  
 
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction. Below is a transcript of The Wedding, written by Neil James Brown. The Wedding was originally released as part of the 1996 Acorn Users Comp, where it took second place. It went on to be nominated for a Xyzzy for Best NPCs. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting the ifWiki.WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page. |
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| Jacqueline says (to Floyd), "load wedding" | ||||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | [pausing to show unread error message] | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | THE WEDDING Floyd | By Neil J Brown | ||||
| Jacqueline pushes the green 'space' button. | ||||
Floyd | [Press space to begin] Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | "You are cordially invited to the wedding of Deborah and Malcolm at St Floyd | Jude's Church, Westlowe at 2.30pm." And, scrawled in the corner in Floyd | what looks like your ex-flatmate Malcolm's handwriting: "Don't forget Floyd | the paracetamol!" Floyd | Floyd | So far so bad. You're no lover of weddings with egotistical aunts and Floyd | uncles and squealing, hyperactive kids, but you were prepared to put Floyd | up with it to see your old college chum get hitched. Now, though, Floyd | things have taken a turn for the worse with a phone call from a posh Floyd | sounding woman. "I understand you're a friend of Malcolm's" stated the Floyd | voice on the phone. "You must come over here at once, and try to sort Floyd | out this mess...". So that's why you find yourself tearing down the Floyd | motorway towards Westlowe and the mysterious D'Arcy manor... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | The Wedding Floyd | An Interactive Family Headache Floyd | Copyright (c) 1996, 1997 by Neil James Brown. Floyd | Release 4 / Serial number 970602 / Inform v6.05 Library 6/2 Floyd | Standard interpreter 1.0 Floyd | Floyd | Outside the front entrance Floyd | You stand to the south of D'Arcy manor, a building which looks like Floyd | it's straight out of a low budget Bronte TV adaptation. A few modern Floyd | touches help tie it to the late twentieth century, such as the burglar Floyd | alarm next to the elegant stone carving of a Shakespearian-looking man Floyd | above the main entrance. Immediately in front of the house is a gravel Floyd | drive which acts as a car park, and a small road leads off to the Floyd | south towards the main road. A slabbed path runs around both sides Floyd | (east and west) of the house. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a security guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN exclaims, "Hello!" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Hi, Ron. We just started... type 'toyshop' to join us." | ||||
| Bert says, "I think he's here." | ||||
| Touchy says, "Shit." | ||||
| RonN gets bored and wanders off to the Toyshop. | ||||
| RonN arrives, ready to play with the toys. | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside the front entrance Floyd | You stand to the south of D'Arcy manor, a building which looks like Floyd | it's straight out of a low budget Bronte TV adaptation. A few modern Floyd | touches help tie it to the late twentieth century, such as the burglar Floyd | alarm next to the elegant stone carving of a Shakespearian-looking man Floyd | above the main entrance. Immediately in front of the house is a gravel Floyd | drive which acts as a car park, and a small road leads off to the Floyd | south towards the main road. A slabbed path runs around both sides Floyd | (east and west) of the house. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a security guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "x me" | ||||
Floyd | As good-looking as ever. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x guard" | ||||
Floyd | Gone are the charming doormen of yesteryear, to be replaced by Floyd | nasty-looking guards from private security firms. This chappy is no Floyd | different, in his stark navy blue uniform and peaked cap. He seems to Floyd | have taken a particular dislike to you, though, and watches you Floyd | carefully, a sneer on his face. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks (of Touchy), "?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "talk to guard" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "guard, hi" | ||||
Floyd | He stares at you but doesn't say anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "x statue" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | That way only leads out of the estate, and you've still got a lot of Floyd | interfering to do yet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | "Oi! Where do you think you're going?" The guard takes great delight Floyd | in rugby-tackling you to the floor and dragging you back out onto the Floyd | pebbled car park. "Authoria... Authiroz... authorthised... proper Floyd | people only!". You've probably just made his day. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "x carving" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN asks, "talk to?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask guard about authorised people" | ||||
Floyd | "Your name's not down, you're not coming in." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell name to guard" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell guard about me" | ||||
Floyd | He stares at you but doesn't say anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell guard about my name" | ||||
Floyd | He stares at you but doesn't say anything. Floyd | Floyd | Sunshine momentarily bursts out through the grey cloud cover. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask guard about malcolm" | ||||
Floyd | The guard affects a curiously blank expression. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN asks, "exits?" | |||
| Touchy asks, "backdoor?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "I guess we need to find something around the side of the house?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "We can go around east or west, it said." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x alarm" | ||||
Floyd | From here, all you can see is a white box with the name of a security Floyd | company on it. A blue light flickers intermittently on its side, Floyd | suggesting that it is active. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "ok" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read alarm" | ||||
Floyd | From here, all you can see is a white box with the name of a security Floyd | company on it. A blue light flickers intermittently on its side, Floyd | suggesting that it is active. Floyd | Floyd | Sunshine momentarily bursts out through the grey cloud cover. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask guard about alarm" | ||||
Floyd | "That's a special alarm, that is - it goes off when vulnerable doors Floyd | and windows are smashed, so don't try anything, right?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "That sounds like an invite, doesn't it? :)" | |||
| Touchy says, "don't know how that makes it special but whatever..." | ||||
| RonN says, "sounds like ... yeah." | ||||
| DavidW says, "so, let's find a rock and a window." | ||||
| RonN says, "i think the guard was being cheeky, Touchy" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Hopefully we can run around the house the other way while the guard leaves his post and get in the front." | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "x gravel" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the gravel drive. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "In that case we should beat hi up." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x rock" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You make your way around the eastern side of the house, and find Floyd | yourself at... Floyd | Floyd | The patio outside the back of the house Floyd | A grand patio made from powder-orange slabs links the back of the Floyd | house, which is to your south, with a beautiful garden to the north, Floyd | beyond a gate. You look up at the house, and see a number of Floyd | unrecognisable people pacing about at various windows. A grey-slabbed Floyd | path runs around both sides of the house back to the front. Floyd | Floyd | The gate to the north is closed. Floyd | Floyd | The grey sky overhead turns a little darker, threatening rain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x path" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x garden" | ||||
Floyd | A simple and elegant gate, leading north to the gardens. It is Floyd | currently closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open gate" | ||||
Floyd | You open the garden gate. Floyd | Floyd | The grey sky overhead turns a little darker, threatening rain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Garden path Floyd | A simple pathway, immaculately tiled, leads north. Flower beds Floyd | surround you, beautifully arranged, in every colour of the rainbow, Floyd | and to the north east you can see a great apple tree. Floyd | Floyd | The gate to the south is open. Floyd | Floyd | By the side of the path, among the flowers, is a dark patch of earth. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "or maybe toss a pebble to tap the window, bringing Woman to see us." | |||
| theclam says (to floyd), "x patch" | ||||
Floyd | It looks as if someone has recently dug and filled in a hole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig patch" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to dig the dark patch of earth with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hands" | ||||
Floyd | Hands don't make good digging implements. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x flowers" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN exclaims, "sure they do!" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tiles" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x path" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "hehe DavidW is totally distrated by the beautiful garden..." | |||
| RonN asks, "whaddaya think 'mudding' used to mean?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | The flowers are so pretty that it would be a shame to just trample all Floyd | over them. Floyd | Floyd | You can feel a few spots of rain on your face. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | By the Crazy Golf Course Floyd | The path from the south ends at a large crazy golf course, separated Floyd | into several smaller sections, which all have crazy obstacle courses Floyd | for players to putt their golf balls through in order to get to the Floyd | hole. Flowerbeds are positioned dangerously close to the crazy course Floyd | to the west, and a hedge blocks your progress north. You can see a Floyd | tree (the only one in the garden, it seems) to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "i never imagined golf as a 'crazy' sport." | |||
| Touchy says, "If you're still looking for a rock to throw, an apple might work, too." | ||||
| theclam asks, "is 'crazy golf' meant to be mini-golf?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to theclam), "I think so." | ||||
| Touchy says (to theclam), "sounds like it" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Touchy), "Good point." | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get ball" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "May I go get an apple?" | |||
| RonN says, "'k" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner of the garden Floyd | You are at the north-east corner of the garden, marked by thick Floyd | impenetrable hedges to the north and east, and a delicate flowerbed Floyd | lies south. A single apple tree stands here; its trunk looks fragile, Floyd | and splits prematurely into smaller branches at waist level. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "climb tree" | ||||
Floyd | The tree is too weak to climb. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "That's how mortality and childbirth started, but okay." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake tree" | ||||
Floyd | You shake the tree, and something comes crashing down through the Floyd | branches, hits you on the head, and lands on the grass. Isn't gravity Floyd | the pits? Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner of the garden Floyd | You are at the north-east corner of the garden, marked by thick Floyd | impenetrable hedges to the north and east, and a delicate flowerbed Floyd | lies south. A single apple tree stands here; its trunk looks fragile, Floyd | and splits prematurely into smaller branches at waist level. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a cooking apple here. Floyd | Floyd | The grey sky overhead turns a little darker, threatening rain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take apple" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy asks, "That's how childbirth started?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||||
Floyd | A small, heavy and unappetising cooking apple. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "point for Newton" | |||
| theclam says, "oh, so there's a score" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | By the Crazy Golf Course Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Garden path Floyd | Floyd | The gate to the south is open. Floyd | Floyd | By the side of the path, among the flowers, is a dark patch of earth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The patio outside the back of the house Floyd | Floyd | The gate to the north is open. Floyd | Floyd | You can feel a few spots of rain on your face. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw apple at window" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the attic window vent or the bathroom window? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. A choice." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x vent" | ||||
Floyd | A tiny window which, you presume, allows only a minimal amount of Floyd | light into the attic. Its certainly not big enough for any person to Floyd | get through, should they lose their keys and find that that is the Floyd | only window open. As you watch, you suddenly glimpse a flicker of Floyd | movement, but it might just be your eyes playing tricks on you. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "I actually like score in puzzle games. Not because I'm a completionist, but just because I know when I'm on the right track." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bathroom window" | ||||
Floyd | You can't really see much through the large frosted glass window, but Floyd | there certainly isn't any movement. Floyd | Floyd | A sudden gust of wind ruffles your hair. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Which window should I throw the apple at?" | |||
| RonN says, "Of course, a simple 'very good!' without any numbers would suffice just as well." | ||||
| Jacqueline says (to Touchy), "Belated, yes. Or at least, Eve eating the apple led to pain in childbirth, though given that she and Adam never had any rugrats prior to The Fall, it's hard to say if they'd have been delivered by a stork or what." | ||||
| DavidW clears the save counter. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "the bathroom one seems more likely to be alarmed" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw apple at bathroom window" | ||||
Floyd | You throw the apple at the bathroom window, and it hits its target Floyd | with pinpoint accuracy, smashing a hole through the glass. The burglar Floyd | alarm screams into action, and the poor chap who was in there at the Floyd | time, probably trying to hide from the other guests, pops up at the Floyd | window and stares down at you. "Stop! Burglar!" he yells, not Floyd | considering the fact that it would be extremely stupid of a real Floyd | burglar to smash an upstairs window when two whole families were in Floyd | the manor. Floyd | Floyd | That doesn't really matter now, because the security guard, having Floyd | heard the yelling, charges round from the front of the building and Floyd | grabs you virtually from the scruff of the neck. "Right, you, you're Floyd | nicked!" he bellows triumphantly. Floyd | Floyd | Soon, the police arrive, and you are carted off to the station to Floyd | explain yourself. By the time Malcolm arrives to bail you out, it is Floyd | too late to save the wedding - it has been called off permanently. Floyd | Floyd | Some would say that this is a victory, but alas, as far as this game Floyd | is concerned... Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | *** you have failed *** Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | In that game you scored 1 out of a possible 20, in 35 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Beginner. Floyd | Floyd | Would you like to RESTART, RESTORE a saved game, give the FULL score Floyd | for that game or QUIT? Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Man" | |||
| Touchy says, "nice save." | ||||
| djfletch says, "oops" | ||||
| olethros arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | The patio outside the back of the house Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw apple at vent" | ||||
Floyd | You throw the apple at the small window vent, and grin with pride to Floyd | see it hit its target perfectly and shatter the glass. Suddenly, the Floyd | burglar alarm screams out, and the sounds of general panic can be Floyd | heard from inside. Spookily, though, no one looks out at you from the Floyd | windows, and the security guard does not appear. Floyd | Floyd | Strange, really, as you could have sworn you saw movement behind the Floyd | vent. You'd have thought the person up there would have given the game Floyd | away. Floyd | Floyd | As for the apple, well, it looks like you won't get to enjoy that Floyd | tangy fruit flavour after all. Floyd | Floyd | Sunshine momentarily bursts out through the grey cloud cover. Floyd | Floyd | You can hear an alarm screeching. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "I like the Brit slang." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You make your way around the eastern side of the house, and find Floyd | yourself at... Floyd | Floyd | Outside the front entrance Floyd | Floyd | You can hear an alarm screeching. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The grand entrance hall of D'Arcy manor evokes a twinge of jealousy Floyd | within you - the grand wooden polished floors and staircase, the Floyd | expensive chandelier hanging from the high ceiling, the priceless Floyd | Compton painting hanging on a wall. Why can't you inherit something Floyd | like this? Leaving aside feelings of bitterness, you observe a Floyd | cupboard under the stairs and a bell on a table near the door to the Floyd | south. Doorways (which are probably more expensive than your entire Floyd | house) lead off to the east and west, and a passageway lies north. Floyd | Floyd | The mother of the bride stands in a corner fretting away to herself as Floyd | only hysterical mothers can. Floyd | Floyd | An alarm screeches from somewhere outside the house. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "x bell" | ||||
Floyd | It is a simple push bell painted gold. Floyd | Floyd | An alarm screeches from somewhere outside the house. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push bell" | ||||
Floyd | Drring! You are disappointed that no butlers turn up to see what you Floyd | want. Floyd | Floyd | An alarm screeches from somewhere outside the house. Floyd | Floyd | You can hear the security guard moving about close by... Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "Oh, Jacq, Touchy, so I read Primrose's transcript last night. Holy Wow." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| RonN says, "Went on a bit long, did it? :)" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell mother about me" | ||||
Floyd | She appears not to have heard you, though you can't shake the feeling Floyd | that she considers you too lowly a person to grace with an answer. Floyd | Floyd | An alarm screeches from somewhere outside the house. Floyd | Floyd | You can hear the security guard moving about close by... Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy exclaims, "It was awesome!" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "A bit, yes." | ||||
| Touchy says, "Best 14 hours of last weekend. hehe" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "At least 8 hours, wasn't it?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "For values of "a bit" that equals "a really freakin' long time"" | ||||
| RonN says, "and to think we thought we were almost done at the mere 4-hour mark." | ||||
| RonN says (to to), "think *i* thought..." | ||||
| DavidW says, "re this game, I don't think we're safe yet. Perhaps we have to find Malcolm." | ||||
| RonN says, "inky did make it to our meet, so happy endings all around." | ||||
| Touchy says, "Enough reminiscing about the last game. Let's talk to that bridesmother." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heehee" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Touchy), "She won't talk to us." | ||||
| djfletch says, "we could hide in the cupboard if necessary perhaps" | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "open cupboard" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | An alarm screeches from somewhere outside the house. Floyd | Floyd | You can hear the security guard moving about close by... Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "or not" | |||
| Touchy says, "I vote for north." | ||||
| RonN asks, "ask the mother about the alarm?" | ||||
| RonN says, "maybe she'll punch in the code to turn it off" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'm not sure where to go. I suspect we'll get caught this first time." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Floyd | Here at the heart of the manor is an oak passageway with doorways Floyd | leading to most rooms on the ground floor. You can see the great Floyd | dining hall to the north, and a brass sign above the doorway to the Floyd | northeast states "Kitchen", but the east and southwest exits hold no Floyd | clues as to where they lead. The entrance hall is off to the south, Floyd | and a sturdy door stands in the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp, the family dog, sits and whines, his lead tied to a door Floyd | handle. Floyd | Floyd | A simple polished table lies in the southeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | An alarm screeches from somewhere outside the house. Floyd | Floyd | You can hear the security guard moving about close by... Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline asks, "Do we want to save?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I saved just before the throw. Let's not save again until we're safe." | ||||
| Touchy says, "We parely made 5 moves since the last save." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "untie dog" | ||||
Floyd | You release Scamp and he shows his appreciation by leaping up at you Floyd | and licking your face. You quickly rise from crouching, not really Floyd | liking the idea of dog saliva on your cheeks, and Scamp quickly loses Floyd | interest in you. Floyd | Floyd | An alarm screeches from somewhere outside the house. Floyd | Floyd | By the sound of it, the security guard is getting closer... Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "hehe parely" | |||
| Jacqueline nods. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Grand Hall Floyd | This vast room is presumably where the D'Arcy clan eat their meals; it Floyd | reminds you too much of your old school dinner hall for you to feel Floyd | entirely comfortable here. A large sturdy table sits in the centre of Floyd | the room, surrounded by ten carefully-crafted chairs, and a set of Floyd | antique jugs rest on stools in a small alcove in the west wall. The Floyd | walls are covered in paintings which look impressive until you examine Floyd | them closely and see that they are certainly not in the league of the Floyd | great masters. The back garden is accessible via a door to the north, Floyd | a corridor leads south, and the kitchen is through the swing doors to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | Good old Uncle Albert stands nearby with a glass of brandy in one Floyd | hand. Floyd | Floyd | An alarm screeches from somewhere outside the house. Floyd | Floyd | By the sound of it, the security guard is getting closer... Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN asks, "do we know who called us?" | |||
| Touchy says, "no" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I don't think we do." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask albert about wedding" | ||||
Floyd | "Damn nuisance, eh? Still, I might get a chance to nip out for a game Floyd | of crazy golf later." Floyd | Floyd | An alarm screeches from somewhere outside the house. Floyd | Floyd | The security guard marches neatly up to you and seizes you by the Floyd | collar. "The alarm might have been playing up," he says, "but at least Floyd | I've found myself another intruder!" To your great relief, he doesn't Floyd | beat you up or call the police, but rather ejects you out onto the car Floyd | park. "And don't try to sneak back in, understood?" Floyd | Floyd | Outside the front entrance Floyd | Floyd | You can see a security guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Grand Hall Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock garden door" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the hall door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | An alarm screeches from somewhere outside the house. Floyd | Floyd | The security guard marches neatly up to you and seizes you by the Floyd | collar. "The alarm might have been playing up," he says, "but at least Floyd | I've found myself another intruder!" To your great relief, he doesn't Floyd | beat you up or call the police, but rather ejects you out onto the car Floyd | park. "And don't try to sneak back in, understood?" Floyd | Floyd | Outside the front entrance Floyd | Floyd | You can see a security guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Grand Hall Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open hall door" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | An alarm screeches from somewhere outside the house. Floyd | Floyd | The security guard marches neatly up to you and seizes you by the Floyd | collar. "The alarm might have been playing up," he says, "but at least Floyd | I've found myself another intruder!" To your great relief, he doesn't Floyd | beat you up or call the police, but rather ejects you out onto the car Floyd | park. "And don't try to sneak back in, understood?" Floyd | Floyd | Outside the front entrance Floyd | Floyd | You can see a security guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam asks (of floyd), "shouldn't there be a staircase somewhere, considering there's an attic?" | ||||
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Outside the front entrance Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock hall door" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | theclam says, "argh" | |||
| DavidW asks, "what happened there?" | ||||
| Touchy asks (of theclam), "There where stairs next to the entrance, right?" | ||||
| Touchy asks, "Can't we just go east into the kitchen?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "New plan: Go straight to the back door and unlock it so when we get caught, we can reenter the house from the back." | ||||
| Touchy asks (of DavidW), "Unlock it with what?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Do we need a key, though?" | ||||
| djfletch says, "it's worth trying" | ||||
| DavidW says, "anyway, let me try." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf1" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Wouldn't he just have unlocked it otherwise? But yeah, worth trying." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw apple at vent" | ||||
Floyd | You throw the apple at the small window vent, and grin with pride to Floyd | see it hit its target perfectly and shatter the glass. Suddenly, the Floyd | burglar alarm screams out, and the sounds of general panic can be Floyd | heard from inside. Spookily, though, no one looks out at you from the Floyd | windows, and the security guard does not appear. Floyd | Floyd | Strange, really, as you could have sworn you saw movement behind the Floyd | vent. You'd have thought the person up there would have given the game Floyd | away. Floyd | Floyd | As for the apple, well, it looks like you won't get to enjoy that Floyd | tangy fruit flavour after all. Floyd | Floyd | You can hear an alarm screeching. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You make your way around the eastern side of the house, and find Floyd | yourself at... Floyd | Floyd | Outside the front entrance Floyd | Floyd | You can feel a few spots of rain on your face. Floyd | Floyd | You can hear an alarm screeching. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The grand entrance hall of D'Arcy manor evokes a twinge of jealousy Floyd | within you - the grand wooden polished floors and staircase, the Floyd | expensive chandelier hanging from the high ceiling, the priceless Floyd | Compton painting hanging on a wall. Why can't you inherit something Floyd | like this? Leaving aside feelings of bitterness, you observe a Floyd | cupboard under the stairs and a bell on a table near the door to the Floyd | south. Doorways (which are probably more expensive than your entire Floyd | house) lead off to the east and west, and a passageway lies north. Floyd | Floyd | The mother of the bride stands in a corner fretting away to herself as Floyd | only hysterical mothers can. Floyd | Floyd | An alarm screeches from somewhere outside the house. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Floyd | Here at the heart of the manor is an oak passageway with doorways Floyd | leading to most rooms on the ground floor. You can see the great Floyd | dining hall to the north, and a brass sign above the doorway to the Floyd | northeast states "Kitchen", but the east and southwest exits hold no Floyd | clues as to where they lead. The entrance hall is off to the south, Floyd | and a sturdy door stands in the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp, the family dog, sits and whines, his lead tied to a door Floyd | handle. Floyd | Floyd | A simple polished table lies in the southeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | An alarm screeches from somewhere outside the house. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Grand Hall Floyd | This vast room is presumably where the D'Arcy clan eat their meals; it Floyd | reminds you too much of your old school dinner hall for you to feel Floyd | entirely comfortable here. A large sturdy table sits in the centre of Floyd | the room, surrounded by ten carefully-crafted chairs, and a set of Floyd | antique jugs rest on stools in a small alcove in the west wall. The Floyd | walls are covered in paintings which look impressive until you examine Floyd | them closely and see that they are certainly not in the league of the Floyd | great masters. The back garden is accessible via a door to the north, Floyd | a corridor leads south, and the kitchen is through the swing doors to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | Good old Uncle Albert stands nearby with a glass of brandy in one Floyd | hand. Floyd | Floyd | An alarm screeches from somewhere outside the house. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock hall door" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to unlock the hall door with? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "drat" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hall door" | ||||
Floyd | A door connecting the patio outside with the dining hall inside. Floyd | Floyd | An alarm screeches from somewhere outside the house. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen staff are hard at work on the meal for the reception, and Floyd | from their progress so far, you'd say that they are making enough food Floyd | to keep the Royal family well fed for a good few months. To the west, Floyd | a swing-door leads into the dining hall, and the main exit is to the Floyd | southwest. A pantry lies to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A pompous and temperamental chef stands around shouting at the staff Floyd | and chopping things up. Floyd | Floyd | An alarm screeches from somewhere outside the house. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy exclaims, "PANTRY!" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pantry Floyd | Should Luxembourg ever suffer a famine, they need only raid this Floyd | pantry to ensure that their citizens don't starve. The fruit, Floyd | vegetables, meat, ingredients and drinks are all stored using Floyd | technology that would put Nasa's space programme to shame. There is a Floyd | tradesman's entrance to the east, but the main exit is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | A wedding programme lies unloved on the floor. Floyd | Floyd | An alarm screeches from somewhere outside the house. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ha description" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | The door won't open. Floyd | Floyd | An alarm screeches from somewhere outside the house. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch asks, "will the programme work as a ticket for the guard?" | |||
| Touchy asks, "Aren't we going to read that?" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Worth a try." | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get programme" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | An alarm screeches from somewhere outside the house. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||||
Floyd | This is the first draft of the wedding programme, which has since been Floyd | chopped down and simplified. It contains details of all the involved Floyd | parties and the guests, and was probably deemed unsuitable for fear of Floyd | libel charges being brought against the authors. You'd need to consult Floyd | it in more detail to find out about the people involved. Floyd | Floyd | An alarm screeches from somewhere outside the house. Floyd | Floyd | You can hear the security guard moving about close by... Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I didn't see it!" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look up albert in programme" | ||||
Floyd | "ALBERT HARDCASTLE, uncle of the groom, is a famous sociologist and Floyd | keen golfer. He wishes his brother would join the twentieth century Floyd | and stop fussing so much over female vicars." Floyd | Floyd | An alarm screeches from somewhere outside the house. Floyd | Floyd | You can hear the security guard moving about close by... Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "probably shouldn't waste time just now" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| DavidW says, "hm. I dunno what's expected here. Maybe we need to find a butler's uniform or something." | ||||
| Touchy says, "There's only one way to go." | ||||
| DavidW says, "afk for a bit" | ||||
| djfletch asks, "try east?" | ||||
| Touchy says, "Maybe we just need to find a) the groom b) whoever called us to clear us." | ||||
| Touchy says, "We tried east, it's locked." | ||||
| djfletch says, "oh right" | ||||
| RonN asks, "what does afk mean?" | ||||
| Alex says (to RonN), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that afk is Away From Keyboard." | ||||
| djfletch says, "there were other directions from the passage and entrance hall I think" | ||||
| Touchy says, "It means he's not here and hence not playing but I suggest we wait for him." | ||||
| RonN owes Alex an apology. | ||||
| RonN says, "thanks, T" | ||||
| DavidW says, "back" | ||||
| DavidW says, "you didn't have to wait." | ||||
| Touchy says, "I needed to make more tea anyway. hehe" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | The door won't open. Floyd | Floyd | An alarm screeches from somewhere outside the house. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to RonN), "I needed a bathroom break, but didn't want to make it too explicit for the transcript." | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pantry Floyd | Should Luxembourg ever suffer a famine, they need only raid this Floyd | pantry to ensure that their citizens don't starve. The fruit, Floyd | vegetables, meat, ingredients and drinks are all stored using Floyd | technology that would put Nasa's space programme to shame. There is a Floyd | tradesman's entrance to the east, but the main exit is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | An alarm screeches from somewhere outside the house. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x drinks" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline makes a special not to use bold on David's last statement for the transcipt. | |||
| Touchy asks, "Anything else you would like to investiage?" | ||||
| Touchy says, "in-ves-ti-gate ...jeez" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think we need to find either the key to the back door, or a butler's outfit, or an invite, or Malcolm." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | Floyd | A pompous and temperamental chef stands around shouting at the staff Floyd | and chopping things up. Floyd | Floyd | An alarm screeches from somewhere outside the house. Floyd | Floyd | The burglar alarm suddenly stops, and the silence momentarily hurts Floyd | your ears. It must mean something to have avoided capture by that Floyd | guard for this length of time. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "There." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf2" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Easy if you're as good as me." | |||
| RonN says, "hey, when the guard comes looking, we could hide in the bathroom. He's not so rude to barge in, surely." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "woo" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look up malcolm in programme" | ||||
Floyd | "MALCOLM HARDCASTLE, bridegroom. Born to Marjorie and Edward at St Floyd | Gollics Cottage Hospital in 1969, Malcolm's original ambition was to Floyd | be a professional footballer, but common sense got the better of him, Floyd | and he went to Hedgeford University where he gained a degree in Floyd | Environmental Studies. He now works at the Westlowe Council planning Floyd | department, which doesn't pay enough to keep Deborah in the style to Floyd | which she has become accustomed, but Deborah says that she's willing Floyd | to forsake the odd tub of caviar in order to be with Malcolm." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "lookup chef in programme" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "look up chef in programme" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing in the programme about that. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN is sad that great idea went to waste. | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up me in programme" | ||||
Floyd | You are disturbed to discover an extremely detailed account of your Floyd | entire life history, from a giggling drooling baby to the fine adult Floyd | you are today. All of your dark secrets are here for everyone and Floyd | their dog to read, including a few that you'd forgotten yourself. Your Floyd | mind drifts to libel proceedings, until you realise that this version Floyd | of the programme was abandoned for that very reason. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "f look up deborah in programme" | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "look up deborah in programe" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "look up deborah in programme" | ||||
Floyd | "DEBORAH D'ARCY, bride. Born in 1971, Deborah was wrapped in so much Floyd | cotton wool by her parents Sheryl and Jerry while growing up that many Floyd | people thought she wouldn't recognise the real world if it crashed Floyd | through her bedroom ceiling. But Deborah somehow managed to turn out Floyd | as a charming, realistic and down-to-earth young lady, which has only Floyd | fuelled rumours that she must have been adopted. Deborah met her Floyd | future to-be husband after crashing her car into his on a cold winters Floyd | morning." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "look up groom in programme" | ||||
Floyd | "MALCOLM HARDCASTLE, bridegroom. Born to Marjorie and Edward at St Floyd | Gollics Cottage Hospital in 1969, Malcolm's original ambition was to Floyd | be a professional footballer, but common sense got the better of him, Floyd | and he went to Hedgeford University where he gained a degree in Floyd | Environmental Studies. He now works at the Westlowe Council planning Floyd | department, which doesn't pay enough to keep Deborah in the style to Floyd | which she has become accustomed, but Deborah says that she's willing Floyd | to forsake the odd tub of caviar in order to be with Malcolm." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look up marjorie in programme" | ||||
Floyd | "EDWARD & MARJORIE HARDCASTLE, parents of the groom. Edward is a Floyd | successful businessman, and Marjorie presents the local news bulletins Floyd | on regional television. In their spare time, they like synchronised Floyd | embroidery-making and tennis." Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "hrhr" | |||
| theclam says (to floyd), "look up sheryl in programme" | ||||
Floyd | "SHERYL & JERRY D'ARCY, extremely rich parents of the bride. Floyd | Originally using Jerry's surname Franklyn, they changed to Sheryl's Floyd | maiden name when she inherited the impressive D'Arcy manor off her Floyd | eccentric uncle. They won most of their great wealth a week later on Floyd | the National Lottery. Fortune has smiled on them rather a lot lately." Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "argh" | |||
| Touchy says, "I need to win the lottery, too." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "So that was Sheryl in the Entranceway?" | ||||
| Touchy says, "Apparently." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up scamp in programme" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing in the programme about that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen staff are hard at work on the meal for the reception, and Floyd | from their progress so far, you'd say that they are making enough food Floyd | to keep the Royal family well fed for a good few months. To the west, Floyd | a swing-door leads into the dining hall, and the main exit is to the Floyd | southwest. A pantry lies to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A pompous and temperamental chef stands around shouting at the staff Floyd | and chopping things up. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "I would like to explore more." | |||
| DavidW says, "me too. Go ahead" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Grand Hall Floyd | Floyd | Good old Uncle Albert stands nearby with a glass of brandy in one Floyd | hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask albert about wedding" | ||||
Floyd | "Damn nuisance, eh? Still, I might get a chance to nip out for a game Floyd | of crazy golf later." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "verbose" | ||||
Floyd | The Wedding is now in its "verbose" mode, which always gives long Floyd | descriptions of locations (even if you've been there before). Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask albert about malcolm" | ||||
Floyd | "Goodness knows where the dashed young chap has got to. He's not one Floyd | to flee like this, that's all I can say." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "oh. Groom isn't here?" | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Grand Hall Floyd | This vast room is presumably where the D'Arcy clan eat their meals; it Floyd | reminds you too much of your old school dinner hall for you to feel Floyd | entirely comfortable here. A large sturdy table sits in the centre of Floyd | the room, surrounded by ten carefully-crafted chairs, and a set of Floyd | antique jugs rest on stools in a small alcove in the west wall. The Floyd | walls are covered in paintings which look impressive until you examine Floyd | them closely and see that they are certainly not in the league of the Floyd | great masters. The back garden is accessible via a door to the north, Floyd | a corridor leads south, and the kitchen is through the swing doors to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | Good old Uncle Albert stands nearby with a glass of brandy in one Floyd | hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "So that's why we're here." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask albert about gold" | ||||
Floyd | "Sorry old bean, don't know much about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask albert about golf" | ||||
Floyd | "I'd love to have a game, but these doors out to the gardens are Floyd | locked, I'm afraid." Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "hrhr idiot" | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "tell albert about front door" | ||||
Floyd | Albert takes a tiny sip of his brandy but doesn't say anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "He must be really old." | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Floyd | Here at the heart of the manor is an oak passageway with doorways Floyd | leading to most rooms on the ground floor. You can see the great Floyd | dining hall to the north, and a brass sign above the doorway to the Floyd | northeast states "Kitchen", but the east and southwest exits hold no Floyd | clues as to where they lead. The entrance hall is off to the south, Floyd | and a sturdy door stands in the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp, the family dog, sits and whines, his lead tied to a door Floyd | handle. Floyd | Floyd | A simple polished table lies in the southeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the simple table. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Drawing room Floyd | You are in a glorious oak-panelled room, with a large fireplace to one Floyd | side. This is where the family relaxes, assuming that such a monstrous Floyd | family relaxes at all. An antique-style telephone rests on the Floyd | mantelpiece, and a large hi-tech widescreen television sits on a video Floyd | recorder in the corner. From here, you observe exits to the east and Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A young woman called Chloe sits nearby reading a book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about wedding" | ||||
Floyd | "I get dragged all this way against my will to some poxy wedding, and Floyd | the groom legs it before the ceremony. Typical!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look up chloe in programme" | ||||
Floyd | "CHLOE FRANKLYN, cousin to the bride. She was originally offered the Floyd | role of bridesmaid, but declined on the grounds that she wouldn't be Floyd | able to wear her Doc Martens. Chloe is a bit of a 'goth' which Floyd | basically means that she dresses like someone out of The Addams Floyd | Family. She is a science fiction fanatic and particularly enjoys the Floyd | show 'Battlebase'." Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy asks, "Doc Martens?" | |||
| RonN says, "KISS CHLOE" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about battlebase" | ||||
Floyd | "Best programme on television. You a fan then?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Shoe brand" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "chloe, yes" | ||||
Floyd | Chloe takes her feet off the table and sits up. "Okay then," she says, Floyd | "prove it. Name one of the three student officers who join the Floyd | Caradeen in 'New Intake'." Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "ah..." | |||
| DavidW says (to djf), "Pwned" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "say david" | ||||
Floyd | (to Chloe) Floyd | "Ha, I knew it," she says triumphantly. "You're just lying so you can Floyd | creep to me. Well it won't work." You take it from her reply that your Floyd | answer was wrong. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Ellison arrives, ready to play with the toys. | RonN says, "wonders who's on wikipedia now looking up the answers." | |||
| Touchy asks, "Wait that show really exists?" | ||||
| DavidW asks (of RonN), "You think it's a real show?" | ||||
| RonN says, "I presume so." | ||||
| RonN says, "the Docs are real" | ||||
| djfletch says, ">look up battlebase on wikipedia on smartphone" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x video recorder" | ||||
Floyd | A slim, sleek model with a slot for cassettes and the buttons REW, Floyd | PLAY, FF, STOP and EJECT underneath. Floyd | Floyd | The video recorder is currently switched off. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "If wikipedia doesn't know it it cannot be." | |||
| DavidW says, "I suspect we need to watch the show in-game, eventually." | ||||
| Touchy says, "Ooooh, let's check if there's something in it." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push eject" | ||||
Floyd | [ Try PRESS <button> ON VIDEO RECORDER. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push eject on video recorder" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "push on on video recorder" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "oooh. aaaahhhh." | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "switch recorder on" | ||||
Floyd | You switch the video recorder on. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "press, not push" | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "press play on recorder" | ||||
Floyd | With a lot of effort, the video recorder wakes up and starts playing Floyd | the tape. Floyd | Floyd | The video recorder emits a series of clicking noises, then starts to Floyd | rewind. Floyd | Floyd | The video recorder is making a whirring sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | You wait for a moment. Floyd | Floyd | The video recorder is making a whirring sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about docs" | ||||
Floyd | The woman doesn't respond. She seems to think it's trendy to be Floyd | ignorant. Floyd | Floyd | The video recorder is making a whirring sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "someone just finshed watching something" | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about malcolm" | ||||
Floyd | For the briefest moment, her face lights up. "Yeah, he's a bit of all Floyd | right is Malcolm." Then she realises what she is doing, and quickly Floyd | wears her 'couldn't care less' expression. Floyd | Floyd | The video recorder is making a whirring sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I'm wondering if Malcolm recorded a message." | |||
| RonN wonders if we'll see THE RING. | ||||
| Touchy asks, "That would be a very...um ..what's that site that has memes for storytelling that Gerynar was talking about last week?" | ||||
| RonN asks, "tvtropes.com?" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x tv" | ||||
Floyd | The television is large, with a wide screen and large speakers at Floyd | either side. You can see a power switch but not the means to change Floyd | channels - maybe that is done with a remote control. Floyd | Floyd | The television is currently switched off. Floyd | Floyd | The video recorder is making a whirring sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn on tv" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Chloe tuts, clearly unhappy that you're disturbing her reading. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a moment of dialogue from the Australian soap opera playing Floyd | on the television. "I hate you! You've ruined my life!" screams a Floyd | teenager, before slamming a door. Floyd | Floyd | The video recorder is making a whirring sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about deborah" | ||||
Floyd | Chloe glares at you and the television, then gets back to her book. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a moment of dialogue from the Australian soap opera playing Floyd | on the television. "Carole," says a young woman, "my parents are Floyd | leaving town, so can you adopt me?" "Yeah, sure," replies Carole. Floyd | Floyd | With a <clunk!>, the video recorder stops rewinding the tape. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says (to Ron), "heehee" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "Also, this isn't a real show we're talking about, is it?" | ||||
| Touchy says (to RonN), "Yes, that." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It's all in game." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "press play" | ||||
Floyd | [ Try PRESS <button> ON VIDEO RECORDER. ] Floyd | Floyd | You catch a moment of dialogue from the Australian soap opera playing Floyd | on the television. "I'm going to make it in the sheep farming Floyd | business!" says a young woman firmly. "You see if I don't!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "switch tv to recorder" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "press play on video recorder" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to switch the television. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | With a lot of effort, the video recorder wakes up and starts playing Floyd | the tape. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a moment of dialogue from the Australian soap opera playing Floyd | on the television. "Carole," says a young woman, "my parents are Floyd | leaving town, so can you adopt me?" "Yeah, sure," replies Carole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "press stop on video recorder" | ||||
Floyd | The video recorder whirrs slightly as the tape stops playing. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a moment of dialogue from the Australian soap opera playing Floyd | on the television. "I'm going to make it in the sheep farming Floyd | business!" says a young woman firmly. "You see if I don't!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask chloe for remote" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x tv" | ||||
Floyd | The television is large, with a wide screen and large speakers at Floyd | either side. You can see a power switch but not the means to change Floyd | channels - maybe that is done with a remote control. Floyd | Floyd | The television is currently switched on. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a moment of dialogue from the Australian soap opera playing Floyd | on the television. "I trusted you!" whimpers a teenage girl. "And you Floyd | cheated on me!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about remote" | ||||
Floyd | Chloe glares at you and the television, then gets back to her book. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a moment of dialogue from the Australian soap opera playing Floyd | on the television. "It's Bob!" a distraught man says. "He's been Floyd | involved in some sort of accident!" "What, again?" an unimpressed Floyd | woman asks. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn off tv" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Hurrah," says Chloe in an exaggerated manner. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||||
Floyd | The cover depicts a seaside pier in silouette, with a Floyd | disproportionately large full moon behind it. "The Vampire Brood of Floyd | Bognor Regis" reads the title, "by the acclaimed author Floella Witt". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "version" | ||||
Floyd | The Wedding Floyd | An Interactive Family Headache Floyd | Copyright (c) 1996, 1997 by Neil James Brown. Floyd | Release 4 / Serial number 970602 / Inform v6.05 Library 6/2 Floyd | Standard interpreter 1.0 Floyd | Interpreter 2 Version N / Library serial number 960912 Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "heh" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about book" | ||||
Floyd | "It's 'The Vampire Brood of Bognor Regis' by Floella Witt." Floyd | Floyd | The video recorder emits a series of clicking noises, then starts to Floyd | rewind. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about witt" | ||||
Floyd | The woman doesn't respond. She seems to think it's trendy to be Floyd | ignorant. Floyd | Floyd | The video recorder is making a whirring sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "ask her about Poppy Z Brite" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search couch" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "Wow...rewinding takes longer than playing." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search sofa" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Wow...rewinding takes longer than playing." | |||
| RonN says, "or Laura K Hamilton" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "did someone whisper to Floyd?" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look under sofa" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh. That was Touchy" | |||
| Touchy says, "No, but I accidentally talked to him." | ||||
| RonN says, "don't talk to the servants, Touchy." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Drawing room Floyd | You are in a glorious oak-panelled room, with a large fireplace to one Floyd | side. This is where the family relaxes, assuming that such a monstrous Floyd | family relaxes at all. An antique-style telephone rests on the Floyd | mantelpiece, and a large hi-tech widescreen television sits on a video Floyd | recorder in the corner. From here, you observe exits to the east and Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A young woman called Chloe sits nearby reading a book. Floyd | Floyd | The video recorder is making a whirring sound. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "it distracts them" | |||
| RonN grins. | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "switch tv program" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to switch the television. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "switch tv" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Chloe tuts, clearly unhappy that you're disturbing her reading. Floyd | Floyd | The video recorder is making a whirring sound. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a moment of dialogue from the Australian soap opera playing Floyd | on the television. "I trusted you!" whimpers a teenage girl. "And you Floyd | cheated on me!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x mantelpiece" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fireplace" | ||||
Floyd | Possibly redundant, what with the invention of central heating, but it Floyd | must be nice to have a large roaring fire going on cold winter nights. Floyd | Floyd | The video recorder is making a whirring sound. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a moment of dialogue from the Australian soap opera playing Floyd | on the television. "I'm going to make it in the sheep farming Floyd | business!" says a young woman firmly. "You see if I don't!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x phone" | ||||
Floyd | The telephone is gold plated, and shaped like a cumbersome Floyd | old-fashioned model, except for a keypad where the dial should go. Floyd | Floyd | The video recorder is making a whirring sound. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a moment of dialogue from the Australian soap opera playing Floyd | on the television. "I hate you! You've ruined my life!" screams a Floyd | teenager, before slamming a door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "change channel" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "switch tv" | ||||
Floyd | That's already on. Floyd | Floyd | The video recorder is making a whirring sound. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a moment of dialogue from the Australian soap opera playing Floyd | on the television. "Sheila, fancy coming back to my place for a six Floyd | pack?" asks a naive young man. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Whatever." | |||
| theclam says (to floyd), "ask chloe about programme" | ||||
Floyd | Chloe glares at you and the television, then gets back to her book. Floyd | Floyd | With a <clunk!>, the video recorder stops rewinding the tape. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a moment of dialogue from the Australian soap opera playing Floyd | on the television. "I trusted you!" whimpers a teenage girl. "And you Floyd | cheated on me!" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Until we find the remote, the tv looks useless at the moment." | |||
| djfletch asks, "try exploring some more?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Probably what the dog buried out back." | ||||
| Kye arrives, full of fun, but no funk. | Touchy says (to DavidW), "I have no idea how you make these connections but yeah, could be." | |||
| DavidW says, "Yes. Explore please." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The grand entrance hall of D'Arcy manor evokes a twinge of jealousy Floyd | within you - the grand wooden polished floors and staircase, the Floyd | expensive chandelier hanging from the high ceiling, the priceless Floyd | Compton painting hanging on a wall. Why can't you inherit something Floyd | like this? Leaving aside feelings of bitterness, you observe a Floyd | cupboard under the stairs and a bell on a table near the door to the Floyd | south. Doorways (which are probably more expensive than your entire Floyd | house) lead off to the east and west, and a passageway lies north. Floyd | Floyd | The mother of the bride stands in a corner fretting away to herself as Floyd | only hysterical mothers can. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN asks, "OT: wow, who added, like 50+ games to IFDB lately?" | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask mother about wedding" | ||||
Floyd | "It's all gone to pot," she wails. "Oh my oh my! My poor dear Floyd | daughter, whatever will she do!" She then mumbles something else which Floyd | you don't quite catch. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy asks, "w or up?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Touchy), "well, it could be anything, but likely something out of place. And the remote's not here, so..." | ||||
| djfletch says, "try east" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | This room has the air of a gentleman's private study area, though Floyd | recently it appears to have been taken over by the lady of the house Floyd | (that is, Sheryl D'Arcy). A hardboard set of shelves against one wall Floyd | looks completely out of place amid the antique furniture and the Floyd | gorgeous circular shaped painting on the ceiling. Embroidery rests on Floyd | a pouffe to one side, and several packs of wool tower alongside the Floyd | shelves. The front entrance is out to the west, and there is another Floyd | room to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Barbara, an aunt of the bride, sits on an armchair with her legs Floyd | crossed and her hands interlocked. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "also possible rooms w and e from the passage I think" | |||
| theclam says (to floyd), "look up barbara in programme" | ||||
Floyd | "BARBARA FRANKLYN, Aunt of the bride, and mother to Chloe. Barbara is Floyd | a moderately successful artist and sculptor, and has won numerous Floyd | awards. She brought up Chloe singlehandedly, refusing to name Chloe's Floyd | father." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x shelves" | ||||
Floyd | That's merely background furniture - you don't need to worry about it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask barbara about chloe" | ||||
Floyd | Barbara notices you for the first time, having been in deep thought. Floyd | "You must be Malcolm's friend," she says in the voice you recognise as Floyd | being the one at the other end of the phone. "I can't really tell you Floyd | anything, but you must make sure that Malcolm and Deborah get married Floyd | today." She produces a key from her jacket pocket and places it on a Floyd | table. "That might come in handy. I don't know what it opens; I just Floyd | took it from the key holder at the entrance." Floyd | Floyd | Barbara leans back in her chair and lets her mind drift off to other Floyd | things. Floyd | Floyd | > | * Kye has joined the channel. | |||
| djfletch says, "she must be an adventurer - she picks up keys for no reason" | ||||
| Touchy says, "hehe" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take key" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "thank barbara" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x key" | ||||
Floyd | It is small and unremarkable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask barbara about malcolm" | ||||
Floyd | She leans forward and places a hand on your arm to stress her point. Floyd | "You must ensure that Deborah and Malcolm are married today. I can't Floyd | tell you any more than that." You ask why not, but Barbara gives you a Floyd | mysterious look and settles back into her chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hello, Kye." | |||
| Ellison says, "I remember this being a cute game but have forgotten everything about it" | ||||
| Kye says, "Hiya." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask barbara about chloe" | ||||
Floyd | "I think black looks really good on her, don't you?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "if I had to guess, there's a wedding involved" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask barbara about house" | ||||
Floyd | "I'm sorry," she says. "I'm afraid I know little about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask barbara about me" | ||||
Floyd | "Oh, I just know you can save this wedding," she says, a mischievous Floyd | twinkle in her eye. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask barbara about herself" | ||||
Floyd | "I'm sorry," she says. "I'm afraid I know little about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask barbara about albert" | ||||
Floyd | "I'm sorry," she says. "I'm afraid I know little about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask barbara about deborah" | ||||
Floyd | She leans forward and places a hand on your arm to stress her point. Floyd | "You must ensure that Deborah and Malcolm are married today. I can't Floyd | tell you any more than that." You ask why not, but Barbara gives you a Floyd | mysterious look and settles back into her chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask barbara about barbara" | ||||
Floyd | "I'm sorry," she says. "I'm afraid I know little about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Um" | |||
| Touchy says, "That's what I don't like about NPCs. The urge to ask them about anything that has occured in the game just to make sure." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Touchy), "I know." | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x painting" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It's very much throw-the-inventory at them, except with topics." | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x pouffe" | ||||
Floyd | That's merely background furniture - you don't need to worry about it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "x key" | ||||
Floyd | It is small and unremarkable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x embroidery" | ||||
Floyd | The painstakingly detailed image, made of small strands of thread, Floyd | portrays a woman zapping a man with her laser-beam eyes. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ceiling" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the ceiling. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Weird embroidery" | |||
| theclam says, "what" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move embroidery" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||||
Floyd | Reaching for the embroidery, you are suddenly overcome with memories Floyd | of the vicious needlework teacher at school who humiliated you in Floyd | front of the entire class for making a mistake with the tea cosy you Floyd | were attempting. You quickly pull your hand back. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Library Floyd | Everything in this room looks as if it has taken many weeks to carve, Floyd | with the exception of dodgy book covers protecting some of the awful Floyd | literature stored here. A vast array of books lie on the two huge Floyd | shelves, ranging from the ancient to the modern. The curtains are Floyd | closed, so for light you are reliant on the lamps which are quite Floyd | attractive mock-ups of candles in candlesticks. An oak table sits in Floyd | the centre of the room, a grand throne-like chair beside it, for Floyd | anyone feeling particularly studious. A room lies to the south, and a Floyd | corridor is out to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | theclam asks, "maybe it's a metaphor for an angry stare...?" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x books" | ||||
Floyd | The two shelves between them span the entire length of the room, and Floyd | go from the floor to the ceiling. The books don't appear to be in any Floyd | order, and it would be too daunting to try to find anything specific Floyd | if not for an index someone has had the presence of mind to compile. Floyd | It is a small box with a number of cards inside, and you must look up Floyd | particular titles individually. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look up battlebase in index" | ||||
Floyd | The Battlebase Episode Guide is two books out of place, suggesting Floyd | that someone has recently had a look at it. The cover has been coated Floyd | in plastic and feels nice and smooth to your hands. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "read episode guide" | ||||
Floyd | This book contains all you should ever want to know about the sci-fi Floyd | show Battlebase (and probably a few hundred pages more). You will have Floyd | to consult the book in more detail for specific items. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Wow. Good idea." | |||
| DavidW says, "I didn't write down what Chloe asked." | ||||
| Touchy says, "She might ask something different every time..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Sweet." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "take episode guide" | ||||
Floyd | You already have that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | This room has the air of a gentleman's private study area, though Floyd | recently it appears to have been taken over by the lady of the house Floyd | (that is, Sheryl D'Arcy). A hardboard set of shelves against one wall Floyd | looks completely out of place amid the antique furniture and the Floyd | gorgeous circular shaped painting on the ceiling. Embroidery rests on Floyd | a pouffe to one side, and several packs of wool tower alongside the Floyd | shelves. The front entrance is out to the west, and there is another Floyd | room to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Barbara, an aunt of the bride, sits on an armchair with her legs Floyd | crossed and her hands interlocked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The grand entrance hall of D'Arcy manor evokes a twinge of jealousy Floyd | within you - the grand wooden polished floors and staircase, the Floyd | expensive chandelier hanging from the high ceiling, the priceless Floyd | Compton painting hanging on a wall. Why can't you inherit something Floyd | like this? Leaving aside feelings of bitterness, you observe a Floyd | cupboard under the stairs and a bell on a table near the door to the Floyd | south. Doorways (which are probably more expensive than your entire Floyd | house) lead off to the east and west, and a passageway lies north. Floyd | Floyd | The mother of the bride stands in a corner fretting away to herself as Floyd | only hysterical mothers can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Drawing room Floyd | You are in a glorious oak-panelled room, with a large fireplace to one Floyd | side. This is where the family relaxes, assuming that such a monstrous Floyd | family relaxes at all. An antique-style telephone rests on the Floyd | mantelpiece, and a large hi-tech widescreen television sits on a video Floyd | recorder in the corner. From here, you observe exits to the east and Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A young woman called Chloe sits nearby reading a book. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a moment of dialogue from the Australian soap opera playing Floyd | on the television. "Carole," says a young woman, "my parents are Floyd | leaving town, so can you adopt me?" "Yeah, sure," replies Carole. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up New Intake in guide" | ||||
Floyd | "C8: NEW INTAKE by Jon Lee Smarbwin. Three student officers - Lennox, Floyd | Ciccone and Estefan - join the Caradeen after passing all their theory Floyd | exams. As part of their on-going studies, they are deposited on a Floyd | planet surface and must find their way to a waiting dropship. Floyd | Unfortunately, the enemy choose this time to attack the Caradeen and Floyd | the planet, and the students find themselves fighting for their Floyd | lives." Floyd | Floyd | You catch a moment of dialogue from the Australian soap opera playing Floyd | on the television. "Coor blimey guv'nor, how's about a nice cup o' Floyd | rosey lee?" says the scriptwriter's idea of an Englishman. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about battlebase" | ||||
Floyd | Chloe glares at you and the television, then gets back to her book. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a moment of dialogue from the Australian soap opera playing Floyd | on the television. "It's Bob!" a distraught man says. "He's been Floyd | involved in some sort of accident!" "What, again?" an unimpressed Floyd | woman asks. Floyd | Floyd | > | RonN says, "pardon me guys, i have a visitor" | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "switch television" | ||||
Floyd | That's already on. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a moment of dialogue from the Australian soap opera playing Floyd | on the television. "Sheila, fancy coming back to my place for a six Floyd | pack?" asks a naive young man. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "switch television off" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Hurrah," says Chloe in an exaggerated manner. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| RonN goes home. | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about battlebase" | ||||
Floyd | "Best programme on television. You a fan then?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "say yes" | ||||
Floyd | (to Chloe) Floyd | Chloe takes her feet off the table and sits up. "Okay then," she says, Floyd | "prove it. Who finds himself in the middle of a revolution in Floyd | 'Repairs'?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "look up repairs in episode guide" | ||||
Floyd | I don't think Chloe would be too impressed by your ability to look Floyd | things up in a book. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "hahaha" | |||
| Touchy says, "nice" | ||||
| Taleslinger says, "Girls don't like the booksih type? I'm scrwed" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "say lennox" | ||||
Floyd | (to Chloe) Floyd | "Ha, I knew it," she says triumphantly. "You're just lying so you can Floyd | creep to me. Well it won't work." You take it from her reply that your Floyd | answer was wrong. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up c7 in guide" | ||||
Floyd | You can't seem to find that in the guide; oh well, probably not worth Floyd | the effort anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up repairs in guide" | ||||
Floyd | "A13: REPAIRS by Lenni Worb. After the major battle in the previous Floyd | episode, the Caradeen is put into dry dock for repairs and its crew Floyd | are given two weeks leave. John Canada decides to spend his time on a Floyd | beautiful planet in a nearby system, and finds that it is not as Floyd | peaceful as he first thought. Soon, he find himself in the middle of a Floyd | revolution, which the leaders of the planet intend to crush." Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "man, if we can't look stuff up right when she asks this'll be a touch tedious." | |||
| DavidW says, "Perhaps there's more to this puzzle." | ||||
| djfletch asks, "can we get a question then go into another room to look it up?" | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "look up A1 in guide" | ||||
Floyd | You can't seem to find that in the guide; oh well, probably not worth Floyd | the effort anyway. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Maybe we need a wingman and a earpiece" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "haha" | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "read guide" | ||||
Floyd | This book contains all you should ever want to know about the sci-fi Floyd | show Battlebase (and probably a few hundred pages more). You will have Floyd | to consult the book in more detail for specific items. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Let's continue exploring." | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Floyd | Here at the heart of the manor is an oak passageway with doorways Floyd | leading to most rooms on the ground floor. You can see the great Floyd | dining hall to the north, and a brass sign above the doorway to the Floyd | northeast states "Kitchen", but the east and southwest exits hold no Floyd | clues as to where they lead. The entrance hall is off to the south, Floyd | and a sturdy door stands in the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp, the family dog, sits and whines, his lead tied to a door Floyd | handle. Floyd | Floyd | A simple polished table lies in the southeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the cellar door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "unlock door with key" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't seem to be something you can unlock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x cellar door" | ||||
Floyd | A solid metal door with the word CELLAR etched into the surface. It Floyd | has an electronic lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x lock" | ||||
Floyd | Four LEDS flicker excitedly on the lock, but it isn't immediately Floyd | apparent how to activate it. A sticker on one side states that it is Floyd | tamper-proof. Floyd | Floyd | > | theclam says, "it's probably the key to the back door, then" | |||
| DavidW says, "The cellar is probably where the time machine is." | ||||
| djfletch says, "heh" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Grand Hall Floyd | This vast room is presumably where the D'Arcy clan eat their meals; it Floyd | reminds you too much of your old school dinner hall for you to feel Floyd | entirely comfortable here. A large sturdy table sits in the centre of Floyd | the room, surrounded by ten carefully-crafted chairs, and a set of Floyd | antique jugs rest on stools in a small alcove in the west wall. The Floyd | walls are covered in paintings which look impressive until you examine Floyd | them closely and see that they are certainly not in the league of the Floyd | great masters. The back garden is accessible via a door to the north, Floyd | a corridor leads south, and the kitchen is through the swing doors to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | Good old Uncle Albert stands nearby with a glass of brandy in one Floyd | hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | theclam says, "or where they keep the cache of laser eyes" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the hall door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy asks, "Why didn't we try asking and then leaving to look something up?" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "unlock door with key" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't seem to fit the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen staff are hard at work on the meal for the reception, and Floyd | from their progress so far, you'd say that they are making enough food Floyd | to keep the Royal family well fed for a good few months. To the west, Floyd | a swing-door leads into the dining hall, and the main exit is to the Floyd | southwest. A pantry lies to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A pompous and temperamental chef stands around shouting at the staff Floyd | and chopping things up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pantry Floyd | Should Luxembourg ever suffer a famine, they need only raid this Floyd | pantry to ensure that their citizens don't starve. The fruit, Floyd | vegetables, meat, ingredients and drinks are all stored using Floyd | technology that would put Nasa's space programme to shame. There is a Floyd | tradesman's entrance to the east, but the main exit is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | The door won't open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Touchy), "I thought of that, and I thought it unlikely to work but something to try later." | |||
| djfletch asks, "were there any other doors?" | ||||
| Touchy asks, "Attic?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "There's an upstairs." | ||||
| Touchy asks, "Second floor?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "And the golf course." | ||||
| theclam asks, "the minigolf had a door?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "no" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "I was interpreting the question to mean are there exits to places we haven't visited yet?" | ||||
| djfletch says, "I missed the stairs - somebody take us there" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can only go north from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pantry Floyd | Should Luxembourg ever suffer a famine, they need only raid this Floyd | pantry to ensure that their citizens don't starve. The fruit, Floyd | vegetables, meat, ingredients and drinks are all stored using Floyd | technology that would put Nasa's space programme to shame. There is a Floyd | tradesman's entrance to the east, but the main exit is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen staff are hard at work on the meal for the reception, and Floyd | from their progress so far, you'd say that they are making enough food Floyd | to keep the Royal family well fed for a good few months. To the west, Floyd | a swing-door leads into the dining hall, and the main exit is to the Floyd | southwest. A pantry lies to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A pompous and temperamental chef stands around shouting at the staff Floyd | and chopping things up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Grand Hall Floyd | This vast room is presumably where the D'Arcy clan eat their meals; it Floyd | reminds you too much of your old school dinner hall for you to feel Floyd | entirely comfortable here. A large sturdy table sits in the centre of Floyd | the room, surrounded by ten carefully-crafted chairs, and a set of Floyd | antique jugs rest on stools in a small alcove in the west wall. The Floyd | walls are covered in paintings which look impressive until you examine Floyd | them closely and see that they are certainly not in the league of the Floyd | great masters. The back garden is accessible via a door to the north, Floyd | a corridor leads south, and the kitchen is through the swing doors to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | Good old Uncle Albert stands nearby with a glass of brandy in one Floyd | hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Floyd | Here at the heart of the manor is an oak passageway with doorways Floyd | leading to most rooms on the ground floor. You can see the great Floyd | dining hall to the north, and a brass sign above the doorway to the Floyd | northeast states "Kitchen", but the east and southwest exits hold no Floyd | clues as to where they lead. The entrance hall is off to the south, Floyd | and a sturdy door stands in the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp, the family dog, sits and whines, his lead tied to a door Floyd | handle. Floyd | Floyd | A simple polished table lies in the southeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The grand entrance hall of D'Arcy manor evokes a twinge of jealousy Floyd | within you - the grand wooden polished floors and staircase, the Floyd | expensive chandelier hanging from the high ceiling, the priceless Floyd | Compton painting hanging on a wall. Why can't you inherit something Floyd | like this? Leaving aside feelings of bitterness, you observe a Floyd | cupboard under the stairs and a bell on a table near the door to the Floyd | south. Doorways (which are probably more expensive than your entire Floyd | house) lead off to the east and west, and a passageway lies north. Floyd | Floyd | The mother of the bride stands in a corner fretting away to herself as Floyd | only hysterical mothers can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | The top of the staircase ends in the middle of the landing which Floyd | stretches to the east and west. An interesting painting, with striking Floyd | use of deep blues and bright reds, hangs on an otherwise drab wall, Floyd | and opposite, to the south, a large window allows light to flood onto Floyd | the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x painting" | ||||
Floyd | The effect is interesting, like a little comic strip without the white Floyd | boxes to separate the action. A woman in bright pink, surrounded by Floyd | deep blue ocean, suddenly bursts into red flame and attempts to Floyd | destroy the world. She is thwarted by the water. Freud would have Floyd | loved to have met the artist, whose initials are 'SAD'. Actually, now Floyd | that you look at it, it appears to be a little lopsided, as if it was Floyd | put up in a rush. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look behind it" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "move it" | ||||
Floyd | You are unable to. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch asks, "SAD = Sheryl?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take it" | ||||
Floyd | It is firmly attached to the wall - not simply hung by a nail as you Floyd | originally thought. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull it" | ||||
Floyd | You are unable to. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "strange..." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn it" | ||||
Floyd | You turn the painting forty-five degrees clockwise, and a door you Floyd | hadn't been aware of springs open in the north wall. The painting Floyd | swivels back into its original position. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy exclaims, "good job!" | |||
| DavidW says, "I found the secret door, tra-la-la" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | A staircase at the other side of the door takes you up to... Floyd | Floyd | Spacious attic Floyd | The attic has been converted into rather a spacious, if bare, room. A Floyd | naked light bulb hangs from the ceiling, spilling light on the various Floyd | cardboard boxes and general bricabrac. In the sloping roof is a small Floyd | broken window-vent, and a staircase leads down. Floyd | Floyd | In one corner is your friend Malcolm, bound and gagged, pleading with Floyd | his eyes for you to release him. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a cooking apple here. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Okay, that's kinda crazy." | |||
| DavidW asks, "I suppose we should untie him?" | ||||
| Touchy says, "I suppose." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x malcolm" | ||||
Floyd | He is bound and gagged, and saying "Mffffmmmffumffmmmf!". I think he Floyd | is trying to tell you to release him. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kiss malcolm" | ||||
Floyd | You can't do that; it would be too much for Malcolm's macho pride to Floyd | bear. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "oh fine" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "untie malcolm" | ||||
Floyd | You untie your friend, and help him to his feet. He seems a little Floyd | shaky, but then, had you just spent a long time tied up in the attic, Floyd | you would be too. Floyd | Floyd | "Thanks, mate," he says. "I was just coming up the stairs early this Floyd | morning when someone jumped me from behind and knocked me out. I came Floyd | to up here." Floyd | Floyd | It seems that someone is out to wreck this wedding - but who? Malcolm Floyd | doesn't know, and he can't face Deborah until he can give her a proper Floyd | explanation. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take apple" | ||||
Floyd | You're carrying too many things already. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ack. Inventory limit." | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "fullscore" | ||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 5 out of a possible 20, in 174 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Amateur Dabbler. Floyd | Floyd | The score is made up as follows: Floyd | Floyd | 1 rediscovering the concept of gravity Floyd | 1 alarming the household Floyd | 1 freeing Malcolm Floyd | 1 getting into the manor without being detected Floyd | 1 visiting various places Floyd | Floyd | 5 total (out of 20) Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "meh" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask malcolm about wedding" | ||||
Floyd | "So much for 'best day of the bride's life'." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask malcolm about wedding" | ||||
Floyd | "So much for 'best day of the bride's life'." Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "hehe" | |||
| Touchy says, "Well.." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask malcolm about assailant" | ||||
Floyd | Malcolm shrugs his shoulders but doesn't say anything. He is still Floyd | shaken up a little, you fear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask malcolm about attic" | ||||
Floyd | Malcolm shrugs his shoulders but doesn't say anything. He is still Floyd | shaken up a little, you fear. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "I vote for exploring the second floor." | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask malcolm about chloe" | ||||
Floyd | Malcolm shrugs his shoulders but doesn't say anything. He is still Floyd | shaken up a little, you fear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x boxes" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a Battlebase episode guide Floyd | a small brass key Floyd | a wedding programme Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "take apple" | ||||
Floyd | You're carrying too many things already. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert asks, "Whoops, I got distracted and just missed a couple thousand lines. Has anything interesting happened yet?" | |||
| theclam says, "aw" | ||||
| DavidW says, "wow. That's a severe inv limit." | ||||
| theclam asks, "can malcolm carry stuff for us?" | ||||
| djfletch asks, "no backpacks about the place?" | ||||
| Touchy says (to theclam), "I don't think he's coming." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I don't think Malcolm's moving." | ||||
| Taleslinger says (to Dw), "I promise male kissing in the next Alex & paul installment" | ||||
| DavidW says (to djf), "If you can find one, let us know." | ||||
| theclam says, "darn" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You descend the stairs and pass through a door, finding yourself in Floyd | the... Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | The top of the staircase ends in the middle of the landing which Floyd | stretches to the east and west. An interesting painting, with striking Floyd | use of deep blues and bright reds, hangs on an otherwise drab wall, Floyd | and opposite, to the south, a large window allows light to flood onto Floyd | the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | A door stands open in the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Taleslinger), "With my luck, it'll be Genghis Khan and Idi Amin getting it on." | |||
| theclam says (to floyd), "look up albert in programme" | ||||
Floyd | "ALBERT HARDCASTLE, uncle of the groom, is a famous sociologist and Floyd | keen golfer. He wishes his brother would join the twentieth century Floyd | and stop fussing so much over female vicars." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You stride off down the corridor towards the east, passing a few rooms Floyd | where hideous relatives pace up and down within. They are best Floyd | avoided, you think, so you don't stop until you reach the... Floyd | Floyd | East end Floyd | The east end of the landing is pretty unremarkable in itself, but a Floyd | door to the north demands your immediate attention - painted pink, Floyd | with a picture of a teddy bear holding a sign reading 'Deborah'. There Floyd | are also less interesting rooms to the east and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Yuck." | |||
| Taleslinger says, "Hehe" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Deborah's bedroom Floyd | This room offers refuge from the tastelessness that seems to prevail Floyd | around the rest of the house. Framed pictures of famous film Floyd | actresses, Garland, Dietrich, Midler and Streisand in particular, hang Floyd | proudly on the sky-blue walls, alongside two extra-large pink and red Floyd | ribbons. The abundance of style extends to the curtains, the most Floyd | attractive you have ever seen. If only the rest of the house, to the Floyd | south, had been decorated as well as this. Floyd | Floyd | Deborah, the bride, sits on her bed flicking through an old issue of Floyd | Cooee! magazine. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Hrhr." | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask deborah about wedding" | ||||
Floyd | "Sorry, haven't you heard? The wedding's off. The lovely groom's done Floyd | a bunk." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask deborah about enemies" | ||||
Floyd | "Sorry, I don't know anything about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask deborah about malcolm" | ||||
Floyd | "Who's he? Never heard of him." Her tone betrays a vein of bitterness. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x cooee" | ||||
Floyd | Contained within are such thrilling features as a look inside the Floyd | house of Mr and Mrs Showbiz Jake Finiky and Ruth Marmelade, fifty ways Floyd | of telling if your partner is addicted to tap water, and a recipe for Floyd | a very pretty but seemingly inedible dish. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "deborah, s" | ||||
Floyd | You haven't solved the mystery yet. You shouldn't drag Deborah away Floyd | from her room until you have the answers. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x ribbons" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Hm..didn't know that command syntax." | |||
| DavidW asks, "hm?" | ||||
| Touchy says, "the deborah, s thing..." | ||||
| DavidW says, "That's how you can give orders to NPCs." | ||||
| DavidW says, "'npc, command' tells a npc to do that command." | ||||
| Touchy says, "I see." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "deb, give cooee to me" | ||||
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "deborah, give cooee to me" | ||||
Floyd | Much as you love pouring through the pages of the quality journal that Floyd | is Cooee!! magazine, you'd better put such pleasures to one side for Floyd | the time being and do something about this wedding. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Let's look around more." | |||
| DavidW says (to game), "Fine. I'm more of a Blimey! magazine reader anyway." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | East end Floyd | The east end of the landing is pretty unremarkable in itself, but a Floyd | door to the north demands your immediate attention - painted pink, Floyd | with a picture of a teddy bear holding a sign reading 'Deborah'. There Floyd | are also less interesting rooms to the east and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Store room Floyd | You are surprised how different this room is to all the others in the Floyd | house - bland white walls and bare floorboards give it the 'recently Floyd | added extension' look, which isn't appropriate. Cardboard boxes full Floyd | of junk have been dumped in a corner. There is nowhere to go from here Floyd | but out west to the landing. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a plastic supermarket bag (which is empty) here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "take bag" | ||||
Floyd | You're carrying too many things already. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "drop guide" | ||||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "take bag" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "get it get it get it" | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "take guide" | ||||
Floyd | (putting the wedding programme into the plastic supermarket bag to Floyd | make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "woohoo" | |||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 5 out of a possible 20, in 197 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Amateur Dabbler. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x boxes" | ||||
Floyd | You briefly examine one of the more interesting boxes, full of useless Floyd | but interesting-looking junk. After a brief look through, you decide Floyd | that there's nothing worth holding onto here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | East end Floyd | The east end of the landing is pretty unremarkable in itself, but a Floyd | door to the north demands your immediate attention - painted pink, Floyd | with a picture of a teddy bear holding a sign reading 'Deborah'. There Floyd | are also less interesting rooms to the east and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Guest bedroom Floyd | This room is quite small and cramped, with the single bed in the Floyd | corner taking up most of the room. Definitely not a place for Floyd | cat-swinging; indeed, you can't see any cat hairs on the thick rug of Floyd | a carpet. A wardrobe has been squeezed into the room as well, and by Floyd | the look of it (and the smell of it), one of the Aunts is taking up Floyd | this room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "eeagh" | |||
| theclam says (to floyd), "x carpet" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "open wardrobe" | ||||
Floyd | You open the wardrobe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look in it" | ||||
Floyd | The wardrobe is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bed" | ||||
Floyd | The bed is quite tall and narrow compared to yours, and has been made Floyd | neatly. You are not sure about the mickey mouse sheets, though. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search it" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under it" | ||||
Floyd | You dislodge a letter which appeared to be stuck to the bottom of the Floyd | bed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take letter" | ||||
Floyd | (putting the small brass key into the plastic supermarket bag to make Floyd | room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read it" | ||||
Floyd | This is a love letter from Malcolm to Deborah. You blush at some of Floyd | the vivid imagery used, and decide not to read all of it. Maybe he Floyd | stuck it under that bed when he visited the house on one occasion, Floyd | hoping Deborah would find it. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy snickers. | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "enter wardrobe" | ||||
Floyd | You get into the wardrobe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "close wardrobe" | ||||
Floyd | Much as you like dark and confined spaces, you decide that sorting out Floyd | this wedding is more important than getting stuck in a wardrobe. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "search wardrobe" | ||||
Floyd | The wardrobe is empty. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a letter Floyd | a Battlebase episode guide Floyd | a plastic supermarket bag Floyd | a small brass key Floyd | a wedding programme Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Next stop: Narnia. All aboard!" | |||
| djfletch says, "funny it lets you get in it if there's nothing in it" | ||||
| djfletch says, "maybe we can hide in it later" | ||||
| theclam asks, "...if someone is staying in this room, then why is the wardrobe empty?" | ||||
| Kye asks, "Too lazy to unpack?" | ||||
| Bert says, "Even odder is that there's still nothing in it even after you've entered." | ||||
| Bert exclaims, "Perhaps the PC is secretly a ghost!" | ||||
| DavidW says, "ooo-ooo-oooooo" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "out" | ||||
Floyd | You step proudly out of the wardrobe, wondering briefly if there are Floyd | any banners nearby that you can wave. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "ha" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get rug" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Just poured my tea. Looks like I rushed too much. It's just lukewarm water now." | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "move carpet" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | East end Floyd | The east end of the landing is pretty unremarkable in itself, but a Floyd | door to the north demands your immediate attention - painted pink, Floyd | with a picture of a teddy bear holding a sign reading 'Deborah'. There Floyd | are also less interesting rooms to the east and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert asks, "Your tea lacks tea?" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | The top of the staircase ends in the middle of the landing which Floyd | stretches to the east and west. An interesting painting, with striking Floyd | use of deep blues and bright reds, hangs on an otherwise drab wall, Floyd | and opposite, to the south, a large window allows light to flood onto Floyd | the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | A door stands open in the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "indeed" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | In an attempt to steer clear of people you have no intention of Floyd | meeting, you hurry past a number of open doorways, finally reaching Floyd | the... Floyd | Floyd | West end Floyd | The west end of the landing ends here with a small window which Floyd | enables you to look out on the tiled pathway and the gardens outside. Floyd | The bathroom door lies north, and another (closed) door prevents you Floyd | from going south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look through window" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | You gaze out of the window at the huge garden, its distant border Floyd | marked by a row of imposing trees. The marquee for the reception will Floyd | be erected here soon, assuming it hasn't already been cancelled. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the bathroom door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "open bathroom door" | ||||
Floyd | You try the handle, but the door is locked from the inside it seems. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The door is locked. You try knocking, but there is no answer, and Floyd | besides, you get the impression that you are barking up the wrong tree Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "unlock door with key" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the small brass key) Floyd | (putting the Battlebase episode guide into the plastic supermarket bag Floyd | to make room) Floyd | That doesn't seem to be something you can unlock. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "uh, two doors." | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "knock on bathroom door" | ||||
Floyd | A man's voice shouts from within, "Go away, I'm sulking!". Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "which are you unlocking?" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "unlock bathroom door with key" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't seem to be something you can unlock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "unlock south door with key" | ||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch asks, "what now?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The door is locked. You try knocking, but there is no answer, and Floyd | besides, you get the impression that you are barking up the wrong tree Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x southern door" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy asks, "The key didn't fit the north door in the dining hall, right?" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "man, hello" | ||||
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We never tried." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask bathroom door about wedding" | ||||
Floyd | "Go away, I'm sulking!" Amazing, a talking door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "hehe" | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "look up sulky the door in programme" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing in the programme about that. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "haha" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask bathroom door about bathroom" | ||||
Floyd | "Go away, I'm sulking!" Amazing, a talking door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask bathroom door about malcolm" | ||||
Floyd | "Go away, I'm sulking!" Amazing, a talking door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "ask man about wedding" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess that's likely the response for everything." | |||
| DavidW says, "It annoys me there's no obvious way to refer to the door to the south, though." | ||||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "put programmer under door" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the wedding programme) Floyd | (putting the letter into the plastic supermarket bag to make room) Floyd | You can't put the wedding programme under the bathroom door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bathroom door" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the bathroom door. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "no gaps mentioned." | |||
| Touchy says, "south door should work" | ||||
| Kye asks, "Can't knock the door down?" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x south door" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the south wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x door to the south" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to examine the bathroom door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the bathroom door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x other door" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the bathroom door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x locked door" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "The word 'door' seems to only refer to the bathroom door here." | |||
| Touchy says, "hm..strange" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | The door is locked. You try knocking, but there is no answer, and Floyd | besides, you get the impression that you are barking up the wrong tree Floyd | here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "It's probably not a real door." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "bark" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Kye says (to Floyd), "unlock s" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to unlock the south wall with? Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Hrm" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Thatay be." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "er, That may be" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bedroom" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Just written into the room description but not implemented." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x closet" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | Bert asks, "Just scenery, to give the impression of space?" | |||
| DavidW says, "I don't know." | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | West end Floyd | The west end of the landing ends here with a small window which Floyd | enables you to look out on the tiled pathway and the gardens outside. Floyd | The bathroom door lies north, and another (closed) door prevents you Floyd | from going south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x closed" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open window" | ||||
Floyd | You can't open or close this window. Floyd | Floyd | > | theclam says, "maybe it's just here because this was the other window we could have thrown the apple through" | |||
| djfletch asks, "wasn't that the bathroom window?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Let's try using the key on the back door. Also, look in the urns in the Dining Room. And examine all paintings." | ||||
| Touchy says, "And let's get some chili from quiznos." | ||||
| Touchy rushes out. | ||||
| djfletch says, "yeah go for it. We should try the last exit from the golf as well." | ||||
| DavidW says, "If the back door can open, we can try freeing Scamp and maybe he'll dig up the patch for us. And we can play golf." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | The top of the staircase ends in the middle of the landing which Floyd | stretches to the east and west. An interesting painting, with striking Floyd | use of deep blues and bright reds, hangs on an otherwise drab wall, Floyd | and opposite, to the south, a large window allows light to flood onto Floyd | the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | A door stands open in the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | A staircase at the other side of the door takes you up to... Floyd | Floyd | Spacious attic Floyd | The attic has been converted into rather a spacious, if bare, room. A Floyd | naked light bulb hangs from the ceiling, spilling light on the various Floyd | cardboard boxes and general bricabrac. In the sloping roof is a small Floyd | broken window-vent, and a staircase leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Your old college chum Malcolm hovers close by. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a cooking apple here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take apple" | ||||
Floyd | (putting the small brass key into the plastic supermarket bag to make Floyd | room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can only go down from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You descend the stairs and pass through a door, finding yourself in Floyd | the... Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | The top of the staircase ends in the middle of the landing which Floyd | stretches to the east and west. An interesting painting, with striking Floyd | use of deep blues and bright reds, hangs on an otherwise drab wall, Floyd | and opposite, to the south, a large window allows light to flood onto Floyd | the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | A door stands open in the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The grand entrance hall of D'Arcy manor evokes a twinge of jealousy Floyd | within you - the grand wooden polished floors and staircase, the Floyd | expensive chandelier hanging from the high ceiling, the priceless Floyd | Compton painting hanging on a wall. Why can't you inherit something Floyd | like this? Leaving aside feelings of bitterness, you observe a Floyd | cupboard under the stairs and a bell on a table near the door to the Floyd | south. Doorways (which are probably more expensive than your entire Floyd | house) lead off to the east and west, and a passageway lies north. Floyd | Floyd | The mother of the bride stands in a corner fretting away to herself as Floyd | only hysterical mothers can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x painting" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock cupboard with key" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the small brass key) Floyd | (putting the wedding programme into the plastic supermarket bag to Floyd | make room) Floyd | You unlock the cupboard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open cupboard" | ||||
Floyd | You open the cupboard, revealing a spade. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take spade" | ||||
Floyd | (putting the cooking apple into the plastic supermarket bag to make Floyd | room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "ooh forgot about that cupboard" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Drawing room Floyd | You are in a glorious oak-panelled room, with a large fireplace to one Floyd | side. This is where the family relaxes, assuming that such a monstrous Floyd | family relaxes at all. An antique-style telephone rests on the Floyd | mantelpiece, and a large hi-tech widescreen television sits on a video Floyd | recorder in the corner. From here, you observe exits to the east and Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A young woman called Chloe sits nearby reading a book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Floyd | Here at the heart of the manor is an oak passageway with doorways Floyd | leading to most rooms on the ground floor. You can see the great Floyd | dining hall to the north, and a brass sign above the doorway to the Floyd | northeast states "Kitchen", but the east and southwest exits hold no Floyd | clues as to where they lead. The entrance hall is off to the south, Floyd | and a sturdy door stands in the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp, the family dog, sits and whines, his lead tied to a door Floyd | handle. Floyd | Floyd | A simple polished table lies in the southeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Library Floyd | Everything in this room looks as if it has taken many weeks to carve, Floyd | with the exception of dodgy book covers protecting some of the awful Floyd | literature stored here. A vast array of books lie on the two huge Floyd | shelves, ranging from the ancient to the modern. The curtains are Floyd | closed, so for light you are reliant on the lamps which are quite Floyd | attractive mock-ups of candles in candlesticks. An oak table sits in Floyd | the centre of the room, a grand throne-like chair beside it, for Floyd | anyone feeling particularly studious. A room lies to the south, and a Floyd | corridor is out to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Floyd | Here at the heart of the manor is an oak passageway with doorways Floyd | leading to most rooms on the ground floor. You can see the great Floyd | dining hall to the north, and a brass sign above the doorway to the Floyd | northeast states "Kitchen", but the east and southwest exits hold no Floyd | clues as to where they lead. The entrance hall is off to the south, Floyd | and a sturdy door stands in the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp, the family dog, sits and whines, his lead tied to a door Floyd | handle. Floyd | Floyd | A simple polished table lies in the southeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x dog" | ||||
Floyd | The excitable Alsatian puppy struggles to get free of his lead, and is Floyd | not having much luck. He eyes you pitifully; his whining almost breaks Floyd | your heart. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pet dog" | ||||
Floyd | Scamp allows you to scratch his tummy, but clearly doesn't like being Floyd | stroked on the head. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "nw" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Grand Hall Floyd | This vast room is presumably where the D'Arcy clan eat their meals; it Floyd | reminds you too much of your old school dinner hall for you to feel Floyd | entirely comfortable here. A large sturdy table sits in the centre of Floyd | the room, surrounded by ten carefully-crafted chairs, and a set of Floyd | antique jugs rest on stools in a small alcove in the west wall. The Floyd | walls are covered in paintings which look impressive until you examine Floyd | them closely and see that they are certainly not in the league of the Floyd | great masters. The back garden is accessible via a door to the north, Floyd | a corridor leads south, and the kitchen is through the swing doors to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | Good old Uncle Albert stands nearby with a glass of brandy in one Floyd | hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock door with key" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't seem to fit the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in jugs" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to play with the jugs, and you don't need the criminal Floyd | record either. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x paintings" | ||||
Floyd | They have an amateurish appearance, and don't command your attention Floyd | for long. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | A door connecting the patio outside with the dining hall inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "x lock" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch asks, "can we still use the front door?" | |||
| DavidW says, "well, I'm not sure. The guard might catch us." | ||||
| Touchy is back. | ||||
| Touchy says, "Nice, a spade." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Shall we try going out the front?" | ||||
| djfletch says, "yeah but save first" | ||||
| Touchy asks, "Can we ask people for keys?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'll save in the entranceway." | ||||
| Touchy asks, "We didn't try did we?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Floyd | Here at the heart of the manor is an oak passageway with doorways Floyd | leading to most rooms on the ground floor. You can see the great Floyd | dining hall to the north, and a brass sign above the doorway to the Floyd | northeast states "Kitchen", but the east and southwest exits hold no Floyd | clues as to where they lead. The entrance hall is off to the south, Floyd | and a sturdy door stands in the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp, the family dog, sits and whines, his lead tied to a door Floyd | handle. Floyd | Floyd | A simple polished table lies in the southeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The grand entrance hall of D'Arcy manor evokes a twinge of jealousy Floyd | within you - the grand wooden polished floors and staircase, the Floyd | expensive chandelier hanging from the high ceiling, the priceless Floyd | Compton painting hanging on a wall. Why can't you inherit something Floyd | like this? Leaving aside feelings of bitterness, you observe a Floyd | cupboard under the stairs and a bell on a table near the door to the Floyd | south. Doorways (which are probably more expensive than your entire Floyd | house) lead off to the east and west, and a passageway lies north. Floyd | Floyd | The mother of the bride stands in a corner fretting away to herself as Floyd | only hysterical mothers can. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "And where is that key holder Barbara was talking about..." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x holder" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bell" | ||||
Floyd | It is a simple push bell painted gold. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask mother about keys" | ||||
Floyd | She is too busy fretting to answer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask mother about key" | ||||
Floyd | She is too busy fretting to answer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask mother about bell" | ||||
Floyd | She is too busy fretting to answer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask mother about barbara" | ||||
Floyd | She is too busy fretting to answer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "calm mother" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chandelier" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "clam mother" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | theclam says, "har" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside the front entrance Floyd | You stand to the south of D'Arcy manor, a building which looks like Floyd | it's straight out of a low budget Bronte TV adaptation. A few modern Floyd | touches help tie it to the late twentieth century, such as the burglar Floyd | alarm next to the elegant stone carving of a Shakespearian-looking man Floyd | above the main entrance. Immediately in front of the house is a gravel Floyd | drive which acts as a car park, and a small road leads off to the Floyd | south towards the main road. A slabbed path runs around both sides Floyd | (east and west) of the house. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a security guard here. Floyd | Floyd | You can feel a few spots of rain on your face. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | "Oi! Where do you think you're going?" The guard takes great delight Floyd | in rugby-tackling you to the floor and dragging you back out onto the Floyd | pebbled car park. "Authoria... Authiroz... authorthised... proper Floyd | people only!". You've probably just made his day. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "I wonder how many apples we can shake..." | |||
| djfletch says, "try showing the programme to the guard" | ||||
| DavidW says, "okay" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside the front entrance Floyd | You stand to the south of D'Arcy manor, a building which looks like Floyd | it's straight out of a low budget Bronte TV adaptation. A few modern Floyd | touches help tie it to the late twentieth century, such as the burglar Floyd | alarm next to the elegant stone carving of a Shakespearian-looking man Floyd | above the main entrance. Immediately in front of the house is a gravel Floyd | drive which acts as a car park, and a small road leads off to the Floyd | south towards the main road. A slabbed path runs around both sides Floyd | (east and west) of the house. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a security guard here. Floyd | Floyd | You can feel a few spots of rain on your face. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Yeah and we did it once we can do it again.." | |||
| Touchy says, "That guard isn't getting any smarter." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show programme to guard" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the wedding programme) Floyd | (putting the small brass key into the plastic supermarket bag to make Floyd | room) Floyd | He doesn't show the slightest interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | "I don't think so, sunbeam," says the nasty looking guard. He probably Floyd | heard that line on an old episode of The Bill and has desperately Floyd | longed for an opportunity to say it since. Floyd | Floyd | A sudden gust of wind ruffles your hair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You make your way around the eastern side of the house, and find Floyd | yourself at... Floyd | Floyd | The patio outside the back of the house Floyd | A grand patio made from powder-orange slabs links the back of the Floyd | house, which is to your south, with a beautiful garden to the north, Floyd | beyond a gate. You look up at the house, and see a number of Floyd | unrecognisable people pacing about at various windows. A grey-slabbed Floyd | path runs around both sides of the house back to the front. Floyd | Floyd | The gate to the north is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Garden path Floyd | A simple pathway, immaculately tiled, leads north. Flower beds Floyd | surround you, beautifully arranged, in every colour of the rainbow, Floyd | and to the north east you can see a great apple tree. Floyd | Floyd | The gate to the south is open. Floyd | Floyd | By the side of the path, among the flowers, is a dark patch of earth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig patch with spade" | ||||
Floyd | You dig a hole in the ground, stopping when the spade seems to hit Floyd | something. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in hole" | ||||
Floyd | Peering into the hole, you can see what looks like a cash tin box. Floyd | Floyd | You can feel a few spots of rain on your face. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take box" | ||||
Floyd | (putting the spade into the plastic supermarket bag to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x box" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see inside, since it is closed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open it" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Son of a.." | |||
| DavidW says, "So. Not the remote." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "hit box with spade" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hit the cash tin box. Floyd | Floyd | > | theclam says, "another lock" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig patch with spade" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig hole with spade" | ||||
Floyd | You don't have anything suitable for digging to hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Maybe the dog ate all the keys..." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take spade" | ||||
Floyd | (putting the wedding programme into the plastic supermarket bag to Floyd | make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig hole with spade" | ||||
Floyd | The ground looks unsuitable for digging here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Garden path Floyd | A simple pathway, immaculately tiled, leads north. Flower beds Floyd | surround you, beautifully arranged, in every colour of the rainbow, Floyd | and to the north east you can see a great apple tree. Floyd | Floyd | A hole has been dug by the side of the path. Floyd | Floyd | The gate to the south is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | By the Crazy Golf Course Floyd | The path from the south ends at a large crazy golf course, separated Floyd | into several smaller sections, which all have crazy obstacle courses Floyd | for players to putt their golf balls through in order to get to the Floyd | hole. Flowerbeds are positioned dangerously close to the crazy course Floyd | to the west, and a hedge blocks your progress north. You can see a Floyd | tree (the only one in the garden, it seems) to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x hedges" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You can't. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "play golf" | ||||
Floyd | You'd love to, but there's no one to play with. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x flowerbeds" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "x obstacles" | ||||
Floyd | It all looks very crazy and a little golf-like. You are dying to have Floyd | a go. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "restore back?" | |||
| djfletch says, "we need to get albert here somehow" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Garden path Floyd | A simple pathway, immaculately tiled, leads north. Flower beds Floyd | surround you, beautifully arranged, in every colour of the rainbow, Floyd | and to the north east you can see a great apple tree. Floyd | Floyd | The gate to the south is open. Floyd | Floyd | A hole has been dug by the side of the path. Floyd | Floyd | Sunshine momentarily bursts out through the grey cloud cover. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The patio outside the back of the house Floyd | A grand patio made from powder-orange slabs links the back of the Floyd | house, which is to your south, with a beautiful garden to the north, Floyd | beyond a gate. You look up at the house, and see a number of Floyd | unrecognisable people pacing about at various windows. A grey-slabbed Floyd | path runs around both sides of the house back to the front. Floyd | Floyd | The gate to the north is open. Floyd | Floyd | The grey sky overhead turns a little darker, threatening rain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | theclam says, "try setting off the alarm with another apple, maybe" | |||
| DavidW says, "We have our original apple." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x vent" | ||||
Floyd | A tiny window which has been smashed by some scoundrel. Now that most Floyd | of the glass has gone, you can definitely see some sort of movement Floyd | inside the attic, and the light is on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x bathroom" | ||||
Floyd | You can't really see much through the large frosted glass window, but Floyd | there certainly isn't any movement. Floyd | Floyd | You can feel a few spots of rain on your face. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Should have put some points on lock picking." | |||
| theclam says (to floyd), "x apple" | ||||
Floyd | A small, heavy and unappetising cooking apple. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "Pick lock with what?" | |||
| Touchy says, "With our mad skills." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "heh" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Somehow, I don't think it works that way." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I think we should restore, free Scamp, follow him, see if he does something interesting." | ||||
| djfletch says, "ok by me" | ||||
| DavidW says, "We can also try the ask Chloe, leave, look up, return, answer." | ||||
| Touchy says, "I picked the door to my lab at the university with a flyer the other day...Just stick it throug the crack the motion sensor to let people out does the rest..*sigh*" | ||||
| Touchy says, "Oh, yeah! Let's do chloe." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf3" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside the front entrance Floyd | You stand to the south of D'Arcy manor, a building which looks like Floyd | it's straight out of a low budget Bronte TV adaptation. A few modern Floyd | touches help tie it to the late twentieth century, such as the burglar Floyd | alarm next to the elegant stone carving of a Shakespearian-looking man Floyd | above the main entrance. Immediately in front of the house is a gravel Floyd | drive which acts as a car park, and a small road leads off to the Floyd | south towards the main road. A slabbed path runs around both sides Floyd | (east and west) of the house. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a security guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Drawing room Floyd | You are in a glorious oak-panelled room, with a large fireplace to one Floyd | side. This is where the family relaxes, assuming that such a monstrous Floyd | family relaxes at all. An antique-style telephone rests on the Floyd | mantelpiece, and a large hi-tech widescreen television sits on a video Floyd | recorder in the corner. From here, you observe exits to the east and Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A young woman called Chloe sits nearby reading a book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take guide" | ||||
Floyd | (putting the small brass key into the plastic supermarket bag to make Floyd | room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "I wonder if she's wearing a nametag or something..." | |||
| theclam says (to floyd), "ask chloe about battlebase" | ||||
Floyd | "Best programme on television. You a fan then?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Touchy), "You should try this part, since it's your idea." | |||
| Touchy says, "I'm eating..." | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "yes" | ||||
Floyd | Try "SAY YES TO <whoever>". Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "okay. clam, go ahead." | |||
| Jacqueline is happily watching this week. | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "say yes to chloe" | ||||
Floyd | Chloe takes her feet off the table and sits up. "Okay then," she says, Floyd | "prove it. In the story 'Dreams', who was recovering from an alien Floyd | possession?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The grand entrance hall of D'Arcy manor evokes a twinge of jealousy Floyd | within you - the grand wooden polished floors and staircase, the Floyd | expensive chandelier hanging from the high ceiling, the priceless Floyd | Compton painting hanging on a wall. Why can't you inherit something Floyd | like this? Leaving aside feelings of bitterness, you observe a Floyd | cupboard under the stairs and a bell on a table near the door to the Floyd | south. Doorways (which are probably more expensive than your entire Floyd | house) lead off to the east and west, and a passageway lies north. Floyd | Floyd | The mother of the bride stands in a corner fretting away to herself as Floyd | only hysterical mothers can. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "later all! and let me say I am disappointed in Jacqueline for not helping!" | |||
| theclam says (to floyd), "look up dreams in guide" | ||||
Floyd | "C12: DREAMS by David McCarthy." To cut a very long story short, this Floyd | episode sees Faldon recuperate from a previous alien possession on a Floyd | supposedly tranquil colony base. The strange dreams he gets while Floyd | there, however, are not all in his mind... Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "AW" | |||
| Touchy says, "bye eli" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I played for, like 14 hours last weekend1" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "er, !" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, bye." | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Drawing room Floyd | You are in a glorious oak-panelled room, with a large fireplace to one Floyd | side. This is where the family relaxes, assuming that such a monstrous Floyd | family relaxes at all. An antique-style telephone rests on the Floyd | mantelpiece, and a large hi-tech widescreen television sits on a video Floyd | recorder in the corner. From here, you observe exits to the east and Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A young woman called Chloe sits nearby reading a book. Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "ha ha" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, I know he is just teasing me." | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "say faldon to chloe" | ||||
Floyd | Chloe looks a little startled. "That's right," she says slowly, and Floyd | she seems to be on the verge of asking you another question, but Floyd | decides against it. "Well, fellow Battlier, what can I do for you?" Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Ellison says, "later" | |||
| Ellison goes back to Squeamhurst.. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf4" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "yay" | |||
| DavidW says, "I didn't think that'd work." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about remote" | ||||
Floyd | The woman doesn't respond. She seems to think it's trendy to be Floyd | ignorant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about malcolm" | ||||
Floyd | For the briefest moment, her face lights up. "Yeah, he's a bit of all Floyd | right is Malcolm." Then she realises what she is doing, and quickly Floyd | wears her 'couldn't care less' expression. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about cellar" | ||||
Floyd | The woman doesn't respond. She seems to think it's trendy to be Floyd | ignorant. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Excellent." | |||
| Touchy says, "It could have used a touch of "Oh, I'm getting a phone call I'll be right back" and "So what where we talking about? Oh, yeah,.."Dreams"..."" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about barbara" | ||||
Floyd | The woman doesn't respond. She seems to think it's trendy to be Floyd | ignorant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about deborah" | ||||
Floyd | "She's my cousin. Isn't she the one getting married today? Personally, Floyd | I don't know and I don't care." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about back door" | ||||
Floyd | The woman doesn't respond. She seems to think it's trendy to be Floyd | ignorant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about wedding" | ||||
Floyd | "I get dragged all this way against my will to some poxy wedding, and Floyd | the groom legs it before the ceremony. Typical!" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about key" | ||||
Floyd | The woman doesn't respond. She seems to think it's trendy to be Floyd | ignorant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about father" | ||||
Floyd | The woman doesn't respond. She seems to think it's trendy to be Floyd | ignorant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "tell chloe about malcolm" | ||||
Floyd | You get no reply from the woman. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask chloe for remote" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "kiss chloe" | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "tell chloe about guard" | ||||
Floyd | "Urgh, get off me, you creep!" Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Chloe grins, thinking of something funny, but she decides that you Floyd | don't need to know it. "Oh, he's an oaf, isn't he?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about science fiction" | ||||
Floyd | The woman doesn't respond. She seems to think it's trendy to be Floyd | ignorant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Kye says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about battalier" | ||||
Floyd | The woman doesn't respond. She seems to think it's trendy to be Floyd | ignorant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about book" | ||||
Floyd | "It's 'The Vampire Brood of Bognor Regis' by Floella Witt." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about key" | ||||
Floyd | The woman doesn't respond. She seems to think it's trendy to be Floyd | ignorant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about tv" | ||||
Floyd | "I'd rather you didn't switch that thing on. I'm trying to read, and Floyd | besides, there's nothing worth watching anyway." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Kye says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about golf" | ||||
Floyd | The woman doesn't respond. She seems to think it's trendy to be Floyd | ignorant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about guard" | ||||
Floyd | Chloe grins, thinking of something funny, but she decides that you Floyd | don't need to know it. "Oh, he's an oaf, isn't he?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about tin box" | ||||
Floyd | The woman doesn't respond. She seems to think it's trendy to be Floyd | ignorant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart asks, "What's this?" | DavidW says, "hm. I wonder what we need to do with Chloe now." | |||
| djfletch says, "dammit she knows something about the guard" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | About The Wedding Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is information provided on the following: Floyd | Floyd | > The story so far... Floyd | Release information Floyd | Credits Floyd | On-Line Marriage Guidance System Floyd | Commands Floyd | Distribution notes Floyd | | DavidW asks, "ack. Who did that?" | |||
Floyd | Floyd | About The Wedding Floyd | N = next subject P = Floyd | RETURN = read subject Q = re Floyd | sume game Floyd | There is information provided on the following: Floyd | Floyd | > The story so far... Floyd | Release information Floyd | Credits Floyd | On-Line Marriage Guidance System Floyd | Commands Floyd | Distribution notes Floyd | | Jacqueline asks, "Who's continuing to do it?" | |||
| Jacqueline asks, "LH?" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "WHO is doing that?" | theclam asks, "yikes, how'd that happen?" | |||
| Touchy says, "I would suspect LH." | ||||
| DavidW asks (of Lionheart), "Are you whispering to Floyd?" | Jacqueline says, "Please speak to Floyd out loud, rather than whispering to him." | |||
| Jacqueline says, "So that we can all see it." | ||||
| Lionheart says, "I whispered 'help' then tried to read the first." | ||||
| Touchy says, "Yeah, we can see that." | Jacqueline says, "Hm, yeah, please don't whisper to him. :)" | |||
| Touchy says, "If you want to play come to #clubfloyd." | DavidW says, "He's not on channel. He can't hear us here." | |||
| * Lionheart has joined the channel. | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Ah." | ||||
| Lionheart says, "I hope I didnt mess anything up" | Jacqueline says, "I didn't realize you weren't on the channel, LH." | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "q" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Drawing room Floyd | You are in a glorious oak-panelled room, with a large fireplace to one Floyd | side. This is where the family relaxes, assuming that such a monstrous Floyd | family relaxes at all. An antique-style telephone rests on the Floyd | mantelpiece, and a large hi-tech widescreen television sits on a video Floyd | recorder in the corner. From here, you observe exits to the east and Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A young woman called Chloe sits nearby reading a book. Floyd | Floyd | > | theclam says (to lionheart), "version will say what game it is, btw" | |||
| Jacqueline says, "Well, let's just exit - right." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Lionheart), "We're not supposed to talk off channel; it wrecks the transcript." | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Oh sorry" | ||||
| Touchy says, "And then Jacq has to fix it." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "But no worries - it's all a learning curve." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Welcome to CF." | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "Version" | ||||
Floyd | The Wedding Floyd | An Interactive Family Headache Floyd | Copyright (c) 1996, 1997 by Neil James Brown. Floyd | Release 4 / Serial number 970602 / Inform v6.05 Library 6/2 Floyd | Standard interpreter 1.0 Floyd | Interpreter 2 Version N / Library serial number 960912 Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "It's an interactive hunt for keys to a myriad of locks." | |||
| Kye says, "And also a hunt for the lock that matches the only key we have so far." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Kye), "that was for the cupboard" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Kye), "It was for the cupboard under the stairs." | ||||
| Touchy says, "That's how we got the spade." | ||||
| Kye says, "That shows how much I've been paying attention." | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "look at chloe's book" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "x book" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the Horror novel or the Battlebase episode guide? Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I see we'll be repeating ourselves to help LH catch up." | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about video" | ||||
Floyd | The woman doesn't respond. She seems to think it's trendy to be Floyd | ignorant. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Hehe and we all know how much you like that." | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about guard" | ||||
Floyd | Chloe grins, thinking of something funny, but she decides that you Floyd | don't need to know it. "Oh, he's an oaf, isn't he?" Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I believe my next suggestion was to experiment with Scamp." | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about security" | ||||
Floyd | Chloe grins, thinking of something funny, but she decides that you Floyd | don't need to know it. "Oh, he's an oaf, isn't he?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about oaf" | ||||
Floyd | The woman doesn't respond. She seems to think it's trendy to be Floyd | ignorant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Kye says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about battlebase" | ||||
Floyd | "Hail fellow Battlier!" she says proudly, giving you a strange and no Floyd | doubt alien salute. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Kye says (to Floyd), "salute" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros was too old and infirm for your purpose. | Touchy asks, "hmmm..yeah We haven't really done anything with him yet, have we?" | |||
| DavidW says, "We could also try looking for other books in the Library." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about witt" | ||||
Floyd | The woman doesn't respond. She seems to think it's trendy to be Floyd | ignorant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Floyd | Here at the heart of the manor is an oak passageway with doorways Floyd | leading to most rooms on the ground floor. You can see the great Floyd | dining hall to the north, and a brass sign above the doorway to the Floyd | northeast states "Kitchen", but the east and southwest exits hold no Floyd | clues as to where they lead. The entrance hall is off to the south, Floyd | and a sturdy door stands in the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp, the family dog, sits and whines, his lead tied to a door Floyd | handle. Floyd | Floyd | A simple polished table lies in the southeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "untie dog" | ||||
Floyd | You release Scamp and he shows his appreciation by leaping up at you Floyd | and licking your face. You quickly rise from crouching, not really Floyd | liking the idea of dog saliva on your cheeks, and Scamp quickly loses Floyd | interest in you. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp trots off to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen staff are hard at work on the meal for the reception, and Floyd | from their progress so far, you'd say that they are making enough food Floyd | to keep the Royal family well fed for a good few months. To the west, Floyd | a swing-door leads into the dining hall, and the main exit is to the Floyd | southwest. A pantry lies to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp is up to mischief here. Floyd | Floyd | A pompous and temperamental chef stands around shouting at the staff Floyd | and chopping things up. Floyd | Floyd | "How am I supposed to maintain good hygiene levels if someone lets a Floyd | filth dog full run of the house?" says the Chef, glaring at you Floyd | coldly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x food" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x scamp" | ||||
Floyd | This excitable Alsatian puppy is exhausting to watch. He bounces, he Floyd | sniffs for food, he throws up paws for passers-by to stroke, and he Floyd | rarely stays still in one place for long. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp trots off to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Grand Hall Floyd | This vast room is presumably where the D'Arcy clan eat their meals; it Floyd | reminds you too much of your old school dinner hall for you to feel Floyd | entirely comfortable here. A large sturdy table sits in the centre of Floyd | the room, surrounded by ten carefully-crafted chairs, and a set of Floyd | antique jugs rest on stools in a small alcove in the west wall. The Floyd | walls are covered in paintings which look impressive until you examine Floyd | them closely and see that they are certainly not in the league of the Floyd | great masters. The back garden is accessible via a door to the north, Floyd | a corridor leads south, and the kitchen is through the swing doors to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp is up to mischief here. Floyd | Floyd | Good old Uncle Albert stands nearby with a glass of brandy in one Floyd | hand. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp trots off to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Floyd | Here at the heart of the manor is an oak passageway with doorways Floyd | leading to most rooms on the ground floor. You can see the great Floyd | dining hall to the north, and a brass sign above the doorway to the Floyd | northeast states "Kitchen", but the east and southwest exits hold no Floyd | clues as to where they lead. The entrance hall is off to the south, Floyd | and a sturdy door stands in the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp is up to mischief here. Floyd | Floyd | A simple polished table lies in the southeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take lead" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take scamp" | ||||
Floyd | I don't suppose Scamp would care for that. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp sits and watches you curiously. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take leash" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pet scamp" | ||||
Floyd | Scamp allows you to scratch his tummy, but clearly doesn't like being Floyd | stroked on the head. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp trots off to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Library Floyd | Everything in this room looks as if it has taken many weeks to carve, Floyd | with the exception of dodgy book covers protecting some of the awful Floyd | literature stored here. A vast array of books lie on the two huge Floyd | shelves, ranging from the ancient to the modern. The curtains are Floyd | closed, so for light you are reliant on the lamps which are quite Floyd | attractive mock-ups of candles in candlesticks. An oak table sits in Floyd | the centre of the room, a grand throne-like chair beside it, for Floyd | anyone feeling particularly studious. A room lies to the south, and a Floyd | corridor is out to the west. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp is up to mischief here. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp trots off to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "rub belly" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "scratch tummy" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Floyd | Here at the heart of the manor is an oak passageway with doorways Floyd | leading to most rooms on the ground floor. You can see the great Floyd | dining hall to the north, and a brass sign above the doorway to the Floyd | northeast states "Kitchen", but the east and southwest exits hold no Floyd | clues as to where they lead. The entrance hall is off to the south, Floyd | and a sturdy door stands in the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp is up to mischief here. Floyd | Floyd | A simple polished table lies in the southeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. No obvious effect except in the kitchen." | |||
| Bert says (to Floyd), "score" | ||||
Floyd | You have so far scored 6 out of a possible 20, in 304 turns, earning Floyd | you the rank of Amateur Dabbler. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under table" | Kye asks, "Ask chef about the dog?" | |||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp sniffs at your hands for food. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tie scamp to doorhandle" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look on table" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "search table" | ||||
Floyd | There is nothing on the simple table. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp trots off to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tie scamp to door" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The grand entrance hall of D'Arcy manor evokes a twinge of jealousy Floyd | within you - the grand wooden polished floors and staircase, the Floyd | expensive chandelier hanging from the high ceiling, the priceless Floyd | Compton painting hanging on a wall. Why can't you inherit something Floyd | like this? Leaving aside feelings of bitterness, you observe a Floyd | cupboard under the stairs and a bell on a table near the door to the Floyd | south. Doorways (which are probably more expensive than your entire Floyd | house) lead off to the east and west, and a passageway lies north. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp is up to mischief here. Floyd | Floyd | The mother of the bride stands in a corner fretting away to herself as Floyd | only hysterical mothers can. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp trots off to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Drawing room Floyd | You are in a glorious oak-panelled room, with a large fireplace to one Floyd | side. This is where the family relaxes, assuming that such a monstrous Floyd | family relaxes at all. An antique-style telephone rests on the Floyd | mantelpiece, and a large hi-tech widescreen television sits on a video Floyd | recorder in the corner. From here, you observe exits to the east and Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp is up to mischief here. Floyd | Floyd | A young woman called Chloe sits nearby reading a book. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp trots off to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Floyd | Here at the heart of the manor is an oak passageway with doorways Floyd | leading to most rooms on the ground floor. You can see the great Floyd | dining hall to the north, and a brass sign above the doorway to the Floyd | northeast states "Kitchen", but the east and southwest exits hold no Floyd | clues as to where they lead. The entrance hall is off to the south, Floyd | and a sturdy door stands in the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp is up to mischief here. Floyd | Floyd | A simple polished table lies in the southeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp trots off to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen staff are hard at work on the meal for the reception, and Floyd | from their progress so far, you'd say that they are making enough food Floyd | to keep the Royal family well fed for a good few months. To the west, Floyd | a swing-door leads into the dining hall, and the main exit is to the Floyd | southwest. A pantry lies to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp is up to mischief here. Floyd | Floyd | A pompous and temperamental chef stands around shouting at the staff Floyd | and chopping things up. Floyd | Floyd | The Chef tries chasing Scamp out of the kitchen, but Scamp easily Floyd | avoids her, rapidly wagging his tail. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Lionheart says (to Floyd), "feed book to scamp" | ||||
Floyd | Scamp examines what you are offering, but turns away, disappointed Floyd | that it isn't edible. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp trots off to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Bert has disconnected. | ||||
| Bert goes home. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take food" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pantry Floyd | Should Luxembourg ever suffer a famine, they need only raid this Floyd | pantry to ensure that their citizens don't starve. The fruit, Floyd | vegetables, meat, ingredients and drinks are all stored using Floyd | technology that would put Nasa's space programme to shame. There is a Floyd | tradesman's entrance to the east, but the main exit is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp is up to mischief here. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp trots off to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy asks, "So we can feed him?" | |||
| DavidW says, "hm. I'm not seeing any obvious benefit." | ||||
| theclam says, "there's food in the pantry... perhaps that will satisfy scamp" | ||||
| Lionheart says, "Apparently" | ||||
| Kye asks, "Apple?" | ||||
| Alex says (to Kye), "Awwwk! Word on the street is that an apple is a fruit." | ||||
| theclam says, "and, yeah, apple" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I guess we can try that." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen staff are hard at work on the meal for the reception, and Floyd | from their progress so far, you'd say that they are making enough food Floyd | to keep the Royal family well fed for a good few months. To the west, Floyd | a swing-door leads into the dining hall, and the main exit is to the Floyd | southwest. A pantry lies to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp is up to mischief here. Floyd | Floyd | A pompous and temperamental chef stands around shouting at the staff Floyd | and chopping things up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "give apple to scamp" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the cooking apple) Floyd | (putting the spade into the plastic supermarket bag to make room) Floyd | Scamp sniffs cautiously at the apple for a moment, then quickly scoffs Floyd | it, core and all. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Hm...if he ate keys an apple might be a good way to help his digestion." | |||
| olethros arrives, full of fun and funk. | DavidW says, "We have no reason to believe Scamp ate anything he shouldn't've." | |||
| Kye says, "Now that he's not hungry, he might go somewhere else." | ||||
| DavidW says, "My guess is Scamp needs the back door unlocked." | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "pet scamp" | ||||
Floyd | Scamp allows you to scratch his tummy, but clearly doesn't like being Floyd | stroked on the head. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Kye says (to Floyd), "pet scamp's head" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Kye says (to Floyd), "pet head" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen staff are hard at work on the meal for the reception, and Floyd | from their progress so far, you'd say that they are making enough food Floyd | to keep the Royal family well fed for a good few months. To the west, Floyd | a swing-door leads into the dining hall, and the main exit is to the Floyd | southwest. A pantry lies to the south. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp is up to mischief here. Floyd | Floyd | A pompous and temperamental chef stands around shouting at the staff Floyd | and chopping things up. Floyd | Floyd | "What shall we prepare for the main meal?" asks the Chef, apparently Floyd | to herself. Then she turns to Scamp, and with an evil glint in her Floyd | eye, says "Doggie stew!" Floyd | Floyd | > | theclam says, "I love a good poodle gumbo" | |||
| DavidW says, "I think we should abandon Scamp for now and try something else." | ||||
| djfletch says, "yeah" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I'd like to explore the library more." | ||||
| DavidW says, "People do sometimes hollow out books and hide things in them." | ||||
| Touchy says, "Go ahead, I don't have any other idea." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Floyd | Here at the heart of the manor is an oak passageway with doorways Floyd | leading to most rooms on the ground floor. You can see the great Floyd | dining hall to the north, and a brass sign above the doorway to the Floyd | northeast states "Kitchen", but the east and southwest exits hold no Floyd | clues as to where they lead. The entrance hall is off to the south, Floyd | and a sturdy door stands in the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | A simple polished table lies in the southeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Library Floyd | Everything in this room looks as if it has taken many weeks to carve, Floyd | with the exception of dodgy book covers protecting some of the awful Floyd | literature stored here. A vast array of books lie on the two huge Floyd | shelves, ranging from the ancient to the modern. The curtains are Floyd | closed, so for light you are reliant on the lamps which are quite Floyd | attractive mock-ups of candles in candlesticks. An oak table sits in Floyd | the centre of the room, a grand throne-like chair beside it, for Floyd | anyone feeling particularly studious. A room lies to the south, and a Floyd | corridor is out to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sit on chair" | ||||
Floyd | You get onto the throne-like chair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x chair" | ||||
Floyd | It looks to be in such good condition that you suspect that people Floyd | aren't allowed to sit on it. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x table" | ||||
Floyd | A sturdy table, polished to such an extent that you can see your face Floyd | reflected on the surface. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x candles" | ||||
Floyd | The lamps provide light in the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "open curtains" | ||||
Floyd | You don't need to play with the curtains in this room. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x index" | ||||
Floyd | The two shelves between them span the entire length of the room, and Floyd | go from the floor to the ceiling. The books don't appear to be in any Floyd | order, and it would be too daunting to try to find anything specific Floyd | if not for an index someone has had the presence of mind to compile. Floyd | It is a small box with a number of cards inside, and you must look up Floyd | particular titles individually. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "stand" | ||||
Floyd | You get off the throne-like chair. Floyd | Floyd | Library Floyd | Everything in this room looks as if it has taken many weeks to carve, Floyd | with the exception of dodgy book covers protecting some of the awful Floyd | literature stored here. A vast array of books lie on the two huge Floyd | shelves, ranging from the ancient to the modern. The curtains are Floyd | closed, so for light you are reliant on the lamps which are quite Floyd | attractive mock-ups of candles in candlesticks. An oak table sits in Floyd | the centre of the room, a grand throne-like chair beside it, for Floyd | anyone feeling particularly studious. A room lies to the south, and a Floyd | corridor is out to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look under chair" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look under table" | ||||
Floyd | Carved on the underside of the table are two messages - "Liz luvs Fitz Floyd | '13" and "Chloe woz 'ere '91". Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "huh" | |||
| theclam says (to floyd), "look up elizabeth in programme" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing in the programme about that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "look up fitz in programme" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing in the programme about that. Floyd | Floyd | > | theclam says, "...oh, that was a while ago" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look up golf in index" | ||||
Floyd | You search for the Crazy Golf book, but there is a conspicuous gap in Floyd | the shelves where it should be. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look up lock in index" | ||||
Floyd | Unfortunately, the index doesn't have anything about that. You notice Floyd | that the index only has a couple hundred cards, whereas the number of Floyd | books on the shelves must be nearer to a thousand. Many books are Floyd | bound to have been left out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up embroidery in index" | ||||
Floyd | Unfortunately, the index doesn't have anything about that. You notice Floyd | that the index only has a couple hundred cards, whereas the number of Floyd | books on the shelves must be nearer to a thousand. Many books are Floyd | bound to have been left out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up vampire in index" | ||||
Floyd | Unfortunately, the index doesn't have anything about that. You notice Floyd | that the index only has a couple hundred cards, whereas the number of Floyd | books on the shelves must be nearer to a thousand. Many books are Floyd | bound to have been left out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look up house in index" | ||||
Floyd | Unfortunately, the index doesn't have anything about that. You notice Floyd | that the index only has a couple hundred cards, whereas the number of Floyd | books on the shelves must be nearer to a thousand. Many books are Floyd | bound to have been left out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up liz in programme" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing in the programme about that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up elizabeth in programme" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing in the programme about that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gap" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "candlesticks" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x candlesticks" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "turn candles" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pull candle" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing obvious happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Persistence." | |||
| theclam says (to floyd), "remove candles" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the lamps) Floyd | They are built into the walls. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "x lamps" | ||||
Floyd | The lamps provide light in the room. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "[LINK]" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up deborah in programme" | ||||
Floyd | "DEBORAH D'ARCY, bride. Born in 1971, Deborah was wrapped in so much Floyd | cotton wool by her parents Sheryl and Jerry while growing up that many Floyd | people thought she wouldn't recognise the real world if it crashed Floyd | through her bedroom ceiling. But Deborah somehow managed to turn out Floyd | as a charming, realistic and down-to-earth young lady, which has only Floyd | fuelled rumours that she must have been adopted. Deborah met her Floyd | future to-be husband after crashing her car into his on a cold winters Floyd | morning." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up sheryl in programme" | ||||
Floyd | "SHERYL & JERRY D'ARCY, extremely rich parents of the bride. Floyd | Originally using Jerry's surname Franklyn, they changed to Sheryl's Floyd | maiden name when she inherited the impressive D'Arcy manor off her Floyd | eccentric uncle. They won most of their great wealth a week later on Floyd | the National Lottery. Fortune has smiled on them rather a lot lately." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look up manor in index" | ||||
Floyd | Unfortunately, the index doesn't have anything about that. You notice Floyd | that the index only has a couple hundred cards, whereas the number of Floyd | books on the shelves must be nearer to a thousand. Many books are Floyd | bound to have been left out. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "look up lottery in index" | ||||
Floyd | Unfortunately, the index doesn't have anything about that. You notice Floyd | that the index only has a couple hundred cards, whereas the number of Floyd | books on the shelves must be nearer to a thousand. Many books are Floyd | bound to have been left out. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "We should explore." | |||
| DavidW says, "hm. I suppose we could ask Chloe about the library table, but I don't know what good that would do." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Showing the love letter to people might be more effective." | ||||
| djfletch asks, "can we do anything to get albert to play golf?" | ||||
| Touchy says, "Good idea, too." | ||||
| Touchy says, "And ask them for keys in the process." | ||||
| Touchy says, "Especially Malcolm might have something to say about his loveletter." | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a Battlebase episode guide Floyd | a plastic supermarket bag Floyd | a spade Floyd | a small brass key Floyd | a wedding programme Floyd | a letter Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We need 2 keys, some electronic gizmo for the cellar door, and a tv remote." | |||
| theclam asks, "where did the box that was buried go?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "It's still buried. I had to restore." | ||||
| DavidW says, "If we go outside via the front, we can't get back in." | ||||
| theclam says, "ah, right. there's still no way back in" | ||||
| theclam says, "yeah" | ||||
| Touchy asks, "Can't we throw the apple at the attic window again?" | ||||
| Touchy says, "I mean we probably won't exactly hit the hole.." | ||||
| Kye says, "The apple was eaten." | ||||
| Touchy says, "There is a tree of them outside." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Touchy), "That doesn't solve anything, unless you think bringing the locked box into the house helps any." | ||||
| Touchy says (to DavidW), "I agree then again we could try showing it to everybody while we're at it." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Floyd | Here at the heart of the manor is an oak passageway with doorways Floyd | leading to most rooms on the ground floor. You can see the great Floyd | dining hall to the north, and a brass sign above the doorway to the Floyd | northeast states "Kitchen", but the east and southwest exits hold no Floyd | clues as to where they lead. The entrance hall is off to the south, Floyd | and a sturdy door stands in the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | A simple polished table lies in the southeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Grand Hall Floyd | This vast room is presumably where the D'Arcy clan eat their meals; it Floyd | reminds you too much of your old school dinner hall for you to feel Floyd | entirely comfortable here. A large sturdy table sits in the centre of Floyd | the room, surrounded by ten carefully-crafted chairs, and a set of Floyd | antique jugs rest on stools in a small alcove in the west wall. The Floyd | walls are covered in paintings which look impressive until you examine Floyd | them closely and see that they are certainly not in the league of the Floyd | great masters. The back garden is accessible via a door to the north, Floyd | a corridor leads south, and the kitchen is through the swing doors to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | Good old Uncle Albert stands nearby with a glass of brandy in one Floyd | hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show letter to albert" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the letter) Floyd | Uncle Albert is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Floyd | Here at the heart of the manor is an oak passageway with doorways Floyd | leading to most rooms on the ground floor. You can see the great Floyd | dining hall to the north, and a brass sign above the doorway to the Floyd | northeast states "Kitchen", but the east and southwest exits hold no Floyd | clues as to where they lead. The entrance hall is off to the south, Floyd | and a sturdy door stands in the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | A simple polished table lies in the southeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp trots along here from the northeast, and sniffs at your feet. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Drawing room Floyd | You are in a glorious oak-panelled room, with a large fireplace to one Floyd | side. This is where the family relaxes, assuming that such a monstrous Floyd | family relaxes at all. An antique-style telephone rests on the Floyd | mantelpiece, and a large hi-tech widescreen television sits on a video Floyd | recorder in the corner. From here, you observe exits to the east and Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A young woman called Chloe sits nearby reading a book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show letter to chloe" | ||||
Floyd | Chloe is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The grand entrance hall of D'Arcy manor evokes a twinge of jealousy Floyd | within you - the grand wooden polished floors and staircase, the Floyd | expensive chandelier hanging from the high ceiling, the priceless Floyd | Compton painting hanging on a wall. Why can't you inherit something Floyd | like this? Leaving aside feelings of bitterness, you observe a Floyd | cupboard under the stairs and a bell on a table near the door to the Floyd | south. Doorways (which are probably more expensive than your entire Floyd | house) lead off to the east and west, and a passageway lies north. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp is up to mischief here. Floyd | Floyd | The mother of the bride stands in a corner fretting away to herself as Floyd | only hysterical mothers can. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp stretches and yawns. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show letter to mother" | ||||
Floyd | "What filth. It should be consigned to the dust bin at once!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "It's not a particularly impressive letter it seems." | |||
| Touchy says, "hehe" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | The top of the staircase ends in the middle of the landing which Floyd | stretches to the east and west. An interesting painting, with striking Floyd | use of deep blues and bright reds, hangs on an otherwise drab wall, Floyd | and opposite, to the south, a large window allows light to flood onto Floyd | the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | A door stands open in the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | A staircase at the other side of the door takes you up to... Floyd | Floyd | Spacious attic Floyd | The attic has been converted into rather a spacious, if bare, room. A Floyd | naked light bulb hangs from the ceiling, spilling light on the various Floyd | cardboard boxes and general bricabrac. In the sloping roof is a small Floyd | broken window-vent, and a staircase leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Your old college chum Malcolm hovers close by. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show letter to malcolm" | ||||
Floyd | "Oh, I wrote that ages ago," remembers Malcolm nostalgically. "It was Floyd | when we'd only begun courting. I was staying over, in the spare room Floyd | because Deborah's parents wouldn't allow any hanky-panky. I hid it Floyd | under the bed, hoping that Deborah would find it. I don't think she's Floyd | ever seen that, actually." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask malcolm about spare room" | ||||
Floyd | Malcolm shrugs his shoulders but doesn't say anything. He is still Floyd | shaken up a little, you fear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask malcolm about guest room" | ||||
Floyd | Malcolm shrugs his shoulders but doesn't say anything. He is still Floyd | shaken up a little, you fear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask malcolm about wardrobe" | ||||
Floyd | Malcolm shrugs his shoulders but doesn't say anything. He is still Floyd | shaken up a little, you fear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "ask malcolm about cash box" | ||||
Floyd | Malcolm shrugs his shoulders but doesn't say anything. He is still Floyd | shaken up a little, you fear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "ask malcolm about scamp" | ||||
Floyd | Malcolm shrugs his shoulders but doesn't say anything. He is still Floyd | shaken up a little, you fear. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I think it was 'tin box'" | |||
| theclam says (to floyd), "ask malcolm about tin box" | ||||
Floyd | Malcolm shrugs his shoulders but doesn't say anything. He is still Floyd | shaken up a little, you fear. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess we show the letter to Deb, or maybe Barb." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You descend the stairs and pass through a door, finding yourself in Floyd | the... Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | The top of the staircase ends in the middle of the landing which Floyd | stretches to the east and west. An interesting painting, with striking Floyd | use of deep blues and bright reds, hangs on an otherwise drab wall, Floyd | and opposite, to the south, a large window allows light to flood onto Floyd | the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | A door stands open in the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | East end Floyd | The east end of the landing is pretty unremarkable in itself, but a Floyd | door to the north demands your immediate attention - painted pink, Floyd | with a picture of a teddy bear holding a sign reading 'Deborah'. There Floyd | are also less interesting rooms to the east and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Deborah's bedroom Floyd | This room offers refuge from the tastelessness that seems to prevail Floyd | around the rest of the house. Framed pictures of famous film Floyd | actresses, Garland, Dietrich, Midler and Streisand in particular, hang Floyd | proudly on the sky-blue walls, alongside two extra-large pink and red Floyd | ribbons. The abundance of style extends to the curtains, the most Floyd | attractive you have ever seen. If only the rest of the house, to the Floyd | south, had been decorated as well as this. Floyd | Floyd | Deborah, the bride, sits on her bed flicking through an old issue of Floyd | Cooee! magazine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show letter to deborah" | ||||
Floyd | Deborah takes the letter. As she reads it, she smiles warmly, Floyd | remembering happy days. When she finishes, she folds it carefully and Floyd | slips it into her pocket. "Why did he do it?" she asks sadly, and Floyd | hands you a note she had kept hidden within the pages of one of her Floyd | magazines. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x note" | ||||
Floyd | A small piece of jotting paper bears a hastily scrawled message that Floyd | might or might not be Malcolm's handwriting. Floyd | Floyd | "Dear Deborah, Floyd | I'm sorry, but I can't go through with this. I need to go away to Floyd | rediscover my inner self. I hope you can forgive me in time, and find Floyd | someone else, someone who truly deserves you. Floyd | Floyd | All the best, Floyd | Malcolm." Floyd | Floyd | Something fishy is going on, you are sure - Malcolm was never the type Floyd | to "rediscover his inner self", and wasn't impressed by people who Floyd | did. Floyd | Floyd | > | theclam asks, "are they the same handwriting?" | |||
| DavidW says, "Let's ask Malcolm." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | East end Floyd | The east end of the landing is pretty unremarkable in itself, but a Floyd | door to the north demands your immediate attention - painted pink, Floyd | with a picture of a teddy bear holding a sign reading 'Deborah'. There Floyd | are also less interesting rooms to the east and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | The top of the staircase ends in the middle of the landing which Floyd | stretches to the east and west. An interesting painting, with striking Floyd | use of deep blues and bright reds, hangs on an otherwise drab wall, Floyd | and opposite, to the south, a large window allows light to flood onto Floyd | the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | A door stands open in the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | A staircase at the other side of the door takes you up to... Floyd | Floyd | Spacious attic Floyd | The attic has been converted into rather a spacious, if bare, room. A Floyd | naked light bulb hangs from the ceiling, spilling light on the various Floyd | cardboard boxes and general bricabrac. In the sloping roof is a small Floyd | broken window-vent, and a staircase leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Your old college chum Malcolm hovers close by. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show note to malcolm" | ||||
Floyd | Malcolm takes and reads the note. "What?" he splutters suddenly. "This Floyd | isn't my handwriting! I'm being stitched up here!" Floyd | Floyd | After a moment, his face seems to light up, and you can almost see a Floyd | light bulb appear above his head. "I've got it!" he says. "The Floyd | security guard has to sign in and out every day. I've seen him do it - Floyd | this is his handwriting!". Floyd | Floyd | You consider going down and having a word with the guard. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch exclaims, "hurrah!" | |||
| Touchy says, "sweet" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a Battlebase episode guide Floyd | a plastic supermarket bag Floyd | a spade Floyd | a small brass key Floyd | a wedding programme Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask malcolm about guard" | ||||
Floyd | "I never did trust that guard." Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Let's hit him with the spade." | |||
| theclam says (to floyd), "take note" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Touchy), "I like the idea." | |||
| theclam says (to floyd), "ask malcolm for note" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You descend the stairs and pass through a door, finding yourself in Floyd | the... Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | The top of the staircase ends in the middle of the landing which Floyd | stretches to the east and west. An interesting painting, with striking Floyd | use of deep blues and bright reds, hangs on an otherwise drab wall, Floyd | and opposite, to the south, a large window allows light to flood onto Floyd | the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | A door stands open in the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The grand entrance hall of D'Arcy manor evokes a twinge of jealousy Floyd | within you - the grand wooden polished floors and staircase, the Floyd | expensive chandelier hanging from the high ceiling, the priceless Floyd | Compton painting hanging on a wall. Why can't you inherit something Floyd | like this? Leaving aside feelings of bitterness, you observe a Floyd | cupboard under the stairs and a bell on a table near the door to the Floyd | south. Doorways (which are probably more expensive than your entire Floyd | house) lead off to the east and west, and a passageway lies north. Floyd | Floyd | The mother of the bride stands in a corner fretting away to herself as Floyd | only hysterical mothers can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside the front entrance Floyd | You stand to the south of D'Arcy manor, a building which looks like Floyd | it's straight out of a low budget Bronte TV adaptation. A few modern Floyd | touches help tie it to the late twentieth century, such as the burglar Floyd | alarm next to the elegant stone carving of a Shakespearian-looking man Floyd | above the main entrance. Immediately in front of the house is a gravel Floyd | drive which acts as a car park, and a small road leads off to the Floyd | south towards the main road. A slabbed path runs around both sides Floyd | (east and west) of the house. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a security guard here. Floyd | Floyd | Sunshine momentarily bursts out through the grey cloud cover. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask guard about note" | ||||
Floyd | You wish you had worn that jacket with the impressive shoulder pads Floyd | now, but you stand up straight and try to look as fearsome as possible Floyd | for the guard. Floyd | Floyd | "Okay, muggins," you say, "spill the beans, squeak, start talking, Floyd | loosen your tongue..." Then you realise that you are getting carried Floyd | away, and drop the tough cop act. "Why did you duff up my mate Malcolm Floyd | and lock him in the attic?" Floyd | Floyd | The guard sneers at you. "I don't have to tell you anything. You've Floyd | got nothing over me." You decide to make it your mission in life to Floyd | find lots of things to hold over this horrible guard. Preferably very Floyd | heavy things you can drop on him. Floyd | Floyd | [Your score has just gone up by one point.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "heh" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit guard with spade" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hit the security guard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit guard" | ||||
Floyd | This isn't a macho Hollywood action film: you don't need to beat Floyd | people up in this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Let's talk to chloe again." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | "I don't think so, sunbeam," says the nasty looking guard. He probably Floyd | heard that line on an old episode of The Bill and has desperately Floyd | longed for an opportunity to say it since. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "I think she might be behind this." | |||
| djfletch says, "is that a hint? Landing window is above here probably." | ||||
| DavidW says, "We *still* can't get back inside." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask guard about note" | ||||
Floyd | The guard won't say another word. You'll just have to find a way of Floyd | forcing him to speak. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "I still think we should try to get another apple." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask guard about chloe" | ||||
Floyd | "She's an invited guest... unlike you." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask guard about malcolm" | ||||
Floyd | The guard won't say another word. You'll just have to find a way of Floyd | forcing him to speak. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask guard about treasure" | ||||
Floyd | "Your name's not down, you're not coming in." Floyd | Floyd | You can feel a few spots of rain on your face. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| olethros was too old and infirm for your purpose. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw apple at guard" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You make your way around the eastern side of the house, and find Floyd | yourself at... Floyd | Floyd | The patio outside the back of the house Floyd | A grand patio made from powder-orange slabs links the back of the Floyd | house, which is to your south, with a beautiful garden to the north, Floyd | beyond a gate. You look up at the house, and see a number of Floyd | unrecognisable people pacing about at various windows. A grey-slabbed Floyd | path runs around both sides of the house back to the front. Floyd | Floyd | The gate to the north is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Garden path Floyd | A simple pathway, immaculately tiled, leads north. Flower beds Floyd | surround you, beautifully arranged, in every colour of the rainbow, Floyd | and to the north east you can see a great apple tree. Floyd | Floyd | The gate to the south is open. Floyd | Floyd | By the side of the path, among the flowers, is a dark patch of earth. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig patch with spade" | ||||
Floyd | You dig a hole in the ground, stopping when the spade seems to hit Floyd | something. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take box" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | A sudden gust of wind ruffles your hair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | By the Crazy Golf Course Floyd | The path from the south ends at a large crazy golf course, separated Floyd | into several smaller sections, which all have crazy obstacle courses Floyd | for players to putt their golf balls through in order to get to the Floyd | hole. Flowerbeds are positioned dangerously close to the crazy course Floyd | to the west, and a hedge blocks your progress north. You can see a Floyd | tree (the only one in the garden, it seems) to the east. Floyd | Floyd | You can feel a few spots of rain on your face. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner of the garden Floyd | You are at the north-east corner of the garden, marked by thick Floyd | impenetrable hedges to the north and east, and a delicate flowerbed Floyd | lies south. A single apple tree stands here; its trunk looks fragile, Floyd | and splits prematurely into smaller branches at waist level. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake tree" | ||||
Floyd | You shake the tree fruitlessly. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "snrk" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | By the Crazy Golf Course Floyd | The path from the south ends at a large crazy golf course, separated Floyd | into several smaller sections, which all have crazy obstacle courses Floyd | for players to putt their golf balls through in order to get to the Floyd | hole. Flowerbeds are positioned dangerously close to the crazy course Floyd | to the west, and a hedge blocks your progress north. You can see a Floyd | tree (the only one in the garden, it seems) to the east. Floyd | Floyd | Sunshine momentarily bursts out through the grey cloud cover. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Garden path Floyd | A simple pathway, immaculately tiled, leads north. Flower beds Floyd | surround you, beautifully arranged, in every colour of the rainbow, Floyd | and to the north east you can see a great apple tree. Floyd | Floyd | The gate to the south is open. Floyd | Floyd | A hole has been dug by the side of the path. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The patio outside the back of the house Floyd | A grand patio made from powder-orange slabs links the back of the Floyd | house, which is to your south, with a beautiful garden to the north, Floyd | beyond a gate. You look up at the house, and see a number of Floyd | unrecognisable people pacing about at various windows. A grey-slabbed Floyd | path runs around both sides of the house back to the front. Floyd | Floyd | The gate to the north is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You make your way around the western side of the house, and find Floyd | yourself at... Floyd | Floyd | Outside the front entrance Floyd | You stand to the south of D'Arcy manor, a building which looks like Floyd | it's straight out of a low budget Bronte TV adaptation. A few modern Floyd | touches help tie it to the late twentieth century, such as the burglar Floyd | alarm next to the elegant stone carving of a Shakespearian-looking man Floyd | above the main entrance. Immediately in front of the house is a gravel Floyd | drive which acts as a car park, and a small road leads off to the Floyd | south towards the main road. A slabbed path runs around both sides Floyd | (east and west) of the house. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a security guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit guard with box" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hit the security guard. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show box to guard" | ||||
Floyd | (the cash tin box to the security guard) Floyd | He doesn't show the slightest interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit guard" | ||||
Floyd | This isn't a macho Hollywood action film: you don't need to beat Floyd | people up in this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask guard about box" | ||||
Floyd | "That's a special alarm, that is - it goes off when vulnerable doors Floyd | and windows are smashed, so don't try anything, right?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Crap." | |||
| Touchy asks, "I wonder where the door from the pantry leads we didn't pass a door on our way around the house, did we?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I assume the panty exits onto the east side, but yeah, we don't even stop there. It's like the door doesn't exist on the outside." | ||||
| DavidW says, "er pantry" | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a cash tin box (which is closed and locked) Floyd | a Battlebase episode guide Floyd | a plastic supermarket bag Floyd | a spade Floyd | a small brass key Floyd | a wedding programme Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock box with key" | ||||
Floyd | (the burglar alarm with the small brass key) Floyd | (first taking the small brass key) Floyd | (putting the Battlebase episode guide into the plastic supermarket bag Floyd | to make room) Floyd | It's too high up to reach. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Let's just try throwing stuff again..." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock tin box with key" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't seem to fit the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "The guide or key or box might work." | |||
| DavidW says (to Touchy), "hm? I don't know what you want to do." | ||||
| Touchy says, "Get back inside." | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says (to Touchy), "Drive. Show me how." | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You make your way around the western side of the house, and find Floyd | yourself at... Floyd | Floyd | The patio outside the back of the house Floyd | A grand patio made from powder-orange slabs links the back of the Floyd | house, which is to your south, with a beautiful garden to the north, Floyd | beyond a gate. You look up at the house, and see a number of Floyd | unrecognisable people pacing about at various windows. A grey-slabbed Floyd | path runs around both sides of the house back to the front. Floyd | Floyd | The gate to the north is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x vent" | ||||
Floyd | A tiny window which has been smashed by some scoundrel. Now that most Floyd | of the glass has gone, you can definitely see some sort of movement Floyd | inside the attic, and the light is on. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "through box at attic window" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "ouch." | |||
| DavidW says, "throw" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "throw box at attic window" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach the attic window yourself without the aid of a Floyd | jetpack; unfortunately, most stately homes don't have any. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "throw box at vent" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach the attic window yourself without the aid of a Floyd | jetpack; unfortunately, most stately homes don't have any. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "throw key at vent" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach the attic window yourself without the aid of a Floyd | jetpack; unfortunately, most stately homes don't have any. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "knock on door" | ||||
Floyd | No answer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "open door with spade" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the spade) Floyd | (putting the cash tin box into the plastic supermarket bag to make Floyd | room) Floyd | That doesn't seem to fit the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | A door connecting the patio outside with the dining hall inside. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "yell" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "open box" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "drop box" | ||||
Floyd | You haven't got that. Floyd | Floyd | You can feel a few spots of rain on your face. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "hit box with spade" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hit the cash tin box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "take box" | ||||
Floyd | (putting the small brass key into the plastic supermarket bag to make Floyd | room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "shake box" | ||||
Floyd | You hear something rattling round inside the box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "break lock with spade" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The patio outside the back of the house Floyd | A grand patio made from powder-orange slabs links the back of the Floyd | house, which is to your south, with a beautiful garden to the north, Floyd | beyond a gate. You look up at the house, and see a number of Floyd | unrecognisable people pacing about at various windows. A grey-slabbed Floyd | path runs around both sides of the house back to the front. Floyd | Floyd | The gate to the north is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "smash box with spade" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to smash the cash tin box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "throw box at bathroom window" | ||||
Floyd | Unfortunately you don't qualify for a nice set of wings until the next Floyd | life, so there's no way of reaching the window. Floyd | Floyd | You can feel a few spots of rain on your face. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x slab" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x path" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x slabs" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "throw key at bathroom window" | ||||
Floyd | (first taking the small brass key) Floyd | (putting the spade into the plastic supermarket bag to make room) Floyd | An ingenious idea, with only one small drawback: you can't reach the Floyd | window from down here. Floyd | Floyd | You can feel a few spots of rain on your face. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "It seems the throw option only works once." | |||
| Touchy says, "Somehow throwing is broken after it's been done. I supposed we need to open another way before we come outside." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Garden path Floyd | A simple pathway, immaculately tiled, leads north. Flower beds Floyd | surround you, beautifully arranged, in every colour of the rainbow, Floyd | and to the north east you can see a great apple tree. Floyd | Floyd | The gate to the south is open. Floyd | Floyd | A hole has been dug by the side of the path. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I assume we have to unlock the door." | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x hole" | ||||
Floyd | The hole is half a metre deep. Floyd | Floyd | The grey sky overhead turns a little darker, threatening rain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | By the Crazy Golf Course Floyd | The path from the south ends at a large crazy golf course, separated Floyd | into several smaller sections, which all have crazy obstacle courses Floyd | for players to putt their golf balls through in order to get to the Floyd | hole. Flowerbeds are positioned dangerously close to the crazy course Floyd | to the west, and a hedge blocks your progress north. You can see a Floyd | tree (the only one in the garden, it seems) to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "we could try showing Chloe the note - she knew something about the guard." | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x course" | ||||
Floyd | It all looks very crazy and a little golf-like. You are dying to have Floyd | a go. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x obstacles" | ||||
Floyd | It all looks very crazy and a little golf-like. You are dying to have Floyd | a go. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Garden path Floyd | A simple pathway, immaculately tiled, leads north. Flower beds Floyd | surround you, beautifully arranged, in every colour of the rainbow, Floyd | and to the north east you can see a great apple tree. Floyd | Floyd | The gate to the south is open. Floyd | Floyd | A hole has been dug by the side of the path. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We don't have the note." | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x tree" | ||||
Floyd | That's off to the north east, beyond the flower beds. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a small brass key Floyd | a cash tin box (which is closed and locked) Floyd | a plastic supermarket bag Floyd | a spade Floyd | a Battlebase episode guide Floyd | a wedding programme Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "But, yeah, Chloe might know something more." | |||
| Touchy says, "I bet she put the guard up to it because he's into her and she's into Malcolm." | ||||
| djfletch says, "yeah I mean if we restore I suppose. Although it was pretty strongly hinted that we should go and talk to the guard as soon as we got the note." | ||||
| Touchy says, "Maybe we were expected to have cleared another entrance by then." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" | DavidW says, "Maybe the game figured we ought to have the back door open by now." | |||
Floyd | Floyd | The patio outside the back of the house Floyd | A grand patio made from powder-orange slabs links the back of the Floyd | house, which is to your south, with a beautiful garden to the north, Floyd | beyond a gate. You look up at the house, and see a number of Floyd | unrecognisable people pacing about at various windows. A grey-slabbed Floyd | path runs around both sides of the house back to the front. Floyd | Floyd | The gate to the north is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Garden path Floyd | A simple pathway, immaculately tiled, leads north. Flower beds Floyd | surround you, beautifully arranged, in every colour of the rainbow, Floyd | and to the north east you can see a great apple tree. Floyd | Floyd | The gate to the south is open. Floyd | Floyd | A hole has been dug by the side of the path. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | The flowers are so pretty that it would be a shame to just trample all Floyd | over them. Floyd | Floyd | Sunshine momentarily bursts out through the grey cloud cover. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | By the Crazy Golf Course Floyd | The path from the south ends at a large crazy golf course, separated Floyd | into several smaller sections, which all have crazy obstacle courses Floyd | for players to putt their golf balls through in order to get to the Floyd | hole. Flowerbeds are positioned dangerously close to the crazy course Floyd | to the west, and a hedge blocks your progress north. You can see a Floyd | tree (the only one in the garden, it seems) to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Corner of the garden Floyd | You are at the north-east corner of the garden, marked by thick Floyd | impenetrable hedges to the north and east, and a delicate flowerbed Floyd | lies south. A single apple tree stands here; its trunk looks fragile, Floyd | and splits prematurely into smaller branches at waist level. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x tree" | ||||
Floyd | Only the trunk and lower branches can be seen, the leaves blocking out Floyd | your view of the rest of the tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "hit tree with spade" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to hit the large apple tree. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "take apple" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "hit tree" | ||||
Floyd | You attack the tree with gusto, kicking the trunk and snapping a few Floyd | of the branches. There is a slight rustling sound from the heart of Floyd | the branches as the tree shakes a little, but nothing else happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "shake tree" | ||||
Floyd | You shake the tree fruitlessly. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "hit tree" | ||||
Floyd | You attack the tree with gusto, kicking the trunk and snapping a few Floyd | of the branches. There is a slight rustling sound from the heart of Floyd | the branches as the tree shakes a little, but nothing else happens. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | By the Crazy Golf Course Floyd | The path from the south ends at a large crazy golf course, separated Floyd | into several smaller sections, which all have crazy obstacle courses Floyd | for players to putt their golf balls through in order to get to the Floyd | hole. Flowerbeds are positioned dangerously close to the crazy course Floyd | to the west, and a hedge blocks your progress north. You can see a Floyd | tree (the only one in the garden, it seems) to the east. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Garden path Floyd | A simple pathway, immaculately tiled, leads north. Flower beds Floyd | surround you, beautifully arranged, in every colour of the rainbow, Floyd | and to the north east you can see a great apple tree. Floyd | Floyd | The gate to the south is open. Floyd | Floyd | A hole has been dug by the side of the path. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The patio outside the back of the house Floyd | A grand patio made from powder-orange slabs links the back of the Floyd | house, which is to your south, with a beautiful garden to the north, Floyd | beyond a gate. You look up at the house, and see a number of Floyd | unrecognisable people pacing about at various windows. A grey-slabbed Floyd | path runs around both sides of the house back to the front. Floyd | Floyd | The gate to the north is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't, since the hall door is in the way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "open hall dor" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to open the hall door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | It seems to be locked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You make your way around the eastern side of the house, and find Floyd | yourself at... Floyd | Floyd | Outside the front entrance Floyd | You stand to the south of D'Arcy manor, a building which looks like Floyd | it's straight out of a low budget Bronte TV adaptation. A few modern Floyd | touches help tie it to the late twentieth century, such as the burglar | DavidW says, "I really think we have to restore, guys." | |||
Floyd | alarm next to the elegant stone carving of a Shakespearian-looking man Floyd | above the main entrance. Immediately in front of the house is a gravel Floyd | drive which acts as a car park, and a small road leads off to the Floyd | south towards the main road. A slabbed path runs around both sides Floyd | (east and west) of the house. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a security guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "I think so too." | |||
| Touchy says, "Yeah, I don't have any other idea. Go ahead." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "RESTORE" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cf5" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to load: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Spacious attic Floyd | The attic has been converted into rather a spacious, if bare, room. A Floyd | naked light bulb hangs from the ceiling, spilling light on the various Floyd | cardboard boxes and general bricabrac. In the sloping roof is a small Floyd | broken window-vent, and a staircase leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Your old college chum Malcolm hovers close by. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You descend the stairs and pass through a door, finding yourself in Floyd | the... Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | The top of the staircase ends in the middle of the landing which Floyd | stretches to the east and west. An interesting painting, with striking Floyd | use of deep blues and bright reds, hangs on an otherwise drab wall, Floyd | and opposite, to the south, a large window allows light to flood onto Floyd | the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | A door stands open in the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The grand entrance hall of D'Arcy manor evokes a twinge of jealousy Floyd | within you - the grand wooden polished floors and staircase, the Floyd | expensive chandelier hanging from the high ceiling, the priceless Floyd | Compton painting hanging on a wall. Why can't you inherit something Floyd | like this? Leaving aside feelings of bitterness, you observe a Floyd | cupboard under the stairs and a bell on a table near the door to the Floyd | south. Doorways (which are probably more expensive than your entire Floyd | house) lead off to the east and west, and a passageway lies north. Floyd | Floyd | The mother of the bride stands in a corner fretting away to herself as Floyd | only hysterical mothers can. Floyd | Floyd | > | theclam asks, "would the PC have anything in their car?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Drawing room Floyd | You are in a glorious oak-panelled room, with a large fireplace to one Floyd | side. This is where the family relaxes, assuming that such a monstrous Floyd | family relaxes at all. An antique-style telephone rests on the Floyd | mantelpiece, and a large hi-tech widescreen television sits on a video Floyd | recorder in the corner. From here, you observe exits to the east and Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp is up to mischief here. Floyd | Floyd | A young woman called Chloe sits nearby reading a book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about guard" | ||||
Floyd | Chloe grins, thinking of something funny, but she decides that you Floyd | don't need to know it. "Oh, he's an oaf, isn't he?" Floyd | Floyd | > | theclam says, "ah too late" | |||
| Touchy says, "The car was not described." | ||||
| olethros arrives, full of neither funk nor fun. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell chloe about note" | ||||
Floyd | You get no reply from the woman. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW asks, "what?" | |||
| DavidW asks, "what car?" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "show note to chloe" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "i" | DavidW says, "We don't have the note." | |||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a Battlebase episode guide Floyd | a plastic supermarket bag Floyd | a spade Floyd | a small brass key Floyd | a wedding programme Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "oh ok" | |||
| DavidW says, "Malcolm took it." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about library table" | ||||
Floyd | The woman doesn't respond. She seems to think it's trendy to be Floyd | ignorant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about library" | ||||
Floyd | The woman doesn't respond. She seems to think it's trendy to be Floyd | ignorant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about liz" | ||||
Floyd | The woman doesn't respond. She seems to think it's trendy to be Floyd | ignorant. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy asks, "Should we talk to some of the other NPCs?" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell chloe about guard" | ||||
Floyd | Chloe grins, thinking of something funny, but she decides that you Floyd | don't need to know it. "Oh, he's an oaf, isn't he?" Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Ask about the guard, maybe." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell chloe about malcolm" | ||||
Floyd | You get no reply from the woman. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp trots off to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about guard" | ||||
Floyd | Chloe grins, thinking of something funny, but she decides that you Floyd | don't need to know it. "Oh, he's an oaf, isn't he?" Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "say yes" | ||||
Floyd | (to Chloe) Floyd | You get no reply from the woman. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "ask chloe about table" | ||||
Floyd | The woman doesn't respond. She seems to think it's trendy to be Floyd | ignorant. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp trots along here from the northeast and nuzzles Chloe's dangling Floyd | hand with his nose. Chloe scratches behind his ear vacantly, still Floyd | engrossed in her book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "chloe, e" | ||||
Floyd | The woman doesn't take kindly to your gentle requests, and compares Floyd | you to a dictator before getting back to her book. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp trots off to the northeast. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask chloe for book" | ||||
Floyd | Which do you mean, the Horror novel or the Battlebase episode guide? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "horror" | ||||
Floyd | "I'm reading it," says Chloe irritably. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "I guess talking with other NPCs might be helpful." | |||
| djfletch says, "try getting albert to play golf" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Floyd | Here at the heart of the manor is an oak passageway with doorways Floyd | leading to most rooms on the ground floor. You can see the great Floyd | dining hall to the north, and a brass sign above the doorway to the Floyd | northeast states "Kitchen", but the east and southwest exits hold no Floyd | clues as to where they lead. The entrance hall is off to the south, Floyd | and a sturdy door stands in the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp is up to mischief here. Floyd | Floyd | A simple polished table lies in the southeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We tried. The back door needs to be unlocked." | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Grand Hall Floyd | This vast room is presumably where the D'Arcy clan eat their meals; it Floyd | reminds you too much of your old school dinner hall for you to feel Floyd | entirely comfortable here. A large sturdy table sits in the centre of Floyd | the room, surrounded by ten carefully-crafted chairs, and a set of Floyd | antique jugs rest on stools in a small alcove in the west wall. The Floyd | walls are covered in paintings which look impressive until you examine Floyd | them closely and see that they are certainly not in the league of the Floyd | great masters. The back garden is accessible via a door to the north, Floyd | a corridor leads south, and the kitchen is through the swing doors to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | Good old Uncle Albert stands nearby with a glass of brandy in one Floyd | hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "We should look under that table." | |||
| theclam says (to floyd), "ask albert about golf book" | ||||
Floyd | "I'd love to have a game, but these doors out to the gardens are Floyd | locked, I'm afraid." Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "I see" | |||
| theclam says (to floyd), "ask albert about doors" | ||||
Floyd | "Sorry old bean, don't know much about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "ask albert about guard" | ||||
Floyd | "The cad! The bounder! The blackguard! And, no doubt, a whole lot of Floyd | other old-fashioned cliched words as well." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "tell albert about note" | ||||
Floyd | Albert takes a tiny sip of his brandy but doesn't say anything. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask albert about brandy" | ||||
Floyd | "Sorry old bean, don't know much about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask albert about cellar" | ||||
Floyd | "Sorry old bean, don't know much about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up albert in programme" | ||||
Floyd | "ALBERT HARDCASTLE, uncle of the groom, is a famous sociologist and Floyd | keen golfer. He wishes his brother would join the twentieth century Floyd | and stop fussing so much over female vicars." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "ask albert about chloe" | ||||
Floyd | "Sorry old bean, don't know much about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask albert about brother" | ||||
Floyd | "Sorry old bean, don't know much about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "ask albert about vicars" | ||||
Floyd | "Sorry old bean, don't know much about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask albert about barbara" | ||||
Floyd | "Sorry old bean, don't know much about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask albert about sheryl" | ||||
Floyd | "I always thought it was a mistake on Godfrey's part to leave the Floyd | house to Sheryl. He was always a bit of a gambler, really." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask albert about godfrey" | ||||
Floyd | "One of my greatest friends - the most unpredictable and eccentric man Floyd | I've ever met." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "ask albert about cash box" | ||||
Floyd | "Sorry old bean, don't know much about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up godfrey in programme" | ||||
Floyd | Nothing in the programme about that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask albert about house" | ||||
Floyd | "Sorry old bean, don't know much about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask albert about jerry" | ||||
Floyd | "Sorry old bean, don't know much about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "ask albert about scamp" | ||||
Floyd | "Sorry old bean, don't know much about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "ask albert his name" | ||||
Floyd | I didn't understand that sentence. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "hm..." | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Grand Hall Floyd | This vast room is presumably where the D'Arcy clan eat their meals; it Floyd | reminds you too much of your old school dinner hall for you to feel Floyd | entirely comfortable here. A large sturdy table sits in the centre of Floyd | the room, surrounded by ten carefully-crafted chairs, and a set of Floyd | antique jugs rest on stools in a small alcove in the west wall. The Floyd | walls are covered in paintings which look impressive until you examine Floyd | them closely and see that they are certainly not in the league of the Floyd | great masters. The back garden is accessible via a door to the north, Floyd | a corridor leads south, and the kitchen is through the swing doors to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | Good old Uncle Albert stands nearby with a glass of brandy in one Floyd | hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm. Perhaps ask Sheryl about Godfrey." | |||
| olethros was too old and infirm for your purpose. | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen staff are hard at work on the meal for the reception, and Floyd | from their progress so far, you'd say that they are making enough food Floyd | to keep the Royal family well fed for a good few months. To the west, Floyd | a swing-door leads into the dining hall, and the main exit is to the Floyd | southwest. A pantry lies to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A pompous and temperamental chef stands around shouting at the staff Floyd | and chopping things up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Pantry Floyd | Should Luxembourg ever suffer a famine, they need only raid this Floyd | pantry to ensure that their citizens don't starve. The fruit, Floyd | vegetables, meat, ingredients and drinks are all stored using Floyd | technology that would put Nasa's space programme to shame. There is a Floyd | tradesman's entrance to the east, but the main exit is to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | The door won't open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You can only go north from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "x entrance" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen staff are hard at work on the meal for the reception, and Floyd | from their progress so far, you'd say that they are making enough food Floyd | to keep the Royal family well fed for a good few months. To the west, Floyd | a swing-door leads into the dining hall, and the main exit is to the Floyd | southwest. A pantry lies to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A pompous and temperamental chef stands around shouting at the staff Floyd | and chopping things up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Floyd | Here at the heart of the manor is an oak passageway with doorways Floyd | leading to most rooms on the ground floor. You can see the great Floyd | dining hall to the north, and a brass sign above the doorway to the Floyd | northeast states "Kitchen", but the east and southwest exits hold no Floyd | clues as to where they lead. The entrance hall is off to the south, Floyd | and a sturdy door stands in the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | A simple polished table lies in the southeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "look under table" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "take table" | ||||
Floyd | That's fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under sign" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "move table" | ||||
Floyd | It is fixed in place. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x lock" | ||||
Floyd | Four LEDS flicker excitedly on the lock, but it isn't immediately Floyd | apparent how to activate it. A sticker on one side states that it is Floyd | tamper-proof. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x leds" | ||||
Floyd | Four LEDS flicker excitedly on the lock, but it isn't immediately Floyd | apparent how to activate it. A sticker on one side states that it is Floyd | tamper-proof. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "get sticker" | ||||
Floyd | That's hardly portable. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The grand entrance hall of D'Arcy manor evokes a twinge of jealousy Floyd | within you - the grand wooden polished floors and staircase, the Floyd | expensive chandelier hanging from the high ceiling, the priceless Floyd | Compton painting hanging on a wall. Why can't you inherit something Floyd | like this? Leaving aside feelings of bitterness, you observe a Floyd | cupboard under the stairs and a bell on a table near the door to the Floyd | south. Doorways (which are probably more expensive than your entire Floyd | house) lead off to the east and west, and a passageway lies north. Floyd | Floyd | The mother of the bride stands in a corner fretting away to herself as Floyd | only hysterical mothers can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x sheryl" | ||||
Floyd | Her clothes look like they have been chosen in order to make sure that Floyd | she isn't lost in the crowd during the wedding: a shocking pink suit Floyd | is topped by a large (some would say overgrown) matching hat. She is Floyd | wringing her hands and seems to be murmuring "oh my oh my". Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask sheryl about jerry" | ||||
Floyd | She is too busy fretting to answer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask sheryl about guard" | ||||
Floyd | "He's here to make sure that no undesirables get in the house," she Floyd | says, looking at you in a way that suggests that she's wondering how Floyd | you managed to get in. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask sheryl about chloe" | ||||
Floyd | She is too busy fretting to answer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "tell sheryl about note" | ||||
Floyd | She appears not to have heard you, though you can't shake the feeling Floyd | that she considers you too lowly a person to grace with an answer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask sheryl about godfrey" | ||||
Floyd | She is too busy fretting to answer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask sheryl about bathroom" | ||||
Floyd | "My brother William's locked himself in the bathroom, I'm afraid." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look up william in programme" | ||||
Floyd | "WILLIAM D'ARCY, uncle of the bride, is the unsociable one of the Floyd | family, with a tendency to lock himself in a toilet and sulk. One such Floyd | episode lasted two days; his wife Hope was forced to climb a ladder Floyd | and pass his pizzas in through the window, though she says that if he Floyd | tries it again, he can just starve." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The grand entrance hall of D'Arcy manor evokes a twinge of jealousy Floyd | within you - the grand wooden polished floors and staircase, the Floyd | expensive chandelier hanging from the high ceiling, the priceless Floyd | Compton painting hanging on a wall. Why can't you inherit something Floyd | like this? Leaving aside feelings of bitterness, you observe a Floyd | cupboard under the stairs and a bell on a table near the door to the Floyd | south. Doorways (which are probably more expensive than your entire Floyd | house) lead off to the east and west, and a passageway lies north. Floyd | Floyd | The mother of the bride stands in a corner fretting away to herself as Floyd | only hysterical mothers can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "look up hope in programme" | ||||
Floyd | "HOPE D'ARCY, long suffering wife to William. Hope seems to possess Floyd | infinite patience, which helps when dealing with her husband. She is Floyd | also a part time rock climber." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | This room has the air of a gentleman's private study area, though Floyd | recently it appears to have been taken over by the lady of the house | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "ask sheryl about keys" | ||||
Floyd | (that is, Sheryl D'Arcy). A hardboard set of shelves against one wall Floyd | looks completely out of place amid the antique furniture and the Floyd | gorgeous circular shaped painting on the ceiling. Embroidery rests on Floyd | a pouffe to one side, and several packs of wool tower alongside the Floyd | shelves. The front entrance is out to the west, and there is another Floyd | room to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Barbara, an aunt of the bride, sits on an armchair with her legs Floyd | crossed and her hands interlocked. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "oops go back if you want" | |||
| DavidW says, "hm. Perhaps sociology buff Albert might know what to do with William." | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The grand entrance hall of D'Arcy manor evokes a twinge of jealousy Floyd | within you - the grand wooden polished floors and staircase, the Floyd | expensive chandelier hanging from the high ceiling, the priceless Floyd | Compton painting hanging on a wall. Why can't you inherit something Floyd | like this? Leaving aside feelings of bitterness, you observe a Floyd | cupboard under the stairs and a bell on a table near the door to the Floyd | south. Doorways (which are probably more expensive than your entire Floyd | house) lead off to the east and west, and a passageway lies north. Floyd | Floyd | The mother of the bride stands in a corner fretting away to herself as Floyd | only hysterical mothers can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "ask sheryl about keys" | ||||
Floyd | She is too busy fretting to answer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask sheryl about key" | theclam says, "nope" | |||
Floyd | She is too busy fretting to answer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask sheryl about cellar" | ||||
Floyd | She is too busy fretting to answer. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Drawing room Floyd | You are in a glorious oak-panelled room, with a large fireplace to one Floyd | side. This is where the family relaxes, assuming that such a monstrous Floyd | family relaxes at all. An antique-style telephone rests on the Floyd | mantelpiece, and a large hi-tech widescreen television sits on a video Floyd | recorder in the corner. From here, you observe exits to the east and Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A young woman called Chloe sits nearby reading a book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Kye says (to Floyd), "sheryl, calm down" | Touchy asks, "Is the door to the cellar even implemented?" | |||
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "I don't know where it is..." | |||
| djfletch says, "yes the lock with the leds" | ||||
| DavidW says, "Cellar is west of Passage." | ||||
| djfletch says, "I don't know if William is a puzzle or just a silly reason for not implementing the bathroom" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I assume that the eccentric Godfrey left something fancy down there." | ||||
| DavidW says (to djf), "yeah, hard to tell." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x tv" | ||||
Floyd | The television is large, with a wide screen and large speakers at Floyd | either side. You can see a power switch but not the means to change Floyd | channels - maybe that is done with a remote control. Floyd | Floyd | The television is currently switched off. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "find the remote control you oaf" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy slaps Floyd around a bit with a large trout. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about remote control" | ||||
Floyd | The woman doesn't respond. She seems to think it's trendy to be Floyd | ignorant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "search couch" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "search chairs" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Drawing room Floyd | You are in a glorious oak-panelled room, with a large fireplace to one Floyd | side. This is where the family relaxes, assuming that such a monstrous Floyd | family relaxes at all. An antique-style telephone rests on the Floyd | mantelpiece, and a large hi-tech widescreen television sits on a video Floyd | recorder in the corner. From here, you observe exits to the east and Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A young woman called Chloe sits nearby reading a book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x fireplace" | ||||
Floyd | Possibly redundant, what with the invention of central heating, but it Floyd | must be nice to have a large roaring fire going on cold winter nights. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "enter fireplace" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can enter. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "use telephone" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "call mom" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to call that on? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "the phone" | ||||
Floyd | You let the phone ring for a while, then put the receiver back down. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "haha" | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "look behind tv" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "call ghostbusters" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to call that on? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "the phone" | ||||
Floyd | You let the phone ring for a while, then put the receiver back down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x chloe" | ||||
Floyd | Chloe has her chair back on two legs, feet on the table, reading a Floyd | horror story. She is clad entirely in black, from her Doc Martens to Floyd | her T-shirt. Maybe she got the events mixed up and thought she was Floyd | going to a funeral. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "call pizza on phone" | ||||
Floyd | You let the phone ring for a while, then put the receiver back down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "search chloe" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "x chair" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | theclam says, "argh" | |||
| Touchy asks, "Pfff. Search a goth chyk and find nothing interesting. How likely is that?" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Drawing room Floyd | You are in a glorious oak-panelled room, with a large fireplace to one Floyd | side. This is where the family relaxes, assuming that such a monstrous Floyd | family relaxes at all. An antique-style telephone rests on the Floyd | mantelpiece, and a large hi-tech widescreen television sits on a video Floyd | recorder in the corner. From here, you observe exits to the east and Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A young woman called Chloe sits nearby reading a book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about godfrey" | ||||
Floyd | The woman doesn't respond. She seems to think it's trendy to be Floyd | ignorant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about remote" | ||||
Floyd | The woman doesn't respond. She seems to think it's trendy to be Floyd | ignorant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about vampires" | ||||
Floyd | The woman doesn't respond. She seems to think it's trendy to be Floyd | ignorant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about alarm" | ||||
Floyd | The woman doesn't respond. She seems to think it's trendy to be Floyd | ignorant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about rc" | ||||
Floyd | The woman doesn't respond. She seems to think it's trendy to be Floyd | ignorant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask chloe about rv" | ||||
Floyd | The woman doesn't respond. She seems to think it's trendy to be Floyd | ignorant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The grand entrance hall of D'Arcy manor evokes a twinge of jealousy Floyd | within you - the grand wooden polished floors and staircase, the Floyd | expensive chandelier hanging from the high ceiling, the priceless Floyd | Compton painting hanging on a wall. Why can't you inherit something Floyd | like this? Leaving aside feelings of bitterness, you observe a Floyd | cupboard under the stairs and a bell on a table near the door to the Floyd | south. Doorways (which are probably more expensive than your entire Floyd | house) lead off to the east and west, and a passageway lies north. Floyd | Floyd | The mother of the bride stands in a corner fretting away to herself as Floyd | only hysterical mothers can. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp trots along here from upstairs, careful to avoid the Mother of Floyd | the Bride who glares at him and mutters something dark under her Floyd | breath. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask mother about remote" | ||||
Floyd | She is too busy fretting to answer. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp sniffs at your hands for food. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask scamp about remote" | ||||
Floyd | "Woof." Floyd | Floyd | Scamp scratches his ear furiously with his hind leg. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x compton" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x painting" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | This room has the air of a gentleman's private study area, though Floyd | recently it appears to have been taken over by the lady of the house Floyd | (that is, Sheryl D'Arcy). A hardboard set of shelves against one wall Floyd | looks completely out of place amid the antique furniture and the Floyd | gorgeous circular shaped painting on the ceiling. Embroidery rests on Floyd | a pouffe to one side, and several packs of wool tower alongside the Floyd | shelves. The front entrance is out to the west, and there is another Floyd | room to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Barbara, an aunt of the bride, sits on an armchair with her legs Floyd | crossed and her hands interlocked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "tell barbara about guard" | ||||
Floyd | Barbara smiles enigmatically. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "We never did manage to eject the tape and read it." | |||
| DavidW says, "At the time I phrased the command wrong, I guess." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x wool" | ||||
Floyd | The packs, each containing six balls of wool, are waiting to be used Floyd | for one very large jumper, or alternatively several hundred jumpers Floyd | for unlucky relatives. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "x n" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "search wool" | ||||
Floyd | The colour you like isn't here. Anyway, you don't have time to knit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take wool" | ||||
Floyd | The colour you like isn't here. Anyway, you don't have time to knit. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Library Floyd | Everything in this room looks as if it has taken many weeks to carve, Floyd | with the exception of dodgy book covers protecting some of the awful Floyd | literature stored here. A vast array of books lie on the two huge Floyd | shelves, ranging from the ancient to the modern. The curtains are Floyd | closed, so for light you are reliant on the lamps which are quite Floyd | attractive mock-ups of candles in candlesticks. An oak table sits in Floyd | the centre of the room, a grand throne-like chair beside it, for Floyd | anyone feeling particularly studious. A room lies to the south, and a Floyd | corridor is out to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | theclam says, "oh, that's where the library is" | |||
| theclam says (to floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | This room has the air of a gentleman's private study area, though Floyd | recently it appears to have been taken over by the lady of the house Floyd | (that is, Sheryl D'Arcy). A hardboard set of shelves against one wall Floyd | looks completely out of place amid the antique furniture and the Floyd | gorgeous circular shaped painting on the ceiling. Embroidery rests on Floyd | a pouffe to one side, and several packs of wool tower alongside the Floyd | shelves. The front entrance is out to the west, and there is another Floyd | room to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Barbara, an aunt of the bride, sits on an armchair with her legs Floyd | crossed and her hands interlocked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "ask barbara about guard" | ||||
Floyd | "I wouldn't trust that guard an inch." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask barbara about remote" | ||||
Floyd | "I'm sorry," she says. "I'm afraid I know little about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask barbara about call" | ||||
Floyd | "I'm sorry," she says. "I'm afraid I know little about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to tell), "barbara about note" | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "tell barbara about note" | ||||
Floyd | Barbara smiles enigmatically. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The grand entrance hall of D'Arcy manor evokes a twinge of jealousy Floyd | within you - the grand wooden polished floors and staircase, the Floyd | expensive chandelier hanging from the high ceiling, the priceless Floyd | Compton painting hanging on a wall. Why can't you inherit something Floyd | like this? Leaving aside feelings of bitterness, you observe a Floyd | cupboard under the stairs and a bell on a table near the door to the Floyd | south. Doorways (which are probably more expensive than your entire Floyd | house) lead off to the east and west, and a passageway lies north. Floyd | Floyd | The mother of the bride stands in a corner fretting away to herself as Floyd | only hysterical mothers can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask barbara about william" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | Floyd | Drawing room Floyd | You are in a glorious oak-panelled room, with a large fireplace to one Floyd | side. This is where the family relaxes, assuming that such a monstrous Floyd | family relaxes at all. An antique-style telephone rests on the Floyd | mantelpiece, and a large hi-tech widescreen television sits on a video Floyd | recorder in the corner. From here, you observe exits to the east and Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A young woman called Chloe sits nearby reading a book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "press eject" | ||||
Floyd | [ Try PRESS <button> ON VIDEO RECORDER. ] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "press eject on video recorder" | ||||
Floyd | The video recorder spits out a cassette, which lands neatly on the Floyd | floor. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "take cassette" | ||||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x cassette" | ||||
Floyd | A three-hour video cassette, rewound to the beginning. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | A three-hour video cassette, rewound to the beginning. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Hm...too bad" | |||
| DavidW says, "hmph. No writing." | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "show it to chloe" | ||||
Floyd | Chloe is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Good idea though." | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Floyd | Here at the heart of the manor is an oak passageway with doorways Floyd | leading to most rooms on the ground floor. You can see the great Floyd | dining hall to the north, and a brass sign above the doorway to the Floyd | northeast states "Kitchen", but the east and southwest exits hold no Floyd | clues as to where they lead. The entrance hall is off to the south, | djfletch asks, "how can we get chloe to go away and let us watch tv?" | |||
Floyd | and a sturdy door stands in the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | A simple polished table lies in the southeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x leds" | ||||
Floyd | Four LEDS flicker excitedly on the lock, but it isn't immediately Floyd | apparent how to activate it. A sticker on one side states that it is Floyd | tamper-proof. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "press left led" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "push led" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "push leds" | ||||
Floyd | You try knocking and thumping the lock, and suddenly jump back when an Floyd | American-accented electronic voice bursts into action. "Warning," it Floyd | drones, "cellar lock under attack!" Floyd | Floyd | You can hear heavy footsteps nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "hehe" | |||
| DavidW says, "oopsie" | ||||
| Touchy says, "whoops" | ||||
| DavidW says, "but, hmm." | ||||
| DavidW says, "The guard did mention doors as well as windows, way back when." | ||||
| Touchy asks, "Should we run?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "yes, run" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Drawing room Floyd | You are in a glorious oak-panelled room, with a large fireplace to one Floyd | side. This is where the family relaxes, assuming that such a monstrous Floyd | family relaxes at all. An antique-style telephone rests on the Floyd | mantelpiece, and a large hi-tech widescreen television sits on a video Floyd | recorder in the corner. From here, you observe exits to the east and Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A young woman called Chloe sits nearby reading a book. Floyd | Floyd | You can hear heavy footsteps nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | You wait for a moment. Floyd | Floyd | You can hear heavy footsteps nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The grand entrance hall of D'Arcy manor evokes a twinge of jealousy Floyd | within you - the grand wooden polished floors and staircase, the Floyd | expensive chandelier hanging from the high ceiling, the priceless Floyd | Compton painting hanging on a wall. Why can't you inherit something Floyd | like this? Leaving aside feelings of bitterness, you observe a Floyd | cupboard under the stairs and a bell on a table near the door to the Floyd | south. Doorways (which are probably more expensive than your entire Floyd | house) lead off to the east and west, and a passageway lies north. Floyd | Floyd | The mother of the bride stands in a corner fretting away to herself as Floyd | only hysterical mothers can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | You wait for a moment. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Floyd | Here at the heart of the manor is an oak passageway with doorways Floyd | leading to most rooms on the ground floor. You can see the great Floyd | dining hall to the north, and a brass sign above the doorway to the Floyd | northeast states "Kitchen", but the east and southwest exits hold no Floyd | clues as to where they lead. The entrance hall is off to the south, Floyd | and a sturdy door stands in the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | A simple polished table lies in the southeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | The cellar door hangs open invitingly to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can hear heavy footsteps nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "mymy" | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Cellar Floyd | Considering the high technology that has gone into guarding this area, Floyd | the cellar is surprisingly lo-tech. One very dull fluorescent tube Floyd | casts gloomy light over the brick walls. The air is damp; cobwebs line Floyd | the ceiling. A tunnel disappears off into the darkness to the Floyd | northeast, and a set of stone steps lead east up to the passageway. Floyd | Floyd | Discarded carelessly on a crate is something which declares itself to Floyd | be a water detector. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a security guard here. Floyd | Floyd | To your horror, and to his glee, you walk straight into the security Floyd | guard. He takes great delight in lifting you up and ejecting you out Floyd | of the house. "Your name's not down, you're NOT - COMING - IN!" he Floyd | bellows. Floyd | Floyd | Outside the front entrance Floyd | You stand to the south of D'Arcy manor, a building which looks like Floyd | it's straight out of a low budget Bronte TV adaptation. A few modern Floyd | touches help tie it to the late twentieth century, such as the burglar Floyd | alarm next to the elegant stone carving of a Shakespearian-looking man Floyd | above the main entrance. Immediately in front of the house is a gravel Floyd | drive which acts as a car park, and a small road leads off to the Floyd | south towards the main road. A slabbed path runs around both sides Floyd | (east and west) of the house. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a security guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Passage Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "hide under table" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Floyd | Here at the heart of the manor is an oak passageway with doorways Floyd | leading to most rooms on the ground floor. You can see the great Floyd | dining hall to the north, and a brass sign above the doorway to the Floyd | northeast states "Kitchen", but the east and southwest exits hold no Floyd | clues as to where they lead. The entrance hall is off to the south, Floyd | and a sturdy door stands in the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | A simple polished table lies in the southeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | The cellar door hangs open invitingly to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can hear heavy footsteps nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "throw table down stairs" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a video cassette Floyd | a Battlebase episode guide Floyd | a plastic supermarket bag Floyd | a spade Floyd | a small brass key Floyd | a wedding programme Floyd | Floyd | You don't notice the security guard bearing down on you until it is Floyd | too late. "Gotcha!" he snarls, and drags you kicking and screaming out Floyd | of the house. "Behave, you!" he bellows like an impatient father, and Floyd | as you pick yourself up, you think spiteful thoughts involving the Floyd | security guard and several tonnes of space debris falling to earth. Floyd | Floyd | Outside the front entrance Floyd | You stand to the south of D'Arcy manor, a building which looks like Floyd | it's straight out of a low budget Bronte TV adaptation. A few modern Floyd | touches help tie it to the late twentieth century, such as the burglar Floyd | alarm next to the elegant stone carving of a Shakespearian-looking man Floyd | above the main entrance. Immediately in front of the house is a gravel Floyd | drive which acts as a car park, and a small road leads off to the Floyd | south towards the main road. A slabbed path runs around both sides Floyd | (east and west) of the house. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a security guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Passage Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Grand Hall Floyd | This vast room is presumably where the D'Arcy clan eat their meals; it Floyd | reminds you too much of your old school dinner hall for you to feel Floyd | entirely comfortable here. A large sturdy table sits in the centre of Floyd | the room, surrounded by ten carefully-crafted chairs, and a set of Floyd | antique jugs rest on stools in a small alcove in the west wall. The Floyd | walls are covered in paintings which look impressive until you examine Floyd | them closely and see that they are certainly not in the league of the Floyd | great masters. The back garden is accessible via a door to the north, Floyd | a corridor leads south, and the kitchen is through the swing doors to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | Good old Uncle Albert stands nearby with a glass of brandy in one Floyd | hand. Floyd | Floyd | You can hear heavy footsteps nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Floyd | Here at the heart of the manor is an oak passageway with doorways Floyd | leading to most rooms on the ground floor. You can see the great Floyd | dining hall to the north, and a brass sign above the doorway to the Floyd | northeast states "Kitchen", but the east and southwest exits hold no Floyd | clues as to where they lead. The entrance hall is off to the south, Floyd | and a sturdy door stands in the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | A simple polished table lies in the southeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | The cellar door hangs open invitingly to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a security guard here. Floyd | Floyd | To your horror, and to his glee, you walk straight into the security Floyd | guard. He takes great delight in lifting you up and ejecting you out Floyd | of the house. "Your name's not down, you're NOT - COMING - IN!" he Floyd | bellows. Floyd | Floyd | Outside the front entrance Floyd | You stand to the south of D'Arcy manor, a building which looks like Floyd | it's straight out of a low budget Bronte TV adaptation. A few modern Floyd | touches help tie it to the late twentieth century, such as the burglar Floyd | alarm next to the elegant stone carving of a Shakespearian-looking man Floyd | above the main entrance. Immediately in front of the house is a gravel Floyd | drive which acts as a car park, and a small road leads off to the Floyd | south towards the main road. A slabbed path runs around both sides Floyd | (east and west) of the house. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a security guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Grand Hall Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Jeez." | |||
| djfletch says, "we hid in the pantry last time" | ||||
| Touchy says, "I'm a professional guardfinder." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | You wait for a moment. Floyd | Floyd | You can hear heavy footsteps nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Kitchen Floyd | The kitchen staff are hard at work on the meal for the reception, and Floyd | from their progress so far, you'd say that they are making enough food Floyd | to keep the Royal family well fed for a good few months. To the west, Floyd | a swing-door leads into the dining hall, and the main exit is to the Floyd | southwest. A pantry lies to the south. Floyd | Floyd | A pompous and temperamental chef stands around shouting at the staff Floyd | and chopping things up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Floyd | Here at the heart of the manor is an oak passageway with doorways Floyd | leading to most rooms on the ground floor. You can see the great Floyd | dining hall to the north, and a brass sign above the doorway to the Floyd | northeast states "Kitchen", but the east and southwest exits hold no Floyd | clues as to where they lead. The entrance hall is off to the south, Floyd | and a sturdy door stands in the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | A simple polished table lies in the southeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "You might go to Chloe. She might speak up for you." | |||
| Touchy says, "He closed the door again..." | ||||
| Touchy says, "Maybe we can lock him in the cellar..." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "push leds" | ||||
Floyd | You try knocking and thumping the lock, and suddenly jump back when an Floyd | American-accented electronic voice bursts into action. "Warning," it Floyd | drones, "cellar lock under attack!" Floyd | Floyd | You can hear heavy footsteps nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The grand entrance hall of D'Arcy manor evokes a twinge of jealousy Floyd | within you - the grand wooden polished floors and staircase, the Floyd | expensive chandelier hanging from the high ceiling, the priceless Floyd | Compton painting hanging on a wall. Why can't you inherit something Floyd | like this? Leaving aside feelings of bitterness, you observe a Floyd | cupboard under the stairs and a bell on a table near the door to the Floyd | south. Doorways (which are probably more expensive than your entire Floyd | house) lead off to the east and west, and a passageway lies north. Floyd | Floyd | The mother of the bride stands in a corner fretting away to herself as Floyd | only hysterical mothers can. Floyd | Floyd | You can also see a security guard here. Floyd | Floyd | To your horror, and to his glee, you walk straight into the security Floyd | guard. He takes great delight in lifting you up and ejecting you out Floyd | of the house. "Your name's not down, you're NOT - COMING - IN!" he Floyd | bellows. Floyd | Floyd | Outside the front entrance Floyd | You stand to the south of D'Arcy manor, a building which looks like Floyd | it's straight out of a low budget Bronte TV adaptation. A few modern Floyd | touches help tie it to the late twentieth century, such as the burglar Floyd | alarm next to the elegant stone carving of a Shakespearian-looking man Floyd | above the main entrance. Immediately in front of the house is a gravel Floyd | drive which acts as a car park, and a small road leads off to the Floyd | south towards the main road. A slabbed path runs around both sides Floyd | (east and west) of the house. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a security guard here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "undo" | ||||
Floyd | Passage Floyd | [Previous turn undone.] Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Drawing room Floyd | You are in a glorious oak-panelled room, with a large fireplace to one Floyd | side. This is where the family relaxes, assuming that such a monstrous Floyd | family relaxes at all. An antique-style telephone rests on the Floyd | mantelpiece, and a large hi-tech widescreen television sits on a video Floyd | recorder in the corner. From here, you observe exits to the east and Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A young woman called Chloe sits nearby reading a book. Floyd | Floyd | You can hear heavy footsteps nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | You wait for a moment. Floyd | Floyd | You can hear heavy footsteps nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The grand entrance hall of D'Arcy manor evokes a twinge of jealousy Floyd | within you - the grand wooden polished floors and staircase, the Floyd | expensive chandelier hanging from the high ceiling, the priceless Floyd | Compton painting hanging on a wall. Why can't you inherit something Floyd | like this? Leaving aside feelings of bitterness, you observe a Floyd | cupboard under the stairs and a bell on a table near the door to the Floyd | south. Doorways (which are probably more expensive than your entire Floyd | house) lead off to the east and west, and a passageway lies north. Floyd | Floyd | The mother of the bride stands in a corner fretting away to herself as Floyd | only hysterical mothers can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Floyd | Here at the heart of the manor is an oak passageway with doorways Floyd | leading to most rooms on the ground floor. You can see the great Floyd | dining hall to the north, and a brass sign above the doorway to the Floyd | northeast states "Kitchen", but the east and southwest exits hold no Floyd | clues as to where they lead. The entrance hall is off to the south, Floyd | and a sturdy door stands in the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | A simple polished table lies in the southeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | The cellar door hangs open invitingly to the west. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "close cellar door" | ||||
Floyd | You close the cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | You can hear heavy footsteps nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | You wait for a moment. Floyd | Floyd | You can hear heavy footsteps nearby. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "z" | ||||
Floyd | You wait for a moment. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "heehee" | |||
| theclam says, "haha" | ||||
| theclam asks, "did that incapacitate the guard?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "well, that's interesting." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "open cellar door" | ||||
Floyd | You will have to enter the pass number into the lock to open the door. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask guard about note" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "bang on door" | ||||
Floyd | The hard metal hurts your knuckles as you rap on the door. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "yell "Take that sucker!"" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ask cellar door about note" | ||||
Floyd | "Oi, you!" calls the voice behind the door. "Get me out of here! Floyd | Unlock the door!" Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask door about combination" | ||||
Floyd | "Oi, you!" calls the voice behind the door. "Get me out of here! Floyd | Unlock the door!" Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "ask door about key" | ||||
Floyd | "Oi, you!" calls the voice behind the door. "Get me out of here! Floyd | Unlock the door!" Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lock" | ||||
Floyd | Four LEDS flicker excitedly on the lock, but it isn't immediately Floyd | apparent how to activate it. A sticker on one side states that it is Floyd | tamper-proof. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "ask door about lock" | ||||
Floyd | "The number?" bellows the voice behind the door. "The number is 9136. Floyd | Hurry!" Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy asks, "Is there somewhere we could hide and watch him open the door?" | |||
| Touchy exclaims, "YAY!" | ||||
| Touchy applaudes theclam. | ||||
| theclam says, "interesting" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | You will have to enter the pass number into the lock to open the door. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "save" | ||||
| Touchy Where were we? | Touchy asks, "4?" | |||
| DavidW says, "You push save outside of Floyd." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "SAVE" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "cf6" | ||||
Floyd | Enter saved game to store: Ok. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "cellardoor" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Argh." | |||
| DavidW says, "damnit" | ||||
| Touchy says, "Sorry." | ||||
| DavidW says, "continue" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "enter 9136" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "unlock cellar door" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to unlock the cellar door with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "enter 9136" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "enter combination" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x leds" | ||||
Floyd | Four LEDS flicker excitedly on the lock, but it isn't immediately Floyd | apparent how to activate it. A sticker on one side states that it is Floyd | tamper-proof. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "enter 9136 on lock" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask door about lock" | ||||
Floyd | "The number?" bellows the voice behind the door. "The number is 9136. Floyd | Hurry!" Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Try type" | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "type 9136" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to type that on? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "the lock" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see a telephone here. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "hahahaha" | |||
| theclam says, "..." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "enter 9136 on lock" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lock" | ||||
Floyd | Four LEDS flicker excitedly on the lock, but it isn't immediately Floyd | apparent how to activate it. A sticker on one side states that it is Floyd | tamper-proof. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "enter 9136 on leds" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | theclam says, "enter 9136 on door" | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "enter 9136 with leds" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 9136 on door" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see a telephone here. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x keypad" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "push leds" | ||||
Floyd | The security guard's already on the case - you don't want to push your Floyd | luck. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "enter 9136 into lock" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "enter 9136 on leds" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "type 9136 with leds" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to type that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 9136 on cellar door" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see a telephone here. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy asks, "Was there any other keypad? Could we maybe have gotten the combination for something else?" | |||
| DavidW says, "hm. Go to the phone." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The grand entrance hall of D'Arcy manor evokes a twinge of jealousy Floyd | within you - the grand wooden polished floors and staircase, the Floyd | expensive chandelier hanging from the high ceiling, the priceless Floyd | Compton painting hanging on a wall. Why can't you inherit something Floyd | like this? Leaving aside feelings of bitterness, you observe a Floyd | cupboard under the stairs and a bell on a table near the door to the Floyd | south. Doorways (which are probably more expensive than your entire Floyd | house) lead off to the east and west, and a passageway lies north. Floyd | Floyd | The mother of the bride stands in a corner fretting away to herself as Floyd | only hysterical mothers can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "enter 9136 on phone" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Drawing room Floyd | You are in a glorious oak-panelled room, with a large fireplace to one Floyd | side. This is where the family relaxes, assuming that such a monstrous Floyd | family relaxes at all. An antique-style telephone rests on the Floyd | mantelpiece, and a large hi-tech widescreen television sits on a video Floyd | recorder in the corner. From here, you observe exits to the east and Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A young woman called Chloe sits nearby reading a book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "enter 9136 on phone" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x phone" | ||||
Floyd | The telephone is gold plated, and shaped like a cumbersome Floyd | old-fashioned model, except for a keypad where the dial should go. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "dial phone" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to dial that on? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 9136" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to type that on? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "phone" | ||||
Floyd | You let the phone ring for a while, then put the receiver back down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Floyd | Here at the heart of the manor is an oak passageway with doorways Floyd | leading to most rooms on the ground floor. You can see the great Floyd | dining hall to the north, and a brass sign above the doorway to the Floyd | northeast states "Kitchen", but the east and southwest exits hold no Floyd | clues as to where they lead. The entrance hall is off to the south, Floyd | and a sturdy door stands in the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | A simple polished table lies in the southeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "Man, we seem to be into the Not Two Hours games these days." | |||
| theclam says (to floyd), "unlock door with 9136" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "enter the pass number into the lock" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "unlock cellar door" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to unlock the cellar door with? Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "the combination" | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "the combination" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "enter 9136 in lock" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock cellar door with 9136" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "push led" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "push 9" | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "type 9136 on leds" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to push that on? Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You can't see a telephone here. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "use 9136" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy growls. | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "type "9136"" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to type that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "enter 9136" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "push 9136" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to push that on? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "push 9136 on lds" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "push 9136 on leds" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't appear to have anything you can press. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "x leds" | ||||
Floyd | Four LEDS flicker excitedly on the lock, but it isn't immediately Floyd | apparent how to activate it. A sticker on one side states that it is Floyd | tamper-proof. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "push 9136 on lsd" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | A solid metal door with the word CELLAR etched into the surface. It Floyd | has an electronic lock. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x door" | ||||
Floyd | A solid metal door with the word CELLAR etched into the surface. It Floyd | has an electronic lock. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "activate leds with 9136" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask door about keypad" | ||||
Floyd | "Oi, you!" calls the voice behind the door. "Get me out of here! Floyd | Unlock the door!" Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "activate leds" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "push 9136 on door" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't appear to have anything you can press. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask door about keypad" | ||||
Floyd | "Oi, you!" calls the voice behind the door. "Get me out of here! Floyd | Unlock the door!" Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "touch 9136 on door" | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "say 9136 to lock" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open door" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You can only do that to something animate. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | You will have to enter the pass number into the lock to open the door. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "enter 9136 into the lock" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "enter 9136 into the lock" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "enter pass number" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "say 9136" | ||||
Floyd | (to the cellar door) Floyd | "Oi, you!" calls the voice behind the door. "Get me out of here! Floyd | Unlock the door!" Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask door about lock" | ||||
Floyd | "The number?" bellows the voice behind the door. "The number is 9136. Floyd | Hurry!" Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "enter #9136 into lock" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "enter 9136 into lock" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock the door" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to unlock the cellar door with? Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "OK this is a waste of time." | |||
| djfletch says, "we probably have to find a controller for it first" | ||||
| DavidW says, "This is guess-the-verb." | ||||
| theclam says, "holy balls" | ||||
| Touchy says, "I hate guess-the-verb." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I don't think 'enter' is right. And 'type' seems to be for the phone only." | ||||
| Touchy says, "push leds" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "push leds" | ||||
Floyd | The security guard's already on the case - you don't want to push your Floyd | luck. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "push 9 led" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "push 9136" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to push that on? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "press 9146 on lock" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't appear to have anything you can press. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "leds" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "press 9136 on lock" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "push 9135 on leds" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't appear to have anything you can press. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | That doesn't appear to have anything you can press. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "we could bring the cashbox indoors now and show it to people" | |||
| Touchy says, "Yeah, we can just go on and see if we need to do this later." | ||||
| Touchy says, "I sure would like to explore the cellar." | ||||
| Touchy says, "Maybe it has a secret tunnel..." | ||||
| Touchy says, "Probably all that Enid Blyton as a child but secret tunnels make me happy." | ||||
| DavidW says, "I need another bathroom break." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I have to step away for a bit, but am leaving my scripting on... would take the laptop with me, but it's probably safer to leave it here in place. Will check in now and then." | ||||
| Touchy says, "Then I'm making some tea." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I probably won't be around tomorrow, so it'd be better (but not impossible) if we finished up today instead of tomorrow." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Although, if you two are stepping away, I'll move the laptop." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It'll give me the ability to test the connection there while you all aren't playing." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Okay, we seem to still be good." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "So I guess I won't be away after all. Huzzah.." | ||||
| DavidW says, "back" | ||||
| DavidW says, "s" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The grand entrance hall of D'Arcy manor evokes a twinge of jealousy Floyd | within you - the grand wooden polished floors and staircase, the Floyd | expensive chandelier hanging from the high ceiling, the priceless Floyd | Compton painting hanging on a wall. Why can't you inherit something Floyd | like this? Leaving aside feelings of bitterness, you observe a Floyd | cupboard under the stairs and a bell on a table near the door to the Floyd | south. Doorways (which are probably more expensive than your entire Floyd | house) lead off to the east and west, and a passageway lies north. Floyd | Floyd | The mother of the bride stands in a corner fretting away to herself as Floyd | only hysterical mothers can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 9136 on phone" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x phone" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "telephone" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x telephone" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "it's west" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Drawing room Floyd | You are in a glorious oak-panelled room, with a large fireplace to one Floyd | side. This is where the family relaxes, assuming that such a monstrous Floyd | family relaxes at all. An antique-style telephone rests on the Floyd | mantelpiece, and a large hi-tech widescreen television sits on a video Floyd | recorder in the corner. From here, you observe exits to the east and Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A young woman called Chloe sits nearby reading a book. Floyd | Floyd | > | Jacqueline says, "I think Touchy was getting tea.." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "type 9136 on phone" | ||||
Floyd | You let the phone ring for a while, then put the receiver back down. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW has had his fill of playing for now, and goes back to the Lounge. | ||||
| DavidW arrives, full of fun and funk. | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Floyd | Here at the heart of the manor is an oak passageway with doorways Floyd | leading to most rooms on the ground floor. You can see the great Floyd | dining hall to the north, and a brass sign above the doorway to the Floyd | northeast states "Kitchen", but the east and southwest exits hold no Floyd | clues as to where they lead. The entrance hall is off to the south, Floyd | and a sturdy door stands in the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | A simple polished table lies in the southeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "say 9136 to door" | ||||
Floyd | "Oi, you!" calls the voice behind the door. "Get me out of here! Floyd | Unlock the door!" Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "unlock door" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to unlock the cellar door with? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "pass number" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "set lock to 9136" | ||||
Floyd | No, you can't set that to anything. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "turn lock to 9136" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to turn the lock. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dial lock to 9136" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to dial that. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "set 9136" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push 9" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to push that on? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "lock" | ||||
Floyd | What do you want to lock? Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "push 9 on lock" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't appear to have anything you can press. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "ask door about leds" | ||||
Floyd | "Oi, you!" calls the voice behind the door. "Get me out of here! Floyd | Unlock the door!" Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "ask door about lock" | ||||
Floyd | "The number?" bellows the voice behind the door. "The number is 9136. Floyd | Hurry!" Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "ask door about number" | ||||
Floyd | "The number?" bellows the voice behind the door. "The number is 9136. Floyd | Hurry!" Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy asks, "There is a walkthrough, do you want me to check if this is a guess the word?" | |||
| theclam says (to floyd), "ask door about buttons" | ||||
Floyd | "Oi, you!" calls the voice behind the door. "Get me out of here! Floyd | Unlock the door!" Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "(I'd rather not, actually)" | |||
| DavidW says, "This is a stupid thing to be stuck on." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "press 9126 on lock" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't appear to have anything you can press. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "press 9126 on leds" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't appear to have anything you can press. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "press 9126 on door" | ||||
Floyd | That doesn't appear to have anything you can press. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "I think it could well be that we need to find a separate controller for the lock." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "read leds" | ||||
Floyd | Four LEDS flicker excitedly on the lock, but it isn't immediately Floyd | apparent how to activate it. A sticker on one side states that it is Floyd | tamper-proof. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "OK, 9136 is not in the walkthrough." | |||
| Touchy says, "I guess we should move on." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "use pass number" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "pull leds" | ||||
Floyd | The security guard's already on the case - you don't want to push your Floyd | luck. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "open lock" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit door" | ||||
Floyd | Violence should only be used as a last resort. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "hit lock" | ||||
Floyd | The security guard's already on the case - you don't want to push your Floyd | luck. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "hm, I haven't seen Scamp for a while." | |||
| Touchy says, "Me neither..." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "Did you want to fetch the tin box?" | ||||
| theclam says (to touchy), "looking at the walkthrough..." | ||||
| Touchy says, "Yeah, I guess." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The grand entrance hall of D'Arcy manor evokes a twinge of jealousy Floyd | within you - the grand wooden polished floors and staircase, the Floyd | expensive chandelier hanging from the high ceiling, the priceless Floyd | Compton painting hanging on a wall. Why can't you inherit something Floyd | like this? Leaving aside feelings of bitterness, you observe a Floyd | cupboard under the stairs and a bell on a table near the door to the Floyd | south. Doorways (which are probably more expensive than your entire Floyd | house) lead off to the east and west, and a passageway lies north. Floyd | Floyd | The mother of the bride stands in a corner fretting away to herself as Floyd | only hysterical mothers can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside the front entrance Floyd | You stand to the south of D'Arcy manor, a building which looks like Floyd | it's straight out of a low budget Bronte TV adaptation. A few modern Floyd | touches help tie it to the late twentieth century, such as the burglar Floyd | alarm next to the elegant stone carving of a Shakespearian-looking man Floyd | above the main entrance. Immediately in front of the house is a gravel Floyd | drive which acts as a car park, and a small road leads off to the Floyd | south towards the main road. A slabbed path runs around both sides Floyd | (east and west) of the house. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You make your way around the eastern side of the house, and find Floyd | yourself at... Floyd | Floyd | The patio outside the back of the house Floyd | A grand patio made from powder-orange slabs links the back of the Floyd | house, which is to your south, with a beautiful garden to the north, Floyd | beyond a gate. You look up at the house, and see a number of Floyd | unrecognisable people pacing about at various windows. A grey-slabbed Floyd | path runs around both sides of the house back to the front. Floyd | Floyd | The gate to the north is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Garden path Floyd | A simple pathway, immaculately tiled, leads north. Flower beds Floyd | surround you, beautifully arranged, in every colour of the rainbow, Floyd | and to the north east you can see a great apple tree. Floyd | Floyd | The gate to the south is open. Floyd | Floyd | By the side of the path, among the flowers, is a dark patch of earth. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says (to theclam), "Only search for the numbers..." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig patch with spade" | ||||
Floyd | You dig a hole in the ground, stopping when the spade seems to hit Floyd | something. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take box" | ||||
Floyd | (putting the Battlebase episode guide into the plastic supermarket bag Floyd | to make room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "s/search/searched/" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | The patio outside the back of the house Floyd | A grand patio made from powder-orange slabs links the back of the Floyd | house, which is to your south, with a beautiful garden to the north, Floyd | beyond a gate. You look up at the house, and see a number of Floyd | unrecognisable people pacing about at various windows. A grey-slabbed Floyd | path runs around both sides of the house back to the front. Floyd | Floyd | The gate to the north is open. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | You make your way around the eastern side of the house, and find Floyd | yourself at... Floyd | Floyd | Outside the front entrance Floyd | You stand to the south of D'Arcy manor, a building which looks like Floyd | it's straight out of a low budget Bronte TV adaptation. A few modern Floyd | touches help tie it to the late twentieth century, such as the burglar Floyd | alarm next to the elegant stone carving of a Shakespearian-looking man Floyd | above the main entrance. Immediately in front of the house is a gravel Floyd | drive which acts as a car park, and a small road leads off to the Floyd | south towards the main road. A slabbed path runs around both sides Floyd | (east and west) of the house. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | That way only leads out of the estate, and you've still got a lot of Floyd | interfering to do yet. Floyd | Floyd | A sudden gust of wind ruffles your hair. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x car park" | ||||
Floyd | You see nothing special about the gravel drive. Floyd | Floyd | > | theclam says, "I found them. and eurgh, that would explain why we can't open it now" | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x alarm" | ||||
Floyd | From here, all you can see is a white box with the name of a security Floyd | company on it. A blue light flickers intermittently on its side, Floyd | suggesting that it is active. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "open alarm" | ||||
Floyd | It's too high up to reach. Floyd | Floyd | The grey sky overhead turns a little darker, threatening rain. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x gate" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Outside the front entrance Floyd | You stand to the south of D'Arcy manor, a building which looks like Floyd | it's straight out of a low budget Bronte TV adaptation. A few modern Floyd | touches help tie it to the late twentieth century, such as the burglar Floyd | alarm next to the elegant stone carving of a Shakespearian-looking man Floyd | above the main entrance. Immediately in front of the house is a gravel Floyd | drive which acts as a car park, and a small road leads off to the Floyd | south towards the main road. A slabbed path runs around both sides Floyd | (east and west) of the house. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x carving" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy asks (of theclam), "So we can't open it now and should move on?" | |||
| Touchy asks, "It's not a guess the verb?" | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The grand entrance hall of D'Arcy manor evokes a twinge of jealousy Floyd | within you - the grand wooden polished floors and staircase, the Floyd | expensive chandelier hanging from the high ceiling, the priceless Floyd | Compton painting hanging on a wall. Why can't you inherit something Floyd | like this? Leaving aside feelings of bitterness, you observe a Floyd | cupboard under the stairs and a bell on a table near the door to the Floyd | south. Doorways (which are probably more expensive than your entire Floyd | house) lead off to the east and west, and a passageway lies north. Floyd | Floyd | The mother of the bride stands in a corner fretting away to herself as Floyd | only hysterical mothers can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | The top of the staircase ends in the middle of the landing which Floyd | stretches to the east and west. An interesting painting, with striking Floyd | use of deep blues and bright reds, hangs on an otherwise drab wall, Floyd | and opposite, to the south, a large window allows light to flood onto Floyd | the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp is up to mischief here. Floyd | Floyd | A door stands open in the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | theclam says (to touchy), "yes, and no" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | A staircase at the other side of the door takes you up to... Floyd | Floyd | Spacious attic Floyd | The attic has been converted into rather a spacious, if bare, room. A Floyd | naked light bulb hangs from the ceiling, spilling light on the various Floyd | cardboard boxes and general bricabrac. In the sloping roof is a small Floyd | broken window-vent, and a staircase leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Your old college chum Malcolm hovers close by. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Good. That's all we need to know." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "show box to malcolm" | ||||
Floyd | Malcolm glances at the cash tin box and shrugs. Floyd | Floyd | > | theclam says, "it is guess-the-verb" | |||
| DavidW asks, "oops - we lost jacq?" | ||||
| Touchy asks, "Are we waiting for Jacq and Perry?" | ||||
| DavidW says, "we better wait" | ||||
| Touchy says, "That woman needs to get herself some cabels." | ||||
| Touchy says, "We should just ask whoever is running the mud to set up a logging bot." | ||||
| DavidW says, "uh, Perry works fine as long as it's connected." | ||||
| DavidW says, "Any bot would have the same vulnerability." | ||||
| Touchy says, "Yes but if it's running on the same machine as the mud it won't matter if it loses connection. heh" | ||||
| theclam says (to touchy), "there's a really obvious reason why the number wouldn't turn up in a search" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "It's random?" | ||||
| theclam says, "you have to deal with each number separately" | ||||
| DavidW says (to theclam), "I tried that approach too." | ||||
| Touchy says, "Yeah, me too." | ||||
| Touchy says, "But if we can't open it right now it's a moot point." | ||||
| theclam says (to touchy), "yep" | ||||
| DavidW says, "I don't see why we can't open it if it's a syntax problem." | ||||
| Touchy says (to DavidW), "It's not says theclam." | ||||
| Touchy says, "It's not _only_...." | ||||
| DavidW asks, "well, what happens if we try?" | ||||
| Touchy says, "Maybe we need to find the keypad first.." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Dammit." | ||||
| Touchy says, "You know he did say we can't do it yet..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It was doing fine! And I hadn't moved the computer!" | ||||
| Touchy says, "I don't see why you try so hard." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "One sec, let me relog Perry, and then never move from the couch ever again." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Touchy), "Because I didn't get an adequate explanation." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Jacq), "Oh you know how it is..maybe you placed a pan in the way of the wireless..." | ||||
| Touchy says (to DavidW), "I assume that would be spoilery." | ||||
| theclam says (to touchy), "because there might be some hint as to *why* it's not working" | ||||
| DavidW says, "If the guard has a gizmo to put on the thing, he's stuck in there for good." | ||||
| Touchy says, "haha true" | ||||
| Touchy says, "but maybe there's another way down there...There was a tunnel leading ne" | ||||
| DavidW asks, "If we're stuck with the cellar door, what else can we try?" | ||||
| theclam says, "watching the video" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Also, excellent - I notice you guys did nothing while I was gone." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "As in, offline." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks." | ||||
| DavidW says, "We don't have the remote control, theclam." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "I won't move the 'puter ever again, even though I have to go prep for company." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It makes it a pain in the rear to edit logs, as people probably noticed with the Primrose transcript. Sigh." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Jacq), "You know I could just turn on logging..." | ||||
| Touchy says, "I mean whatever is less inconvenient for you..." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Enh, but then you have to use Perry and have to send me the transcript and stuff." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It's fine as long as my connection doesn't drop, and I thought it was solid." | ||||
| Touchy says, "kk" | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "It'll be fine if I just leave the freakin' laptop here." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Thanks, though." | ||||
| Jacqueline says, "Anyway, proceed..." | ||||
| Touchy says, "We don't have much to proceed." | ||||
| Touchy says, "Nobody cares about our pretty tinbox." | ||||
| djfletch says, "let me have a look at the upstairs windows" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The grand entrance hall of D'Arcy manor evokes a twinge of jealousy Floyd | within you - the grand wooden polished floors and staircase, the Floyd | expensive chandelier hanging from the high ceiling, the priceless Floyd | Compton painting hanging on a wall. Why can't you inherit something Floyd | like this? Leaving aside feelings of bitterness, you observe a Floyd | cupboard under the stairs and a bell on a table near the door to the Floyd | south. Doorways (which are probably more expensive than your entire Floyd | house) lead off to the east and west, and a passageway lies north. Floyd | Floyd | The mother of the bride stands in a corner fretting away to herself as Floyd | only hysterical mothers can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | The top of the staircase ends in the middle of the landing which Floyd | stretches to the east and west. An interesting painting, with striking Floyd | use of deep blues and bright reds, hangs on an otherwise drab wall, Floyd | and opposite, to the south, a large window allows light to flood onto Floyd | the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | A door stands open in the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy asks, "Which one?" | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | West end Floyd | The west end of the landing ends here with a small window which Floyd | enables you to look out on the tiled pathway and the gardens outside. Floyd | The bathroom door lies north, and another (closed) door prevents you Floyd | from going south. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "There is one here and the one in the attic." | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x window" | DavidW says, "We can't open the window." | |||
Floyd | You gaze out of the window at the huge garden, its distant border Floyd | marked by a row of imposing trees. The marquee for the reception will Floyd | be erected here soon, assuming it hasn't already been cancelled. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "throw box through window" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to throw the cash tin box. Floyd | Floyd | > | djfletch says, "probably the landing one - I want to see if we could have dropped things on the guard" | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | The top of the staircase ends in the middle of the landing which Floyd | stretches to the east and west. An interesting painting, with striking Floyd | use of deep blues and bright reds, hangs on an otherwise drab wall, Floyd | and opposite, to the south, a large window allows light to flood onto Floyd | the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp is up to mischief here. Floyd | Floyd | A door stands open in the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | A staircase at the other side of the door takes you up to... Floyd | Floyd | Spacious attic Floyd | The attic has been converted into rather a spacious, if bare, room. A Floyd | naked light bulb hangs from the ceiling, spilling light on the various Floyd | cardboard boxes and general bricabrac. In the sloping roof is a small Floyd | broken window-vent, and a staircase leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Your old college chum Malcolm hovers close by. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Try the attic vent." | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "drop box out of window" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to drop the cash tin box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "throw box out" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to throw the cash tin box. Floyd | Floyd | > | theclam says (to djfletch), "the guard is trapped in the cellar already" | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "show box to malcolm" | ||||
Floyd | Malcolm glances at the cash tin box and shrugs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You descend the stairs and pass through a door, finding yourself in Floyd | the... Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | The top of the staircase ends in the middle of the landing which Floyd | stretches to the east and west. An interesting painting, with striking Floyd | use of deep blues and bright reds, hangs on an otherwise drab wall, Floyd | and opposite, to the south, a large window allows light to flood onto Floyd | the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | A door stands open in the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | East end Floyd | The east end of the landing is pretty unremarkable in itself, but a Floyd | door to the north demands your immediate attention - painted pink, Floyd | with a picture of a teddy bear holding a sign reading 'Deborah'. There Floyd | are also less interesting rooms to the east and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Deborah's bedroom Floyd | This room offers refuge from the tastelessness that seems to prevail Floyd | around the rest of the house. Framed pictures of famous film Floyd | actresses, Garland, Dietrich, Midler and Streisand in particular, hang Floyd | proudly on the sky-blue walls, alongside two extra-large pink and red Floyd | ribbons. The abundance of style extends to the curtains, the most Floyd | attractive you have ever seen. If only the rest of the house, to the Floyd | south, had been decorated as well as this. Floyd | Floyd | Deborah, the bride, sits on her bed flicking through an old issue of Floyd | Cooee! magazine. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "show box to deborah" | ||||
Floyd | Deborah looks at the cash tin box, but doesn't appear interested. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | East end Floyd | The east end of the landing is pretty unremarkable in itself, but a Floyd | door to the north demands your immediate attention - painted pink, Floyd | with a picture of a teddy bear holding a sign reading 'Deborah'. There Floyd | are also less interesting rooms to the east and south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | The top of the staircase ends in the middle of the landing which Floyd | stretches to the east and west. An interesting painting, with striking Floyd | use of deep blues and bright reds, hangs on an otherwise drab wall, Floyd | and opposite, to the south, a large window allows light to flood onto Floyd | the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | A door stands open in the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "um, you used bad syntax with the throw" | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | A staircase at the other side of the door takes you up to... Floyd | Floyd | Spacious attic Floyd | The attic has been converted into rather a spacious, if bare, room. A Floyd | naked light bulb hangs from the ceiling, spilling light on the various Floyd | cardboard boxes and general bricabrac. In the sloping roof is a small Floyd | broken window-vent, and a staircase leads down. Floyd | Floyd | Your old college chum Malcolm hovers close by. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Hit it." | |||
| theclam says (to floyd), "tell malcolm about cellar" | ||||
Floyd | Malcolm shrugs, assuming that its another example of your bizarre Floyd | humour, which he is not in the mood for. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw box at window" | ||||
Floyd | Futile. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw box out window" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to throw the cash tin box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw box through window" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to throw the cash tin box. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "tell malcolm about guard" | ||||
Floyd | Malcolm shrugs, assuming that its another example of your bizarre Floyd | humour, which he is not in the mood for. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask malcolm about remote" | ||||
Floyd | Malcolm shrugs his shoulders but doesn't say anything. He is still Floyd | shaken up a little, you fear. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "talk to malcolm" | DavidW says, "hm. I guess throwing things out windows was not accounted for." | |||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy asks, "Can I go on showing the box to everybody?" | |||
| theclam says (to floyd), "i" | ||||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a cash tin box (which is closed and locked) Floyd | a video cassette Floyd | a plastic supermarket bag Floyd | a Battlebase episode guide Floyd | a spade Floyd | a small brass key Floyd | a wedding programme Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "if you think it'll help" | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can only go down from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | The glass has been shattered - you can't imagine how that could have Floyd | happened. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can only go down from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | You descend the stairs and pass through a door, finding yourself in Floyd | the... Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | The top of the staircase ends in the middle of the landing which Floyd | stretches to the east and west. An interesting painting, with striking Floyd | use of deep blues and bright reds, hangs on an otherwise drab wall, Floyd | and opposite, to the south, a large window allows light to flood onto Floyd | the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | A door stands open in the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "It probably won't but it's the best idea I have." | |||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "x window" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see anything through the window but the sky and the tops of Floyd | trees. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "open window" | ||||
Floyd | You can't reach the window from here. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says (to djf), "It's west." | |||
| djfletch asks, "what is?" | ||||
| Touchy says, "The window..." | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "I thought you were looking for the other one." | |||
| djfletch says, "there's one here too" | ||||
| DavidW says, "We were there already." | ||||
| Touchy says, "NVM." | ||||
| djfletch says, "anyway it looks like it probably doesn't do anything" | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "d" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The grand entrance hall of D'Arcy manor evokes a twinge of jealousy Floyd | within you - the grand wooden polished floors and staircase, the Floyd | expensive chandelier hanging from the high ceiling, the priceless Floyd | Compton painting hanging on a wall. Why can't you inherit something Floyd | like this? Leaving aside feelings of bitterness, you observe a Floyd | cupboard under the stairs and a bell on a table near the door to the Floyd | south. Doorways (which are probably more expensive than your entire Floyd | house) lead off to the east and west, and a passageway lies north. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp is up to mischief here. Floyd | Floyd | The mother of the bride stands in a corner fretting away to herself as Floyd | only hysterical mothers can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "show box to mother" | ||||
Floyd | She glances quickly at the cash tin box but declines to comment. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp sniffs at your hands for food. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "show box to scamp" | ||||
Floyd | Scamp examines what you are offering, but turns away, disappointed Floyd | that it isn't edible. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp trots off up the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Study Floyd | This room has the air of a gentleman's private study area, though Floyd | recently it appears to have been taken over by the lady of the house Floyd | (that is, Sheryl D'Arcy). A hardboard set of shelves against one wall Floyd | looks completely out of place amid the antique furniture and the Floyd | gorgeous circular shaped painting on the ceiling. Embroidery rests on Floyd | a pouffe to one side, and several packs of wool tower alongside the Floyd | shelves. The front entrance is out to the west, and there is another Floyd | room to the north. Floyd | Floyd | Barbara, an aunt of the bride, sits on an armchair with her legs Floyd | crossed and her hands interlocked. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "show box to barbara" | ||||
Floyd | Barbara examines the cash tin box carefully. "Very nice." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "tell barbara about cellar" | ||||
Floyd | Barbara smiles enigmatically. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ask barbara about box" | ||||
Floyd | "I'm sorry," she says. "I'm afraid I know little about that." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "w" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The grand entrance hall of D'Arcy manor evokes a twinge of jealousy Floyd | within you - the grand wooden polished floors and staircase, the Floyd | expensive chandelier hanging from the high ceiling, the priceless Floyd | Compton painting hanging on a wall. Why can't you inherit something Floyd | like this? Leaving aside feelings of bitterness, you observe a Floyd | cupboard under the stairs and a bell on a table near the door to the Floyd | south. Doorways (which are probably more expensive than your entire Floyd | house) lead off to the east and west, and a passageway lies north. Floyd | Floyd | The mother of the bride stands in a corner fretting away to herself as Floyd | only hysterical mothers can. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Floyd | Here at the heart of the manor is an oak passageway with doorways Floyd | leading to most rooms on the ground floor. You can see the great Floyd | dining hall to the north, and a brass sign above the doorway to the Floyd | northeast states "Kitchen", but the east and southwest exits hold no Floyd | clues as to where they lead. The entrance hall is off to the south, Floyd | and a sturdy door stands in the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | A simple polished table lies in the southeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Grand Hall Floyd | This vast room is presumably where the D'Arcy clan eat their meals; it Floyd | reminds you too much of your old school dinner hall for you to feel Floyd | entirely comfortable here. A large sturdy table sits in the centre of Floyd | the room, surrounded by ten carefully-crafted chairs, and a set of Floyd | antique jugs rest on stools in a small alcove in the west wall. The Floyd | walls are covered in paintings which look impressive until you examine Floyd | them closely and see that they are certainly not in the league of the Floyd | great masters. The back garden is accessible via a door to the north, Floyd | a corridor leads south, and the kitchen is through the swing doors to Floyd | the east. Floyd | Floyd | Good old Uncle Albert stands nearby with a glass of brandy in one Floyd | hand. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "show box to albert" | ||||
Floyd | Uncle Albert is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Well, more or less expected." | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Floyd | Here at the heart of the manor is an oak passageway with doorways Floyd | leading to most rooms on the ground floor. You can see the great Floyd | dining hall to the north, and a brass sign above the doorway to the Floyd | northeast states "Kitchen", but the east and southwest exits hold no Floyd | clues as to where they lead. The entrance hall is off to the south, Floyd | and a sturdy door stands in the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | A simple polished table lies in the southeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "sw" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Drawing room Floyd | You are in a glorious oak-panelled room, with a large fireplace to one Floyd | side. This is where the family relaxes, assuming that such a monstrous Floyd | family relaxes at all. An antique-style telephone rests on the Floyd | mantelpiece, and a large hi-tech widescreen television sits on a video Floyd | recorder in the corner. From here, you observe exits to the east and Floyd | northeast. Floyd | Floyd | A young woman called Chloe sits nearby reading a book. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "show box to chloe" | ||||
Floyd | Chloe is unimpressed. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "ask chlose about remote" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "ask chloe about remote" | ||||
Floyd | The woman doesn't respond. She seems to think it's trendy to be Floyd | ignorant. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "search tv" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look behind tv" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look behind recorder" | ||||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "We could run around looking behind and under stuff..." | |||
| theclam says (to floyd), "x recorder" | ||||
Floyd | A slim, sleek model with a slot for cassettes and the buttons REW, Floyd | PLAY, FF, STOP and EJECT underneath. Floyd | Floyd | The video recorder is currently switched on. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Works sometimes." | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in fireplace" | ||||
Floyd | Remembering your college days, you half expect to find a secret Floyd | passageway within the fireplace, but there is only the chimney leading Floyd | upwards which you have no intention of climbing up. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "look up chimney" | ||||
Floyd | I only understood you as far as wanting to look. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x chimney" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| djfletch says (to Floyd), "search chimney" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "turn on tv" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Chloe tuts, clearly unhappy that you're disturbing her reading. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a moment of dialogue from the Australian soap opera playing Floyd | on the television. "I hate you! You've ruined my life!" screams a Floyd | teenager, before slamming a door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "x tv" | ||||
Floyd | The television is large, with a wide screen and large speakers at Floyd | either side. You can see a power switch but not the means to change Floyd | channels - maybe that is done with a remote control. Floyd | Floyd | The television is currently switched on. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a moment of dialogue from the Australian soap opera playing Floyd | on the television. "Hey, love," says the town's Mother Earth figure. Floyd | "You have to stand up for what you believe in, not what other people Floyd | tell you to." Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "maybe we should wait and see if the goes to find the remote, heh" | ||||
Floyd | You seem to want to talk to someone, but I can't see whom. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "x speakers" | ||||
Floyd | The television is large, with a wide screen and large speakers at Floyd | either side. You can see a power switch but not the means to change Floyd | channels - maybe that is done with a remote control. Floyd | Floyd | The television is currently switched on. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a moment of dialogue from the Australian soap opera playing Floyd | on the television. "Isn't it odd that all the young people around here Floyd | are gorgeous and have long blonde hair?" asks an inspired young man in Floyd | a brief moment of clarity. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "maybe we should wait and see if the goes to find the remote, heh" | |||
| crumple says, "aw, australia." | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x speakers" | ||||
Floyd | The television is large, with a wide screen and large speakers at Floyd | either side. You can see a power switch but not the means to change Floyd | channels - maybe that is done with a remote control. Floyd | Floyd | The television is currently switched on. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a moment of dialogue from the Australian soap opera playing Floyd | on the television. "I trusted you!" whimpers a teenage girl. "And you Floyd | cheated on me!" Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "s/the goes/she goes/" | |||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "open tv" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you can open. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a moment of dialogue from the Australian soap opera playing Floyd | on the television. "Isn't it odd that all the young people around here Floyd | are gorgeous and have long blonde hair?" asks an inspired young man in Floyd | a brief moment of clarity. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x power switch" | ||||
Floyd | The television is large, with a wide screen and large speakers at Floyd | either side. You can see a power switch but not the means to change Floyd | channels - maybe that is done with a remote control. Floyd | Floyd | The television is currently switched on. Floyd | Floyd | You catch a moment of dialogue from the Australian soap opera playing Floyd | on the television. "Isn't it odd that all the young people around here Floyd | are gorgeous and have long blonde hair?" asks an inspired young man in Floyd | a brief moment of clarity. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "turn off tv" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | "Hurrah," says Chloe in an exaggerated manner. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Kye poofs in a puff of smoke. | theclam asks, "where'd that dog go?" | |||
| Touchy says, "Last time I saw him he went upstairs." | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "ne" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Passage Floyd | Here at the heart of the manor is an oak passageway with doorways Floyd | leading to most rooms on the ground floor. You can see the great Floyd | dining hall to the north, and a brass sign above the doorway to the Floyd | northeast states "Kitchen", but the east and southwest exits hold no Floyd | clues as to where they lead. The entrance hall is off to the south, Floyd | and a sturdy door stands in the western wall. Floyd | Floyd | A simple polished table lies in the southeast corner. Floyd | Floyd | Banging sounds and and cries of "let me out!" are coming from the Floyd | cellar door. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| Touchy says (to Floyd), "x leash" | ||||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "s" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Entrance Hall Floyd | The grand entrance hall of D'Arcy manor evokes a twinge of jealousy Floyd | within you - the grand wooden polished floors and staircase, the Floyd | expensive chandelier hanging from the high ceiling, the priceless Floyd | Compton painting hanging on a wall. Why can't you inherit something Floyd | like this? Leaving aside feelings of bitterness, you observe a Floyd | cupboard under the stairs and a bell on a table near the door to the Floyd | south. Doorways (which are probably more expensive than your entire Floyd | house) lead off to the east and west, and a passageway lies north. Floyd | Floyd | The mother of the bride stands in a corner fretting away to herself as Floyd | only hysterical mothers can. Floyd | Floyd | > | DavidW says, "Maybe the dog was there to hint about the landing picture and we missed it." | |||
| theclam says (to floyd), "u" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Landing Floyd | The top of the staircase ends in the middle of the landing which Floyd | stretches to the east and west. An interesting painting, with striking Floyd | use of deep blues and bright reds, hangs on an otherwise drab wall, Floyd | and opposite, to the south, a large window allows light to flood onto Floyd | the stairs. Floyd | Floyd | A door stands open in the north wall. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy asks, "What pictures?" | |||
| DavidW says, "The picture is how we got the attic open." | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "e" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | East end Floyd | The east end of the landing is pretty unremarkable in itself, but a Floyd | door to the north demands your immediate attention - painted pink, Floyd | with a picture of a teddy bear holding a sign reading 'Deborah'. There Floyd | are also less interesting rooms to the east and south. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp is up to mischief here. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp trots off to the north. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "But the dog was downstairs.." | |||
| DavidW says, "Dog is upstairs now" | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "n" | ||||
Floyd | Floyd | Deborah's bedroom Floyd | This room offers refuge from the tastelessness that seems to prevail Floyd | around the rest of the house. Framed pictures of famous film Floyd | actresses, Garland, Dietrich, Midler and Streisand in particular, hang Floyd | proudly on the sky-blue walls, alongside two extra-large pink and red Floyd | ribbons. The abundance of style extends to the curtains, the most Floyd | attractive you have ever seen. If only the rest of the house, to the Floyd | south, had been decorated as well as this. Floyd | Floyd | Scamp is up to mischief here. Floyd | Floyd | Deborah, the bride, sits on her bed flicking through an old issue of Floyd | Cooee! magazine. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "Oh, yeah..that would make sense" | |||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look under bed" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "x pictures" | ||||
Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "ribbons" | ||||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x curtains" | ||||
Floyd | Dazzlingly attractive. You wish you had the sense of style that the Floyd | person who chose these obviously possesses. Floyd | Floyd | (They are closed.) Floyd | Floyd | Scamp trots off to the south. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open curtains" | ||||
| theclam says (to floyd), "x ribbons" | ||||
Floyd | You open the curtains, revealing a remote control device. Floyd | Floyd | > Floyd | That's not something you need to refer to in the course of this game. Floyd | Floyd | > | ||||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take remote" | ||||
Floyd | (putting the video cassette into the plastic supermarket bag to make Floyd | room) Floyd | Taken. Floyd | Floyd | > | Touchy says, "SON OF A" | |||
| theclam says, "that was logical" | ||||
| Touchy says, "Well done Sir." | ||||
| theclam says, "by which I mean what" | ||||
| Touchy says, "I remember wanting to open them the first time around and then I forgot about it..." | ||||
| DavidW says, "totally logical, like fer sure, gnarly" | ||||
| theclam says, "I don't even remember the dog going upstairs" | ||||
| djfletch says, "the | ||||