floyd | catches my eye apart from the pale cream wallpaper and doors to south Floyd | and west. Floyd | Floyd | On the chest of drawers is a family photo. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: South, West Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x photo" | ||||
Floyd | The photograph shows what looks like a family group. Mr Croxley looks Floyd | much as he does in the flesh, suggesting that the photo is fairly Floyd | recent. The young man in the picture closely resembles that in the Floyd | picture of Tony Croxley in the drawing room. The three women in the Floyd | picture are less familiar. All three have dark, curly hair, worn a bit Floyd | shorter on the older woman than the younger two. The older woman Floyd | strikes me as being a bit plain, while the younger two, though Floyd | sufficiently like her to be her daughters, look moderately pretty. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh ho ho" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Madwoman in the attic, you think?" | ||||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||||
| inky says, "Eric Eve is pretty big on stories where one character is lying about who they are" | ||||
| Fang asks, "whatever happened to the second son?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "There seems to be a daughter we haven't heard about." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "You can't make a judgment call about whether or not they're promiscuous just based on a picture." | ||||
| inky says (to Jacqueline), "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says, "yeah, actually, it's usually women, too" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||||
Floyd | I peer under the bed, but spot nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN asks, "mayhaps ask hilda about boinking the master?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | En-Suite Bathroom Floyd | The master bathroom looks as if it has been completely refurbished Floyd | sometime in the last few years; the fittings are all styled with Floyd | nineteen-thirties chic, while the white tiles covering the walls all Floyd | look still quite new. The door out is to the east, while a small round Floyd | waste bin sits under the washbasin. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: East Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says (to Fang,DavidW), "my read of this photo is Angela isn't really his daughter" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in bin" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the waste bin) Floyd | Floyd | There's a screwed-up ball of paper at the bottom of the bin. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get paper" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unscrew it" | ||||
Floyd | I flatten out the scrumpled fragment of paper as best I can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||||
Floyd | Only a few words are visible: "... plan now seems unworkable... Floyd | ... may be advisable to terminate Durbury..." Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Only a few words are visible: "... plan now seems unworkable... Floyd | ... may be advisable to terminate Durbury..." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "man" | |||
| Fang says, "hmmmmmmm" | ||||
| (from Jacqueline) inky says, "IYKWIMAITYD" | ||||
| RonN asks, "eh?" | ||||
| inky says, "("what's the difference between a virgin and a crumpled piece of paper")" | ||||
| Fang says, "maybe we are overreacting" | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Fang says, "I mean, they could be talking about firing someone" | ||||
| inky says, "that would rule" | ||||
| RonN says, "the first person tense is still bothering me" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "That would rule, yes.'" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I kinda liked the third person, myself." | ||||
| inky asks, "well, we can switch viewpoints again, can't we?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sure." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "thirdperson" | ||||
Floyd | (third person) Floyd | Floyd | Okay, the game is now in the third person. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The tense/person thing seems invisible to me." | |||
| RonN says, "yay" | ||||
| Fang says, "I thought third person present is a bit cold and awkward, though" | ||||
| inky says, "I don't really notice it myself" | ||||
| RonN says, "it'd probably be more noticable playing solo" | ||||
| maga says, "makes a huge tone difference to me" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | En-Suite Bathroom Floyd | The master bathroom looks as if it has been completely refurbished Floyd | sometime in the last few years; the fittings are all styled with Floyd | nineteen-thirties chic, while the white tiles covering the walls all Floyd | look still quite new. The door out is to the east, while a small round Floyd | waste bin sits under the washbasin. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: East Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | inky says (to RonN), "yeah, I sort of pay less attention to the details with CF" | |||
Floyd | Master Bedroom Floyd | This is obviously the master bedroom; it is huge. Even with a large Floyd | double bed and a heavy chest of drawers taking up much of the floor Floyd | space, a great deal of bare carpet remains. The door out is to the Floyd | south, and a second door leads west. Floyd | Floyd | On the chest of drawers is a family photo. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: South, West Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "but since most of the chat is in "i" and "you".." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "screw paper" | ||||
Floyd | Jack sees no way to screw the scrumpled fragment. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I also liked past tense. I guess because it's a period story and it made things feel more like reading a novel." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "May I/" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "?" | ||||
| Fang asks, "can we try first person past?" | ||||
| Fang says, "since that's the one thing we haven't tried" | ||||
| RonN says (to fang), "makes sense" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "past tense" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, the game is now in the past tense. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "first person" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, the game is now in the first person. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hm, I've prejudged that I will HATE it, but sure." | |||
| Jacqueline giggles. | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Master Bedroom Floyd | This was obviously the master bedroom; it was huge. Even with a large Floyd | double bed and a heavy chest of drawers taking up much of the floor Floyd | space, a great deal of bare carpet remained. The door out was to the Floyd | south, and a second door led west. Floyd | Floyd | On the chest of drawers was a family photo. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: South, West Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says (to jacq), "ditto" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Landing North Floyd | The main landing comprised the area at the top of the stairs leading Floyd | down to the floor below. From there doors led off to east, west, north Floyd | and northeast. The landing continued to the south past the banisters. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Down Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | I was carrying a theatrical magazine and a scrumpled fragment, and I Floyd | was wearing a beret and khaki battledress. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha scrumpled" | |||
| inky says, "dang, we didn't bring our pistol with us" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x magazine" | ||||
Floyd | It seemed to be some kind of theatrical magazine, dated September 1940. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read magazine" | ||||
Floyd | I leafed quickly through the magazine, and found it to be full of play Floyd | reviews and actors' gossip, which really wasn't my kind of thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look up angela in magazine" | ||||
Floyd | That was not something I could consult. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put fragment in magazine" | ||||
Floyd | I couldn't put anything in the theatrical magazine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Landing South Floyd | This section of the landing was much narrower than the part further Floyd | north, being no more than a passage between the rooms on either side. Floyd | The landing ended at a narrow curtained window immediately to the south Floyd | and continued past the banister to the north, while white panelled Floyd | doors led off to east and west. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, East, West Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "i'm still tripping on "battledress"" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "eat fragment" | ||||
Floyd | The scrumpled fragment looked remarkably unappetizing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The magazine might serve as tinder." | |||
| Fang says (to RonN), "now I'm thinking of Skin-horse's tip" | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "unscrew it" | ||||
Floyd | The scrumpled fragment had already been flattened out as best it could Floyd | be. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks (of DavidW), "why do we want to burn it?" | |||
| RonN says, "hm." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Fang), "We don't." | ||||
| Fang says, "it's the one piece of evidence we have" | ||||
| Fang says, "we just need more, and then we need to get it back to base" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Evidence?" | ||||
| Fang says, "evidence of their treachery" | ||||
| RonN asks (of fang), "skin-horse?" | ||||
| inky says, "to bust this spy ring wide open" | ||||
| Fang says (to RonN), "webcomic" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the east door) Floyd | Floyd | Square Bedroom Floyd | My first impression was of a room that felt rather cramped because it Floyd | contained too much furniture. The large white wardrobe in the corner Floyd | was the main culprit, although a low wooden cabinet, which didn't match Floyd | it at all well, also consumed more than its fair share of space, Floyd | leaving the single bed against the opposite wall to be tucked in almost Floyd | as an afterthought. This clutter of furniture allowed just about Floyd | enough room to navigate a path from the bed to the door, which led out Floyd | to the west. Floyd | Floyd | On the cabinet was a wind-up gramophone. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: West Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN asks (of fang), "what was his tip?" | |||
| Fang says (to RonN), "a character called 'Tip'" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x gramophone" | ||||
Floyd | It was basically a large black box with a handle protruding from one Floyd | side to allow it to be wound up. It was closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "hmm.... secret door" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||||
Floyd | I opened it up. Inside the gramophone were a turntable, a pickup arm, Floyd | and a small brass switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "emote is confused and backs away slowly." | |||
| Fang says, "let's not push the switch" | ||||
| Fang says, "since I assume it'd turn it on" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x turntable" | ||||
Floyd | It was round, black, and about nine inches in diameter. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "yeah, turn it on revealing .. WAGNER" | |||
| inky says, "BUSTED" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "x arm" | ||||
Floyd | It was black and just under a foot long, with a stylus fixed to the Floyd | free end. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "There might be a record to play somewhere. Dunno why we'd play it, though." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open wardrobe" | ||||
Floyd | Opening the tall wooden wardrobe revealed a variety of men's clothes. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ha" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x clothes" | ||||
Floyd | A number of shirts, jackets and pairs of trousers were hung up on the Floyd | rail, while a pile of underwear sat to one side. All the clothing Floyd | appeared to be of a large size, much of it was quite plain, and some of Floyd | it was distinctly shabby. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "That belated ha was for the Wagner comment." | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "search underwear" | ||||
Floyd | A moderately thorough search of the clothes in the wardrobe turned up Floyd | nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "push clothes aside" | ||||
Floyd | The word "aside" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "enter wardrobe" | ||||
Floyd | There was no room for me in the wardrobe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "enter narnia" | ||||
Floyd | The word "narnia" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cabinet" | ||||
Floyd | The cabinet was quite long but no more than about three foot high, and Floyd | could have been made of oak. It had a flat top and pair of carved oak Floyd | doors on the front. It was closed. On the cabinet was a wind-up Floyd | gramophone. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | ||||
Floyd | Opening the cabinet revealed three gramophone records (a classical Floyd | record, a jazz record, and a linguaphone record). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x linguaphone" | ||||
Floyd | It was labelled "Linguaphone German I". Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "duh duh duuuuh" | |||
| inky says, "hmm, that's odd" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x classical" | ||||
Floyd | It was labelled "Beethoven Overtures". Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "maybe it's Hilda's" | |||
| Fang says, "duh duh duuuuuh" | ||||
| inky asks, "if they're german spies, why would they have a german-language-learning thing?" | ||||
| RonN says, "Hilda's from Germany" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "yeah" | ||||
| maga says, "maybe they're blackshirts" | ||||
| inky says, "or perhaps it's there for us to listen to and quickly learn german so we can learn something later" | ||||
| Fang says (to inky), "they aren't necessarily spies. There were ==maga" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||||
Floyd | It was a single bed, freshly made with a clean pillow at one end. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok, true" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||||
Floyd | I found nothing under the bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||||
Floyd | I found nothing under the bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pillow" | ||||
Floyd | It was an ordinary enough pillow, clean and white. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under pillow" | ||||
Floyd | Under the pillow I found a neatly-folded pair of blue striped pyjamas. Floyd | Careful to leave everything looking undisturbed I put the pillow back Floyd | on top of them. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x jazz" | ||||
Floyd | It was labelled "Glenn Miller in Concert". Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "I suspect this is Hilda's room, then" | |||
| DavidW says, "I doubt that." | ||||
| Fang asks, "but of course, why would *she* be learning german?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put linguaphone on turntable" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the linguaphone record) Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Square Bedroom Floyd | This bedroom was more or less square, and not particularly large. Most Floyd | of the space was taken up by the bed, a tall wooden wardrobe and a Floyd | large wooden cabinet, while the walls were covered in striped blue Floyd | wallpaper. The door out was to the west. Floyd | Floyd | On the cabinet was a wind-up gramophone. On the turntable was a Floyd | linguaphone record. The cabinet contained two gramophone records (a Floyd | classical record and a jazz record). The tall wooden wardrobe Floyd | contained a variety of men's clothes. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: West Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "Maybe they're Russian spies whose cover is that they're German spies" | |||
| maga says, "maybe it isn't what it says it is" | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says, "yeah, true" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "press switch" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing happened, presumably because the gramophone wasn't wound up. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | I found nothing under the bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "wind up gramophone" | ||||
Floyd | I turned the handle until it was fully wound. The turntable started to Floyd | turn, spinning the linguaphone record with it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put pickup on linguaphone" | ||||
Floyd | I moved the arm over the record and carefully lowered the stylus onto Floyd | it. From the gramophone issued a crackly German voice. "Erste Floyd | Lektion: Die Familie Schneider. Das Bild zeigt uns ein Wohnzimmer. In Floyd | dem Wohnzimmer ist die Familie Schneider. Zur Familie gehoren der Floyd | Grossvater, die Grossmutter, der Vater, die Mutter, der Sohn, die Floyd | Tochter, und das kleine Madchen. Der Grossvater sitzt in einem Sessel. Floyd | Er raucht eine Pfeife. Die Grossmutter sitzt auch in..." At that Floyd | point I decided I had heard enough. My German wasn't up to much, but Floyd | it sounded like an elementary German lesson to me. I removed the arm Floyd | from the linguaphone record and switched the turntable off. The Floyd | turntable stopped turning. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put jazz on turntable" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the jazz record, then taking the linguaphone record from Floyd | the turntable) Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put pickup on linguaphone" | ||||
Floyd | I couldn't put the arm on the linguaphone record unless the linguaphone Floyd | record was on the turntable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "wind up gramophone" | ||||
Floyd | The handle was fully wound. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put arm on record" | ||||
Floyd | I moved the arm over the record and carefully lowered the stylus onto Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "press switch" | ||||
Floyd | The turntable started to turn, spinning the jazz record with it. A Floyd | rather tinny recording of Glenn Miller's band playing In the Mood Floyd | emanated from the gramophone. Since I didn't want to attract attention Floyd | to myself I stopped it after the first few bars. I removed the arm from Floyd | the jazz record and switched the turntable off. The turntable stopped Floyd | turning. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put classical on turntable" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the classical record, then taking the jazz record from Floyd | the turntable) Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put arm on record" | ||||
Floyd | I moved the arm over the record and carefully lowered the stylus onto Floyd | it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "press switch" | ||||
Floyd | The turntable started to turn, spinning the classical record with it. Floyd | From the gramophone came a scratchy recording of Beethoven's Egmont Floyd | overture. After the first few bars I decided I had heard enough. I Floyd | removed the arm from the classical record and switched the turntable Floyd | off. The turntable stopped turning. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Square Bedroom Floyd | This bedroom was more or less square, and not particularly large. Most Floyd | of the space was taken up by the bed, a tall wooden wardrobe and a Floyd | large wooden cabinet, while the walls were covered in striped blue Floyd | wallpaper. The door out was to the west. Floyd | Floyd | On the cabinet was a wind-up gramophone. On the turntable was a Floyd | classical record. The tall wooden wardrobe contained a variety of Floyd | men's clothes. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: West Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "hmmm oh yeah, men's clothes" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wallpaper" | ||||
Floyd | The wallpaper had alternate light and dark blue stripes. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm, this is a little disappointing" | |||
| inky says, "maybe we can play the records backwards" | ||||
| RonN says, "perhaps we should spy on te NPCs" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I assume this was Adam's or Tony's room." | ||||
| Fang says, "true" | ||||
| Fang asks, "wanna try another room?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Or a spare room where stuff got moved to." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Square Bedroom Floyd | This bedroom was more or less square, and not particularly large. Most Floyd | of the space was taken up by the bed, a tall wooden wardrobe and a Floyd | large wooden cabinet, while the walls were covered in striped blue Floyd | wallpaper. The door out was to the west. Floyd | Floyd | On the cabinet was a wind-up gramophone. On the turntable was a Floyd | classical record. The tall wooden wardrobe contained a variety of Floyd | men's clothes. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: West Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take classical" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look behind wardrobe" | ||||
Floyd | I couldn't see anything behind the tall wooden wardrobe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put classical in cabinet" | ||||
Floyd | Done. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "close cabinet" | ||||
Floyd | Closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "close gramophone" | ||||
Floyd | Closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "close wardrobe" | ||||
Floyd | Closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Not wanting either to be encumbered with other people's property, or to Floyd | be caught stealing it, I dropped two gramophone records (the Floyd | linguaphone record and the jazz record) before leaving the room. Floyd | Floyd | Landing South Floyd | This section of the landing was much narrower than the part further Floyd | north, being no more than a passage between the rooms on either side. Floyd | The landing ended at a narrow curtained window immediately to the south Floyd | and continued past the banister to the north, while white panelled Floyd | doors led off to east and west. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, East, West Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "My, we were very messy" | |||
| Fang says, "oops" | ||||
| Fang says, "hahah" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "You'd have thought they'd have come to find us by now." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | DavidW says, "Unless they're dead." | |||
Floyd | (first trying to open the west door) Floyd | The west door seemed to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "break west door" | ||||
Floyd | I was a British officer, not a Nazi one; I didn't go breaking down Floyd | doors in people's homes. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says (to david), "or spying on us." | |||
| Fang says (to Nitku), "huff huff" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x west door" | ||||
Floyd | It was a four-paneled door, painted white, and newly fitted with a Floyd | solid brass lock. It was closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "knock on west door" | ||||
Floyd | I knocked on the west door. There was no response. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x keyhole" | ||||
Floyd | The word "keyhole" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "or maybe they are discussing how to bump us off" | |||
| RonN asks, "thoughts on our current POV anyone?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x panels" | ||||
Floyd | I saw no panels there. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "it almost sounds like Jack is telling us his story." | |||
| RonN says, "and correcting us when we asked him about knockin' down doors." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm thinking I'm overdue for lunch." | ||||
| RonN shrugs | ||||
| DavidW says, "Except I did eat." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Ron), "Yes." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Landing North Floyd | The main landing comprised the area at the top of the stairs leading Floyd | down to the floor below. From there doors led off to east, west, north Floyd | and northeast. The landing continued to the south past the banisters. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Down Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| RootShell arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the west door) Floyd | Floyd | Angela's Bedroom Floyd | This generous-sized bedroom immediately struck me as belonging to a Floyd | woman. There was nothing particularly feminine about the pale blue Floyd | wallpaper, so that wasn't it. The dressing table by the window was Floyd | more distinctively female, but perhaps what first hit me was the subtle Floyd | smell of the place. Both the location and the size of the room made me Floyd | suspect that the room was far more likely to be Angela Croxley's than Floyd | the housekeeper's. Floyd | Floyd | In addition to the dressing table a low bedside cabinet squatted next Floyd | to the single bed, while a built-in wardrobe occupied much of the north Floyd | wall. The only door out was to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The top of the dressing-table was littered with feminine paraphernalia. Floyd | Floyd | On the bedside cabinet was an alarm clock. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: East Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "Good Afternoon" | |||
| DavidW says, "Hi RootShell. You're only an hour late today." | ||||
| Fang says, "hello, we are foiling a nazi plot" | ||||
| RootShell says (to DavidW), "Since i discovered that im going to be a dad... My time just isn't enough for everything ;)" | ||||
| RootShell says (to DavidW), "Hi" | ||||
| RootShell says (to Fang), "Hello" | ||||
| DavidW says (to RootShell), "woot. congrats!" | RonN exclaims (at rootshell), "congrats!" | |||
| RootShell says (to RonN), "Thanks..." | Fang says, "please use the channel" | |||
| RootShell says, "hooo ok" | ||||
| RootShell says, "I seem to always forget that ;) hehehe" | ||||
| RootShell is sorry | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x paraphernalia" | ||||
Floyd | There was a large hair-brush and comb, some lipstick, the odd Floyd | powder-puff or two, some tweezers, a small bottle of nail-varnish, and Floyd | a few more bits and pieces of that sort, all vaguely esoteric to my Floyd | bachelor eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Everyone pause PLEASE!" | |||
| RootShell freezes | DavidW says, "Jacqueline and Perry need to return." | |||
| Fang says, "oh, huh" | ||||
| RonN is on paws. | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah! Wait!" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Have I missed anything?" | ||||
| RootShell unfrezes | Jacqueline asks, "Did other people bounce?" | |||
| inky says, "you missed DavidW saying we should wait for you to come back" | ||||
| Fang says, "I just x'ed the room" | ||||
| RootShell says, "Jacqueline hi" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Angela's Bedroom Floyd | This good-sized bedroom was decorated with pale blue wallpaper. A Floyd | dressing-table stood near the window, suggesting female occupancy, as Floyd | did the feminine scent of the place. A low bedside cabinet squatted Floyd | next to the single bed, while a built-in wardrobe occupied much of the Floyd | north wall. The only door out was to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The top of the dressing-table was littered with feminine paraphernalia. Floyd | Floyd | On the bedside cabinet was an alarm clock. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: East Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "Inky hi" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x paraphernalia" | ||||
Floyd | There was a large hair-brush and comb, some lipstick, the odd Floyd | powder-puff or two, some tweezers, a small bottle of nail-varnish, and Floyd | a few more bits and pieces of that sort, all vaguely esoteric to my Floyd | bachelor eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "heya RS" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cabinet" | ||||
Floyd | It was a small, white, square cabinet with a single drawer. It was Floyd | closed. On the bedside cabinet was an alarm clock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x alarm clock" | ||||
Floyd | It was a round brass-coloured clock which showed the time as Floyd | twenty-eight minutes to eight. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "btw what are we playing? ;)" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open drawer" | ||||
Floyd | Opening the bedside cabinet revealed two books (a dark blue book and a Floyd | brown book) and a letter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "read letter" | ||||
Floyd | It was dated 10th August 1940, but the sender's address had been Floyd | deleted by the censor. The body of the letter read: Floyd | Floyd | "My darling Angie, This is just a few lines to say I'm thinking of you. Floyd | I'm sorry I haven't written more, but things have been a bit hectic Floyd | here lately - Jerry isn't giving us much rest I'm afraid. Still, I Floyd | bagged a couple of Messerschmitts yesterday, and I think I winged a Floyd | Heinkel too. If I carry on at this rate old Hermann will run out of Floyd | aircraft to send at us! But with any luck I may get a spot of leave Floyd | then - I can't wait to see you! In any case, Adolf has to give up Floyd | sooner or later and once this war is over we can be together properly - Floyd | oh damn, that's the phone going. Probably another scramble, so I'd Floyd | better finish this now. Floyd | Floyd | All my love, Adam. Floyd | Floyd | P.S. Yes, a scramble. More later." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "Eric Eve game about a british soldier on leave in ww2" | |||
| RootShell says, "hhhaaa i love ww2 theme ;)" | RootShell says, "hhhaaa i love ww2 theme ;)" | |||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||||
| inky says, "man, wtf, Perry" | ||||
| DavidW says, "We lost Jacq again too." | ||||
| inky says, "my suspicious read of this is 'scramble' is a clue about the cipher the message is encoded in, but this seems pretty legit" | ||||
| RootShell says, "althougth it seems that PerrySimm is lagging today" | ||||
| inky says, "presumably this suggests that Angela is not in fact the guy's daughter, she's his daughter-in-law" | ||||
| RonN asks, "Adam's dead, right?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Adam is dead, yes." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x books" | ||||
Floyd | brown book: It was a copy of Der Zauberberg by Thomas Mann. Floyd | Floyd | dark blue book: The inscription on the spine showed it to be a copy of Floyd | the novel Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Man, I keep freezing." | |||
| Fang says, "oh, oops" | ||||
| Fang says, "should have waited" | ||||
| Fang asks (of Jacq), "when did you go?" | ||||
| RootShell asks, "maybe he should let perry rest a bit... and catch up with the lag no?" | ||||
| Nitku asks, "Did they say when Adam died?" | ||||
| Fang says, "I'm guessing immediately after this letter" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think they did, but I didn't record that." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x books" | ||||
Floyd | brown book: It was a copy of Der Zauberberg by Thomas Mann. Floyd | Floyd | dark blue book: The inscription on the spine showed it to be a copy of Floyd | the novel Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x zuberberg" | ||||
Floyd | (x zauberberg) Floyd | Floyd | It was a copy of Der Zauberberg by Thomas Mann. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||||
Floyd | It was all in German, which I didn't read, but as I opened it a piece Floyd | of paper fell out and fluttered to the floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x paper" | ||||
Floyd | (the scrumpled fragment) Floyd | It was just a tiny fragment, still badly creased, with just a few words Floyd | on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "ooooh" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Perry disconnected right after the letter from Adam." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "read paper" | ||||
Floyd | (the scrumpled fragment) Floyd | Only a few words were visible: "... plan now seems unworkable... Floyd | ... may be advisable to terminate Durbury..." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x piece of paper" | ||||
Floyd | It looked like a scrap of paper torn from a larger sheet. It was Floyd | covered in letters and numbers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||||
Floyd | The letters and numbers on the piece of paper didn't make much sense, Floyd | though there seemed to be quite a few crossings-out. It occurred to me Floyd | that some of the numbers could be page numbers, but looking them up in Floyd | the book from which the piece of paper fell probably wouldn't tell me Floyd | much, due to my lack of German. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku | He was shot down over Kent in July | |||
| Fang says, "hmmmmm" | ||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "credits" | ||||
Floyd | Shelter from the Storm by Eric Eve Floyd | Floyd | First and foremost, all credit to Michael J. Roberts for creating TADS Floyd | 3, and Michel Nizette for his work on devising a neat tense-switching Floyd | mechanism, which was subsequently incorporated into the adv3 library; Floyd | without their work this project would have been impossible. Floyd | Floyd | But just as important, many thanks to my sterling team of beta-testers: Floyd | Jim Aikin, Radical Al, Parham Doustdar, Keaton Graves, Jonathan Li, Floyd | Reiko, Michael Neal Tenuis, and Jack Welch. Without them a huge number Floyd | of tense/person switching typos would have gone uncorrected, as well as Floyd | a number of more serious bugs (including various cunning ways of Floyd | getting the game into an unwinnable state). As a result of all their Floyd | efforts this game is a far more polished offering than it otherwise Floyd | would have been. The blunders that remain are, of course, no one's Floyd | fault but my own. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open brown book" | ||||
Floyd | It was all in German, which I didn't read. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "well, mistakes do happen" | |||
| RonN says, "maybe adam worked for a spy" | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x books" | ||||
Floyd | brown book: It was a copy of Der Zauberberg by Thomas Mann. Floyd | Floyd | dark blue book: The inscription on the spine showed it to be a copy of Floyd | the novel Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "decode piece" | ||||
Floyd | The word "decode" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x lorna doone" | ||||
Floyd | The inscription on the spine showed it to be a copy of the novel Lorna Floyd | Doone by R.D. Blackmore. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "read lorna doone" | ||||
Floyd | I didn't have time to read the entire novel, but opening it revealed a Floyd | handwritten inscription on the title page: "To Angie, from your loving Floyd | brother Jeremy." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "x piece" | ||||
Floyd | Which piece do you mean, the dressing table, or the piece of paper? Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN asks, "eh? I thought her brothers were adam & tony?" | |||
| Fang says, "yes" | ||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "paper" | ||||
Floyd | It looked like a scrap of paper torn from a larger sheet. It was Floyd | covered in letters and numbers. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "....Jacq eh..." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Didn't realize it had booted me from the room..." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think we determined that Angela married into the family." | ||||
| Fang asks, "do you want us to redo anything?" | ||||
| inky says, "well, the letter Adam wrote strongly implied -- yeah" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Nah, Perry's been there the whole time." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Angela's Bedroom Floyd | This good-sized bedroom was decorated with pale blue wallpaper. A Floyd | dressing-table stood near the window, suggesting female occupancy, as Floyd | did the feminine scent of the place. A low bedside cabinet squatted Floyd | next to the single bed, while a built-in wardrobe occupied much of the Floyd | north wall. The only door out was to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The top of the dressing-table was littered with feminine paraphernalia. Floyd | Floyd | On the bedside cabinet was an alarm clock. The bedside cabinet Floyd | contained two books (a dark blue book and a brown book) and a letter. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: East Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "but I don't remember what she actually told us" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | I was carrying a theatrical magazine, a scrumpled fragment, and a piece Floyd | of paper, and I was wearing a beret and khaki battledress. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wardrobe" | ||||
Floyd | The wardrobe occupied much of the north wall, into which it was built. Floyd | Since it was closed, all I could see of it are its doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||||
Floyd | Looking under the bed revealed nothing of interest; indeed it revealed Floyd | nothing at all. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open wardrobe" | ||||
Floyd | A modest collection of clothes hung in the wardrobe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x clothes" | ||||
Floyd | A modest collection of workaday clothes hung in the wardrobe: a small Floyd | selection of blouses, skirts and trousers, but no dresses or anything Floyd | particularly fancy. A closer examination of the clothes revealed a Floyd | long wooden pole half-hidden behind. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x pole" | ||||
Floyd | It was about three feet long, and had a small brass hook on one end. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "to open the door to the attic, I guess" | |||
| RootShell says, "in a TV series 'All? All?' there was something hidden under the bed ;)" | ||||
| Alex says (to RootShell), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that All is lost." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take pole" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "Those cunning Poles" | |||
| Fang exclaims, "you will not slur our polish friends, Nitku!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Did we see a ring to pull somewhere? I don't remember such." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||||
Floyd | I saw nothing unusual about it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Angela's Bedroom Floyd | This good-sized bedroom was decorated with pale blue wallpaper. A Floyd | dressing-table stood near the window, suggesting female occupancy, as Floyd | did the feminine scent of the place. A low bedside cabinet squatted Floyd | next to the single bed, while a built-in wardrobe occupied much of the Floyd | north wall. The only door out was to the east. Floyd | Floyd | A modest collection of clothes hung in the wardrobe. Floyd | Floyd | The top of the dressing-table was littered with feminine paraphernalia. Floyd | Floyd | On the bedside cabinet was an alarm clock. The bedside cabinet Floyd | contained two books (a dark blue book and a brown book) and a letter. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: East Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x dressing table" | ||||
Floyd | It was a reasonably elegant piece of furniture, though a closer Floyd | inspection indicated that it was probably rather more inexpensive than Floyd | a cursory glance might suggest. It was white all over, apart from the Floyd | gold trim round the edges, and had a glass top covering its upper Floyd | surface and a rather cheap-looking mirror. Floyd | Floyd | The top of the dressing-table was littered with feminine paraphernalia. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "look in mirror" | ||||
Floyd | I saw my own reflection. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "push mirror" | ||||
Floyd | The mirror could not be moved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Landing North Floyd | The main landing comprised the area at the top of the stairs leading Floyd | down to the floor below. From there doors led off to east, west, north Floyd | and northeast. The landing continued to the south past the banisters. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Down Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "What's the evidence we have thus far?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||||
Floyd | I saw nothing unusual about it. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell asks, "have we tried to pull/push the half hidden pole?" | |||
| RonN says, "meh, i think past tense works better when there's a lot of NPC dialogue" | ||||
| Fang says (to Jacq), "scrumpled paper, and the note that looked like code" | ||||
| RonN says, "for neverending room descriptions, not so much." | ||||
| Fang says, "we could talk to Hilda" | ||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | I was carrying a theatrical magazine, a scrumpled fragment, a piece of Floyd | paper, and a long wooden pole, and I was wearing a beret and khaki Floyd | battledress. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "maybe she isn't part of the plot" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | (first trying to open the east door) Floyd | The east door seemed to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x east door" | ||||
Floyd | It was a plain white door. It was closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the northeast door) Floyd | Floyd | Upper Passage Floyd | The standard of decoration was definitely plainer in this part of the Floyd | house, little more than a stale lick of white paint on every available Floyd | surface. The door to the southwest marked the boundary between the Floyd | servants' quarters and the rest of the house, while a second door led Floyd | west, opposite a pair of cupboard doors to the east. In the ceiling Floyd | was a trapdoor that looked firmly closed, while a narrow flight of Floyd | stairs led down to the floor below. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: West, Southwest, Up, Down Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| RootShell asks, "pole / trapdoor?" | ||||
| inky asks, "you know, if these guys are spies, there is a reasonable chance they have the actual people locked up in the attic, right?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | The trapdoor was painted white to match the ceiling. At one end was a Floyd | small white ring. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "hmmm" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get ring with pole" | ||||
Floyd | The story doesn't understand that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "pull ring with pole" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the west door) Floyd | Floyd | Housekeeper's Bedroom Floyd | It was the smell that first made me think this must be the Floyd | housekeeper's bedroom, or rather that indefinable mix of smells that I Floyd | associated with middle-aged women - that and the location of the room Floyd | in what I took to be the servant quarters. The room was of a fairly Floyd | generous size, and looked reasonably comfortable. A single bed rested Floyd | against the north wall, at the far end of the room from the only door, Floyd | which led out to the east. The other furniture consisted of a small Floyd | upright wardrobe, a plain dressing table, and a low chest of drawers, Floyd | all made of some dark wood and all of equally utilitarian appearance. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: East Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | I saw no ring there. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "or buried six feet under" | |||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Upper Passage Floyd | The standard of decoration was definitely plainer in this part of the Floyd | house, little more than a stale lick of white paint on every available Floyd | surface. The door to the southwest marked the boundary between the Floyd | servants' quarters and the rest of the house, while a second door led Floyd | west, opposite a pair of cupboard doors to the east. In the ceiling Floyd | was a trapdoor that looked firmly closed, while a narrow flight of Floyd | stairs led down to the floor below. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: West, Southwest, Up, Down Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says (to inky), "sorry" | |||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "pull ring with pole" | ||||
Floyd | I pulled open the trapdoor with the long wooden pole, and a ladder Floyd | descended down out of the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell ) | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | I scrambled up the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | Attic (in the dark) | Fang asks, "but I think we should explore the rest before the attic?" | |||
Floyd | It was profoundly dark up there, with nothing visible apart from the Floyd | open hatch leading back down. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: Down Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "durf" | |||
| Fang says, "or not" | ||||
| inky says, "well, I guess we'll have to" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "shout" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "I guess we need a torch" | ||||
Floyd | That hardly seemed called for. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | The word "guess" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | Jacqueline says, "But the monster's up there." | |||
Floyd | I climbed back down the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | Upper Passage Floyd | The standard of decoration was definitely plainer in this part of the Floyd | house, little more than a stale lick of white paint on every available Floyd | surface. The door to the southwest marked the boundary between the Floyd | servants' quarters and the rest of the house, while a second door led Floyd | west, opposite a pair of cupboard doors to the east. A ladder ran up Floyd | from the floor through the open trapdoor in the ceiling, while a narrow Floyd | flight of stairs led down to the floor below. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: West, Southwest, Up, Down Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Check the cupboard" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cupboard" | ||||
Floyd | It was built into the east wall. It was currenly closed, so all I Floyd | could see are its doors. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||||
Floyd | On the shelves were a pair of folded white sheets. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look under sheets" | ||||
Floyd | Under the folded white sheets was a slip of paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get paper" | ||||
Floyd | I took the slip of paper. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read paper" | ||||
Floyd | Which paper do you mean, the scrumpled fragment, the piece of paper, or Floyd | the slip of paper? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "oho" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "slip" | ||||
Floyd | It was headed Joseph Mainwaring & Sons - Locksmiths, 24 High Street, Floyd | Amesbury, under which was written "To cutting one duplicate key: 2s 7d. Floyd | Payment received with thanks." Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "I think we need to establish whether hilda is on our side or not" | |||
| inky says, "it is funny how the inhabitants here stick random pieces of paper everywhere or not" | ||||
| Fang says, "and so check her room" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "True." | ||||
| DavidW asks (of inky), "You mean you don't?" | ||||
| inky says, "(er, not sure where the 'or not' came from)" | ||||
| RonN says, "also: all Nazis are horrible shots. Like stormtroopers." | ||||
| inky says (to DavidW), "uh, looking around at my computer table, I guess I do" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Housekeeper's Bedroom Floyd | The room was of a fairly generous size, and looked reasonably Floyd | comfortable. A single bed rested against the north wall, at the far Floyd | end of the room from the only door, which led out to the east. The Floyd | other furniture consisted of a small upright wardrobe, a plain dressing Floyd | table, and a low chest of drawers, all made of some dark wood and all Floyd | of equally utilitarian appearance. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: East Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search chest" | ||||
Floyd | A thorough search of the other furniture in the room - the wardrobe, Floyd | the dressing table and the chest of drawers - revealed nothing at all Floyd | unexpected, just the kind of clothes and other modest possessions one Floyd | might have expected a refugee housekeeper to own. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||||
Floyd | Under the bed was a small brown suitcase. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get suitcase" | ||||
Floyd | I picked up the small brown suitcase. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||||
Floyd | The small brown suitcase seemed to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | The small brown suitcase seemed to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x suitcase" | ||||
Floyd | It looked rather battered and scratched, as if it had been subjected to Floyd | a series of indignities over a prolonged period of time. It was Floyd | closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "search bed" | ||||
Floyd | I didn't really know what I was looking for, but I conducted a rapid Floyd | search of the bed while trying not to disturb anything; my search Floyd | proves fruitless. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Housekeeper's Bedroom Floyd | The room was of a fairly generous size, and looked reasonably Floyd | comfortable. A single bed rested against the north wall, at the far Floyd | end of the room from the only door, which led out to the east. The Floyd | other furniture consisted of a small upright wardrobe, a plain dressing Floyd | table, and a low chest of drawers, all made of some dark wood and all Floyd | of equally utilitarian appearance. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: East Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under pillow" | ||||
Floyd | I saw no pillow there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||||
Floyd | It was an ordinary single bed, remarkable only for the neatness with Floyd | which it had been made, and for the fact that it stood well clear of Floyd | the ground with ample storage space beneath. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||||
Floyd | The other furniture consisted of a small upright wardrobe, a plain Floyd | dressing table, and a low chest of drawers, all made of some dark wood Floyd | and all of equally utilitarian appearance. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "find key" | ||||
Floyd | (going east) Floyd | Floyd | Not wanting either to be encumbered with other people's property, or to Floyd | be caught stealing it, I dropped the small brown suitcase before Floyd | leaving the room. Floyd | Floyd | Upper Passage Floyd | The standard of decoration was definitely plainer in this part of the Floyd | house, little more than a stale lick of white paint on every available Floyd | surface. The door to the southwest marked the boundary between the Floyd | servants' quarters and the rest of the house, while a second door led Floyd | west, opposite a pair of cupboard doors to the east. A ladder ran up Floyd | from the floor through the open trapdoor in the ceiling, while a narrow Floyd | flight of stairs led down to the floor below. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves were a pair of folded white sheets. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: West, Southwest, Up, Down Floyd | Floyd | (To continue on your way use the command CONTINUE or C). Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "where would she keep her key? in the kitchen?" | |||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says, "I wonder what key this is" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "c" | ||||
Floyd | (going southwest) Floyd | Floyd | Landing North Floyd | The main landing comprised the area at the top of the stairs leading Floyd | down to the floor below. From there doors led off to east, west, north Floyd | and northeast. The landing continued to the south past the banisters. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Down Floyd | Floyd | (To continue on your way use the command CONTINUE or C). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "c" | ||||
Floyd | (going down) Floyd | Floyd | I descended the staircase back down to the hall. Floyd | Floyd | Hall Passage South Floyd | This was the widest part of the hall, where it opened out to Floyd | accommodate the flight of stairs that led up to the east. On the other Floyd | side of the hall a dark panelled door stood open to the west, while the Floyd | hall itself continued to both north and south. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, West, Up Floyd | Floyd | (To continue on your way use the command CONTINUE or C). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "c" | ||||
Floyd | (going north) Floyd | Floyd | Hall Passage North Floyd | The hall passage came to an end outside a brown door to the north. Floyd | Other doors led east and west, while the passage ran south towards the Floyd | main entrance hall. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West Floyd | Floyd | (To continue on your way use the command CONTINUE or C). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "c" | ||||
Floyd | (going east) Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen looked large enough to accommodate the platoon of culinary Floyd | staff who may have worked there before the war. Circumstances were now Floyd | reduced, however, leaving the place rather bare: a large wooden table Floyd | at one end, with a single hard wooden chair right next to it, now Floyd | comprised the bulk of the furniture. A long, old-fashioned cooking Floyd | range ran along the east wall, while doors led off to west, south and Floyd | north, a calendar being attached to the last of these. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, West Floyd | Floyd | I had arrived at the place where I last saw the key. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x key" | ||||
Floyd | I saw no key there. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "weird" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||||
Floyd | The sturdy table, made of seasoned oak, looked as if it might well have Floyd | done duty since the reign of Queen Victoria. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x chair" | ||||
Floyd | It was a plain, straight-backed chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x calendar" | ||||
Floyd | It was one of those plain calendars that simply lists the days of the Floyd | current month in a square grid; it was currently showing October 1940. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look behind calendar" | ||||
Floyd | I saw no reason to meddle with it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "oooh, we saw Hilda unlock something, I guess" | |||
| Nitku says, "She must have carried it with her" | ||||
| DavidW says, "hm. Perhaps Hilda carried it." | ||||
| inky says, "turn page" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||||
Floyd | I saw no page there. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "er" | |||
| RootShell says, "there was something in a paper about a copy been made ;)" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "turn calendar" | ||||
Floyd | I saw no reason to meddle with it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look up august on calendar" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to look that up in? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "calendar" | ||||
Floyd | I saw no reason to meddle with it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn page" | ||||
Floyd | I saw no page there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x august" | ||||
Floyd | The word "august" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "use calendar" | ||||
Floyd | I saw no reason to meddle with it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "I saw no reason to meddle with it == It's not important" | |||
| Nitku says, "I assume" | ||||
| Fang says, "let's go back and check the down stairs" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen looked large enough to accommodate the platoon of culinary Floyd | staff who may have worked there before the war. Circumstances were now Floyd | reduced, however, leaving the place rather bare: a large wooden table Floyd | at one end, with a single hard wooden chair right next to it, now Floyd | comprised the bulk of the furniture. A long, old-fashioned cooking Floyd | range ran along the east wall, while doors led off to west, south and Floyd | north, a calendar being attached to the last of these. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, West Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says (to Nitku), "yeah, apparently" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "/undo" | ||||
Floyd | The story doesn't know how to use the character '/' in a command. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "l". Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen looked large enough to accommodate the platoon of culinary Floyd | staff who may have worked there before the war. Circumstances were now Floyd | reduced, however, leaving the place rather bare: a large wooden table Floyd | at one end, with a single hard wooden chair right next to it, now Floyd | comprised the bulk of the furniture. A long, old-fashioned cooking Floyd | range ran along the east wall, while doors led off to west, south and Floyd | north, a calendar being attached to the last of these. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, West Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I wasn't sure if that was code for 'there is something here but you haven't found the in-game clue that lets you know that'" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "use calendar". Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen looked large enough to accommodate the platoon of culinary Floyd | staff who may have worked there before the war. Circumstances were now Floyd | reduced, however, leaving the place rather bare: a large wooden table Floyd | at one end, with a single hard wooden chair right next to it, now Floyd | comprised the bulk of the furniture. A long, old-fashioned cooking Floyd | range ran along the east wall, while doors led off to west, south and Floyd | north, a calendar being attached to the last of these. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, West Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "Nitku im stuborn" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "look up august on calendar". Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen looked large enough to accommodate the platoon of culinary Floyd | staff who may have worked there before the war. Circumstances were now Floyd | reduced, however, leaving the place rather bare: a large wooden table Floyd | at one end, with a single hard wooden chair right next to it, now Floyd | comprised the bulk of the furniture. A long, old-fashioned cooking Floyd | range ran along the east wall, while doors led off to west, south and Floyd | north, a calendar being attached to the last of these. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, West Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "turn calendar". Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen looked large enough to accommodate the platoon of culinary Floyd | staff who may have worked there before the war. Circumstances were now Floyd | reduced, however, leaving the place rather bare: a large wooden table Floyd | at one end, with a single hard wooden chair right next to it, now Floyd | comprised the bulk of the furniture. A long, old-fashioned cooking Floyd | range ran along the east wall, while doors led off to west, south and Floyd | north, a calendar being attached to the last of these. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, West Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "look behind calendar". Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen looked large enough to accommodate the platoon of culinary Floyd | staff who may have worked there before the war. Circumstances were now Floyd | reduced, however, leaving the place rather bare: a large wooden table Floyd | at one end, with a single hard wooden chair right next to it, now Floyd | comprised the bulk of the furniture. A long, old-fashioned cooking Floyd | range ran along the east wall, while doors led off to west, south and Floyd | north, a calendar being attached to the last of these. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, West Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Hall Passage North Floyd | The hall passage came to an end outside a brown door to the north. Floyd | Other doors led east and west, while the passage ran south towards the Floyd | main entrance hall. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Hall Passage South Floyd | This was the widest part of the hall, where it opened out to Floyd | accommodate the flight of stairs that led up to the east. On the other Floyd | side of the hall a dark panelled door stood open to the west, while the Floyd | hall itself continued to both north and south. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, West, Up Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | I climbed the staircase up to the floor above. Floyd | Floyd | Landing North Floyd | The main landing comprised the area at the top of the stairs leading Floyd | down to the floor below. From there doors led off to east, west, north Floyd | and northeast. The landing continued to the south past the banisters. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Down Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ne. d" | ||||
Floyd | Upper Passage Floyd | The standard of decoration was definitely plainer in this part of the Floyd | house, little more than a stale lick of white paint on every available Floyd | surface. The door to the southwest marked the boundary between the Floyd | servants' quarters and the rest of the house, while a second door led Floyd | west, opposite a pair of cupboard doors to the east. A ladder ran up Floyd | from the floor through the open trapdoor in the ceiling, while a narrow Floyd | flight of stairs led down to the floor below. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves were a pair of folded white sheets. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: West, Southwest, Up, Down Floyd | Floyd | I went down the back stairs to the back passage below. Floyd | Floyd | Back Passage Floyd | The back passage was a short, narrow space leading from the kitchen Floyd | door (to the south) to the back door (to the north) between two other Floyd | doors to east and west. The space was further constricted by a flight Floyd | of stairs leading up to the floor above. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Up Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the west door) Floyd | Floyd | Maids' Parlour Floyd | If the location of this modest-sized rectangular room had not in any Floyd | case suggested that it was the maids' parlour, the mild shabbiness of Floyd | its furnishings would probably have given the game away. Now that the Floyd | housekeeper was apparently the only member of domestic staff retained Floyd | under conditions of wartime austerity, it apparently doubled as her Floyd | workroom and sitting-room. A battered arm chair nestled against a Floyd | small, scratched wooden table in one corner, while an ironing board was Floyd | set up near the middle of the room, strategically close to the Floyd | fireplace. The sole door out was to the east. Floyd | Floyd | On the peg was a dark coat. On the small table was a wireless. Floyd | Floyd | Hilda was busily doing some ironing. Floyd | Floyd | The wireless was playing the Tannhauser overture. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: East Floyd | Floyd | "Where you get all that from?" Hilda demanded, seeing all the stuff I Floyd | was carrying. "You have come to rob us? I tell Mr Croxley for sure!" Floyd | Floyd | (My best response seemed to be to make some excuse.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "ummm" | |||
| Nitku says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "make excuse" | ||||
Floyd | "It's only some bits and pieces I happened to find lying around," I Floyd | said. Floyd | Floyd | "Too many bits; too many pieces," she complained. "I tell Mr Croxley Floyd | you are thief!" Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, ">MAKE EXCUSE is a great IF command" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "hit her" | ||||
Floyd | I couldn't do that - I was an officer in the Royal Engineers, not the Floyd | SS! Floyd | Floyd | The wireless continued to play Tannhauser. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "tell her about spy" | ||||
Floyd | "That is - how you say? - not at all unboring," she remarked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "show slip to hilda" | ||||
Floyd | "What do you make of this?" I asked. Floyd | Floyd | She took the slip of paper from me and glanced at it briefly before Floyd | handing it back. "Ich weiss nicht - I not know nothing about it." she Floyd | replied, perhaps just a little too firmly. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oops, I guess she's the spy" | |||
| Fang says, "hmmmm" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "show slip to hilda". Floyd | Floyd | Maids' Parlour Floyd | If the location of this modest-sized rectangular room had not in any Floyd | case suggested that it was the maids' parlour, the mild shabbiness of Floyd | its furnishings would probably have given the game away. Now that the Floyd | housekeeper was apparently the only member of domestic staff retained Floyd | under conditions of wartime austerity, it apparently doubled as her Floyd | workroom and sitting-room. A battered arm chair nestled against a Floyd | small, scratched wooden table in one corner, while an ironing board was Floyd | set up near the middle of the room, strategically close to the Floyd | fireplace. The sole door out was to the east. Floyd | Floyd | On the peg was a dark coat. On the small table was a wireless. Floyd | Floyd | Hilda was still ironing away. Floyd | Floyd | The overture playing on the radio reached a stirring rendition of the Floyd | Pilgrim's Chorus. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: East Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "kiss Hilda" | ||||
Floyd | I didn't really fancy her. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "well, she can't be the only spy" | |||
| inky says, "I guess we could just undo before walking in the room and drop everything" | ||||
| inky says, "I am guessing the keys are in her coat here" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "This is awesome." | ||||
| Fang says, "since there was stuff in the other bedrooms" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "kiss Hilda". Floyd | Floyd | Maids' Parlour Floyd | If the location of this modest-sized rectangular room had not in any Floyd | case suggested that it was the maids' parlour, the mild shabbiness of Floyd | its furnishings would probably have given the game away. Now that the Floyd | housekeeper was apparently the only member of domestic staff retained Floyd | under conditions of wartime austerity, it apparently doubled as her Floyd | workroom and sitting-room. A battered arm chair nestled against a Floyd | small, scratched wooden table in one corner, while an ironing board was Floyd | set up near the middle of the room, strategically close to the Floyd | fireplace. The sole door out was to the east. Floyd | Floyd | On the peg was a dark coat. On the small table was a wireless. Floyd | Floyd | Hilda was still ironing away. Floyd | Floyd | The wireless broadcast reached a quieter passage. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: East Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "tell her about spy". Floyd | Floyd | Maids' Parlour Floyd | If the location of this modest-sized rectangular room had not in any Floyd | case suggested that it was the maids' parlour, the mild shabbiness of Floyd | its furnishings would probably have given the game away. Now that the Floyd | housekeeper was apparently the only member of domestic staff retained Floyd | under conditions of wartime austerity, it apparently doubled as her Floyd | workroom and sitting-room. A battered arm chair nestled against a Floyd | small, scratched wooden table in one corner, while an ironing board was Floyd | set up near the middle of the room, strategically close to the Floyd | fireplace. The sole door out was to the east. Floyd | Floyd | On the peg was a dark coat. On the small table was a wireless. Floyd | Floyd | Hilda was still ironing away. Floyd | Floyd | The overture playing on the radio reached a stirring rendition of the Floyd | Pilgrim's Chorus. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: East Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "hit her". Floyd | Floyd | Maids' Parlour Floyd | If the location of this modest-sized rectangular room had not in any Floyd | case suggested that it was the maids' parlour, the mild shabbiness of Floyd | its furnishings would probably have given the game away. Now that the Floyd | housekeeper was apparently the only member of domestic staff retained Floyd | under conditions of wartime austerity, it apparently doubled as her Floyd | workroom and sitting-room. A battered arm chair nestled against a Floyd | small, scratched wooden table in one corner, while an ironing board was Floyd | set up near the middle of the room, strategically close to the Floyd | fireplace. The sole door out was to the east. Floyd | Floyd | On the peg was a dark coat. On the small table was a wireless. Floyd | Floyd | Hilda was still ironing away. Floyd | Floyd | The wireless continued to play Tannhauser. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: East Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "make excuse". Floyd | Floyd | Maids' Parlour Floyd | If the location of this modest-sized rectangular room had not in any Floyd | case suggested that it was the maids' parlour, the mild shabbiness of Floyd | its furnishings would probably have given the game away. Now that the Floyd | housekeeper was apparently the only member of domestic staff retained Floyd | under conditions of wartime austerity, it apparently doubled as her Floyd | workroom and sitting-room. A battered arm chair nestled against a Floyd | small, scratched wooden table in one corner, while an ironing board was Floyd | set up near the middle of the room, strategically close to the Floyd | fireplace. The sole door out was to the east. Floyd | Floyd | On the peg was a dark coat. On the small table was a wireless. Floyd | Floyd | Hilda was still ironing away. Floyd | Floyd | The wireless continued to play Tannhauser. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: East Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "w". Floyd | Floyd | Back Passage Floyd | The back passage was a short, narrow space leading from the kitchen Floyd | door (to the south) to the back door (to the north) between two other Floyd | doors to east and west. The space was further constricted by a flight Floyd | of stairs leading up to the floor above. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Up Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky says, "good idea!" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Any pockets?" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | I was carrying a theatrical magazine, a scrumpled fragment, a piece of Floyd | paper, a long wooden pole, and a slip of paper, and I was wearing a Floyd | beret and khaki battledress. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I didn't check anything out yet" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | (first trying to open the east door) Floyd | The east door seemed to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "drop pole" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | I was carrying a theatrical magazine, a scrumpled fragment, a piece of Floyd | paper, and a slip of paper, and I was wearing a beret and khaki Floyd | battledress. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "drop magazine" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "drop battledress" | ||||
Floyd | (first trying to take off the khaki battledress) Floyd | I had no desire to walk round half-naked. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "she can't accuse us of steal pieces of paper, right?" | |||
| Fang says, "*stealing" | ||||
| inky says, "well, I hope not" | ||||
| Fang says, "maybe we should question her about durburg" | ||||
| Fang says, "er, durbury" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put all paper in pocket" | ||||
Floyd | I saw no pocket there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the west door) Floyd | Floyd | Maids' Parlour Floyd | If the location of this modest-sized rectangular room had not in any Floyd | case suggested that it was the maids' parlour, the mild shabbiness of Floyd | its furnishings would probably have given the game away. Now that the Floyd | housekeeper was apparently the only member of domestic staff retained Floyd | under conditions of wartime austerity, it apparently doubled as her Floyd | workroom and sitting-room. A battered arm chair nestled against a Floyd | small, scratched wooden table in one corner, while an ironing board was Floyd | set up near the middle of the room, strategically close to the Floyd | fireplace. The sole door out was to the east. Floyd | Floyd | On the peg was a dark coat. On the small table was a wireless. Floyd | Floyd | Hilda was busily doing some ironing. Floyd | Floyd | The wireless was playing the Tannhauser overture. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: East Floyd | Floyd | "Where you get all that from?" Hilda demanded, seeing all the stuff I Floyd | was carrying. "You have come to rob us? I tell Mr Croxley for sure!" Floyd | Floyd | (My best response seemed to be to make some excuse.) Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "bah" | |||
| inky says, "I guess it's just checking inventory size, not what the items actually are" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about durbury" | ||||
Floyd | "Who's Durbury?" I asked. Floyd | Floyd | Hilda looked momentarily startled, then snapped, "I have no idea. Why Floyd | you ask me such things?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about jeremy" | ||||
Floyd | "So?" she shrugged. Floyd | Floyd | The wireless continued to play Tannhauser. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about germany" | ||||
Floyd | "How was Germany, before you left?" I enquireed. Floyd | Floyd | "Very frightening," Hilda told me, "especially for Jews, but also for Floyd | everyone else, I think." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "show piece of paper to her" | ||||
Floyd | "What do you make of this?" I asked, showing her the piece of paper Floyd | covered with letters and numbers. Floyd | Floyd | "Nothing," she replied, after a quick glance. "Make no sense to me at Floyd | all." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "examine her on the tenets of judaism" | ||||
Floyd | The word "tenets" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "'enquirEed?" | |||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about adam" | ||||
Floyd | "Do you know anything about Adam Croxley?" I asked. Floyd | Floyd | "Only that he shot down by German plane," she replied. "He was already Floyd | dead before I come." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about tony" | ||||
Floyd | "What do you know about Tony Croxley?" I asked. Floyd | Floyd | "Not very much," she replied. "He was Mr Croxley's son, in army, but Floyd | not come back from France." Floyd | Floyd | The overture playing on the radio reached a stirring rendition of the Floyd | Pilgrim's Chorus. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "wait" | |||
| Fang says, "Tony didn't come back" | ||||
| Fang says, "that doesn't mean he's dead" | ||||
| Fang says, "maybe he's being held hostage" | ||||
| inky says, "it could be him in the attic, sure" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about angela" | ||||
Floyd | "I had quite a nice little chat with Miss Croxley," I remarked. "She Floyd | certainly seems a nice girl." Floyd | Floyd | "Young men are such fools, always going by what seems," she replied. Floyd | "I tell you, Miss Croxley not what she seem. She don't tell truth for Floyd | one thing. And then she creep about at night, waking me up when she Floyd | walk past my room, but denying it all. No, Herr Leutnant, Miss Croxley Floyd | only seem nice. Behind that pretty face and pretty smile is different Floyd | person." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "but at this point presumably we can't trust anything anyone says" | |||
| inky says, "hunh, weird" | ||||
| Fang says, "wait, huh" | ||||
| inky says, "ok, narratively this suggests that hilda is a good guy and angela is a bad guy" | ||||
| Fang says, "maybe angela is the spy" | ||||
| inky says, "but hilda's been acting pretty suspicious when we ask her about stuff" | ||||
| Fang says, "maybe Hilda doesn't know whether to trust us with her suspicions" | ||||
| inky says, "yeah maybe" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask hilda about attic" | ||||
Floyd | "What do you keep up in the attic?" I asked. Floyd | Floyd | "What a question? Why you care what Croxleys keep in their attic!" she Floyd | declared. "Besides, why would I know? I not go there!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask hilda about trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | "Where does that trapdoor upstairs lead?" I asked. "And how do you Floyd | get it open?" Floyd | Floyd | "Why you want to know?" she replied crossly. "What business of yours? Floyd | Why you go snooping round house? You leave things alone, or I tell Mr Floyd | Croxley!" Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "but we're the military" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask hilda about suitcase" | ||||
Floyd | I didn't have the effrontery to ask Hilda about her suitcase; to have Floyd | done so would have been to admit that I had been searching her room. Floyd | Floyd | The wireless broadcast reached a quieter passage. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hee hee" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x coat" | ||||
Floyd | It was a dark coat, almost black, with a pocket to one side. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pocket" | ||||
Floyd | The pocket looked quite deep. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in it" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about arthur" | ||||
Floyd | "What you think you doing?" Hilda complained. "Are you the Gestapo Floyd | now? You leave my coat alone!" Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | "Tell me more about Mr Croxley," I said. "What's he like?" Floyd | Floyd | "He seem a good man," she replied. "He has been kind to me, and - how Floyd | you say? - deals well with so many deaths. Inwardly he is sad, I Floyd | think." Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell asks, "Mr. Croxley?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search pocket" | ||||
Floyd | "Leave coat alone!" Hilda insisted. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about sad" | ||||
Floyd | "I not talk about such things," she replied. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask hilda about coat" | ||||
Floyd | "That's an interesting-looking coat you have there," I remarked. Floyd | Floyd | "Interesting?" she queried, "Is just a coat!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her for torch" | ||||
Floyd | "Is there a torch somewhere I could borrow?" I enquired. Floyd | Floyd | "What you want torch for?" she demanded suspiciously. Floyd | Floyd | "In case of a power cut," I lied smoothly. "The storm's already Floyd | brought the telephone lines down, so I thought the power lines might be Floyd | next, and I'm not sure I fancy spending the night in a strange house Floyd | without being able to see anything!" Floyd | Floyd | "Ach! Men are such babies - scared of the dark! And you a soldier!" Floyd | she taunted. "But I think there is spare torch in - what you call it? Floyd | - small room off kitchen where we store food." Floyd | Floyd | The Wagner overture continued to play on the wireless. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "see, wagner" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "haha" | ||||
| Fang says, "man, she forgets her suspicions quickly" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "buy coat" | ||||
Floyd | The word "buy" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about scrumpled" | ||||
Floyd | "What do you think this means?" I asked, showing her the scrumpled Floyd | piece of paper with the remark about terminating Durbury on it. Floyd | Floyd | For a moment she seemed quite startled as she read the scrap, but then Floyd | vigorously shook her head, "I have no idea!" she declared. "No idea at Floyd | all!" Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "does it seem like suspicions are building up?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about durbury" | ||||
Floyd | She'd already told me that she had no idea who Durbury was. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "also, maybe we should have stolen the family photo from the bedroom and showed it to her" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about arthur" | ||||
Floyd | She'd already told me that Mr Croxley seemed a good man, who had been Floyd | kind to her and who seemed to be coping well with so many bereavements, Floyd | although she also thought that he was sad inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tell hilda about photo" | ||||
Floyd | "Who are those people in the photo in Mr Croxley's bedroom?" I Floyd | enquired. Floyd | Floyd | "How I know?" she replied. "Why he tell me? I not ask such things - I Floyd | not snoop around like you!" Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok, wait" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about graham" | ||||
Floyd | "I think I do not understand your question," she told me. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "ouch. point for her" | |||
| inky says, "a non-snooping housekeeper? she must be a spy" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about mr graham" | ||||
Floyd | "It is like this," she began. "Ach! I have not the words for it in Floyd | English!" Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| RootShell says, "she is inlove with the man :P" | ||||
| Gerynar arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about creak" | ||||
Floyd | "I'm sure I heard some more creaking sounds from upstairs," I said. Floyd | "There has to be someone moving around there - even if it's only a Floyd | ghost!" Floyd | Floyd | "No ghosts, no people, just old house noises, like Miss Croxley say," Floyd | she replied. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to RonN), "heehee" | |||
| Fang says, "well, it sounds like Angela was lying to her as well" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about bedrooms" | ||||
Floyd | In reply she merely grunted and carried on ironing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about room with gramophone" | ||||
Floyd | "So many questions!" she complained. "You are worse than the police!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "we're the army. Of course we are worse than police" | |||
| Fang asks, "so, get torch and snoop?" | ||||
| RonN lols | ||||
| RootShell says, "snop snop" | ||||
| Fang says, "anyone wanna drive" | ||||
| Fang says, "I've been driving for a while" | ||||
| inky says, "I don't really know the house layout" | ||||
| inky says, "I guess I can use find, though" | ||||
| RootShell says, "I'm sorry ... I can't i dont have a IF driving license yet" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "find torch" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to look that up in? Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar will watch...he's still at work. | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "find kitchen" | ||||
Floyd | (going east) Floyd | Floyd | Hilda watched me go. Floyd | Floyd | Back Passage Floyd | The back passage was a short, narrow space leading from the kitchen Floyd | door (to the south) to the back door (to the north) between two other Floyd | doors to east and west. The space was further constricted by a flight Floyd | of stairs leading up to the floor above. Floyd | Floyd | I saw a long wooden pole and a theatrical magazine there. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Up Floyd | Floyd | (To continue on your way use the command CONTINUE or C). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "c" | ||||
Floyd | (going up) Floyd | Floyd | I climbed the narrow stairs to the floor above. Floyd | Floyd | Upper Passage Floyd | The standard of decoration was definitely plainer in this part of the Floyd | house, little more than a stale lick of white paint on every available Floyd | surface. The door to the southwest marked the boundary between the Floyd | servants' quarters and the rest of the house, while a second door led Floyd | west, opposite a pair of cupboard doors to the east. A ladder ran up Floyd | from the floor through the open trapdoor in the ceiling, while a narrow Floyd | flight of stairs led down to the floor below. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves were a pair of folded white sheets. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: West, Southwest, Up, Down Floyd | Floyd | (To continue on your way use the command CONTINUE or C). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "c" | ||||
Floyd | (going southwest) Floyd | Floyd | Landing North Floyd | The main landing comprised the area at the top of the stairs leading Floyd | down to the floor below. From there doors led off to east, west, north Floyd | and northeast. The landing continued to the south past the banisters. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Down Floyd | Floyd | (To continue on your way use the command CONTINUE or C). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "c" | ||||
Floyd | (going down) Floyd | Floyd | I descended the staircase back down to the hall. Floyd | Floyd | Hall Passage South Floyd | This was the widest part of the hall, where it opened out to Floyd | accommodate the flight of stairs that led up to the east. On the other Floyd | side of the hall a dark panelled door stood open to the west, while the Floyd | hall itself continued to both north and south. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, West, Up Floyd | Floyd | (To continue on your way use the command CONTINUE or C). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "c" | ||||
Floyd | (going north) Floyd | Floyd | Hall Passage North Floyd | The hall passage came to an end outside a brown door to the north. Floyd | Other doors led east and west, while the passage ran south towards the Floyd | main entrance hall. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West Floyd | Floyd | (To continue on your way use the command CONTINUE or C). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "c" | ||||
Floyd | (going east) Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen looked large enough to accommodate the platoon of culinary Floyd | staff who may have worked there before the war. Circumstances were now Floyd | reduced, however, leaving the place rather bare: a large wooden table Floyd | at one end, with a single hard wooden chair right next to it, now Floyd | comprised the bulk of the furniture. A long, old-fashioned cooking Floyd | range ran along the east wall, while doors led off to west, south and Floyd | north, a calendar being attached to the last of these. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, West Floyd | Floyd | I had arrived at the kitchen. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the south door) Floyd | Floyd | Larder Floyd | Shelves lined the walls to east and west, leaving a narrow aisle Floyd | running from the door at the northern end to the small window at the Floyd | other. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves were a torch, some tins, some packets, some loose Floyd | potatoes, and some apples. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take torch" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x packets" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x tins" | ||||
Floyd | Some contained flour, others bread, and others broken biscuits[2]. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | There were all sorts of tins there, including tinned vegetables, corned Floyd | beef, and various other supplies. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I've always hated that word. Larder." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x potatoes" | ||||
Floyd | Most of them looked as if they had been kept a little too long, since Floyd | they were beginning to sprout. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "potatoes? suspicious" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Larder. Where we keep the lard." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "footnote 2" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | Broken biscuits might seem an odd thing to keep, but the point is they Floyd | weren't rationed. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | The small window was hidden behind the curtains. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open window" | ||||
Floyd | The small window was hidden behind the curtains. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look out window" | ||||
Floyd | The small window was hidden behind the curtains. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "it doesn't seem realistic to have a window in the larder, but whatever" | |||
| Fang says, "larder, harder" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "find trapdoor" | ||||
Floyd | Which trapdoor do you mean, the hatch, or the ladder (in the upper Floyd | passage)? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "hatch" | ||||
Floyd | I couldn't get there from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen looked large enough to accommodate the platoon of culinary Floyd | staff who may have worked there before the war. Circumstances were now Floyd | reduced, however, leaving the place rather bare: a large wooden table Floyd | at one end, with a single hard wooden chair right next to it, now Floyd | comprised the bulk of the furniture. A long, old-fashioned cooking Floyd | range ran along the east wall, while doors led off to west, south and Floyd | north, a calendar being attached to the last of these. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, West Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "find ladder" | ||||
Floyd | I couldn't get there from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the north door) Floyd | Floyd | Back Passage Floyd | The back passage was a short, narrow space leading from the kitchen Floyd | door (to the south) to the back door (to the north) between two other Floyd | doors to east and west. The space was further constricted by a flight Floyd | of stairs leading up to the floor above. Floyd | Floyd | I saw a long wooden pole and a theatrical magazine there. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Up Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||||
Floyd | I took the long wooden pole and the theatrical magazine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | I climbed the narrow stairs to the floor above. Floyd | Floyd | Upper Passage Floyd | The standard of decoration was definitely plainer in this part of the Floyd | house, little more than a stale lick of white paint on every available Floyd | surface. The door to the southwest marked the boundary between the Floyd | servants' quarters and the rest of the house, while a second door led Floyd | west, opposite a pair of cupboard doors to the east. A ladder ran up Floyd | from the floor through the open trapdoor in the ceiling, while a narrow Floyd | flight of stairs led down to the floor below. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves were a pair of folded white sheets. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: West, Southwest, Up, Down Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | I scrambled up the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | Attic (in the dark) Floyd | It was profoundly dark up there, with nothing visible apart from the Floyd | open hatch leading back down. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: Down Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x torch" | ||||
Floyd | It was too dark to do that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "turn on torch" | ||||
Floyd | I switched on the torch, and it emitted a reasonably bright beam of Floyd | light. Floyd | Floyd | Attic Floyd | The attic had accumulated surprisingly little junk for a family home. Floyd | Bare boards stretched out in every direction from the open hatch with Floyd | little to clutter them. The beam of my torch picked out hardly Floyd | anything apart from the odd packing crate and a plethora of cobwebs. Floyd | Almost by chance it also landed on an old blanket covering a pile of Floyd | stuff half-hidden away. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: Down Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x torch" | ||||
Floyd | It was basically a black metal tube with a silver switch on the side, Floyd | currently switched on. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN asks (of inky), "without a window, how are the potatoes to grow?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x crate" | ||||
Floyd | A number of large wooden crates sat on the floor, each of them quite Floyd | plain and none of them giving any clue as to its contents. The dust on Floyd | the ground near one of them seemed to have been disturbed quite Floyd | recently. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "move crate" | ||||
Floyd | I pushed one of the crates a few inches, along the lines in the dust, Floyd | revealing a loose floorboard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch can produce a dozen witnesses to swear he was elsewhere. | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "lift floorboard" | ||||
Floyd | The word "lift" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "nailed" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open floorboard" | ||||
Floyd | That was not something I could open. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "oooh" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x floorboard" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take floorboard" | ||||
Floyd | It was shorter than most of the other boards, being only about six or Floyd | seven inches long.One end was a fraction of an inch proud of its Floyd | neighbour, and I noticed it wobble when I moved the crate. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Under the loose floorboard was a dull grey key. I picked up the dull Floyd | grey key and replaced the floorboard. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "interesting" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x blanket" | ||||
Floyd | The blanket was of a dark brown colour, and looked quite worn. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look under it" | ||||
Floyd | Under the old blanket was a large wooden box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||||
Floyd | Smaller than the packing crates, the wooden box was also of higher Floyd | quality construction, being made of some dark polished wood - mahogany Floyd | perhaps. It was about two feet wide, a foot high, and eighteen inches Floyd | deep. It was closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open box" | ||||
Floyd | The large wooden box seemed to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unlock box" | ||||
Floyd | (with the dull grey key) Floyd | Unlocked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the old blanket) Floyd | Moving the old blanket revealed a large wooden box underneath. Opening Floyd | the large wooden box revealed a radio, a pair of headphones, and a Floyd | small tin box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x tin box" | ||||
Floyd | It was a small tin box, painted black, of the sort one might keep Floyd | various little odds and ends in. It was closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "ooooh" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||||
Floyd | Opening the small tin box revealed a pencil and a small brass key. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "suspicious" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x brass key" | ||||
Floyd | It looked pretty new; the brass was still shiny with scarcely any sign Floyd | of tarnishing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x pencil" | ||||
Floyd | It was an ordinary enough pencil, mid-way between blunt and sharp, with Floyd | perhaps about of quarter of its length used up. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "...weird" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, this is more suspicious than the potatoes." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x pencil" | ||||
Floyd | It was an ordinary enough pencil, mid-way between blunt and sharp, with Floyd | perhaps about of quarter of its length used up. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Brass key probably for Landing South west door." | |||
| RonN exclaims, "maybe its a German pencil!" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take key" | ||||
Floyd | I took the small brass key. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x radio" | ||||
Floyd | The wireless set fitted snugly in its box, with a coil of wire attached Floyd | at one end. The most prominent features of the set itself were the Floyd | tuning dial, the telegraph key and the power switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "should we try to use the radio?" | |||
| inky says, "I assume that we can't do much with it without an instruction book or something" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x dial" | ||||
Floyd | The numbers round the dial indicated that it could be turned to any Floyd | number between 1 and 30; it was currently set to 3. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "ACH NEIN" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Oh, sure. But save first." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x headphones" | ||||
Floyd | They were entirely black, and quite large, but not particularly heavy. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So when they come to shoot us in the back of the head..." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "put on headphones" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the pair of headphones) Floyd | Okay, I was now wearing the pair of headphones. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Maybe just listen in..." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "switch on radio" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, the power switch was now on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | The rain constantly drummed against the window. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "perhaps the radio's just for calling in the calvary after we solve the mystery" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Attic Floyd | The attic had accumulated surprisingly little junk for a family home. Floyd | Bare boards stretched out in every direction from the open hatch with Floyd | little to clutter them. The beam of my torch picked out hardly Floyd | anything apart from the odd packing crate and a plethora of cobwebs. Floyd | There was also a large wooden box in the corner by the window. Floyd | Floyd | The loose floorboard was scarcely noticeable, being nearly flush with Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | The large wooden box contained a radio and a small tin box (which Floyd | contained a pencil). Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: Down Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar says, "or for sending secret messages to the nazis" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x radio" | inky says, "yeah" | |||
Floyd | The wireless set fitted snugly in its box, with a coil of wire attached Floyd | at one end. The most prominent features of the set itself were the Floyd | tuning dial, the telegraph key and the power switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "say achtung" | ||||
Floyd | The word "achtung" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Tuning dial. Probably important." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x paper" | ||||
Floyd | Which paper do you mean, the scrumpled fragment, the piece of paper, or Floyd | the slip of paper? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x slip" | ||||
Floyd | It was a receipt from a locksmith. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x piece" | ||||
Floyd | It looked like a scrap of paper torn from a larger sheet. It was Floyd | covered in letters and numbers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "read piece" | ||||
Floyd | The letters and numbers on the piece of paper didn't make much sense, Floyd | though there seemed to be quite a few crossings-out. It occurred to me Floyd | that some of the numbers could be page numbers, but looking them up in Floyd | the book from which the piece of paper fell probably wouldn't tell me Floyd | much, due to my lack of German. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "I guess note of them are frequencies" | |||
| Fang says, "*none" | ||||
| inky says, "hmm" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x radio" | ||||
Floyd | The wireless set fitted snugly in its box, with a coil of wire attached Floyd | at one end. The most prominent features of the set itself were the Floyd | tuning dial, the telegraph key and the power switch. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x key" | inky says, "ok, I guess the comment about "due to my lack of german" actually suggests we look them up in another book" | |||
Floyd | Which key do you mean, the dull grey key, the telegraph key, or the Floyd | small brass key? Floyd | Floyd | > | Gerynar says, "sounds like a one-time-use codebook" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x telegraph key" | ||||
Floyd | It was basically a flat strip with a black knob at one end. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Fang), "Given the fact that you have to keep correcting yourself, I'm beginning to SUSPECT YOU ARE GERMAN." | |||
| inky says, "the obvious one is the one that says love jeremy" | ||||
| Fang exclaims, "Nein!" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "aHA" | ||||
| Gerynar says, "Ich bin Amerikaner" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "press key" | ||||
Floyd | (the telegraph key) Floyd | I tried tapping out a few letters in Morse code, but though the radio Floyd | set beeped dutifully, there was no sign that anyone was receiving my Floyd | transmission. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "well, I guess the luftwaffe is routing a bomber as we speak" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Crap. I just realized we forgot to invite Eric." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "He probably would have liked to have been here." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But I guess he'll garner much of what he knows from our comments in the transcript." | ||||
| DavidW says, "by the way, where did the torch come from? I've had to leave my keyboard several times." | ||||
| Fang says, "larder" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Regarding tense preferences and stuff." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to David), "We got it in the larder." | ||||
| inky says, "the housekeeper said it was in the larder off the kitchen" | ||||
| inky says, "and we went there and sure enough" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Having looked there after - right, Hilda." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take radio" | ||||
Floyd | The radio seemed to be firmly fitted to the box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take box" | ||||
Floyd | Which box do you mean, the small tin box, or the large wooden box? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x tin" | ||||
Floyd | It was a small tin box, painted black, of the sort one might keep Floyd | various little odds and ends in. It was open, and contained a pencil. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take tin" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take large wooden" | ||||
Floyd | Which large wooden do you mean, the crates, or the large wooden box? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take large wooden box" | ||||
Floyd | It would have been possible, but cumbersome, to move the box, and Floyd | probably a bit awkward to carry it down the ladder. On balance it Floyd | seemed better to leave it where it was. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "use the radio to call Eric. "We need the DM."" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "In another window I'm reading through discussions about the tense/person experiment. Interesting reasons for various preferences." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I still like the third person past." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It's like reading a novel." | ||||
| Fang says, "I like the first person present" | ||||
| RonN says, "i'm partial to present tense myself." | ||||
| RonN says, "not so much first, though." | ||||
| RonN says, "with a frame story, I think first would work better." | ||||
| Fang says, "so, I guess we should unlock some doors" | ||||
| Fang says, "and whack whoever is within with a pole" | ||||
| RonN says, "I was there, in the great unlocking of '40" | ||||
| inky says, "hee hee" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Not wanting either to be encumbered with other people's property, or to Floyd | be caught stealing it, I dropped the old blanket before leaving the Floyd | room. I climbed back down the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | Upper Passage Floyd | The standard of decoration was definitely plainer in this part of the Floyd | house, little more than a stale lick of white paint on every available Floyd | surface. The door to the southwest marked the boundary between the Floyd | servants' quarters and the rest of the house, while a second door led Floyd | west, opposite a pair of cupboard doors to the east. A ladder ran up Floyd | from the floor through the open trapdoor in the ceiling, while a narrow Floyd | flight of stairs led down to the floor below. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves were a pair of folded white sheets. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: West, Southwest, Up, Down Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Landing North Floyd | The main landing comprised the area at the top of the stairs leading Floyd | down to the floor below. From there doors led off to east, west, north Floyd | and northeast. The landing continued to the south past the banisters. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Down Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Landing South Floyd | This section of the landing was much narrower than the part further Floyd | north, being no more than a passage between the rooms on either side. Floyd | The landing ended at a narrow curtained window immediately to the south Floyd | and continued past the banister to the north, while white panelled Floyd | doors led off to east and west. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, East, West Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | (first trying to open the west door) Floyd | The west door seemed to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unlock it" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to unlock it with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "key" | ||||
Floyd | Which key do you mean, the dull grey key, or the small brass key? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "brass" | ||||
Floyd | Unlocked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the west door) Floyd | Floyd | Goering Room Floyd | I dubbed this the "Goering Room" at once, on account of the large Floyd | picture of Hermann Goering facing me from the west wall. In normal Floyd | times this would probably have been a bedroom, but there was no bed Floyd | there now. The only piece of ordinary bedroom furniture was the tall Floyd | wooden wardrobe standing in one corner, otherwise much of the Floyd | floorspace was taken up by a low metal cabinet. The door out was to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | On the metal cabinet was a cine projector. On the lower spindle was an Floyd | empty reel. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: East Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "hahahaha" | |||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says, "oh, those nazis" | ||||
| inky says, "always having their secret nazi lairs" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Goering Room Floyd | The most striking feature of this room was the large picture of Hermann Floyd | Goering hanging on the west wall. In normal times this would probably Floyd | have been a bedroom, but there was no bed there now. The only piece of Floyd | ordinary bedroom furniture was the tall wooden wardrobe standing in one Floyd | corner, otherwise much of the floorspace was taken up by a low metal Floyd | cabinet. The door out was to the east. Floyd | Floyd | On the metal cabinet was a cine projector. On the lower spindle was an Floyd | empty reel. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: East Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "man, this is pretty darn unsubtle" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | ||||
Floyd | Opening the metal cabinet revealed a single metal shelf, under which Floyd | was a metal canister. On the metal shelf were a pamphlet and a red Floyd | book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x red book" | ||||
Floyd | It appeared to be a biography of Hermann Goering. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "read pamphlet" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the pamphlet) Floyd | It turned out to be a recent intelligence report on the Luftwaffe, Floyd | giving details of current German aircraft, photographs of typical Floyd | Luftwaffe personnel, and coloured plates illustrating Luftwaffe Floyd | uniforms and insignia. Towards the back the pamphlet gave estimates of Floyd | the current size of the German air force and the dispositions of its Floyd | main units. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN asks, "I'm geuess I'm not schooled in Nazi lore. Who's Goering?" | |||
| inky says, "hunh, weird" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open wardrobe" | ||||
Floyd | Opening the wardrobe revealed a Luftwaffe uniform. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen asks, "wow, really?" | |||
| inky says, "he's hitler's number two guy" | ||||
| Fang says (to RonN), "head of luftwaffe" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Male or female uniform?" | ||||
| Allen asks, "Hermann Goering, head of the nazi air force?" | ||||
| Fang says, "wait, maybe these guys are british spies" | ||||
| Allen says, "he was a great guy. Loved art. Especially art he could take from Jews" | ||||
| inky says, "ok, yeah, this kind of confuses me again" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x uniform" | ||||
Floyd | (the Luftwaffe uniform) Floyd | It wasn't a standard blue Luftwaffe uniform, instead it was white, like Floyd | the one Goering was pictured as wearing. Indeed it could have been a Floyd | copy of the Reichsmarschall's uniform, complete with double-breasted Floyd | tunic and gold trimmings. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "I agree this sounds like they might be good guys after all" | |||
| Allen says, "there was some prisoner in some british prison that people claimed was Goering for years" | ||||
| Fang says, "the painting doesn't make sense, though" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x painting" | ||||
Floyd | I saw no painting there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Goering Room Floyd | The most striking feature of this room was the large picture of Hermann Floyd | Goering hanging on the west wall. In normal times this would probably Floyd | have been a bedroom, but there was no bed there now. The only piece of Floyd | ordinary bedroom furniture was the tall wooden wardrobe standing in one Floyd | corner, otherwise much of the floorspace was taken up by a low metal Floyd | cabinet. The door out was to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The wardrobe contained a Luftwaffe uniform. On the metal cabinet was a Floyd | cine projector. On the lower spindle was an empty reel. The metal Floyd | cabinet contained a single metal shelf, under which was a metal Floyd | canister. On the metal shelf was a red book. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: East Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "I'm trying to think of an excuse to save face. This may take quite awhile." | |||
| Allen says, "supposedly he was involved in some plot to overthrow hitler by flying a spy into scotland or something" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "hm. Someone trying to impersonate Goering?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "read red book" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the red book) Floyd | I hardly had time to read it all, but a quick skim indicated that it Floyd | narrated Goering's life from his birth in 1893, through his career as a Floyd | fighter pilot (with 22 confirmed kills) in the Great War, his first Floyd | marriage to Karin von Kantzow in 1923, the year after he joined the Floyd | Nazi Party, his leadership of the SA, his morphine addiction, his Floyd | subsequent election to the Reichstag, his Nazification of the Prussian Floyd | police, his second marriage in 1935 to Emmy Sonnemann, his patronage of Floyd | music, his various other offices of state under the Nazi regime, and Floyd | finally his leadership of the Luftwaffe. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "I have no idea what game you're playing. I just drove in from austin" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x picture" | ||||
Floyd | The picture showed the Reichsmarschall dressed in a white uniform. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look behind it" | ||||
Floyd | I couldn't see anything behind the picture of Hermann Goering. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "heh, it's like the book is for RonN's benefit" | |||
| RootShell says, "I think DavidW is right... they are help the british by impersonating Goering ;)" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take book" | ||||
Floyd | I was already carrying the red book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Goering Room Floyd | The most striking feature of this room was the large picture of Hermann Floyd | Goering hanging on the west wall. In normal times this would probably Floyd | have been a bedroom, but there was no bed there now. The only piece of Floyd | ordinary bedroom furniture was the tall wooden wardrobe standing in one Floyd | corner, otherwise much of the floorspace was taken up by a low metal Floyd | cabinet. The door out was to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The wardrobe contained a Luftwaffe uniform. On the metal cabinet was a Floyd | cine projector. On the lower spindle was an empty reel. The metal Floyd | cabinet contained a single metal shelf, under which was a metal Floyd | canister. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: East Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x projector" | ||||
Floyd | The projector had two spindles, upper and lower, a switch and a dial. Floyd | On the lower spindle was an empty reel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "search wardrobe" | ||||
Floyd | The wardrobe contained a Luftwaffe uniform. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x canister" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "search uniform" | ||||
Floyd | It was a flat cylinder of a dull metal colour, about nine inches in Floyd | diameter. It was closed. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | (the Luftwaffe uniform) Floyd | A thorough search of the Luftwaffe uniform revealed nothing of Floyd | interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open canister" | ||||
Floyd | Opening the metal canister revealed a reel of film. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "anyway, Goering was the coolest nazi, even more cool the Rommel" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take film" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put film on upper reel" | ||||
Floyd | I saw no upper reel there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "put film on projector" | ||||
Floyd | I put the reel of film on the upper spindle and carefully threaded the Floyd | film through the projector and onto the lower reel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on projector" | ||||
Floyd | The projector started to hum. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky | The German soldier on Motorcycle is the only figure so far to come from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (a wave of 6 figures is expected this summer). But he's the coolest Nazi in the line, with a soft goods skirt and removeable helmet (underneath, of course, he's blonde). | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x projector" | ||||
Floyd | The projector had two spindles, upper and lower, a switch and a dial. Floyd | On the lower spindle was an empty reel. On the upper spindle was a Floyd | reel of film. Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "ha ha" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dial" | ||||
Floyd | The dial had three settings: BACK, STOP and FORWARD. It was currently Floyd | on STOP. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "press forward" | ||||
Floyd | I saw no forward there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "set dial to back" | ||||
Floyd | The upper reel span round, the loose end of the film flapping noisily. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "set dial to back". Floyd | Floyd | Goering Room Floyd | The most striking feature of this room was the large picture of Hermann Floyd | Goering hanging on the west wall. In normal times this would probably Floyd | have been a bedroom, but there was no bed there now. The only piece of Floyd | ordinary bedroom furniture was the tall wooden wardrobe standing in one Floyd | corner, otherwise much of the floorspace was taken up by a low metal Floyd | cabinet. The door out was to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The wardrobe contained a Luftwaffe uniform. On the metal cabinet was a Floyd | cine projector. On the lower spindle was an empty reel. On the upper Floyd | spindle was a reel of film. The metal cabinet contained a single metal Floyd | shelf, under which was a metal canister. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: East Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "set dial to forward" | ||||
Floyd | Both reels began to turn. The film was projected onto a blank area of Floyd | wall. It began with a scratchy shot of a young Hermann Goering Floyd | removing his flying helmet while sitting in the cockpit of an Floyd | Albatross. Various scenes followed: Goering shaking hands with Hitler; Floyd | Goering in conference with Hitler, Himmler and Goebbels; Goering making Floyd | a speech; Goering strutting around an airfield in his new Floyd | Reichsmarschall's uniform; Goering inspecting a parade of Luftwaffe Floyd | personnel. Eventually I decided I'd seen enough, so I turned the dial Floyd | to STOP. Both reels stopped turning. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm" | |||
| Fang says, "maybe Angela is obssessed with Goering" | ||||
| inky says, "I am seriously pretty perplexed here" | ||||
| RootShell says, "its a conspiracy" | ||||
| Fang says, "i.e. has the hots for him" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think someone is trying to impersonate Goering." | ||||
| RonN says, "Likely, I'd have assumed he was another dead brother, and moved on. ::blush::" | ||||
| Allen says, "tell me what you're playing so I can catch up" | ||||
| RootShell says, "they would kidnap Goering and replace him" | ||||
| inky says, "Eric Eve's shelter from the storm" | ||||
| Fang says (to DavidW), "I think that this is just a fansite" | ||||
| inky says, "basically, we're a british soldier in ww2 whose car broke down and we wandered into this farmhouse" | ||||
| RonN says (to allen), "Shelter from the Storm" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Fang), "well, maybe" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "find slash fiction" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to look that up in? Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "oooooooh" | |||
| Allen asks, "any Bob Dylan references so far?" | ||||
| RootShell says, "lol" | ||||
| inky says, "and we found a secret hermann goring room" | ||||
| Fang says, "some women were sexually obssessed with leading nazis for a while" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Goering Room Floyd | The most striking feature of this room was the large picture of Hermann Floyd | Goering hanging on the west wall. In normal times this would probably Floyd | have been a bedroom, but there was no bed there now. The only piece of Floyd | ordinary bedroom furniture was the tall wooden wardrobe standing in one Floyd | corner, otherwise much of the floorspace was taken up by a low metal Floyd | cabinet. The door out was to the east. Floyd | Floyd | The wardrobe contained a Luftwaffe uniform. On the metal cabinet was a Floyd | cine projector. On the lower spindle was an empty reel. On the upper Floyd | spindle was a reel of film. The metal cabinet contained a single metal Floyd | shelf, under which was a metal canister. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: East Floyd | Floyd | > | Allen says, "blood on the tracks is my super favorite dylan album" | |||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "wear uniform" | ||||
Floyd | I certainly wasn't about to put on an enemy uniform. Anyway it was far Floyd | too large for me and I would have looked quite ridiculous in it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take uniform" | ||||
Floyd | I took the Luftwaffe uniform from the wardrobe and gave it a thorough Floyd | examination. Satisfied that it looked pretty much like the genuine Floyd | article I returned it to the wardrobe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x uniform" | ||||
Floyd | (the Luftwaffe uniform) Floyd | It wasn't a standard blue Luftwaffe uniform, instead it was white, like Floyd | the one Goering was pictured as wearing. Indeed it could have been a Floyd | copy of the Reichsmarschall's uniform, complete with double-breasted Floyd | tunic and gold trimmings. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "set dial to back" | ||||
Floyd | Both reels span round until the film was fully rewound onto the upper Floyd | reel. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "I guess we should ask Hilda again" | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Jack), "Indiana Jones dons Nazi uniforms all the time. Believe me, there is a time and a place sometimes." | ||||
| Fang says, "and this time, she'll believe us, and help us" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | I was carrying a scrumpled fragment, a piece of paper, a receipt, a Floyd | torch (providing light), a long wooden pole, a theatrical magazine, two Floyd | keys (a dull grey key and a small brass key), a small tin box (which Floyd | contained a pencil), a pamphlet, and a red book. I was wearing a Floyd | beret, khaki battledress, and a pair of headphones. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says (to Jacq), "Yeah, but Indy has a whip, and we instead have British inhibitions." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take off headphones" | ||||
Floyd | Okay, I was no longer wearing the pair of headphones. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "Aww, I was hoping the film would show Goering walking backwards and picking up food from his mouth with a fork" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Has the grey key been used yet?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to RonN), "heehe" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, ";e" | ||||
| Fang says, "I sure hope we weren't trailing the lead all this time" | ||||
| Fang says (to DavidW), "yes" | ||||
| Fang says, "we used it for the radio bo" | ||||
| Fang says, "*box" | ||||
| RonN says, "That reads weird, "Okay, I was no longer wearing the..."" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn off torch" | ||||
Floyd | I switched off the torch, and it stopped shining. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Just as I was about to leave, I heard a nearby door open and someone Floyd | walking around on the landing. To avoid being caught snooping around, Floyd | I stopped just inside the door. A moment later I heard the sound of a Floyd | shot from close by, followed by a brief series of thuds. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "woah" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "yikes" | ||||
| inky says, "whoops" | ||||
| RonN says, "I'm sure it was the cat." | ||||
| inky says, "I wonder if they bumped off that Graham guy" | ||||
| inky says, "or Helga" | ||||
| Fang says, "Hilda, you mean" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to RonN), "heh" | ||||
| inky says, "er, right" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "pray to goering" | ||||
Floyd | The story doesn't understand that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN LOLs | |||
| Jacqueline says (to Ron), "The cat who fired the gun, or who thumped to the floor? I guess one of my cats is heavy enough you might confuse the sound of it hitting the floor for the sound of an adult human." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Want to try leaving again, or hide?" | ||||
| RootShell says, "we should dress like goering to avoid being shot too" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku says, "ha ha" | |||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "enter wardrobe" | ||||
Floyd | It was a bit too small for me to squeeze into. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "there's nowhere to hide" | |||
| Nitku says, ""There he is... No wait! It's just Hermann Goering."" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "wear uniform" | DavidW says, "well, try something else." | |||
Floyd | I certainly wasn't about to put on an enemy uniform. Anyway it was far Floyd | too large for me and I would have looked quite ridiculous in it. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "it might work... :P" | |||
| Allen says, "RUN YOU PIGEONS" | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "think" | ||||
Floyd | I was curious, if not anxious, to find out what had just happened. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell asks, "scream like a girl?" | |||
| DavidW says, "ha ha" | ||||
| RonN lol | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Landing South Floyd | This section of the landing was much narrower than the part further Floyd | north, being no more than a passage between the rooms on either side. Floyd | The landing ended at a narrow curtained window immediately to the south Floyd | and continued past the banister to the north, while white panelled Floyd | doors led off to east and west. Floyd | Floyd | A revolver was lying on the ground, near the top of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, East, West Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell asks, "pretend to be already shot?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take revolver" | ||||
Floyd | The revolver was too far away. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline | Okay, to be perfectly honest, I was DYING to know. | |||
| RonN says, "well that played out well in 1st person POV" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Landing North Floyd | The main landing comprised the area at the top of the stairs leading Floyd | down to the floor below. From there doors led off to east, west, north Floyd | and northeast. The landing continued to the south past the banisters. Floyd | Floyd | A revolver was lying on the ground, near the top of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Down Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take revolver" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||||
Floyd | It was a Colt 45, probably a service pistol.[3] There was a distinct Floyd | smell of cordite from the barrel. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "fn 3" | ||||
Floyd | The word "fn" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "footnote 3" | ||||
Floyd | I'm relying on my recollections of what my father told me were the Floyd | sidearms he was issued with as an officer in the Royal Engineers in Floyd | WW2. IIRC he said he was originally issued with a Colt .45, which was Floyd | replaced with a Smith and Wesson .38 later in the war. (Yes, my Floyd | father's name was Jack, and he was posted to Salisbury Plain on leaving Floyd | OCTU in 1940, but anything else in Shelter from the Storm is purely Floyd | fictitious; Percy was his father's first name.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open revolver" | ||||
Floyd | I broke open the revolver and checked that it was loaded. Finding that Floyd | it was, I closed it again. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN asks, "but what's cordite?" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Huh. Eric's evidently older than I imagined." | ||||
| Fang says (to RonN), "smokeless powder" | ||||
| DavidW says (to RonN), "Gunpowder. More or less." | ||||
| RootShell asks, "'special' forces powder?" | ||||
| Fang says, "no" | ||||
| Fang says, "just gunpowder" | ||||
| RonN says, "It's true. Playing i-f makes you smarter." | ||||
| Fang says, "okay, we are armed now" | ||||
| inky asks, "Eric is like 40 or 50, isn't he?" | ||||
| Fang says, "let's shoot EVERYONE" | ||||
| RootShell says (to Fang), "just the pigeons please" | ||||
| inky says, "(like, my image of him is an old professor guy with the tweed elbow patches and stuff)" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "hm. Where's the body?" | ||||
| Fang says, "alternatively, find out who was shot" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "Well, I'm 35, and my parents weren't even born during the war, so." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Angela's room, maybe?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Landing North Floyd | The main landing comprised the area at the top of the stairs leading Floyd | down to the floor below. From there doors led off to east, west, north Floyd | and northeast. The landing continued to the south past the banisters. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Down Floyd | Floyd | Hilda came up the staircase. "Mr Percy, you must come quickly!" she Floyd | told me. "A man has been shot! Mr Croxley wants to see you. Come! Floyd | You must convince Mr Croxley I did not do this terrible thing," Hilda Floyd | urged me, "otherwise I get the blame for sure." Floyd | Floyd | (My best response seemed to be to ask why she should get the blame.) Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "hmm, I'm a little younger than you but my dad was born in 44" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her why she should get the blame" | ||||
Floyd | The story doesn't understand that command. Please use ASK ACTOR ABOUT Floyd | TOPIC (or just A TOPIC). Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "but yeah, I guess he'd have to be like 20 years older than us" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her why she about blame" | ||||
Floyd | I saw no why she there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask why" | ||||
Floyd | "Why on earth do you think you'll be blamed?" I asked. Floyd | Floyd | "Two reasons," she replied. "One, I am German; two, I am Jewish. Is Floyd | not good to be German in this country now - you are at war with Floyd | Germany. Is never good to be Jewish: Jews always get the blame for Floyd | everything. If you had been in Germany you would have seen that, but Floyd | it is not so different here: Shakespeare and his Shylock, Dickens and Floyd | his Fagin, you English do not like Jews either. So they say I shot Floyd | this poor man for sure." Floyd | Floyd | (My immediate thoughts were to either reassure her, or ask what Floyd | happened.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about blame" | ||||
Floyd | "Come! Quickly!" Hilda insisted. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "tell hilda about goering" | ||||
Floyd | "Come! Quickly!" Hilda insisted. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask what happened" | ||||
Floyd | I saw no what there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask happened" | ||||
Floyd | I saw no happened there. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell asks, "what?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "tell hilda about goering". Floyd | Floyd | Landing North Floyd | The main landing comprised the area at the top of the stairs leading Floyd | down to the floor below. From there doors led off to east, west, north Floyd | and northeast. The landing continued to the south past the banisters. Floyd | Floyd | Hilda was waiting for me to follow her down the staircase. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Down Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "ask her about blame". Floyd | Floyd | Landing North Floyd | The main landing comprised the area at the top of the stairs leading Floyd | down to the floor below. From there doors led off to east, west, north Floyd | and northeast. The landing continued to the south past the banisters. Floyd | Floyd | Hilda was waiting for me to follow her down the staircase. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Down Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "ask why". Floyd | Floyd | Landing North Floyd | The main landing comprised the area at the top of the stairs leading Floyd | down to the floor below. From there doors led off to east, west, north Floyd | and northeast. The landing continued to the south past the banisters. Floyd | Floyd | Hilda was waiting for me to follow her down the staircase. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Down Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "ask her why she should get the blame". Floyd | Floyd | Landing North Floyd | The main landing comprised the area at the top of the stairs leading Floyd | down to the floor below. From there doors led off to east, west, north Floyd | and northeast. The landing continued to the south past the banisters. Floyd | Floyd | Hilda was waiting for me to follow her down the staircase. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Down Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "why" | ||||
Floyd | "Why on earth do you think you'll be blamed?" I asked. Floyd | Floyd | "Two reasons," she replied. "One, I am German; two, I am Jewish. Is Floyd | not good to be German in this country now - you are at war with Floyd | Germany. Is never good to be Jewish: Jews always get the blame for Floyd | everything. If you had been in Germany you would have seen that, but Floyd | it is not so different here: Shakespeare and his Shylock, Dickens and Floyd | his Fagin, you English do not like Jews either. So they say I shot Floyd | this poor man for sure." Floyd | Floyd | (My immediate thoughts were to either reassure her, or ask what Floyd | happened.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask what happened" | ||||
Floyd | "What happened, exactly?" I enquired. Floyd | Floyd | "There is dead man lying at the foot of stairs in hall," she told me. Floyd | "He has been shot - just now, you must have heard it, ja? I'm the only Floyd | foreigner in the house, and a Jewish foreigner. I get the blame for Floyd | this, for sure." Floyd | Floyd | (My best response seemed to be to reassure her.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "reassure her" | ||||
Floyd | "I'm sure they won't say any such thing," I reassured her. "We're not Floyd | Nazis here, and the Croxleys seem like reasonable enough people to me." Floyd | Floyd | "You must come quickly and tell Mr Croxley I did not shoot anyone," she Floyd | insisted, motioning me to follow her down the staircase. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "wait what" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "tell her about goering" | ||||
Floyd | "Come! Quickly!" Hilda insisted. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks (of Fang), "What's the problem?" | |||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "smell hilda" | ||||
Floyd | I smelled nothing out of the ordinary. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "now *she* looks suspicious" | |||
| inky says, "I don't know who to trust any more!!" | ||||
| RootShell says, "she wants to frame us" | ||||
| RonN says, "but she doesn't smell like cordite..." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "tell her about radio" | ||||
Floyd | "Come! Quickly!" Hilda insisted. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inky), "We could say the same thing about YOU." | |||
| inky says (to Jacqueline), "listen, I told you, I am *not* the werewolf" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show her the revolver" | ||||
Floyd | "Come! Quickly!" Hilda insisted. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "haha" | |||
| Fang says, "hmmm" | ||||
| RootShell says (to Floyd), "give revolver to hilda" | ||||
Floyd | "Come! Quickly!" Hilda insisted. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "hooo well follower her" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "shoot her" | ||||
Floyd | (with the revolver) Floyd | I was not a murderer, and I had no desire to harm Hilda. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "and see what happens" | |||
| RonN asks, "i guess graham was shot then?" | ||||
| RootShell says, "save" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "cf7" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "she knows everyone else" | |||
| Fang says, "or Durbury" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Or Tony" | ||||
| Fang says, "OR HERMANN GOERING" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Or us, and we just don't know it yet." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | I let Hilda lead the way. I descended the staircase back down to the Floyd | hall. Floyd | Floyd | Hall Passage South Floyd | This was the widest part of the hall, where it opened out to Floyd | accommodate the flight of stairs that led up to the east. On the other Floyd | side of the hall a dark panelled door stood open to the west, while the Floyd | hall itself continued to both north and south. Floyd | Floyd | A body was lying at the foot of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | A stranger, Angela Croxley, and Mr Croxley were standing there. Floyd | Floyd | Hilda was standing there. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, West, Up Floyd | Floyd | "Ah, there you are, Percy!" Mr Croxley declared. "Did you just shoot Floyd | this man?" Floyd | Floyd | (My immediate thoughts were to either say no, or ask who the dead man Floyd | is.) Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Or Angela Langbury" | |||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | I wasn't about to confess to a murder I didn't commit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x stranger" | ||||
Floyd | He was a tall, smartly-dressed man of about thirty. Floyd | Floyd | "I asked if you shot this man, and I want your answer, Percy," Mr Floyd | Croxley growled. "Well, did you?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask who" | RonN says, "I f no" | |||
Floyd | "Who is he?" I asked. "He looks a bit like Hermann Goering!" Floyd | Floyd | "Never mind what he looks like, the point is he's dead and I want to Floyd | know who shot him," Mr Croxley replied. "Was it you, Mr Percy?" Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, ">CROXLEY, HE NEEDED KILLING" | |||
| inky says, "ha ha ha" | ||||
| Fang says, "hahahahahha" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x body" | ||||
Floyd | Apart from the bullet wound in his chest, the dead man bore a Floyd | remarkable resemblance to Hermann Goering. Floyd | Floyd | "I asked if you shot this man, and I want your answer, Percy," Mr Floyd | Croxley growled. "Well, did you?" Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok, this is seriously nutso" | |||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "no" | ||||
Floyd | "No, I didn't!" I declared. "I've never seen him before!" Floyd | Floyd | "No?" he asks. "Then what's that gun you're holding?" Floyd | Floyd | (My immediate thoughts were to either refuse to answer, or tell him Floyd | about the revolver.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "This would be a pretty good, serious work of IF, except with all of our banter it's reading a bit more like Clue: The Movie." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "tell him about revolver" | ||||
Floyd | "I just found it at the top of the stairs," I told him. Floyd | Floyd | "Did you now? How convenient," he remarked. "It looks to me as if he Floyd | was shot at the top of the stairs and fell all the way down, and you've Floyd | just walked down those very same stairs. I had just gone back to the Floyd | drawing room when I heard the shot, Angela had just gone off to find Floyd | you because you weren't there, and Hilda was doing the ironing in her Floyd | sitting room." Floyd | Floyd | "While I'd just gone to answer a call of nature," the stranger, Floyd | presumably Mr Graham, added. Floyd | Floyd | "Quite so," Mr Croxley concurred, "So where were you, Mr Percy?" Floyd | Floyd | (My immediate thoughts were to either challenge their alibis, lie, or Floyd | tell the truth.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "tell ; challenge!" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to tell about? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "challenge angela" | ||||
Floyd | "Where were you, Mr Percy?" he demanded. Floyd | Floyd | That command can't be used right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "challenge" | ||||
Floyd | "It seems none of you has an alibi either," I pointed out. "Each of Floyd | you was alone when that shot was fired." Floyd | Floyd | "But we all know each other," he retorted, "whereas you are a total Floyd | unknown, Mr Percy. How do we even know that you are who you claim to Floyd | be? So I'll ask you once more: where were you when the shot was Floyd | fired?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So none of them have alibis, but that's okay -" | |||
| Fang asks, "truth?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Timing. Thank you, Jack." | ||||
| inky says, "I was in .. THE GOERING ROOM" | ||||
| inky says, "afk goering" | ||||
| Fang says, "maybe none of them know about the goering room" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "cf8" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "We're a Brit shooting a Nazi. Do we need an alibi??"" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Truth, sure." | ||||
| Fang says, "if they knew, they'd kill us" | ||||
| Nitku says, "He probably isn't the real Goering." | ||||
| RootShell says, "someone said it was the cat ;)" | ||||
| Fang says, "I mean, they've have killed us already" | ||||
| RootShell says, "so blame it on the cat" | ||||
| RonN says, "we're armed, though." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "truth" | ||||
Floyd | "I was taking a look around upstairs and came across this room with a Floyd | whole lot of Hermann Goering stuff it in," I confessed. "I was just on Floyd | the point of leaving when I heard the shot." Floyd | Floyd | "You have no right to be spying on us like that, at best it's an abuse Floyd | of hospitality, at worst it's proof of guilt." he frowned. "The fact Floyd | remains that you were the only person upstairs when the shot was fired, Floyd | and the shot was apparently fired by someone upstairs. I'd say that Floyd | leaves you as not only the prime suspect but the only suspect, Mr Floyd | Percy. Under the circumstances, I think you'd better hand me that gun." Floyd | Floyd | (My immediate thoughts were to either give him the revolver, or Floyd | refuse.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "refuse" | ||||
Floyd | "For all I know, you may be the killer," I pointed out, "so I think Floyd | I'll hang on to it." Floyd | Floyd | "Not good enough," Croxley replied evenly. "Your refusal to hand over Floyd | the weapon can only be construed as proof of guilt. Now, give me the Floyd | gun." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "uh, whatever, dude" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask him about goering" | ||||
Floyd | "I'm not discussing anything till you give me the gun," Croxley Floyd | insisted. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "shoot him" | ||||
Floyd | (with the revolver) Floyd | I was not a murderer, and I had no desire to harm Mr Croxley. Floyd | Floyd | "The gun, Mr Percy," Croxley reminded me, "Now, please." Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN exclaims, "i'll give you the BULLET!!" | |||
| inky says, "let's flee into the night" | ||||
| inky says, "hunh, the game seems pretty insistent we do this" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "refuse" | ||||
Floyd | It looked like he wasn't going to take no for an answer. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Let's put them all under arrest." | |||
| inky asks, "can we leave the room?" | ||||
| RootShell asks, "we are not black are we?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x phone" | ||||
Floyd | I saw no phone there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "arrest croxley" | ||||
Floyd | The word "arrest" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Hall Passage South Floyd | This was the widest part of the hall, where it opened out to Floyd | accommodate the flight of stairs that led up to the east. On the other Floyd | side of the hall a dark panelled door stood open to the west, while the Floyd | hall itself continued to both north and south. Floyd | Floyd | A body was lying at the foot of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Mr Graham, Hilda, Angela Croxley, and Mr Croxley were standing there. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, West, Up Floyd | Floyd | "The gun, Mr Percy," Croxley reminded me, "Now, please." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to inky), "darn" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "no" | ||||
Floyd | It would have seemed rather rude to walk away in the middle of a Floyd | conversation. Floyd | Floyd | "The gun, Mr Percy," Croxley reminded me, "Now, please." Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | It looked like he wasn't going to take no for an answer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x angela" | ||||
Floyd | She was undoubtedly a strikingly attractive young woman, what some Floyd | might call an English rose. She was somewhere in her twenties, perhaps Floyd | a few years older than I, and had a pleasant, open, round face framed Floyd | by a generous bounty of wavy blonde hair. She was staring at me Floyd | accusingly. Floyd | Floyd | "The gun, Mr Percy," Croxley reminded me, "Now, please." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x body" | ||||
Floyd | Apart from the bullet wound in his chest, the dead man bore a Floyd | remarkable resemblance to Hermann Goering. Floyd | Floyd | "The gun, Mr Percy," Croxley reminded me, "Now, please." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search body" | ||||
Floyd | Somehow I didn't think I'd get away with trying that with Mr Croxley Floyd | standing there watching me like a hawk. Floyd | | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give gun to graham" | ||||
Floyd | "The gun, Mr Percy," Croxley reminded me, "Now, please." Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Common courtesy demanded that me answer Mr Croxley before addressing Mr Floyd | Graham. Floyd | Floyd | "The gun, Mr Percy," Croxley reminded me, "Now, please." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x croxley" | ||||
Floyd | (Mr Croxley) Floyd | He was probably about sixty, or maybe in his late fifties, with a Floyd | rather suave air about him. He was standing by the body Floyd | Floyd | "The gun, Mr Percy," Croxley reminded me, "Now, please." Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell asks, "throw gun and run?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "shoot gun" | ||||
Floyd | (with the revolver) Floyd | I couldn't shoot the revolver with itself. Floyd | Floyd | "The gun, Mr Percy," Croxley reminded me, "Now, please." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "give gun to croxley" | ||||
Floyd | (Mr Croxley) Floyd | "Thank you," he said as he took the gun off me. "Hm," he added as he Floyd | examined it, "this looks like mine. Well, the telephone is still out Floyd | of order so we can't call the police, so for now we're going to have to Floyd | deal with this ourselves. Do you have anything to add to what you've Floyd | already told us, Mr Percy?" Floyd | Floyd | (My immediate thoughts were to either mention the other staircase, or Floyd | tell him about the radio.) Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "wait, this is a murder mystery? wtf" | |||
| Fang says, "okay, I guess we have to trust Mr Croxley, then" | ||||
| RonN exclaims, "damn our inhibitions!" | ||||
| Fang says, "and somehow turn him against his daughter" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Daughter-in-law" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "tell him about radio" | ||||
Floyd | "Did you know about the radio transmitter hidden in the attic?" I Floyd | asked. Seeing his puzzled expression, I continued, "I thought not; so Floyd | I'm not the only unexplained presence here." Floyd | Floyd | "I hardly see what a radio transmitter has to do with any of this," Floyd | Croxley frowned. His scowl deepened, then he went on, "Anyway, it's Floyd | nonsense. If there were a radio transmitter in the house I'm sure I'd Floyd | know about it!" Floyd | Floyd | "It would do no harm to check, surely," Angela Croxley suggested. "If Floyd | he's lying we may as well be certain he is." Floyd | Floyd | Her father's scowl deepened even further. After a brief pause he gave Floyd | a curt nod and said, "Very well, if you must, go and check his story - Floyd | let him show you this alleged radio. But just in case, you'd better Floyd | take this." he added, handing her the revolver. Floyd | Floyd | "So, Mr Percy, will you show me this radio, please?" she requested. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "you idiot" | |||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "no" | ||||
Floyd | "No, I'm sure you can find it perfectly well for yourself, Miss Floyd | Croxley," I replied. "It's just up in the attic. It seems I have Floyd | unfinished business with your father here." Floyd | Floyd | "That can wait until we establish the truth about this alleged radio Floyd | transmitter," he assured me. Floyd | Floyd | "That's settled then," she declares. "Lead on then, Mr Percy." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "no". Floyd | Floyd | Hall Passage South Floyd | This was the widest part of the hall, where it opened out to Floyd | accommodate the flight of stairs that led up to the east. On the other Floyd | side of the hall a dark panelled door stood open to the west, while the Floyd | hall itself continued to both north and south. Floyd | Floyd | A body was lying at the foot of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Mr Graham, Hilda, Angela Croxley, and Mr Croxley were standing there. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, West, Up Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Taking back one turn: "tell him about radio". Floyd | Floyd | Hall Passage South Floyd | This was the widest part of the hall, where it opened out to Floyd | accommodate the flight of stairs that led up to the east. On the other Floyd | side of the hall a dark panelled door stood open to the west, while the Floyd | hall itself continued to both north and south. Floyd | Floyd | A body was lying at the foot of the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Mr Graham, Hilda, Angela Croxley, and Mr Croxley were standing there. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, West, Up Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "tell him about angela" | ||||
Floyd | "That's entirely beside the point right now, Mr Percy," Mr Croxley Floyd | pointed out. "All I want to know is whether you have anything to add Floyd | to your account." Floyd | Floyd | > | Nitku asks, "what?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Boy, you guys seem to have tangled things up." | ||||
| Fang says, "he's going to hand the gun to angela" | ||||
| Fang says, "we do not want this" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "tell him about other staircase" | ||||
Floyd | "Never mind that now," Mr Croxley interrupted impatiently. "All I'm Floyd | interested in right now is whether you can add anything that might shed Floyd | any further light on this." Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "give the gun to the dead guy. He won't use it." | |||
| Nitku says, "This is likely railroaded" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "mention staircase" | ||||
Floyd | "How do you know that I was the only person upstairs?" I asked. "This Floyd | house has two staircases; that must offer all sorts of possibilities." Floyd | Floyd | "A little far-fetched, don't you think, Mr Percy?" he objected. "We Floyd | know you were upstairs. Any one of us would have to have been both Floyd | remarkably quick and remarkably stealthy to have arrived here with the Floyd | rest of us without inviting suspicion, and without being seen by you." Floyd | Floyd | "Still, it could be possible," Hilda remarked. "Murderer could shoot Floyd | victim, drop gun, and hurry down back staircase then come here through Floyd | kitchen. In confusion no one notice, nicht wahr?" Floyd | Floyd | "Thank you for your very fair-minded suggestion, Hilda, but I still Floyd | don't believe any of us did this. To my mind, that still leaves Mr Floyd | Percy here as our chief suspect - unless he can come up with anything Floyd | that changes my mind. Well, Mr Percy, have you anything to add?" Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN exclaims, "he was a damn dirty Nazi!" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "mention radio" | ||||
Floyd | The story doesn't understand that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "radio" | ||||
Floyd | The story doesn't understand that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "tell him about radio" | ||||
Floyd | "Did you know about the radio transmitter hidden in the attic?" I Floyd | asked. Seeing his puzzled expression, I continued, "I thought not; so Floyd | I'm not the only unexplained presence here." Floyd | Floyd | "I hardly see what a radio transmitter has to do with any of this," Floyd | Croxley frowned. His scowl deepened, then he went on, "Anyway, it's Floyd | nonsense. If there were a radio transmitter in the house I'm sure I'd Floyd | know about it!" Floyd | Floyd | "It would do no harm to check, surely," Angela Croxley suggested. "If Floyd | he's lying we may as well be certain he is." Floyd | Floyd | Her father's scowl deepened even further. After a brief pause he gave Floyd | a curt nod and said, "Very well, if you must, go and check his story - Floyd | let him show you this alleged radio. But just in case, you'd better Floyd | take this." he added, handing her the revolver. Floyd | Floyd | "So, Mr Percy, will you show me this radio, please?" she requested. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "sigh, I hope we don't die here" | |||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "tell him about goering room" | ||||
Floyd | Common courtesy demanded that me answer Angela Croxley before Floyd | addressing her father. Floyd | Floyd | "This radio you said you saw - are you going to take me to see it?" Floyd | Angela Croxley asked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | "Yes, of course," I replied. Floyd | Floyd | "Good," she replied. "Lead on then, Mr Percy." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "go to radio" | RootShell says, "ho we are so dead" | |||
Floyd | Which radio do you mean, the wireless, or the radio? Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN asks, "huh?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to attic" | ||||
Floyd | (going east) Floyd | Floyd | Angela followed me up the staircase. Floyd | Floyd | Landing North Floyd | The main landing comprised the area at the top of the stairs leading Floyd | down to the floor below. From there doors led off to east, west, north Floyd | and northeast. The landing continued to the south past the banisters. Floyd | Floyd | Angela stopped beside me. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Down Floyd | Floyd | (To continue on your way use the command CONTINUE or C). Floyd | Floyd | "I'm not impressed, Mr Percy," Angela remarked. "We offer you shelter Floyd | from the storm, and you repay us by snooping all over our house." Floyd | Floyd | (My immediate thoughts were to either tell her about the noises, or Floyd | apologize.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "tell her about noises" | ||||
Floyd | "I heard noises upstairs," I said. "Not just floorboards creaking, but Floyd | footsteps, I was sure of it. I thought perhaps you were being burgled Floyd | - and given that body downstairs..." Floyd | Floyd | "He's not a burglar," she interrupted me, clearly unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask him about body" | ||||
Floyd | The word "him" doesn't refer to anything right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about body" | ||||
Floyd | "I think you should show me that radio before we talk about anything Floyd | else, Mr Percy," she insisted. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "c" | ||||
Floyd | (going northeast) Floyd | Floyd | Angela followed me through the northeast door. Floyd | Floyd | Upper Passage Floyd | The standard of decoration was definitely plainer in this part of the Floyd | house, little more than a stale lick of white paint on every available Floyd | surface. The door to the southwest marked the boundary between the Floyd | servants' quarters and the rest of the house, while a second door led Floyd | west, opposite a pair of cupboard doors to the east. A ladder ran up Floyd | from the floor through the open trapdoor in the ceiling, while a narrow Floyd | flight of stairs led down to the floor below. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves were a pair of folded white sheets. Floyd | Floyd | Angela stopped beside me. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: West, Southwest, Up, Down Floyd | Floyd | (To continue on your way use the command CONTINUE or C). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "c" | ||||
Floyd | (going up) Floyd | Floyd | Angela followed me up the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | Attic (in the dark) Floyd | It was profoundly dark up there, with nothing visible apart from the Floyd | open hatch leading back down. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: Down Floyd | Floyd | I had arrived at the attic. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "c" | ||||
Floyd | I wasn't on a journey. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "turn on torch" | ||||
Floyd | I switched on the torch, and it emitted a reasonably bright beam of Floyd | light. Floyd | Floyd | Attic Floyd | The attic had accumulated surprisingly little junk for a family home. Floyd | Bare boards stretched out in every direction from the open hatch with Floyd | little to clutter them. The beam of my torch picked out hardly Floyd | anything apart from the odd packing crate and a plethora of cobwebs. Floyd | There was also a large wooden box in the corner by the window. Floyd | Floyd | The loose floorboard was scarcely noticeable, being nearly flush with Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | I saw an old blanket there. The large wooden box contained a radio. Floyd | Floyd | Angela was right beside me. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: Down Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask angela about footsteps" | ||||
Floyd | "Until I see that radio transmitter I shan't believe a thing you tell Floyd | me, Mr Percy," she answered. "Neither shall I be at all inclined to Floyd | give anything away." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show radio to angela" | ||||
Floyd | "There it is," I said. Floyd | Floyd | "Well - that certainly does look like a radio transmitter," she agreed, Floyd | frowning with concern, "and it certainly shouldn't be here." She Floyd | paused for a moment, her hand pushed deep up into her hair in a gesture Floyd | of almost frantic thought. "I suppose there's no way you could have Floyd | smuggled it up here," she continued, as much to herself as to me, "but Floyd | that still doesn't explain how you found it." Letting her hand fall to Floyd | her side she finally turned to me and asked, "Why, Mr Percy; why were Floyd | you up here? Why were you searching our house so thoroughly that you Floyd | managed to find a hidden radio the rest of us missed?" Floyd | Floyd | (I wondered whether to explain my suspicions, or counter-attack.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "This is running a lot faster with 'go to' than Nightfall did. Smaller map, I suppose." | |||
| inky says, "yeah" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "counter attack" | ||||
Floyd | "Oh no," I said. "You're the one with the explaining to do, Miss Floyd | Croxley, you're the one with a hidden radio transmitter in your house." Floyd | Floyd | She frowned in annoyance, "I swear I've never seen that radio before. Floyd | I had no idea it was here. And I still want to know why you think you Floyd | have the right to go snooping around our house." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "because I'm the army" | ||||
Floyd | The word "because" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about goering" | ||||
Floyd | "Please don't try to change the subject, Mr Percy," she begged. "This Floyd | is important - I need to know if I can trust you. So tell me, why were Floyd | you making such a thorough search of our house?" Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "(also possibly the go to handling is better in t3 than inform)" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "suspicions" | ||||
Floyd | "Too much round here seems far too fishy," I replied. "For one thing, Floyd | it's obvious you've all been trying to conceal that Goering look-alike Floyd | without anyone knowing about it. So, I thought - well, there is a war Floyd | on, I do hold the King's commission, so I considered it my duty to try Floyd | to find out more. For all I know you may all be a nest of German spies Floyd | - and this radio rather confirms it, doesn't it?" Before she could Floyd | answer, I continued, "But finding the radio - well, that was a spot of Floyd | luck really. It was just the more I found, the more suspicious I Floyd | became, so the harder I looked." Floyd | Floyd | She regarded me steadily for a moment, her lively blue eyes probing my Floyd | face as if trying to read truth or falsehood there. "I see," she said Floyd | finally. "I suppose that could be true, but not only does it leave Floyd | this radio unexplained, it leaves a murder unexplained. So what do we Floyd | do now?" Floyd | Floyd | (My immediate thoughts were to either ask her about her father, Mr Floyd | Graham, Hilda, or the corpse, talk about the radio, suggest reporting Floyd | to her father, or propose looking for more clues.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ask her about footsteps" | ||||
Floyd | "It's more important to decide what we're going to do now," she Floyd | replied. "So what do you suggest?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "kiss me" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about corpse" | ||||
Floyd | I could not kiss myself. Floyd | Floyd | "A penny for your thoughts, Mr Percy," Angela remarked. "What should Floyd | we do now?" Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | "What about that fellow downstairs - the one who was shot," I asked. Floyd | "Could this be his radio?" Floyd | Floyd | "I suppose it could," she agreed, "but I don't see how he could have Floyd | shot himself. I mean, people don't normally shoot themselves in the Floyd | chest, do they? So what do you think we should do: search his room for Floyd | further clues - or what?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about durbury" | ||||
Floyd | "We can talk about that some other time," she insisted. "The immediate Floyd | question is: what are we going to do now?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "'that fellow'? Do we get a name yet?" | |||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "ask her about hilda" | ||||
Floyd | "How much do you actually know about your housekeeper?" I asked. "I Floyd | mean, she is German, and her room is closest to this attic; she'd have Floyd | plenty of opportunity to sneak up here and use the radio when no one | RootShell says, "reporting to her father" | |||
Floyd | was looking!" Floyd | Floyd | "But Hilda's Jewish, she came here to get away from the Nazis, so why Floyd | would she want to help them?" Angela protested. "Besides, I doubt she Floyd | even knows how to handle a gun! No, I can't believe it's Hilda - not Floyd | without a lot more evidence, anyway! So, what should we do next?" Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "talk about radio" | ||||
Floyd | "We're only assuming that this radio is being used to contact the Floyd | enemy," I mused. "We don't know it for a fact." Floyd | | inky says, "hrm" | |||
Floyd | "True, but it seems a pretty safe assumption, doesn't it?" she replied. Floyd | "I mean, if it was for some legitimate purpose, why would it be kept Floyd | hidden up here in the attic where none of us knew about it? I don't Floyd | think either of us could be accused of jumping to absurd conclusions if Floyd | we assume the radio is linked with spying. So who's the spy and who's Floyd | the killer, and how are they linked? What do you think we should do Floyd | about it?" Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ok, maybe we can get at hilda's keys now" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "find coat" | ||||
Floyd | (going down) Floyd | Floyd | It would have seemed rather rude to walk away in the middle of a Floyd | conversation. Floyd | Floyd | I was unable to continue on my journey. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about mr graham" | ||||
Floyd | "What about your visitor, Mr Graham?" I enquired. "Do you know much Floyd | about him?" Floyd | Floyd | "Not a lot," she admitted. "I suppose he could have shot T... that man Floyd | downstairs. But I don't see how he could be responsible for the radio! Floyd | So - what do you think we should do now?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "talk about suitcase" | ||||
Floyd | "I'd rather you didn't keep trying to change the subject, Mr Percy," Floyd | she complained. "In case you've forgotten, there's just been a murder. Floyd | So, what do we do now?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, ".....T?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "clues" | ||||
Floyd | "I suppose the only thing we can do is hunt around for more clues," I Floyd | proposed. "I mean, if someone in the house is sending messages to the Floyd | enemy, they may have some notes of messages sent and received, or Floyd | something else that gives them away." Floyd | Floyd | She frowned for a moment, then let out a deep sigh. "Yes, I suppose Floyd | you're right," she agreed at last. "I just don't like the idea of Floyd | poking around in other people's private possessions. It feels so - so Floyd | unpleasant. But we don't have much choice now, do we?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "T?" | |||
| Alex says (to Jacqueline), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that t is a drink with jam and bread." | ||||
| inky says, "the guy's name" | ||||
| Fang asks, "Tony?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, ""T...ony"?" | ||||
| inky says, "oh, hmm" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Right... she knows his name." | ||||
| inky says, "well sure" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, thank you, parrot." | ||||
| inky says, "she is hiding all this stuff from us" | ||||
| Nitku says, "Mr. T" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "ask her about T" | ||||
Floyd | "Changing the subject is just delaying the inevitable, isn't it?" she Floyd | suggested. "You've only confirmed what I really knew all along we were Floyd | going to have to do, so let's get it over with!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about tony" | ||||
Floyd | "What were your brothers like?" I asked. Floyd | Floyd | "Adam - well, we always thought he'd be a bit of a high-flyer, only we Floyd | didn't realize he'd take it so literally," she replied, "or that he'd Floyd | crash to earth quite so soon. Tony was always a one, quite a sportsman Floyd | - he captained the first fifteen at school - and dead keen to do his Floyd | bit for King and country when war broke out, but... I loved them both Floyd | to bits, of course. I still can't believe they're gone." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | I was carrying a scrumpled fragment, a piece of paper, a receipt, a Floyd | torch (providing light), a long wooden pole, a theatrical magazine, two Floyd | keys (a dull grey key and a small brass key), a pair of headphones, a Floyd | small tin box (which contained a pencil), a pamphlet, and a red book. Floyd | I was wearing a beret and khaki battledress. Floyd | Floyd | "It seems I owe you an apology, Mr Percy," said Angela, lightly Floyd | touching my arm. "I really did think you must be the killer, but that Floyd | radio - well, it does change things. There's no way you could have put Floyd | it there, which means - well, it seems you may have helped us catch a Floyd | spy! And - well, you obviously know that we haven't been entirely Floyd | honest with you, don't you?" Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN pities the fool that shot Goering. | |||
| Fang says, "well, Adam isn't her fiancee, then" | ||||
| inky says, "or she's still lying" | ||||
| inky says, "remember the date was wrong, or we thought it was" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "angela, give me the gun" | ||||
Floyd | "Please, Jack, don't make this any harder for me by trying to avoid the Floyd | question. You know I've been lying to you, don't you?" she insisted. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "hm. She's claiming Tony is her brother. But the letter...?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | "Well, yes, I suppose so," I admitted. "I mean it's pretty obvious Floyd | that things here aren't what they're meant to seem." Floyd | Floyd | "Quite," she agreed, "For one thing, Colonel Croxley isn't my father, Floyd | he's my C.O." She flashed a brief apologetic smile before continuing, Floyd | "I shouldn't really be telling you anything of course, and I still Floyd | can't tell you much, but, well, let's just say the colonel and I both Floyd | work for the War Office, and the man who was shot was working with us. Floyd | And - well - oh golly, I wish this wasn't all so complicated, but Floyd | perhaps you could just call me Angela from now on." She handed me the Floyd | revolver saying, "And perhaps you'd better take this. To be honest, Floyd | I'm not entirely comfortable with it." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oHO" | |||
| Fang says, "wwwaiit" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about jeremy" | ||||
Floyd | "So, is Jeremy really your brother?" I asked. Floyd | Floyd | "That's right," she affirmed, "he's in the army too, and quite safe Floyd | last time I heard, thank goodness!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "We should kill her now with sekrit army training." | |||
| DavidW says, "I missed something." | ||||
| Fang says (to DavidW), "it seems the british spies theory is the true one" | ||||
| RonN asks, "Hilda did it, then? Or Graham..?" | ||||
| RootShell says, "yeah" | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "ask her about graham" | inky says, "she said "you know I've been lying to you?" and I said yeah" | |||
Floyd | "Who is Mr Graham exactly, and where does he fit into all this?" I Floyd | asked. Floyd | Floyd | Angela let out a heavy sigh, "I'm beginning to wonder myself," she Floyd | muttered. "I'm not meant to say anything, but right now I don't know Floyd | which way to turn! He's Captain Graham, from the War Office. He came Floyd | to warn us that our operation here had been compromised, and we were Floyd | discussing what to do about it." Floyd | Floyd | (It occured to me to ask if she thought Graham shot the man.) Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "but there's also a german spy in here" | |||
| inky says, "well, Angela and Hilda are accusing each other, right? so if one's good the other is bad" | ||||
| Fang says, "Angela did give the gun back to us" | ||||
| RonN asks, "but angela is beautiful, so she's innocent, riiight?" | ||||
| Fang says, "she could easily have shot us in the attic" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Yeah, wtf did she give us back the gun?" | ||||
| RonN smiles | ||||
| RootShell says, "we are pretty too :) she fancy us :)" | ||||
| Fang says (to Jacq), "we convinced her we were serving king and country" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Perhaps she switched guns on us." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Fang), "Yeah, yeah." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to DW), "Wonder if it's still loaded." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "check gun" | ||||
Floyd | The word "check" is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open gun" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "x gun" | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "x gun" | ||||
Floyd | I broke open the revolver and checked that it was loaded. Finding that Floyd | it was, I closed it again. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | It was a Colt 45, probably a service pistol. There was a distinct smell Floyd | of cordite from the barrel. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | It was a Colt 45, probably a service pistol. There was a distinct smell Floyd | of cordite from the barrel. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Loaded... with blanks." | |||
| RootShell says, "smell angelas hands" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show her slip of paper" | ||||
Floyd | "Could this be significant?" I asked, showing her the receipt. "I Floyd | found it under some sheets in the airing cupboard." Floyd | Floyd | "That's certainly an odd place for it," she remarked, "but I'm not sure Floyd | what it means. We all go into Amesbury from time to time, and any of Floyd | us could have got a spare key cut, though it's a bit irregular - hm, Floyd | I'm not sure what to think!" Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "dun dun DUUH" | |||
| RootShell says, "our whomever smells of cordite did it" | ||||
| Fang says, "hmmm" | ||||
| Fang says, "okay, I didn't think of that" | ||||
| RonN asks, "i already smelled Hilda, didn't I?" | ||||
| Fang says, "this points the finger at Hilda" | ||||
| RootShell says, "i think so" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask Angela about Dunbury" | ||||
Floyd | My remark proved to be the occasion for an animated discussion which Floyd | lasted quite some time. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "smell angela" | ||||
Floyd | I smelled nothing out of the ordinary. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "so smell the other ones" | |||
| RonN asks, "not implemented?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | I was carrying a scrumpled fragment, a piece of paper, a receipt, a Floyd | torch (providing light), a long wooden pole, a theatrical magazine, two Floyd | keys (a dull grey key and a small brass key), a pair of headphones, a Floyd | small tin box (which contained a pencil), a pamphlet, a red book, and a Floyd | revolver. I was wearing a beret and khaki battledress. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show scrumpled to angela" | ||||
Floyd | "What do you make of this?" I asked, "I found it in Colonel Croxley's Floyd | bathroom." Floyd | Floyd | Angela took the fragment, read it, and turned very white. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh goodness!" she declared. "He couldn't have, could he?" Floyd | Floyd | She stared at the offending fragment a few moments more, then screwed Floyd | it back up into a tight little ball. "Let's not jump to conclusions," Floyd | she said, seemingly as much to herself as to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask angela about scrumpled" | Fang says, "this points the finger at Arthur" | |||
Floyd | "What do you make of this?" I asked, "I found it in Colonel Croxley's Floyd | bathroom." Floyd | Floyd | Angela took the fragment, read it, and turned very white. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh goodness!" she declared. "He couldn't have, could he?" Floyd | Floyd | She stared at the offending fragment a few moments more, then screwed Floyd | it back up into a tight little ball. "Let's not jump to conclusions," Floyd | she said, seemingly as much to herself as to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Angela), "No, let's do jump to conclusions. That's what this game is all about!" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x scrumpled" | ||||
Floyd | It was just a tiny fragment, still badly creased, with just a few words Floyd | on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask angela about fragment" | ||||
Floyd | "What do you make of this?" I asked, "I found it in Colonel Croxley's Floyd | bathroom." Floyd | Floyd | Angela took the fragment, read it, and turned very white. Floyd | Floyd | "Oh goodness!" she declared. "He couldn't have, could he?" Floyd | Floyd | She stared at the offending fragment a few moments more, then screwed Floyd | it back up into a tight little ball. "Let's not jump to conclusions," Floyd | she said, seemingly as much to herself as to me. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||||
Floyd | Only a few words were visible: "... plan now seems unworkable... Floyd | ... may be advisable to terminate Durbury..." Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN asks, "well, lets go back to ARuthru, gange?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask angela about durbury" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask angela about piece" | ||||
Floyd | That was not something she seemed at all eager to discuss, so my Floyd | conversational gambit fell horribly flat. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | "This looks like it could be some kind of code," I remarked, showing Floyd | her the piece of paper covered with letters and numbers. "I found it Floyd | in a German novel, in your room. Perhaps the numbers are references to Floyd | the pages in the book?" Floyd | Floyd | "No," she replied firmly. For a moment she stared down at the piece of Floyd | paper, clasping it in one hand, before finally releasing it to me with Floyd | a heavy sigh. "At least, it's nothing to do with the German novel, Floyd | that's just something I happen to be reading," she told me, "but it is Floyd | a code of sorts. It's my attempt to do a bit of code-breaking. That's Floyd | part of my job." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask angela about goering room" | ||||
Floyd | "So why do you keep a room dedicated to Hermann Goering in this house?" Floyd | I enquired. Floyd | Floyd | "You already know enough to realize that it must be part of our Floyd | intelligence operation," she replied. "More than that I'm not at Floyd | liberty to say." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about pamphlet" | ||||
Floyd | I chattered away on the subject with her for several minutes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | I was carrying a piece of paper, a receipt, a torch (providing light), Floyd | a long wooden pole, a theatrical magazine, two keys (a dull grey key Floyd | and a small brass key), a pair of headphones, a small tin box (which Floyd | contained a pencil), a pamphlet, a red book, and a revolver. I was Floyd | wearing a beret and khaki battledress. Floyd | Floyd | Angela turned to me, laying a hand on my arm. "I'm getting to the Floyd | point where I don't know which way to turn or who to trust," she Floyd | confessed. "I'm not meant to say anything at all, but what can I do? Floyd | Well, I'm sure I'm not telling you anything you don't know if I tell Floyd | you that our visitor tonight wasn't a client! He's Captain Graham, Floyd | from the War Office. He came to warn us that our operation here had Floyd | been compromised, and we were discussing what to do about it. And Floyd | then, well..." Floyd | Floyd | (It occured to me to ask if she thought Graham shot the man.) Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "ask her shot" | ||||
Floyd | "Are you saying you think Captain Graham might have shot that poor Floyd | fellow?" I asked. Floyd | Floyd | "Yes - no - I don't know!" she ran her hand through her hair in a Floyd | gesture of distracted distress. "We didn't know about the radio. At Floyd | least I didn't. But Captain Graham said the Germans had got wind of - Floyd | well, we were discussing how to tidy up the mess." Floyd | Floyd | "And shooting that man could have been part of 'tidying up'?" I Floyd | suggested incredulously. Floyd | Floyd | "I don't know!" she snapped through gritted teeth. "It's driving me Floyd | half crazy just thinking about it! It could have been Captain Graham - Floyd | perhaps that's what he really left the study to do. It could even have Floyd | been the colonel. I thought I knew him, and I didn't think he could - Floyd | but it was his gun!" Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "ah, a pretty woman in distress. Thank you, Eric." | |||
| Fang says, ">KISS HER" | ||||
| RonN poses manly. | ||||
| RootShell says, "me first please ;)" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about hilda" | ||||
Floyd | "So, how do you find Hilda, Angela?" I asked. Floyd | Floyd | "We get on well enough," she told me. "She's certainly very Floyd | efficient." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "tell her about hilda" | ||||
Floyd | She'd already told me that she got on well enough with the housekeeper Floyd | and found her very efficient. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Of course, while we and Angela hunt for the truth, the killer is quietly disposing of the other two." | |||
| inky asks, "can we leave the room yet?" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Angela followed me down the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | Upper Passage Floyd | The standard of decoration was definitely plainer in this part of the Floyd | house, little more than a stale lick of white paint on every available Floyd | surface. The door to the southwest marked the boundary between the Floyd | servants' quarters and the rest of the house, while a second door led Floyd | west, opposite a pair of cupboard doors to the east. A ladder ran up Floyd | from the floor through the open trapdoor in the ceiling, while a narrow Floyd | flight of stairs led down to the floor below. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves were a pair of folded white sheets. Floyd | Floyd | Angela stopped beside me. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: West, Southwest, Up, Down Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "find coat" | ||||
Floyd | (going down) Floyd | Floyd | Angela followed me down the back stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Back Passage Floyd | The back passage was a short, narrow space leading from the kitchen Floyd | door (to the south) to the back door (to the north) between two other Floyd | doors to east and west. The space was further constricted by a flight Floyd | of stairs leading up to the floor above. Floyd | Floyd | Angela stopped beside me. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Up Floyd | Floyd | (To continue on your way use the command CONTINUE or C). Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "let's look around again" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "c" | ||||
Floyd | (going west) Floyd | Floyd | Angela followed me through the west door. Floyd | Floyd | Maids' Parlour Floyd | If the location of this modest-sized rectangular room had not in any Floyd | case suggested that it was the maids' parlour, the mild shabbiness of Floyd | its furnishings would probably have given the game away. Now that the Floyd | housekeeper was apparently the only member of domestic staff retained Floyd | under conditions of wartime austerity, it apparently doubled as her Floyd | workroom and sitting-room. A battered arm chair nestled against a Floyd | small, scratched wooden table in one corner, while an ironing board was Floyd | set up near the middle of the room, strategically close to the Floyd | fireplace. The sole door out was to the east. Floyd | Floyd | On the peg was a dark coat. On the ironing board was an iron. On the Floyd | small table was a wireless. Floyd | Floyd | Angela stopped beside me. Floyd | Floyd | The wireless was playing a Mozart symphony. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: East Floyd | Floyd | I had arrived at the location of the dark coat. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search pocket" | ||||
Floyd | The coat pocket contained two keys (a chunky key and a small silver Floyd | key). Floyd | Floyd | "I'm not sure you should be searching Hilda's pockets," Angela remarked Floyd | censoriously, then added, "Did you find anything?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | "Yes, a couple of keys," I replied. Floyd | Floyd | "Show me!" she demanded. Floyd | Floyd | The wireless continued to play Mozart. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get keys" | ||||
Floyd | I took two keys (the small silver key and the chunky key). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "find suitcase" | ||||
Floyd | (going east) Floyd | Floyd | Angela followed me through the door. Floyd | Floyd | Back Passage Floyd | The back passage was a short, narrow space leading from the kitchen Floyd | door (to the south) to the back door (to the north) between two other Floyd | doors to east and west. The space was further constricted by a flight Floyd | of stairs leading up to the floor above. Floyd | Floyd | Angela stopped beside me. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Up Floyd | Floyd | (To continue on your way use the command CONTINUE or C). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "c" | ||||
Floyd | (going up) Floyd | Floyd | Angela followed me up the back stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Upper Passage Floyd | The standard of decoration was definitely plainer in this part of the Floyd | house, little more than a stale lick of white paint on every available Floyd | surface. The door to the southwest marked the boundary between the Floyd | servants' quarters and the rest of the house, while a second door led Floyd | west, opposite a pair of cupboard doors to the east. A ladder ran up Floyd | from the floor through the open trapdoor in the ceiling, while a narrow Floyd | flight of stairs led down to the floor below. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves were a pair of folded white sheets. Floyd | Floyd | Angela stopped beside me. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: West, Southwest, Up, Down Floyd | Floyd | (To continue on your way use the command CONTINUE or C). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "c" | ||||
Floyd | (going west) Floyd | Floyd | Angela followed me through the west door. Floyd | Floyd | Housekeeper's Bedroom Floyd | The room was of a fairly generous size, and looked reasonably Floyd | comfortable. A single bed rested against the north wall, at the far Floyd | end of the room from the only door, which led out to the east. The Floyd | other furniture consisted of a small upright wardrobe, a plain dressing Floyd | table, and a low chest of drawers, all made of some dark wood and all Floyd | of equally utilitarian appearance. Floyd | Floyd | I saw a small brown suitcase there. Floyd | Floyd | Angela stopped beside me. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: East Floyd | Floyd | I had arrived at the location of the small brown suitcase. Floyd | Floyd | "This is where Hilda sleeps," Angela informed me. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Two keys, hm?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unlock suitcase" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to unlock it with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show keys to angela" | ||||
Floyd | small silver key: Angela glanced at the small silver key but offered no Floyd | comment. Floyd | Floyd | dull grey key: Angela glanced at the dull grey key but offered no Floyd | comment. Floyd | Floyd | chunky key: "That looks like the key to the cellar," Angela told me, Floyd | "but what was it doing in Hilda's coat pocket?" Floyd | Floyd | small brass key: I showed Angela the brass key, saying, "I found this Floyd | up in the attic, in the same box as the radio." Floyd | Floyd | "That's very odd!" she declared. "It certainly shouldn't have been Floyd | there!" Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "actually, is one of them a duplicate of something good?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "unlock suitcase with silver key" | ||||
Floyd | Unlocked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "open suitcase" | ||||
Floyd | Opening the small brown suitcase revealed some clothes. Floyd | Floyd | "What did you find in there?" Angela asked eagerly. "Not just Floyd | clothes, surely?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search clothes" | ||||
Floyd | Moving the clothes revealed a notebook that was hidden beneath. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get notebook" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||||
Floyd | There was some faint indentations on the first page, suggesting that Floyd | someone had written on a previous page and then torn it off, but the Floyd | indentations were too faint to read. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "show notebook to angela" | ||||
Floyd | "That's interesting," she remarked. "Of course it could be completely Floyd | innocent, but I'd like to see what it says. We should try to find some Floyd | way of making it legible." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "if only we had a pencil" | |||
| DavidW asks, "Where's that pencil? Angela's?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "rub pencil on paper" | ||||
Floyd | Which paper do you mean, the scrumpled fragment, the piece of paper, or Floyd | the receipt? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "rub pencil on notebook" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the pencil from the small tin box) Floyd | I rubbed the notebook with the pencil, so that the writing became Floyd | visible. Floyd | Floyd | "Here, let me see that!" said Angela, peering over my shoulder. "TOTEN Floyd | SIE IHN SOFORT - that means 'Kill him immediately' doesn't it? And Floyd | that does look like Hilda's writing. If it was a message she received Floyd | over the radio, and if the 'him' referred to is ... But look, there's Floyd | another line of letters above. I imagine that must mean that the Floyd | message was sent in code and she had to decode it. So where's her code Floyd | book? I mean, what we've found is certainly suspicious enough, but - Floyd | well, before we start accusing Hilda I'd like to make absolutely sure, Floyd | so I'd really like to find her code book, then we'd know." Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "interesting" | |||
| Fang says, "cellar, I guess" | ||||
| RonN asks, "geez, how much more evidence do we need?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask about corpse" | ||||
Floyd | "The man who was shot, he really does bear a striking resemblance to Floyd | Hermann Goering, doesn't he?" I remarked. Floyd | Floyd | "Yes, he does," she agreed, "and that's all I'm saying, so please don't Floyd | press me any further." Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "well pretty girls are not guilty... Hilda did it" | |||
| RonN says, "the butler-ette did it." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about house" | ||||
Floyd | "I take it this place isn't your old family home, then," I remarked. Floyd | Floyd | "Obviously not," she concurred. "It's just some place the War Office Floyd | bought when it came on the market." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to RonN), "C'mon, there's a war on, and it's hard to find good house help these days." | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about bedroom" | ||||
Floyd | I talked about this with her for a while, but failed to reach any very Floyd | interesting conclusion. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "So we have to be REALLY sure." | |||
| inky says, "ha ha" | ||||
| Fang says, "there's an upstairs bedroom" | ||||
| Fang says, "we haven't checked" | ||||
| RonN says (to jacq), "No kidding. Some housekeepers leave dead people laying about all over the place." | ||||
| Fang asks, "should we?" | ||||
| Jacqueline asks, "Did we find any evidence she's actually Jewish, fwiw?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Where's the cellar entrance?" | ||||
| Fang says, "wait a sec" | ||||
| RonN asks (of jacq), "No?" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Not wanting either to be encumbered with other people's property, or to Floyd | be caught stealing it, I dropped the clothes before leaving the room. Floyd | Floyd | Angela followed me through the door. Floyd | Floyd | Upper Passage Floyd | The standard of decoration was definitely plainer in this part of the Floyd | house, little more than a stale lick of white paint on every available Floyd | surface. The door to the southwest marked the boundary between the Floyd | servants' quarters and the rest of the house, while a second door led Floyd | west, opposite a pair of cupboard doors to the east. A ladder ran up Floyd | from the floor through the open trapdoor in the ceiling, while a narrow Floyd | flight of stairs led down to the floor below. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves were a pair of folded white sheets. Floyd | Floyd | Angela stopped beside me. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: West, Southwest, Up, Down Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "up" | ||||
Floyd | Angela followed me up the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | Attic Floyd | The attic had accumulated surprisingly little junk for a family home. Floyd | Bare boards stretched out in every direction from the open hatch with Floyd | little to clutter them. The beam of my torch picked out hardly Floyd | anything apart from the odd packing crate and a plethora of cobwebs. Floyd | There was also a large wooden box in the corner by the window. Floyd | Floyd | The loose floorboard was scarcely noticeable, being nearly flush with Floyd | the floor. Floyd | Floyd | I saw an old blanket there. The large wooden box contained a radio. Floyd | Floyd | Angela stopped beside me. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: Down Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Angela followed me down the ladder. Floyd | Floyd | Upper Passage Floyd | The standard of decoration was definitely plainer in this part of the Floyd | house, little more than a stale lick of white paint on every available Floyd | surface. The door to the southwest marked the boundary between the Floyd | servants' quarters and the rest of the house, while a second door led Floyd | west, opposite a pair of cupboard doors to the east. A ladder ran up Floyd | from the floor through the open trapdoor in the ceiling, while a narrow Floyd | flight of stairs led down to the floor below. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves were a pair of folded white sheets. Floyd | Floyd | Angela stopped beside me. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: West, Southwest, Up, Down Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | I couldn't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Angela followed me through the southwest door. Floyd | Floyd | Landing North Floyd | The main landing comprised the area at the top of the stairs leading Floyd | down to the floor below. From there doors led off to east, west, north Floyd | and northeast. The landing continued to the south past the banisters. Floyd | Floyd | Angela stopped beside me. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Down Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Angela followed me through the north door. Floyd | Floyd | Master Bedroom Floyd | This was obviously the master bedroom; it was huge. Even with a large Floyd | double bed and a heavy chest of drawers taking up much of the floor Floyd | space, a great deal of bare carpet remained. The door out was to the Floyd | south, and a second door led west. Floyd | Floyd | On the chest of drawers was a family photo. Floyd | Floyd | Angela stopped beside me. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: South, West Floyd | Floyd | "What do you expect to find in here?" Angela demanded. "You've Floyd | already shown me the radio!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Angela followed me through the bedroom door. Floyd | Floyd | Landing North Floyd | The main landing comprised the area at the top of the stairs leading Floyd | down to the floor below. From there doors led off to east, west, north Floyd | and northeast. The landing continued to the south past the banisters. Floyd | Floyd | Angela stopped beside me. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Down Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Angela followed me through the north door. Floyd | Floyd | Master Bedroom Floyd | This was obviously the master bedroom; it was huge. Even with a large Floyd | double bed and a heavy chest of drawers taking up much of the floor Floyd | space, a great deal of bare carpet remained. The door out was to the Floyd | south, and a second door led west. Floyd | Floyd | On the chest of drawers was a family photo. Floyd | Floyd | Angela stopped beside me. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: South, West Floyd | Floyd | Angela glanced round anxiously, as if nervous about trespassing Floyd | somewhere she had no right to be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask angela about photo" | ||||
Floyd | "So all those people in the photos in the drawing room," I began, "who Floyd | are they?" Floyd | Floyd | "I don't know who the woman is," she admitted. "Colonel Croxley just Floyd | found that photograph somewhere. His real wife is alive and well and Floyd | living in Yorkshire, I believe, though she can't be seeing much of him Floyd | right now, poor thing. But the others are real people - I mean the boy Floyd | in army uniform really was called Tony and he really was the colonel's Floyd | son and he really was killed in action - as was Adam, my boyfriend, the Floyd | pilot." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||||
Floyd | I peered under the bed, but spotted nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | "You didn't find anything under there, then," Angela surmiseed. It was Floyd | clearly a statement, not a question. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "move chest" | ||||
Floyd | I saw no need to start rearranging the furniture; it would probably Floyd | have achieved nothing except annoying the Croxleys unnecessarily. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look under chest" | ||||
Floyd | I couldn't see anything under the chest of drawers. Floyd | Floyd | "We really must try to find that codebook, Jack" Angela insisted. Floyd | "Hilda must have used something to decode that message, but I'd really Floyd | like to see the proof!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | ||||
Floyd | I saw no cabinet there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Angela followed me through the bedroom door. Floyd | Floyd | Landing North Floyd | The main landing comprised the area at the top of the stairs leading Floyd | down to the floor below. From there doors led off to east, west, north Floyd | and northeast. The landing continued to the south past the banisters. Floyd | Floyd | Angela stopped beside me. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Down Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Angela followed me through the east door. Floyd | Floyd | Main Bathroom Floyd | The bathroom was rectangular, and just a little dingy, with the white Floyd | enamel bath tucked away in the corner occupying about a quarter of the Floyd | floor-space. Most of the rest was taken up with the basin and the Floyd | toilet, with a mirror-fronted cabinet attached to one wall. The Floyd | bathroom door was to the west. Floyd | Floyd | A small book of some sort was lying on the ground just next to the Floyd | toilet bowl. Floyd | Floyd | Angela stopped beside me. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: West Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "and she's single, too" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||||
Floyd | (the red book) Floyd | It appeared to be a biography of Hermann Goering. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get book" | ||||
Floyd | I took the ration book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||||
Floyd | Which book do you mean, the red book, or the ration book? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "ration" | ||||
Floyd | It appeared to be a current ration book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||||
Floyd | Closer inspection revealed it to be the ration book for someone called Floyd | Timothy Durbury. Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang says, "ah" | |||
| inky says, "interesting" | ||||
| Fang says, "hmmm" | ||||
| Fang says, "so the dead man is durbury" | ||||
| Fang asks, "okay, I guess Hilda tried to frame croxley?" | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "ask her about corpse" | ||||
Floyd | She'd already agreed that the dead man looked a lot like Hermann Floyd | Goering, but that was as much as she was saying. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about timothy" | ||||
Floyd | I chattered away on the subject with her for several minutes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show ration book to angela" | ||||
Floyd | "Look what I've found!" I declared, "A ration book for Timothy Floyd | Durbury! I assume this belonged to that poor fellow downstairs." Floyd | Floyd | Angela hesitated for just a moment, then nodded. "There's no point Floyd | denying it, is there?" she replied. "I'm sorry, I've had to live with Floyd | pretence so long it's become a habit! But yes, the man who was killed Floyd | was Tim Durbury. Poor Tim!" She wiped the corner of her eye. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "Ask Angela if she likes Brit army guys with broken cars. I bet she'll say yes." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "snrk" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "open cabinet" | ||||
Floyd | Opening the cabinet revealed a safety razor. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x razor" | ||||
Floyd | It was a standard safety razor, with a short silver handle and a Floyd | partially enclosed blade. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "she sounds like she's lying" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask angela about timothy" | ||||
Floyd | "So who was Timothy Durbury?" I asked. "And what was he doing here? Floyd | Why all the secrecy? Why would anyone want to kill him?" Floyd | Floyd | "That's an awful lot of questions all at once," she replied with a wan Floyd | smile, "but I suppose what's secret had better remain secret." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||||
Floyd | The word "it" doesn't refer to anything right now. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get razor" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||||
Floyd | That was not something I could open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Not wanting either to be encumbered with other people's property, or to Floyd | be caught stealing it, I dropped the safety razor before leaving the Floyd | room. Floyd | Floyd | Angela followed me through the door. Floyd | Floyd | Landing North Floyd | The main landing comprised the area at the top of the stairs leading Floyd | down to the floor below. From there doors led off to east, west, north Floyd | and northeast. The landing continued to the south past the banisters. Floyd | Floyd | Angela stopped beside me. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Northeast, Down Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "ask her about cellar" | ||||
Floyd | "Where is the cellar?" I askd. Floyd | Floyd | "Just off the back passage," she told me, opposite Hilda's sitting Floyd | room.' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| IFRogue arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "go to back passage" | ||||
Floyd | (going northeast) Floyd | Floyd | Angela followed me through the northeast door. Floyd | Floyd | Upper Passage Floyd | The standard of decoration was definitely plainer in this part of the Floyd | house, little more than a stale lick of white paint on every available Floyd | surface. The door to the southwest marked the boundary between the Floyd | servants' quarters and the rest of the house, while a second door led Floyd | west, opposite a pair of cupboard doors to the east. A ladder ran up Floyd | from the floor through the open trapdoor in the ceiling, while a narrow Floyd | flight of stairs led down to the floor below. Floyd | Floyd | On the shelves were a pair of folded white sheets. Floyd | Floyd | Angela stopped beside me. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: West, Southwest, Up, Down Floyd | Floyd | (To continue on your way use the command CONTINUE or C). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "c" | ||||
Floyd | (going down) Floyd | Floyd | Angela followed me down the back stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Back Passage Floyd | The back passage was a short, narrow space leading from the kitchen Floyd | door (to the south) to the back door (to the north) between two other Floyd | doors to east and west. The space was further constricted by a flight Floyd | of stairs leading up to the floor above. Floyd | Floyd | Angela stopped beside me. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Up Floyd | Floyd | I had arrived at the back passage. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | (first trying to open the east door) Floyd | The east door seemed to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "unlock east door" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to unlock it with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "key" | ||||
Floyd | Which key do you mean, the small silver key, the dull grey key, the Floyd | chunky key, or the small brass key? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "chunky" | ||||
Floyd | Unlocked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| IFRogue goes home. | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | (first opening the east door) Floyd | Floyd | Angela followed me through the east door. Floyd | Floyd | Cellar Floyd | The beam of my torch picked out little but dust, junk and cobwebs Floyd | before settling on the large empty wine rack running along the east Floyd | wall. A further clockwise movement of the beam located something Floyd | untoward on the south wall. Floyd | Floyd | Angela stopped beside me. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: Up Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline wonders, as we head into hour four, who said this was a short game. | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x untoward" | ||||
Floyd | The word 'untoward' is not necessary in this story. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "'something'?" | |||
| inky says, "oh, wine racks" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x beam" | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "x south" | ||||
Floyd | I saw no beam there. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | There was a cable running down the south wall - but it looked as if it Floyd | had been severed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x cable" | ||||
Floyd | The cable ran all the way down from the ceiling into some sort of Floyd | junction box. It looked as if it had been deliberately and cleanly Floyd | cut; the shiny metal wire thereby revealed suggested that it might have Floyd | been cut quite recently. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oh, for the phone" | |||
| RonN says (to jacq), "Emily Short." | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "talk about cable" | ||||
Floyd | 'Have a look at this, Angela,' I said, shining the torch at the severed Floyd | cable. 'It looks like this cable has been cut.' Floyd | Floyd | 'You're right, it does!' she agreed, peering at it closely. 'And Floyd | there's something else - I think this is the cable for the telephone, Floyd | so it wasn't the storm that put it out of action!' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "x wine" | ||||
Floyd | There was not a single bottle in sight. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "search rack" | ||||
Floyd | At first sight the wine rack looked completely empty, but a thorough Floyd | search revealed a brown paper bag half hidden in one of the Floyd | compartments. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says (to jacq), "According to another." | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "get bag" | ||||
Floyd | 'What have you just found?' Angela asked, as I removed the paper bag Floyd | from the wine rack. 'Whatever it is was well hidden! Who'd ever think Floyd | of looking in an empty wine rack? Anyway, what is it?' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "look in bag" | ||||
Floyd | The brown paper bag contained a dark green book. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "ok, Angela is just being sarcastic, right?" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "read book" | ||||
Floyd | Which book do you mean, the red book, the dark green book, or the Floyd | ration book? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "read green book" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the dark green book from the brown paper bag) Floyd | The inside of the book was full of columns of numbers and letters. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, ""a whole empty wine rack! who could ever notice something there?"" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "connect wire" | ||||
Floyd | (to the pair of headphones) Floyd | I could not attach that to anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "connect cable" | ||||
Floyd | (to the pair of headphones) Floyd | I could not attach that to anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "fix cable" | ||||
Floyd | I lacked the necessary equipment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "fix cable" | ||||
Floyd | I lacked the necessary equipment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "give book to angela" | ||||
Floyd | Which book do you mean, the dark green book, the red book, or the Floyd | ration book? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "green" | ||||
Floyd | She took the book from me, and studied it carefully. 'I'd say it was Floyd | almost certainly a code book of some kind,' she told me, carefully Floyd | turning over the pages. 'Almost certainly a German codebook of some Floyd | kind,' she added. 'I imagine that's why it was hidden down here, so it Floyd | wouldn't be immediately obvious whose it was. I mean it would be Floyd | pretty damning evidence if it turned up in anyone's things, but I Floyd | suppose we now know whose it is anyway.' Floyd | Floyd | With a frown of concentration she then re-examined the writing revealed Floyd | on the notebook. 'Yes,' she nodded, 'I think this was used to decode Floyd | the message here. So - we found the notebook in Hilda's room, and Floyd | Hilda had the cellar key in her pocket, and the codebook was hidden in Floyd | the cellar - I think we have enough now, don't you?' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | 'Yes, I think we do,' I agreed. Floyd | Floyd | 'Good, so let's go and show what we've got to Colonel Croxley,' she Floyd | suggested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "find colonel" | ||||
Floyd | (going west) Floyd | Floyd | Angela followed me up the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Back Passage Floyd | The back passage was a short, narrow space leading from the kitchen Floyd | door (to the south) to the back door (to the north) between two other Floyd | doors to east and west. The space was further constricted by a flight Floyd | of stairs leading up to the floor above. Floyd | Floyd | Angela stopped beside me. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, East, West, Up Floyd | Floyd | (To continue on your way use the command CONTINUE or C). Floyd | Floyd | > | Fang asks, "okay, is our case watertight?" | |||
| Fang asks, "could Angela be tricking us?" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "cf9" | ||||
Floyd | Please select a file in which to save the current position > Floyd | Saved. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "in hour 4, yes." | |||
| DavidW says (to Fang), "Silver key is unexplained." | ||||
| RootShell says, "We should somehow fix the cable" | ||||
| Nitku says, "We'll soon see" | ||||
| Fang asks, "silver key?" | ||||
| RonN exclaims, "let's end it, one way or another!" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "c" | ||||
Floyd | (going south) Floyd | Floyd | Angela followed me through the kitchen door. Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen looked large enough to accommodate the platoon of culinary Floyd | staff who may have worked there before the war. Circumstances were now Floyd | reduced, however, leaving the place rather bare: a large wooden table Floyd | at one end, with a single hard wooden chair right next to it, now Floyd | comprised the bulk of the furniture. A long, old-fashioned cooking Floyd | range ran along the east wall, while doors led off to west, south and Floyd | north, a calendar being attached to the last of these. Floyd | Floyd | Hilda was standing near one of the corners of the room. Floyd | Floyd | Angela stopped beside me. Floyd | Floyd | Colonel Croxley was sitting at the kitchen table, drinking a cup of Floyd | tea. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, West Floyd | Floyd | I had arrived at the location of Colonel Croxley. Floyd | Floyd | 'Ah, there you are!' Croxley declared. 'I wondered where you two had Floyd | got to. Did you find anything?' Floyd | Floyd | 'Yes,' she replied. 'There was a radio in the attic, just as Mr Percy Floyd | said. We also found something else.' Turning to me she added, 'Show Floyd | Colonel Croxley the notebook.' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "show notebook to croxley" | ||||
Floyd | (Colonel Croxley) Floyd | I handed him the notebook, saying, 'We found this in Hilda's bedroom.' Floyd | Floyd | Croxley glanced at it and said, 'TOTEN SIE IHN SOFORT, in what looks to Floyd | me, so far as I can tell from this, more than a little like Hilda's Floyd | writing - well, we need hardly ask who she was being ordered to kill at Floyd | once.' Looking up at the housekeeper he went on, 'Is there anything Floyd | you'd like to say about this, Hilda?' Floyd | Floyd | 'You accuse me?' she asked incredulously, slowly backing away. 'Always Floyd | they blame the Jews, always. Why?' Floyd | Floyd | 'There's more, Hilda,' Angela told her, 'the codebook you hid in the Floyd | cellar, for example.' Floyd | Floyd | 'You're no better than a Nazi!' Hilda shrieked. 'You - how you say? - Floyd | You plant evidence to make me in trouble. Just because you are blonde Floyd | and pretty-looking, Aryan girl, you think you can ...' She broke off Floyd | as she snatched a large kitchen knife out of a drawer and rushed Floyd | towards Angela, brandishing her makeshift weapon. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "show it to him" | ||||
Floyd | 'Quick! Do something, man! Stop her!' he cried. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "ha ha" | |||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "hilda, stop" | ||||
Floyd | I saw no hilda there. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "shelter angela" | ||||
Floyd | The story doesn't understand that command. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "punch hilda" | ||||
Floyd | I rushed towards Hilda. She paused in her stride and turned to Floyd | threaten me with her knife. In the ensuing scuffle, the revolver went Floyd | off, shooting Hilda through the heart. She fell to the floor, leaving Floyd | me gaping at her in horrified silence. Floyd | Floyd | It was Colonel Croxley who broke that terrible silence. 'Well, that's Floyd | that, then!' he declared briskly, as if commenting on a broken teacup. Floyd | 'We really could have done with questioning her - but I suppose she Floyd | realized that, as well as what we'd do to a spy in wartime.' Turning Floyd | to me he cut off my incipient apology adding, 'Don't blame yourself, Mr Floyd | Percy, you did what you had to and I would have done exactly the same.' Floyd | Floyd | After a brief pause when nobody spoke he continued, 'This must all seem Floyd | very strange, Mr Percy, so I suppose I owe you an explanation.' Floyd | Floyd | Angela threw Colonel Croxley a quick, anxious glance. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "uh" | |||
| inky says, "ok, I guess we screwed up" | ||||
| Nitku asks, "why so?" | ||||
| Fang says, "well, or we won" | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||||
Floyd | I heard nothing out of the ordinary. Floyd | Floyd | 'Mr Percy,' Colonel Croxley broke in on my thoughts, 'I think I'd Floyd | better explain what's being on here, don't you?' Floyd | Floyd | Angela avoided my eye. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky asks, "I dunno, doesn't this sound like a coverup?" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "yes" | RootShell says, "i think something is fishy" | |||
Floyd | 'Yes; it's clear something very odd's going on,' I replied, still Floyd | trying to recover from my shock at what had just happened. 'Please do Floyd | enlighten me.' Floyd | Floyd | 'Very well,' he nodded. 'First, as you may have gathered, neither this Floyd | young lady nor myself are who we claimed to be. I'm Colonel Martin, Floyd | military intelligence, and Lieutenant Angela Dalton is my assistant. Floyd | The man Hilda shot was an actor called Tim Durbury, who bears more than Floyd | a passing resemblance to Reichsmarschall Goering. The original idea Floyd | was to see if we could train him to pass himself off as the real thing Floyd | and maybe cause some havoc behind enemy lines.' Floyd | Floyd | He paused for a moment, then continued, 'Actually it became obvious Floyd | almost from day one that the idea was a non-starter; poor old Durbury Floyd | was never going to fool the Germans for five minutes. If it hadn't Floyd | been for Hilda we'd've packed up the whole operation weeks ago.' Floyd | Floyd | Angela stared at him in some consternation. 'But...' she began. Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "oho" | |||
| Fang says, "or, terminate was just 'fire'" | ||||
| Fang says, "*oh" | ||||
| RonN says, "...which brings Angela and ourself closer together.." | ||||
| inky says, "or terminate the operation, yeah" | ||||
| inky says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | I waited to see what would happen. Floyd | Floyd | 'It was sheer luck that Hilda answered our advertisement for a native Floyd | German-speaker who could pass as a housekeeper,' the colonel continued. Floyd | 'We already knew she was a spy, and it gave us a perfect chance to use Floyd | her for our own purposes. She thought we wanted her to help Durbury to Floyd | learn German well enough to pass himself off as Goering - which was Floyd | obviously never going to happen in reality. Presumably she also Floyd | thought we'd given her the ideal opportunity to spy on us and pass Floyd | damaging information back to the Germans. In fact, we were simply Floyd | keeping her from doing any mischief elsewhere while using her to pass Floyd | false information to her masters in Berlin.' Floyd | Floyd | At that point Angela's mouth dropped open in utter astonishment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | I waited to see what would happen. Floyd | Floyd | Angela stared at Colonel Martin aghast. 'You never told me, sir!' she Floyd | cried. Floyd | Floyd | 'It was better you didn't know, lieutenant,' he replied evenly. Floyd | 'You're probably an even worse actor than poor old Durbury, and I Floyd | needed you to be convincing. In any case, the fewer people who knew Floyd | what we were really up to the better. Unfortunately we never reckoned Floyd | with Hilda being ordered to kill Durbury, which I suppose must have Floyd | happened shortly before you showed up, Mr Percy. And now I have a Floyd | request. Obviously our little scheme has now gone a bit wrong, but Floyd | it's still essential that none of this comes out. Can I rely on your Floyd | discretion?' Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | 'Yes, of course, sir,' I declared. Floyd | Floyd | 'Good man,' Colonel Martin replied. 'Well, we'd better see what we can Floyd | do to start clearing up this mess...' Floyd | Floyd | At that moment Captain Graham walked in, stopped in his stride at Floyd | seeing the tableau presented, and remarked, 'What happened? I thought Floyd | I heard a shot!' Floyd | Floyd | 'You did,' Colonel Martin told him calmly. 'Hilda's dead. I'll fill Floyd | in the details later. Right now I think we'd better get Mr Percy out Floyd | of here and on his way to his camp. The storm seems to have abated, so Floyd | perhaps you could give him a lift back to his car and help him get it Floyd | started.' Floyd | Floyd | 'Of course, sir,' Captain Graham nodded. Turning to me he said, 'Lead Floyd | on then, Mr Percy!' Floyd | Floyd | Captain Graham nodded towards the door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen looked large enough to accommodate the platoon of culinary Floyd | staff who may have worked there before the war. Circumstances were now Floyd | reduced, however, leaving the place rather bare: a large wooden table Floyd | at one end, with a single hard wooden chair right next to it, now Floyd | comprised the bulk of the furniture. A long, old-fashioned cooking Floyd | range ran along the east wall, while doors led off to west, south and Floyd | north, a calendar being attached to the last of these. Floyd | Floyd | A sharp knife lay on the floor, next to Hilda's body. Floyd | Floyd | Hilda's body lay sprawled on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | Captain Graham was standing by the door, waiting for me to lead the way Floyd | out. Floyd | Floyd | Angela was standing on the far side of the kitchen, trying not to look Floyd | at Hilda's body. Floyd | Floyd | Colonel Martin was standing there. Floyd | Floyd | Obvious exits: North, South, West Floyd | Floyd | Captain Graham held the door open, evidently anxious for me to leave. Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "we are going to get killed ;)" | |||
| RonN says (to Floyd), "take knife" | ||||
Floyd | 'I think you'd better leave that alone for now, Mr Percy,' Colonel Floyd | Martin told me. Floyd | Floyd | Captain Graham tried to wave me through the door. Floyd | Floyd | 'Why?' Angela asked suddenly. 'Why did she have to shoot Tim? Why Floyd | did they make her do that? If they already knew about him, what harm Floyd | could he do them?' Floyd | Floyd | 'There was probably no good military reason at all,' Colonel Martin Floyd | replied. 'I imagine it has more to do with wounded egos and Nazi Floyd | spite. I can just see the real Reichsmarschall Goering huffing and Floyd | puffing and demanding the assassination of the upstart English actor Floyd | who would dare to impersonate him.' Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "We totally should have said we wouldn't be discrete, just to see if he'd shoot us on the spot." | |||
| Gerynar has disconnected. | ||||
| Gerynar spins around in circles, faster and faster, until he disapears in a brilliant flash of plaid light. | Fang says, "oh, there's still dialogue" | |||
| inky says (to Fang), "there's still smoochin', dude" | ||||
| Fang says, "time to SEDUCE" | ||||
| RonN says, "well hopefully the end-game screen will give us an answer" | ||||
| inky says, "hee hee" | ||||
| Nitku says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | I waited to see what would happen. Floyd | Floyd | Captain Graham gave a discreet cough. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Yeah. It ain't over 'til the smoochin'" | |||
| inky says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | I handed Colonel Martin back his revolver and walked out of the Floyd | kitchen, closely followed by Captain Graham. We reached the front door Floyd | together without a word; it turned out to be unlocked, so I opened the Floyd | door and Captain Graham followed me through. Floyd | Floyd | 'At least it's stopped raining,' Graham remarked, as we stepped out Floyd | into the drive, 'I understand you ran out of fuel? I've a spare petrol Floyd | can in the back, maybe we can get your car going again.' Floyd | Floyd | I glanced up at the sky, which was indeed beginning to clear, the storm Floyd | having spent its fury. For a moment I lingered in the drive, trying to Floyd | come to terms with everything that had just taken place; then I Floyd | clambered aboard and caught my last sight of Wendle Manor as Captain Floyd | Graham turned his car round. I didn't see Angela again until after the Floyd | war - but that's another story. Floyd | Floyd | *** YOU WON *** Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, UNDO the Floyd | last move, see some AMUSING things to try, see the CREDITS, or QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | RootShell says, "they are waiting for us to leave" | |||
| inky says, "oops, I guess not" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "hahaha - At least it's stopped raining." | ||||
| Fang says (to Floyd), "amusing" | ||||
Floyd | 1. Have you tried smiling, laughing and frowning at various points? Floyd | Floyd | 2. Next time, try exploring downstairs more thoroughly, especially in Floyd | the lounge. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTORE a saved position, RESTART the story, UNDO the Floyd | last move, see some AMUSING things to try, see the CREDITS, or QUIT? Floyd | Floyd | > | inky says, "wow" | |||
| RonN says, "oh, but we're British. We don't smile, laugh, or frown." | ||||
| inky asks, "this is actually an *adaptive* amusing?" | ||||
| RootShell says, "well its a kinda of good finish" | ||||
| inky says, "that is nuts" | ||||
| Fang says, "yes, I can see some very inappropiate laughing" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to RonW), "Well, frown is the default." | ||||
| Fang says, "I liked that" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Adaptive amusing is a wonderful idea." | ||||
| inky says, "yeah, it's an eric eve-y kind of thing" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "And he leaves the door open for a sequel. If only they'd host another SmoochieComp." | ||||
| DavidW says (to inky), "quite" | ||||
| RonN asks, "well, thoughts on POV?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I liked third past." | ||||
| Nitku says, "I thought that this was going to be a supernatural story. But it was probably better this way." | ||||
| RootShell says, "i didn't like it..." | ||||
| RonN says, "I still think first was a bit awkward without a frame" | ||||
| Fang says, "I thought the POV was fairly inobtrusive" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But that's because third past really reminds me of another experiment I've been wanting to do, so." | ||||
| Fang says (to RonN), "maybe it's different if we started off in a POV" | ||||
| RonN says, "yeah, that clubfloyd stuff.. that was intrusive" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I liked all the POVs. It really didn't matter to me which it was." | ||||
| RonN smiles. | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I agree with the conversation on Emily's blog that there's more that could be explored between the PsOV, regarding inner motivation, omnicience, that sort of thing/." | ||||
| RonN says, "I preferred first. Just not 2nd" | ||||
| RonN says, "er, I mean I preferred present, just not 2nd" | ||||
| inky says (to Jacqueline), "that would be pretty nuts" | ||||
| inky says, "like, if you toggle that, then you're talking about different games" | ||||
| RonN says, "yeah..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to inky), "Yeah, it's pointed out in the conversation that it would be a bunch of extra work. But think of the replay value." | ||||
| DavidW says, "In other games by Eric, he's done the past/present trick to distinguish between play during a flashback sequence or not." | ||||
| RootShell says, "first time i played with this POV and to me it's only good to separate flasbacks from current actions" | ||||
| RonN says, "OK guys, the sun is shining, and I'm going outside." | ||||
| RonN says, "It's been fun" | ||||
| inky says, "bye Ron, thanks for stopping by" | ||||
| Emily says, "I do think it's cool to have games that let people toggle standard IF behavior with non-standard and see which they prefer" | ||||
| RootShell says (to RonN), "Good for you... here it's almost 24:00 ;)" | ||||
| Fang says, "I guess the weak point of the game is how we suddenly started trusting angela" | ||||
| Fang says, "since I had her down as the killer" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, she gave us the gun!" | ||||
| Emily says, "when I played I was really suspicious of her" | ||||
| inky says, "well, she started trusting us" | ||||
| Fang says, "well, I wouldn't have handed the gun to any of them" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, we're all jaded after Nightfall." | ||||
| inky says, "yeah, the most rail-roady part to me was when we had to show her the radio" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "You just can't trust women after playing that game." | ||||
| RootShell asks (of Jacqueline), "could we ever?" | ||||
| Fang says, "well, and go down the stairs" | ||||
| inky says, "remember that the Elysium Enigma had the same general outline" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to RS), "No comment." | ||||
| DavidW says, "It'd be interesting to see a study of Eric's 'women', as it were. There's been several interesting ones." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Another great game from Eric. He's really one of the best authors these days. Good stuff." | ||||
| RootShell says (to Jacqueline), "awww I was expecting a little 'fight' ;)" | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to RS), "Don't make me pull your hair." | ||||
| RootShell says (to Jacqueline), "lol... My woman... has made me lost a few already ;)" | ||||
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